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2010/02/17 22:26:36
Subject: Well, I think that's about as ridiculous as its ever going to get.
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Dwarf High King with New Book of Grudges
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The same has been said of China.
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2010/02/17 22:31:55
Subject: Well, I think that's about as ridiculous as its ever going to get.
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Frazzled wrote:Don't talk to fast boyo. Rumors of a real estate bubble Canada way...
Like I said, we have corrupt politicians and such, the occasional scandal (local one with expenes blew up last week, lots of people quit). But they just don't compare to the disaster that exists in America today. I can't remember the last time I heard a debate where somebody didn't bring up their children, Stalinist communism, nazis ETC ETC
The level of debate is so low that you may as well be deciding everything with an arm wrestling competition. I'm not saying any one side is wholly responsible, actually, I think a culture that no longer values reasoned debate and a willingness to back down when proven wrong is the real culprit. And how are you going to fix it?
Well, we would all love to help, but only the american people get to vote, so all we can really do is watch and cry.
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In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.
George Orwell is my hero.
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2010/02/18 02:05:12
Subject: Well, I think that's about as ridiculous as its ever going to get.
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Frazzled wrote:Don't talk to fast boyo. Rumors of a real estate bubble Canada way...
Political mess. The country itself is alright, and has more or less the same problems as the rest of us, well outside of health, but that's a reflection on the political mess. The political problems are much bigger, the amount of money in there, the influence of lobbyists...
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. |
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2010/02/18 03:25:08
Subject: Re:Well, I think that's about as ridiculous as its ever going to get.
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Heck... I just invite Canada(sans Quebec) and Mexico to join us and become the United states of North America!!
Viva La USNA
GG
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2010/02/18 07:41:14
Subject: Re:Well, I think that's about as ridiculous as its ever going to get.
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Gore-Soaked Lunatic Witchhunter
Australia (Recently ravaged by the Hive Fleet Ginger Overlord)
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sebster wrote:generalgrog wrote:What I don't get is why does a guy from Australia care so much about a foreign countries politics beyond the president. I don't even know/care who the president of Australia is let alone any podunct senators from queensland etc.
Your politics are more fun than our politics. You don't know about our senators because none of them come out in the public media and tearfully announce their addiction to Facebook games.
Although ours do occasionally visit strip clubs and forget what happened next. 
generalgrog wrote:Heck... I just invite Canada(sans Quebec) and Mexico to join us and become the United states of North America!!
Viva La USNA
GG
Um, you do know that there are more than 3 countries in North America, right? 
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Smacks wrote:
After the game, pack up all your miniatures, then slap the guy next to you on the ass and say.
"Good game guys, now lets hit the showers" 
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2010/02/18 08:06:52
Subject: Well, I think that's about as ridiculous as its ever going to get.
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Heroic Senior Officer
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sebster wrote:
We have shopping malls here, some are bigger than others. It seems to me bigger just means 'easier to get lost'.
On the other hand;
Geee, that looks like VA the last couple of weeks................
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2010/02/18 08:10:12
Subject: Well, I think that's about as ridiculous as its ever going to get.
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Executing Exarch
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No Sebster! Don't fall for their Yankee lies!!!!
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2010/02/18 10:31:29
Subject: Re:Well, I think that's about as ridiculous as its ever going to get.
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Heroic Senior Officer
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Emperors Faithful wrote:
Although ours do occasionally visit strip clubs and forget what happened next.
Heck, I do that!!
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www.ironfistleague.com
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2010/02/18 10:37:18
Subject: Re:Well, I think that's about as ridiculous as its ever going to get.
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Gore-Soaked Lunatic Witchhunter
Australia (Recently ravaged by the Hive Fleet Ginger Overlord)
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don_mondo wrote:Emperors Faithful wrote:
Although ours do occasionally visit strip clubs and forget what happened next.
Heck, I do that!!
While you're running for President/Prime Minister? 
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Smacks wrote:
After the game, pack up all your miniatures, then slap the guy next to you on the ass and say.
"Good game guys, now lets hit the showers"
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2010/02/18 10:37:21
Subject: Well, I think that's about as ridiculous as its ever going to get.
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Ork-Hunting Inquisitorial Xenokiller
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Oh man this is what you call a fail with epicsauce, now this would also go for ANY other sane person, who confesses to be addicted to failbook game
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2010/02/18 12:04:19
Subject: Re:Well, I think that's about as ridiculous as its ever going to get.
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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Um, you do know that there are more than 3 countries in North America, right?
There are? I didn't know Quebec had seceded (again).
Central Americans generally consider themselves Central Americans, not North Americans.
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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2010/02/18 13:00:28
Subject: Well, I think that's about as ridiculous as its ever going to get.
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[MOD]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_countries Automatically Appended Next Post: When people say you should visit New York they mean Manhattan.
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2010/02/18 13:17:45
Subject: Well, I think that's about as ridiculous as its ever going to get.
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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Oh well if you count islands sure, but er, ok... (except Pureto Rico, thats ours)
Ironical my bank is like the big boy in those islands.
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2010/02/18 13:18:19
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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2010/02/18 13:42:51
Subject: Re:Well, I think that's about as ridiculous as its ever going to get.
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Oberfeldwebel
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generalgrog wrote:Heck... I just invite Canada(sans Quebec) and Mexico to join us and become the United states of North America!!
Viva La USNA
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I think I'd rather take Quebec instead of the rest of Canada.
Quebec chicks have that hot and crazy thing going for them.
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2010/02/18 14:42:14
Subject: Well, I think that's about as ridiculous as its ever going to get.
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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You can have Quebec. I want the Oil Sands, er the rest fo Canada Eh!
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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2010/02/18 14:55:42
Subject: Well, I think that's about as ridiculous as its ever going to get.
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Frazzled wrote:Oh well if you count islands sure, but er, ok... (except Pureto Rico, thats ours)
Ironical my bank is like the big boy in those islands.
You use offshore accounts?
How very bootstrappy of you.
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