little_old_man

Welcome Athena. Glad to have you here as a member.

That is sad news and I truly hope he is able to get the treatment he needs and that they caught it early. It's one of the most survivable types of cancer most of the time and I hope he comes through it.

Nice tribute Dean. Depression is a horrible disease. Robin was one of those rare individuals who could put on a mask to conceal it in public, but in private he was a tortured soul. I lived within a few miles of him over the last 40 years and probably saw him a dozen or so times just around town and being a normal person. The first time I saw him around 1980, he was more like what you would see on TV and in movies, really crazy. Then as the years progressed he was more reserved and quiet, rarely cracking a smile but still plesant and always a gentleman. The last time I saw him about 4 years ago at a local pizza joint, he looked at me and asked if we had met because I looked familair, and I reminded him of the first time back in 1980 where my girlfriend at the time and I were tending to his bleeding and scraped up nose which he got by diving into the shallow end of a pool at his mom's condo complex where my girlfriend worked.. He remembered me and said "what the hell happened to you"? I said old age, and he chuckled.

Congratulations Harry. Welcome back to the team.

Can you imagine what kind of damage a person could do with a rubber band and a tightly folded paper wad?

Merry Christmas DW and to the rest of your family as well.

Have a wonderful Christmas Mausi, and to everybody on XI.

So why are you making roads through the bush with your truck when your mate has a perfectly good bulldozer (even with the dirty carb)? Nice looking family you have there and a good video.

Can somebody translate this please?

Seriously?

I see that you're getting much better with photoshop.

A tour of the Royal Armories museum in Leeds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11xIYcfEoZI

My comment wasn't intended as an insult toward you HellTigris. It's just an observation most baby boomers see in the younger generation. I was raised to always offer help to anyone who appears to need it regardless if they're a man or woman. Whether it's helping fill a tire, pushing a stalled car out of the flow of traffic, helping change a flat tire or simply holding a door open. It's just common courtesy.

I guess that's the difference between today's generation and our generation. Offering to help was the first thing that came to my mind.

Thanks for all of the hard work Loader. Couldn't do it without you.

Thank you to everybody who came out to support the memorial event for our fallen members. We had a great turnout this year and as always Loader did a great job preparing the maps and game types in a way that made it a blast for everybody. To any of you who would like to play the COD2 servers more often, we usually have a pretty good crowd playing every late afternoon and early evening, and our TDM server has a usual group that plays on weekend mornings into the afternoon. As so many have mentioned, it is a fast paced game compared to some of the other XI servers and we have a great time and fun players. Feel free to join us any time.

Happy birthday Johnny.

Happy birthday GG. I hope it was a great one.

A few years from now when the facts of this current middle east conflict are better known, I think the world will realize that while the US and our allies haven't been intentionally aiding ISIS, we have been indirectly because of the stupidity of the current US administration. Neither the Republicans or the Democrats seem to have a clue why all of this shit is going down or how to stop it. The vaccum left in Iraq after we pulled out is only a small piece of the puzzle. While this video doesn't offer much hope from either party for stopping the conflict, it does give an excellent reason for how and why it all started, and it wasn't because of any outside influence from the west. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnNBbm1YQyg

Those were great Dean.

I'm not sure that it was ever a matter of the US having better dental health, but rather Americans being obsessed with orthodonics and braces for kids starting at a very young age. Hell I remember some of my friends having braces back in the mid-60's. I was one of the lucky ones born with straight teeth. I've never had a single one pulled, not even my wisdom teeth. My now 25 year old son had braces for 5 years in his teens, and he refused to wear his retainer after they came off. Now they're damn near as crooked as they were before he got braces. Fuck him, he's got to live with them now. I did my part.

Happy birthday Ted. To celebrate you get to put our meat in your mouth. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Based on the title of the post I was expecting something else. Glad I was wrong.

Great post Loader.