EVIL . . . it shops at Men’s Warehouse
(Vladimir Putin)
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Uhhhhmmm..it’s actually “Men’s Wearhouse.”
Also “excuse me admins, there’s no lol in my lol.”
Oh, I see now. If you click “see all captions” this one actually occupies the tenth spot. The number one spot has a caption that’s actually funny about how Putin is watching you through your computer screen.
Let’s see how quickly this caption gets moved into spot #1, shall we?
HAHAHA. That SHOULD have said “there’s no l in my lol.” Ah well, screw it.
the watching one’s already been up
I’m not entirely sure that evil little man could fit into average adult clothing, he’s only about 5’8″, he’s very fit though, for an old guy, so he probably buys cloths, and has them modified. That’s how they mostly do high quality cloths in Europe, and undoubtedly, the ruler of the greatest clept-ocracy in world can get quality clothing.
Actually, with the amount of money he must be siphoning off the oligarchs, I’d be surprised if he didn’t have his suits made custom.
…out of the skin of his enemies.
I’ve heard of belts and purses but never whole suits…
Really? I guess it depends on how many enemies you have
Actually I think he’s closer to 5’4 or something in the range of Tom Cruise. IDK??
Really? Awww, I has a sad now.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THAT?????
*glare*
I know I wish he was taller. I got that measurement from IMDB.com so it may not be accurate. He’s not quite so short next to Bush and he’s like 5’10 or something.
*Eric’s short man syndrome flares up*
What’s wrong with short guys? Short guys need lovin’ too!!
*huggles Eric* Don’t worries, we luvs short guys, it’s just diabolical world leaders that we’re disappointed with when they’re short.
But short guys make the best diabolical world leaders because we all have short man’s syndrome and feel the need to conquer to world to compensate for a lack of height.
I see your point… *contemplates*
Witness: Napoleon, John Silber…
i’m actually dating a guy that’s knocking on 5’9, so I’m all for loving the short guys.
Uh. Yeah. That’s short all right. O_O
(I hit 5’4″ around the age of 13 and that was it for me. Not fantastic for my social life.)
Dana? Is that you? Wait, no, it can’t be. If you were Dana, you would make a comment about how you may be short but stir like coffee. Then get distracted by something shiny…
My Dad’s 5’9 I think…. I always thought that was quite tall until someone mentioned height on an old Lol and it was revealed that there are a lot of ridiculously tall people on PK who think they’re normal…
Pfft, you’re just in a land of dwarves…
Midgets! Get-it-right
Vertically challenged.
i’m a scot and i’m 5’1″….. while painfully short here, i’d fit right in over there.
*note to self: move to scotland, feel normal. move to japan, feel TALL.*
*Does dance of being 5’4*
People are getting taller though, generation by generation… I remember my Papa saying my great grandweans would be about 10 feet tall…
5’3″ — and I’m shorter than my mom. And my kids. Stupid recessive genes. It’s only a problem when I need to reach something high, though! Or buy jeans…
Lynn is 5′ 3″ and I am 6′ 3″… I loves the short ladies.
I always thought I was pretty tall (for a lassie anyway) but my sister’s now 2cm taller than me… But she has bigger feet…
soon she won’t be stealing my red shoes…
>_>
I wear size 15s… Lynn wears 9s, I believe. Our sons’ feet are going to be huge.
My wife is taller than me. She loves that. LOL
A curse on her that steals red shoes! So glad I didn’t have sisters…
…And 5’1 isn’t painful, it’s dainty…
DWN you’re a whole foot taller than Lynn. That is awesome. I like tall guys like Clive Owen and John Cusack. 6’3 is just right
but the small guys, like James McAvoy, who’s a scot, still are smoking hot. I guess I should just say that I like guys. In general. But only one at a time.
Now I feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Petite gals like Lynn, Diss and AC make me feel like Gulliver among the Lilliputians. All lumbering and such. Fortunately my guy likes smart and finds tall interesting!
As for tall guys with dainty gals, I used to see that as a wasted opportunity. Not because I’m against shorter dudes, just that they are usually anti-tall women!
it’s dainty when you’re a size 2… when you’re muscular and work out it’s not so great.
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and diss… buying pants is the bane of my existance. my sewing machine and i attack almost every pair i buy. ALTHOUGH! the old navy “short” style fit perfectly… no hemming necessary. p.s. my mom is taller than i am and her mom is taller than her. i’m the runt, by far.
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and, as a self proclaimed shoe whore i rarely am 5’1″… usually more about 5’4″ or even 5’5″. one of these days i’ll break an ankle in a heel, but so far i’m ok.
@ captain wow
james mcavoy is so freaking sexy. tall or short i wouldn’t care. i’d ride him til the cows came home
I loved him in Wanted. When he comes out of that bath, wearing only his jeans, it was an Oscar moment and he didn’t even speak.
*drools*
I also like Robert Downey Junior… scratch that. I’m obsessed with RDJ and he’s not much shorter than my BF.
Ever seen Starter for 10?
@Viking gal? Who’s petite? It turns out I’m 5’4 AND A HALF….
@ viking gal: I don’t think I can claim “petite”…just “short”! I’m pretty solid. Oh, and although I’ve certainly been with the taller guys before, my guy is 5′ 7″, so when I wear heels I’m actually a bit taller!
(It ate my reply the first time….if it shows up twice)
Tall women just mean more leg to nibble on.
Nothing’s wrong with short guys- and they’re at about the right height to eat their girl friends out really well!
As crude as that comment is, it’s very true. ::nods proudly::
y’alls missing the most critical thing though – height doesn’t matter if you are horizontal – then other fits come into play; and if that fit is right, nothing else matters
lol priceless
Where do these photos keep coming from? Each one is creepier then the last.
Vlad’s Facebook page?
I have a feeling this picture is required on every desktop in Russia.
How else can he watch you through the computer screen?
both of them?
Ouch!
Actually you have to have wallet size of this on you at all times, otherwise you’re used for Putins target next time he’s at the range.
GREAT! HST you made me laugh too!
You’re gonna f*cking love the way you look. Or else.
That made me laugh much more than the LOL did.
Yeah, I thought that would have been a better caption.
lol!
In Russia, Men’s Wearhouse shops you.
Sorry. Just had to be done.
Use new pix plz.
Typical liberal move, gotta make someone else look bad regardless of the facts. He was by far a better president then ‘bama could every hope to be. He was extremely popular and did a lot of good turning Russia around from the impact of the cold war. Lower taxes and a much higher standard of living for the Russians thanks to him. He actually cares for his country and helped instead of just using it and soaking up the limelight. He is a true leader and not just another liberal sweet talker.
Putin is the Monorail Cat of PK. Now run along and let the adults talk.
ooh ooh, can I have big people talk too?
The People’s Breasts will consider your request.
and I will consider the People’s Breasts.
What’s to consider? People’s Breasts? Yes. That’s it.
I concur. The answer is Yes.
There are very few circumstances where “no” is the answer to “breasts.”
Well, if they’re chicken breasts and we’re two lols to the right…
Well, you have to remember that good does not always outweigh the bad, to take from Russian history, Stalin’s Five Year Plans were SUPERB and totally caught Russia up to the rest of Europe.
On the other hand, he murdered 30 million people.
it was self defense.
That was funny.
He was a busy busy man.
That is so funny. The US just in the last 6 years killed more than a million people in Iraq. About 3 million in the first Gulf war. Now lets count all the people since Stalin era, which americans murdered in Vietnam and Korea and God knows in how many other places. Let us also remember, that it USA was the only country in history to drop nuclear bombs on civilian population, not the “evil” USSR. How many countries did Russia invade under Putin? And how many countries did US invade under Bush? The hypocrisy of the west is astounding! Do you really have the right to call anyone evil?
Oh, I forgot. All of that is done in the name of “freedom” and “democracy”. Silly me! Scratch all that I’ve written then…
there was no attack on Russia here, only a jab at Putin, for fun, and a verifiable fact about Stalin. A country is greater than their leader, or at least I like to think so. I mean, just because bush was a coked up ‘tard doesn’t mean the rest of us are. Furthermore, noone here claimed that the US was innocent of all wrongdoing, in fact we are far from being blameless. After all, we are all living on stolen land…
Even attack on Putin is unfair. At least he didn’t start any wars, so I don’t get it, why he is always referred to as “EVIL” by the west. I can understand politics and media, but common western people are not far behind in their opinion about him. He actually just ended a war in Chechnia started by Eltsin. And as far as Russian nation goes, I very rarely meet Americans, who are actually respectful of Russians. The general notion here, is that Russia and Russians suck! I have to be fair though. There is not much difference in opinion of Russian people about Americans.
Calm down, it’s a joke. You’re at Pundit Kitchen, not a serious political site. The humor here caters to broad generalizations. Thus, Putin=Evil, Bush=Dumb, McCain=Old, Hillary=Crazy, Bill=Horndog, and so on. Is that the whole sum of their personalities and characters? No, but all forums have their inside jokes and those are ours.
Oh, and I’ll add that although they imply he’ll kill you with a thought, the lols about Putin have been WAY more flattering than the majority of the ones about Bush.
OK. I’ll give you that one!:)
I guess what I’m really upset about are stereotypes. They are strong in the US. People hear the word “communism” and begin boiling with rage without the slightest idea of what that actually is. People hear word “Russian” and they picture uneducated, unclean, angry for no reason man who is ready to kill everyone in sight; despite the fact that a large proportion of US science community is comprised of Russian immigrants.
But you are right. At least in the US there are people like Jon Steward in the mainstream media. And although I did say stereotypes are strong in the US, they are much stronger in Russia, I have to say. I actually do “fight” on a lot of Russian forums about it, frequently defending America from stereotypical views:)
Well, I won’t argue with you about the communism/socialism scare either. It’s fairly frustrating to me as well. Unfortunately stereotypes are perpetuated in humor because by their nature it’s something that most people can understand and relate to.
People hear word “Russian” and they picture uneducated, unclean, angry for no reason man who is ready to kill everyone in sight;
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wrong. we hear the word “russian” and we picture hockey (but they always must lose to canada or 1980 USA olympic team), vodka and siberia. geez. get your stereotypes right!
I think of Vodka and fur hats…
I used to live in an apartment complex that for some reason had a large number of Russian immigrants, so when I hear the word “russian” I picture somebody taking up two parking spaces for one car….. Just me, then?
Oh, are they Russian? I always just thought they were Douchebags from Douchebagania.
Russia and Russians don’t suck. Russian imperialism does suck a lot, though. I am Czech and I can remember Russian (then Soviet) oppression of my country (then Czechoslovakia) quite clearly. Generally speaking, not much changed when I consider the rhetorics of Medvedev, Lavrov and others towards Czechia today. And to be honest, many Russians who come to my country today behave here less than civilly. So maybe if Russia started beign friendlier and stopped threatening with weapons or oppressing smaller countries, many people would like Russia and Russians better. Sorry for saying that but yes, for me Putin is evil and I am seriously afraid of your aggressive ways.
Well, your first mistake, is your assumption that I am Russian. I am not. Second, Chechnya is not technically a country, but a region in Russia, much like Texas is part of the USA. Third, again, name me one country, Putin invaded? I can name you two, which Bush invaded. You will bring up Georgia of course. Although western media did at first picture it as being invaded by Russia, later revoking it, everyone knows what actually happened there. But if you still insist on that, just ask yourself, how long did Russia stay in Georgia after this “invasion”? Are there any Russian military bases in Georgia?
So when you say “Russia is oppressing smaller countries”, I challenge you to name even one. And concerning rhetoric towards Czechia, excuse me, you guys are very good at provoking this rhetoric by allowing the missile “defense” shield. You play the role of 1961 Cuba, and there was a lot of US rhetoric about that.
Ok, I’ll try to explain my point.
1) Invasion of Hungary 1956, invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968. Need I say more? Subjugating all the countries of the Eastern bloc and supporting the criminal communist regimes there. If you speak about Korea or Vietnam I think we should mention these acts as well.
2) You may say that this has been a long tome ago, something like Germany and WW2. But it’s not. Germany has changed substantially since then and my country hasn’t to fear much of it. Russia? Not so much – last time Sergey Lavrov spoke to our foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg, he made clear that we were in the “interest zone” of Russia and that we are in EASTERN Europe and should behave accordingly.
3) Chechnya – in 1993 Czechoslovakia split because the Slovaks wanted their independent state. Did the Czechs invade Slovakia, did they kill people there? Well, no. We said farewell to each other and today there are to independent countries with good relationship.
4) What did the “Western” countries, including USA, bring to Central Europe after 1989? Mainly prosperity and civilised ways of running the state. What do the Russians bring when they come? Corruption and crime. I could name you scores of cases (the behavior of Russian businessmen in Karlovy Vary, to name just one). I am very sorry to say that but compared to the Germans or Americans the Russian culture of everyday life is inferior because it contains so much corruption and breaking the law. How many “unpopular” jounalists have been killed in EU or USA recently? And Russia? Do you know that Russian capital (sponsored by the state) is attempting to buy as much as possible of vital energy companies in my country? Do you know how unclear and corrupted these cases are? I see that every day. Russians come in big numbers and settle here. This is a well known tactic used by Stalin – send as much Russians as possible and create a fifth column.
5) I spent a good part of my life in a country occupied and ruled by the Russians and their Czech/Slovak quislings. And what i say – NO MORE! I fear Russia, I fear Putin, I want my country to belong to the democratic part of the world, not the authoritarian. I want it to prosper and be respected, even by stronger countries, in good teamwork. The western countries are friendly. Russia is not. For me, the only protection against Russian influence and a possible new servitude is a strong USA. They at least ask us when they want something. Russia just took.
If you’re going to make a point with figures, how about not using completely fictional figures?
“Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, lunch, death, death, death, death, quick shower…”
“We’re almost going… ‘Well done! You killed a hundred thousand people?! You must get up *very* early in the morning! I can barely get down to the gym!’”
Izzard FTW.
“I’m an evil Giraffe”
I love that man
Off-topic comment is off-topic.
I have all his photos framed so I can look at him every day. Gotta admit, he’s a hunk in a suit or without!
In other words:
“Typical…. WARRGARRBLLLLL”
could you please take out the tired old pictures and Putin some new ones?
I love this picture of Putin! Besides, I think we’ve only had it once before this.
Yeah this is only the second repeat I think. Plus he just looks so damn bad ass like a bond villan or something.
I see what you did thar!
Vlad you talking about?
One of the great things about Vlad is that they could easily write him in as a Bond villain, and they wouldn’t even have to hire an actor, he could play the part himself!
The only problem is that Bond wouldn’t stand a chance. Especially with Daniel Craig playing him.
Yeah, Putin doesn’t seem like the type to set Bond up in an elaborate death scene that he’s likely to escape from once he leaves the room. Putin would likely just have Bond put away right then and there.
and watch it to make sure it’s done right.
I have a feeling he might role up his sleeves and take an active role, in fact.
Or maybe he might ROLL up his sleeves. Sheesh, I need more caffeine today.
or his pants, no one wants pesky blood pool stains after all. Socks are easier to dispose of.
But putin ams not evil? LOL fail for i have lol’d, but only at the stupidity of the caption
That’s an interesting angle.
He got the idea from Bill. [link]
Fellating supplicant angle.
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“Lean in a little, Dimitri, I can’t reach your ears…”
“Lean in a little, Dimitri, I can’t reach your ears…”
Oh wow…that does not put a good image in my head…
Oh god. LOLing and throwing up in your motuth a little – not a good combination.
*mouth
Ha ha, I win.
yes you do.
I’m beginning to wonder why Putin poses for all these imposing pictures of himself. I mean, he’s scary and all, but it throws a more creepy narcissist vibe for me.
umm…egomaniac?
Because he’s a creepy narcissist? Just a thought.
Because he’s awesomer than Obama
This is actually for Time Magazine when he was ‘Man of the Year’ 07. I know of at least ten more flattering photos of him they could have used.
…yes and no…
“Watch out, we are coming after you”
And the guy we have in is any better than Putin because…?
We’re looking pretty stupid these days, and for once the world really is laughing at us. How strange.
We’ve been looking stupid ever since we elected George Bush to office. And we looked twice as stupid when we re-elected him. And the world was laughing a lot harder then. No matter what you thought of Bush, there’s no way you can suggest that he earned our country any respect around the world. No way at all.
Yeah, I’m sure they were laughing real hard when he said “We WILL find you and we WILL get you” too. I’m sure they were laughing when the statue of Hussein was torn down in Baghdad as well. Yeah, the laughter was ringing all right, but it wasn’t at Bush. Sure the pantywaists hated him, but who cares? Our brave men didn’t.
We don’t need the world to love our leaders (though Palin was pretty much loved by a good many foreign leaders – from Pakistan to Afghanistan to Columbia) – it’s more important that they fear us.
Link if you can take it
Oh wow. So the US wants the world to fear it?
Prudence would indicate so, yes. The love of Kim Jong Il isn’t going to spare us from an ICBM with a nuclear payload, but fear of retribution will. It’s what brought down the Soviet Union. (That and economic ruin, of course.) The Japanese didn’t fear us, but they learned to, and that put an end to the war. Now the Japanese and Germans are nice, aren’t they? Yeah, fear works.
Actually, your answer indicates that it’s you who’s full of fear.
I haven’t been, since 9/11. We were in pretty good hands as far as national security. But only a fool isn’t afraid when there are *very* real dangers who are actually intent on our destruction and don’t mind saying so openly. If you are such a fool, my condolences.
Yeah, great hands. It’s not like the majority of measures passed for ‘national security’ do little to prevent terrorism and a lot to curtail individual freedom.
Any intelligent person, were they so inclined, would not have difficulty killing a very large number of people. Only the most repressive security measures can stop that, a cure worse than the disease.
The best solution is to not have people want to attack you. Having guns only works if the other guys have less, and aren’t willing to die. Quick Q: which european country sufered the least casualties through both world wars?
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Switzerland.
There have always been and always will be people bent on killing us. Grow up into the real world. It’s INTELLIGENCE, the very agencies your boy is busy throwing under a bus, that can keep us safe without highly repressive measures. But Obama’s destroying them, so it could go anywhere from here!
so tell me… were you for or against the patriot act? just wondering.
No amount of intelligence can stop a guy with a death wish and some home-made dynamite.
Diplomacy is a much better answer to international issues than anything else. If war is disease, intelligence is medication and diplomacy is a cure.
I’m not even american, and no big obama fan. But I wholeheartedly approve of cutting back on the monstrous degree of military spending in the US.
Thus we have in Annie, a person who doesn’t understand the concept of a suicide bomber…
I can’t remember who said it, but everytime I am reminded I chuckle…
“The fear is, that if a suicide bomber strikes once, he or she could strike again”
Unintentional humor FTW.
Wow… That is just hilarious and sad…
It was said in a serious political discussion, I wish I could remember who by. An up-to-that-point respected newsman, I think.
I could only hope that somebody laughed when he said that.
Are you kidding? This is england. Everyone quietly stifled their laughter, and he was mortified. Then they needled him about it relentlessly, but obliquely and with courtesy, much to everyone else’s amusement.
Odd, but I seem to recall the kamikazes at Pearl Harbor were suicide bombers. Funny how we didn’t get any more of those after we nuked Hiroshima, huh?
Oh, slan agat? Even Sarkozy was mocking Obi-wan. He and the German had to basically force Chairman Zero to accept the Turkish chancellor and Sarkozy said he was weak. When the president of France calls you weak…LOL. Then there is the matter of his dismal performance with G2 – oh teh foreigners just luurrrve him, don’t they…until he asks them to go down with the ship and take part in the “stimulus” abortion. Until it’s time to open their wallets. They luuurve him that much. Hell, didn’t they offer to send 5000 (a WHOLE five thousand) non-combat dishwashers into Afghanistan for Obama? Now that’s love, baby.
History is a wonderful thing. If the politicans hadn’t called them off, a good chunk of Japan’s citizens were ready to hurl themselves at any available american based on those events. Modern bombers have no such restraints in place.
OK, history isn’t wonderful, it’s a horriffic parade of man’s hideous, violent impulses.
I’m not sure who you’re trying to talk to about Obama, but odds are good they’re not interested either.
*sigh* She’s drunk again. I’m not driving her home.
Well she’s not damn well crashing on my couch. The kerb it is.
Not fear, just alcohol. Anniee posts drunk.
From work? Heh, yeah, no. Overnight on a weekend, sure.
Is that what you tell your sponsor at the AA meetings?
No. You’re right. They weren’t laughing when we invaded Iraq. They were pissed off. And they weren’t laughing when our reason for the war kept changing. They were pissed off. But trust me, there was plenty of laughing at Bush. Defending him as some sort of respectable figure who scared the crap out of other countries is not only way off, but kind of disturbing that you want that.
Why do we want the world to fear us? Wouldn’t respect be better?
*Clap clap clap*
*encore*
applause, applause, applause
*encore*
::bows::
::signs autographs::
*avoids the Iron Man movie reference…*
why avoid it? give in… come to the dark side… we have fudge.
It’s a lie! The dark side doesn’t have fudge, or cookies! They have cake. But here’s the kicker. The cake is a LIE!!!
because it’s CHEESECAKE which is really a PIE! muahahahaha
My WHO at the WHAT? LOL Get serious. Or don’t – start leaving little poopies around about DTs, and withdrawal, and whatever else you’ve seen your family go through -you seem to know a lot more about it than I do; I’m figuring a lot of experience. Not that there’s anything wrong with that; PWI is par for the course on any site and it’s hard to find people under 40 who never drink.
Nesting fail.
Comeback fail.
Insecurity fail.
Just fail.
Considering her attack was a major fail in the first place, I didn’t think it merited any real effort. Meh.
Meh fail.
Jane pwned your ass. But you’re just too damn stubborn (or ignorant, they can be similar) to admit it.
I’m sorry, was this English? What’s the matter, need another hit of the sauce before you work up to such devastating insults as “poodledoggie”?
Actually, I find what you’re saying, in this context, to be ridiculously absurd. I mean, I could ask about whether they were mad during the first wtc attack under Clinton. But it’s pointless. If you think foreign policy is best served by bowing deeply to murderous dictators in the hopes that they won’t come after us, you’re quite simply a fool and there’s no point even discussing it with you. When you mature into an adult who lives in the real world, we can talk again. I won’t hold my breath.
Nah, you’re right. Let’s just invade every country with a dictator we don’t like. That sounds perfectly reasonable. @@
I’ll freely admit that douche bags like Kim Jong Il scare the crap out of me. But I don’t like the idea of just going in there, taking over North Korea and killing him just in case, which it sounds like you advocate. No country should be allowed to do that.
There’s seldom reason to invade most anyplace. The cold war was won without a shot fired. A show of force, mutually assured destruction; things of this nature work just fine. In this case 100 nukes aimed at 100 Muslim cities that we assure them will go off the next time there is an Arab Muslim attack on US soil or ship or embassy; see how that affects their mood. A credible threat is the point behind never having to USE it. And yes, the willingness to use it has to be there. We can’t use the exact tactics of the cold war because these people take shelter inside, are aided and abetted by evil regimes – the willingness to destroy their hidey-holes, and let them know we will do it, is key to this one. We don’t see eye to eye; that doesn’t make me insane, stupid or wrong. These strategies have been propounded and discussed by people with far more knowledge and wisdom and experience of war and the minds of the people we’re fighting than I have.
As to something like Hamas – when you raise your child to be an explosive device, you lose the right to weep on television and garner my sympathy. There will be none. That is inhuman.
Wow, that’s beyond ridiculous. You want to threaten the entire Middle East with nukes because of the actions of terrorists? That’s a great idea. Let’s let bigotry decide foreign affairs for us. Amazing.
And just because other people have discussed doing something like it doesn’t make them any less insane, stupid, or wrong than you clearly are.
… so you seriously want to kill MILLIONS of innocent people, or threaten their lives in that case, to make their leaders fear you? Do you realize how heartless that sounds? Just because the end works doesn’t justify the means. The nuke was the worst thing to ever be invented. And again, let me reiterate my past arguments. Right and wrong are subjective. What’s right to one person is wrong to another. We need to learn how to identify with others so that we won’t make enemies to start with. The fact that Teran was willing to even TALK to us was a sign of moving forward.
Ironically, you make Putin look like an innocent baby.
So you want to fight terrorists and the concept of terrorism by using a form of terrorism…
*facepalm*
There is some logic in what she is saying but it is buried under mounds of idiocy, fear mongering, and blatant hatred.
And booze, don’t forget the booze (you may have missed the thread where she admitted to posting drunk).
I don’t really care if she was drunk, and yeah some of the stuff she says makes sense, but then takes it to a tangent thought that no one should be following. Threatening entire communities as proventitive measures against small radical groups with fear and violence as a tool would be hypocritical of us.
That and it would make more enemies instead of actually stop them.
Pointing guns at Russia didn’t stop them, they pointed guns right back. It was economics that crushed them and that wasn’t much of anything we did, if I recall correctly without a full dose of caffeine.
Exactly. We would lose even more support than we already have from other nations, and we would be bullying the muslim communities in the countries we’re supposed to be “bringing democracy” to.
I’d be pointing at the part where it’s hideously wrong, but y’know, they’re all valid criticisms.
Er, no, actually I was not drunk and I assure you I meant every word I said. Whether you like it or not is of no concern to me.
Sober, drunk, doesn’t matter. You’re still nuts.
By the way, 13000 terrorist attacks worldwide by Muslim factions is not a “small radical group” no matter how you slice it. The countries/cities who support it have to know that there will be sure and swift retribution if there are any more attacks against us.
Considering that we have been bombing places to hell and back and that history has shown that we have used nukes in the past…
Yes, that totally stopped planes being flown into… Wait a minute…
Seriously though, the terrorists aren’t patriotic, they are religious crusaders. Apply pressure to a country and they will just leave. Hell, we’ve already been bombing shooting things and there has still been terrorist activity.
I think you are seriously underestimating the concept of a suicide bomber. You can’t threaten them. They are already going to die and thus they don’t care. If anything, threatening strengthens their resolve.
I think you missed the part where they are killing themselves to kill you. Kinda defeats the whole punishment thing.
No, that’s the thing; I’m NOT underestimating the suicide bomber. Which is precisely why I pointed out the Kamikazes – did you seriously miss what happened there? You couldn’t threaten them directly – not with torture, or imprisonment or death, right? What is it that stopped them, finally? Do you recall?
This is little different – different, but not much. For one thing, I guarantee when you have Amir and he says “Allah Akbar! Put me to death!” there actually ARE ways of putting pressure on him – when you have everyone he knows with a knife at their throats, everyone he’s ever known – his children, his wife, his parents, his brothers – his tune will change. But that’s not the point because this isn’t about that.
As you explain, these are not men with a country to hold allegiance to (thank you for finally telling your friends why the Geneva Convention was irrelevant, tho) BUT they are absolutely dependent on their host nations, the ones who are friendly to their cause and allow them to operate. The first WTC bomber was operating openly in Baghdad, for example. Suicide bombers likewise use human shields. Societal shields like their host cities/countries and human shields. It is THOSE countries and THOSE places and THOSE people that have to know they can’t do that anymore. That the terrorists are GOING to be flushed out into the open and that we know they can’t operate without AID and we are going to pose a direct threat to everyone who aids them should they allow anything to happen again.
We’ll never have to fire.
At any rate, combined with good intelligence (that thing Obama has just destroyed probably forever) we wouldn’t have to worry. Now, we have to worry. Presenting a weak face to the world, counting on “love” from factions who only hate, destroying intelligence – no, now we have reason to fear, and it’ll be on your heads this time for going along with it. Link to an amusing video on how far “Obama love” has gotten us. Heh.
By the way, moron, first of all you’ll never know if I’m drunk because I still produce the same grammatical correctness (or lack thereof), spelling, and generally the same sentiments, even the same logic. There are a couple ways to tell, but even my best friends seldom recognize them, so I doubt if you ever could. It’s a pretty sure bet that when I’m posting from WORK as I normally do, then no alcohol, duh. Remember? Evenings? What Fister thinks is a Burger King shift (with internet LOL)? Overnight it’s a crap shoot.
Look, I expect the real lowlives around here to use that ammunition – I gave it to them and the Froo-frou dogs and the St Clairs and Fistys and maybe even rhos, and all the little cheerleader puppies will use it. But I honestly expect better from you than that. Just keep that in mind.
Considering I haven’t said much in the way of your sobriety, who is the real moron here?
As for the rest of it, think of it this way. Sure we drive them underground but that doesn’t stop them.
Also, you bring up an irrelevant threat of their families and children. The reason it is irrelevant is that most of them are unconnected or distant enough from their family where giving up their lives isn’t as big of a deal. Secondly, we aren’t that kind of nation. Period.
And to pose a threat, we actually have to make good on it. The threat as it is, has evolved beyond a cold war. Even the cold war only was a victory for us by default of their own economy, not our actions. Our actions of the gun to the head actually strengthened their resolve, adding subjective reason to their conviction.
So no, the threat tactics you speak of merely make us more enemies for if we were to make such threats, threats would come back at us. Countries just don’t let other countries point guns to their heads, not countries with any self respect.
If anything, such a threat would increase membership as they would all have a common enemy, us. There is no strength in bullying and you forget how things really worked back then with Japan. Like I said, the enemy evolved and the culture is radically different.
Muslims are not simply interchangable with WW2 era Japanese. Modern day Japanese aren’t even interchangable with WW2 Japanese so your point is weak at best.
Finally, I will return to the sobriety point in that I haven’t even mentioned it in any of this discussion. I did mention it below but it was after it was brought up a second time and even then as a joke.
So you can quit dwelling on it and worry about reality and history.
Btw, I DID comment on your sobriety. Maybe if you didn’t throw out insults like “azzwipe” and “dumazz” to anyone who disagrees with you, or tried to reign in your temper tantrums that would make a three year old proud I would treat you with a little respect. However, you do all those things and more so I care little about your feelings. If it bothers you so much, maybe you should have thought about it before you tried to blame your insane ramblings on your alcohol intake.
You scare the hell out me. More then any terrorist. When your own countrymen are scared of you it’s time to re-think things.
Well, according to your previous logic, if Muslim factions are causing the problem, then threatening all Muslims is the answer. And threatening terrorists just encourages them.
Are we back to the denial phase? Awwww, and we were doing so well.
Of course, can’t forget the booze. Now I need to make sure I am not stiffing you for your continued support. *bites*
*purrs*
*pets and cuddles* Good to be in charge.
This is a response to your longer reply – there’s no “reply” button showing there. I think I’m going to just have to say I really heartily disagree with most of what you said. Also to point out you’re putting words in my mouth (or ideas) that I haven’t put forth; unintentionally twisting my meaning.
Other than that I disagree with your assessment, I would like to add that people have always blamed America for attacks upon her – or said that being as strong as possible was only making us more enemies. This is not a new argument. But we’ve been safest when we were strong and willing to back up our mouths with actions – the enemies may change geographically and ethnically but the fact that we have them will never change, no matter how nice we are or how mean we are. The “radicalizing the enemy” meme is not new; we simply disagree as to its veracity, and both in the history I personally remember and that which I have only been able to study in as much depth as possible, I find it to be utter bullsh*t. Better an enemy afraid to attack than a friend like Arafat who soothes with words of honey while threatening in his own language to wipe Israel off the map. Some friends we don’t need and shouldn’t want.
Now Jane, I use “dumbazz” to beat the filters, azzwipe. Sometimes curse words seem to get bleeped and I don’t want to deprive you of my brilliance just because of a little thing like that, do I? No, I don’t. What kind of dumb drunk types the way he slurs physically? That’s…weird.
Or you could keep the profanity completely out of it and actually attempt to get a point across with your vocabulary. Just a thought.
Well…I happen to enjoy swearing and I don’t find it to dampen anyone’s point, either. If you’re above it, believe me that doesn’t say much because you’re not above saying things which are IMO a lot worse than mere swearing. It rings as hollow prudery.
For people who are worth the effort, I do curb my typing, provided they’re willing to meet me halfway. That’s for people worth the effort, though.
I have never claimed not to swear or tell people I think their opinions and claims are stupid, especially when not backed up by fact. If I had claimed that, then done it, there would be your “hollow prudery”.
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On the other hand, you claim to be erudite, educated, and more informed on the subjects on which you comment than the rest of us, so sinking to the level of profanity to make your point just makes you come off as a fussy broad with a superiority complex and a vocabulary that doesn’t rise to the level at which she sees herself.
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Just sayin’.
@Anniee’s swearing post
My lord. I agree with Anniee about something. Swear on, sister! There are far more heinous words out there than swear words, and it’s all in the intent, not the words.
Now why did you go and do that, Eric? You’re just feeding the troll!!
Beatings will be issued!!!!
Is that a promise?
Always.
Don’t worry about frou’s response. I wasn’t jizzing in my pants to make a gushy reply. I just don’t see the harm in swearing or find it to be “sinking” to any low level. It is what it is – just words. I hold to the South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut view of swearing. Libertarian, remember? Frankly I find a well placed F-bomb to punctuate quite a good many points very well.
You don’t have any kind of moral problem with holding thousands of people hostage (at gunpoint no less!) in an attempt to ensure your own security, and are willing to carry through on that threat? With people who just don’t care about your hostages responsible for deciding when to pull the trigger?
Christ on a bike. You’re likely lying to protect your earlier bravado. If not, seek help, you are clearly a sociopath.
We figured that out a long time ago, Switch. Welcome to this club too. We have cookies, and tee shirts!
I can always use more cookies. They keep the strength up for extended bashing sessions (and other extended sessons that can’t be discussed in polite company).
What part of our conversations here led you to believe that we are “polite company”? hehehe.
I always go by the ‘in a crowd, never be the first one to get naked’ rule.
Crap. Well, I guess I should put my clothes back on then……
oh h3lls bells, don’t do that froo, give me a sec and i’ll join you in the nekkidness, just let me find my sunblock first
Yay!! Can we dance around a bonfire??
i’ll bring the marshmallows and the long pokey sticks, unless you have some from poking the trolls?
but i forgot the chocolate ;(
I have chocolate, and I’ll bring the graham crackers! *strips nekkid and runs into the night*
I don’t believe that’s what it is – what you describe as “hostages” at all. It’s putting our own US interests and safety ahead of others, and I’m perfectly comfortable with that. It’s not necessarily the only way to accomplish it; just one plausible idea. Your leader’s plan for nuclear disarmament is sure to work better though, *snerk.* I’m putting a link to the original article because it’s actually just as good now as it was then. Sociopath? You’re the sociopath if you want to reason with madmen. If 9/11 didn’t grow you up, you never will be.
We did the far kinder thing by liberating Iraq. Despite all the weenie whinging from doves like you, we set them free instead of killing them and instilling a healthy fear in the rest of the terrorist cradles. You ought to be grateful, instead you try to prosecute for war crimes. Ptbuh. Disgusting weakness.
*I* would rather we do the evil that has to be done now so that my *children* don’t have to deal with the consequences of our weak inaction later. You are too selfish for that.
I’d rather not condone the kind of acts that qualify someone as evil. I’d rather not live in a society where such things are seen as acceptable. And I definitely don’t want to live in a world where imaginary lines on the ground mean that I can not care about people who live on the other side of the hills. And I sure as hell don’t want any kids I may have to have those things thrust upon them.
The idea that Iraq is somehow ‘better off’ now is laughable. Quality of life has plummeted, and they will end up with a religous despotism rather than a secular one due to the horrible mismanagement of every single step of the operation beyond the very first. If you think this will somehow deter terrorists, look at all the ones in that very country doing their level best to kill any westerner they can lay hands on.
Strength and courage are about sticking to your convictions, and refusing to do what is wrong because it’s useful.
There’s a line between patriotism and jingoism. Which side are you on, Frank Burns?
Also, a key symptom of Antisocial personality disorder (sociopath) is a lack of empathy. You clearly have none and are extraordinarily self-centered and short sighted. Mostly when people want to talk or negotiate it’s because they can empathize on some level with the other person. In my opinion, you’re proposed foreign “relations” policy has a distinct lack of empathy, and treat real live human beings as chattel. Just because they may not act like your neighbors doesn’t mean their lives are worth less then yours.
I am going to break this down simply. If I recall, youu claim to be a god fearing gal so I will ask this.
If I put a gun to your head, would you renounce your faith? If I put a gun to the heads of your loved ones, would you renounce your faith? If yes, you don’t have faith to begin with or a weak faith at best. If no, then you now realize why a threat wouldn’t stop jihadist.
It is that simple, if you threaten an entire country to get a small group, you make the entire country a part of that small group, swelling their ranks. You don’t remove cancer with a shotgun.
The Japanese were loyal to their country thus pressure on their country could work. The jihadist we face are loyal to their concept of God, who isn’t swayed by foreign pressure.
If anything, the bullying and cowardly weakness you show in wanting to attack innocents with vague hopes that it will affect the unaffected is disturbing. It isn’t strength to make enemies with arrogance. If somebody attacks us, sure, kill them. Without hesitation.
However, attacking their neighbors with some vague idea of it all being relative just makes us another enemy. We’ve killed hundreds of their direct comrades and a number of their families and still they come at us.
Your point and idea has no merit. When will you actually realize that?
And this is why I love reading your rants DWN. Mostly because you can deliver the same point I’m trying to, but you do it so much better.
Unfortunately, I doubt my success. I am dealing with a person with the same mentality as our enemies. But I do appreciate your kind words, tis an honor and privilege to be of service.
If she was a Muslim man, I could expect a bomb under her shirt and a few dead soldiers…
For those playing the home game, I will break it down.
They don’t care for the lives of innocents they take. She does not care for the lives of innocents taken.
They have a complete sense of self belief in which they cannot be wrong. She has a complete sense of self belief in which she cannot be wrong.
They condone terrorist actions. She condones terrorist actions.
They believe that the only strength is fear. She believes that the only strength is fear.
Need I go on?
It’s something I’ve seen brewing in many pro war people, lately. They attribute religious radicals and terrorists with the religion and think everyone under that religion idolizes the action those radicals take. It’s actually pretty amusing considering that if terrorism were so widespread in Christianity here, we would know better than to clump Christian terrorists with *all* Christians. I leave blame to our country’s ignorance of Muslim lifestyle.
Does make me wonder if I can snap them out of it by asking if the KKK represents all Christians and when they say no, I will ask why they assume all Muslims are terrorists if all Christians don’t belong to the KKK…
However, I have been known to be addicted to wishful thinking.
especially since in the Islamic religion it is worse to take an innocent life than to take your own. It’s considered the worst sin you can commit. I am one to agree as well.
I know, right? If they knew my brother in law Nadeem and how he practices his religion, his view on radicals and on how we’ve handled the situation, I’m sure they’d view this subject differently.
I dated a muslim guy for a half a year, didn’t go over well with my dad, but he’s the nicest guy I know. very respectful and very kind, he’s also the only guy that i’ve ever dated that held the door open for me, stood when I walked in the room, the whole nine yards when it came to chivalry. I don’t understand this preconceived notion that they’re all @ssholes.
Easier to hate than to learn and they are just lazy in their ignorance.
^^ Yeah, they can be very nice people. Nadeem doesn’t eat pork, prays toward Mecca, practices Ramadan (sp?), and loves to smoke from a hooka every once in a while, but he’s very normal. He dislike radicals in any form, and takes a very relaxed perspective when it comes to differing views, and he’s a funny guy. He’s even a gamer, like me. His family comes from Kenya with a Muslim background (family is originally from the middle east, but moved to Kenya to start a business). Just wish more people could look past the religion and the traditions and see them for what they really are. I guess it’s too much to ask sometimes.
I guess I’ve ranted long enough. >.> On to other topics!
Aww, poor little Putin isn’t evil, he’s just misunderstood. And by misunderstood I mean “eats babies with a pitchfork”…
particulary? I’m making up words now?
…quick quiz— which is better: Hitler or asparagus?…
…stop that…
…the inversenet is supposed to make sense…
…then a man came out in a…jacket…
…and he said: “Hey Quaid, where you wanna’ go? You wanna’ Ju go to Jupiter?”…
…”I’m not crazy! I”m goin’ to Mars!!”…
…”…so I looked at the screen and ‘en I saw screenshots of Mars and I saw my eyes buggin’ out all over the place!!”…
…( amend quotes in last post )…
…and he gave me a package; I said I wanted to be a secret spy and called ‘Hauser’…
…”I’m Quaid!”…
…so I got in deh chair and they stuck a thing in my neck…and I flipped out cause’ they blew my cover…
…”You blew my coverrrrr!!”…
…”You blew my coverrrrr!”…
…( internet sing-along )…
…( chorus )…
…For a memory of a lifetime:…
…re-caul…
…recall…
…recawlllllll…
Guys, why are you bothering to argue with Anniee? Anyone who’s actually sitting there after the last three weeks and saying shit like “the world is laughing at us” is obviously incapable of reading – or at least incapable of reading anything but her cherished blogroll of psychotic reactionaries. If she were capable of reading any other sources she would have known already that Americans are being greeted with more warmth and respect now than when her little tin pot dictator masquerading as “Leader of the Free World” was abroad.
I can’t help it. I was just flummoxed that she wanted to hold nations hostage in order to obtain peace.
Yeah, I was a bit nonplussed by that. I really hope she’s lying on that one. I’d hate to think that there are actually people that horribly fvcked up.
She’s not lying, unfortunately. What she has done is forget that there is a huge difference between holding countries hostage and simply having an itchy trigger finger, ready in case of emergency. What’s she’s proposing is nothing short of terrorism herself.
Exactly. Having the means for self-defence on hand is perfectly justifiable. trying to hold a club over the head of anyone who might hurt you is not.
Although my personal preference is still nonviolent resistance, but that’s a matter of individual moral codes.
I still stand by my ascertainment that the nuke is the worst thing ever invented. Even Einstein, the poor man, said as much. What we did to Japan is horrible, there is still residual radiation in some areas and there were many innocent people sickened and killed. Having a weapon and being ready to use it is one thing, using it on people who have NOTHING to do with your war is another. Consider how many live in the Middle East, and then how many are part of the extremists who want to kill us. It’s actually a very small fraction. Though it’s a growing one no thanks to things such as Annie posted. It’s frightening that, if she is indeed speaking truthfully, just how many sociopathic signs she shows.
ROFL!
Assertion, perhaps? You lost me at “ascertainment.” It’s a transitive verb, after all…
Grammatically incorrect ideological rant, FTL!
okay, so one word made it to where my entire argument became moot? and just for the record, my computer likes to auto correct… everything. and I type VERY fast >>
Sociopath? Hehe – the net, SRS BZNZ!
You want to see sociopathy? Look at the video behind my name. That’s what **children** are shown in the Gaza Strip. There’s your sociopathy. I prefer to live a decent and civilized life with liberty and the pursuit of happiness, thanks. I’ll take care of my family and I won’t hurt anyone who doesn’t hurt me. It’s the job of our government to provide defense against sociopathic societies, and whatever that costs, it costs.
yea but you gotta admit the idea that you’re willing to hold others families hostage is wrong. but meh, just saying, that is a sign of sociopathic tendencies. Which isn’t really all that bad, since one in four American’s is one, and one in two has at least some symptoms. We’re a competitive nation, can’t help it.
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And I’m not arguing about Gaza. I don’t know about other cultures, what makes them tick, so I don’t pass judgment on them. I was just saying that the idea that you would want to do that to the middle east worries me.
You know, I read your post there and it sounds as though you think that video’s real!
Because it’s fun?
i’m still trying to figure out why i was ‘discussing’ things with her last week…. the more she writes, the more she sounds not quite right in the head, like maybe she’s been mixing the g w bush koolaide way too strong.
or putting too much Limbaugh “Sugar”-strange white powder, oh, my headaches gone- in.
when are these righty-tighties going to learn it’s not good to mix their drugs? weird sh!t & prescription drugs make for delusions of being god, and washing it all down with jack daniels causes them to want to share their psychotic rants
Yes, because the Left has none of those
more like the left has been doing things like that for so long they know how to do it without turning into raving loonies at the first opportunity on an anonymous blog site (and if we do turn into raving loonies, at least we know we’re doing it )
nesting FAIL!
over talk radio no less! where others who are doing the exact same are listening, and thus, we have our current mess. *shakes head* see, and here I get off of my pain pills whenever I can. i cant’ understand why someone takes them because they want to!
It depends on your personality, I’ve found. I don’t have an addictive personality, so I don’t find it difficult to take a drag off a cigarette and put it back down, take a drink of a daquiri and set it back down, or get off my pain meds when I am no longer in pain. I know too many of my friends, however, who DO have addictive personalities, and find it difficult to take one drink without turning it into a whole bottle, or take one drag off a cigarette without smoking the whole pack. So I don’t understand it either, but I can sympathize.
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As far as the Left not turning into raving loonies, I guess that depends on your definition of raving looney, LOL. I personally think you guys are just better at hiding your nut jobs than we are
That actually explains quite a bit. I hate being on pain meds, even though I get killer migraines, long story short surgeries on face meant moving muscle from my head and now I get headaches from where the muscle used to be, so the idea of being on oxycotin of all things… much less taking more than one a DAY! *shivers* he’s crazy.
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Generally I don’t reveal my crazy until I can use it to my advantage. Though, we do have a problem with Nadar. No one seems to be able to keep him in his hole.
I hate the way that “upper” meds make me feel…..hence, the extra few pounds because I hate the jittery feeling of diet pills, LOL. Downer meds make me useless, so I get off them as quick as I can, as you seem to. Migrane meds make me sick…..*sigh* I try to stick to Tylenol, since it’s got the fewest side effects.
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What about the Roaming Gnome, Dennis Kucinich? Do you guys consider him a nut? ‘Cause he’s a little nutty from where I stand
i see the gnome as being a little close to the shallow end of the pool too
most of our nuts are either in an institution, channel their insanity into usefull things, or we just ignore them. they’re there, we have the full blown nutcases (peta anyone?) but they tend to blend and hide until they strike
I’m not sure if that makes the Right better or worse about that. At least you can see our nutjobs coming from ten miles away (Fred Phelps, anyone?)
Dont’ get me started on PETA. And yea, our nutjobs sneak up on you and then throw paint on you for breathing the same air as that poor defenseless bunny. you’re stealing the bunnies air, damn it froo!
Shhh!! Be vewy kwiet, I’m steewing bunny air.
i quit drinking when i became a single parent – had to grow up and be responsible, and it was a good thing because i rarely had hangovers and drank a lot. did a lot of stupid things then too that now in a world of aids and e and date rape drugs i wouldn’t likely survive.
but i was married to a drunk for a very long time, i understood why he’d want an occassional something to take the edge off the day, but the daily thing? i never got that. my middle is borderline ocd, and tends to go overboard, so addiction has always been a worry with her, but she’s chosen at least for now to not do unhealthy things. the youngest, she’s just made her 1 year clean and sober and is still in high school. i also have a couple renters that are clean and sober, one is 19 and has 5 yrs in, and the other is about 8 months. we talk about things once in a while – they call me a ‘normie’ but we talk about how everyone is f’d up in one way or another, just others develop other coping mechanisms. the 19 yr old was very surprised by that and we’ve ended up talking about my coping mech’s and that helped him decide that it was ok see a shrink and be on anti-depressants since they were’t his drug of choice.
part of me understands the wanting to subsume whatever they are running from, yet i also understand that cr@p not dealt with, comes back like bad seafood and lays you lower than ever. anyway, don’t need a book here, lol!
I never understood the daily thing either. Last thing I can do if I drink one night is drink the next. Once a week, sometimes twice, is more than enough.
I like margarita’s… all I’m gonna say lol
lol, oldest brought home some GOOD tiquila from mexico a few months ago – made me a convert
but depending on who i’m with i either drink single malt scotch or the specialty drinks with the cheesy glasses. and in the summer it’s good gin, tonic water and key limes squeezed in, but not the regular ones, gotta be the itty bitty keys. just don’t drink gin & tonic if you’re going to be inthe sun – makes the burns worse, but in the evening after mowing – perfect
I’ve only had gin once and it was straight up, tasted like old salty socks. Quite bitter. But I’ve had absenthe before, quite good that, especially if you can get your hands on the old school 50% worm wood stuff >:)
lol it’s okay. I was born with a rare disease at birth that made me have to have a tumor removed from my face that left me with a somewhat unflattering scar. It’s taken me a very long time to come to grips from looking one way most of my life, to looking this way, and the depression and the anxiety and suddenly feeling not normal was overwhelming sometimes. But I never even thought about going down the route of drugs or alcohol or anything like that. My outlet is my writing and my art, which was my saving grace and coping mechanism. I’m f>cked up in that now I don’t trust whether someone who is very attractive and who is asking me on a date really wants to or is messing with me. I’m trying to gripe the fact that, apparently even with a scar, I’m considered ‘hot’.
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I guess what I’m getting at is I can understand as well. I went down that road. But I never thought of doing something like that to myself since I figured I’ve been through enough, why add another burden to it?
Apparently, scars are the new Sexy. I think it’s awesome
I’ll try to find the article I read the other day about it……Padma (something….she’s on Next Food Network Star) was the spokeperson for the article. She’s got a big honking scar down her right arm that she’s never talked about. I’ll see if I can find that article for you.
oh she’s the Top Chef host! I love her! She’s so gorgeous it’s ridiculous. I would tap that if i were into girls. Sadly… men like Vin Diesel and Jared Padalecki are more my style *growl*
Yick, you can keep your Vin Diesel! I want Dewayne Johnson
*slurp!*
meh, how about The Rock?
He was hilarious this saturday on SNL.
I MISSED THE ROCK ON SNL??????????? *throws self off cliff*
lol sorry love, and he wore this fantastic vest with no shirt underneath, so you got to see those MASSIVE arms of his.
*cries into her Cheerios*
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I saw him the first time he hosted, when Big Show and Triple H were there with him. I laughed myself to tears when Big Show came into the dressing room carrying Chris Kattan like a baby and told Vince “Hey, look what I found! Can I keep it??”
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Also, The Rock singing Elvis *melts*
I liked when he dressed up as a woman. A very manly woman at that. Oh that one had me in tears. This one he opened up with a broadway number saying “I’m still tough!” while shaking his booty and doing shimmies…. I was nearly in stitches. And then they did a sketch about Hawaii hotels and stuff and had him in a grass skirt dancing around and mocking tourists. Youtube might have it.
what is their obsession with Jeopardy on that show? I miss the days of Norm when he was there doing the skits for Jeopardy, for some reason Sean Connery hated Trebek and it was awesome. No I haven’t seen that though. Hmmm… google is a wonderful thing. I just want my Jared Padalecki to go on the show, it would be marvelous.
Jeopardy is such rich fodder for lampooning!! Especially when you’ve got “Connery” always making something sexual out of the categories!! “I’ll take ‘The Rapists’ for $500, Alex.” “That’s ‘Therapists’ for $500, Sean.” GOLD!!!!
it’s something i don’t get either – i hate having my mind as screwed up as it is, why would i want to chemically enhance that? i even have trouble with the idea of having to take my cholesteral and blood pressure meds – just don’t like taking stuff at all….don’t know what it’ll be like when i need to go on insulin…
haha you’re like me! I hate taking anything, at all. Zyrtec is sometimes pushing it with me, and I live in Texas.
Which part? (of Texas. You don’t have to get specific, I’m just curious)
central, allergy capital of the states. CEDAR IS SPAWN OF SATAN
LOL. I’m in central Texas as well. At least we don’t have pine trees here!! (A POX on all pine trees and those who defend them!!!!!!! FIE!! FIE!!!!!)
naw, ragweed, corn, and cottonwoods are the spawn of STAAN!
i lived just a little ways north of dallas for a couple years – it was wicked, but not as bad as missouri & illinois
I dare you to go to East Texas or any of the Dixie Southern states (Alabama, Mississippi) and deal with the pine trees and azaleas
I’m glad to be where I am now. It could be worse.
but froo, pines have ambition, they are always reaching to the stars, most other trees get to a certian height, and then just give up and start getting wider – no ambition!
see and I lived in the North most of my life. The cedar up there did NOTHING to me at all. come down here, good for two years, then BAM! Hell, just two weeks ago I had to go to the doctor since an allergic reaction to something, I’m not allergic to anything by the way, went systemic and I was covered in hives. >.< Stupid Texas, trying to kill me.
actually been there, done that – louisiana, georgia, alabama and it’s the humidity that kills me along with the heat…
but the farm crops on the other side of the state – wheat, corn, soy, plus ragweed — sniffles from spring to first heavy fall rain. and sinus migrains, and that sloshy feeling when you bend over that your brain is waterlogged and if you move too fast you can get seasick
i’m in the pac nw now on the wet side and it’s pines, azalea’s and rhodidendrons everywhere. they never did bother me
ps — the bit about the pines frou – just teasing a bit – dang thing self posted before i was done, grrr
Stupid pines and their stupid reaching for the stars and trying to inspire me *kicks rocks* *kicks pines*
That’s another good thing about central Texas…..very little humidity!! It’s a DRY heat that you’re melting in!
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Alicia, have you tried eating native honey? Mom swears by it…..don’t get stuff from even a county over, try to find a beekeeper within ten miles of you if that’s possible. Apparently, the bees create a natural immunity to local pollens and allergens in the honey. It’s worth a shot, anyway!
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Fairie, screw you and your humidity
texas IS tryin’ to gitcha ’cause y’alls a d*mn yankee don’
ya know!
not to mention now there is talk of succeeding (sp?) from the union because some twits decided they don’t like the upcoming budget – or at least that’s their excuse…i think it’s because they can’t handle a non-’good ol’ boy’ in the white house…
Texas has been whispering about seceding for YEARS. It’s still not serious, and a pox on Useless Perry for even implying it! Chuck Norris is taking himself too seriously if he thinks we want him as the President of the seceded Texas. But, in defense of the state, I doubt highly that it has any more to do with what color is in the White House as opposed to what party. Texas is an incredibly red state, except for Austin. Also, I think Texas is probably one of the few states (including Alaska) that might actually be able to get away with seceding. We have far too many natural resources that other states depend on.
ah Perry, shame he shares my family name. and I’ve heard of the honey. I’ve been meaning to look into that actually. It helped me before we moved, but we went from one county to another so now I guess I have to find a new bee keeper. *pulls out phone book?*
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I can’t help it I was born in the North! Where it snows and actually gets cold and everything is GREEN! Though, with all this rain things are looking pretty nice right now, huh Froo?
sorry frou, couldn’t help that pine trees are inspiring…. always helped me to lean against one when the days were rough
dry heat sounds good (until it’s about 95) it’s what i grew up with. do you get the tornadoes? them and the roaches, tarantulas, and ground crawdads i don’t miss. or the dallas humidity either
no texas is generally 100+ in the summers.
@ Fairie: Tornadoes, straight line winds, roaches (the big water roaches AND the little German ones), tarantulas……I don’t have a problem with the crawdads, though. Too dry here. We keep the house VERY clean the keep the creepy crawlies out.
And yes, it’s pretty with the rain, except for my brand spanking new flower beds are all flooded. *sigh* At least the blue bonnets will be pretty for a month or two longer. Too bad we didn’t get the rain two months ago, they’d be everywhere.
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Alicia: I was born slightly south of the Mason/Dixon, but north enough that we got waist deep snow on occasion. What these little westerners call snow is spit to me
gah, we need an edit button, it present it! Grrrr… I was going to say texas is 100+ in the summer so the dry heat doesn’t even apply >.< it’s god awful.
green is good, until it never does anything else – our seasons here are rain (fall), heavy rain (winter), rain (spring), sunshine (random days during the spring when you have to be at work), rain, rain, rain, sunburns (late aug – early sept), rain (fall)… and when it’s not raining, the skies are grey and overcast about 9 months out of the year. and we rarely get those killing frosts that turn the trees brilliant colors. some years they just turn brown and fall off in dec & jan. there are times that i’d kill for 4 seasons again, lol
Texas has four seasons……. Hot spring, hotter summer, even hotter fall, and a couple of semi-tolerable days in the winter. But we do have evergreen trees and some really nice oak colors in the fall. Oh, and Bluebonnets!
@froo you should see Grosebeck right about now, its flooded with them. it’s beautiful. I know right! Snow… is up to my ankle or calf, not a few inches. And ice, a small sheath of it, and everything is shut down! I mean, what happened this year on the toll roads was CLASSIC. Had me laughing for days. Oh, and don’t remind me about the huge tree roaches, gah, there was one in my tub the other day. Clorox kills all.
Damn, you’re about an hour from me
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And yes, ice, God forbid, in Texas shuts down the entire state, hehe. Also, have you driven in Houston when it rains? The entire road STOPS. It’s like they’re saying “OMG it’s a puddle!! I might hydroplane!” or “OMG it’s a puddle! What is that??? Let’s stop and look!!” I hate Texas drivers!
apologies for any offended hunters out there, but texas hunting i never understood – how can it be called hunting when the guys would build a tree house over a deer trail and then wait for a deer to mozey along underneath of them… and on rather flat land at that?
anyway, i did learn a few things to control bugs living down there, and have learned about a few more lately – like this clear gel stuff you can put down instead of using boric acid and it’s supposed to work just as well?
Because deer are evil, horrible creatures, and they must be stopped. Also because we have too damn many of them
i’d forgotten about the state shutting down for a skiff of snow or ice on the road — moved down there in the fall and the oldest had been walking to the bus in about 8 in of snow, so when the first snow fell i thought nothing of it and sent her off to the bus stop. she comes home and thought she’d missed the bus so we go flying into town and the school is dark and locked… my first clue to the wonderful edumakashon she got there….
loved the blue bonnets though. i’ve tried to grow them up here, but my black thumb strikes again, lol
oh, tea party froo, you bring the evil botanical and i’ll bring my notoriously addictive snickerdoodles. they don’t have crack in them at all. really.
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I love the cold. I used to go walking in the snow. But Texas, when I was in school still, shutting down always felt fantastic on an ‘ice’ day. we’d pray for those in February. this years winter sucked hairy monkey balls. I never said I’m in Grosebeck though, lol, just that I go there from time to time.
it isn’t the hunting the deer i didn’t get, i grew up hunting. of course the key word is hunting, not lurking in a tree house waiting to get lucky (and on flat land)
and if you want a deer, elk, or goat, you gotta go find one, they don’t come find us and say, oh, i’m tired, i’m going to stand under you until you sober up so you can shoot me /*sarcasm over*\ booze and loaded weapons don’t mix even if you are the vp and you’re hunting lawyers. ooops, my bad, he was hunting with lawyers
i mean out here, our land goes up and down like our trees
hey, ever had goat? it’s surprisingly tasty. and lord forbid if a hunter would have to actually HUNT his food
oooh snickerdoodles, my current soft spot right after pecan sandies… i miss the pecan tree i had next door – is my favorite nut and it’s just too cold here for them, but if i ever get into a warm pocket, i’m trying my luck with a couple just for the absolute h3ll of it.
and yes, please leave the crack out and the ‘special oregano’ too…. i do have to have a clean and sober house now…. good thing they don’t know about my secret hidey hole where i keep my scotch
is that mountain goat or domestic goat gone feral,? i’ve had both
mostly yum, but like deer and antelope, depends on what they’ve been eating*. moose is good too, and elk is like deer, but caribou while having the same feel as deer & elk, tastes different.
*beware of anything living off sagebrush! pungent doesn’t begin to describe the aroma!
Elk, in my opinion, is better than deer. And, you get more meat off the carcass.
haven’t had either, note to self.
Froufrou – did YOU see Giuliani on SNL doing the sketch in drag with Cheri Oteri? Deadpanning his lines?
Now THAT was comedy. Unfortunately the very social conservatives just wouldn’t even consider him as a nominee because he was pro-choice. They better get with the times.
You know, the one where Oteri called the local hooligans spoon-cookers? That one. Heh.
I just chalk my raving loony tendencies on being German. Somehow, someway, it always seems to work.
I’m gonna move down here since I’m tired of chasing the reply button, hehe.
I hear the people smell, anyway 
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@ Fairie: Your land goes up and down, our land is pretty well flat, so the only thing we can do is build a little tree house and hope a deer comes moseying on past. I agree about the drinking and guns, although there’s nothing funnier than a “hunter” falling ass first out of his stand after having drank too much to sit straight, hehe.
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Alicia: Fine then, don’t live in Grosebeck
sounds like a cousin of mine hunting said tasty goat… oh my family. and reply buttons can be tricky things, like bunnies. Stop stealing its air!
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I’m good with not living in Grosebeck, since I’m related to half the dang town anyway and all that’s there really is one food place, a grocery store, antique shop, and a stop light. Oooooh fun times.
I know too many…..ahem…..Hispanic-American Illegal Immigrants who cook goat the old-fashioned way: throw the entire carcass, hair and all, onto a fire and wait for it to roast. I’ve heard it’s good, but I refuse to try it.
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And Grosebeck is one of those towns out in the middle of BFE. There really is a lot of no-man’s land in Texas, and I think most of it is in north central Texas, and east Texas. It’s Godforsaken, and I don’t care who you talk to.
do try it – the hide protects the meat from the coals and holds the juice in. it sounds, um, odd by our standards, but not much different than how the hawaiians bbq pork. good stuff!
I’m not sure I could get past the smell of the burning hair.
lol, the hair burns way, way, way before the meat is done so the smell has dissapated
Alicia, have you ever been to (or heard of) a town called Center, over in East Texas? You think Grosebeck is bad……
No i haven’t, but note to self to google that. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was worse than Grosebeck. Or Gruene. Oh god, I hate gruene! I don’t understand why people go there! It’s a tourist town that has nothing but shops for cr@p in it! >.< So boring.
about time one of us was sensible
i actually understand about the need to be up in a stand to get some altitude, but i’ve seen too many pics of stands built directly over the deer trails – it’s like the hunter is going to jump down on the deer and wrassle with it instead of shooting the beast… or maybe drop rocks on it…. it’s a difference in landscape, but then the first time i heard about how deer hunting was done some fellow had been telling me about the mountains he hunted in about 30 min away and pointed off to the distance. couldn’t quite bring myself to explain to him that mountains rise over the gullys, not stand in the wash and call it mountains. but we are spoiled out here, nature wise. not better, just different – you can see forever and we have stuff to look at, it’s both good. although the folk on the east side of the rockies have it the best, they can get the panorama one way and the mountains the other.
To be fair, my hubby is a bow hunter, and pretty much has to be over the deer trail to get close enough to shoot it. However, the image of him jumping out of the stand to wrestle the deer into submission has given me the giggles.
speaking of giggles, wonder if the current troll-lite has been getting her daily fix tonight?
I think she needs a few more drunk-posts to get her fill. I wonder if she’s noticed that we’re ignoring her?
ack, i got totally distracted by an email in another page — add strikes again, must have several web sites open at once! it looks like she tried to join in up above, but i wasn’t here to ignore her at all…. ah well, butter luck next time, lol, although this was fun
my dad lives up in Monument, CO, beautiful place, nestled in the roots of the Rockies. Love that town. But here in Central that’s West Lake, the hills are really pretty. Of course, granted, if you can overlook the HUGE mansions that just break up the tree lines.
over talk radio no less! where others who are doing the exact same are listening, and thus, we have our current mess. *shakes head* see, and here I get off of my pain pills whenever I can. i cant’ understand why someone takes them because they want to!
Oh, get serious. Booze is more than enough to make someone irrational and 99 percent of the stuff I say is said while sober anyway. Like I say, even my close friends can seldom recognize the signs by my typing that I’m even buzzed, much less drunk, so pfft. You sure couldn’t. Try to stick with the ammo I hand you; when you veer off program you sound retarded. Oh, and by the way, here’s a link to the 100 Muslim Cities plan (which, as I say, is one of many possible plans for ending this war, as the Cold War, without a shot and without loss of innocent life.) No civilized person wants to kill innocents, but in very difficult times it sometimes happens that it needs be to protect innocent life in civilized countries.
If Al Qaeda captures one of our men, they behead them in the cruelest and most drawn out method possible. We capture a countryless enemy combatant who was trying to kill us, and put a caterpillar in his tent (or – waterboard him on the lawyers’ say-so that it didn’t cross the line into torture) and it turns up intel that STOPS more attacks on OUR innocents? Yeah, I really don’t care whether you think it was mean or not.
You wanna torture someone? Tickle them until they can’t breathe. There’s one they didn’t think of.
I am bothering because I am having the sick thrill of kicking an intellectual rabid poodle. If I make a breakthrough, I will earn some karma points, if I make her froth and growl, then I get a cheap laugh.
Win/win.
You can’t call her a poodle. She’s already used that insult on me, and depleted her insult arsenal. You have to leave her a few things that are hers, as she has so few!!
Fine, fine. Some other little rat dog breed then.
In defense of poodles in general, bear in mind that they aren’t all little rat dogs. Standard poodle owners would beg to differ. [link] Oh, and I have no idea who the hell that is or what’s going on there, lol. But it does show the size of the dogs nicely.
Fine, giant fluffy rat…
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You can do this to a poodle, but then you’d deserve death by slow boiling.
Ok, that’s just bizarre! My mom’s got one (and he’s never ever had a silly haircut of any type!); he’s not the brightest dog in the world but he’s extremely good-natured.
I’ve found they’re either nice and stupid, or smart and the meanest dogs alive. I haven’t met a poodle I liked, along with Yellow Labs. A pox on all yellow Labs! The black and chocolate ones are fine, but the yellow ones have an extra dose of stupid in their genes!
I can’t disprove your theory. I have a yellow Lab mix, and although she’s as sweet a dog as you could ever hope to find, I think there’s a possibility that she’s actually mentally retarded.
see and it’s my experience that the small dogs are the vicious ones. Evil little things… not poodles, just small dogs in general.
Except for Jack Russell Terriers. They’re sweet
And psychotic.
this is GORAM FUNNY.
What I don’t get is how they keep getting all these creepy photoshoots of Putin. O_o Does he want to be perceived like this?
probably, he’s a strange little man.
and he’s generally creepy.
The photographer’s name is Platon. The photo can be found in his Portraits > Political section at http://www.platonphoto.com/portraits/politics/index.html