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Quote: Rabina No doubt a fair trial will be had by all. At the end they get to choose which limb they have to leave behind to make sure they don't jump bail.... I am continually amazed how the Swiss in general seem unaffected by this situation. The Americans would be attaching yellow ribbons to anything looking remotely like an acorn bearing tree, the British tabloids would have headlines threatening jingoistic empire-like revenge and we...

Quote: Dougal's Breakfast Trick or treat! Cops?

Quote: amogles sorry to be pedantic but I don't think that is the case. Fermentation makes alcohol and distillation purifies it and those are two separate processes. The process of fermentation is very old and we know the ancient assyrians and mesopotamiams had both beer and wine and possibly it is much older than that as primitive man must have discovered that fruit ferments during storage, and the trick of good storage is actually...

Quote: Wollishofener I think you misunderstand something. "Dressing native" does not mean to dress like backward conservatives or like very poor rural people, it just means to dress like people in similar positions to you (in most treshold or developing people, this means people farther up socially), and like urban people. This in practice for men means that you only wear short jeans/trousers in sporting places,...

Quote: amogles What the Arabs did was to provide a detailed documentation of the process and do some early scientific investigation of it. This is not the same as invention although it did lay the basis for improving the process. Ofcourse, you are right, Alcohol has been there long before religions maybe. But I said "devised modern way" meaning what you said above. Sorry didnt clarify it.

Quote: Wollishofener Believe me, the "iron woman from the Grisons" is not naïve, she is lying. Why ? Because she knows that she has brought the ball rolling, and at the time when the SVPlers take up the ball, will then declare not to have wanted any such development. It is a political poker-game of her to stay in the Federal government after the next elections, in spite of only having a 5% party behind her. She already got...

The posters are showing up here too and they are in rather bad taste. I believe there ought to be discussion over the topic but the poster is designed to cause unease rather than rational discussion over the matter. Quote: the_clangers To me the posters make me think of Germany right around the start of WWII. Not the kind of place I feel happy being in. I get the same vibe as one might get in the Deep South of the United States. I remember...

Quote: portsmouth68 Woman in India can't also go to temple when they are menstruating... and who is going to check? Urban myth nowadays

Quote: ravi80 Cops? Indian wedding

Quote: Wollishofener It is a bad idea and you are hairsplitting exercises. Sharia courts would be illegal in France, Switzerland, and Italy. And "Sharia Courts for some civil matters" is exactly what should NOT be accepted under any circumstances, and will not be accepted over here . Here, a clear NO is the way to go .... and not some compromises. I am not splitting hairs I am defending your completely unfounded statement...