Accelerated

fek, I got a lecture comin up - boring computer sh!t - any chance I can get one of you guys to take it for me?

there was a pic of me in post 5 of this thread, hyehoki has taken the link down - its not the same as the one Sip put up.

sorry, dont yet know you long enough to form an opinion. But dont worry you'd have to be pretty insane for me to classify you a 'wacko'.

....and Sip, that was a different party - but then I shouldnt be surprised of you posting the worst pic of me you could find PS. I forbid you to post the pic I put up in the Nob section because of the content (just in case it crosses your mind)

hahaha - yeah, I thought wtf is going on and didnt know what to reply and now I dont have to think of one

wow, just reminds me how much of a whale I was a few years back....

dont worry you didnt miss out on much....

Bro, I dont need to say anything - a picture is worth a thousand words.... http://www.ardani.net/miss-armenia/miss/photos/lusine-tovmasyan-03a.jpg http://www.ardani.net/miss-armenia/miss/photos/miss-armenia-2003-002.jpg ....as for the pic in your post, as the saying goes: "good from far, far from good"

'House & Breaks' by Slinky

yeah I just got 'Jilted Generation' and 'Fat of the Land' of a friend, but all I been listening to is 'No Good' - its actually very similar to 'Vodoo People'....

I heard this track in my mates car last night and it blew me away. Its pretty old but very awesome. I been listening to it all day 2day and late into last night . See if you can get your hands on it: its on the 'Music for the Jilted generation' album - if that helps.....

Your a sick-c##t!

Look at the mouth!!!! F####K! Makes you have to squint almost..

LOL - yeah... http://www.ardani.net/miss-armenia/miss/photos/lusine-tovmasyan-03a.jpg ....correct me if Im wrong, but wasnt this the 'Miss Armenia' I insisted on being thrown into the cage with the lions!? God knows how she got out....

....spoilt gulf arabs, if it werent for oil theyd still be living in tents and grazing with their camels - a real crusade would put them in their place.

with back problems its always difficult to find the underlying issue, the best advice anyone can give you is to consult THE BEST SPECIALIST you can find.

I just finished reading this book. Some info on the author: The book was written in 1925 and basically covers his experiences in East Anatolia and the Caucasus (1920-21). Its quite interesting, I had never realised how bloody/anarchic the Bolshevik takeover of Armenia was.... Anyhow, I was wondering as to how historically accurate it is and if anyone else has read it....

ok, ill take your word for it and give it a try

he certainly is good, and very modest too....

buy it, you wont be sorry.

wow - I want to go there!

Siamanto, looks like I wont be able to prove anything to you short of lending you my time-machine, here, take a puff.... As for the military: pound for pound the asiatic/turkic horse archer was unstoppable untill the wider circulation of gunpowder ie. about the time the Turks were turned back in the Balkans. that may be, but as far as I know by the time of the Crusades allready the Church had very much become a pillar of the State or rather a means of keeping the commoners passive and obedient to their earthly masters. And yet it was after this period that Europe began to to assert its power.

indeed, how else can you measure the effectiveness of a military system, except by its success? The European continent would have also been Islamised had it not been for the fanaticism of Christian knights. as for science, its a widely accepted fact that the Muslim world was (far?) more advanced. Some links I found in google: http://home.swipnet.se/islam/articles/HistoryofSciences.htm http://www.netmuslims.com/info/inventions.html http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/ihame/Sec12.htm

I think another reason could be the competitive nature of the European states. Since the collapse of Rome, the entire continent has been almost in a perpetual state of war. As adversaries sought to gain an advantage over one another they took on ideas from abroad and developed technologies at home. As we all know nothing stimulates technological advancement like the necessities brought on by war - as an example you can look at WW1 and WW2. average life expectancy in Roman times in 30s, now 70+ +the fact that they could run successfully an Empire that big +banking system +sciences etc.