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08-08-2010 , 09:50 PM

#601

kioshk

Nixonian

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 93,112

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fishwhenican

If it makes you feel any better I do not think that. I was just trying to point out that a persons choice of words can be interpreted in ways that were not intended. I really think that is the case here. If I offended you I apologize. It was not intended.

Fish, no need to apologize. My choice of words there wasn't meant as anything except rhetoric, and I know you are a fair-minded person who has always treated me fairly here.

08-08-2010 , 09:50 PM

#602

Blarg

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 53,527

Quote:

Originally Posted by kioshk

Blarg, I think Henry is waiting to argue with you in that domestic abuse thread. You guys can abuse each other to your hearts' content.

He's on bad-faith ignore.

Besides, you've cornered the abuse market for moment.

08-08-2010 , 09:55 PM

#603

BustoRhymes

Grand Elf

Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 26,670

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blarg

You want the tongue?

You can't handle the tongue!

LOL from Jack no less! You really come on strong, Blarg.

08-08-2010 , 09:58 PM

#604

Blarg

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 53,527

I have a great gumline.

08-08-2010 , 10:01 PM

#605

BustoRhymes

Grand Elf

Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 26,670

I'll bet that mustache tickles. My wife likes me with a beard but complains if I let it grow out beyond a shadow.

08-08-2010 , 10:01 PM

#606

NhlNut

KANGZ

Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 18,306

Quote:

Originally Posted by SoloAJ

Indeed.
I was wondering what got you riled up, then saw kioshk was posting.

<BAM>

back with a a vengeance

08-08-2010 , 10:06 PM

#607

BustoRhymes

Grand Elf

Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 26,670

Really, it might be next summer or the summer after that before she goes to the UK, so I still have a chance at getting a novel published and becoming independently wealthy before this is even an issue.

08-08-2010 , 10:11 PM

#608

SoloAJ

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That topic is out of my range.

How about them Cowboys?

08-08-2010 , 10:12 PM

#609

BustoRhymes

Grand Elf

Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 26,670

Now that's a real man's topic. Makes me sad soccer season is over

08-09-2010 , 12:29 AM

#610

theBruiser500

banned

Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 10,920

damn u uys really let me down, can't belive noneo of u dudes wnate go out with me oin a sunday night in bostno

08-09-2010 , 12:34 AM

#611

SoloAJ

Carpal \'Tunnel

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If I were in Boston, I'd have called.

08-09-2010 , 12:46 AM

#612

Beatngreet415

veteran

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 3,067

His Majesty the Fifth Dragon King is at school today. Fittin' to go have some tea with him in five minutes. He's tall and well spoken, but I thought he'd be more dragon-y.

08-09-2010 , 12:55 AM

#613

orange

Guest

Posts: n/a

meh, i'm not really insulted kiosh, i'm far from a relationship guru...though, i never made a comment on the subject to begin with. (takes more than that to piss me off, i think). i still stand by my previous post, though, in that you need to chillllllllllllllllll man.

08-09-2010 , 01:09 AM

#614

theBruiser500

banned

Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 10,920

100 points if you can tell me what movie this is from, "how we going to win our money back?"

08-09-2010 , 01:09 AM

#615

NhlNut

KANGZ

Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 18,306

Quote:

Originally Posted by entertainme

Happy Birthday, Landonfan!

This, a day late.

08-09-2010 , 01:18 AM

#616

SoloAJ

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Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 16,324

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beatngreet415

His Majesty the Fifth Dragon King is at school today. Fittin' to go have some tea with him in five minutes. He's tall and well spoken, but I thought he'd be more dragon-y.

Is this the head honcho of Bhutan?

08-09-2010 , 02:13 AM

#617

Beatngreet415

veteran

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It's hard to outrank the Dragon King

08-09-2010 , 02:21 AM

#618

diebitter

Grotesquely Handsome

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It's good to be the dragon king

08-09-2010 , 03:48 AM

#619

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 75,372

RIP Patricia Neal. If only for personal favorites Hud and The Homecoming. Great actress.

08-09-2010 , 05:03 AM

#620

daveT

S.A.G.E. Master

Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 23,955

Quote:

Originally Posted by SoloAJ

I remember this being a part of the discussion re: The War of Northern Aggression that I had at some point. Texas holds a lot of swagger in the business.

lol Why is one more influential than the other? I'd think common sense says it's the opposite, since them dang kids are growin up all funny these days.

Thanks for the links Busto. Interesting stuff. Still, do Italians learn about WWII as if it were a necessary and bold move on their part or something?

The Germans are very aware of what Hitler did. The Nazi party is illegal there. I would hard-pressed to believe Mousellini is looked apon as a hero in Italy. Despite being in the middle of Rome, the Vatican is frowned apon by most Italians, however, free speech is stymied there, so I wouldn't put it past the government to make the Axis out as heroes, though it is unlikely that they will admit to anti-semitetic reasoning.

08-09-2010 , 05:11 AM

#621

daveT

S.A.G.E. Master

Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 23,955

Quote:

Originally Posted by BustoRhymes

That's what bothers me. I am all for changing curriculum to give a more precise picture of what happened, such as Bruiser's example of adding focus to the economical variables of the Civil War, but that's not what it sounds like is happening.

Agreed with both points. The way history has been rewritten is crazy at times. Some of the stuff I've learned and read about recently has truly pissed me off because some of it is so warped it veers on malicious. Then you learn of bizzarre philosophies of history (progressivism, historianism, revisionism, et. al), and you really just figure you been lied to your whole life.

08-09-2010 , 05:15 AM

#622

daveT

S.A.G.E. Master

Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 23,955

Quote:

Originally Posted by theBruiser500

How can journalism be a grind?

Research for a start. Sometimes digging for the truth takes about 20 hours of reading a bunch of contradictions, then you have to put a hodge-podge of information into a cogent paragraph, all while under a deadline. fwiw, I don't work under deadlines, which has its plus and minus.

08-09-2010 , 05:18 AM

#623

daveT

S.A.G.E. Master

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Quote:

Originally Posted by theBruiser500

For you guys interested in this perspective stuff on history, just read some Zinn and Chomsky.

I don't have an emoticon expressive enough to tell you this is laughable. Neo-Communists are the worst revisionists of them all. The best you can do is read the original stuff, or what you can find of it.

08-09-2010 , 07:49 AM

#624

TheIrishThug

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 5,223

Quote:

Originally Posted by theBruiser500

damn u uys really let me down, can't belive noneo of u dudes wnate go out with me oin a sunday night in bostno

Sorry was having dinner with my sister and wasn't even here to see the post.

08-09-2010 , 10:24 AM

#625

John Cole

Lounge Nighthawk

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 19,201

Quote:

Originally Posted by daveT

Dave,

You're misunderstanding "revisionism." Or at least you've fallen for the popular misconception of what revisionism entails for a good historian. For example, James MacPherson would describe himself as a revisionist. This brief notice on new research about Agincourt is another example of revisionist history.

Also, Chomsky and Zinn are hardly neo-Communists although I would agree they use a Marxist approach to history.

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