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Old May 7th 2012, 4:35 pm
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I know, I know. I have so little respect for the moon hoax theories they don't even register with me ...

Not that my ex-colleague was advocating those, of course.
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I know, I know. I have so little respect for the moon hoax theories they don't even register with me ...

Not that my ex-colleague was advocating those, of course.
I can't even be bothered with the "whoosh" smiley today.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Ebenezer
I can't even be bothered with the "whoosh" smiley today.
I genuinely don't know what you were on about, other than the stupidity of me mistaking Capricorn One for an ELO album
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
I genuinely don't know what you were on about, other than the stupidity of me mistaking Capricorn One for an ELO album
The stupidity of you laughing out loud, when something wasn't even remotely funny.
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The stupidity of you laughing out loud, when something wasn't even remotely funny.
I was laughing at my own retardedness. That, I'm sure you'd agree, has its funny moments.
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
I was a bit of a dick with my first post. Here's a few things I do like about the US:

The US put a man on the moon and pioneered aviation.

Enough said ...
I see what you did there.
Repeat the same thing in different words, but intensify the insult.
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I see what you did there.
Repeat the same thing in different words, but intensify the insult.
Come again
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
Come again
You liked American airports because they get you away from the USA
You now like the space race, presumably because it gets people even further away from the USA
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Originally Posted by kimilseung
You liked American airports because they get you away from the USA
You now like the space race, presumably because it gets people even further away from the USA
Oh, no I never even thought about it like that. I just like that they did it. I wish they had stuck with it, of course.
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
Oh, no I never even thought about it like that. I just like that they did it. I wish they had stuck with it, of course.
Too expensive - they need the money for killing people.

if they'd found extra-terrestrial life, they'd have been happy to spend the money killing them though.
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Originally Posted by Uncle Ebenezer
if they'd found extra-terrestrial life, they'd have been happy to spend the money killing them though.
Amen
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Originally Posted by Uncle Ebenezer
Too expensive - they need the money for killing people.

if they'd found extra-terrestrial life, they'd have been happy to spend the money killing them though.
Meh.

I hate being alive in a world where politics trumps engineering.
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One word for you - Concorde. BA did the same thing.

And yes, I did just compare the space programe to a supersonic passenger aircraft
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One word for you - Concorde. BA did the same thing.
Yeah, I wasn't too happy about that either.
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