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  1. Walsingham
    I couldn't find it on Netflix. How does it compare with When Night is Falling?
  2. Walsingham
    The point at which I'm arguing against 9/11 nutters is the point I go back to bed and rest. Conspiracies do indeed happen. However, if you take the absence of evidence as evidence of a conspiracy then you're bat**** insane. Or a cretin. Take your pick. I'd personally recommend insane.
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    Further to Monte's point about wars turning on key fights, those fights often turn on a handful - dozens - of active men. If you look at most accounts of how many men 'take' that strategically important point you'll often find it's a tiny number. Most - and it's hard to predict exactly who - will find pressing reasons for doing other things like radioing HQ, carrying wounded, cataloging rare beetles and so forth. Not sure where I was going with that.
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    Use of drugs is an interesting one. I mentioned controlling perception using ketamine. I guess you could use opiates to dull the brain's interest in interpreting the input. Leaven that with a little marijuana or speed to keep interested.
  5. Walsingham
    Let me get this straight. Russia masses troops on the border ...and accuses NATO of ramping up pressure? I'd laugh but I'm not sure when I'd stop.
  6. Walsingham
    I don't want to know what a copper nanocrystal is. All I know is I'm living in the fuuuutuuuure.
  7. Walsingham
    They can fulfil a narrative role, mate.
  8. Walsingham
    Woldo, I've heard a lot of nonsense in my lifetime about new spanky materials. I'll believe in the plastic bits of the rounds when I actually see them in use. You also rather missed the point about the rifle barrels. You don't have multiple different barrel types rolling around. What about sharing ammunition in the field? Within units? Between allies? You know your piston thingies and so on. But Monte and I know the bit above that - the super-system. You'd be replacing everything from training to maintenance and regulations. Unless the flechettes are stupendously better at killing the enemy - and I fail to see how the enemy could be more dead - then it's not going to be worth it.
  9. Walsingham
    Power How about UN human development index, it covers a broad range of subjects without touchng on more subjective topic such as politics or who got a bigger military pen** I assume you're playing to the feminist gallery or something>? Firstly, as we've just witnessed, having a stronger military lets countries change the World around them. Or are you suggesting that Russian troops in the Crimea had no influence on the crisis? Secondly, as a matter of general principle, the importance of military power as a sibling of economic and diplomatic power is argued very coherently and interestingly in Joint Doctrine Publication 0-01. I genuinely recommend reading it, even to foreigners. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/jdp-0-01-fourth-edition-british-defence-doctrine
  10. Walsingham
    Well, like I said, people do get murdered in SA. It's just that one would expect them to shoot the husband, rape then murder the wife, and not forget to steal her jewellery. Hold on... I don't suppose the guy could have said something about killing his wife as a joke, and then the organiser actually carries it out. They ride around for a while arguing, the husband eventually agrees to go along with it because what does he have to lose other than maybe getting shot himself. Realises he's onto a winner, and legs it.
  11. Walsingham
    I'd wonder about two things: 1. Storage of plastic cased rounds, and their robustness in the field 2. Legality under the Geneva convention And I'd tell you to get stuffed on the unrifled barrels. No way is any existing army going to do away with rifled barrels just to adopt a marginally superior flechette round. What the hell would we do with all the rifled guns we already have? But yes, as Monte says, we're all geared up for biffing random yahoos. Not going toe to toe with a regular army.
  12. Walsingham
    I think we could reasonably settle this with reference to some actual facts, if anyone is willing to field them: 1. Economy 1a. GDP 1b. GDP per adult 1c. Growth figures for GDP over last twenty years and predicted 1d. Population growth rates, last twenty years and predicted 1e. Inward foreign investment 1f. Dependence of economy on raw materials 1g. Concentration of wealth 1h. Corruption figures or assessments, by people paid to judge these things, in context of countries like UK or Nigeria 1i. Market assessed rating for Russian government bonds 2. Diplomatic 2a. Countries aligned with Russia (open to suggestions on how you judge this) 2b. Quantity of foreign aid given out by Russia over last twenty years 2c. Unilateral treaties between Russia and other countries 3. Military 3a. Endurance - Raw numbers of military 3b. Striking power - carriers, long range aircraft and missiles (conventional) 3c Technology - any suggestions welcome, but suggest some sort of adjusted budgetary figure
  13. Walsingham
    You know there could be almost anything in those videos oby keeps posting. We'd never know.
  14. Walsingham
    Is it just me or are her eyes close set?
  15. Walsingham
    You could try climbing down from the high horse though, Woldo. ~ I've decided there's only one way we can continue this thread in a civilised manner, and that's by forming a comedically ill thought out mercenary unit from all of us and going to fight in the DRC. It'll be like the Odd Couple , but with a lot more mutilation and malaria.
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    I simply refuse to track cases like this because I find them distasteful, and I don't think there's much I could possibly add to what is going on in a public court. If he had her killed then all we've learned is that sociopaths exist. Which we already know. If he didn't have her killed then all we know is that South African townships have a serious crime problem. Which we already know. ~~~ However, since we're having a kickabout on the topic: - I can easily believe that some halfwit who hijacks tourists would claim he'd been hired by the husband to kill his wife. Under the impression that he can use cooperation as leverage. - £1500 is very little money even by international murdering standards BUT - Why the hell would you shoot the wife and not the husband? - Because he is paying you - Why the hell would you drive around with a body in the car and not drop it off somewhere else? - Because the whole point is that she shouldn't just disappear or suspicion falls on the husband, or worse it attracts some heavy duty invetsigation which is entirely unwelcome - The husband's gaming of the system seems consistent to me with a borderline sociopath
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    Actually in honour of the thread I'm trying to invent as many euphemisms as possible for having your rented rowing boat contain one too many passengers.
  19. Walsingham
    Happy to sound like an ignoramus on this one. Why can't you just have an ordinary beer and a shot of bourbon?
  20. Walsingham
    Maybe its the latter, I'm woefully bad at paying attention at something I'm not interested in, no matter how hard I try. Anyway, got a new reason to drink Vodka: a tooth filling just fell out and I need to keep the hole clean till the doc repairs that thing. I think its a filling, the hole is perfectly round in shape and pretty deep, with a razor sharp edge. Either that or a small shaped charge went off in my mouth and ripped a hole into my tooths hull, though I've never heard of caries using advanced explosives on teeth. Like I said, a good reason to drink some Vodka. Chemical warfare baby! By the sound of things you need a full MOT!
  21. Walsingham
    Woe betide the man who tries to actually carry an SA80 by the 'suitcase handle'. I've never seen it. Not once.
  22. Walsingham
    I've always been into older women ...which is getting bloody awkward.
  23. Walsingham
    Unfortunately our GM is explicitly intended for us to go doolally tap as soon as possible. He is a _tremendous_ GM, and puts huge effort and skill into the games. But I think he's overestimated how much enjoyment we will get from going bongo Stanley. Valsuelm made a critical point earlier: the player has to still be involved. If the player is left merely conveying insanity then I think they've left roleplaying behind and are just acting. Struggle, change, growth, hope, fear are all interlinked. If it's Coco-puffs in your eyelids 24/7 then I think it undermines that.
  24. Walsingham
    I can never understand the appeal of bullpup rifles. yes, it reduces the overall length while keeping the barrel length relatively big. but everything else about them is so off-putting I know it's just more evidence that I was never a proper soldier, but I actually like the new SA80.
  25. Walsingham
    I have seen bigotry posted by more users then Oby, what about them? Where _precisely_?
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