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Old Aug 16th 2017, 2:05 am
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This Picture Of Mike Pence 'Triggered' An Entire Campus Of California Private College Kids | Zero Hedge
This is an amazing and disgusting report of a young college kid being abused in extreme language for having volunteered to have her photo taken with the US Vice President. I don't know what US "liberal" colleges are coming to, to condone such political intolerance. Some of the comments below this report hit the nail on the head, pretty much. I hope (with not much confidence) that most BE members will agree with me!
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My favorite description of Zero Hedge is that it's written by two "batshit insane" bloggers who call themselves by the name of a character in Fight Club.
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I like snowflakes.
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I like snowflakes.
I miss snow. Winter in Australia is cold and wet but it never snows where I am. we're off to Canada for Christmas this year.
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I miss snow. Winter in Australia is cold and wet but it never snows where I am. we're off to Canada for Christmas this year.
I'm looking out at snow right now as it happens. Snow over on the Ranges which would be about a 90 min drive away. It doesn't snow on the ground here though .

I like a bit of snow underfoot at certain times of the year and I used to like to ski here and there.

you get to Canada for the festive season.
I'm toying with the notion of making a UK trip over Christmas 2017.
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I miss snow. Winter in Australia is cold and wet but it never snows where I am. we're off to Canada for Christmas this year.
We always get a pretty good shot at a white Christmas here. We might be in the SW, but we're up at 7,000 feet. In a good year, we'll be well below freezing.
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I don't think I could ever wrap my head around Australia's seasons. A warm Christmas is weird.
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This Picture Of Mike Pence 'Triggered' An Entire Campus Of California Private College Kids | Zero Hedge
This is an amazing and disgusting report of a young college kid being abused in extreme language for having volunteered to have her photo taken with the US Vice President. I don't know what US "liberal" colleges are coming to, to condone such political intolerance. Some of the comments below this report hit the nail on the head, pretty much. I hope (with not much confidence) that most BE members will agree with me!
Weird. The piece quotes some comments by random people on "social media." What does that have to do with Scripps College? The person who wrote this piece in Zero Hedge is a complete moron.
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This Picture Of Mike Pence 'Triggered' An Entire Campus Of California Private College Kids | Zero Hedge
This is an amazing and disgusting report of a young college kid being abused in extreme language for having volunteered to have her photo taken with the US Vice President. I don't know what US "liberal" colleges are coming to, to condone such political intolerance. Some of the comments below this report hit the nail on the head, pretty much. I hope (with not much confidence) that most BE members will agree with me!
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The person who wrote this piece in Zero Hedge is a complete moron.
It's all that fighting that does it.
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I don't think I could ever wrap my head around Australia's seasons. A warm Christmas is weird.
It is weird. Last year it was 36 and blazing sun where we were.
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I prefer an Aussie christmas to a UK one where it's cold enough you need the heating on but not cold enough to have snow. When it's grey and heavy and damp it's foul. Saying that snow in England is generally a pointless thing, traffic grinds to a standstill and it only hangs around long enough to annoy then it turns into black slush and buggers up the cars, so I'll stick with my 26 degree C with blue skies and the pool calling, Aussie christmas.
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Originally Posted by Gordon Barlow
This Picture Of Mike Pence 'Triggered' An Entire Campus Of California Private College Kids | Zero Hedge
This is an amazing and disgusting report of a young college kid being abused in extreme language for having volunteered to have her photo taken with the US Vice President. I don't know what US "liberal" colleges are coming to, to condone such political intolerance. Some of the comments below this report hit the nail on the head, pretty much. I hope (with not much confidence) that most BE members will agree with me!
What exactly will make you happy Gordo? Your guy won. Why can't you just be happy?

You call others 'snowflakes' but you are the biggest, whiniest, grievance-baby I've ever had the displeasure to witness.

Just grow up.
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I don't think I could ever wrap my head around Australia's seasons. A warm Christmas is weird.
You don't even need to go to Australia for that, several locations in the US can provide you the experience of a warm Christmas...



As for snow, I like snow, but where I am in Canada the region is incapable of handling snow, so everything becomes a total crud show.

Last year we had a really bad snow filled winter and it was a total mess, hopefully this winter will be a little less snow, some winters we get none.
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Posts on Facebook. Its Facebook! She needs to be taught about the privacy settings.

Gordon, I am very disappointed by the drop off in your trolling skills. Back to Troll school 101 for you.
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