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		<title>By: justforfun</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/930#comment-47791</link>
		<dc:creator>justforfun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>3rd Man - thanks for jogging my memory - right first time.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>3rd Man &#8211; thanks for jogging my memory &#8211; right first time.</p>
<p>Justforfun</p>
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		<title>By: Leon</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/930#comment-47668</link>
		<dc:creator>Leon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yup.;)</description>
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		<title>By: bananabrain</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/930#comment-47664</link>
		<dc:creator>bananabrain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;vicki waiting&quot;? as in &quot;i didn&#039;t realise i was playing in a cathedral&quot;

well spotted there.

b&#039;shalom

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;vicki waiting&#8221;? as in &#8220;i didn&#8217;t realise i was playing in a cathedral&#8221;</p>
<p>well spotted there.</p>
<p>b&#8217;shalom</p>
<p>bananabrain</p>
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		<title>By: The Ill Man</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/930#comment-47486</link>
		<dc:creator>The Ill Man</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Clairwil - she speaks with the voice of that Glaswegian with short spiky blonde hair and no fashion sense - used to present a few â€˜current affairsâ€™ programmes in the 80s90s but I am afraid I canâ€™t remember her name, but I do remember her voice.&quot;

Muriel Gray perchance?  She&#039;ll love that........

Amir, I don&#039;t fancy sodomy myself, but then nobody&#039;s forcing me to take part so why is it relevant?  Serious gay relationships/unions/marriages, to me anyway are completely valid and deserve to be recognised in the eyes of the law.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Clairwil &#8211; she speaks with the voice of that Glaswegian with short spiky blonde hair and no fashion sense &#8211; used to present a few â€˜current affairsâ€™ programmes in the 80s90s but I am afraid I canâ€™t remember her name, but I do remember her voice.&#8221;</p>
<p>Muriel Gray perchance?  She&#8217;ll love that&#8230;&#8230;..</p>
<p>Amir, I don&#8217;t fancy sodomy myself, but then nobody&#8217;s forcing me to take part so why is it relevant?  Serious gay relationships/unions/marriages, to me anyway are completely valid and deserve to be recognised in the eyes of the law.</p>
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		<title>By: Desi Italiana</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/930#comment-47477</link>
		<dc:creator>Desi Italiana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 19:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Justforfun:

&quot;Desi I - of course sorry - When I read your posts in future I will use one of the following accents in my head - North American seems to vague - so please narrow it down to one of the following.&quot;

My accent is Californian, to be exact. But it&#039;s not Valley Girl (which, like, I also, like, TOTALLY hate), nor is it Bay Arean. I pronounce &quot;water&quot; as my fellow Californians do- &quot;wadder&quot; and &quot;bottle&quot; as &quot;botdle,&quot; a type of pronounciation that was painfully pointed out when I was teaching English in Italy and my students couldn&#039;t understand what I was saying everytime I pronounced &quot;t&quot; as a &quot;d&quot;. 

Re: voice, I&#039;ve been told that for a small person, I sure am loud. I also tend to talk very fast and energetically.

Re: ethnic backgrounds, I&#039;m Gujarati and part U.P. My great grandmother was from UP, but looks wise, I&#039;m pretty typically Gujju, I think (suprisingly, Punjabis who upon seeing me ask me right off the bat, &quot;Are you Gujarati?&quot;)

And IF there was some hush hush hanky panky going on,  I&#039;m probably something else too .... :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Justforfun:</p>
<p>&#8220;Desi I &#8211; of course sorry &#8211; When I read your posts in future I will use one of the following accents in my head &#8211; North American seems to vague &#8211; so please narrow it down to one of the following.&#8221;</p>
<p>My accent is Californian, to be exact. But it&#8217;s not Valley Girl (which, like, I also, like, TOTALLY hate), nor is it Bay Arean. I pronounce &#8220;water&#8221; as my fellow Californians do- &#8220;wadder&#8221; and &#8220;bottle&#8221; as &#8220;botdle,&#8221; a type of pronounciation that was painfully pointed out when I was teaching English in Italy and my students couldn&#8217;t understand what I was saying everytime I pronounced &#8220;t&#8221; as a &#8220;d&#8221;. </p>
<p>Re: voice, I&#8217;ve been told that for a small person, I sure am loud. I also tend to talk very fast and energetically.</p>
<p>Re: ethnic backgrounds, I&#8217;m Gujarati and part U.P. My great grandmother was from UP, but looks wise, I&#8217;m pretty typically Gujju, I think (suprisingly, Punjabis who upon seeing me ask me right off the bat, &#8220;Are you Gujarati?&#8221;)</p>
<p>And IF there was some hush hush hanky panky going on,  I&#8217;m probably something else too &#8230;. <img src='http://www.pickledpolitics.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Kismet Hardy</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/930#comment-47462</link>
		<dc:creator>Kismet Hardy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Talking of nothing. New Generation Network also sounds like something Prince would do...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Talking of nothing. New Generation Network also sounds like something Prince would do&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: justforfun</title>
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		<dc:creator>justforfun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jai - If you ever get to meet a Parsi man before they die out, they are not like Iranians at all.  All the Iranians I met at uni were metrosexual tossers ;-) (just to throw in a general slander for fun) That&#039;s why it was actually very easy to *meet* Iranian girls , because they were just glad to meet people who weren&#039;t like Iranian men.  However this was based on the early 80s in London and I know that they were not a true sample, as they were all just out of Iran spending their parent&#039;s ill-gotten loot after fleeing the revolution.  Jealousy on my part I suppose ;-)- the spending money bit.

If we meet - Can we just stick to shaking hands?  (I read that shaking hands was an old pre-islamic Iranian custom that came to Europe via the general Iranian migrations through Europe in the Dark Ages 300- 600AD - or so says Paul Kriwaczek in &quot;Search of Zarathustra&quot; -Seems possible, as the Romans and Greeks did not shake hands as a greating, while Iranian tribes such as the Franks and Alans who brought feudalism with them could also have  brought hand shaking)

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jai &#8211; If you ever get to meet a Parsi man before they die out, they are not like Iranians at all.  All the Iranians I met at uni were metrosexual tossers <img src='http://www.pickledpolitics.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  (just to throw in a general slander for fun) That&#8217;s why it was actually very easy to *meet* Iranian girls , because they were just glad to meet people who weren&#8217;t like Iranian men.  However this was based on the early 80s in London and I know that they were not a true sample, as they were all just out of Iran spending their parent&#8217;s ill-gotten loot after fleeing the revolution.  Jealousy on my part I suppose <img src='http://www.pickledpolitics.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> - the spending money bit.</p>
<p>If we meet &#8211; Can we just stick to shaking hands?  (I read that shaking hands was an old pre-islamic Iranian custom that came to Europe via the general Iranian migrations through Europe in the Dark Ages 300- 600AD &#8211; or so says Paul Kriwaczek in &#8220;Search of Zarathustra&#8221; -Seems possible, as the Romans and Greeks did not shake hands as a greating, while Iranian tribes such as the Franks and Alans who brought feudalism with them could also have  brought hand shaking)</p>
<p>Justforfun</p>
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		<title>By: Sid</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/930#comment-47451</link>
		<dc:creator>Sid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Condompussy (IUD equivalent)</description>
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		<title>By: Kismet Hardy</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/930#comment-47450</link>
		<dc:creator>Kismet Hardy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Around the world in 80 gays (in honour of Arif)</description>
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		<title>By: Kismet Hardy</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/930#comment-47449</link>
		<dc:creator>Kismet Hardy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Little Red Condom (in honour of Indian men)

Size of the Toms (in honour of voyeurs)

Penis Park (okay, pushing it a bit now but what an image...)</description>
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<p>Size of the Toms (in honour of voyeurs)</p>
<p>Penis Park (okay, pushing it a bit now but what an image&#8230;)</p>
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		<title>By: Leon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Leon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Er no. I&#039;ll give you a hint, it&#039;s on the Batman soundtrack.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Er no. I&#8217;ll give you a hint, it&#8217;s on the Batman soundtrack.</p>
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		<title>By: Sid</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/930#comment-47447</link>
		<dc:creator>Sid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I Could Never Take the Place of Your Dildo?</description>
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		<title>By: Kismet Hardy</title>
		<link>http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/930#comment-47445</link>
		<dc:creator>Kismet Hardy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ooh I know the one. If I was your girlfriend I&#039;d stay at home all day measuring my vag?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ooh I know the one. If I was your girlfriend I&#8217;d stay at home all day measuring my vag?</p>
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		<title>By: Leon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Leon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That reminds me of a Prince song...</description>
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		<title>By: Kismet Hardy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kismet Hardy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Leon, agreed. Because if you&#039;re comparing penis sizes once the said penis has spiralled inside the hole, what you&#039;re actually doing is comparing vagina sizes</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leon, agreed. Because if you&#8217;re comparing penis sizes once the said penis has spiralled inside the hole, what you&#8217;re actually doing is comparing vagina sizes</p>
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		<title>By: Sid</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>But to be fair, the condoms in that BBC article look like they&#039;re designed for horses. Or Ghanaian guys.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But to be fair, the condoms in that BBC article look like they&#8217;re designed for horses. Or Ghanaian guys.</p>
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		<title>By: Leon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Leon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;HAHAHA, Digging a hole here Leon, this could spiral into a penis comparing competition.&lt;/i&gt;

Poor choice of words...:P</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>HAHAHA, Digging a hole here Leon, this could spiral into a penis comparing competition.</i></p>
<p>Poor choice of words&#8230;:P</p>
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		<title>By: Sid</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I heard Southasian men are only slightly better endowed than Orientals (Chinese/Japanese). And that really ain&#039;t saying much. Which is probably why the girls go crazy when the West Indians are touring India.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I heard Southasian men are only slightly better endowed than Orientals (Chinese/Japanese). And that really ain&#8217;t saying much. Which is probably why the girls go crazy when the West Indians are touring India.</p>
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		<title>By: Jai</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jai</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Justforfun,

=&gt;&quot;Jai - You do like your genetics!&quot;

No, that&#039;s my friend Razib. I&#039;d just heard you mention Zoroastrianism many times previously on PP, so had been wondering about your own roots. I haven&#039;t met any Parsis &quot;in real life&quot; although had some Iranian friends at university and later some professional colleagues. I&#039;m sure I don&#039;t need to tell you anything about hot Iranian women either *ahem*.

Thank you very much for your answer anyway, that&#039;s fascinating :)

=&gt;&quot;If I past you in the street I would look Iranian I suppose&quot;

Allegedly I do too. Which means that if we passed each other in public, we&#039;d have to hug each other like long-lost cousins. Not the &quot;special hug&quot; that Kismet and Refresh do to unwitting victims, though.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Justforfun,</p>
<p>=&gt;&#8221;Jai &#8211; You do like your genetics!&#8221;</p>
<p>No, that&#8217;s my friend Razib. I&#8217;d just heard you mention Zoroastrianism many times previously on PP, so had been wondering about your own roots. I haven&#8217;t met any Parsis &#8220;in real life&#8221; although had some Iranian friends at university and later some professional colleagues. I&#8217;m sure I don&#8217;t need to tell you anything about hot Iranian women either *ahem*.</p>
<p>Thank you very much for your answer anyway, that&#8217;s fascinating <img src='http://www.pickledpolitics.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>=&gt;&#8221;If I past you in the street I would look Iranian I suppose&#8221;</p>
<p>Allegedly I do too. Which means that if we passed each other in public, we&#8217;d have to hug each other like long-lost cousins. Not the &#8220;special hug&#8221; that Kismet and Refresh do to unwitting victims, though.</p>
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		<title>By: Sahil</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sahil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>HAHAHA, Digging a hole here Leon, this could spiral into a penis comparing competition. :-D</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HAHAHA, Digging a hole here Leon, this could spiral into a penis comparing competition. <img src='http://www.pickledpolitics.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':-D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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