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are u 2 still at it? why dont u just fuck off impersonating me. to put you both straight i was 22 in october, and you know nothing about me and geoff! just fuck off and stop shit stirring! infact im sick of this! im leaving! i hate you all! im gonna go do some E’s!
omg wot are u gettin out of impersonatin me! stop it mudda f*ckas! i’ll get upset and resort to drugs to escape the pressures of justchat and then slide into paranoia and lose all my friends then leave in a tantrum amidst all my impersonators!
LIAR! wtf are u doin on my name?? get the fuck off it! im tommy u bastard!
u fat bstards u fat bstards
fat boy tony montanas tits
im darthvader!
@sharongooner wrote:
@Mr Bigstuff wrote:
Just to correct you all, MI5 deals with any threat to national security so they do work overseas at times to deal with foreign-based threats.
I thought so, otherwise the program Spooks is all a complete lie!!!!
errr.. :roll:
@Mr Bigstuff wrote:
Just to correct you all, MI5 deals with any threat to national security so they do work overseas at times to deal with foreign-based threats.
liar
@emmalush wrote:
@Ow£n Ka$h wrote:
MI5 chief Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller said the security service knew of 30 terror plots threatening the UK and was keeping 1,600 individuals under surveillance.
Sexy even numbers. Why not 31 or 29, 1601 or 1599. I just dont believe the hype.
I wonder how many folk are convinced by the “need” for i.d cards after hearing of this :roll:
As the days, weeks, months and years roll on, soon the society of control becomes more like reality
i agree with emma,,sounds a bit made up to me,,,,wheres the proof?,,i wanna see proof,!,,,,,i think eliza manningham has been watchin 2 many james bond films,!
@rubyred wrote:
Pre-Romanization Roman Attitudes
The traditional Roman view of the Gauls can be expressed easily in one word: excessive. To the Romans the Gauls were excessive in their personal appearance and behavior, in their manner of making war, in their religion. The reported Gallic appearance and modes of behavior violated the traditional Roman virtues of industria, gravitas, constantia, and severitas. One could hardly imagine a people whose countenance and customs would more offend Roman sensibilities. Undoubtedly, the Roman view of Gauls was informed to a large degree by fear, given that the Gauls were the only enemy of Rome that had sacked the Eternal City prior to its fall.Diodorus Siculus writes that in appearance the “Gauls are tall of body, with rippling muscles, and white of skin, and their hair is blond (Book V. 28. 1).” Further, the Gauls accentuated this foreign lightness by washing their hair with lime and pulling it back from the forehead “so that their appearance is like Satyrs and Pans (Book V. 28. 2).” They, men and women, wear bracelets, heavy necklaces (torcs), rings, and even corselets, of gold. Their clothing is “striking — shirts which have been dyed and embroidered in varied colors, and breeches; and they wear striped coats…in which are set checks, close together and of varied hues (Book V. 30. 1-2).” Diodorus’ description of multicolored checked clothing sounds a lot like tartan plaid.
Strabo describes how this excess in appearance extends into Gallic behavior. They exhibit “simplicity and high-spiritedness…[and] witlessness and boastfulness (Geography 4.4.5).” This “levity of character” makes them look “not only insufferable when victorious, but also scared out of their wits when worsted.”
Both Diodorus and Cicero describe Gallic speech as being harsh. Diodorus (Book V. 31. 1) says that “when they meet together they converse with few words and in riddles, hinting darkly at things for the most part and using one word when they mean another….” All of the sources describe them as boasters. But Diodorus also says that they have sharp wits and “are not without cleverness at learning (Book V. 31. 1).”
Finally, the Gauls drink to excess. Besides drinking their own beer and mead (fermented honey), the Gauls, according to Diodorus “are exceedingly addicted to the use of wine (Book V. 26. 2-3).” They drink the wine without mixing it with water, and they drink until “they fall into a stupor or a state of madness (Diodorus V. 26. 3).” A fragment of Cicero’s Pro Fonteio expresses the wishful admonishment that “the Gauls would hereafter drink in more sober proportions (IV. 9).”
These descriptions of Gauls from Classical sources remind one of the stereotypical 19th-century English attitude toward the sly, primitive Irish and the wild Scots, best expressed in Punch cartoons. Strabo’s phrase “levity of character” is interesting, though, because it reflects on a very real Celtic trait, which springs from a sort of dreamy optimism that during their long history has led Celts into great adventure and unmitigated disaster. Yeats recognized this trait in his countrymen and disapproved of it. The epitaph on his tombstone warns, “Cast a cold eye on life, on death….”
gauls rool ya bass..!
gauls are gay,,so are you!,you gaul!
