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Old 01-27-2012, 10:03 AM   #1
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Somali Pirates

Why can't we just wipe Somalia off the face of the earth? Would anyone really complain?
It isn't like we haven't bombed the living shit out of Iraq a few times.
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Old 01-27-2012, 10:08 AM   #2
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Well, since you posted as anonymous, you probably figure you are wrong to be asking that question, and don't want to get in trouble for it. That tells me that you already know the answer.
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Old 01-27-2012, 11:48 AM   #3
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Why can't we just wipe Somalia off the face of the earth?
Is everyone in Somalia a pirate?
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Old 01-27-2012, 11:53 AM   #4
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Somali are, somali aren't.
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Old 01-27-2012, 11:53 AM   #5
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I think some of them are merely garden variety criminals
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Old 01-27-2012, 01:54 PM   #6
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Why is this a whole new thread?
Shouldn't it be here -
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Old 01-27-2012, 02:10 PM   #7
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It's hate-talk.
It doesn't belong anywhere with reasoned discussion.

And given I include TW in that definition (as he is not promoting genocide) you know that's a stretch bigger than Armstrong.
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Old 01-27-2012, 02:19 PM   #8
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It's hate-talk.
It doesn't belong anywhere with reasoned discussion.
lol - did you even read the other thread?
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Old 01-27-2012, 02:23 PM   #9
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I think I did.
Although I don't agree with all that was written, no one said wipe it off the map, women, children old people et al.

Did they?!
Am prepared to be appalled.
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Old 01-27-2012, 02:26 PM   #10
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No, I'll need a new joke:

1990s: Don't waste alcohol, there are sober people in Ethiopia, you know.

2000s: Don't waste alcohol, there are sober people in Somalia, you know.

2010s: Don't waste alcohol, there are sober people in (insert impoverished nation here), you know.
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Old 01-27-2012, 02:28 PM   #11
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No, I'll need a new joke:

1990s: Don't waste alcohol, there are sober people in Ethiopia, you know.

2000s: Don't waste alcohol, there are sober people in Somalia, you know.

2010s: Don't waste alcohol, there are sober people in THE USA, you know.
Huh?
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Old 01-27-2012, 02:33 PM   #12
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But of course! There it was, right in front of me, and looked past it.

Pure genius, Spexx!
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Old 01-27-2012, 02:37 PM   #13
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No Sundae - not that I recall.
I was referring to "reasoned discussion" part of your post
and making an apparently not funny funny - hence the
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Old 01-27-2012, 02:39 PM   #14
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I think I did.
Although I don't agree with all that was written, no one said wipe it off the map, women, children old people et al.
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Why do you hate men?
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Old 01-27-2012, 02:55 PM   #15
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lol - did you even read the other thread?
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I was referring to "reasoned discussion" part of your post and making an apparently not funny funny - hence the
Ah, but the original was a winky. Which was to show you were funning and not attacking. I'm on board with that.
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And given I include TW in that definition (as he is not promoting genocide) you know that's a stretch bigger than Armstrong.
I was suggesting TW is reasonable compared to this anonymous post. And we agree that calling TW a reasonable poster is a often a s-t-r-e-t-c-h.
But I left out the funny.
And once the funny has gone, it's gone.
I left that cake out in the rain.
No cake out in the rain smilie, so it has to be a
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Why do you hate men?
Because they're all Somali pirates.
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