"The woman who flinches from childbirth stands on par with the soldier who drops his rifle and runs in battle." - Theodore Roosevelt, as quoted by Weil (2005, pp. 108)

I doubt the veracity of this quote, given that he was an advocate for women's rights. And not least because nowhere on the Internet is this referenced.

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"Actually some of you might know that there are in fact 2 kinds of koalas. The first are the nice ones you see in the zoo. The second are the nasty ones who supposedly torment tourists. We call this kind "Drop Bears". Or: "Doroppu Beru". This kind of Koala likes to drop out of trees and maul non-Australians. It's our primary national defence system."

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Screwed Up Girl: "speaking of croissants, I just realized I haven't seen a single delifrance here, apparently it's not american. are there delifrances in netherlands?"

!@#$

Screwed Up Girl: "was russia ever a christian nation?"

!@#$%^&*()

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"I mean if people were unhappy with public transport, does that mean they should start operating their own transport company? Or should they start campaigning for the PTC chairman's position?

What if I am unhappy with the army or the police. Does it mean I have no right to question or to criticise them unless I go and sign up with the army or the police? I mean does anyone see how stupid it sounds?

Just to add one more point, I didn't like how the NKF was runned during the Durai years. So maybe Tan Sai Siong can arrange for me to be the next CEO of the NKF. I wouldn't even need 1 full peanut, just half a peanut will do."

Hee hee.

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For some reason, all women want to go to Paris.


Someone: there's one drawback in the integrated cd-rom design of the imacs.
on the G4 powermacs and the widescreens, the cd rom is a slot on the side of the screen. the CD basically ejects (as in flies out) and drops out on the table.

Me: doubtless the mac whores will say you must be there to catch it

Someone: my boss is a mac whore and he can't even catch it
it's a scam

the funny bit is one of my office colleagues claimed that the mac has more keyboard shortcuts than windows
i'm pretty sure windows has more keyboard shortcuts and better context menus

note that in order to delete a file, you can't highlight it and press the delete key in mac
you have to actually drag it into the trash can *rolls eyes*
or activate the context menu and select delete

i'm sure they're [keyboard shortcuts in Mac] as usable as the 3-button combination in mac to change tabs in mozilla
to switch tabs in mozilla/firefox/camino, you need cmd tab AND left or right
apple alt direction to be more precise
and you can't reconfigure the shortcuts, as far as i know.

Me: ctrl page up? ctrl page down?

Someone: i assume 'page' refers to the apple button
[ctrl page down] does nothing

plus point: wallpapers can be set to rotate every few minutes
minus point: the OS freezes for a few seconds during the wallpaper change

in windows all you need to do to access the menu options in any program is to press alt
and then scroll using the arrow keys or press letters on the keyboard. on mac you MUST click your mouse on the menu (I'm still trying to find out if i missed anything)