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Every time a gun crime on this scale happens the same old arguments are trotted out. Pro gun: if the other kids had had guns, they would have shot that one gunman. Anti gun: if no-one had guns, no-one would have been shot. The whole argument, summed up in two sentences. Close thread.

Anything by Jodi Piccoult. The woman is a shit writer. Her thought process when writing a book: Googlesearch: tragic issues <Insert Tragic Issue here> <insert flowery, romanticised text> <300 pages of drivel that eventually begins to examine the issue at hand> <Tragic death, divorce...

Thanks for the advice...the scholarships and stuff probably not a go since I've already deferred...it's just, I'm going to be 8 hours away from my family, with no money. lol. Not good. but yeah, hoping to get a job up there, but since its a uni town, and not in Sydney, I'm thinking that won't be...

I think...I read the whole of Lord of the rings once in a day...from about 4pm till midnight...so that's 1000 pages or so.

I'm going away to uni next year and I was wondering if there's any kind of help I'm entitled to. My parents are paying for my accomodation but that will hardly leave them with two cents to run together.. As far as youth allowance goes, that's cool, but I can't even find a job at the moment, and...

You frustrate me. I did not list all the things the Islamic world contributed for the past 3000 years, I can't do that, I don't have time to write you a thesis. I just listed a few. Firstly, the irrigation system. If you can't see how this invention is important, how effective water usage for...

That is how you see female soldiers? As the weak link in their units? Maybe you are Aryan after all... All the soldiers confessed...they all signed statements and said whatever they had to to be released, not just her. Perhaps sarcasm is a bit beyond you. They were well treated...being...

Qanat (a water management system used for irrigation), which requires highly sophisticated design and technology, is originated in pre-Achaemenid Persia. The oldest and largest known qanat is in the Iranian city of Gonabad which after 2700 years still provides drinking and agricultural water to...

...what difference does it make that they used female captives? Was she raped, bashed, tortured? No. It's not like they are somehow worse because they used the girl as the spokesperson. Female soldiers don't get a free pass just 'cause they've got a womb. And If you are trying to convince me...

However true that may be, you said that 15 British soldiers were worth more than a 10000000000 Iranian soldiers...which suggests, idiot, that you believe that they do not have an equal right to life, that they are not worth as much as Westeners. Must I explain your own arguments to you? Give...

I really like them, i thought it was a great, really original idea. I think them going back to Australia made perfect sense if you remembered that it was New Zealand sending them back- the NZ army could use all the help it could get. Seriously though, in a guerilla situation, they must have...

Nothing but Bullshit and hot air. How on earth do you know what the Iranians planned? How do you know that the US intimidated Iran? Do you honestly believe that it is an entire country of idiots? Do you think whoever made that descision to release the hostages really thought the US would...

But that's alright, isn't it? I mean, they are only Iranians- scarcely worth more than chickens to the western world, right? Make up your mind Yank.

So "The lives of 15 british soldiers are more important to the world than the lives of 10000000000000 iranian." is constructive? YankeeChica, can you explain exactly what makes British soldiers worth more than Iranian soldiers, without resorting to "Lolz c0z they is terryrists!"

No, but Britain is. America is. Just because Iran isn't a first world country doesn't mean its people have some kind of unequal right to life.

Not even the US would be stupid enough to use this as a pretext for invasion, even if it were their soldiers. What does your point about oil have to do with anything? Then there would be 15 dead US soldiers for no reason. If, as you say, with all your wordly knowledge, the Brits are going to...

I'm voted in the Electorate of Bathurst. Labour since 1999. 1. Labour 2. Independants 3. Greens 4. Democrats

You are still stretching your examples. A minority political party with absolutely no chance of ever being elected into government cannot be compared with the government of North Korea. The two situations have nothing in common. But nothing to do with the political party of which we are...

Just to point out, its very relevant. Mohammed was a man and he is honoured for revealing the Islamic religion. He is not honoured for ridding the world of rape, abortion, paedophelia, incest, any taboo subjects. Being a Muslim is about devoting yourself to God, not to Mohammed.

Proper English would help your views be taken seriously. What in particular about the parties missions statement bothers you? The London Tube bombings have nothing to do with the issue at hand. As for Pell, he may indeed be innocent, and not a paedophile, but can you defend this quote...