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[KaelGotDwarves]

But wouldn't that kill the rape victims as well? Not everything can be solved by throwing bombs at it. In fact, few things are.

Yes, it's sort of a darkly sardonic joke about euthanising the place.

You're reading it from the guy who has created the third video search result on youtube/google for "The Killing Fields" and was emotionally devastated by conditions in Cambodia and by the concentration camps in Europe.

I can hardly fathom going to Africa, I'll probably shoot myself in the face.

[ChairmanPoo]

There are good places to visit in Africa, I think.

I've wanting to go to Egypt for a while, but given the current situation, perhaps it's not the best place to go to at the moment.

Then again, it's not like I have time to go there this year.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

But wouldn't that kill the rape victims as well?

Speaking from experience, that probably would be a better fate

[KaelGotDwarves]

There are good places to visit in Africa, I think.

I don't do touristy stuff, if I do go it'd be for some NPO work, maybe http://www.kiva.org/

But then I just know I'll end up in Rwanda, Uganda, or South Africa and losing almost all my faith in humanity... again.

[Bohandas]

Wow! They're really fucking stupid!

Yes, clearly they are mentally inferior to the civilized peoples of the world.  It has nothing to do with lingering superstitions (and/or superstition-prone institutions?) and dismally poor education.

I resent that! I never once implied that the civilized people of the world weren't also stupid!

[Earthquake Damage]

Speaking from experience

The sad thread just got sadder.  I'll leave it at that.

[SalmonGod]

Speaking from experience

The sad thread just got sadder.  I'll leave it at that.

Yeah... speaking from second-hand experience, it's hard to disagree.

[MaximumZero]

*ahem* I'll chip in ^{_{with first-hand experience, myself. Eventually, the nightmares go away.}}

Anyway, what made me sad today was that I have to replace the most expensive light bulb in the friggin' world. My DLP TV died, and it's gonna cost over $100 to replace the lamp. Also, I got lost whilst using my GPS. The bloody thing told me that I was in Minnesota, which I am several hundred miles away from.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Ugh, can't sleep, more nightmares...

[MaximumZero]

Ugh, can't sleep, more nightmares...

I offer you an internet hug. *hug?*

[The Merchant Of Menace]

*Hugs, apparently*

[SalmonGod]

Also, I got lost whilst using my GPS. The bloody thing told me that I was in Minnesota, which I am several hundred miles away from.

It's funny when those things get confused.  A friend of mine had one curious episode where it had gotten him lost, and he finally stopped using it on that trip when it told him to make two consecutive u-turns.  Yes, it told him to make a u-turn, and then immediately another u-turn.

[MaximumZero]

*Hugs, apparently*

Dawwwww.

[Aqizzar]

It's funny when those things get confused.  A friend of mine had one curious episode where it had gotten him lost, and he finally stopped using it on that trip when it told him to make two consecutive u-turns.  Yes, it told him to make a u-turn, and then immediately another u-turn.

They usually do that because it turns out that tracking a moving drink-coaster-sized relay with a satellite and comparing to debatably accurate drawings of a map isn't an exact science.  Sometimes the thing can't figure out which side of the road you're on, especially with boulevards where the system may think it's two parallel roads.

I got one for Christmas, but I never use it, because not only does it not shut up and I hate backseat drivers, but all that business about "feet" and directions and stuff makes it kinda useless in close navigation.  My mother was trying to find a church with one, and was orbiting round and round the place staring at the GPS while I kept trying to get to her to look up at the steeple.

[MaximumZero]

I wouldn't use it, but my orienteering score is in the negatives. Anybody read 8-Bit Theater? Yeah, I'm almost as bad as BB.