My mom's a kindergarten teacher and often gets really weird stuff from her kids. One kid gave her size XXXL underwear (she's 5 foot, 90 lbs so the underwear was literally larger than her torso), a blindfold, deodorant, and a bag of airline peanuts for Christmas.

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How the hell is it possible to have 600 hours on heavy? And not be high plat in the class at the very least? That's terrifying.

Usually bluegrass. Sometimes folks like Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Charlie Daniels, Lyle Lovett, George Jones, any of the Hank Williams family, or some more relaxed electronic music.

My Christmas present was help from my parents to pay for a flight home. Couldn't think of anything I'd rather have.

That, and my grandma just sent me a Texas shaped waffle iron for Christmas. I'm over the moon.

When our team signed up we were under the impression we'd have options on which night to play. Since there weren't enough signups and all games ended up being played Wednesday evenings (the one night we couldn't make it), we had to forfeit all our games. Despite this, we somehow still qualified for the semi-finals, but by the time we realized this (I wasn't expecting an 0-5 team to reach the semi-finals) I wasn't able to assemble enough people on our roster to play today.

I'm not sure if the format was changed, if I misunderstood the tourney system, or both.

My guess is Russia's testing the waters. Turkey previously warned Russia to stay out of their airspace after a couple of infringements, and Russia wanted to know whether Turkey/NATO was bluffing. While this isn't going to be good for Russia/Western relations, it's not going to mean T-14s rolling across Fulda Gap.

Let's keep our fingers crossed for tyrone

It wasn't too long ago that popular wisdom held Catholic nations were too uncivilized to handle democracy because Catholicism is rooted in obedience to authority. At that time (30ish years ago), the vast majority of Catholic nations (mainly East Europe, Italy, Latin America) were controlled by dictatorships of various forms, which lent credence to this sort of mentality. Post Cold War, it's quite obvious that trying to link the many disparate reasons for a lack of democratic rule in all those different regions to religion was fucking retarded but apparently we still haven't learned that international relations are complex and multifaceted.

Are we talking about the destruction of the World Trade Centers here?

Like, I know you're getting at the bombings of London's financial center and I listen to Only Our Rivers Run Free on a daily basis but you're completely negating the fact that the IRA did in fact kill many many civilians and no matter whether or not you agree with their cause those attacks were unacceptable by any international standards on military doctrine.

The Troubles were largely dying down in the 90s, the ceasefire began in 98 I believe. If you're looking for terrorism and violence in Northern Ireland, you'd want to look at the Border Campaign in the late 50s, the split between the Provos and the OIRA in the late 60s, and the Long War in the 80s. There've been small spikes of Republican activity since then (early 2010s) but not nearly as much as the early campaigns. I don't know as much about Unionist violence but I'd not be shocked if it occurred during generally the same times.

But yes, your point about non-Muslim groups in Ireland committing acts of terror and violence is right. Just on a slightly different timeline.

So this is a little late for this tournament but if someone could help me out to understand the interface I'd appreciate it. Our team schedule on the razer site has 4 games on December 5 scheduled, and I found out tonight that we had 2 games we had to forfeit. They show up on our match history, and I'm guessing we have 2 games next Wednesday as well, but I can't view them on our match schedule. Where do we have to go to view our matches for this tournament specifically, and what exactly are the matches on our schedule for if they aren't for the tournament?

When you open and use the console, it disables achievements for that specific playthrough. Meaning you can set all your SPECIAL stats to 10, give yourself 100 in every skill, and late game equipment, save and quit the game, then boot Fallout up again, load your game, and have all your modified stuff while still being able to unlock achievements. It's possible you don't have to exit Fallout entirely, just reload, but I'm not sure about that.