I sometimes wear my grandfather's dogtags as a way to remember him. I see nothing wrong with that.
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Well of course you could validate terrorism. You could define The American Revolutionists as terrorists or the French resistance.mokes310 said:
OT. Yep sometimes I get slightly annoyed. I got especially annoyed when in a commercial I saw a 8 year old wearing a Keffiyeh, he can not possible taken any political standpoint at that age.
I know this little debate is over but just a tiny history lesson.Brotherofwill said:
UFC started off with a hand full of strikers, with various skills (from boxing to mauy thai) and a hand full of ground guys, with various skills (wrestling, BJJ etc). Sometimes the ground guys get knocked out, sometimes the striker gets tapped or put on his back and punched into submission, sometimes the striker got out struck and the ground guy got tapped.
So the ground guys learned to punch and strikers learned submissions, we now have MMA.
Theres also people like Chuck Liddell who were wrestling champions in college and now is a rather scary striker.
To round this post off. Kimbo Slice made his name by beating up bouncers and people who think they could fight on youtube, he destroyed them all. Kimbo then went on TUF (the ultimate fighter) trained his nuts off then lost a fight to a really fat veteran of cage fighting. So even the most out of shape fighter can still fight.
On topic. I am rather disturbed at the new trend of tights, tights used to be considered a piece of underwear, maybe poking out the bottom of a skirt. Now it's completely okay for a woman to walk down the street wearing nothing below her waist except some tights.
I wear a dog tag has all of my medical information on it because I have a blood disorder. I don't wear it to say that I served, I never did, and never can. I respect the soldiers for their service. 
You just summed up every point i was going to write. Thank you. The Internet psycho and the elitist metal heads are the most annoying people i meet in day to day life.generic gamer said:
Uhh, the latter does define you as "sheep", my friend.generic gamer said:
You only view men wearing what you could call "manly" attire "normal" because that's the current societal norm. If you weren't indoctrinated since childhood that men wear, say, no skirts (kilts excluded, although most people will still find those awkward), no make up, and so on and didn't choose to hold on to these values once you've gained the ability to reject them, you wouldn't find that much of problem with a guy wearing make up and "alternative" clothing.
Well, the basic "doesn't look like me = strange" thing might still apply.
I don't care much for fashion, but following societal norms without any introspection, and perhaps with it, is exactly what one could call "being sheep".
Uh, you do know that, say, extremist muslim terrorists would be viewed as heroes in the extremist muslim communities? There is no objective morals, there is no right or wrong. Terrorists, especially the ones everyone's up about this (or rather last) decade, are performing a religious/cultural functions.mokes310 said:
Of course, seeing how their religion/culture almost directly goes against almost all of our western norms, which aren't that great at times but by comparison are better then any other shit on the planet, you'd see them as "evil". If you were of extremist Muslim, uh, "faith", you'd see them as heroes. If you were a Muslim following their religion correctly, you'd see them as heroes (because if you're going to pick and choose random things from the only half-assed "proof" for your religion, not unlike Christians in the west, you're a pretty big hypocrite. Both Islam and Christianity "books" have lines that could be summarized by "kill all those who aren't of our religion, you're actually doing them good/or you go to hell with them/ etc". If you claim something is a word of god, you either follow it fully or you don't follow it at all.)
That just mostly shows that Kimbo sucks. He does win matches though right? MMA is just full of horrible missmatches.omega 616 said:
First of all i'd like to point out that there's a massive difference between people who willingly sign up and those who are unfairly drafted (which is what i'm assuming happened to your uncle, which is in itself one of the most absurd things ever created).Baby Tea said:
I don't mean to cause any offense regarding what your uncle had been put through both physically and psychologically during his time in the armed forces, but no-one can justify that particular war, anyone with any education on the Vietnam war knows that it boiled down to nothing more than the U.S's desire to control the spread of communism at any cost, unfortunately the particular cost of that ideology was far greater than it ever should have been. No-one can say that military action was 'right' or just, and to argue otherwise is absurd.
The idea that Vietnam was a threat to the US in away way is absurd, as is thinking that Iraq is today (and if it is that is only because the US made it a threat.
I feel i'm getting off-topic somewhat but that is only to justify my reasoning behind the fact that the idea of the military being an entity that somehow protects peoples communities is just absurd, if individuals truly wished to benefit those around them there are far more beneficial and diplomatic ways to do so.
The only function of a fighting military is to attempt to control issues and circumstances that have only even been caused due to soceity's collective failings.
All the prepy kids at my elementary school, first year of high school 75% were emo. Basically this kid:swolf said:
(Most emo kids are posers anyway, any kid who is actually miserable or sad either doesn't really show it or is goth.)
Edit: When I was younger I spent many years in therapy because of depression, nobody at my school even realised. Emo kids seem to be proud or think its cool to be depressed, thats why I kinda hate them.
I think the Kimbo fight with Seth Petruzelli was one of the quickest matches I've seen in my life... I think it was about 12-15 seconds long. Ouch. Though to be honest... many of these unsanctioned bare-knuckled fighters haven't really done all that well in the cage.omega 616 said:
You do realize that unless you live in some total shithole (I.e, pretty much any country that's actively in a real war, civil or otherwise... Although I suppose it doesn't necessarily apply in case of civil war either), military does very little to "protect your ass". Your local police department, your local fire department, your local paramedics and surgeons, they do a hell of a lot more to "protect your ass".seydaman said:
Mindless respect of anything is just wrong.
Here in Canada, do you think I care about a handful of soldiers in Middle East? It wasn't so much a Canadian war in the first place, and while I can understand the potential preventative measures to it, they're doing it wrong.
Occupying a country and trying to westernize it is a bad use of resources. You either kill 'em all, which would understandably go against a number of Geneva convention principles, or you stay out of it and only interfere if some real shit happens and leave soon after. You can't fix a situation like that by outside means, it has to be fixed from inside the country by the people who live there. Just marching in, taking the position of authority, and staying there will not give you any long lasting peace.
You can't extinguish a guerrilla war without taking some rather illegal methods, and even then it's not guaranteed. And by staying in their land, you only give the people more reasons to attack you which could be used by some charismatic speaker in position of authority to recruit even more fighters. And the moment the army leaves, there would be a huge shit storm - the feeble democracy they are trying to establish is likely to crash and the power vacuum will probably be taken by someone pretty atrocious, so the war will have to go on.
And that's a major waste of resources, so fuck it.
I could see how your logic might work, but unless your country is in a real war with someone directly attacking your country in order to conquer/exterminate it, the military isn't protecting your ass much.
Exactly, I spent many years recovering from depression. Did I dress or act like an attention grabing tard? No. Modern fashions are pretty stupid, people feel the need to show everything about themselves in thier freaking clothes. (Like logos and bands names) Point is, if you feel the need to do so, your a very insecure person.generic gamer said:
Just because someone's in the military doesn't mean that they don't deserve respect, granted, here in the states, the folks fighting in the Middle East are fighting a bit of a useless war at this point, but they're still putting their necks out for what many believe to be a worthy cause, and that's got to be worth something.Doitpow said:
OT: I don't care if you wear dogtags belonging to a family member. If that family member was KIA, I think it's the family's right to display that their husband/father/brother was fighting and killed in the military. Now, kids who go around wearing their fathers' dogtags acting like they're Marines, that's what annoys me. But wearing dogtags as a sign of respect is no problem.