The all purpose terrorism thread featuring plenty of allah akbar

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Betonov

I have come to the conclusion that I partially agree with people I tend to dissagree and partially disagree with people I tend to agree.
Therefore I am just too much in the center not to get on the nerves of both sides and should really stay out of it.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Betonov

I have come to the conclusion that I partially agree with people I tend to dissagree and partially disagree with people I tend to agree.
Therefore I am just too much in the center not to get on the nerves of both sides and should really stay out of it.

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Islam originating and practiced in Lizzard Piss Iowa or Po'Dunk China may not be the problem. But I disagree Islam is not at the top of the list of problems in Europe or in some of our community members neighborhoods. Heck, one just has to look at the origin this flood of immigrants are coming from. The entire region has been war against the infidel and each other since the days of Muhammad and it is that culture which operates in the name of Islam being imported into Europe.

Yeah, there is a definite clash between the culture of the Middle East and the culture of the west, I think nowhere clearer illustrates this than places like Bahrain, Dubai and Saudi Arabia where western commercialism sits right next to Islamic conservatism. But progress is being made, heck in Saudi Arabia the other day women got to vote for the first time, and for the first time women have become councillors. It's not perfect, there's tons of curbs and rules that fly in their way, but it's a small step on a long road in the right direction.

I do think though, that with the right mind-set and ignoring the best attempts of the extremists to derail it, there can be an integration between the two cultures. It will start with the second or third generation, maybe as late as the fourth, but it will start.
It's going to be a bumpy road, there is going to be people on both sides that won't want it to happen, the extremists who think that such integration is either haram or an invasion. I don't know how things work on the continent, but in the UK things tend to mash together, bits of Muslim culture will become assimilated into British culture. I think no better example of this assimilation can be found in the Chicken Tikka Masala, voted Britains favourite dish (not Fish and chips anymore, folks) and whilst it sounds Indian it was in fact created in Britain. We'll adopt parts of their language into our own, just as we've taken from Arabic, Hindu, and all other kinds of languages. An example of this is the old slang term "I'll go take a shufti" or the term for a reconnaissance aircraft a "shufti-kite" which was picked up by our soldiers during the Desert war from the Arab word Shufti which means to look.
For those living through it, it's un-nerving, we've had a lot of upset in the UK in recent years because of Eastern Europeans immigrating into the UK and supposedly 'taking all our jobs (TM)', and it's the same thing with Muslims. Ok, we've not had any Poles shoot up a restaurant, but people still react to something that's different with negativity. Most people don't take change very well...heck, I hate big changes but life is full of them, and they're not all for the worse.
I must admit during my last trek down to London I heard more Eastern European accents and language than I did Arabic or Muslim, but then our governments being an arse when it comes to taking the refugees in and working with the EU about this. That's another thing, the EU and the open immigration within it, how much scaremongering the media has brought up about that. Charlie Brooker did a good one on Newswipe towards the beginning of the year when Romania and Bulgaria became EU members:


Still, fear sells papers, doesn't it?

Well, we'll see how it all pans out, certainly I expect more terrorist attacks in the future, not big ones like 9/11 but Paris style attacks, I think that Birmingham will probably be the next one that gets hit in the UK, it's got a sizable Muslim population to scare the public against so that'll create the sort of tension that Daesh and the EDL want to happen.
The thing is, we're at war, and the enemy doesn't have Heinkel He-111s to come across and drop bombs on us, or cruise missiles that have the range to hit us, so they attack this way. We've been lucky, very very lucky in fact if one was to compare the death tolls between them and us, well it's definitely in our favour, but nevertheless it is war and western civilians are going to die, and it could be anyone anywhere, could be any of us or any of our families. It's a horrible thought, but it's true.
But then, we're probably a lot more likely to get hit by a car, or stabbed/shot by a mugger, or have the plane we're on fall out of the sky for unknown reasons than we are to be the victims of terrorism.
Terrorism sells more papers though.

[August]

Originally Posted by STEED

I would do the same if Jim hid all my Pot Noodle Bombay Bay Boy.

Could you translate that into the common language for me?

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by August

Could you translate that into the common language for me?

Our chum can't believe Sedan's fallen...I can.


Sorry, sorry, no, that's not it.

Pot Noodle Bombay Bad Boy (not Bay Boy) is a type of food in the UK, it's essentially rubber bands compressed into a clump of flavoured dehydrated ingredients. You boil up a kettle, fill up the Pot Noodle to the right height, wait until it cools and then eat it, and spend the rest of the day having it repeat on you.
I quite like the Chicken and Mushroom flavoured ones, them and the Beef and Tomato Pot Noodles were my staple lunch-time food at college, to the point that the staff used to refer to me as 'Noodle boy'.
Fills a hole though, and can be fun on topical news comedy quiz shows:

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by STEED

Jim hid all your beer.

I would do the same if Jim hid all my Pot Noodle Bombay Bay Boy.

Originally Posted by Oberon

An example of this is the old slang term "I'll go take a shufti" or the term for a reconnaissance aircraft a "shufti-kite" which was picked up by our soldiers during the Desert war from the Arab word Shufti which means to look.

Originally Posted by August

Could you translate that into the common language for me?

After eating such, a Gandu Shufti is in order: ie a colonoscopy

[August]

Ah I see thanks. It can be confusing!

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

After eating such, a Gandu Shufti is in order: ie a colonoscopy

Needs more Steed.

[nikimcbee]

At least it wasn't Singapore Asian boy toy.



Harumph, Steed would never leave me.

[Oberon]

"Thread derailment right ahead!!"
"Hard to starboard!!"

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by Oberon

"Hard to starboard!!"

That proofs it! You want to go to starboard so you are a right winger after all!

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

That proofs it! You want to go to starboard so you are a right winger after all!

In the context of Titanic, "Hard to starboard!" means to the left.

See, I can terminate fun too.

[Jimbuna]

First thread derailment report just in....not surprising.

[Rockstar]

[Sailor Steve]

I guess the warning was too subtle.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by STEED

Makes you wonder.

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