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Faelynn LeAndris impressed everyone with:
Sounds like laziness to me.Sounds like someone saying. "Hey, I wanna work as little as possible so I can have time to do whatever the hell I want because I live in a country where the government will take care of me and my family so I can be lazy, and still live a decent life."
What are you doing posting here? Get back to work you lazy ass.
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Verily, the chocolate bunny rabits doth run and play while Mortious gently hums:
The French public shot down the EU constitution just to spite their leaders who they're dissatisfied with, and other countries are jumping on the bandwagon.I think they're stupid fucks, basically. A federal Europe is a good thing. Squabbling countries getting nothing done are not.
Discuss the stupid French in here.
A federal Europe is probably a good thing in the long run, but the EU in turning into a mini-UN--a self-licking bureaucratic ice cream cone. They need to scrap the EU and come up with a real constitution.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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So quoth Bloodsage:
a self-licking bureaucratic ice cream cone.
Can you clarify what you mean by this? The metaphor confuses me.
Edit: Grammar whoring. Manticore fucked around with this message on 06-03-2005 at 07:43 PM.
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Manticore had this to say about the Spice Girls:
Can you clarify what you mean by this? The metaphor confuses me.Edit: Grammar whoring.
If I understand correctly, it's something of a circle-jerk.
It's something that exists solely for its own benefit.
Edit: us mean ol' Air Force guys sometimes refer to Navy carrier battle groups as self-licking ice cream cones, because in a high-threat environment, all of its resources are devoted to self-protection. . .which makes it pointless to have. In their defense, there is no longer a blue-water navy on the planet capable of inflicting such an environment on them. Bloodsage fucked around with this message on 06-03-2005 at 07:50 PM.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
Manticore fucked around with this message on 06-03-2005 at 07:50 PM.
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Ferret had this to say about Duck Tales:
They're just trying to make Voltron, but America already has the Megazord so they'll just sit there and play solitare.
I thought this was clever and witty at least!
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Blindy. stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
No. Just like the south still has it's culture and the north still has it's culture. And disolving athoritative differences makes regulations infinately more easier to understand and comply with. Just try working for a company that sells material to Europe. It's a procedural nightmare. Lucky me gets to code for it too.Combined Europe has a buying power in the same range of that of America. But it isn't much of a super power when whatever Germany buys doesn't more than marginally effect the value of goods in Spain. Regulational differences makes it hard to handle Europe as one big market.
I've touched on the major one. 20 different governments making all their own rules will never produce the regulational continential unification provided by a large government.
Who cares about Military besides America anymore, anyway?
1. The North and South have cultural difference, and really haven't merged cultures, so... thanks for furthering my point about cultural unification being nonbeneficial.
2. Thanks for clearing up how the EU is technically a economic superpower when they do align properly, and how it would instead become a constant post unification
3. A large amount of people care about the military, Iraq obviously cared, they just didn't have the resources to devote that we do, Israel also cares, considering they rival us in the technology and training of their soldiers, while we can afford more toys. In the future please don't make false generalizations to attack America (n administration, foreign policy, whatever), especially in a discussion entirely about the federalization of Europe, it only paints you as another single minded spewer of slogans. I feel the boards have enough of these as is.
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Edit: us mean ol' Air Force guys sometimes refer to Navy carrier battle groups as self-licking ice cream cones, because in a high-threat environment, all of its resources are devoted to self-protection. . .which makes it pointless to have. In their defense, there is no longer a blue-water navy on the planet capable of inflicting such an environment on them.
Kinda funny though. I never looked at it that way, but come to think of it, the smallboys are there to protect the carrier, who in turn has fighters aboard.... to protect the carrier.
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent CBTao said:
1. The North and South have cultural difference, and really haven't merged cultures, so... thanks for furthering my point about cultural unification being nonbeneficial.
I think his point was political unification does not necessarily equal cultural unification.
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Pvednes had this to say about Pirotess:
Did a Frenchman run over your dog, or something?
Short answer is that, against some pretty tough competition, they have emerged as the biggest bunch of arrogant, self-important, whiny back-stabbers on the planet.
And that's not just good ole fashioned French-bashing talking there. Having spent about 5 years in Europe while in the military, I've got 5 years more experience than I need or want dealing with those colossal pricks on both a personal and professional basis.
If anyone's really that interested in the reasons why, I'd be happy to elaborate.
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Callalron had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
If anyone's really that interested in the reasons why, I'd be happy to elaborate.
Elaborate, elaborate!
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Ahh man, I shot Snoota in the face.
Elaborate, elaborate!
I am all ears. And cocks.
It's not something people hear about.
It's not something people hear about.
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We were all impressed when Callalron wrote:
Short answer is that, against some pretty tough competition, they have emerged as the biggest bunch of arrogant, self-important, whiny back-stabbers on the planet.And that's not just good ole fashioned French-bashing talking there. Having spent about 5 years in Europe while in the military, I've got 5 years more experience than I need or want dealing with those colossal pricks on both a personal and professional basis.
If anyone's really that interested in the reasons why, I'd be happy to elaborate.
Go for it!
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When CBTao says stuff like this, it proves there isn't a God:
1. The North and South have cultural difference, and really haven't merged cultures, so... thanks for furthering my point about cultural unification being nonbeneficial.2. Thanks for clearing up how the EU is technically a economic superpower when they do align properly, and how it would instead become a constant post unification
3. A large amount of people care about the military, Iraq obviously cared, they just didn't have the resources to devote that we do, Israel also cares, considering they rival us in the technology and training of their soldiers, while we can afford more toys. In the future please don't make false generalizations to attack America (n administration, foreign policy, whatever), especially in a discussion entirely about the federalization of Europe, it only paints you as another single minded spewer of slogans. I feel the boards have enough of these as is.
You really shouldn't attempt to reply to posts at 3:04 AM.
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Blindy.'s account was hax0red to write:
You really shouldn't attempt to reply to posts at 3:04 AM.
I too have come to this conclusion, its difficult to proofread when your head is nodding, and the screen blurs up if you concentrate on it.
