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    Would YOU abort your "down syndrome" baby?

    Assuming you know for a fact you can have kids again in the future and you are guaranteed to get pregnant again and have another kid to try again, and that this is not a one shot deal. Also assuming it's the 1st trimester and it's "no big deal" to have it done. Please be honest, nobody can see...
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    Type up a post, and then just close the window and not post it?

    OR - what is the craziest email/post you've sent? Believe it or not, some people never do this(avoid sending). That was the case with me when I was younger. Anything that flies into the brain flies right out of my mouth. No checkpoint in between. And it would carry through to posts on the...
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    Interesting patterns in nature.

    Here's a thread with no politics or BS. Just let your mind wander, let your imagination go and let's play. I had a bucket of sea water brought up the mountain from the ocean. Bioluminescence. Had some algae in it that seemed to form tiger stripe lines when it settled. These resemble the lines...
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    How was your trick-or-treating?

    Whether you went gettin it, or stayed home and passed it out. Anything fun or interesting to tell us? I took my 2 year old out for his first time. When he says "thank you", he says F instead of TH and skips the N. We got a couple confused looks from people as we left their house...
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    Fallout New Vegas!!

    Alright, let's get some basics. Attribute upgrades throughout game? Looks like no bobbleheads, but I hear there's a doctor that does implants for $4K. Not sure on the limit of these and whether you can get more than +1 in any single attribute... Quick tip for new folks: When you start the...
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    LAWYER: Request letter for settlement offer to insurance?

    I'm helping out a friend with his case. He was rear ended a while back and suffered a fracture(somewhere in the chest). He was treated and doctor recommended physical therapy. He's completed everything and now has a clean bill of health. Time to hear an offer for his pain and suffering. We...
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    Can you drive a stick? (car with manual transmission)

    Well? Are you stick-able or not? And followup question - are people that drive sticks "cooler"? ...poll underway...
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    System requirements?!? dual core 2.4 ghz / 2.6 ghz pentium or equivalent??

    PC Minimum System Requirements*: Windows® XP/Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 (Updated with the latest Service Packs) with DirectX® 9.0c 2.6 GHz Pentium® IV or equivalent AMD Athlon® processor 128 MB PCIe NVIDIA® GeForce® 6600 GT or ATI Radeon® 9800 PRO video card or better 12 GB available HD space 1...
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    Not fair that women can cheat in the game of looking good.

    Take a look at these women. "I'd hit it", you say? Each and every one of them, perhaps? Hmm....I'm making a point here and will shortly post the "before PAINT" picture...
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    Company/boss using your outgoing message + phone after termination of employment?

    Got a friend, in the sales type industry where you build clients over years. He has people he's known for many years from prior employment with other companies. He recently got laid off(hours and benefits cut) from this lady's business. She took the phone back but never changed the outgoing...
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    Starting a little non-profit/charity thing?

    Can you take an existing business and simply conduct "charity" work? Like where you would ask businesses or people for "donations" for a cause that a business will facilitate? Or is required that you set up a separate thing and file all the papers to create an entity solely to function as a...
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    Any free PhotoChop software online?

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    Funny/offensive old school vintage ads.

    Post up one that you like in particular. http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/entertainment/2010/06/10/vintage-ads-thinking/?test=faces#slide=1 I have a stack of old Nat Geo magazines(1950s-1970s). Some of them have the ads for Coca Cola on the back. Says something like "for a pick-me-up, try...
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    Illegal Immigrant shirt offends people.

    Thought you guys would like this: :laughing ===================================================== BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Diane Soto of Bakersfield couldn't believe what she was reading when she saw the message on a T-shirt sold at Spencer's in the Valley Plaza Mall. "I don't like it at all, I...
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    Porsche Panamera tour/market research/concept cars?

    I just saw 6-7 black Panameras, each with additional bodywork intended to "cover up" the real look? A bunch of German guys. They're going cross country or something. All sporting Georgia plates. I snapped a photo as I was getting closer, but before I took any more pics or closeups, one of...
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    Japanese forum recommendation?

    Figure we got some Japanese folks here on Barf, and I'm wondering if there are any active forums out there, in English(or could a translator work?), that is primarily Japanese. I'm looking for an experience in talking about day to day things with folks from/in their culture(and people that live...
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    "No screaming kids" restaurant.

    I'm only posting this because in another thread I heard Barfers saying they wished someone would open a place and not allow annoying kids. Said they would eat there all the time. Or maybe they were talking about a grocery store? Either way, figured some of you would dig it...
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    Iran companies paying bounties on US soldiers.

    ======================================================= At least five Iranian companies stationed in Afghanistan are covertly funding Taliban militants, paying them salaries of $233 a month with a $1,000 bonus for killing an American soldier, according to the Sunday Times of London. Blowing up a...
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    Another reminder not to road rage.

    Man Killed in Front of Family in Freeway Road Rage Shooting DOWNEY -- A man is dead after he was shot in front of his family in a road rage incident on a major highway Friday night, police said. At around 6:45 p.m. a shot was reported on the eastbound 105 freeway between Lakewood and...
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    4 year old gets STD from used condom he put in his mouth.

    "(Grandmother of the boy)Jones said at first glance room 329 looked perfectly clean, except that there was no soap and no towels. Then, she said, she noticed something more troubling. "I'm like, 'Girl, you know, these sheets don't smell clean,'" Jones said. The next morning, Jones said, she...
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