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Sarge Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79	Message 464270 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 18:05:54 UTC Odd. Now that we haven't seen Chucky for two weeks, suddently, BS reappears ... . To the Conspiracy Thread cave, Robin! Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. ID: 464270 ·

Sarge Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79	Message 464275 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 18:11:40 UTC - in response to Message 464253. Ladies and Gentlemen...you are getting very close to the personal limit...contemplating a deletion. If BrainSmashR feels personally attacked I am going to have to take action. He's BrainSmashR, and not BS. If deletion is necessary, this post will go too. Does this mean I can't be "RTP"? (It's only one step away from Stp, Stone Temple Pilots!) Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. ID: 464275 ·

Fuzzy Hollynoodles Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0	Message 464277 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 18:15:19 UTC - in response to Message 464268. Last modified: 23 Nov 2006, 18:18:40 UTC Fuzzy don't use those big words That I don't understand.... I had to look it up! :-) I like DISPUTATIOUS Thats a great word I am DISPUTATIOUS! Main Entry: poÃ‚Â·lemÃ‚Â·iÃ‚Â·cal Pronunciation: -mi-k&l Variant(s): also poÃ‚Â·lemÃ‚Â·ic /-mik/ Function: adjective 1 : of, relating to, or being a polemic : CONTROVERSIAL 2 : engaged in or addicted to polemics : DISPUTATIOUS - poÃ‚Â·lemÃ‚Â·iÃ‚Â·calÃ‚Â·ly /-mi-k(&-)lE/ adverb Sorry. ;-D Thanks for looking it up and posting the meaning here. :-D From my online dictionary: poÃ‚Â·lemÃ‚Â·ic 1. A controversial argument, especially one refuting or attacking a specific opinion or doctrine. 2. A person engaged in or inclined to controversy, argument, or refutation. adj. also poÃ‚Â·lemÃ‚Â·iÃ‚Â·cal (--kl) Of or relating to a controversy, argument, or refutation. [French polÃƒÂ©mique, from Greek polemikos, hostile, from polemos, war.] poÃ‚Â·lemiÃ‚Â·calÃ‚Â·ly adv. "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me ID: 464277 ·

Sarge Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79	Message 464278 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 18:16:39 UTC - in response to Message 464277. Fuzzy don't use those big words That I don't understand.... I had to look it up! :-) I like DISPUTATIOUS Thats a great word I am DISPUTATIOUS! Main Entry: poÃ‚Â·lemÃ‚Â·iÃ‚Â·cal Pronunciation: -mi-k&l Variant(s): also poÃ‚Â·lemÃ‚Â·ic /-mik/ Function: adjective 1 : of, relating to, or being a polemic : CONTROVERSIAL 2 : engaged in or addicted to polemics : DISPUTATIOUS - poÃ‚Â·lemÃ‚Â·iÃ‚Â·calÃ‚Â·ly /-mi-k(&-)lE/ adverb Sorry. ;-D Thanks for looking it up and posting the meaning here. :-D <=== knew what it meant ;) Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. ID: 464278 ·

Darth Dogbytes™ Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0	Message 464293 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 18:31:26 UTC The polemic topic of this thread is breast feeding... Account frozen... ID: 464293 ·

1mp0Â£173 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0	Message 464300 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 18:36:36 UTC Security on airlines would dramatically improve if everyone was forced to fly naked. ... and people on the plane would be too preoccupied with their own nakedness to worry about a mother feeding her child. ID: 464300 ·

Sarge Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79	Message 464301 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 18:37:45 UTC - in response to Message 464300. Security on airlines would dramatically improve if everyone was forced to fly naked. ... and people on the plane would be too preoccupied with flaunting their own nakedness to worry about a mother feeding her child. Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. ID: 464301 ·

N/A Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 18 May 01 Posts: 3718 Credit: 93,649 RAC: 0	Message 464349 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 19:50:31 UTC Echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo... BTW, the suggestion was first made in Brian Unger's satirical Unger Report (NPR). Problem is that you've got a 50/50 chance of sitting next to ugliness as much as beauty. ID: 464349 ·

Siran d'Vel'nahr Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 7379 Credit: 44,181,323 RAC: 238	Message 464364 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 20:10:33 UTC - in response to Message 464127. What is indecent about this, much less obscene, whether in public or private? Indecent and obscene are not synonymous. They cannot be interchanged without changing the entire meaning of the sentence. What's "indecent" about exposing a breast on an airplane is specifically that it's a body part which is normally covered in that particular situation. It would not be indecent in a bathroom, in your home, or on a nude beach because one would expect to see exposed body parts in those locations which would otherwise be covered in a different setting. I'm not sure he realizes that plans cannot be dropped because of a hungry baby. Run off to do something as a social outcast to do something that is completely natural. She didn't have to do anything of the sort. I doubt all baby formula's are on the banned liquids list, AND she was offered a blanket which would have solved the problem before it ever started. Sorry guys, I'm totally not religious, but I DO believe humans are better than all the other animals on the planet combined. In my opinion this isn't any different than monkeys flinging poo at each other or dog's sniffing each other's butts. Humans are better than that. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Greetings, Has it occured to you yet, that this thread is now moot? You keep arguing for arguements sake. You have not added anything new to this "discussion". You reiterate your opinions over and over and you have not persuaded anyone else to change theirs. My suggestion would be to drop this "discussion". Until next I visit.... (-:< Dif-tor heh smusma -- Live Long and Prosper \\V/_ CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\// Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker "Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath ID: 464364 ·

BODLEY Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Oct 06 Posts: 725 Credit: 130,841 RAC: 0	Message 464365 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 20:10:44 UTC Last modified: 23 Nov 2006, 20:12:40 UTC Well, next Tuesday, I shall be travelling to Istanbul. I shall be sitting alongside: I could care less if she started to breast feed. Some people you meet in life, really need to GET a life. ID: 464365 ·

John McLeod VII Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0	Message 464366 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 20:10:59 UTC - in response to Message 464349. Echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo echo... BTW, the suggestion was first made in Brian Unger's satirical Unger Report (NPR). Problem is that you've got a 50/50 chance of sitting next to ugliness as much as beauty. Are you certain that the odds are that high for beauty? BOINC WIKI ID: 464366 ·

BODLEY Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Oct 06 Posts: 725 Credit: 130,841 RAC: 0	Message 464367 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 20:14:41 UTC - in response to Message 464366. Problem is that you've got a 50/50 chance of sitting next to ugliness as much as beauty. Are you certain that the odds are that high for beauty?[/quote] In my case yes ... even more than that ... ;)) ID: 464367 ·

thorin belvrog Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 29 Sep 06 Posts: 6418 Credit: 8,893 RAC: 0	Message 464428 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 21:49:20 UTC To grab the topic once again: Boooo I can't understand those American Pseudo-Puritans - making such a fuss about a mother exposing her breast to feed her baby when and where he or she needs it. Breast-feeding is the most natural thing between a mother and her child I can imagine. Why can anyone nowadays feel offended by that - and even try to stipulate that she has to cover "the act" of breast-feeding??? There is nothing sexual about it, imho it's just bigotry to make this a problem. Account frozen... ID: 464428 ·

Captain Avatar Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 15133 Credit: 529,088 RAC: 0	Message 464435 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 21:53:14 UTC - in response to Message 464428. To grab the topic once again: Boooo I can't understand those American Pseudo-Puritans - making such a fuss about a mother exposing her breast to feed her baby when and where he or she needs it. Breast-feeding is the most natural thing between a mother and her child I can imagine. Why can anyone nowadays feel offended by that - and even try to stipulate that she has to cover "the act" of breast-feeding??? There is nothing sexual about it, imho it's just bigotry to make this a problem. 99.9% of us "Americans" are saying the same thing and we have covered this topic to no end...Twice Over. Now we Americans will be attacked because there is nothing else to say. ID: 464435 ·

Sarge Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79	Message 464439 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 21:54:59 UTC Having followed the links Misfit provided earlier, and a couple others from the same place, I would say in some instances the breast was not as well concealed by the baby's head as Es would suggest. On the other hand, I cannot even recall for sure ever viewing any woman breastfeeding. So, that either says I have not viewed any public breastfeeding, or if I have, it is not as indecent as BS suggests. Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. ID: 464439 ·

BODLEY Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Oct 06 Posts: 725 Credit: 130,841 RAC: 0	Message 464472 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 22:41:29 UTC - in response to Message 464439. On the other hand, I cannot even recall for sure ever viewing any woman breastfeeding. So, that either says I have not viewed any public breastfeeding, or if I have, it is not as indecent as BS suggests. Or maybe you have never travelled in the other 95% of the World ... ID: 464472 ·

Sarge Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79	Message 464480 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 22:58:25 UTC - in response to Message 464472. On the other hand, I cannot even recall for sure ever viewing any woman breastfeeding. So, that either says I have not viewed any public breastfeeding, or if I have, it is not as indecent as BS suggests. Or maybe you have never travelled in the other 95% of the World ... Sounds like baiting to me. Mods, to the rescue, please. Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. ID: 464480 ·

Darth Dogbytes™ Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0	Message 464482 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 22:59:28 UTC - in response to Message 464480. Last modified: 23 Nov 2006, 23:00:51 UTC On the other hand, I cannot even recall for sure ever viewing any woman breastfeeding. So, that either says I have not viewed any public breastfeeding, or if I have, it is not as indecent as BS suggests. Or maybe you have never travelled in the other 95% of the World ... Sounds like baiting to me. Mods, to the rescue, please. Nope...call it a statement, guess, or question by the other poster...I see no baiting. Account frozen... ID: 464482 ·

Darth Dogbytes™ Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0	Message 464484 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 23:02:12 UTC - in response to Message 464482. On the other hand, I cannot even recall for sure ever viewing any woman breastfeeding. So, that either says I have not viewed any public breastfeeding, or if I have, it is not as indecent as BS suggests. Or maybe you have never travelled in the other 95% of the World ... Sounds like baiting to me. Mods, to the rescue, please. Nope...call it a statement, guess, or question by the other poster...I see no baiting. As for myself I have been in or through about 50 different countries and open breast feeding is the norm in many, especially in Africa and Asia. Account frozen... ID: 464484 ·

Es99 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0	Message 464489 - Posted: 23 Nov 2006, 23:08:52 UTC - in response to Message 464439. Having followed the links Misfit provided earlier, and a couple others from the same place, I would say in some instances the breast was not as well concealed by the baby's head as Es would suggest. On the other hand, I cannot even recall for sure ever viewing any woman breastfeeding. So, that either says I have not viewed any public breastfeeding, or if I have, it is not as indecent as BS suggests. Well having done and seen a lot of breastfeeding in public..including on planes to the US..I can assure you there is nothing indecent about it, and I think I am more qualified to make that statement than the majority of posters in this thread ;-) Go to any cafe here during the day and you will see mothers with their babies having coffee while they breastfeed their babies. No one bats an eyelid Reality Internet Personality ID: 464489 ·

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