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awwww cute

I don't need more things to prevent me from traveling or goats would be here.

(05-14-2023, 12:13 PM)BigMark Wrote: [ -> ]

That video was the Greatest of All Time.

A tornado intercept, Duchess!

I didn't like watching that. It was scary. I can't imagine being the other vehicles out there either. Watching the very last clip had a little bit of calm to it tho, to see them all at once.

I'm going to try this if I ever have to go real bad. Fair is fair.

It's pretty bad when the highlight of your day is flushing toilet paper.

That was pretty cool!

I'm an American who doesn't think too much of Israel. I think they are as much terrorists as they accuse others of being.

I support Israel as a counterpart to worse countries, they have a fantastic military full of hot women. They are one of the most racist and narcissistic people in the whole world. Without a common enemy they would implode post haste.

In 1974, he went with his first wife, Kristen Tomassi, to Cozumel, to try and patch up a marriage that had suffered from numerous affairs on both sides. The area has some of the world’s best marlin fishing, and one day they and another couple decided to hire a deep-sea boat. Two miles out, a severe storm began to pound the boat; after a frightening hour or so, the wind and rain subsided, but Branson and his wife concluded that they were in the storm’s eye. Convinced that the boat could not withstand another attack, they urged the others to try to swim with them to safety. Nobody was willing to join them. “We stripped off to our underwear and the fisherman gave us a plank of wood from the bottom of the boat,” Branson recalled. Somehow, despite ten-foot waves, the couple fought their way to shore. Neither the boat nor its occupants were ever seen again.

“The Portuguese were the 1^st Europeans after the dark ages to engage in transcultural & transoceanic warfare, equipped with a blend of nautical knowledge; superior technology; incredible courage; very few men & great swordsmanship that proved very efficient against the curved blades of the Turks & Moors. One must be aware that the Portuguese knew they were always outnumbered, a certainty that led them to employ all their courage & determination in the fights & battles they engaged. In many cases, just mentioning the Portuguese would distress an entire army or fleet, knowing the fierceness & bravery of the Portuguese warriors”
— Rainer Daehnhardt.

“In these years, when a Portuguese soldier disembarked from one of his nation’s ships to take up duty within a fort at Moçambique or at Malacca, on the straits near Java, he could expect during his tour of duty 3 sieges in which he would eat grass & drink urine. Some of the most courageous resistances in world history were contributed by these Portuguese defenders”
— James A. Michener.

“From a present-day viewpoint, the most impressive achievement of the Portuguese is perhaps their frequent & rapid success in arriving at a mutually satisfactory relationship with the many & various peoples they encountered on their way to the Far East. To ask how they managed this is to touch on the mystery of the Portuguese mentality. It is clear that the Portuguese were markedly superior to the Spaniards, & incomparably superior to the Dutch & English, in their capacity for an unprejudiced & adaptable response to influences from alien cultures. Though it is easy to recognize this as a historical fact, the tangle of interdependent causes makes it very hard to offer a final explanation”
— Urs Bitterli.