Re: A Thank You, on the Occasion of Veteran's -- Armistice Day
Talk about bleeding, kinda angry at everything lately? It should take no more than 3 days for most women usually, or aren't you female but a man who is permanently having a period? EVOLUTION! I am sure everybody understands how you feel.
Chocolate ice is on me.
Re: A Thank You, on the Occasion of Veteran's -- Armistice Day
Huh, when Strike does it he's thanked, when I do it I get hounded by a teenage albatross.
Is there something about texans that makes bluntness charming?
Being better than the worst does not inherently make you good. But being better than the rest lets you brag.
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Re: A Thank You, on the Occasion of Veteran's -- Armistice Day
Because Strike doesn't take himself all that seriously and is naturally likable. We can't all be social tigers, it can be noticed even from a screen, when he does it it's funny, when you do it it's sad.
Enough talk, give me your lust and your sorrow
Re: A Thank You, on the Occasion of Veteran's -- Armistice Day
It's because you, like me, take things too serious.
Re: A Thank You, on the Occasion of Veteran's -- Armistice Day
Just as I try to avoid personal attacks myself, I try not to thank others for handing them out before they get a warning.
And the sole reason for posting a post should not be to receive thanks, it makes you look desperate and I might feel forced to show compassion or throw you some change, disgusting.
On the topic of who to thank and who not to thank, I will just say that it is of course a complicated issue, like most things involving violent humans. I don't think that most people here envision someone who eagerly signed up for an SS death squad when they thank all those who served. And at the same time, HoreTore may actually be thankful for the Iraqi soldiers who tried to resist American imperialism.
I could go on until everyone hates me, but I won't. I just think it's not a topic for huge blanket statements in either direction.
"Topic is tired and needs a nap." - Tosa Inu
Re: A Thank You, on the Occasion of Veteran's -- Armistice Day
The problem with Horetore's statement is not that it goes too far, but that it doesn't go far enough.
The conscript is no different from the enlisted soldier. They both offer their bodies up as weapons of the war in fact.
Horetore just likes conscripts because he was one himself. Really, there's no justification for dissociating them in the present respect.
Husar, don't thank me for this post. The sole reason for having a profile here should not be for you to Thank my posts, it makes you look desperate and I might feel forced to show compassion or Thank you myself, disgusting.
Vitiate Man.
History repeats the old conceits
The glib replies, the same defeats
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Wait are you condeming me specifically or making a general declaration? Assuming the former: I reject the implication that I'm fishing for compliments; I fully believe HoreTore is being an idiot and a combination of mental fatigue and uncertainty of his seriousness makes me unwilling to explain the numerous and obvious reasons he is being an idiot. That I have attracted ire while others doing the same thing have gained reverance is disconcerting enough to require comment.
I am ever in awe of those who can maintain even the facade of optimism and irreverance when discussing backroom matters. At least the ones who do so without seeming stupid or insane.
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Being better than the worst does not inherently make you good. But being better than the rest lets you brag.
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It's the way you go about it that matters. When you get angry and make serious replies to stupid posts, it makes you seem petty and the very act of engaging with it implies that you are on the same level. When others respond to stupid posts in a much more flippant way, it makes them seem cool and aloof - almost as if they transcend the topic, or that they are too good to engage with it.
Wait are you condeming me specifically or making a general declaration? Assuming the former: I reject the implication that I'm fishing for compliments; I fully believe HoreTore is being an idiot and a combination of mental fatigue and uncertainty of his seriousness makes me unwilling to explain the numerous and obvious reasons he is being an idiot. That I have attracted ire while others doing the same thing have gained reverance is disconcerting enough to require comment.
You need to learn how to be cool, man.
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
Re: A Thank You, on the Occasion of Veteran's -- Armistice Day
...Damnit, this again? Ok, fine, I need to suffer fools with less hostility, I get that, but we have Kadagar, total_relism, Fragony and numerous other people popping in and out of this forum saying absurdly offensive and/or stupid things with complete sincerity every other day. I dont mean "trickle down economics work" I mean "women are inferior" kinda stuff. I've come to expect the people I used to consider reasonable turn out seemingly irrational at times, so how am I supposed to know anymore when people aren't being serious about these things when there's no indication of joking?It's the way you go about it that matters. When you get angry and make serious replies to stupid posts, it makes you seem petty and the very act of engaging with it implies that you are on the same level. When others respond to stupid posts in a much more flippant way, it makes them seem cool and aloof - almost as if they transcend the topic, or that they are too good to engage with it.
You need to learn how to be cool, man.
Last edited by Greyblades; 11-12-2014 at 15:52.
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Re: A Thank You, on the Occasion of Veteran's -- Armistice Day
True. However, I am willing to cut the conscripts some slack, seeing as they had more limitations in their choice than others.
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: A Thank You, on the Occasion of Veteran's -- Armistice Day
You could have done a million other things. Your distinction is solely made to make you feel better about yourself.
No one here is celebrating the SS death squad member or the Iraqi on acid bath duty. To reduce what this day is to the most depraved in humanity is really telling. There is no point in preaching to the stubborn
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Re: A Thank You, on the Occasion of Veteran's -- Armistice Day
If that makes you feel better about yourself, sure.
I consider conscription just as worthless as any other kind of service, btw. Still, the peasant conscript hordes of the Tsar did not have much of a say in their situation...
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: A Thank You, on the Occasion of Veteran's -- Armistice Day
Indeed.
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
Re: A Thank You, on the Occasion of Veteran's -- Armistice Day
If a death squad is a squad that deals out death, then what would a suicide squad be?
A Shtrafbat is the closest thing I can come up with.
Vitiate Man.
History repeats the old conceits
The glib replies, the same defeats
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