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2012/02/29 10:14:29
Subject: I'm Bored... Tell me something interesting... ...or controversial.
All I can see in the off topic forum atm is comic books, anime, star trek and other stuff of imagination; whilst these are great in thier own way I crave actual factual information and failing that some kind of practical debate.
More have died in the name of normality than ever for strangeness. Beware of normal people.
He who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes; He who does not is a fool forever. (Confucius).
She sacrificed British industry to beat the unions(I acknowledge that the unions were too powerful and corrupt at that time); she sold north sea oil off cheap to the Americans in exchange for nuclear weapons; she down graded the navy and armed forces to the point that Argentina invaded the Falklands; and a number of other bad things.
I lived through the massive unemployment she caused and remember it well even though I was only a little kid.
(nice way to start an argument with me. )
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More have died in the name of normality than ever for strangeness. Beware of normal people.
He who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes; He who does not is a fool forever. (Confucius).
We are living through masive unemployment due to a WORLDWIDE economic down turn. The give away on this one would be the rising unemployment in the US and Europe. Unless you think that Mssrs. Blair and Brown could possible do this then no it was not down to them. The Tories tell you this because they don't want you to realise they have let the banking system that did cause it off lightly.
1. The Americans bribed us into thier program.
2. That doesn't sound right. Source please?
More have died in the name of normality than ever for strangeness. Beware of normal people.
He who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes; He who does not is a fool forever. (Confucius).
Sonophos wrote:We are living through masive unemployment due to a WORLDWIDE economic down turn. The give away on this one would be the rising unemployment in the US and Europe. Unless you think that Mssrs. Blair and Brown could possible do this then no it was not down to them. The Tories tell you this because they don't want you to realise they have let the banking system that did cause it off lightly.
1. The Americans bribed us into thier program.
2. That doesn't sound right. Source please?
A british battery may have also been used in sputnik. Possibly we had something up in space before the US.
I'm away from my source on the little boy bomb atm. IIRC its either a modified radar altimeter dervied from american kit or derived from Yagi radar.
As for Labour, they were the ones who rubbed their hands with glee at the thought of taxing bankers bonuses and the investments, regardless of world wide reccesion. The tories are hardly blameless though.
2012/02/29 11:21:30
Subject: I'm Bored... Tell me something interesting... ...or controversial.
Every Dakkanaught gets a 4+ Pinch of Salt save.
When you suffer a Falling Sky hit, roll a D6 - on a 4+ the hit is ignored as per the Pinch of Salt save. On a 1-3 panic insues - you automatically fail common sense tests for the next 2 weeks and get +7 to your negativity stat. -Praxiss
2012/02/29 11:27:49
Subject: Re:I'm Bored... Tell me something interesting... ...or controversial.
Interesting Fact: Gustave Eiffel, designer of the Eiffel Tower, enjoyed a successful career as an architect despite having dyslexia and a paralyzing fear of heights.
On the politics side of things. The whole banker's bonus thing should never have been allowed to happen to begin with, there is no way there should be a % wage increase difference than there is at present (most wages have risen 1-2% in recent years, way below inflation, while some banking 'fat cats' have seen wage increases of above 50%). We keep shoving all the wealth into fewer places, sooner or later it's all going to come crashing down (as we are starting to see).
On a more interesting (and less politically charged) note, ALL GPS satellite navigation systems that are commericially available have a failsafe that makes them automatically shut down if they go above a certain altitude and/or speed. this is to stop them from being used in an improvised guided missile...
And that is why you hear people yelling FOR THE EMPEROR rather than FOR LOGICAL AND QUANTIFIABLE BASED DECISIONS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE MAJORITY!
Phototoxin wrote:Kids go in , they waste tonnes of money on marnus calgar and his landraider, the slaneshi-like GW revel at this lust and short term profit margin pleasure. Meanwhile father time and cunning lord tzeentch whisper 'our games are better AND cheaper' and then players leave for mantic and warmahordes.
daveNYC wrote:The Craftworld guys, who are such stick-in-the-muds that they manage to make the Ultramarines look like an Ibiza nightclub that spiked its Red Bull with LSD.
2012/02/29 13:44:25
Subject: I'm Bored... Tell me something interesting... ...or controversial.
Leigen_Zero wrote:
On a more interesting (and less politically charged) note, ALL GPS satellite navigation systems that are commericially available have a failsafe that makes them automatically shut down if they go above a certain altitude and/or speed. this is to stop them from being used in an improvised guided missile...
I assume you mean handhelds rather than all commercially available GPS systems. Since it would be rather inconvienient if the GPS in a private jet automatically shut down because of an altitude and airspeed limit. A lot of newer airplanes use GPS as thier primary navigation because they are easier that other systems, they also back up altiude and airspeed indicators.
Avatar 720 wrote: You see, to Auston, everyone is a Death Star; there's only one way you can take it and that's through a small gap at the back.
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
2012/02/29 13:55:26
Subject: I'm Bored... Tell me something interesting... ...or controversial.
Here's something controversial: I don't hate Space Marines,
Well, apparently it is, because a bunch of people still think I do and react violently to any suggestion that I don't.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
My blog
2012/02/29 13:58:14
Subject: Re:I'm Bored... Tell me something interesting... ...or controversial.
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
2012/02/29 14:02:16
Subject: I'm Bored... Tell me something interesting... ...or controversial.
Ruglud wrote:Interesting Fact: Gustave Eiffel, designer of the Eiffel Tower, enjoyed a successful career as an architect despite having dyslexia and a paralyzing fear of heights.
I did not know that. <obtuse>Did he do Blackpool Tower smaller so that he didn't need to go as high or because he got the dimensions wrong?</obtuse>
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AustonT wrote:
Melissia wrote:Here's something controversial: I don't hate Space Marines,
Well, apparently it is, because a bunch of people still think I do and react violently to any suggestion that I don't.
LIES MELISSIA HATES SPACE MARINES!!!!
And now we know that the T stands for troll.
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More have died in the name of normality than ever for strangeness. Beware of normal people.
He who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes; He who does not is a fool forever. (Confucius).
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
2012/02/29 14:41:44
Subject: I'm Bored... Tell me something interesting... ...or controversial.
"Some antisemites believe that the Jews already run America. But that's rediculous. If the jews ran America, we wouldn't be 14 trillion dollars in debt. Knuckleheads"
That just came out of nowhere, and I admit to laughing my ass off.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
My blog
2012/02/29 14:42:46
Subject: I'm Bored... Tell me something interesting... ...or controversial.
Sonophos wrote:
And now we know that the T stands for troll.
Sometimes, although in this case I'm not deliberately trolling Mel or I might have said something like, "Melissa hates SM because they don't allow females, who are obviously too weak to be that awesome"
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Melissia wrote:"Some antisemites believe that the Jews already run America. But that's rediculous. If the jews ran America, we wouldn't be 14 trillion dollars in debt. Knuckleheads"
That just came out of nowhere, and I admit to laughing my ass off.
Yeah that totally makes the clip, he's pretty single minded though. You can expect the words, "anti-semite" "Jimmy Carter" and "Obama sucks hurr" in all of his videos...but he's still funny.
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Avatar 720 wrote: You see, to Auston, everyone is a Death Star; there's only one way you can take it and that's through a small gap at the back.
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
2012/02/29 14:54:28
Subject: I'm Bored... Tell me something interesting... ...or controversial.
She sacrificed British industry to beat the unions(I acknowledge that the unions were too powerful and corrupt at that time);
Nationalised industries were impractical, expensive and disruptive. We embarked upon a shift in economic emphasis during the '80s, along with many first-world countries, which led to an almost miraculous economic recovery, and meant that public spending rose in real terms taken over the life of her premiership. Even New Labour acknowledged the health of the economy that they inherited from the Tories.
she sold north sea oil off cheap to the Americans in exchange for nuclear weapons;
That's an oversimplification, plus, at least we have a nuclear deterrent. Perhaps that was a much cheaper option than maintaining our own nuclear weapons development program?
she down graded the navy and armed forces to the point that Argentina invaded the Falklands;
Which were retaken at the cost of a smaller loss of life than the current Afghanistan conflict. Britain still maintains an almost unparalleled ability to defend its home territory, and can still project force anywhere in the world.
I lived through the massive unemployment she caused and remember it well even though I was only a little kid.
Yeah, me too. I was also old enough to experience my hometown being turned into a welfare wasteland by new labour.
Melissia wrote:Here's something controversial: I don't hate Space Marines,
Well, apparently it is, because a bunch of people still think I do and react violently to any suggestion that I don't.
No one hates space marines there's just a plethora of threads talking about how everyone else hates space marines but the OP never does.
On topic, since the 70s wages have remained the same while unemployment has risen. The only people privatisation helped were the rich.
The stagnation in real wages was offset by huge advances in developing economies, letting us have cheap DVD players and cheap(ish) food.
Ever thought 40k would be a lot better with bears?
Codex: Bears.
NOW WITH MR BIGGLES AND HIS AMAZING FLYING CONTRAPTION
2012/02/29 16:10:30
Subject: I'm Bored... Tell me something interesting... ...or controversial.
AustonT wrote:Yeah that totally makes the clip, he's pretty single minded though. You can expect the words, "anti-semite" "Jimmy Carter" and "Obama sucks hurr" in all of his videos...but he's still funny.
Frankly, I'm suspicious of any one who mentions "Jimmy Carter" without using the words "anti-semite" (assuming, of course, that anti-semite is two words).
For example, Jimmy Carter, noted anti-semite, supports Habitat for Humanity.
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2012/02/29 17:06:57
Subject: Re:I'm Bored... Tell me something interesting... ...or controversial.
biccat wrote:
Frankly, I'm suspicious of any one who mentions "Jimmy Carter" without using the words "anti-semite" (assuming, of course, that anti-semite is two words).
For example, Jimmy Carter, noted anti-semite, supports Habitat for Humanity.
Because, as we all know, the only reason someone could ever blame Israel for anything is antisemitism.
Its sort of like how anyone who doesn't support Obama is a horrible, horrible racist.
Either way, I'll be sure to forward a copy of the memo to the Haredi.
Melissia wrote:"Some antisemites believe that the Jews already run America. But that's rediculous. If the jews ran America, we wouldn't be 14 trillion dollars in debt. Knuckleheads"
That just came out of nowhere, and I admit to laughing my ass off.
Of course they don't run America, that's small change. The Illuminati is where its at.
/Rothschild
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
2012/02/29 17:50:41
Subject: I'm Bored... Tell me something interesting... ...or controversial.
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
2012/02/29 17:59:06
Subject: I'm Bored... Tell me something interesting... ...or controversial.
dogma wrote:Because, as we all know, the only reason someone could ever blame Israel for anything is antisemitism.
Its sort of like how anyone who doesn't support Obama is a horrible, horrible racist.
Either way, I'll be sure to forward a copy of the memo to the Haredi.
No, Jimmy Carter is not an antisemite because of his position on Israel, just like David Duke is not a racist because of his position on affirmative action.
More have died in the name of normality than ever for strangeness. Beware of normal people. 
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