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BigElCat said:
There's a group of men who had to incinerate Saddam's stockpile of chemical weapons after the war.

Those dudes are really messed up, too.
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Actually, it was the engineers that blew up an underground storage facility full of chemical weapons .....and they now call it The Pit. My unit was securing the perimeter so none of the weapons could be stolen and I watched the explosion from three hundred meters away.
 
HarmanKardon said:
I ask myself if the extensive consumption of internet violence and internet porn is responsible for the extreme daily rudeness of the male part of our society.

All these aggressions I experience almost daily on the road have become scary, and increased so much in the last ten, fifteen years.
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Do you know how I combat this?? I try to elicit a smile from every clerk, busboy, cab driver, etc, that I meet. I smile FIRST, and speak in a clear, friendly voice, being sure to ask whomever I meet how THEIR day is going, not ranting on about mine.

Seems to work. It's a task being friendly sometimes, but more often than not, I come away from it the better man, and it makes me happy.
 
Djcoolray said:
Actually, it was the engineers that blew up an underground storage facility full of chemical weapons .....and they now call it The Pit. My unit was securing the perimeter so none of the weapons could be stolen and I watched the explosion from a three hundred meters away.
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There's guy in Missouri who had his wind pipe replaced with a synthetic one. He lost a lot of his intestinal track, too.

He said they put chemical weapons in a trench, and dumped jet fuel on them....lit the trench on fire.

The wind carried the **** and got them.

Could this have happened without you hearing about it ?

Maybe I'm remembering wrong.
 
BigElCat said:
There's guy in Missouri who had his wind pipe replaced with a synthetic one. He lost a lot of his intestinal track, too.

He said they put chemical weapons in a trench, and dumped jet fuel on them....lit the trench on fire.

The wind carried the **** and got them.

Could this have happened without you hearing about it ?

Maybe I'm remembering wrong.
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Might have been happening in a location close by within the same Iraq military base.
 
onwardjames said:
Do you know how I combat this?? I try to elicit a smile from every clerk, busboy, cab driver, etc, that I meet. I smile FIRST, and speak in a clear, friendly voice, being sure to ask whomever I meet how THEIR day is going, not ranting on about mine.

Seems to work. It's a task being friendly sometimes, but more often than not, I come away from it the better man, and it makes me happy.
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I try to do this in traffic in act and deed, particularly yielding merge space in city rush hour traffic. I figure everyone could use a freebie warm fuzzy under the circumstances, and might actually pass it on.
 
Pio1980 said:
I try to do this in traffic in act and deed, particularly yielding merge space in city rush hour traffic. I figure everyone could use a freebie warm fuzzy under the circumstances, and might actually pass it on.
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Smiles and kind words are like dandelions. Spread them whenever and wherever you can.
 
onwardjames said:
Do you know how I combat this?? I try to elicit a smile from every clerk, busboy, cab driver, etc, that I meet. I smile FIRST, and speak in a clear, friendly voice, being sure to ask whomever I meet how THEIR day is going, not ranting on about mine.

Seems to work. It's a task being friendly sometimes, but more often than not, I come away from it the better man, and it makes me happy.
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Once I learned that about 48 muscles around your facial area get relaxed if you smile. Buddha just raised a flower and smiled and all of his disciples "replied" with an understanding smile. I always have a smile on my face when I think of that scenery...

:)
 
Mystic said:
Let's see, if I remember correctly, you reside in Germany... hmmm....
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I would have given anything to stay in Germany before the incursion of undesirables.....

I don’t think that there is much difference now when living in any west European country.
 
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HarmanKardon said:
I ask myself if the extensive consumption of internet violence and internet porn is responsible for the extreme daily rudeness of the male part of our society.

All these aggressions I experience almost daily on the road have become scary, and increased so much in the last ten, fifteen years.
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I remember back in 1997 in Germany when the increase of immigrants onto the roads and highways changed the way people drive. I can believe that it’s much worse now...
 
Djcoolray said:
I remember back in 1997 in Germany when the increase of immigrants onto the roads and highways changed the way people drive. I can believe that it’s much worse now...
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It is, Sir. But the only thing I have to offer to our contemporary society is lovingkindness - more than ever. This is my way.
 
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