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On March 6, 1940, Häyhä was shot in the lower left jaw by a Russian soldier during combat. The bullet tumbled upon impact and exited his head. He was picked up by fellow soldiers who said "half his head was missing", but he was not dead: he regained consciousness on March 13, the day peace was declared.

I'd be pretty annoyed if I made it through years of combat unscathed and then got shot in the face right at the end of the war.

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05-31-2011 , 02:30 PM

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potatoesareawesome

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Originally Posted by TheNoodleMan

I'd be pretty annoyed if I made it through years of combat unscathed and then got shot in the face right at the end of the war.

Well, he did kill a minimum of 700 people so he prolly had it coming.

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05-31-2011 , 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by potatoesareawesome

Well, he did kill a minimum of 700 people so he prolly had it coming.

we all got it coming, kid

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05-31-2011 , 02:35 PM

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WhoIam

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He also managed to kill the guy who shot him.

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05-31-2011 , 03:32 PM

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MrEleganza

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Originally Posted by SnotBoogy

we could do an entire thread on awesome people that also happen to be anti-semitic

Lol. Yeah, just like left-handed people, or Koreans.

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05-31-2011 , 03:36 PM

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I remember Dahl was PO'd that the original Willy Wonka wasn't true enough to his book.

Good thing he didn't live to see Johnny Depp turn Willy Wonka into Michael Jackson.

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05-31-2011 , 03:47 PM

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Lol. Yeah, just like left-handed people, or Koreans.

you get my point. i've come across more than a few people where i'm like..." thats awesome! interesting! zomg he did that, really! wow!...... oh he's an anti semite too?!?! wtf!?!? where'd that come from?!?!"

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05-31-2011 , 03:51 PM

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fezjones

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lold when i learned that Roald Dahl also wrote the script for You Only Live Twice

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05-31-2011 , 05:07 PM

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NoahSD

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Before WWII or so, everyone was an antisemite except the Jews. (Now every Jew is an antisemite, but that's a different story

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05-31-2011 , 05:26 PM

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suzzer99

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Sort of like how everyone was homophobic before the late 70s or so.

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05-31-2011 , 05:28 PM

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Sort of like how everyone is homophobic even today

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05-31-2011 , 05:33 PM

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NoahSD

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OMG a homosexual!! RUN!!

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05-31-2011 , 05:41 PM

#1439

suzzer99

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Did it touch you with it's AIDS stick?

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05-31-2011 , 05:44 PM

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Sugar Nut

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Originally Posted by SnotBoogy

we could do an entire thread on awesome people that also happen to be anti-semitic

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Lol. Yeah, just like left-handed people, or Koreans.

Let's do a thread on Colin Powell instead.

He's openly white. He just happens to be black.

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05-31-2011 , 10:36 PM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_relativism

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Cultural relativism is the principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture, except for anti-Semitism which is a special case for some reason.

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05-31-2011 , 10:38 PM

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Maximum Rocknroll

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I think that "reason" is pretty easy to see. And no, I'm not anti-Semitic at all.

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05-31-2011 , 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by garcia1000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_relativism

So being anti-Semitic was culturally accepted in 1983?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stupidity

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05-31-2011 , 11:31 PM

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So being anti-Semitic was culturally accepted in 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stupidity

I don't really want to argue with you and that is off topic.

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06-02-2011 , 08:30 AM

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Joe Montana

33 steps.

Lol got to philosophy from Montana in 9 steps and from citation in 2 (via Plato).

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06-02-2011 , 08:56 AM

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Lol got to philosophy from Montana in 9 steps and from citation in 2 (via Plato).

Someone said that that site's script doesn't work properly. However, I think you're doing it wrong. You're supposed to click the FIRST link on every article that's not italic or in parenthesis.

First link on "Citation" is "Reference", not "Plato" which is way down. Obviously it's possible to get to "Philosophy" (or pretty much any given article) by choosing the links you click, but the thing that's fascinating is that you can get to "Philosophy" by just following the first link over and over again from most, if not all articles on Wikipedia.

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06-02-2011 , 09:06 AM

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whoops. thought you were trying to get to a specific page within as few clicks as possible (which is also fun, for example doing the "random page" in 2 tabs and trying to get from one to the other).

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06-02-2011 , 09:06 AM

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In fact from "Citation" you need 23 steps.

Citation

1. Reference
2. Middle English
3. History of the English language
4. English language
5. West Germanic languages
6. Germanic languages
7. Indo-European languages
8. Language family
9. Language
10. Human
11. Extant taxon
12. Biology
13. Natural science
14. Science
15. Knowledge
16. Fact
17. Information
18. Sequence
19. Mathematics
20. Quantity
21. Property (Philosophy)
22. Modern philosophy
23. Philosophy

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06-02-2011 , 12:23 PM

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TheNoodleMan

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Citation (Horse) is faster, but I guess that should be expected from a triple crown winner.

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06-02-2011 , 12:25 PM

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Man, every time we get off a stupid derail, we run into another one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_fencing NSFWish title - How Labron and Bosh bond on road trips

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_Law_of_Headlines - Can this law be proven?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi - GOAT samurai

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarajevo_Rose - mortar shell fragmentation filled with red rsein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Vikesland

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Vikesland was having a lot of economic issues, mainly because its main export were red wigs and copied VHS tapes of the Bad News Bears, so its leaders decided to do something drastic. They created a loophole which allowed people to marry animals. Since then Vikesland has had a huge increase in visitors and recently the court of Vikesland granted its first divorce when a disgruntled golden retriver wanted to leave his husband so that it could marry a leather glove.

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