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@Skimbo - Wha?

111222333444 wrote:675

@Skimbo - Wha?

676

You guys don't get that?? He is saying that we should stand on our shores and scream and try to scare all these hurricanes away.

Edge wrote:

111222333444 wrote:675

@Skimbo - Wha?

676

You guys don't get that?? He is saying that we should stand on our shores and scream and try to scare all these hurricanes away.

uhm ok

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Hey, at least it took about 670 posts before this thread his its first "awkward moment".

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uhm ok then...

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I guess this joke failed completeley.

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If I did that (in the Philippines) scaring away typhoons, I should have been dead right now...

684 D:

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If you're sensitive about hurricanes, please say it. Then, we'll know not to poke fun at it. But some of the posts in reply to the original joke oon't not really help at all, they just make things worse, and makes Skimbo feel bad for posting it. He doesn't live in the U.S., so he doesn't really know about the storms we get here.... there was no ill-will in it.

It's touchy because there can be a very fine line between "joking playfully" and "being disrespectful". In this case, the joke wasn't mean to be taken bad at all.... it wasn't a put-down or insult of any kind.

I was joking along because it's a way to make a hurricane seem like less of a horrible, detrimental storm by joking about them. I live in North Carolina... and it's deja vu all over again here, as you probly know.

But you know, everyone has their way of dealing with a problem, and that's fine. Some people try to forget about it, some people just flat out refuse to admit that it exists, some people try to lighten the mood. There are many other ways; but it's just whatever helps you best.

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^
Wise words.

thx, Edge.688

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Typhoon in the Philippines D:

690 * LC gets blown away*

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Hurricane Irene about to hit NYC... :\

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Good thing it's not the most powerful, but the size of it is something to be worried about.

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True, it's not the most powerful, and the storm surge isn't exactly very high, but it was enough to flood parts of New York

This thing is massive though. Hurricane Ike had to have been the same size and just as powerful.. and it tore apart Galveston

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Irene made landfall in New York City...

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It's not even a hurricane anymore...

The reason they made a big deal about it hitting New York was just because there are a lot of people there; not because the storm was s'posed to be violent. If you want violent, you should've gone down to the Outer Banks of NC, and Hampton Roads, Virginia.

696 , Look at this number > 969 It can be read upside down.

A lightning hit our neighbour's house last satuarday. It also fried, coming through the internet cables, our HUBs, the hardline telephone and the router.

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Wow, that must suck

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Almost to 700

My brother is the worst on this earth !!!! Glad he will be evicted by the family...