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This here is hurricane country
From the Rebrand America challenge. See all 280 entries (closed)
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beaubodor blogless,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:03,
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Hahahahahahaha! Noice!
The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:03,
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The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:11,
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I am indeed - I play a mean trumpet solo The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:13,
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Don'tknock the Humph - he recorded the first British blues record, "Bad Penny Blues", engineered by Joe Meek...
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:21,
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Smashing!:¬)
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wibblywobbly - helping ugly people get laid since 1982,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:03,
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I scrolled back and saw thatI DO so like that
( The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:05,
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You must be in 7th Heaven with this compo :)I've just spazzed back through all the entries and you appear rather frequently :)
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Attila the Bun is not in a right cunt of a mood,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:06,
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A few weeks ago I suggested thatBeau should be invited to always post the first entry to every compo, just so the standard could be set. I was so pleased to see that this week exactly that happened!
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Ptolemy the man with the silent pea,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:08,
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Nice idea.Means I won't ever post in a compo again though*
*is this a bad thing?
Attila the Bun is not in a right cunt of a mood,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:09,
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Don't be daft!Wasn't it you that did that fantastic Duncan the robot animation thingy a while back? I loved that.
( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:12,
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hehe...that might win a duncan the robot compo :)I'll suggest that for next week
Attila the Bun is not in a right cunt of a mood,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:25,
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well, the compo was my suggestion :-)but it's not really about knocking 'Merica s'about rebranding it.
I normally only have a go at Bush, Cheney etc. and some of the extreme right - I quite like the folks over there y'know :-)
(I normally only have a go at Bush, Cheney etc. and some of the extreme right - I quite like the folks over there y'know :-)
beaubodor blogless,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:09,
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RubbishYou hate America, as do most B3tans.
It's a socially acceptable form of bigotry encouraged by your political mentors.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:09,
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It's a socially acceptable form of bigotry encouraged by your political mentors.
you may choose to believewhatever makes you feel most secure, smug and content..
( beaubodor blogless,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:11,
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That's your jobwith your secure, smug and content political prejudices.
Nicely stereotyped, fed to you by the BBC and the Grauniad, no need for nasty, messy thinking.
Just hate Bush, hate America, hate Blair, hate liberal democratic societies. So easy.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:14,
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Nicely stereotyped, fed to you by the BBC and the Grauniad, no need for nasty, messy thinking.
Just hate Bush, hate America, hate Blair, hate liberal democratic societies. So easy.
If no-one criticised,it wouldn't _be_ a liberal democracy would it? Not one worthy of the name, anyway.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:16,
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Yeah, butthere is more to intellect than mere mindless criticism.
There is also perspective and the study of history and geopolitics -- which are entirely lacking from the kneejerk stereotypical opinions posted here.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:17,
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There is also perspective and the study of history and geopolitics -- which are entirely lacking from the kneejerk stereotypical opinions posted here.
Beau and Co. aren't usually mindless in their criticism.There is a lot of "Bush is teh suck" on here, but you know to dismiss that as noise. Coming back at someone with "You hate democracy" is pretty mindless itself, when you know perfectly well that they don't.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:22,
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They may not hate democracy as suchbut by constantly attacking people who support democracy, they are helping the enemies of democracy ... and that is wrong.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:25,
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*blinksare you being serious or just fishing?
Attila the Bun is not in a right cunt of a mood,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:26,
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this is great!haven`t seen a good rant on here in ages
( Reckless_Rik,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:27,
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:)In a "I really having no idea what the fuck I'm talking about" sort of way
( Attila the Bun is not in a right cunt of a mood,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:31,
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you racist anti-spastic err.. anti-European spider hating err..eh?
Reckless_Rik,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:38,
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I'm enjoying itWhilst I don't agree per se, evil pundit is presenting an argument that is rarely aired. The public thinks what the public is told to think.
Personally, I wouldn't be throwing that criticism at bob odour though...
(Personally, I wouldn't be throwing that criticism at bob odour though...
Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:40,
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I suggest you just learn to readthen you might understand
( Attila the Bun is not in a right cunt of a mood,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:32,
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Nonono,it's _not_ wrong to attack and critise politicians. They _need_ criticising, they _need_ opposing, that's what democracy is, that's how it works. If you don't oppose them you just end up with what is functionally a dictatorship. I have no time for this reverence for politicians crap, they need kicking from time to time, it reminds them who's in charge: "We The People," to borrow a phrase from a certain document.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:29,
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That's one side of the pictureThe other side, which B3tans lack, is an appreciation of the general conditions that people have lived under throughout history, and just how good we have it compared to most.
Without that perspective, the critique is mindless and irrelevant.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:32,
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Without that perspective, the critique is mindless and irrelevant.
Please do not tarnish all us B3tans with the same brushI believe that in itself could be classed as a form of oppression against individual thought
( The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:34,
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you used that before tooand while I have absolutely no desire to get into this particular debate, with the greatest of respect, you have no idea whatsoever what "most" b3tans think, feel or say. You just get the odd comment or picture from perhaps a third of b3tans to go on.
So please, don't generalise like that.
(So please, don't generalise like that.
mr horrible up yours, dickface,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:39,
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Generalisation has its hazards... but I think that some judgements can be formed from what B3tans say, and how they react to certain things.
When someone posted "Reservoir Wogs" the other day, the board erupted in condemnation. But I don't see such condemnation for the unfair and hurtful things directed against some nationalities on this board (see the US flag toilet roll at the top of this page, for example).
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:47,
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When someone posted "Reservoir Wogs" the other day, the board erupted in condemnation. But I don't see such condemnation for the unfair and hurtful things directed against some nationalities on this board (see the US flag toilet roll at the top of this page, for example).
Although it can sometimes be mindless, true,it's _never_ irrelevant; it's a basic right, it's a fundamental part of the process of democracy. It's Voltaire, defending to the death your right to be completely wrong. It's the 1st amendment. Without the critics, without the disagreement, democracy is meaningless, defanged, not worth defending. So by all means argue with Beau and me, but don't ever accuse us of working against democracy and not appreciating it. We ARE democracy.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:38,
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Good point.I just wish that sometimes the bad guys would cop a bucketing, and not just our side.
Sigh.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:41,
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Sigh.
I agree with you there.Probably because Saddam and Osama and Co. have much smaller PR departments, there's a lot less material to work on.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:45,
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Yeah, wellI think I'll go to bed now, and dream of photoshopping kittens.
Which is what I'd really rather do here -- there's enough politics elsewhere.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:49,
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Which is what I'd really rather do here -- there's enough politics elsewhere.
You've been around here too long to be serious.So I assume you are joking and say ha.
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dingochutney *parp*,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:16,
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I wish it were trueBut he has been banging on so long, its either a joke worn thin or a control freak forcing his opinions on us.
Either way I say "Yawn"
...Well, I dont say yawn, I just yawn, but you get the idea...
(Either way I say "Yawn"
...Well, I dont say yawn, I just yawn, but you get the idea...
OneSullenBrit *air sandwiches*,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:17,
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From now on I shall say 'yawn' when I yawn!yawn, weird word. Anyway, enough political bantering, I go food now.
( dingochutney *parp*,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:18,
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*yawns*see, that's how it's done
( Lord Keeps meaning to procrastinate.,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:19,
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i'm sorrythe guardian hates liberal democratic societies now? blimey, i must not understand it at all.
( eponymous Oh!,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:16,
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*ahem*(
The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:20,
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Yeah, one post attacking Hillary... now how many has Bobodor done attacking Bush? 200? 300?
Hardly in the same class, is it?
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:27,
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Hardly in the same class, is it?
You shouldn't really be casting stones though,even if you only did it once. It doesn't help the case.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:31,
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Maybe not, but 1 does not equal 300and that is one of the facts that some people here fail to grasp. There are degrees, not just absolutes.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:34,
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but who sets the degrees, in the grand scheme of things,does producing 300 thought processes using technicques taught and freely available in a free and deomcratic society really have any relevance when judged against just one.
Simply, the notion of 'freedom' of speech throughout a chosen medium is what shows that as a 'civilised' nation we can take such critique and move on - its doesnt mean to say that 300 posts represents the majority - we have the choice of 'not listening or reasoning and following our own path' - to a greater degree than most do
(Simply, the notion of 'freedom' of speech throughout a chosen medium is what shows that as a 'civilised' nation we can take such critique and move on - its doesnt mean to say that 300 posts represents the majority - we have the choice of 'not listening or reasoning and following our own path' - to a greater degree than most do
The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:38,
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Yes, we doand I just wish that people would acknowledge that, instead of saying that our society is fascist and our elected leaders are Nazi murderers.
There are really bad people in the world, who deserve that kind of characterisation far more than our own politicians.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:43,
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There are really bad people in the world, who deserve that kind of characterisation far more than our own politicians.
and they do get it, BUT (and this is a big but)the 'bad' guys as you so call them, do often tend to come from modertaly or greatly impoverished societies themselves
(consider the likes of many african dictators - Mugabe for instance)
If we start taking the mic out of them on a greatly enhanced platform, there is always someone, somewhere in our society who will denounce us as 'the devil incarnate' for taking the piss out of an impoverished nation, claiming 'you dont live there, what do you know' the fact is, we live HERE, hence, we KNOW what we're in, and it makes it far easier to mock what we know, and get away with it. It doesnt mean its right, but at least we ain't getting shot at for speaking our mind and testing the society we live and believe in
I think it all comes down in the end to one simple phrase...
"If they're big enough, and powerful enough, they can take it"
and most of the time, i believe its a simple as that
((consider the likes of many african dictators - Mugabe for instance)
If we start taking the mic out of them on a greatly enhanced platform, there is always someone, somewhere in our society who will denounce us as 'the devil incarnate' for taking the piss out of an impoverished nation, claiming 'you dont live there, what do you know' the fact is, we live HERE, hence, we KNOW what we're in, and it makes it far easier to mock what we know, and get away with it. It doesnt mean its right, but at least we ain't getting shot at for speaking our mind and testing the society we live and believe in
I think it all comes down in the end to one simple phrase...
"If they're big enough, and powerful enough, they can take it"
and most of the time, i believe its a simple as that
The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:46,
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Don't be down mate - its what free speech is all about :)Catch you on the 'moro
( The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:50,
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May I draw your attention to one of your front pages in your profile...'Hitlary Clinton'?????
yes, as you said, its SO easy to hate americans isnt it....
(yes, as you said, its SO easy to hate americans isnt it....
The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:18,
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Aaah, but thats different.He did that, so its ok.
Its only wrong when someone else does it.
(Its only wrong when someone else does it.
OneSullenBrit *air sandwiches*,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:20,
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AlsoHillary Clinton actually did kill six million Jews and invade Poland, France, Czechoslovakia etc and form alliances with Stalin, Franco and Mussolini.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:23,
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However did she find the time to do all thatAND govern America...
( The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:25,
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YeahNow let's see someone entering the compo with a post that isn't just a thinly disguised hate rant against Americans ...
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:21,
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'scuse mewould you mind not dragging everyone into your uninformed opinions?
( eponymous Oh!,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:13,
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What the fuck is a political mentor?Like Mr. Miyagi? But in a suit?
( dingochutney *parp*,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:14,
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Ooooooh Bin Laden, you've done it agaaaain.Ok, that Mr. Magoo impression was crap, even in my head.
OneSullenBrit *air sandwiches*,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:18,
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The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:25,
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Hahahahahahaace!
( Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:45,
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I know what you mean sir I really do Attila the Bun is not in a right cunt of a mood,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:10,
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I'm just very very gladthat there's a nil percent chance of me getting picked to judge this week's compo
( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:13,
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ArfMind you, I don't think that "Rita" really is a girl hurricane.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:08,
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this made me laugh so much my nose bled!
Admiral Drew Peacock is back,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:09,
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Oooooh!That's so very NSFW (and so extremely funny!!)
( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea,
Thu 22 Sep 2005, 12:10,
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