Kosmo
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Very nice! Congrats. Beautiful baby with a beautiful name.
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I love baked goods. They are my favorite and Christmas is a perfect opportunity to eat vast quantities of them.
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Someone gave me a gift for my birthday and I felt exactly like Sheldon
Now it's their birthday so I have to go buy something nice, no idea what, of appropriate symbolic value taking in account their interests and our relationship. My nephew is going to be born later today but that's an easy one. Two sets of noise canceling headphones for the happy parents. Soon, Christmas! Oh, joy!
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Wow! Very cool. Congratulations to you both. We can expect a Romanophile little girl.
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I'm done playing the therapist. If I can help with something I do, even if the help is a shoulder to cry on. If I can't help then I rather not by burdened with the drama. I see it a self-preservation.
You are better off without this guy. A relationship is supposed to be fun, at least in the beginning. He should show you a good time not cry on your shoulder.
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I wonder what the gender ratio is on UNRV?
Anyway, congrats
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Is better to play the part of the host for the bonfire then to play the part of the catholic.
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I'm sure you did great even if your cat is not a good conversationalist. They rarely are.
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You got a chihuahua? a snoring girlfriend?
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The idea is not being in control because that is impossible but to do your best. And it looks like you did if those people appreciate what you do. Good luck!
One of my favorite songs with a bittersweet history behind it.
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The only fish I catch are those bent on suiciding with my hooks because usually my attention goes somewhere else so I rarely see them bite. Oh, what a pretty dragonfly! and a pink cloud! look, a unicorn!
But I like to eat fish.
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The weird part is that I don't remember much from the first time when I did the dance with no pants with a girl. I know with whom, where, when and why but no other details. Maybe is a defensive mechanism protecting me from some terrible memory
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One of my brothers failed his university admission tests like this. Because they were given just once a year and the competition was high there was a lot of pressure and he performed far below then during mock exams with his tutor. This was happening in communism so I guess it had nothing to do with "political correctness in modern western classrooms". Some people just can't take the pressure. I myself choked a few times when I had to speak in front of crowds so I can sympathize.
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Here we have a different sort of Bambi that is far less tasty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvueIRGywLE&feature=related
Consuming this may lead to silicon poisoning
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No roadkill pie then? What a waste!
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I actually know two sisters named Minerva and Atena. The girl with the greek name is not as wise as you might think. Anyway, I agree with The Bottle tonight (again).
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I like that this new Torchwood has a story ark rather then unconnected plots and that plot is fairly good even constantly raising moral issues. This season is self contained until now, there is no need for previous knowledge and it has no connection with Dr. Who.
The Americanization is more Caricaturization and is the greatest weakness for the show coupled with some unconvincing acting at times.
Have fun with your TV. These new ones have mind blowing image quality, almost making me wish I had a TV.
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The Harris Hawks have almost no chance catching a pigeon, because pigeons are among the best flying birds while the Harris are more like a sort of ground attack bird, good for hunting squirrels and rabbits but I bet they would love to deal with badgers as well. Raptors can kill animals much bigger then themselves like these eagles prove:
WARNING - QUITE BRUTAL IMAGES
This video can give us an idea why Romans (and many others after them) have chosen the eagle as their symbol.
The purpose of the hawks is to chase away the pigeons from the library not to catch them. Indeed only peregrine falcons and a few other long wings can hope to catch a flying pigeon.
I have an interest in falconry but unfortunately in my country it is treated as a serious crime, the same thing about hunting with bows. The UK has one of the most permissive laws regarding falconry with captive bred birds so it has become an important exporter of selective bred raptors like the gorgeous gyrfalcons.The US requires that a falconer spends 2 years as an apprentice of an existing falconer and to catch your own wild raptor, a crime in most other countries. In the UK the most popular bird is the Harris hawk, originally from the american SW, the only social raptor while in the US the Redtail Hawk is the most common bird.
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Maybe you should decide what kind of guy you want (good bloke is kinda vague) and what you want him for. If not, perhaps, Mother Nature will turn that switch that exists in both caveman and womenfolk, depriving you of reason and making the choice for you. It is a fun ride but it may take you places you didn't want to go.
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Space exploration and colonization played an important part in communist propaganda because it fitted their ideology very well; it was a vast industrial project that involved scientific and technological solutions and it had a peaceful facade but some interesting military applications, so it made good propaganda for their futuristic utopia.
Soviets believed they were winning the Space Race and unlike other areas of competition they were not hostile to the US space program that often got favorable media coverage.
Romania was somewhat involved with the soviet efforts and a Romanian astronaut traveled to Soyuz space station and then became a major propaganda figure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunariu
I can't tell how interested were people at the time in space exploration but it was a major media topic so growing up (without Star Trek) I believed space exploration and colonization will be an important thing in our lives.
Now Romania is becoming part of ESA this year but there is no enthusiasm about it and this is a wise attitude given the existing budget problems.
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The first time I heard a fox howling I was camping in the Danube Delta, the second time I was sleeping in Central London. Honestly in London I was more annoyed by the sound geese made when they woke up at sunrise; foxes seemed exotic in the middle of that huge city. In Bucharest we have 200.000 stray dogs barking in the night so some cute foxes would be a nice change.
Foxes are the biggest predator left in Britain? I noticed locals seemed to hate foxes, squirrels and pigeons. Going very near a large herd of deer in a park in London was a very nice experience.
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You're right, most of space exploration was simply another theater of national rivalries, and one of the principle nations doesn't even exist anymore.
I feel if we are to continue space exploration, it should be funded jointly by the developed nations of the world. Share the costs and the benefits.
On the whole, though, I think we need to spend the money down here on this planet.
I fully agree. The industrial age promised endless progress but we know better now. Excepting IT&C there was no significant technological breakthrough since the postwar era. Space is a deadly desert that is very expensive to reach without any realistic purpose so I am totally in agreement with Al Murray on this - the part after 4:10
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Some months ago Youtube broadcasted live the Coachella Festival from Southern California. It was in good quality and had a very nice line-up of bands that usually don't come in my part of the world. The best part was that there were 3 separate channels for the different festival stages so I could choose what to watch, for example picking PJ Harvey over Kanye West (who honestly did not belong in that largely rock line-up).
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Doing stuff is overrated.
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The funniest thing is that among top finds for my name is an UNRV thread that Nephele did - Your Hidden Roman Name