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Some fine, fine choices there!

It's from Sydney Mardis Gras, so it was a 'homage'. Although, it would be kind of funny if it was from the foothills of Afghanistan More so if you'd seen all the men in hot pants surrounding it. Suicide go-go boys!

You don't want to know what it's made from Little brown lies....

You're apologizing to the Australian Federal Health Minister and Treasurer? Is there an international incident you've been involved in yet to reach the papers? And is a rabbi involved? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Abbott http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Costello

Ah, I get it now. It's a grown up thing. Husband and wife. A moonlit Saturday night. A hot tub. ....And TT's 'special' outfit:

Quotes can now be obtained from my publicist: Also lower back massages.

Just part of the quote-u-like service!

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Nice link! Late entry at Basel 2007 The 'no lume' titanium dive watch. It was kind of fun, but they need more dials and cases. And you really need to be able to customize the dial.

All the interesting threads are now automatically moved to the VIP forum!

Thanks for that. It's an excellent upgrade - absolutely no doubt.

Cheers! How much extra was that?

Thanks for the great photo review!! Is that just the standard mineral crystal that comes with that AR? The Silix site talks about a sapphire one being available, wasn't sure which was which.

Kind of feel sorry for the poor little watch. It was probably sitting in it's box, looking forward to a life of gentle jogging in a all-female Malibu gym, being occasionally helpful in locating the nearest Victoria's Secret... .......and then Nanuq opens the box!! It wakes up hurtling down the side of an Alaskan fjord in a -18 blizzard strapped to a man who drives Land Rovers over watches and sets them on fire just to toughen them up!!

Yes, V pioneered the look for his fellow RWG members! http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showtopic=4753 You didn't like it then either!

I think Binda are just Italian distributors for some of those brands. Lorus is definitely a Seiko-owned brand.

Happy Birthday!! It's his birthday - it's always two polar bears on special days!

There's a links section at the top that should come in handy!

Whoa, whoa, whoa...back the hell up. It was the liquor talking, not the bottle....

Congrats on hitting 30 posts Dutchy! Hey, no one's counting your 1470 "I'm NOT a chick!" efforts

Enjoy!!

I for one am glad that we're only seeing the top half of this picture.

Not much point pontificating, so here are some general things I just happened to find interesting while reading around: 1. Not saying anything about the rights and wrongs of the Second Amendment - but it does seem that the original intention for it was indeed that individuals should be entitled to keep weapons. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." We have our modern sense of militia, but the right to bear arms was central to the road to independence in a different context. The rights of individuals to keep weapons was a right the previous government sought to deny, interestingly it was a right that colonists claimed was based in English law (pre-independence), and ultimately of course those very weapons came in incredibly handy during the victory of the Wars of Independence. It's not surprising then that the framers of the Constitution (who were visionaries beyond question - even if they did borrow from the Declaration of Arbroath EDIT: the amendment was of course, a subsequent amendment to it! END EDIT) sought to give the public the reassurance they desired. That their rights would not be infringed upon by government interference - it was their insurance against oppression. That they had the right to keep weapons, should the need arise to rise up against government interference. The interesting thing about that, of course, is that Constitutional right to bear arms exists so that public citizens have the means rise up against their own government. To follow that through, the Constitutional right to own a weapon is for the purpose of shooting US soldiers. Personally I don't think that's why many people who look to the Constitutional right want to keep a gun in the US. I think they hold their armed forces in high regard. Which might undermine their own arguments. But it does open one intriguing possibility - when it says arms, presumably the public also have a right to keep advances in modern weaponry such as to defeat the military. I kind of like the idea of Bill Gates having his own stealth bomber tucked away for emergencies, or some kind of Dr Evil island in Hawaii. 2. I think the Wikipedia entries on gun control are interesting because you know that every point that's still there has been argued to death - ultimately it must grind down the BS on both sides to some extent. 3. Gun politics (internationally) seem to focus on homicides, do murder rates go up or down? Perhaps the real difference is in accidental shootings and suicides. Doing a Google News search for "accidental shooting" is pretty depressing. And the gun suicide figures (that I've seen anyway) are startling - they looked to be worse than homicides.

Collect Dunny's? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunny