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Yeah, best to get the thread back on topic. Poor Topher.

Good on ya Bigbwii.

I'm sure it is, I can't wait to visit. CG doesn't seem to fond of it though. Anyway, for your hayfever get kissing: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1830316.html?menu= http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17034673&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=30-minute-snog--can-help-cure-hayfever---name_page.html

Canal bike? You can ride a bike on the water???

You sure about that? Maybe not active, practising Christians. I'd say the majority of vegans in the West are Christian, rather than say Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu etc.........

Depends what your allergies are. I think you are referring to hayfver though? Sure there are herbal remedies, dunno what they are though.......... I think CG is allergic to Toronto.

Cool pics, especially the last one.

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I can spot the spelling mistake.

You're kind of throwing everything in the 'left-wing" pot here, IMO. I dont'consider anti-Semitism or support of terrorism left-wing or liberal. I agree Kathryn. Anti-semitism is also right-wing, some would argue more so. I have difficulty with the terms terrorism/terrorist nowadays, especially the way the US media, and sadly much of the US public too, labels anyone a terrorist all too freely.

Anyway, in answer to your original question, it does seem that most vegans are of a left-wing persuasion, or maybe they are just more vocal than the centrist and conservative vegans.

Hi USOBBA A kafiyah is not Palestinian - it is a traditional arab scarf, worn all over the Middle East, and has been worn long before the current troubles in Gaza and the West Bank. It is multi-functional- providing protection against the sun, wind and cold. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keffiyeh 'the checked scarf that has covered that part of the world's men for centuries..... In the Middle East, of course, it is most commonly worn as a man's headdress, fastened with a circular agal cord and left draped over the shoulders, or rolled up in a turban shape..... "Here, it's traditional status as if you wear a suit in Europe," he says. "It means that you are mature and self-confident. I wear it every day and started wearing it when I was 14 years old." - http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/19/opinion/rscarf.php Lot's of people wear them, including me: http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d34/Tarz77/holiday8.jpg By wearing a kafiyah I am not neccesarily pro-Palestanian and anti-Israel. I don't deny that kafiyah's are worn by Palestanain sympathisers, but not exclusively so. It makes a nice scarf and I think they look good too. Are the victims of Isreali strikes inside Palestine not human targets as well?

Well of course I don't support cop killing, a desire to kill a policeman is not actually the same thing as killing a policeman.

Yeah Jay, that's what I think I need too - some antiobiotics to sort it out once and for all.

You're scaring me dude I've heard stories about India. A friend of mine told me that he had to hold on to something when going on the toilet. Otherwise he suspected he'd faint . Another friend was in remote Nepal with his wife and they thought they'd die from the stomach problems. Don't mean to scare you or anyone offense - India's a great country, it's just one of those places that you'll probably fall ill. I took a gamble and am paying the price. My stomach has been fine for weeks, it's the fact that I'm weak, have no energy etc etc that is annoying me. I had food poisoning - the most common kind, campylobacter - and not something more serious what the doctors first suspected. I think I've still got something lurking in my system that I've got to clear up once and for all. I've given it 3-4 weeks to clear up naturally - that hasn't worked so going back to the docs tonight or tomorrow to finally sort it out. I expected to have an upset stomach for a few days, not to feel like I have for the last five weeks though..........

Thriced. I've been f*~#d ever since I've got back from India. I came back in good shape and my running was going really well before I went. I've run only 2/3 times in the four and a half weeks I've been back, and taking it very easy at the gym. So I've lost a lot too. Are you reading offence74 - think twice before going to India..... At the moment I'm a shadow of my usual self......

I never knew that Holland was a part of the Netherlands. I always thought Holland and The Netherlands were one and the same.....

I think you meant to say 'OK not to eat vegan food'?

Have you heard Five's cover of 'We Will Rock you' Raven? Truly atrocious. The worst part of it was is that Brian May and Roger Taylor make an appearance. Old Freddie be turnin in his grave....... No, but sounds like I don't want to. I recently saw a televised concert of Queen with Paul Rodgers singing (with May and Taylor). They were performing as "Queen" -- more like jesters to me. I don't hate him, but, really, Queen songs should just be left alone. I can't think of anyone I'd like to see sing for Mercury. Yeah Raven, Old Fred was unique. Irreplaceable. John Deacon's got the right idea - he knows that sadly it's over - and has nothing to do with all the new stuff that goes on.

Not that lucky. The US prison system, and some of the stuff that goes on within those prison walls, is rather questionable..........

I very much agree with what you say crashnburn apart from the above quote. When thinking about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is easy to forget ( maybe less so for Americans ) that Japan was the aggressor in the Pacific. Whilst I sympathise with the innocent victims of the atomic bombs, maybe many thousands, possibly millions, of lives were saved by the prevention of an attack on the Japanese mainland - Allied troops, Japanese civilians, Allied POW's who would have been executed ( many of whom had already dug their own graves after being informed they were digging 'swimming pools'). If the war had continued many more lives would have been lost than if the bombs were not used. There is deep controversy whether or not Japan was going to surrender anyhow - if the bombs were necessary - and were they really used as a marker in the coming Cold War and with an eye on the Soviets? The Japanese were absolutely ruthless, brutal and apart from the odd exception totally without mercy in their conquest of the Far East - The Rape of Nanking, The Bataan Death March, The Thai-Burma Railway etc etc. What if the Japanese had atomic weapons? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_atomic_program http://fas.org/nuke/guide/japan/nuke/ http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Gulf/4963/jnuke.html http://vikingphoenix.com/public/JapanIncorporated/1895-1945/japan_abombs.htm Yes there has been ( usually inaccurate ) war movies about the fate of Allied POWS/civilians in Japanese hands. I'm not aware either of any mainstream movies about the effect of a barbaric Japanese occupation on the populations of China, Korea, Malaya, Siam, Burma, The Phillipines, Singapore etc etc.

In Amsterdam that means lots of possibilities.

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I mix 'em up.