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I thought in NO the subway was in the streets... :>
most of my country has this problem. Marshy grasslands and forests all the way between the sea and the southern highlands. Just take a look at the history of the Warsaw Metro line.
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Posted 06 April 2010 - 10:17 AM
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Posted 06 April 2010 - 10:22 AM
Rome subway line also counts to nothing and is ridiculusly small comapred to the city's size and populatio. But that has more to do with the fact that it's impossible to drill underground in Rome without discovering some archeolgical find.
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Posted 06 April 2010 - 10:54 AM
Gothos, on 06 April 2010 - 10:17 AM, said:
I thought in NO the subway was in the streets... :>
If it's in the streets, it's not a subway (since sub means below and all). NO has a very old trolley system, but it's not extremely extensive (nor is an extensive system all that necessary).
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Posted 06 April 2010 - 10:58 AM
Well, regarding sub-level, isn't NO mostly under sea level? You know, the sea just right next to it.
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Posted 06 April 2010 - 12:27 PM
LOL, well. It's under sea level, but not under ground. 
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Posted 06 April 2010 - 12:39 PM
It's all really underground, just the workers are lazy with filling the gaps!
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 06 April 2010 - 04:33 PM
Gothos, on 05 April 2010 - 11:50 PM, said:
Napoleon... his exploits still make him a french powerhouse, just as Elizabeth I is the cornerstone of past british might.
Well apart from the bit where the Brits and Spanish/ Prussians pwned him.
Also thanks for the history lesson on Britain, but I think you might just be oversimplifying a bit. Britain/England was a country of relatively modest power during Liz 1st's reign it took off sometime later. She wouldn't even make the top 5 for British military leaders etc, at least by my reasoning. Not losing to he Spanish has never been one of the criteria of significant military endeavour!
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Posted 06 April 2010 - 04:39 PM
First he pwned everyone he encountered before russian winter defeated him... british and prussians "pwned" a shade of his full glory
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Posted 06 April 2010 - 05:00 PM
The Royal Navy defeated his fleet in every major engagement, the British and the coalition chased him out of the penninsula, the shade of his former glory army he raised to contest control of central Europe was, of course, larger than that which previously attacked Russia, but good point nevertheless.
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Posted 06 April 2010 - 05:04 PM
Napoleon wasn't actually in Spain when we were handing out the hot musket dickings like candy during the Penisular War, he was off beating up Austrians and whatnot around that area of Europe. And the army he amassed against the combined Englo-Dutch and Prussian forces didn't have nearly as many veterans as the Russian force did.
Wellington still comprehensively kicked ass during the whole thing, though.
Wellington still comprehensively kicked ass during the whole thing, though.
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Posted 06 April 2010 - 05:17 PM
Sooooo
Slovakia! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia - in short - our ex-bros (we were Czechoslovakia), little more patriotic, drunken;), but surely not killing people (like in Hostel by Eli Roth)
Slovenia! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia - in shor - ex-Yugoslavian republic, from those has best economy, is fastly developing and people I met were friendly
And believe me, we are not Switzerland
Slovakia! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia - in short - our ex-bros (we were Czechoslovakia), little more patriotic, drunken;), but surely not killing people (like in Hostel by Eli Roth)
Slovenia! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia - in shor - ex-Yugoslavian republic, from those has best economy, is fastly developing and people I met were friendly
And believe me, we are not Switzerland
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Posted 06 April 2010 - 11:52 PM
Shinrei, on 06 April 2010 - 07:28 AM, said:
Interesting. My experience on the tube was random people kept talking to me. Maybe they weren't from London, but I kept finding myself in random conversations (that I didn't start).
I can only assumed you travelled late at night, and the people you speak of were drunkards.
In such a vein, I spent over an hour on a tediously traffic jammed night bus last Thursday, where a drunk tramp swore blind to a couple of European tourist girls that Hyde Park was just behind an Albanian travel agents in Camden.
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Posted 06 April 2010 - 11:56 PM
Ulrik, on 06 April 2010 - 05:17 PM, said:
Sooooo
Slovakia! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia - in short - our ex-bros (we were Czechoslovakia), little more patriotic, drunken;), but surely not killing people (like in Hostel by Eli Roth)
Slovakia! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia - in short - our ex-bros (we were Czechoslovakia), little more patriotic, drunken;), but surely not killing people (like in Hostel by Eli Roth)
Did someone say BROS?
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Posted 07 April 2010 - 12:01 AM
I rode the tube with my massive backpack and all I got were sneers, glares and huffs of outrage. Apparently I was taking up too much valuable British space on the train. I gave them a cheery smile and made sure my knife was on my belt.
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Posted 07 April 2010 - 12:04 AM
I still can't believe you didn't get arrested.
Were I a policeman, you'd be the first suspicious looking man with a backpack I'd stop. And on finding the knife, fun time in a British prison would have awaited you. We're talking up to two weeks in a private cell with a PS3 here, srrious shit.
Were I a policeman, you'd be the first suspicious looking man with a backpack I'd stop. And on finding the knife, fun time in a British prison would have awaited you. We're talking up to two weeks in a private cell with a PS3 here, srrious shit.
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Posted 07 April 2010 - 12:05 AM
Pro tip for all American tourists in the UK. Carrying a knife on your belt is illegal. Apparently.
It's not like I flashed the thing in people's faces. Only when I wanted their money or their life.
It's not like I flashed the thing in people's faces. Only when I wanted their money or their life.
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Posted 07 April 2010 - 12:26 AM
Rodeo, when you come and visit me in Japan it's the same deal. No knives on your person or you could end up in the slammer and deported. However, if you have a note from your sensei, you could carry around a real sword (in a proper bag) and there's no problem. 
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Posted 07 April 2010 - 12:37 AM
RodeoRanch, on 07 April 2010 - 12:05 AM, said:
Pro tip for all American tourists in the UK. Carrying a knife on your belt is illegal. Apparently.
It's not like I flashed the thing in people's faces. Only when I wanted their money or their life.
It's not like I flashed the thing in people's faces. Only when I wanted their money or their life.
So, could someone get away with a knife in her purse?
kidding aside, something that's been a wonder of mine for a while: what the hell constitutes 'reasonable force'? (or whatever the particular legalese term is) Do you really have to let someone hurt you before you can return the favor, or is that just an interwebz exaggeration? (To be possibly a little more precise, what constitutes the threat of force, brandishing a knife? or a verbal threat? or actually trying to strike me with something?)
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Posted 07 April 2010 - 12:42 AM
Shinrei, on 07 April 2010 - 12:26 AM, said:
Rodeo, when you come and visit me in Japan it's the same deal. No knives on your person or you could end up in the slammer and deported. However, if you have a note from your sensei, you could carry around a real sword (in a proper bag) and there's no problem.
Or mess around with the Airport Police's Jo when they inspect your bag on the way out
