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Really inventive and imaginitive – well, what else would we expect of Kulli?

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She's becoming huge! 😮

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Impressive peaks! 8)  Thanks Alex.

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Thank you, Mimi.  ;D  8)

Without a doubt She-Hulk is my #1 fav-babe amoungst the superheroines.

Yet another fantastic piece of work from Wyman. 😉

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Another thing on looking sexy, Pelo… in all those photos and catwalk videos I've seen… I'd pay cash money if I actually saw one of those models actually SMILE.  :-

Why do they have to have that certain stare and parting of the lips that makes them look like they're passing a golf ball through their urinary tract?

From my basic and primitive understanding of that baffling world, I think the designers would be angry if they did smile, because the clothes they're displaying are a serious 'statement' of that designer's creativity, skill and philosophy; therefore to smile would be to take the focus off the clothes and the 'message' that they are supposed to embody.  Put simply, the haute couture world is so far up its own arse that it becomes a sad laughing stock to anyone normal.

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I'm afraid to say that it would appear that she's more likely to end-up looking like Keira Knightley than that lovely m :'(orph.

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I may have missed the point, the Republicans in question appeared to go to Syria for the same reasons as Pelosi in the articles that I read on the matter.  I agree that Pelosi was in the wrong, but so were the others who went, at least in my eyes. 

Fair enough.  I think that the US currently has its panties in far too much of a twist about Syria anyway.

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Much of Europe has had to do very little to protect itself for the last 60 years because the U.S. has done it for them.

Wrong (or at least mostly wrong).  Whilst it's true that the US has had a significant military presence in Western Europe since WWII (I should know; I live no more than 40 miles from the USAF bases in Suffolk that regularly send all sorts of US fighters over my village on training sorties), the primary factors in the protection of Europe have been the UN, NATO and the EU.  Lingster's probably snorting at my mention of the EU, but at least while they're sitting in an enormous Parliament building arguing over how straight or curved cucumbers are supposed to be (yes, there really was a debate about the curviness of cucumbers), they're not posturing for war as happened in the 1910-1914 period or from c.1935 until 1st September 1939.  Unfortunately, Lingster's point that

Real power in this world is represented by the ability to project military force and generate or control trade.

is correct, but for the US to behave as a self-appointed global bogeyman from whom every other nation cowers in abject terror lest the bogeyman flex his military bicep and blow them off the face of the planet is arrogance of the most extreme kind.  I really do have deep sympathy for Lingster's hatred of the events of 9/11 – I watched the horror unfold live on TV and was appalled, stunned and enraged.  I still think that those who perpetrated it and those who inspired them are and were the lowest form of life possible, but, given that Afghanis were held by the Taliban in exactly the same terror as Lingster advocates as a role for the US, his suggestion that Bush should have ordered the nuking of Afghanistan to make a political point is insensitive and downright monstrous.  The US didn't care one bit about Afghani women being beaten, stoned and killed for showing their faces in public or demanding an education before 9/11, yet Lingster is saying that, because the US was attacked, it should have responded by killing those same women, most of whom would not have died instantly but who would have died in the most awful, inhuman, pain-wracked and degrading way imaginable.  

If any country thinks that the US will never use nukes again, then they're misguided, especially whilst Dubya remains President.  He's itching to nuke Iran, based mainly on their possession of nuclear weapons (allegedly), but using the fact that Iranian mercenaries are killing coalition (yes, British and Canadian as well as American) troops
in Iraq and Afghanistan.  The major reason, IMO for the need to fight simultaneously in both Afghanistan and Iraq is the failure of the coalition to fully rid Afghanistan of Taliban and Iranian mercenaries before invading Iraq. 

As to Lingster's assertion that Governments don't make the world a better place, well, how does he explain the fact that Theodore Rooseveldt's pioneering reforms of business, solving of miner's disputes and foundation in the US of the principle of keeping the nation's geological and natural wonders free of development (he stopped building in the Grand Canyon, for Pete's sake)?  Just because they don't always succeed, doesn't mean that they cannot do so if they set their minds to it.

I'm going to withdraw from this thread now, lest I write something that leads to my membership being terminated.  Suffice it to say, I couldn't disagree with Lingster's opinions on this topic more.

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Let's face it; the majority of FBBs, like their male counterparts, take steroids.  I'm not criticising any individual competitor for doing so – for one thing I can't prove which FBBs do, for another, it would be grossly unfair to single one out.  All I say is that I dislike the culture in both FBB and MBB that says that you must take steroids in order to have the physique required to win Mr/Ms O.

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Alex, I have indeed just returned from listening to this section of the "Dennis Prager Show", and found it most distressing.  The last lady in particular seemed utterly distraught at her fate.  Indeed, whilst he was repetitive, the host seemed geniunely saddened, baffled and upset with this trend, thus perhaps causing his repetitiveness.
Perhaps this whole sorry situation has been caused by Western society's extreme phobia of being fat.  Of course, as a trained biologist I am all to aware of the dangers of being overweight in a strictly medical sense, but the obsession that so many women seem to feel can only, in my view, be seen as a result of society's extreme overreaction to being fat.  The irony is that, whilst this is going-on, the US is not reducing obesity levels, whilst my own country is now the fattest in Europe and is rapidly catching-up with the US.  This shows that the obsession with thinness isn't helpig to reduce obesity levels; all it is doing is to cause polarisation.  In other words, women are either genuinely overweight, or underweight in terms of bodymass %age. :'(

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