Germany banning Paintball

[mikecoulter]

Your image posts always warm my heart xD

You're somewhere in the top of my mental list of favourite Escapists right about now ^^

But what about Hannah?
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Then again, no one wants to be your mate anyway.

Ohhh harsh words from the hannahdonno there

Germany's going insane...

 

[lostclause]

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Is your friend a Terry Pratchett reader by any chance? Because I'm sure he just quoted night watch
But you've got to wonder whether over reactions are ever enforced? I mean, someone sad something about tag being banned but I doubt that's ever been seriously enforced.

 

[Kajt]

Oh Germany, what the fuck is wrong with you?

 

[bushwhacker2k]

IMO Paintball is a safer medium as opposed to actually popping people. I mean some people enjoy that stuff, so paintball lets them do it without killing people. I'm sure some people do it as practice for the day they will get revenge against everyone who stuck them in a trashcan but for the rest of us, banning paintball is just silly.

Then again Germany seems to have somewhat of a reputation for trying to control things...

 

[LongAndShort]

thats pretty damn offensive. you just compared the outlawing of paintball to the killing of millions of jews. im not agreeing with outlawing paintball, but jesus fucking christ, your clearly a moron. brutally eliminating those innocent things? there just banning it, not killing paintballers. how dare you compare the current german government, and attitudes of an entire nation, to Nazism?

Alright, I really don't see the problem people are having here. Yes I was comparing the Holocaust and the banning of paintball. But just because I was comparing them doesn't mean I was saying they were the same thing. Look up the definition of the word compare. And I clearly wasn't being completely serious, I know you can't hear tones over the internet but, come on.

All I was doing was jokingly pointing out the similarities between the two situations. 1930s, Germany encounters problem (economic depression), identifies false cause (Jews), takes action against them with no regard for the victims (Jews).

2009, Germany encounters problem (school shooting), identifies false cause (paintball), takes action against it with no regard for the victims (paintballers).

They are similar. Just like I said. Did I ever say in my first post "They're the same thing!"? No. I pointed out they were similar. That's it. If you think I said they were the same thing, then you're clearly a moron.

Which by the way I find that sort of insulting language extremely innapropriate to use, especially over a misunderstanding on your part.

as for your first point, the fact that you weren't being wholly serious i direct you here http://rationalwiki.com/wiki/Poe%27s_Law pretty hard to tel you were joking as it sounded damn serious. and no i will not look up the definition of similar. i happen to study english so i damn well know what it means. but in the case that saying something is similar can't be offensive, how would you like it if i said you were similar to a paedophile? (you're probably not, im just making a point). A comparison can still be very offensive.
and you know what is inappropriate ? (yeah i can point out pointless spelling mistakes too) What's inappropriate is linking a country back to a time many would much prefer to forget about. Plus too keep linking Germany to Nazism after all these years really bugs me. It would annoy you too if you went through five years of racial epithets in school.

That Poe's Law thing is interesting, but frankly it's unsulting that you'd rather assume that I was an insulting, stereotyping moron rather than a person making a lighthearted joke.

And I said to look up the word "compare", not "similar", but I'll assume that was just a simple mistake. It doesn't matter anyway. But don't you think the pedophile thing was a bit pointless? Yes you could compare me to a pedophile, but you would find many more differences than similarities. That is opposed to the subject at hand, where I compared the actions of 1930s Germany to Germany's banning of paintball and found quite a few similarities. So if you said I was similar to a pedophile, you would be lying.

And I really don't see what you meant by your last point. How does going through racial epithets in school make you be annoyed by linking Germany to Nazism? They see completely unrelated to me. And by "went through" did you mean you were called them? I don't know what you were trying to prove, but as a Jew I've been called a kike plenty of times, it hasn't effected me.

And yes many people would prefer to forget about the Holocaust, but that doesn't mean they should. We Jews make a point of keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive in the hopes that such a thing will never happen again, as I believe everyone should. Ignoring or forgetting about the Holocaust is both irresponsible and insulting to all the people who were victims of it.

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OH, we get it. Just don't go there.

Well I did go there. I don't regret it and I would do it again. Tough.

Bloody Hell man. My people were almost wiped out by the Turks and Kurds, who never even admitted to what they did. I'm not throwing things that could be construed as Insults at whatever Turk I can find. There's nothing wrong with not forgetting the Holocaust, but doesn't Judaism teach forgiveness? Lay off the new generation who had nothing to do with it. This kind of attitude causes wars. There's nothing wrong with jokes, but if it could be construed as insulting you should rethink it.

 

[Juraz]

haha funny just went the other week, surprise surprise I didn't feel like going to the local shopping center with a real gun and shooting it up perhaps there is something wrong with me? Or maybe the government should crack down on bullying so the kids have no reason to charge into places with weapons and seek revenge on the kid that stole his tuck shop money. Pretty much bullying is the only thing that makes a kid go that far im not saying its proven fact but just look at it most the people who have done it in the past have been social recluses and most probably teased for this if not something else.

 

[S53]

This is just like when Germany raided Farcry 2's devs after that school shooting. WHEN WILL THEY LEARN!?!?!?