Big Wave

I reckon a big black double-headed eagle would look cool.

 

*Snort*

You silly bugger.

 

There was an article in the Indy on Sunday yesterday about a Sri Lankan
bloke (living abroad) who's lost *two hundred* family members, and now
has absolutely nothing to go back to.

Which is pretty harsh.

 

Yeah, imagine having to buy that lot birthday presents. He'll be much
better off now.

 

platypus wrote

A rammer and a sickie.

 

Another way of looking at that is to muse about third world
overpopulation.

Sheesh. I suppose I can count maybe 20 family members, including distant
cousins and in-laws.

 

*Snort*

You cnut. ;-)

 

Or equally it could say something about social fragmentation in
western societies.

 

That too.

 

The Older Gentleman says...

I have 4.

I only count my kids as family.

 

I'm pragmatic enough that I'll take assistance from whoever is offerring
it but I would tend to avoid those with a strong religious connection,
(although that applies more to my own donations rather than whatever aid I
might seek). But I wouldn't get worked up by a symbol itself: neither
the Red Cross nor St John's Ambulance Brigade are notably religious
despite their logos.

 

That doesn't seem very many. I got to fifteen - not counting their
spouses - without going past cousins. If I add in just those I have met
I'd take it over 30.

 

Not saying it's not bad but it could have been much worse, if it had hit
5 years ago when most tourists stayed in little wooden beach bungalows
rather than the multistory concrete monstrosities that have replaced
them the death tole would have been much higher.

The bastards, I mean these people are on holiday, you can't ruin it just
because someone died. ;-)

Not speaking or reading Thai we only had CNN or BBC world in Phuket but
we got the Bangkok Post in that City which gave us a much better picture
of the local situation, including terrible stories of a fishing village
that has been wiped of the earth including nearly all inhabitants.

Just got back to Hong Kong and last night the proprietor of my favourite
Indian restaurant nearly burst into tears when he saw me.

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As the death tole rises this becomes more and more obvious.

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Shit, we have to hope Indonesia and Sri Lanka uses this as an
opportunity to make peace [1] so that some good can come from it all.

[1] with themselves not each other.

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Thanks, your concern is touching.

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Ma and Pa were both only children, which limits it.

 

Brother and sister, more like.

 

As in "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire"?

Phil

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

He still had your chit?

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