ErikSetzer wrote:

hobojebus wrote:

 Zarynterk wrote:

hobojebus wrote:

 TheCustomLime wrote:
So they can lie about the Knight's height in centimeters? No thank you, comrade! Go back to Poland where you belong!

Dude i'm english, but we do have alot of polish people here because we are in general less xenophobic than americans.

Xenophobic... this from a country that for over 200 hundred years sought to make everything on the planet "British"...

You dont want to go down the historical route given how america treated Asian americans in WW2, how they committed genocide against the native american, the shocking treatment of Africans kidnapped from their homelands and forced to work as slaves, or segregation in the south.

No country anywhere has clean hands.

No, they do not. So perhaps maybe people shouldn't jump to call Americans "xenophobic" given that WW1 and WW2 were largely about Europeans hating each other (and no one in Europe would have cared if Hitler exterminated the Jews so long as he stayed in the lines they gave Germany for "borders"; they created Israel just to get rid of the Jews and hoped the Arabs would kill them); England during WW2 was trying to still control a number of countries; the whole Africans thing started with Brits (hence why it's British and French colonies scattered through Africa); etc.; etc.; etc.

So, yeah. It's like the pot calling the kettle black, only a bit worse. America got its bad tendencies from its roots. You know, all those European nations that came over here, declared this land to be theirs, and started taking it in the first place?

But yes, that's all in the past.

Right now, Americans as a whole are pretty tolerant people. Sure, there's always loudmouths on TV, just like there are everywhere. I work with a very diverse group of people, I go to church with a diverse group of people, I game with people of different ethnicity and religion, and none of us have a problem with each other. I am getting so sick of other nations who are at least as intolerant with their populace jumping up to call Americans "racist" or "xenophobes" or whatever.

And hell, while we're at it, do you know how hard it is to find a black Space Marine, aside from the token chapter that was made all-black at one point because apparently only being roasted by fire lizards can excuse skin that isn't pale in the grim darkness of the far future? Black Imperial Guard are almost non-existent, and I swear the Warhammer world doesn't have anyone without pale skin (of the races that, you know, aren't anthropomorphic creatures or Orcs. They barely mention Araby or Cathay or Nippon in the fluff, and they'll never do armies for them.

So, yeah. We're playing a pretty freaking "xenophobic" and racist set of games, and giving money to a company to support them. So maybe we should all shut our hypocritical pie holes and go back to making jokes about why a Knight is two inches shorter than he should be because he's permanently squating and/or bending over.


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hobojebus wrote:

 Ashiraya wrote:
Isn't it illegal to say your product is bigger than it is?

Cant be men do it all the time...well men with small...well you know what i'm getting at.

Eh, there's an entire industry of bras designed for a similar purpose.

And products and surgeries to help members of both genders with such "inadequacies."

 Deadshot wrote:
Its definately more than 6". The Trygon and Dreadknight are both 6" roughly. I have 2 of the former and 1 of the latter, I checked. Knight is bigger than those.

hobojebus wrote:
Except i never brought up history, i mean the here and now so all the WW2 stuff didn't come from me.

 krazynadechukr wrote:
I measured mine. 6.25"

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Maybe...they made the base 2" taller.

 Accolade wrote:
It just makes me think of this sort of stuff:

Box:


Real Life:


EDIT: also come on guys, drop the country comparison crap.

I thought this model disparity would be mildly interesting since it was such a hot-button topic when the Imperial Knight came out, but I didn't mean it to become some sort of "we're better than you!" argument.

 tyrannosaurus wrote:
On top of the genocide against the Native Americans just want to throw in the use of napalm against Vietnamese civilians and the dropping of atomic bombs, again on civilians. The only country to use nuclear weapons in warfare? US of A. Plus tens of thousands of civilian deaths during the 'liberation' of Iraq. It's ok though because they're white, and Christian.

Britain's actions throughout history haven't been perfect by any means but the Yanks do murder and mutilation better than anyone else