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Awwwww... How quaint! :D

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When you compare it to the music of our civil war:

But you've had so many.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v3qM...eature=related

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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens (Post 1925372)

Well, no one put a gun to your head and said you had to live here. :)
At least, now we know that stereotypes are always true.
I don't try to convince that Texas is a good place to live for anyone, except myself.

I'm sorry, Mookie. I was thinking about my remarks today while at work, I didn't mean to come off so rude. Please stay in Texas, we need people to counterbalance guys like this nutty judge. :shucks:

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Originally Posted by CCIP (Post 1925426)

Yep, and in some sense the US is blessed to be as stable as it has been. There is very little living memory of uncertainty and social collapse in the US, and while most people know it can happen, it's not an immediate reality for most people living there. So that does give many a somewhat naive perspective, and I don't mean that as an insult - just as a suggestion that for most, something like a revolution is so surreal that they can't even picture it as anything other than a bad movie plot. Then compare this to, for example, people from Eastern Europe. There's some massive changes in their recent memory. For me, having lived through the collapse of the communist system is really a bit of an eye-opener. Things can and do change violently, for better or/and worse. The good news is that even massive changes aren't all people cut them out to be. In these cycles of social and political change, people who have little personal experience of them tend to see something apocalyptic. In reality, stuff happens, life goes on. Instead of panicking and stocking guns, I think people need to be more open-minded and proactive about changes they see happening around them, especially if they live in a society where it's their right (and even obligation) to do something about their own civic circumstances.

I think that's true in large parts. Social stabilty is hard to gauge. I'm sure the States weren't really expect the Civil War to be what it ended up being, when they were pulling the country apart over slavery in the decades before 1861. Same with WWI: until armies began mobilizing, I bet most people just did not think a war on that scale was possible. Just look at 9/11: how many of us really paid any attention to Al Quiada? It only takes a spark to set off dynamite.

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I'm sorry, Mookie. I was thinking about my remarks today while at work, I didn't mean to come off so rude. Please stay in Texas, we need people to counterbalance guys like this nutty judge

That is one harsh rebuke

I'm gonna change your avatar to a bronie.

Would that be a harsh rebuke? worse than Bangcock?

Bangcock goes away, eventually :O:

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Bangcock goes away, eventually :O:

Not like another British civil war for Oberon
This time in technicolor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBNgi...eature=related

Can I start on the third kingdom yet or should I go backto the sons of glendower?
Civil wars they keep on giving

A change of theme
I had plenty of run ins with the greenjackets squaddies years back, but heres a song that delivers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgCVg...eature=related

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie (Post 1925312)

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Oh yeah, you and Tribesman got it right - we should all just sit around typing agreement with one another.

Makes for wonderful, intellectually stimulating conversation. :know:

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Originally Posted by August (Post 1925432)

I think the main reason is because the good judge isn't preparing for some potential long term danger but rather his plans are against a specific person in the very near future. To say that if he's reelected the President, is going to use UN troops against the residents of North Central Texas just begs for dismissal as the wishful thinking of a disturbed individual.

While I'm inclined to agree, I have to repeat - odds are that SOMETHING will set SOMETHING off at SOME point. So why not this?

Now I'm not saying, or even implying, that this judge is speaking of anything that is even remotely likely. What I AM saying is that, after we all high-five, dance, and pronounce the judge a moonbat we consider the possibilities of what could set such disastrous events in motion.

It's more fun that way. :cool:

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Oh yeah, you and Tribesman got it right - we should all just sit around typing agreement with one another.

Makes for wonderful, intellectually stimulating conversation. :know:

There is no intellectual stimulation from what you put down:doh:
If you wanted to stimulate the intellect as a devils advocate then you should at least approach the topic in question not go off on some vague irrelevance.

loony talks rubbish.....errrrr.....on his side though civil wars do happen.

loony is still talking rubbish and you havn't gone near it:know:

lets try some stimulation in your flavour.

loony talks rubbish......errrrr......on his side though there is a thing called the UN and errrrr......America does have a President and errrr....there do be election thingies
Not saying he is right like, but you see he does have a point and you people are too easily dismissing it as elections do happen and it would be shocking for people to think otherwise.

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While I'm inclined to agree, I have to repeat - odds are that SOMETHING will set SOMETHING off at SOME point. So why not this?

:rolleyes:Why not this??????
Because it makes no sense, that is why not this.

Right, that does it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc2c7P7FqyQ

:O::O::O::O::O:

DICKON WAS INNOCENT!!!

"Offtopic"

Neal's new punishment, when you break a rule several times

You don't get brigged, you get a brownie as your personal avartar

Markus

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Originally Posted by mapuc (Post 1925774)

"Offtopic"

Neal's new punishment, when you break a rule several times

You don't get brigged, you get a brownie as your personal avartar

Markus

Delicious punishment:

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1...223_MEDIUM.jpg

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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens (Post 1925673)

I'm sorry, Mookie. I was thinking about my remarks today while at work, I didn't mean to come off so rude. Please stay in Texas, we need people to counterbalance guys like this nutty judge. :shucks:

I've got pretty thick skin. No problems at all. :yeah:

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Originally Posted by Aramike (Post 1925696)

Oh yeah, you and Tribesman got it right - we should all just sit around typing agreement with one another.

Makes for wonderful, intellectually stimulating conversation. :know:

Aww, somebody's a widdle bit testy! :Kaleun_Crying:

Bronies. Brownies. Is there a difference? :D

:har::har::har:

When I wrote the post I was somehow in doubt

Was it brownies or something else, but somehow alike.
Later on after I had shut down my computer I found out that it's bronies

Markus