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At 6/22/08 02:30 PM, BAWLS wrote:

At 6/22/08 02:07 PM, D2Kvirus wrote: Been done. Sort of...

dude, this forum's like eight years old. EVERYTHING'S been done. =]

I filed this under the Topic Within The Last 30 Days Rule.

At 6/22/08 09:12 AM, JoS wrote: Why do people not trust the police at all? Not only that but the lack of respect in general for police officers also seems to be surfacing. I am not talking about just on NG, but everywhere, even on the CBC website user comments. These people are given the very dangerous job of protecting us from ourselves, and from others, but many people look at them with contempt, like the police are out to get them.

Be thankful of the BBC, then - they never seem to question the police no matter how many innocent civilians they shoot, before trying to cover it up and whitewash the whole thing into oblivion...

At 6/22/08 01:42 PM, Tri-Nitro-Toluene wrote:

At 6/22/08 01:34 PM, SevenSeize wrote: I'm sorry more, please lift the coffee curse so I can resume my caffeine intake.

The only way to lift the curse is to sacrifice a virgin.

Better round up the message board trolls, half of them probably qualify...

Been done. Sort of...

Also freely available on Amazon:
Mein Kampf
The autobiography of a US-sponsored terrorist
Make that two...
The Anarchist Cookbook
The Complete Works of L Ron Hubbard

Damn, why don't we have these an the UK version of Amazon?

At 6/14/08 09:32 PM, GrammerNaziElite wrote: Fuck you. We're a proud and intelligent people.

Also on the report was one of the people most opposed to the Lisbon Treaty: Gerry Adams.

So, terrorists don't like the Lisbon Treaty. That's got to be a damn good reason to vote for it, if ever there was one.

At 6/14/08 02:06 PM, MrFlopz wrote: Well your teacher's a bitch. Hitler was very charismatic. He rallied crowds with his speeches.

The thing about this is that, at college or university level, making a statment like that is acceptible as long as you back it up with logic: at high school level it isn't, for a simple reason: at college and university level, you're supposed to research and come to your own conclusions at the end of them. At high school level, you're supposed to just regurgitate what you're told, i.e. Hitler Was Bad.

Different approaches to education, really.

D2Kvirus drunk in Cannes

I'm the one talking about John Hurt's pornstar moustache...

The thing that irritated me was the attitude of some of the people they interviewed: they were of the attitude that, because they didn't understand it, they voted No.

What instantly sprang to mind were a few theories:
1.) They couldn't be bothered to research what it was about in the days or weeks leading up to the vote, which would've clarified a lot of these apparent misunderstandings.
2.) They went out of their way not to understand it.
3.) They voted "No" out of hand, and that's their best excuse.

At 6/12/08 11:22 PM, Elfer wrote: You're in high school. It doesn't matter if what you're saying has basis in fact, all that matters is if it's what they want to hear.

Yes, this is unjust, unfair, and illogical. It's also reality.

I think you meant "That's High School for you."

To be frank, Hitler was clearly charismatic, because you need a level of charisma in order to sweep to power in the way that he did and to perform his acts with very little public outcry from within Germany, as charisma is good at blinding people from truth. From Charles Manson to Tony Blair, people have been able to use that to their advantage and avoid some very pertinent questions being asked.

Now, "charming" on the other hand I have a problem with: I can see the charisma there, but very little charm - not least because he had an awful, rasping voice that has little charm to it, and who did he really charm other than Eva Braun?
If you take Traudl Junge's memoirs as legitimate (as opposed to, say, some historical ass-covering), she says that Hitler could obliterate any charm he had as soon as he veered off into his politics/hatred (delete as appropriate).

You forget the heiroglyphs they pulled out to prove them right - until people could translate heiroglyphs and revealed it was just a common funeral scroll and nothing like what they were purporting it to read.

At 6/9/08 01:32 PM, WolvenBear wrote:

At 6/9/08 11:48 AM, D2Kvirus wrote: So why don't things like this happen in the UK?

Things like that are rare period.

Three within six months = rare?

Japan has strict gun control (a result of a Japanese exchange student being shot in the US, apparently), and one of the lowest gun death tolls in the whole world, less than a dozen. On the other hand, Japan have had three cases of people going nuts with knives in public places this year.

Time to ban the knives I suppose.

Time to pay attention...yeah, right, like you'd do that anytime soon.

So, why hasn't this happened in the UK? After all, if people will find a way to kill other people, surely we would have had one case of this happening by now?

Shrug, cause it hasnt. The same reason why, when you still had guns, you didnt have people going crazy with public gun massacres. Different culture.

Actually, we did have people going crazy with gun massacres - Hungerford in 1988 and Dunblane in 1996 being the obvious examples.

Next!

At 6/9/08 12:49 PM, Proteas wrote:

At 6/9/08 11:28 AM, D2Kvirus wrote: You're only saying that because Chris Bosh performing Lioncock on seven guys got taken off Youtube...

.... who done what now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kihaBlP-v 8w

0:40
1:36
2:23-3:08

LIONCOCK!!!

At 6/7/08 08:22 PM, Onizero wrote: You say bullocks if your talking about brits, not bullshit.

No, you say "bollocks", you jockass...

Let's face it: according to Mormonism, Jesus turned up in the US and found some displaced Israelites...and you're going to stop there, simply because it may as well be entitles The Bible II: Another Gospel.

And that's before any serious digging around tears their theories to shreds...

At 6/9/08 12:24 PM, ILovezoms wrote: well well well Labour has fucked this one up...
discuss

Lucky for them there isn't an election this year, eh?

Legally, they have to be five years and one month after the last one, so the next could well be in June 2010. Bliar may have had them every four years but, even so, that means the next one would be in 2009.

At 6/7/08 02:18 AM, l3urntFaceMan wrote:

At 6/6/08 12:43 AM, GrammerNaziElite wrote:

If you wish for me to back up my claims I will be more than happy to do so.

Or maybe nobody could have a gun and the death toll would be zero.

That is a common misconception. Using the UK, since gun bans stabbing deaths have increased dramatically. People will find a way to kill other people. Guns make it easier, yes, but they also allow for people who would normally be helpless to defend themselves.

So why don't things like this happen in the UK?

Japan has strict gun control (a result of a Japanese exchange student being shot in the US, apparently), and one of the lowest gun death tolls in the whole world, less than a dozen. On the other hand, Japan have had three cases of people going nuts with knives in public places this year.

So, why hasn't this happened in the UK? After all, if people will find a way to kill other people, surely we would have had one case of this happening by now?

As for stabbings, there seems to be a glut of them locally in May-June every year, and then it cools off. I've never quite got there: why would our local gangs only really stab each other for a few weeks, then the numbers drop off suddenly?

I also gleefully point out that there hasn't been a gang-related stabbing around here since GTA IV came out. However, there was one in the queue to buy the game, or to put it another way two hours before it was released. Way to puncture that particular theory!

Guns aren't just for hillbillys and idiots or something. All those who are trained, comfortable and aware should be able to carry. You hopefully will never need to use your firearm but if the time comes there probably won't be a policeman or someone else to save you.

It's just a mild shame that not all gun owners are trained, comfortable(?) and aware, which is where the problem stems from.

Also, ***IRONY ALERT*** a policeman was accidentally shot and killed in a training exercise today in Manchester. Was he dressed like a Brazilian electrician, perchance?

At 6/8/08 10:14 PM, Proteas wrote: I don't care how many times you watch it, this is still funny as hell.

Violent J of the Insane Clown Posse Dancing on his Tour Bus

You're only saying that because Chris Bosh performing Lioncock on seven guys got taken off Youtube...

And by God, there seems to be a nationwide sulk over here because England didn't qualify for Euro 2008 (which, of course, has nothing to do with not being good enough): comments like "It's boring" and "It's not the same without England" abound, as well as referring to Russia and Croatia's games as England games, or the ITV commentry supporting Portugal because of their Manchester United sycophancy (ignoring the fact Christiano Showpony got found out in that game remarkably fast).

Somebody appoint Supernanny as Prime Minister for the duration of the finals, please.

At 6/8/08 02:34 PM, Tri-Nitro-Toluene wrote: Oh the pain...

I've just realised how long I've been on NG. Going to be 4 years next month...and I just also remembered that I had an account before this one...

Seven years back in January - and how many of those posts have been getting generally pissed off with passive aggressive trollsters? Or, come to think of it, looking like dullard because my uni PC didn't load up the vote bar for months...

At 5/20/08 07:03 PM, LilSMC wrote: I hate what scienLOLogy does to people. how can you just make up a religion and just get away with millions.

Are we talking about Mormonism, whilst we're on the subject of made-up religions?

At 6/7/08 02:20 PM, Dante-Son-Of-Sparda wrote:
Source

Fox News is your source? Yeesh, you'll be citing urbandictionary next...

I see my local newsagent just made the news...

At 6/4/08 11:51 AM, Grammer wrote: D2Kvirus, I'm pretty sure that blue plush doll in your sig is a pokemon

Nah, it's the common cold.

Anyway, two ways to be sure that your hometown is a shithole:
1.) Your manager has a knife pulled on him by a customer who's trying to run off without paying.
2.) Said knife-wielding chav wanker is so pig-ignorant, they're unaware that they should actually take the blade out of their pen knife before they pull it on someone...

At 6/4/08 03:14 AM, fli wrote: Here's one picture I've developed.
The camera: a beer can, and a lot of masking tape.

Ahh, the pin-hole camera. That takes me back to my GCSE photography classes involving a biscuit tin and going apeshit when some twat walked through my shot despite the fact I told him three fucking times to go around because I was photographing that spot...

SiMpSoN-bRuVaS , if you read the topic you will have read the numerous points that their story does not hold water, as well as places where there is more than sufficient evidence to implicate them in her death. Go read those. Or, better yet, .a compilation

Anyway, it appears the story's gotten boring now - finally Gone Baby Gone is being released in the UK, which is a good indicator that no more time will be spent giving the child murdering fraudsters a platform to contradict themselves

I thought the recent bout of knife crime in the UK (NB: there's a rash of stabbings in April-June every year) was down to the BBFC deciding it was OK to show knife fights in 15-rated films first and foremost, then GTA IV.

Pardon my flippancy, I just can't be bothered with the same old, same old topic today.

The thing is, the Cuban Revolution worked as it removed the malaise that stifled Cuban society, as not only did they remove Batista, but also the cronies who were propping him up - mainly by expelling them. Even estimates of the deaths of the Castro regime show one thing: the actual deaths ar eone tenth of the number of those fleeing in rafts (here).

There are things that don't add up - half as many committed suicide or were murdered in prison as were executed, for a start, and there's a rather large number of extrajudicial killings. But you have to question if that is the work of Castro or Che (although the 16,000+ who died in the Revolution can directly be attributed to Castro, Che and Batista). But if Castro was so genocidal, why didn't he execute the captives of the Bay of Pigs incident?

Of course, the problem with Che these days is that he's become commodified, ironically the exact opposite of the movement he supported, and you have to ask how many people sporting Che t-shirts have a clue about the guy other than his name and his face. Or how many of them are going to watch Steven Soderbergh's two films (just don't sit through them in one 4 1/2 long go like I did, it's an endurance test). Still, there's one beverage to swig when watching them...

Another rant about how ridiculous Kingdom of the Crystal Skull got, then...

At 5/25/08 07:42 PM, TheMason wrote:

At 5/25/08 01:16 PM, D2Kvirus wrote:

At 5/20/08 11:35 PM, KeithHybrid wrote: We already have a well-armed militia. It's called the National Guard.

Which was created by two pieces of legislation: ...

Which is irrelevent. The Constitution bars funding for the Army that goes past two years without Congressional renewal. Furthermore, if the SCOTUS rules that the second amendment is an individual right...the argument that the National Guard satisfies the explanatory clause of the Second Amendment is over as well.

If it's irrelevant, why were they both passed? There's a simple reason: so people wouldn't mumble something about "Second Amendment rights" when buying a gun for the purpose not outlined within the Bill of Rights, or at the very least a deliberate bastardisation of what is written in the Second Amendment. And why would the Supreme Court pass conflicting pieces of legislation?

I forget who posted it in this thread, but in the unlikely event of the US being invaded ... but the fact is plenty of gun owners would more likely be a hindrance than any form of help, because they have no military training, or have weapons that would be unsuitable to urban warfare - a handgun isn't much use, for example.

I agree with you that invasion is unlikely in the near future.

However, I also find it amusing that people with no military training (correct me if I'm wrong about you D2K) are arguing as if they have a clue about military operations.

1) Assault rifle clones are common in American gun stores/shows. The only functional difference between them and military grade rifles is they do not shoot full auto. Beyond that, an insurgent force can actually use more types of ammo and have more freedom of command than a military force.

You have patently not read what I put - owning a gun is not the same as having military training, and never will be. If you are untrained in how to use an assault rifle (clone or otherwise), you will not be much of a help and more of a hindrance if and when you were in a position of having to use it, as you won't have the discipline of how to use it at the very least.

I wouldn't be hopeful if the last, best hope was a few untrained people with an AK47 against a trained army.

2) The issue of training is either a red herring that is thrown up intentionally to obfuscate or you genuinely do not know what you're talking about. There are plenty of gun owners who do have military training. This training can be imparted in a remarkable amount of time. Even though I have no formal training on the AK-47, I have technical knowledge from self-study and having owned one since I was 18. However, I have military training on the M-16. Therefore I could impart my knowledge on the AK in two hours. The M-16 in half a day.

How many other people can say this, however?

Whilst there may be some militia groups who could be useful in individual cities and/or areas, on the whole would anyone trust somebody who missed the message of Menace II Society with the future of their nation?

You know D2K we've talked about this. Movies are not reality. They do contain messages and are important as an art form. However, they are not good sources to base policy on that infringes upon a constitutionally guaranteed civil right.

Again, you aren't reading what I'm saying: the message of the film is "Increase the peace", yet plenty have thought it looks cool to wave a gun around and act like they're OG - and, by the way, that was a throwaway remark, not something to dwell on (at least in this topic).

Besides, if anyone uses the sort of gunplay used in MIIS you'd more likely have a broken wrist, so again you'd be pretty useless as a last defence...

Am I the only person who sees Hillary like a sports movie? Look at the plot points:

* She was the favourite beforehand
* Obama came out of nowhere to take an early lead
* Just when it looked like she'd fall by the wayside, she came back with some big wins
* Now, Obama is sounding like the sore loser, not Hillary, with his "I've won" attitude

When it gets to the Democratic convention, Hillary is going to adopt the crane stance and kick Obama out of the ring to win the nomination. Narrative convention demands it!

However, would John McCain be Karate Kid II or III?