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Take home message from this thread- just post stuff like this in the DCM section, where (ideally) people can handle it...

To all of those "offended" by making light of the death of a terrorist leader who intentionally targetted, killed, and continued to plan to kill thousands of innocent civilians in many countries... well, I feel a bit bad for you, actually.

Particularly those commenting on "US" things. This makes the world a safer place... any reasonable person will be happy that this mass murderer is no longer in the world.

And as I said above, making light of these things helps me (and many others) cope with the hard reality of it all.

If you can't get the joke, maybe you need to step back and (as has been reiterated many times) relax... or maybe it's step down (off that moral high horse).

Thanks for that Kid Kyoto, very well written.

RIP OBL, World hide and seek champion 2001-2011

Pacific wrote:
RIP OBL, World hide and seek champion 2001-2011

Now that made me LOL.

And props to the OP. It is funny.

And I absolutely agree with everything RiTides stated above.

AvatarForm wrote:

I expected more from a MOD...

There's your first mistake

Thats really funny, made me smile.

Anyway, I celebrated the much awaited demise of said gakkhead by declaring the 2:nd may to be called "bacon day".

Yes you heard me all you politically correct people, I celebrated it by stuffing myself full of bacon.

It was funny, and +1 Pacific's post. It was meant to be light hearted and funny. I don't believe it was in bad form at all. The OP was just expressing their way to cope with the death of an international terrorist's death. Ya know, the guy who planned the killing of thousands...

Extremely well writen and it's obvious that you stuck to the news headlines and took care to not editorialize in a way that would offend the right or the left.

An absolutely brilliant satire!

Thoroughly entertaining!! ... especially with my after work pint!

Wow, you remember that time people got way too uptight about something?

I chuckled.

It's a lie, K_K, pure Imperial propaganda. Where's the Talon of Horus, huh? Plus everyone knows the Imperium planned and carried out the invasion of Cadia itself. Bin Abaddon was just a convenient scapegoat.

Well written! I got a good laugh from it.

Dont kno why people seem to be offended....

We need a poll to work out whether people think this is offensive or funny.


For me, this is but I guess it could be or at the OP

Pacific wrote:
RIP OBL, World hide and seek champion 2001-2011

Funniest thing I've read in a long time, and I'm a David Barry fan.

It certainly made me chuckle. Humour is a good way of dealing with serious issues, and this pastiche was really quite brilliantly written.

grrr

As a United States Marine who has fought on numerous occasions in iraq this is hilarious and to those who dont care for it oh well. Bottom line is we finally mercked this guy and were happy about it. Also just pointing this out a majority of those who dont agree are not american. Most havent liked this from the beggining so who cares.

As a Cadian I am both relieved and ashamed. Relief for the death of a known enemy to the Imperium, ashamed that he has been hiding in our own backyard! I fear the hangman will be making a lot of house calls these coming days.

In all seriousness, he's dead, we're happy. We had chocolate chip cookies and then some to celebrate.

BrookM wrote:As a Cadian I am both relieved and ashamed. Relief for the death of a known enemy to the Imperium, ashamed that he has been hiding in our own backyard! I fear the hangman will be making a lot of house calls these coming days.

In all seriousness, he's dead, we're happy. We had chocolate chip cookies and then some to celebrate.

This wins the thread. Hands down

Don't listen to the whiners, it was funny and yes: He should have worn his helmet

Funny stuff.

To anyone unsure whether mocking a hated figure of evil is okay, I would like to point out that it has been tradition for centuries, at least. Bonaparte was frequently called "Old Boney", and mocked. There's a song mocking Hitler which I learned as a child, decades later. Actually, more than one...

Bunker wrote:There's your first mistake

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Manchu wrote:It's a lie, K_K, pure Imperial propaganda. Where's the Talon of Horus, huh? Plus everyone knows the Imperium planned and carried out the invasion of Cadia itself. Bin Abaddon was just a convenient scapegoat.

Genius. Sheer, unadulterated genius. And now part of my sig.

Going to be serious now.



To those who think OBL doesn't merit mockery because his death is a serious topic, I understand where you're coming from and I have some sympathy with your view. As a man with a soul, which Jesus loved and is grieved to see damned (most faiths may insert different phrasing of an equivalent concept here to the same effect), I will not celebrate OBL's death, nor mock him.

However, OBL was not merely (perhaps not even mostly) dangerous in his own person. In some sense, he was a symbol of a hateful and loathsome ideology, and a totemic inspiration to a vast, frenzied murder cult, whose morale (and therefore effectiveness) will consequently be noticeably diminished by his death. As a symbol, it is permissible, and in my view morally incumbent upon us, to mock him, to ridicule his views and actions, to revile and abuse him. His views and actions partly derived their success from the fact that everyone, his friends and foes, take them seriously. I believe that to mock the ideology of death, and its symbol, shows that we disdain the death cult, and view it as unworthy of our efforts at serious intellectual exchange. Those who do violence to bring them closer to heaven, those who inflict death and misery in the name of the divine Author of life and joy, merit mockery rather than respect, fury rather than patience, public humiliation rather than dignity. And anybody, starting with the OP here, who gives it to them gets my applause; he strikes a blow on the side of right.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

NELS1031 wrote:Do I need to lighten up or is this tasteless? Alot of people died throughout the world because of this dude(OBL).

Can I make a 40k themed story about the planet Jaypon being caught in a freak Warp Storm then what was left was contaminated by Warp energy, thereby dooming survivors to generations of warp energy exposure and possibly mutations/cancers? Is that totally cool and clever?

I'm going for cute here, mildly amusing.

Mocking our enemies has an old and honored tradition, look up some WWII Disney or Looney Tunes cartoons some time to see what I mean. I kind of like the idea of Osama Bin Laden as a cartoonish Cobra Commander type villain in his evil fortress of evil being undone by heroic navy SEALs. After 10+ years of fearing this man lurking in the shadows with fanatical terrorists and suicide bombers, I enjoyed the idea of turning him into an ineffective joke.

Sorry if it offended.

And one difference between the Sendai tsunami and Osama is first the Sendai disaster is ongoing while Osama is being eaten by fish. Which is also why I wouldn't use Gaddafi this way. Second there's no human being to mock in the Sendai disaster, only vast impersonal forces of nature. So I don't think it would work.

So was it the Black Marines who love the Emprah even more than all the other marines X2, or was it the silver marines who are X3 good and uncorruptable and stuff, not like the other black marines, who were angry and started hanging out with a bad crowd on the street corner and got in a fight with Dad and ran away from home?


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Phototoxin wrote:"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars."

" them. They're a bunch of namba pamby wussy boys who'll first be against the wall when the revolution comes."
-Frazzled.

Heh. Nice one.

Hats off for a well-done bit of fun.

Malleus wrote:However, OBL was not merely (perhaps not even mostly) dangerous in his own person. In some sense, he was a symbol of a hateful and loathsome ideology, and a totemic inspiration to a vast, frenzied murder cult, whose morale (and therefore effectiveness) will consequently be noticeably diminished by his death. As a symbol, it is permissible, and in my view morally incumbent upon us, to mock him, to ridicule his views and actions, to revile and abuse him. His views and actions partly derived their success from the fact that everyone, his friends and foes, take them seriously. I believe that to mock the ideology of death, and its symbol, shows that we disdain the death cult, and view it as unworthy of our efforts at serious intellectual exchange. Those who do violence to bring them closer to heaven, those who inflict death and misery in the name of the divine Author of life and joy, merit mockery rather than respect, fury rather than patience, public humiliation rather than dignity. And anybody, starting with the OP here, who gives it to them gets my applause; he strikes a blow on the sight of right.

Quoted for M-Fing genius.

Eloquently written, sir.

Pyriel- wrote:Thats really funny, made me smile.

Anyway, I celebrated the much awaited demise of said gakkhead by declaring the 2:nd may to be called "bacon day".

Yes you heard me all you politically correct people, I celebrated it by stuffing myself full of bacon.

Now that's how you do offensive, and I would be offended if I didn't think that was the aim.

Infact I am impressed with the number of people round here who feel that any human being, no matter what they have done, deserve some basic dignity.

Come to think about it, there is allot of people who are offended by what we do, because it is pretend violence and war.

Mannahnin wrote:

Malleus wrote:However, OBL was not merely (perhaps not even mostly) dangerous in his own person. In some sense, he was a symbol of a hateful and loathsome ideology, and a totemic inspiration to a vast, frenzied murder cult, whose morale (and therefore effectiveness) will consequently be noticeably diminished by his death. As a symbol, it is permissible, and in my view morally incumbent upon us, to mock him, to ridicule his views and actions, to revile and abuse him. His views and actions partly derived their success from the fact that everyone, his friends and foes, take them seriously. I believe that to mock the ideology of death, and its symbol, shows that we disdain the death cult, and view it as unworthy of our efforts at serious intellectual exchange. Those who do violence to bring them closer to heaven, those who inflict death and misery in the name of the divine Author of life and joy, merit mockery rather than respect, fury rather than patience, public humiliation rather than dignity. And anybody, starting with the OP here, who gives it to them gets my applause; he strikes a blow on the side of right.

Quoted for M-Fing genius.

Eloquently written, sir.

Thank you. I feel pretty strongly about it; it's inspiring.

Hilarious. If we are to live in the empirical society that we see ourselves moving into, why not crack a smile at our sworn enemies... I mean those that we want to subjugate. Because afterall are we not the best around yes no ones gonna keep us down.

It's a lie, K_K, pure Imperial propaganda. Where's the Talon of Horus, huh? Plus everyone knows the Imperium planned and carried out the invasion of Cadia itself. Bin Abaddon was just a convenient scapegoat.

Pfft, even more lies I tell ya. We all know Bin Abbaddon was really an invention by the high lords of terra, there was no bin abbaddon to start with (I see no dead body)

However, OBL was not merely (perhaps not even mostly) dangerous in his own person. In some sense, he was a symbol of a hateful and loathsome ideology, and a totemic inspiration to a vast, frenzied murder cult, whose morale (and therefore effectiveness) will consequently be noticeably diminished by his death. As a symbol, it is permissible, and in my view morally incumbent upon us, to mock him, to ridicule his views and actions, to revile and abuse him. His views and actions partly derived their success from the fact that everyone, his friends and foes, take them seriously. I believe that to mock the ideology of death, and its symbol, shows that we disdain the death cult, and view it as unworthy of our efforts at serious intellectual exchange. Those who do violence to bring them closer to heaven, those who inflict death and misery in the name of the divine Author of life and joy, merit mockery rather than respect, fury rather than patience, public humiliation rather than dignity. And anybody, starting with the OP here, who gives it to them gets my applause; he strikes a blow on the side of right.

Boy I am so glad for your own sake that you dont live in quasi-communist Sweden or else you would be called a "racist" by now. You see political correctness is literarily seeping out from the ground you walk on here *sigh*

In other words +1 to your post.

Infact I am impressed with the number of people round here who feel that any human being, no matter what they have done, deserve some basic dignity.

Now I dont really get you here, you mean that bin abbaddon was a "human being"?
Other then a slight resemblance to one from a distance I just cant see the dots.

You see, "humans" have something called empathy, they dont go around wishing to slaughter thousands of innocent people and/or imposing their own sick ideologies on them...but hey, thats just me.

Come to think about it, there is allot of people who are offended by what we do, because it is pretend violence and war.

Then screw them. Are they with those kind of ideas about you and your toy soldier hobby really worth a second thought or recognition? Want me to cater to their hurt feelings about me having a game of toy soldiers with a friend?
What´s the next step, there are people out there who want to forbid school children from running because running might cause you to trip and break a leg.

Trolling is a violation of Dakka rules.

Let's not feed the troll.

Frazzled wrote:

asmith wrote:Is it ok when I do it?

You don't have any issues at all do you...

He has so many they sent him a free sneakerphone.

And props to KK for a great OP.