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If ya really wanna be scared:

FEMA quarantine facilities footage on google movies

FEMA Plan To Use Pastors as Pacifiers in Preparation For Martial Law

P.S. Shaved is ok, but it can get rough after a couple days...

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There's nothing wrong with Coca. People in the Andes have been chewing the leaves for thousands of years with no ill effects. It took the 'white man' to concentrate the active ingredient in the leaves forty thousand times and make a dangerously addictive drug.

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*sigh* Somebody just had to dredge this fact up so that any further comments would be derailed and become polemic and politicized thus destroying whatever surrealist humour this thread wished to offer.

Somebody lock this up before it becomes another one of those argument threads.

Edit: by the way, I hate those thorny bushes. You know, the type that people use for making hedgerows.

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... that about says it all.

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Find me a shrubbery!

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Camels are absolutely not agree with such a groundless bashing of thorns!

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Is it okay to beat around the bush?

[OT] The Bush-bashing thread.
 

So here it is. Anyone who wants a big black mark on their CIA file and their front door kicked in by faceless men in black suits when freedom and human rights are finally and forever squelched by the bloated cabal of fascist corporate puppeteers working to gain totalitarian supremacy over all humanity, post here now!

You know what I really hate? Rhododendron ponticum. That has to be one of my least favourite bushes. Rubbery leafed b@stards.

Re: [OT] The Bush-bashing thread.
 

I tend to agree some Bushes just need to be pulled out and burned. I especially dislike bushes that have alloud black berry vines to invade them! Those I just simply cannot abide!

I say rip them all out and plant new bushes.

Re: [OT] The Bush-bashing thread.
 

IMO, there are way too many OT threads on this forum - discounting the permanent sticky threads right now 12 of the 23 threads appearing on my screen are OT! This is rediculous. IMO, the mods should push that stuff to a separate OT forum like on the Paradox forums. I come here to read about SE. If I want Bush-bashing I can go to the dailykos.

Re: [OT] The Bush-bashing thread.
 

Ok, Rose of Sharon bushes (AKA Hibiscus) are really awful. They grow and spread like weeds. We had two in our backyard, thought they looked very nice when flowering...fast forward to a year, and they're all over the place, getting into everything. I admit, they're pretty flowers, but, man, give me Gabriels' Trumpets any day.

EDIT: ok, I can't find confirmation for 'Gabriel's trumpet' bushes. That's what we called them in DC, either that or 'Gideon's trumpets' - they've got a bunch of long, white, tulip like flowers with thin stems...nevermind. must be a colloquial name. But they're nice.

Re: [OT] The Bush-bashing thread.
 

We had a discussion a couple of years ago about OT threads and where they belonged and while I agree they belong in a seprate forum, it was viewed by majority to be no problem at all.

Re: [OT] The Bush-bashing thread.
 

Were they this out of hand? I mean over 50% of the screen space not taken by the permanent sticky threads? Maybe you should raise the subject again...

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Dude, a lot of the forum regulars (the ones who answer all the ON-topic questions) wouldn't even come here if not for the OT.

OT is what keeps us all relaxed, friendly and happy. Just read a few pages freom the vantina and see the kind of frustrations being vented in OT. Would you really like to see that kind of anger in the on-topic threads?

Re: [OT] The Bush-bashing thread.
 

OT threads come in waves..by the end of the day, they'll be near the bottom again...and OT threads make us a community, rather than just a bunch of gamers. And we're all relatively mature about how and what we discuss. And, we all exist in reality, and reality has events that we, as reasonable people, will want to discuss. The forums Sept 11 2001 were actually very numerous, but also very healthy and cathartic for many people. Some OT topics have been people in the forum asking for advice with medical, legal, or other issues - and they got great advice and help. And, if there was a separate forum for OT topics...well, no one would visit it...

Overall, current system is positive and beneficial, and I see no reason why it should be changed. There's been no abuse of it.

Now, perhaps AT should tone down starting new threads...

Just kidding.

<gives big wet sloppy kiss to AT>

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: [OT] The Bush-bashing thread.
 

BTW Bill, since your comments do not relate directly to Bush-bashing, they are OT for this OT thread. I suggest you start a new thread, titled "[OT] all these damned OT threads" or something similar. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

Re: [OT] The Bush-bashing thread.
 

With six years between releases, you have to keep busy somehow.

Future Dreams
 

The Nightmare Begins
Some time in the not-too-distant future, a president is supposed to step down, and we the people elect a new one.

Then all of a sudden, there's an announcement of a new deadly virus/flu/plague outbreak. Thousands of civilians die -- even friends of people you know. The president calls it a National Emergency, and the national guard are called out to distribute vaccines. They are mandatory innoculations, enforced at gunpoint. And they become annual required injections.

People start disappearing, and a news reporter mentions that some of the worst infected were taken to FEMA emergency quarantine facilities. They look amazingly similar to prison death camps, with facilities to gas the whole lot of them.

Then people start to notice that folks are disappearing who they knew weren't sick. Protests over missing friends and relatives are met by Homeland Security, and they are also carted off to Social Distancing centers.

Preists and pastors begin a campaign of how important it is to obey your government in these troubled times, and faith in God and your leaders is important.

And as the army marches through the streets of it's own country, the president announces that he will have to remain in office until the crisis is resolved...

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But what kinds of bushes line the avenues of the FEMA centers? If they're hibiscus, I ain't gonna. Uh uh. No way. Not me.

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Toxicodendron vernix
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook/trees/tove4969.jpg

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Beating a bush is worth two in the. No... that's wrong.

Um. A beating in the bushes make a better.... hmmm no.

If a bear beats a bush and a squirrel chews his nuts... ah-definitely not.

Beating bushes in nothing but a bush-hat leaves man completely bushed. hmmmm.

Confusious say "Man who beats in bush.... NO NO NO NO NO!



Doncha just hate those bushes that always devlope a dead spot in the worst possible place? Rip 'em out and burn them!

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The bush that really MUST be bashed, cut down, trampled, burned and finally buried 100 meters underground is:
Coca
http://www.herbs2000.com/images/herbs_coca.jpg

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NOT!

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I think someone's been watching too much V for Vendetta.

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Merkins!

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No, no, no.

http://www.richardfranke.com/r5066/burmas3.jpg

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Hey I played this game, it was called Deus Ex!

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To quote The Tick:

HEDGE!!

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To quote The Tick: "I'm doing the laundry!"
There's a clean statement for anyone to follow.

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Those blackberry bushes! When I was kid and we used to play in the woods, we'd get all scratched up from the blackberry thorns.

There used to be a lot of blackberry bushes behind the building at work. The fire code mandated that we have a fire escape route from the back of the building, but it was impossible to go out that way because it was so overgrown. Therefore, one of my co-workers was assigned to trim the bushes to form an escape route out to the parking lot. It took him a couple of weeks, working on and off, to cut a path all the way from the back door to the parking lot. Then every month or so he had to maintain it by cutting the bushes that kept growing back. This continued for a couple of years, until the new boss decided to just bulldoze the whole area and solve the problem once and for all.