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9 Nov 2005, 03:55
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Why there is a GD
I have figured it out while browsing through wikipedia why we are all here! I was reading the article on autism and it all came clear when I came across this line :
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Some argue that the internet allows autistic individuals to communicate and form online communities, in addition to being able to find occupations such as independent consulting, which does generally not require much human interaction offline.
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Now, suddenly, it's all making sense. I must have not noticed it before, and I'll be on my way now.*
<-- it also explains this smilie.
*Sorry I'm not really leaving.
Let's go find an autism community and troll!
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9 Nov 2005, 04:03
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Re: Why there is a GD
cs57vwvew fa\olp,az\245U)*24 B248uy421 bc
This has been the result of me banging my head on the keyboard.
(Note: You can tell it's me and not yahwe because otherwise it would have just said bless repeatedly.)
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9 Nov 2005, 04:05
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Re: Why there is a GD
I personally think I'm a "bit" autistic.
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9 Nov 2005, 04:06
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Re: Why there is a GD
It won't be easy,
You'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love after all that I've done
You won't believe me
You’ll think it strange
All you will see is a poster you once knew
Although he's dressed up to the nines
At sixes and sevens with you
I had to let it happen,
I had to change
I couldn't stay all my life down at heel
Looking out of the window, staying out of the sun
So I chose freedom!
Running around trying everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it to
Don't cry for me GD!!
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days! My mad existence I kept my promise Don't keep your distance
And as for fortune,
and as for fame
I never invited them in!!!
Though it seemed to the world they were all I desired
They are illusions
They are not the solutions
That they promised to be
The answer was here all the time
[b]I love you and hope you love me[/b[
Don't cry for me GD......
(inspired by Nusselt)
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9 Nov 2005, 04:51
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1up on you
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Re: Why there is a GD
65t6y8iu9y6tgr45e6t5ijededoa;3weiw3ujerft
thats the result of me banging my head on the keyboard
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9 Nov 2005, 04:54
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Re: Why there is a GD
Oh silly me, I forgot to add the [retard] tag.
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9 Nov 2005, 04:59
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Re: Why there is a GD
ask jonny to add it, the least he could do surely.
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9 Nov 2005, 07:51
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Re: Why there is a GD
GD is some to do when you aint got nothing to do in between ticks in PA
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9 Nov 2005, 08:28
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share the <3
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Re: Why there is a GD
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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
I personally think I'm a "bit" autistic.
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the geunine kind of the induced kind/
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9 Nov 2005, 09:03
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Re: Why there is a GD
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Originally Posted by Nusselt
the geunine kind of the induced kind/
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There is to be no mention of MMR.
Furthermore, Autism isn't an on/off condition, it's a group of things under one heading.
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9 Nov 2005, 09:44
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Re: Why there is a GD
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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri
There is to be no mention of MMR.
Furthermore, Autism isn't an on/off condition, it's a group of things under one heading.
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9 Nov 2005, 09:53
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Re: Why there is a GD
jsakdSkgfdCfdsOdfsOfdsBfdslsYkksadkDkdfs232 2OsdaskO
the result of banging the keyboard on my head.
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9 Nov 2005, 11:06
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Re: Why there is a GD
Someone always has to be different.
`1q2w3e4r5t6y7u8i9o0p-[=]
ok, so thats me and my penis
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9 Nov 2005, 11:18
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Re: Why there is a GD
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Originally Posted by s|k
<-- it also explains this smilie.
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The only thing that explains that smilie is JJ being the bad kind of homosexual.
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9 Nov 2005, 11:38
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Re: Why there is a GD
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Originally Posted by Appocomaster
Someone always has to be different.
`1q2w3e4r5t6y7u8i9o0p-[=]
ok, so thats me and my penis
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if your penis looks like that.....oh dear.
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9 Nov 2005, 11:38
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Re: Why there is a GD
lol
it doesn't look like that irl. though that'd be sort of cool. almost a RL epenis
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9 Nov 2005, 12:19
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Re: Why there is a GD
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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri
The only thing that explains that smilie is JJ being the bad kind of homosexual.
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I got that from Jester actually (if memory serves)
:crymeariver:
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9 Nov 2005, 12:53
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Re: Why there is a GD
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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
I personally think I'm a "bit" autistic.
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In my experience, a lot of people who like computers and dont really get along with people in real life tend to self-diagnose themself as being 'slightly autistic'. To be honest, it seems like the nerdy equivalent of fatties saying they have bad genes.
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9 Nov 2005, 12:54
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Re: Why there is a GD
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Originally Posted by Nodrog
So does 90% of somethingawful. Isnt self-diagnosis awesome?
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It is, but I'd be surprised if 90% of heavy internet/forum weren't at least borderline autistic.
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9 Nov 2005, 12:55
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Re: Why there is a GD
see edit
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9 Nov 2005, 12:58
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Re: Why there is a GD
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To be honest, it seems like the nerdy equivalent of fatties saying they have bad genes.
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Maybe. But I'd say autism was a characteristic of the phenotype, not genotype so it's not really an issue of avoiding moral responsibility.
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9 Nov 2005, 13:10
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Re: Why there is a GD
GD is a repository for spastics with no hope in life.
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9 Nov 2005, 13:21
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Re: Why there is a GD
paoejf';qwopdifjawdf[''pkj]pfo]eargq]r-ew0giqoe]rg-qeoirgq
This is the result of me banging something on the keyboard, but it wasnt my head. Notice how it goes on for longer than Pig's
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Re: Why there is a GD
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Originally Posted by Nodrog
In my experience, a lot of people who like computers and dont really get along with people in real life tend to self-diagnose themself as being 'slightly autistic'. To be honest, it seems like the nerdy equivalent of fatties saying they have bad genes.
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I think there's probably more to the nature part of the nature/nurture/nietzche argument in the case of the autistic spectrum than there is for weight gain, simply because it seems, in my experience, to be an operator on more subconscious reactions than the other example given.
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9 Nov 2005, 13:27
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Re: Why there is a GD
I tried to hit the keyboard with my penis, but I couldn't get it over the table edge
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9 Nov 2005, 13:31
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Re: Why there is a GD
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Originally Posted by Leshy
I tried to hit the keyboard with my penis, but I couldn't get it over the table edge
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No one thinks any the less of you for only being three feet tall.
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9 Nov 2005, 13:31
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Re: Why there is a GD
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I tried to hit the keyboard with my penis, but I couldn't get it over the table edge
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But was it fully erect?
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9 Nov 2005, 13:40
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Re: Why there is a GD
I was told I had autistic tendencies when i was younger, but didn't fit into lots of the other categorisations, I'm not disorderless though.
I would not be surprised if a very large amount of us had some form of "learning disorder", it fits in with my idea of what they are (sometimes). Which is effectively the brain being far stronger than average in some ways, but offset by having fairly large handicaps. It's not too hard to see examples of that round here
It all adds to the spice of life
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Re: Why there is a GD
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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri
I think there's probably more to the nature part of the nature/nurture/nietzche argument in the case of the autistic spectrum than there is for weight gain, simply because it seems, in my experience, to be an operator on more subconscious reactions than the other example given.
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I was meaning it more in terms people inventing silly rationalizations for aspects of their character which they dislike.
"I think I'm slightly autistic" - no, you just have poor social skills. It's like saying that children who play games involving avoiding stepping on the cracks in pavements have borderline OCD.
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9 Nov 2005, 14:11
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Re: Why there is a GD
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I was meaning it more in terms people inventing silly rationalizations for aspects of their character which they dislike.
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I don't really see how it's a rationalisation. It's just giving a name to a set of observable traits.
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It's like saying that children who play games involving avoiding stepping on the cracks in pavements have borderline OCD.
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Some of them undobutedly do.
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9 Nov 2005, 15:01
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Re: Why there is a GD
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Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson
GD is a repository for spastics with no hope in life.
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This is the result of me having a spastic fit while three lovely ladies gave me a massage in my hotel room on the Executive floor of the four star hotel I'm staying in while waiting for the limo to take me to work.
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9 Nov 2005, 15:37
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Re: Why there is a GD
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This is the result of me having a spastic fit while three lovely ladies gave me a massage in my hotel room on the Executive floor of the four star hotel I'm staying in while waiting for the limo to take me to work.
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Well done. I'll stamp your excercise book with a smilie face for the effort.
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9 Nov 2005, 21:34
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Re: Why there is a GD
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Originally Posted by horn
they do.
whether they gain the faculties to rationalize out such thoughts as "if i step on a crack something bad will happen", may determine whether this "OCD", continues, worsens or lessens.
OCD is there in all of us.. When going away for a long time do you not check if you've left lights on more than once ? (many more examples available on request)
I personally had this really bad when i was much younger, i.e. i would form obsessive thoughts around many activities/things and thought things such as my family dying would occur if i broke the "rules". I think it got better for a while and has now manifested itself in a slightly different form. Obviously links with depression and/or seratonin levels in the brain have problems with causality when trying too pin down the exact reasons for such behavioural "problems".
OCD is not like the aformentioned light-switch.
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A good friend of mine is taking medication for OCD. He has been unemployed for a year now (he just recently started a job part time) even though he has a university degree and job experience. To me his behavior seems silly, I've known him for a long time and he has been fine in the past. Well the doctors have diagnosed him with this thing so I guess he really does have this issue.
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9 Nov 2005, 21:44
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Re: Why there is a GD
I'd bang my head ont he keyboard, but I don't want to ruin my hair since I'm going out. I'd also probably break my spectacles
When people on GD say that have OCD or Autism, I think its just a way of rationalising how they are in life rather than accepting that its just you rather than it being down to a syndrome or disorder.
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Re: Why there is a GD
colo,xcxe/';#}
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was the result of my head/keyboard interaction (the second time i tried admittedly, the first time i managed somehow to hit Alt-A and all of my lovely gibberish was wasted)
anyway, slightly more on topic, i don't believe i suffer from and kind of autism spectrum disorder, although i am colourblind, but i suspect that that really doesn't make a difference whilst talking in GD
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9 Nov 2005, 23:31
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Re: Why there is a GD
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When people on GD say that have OCD or Autism, I think its just a way of rationalising how they are in life rather than accepting that its just you rather than it being down to a syndrome or disorder.
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Not really. If I say I am a geek, this is simply short-hand that I have x,y,z personality traits. I see no difference than saying you have OCD (say). If anything, that is an acceptance of how you are.
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9 Nov 2005, 23:32
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Re: Why there is a GD
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Maybe. But I'd say autism was a characteristic of the phenotype, not genotype so it's not really an issue of avoiding moral responsibility.
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"i'd say autism was a charactersitic of the "physical appearance and constitution, or a specific manifestation of a trait, such as size or eye color, that varies between individuals", not "the entire genetic constitution of an organism, or the genetic composition at a specific gene locus or set of loci"
So autism is down to genetic expression not genes huh?!
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9 Nov 2005, 23:35
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Re: Why there is a GD
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Originally Posted by Dace
So autism is down to genetic expression not genes huh?!
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Phenotype : The observable traits or characteristics of an organism, for example hair color, weight, or the presence or absence of a disease. Phenotypic traits are not necessarily genetic.
Phenotype : Physical, clinical or biological characteristics of an organism, determined by the interaction of its genetic make-up with the environment.
Phenotype : The morphological, physiological, biochemical, behavioral, and other properties of an organism, manifested throughout its life.
And so on.
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10 Nov 2005, 00:09
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so f*cking zen
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Re: Why there is a GD
i was (am) drunk ... even when typing it i was going "is that right?" *shrug*
i'm still sure there's something wrong with your statement but nevermind eh?! :D
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Re: Why there is a GD
Head banging sounds autistic to me.
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Re: Why there is a GD
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Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson
But was it fully erect?
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How would I ever bend it around the table corner
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10 Nov 2005, 01:16
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Re: Why there is a GD
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No one thinks any the less of you for only being three feet tall.
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Are we talking about Kura here?
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Re: Why there is a GD
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Originally Posted by dda
Head banging sounds autistic to me.
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Drunken autism actually. Thank christ they let us out at nights. Otherwise I might go insane!
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Re: Why there is a GD
ey up whats all this then!
this was a result of me banging my fingers against the keyboard
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10 Nov 2005, 12:54
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Re: Why there is a GD
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How would I ever bend it around the table corner
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Remind me why you would want to? 'Scaring' small children?
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