US Gunships Kill 9 Afghan Children

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**Cannerus_The_Unbearable**

Frazzled wrote:
ShumaGorath wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
ShumaGorath wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
Silence IS encouragement, especially when you wear a MOD tag and the offenders see you arguing against those objecting to them.
***bs. It doesn't work in law and it doesn't work here.

Isn't your role as a MOD to "step in" and address such behavior and statements and to enforce some level of appropriate discourse?
***No. Moderators enforce a very limited standard of conduct. If you desire more, perhaps to the level of the remainder of the board, most posts in the OT would not exist, including most of both yours and mine.

Why wait until a thread is a trainwreck?
***Its not my job. If you want that go to BOLS, but don't discuss OT.

It does work here Fraz, you're always silent when you like a thread thats full of trolling because it strikes your political fancy. You're also incredibly quick to censure or ban in threads that you dislike for the same reason. What is and isn't your job has rarely been what guided how you did it, a thread chock full of jokes about dying children is a damn good time for you to do your job.

You're just annoyed because you haven't been suspended for trolling recently. In the words fo the immortal bard: sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and chains excite me?

I was suspended for trolling about a month ago when I wasn't trolling. That was in the videogame section though.

Oh wow, there's a videogame section? Cool! I'm off to talk about Pong!

Pong sucks. Only losers like Pong. You probably suck at Pong and don't even like it that much and just lie about it on the internet.

Also, Afghan kids or something.

**jp400**

Frazzled wrote:
jp400 wrote:
ShumaGorath wrote:
ArtfcllyFlvrd wrote:
Mohammed Bismil, the 20-year-old brother of two boys killed in the strike, told the Journal he didn't care about Petraeus' apology. "The only option I have is to pick up a Kalashnikov, RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] or a suicide vest to fight," he said.

Man, I think this is the saddest part of the article. A young man with no future and a heart full of hate. I don't know what can be done for someone like that.

That describes JP400 and half this thread too. It's quite the conundrum.

Blow me troll.

OK lets keep it polite JP. I'm not modding but other mods may come on board later and neither you or Shuma should get zapped.

With all due respect.. he had it coming and is damn lucky I didn't go further with it.

At any rate, he is now on my ignore list. Lets see if that solves anything.

**Frazzled**

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
ShumaGorath wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
ShumaGorath wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
Silence IS encouragement, especially when you wear a MOD tag and the offenders see you arguing against those objecting to them.
***bs. It doesn't work in law and it doesn't work here.

Isn't your role as a MOD to "step in" and address such behavior and statements and to enforce some level of appropriate discourse?
***No. Moderators enforce a very limited standard of conduct. If you desire more, perhaps to the level of the remainder of the board, most posts in the OT would not exist, including most of both yours and mine.

Why wait until a thread is a trainwreck?
***Its not my job. If you want that go to BOLS, but don't discuss OT.

It does work here Fraz, you're always silent when you like a thread thats full of trolling because it strikes your political fancy. You're also incredibly quick to censure or ban in threads that you dislike for the same reason. What is and isn't your job has rarely been what guided how you did it, a thread chock full of jokes about dying children is a damn good time for you to do your job.

You're just annoyed because you haven't been suspended for trolling recently. In the words fo the immortal bard: sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and chains excite me?

I was suspended for trolling about a month ago when I wasn't trolling. That was in the videogame section though.

Oh wow, there's a videogame section? Cool! I'm off to talk about Pong!

Pong sucks. Only losers like Pong. You probably suck at Pong and don't even like it that much and just lie about it on the internet.

Also, Afghan kids or something.

**Karon**

jp400 wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
jp400 wrote:
ShumaGorath wrote:
ArtfcllyFlvrd wrote:
Mohammed Bismil, the 20-year-old brother of two boys killed in the strike, told the Journal he didn't care about Petraeus' apology. "The only option I have is to pick up a Kalashnikov, RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] or a suicide vest to fight," he said.

Man, I think this is the saddest part of the article. A young man with no future and a heart full of hate. I don't know what can be done for someone like that.

That describes JP400 and half this thread too. It's quite the conundrum.

Blow me troll.

OK lets keep it polite JP. I'm not modding but other mods may come on board later and neither you or Shuma should get zapped.

With all due respect.. he had it coming and is damn lucky I didn't go further with it.

At any rate, he is now on my ignore list. Lets see if that solves anything.

I just wanted to express how I laughed a lot at this post. A lot. Not trying to insult you or anything, JP, just have to break this down.

With all due respect.. he had it coming and is damn lucky I didn't go further with it.

How will anyone ever live with themselves if they were broken down with lots of swear words and false assumptions of their personal life? Quite lucky he didn't have to read more scary words.

At any rate, he is now on my ignore list. Lets see if that solves anything.

This should solve the problem, indeed.

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For the record, I love you Shuma.

**CT GAMER**

Karon wrote:
jp400 wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
jp400 wrote:
ShumaGorath wrote:
ArtfcllyFlvrd wrote:
Mohammed Bismil, the 20-year-old brother of two boys killed in the strike, told the Journal he didn't care about Petraeus' apology. "The only option I have is to pick up a Kalashnikov, RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] or a suicide vest to fight," he said.

Man, I think this is the saddest part of the article. A young man with no future and a heart full of hate. I don't know what can be done for someone like that.

That describes JP400 and half this thread too. It's quite the conundrum.

Blow me troll.

OK lets keep it polite JP. I'm not modding but other mods may come on board later and neither you or Shuma should get zapped.

With all due respect.. he had it coming and is damn lucky I didn't go further with it.

At any rate, he is now on my ignore list. Lets see if that solves anything.

I just wanted to express how I laughed a lot at this post. A lot. Not trying to insult you or anything, JP, just have to break this down.

With all due respect.. he had it coming and is damn lucky I didn't go further with it.

How will anyone ever live with themselves if they were broken down with lots of swear words and false assumptions of their personal life? Quite lucky he didn't have to read more scary words.

At any rate, he is now on my ignore list. Lets see if that solves anything.

This should solve the problem, indeed.

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For the record, I love you Shuma.

What has been most amusing is that despite the obvious: Frazzled being a grizzled veteran who can spar with the best of them and fight his own battles, that JP felt this burning desire to come riding in like a white Knight all hot and bothered to put us bad people in our place in defense of someone who didn't ask to be defended.

Good thing he "didn't go further with it" (whatever that means), it sounds scary.

If i didn't know any better I'd think he has a crush on Frazzled...

**Albatross**

All trolls have a crush on Frazzled - he's their 'Dear Leader'.

**Monster Rain**

JP400 has won this thread at least twice.

Once when chibi-shuma piped in to defend his hero. He failed so hard that JP won the thread by default.

**A Black Ram**

...always blaming the victim?

(joke for those who didn't get it)

**CT GAMER**

Monster Rain wrote:JP400 has won this thread in his own mind at least twice.

Fixed that for you.

**Monster Rain**

CT GAMER wrote:
Monster Rain wrote:JP400 has won this thread in his own mind at least twice.

Fixed that for you.

Nope, he told some people exactly what they required telling. The only thing missing, and I apologize for not supplying it, was a heartfelt "oh snap!"

**CT GAMER**

Monster Rain wrote:
CT GAMER wrote:
Monster Rain wrote:JP400 has won this thread in his own mind at least twice.

Fixed that for you.

Nope, he told some people exactly what they required telling. The only thing missing, and I apologize for not supplying it, was a heartfelt "oh snap!"

Good one...

**Albatross**

I dunno, man. The whole 'I'm so tough, I give my nightmares nightmares. I must get on the internet and tell wooooorld!' thing is turbo-lame, as far as I'm concerned.

**FITZZ**

Monster Rain wrote:
CT GAMER wrote:
Monster Rain wrote:JP400 has won this thread in his own mind at least twice.

Fixed that for you.

Nope, he told some people exactly what they required telling. The only thing missing, and I apologize for not supplying it, was a heartfelt "oh snap!"

Personally I believe the comment Shuma directed at JP was completely deserving of Jps reply...
However...I don't see what any of this has to do with the Topic at hand.

**Monster Rain**

CT: "Good one" what?

I'm not joking around or trying to be clever. I'm stating facts from someone who read this travesty of a thread from beginning to end.

Edit: FITTZ is right. Why not stop detailing the thread?

**CT GAMER**

Monster Rain wrote:"Good one" what?

I'm not joking around or trying to be clever. I'm stating facts from someone who read this travesty of a thread from beginning to end.

Thank god you stepped in to clarify and sum it all up for us...

Edit: What should we discuss? An awful mistake happened. Some people found it funny and/or expressed their indifference. Some people objected to the callousness. Then it turned into a popularity contest.

What else is there to discuss about the original topic? Feel free to offer something to bring us back on topic...

**Monster Rain**

You're welcome.

It's what I do.

Shame about those Afghan kids though.

**FITZZ**

Monster Rain wrote:You're welcome.

It's what I do.

Shame about those Afghan kids though.

It's always a shame when civilians end up as casualties...however it's an unfortunate reality of any military conflict.

**CT GAMER**

Edited for sanity

**Monster Rain**

FITZZ wrote:
Monster Rain wrote:You're welcome.

It's what I do.

Shame about those Afghan kids though.

It's always a shame when civilians end up as casualties...however it's an unfortunate reality of any military conflict.

Sadly that's true.

I suppose the most logical answer would be to stop fighting in these places to stop this sort of thing from happening, but then the Taliban is going to take back over and we are right back where we started.

I don't know what the solution is.

**FITZZ**

CT GAMER wrote: civilians in a warzone...

...And this is why they're casualties...is it regretable...of course it is....is it also a fact of warfare..unfortunately ..yes it is.