Aberlour10

My favorite sport to play was always basketball, but I was by far better in handball. In my high school & and college time I could not qualify for the school teams under the baskets, so I gave it up, and played only handball since then. Todays I am still active in a hobby U-35 team hehe. Basketball is too fast for us>>>old dudes

Has the Eyjafjallajökull spoken again? Is it safe? Did you manage to save all beer bottles? Questions upon questions.

Sunday Boring Sunday

OK I see, but what's going on in Idaho???

So. I assume they all are busy with making cheese cakes with cherries, or are there other possible activities in winter time?

This just happens another time. Did the entire WC get to a Black Hole? Am I in now too? Is there anybody out there???

This wise girl knows it better. http://tshirtgroove.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/bacon-makes-everything-better-tshirt.jpg

this all commercial humbug hehe

Any Valentine's haters here?

Tja, if me & gwnn will get one time to Valhalla by mistake, we can feel somehow at home, invite Thor & Odin for a rubber session. According to the Ynglinga Saga these dudes play mostly Viking Precision heh.

Considering how often posters use (x) as s dbl icon that would bring B) in every second posting heh

Don't you think Icelandic is a pretty cool language? :(

Or it could be replaced by this smilie, that expressing a great admiration for the brilliant ideas/postings ;-) http://freesmileys.smiliesuche.de/anbeten/anbeten-smilies-0002.gif

Afsakaðu, ég skildi þetta ekki. Þetta orðalag hef ég aldrei heyrt áður.

Mr Martens describes on his site his intentions concerning this book, it seems, there are the answers why he has written it with this conception (lack of explainations )and not the other. http://www.martensuniversity.com/pl/104/5/virtual_european_championship.html/

You are right. Steelers are 28-0 ahead after 1st quarter, so we all can turn TV off and return to bridge, women, drinking, thread hijacking or something interesting else.

A Super Bowl Sunday and not a single posting about it in Water Cooler! What a shame:(

Anybody here wandered on the Appalachian Trail?

Smaller EU countries like Austria and Belgium are not amused about this plan, non euro-zone members Poland and Hungary are afraid, they will be put to a backwater in european decision making process. So the negotations about details in March can end with compromise that completely diluting this idea >>> business as usual in Brussels.

EU could do a lot, if they only want to do it. For example >>> Europen Union is the most important trading and economic partner of Egypt. There is an EU/EGYPT Action Plan that offers Egypt a lot of important economic privileges in the relationships with Europe. These privileges and other cooperation could be make conditional on efforts concerning liberal and democratic reforms in Egypt. Real efforts not these that exist only on paper. Europe doesn't do it, being deeply contended with Mubarak's regime. Brussels babbles only about "western values" etc etc...Its simply seekening hypocrisy for me.

The position of the leading European countries is easy to describe. They see nothing, hear nothing, so long as the dictator guarantees the stability and protects their interests. At the moment they bury heads in the sand ( as so often) hoping secretly the Pharao will survive somehow. A few are concerned, some speak about demoracy, human rights etc, but of course not very loud.

Most commentators are agreed>>> Mubarak's regime could not exist so long without all these billions of dollar the USA gives him every year as the military help and he puts into his army and secret services. Sure, Washington had nothing to do with his coming to the top... but gave and gives him deciding help for holding this power.

"He may be a bastard, but he's our bastard." -this is de facto the valid policy line for decades. If so,why are the western countries so surprised about the lack of their credibility in the streets of the Arab world.

Yesterday Tunesia, today Egypt, the arabian people seem to have enough from their autocratic regimes. I am just curious how Washington is going to make a balancing act between the human rights, freedom of speach for Egyptians and the support for the most important ally of the USA in this region >>>> dictator H. Mubarak.

My conspiracy theory: Winston sent the entire WC into the Large Hadron Collider by mistake, but he got it finally right after a day.