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Re: 'person of the year 2013' finalists are...
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2014, 12:04:33 AM »
I wonder where he'll be in 2015. Russia didn't grant him permanent asylum, did they?
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« Reply #16 on: January 18, 2014, 01:15:10 PM »
Well he can't come back here, that's for sure. Our gods hate him.
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Re: 'person of the year 2013' finalists are...
« Reply #17 on: January 19, 2014, 01:09:50 AM »
I think there's an extra room at the Equadorian embassy in London. :P
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« Reply #18 on: January 19, 2014, 06:19:52 AM »
There's rumour Brazil may invite him.
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Re: 'person of the year 2013' finalists are...
« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2014, 04:42:57 PM »
I think there's an extra room at the Equadorian embassy in London. :P

Did Assange finally move out?
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Re: 'person of the year 2013' finalists are...
« Reply #20 on: January 19, 2014, 11:26:36 PM »
I think there's an extra room at the Equadorian embassy in London. :P

Did Assange finally move out?

No, but I thought he might like a roommate.
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« Reply #21 on: January 21, 2014, 07:29:23 AM »
They'd get along. They're both cool dudes.
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Re: 'person of the year 2013' finalists are...
« Reply #22 on: January 21, 2014, 08:37:24 AM »
They'd get along. They're both cool dudes.

Roommates?  :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA:

I'd go bonkers, no matter how cool the other person.
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Re: 'person of the year 2013' finalists are...
« Reply #23 on: January 21, 2014, 08:46:28 AM »
They'd get along. They're both cool dudes.

Roommates?  :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA:

I'd go bonkers, no matter how cool the other person.

Heh, when I applied - got accepted - and arrived at animation school ("folk-high" scandinavian concept, basically school-for-fun) I was surprised by the fact that all rooms were shared. Having a roomate seems so... natural and obvious to people - nobody thought of "warning" that it was the fact :D
So, I had to tell them exactly how it was - I am here now, but I simply cannot stay here, if I have to share a room. Have in mind - I was undiagnosed at the time, I didn't have "aspergers" or "autism" to lean on, as terms they would understand. I simply blankly refused to share a room, pointing out to them that I would quite simply lose my mind in the company of anyone else, no matter how nice they are.
Luckily, they took my word for it, and I was the only student there granted a solo-room.

It was in fact the first time in my life I recieved "special treatment", and it felt damn good :D

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Re: 'person of the year 2013' finalists are...
« Reply #24 on: January 21, 2014, 08:50:07 AM »
They'd get along. They're both cool dudes.

Roommates?  :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA:

I'd go bonkers, no matter how cool the other person.

From how they're described, I get the impression that they wouldn't get along.
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Re: 'person of the year 2013' finalists are...
« Reply #25 on: January 21, 2014, 08:58:11 AM »
They'd get along. They're both cool dudes.

Roommates?  :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA:

I'd go bonkers, no matter how cool the other person.

Heh, when I applied - got accepted - and arrived at animation school ("folk-high" scandinavian concept, basically school-for-fun) I was surprised by the fact that all rooms were shared. Having a roomate seems so... natural and obvious to people - nobody thought of "warning" that it was the fact :D
So, I had to tell them exactly how it was - I am here now, but I simply cannot stay here, if I have to share a room. Have in mind - I was undiagnosed at the time, I didn't have "aspergers" or "autism" to lean on, as terms they would understand. I simply blankly refused to share a room, pointing out to them that I would quite simply lose my mind in the company of anyone else, no matter how nice they are.
Luckily, they took my word for it, and I was the only student there granted a solo-room.

It was in fact the first time in my life I recieved "special treatment", and it felt damn good :D
Shared rooms are an exception here. Shared kitchens, yes, shared sanitary rooms, yes, but I only met one set of students sharing a room to sleep and learn in, when I studied. They were identical twins and almost inseparable.

The concept of shared rooms always freaked me out. I was lucky, to be the only daughter with three brothers. After the age of six I never had to share a room again. 
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Re: 'person of the year 2013' finalists are...
« Reply #26 on: January 21, 2014, 09:10:22 AM »
They'd get along. They're both cool dudes.

Roommates?  :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA:

I'd go bonkers, no matter how cool the other person.

Heh, when I applied - got accepted - and arrived at animation school ("folk-high" scandinavian concept, basically school-for-fun) I was surprised by the fact that all rooms were shared. Having a roomate seems so... natural and obvious to people - nobody thought of "warning" that it was the fact :D
So, I had to tell them exactly how it was - I am here now, but I simply cannot stay here, if I have to share a room. Have in mind - I was undiagnosed at the time, I didn't have "aspergers" or "autism" to lean on, as terms they would understand. I simply blankly refused to share a room, pointing out to them that I would quite simply lose my mind in the company of anyone else, no matter how nice they are.
Luckily, they took my word for it, and I was the only student there granted a solo-room.

It was in fact the first time in my life I recieved "special treatment", and it felt damn good :D
Shared rooms are an exception here. Shared kitchens, yes, shared sanitary rooms, yes, but I only met one set of students sharing a room to sleep and learn in, when I studied. They were identical twins and almost inseparable.

The concept of shared rooms always freaked me out. I was lucky, to be the only daughter with three brothers. After the age of six I never had to share a room again.

In the military that was a major source of my gradual breakdown. Have in mind, I cannot repeat enough, over here, military service is mandatory. There's a few ways of avoiding it: Proclaim to the world that you're gay (nope), prove to them that you are a die-hard pacifist, strongly against all violence and all weapons (very difficult to pull off), or - go to prison. Obviously, being bat-shit loony etc will also help.

That said, I was never bothered by the tasks we had in the military. For aspies, it is very easy - initiative is punished! Taking instructions by the tea-spoons is rewarded! It's the opposite of normal society requirements :D as a result, most my peers were complaining a lot "booo hooo they order us around to clean up stuff, tidy up, march back and forth, then they yell at us D:" I found that whole experience a breeze, I mean, what could be easyer than to stand fucking still untill told to move!?
Sit, unless told to stand. Stand unless told to sit. It couldn't possibly BE any easyer! :D
And the yelling? Come on! Have they never seen a war-movie? They ALL took the yelling personally, they ALL thought that if only they did their best, the sarges wouldn't yell, wtf, were they all born yesterday? I took the yelling with a big fucking grin "YESSIR! I AM A MAGGOT SIR! =D"

BUT

4 people
in one room
every day
all day
never alone
never alone
never alone
never... alone

that REALLY ate at me

(as for the yelling, it's probably one of the most misunderstood army-concepts there is. everyone seems to think sarges yell cus they're "mean", the movie "full metal jacket" builds its entire first third on that stupid misconception. It's such a hippie idea "booo sarges are meaaaan, they yell at youuuu :'(" it is a METHOD. It is a TOOL - and it has a TIME LIMIT! The sarges are _carefully instructed_ to yell at the troops, in the initiating phase. The yelling creates a "parent vs siblings" mentality, it makes the soldiers (who are new to each others) bond much more rapidly, as they all can bond around being yelled at by the "mean" sarges. Once initiation is over, the soldiers are successfully bonded, the sarges will not continue yelling (unless they are assholes, who has misunderstood everything. in those cases, their superiors may even discipline them. that happened on our base))
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Re: 'person of the year 2013' finalists are...
« Reply #27 on: January 21, 2014, 09:23:47 AM »
Had military duty been there for women when I was 18, I would probably have cracked because of the same.
Luckily for me, it was only obligatory for men that time. Two of my brothers were not drafted, and the other was rejected after hearing he had to join, because of getting seriously ill and ending with a prosthetic bone. He would have done well in the army, he does well in groups. He did not like being rejected at all.
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Re: 'person of the year 2013' finalists are...
« Reply #28 on: January 21, 2014, 09:50:15 AM »
Had military duty been there for women when I was 18, I would probably have cracked because of the same.
Luckily for me, it was only obligatory for men that time. Two of my brothers were not drafted, and the other was rejected after hearing he had to join, because of getting seriously ill and ending with a prosthetic bone. He would have done well in the army, he does well in groups. He did not like being rejected at all.

Awww, that has to suck - since the majority of normal males would prefer NOT to go to the military, statistically, most of them complain, they haven't been away from home that long in their lives, they're going to live in the fucking north, etc, it's a huge bother. But to be rejected if you actually want to go has to be a real bummer.
An aspie friend of mine loved it there, he was a medic, and allready had a real interest in it. He wanted to be a field-medic, and got his wish.
Here too only men are drafted, but women are allowed to join. We had a female sarge actually, and respected and feared her :D There was another female sarge, who, in comparison, became "the cute one" :D
I know there was one or two female recruits on the base, but none in our unit.

My friend told me of two females in his unit, who - obviously - had to toughen up considerably, to compete and also withstand any pressure that would arise. Following this impulse, they eventually took it too far, taking advantages to mock struggling and complaining male companions, untill my aspie friend, observant and focused, had to explain to them the vital difference besides genders here - the males are forced to be here, with the threat of prison! The females are there because they explicitly wanted to be! After that, they backed off a little, having more than established themselves :D

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Re: 'person of the year 2013' finalists are...
« Reply #29 on: January 21, 2014, 04:46:05 PM »
I noticed you didn't mention physical illness as a reason to exclude you from the norwegian army. Are... diabetics allowed in?