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I'm not sure how exactly you would destroy the entire state of Kansas anyways.

Lots of nukes?

7 plagues.

they clone those creepy kids from children of the korn and release them.


or a plague of locusts, perhaps.....who knows

What are you lot on about?

Stop trying to kill KANSAS! (Dorothy lives there...)

halonachos wrote:Yes, I've seen a burqa and I've seen a burqa clad woman show up in my elementary school(recent immigrants and her daughter was in my class) and I will tell you that it was very unnerving.

And that's cool. Seeing something you haven't seen before can be a little unsettling. It becomes an issue when you let that initial fear entirely control how you view that thing. So that instead of talking to a person and finding out about them, you start inventing justifications to make them conform, such as third parties potentially robbing banks.

Another thing is this, it is impossible to tell who is underneath a burqa as their purpose is to obscure the shape of the person within, so men can wear a burqa to flee after committing a crime(some taliban men wear them after attacking troops/police and drop their weapons).

They can't conceal size, height, breadth across the shoulders and similar are all still obvious. If a bikie put on a burqa to rob a bank it would be obvious he was a bikie in a burqa. Only know he'd have no peripheral vision, no access to pockets or places to conceal weapons, and running away wouldn't be as simple.

Here's the thing, if you move to a foreign country you should adapt to their culture. When in public you should act like the adopting country. In your own home you can practice your older culture.

That, more or less, has been the idea behind French immigration for a long time. It hasn't been the idea in the US, where the idea has been for the melting pot and sometimes the patchwork models. When you remember the US has had a lot more immigration than France, then compare the problems of intergration in France and the US, I think it's pretty clear the US model (while certainly not perfect) works a lot more of the time.

And besides all that, I like the idea that we aren't all the same, that there isn't a force to stop people being different. I don't agree with the ideas behind the burqa, but I disagree with the ideas behind forcing women to take them off even more.


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Ahtman wrote:Well duh, but than I never said that it was the best way to kill the most people now did I? Not every tactic is designed to kill the most people. Destroy one of the largest producers of grain that is used to supply more than just the US and it will cause problems. It would also make that area unable to produce grain for a long, long time.

Somewhere along the line you seem to have decided to add "will kill the most people" and "is absolutely the best idea" to what I posted, of which I posted neither, so if you could respond to what I actually posted and not what you seem to think I posted that would be great.

If we're talking about deliberate attacks I would have thought the ones most worth considering are the ones that best meet the enemy's objectives (whoever the enemy is in this case). I would have thought that 'will kill the most people' would be a priority and so I made that assumption. Obviously you think differently.

At this point I don't even know why we're talking about blowing up Kansas.


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generalgrog wrote:This whole idea is stupid. The moment they made it illegal to wear a Burka, you immediately make 1,000's of people criminals. The burka weaers would continue to wear the burkas anyway out of protest and then if the police actually arrested or gave citations, there would be an uproar from society about the police taking away burka wearers civil rights to wear burkas.

It's not going anywhere gentlemen.

GG

If you outlaw burqas then only outlaws will wear burqas.

reds8n wrote:French president Nikolas Sarkozy has said he wants to ban burkhas from France. One muslim woman said she would "fight to overturn any ban".






The French government has subsequently surrendered.

well thats no surprise.

Orkeosaurus wrote:I'm not sure how exactly you would destroy the entire state of Kansas anyways.

Lots of nukes?

Well...if you can get the Parasite to slice open Captain Atom that'll do the job. Course Magog will survive and....

... ...I'll get me coat.

[/Kingdom Come]

halonachos wrote:
Everyone's intolerant of something. Americans don't like eating dogs, Indians don't like eating cows, etc.

I'm rather intolerant of intolerance, myself. Can't stand the intolerant barstewards.

Ban extremism.

Wait a second chromedog, halonachas may be on to something.

However I love it that in London, muslims can protest about being anti-jews, (it was meant to be a Peacful Religeons March, yet alot of troublemaking riff-raff showed up), with signs saying 'Death to those who insult Islam', yet if a simmilar march (yet anti-muslim) was to occur in say, Tehran or Baghdad, you'd be dead meat.

It is important to always uphold freedom of speech. The problem would begin only if these particular crackpots do something and stop talking.

DEATH TO ALL FANATICS!

Sarkozy calls for sexier burka

his wife is hot though.

reds8n wrote:

Orkeosaurus wrote:I'm not sure how exactly you would destroy the entire state of Kansas anyways.

Lots of nukes?

Well...if you can get the Parasite to slice open Captain Atom that'll do the job. Course Magog will survive and....

... ...I'll get me coat.

[/Kingdom Come]

At least someone got it.

..and bless you for that !

Honestly, what do they teach in schools these days eh ?

halonachos wrote:France has civil rights? I thought that was just a myth like the british dentist or american genius.

That's not funny. When will you learn?

(@Frazz: Can we have a TOS Modification against gakky jokes?)

sA

You heard 'm, no gakky jokes. Now that my work here is done, time for a coffee break...

Hey guys, I got a really good joke: A man walked into a bar... and it hurt his head!

Ha! Get it? Like a metal bar, not a drinking one! Oh, man, what a good joke!

What's black and white and red all over?

A zebra that has sunburn! Haha! These are so funny!

Thats pretty gacky. But I don't know what gacky means.

halonachos wrote:France has civil rights? I thought that was just a myth like the british dentist or american genius.

I take offense to that. Americans arent idiots.

Keep on believing that garret, and I'm sure it will come true! Meanwhile, Kim Jong-il will step down so North Korea can become a democracy.

And paris will buy some underwear!

Orkeosaurus wrote:Hey guys, I got a really good joke: A man walked into a bar... and it hurt his head!

Ha! Get it? Like a metal bar, not a drinking one! Oh, man, what a good joke!

What's black and white and red all over?

A zebra that has sunburn! Haha! These are so funny!

How do you start organising a space-themed party?

You planet.

However I love it that in London, muslims can protest about being anti-jews, (it was meant to be a Peacful Religeons March, yet alot of troublemaking riff-raff showed up), with signs saying 'Death to those who insult Islam', yet if a simmilar march (yet anti-muslim) was to occur in say, Tehran or Baghdad, you'd be dead meat.

One of those is a warzone and the other gets those kinds of rallies all the time. Tehran gets quite a few anti extremist and pro rights demonstrations, though it gets a lot of death to america too.

hmm, true, I guess people ARE intolerant everywhere. It's just in tehran they don't post it on the web.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Keep on believing that garret, and I'm sure it will come true! Meanwhile, Kim Jong-il will step down so North Korea can become a democracy.

sure we didnt get one of the strongest economys by bein smart. We got it by sittin on our porch an drinkin moonshine.
y'know when austraila gets invaded you ya gonna call? cause it sure as hell aint going to be the ghostbusters.

Your inflammatory responses only increase my power.

This frenchie has serious bigotry issues. The Muslims have their traditions, and we have ours. I can tell who the conformist was at his school.

We arent all idiots!!!!!!! we have idiots leading the goverment but not all citizens are idiots.

garret wrote:We arent all idiots!!!!!!! we have idiots leading the goverment but not all citizens are idiots.

I'm gonna go ahead and say most are, but then most of the trolling on this thread has been done by Americans with little geographic knowledge. I'm getting a little fed up with it all to be honest. I wouldn't trust half the American posters on this forum not to drown in their own showers.

ShumaGorath wrote:

garret wrote:We arent all idiots!!!!!!! we have idiots leading the goverment but not all citizens are idiots.

I'm gonna go ahead and say most are, but then most of the trolling on this thread has been done by Americans with little geographic knowledge. I'm getting a little fed up with it all to be honest. I wouldn't trust half the American posters on this forum not to drown in their own showers.

i'm kind of sad i have to agree, shower related deaths seem as if they should be much more prevalent

and garret, i get that you have some trouble, but could you at least spell check or something, please

Orkeosaurus wrote:Hey guys, I got a really good joke: A man walked into a bar... and it hurt his head!

Ha! Get it? Like a metal bar, not a drinking one! Oh, man, what a good joke!

What's black and white and red all over?

A zebra that has sunburn! Haha! These are so funny!

My mate has just set up a tailoring business making trousers for Americans

I asked him how it was going

He said, "We're making enormous strides"



A school in Texas has been told it needs to put advisory stickers on chairs due to the increasing number of overweight children.

The messages reads: "Warning, may break under pressure"

At first there was outrage, until they saw the smaller message below that read: "Made in France"



The best thing about the British is our ability to laugh at ourselves

And by ourselves I of course mean others, and by laugh I mean invade




Why is drinking with a group of British tennis players a bad idea?

Because they'll all be gone after the first round.

This thread is being closed for attacks on US citizens, French, and others.

Liked the Sarkosy link Redy OT.