Own Pictures Thread

[CliffBurton]

Ever since I was a kid I always lol'd at countries who still have a government sponsored rich family

Ever since I was a kid, I always lold at third world countries who think they can into first world

Ever since I was a kid, I lol'd at people who think the soviet union still exists

LOL brazil

What's that? Can't hear you over the sound of your gdp plummeting like a rock!

Oh what's that? I can't hear you over our gigantic pile of money.

Just give me a second, I'm going to the hospital treat my frostbite... oh wait we don't have that.

You can't handle the trveness and gr1m pain of frost.

Ever since I was a kid I always lol'd at second world countries arguing over who was more second world.

 

[Ensi]

LOL canada

 

[CliffBurton]

Forget Norway

 

[Leandro]

^

@Canada: at least people from the rest of the world have facial features.

 

[s]

Forget Norway

Ever since I was a kid I always lol'd at arguing lumberjacks.

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[s]

@Canada:

^

@Brazil: at least people from the rest of the world have ears.

The rich are victims - they're kidnapped; their ears are cut off; they have no sense of security. The poor are victims, too, living in their unwholesome favelas.

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[Leandro]

Jason Kohn's Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)

HUEAHUHEAEAEAHEUAHUEHAUEHA send a bullet

 

[Ensi]

Forget Norway

DURR WEEBLS STUFF XDXDXDDDDDDDDDDD

THAT PIC IS SO FUNY XDXDXDX

 

[s]

Jason Kohn's Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)

Have you seen it?

Accurate or scaremongering?

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[Leandro]

Probably scaremongering. I haven't seen it, I just googled what you said and found a review(the lol was at the ludicrous translation), and most of the things it said were pretty much absurd. São Paulo (that particular reviewer couldn't even get the name right) is a big city, with all the problems that cities over 10 mi habitants have... traffic, pollution, crime, drug traffic and whatnot, but probably not much worse. Lived there 12 years, go there fairly frequently, never even got mugged.

 

[snowy]

hurr

 

[s]

Of course not, thats why they used to rape, kill and rob the Brits.

Still curious, when did this happen? It was the US that had more of a gripe with Britain. "The British are coming!"

Aus. always went to war with the Brits, not against them.

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[CliffBurton]

Still curious, when did this happen?

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immediately before your ancestors were arrested and sent to prison, later to dropped on a really big island.

 

[s]

immediately before your ancestors were arrested and sent to prison, later to dropped on a really big island.

You're confusing Australia and England with the USA and Cuba.

During our school years we were taught about convicts and I often heard, 'for stealing a loaf of bread.'

IIRC British prisons were overcrowded with the poverty stricken, they sent their petty theft crims here. Could you imagine hardened crims trying to behave on such a long voyage?

After a quick search:

Many of the Convicts were sent to Australia for quite odd crimes. For example, Irish catholics were transported for simply looking suspicious.

By today's standards, all of the Convicts sent to Australia had only committed trivial crimes. The serious crimes, such as rape, murder, or impersonating an Egyptian, were punished with the death penality.

At school we liked to call the 3rd + generation Aussies 'convicts' (they called us Europeans 'wogs') not sure if that many I knew actually had true convict ancestors, I knew quite a few from '10 pound Poms'. Along with convicts came marines & their families as well as bulk migration soon after the convicts.

Wasn't it Castro who after being granted a US citizenship quota for Cubans, emptied Cubans jails of the worst criminals, rapists, murderers, paedophiles, etc.?

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[Macharius]

Impersonating an Egyptian?????????

O, btw

 

[snowy]

why are those guys losing their beards in the 2nd pic?

 

[mocobhc]

stuff

Ah, still alive.

 

[s]

Impersonating an Egyptian?????????

I didn't get that either but looked it up:

It had to do with Gypsies who, at times, claimed to hail from Egypt on pilgrimages. Hence, many people referred to them as "Egyptians".

They were often found guilty of what is probably equivalent to today's Obtaining Money through False Pretences by practising activities often associated -rightly or wrongly - with Gypsies, for example palmistry, horse-trading, begging and theft.

Gypsies would regularly use forged documents to allow them safe passage, which often swindled people or town authorities into providing them with food and shelter, or merely giving them money just to go away.

Therefore any unscrupulous person could, in theory, pretend to be, or dress like, a Gypsy (or "Egyptian") and con people into thinking they had to provide for them.

Impersonating one was punishable by death? Seems the Brits at the time were a little bit heavy handed with the law.

I remember one school teacher telling us that most of the convicts sent here were Irish not English, this surprised the class. Was it an attempt to empty England of the Irish?

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[vikk]

Ah, still alive.

oh hi! i never see you online anymore

 

[mocobhc]

I stopped using msn, never had the time anyway A few mins of forums and even fewer mins of facebook a day, that's it