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2005-01-11 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Fred 2005-01-11 00:00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 'The bothers took them home in the evening as toys'
that just about sums it up nicely for me ..
At an early age I learnt , dont play with TNT and when not using a gun have it pointing at the ground with safety catch on and cocked if possible .. am sure people in war ravaged countries should know better with over exposure to weapons , but hey , wadda I know :P

Posted by MacNails 2005-01-11 6:46:32 AM|| 2005-01-11 6:46:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Raza "Inayat what happens when I pull this out and let go like this?"

Any question about what happened?

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-01-11 6:50:25 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-01-11 6:50:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Ignorance is bliss. I remember reading here that the new Iraqi enlistees have to be taught to carry their guns with their finger off the trigger unless actually shooting it.

Safety is just a whole 'nother concept. When my father was appointed occupational safety chief for the northern part of a very young Israel, he had the distinct pleasure of mandating and enforcing the wearing of hardhats and steel-toed shoes on the Haifa docks. The workers were not pleased, despite the death rate falling from one per thousand man-hours to less than one per year.

When Mr. Wife was involved in starting up a manufacturing plant in Egypt, the workers refused to wear shoes despite working with sacks of caustic chemicals. He had to tell them that skin contact would make them impotent to get them to comply. He showed us pictures of one of the local chemical supplier's factories, where they covered up a huge hole in a 2nd story floor with a flattened cardboard box.

Insh'Allah! As God wills it.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-11 7:12:24 AM|| 2005-01-11 7:12:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Think of it as evolution in action, with a bang.

Posted by Jonathan 2005-01-11 11:17:52 AM|| [http://www.workaround.blogspot.com] 2005-01-11 11:17:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Niven & Purnell rock! I spent a lot of time thinking after I read that one.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-11 11:39:12 AM|| 2005-01-11 11:39:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Try soccer.

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-11 1:15:01 PM|| 2005-01-11 1:15:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 no wonder these ppl are still pretty much in the stone age (besides weaponry)

Posted by smokeysinse 2005-01-11 5:00:50 PM|| 2005-01-11 5:00:50 PM|| Front Page Top

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