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Who's the shen jing bing that started this thread?

In before lock!

It was a great thread, it raised ethical/moral issues that as gamers, we probably do not think about a lot(speaking for myself really.)

Too bad. It had pretty much run its course tho....................



In B4 lock

So if you can't stand behind the troops who are fighting to protect your life.... then by all means, stand infront of them.

So Angron .... WTF are you not in the armed services?

Seems to me that you failed both the intelligence & psych tests.  Not to mention the human test

 

..... this is the most stupid idiotic thing I've seen on the internet.  It's a shame that you evolved far enough to develop language skills.

I'm reminded of a saying "Never argue with anyone on the internet; (I won't finish the rest ... I don't want to be banned .... but you all know how it goes)."

In the midst of all the politics that are not appropos to the topic, has anyone noted that the labeling on miniatures suggests that they arent for young children anyhow?

Hey watch the Texas slam Canada boy. Don't make us send the Cedar Park brownie girl scouts up there to take over Canada.       

I'd say this is officially the first bonafide thread that should go to OTT land.

 

Posted By Meep357 on 09/13/2007 4:24 AM

..... this is the most stupid idiotic thing I've seen on the internet.  It's a shame that you evolved far enough to develop language skills.

I'm reminded of a saying "Never argue with anyone on the internet; (I won't finish the rest ... I don't want to be banned .... but you all know how it goes)."

Yup. I think I have to apologize to Ozymandius again. This beats anything he ever said sooooo far that I feel really bad for ever having thought it.

Posted By Triggerbaby on 09/13/2007 11:52 AM

I have formed an image of you in my mind, Angron.

A vile, ignorant, hateful redneck who lives in frakking third-world hick heckhole that consists of a church and a Dairy Queen that prints Bible verses on the cash register receipts.

Verses on receipts?  That's new to me and I've lived more than half my life in different sectors of the Dirty South.

I like you, Trigger, but dissing Duane Chapman is uncalled for!

 

Wow nice to see a thread devolve. Thought I'd throw in my 2 cents before lock.

A true story....some nato officers were having a meeting, and some of the French officers were complaining that everything was being done in English at the request of the Americans. A British official pointed out that if it wasn't for America, the meeting would be in German.

The Missiles in Cuba: People forget that one of the tenets of Communism was to spread across the world. Putting missiles in Cuba was a threat to American security. Maybe a more symbolic threat because we all know that missiles in Siberia or in Russian subs are undetectable.

As for losing the war, I think people are putting too much into the spin of the Anti Bush press. Before the war, the left said casualties would be in the hundreds of thousands. They weren't. After we took Baghdad, people said we would be attacked by Al Qaeda. We have not been. We were chastised for not capturing Hussein. We did so. And we have inflicted heavy losses on Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Only in 100 years, when people look back, will anyone be able to decide who won the war.

I find it amusing that when someone is Pro-American, they are labelled a redneck jerk and ignorant, but when somene is anti-American, they are considered educated and intelligent, as they batter the Pro-American into silence. The same with people who are Pro-GW and anti-GW.

 

Sorry Green Angel, but there is something about your statements i don't like.

"I find it amusing that when someone is Pro-American, they are labelled a redneck jerk and ignorant, but when somene is anti-American, they are considered educated and intelligent, as they batter the Pro-American into silence. The same with people who are Pro-GW and anti-GW"

I love your country, history, and the "American way" to quote Supes.

I just hated how Angron equated "Patriotism" with soldiers. They do an onerous, dangerous and downright difficult job. It is called thier "DUTY" when they sign up and swear by the Flag of thier country.

The poloticians send them, and then say gthey are "Brave" and "Died upholding the virtues of thier country". Apart from Kamikazes, I never heard of a soldier willingly Dying. I was in the Navy for my service, and I know some things about it.
Ahhh, I will just shut up. We really can't get anywhere with this stuff.

Posted By Green Angel on 09/13/2007 8:46 PM

 

A true story....some nato officers were having a meeting, and some of the French officers were complaining that everything was being done in English at the request of the Americans. A British official pointed out that if it wasn't for America, the meeting would be in German. 

More likely is that they (and possibly the americans) would be speaking german if it wasn't for the british (if i remember correctly one of the big concerns of the amercican govt of the time was the royal navy falling into german hands if britain had surrendered, making germany a big naval power at the drop of a hat), or speaking ruskie if it wasn't for the americans - the soviets were unlikely to have lost even without the USA entering the war, which probably would have left europe as soviet clients.

Que? Are you saying Americans, who even then had more guns, more territory, and more oil, would be speaking German if not for the British? No power has even come close to defeating the US in the Americas since Andy Jackson and some French rednecks kicked the teeth of the British in at New Orleans.

How come most people say British when it's something bad and then English when it's something good?

lol