The one bright spot in the Harby affair

has been that the subi forummers have managed to overcome their sense of victimization and actually engage in debate with us whiteys. Well played, furry, prasad and the boys.

agreed minties to furrball, prasad...if only the english foummers were able to turn it around

That's expecting a bit much, Horrie . . .

i've always been an optimist...despite (because of?) the kero baths and the long term exile in the chip nursing home

tac wrote:has been that the subi forummers have managed to overcome their sense of victimization and actually engage in debate with us whiteys. Well played, furry, prasad and the boys.

You still can't help but take cheap shots, can you?

tac wrote:has been that the subi forummers have managed to overcome their sense of victimization and actually engage in debate with us whiteys. Well played, furry, prasad and the boys.

Agreed but there are still some holdouts

Welcome to the thread, taips.

if only the english foummers were able to turn it around

Turn what around?

HH_pink wrote:

tac wrote:has been that the subi forummers have managed to overcome their sense of victimization and actually engage in debate with us whiteys. Well played, furry, prasad and the boys.

You still can't help but take cheap shots, can you?

It was an affectionate poke . . . take it in the spirit it was offered.

tac wrote:

HH_pink wrote:

tac wrote:has been that the subi forummers have managed to overcome their sense of victimization and actually engage in debate with us whiteys. Well played, furry, prasad and the boys.

You still can't help but take cheap shots, can you?

It was an affectionate poke . . . take it in the spirit it was offered.

Nothing wrong with affectionate pokes.

tac wrote:

HH_pink wrote:

tac wrote:has been that the subi forummers have managed to overcome their sense of victimization and actually engage in debate with us whiteys. Well played, furry, prasad and the boys.

You still can't help but take cheap shots, can you?

It was an affectionate poke . . . take it in the spirit it was offered.

I don't take random "affectionate pokes" you silly Jap. Btw, you didn't feel the affection in my poke?

HH_pink wrote:

tac wrote:

HH_pink wrote:

tac wrote:has been that the subi forummers have managed to overcome their sense of victimization and actually engage in debate with us whiteys. Well played, furry, prasad and the boys.

You still can't help but take cheap shots, can you?

It was an affectionate poke . . . take it in the spirit it was offered.

I don't take random "affectionate pokes" you silly Jap. Btw, you didn't feel the affection in my poke?

Of course, I did, pinky . . . you affectionate little subi . . .

That's alright, pinky . . . all's good.

Aww, doremi's feeling left out.

doremi wrote:

No pineapple juice?

HH_pink wrote:Aww, doremi's feeling left out.

Never gets a poke.

I always thought of doremi as a hijra . . . do they poke or get poked?

The one bright spot in the Harby affair....

sure as hell aint any of the principal characters in this increasingly tiresome soap opera: Harby, Punter, Roy, Roebuck, Sunny, Procter, Benson, Bucknor, the Spotty Youth, etc etc.

Probably the dimmest set of protagonists in any cricket 'scandal' since the Warne v Helen Con-whatever mobile phone affair (which surprisingly hasn't cropped up on the other thread yet).

Fred Nerk wrote:The one bright spot in the Harby affair....

Probably the dimmest set of protagonists in any cricket 'scandal' since the Warne v Helen Con-whatever mobile phone affair (which surprisingly hasn't cropped up on the other thread yet).

Perhaps anything that Warney does doesn't come across as anything controversial anymore.

You think of me an awful lot taccy. I'm not sure that's altogether healthy..........

doremi wrote:You think of me an awful lot taccy. I'm not sure that's altogether healthy..........

You are very lucky taccy thinks about you. Enjoy it while it lasts. Very unhealthy would be Taips thinking a lot about you.

BTW taccy is this what you were thinking of?

Quote from Wikipedia

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The Hijra (هِجْرَة), or withdrawal, is the migration of Muhammad and his followers to the city of Medina in 622 (Common Era). Alternate spellings of this Arabic word in the Latin alphabet are Hijrah, or Hegira in Latin.

Technically, the first Hijra occurred in 615 when a band of Muslims were counseled by Muhammad to escape persecution in Mecca and travel to the Kingdom of Axum, which was ruled by a Christian king (see Islam in Ethiopia). Muhammad himself did not join this emigration. In that year, his followers fled Mecca's leading tribe, the Quraysh, who sent emissaries to to Axum to bring them back to Arabia, but the King of Axum protected Muhammad's followers. Subsequently, Muhammad instructed his Axum followers to respect and protect Axum and to live in peace with its Christians.

However, Muhammad's teachings did not draw many more converts in Mecca. The nascent movement faced growing opposition and persecution. When Muhammad and his followers received an invitation from the people of Yathrib, they decided to leave Mecca.

In September 622, Muhammad and his followers emigrated to the city of Yathrib, 320 km north of Mecca. Yathrib was soon renamed Madinat un-Nabi, the City of the Prophet, but un-Nabi was soon dropped, so its name in English is Medina, meaning "the city". The Muslim year during which the Hijra occurred was designated the first year of the Islamic calendar by Umar in 638, 17 AH (anno hegirae = "in the year of the hijra"). In the following chronology the city will be referred to as Medina, and the region surrounding it as Yathrib.