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talkpoliticsFirst of all, announcement! ........ I keed, i keed!
Actually there is one. TWO WEEKS REMAINING BEFORE CHRISTMAS, YAY!
So did you guys set up the Christmas tree already? (Pics or it didnt happen!)
This Friday Lulz thread has been brought to you by Taliban Inc., headed by the late Achmed the Dead Terrizt. After the rather unfortunate event where he incidentally blew himself to smithereens due to major bomb malfunction (while trying to transport 10 kg of TNT in his nuderwear), allegedly as a result of a chemical reaction between his bodily gases and the explosive content of his pants, his comrades in Taliban Inc. decided to throw him a farewell party. The result was this:
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They didnt seem too sad, did they? But then, he's probably with his 72 virgins already. (No, not *those* virgins that will be licking you off until you pass out, after you've been smeared in chocolate all over, as a punishment for daring to talk anything remotely related to politics on this thread - those are different ones).
After a while, the party went a bit extreme (as most parties do).
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Btw, the guy in the center at 00:51? Thats Osama's uncle Hassan. He's a badass poker player. And you dont wanna meet him in a drinking contest, either.
Actually there is one. TWO WEEKS REMAINING BEFORE CHRISTMAS, YAY!
So did you guys set up the Christmas tree already? (Pics or it didnt happen!)
This Friday Lulz thread has been brought to you by Taliban Inc., headed by the late Achmed the Dead Terrizt. After the rather unfortunate event where he incidentally blew himself to smithereens due to major bomb malfunction (while trying to transport 10 kg of TNT in his nuderwear), allegedly as a result of a chemical reaction between his bodily gases and the explosive content of his pants, his comrades in Taliban Inc. decided to throw him a farewell party. The result was this:
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They didnt seem too sad, did they? But then, he's probably with his 72 virgins already. (
After a while, the party went a bit extreme (as most parties do).
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Btw, the guy in the center at 00:51? Thats Osama's uncle Hassan. He's a badass poker player. And you dont wanna meet him in a drinking contest, either.
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Date: 10/12/10 13:43 (UTC)The Restorationists, led by a supersoldier, go into More Dakka + We Have Reserves + Zerg Rush, with the Dakka existing first and allowing them to make up for numerical weakness. By the time the two sides are in the high tide of the war the losing rebellion (unlike the Star Wars rebellion the crudest way to put this one is they thought the existing regime was incompetent and ineffective and so wanted a more efficient regime run by an autocratic military dictatorship instead) has had a civil war of its own which killed off its more able junior officers, and so really *does* end up having to revert to Mass Wave Offensives without any desire to do so.
And the MWOs work against weaker armies earlier in the war but the first time one of them hits the Restorationist Steel Rain there's a homage to the First World War where two survivors of the first wave try to rally everyone else to find they're the only survivors.....followed by the first offensive of the Restorationists. The "Oh Shit" reaction that follows is epic.
And I have an earlier war that preceded the other, the War of the Interregnum, which was won by the very tactics that the losing side of the Restoration War perfected. The problem was that their enemies had both better generals and quite a bit more firepower and far, far better logistics that led them to win battles with armies equal in number to those of the enemy because each Restorationist soldier put effective rounds that were thrice what his enemies could fire back often before his enemies even saw him.....
Where in the War of the Interregnum the large conscript armies provide a means to negate older tactics designed for small-scale, rapid, hard-hitting attacks by professionals which the larger numbers negated all possibility of success and then punched through what was left. Where the older model of firepower-above-manpower favored being a rapier, the Restorationist version is a Bludgeon.
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Date: 10/12/10 13:50 (UTC)Military-grade battlecraft are huge and armored solely to prevent this kind of thing from happening, and while space battles are rare due to the sheer size of space the smaller craft of the Imperial battlecraft-gallery would outgun most SW/ST ships short of the really big ones, and the large ones are on par with things like http://bwafer.com/starwars/images/Eclipse-class_Star_Destroyer1.jpg that thing but the problem is the need to protect from FTL particles as opposed to desire for big ships, and they are both expensive as Hell to manufacture and hence few and far between.
Though the one time they *do* go up against another space fleet the sheer size of the things makes their enemies nervous....and then the massed firepower that was available to be concentrated wipes them out in a guided http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MacrossMissileMassacre. And unlike most space battles the guys piloting these understand very well the third dimension in space fighting.
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Date: 10/12/10 13:45 (UTC)I still can't find that Quoran passage this relates to:S you sure it's not been mistranslated from 72 yo virgin? at least then the mathematics of it all will work out :)
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Date: 10/12/10 13:52 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 10/12/10 13:56 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/12/10 13:58 (UTC)Case in point....
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Date: 10/12/10 14:06 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 11/12/10 00:11 (UTC)Actually wait... no one posted the one I was thinking of which is the absolute best one.
Date: 11/12/10 00:18 (UTC)I've watched this video probably 100 times. I love it.
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Date: 10/12/10 14:07 (UTC)Don't scare me like that! o.o
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Date: 10/12/10 16:12 (UTC)Do they actually have to stay virgins after you get to heaven? I mean what is the point of having 72 virgins serving you if you couldn't do anything about their status. But then if you're allowed to screw around with them you wouldn't have 72 virgins anymore.
Honestly seems kind of a useless promise
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Date: 10/12/10 16:52 (UTC)Such fun in the 1950s OR How far we have come!
Date: 10/12/10 17:20 (UTC)I remember a few folks here also being fans of Inception,
Date: 10/12/10 17:55 (UTC)Re: I remember a few folks here also being fans of Inception,
Date: 10/12/10 18:32 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/12/10 20:11 (UTC)+10°C. People in Helsinki switch on their heaters.
The Sámi are planting flowers...
+5°C. The Sámi go sunbathing.
+2°C. Italian cars won't start the engine.
0°C. Fresh water freezes.
-1°C. The breath becomes visible.
The Sámi are eating icecream and drink cooled beer...
-4°C. The cat wants to hide into your blankets.
-10°C. It's time to plan a trip to Africa.
The Sámi go swimming...
-12°C. It's too cold for being able to snow.
-15°C. American cars won't start the engine.
-20°C. The breath becomes audible.
-22°C. French cars won't start the engine.
-23°C. Even politicians start to pity the hobos.
-24°C. German cars won't start the engine either.
-26°C. One could cut ice blocks out of their breath and build an igloo.
-29°C. The cats wants to hide into your pajamas.
-30°C. No real car would start the engine.
The Sámi curses loudly, kicks the tyre and his Lada starts the engine...
-31°C. It's too cold for kisses, the lips would freeze to each other.
The Sámi soccer team starts training sessions for the spring half-season...
-39°C. Mercury freezes. It's too cold to be able to think.
The Sámi button up their shirts...
-40°C. The car also wants into your bed.
The Sámi put a sweater on...
-44°C. My Finnish colleague is considering closing the office window, after all.
-50°C. The walrus populace leaves Greenland.
The Sámi close the toilet's window...
-70°C. Polar bears leave the North Pole.
The University of Rovaniemi (in Lappland) is organizing a skiing picnic...
-75°C. Santa leaves the North Pole.
The Sámi put their hats on below the ears...
-120°C. Alcohol freezes.
Consequence: the Sámi are pissed off...
-268°C. Helium becomes liquid.
-270°C. Hell freezes.
-273°C. The Absolute Zero. Brownian movement of the subatomic particles ceases.
The Sámi admit it's "a bit cold" now, and they get a block of vodka on a stick for each...
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Date: 11/12/10 00:10 (UTC)Instead of videos, I have some interesting websites to contribute. Some you may have already seen but others I just find interesting and thought others might, too.
The Something Store (http://www.somethingstore.com) - I may be doing my Christmas shopping through this website next year. The concept is really interesting!
100 Movies To See Before You Die (http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/100-movies-to-see-before-you-die.html/t:4d02bddd5f346;src:all)
The Hot Mess Handbook Revisited (http://history.icanhascheezburger.com/2010/11/02/funny-pictures-history-hot-mess-redux/t:4d02bddd5f346;src:all)
Do-It-Yourself Doodler Variations (May be NSFW) (http://www.digitalbusstop.com/do-it-yourself-doodler/t:4d02bfa417675;src:all)
Wikipedia: Burners Street Hoax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berners_Street_Hoax/t:4d02bfa417675;src:all)
Last Suppers: How Do You Choose A Final Meal On Death Row (http://gawker.com/5646736/last-suppers-how-do-you-choose-a-final-meal-on-death-row/t:4d02bfa417675;src:all)
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Date: 11/12/10 00:11 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 11/12/10 00:19 (UTC)I loves me my Shoryu-ken.
Oldies but goldies.
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Date: 11/12/10 00:40 (UTC)But i prefer Blanka and Vega.
Speaking of Achmed the dead terrorist...
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