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Walsingham

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  1. "Pro-Russia 'fakes' in Ukraine?" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26481860
  2. My respect for the US military just upticked. Reading the other posts, if it comes down to which is more important - day or month - and you think month, then your deadlines are pretty ****ing slack.
  3. I was in a MacDonald's - I'm not proud of it, but I was hungry - and two fellahs came up behind me in the queue. I like to try to second guess appearances based on voice in these situations, but this rapidly shifted into how many different words they were using. I counted no more than 30 over the course of 15 minutes. Of continuous talking. And of these they used a core vocabulary of 10 words. Although f you compressed it further to turn "Ya get me?" as a single run on statement then you're down to only 8. Never have I ever felt so strongly the need for a couple of orderlies, a waiting van, and a container postage paid to Siberia.
  4. At both national and personal levels, the "I'm dirty too" approach means taking no action ever, and gradually subsiding into a puddle. Fortunately, after a bazillion arguments with you guys I've simply decided I'm British. I have a partisan national perspective. I don't pretend I'm a world citizen and am bestest friends with every half-educated funtwit out there. Now all I have to do is work out what to do with all the half-educated funtwits over here.
  5. Has anyone else been concerned that a policy of "They speak our language, they're our citizens" effectively means the UK is obliged to invade most of the planet?
  6. Oh, I don't know. How about leading by example? "Authority"? What authority do you have over anyone? Classically there are three types of authority: pragmatic, charismatic, and traditional. I guess we just covered two of those. My point was that it's a bit ...argh, no time!
  7. Now that's an interesting point that does merit some consideration.
  8. Yes, and it was also the reasoning of Garibaldi, Bismarck, Michael Collins, and every national hero there ever was. Just because Hitler said something doesn't mean it was wrong. Hitler was also a vegetarian. Do you use that as an (so-called I guess) argument against vegetarianism? I don't think New Mexico wants to be part of Mexico, but if they wanted to, there would be no reason to stop them. Do you know what ruling over foreign peoples against their will is called? Imperialism. And it's not a good thing. EDIT: Oh, I found a page for you: http://www.vegetariansareevil.com/hitler.html Er... what he ate may be unrelated to his politics. But I think it's safe to say that how he wanted States to be defined was, you know, somehow a bit political.
  9. Thought occurred to me: if you wanted proof that the Umbrella Corporation is run by total mentalists it's that they have a gazillion clones of Milla Jovovich ...and the best use they can think of for them is making them run a maze and die.
  10. Just out of interest, how much would it cost for you to stockpile ALL the Russian brides? Then refuse to hand them back unless Ukraine is left alone?
  11. I hardly think any Russian can cry about Polish aggression...
  12. I have no doubt that there would be some bloody exchanges of fire. But just stop and think. If 'armed citizens' killed members of a military or police unit, would that deter them? Like **** it would. It would make the other members of that unit furious. Politics would go out of the window. Your armed forces are professionals, and the most basic element of that is an unwillingness to back down if you are threatened with violence. And certainly not if your mates have been killed. You should read some Ahmed Shah Masood. You can't win a war with handfuls of people fighting locally. And there's no ****ing way people who just happen to share gun ownership could organise to fight any other way. Again, no tribes, no local political movements, no experience of that sort of fighting. As mkreku said, you can pick just about any argument for gun ownership, except guaranteeing personal freedom from the state.
  13. It is indeed a good book. I note, watching today, that it is brought up in Breaking Bad by Walt Jr. We all know the name of Pablo Escobar. We should know much more about the men who broke him.
  14. I'm English. Her being Irish doesn't make her less terrifying.
  15. 1) I don't find it credible that attested (or whatever you chaps call it) forces would diverge in significant numbers for the very simple reason that no-one is going to be bloody stupid enough to announce a dictatorship. 2) If a dictatorship were to happen I don't believe it would be planned. Although it might occur after a significant crisis, and the imposition of martial law. Under which circumstances there would be far more pressing grounds to remain within unit and team discipline and obey orders than to defect. 3) You seem to feel that ordinary US citizens who bear arms are guerrilla fighters. I believe it is no insult to them to suggest they aren't. They lack tactical training, communications kit and small unit cohesion. They have no experience of warfare, no stomach for a guerilla campaign, and no tribal or other affiliations to mobilise around. The only kind of resistance they could mount to organised forces would be just enough to legitimise the force being brought against them. Sacttered pockets of ad hoc fighting woudl only terrorise the majority of ordinary citizens. ~~ I don't suggest for one moment that the USA is ready for gun control, or even that it would solve anything. But the argument that gun ownership has anything to do with being an active citizen is at best a red herring. At worst it's a foolish distraction from simpler less dangerous things like reading a newspaper and voting.
  16. http://rt.com/news/ukrainian-warships-leave-sevastopol-476/ It's not intervention. It's rebellion of Ukrinian regions against usurpers. Ukrainian army support this rebellion. I think we have short Egypt scenario here. Glory for Ukrainian army! Glory for Ukrainian people! Glory for Crimea! Hurrah! I notice your grammar and punctuation is functional again. You sure you don't want to edit your post and take out a few vowels? Maybe move the capital letters around some?
  17. Shadowrun - and I've never been quite clear why it went wrong - is total arse.
  18. I hope I'm not just being boring by bringing this up again, but privately owned guns to stop the government is total arse. I reiterate this point because I was reading GD's point just now and I thought: "How capable would the British Army be, if it was armed with just a mishmash of pistols and rifles?" And the answer was, for all the training and determination, it would be total cack. Any remotely comparably sized force, even the Belgians, would be better. Let alone the most expensive armed forces in the World (i.e. the US Army). Seriously, GD. Defending freedom with a few rifles is utter balls. You're much better trained than me. I'm sure if you step back a few paces, you'd agree.
  19. Since when was this the terrifying doll-child thread?
  20. Precisely. Everyone is convinced he is in the right and justified. Everyone has reasons why they think/believe what they do. Everyone operates on the same basic principles. It basicly boils down to "my views and morals are better than yours". I'm just being honest here. I don't call the intervention good, even if it's result would be good. Two wrongs may make a right, but it's still two wrongs. If I had to kill one person to save ten, I'd do it. But I wouldn't go around saying that specific action was a "good" and "moral" thing. I don't even think those words apply anymore to such complex things. And I put it to you that your slackened 'morality' is just your last ditch attempt to bolster your senss of cognitive dissonance. You can't justify your position but you refuse to abandon it? Have you never tried to dissuade someone from pursuing a course of absolute idiocy? If you have, what possible authority can one use apart from brute force, if not logic?
  21. I took a couple steps back and wondered what my real point was. I guess my point was that I regard the human being as the crux of all these issues wrt weapons. The crusades were fought with slightly elongated knives. The Mongols conquered half the known world with bows and arrows. Tools aren't the issue. Man is the issue. At this point I think the question subdivides. My question to the USA is whether one can have the guarantees on personal freedom enshrined in the constitution when the individual is capable of wreaking havoc far beyond anything even imaginable to the Framers. My second question is to Europeans who smugly contend that since we restrict private gun ownership we are somehow now safe and sound. I think neither position is rooted in fact.
  22. I'm sorry I started the damn thing now.
  23. Devilled lamb's kidneys and boiled potatos in their skins. All the mineral weirdness in the kidneys is now flying around my system. I feel like a blast furnace.
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