the longest thread, thread - Occasionally NSFW

[targetman377]

are you in cookie heaven? where you can eat as many cookies as you want and never get a cavity or get fat?

and you want all the cookies to yourself so you don't want us to join you?

[strike wolf]

This just in Strike Wolf/Quirk now promising cookies, bananas and banana cookies to all voters.

[apey]

Nah target I was banned from heaven for stealing all the cookies
And strike wolf ofc I vote for u

[targetman377]

AUTO/Target we feel that cookies are a big deal and we understand that we get why so many love cookies if elected we will create a new department called the cookie department which will be lead by appey. to cheek the quality, and make sure cookies are being made with the utmost love.

[apey]

Now I'm torn.....

[AndyDufresne]

I bought "Cookies and Cream Ice Cream" recently. **Munches on a banana**


--Andy

[apey]

That's really good on a banana split

[targetman377]

[Serbia]

Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream is where it's at.

Bollocks.

[gimil]

I think the biggest shame is that this thread hasn't been put out it's misery yet...

[jonesthecurl]

or perhaps you should be put out of our misery.

[targetman377]

I think the biggest shame is that this thread hasn't been put out it's misery yet...

thanks for keeping this thread going. we appreciate it.

[Serbia]

This here is the 11th post I've made in this thread. That's too many. Yet, here I go again on my own.

Bollocks.

[targetman377]

Bollocks. Breath it will be ok. we here at the longest thread are very inviting.. so lets make that 11 go up to like 400 woot woot.

[muy_thaiguy]

This here is the 11th post I've made in this thread. That's too many. Yet, here I go again on my own.

Bollocks.

I walk down every road I've ever known!

[targetman377]

The Longest Thread, Thread - Occasionally NSFW-----------------------issue 7/13/205ad
---PHILOSOPHY----Random Awesomeness of the Week!------COMIC!!!!-------Target history fact of the week------ WHAT WAS NOT SAID IN THIS POST!!!!-----Pic of the week-------this week in the thread----Question of the week----INTERVIEW!!!—overlooked post!!!!

For it has been a while so I jammed back this newsletter with a lot of fun!!!!

PHILOSOPHY
To eat cookies on Wednesday or to eat bananas on Wednesday that is the question. Oh the question of this philosophical difference has destroyed civilization, families and frogs. A mild mannor monkey I know swears by a bananas but to be honest he is a little bananas. A family man himself yet a bit of a quark he post pictures galore of those bananas every Wednesday. Yet to the heavenly body we go to a abel minding women who got kicked out of heaven for stealing cookies.. So you see the question rages. I being of a sound temperament I chose both in a ice cream Sunday.




Random Awesomeness of the Week:
NEW HORIZON WILL BE MAKING ITS FLYBY OF PLUTO (still a planet to me) yes that right.
-The space shuttle launched at 14:00 EST on January 19, 2006 setting off the great adventure.
- On April 7, 2006, the spacecraft passed the orbit of Mars, moving at roughly 21 km/s (76,000 km/h; 47,000 mph) away from the Sun at a solar distance of 243 million kilometers. That little bugger is FAST!!!
- New Horizons used LORRI to take its first photographs of Jupiter on September 4, 2006 from a distance of 291 million kilometers (181 million miles) it did more then just Pluto that little pimp!!!
- Radio signals take four and a half hours to travel between the spacecraft and Earth
WOW!!!





COMIC!!!!!! Time.








Target’s history fact of the week.
-In Ancient Rome, women tried to dye their hair blonde with pigeon dung. In Renaissance Venice, they used horse urine.
-The attempts to find cures for the Black Death plague started the momentum toward development of the scientific method and the changes in thinking that led to the Renaissance.
-In Lexington, Kentucky, it is against the law to carry an ice cream cone in a pocket.
- William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton (1946- ) was the first U.S. Democratic president to win re-election since FDR.
- A medieval manuscript warns Japanese men against deep kissing during the female orgasm because a woman might accidentally bite off part of her lover’s tongue.
- Because the KKK was a powerful political force, Truman was encouraged to join the organization. According to some accounts, he was inducted, though he was “never active.” Other accounts claim that though he gave the KKK a $10 membership fee, he demanded it back and was never inducted or initiated.







WHAT WAS NOT SAID IN THIS POST!!!!

**Leaves behind a bowl of Canadian bananas**


--Andy

Murder. Paramilitary death squads. Exploitation. Torture. Child Labour. Toxic chemicals. At first these words are not readily linked to a soft, sweet and innocent fruit, a staple in the majority of our homes, but rather to the actions of a tyrant operating in a forgotten corner of the world.
Unfortunately, the truth is much darker and violent than most Canadians can imagine. In 2009, Canada imported US$334.2 million of bananas, 95 per cent of which come from low cost suppliers in Central and South America such as Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru, Columbia, Honduras and Panama. Out of these bananas, only one per cent of them are certified as ethically produced fair trade bananas. The other 99 per cent, however, poses an important challenge to us as Canadians -- what do we as a society value more, our wallets or our morality?
In Canada, out of the major supermarket chains, only Loblaws offers fair-trade bananas -- but they admit it is only a small portion of the bananas they purchase overall. Fair trade bananas are on average about 40 cents more per kilo than conventionally produced bananas, but fair-trade producers state that the cost of production is higher due to low demand. If the demand for fair-trade produce increases in Canada, the cost of growing ethically produced bananas in source countries will fall in relation. The main factor guiding most consumers towards conventionally grown bananas is a lack of education on the topic. In an effort to combat this, here are some examples of the issues facing banana growers in Latin America.
Chiquita is currently facing a US$1 billion lawsuit from 242 Columbians who were victims of right-wing paramilitaries on the banana giant's payroll. In 2007, Chiquita admitted that they paid paramilitaries like the AUC (United Self Defence Forces of Columbia) -- but only to protect banana workers from falling victim to other armed groups in the region. The lawsuit is not the first against the corporation, as in 2007 Chiquita was forced by the U.S. Justice Department to pay a US$25 million fine for funding the AUC between 1997 to 2004.
In Guatemala, Del Monte has been regularly linked to the murders of banana workers involved in union organizing. Guatemala ranks only second to Columbia as the most dangerous place to be a unionized worker. Since the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) was ratified in 2006, six unions in Guatemala are currently involved in a legal battle with the government, who they claim are purposefully overlooking the murder and other human rights abuses of workers. In 2007, the SITRABI trade union leader Marco Tulio Ramirez Portela was gunned down on his way to work on a plantation.
Those responsible for his murder remain unpunished. Despite the US Trade Representative condemning the ongoing violence against banana workers and trade unionists, one needs only to look to their continued support of the Columbian government's murderous security forces to see how hollow the statements of action are.
In Honduras, Chiquita and Dole can now breathe a collective sigh of relief since the labour reforms -- including a 60 per cent raise of the minimum wage -- promised by former President Manuel Zelaya will never come into effect -- thanks to a coup d'etat in 2009. Dole and Chiquita complained that the new regulations would cost their companies millions, as it would cost them 10 cents more to produce a box of bananas, and 20 cents more for a box of pineapples.


In 2009, Chiquita and Dole posted revenues of US$3.5 billion and US$3.3 billion respectively -- the exact amount of profit gained by engaging in violent activities against workers, trade unionists and activists will never be known.
Human Rights Watch investigated allegations of child labour in the banana growing town of Machala, Ecuador. The organization interviewed child labourers who had worked 12-hour days at the farms between the ages of 8 and 13. Child labour remains to be an endemic problem in Latin America, with an estimated 42 million underage children at work -- the majority of them in agriculture.

Worldwide, banana workers have been exposed to numerous toxic chemicals which were banned from use in North America -- but not in the nations where the major fruit companies operate farms. These chemicals, such as Nemagon or DBCP have been proven to cause sterility, birth defects, cancers, paralysis, bone brittleness, strokes, blindness and diabetes amongst many other serious side effects. In 2002, Nicaraguan farmers won a landmark case against Shell, Dole, and Dow Chemical, who were ordered to pay US$489 million in damages to 450 workers affected by the use of Nemagon -- however, the companies have yet paid one cent to the victims.
Back in Canada, there is no reason why we cannot become ethical consumers who demand more humane and environmentally sensitive growing practices from producers. Our current lack of awareness and purchasing habits are making us participants in a "race to the bottom" -- whereby we derive savings as consumers from widespread injustice inflicted on producers. In Switzerland, 50 per cent of the bananas consumed are fair-trade certified.
In England, where 25 per cent of all bananas consumed are fair trade, the national supermarket chain Sainsbury's have converted all of their bananas to 100 per cent fair-trade certified products.
This move by Sainsbury has made a huge impact for small-scale producers in the Caribbean who had been dramatically affected by decisions made by the World Trade Organization in their 15 year trade dispute with the European Union. Since the "banana wars" began in 1993, out of the 25,000 farmers who produced bananas in the Windward Islands (St. Lucia, Dominica, Grenada, St. Vincent) only 5,000 remain today, as uncertainty caused prices to freefall to the point farmers could not survive, and instead walked away from their farms. The decline of agriculture in St. Lucia has been linked to the significant increase of drug-related crime and reduced government capacity, leading the nation into a dangerous situation. Sainsbury and their fair-trade model ensured that the remaining farmers could still access a market when the WTO closed the doors on the region.
Large grocers in Canada, such as Metro, point to being locked into long-term contracts with Chiquita, Dole and Del Monte as an excuse for not offering an ethical alternative. The truth is, if consumers demand it corporations will bend over backwards to capture their dollars. The case of bananas is no different. While fair trade is rightly viewed with skepticism by some on the left as a band-aid solution or compromise within the framework of global capitalism, there is no readily working model available as an alternative to improve working conditions for banana farmers now. Fair trade should be used as a stepping stone to empower and develop communities in a practical way, not as an end in itself. Bananas represent a wide variety of social, political, environmental and economic problems, and the first step is a small act of buying fair trade, asking your retailer to offer them, or writing a letter to a grocery chain can literally make the difference between life and death for banana workers.
-Kevin Edmonds is a graduate student at McMaster University's Institute for Globalization and the Human Condition. http://rabble.ca/news/2010/09/hidden-co ... na-market-



BEST PIC OF THE WEEK!!!!!


I mean look at it there is a green alien, tnt, a human in what looks to be a an acient building of some type. Man stargate all over again!!! Good job quirk!!!


Runerup!!!

Quirk dominates at this part.



This week in the Thread

:) Holy cookies and bananas you guys are still here

Apey showed up to spread some cookie magic.

Strike Wolf/Quirk 2016. Were not the best for the job but we are all Georgian!

The Signal is the weirdestmovie ever.

AUTO/TARGET ticket 2016 WE gonna turn it up!!!

Just when you thought you had a safe refuage from politics here they bit there angry teeth and come after you.


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INTERVIEWs
This department is on break




Terrible Tabloid:

Lets try to make this the longest thread in the site, then the world

(ooh, this world domination thing has gotten to me!)

WOW JUST THINK OF WHERE WE ARE NOW!!!! We even have a newsletter!!!
OVER LOOKED POST!!!!!

http://www.dni.gov/index.php/resources/bin-laden-bookshelf

cause lets face it we never click on the links maybe i will do it this once.. ok I just looked at the religious part had a lot less then I expected -Was Jesus Crucified for Our Atonement? by Monquith Ben Mahmoud Assaqar, Ph.D., - however that did catch my fance


By sending me the article you are giving me the rights to that article and I have the right to edit it and change it as I see fit. And also I can keep it in reserves as long as I see fit. I will give you full credit.

Thanks!!!!!!!

[Quirk]

BPotW

[Quirk]

I mean look at it there is a green alien, tnt, a human in what looks to be a an acient building of some type. Man stargate all over again!!! Good job quirk!!!

That's not an alien, it's a zombie. It's a Minecraft Lego set.

[targetman377]

oh i have never played mine craft i am sorry

[Quirk]

Oh no, sorry is not good enough. You must go play Minecraft in order to right this wrong.
It helps if you have a six-year-old hanging around.

[muy_thaiguy]

Oh no, sorry is not good enough. You must go play Minecraft in order to right this wrong.
It helps if you have a six-year-old hanging around.

Or watch youtubers like VintageBeef or GuudeBoulderFist. Or have played on a minecraft server and built a huge ship (galleon style) but gave up on the sails because height and gravity lead to a lot of unneeded deaths.

[2dimes]

I notice target compiled a pretty exhaustive post that does not contain the girl picture.

This here is the 11th post I've made in this thread. That's too many. Yet, here I go again on my own.

Bollocks.

I walk down every road I've ever known!

Like a drifter I'll be gone before..

[Quirk]

[targetman377]

yep 2 dimes i did not... don't know why just the other pictures tickled my fancy more at that particular moment in time and in space..

[2dimes]

She should be on your tenner. Go take a bath.