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Osama is Dead

Discussion in 'Alley of Lingering Sighs' started by dmc, May 2, 2011.

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  1. Drew

    Drew Arrogant, contemptible, and obnoxious Adored Veteran

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    Shoshino, if you are going to base your perception of Americans on the behavior of the Marines you've met you shouldn't have a problem when I base all my perceptions of British people on Monty Python. :rolleyes:
     
    Drew, May 24, 2011
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    Aren't the marines the best and brightest? The cream of the crop?
     
    joacqin, May 24, 2011
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  3. 8people

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    [​IMG] Are you implying Monty Python isn't? :p
     
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  4. Aldeth the Foppish Idiot

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    :confused: Are you implying that you think marines are more intelligent than the population at large? I can assure you that the marines are not composed of the most intelligent group of Americans. The are considered the premier warfighter of the five major service branches.
     
    Aldeth the Foppish Idiot, May 24, 2011
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    Ugh. There's that word again: warfighter. Why has the simple word soldier been replaced with that ridiculous compound word in certain circles?
     
    Blackthorne TA, May 24, 2011
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    The correct term -- according to the Marines I've known -- is "bad-assed-mo-fo", not "warfighter."
     
    T2Bruno, May 24, 2011
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  7. Blades of Vanatar

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    Marines are "The Brave". Brave doesn't necessarliy relate to intelligence. Many are gung-ho, going in headfirst types. It's almost a job requirement for them.

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    Samuel L. Jackson is a marine? :D
     
    Blades of Vanatar, May 24, 2011
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  8. Aldeth the Foppish Idiot

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    As far as I'm aware, "certain circles" is specifically the military itself. As I work for the military, I guess I have become indoctrinated.
     
    Aldeth the Foppish Idiot, May 24, 2011
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    ...And I always thought you guys referred to them as "Jar Heads."
     
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    I guess the bottom line is that, regardless of 'intelligence' (I still wonder how we define that ... in a fight, I'd take a guy with good common sense on my side over a brainiac any day), a limited sample of marines does not equal all marines, nor does the limited sample of marines or all marines equal all Americans. So saying that you met a few marines who were gung-ho does not mean that all Americans are gun-happy maniacs.
     
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    ... not to say the majority of us are not gun-happy maniacs....

    Chandos -- I said "according to the Marines I've known." But yes, Marines are jar heads to us squids.
     
    T2Bruno, May 24, 2011
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  12. Drew

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    "Soldiers" are in the Army. This is why we don't refer to Marines, Airmen or Sailors as soldiers.
     
    Drew, May 24, 2011
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  13. Death Rabbit

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    I wonder what the corpse of Osama bin Laden thinks about all this.
     
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  14. Drew

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    It probably doesn't have much of an opinion at all -- although that depends a great deal on his corpse's grasp of the English language. In Arabic, they refer to members of all the various services as "Jundi," so it may never have occurred to Bin Laden's corpse that we would differentiate between the services where Arabs do not.
     
    Drew, May 24, 2011
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  15. Death Rabbit

    Death Rabbit Straight, no chaser Adored Veteran Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Ahem...to put it another way, I wonder what the Arabic word for "off topic" is.
     
    Death Rabbit, May 24, 2011
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  16. Blades of Vanatar

    Blades of Vanatar Vanatar will rise again Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    خارج الموضوع ..... How's that?
     
    Blades of Vanatar, May 24, 2011
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  17. dmc

    dmc Speak softly and carry a big briefcase Staff Member Distinguished Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!)

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    LOL. Nice. Completely off-topic, but nice. Now, back to Osama's corpse and the fallout therefrom.
     
    dmc, May 25, 2011
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