Strategy meeting
Strategy meeting
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(it’s a little hard to make out, thus ruining the joke, but that’s a “pi” symbol)
Reminds me of an earlier LOL that I don’t think even made it to the front page. It was Condoleeza Rice talking to Bush, looking exasperated, and the caption was, “George, for the last time, this isn’t Risk are you’re not winning.”
Oops…I mean, “ and you’re not winning.”
yeah except those soldiers aren’t american
yeah, american soldiers don’t have the mental capacity to play Risk
Be fair. The American all-volunteer military is on average the best-educated military in history. It’s only comparatively recently that the army has become the employer of last resort for young high school drop-outs.
Aww, fibreoptik just wasn’t getting any response in his/her trolling chain. (Next step after this one was calling Rho retarded, nothing happened so the next one was the “Bush supporters: SHUT the F up and SIT DOWN!” attempt.
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Yeah, I had great fun following the obnoxiousness-escalation and the persistence in the non-response of PK.
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(You ruined it! ;oP )
That’s what I get for walking in at the middle, didn’t see what came before.
There were a few. I haven’t properly kept track, I must admit, but it was bad and ovious enough to miss. (Says something about how slow the posting was in general too.
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Yeah…and I’m getting a little tired of his/her random “spelling fail” comments.
It’s very ironical, though, as a “spelling fail” in itself is a capitalization, grammar and who-knows-what-else failure.
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This dude has the patience of Job, going through post after post! He failed froo for using the correct spelling of segue instead the brand Segway spelling. On this LOL, he failed ck for “an hero,” which isn’t a fail, the way she pronounces it. He has said some cool things, but I’m not sure he can lay off the personal attacks long enough to be readable. Have you noticed that he seems to like to fail women more than men?
Oh, I hadn’t thought about that, no. Curious.
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The first time I noticed this poster was yesterday, so I haven’t seen any of his/her ability to say cool things, either.
thanks fuckwad — we played Risk alot over there, when we were bored of Dungeons and Dragons. thats right i said it; Dungeons and Dragons ; )
Oh. My post vanished – I think I may have written a norty word.
P I’ll try again:
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Just because I feel like being The Google [insert word meaning female dog here] today, my name contains a link to a site which appears to explain what/who/where/when this is, for those who might wonder. (The motif seems popular, btw.)
Lol, “Not for public use”. Too late!
Oh. Umm. Well. We’re a closed community? I mean, surely people interested in politics can’t be regarded as “the public” in any way? ;oP
Besides, if we show it to anyone else, we’ll tell them not to share it. ;o)
Shushhh, don’t shoot me…I know SECRETS!
Stra-tee-ger-y meetin’
Almost makes me reconsider joining the military.
Wait, reconsider and join, or reconsider the wisdom of having already joined?
Who says soldiers can’t have fun while not on duty?
We would of done better if they played a game of Risk BEFORE they rolled into Baghdad.
“they” never rolled into baghdad cause “they” don’t jump on every bandwagon the us sets on fire…
These are german soldiers. They actually played a game of Risk before you rolled into Bagdad, and decided to continue ^^
I remember a “Get Fuzzy” cartoon where the dog and the guy are arguing about what the signs are for the end of the world (this was in January 2003 or thereabouts, right before America began it’s Great Adventure in Nation Building) and the dog says “I think it’s when the Germans are telling people *NOT* to go to war.”
The Germans: Still planning to take over the world.
LOL’d!
ok so this is a little messed up…its kinda implying that our troops/commanders are stupid
wonderful people…you’ve found yet another way to degrade our country
>=(
Nothing’s sacred….
I don’t really get this obsession with doing nothing by glorifying everything military. (This is not the first post to that effect.)
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Why?
I think we’re dealing with leftovers from Bush’s tyranny of patriotism. If you make fun of a guy in an awkward position on a camel, you are a leftist traitor, should be burned, and, most assuredly, will go to hell.
Well, I can’t speak for everyone, but having been a soldier for 23 years, I thought the Camel LOL was awesome, I LMAO. And this one is funny since I spent quite a bit of time creating warplans and sometimes I thought many of my peers may have been better off pulling a college risk-all nighter.
Now we now what those REMF’s do at HQ!!
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Just kidding, don’t flame me, ok?
Hey, if it wasn’t for us REMF’s all those grunts would just get lazy.
LMAO! No doubt there!
besides, who’s gonna help the generals sit while “the lines on the map move from side to side?”
‘listen son, said the man with the gun, there’s room for you inside.” But only if you’re lousy at Risk!
lol — brings back my senior year in high school — that album was the biggest event that year, well that and the fact the US pulled all combat troops out of Vietnam — strategy game, anyone?
I missed the pull out by a wee bit.. but did get to see PF when DSOTM came out. What a spectacular concert that was. PF is still one of my all time favorite bands. I bought Pulse when it came out on DVD and it was almost like reliving that time of my life.
Iwas into Metal then DSOTM came out and that was all she wrote, didn’t get to see them in concert, decided to get married and spend what little money I made on crazy things like baby formula. Drifted away with the wall, was busy learning how to be a soldier (except Comfortably Numb — best PF song), but loved AMLOR.
You need to go back before DSOTM to Meddle. That is one amazing album, but most people got hooked on PF when DSOTM came out. I actually started listening to them when Ummagumma came out.
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AMLOR, got me on that one!
A momentary lapse of reason — 80’s/90’s — never could spell, but “One of these Days” — gotta love it, but which one is pink?
Next time we’ve gotta talk Tull. — gotta crash, work in the AM. Later, or as you’se guys say G’day Mate!
DOH! Of course!
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Yeah, Tull..
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later gator!!
Tull! Yes! Especially the earliest stuff! Click my name for the
classic “Fat Man”
My favorite Tull album — The best of what made Tull! STAND UP!
This thread gave me warm fuzzies.
Tull was an incredible band and having a flautist was just unheard of! A couple of other notables that I enjoyed in ‘my day’:
The Who with Keith Moon
Supertramp before they got popular
Grand Funk Railroad
Derek and the Dominos/Cream/Clapton
Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes (circa 1967)
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I still love The Doors and will stop my car when they come on.
Jimi Hendrix
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*sigh* where do I stop?
Hmm. The idea of it maybe being only leftovers makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. ;o) I have understood that the US has a very different approach to war (and war sentimentality), military and so on, and even though I cannot understand the feelings, I can at least respect them. But when it comes to the point of being a matter of “you must shed a tear about this picture or you are not worthy of memebership in Mankind” (referring to the one with the soldier and his dog looking at a Guam war memorial) or as here “degrading the country” just because you can giggle at a good caption, I get scared. For heaven’s sake – the military is a frighteningly powerful organistaion but they are ultimately here to defend us (in most democratic countries, I believe that is the main purpose of the military at least?), and if we aren’t allowed to laugh at them when we fell like it, the democracy that they’re defending is suddenly much less worthy of said defense.
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Argh. Too little coffee – too much rambling.
Hm. These are not the typoes you are looking for.
*makes vague hand motions and hopes people will miss them*
The military should be regarded as a necessary evil for society; the men and women who serve in it should be extended every courtesy for exposing themselves to the dangers, physical and spiritual, they must face when defending their nation.
But come on, I’ve never met a soldier, marine, sailor, or airman who didn’t have a wicked, dark sense of humor!
Yes. I have huge problems with war as a concept – but, having a connection to Reality (albeit a tentative grasp), I have to agree on the “necessary” bit.
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Personally, my main gripe might lie with the makers of the decisions to go to war, I think. But also (and this is where I fear to tread because it’s bound to cause upset feelings) I wonder how much individual responsibility should/should not be placed upon the soldiers as well.
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I do realize that taking orders and not questioning reasons too far is part of what the military system is about, and I do realize that people function strangely in certain pressed power situations (like at the Stanford prison experiment), but still I can’t help thinking that … Well, actually I just think there’s a danger in the notion that soldiers must be “sacred”. Where should the order-taking stop, where should there be mutany?
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I’m really struggling with these concepts myself, I am not trying to find a black and white thing to see it, and all in all I don’t really have a problem with soldiers, my problem is war and the military as such.
Oh, by the way, “soldier” implies army? In that case I would of course like toi extend my ponderings to include all military branches. Apologies for the language miss.
I know members of the military – combat veterans – find themselves asking the same questions from time to time. Society as a whole does too. The “easy” answer is that a soldier is obligated to resist an illegal order, and the order being illegal is an absolute defense against discipline for failure to follow. But that leaves a huge grey area. It leaves 19 year old kids to ponder questions of legal interpretation in the heat of the moment, in the field, and that’s a dangerous and damaging situation for everyone involved and for society as a whole.
Yes, I have assumed that many do. Or most, even.
Apart from the problem you describe, this also opens the question of who should say what an illegal order is? What are absolute, just ethics and reasonings that make a war unquestionable?
That’s why I put “easy” in scare-quotes, dear. Because it’s scary.
There are American soldiers who have gone to the stockade for refusing to follow orders to deploy to Iraq on the grounds that the war itself is illegal. Courts both military and civilian have ruled, however, that the question of whether the war is legal or not is “above pay grade” for the troops, and an order to deploy is not itself an illegal order.
The whole “illegal order” question does apply to actions when they’re already in field, though. Things like abusing and killing unarmed civilians or prisoners for instance. The order handed down to many an advancing army throughout history, to “forage” along the way (i.e. claim whatever provisions and supplies you reasonably need from the people whose land you’re marching through) would now be illegal. Those are the broad strokes, but of course there’s a whole code of military justice that an officer can’t order a soldier to defy.
None of this gets at your core moral question, but that’s because the establishment considers the question above pay grade for the individual soldier/sailor/airman. The moral question for the individual becomes something more like: Is my duty of service to my country compelling enough that I choose to subordinate my own moral judgment and commit myself to carry out the moral judgments of others, with whom I may not agree when the time comes? And is that the best, most effective way I can carry out my duty of service?
OK stop the presses. The last thing we want is the military deciding when or when not to fight. That is why we have elected civilians in control of the military. Morality is too subjective, laws are not, that is why we codify them. If you start down the path of allowing the military to cast moral judgements on the civilian leadership you get coups d’ etat. No the UCMJ determines the legality of orders, soldiers must make the judgement, often on the fly, as to the legality. Default is it is legal, unarmed civilians are obviously off-limits, but in grey areas the soldier must decide, that’s why they get paid the big bucks.
Yes, you are of course right. I guess what I am trying to get at is still that I can’t see that all military employees are beyond reproach just because “not able to choose” is part of the job description. I can see why it has to be as it is, but still, I can’t get away from the feeling that there should be some personal responsibility to say “This is nonsense, I refuse”. Tricky business, this. What are your feelings on your unreproachability, as working in the military? (I have gathered that that is what you do, please correct me if I am wrong.)
You’re absolutely right, Charlie, about civilian leadership making the decision on when the military goes to fight. That’s why I was careful to say the establishment and not strictly the officers…I meant to include the hierarchy on up through the top levels of civilian government. On the overarching question of the morality of war or the slightly less-overarching question of the morality of a specific war, the military must defer to civilian leadership – the question is above pay grade. On the level of action carried out by one individual at a specific place and time, we have the UCMJ and the individual soldier’s rather scary responsibility to interpret which side of the law *e is on whilst under fire (or at any rate under enormous pressure from the situation and from h* OIC).
sorry PK ate my comments, we’ll have this discussion again, sometime — i hope
Probably, eventually. Military themed lols pop up quite frequently, don’t they?
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Are you German?
Either he’s German, or he thinks that the US has ditched ACUs… (not a bad idea IMO). Oh, and they apparently changed their rank system, because that guy isn’t wearing any rank I’d recognize. Anyone know what his rank is? it looks kinda like a fish.
The “fish”-guy is a “Hauptfeldwebel”, OR-7, First Sergeant
it’s amusing, not degrading. I doubt anyone here seriously believes they could switch places in an instant and do better. It is amusing because it is absurd, it is absurd because obviously they don’t strategize with a game, pull the stick out.
Playing Risk isn’t stupid. Were you picked on as a child by an older brother who wouldn’t let you play Risk with him or something?
From the military people I have known, in my family and otherwise, they would find calling a friendly game of Risk a “strategy meeting” amusing, and might even jokingly call it that themselves.
As other posters have said, perhaps you should consider having the stick removed…
Are you retarded? They’re just playing a board game.
Who is in this picture? Well, let’s see…from left to right, it’s George, Steve, Rick, Petey, Goat, and Sarge.
And of course, we don’t talk about how Goat got his name.
Baa-aa-aad! ;o)
If I recall, it was because of his goatee…..but I can’t be sure.
As you approach the old man in the bar, he begins to speak.
“Did ye see the beautiful stone bridge ye had to cross coming into the village? I built it! Do they call me ‘Angus the Bridge Builder’? Nae, they do not!”
“Did ye see the stone fence by the creek? Six feet tall, and never have we lost lamb nor child since I built it! But do they call me ‘Angus the Fence Builder’? Nae, they do not!”
“But ye screw one lousy sheep…”
Sheep?
I take it he’s fi Aberdeen?
I keep picturing the ranking guy flipping the board all “oops!” like right before loosing.
“Hm. I see you have the former Soviet Union. I’ve got a lot of troops here in Western Europe. You want to work together?”
“Sure.”
“Actually, now that I think about it, I’ll just invade Russia now. ATTAAAACK!”
“You sure you want to do that? It’s September…”
“Shut up! You’re going down, Commie!”
*three rounds pass*
“ARGH! Russian Winter!”
*furtive snickering around table*
That’s how i ended up playing.
“aaand I march into africa….oh no the soldiers didn’t get supplies, they got a jungle infection, they died. Oh and the people in the north haven’t go the right clothes, oh no they froze to death. Am I out of players? awesome, stop making me play risk”
I always remain the second most powerful player in the game, till right at the very end…
are they planning world domination?
Looks a little like the guy seated on the end is doing some form of beer-bong…
Beer?!?
are they planning to take over the world?
I think they deserve some time to play a game…