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biccat wrote:
McCain, George H.W. Bush, Dole, Ted Kennedy...
Say what?
Presidential candidates who have killed people. Obviously McCain and Bush would be by aircraft rather than during a firefight, but Dole killed people in combat (before getting a grenade to the shoulder). Kennedy is more "vehicular manslaughter" than "combat veteran," but he fits in the list.
Also I know McGovern was a vet, but I don't think he personally killed anyone.
Heh, and thus continues the list of American politicians that are packing. ^^
biccat wrote:
Presidential candidates who have killed people. Obviously McCain and Bush would be by aircraft rather than during a firefight, but Dole killed people in combat (before getting a grenade to the shoulder). Kennedy is more "vehicular manslaughter" than "combat veteran," but he fits in the list.
Also I know McGovern was a vet, but I don't think he personally killed anyone.
I though McCain never actually killed anyone, or at least was never confirmed to have done so, I though the elder Bush was the same.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
biccat wrote:
Presidential candidates who have killed people. Obviously McCain and Bush would be by aircraft rather than during a firefight, but Dole killed people in combat (before getting a grenade to the shoulder). Kennedy is more "vehicular manslaughter" than "combat veteran," but he fits in the list.
Also I know McGovern was a vet, but I don't think he personally killed anyone.
I though McCain never actually killed anyone, or at least was never confirmed to have done so, I though the elder Bush was the same.
Both of their military histories indicate that they were involved in successful bombing campaigns. I'd put the odds on them killing someone at around 90%.
It's going to take a seriously bad-ass leader to beat Boudicca. Tens of thousands of Romans are estimated to have been killed in the Iceni uprising that she lead. Go deep enough into the archaeology of Colchester, and you just find a layer of ash. She burned the city to the ground.
There was also that Roman Legion that just disappeared during the uprising... that's pretty damn scary.
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Albatross wrote: I'll take my thread 'to go', I think.
It's going to take a seriously bad-ass leader to beat Boudicca. Tens of thousands of Romans are estimated to have been killed in the Iceni uprising that she lead. Go deep enough into the archaeology of Colchester, and you just find a layer of ash. She burned the city to the ground.
Bad fething ass.
Is that a bunch of topless women on her chariot? That's bad-ass!
MeanGreenStompa wrote:I was upset when I realised this was not a thread called Bad-Ass Cheerleaders. We should have a thread like that.
You of all people should know there is indeed such a thread...in the DCM!
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
micheal colins, the guy practically invented guriella warfare. pity the IRA went on to become a group of feth heads with no real goals and the courage of a dead sheep....
assultmarine wrote:micheal colins, the guy practically invented guriella warfare.
/pedant
Without commenting on Michael Collins, the notion of guerilla warfare stems from the Peninsula War where Spanish Partisans carried on a campaign of harassment against occupying French, hence the term 'Guerilla' which means little war.
assultmarine wrote:micheal colins, the guy practically invented guriella warfare.
/pedant
Without commenting on Michael Collins, the notion of guerilla warfare stems from the Peninsula War where Spanish Partisans carried on a campaign of harassment against occupying French, hence the term 'Guerilla' which means little war.
Americans were shooting at British officers back in the 1770s. Evidently we were quite good at it.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
assultmarine wrote:micheal colins, the guy practically invented guriella warfare.
/pedant
Without commenting on Michael Collins, the notion of guerilla warfare stems from the Peninsula War where Spanish Partisans carried on a campaign of harassment against occupying French, hence the term 'Guerilla' which means little war.
assultmarine wrote:micheal colins, the guy practically invented guriella warfare. pity the IRA went on to become a group of feth heads with no real goals and the courage of a dead sheep....
assultmarine wrote:micheal colins, the guy practically invented guriella warfare.
/pedant
Without commenting on Michael Collins, the notion of guerilla warfare stems from the Peninsula War where Spanish Partisans carried on a campaign of harassment against occupying French, hence the term 'Guerilla' which means little war.
Americans were shooting at British officers back in the 1770s. Evidently we were quite good at it.
Actually, you sucked at it. Still, the French were good at having a Navy, so alas, the end result is the same.
You''re just jealous because we don't have to eat haggis.
The Battle of Saratoga was a turning point in the Revolutionary War. And one of the major turning points in the battle was when sniper Timothy Murphy shot and killed Gen. Simon Fraser of the British army on Oct. 7, 1777.
Murphy, a rifleman in Morgan's Kentucky Riflemen, hit Gen. Fraser at a distance of about 500 yards using one of the famous long-barreled Kentucky rifles.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Nixon was a crook, but he certainly had that bad-ass "IDGAF what you think. I'll send more troops into the jungle if I feel like it"-kind of attitude. Totally bad-ass.
Micheal Collins invented feth all, and the hero worship people seem to have for the IRA baffles me.
Ive got about as much interest in that bunch of fethers as I do in finding a lump on my testicles.
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We are arming Syrian rebels who support ISIS, who is fighting Iran, who is fighting Iraq who we also support against ISIS, while fighting Kurds who we support while they are fighting Syrian rebels.
Australia (Recently ravaged by the Hive Fleet Ginger Overlord)
How come we've got no Aussies in here? We've got plenty of Bad-ass Leaders! Just to sta-wait, no. Well there's, hmmmm, no not him either. ...What about he guy who held the topped that Drinking Record, Bob Hawk? Hmmm, well I'm stumped.
Smacks wrote:
After the game, pack up all your miniatures, then slap the guy next to you on the ass and say.
Emperors Faithful wrote:How come we've got no Aussies in here? We've got plenty of Bad-ass Leaders! Just to sta-wait, no. Well there's, hmmmm, no not him either. ...What about he guy who held the topped that Drinking Record, Bob Hawk? Hmmm, well I'm stumped.
what... what did i just watch
H.B.M.C. wrote:
"Balance, playtesting - a casual gamer craves not these things!" - Yoda, a casual gamer.
Three things matter in marksmanship -
location, location, location
MagickalMemories wrote:How about making another fist?
One can be, "Da Fist uv Mork" and the second can be, "Da Uvver Fist uv Mork."
Make a third, and it can be, "Da Uvver Uvver Fist uv Mork"
Eric
Australia (Recently ravaged by the Hive Fleet Ginger Overlord)
youbedead wrote:
Emperors Faithful wrote:How come we've got no Aussies in here? We've got plenty of Bad-ass Leaders! Just to sta-wait, no. Well there's, hmmmm, no not him either. ...What about he guy who held the topped that Drinking Record, Bob Hawk? Hmmm, well I'm stumped.
what... what did i just watch
An amazing moment of Youtube Nostradamus. Australian politics basically went down like that. Minus the hamster.
Azza007 wrote:
HudsonD wrote:
Azza007 wrote:Duke 'Nosey' Wellington. Anyone who could thrash Napoleon so badly with such a small army.
The Prussians would like to have a word with you.
I was more thinking the Peninsular war mostly, where the numbers were against the British.
Wellington never faced Napolean in the Peninsular war, Napoleon was too busy tearing up the Eastern powers.
Smacks wrote:
After the game, pack up all your miniatures, then slap the guy next to you on the ass and say.
Emperors Faithful wrote:How come we've got no Aussies in here? We've got plenty of Bad-ass Leaders! Just to sta-wait, no. Well there's, hmmmm, no not him either. ...What about he guy who held the topped that Drinking Record, Bob Hawk? Hmmm, well I'm stumped.
Australia (Recently ravaged by the Hive Fleet Ginger Overlord)
Azza007 wrote:OK fine the French. Who was ruled over by Napoleon. He still kicked ass.
Who Napoleon? Yeah, he brought the war-torn French nation out of a deep gak-hole and managed to conquer/liberate () most of Europe. Twice. He was so good that "the French decided to call it a day and never contribute anything to society ever again. And they never have." -TMP
Puts him a step above Wellington as a leader, methinks.
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George Spiggott wrote:
Emperors Faithful wrote:How come we've got no Aussies in here? We've got plenty of Bad-ass Leaders! Just to sta-wait, no. Well there's, hmmmm, no not him either. ...What about he guy who held the topped that Drinking Record, Bob Hawk? Hmmm, well I'm stumped.
What about Sir Les Patterson?
I jumped back from the screen when I saw that image. *shudder*
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Smacks wrote:
After the game, pack up all your miniatures, then slap the guy next to you on the ass and say.
" -KingCracker
) most of Europe. Twice. He was so good that "the French decided to call it a day and never contribute anything to society ever again. And they never have." -TMP
