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posted January 27, 2009 12:56 AM            

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... Yet that might have been the very thing that saved your hides during one of the biggest Sea Voyage disaster in history:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28857579/

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posted January 27, 2009 01:41 AM            

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Hi X.

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posted January 27, 2009 01:48 AM            

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Hey AG .

So... Seems like GU is still at a stalemate when it comes to variety of discussion topics Lol! Its so monotonous in here.

So I decided to spruce things up a bit Lol!

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posted January 27, 2009 09:21 AM            

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Psychologists says even people who love each other push the other in to the sea when faced with survivorship issue. See the movie "The Guardian" starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher. Its so true.

Even mothers do the same to their babies.

On that link, America 50 years ago was quiet different from now. Now they have experienced material success and I am sure their behavior will be much different today

The yanks will always be yanks though LOL

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posted January 27, 2009 09:24 AM              

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sounds like a good movie.

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posted January 27, 2009 10:06 AM              

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this is how i remember americans ..
like the folk Burt Munro met when he arrived in the states ..
my experience 'on the road' was fairly similar ..
folk would help out a total stranger .. me being the stranger ..
i'll never forget american hospitality ..

~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Fastest_Indian ~

~ http://www.bikenut.com.au/blog/uploaded_images/Fastest%20Indian%20Replica%20Motorcycle-732073.jpg ~

sorry .. couldn't view the 'titanic' link posted in header ..
msn has a habit of freezing my computer ..

i'd be curious to know what americans thought of the 'fastest indian ' movie ..
is it an accurate representation of ordinary every day american folk ??

i got the impression the film 'burt munro' character ( anthony hopkins ) .. was a sagittarius ..
or had some sag influence

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posted January 27, 2009 11:51 AM            

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one yank here. mind you i lived 21 yrs in blighty so not 100% anymore...one of my first experiences in the uk (on guernsey) was being in a car crash in the countryside. not many houses, but the one 100 yards from where we rolled the car (driver was a local) wouldn't even open the door more than a few inches. they didn't want to "get involved"...and i thought it was just new yorkers who acted like that!! actually i have had more generous strangers come to my aid in the big apple...

some people will save themselves and some people will save their loved ones at their own expense. nationality is not a factor in my experience!!

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posted January 27, 2009 12:26 PM            

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Ha haha. The definition of slangs do get change over time as well. Does any really know what a Red neck really means anymore? Does it refer to the red color on the necks of irish immigrants as they sweated in the fields? These days I have seen people use it to mean some kind of punk.

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posted January 27, 2009 01:31 PM            

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a little black girl i used to know told me "all white people are rednecks" meaning they burned easily but also that they were no-class, no-brain bigots...which is what it tends to mean where i come from...people who live in their isolated country ruts and admit no one fromt the outside into their circle of "okay folk"

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