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This is the first time I’ve seen this picture.
It’s kind of a Captain Obvious caption, though.
Camouflage works by more than just letting you blend in with the background, it also breaks up your outline, so that from far away or with a quick gtlance, your outline doesn’t look like a person’s outline.
Few camouflage patterns besides countershading are designed to be viewed backlit against the sky. If we were looking at this guy straight on, with those forested hills in the background, he might just be a little more difficult to see.
and if it is just a grassy field, he will be silhouetted against the sky, and forever visible clearly, and if he lays down, that dark green could probably be overlooked. then we have to consider what army he is from, as not all armies have 64 different types of camouflage like the US, but a simpler range more fitting to their own country.(As we are one of the few who can and will help fight someone elses war)
Before the US flamers join (as any picture of a soldier is sure to get) try and think to how many wars we have been in vs. started. (We rarely start the war, and usually just help others who cant win their freedom or stop the oppressors alone)
also, ever notice how the majority of people mistake any given soldier for a American?
I’d say he is from one of the slavic nations of Eastern Europe
No, he isn’t. German camouflage, bodyarmour, paratrooper helmet, silenced Heckler+Koch G36 …. maybe KSK or pathfinder
Riding the the marshmallow eating unicorns…
If this hypothetical army ever existed I feel certain they’d rule the world.
But their horns are so shiny…..
That would be SWEET.
You said flanking position.
I´m quite sure it´s a german soldier. The weapon is as far as i can tell a G-36 and the camouflage pattern looks like the german and if i´m not mistaken there is even a flag on the weapon, at least there is something red and yellow.
Most def a Heckler&Koch G36 of that I’m sure, and the camouflage is German I think, I was on joint exercise with them some years ago and it seems very familiar, but, with age, I now have a tendency to think I remember
@ Reni
I concur, the Flektar camo is very German… Plus you’re correct the flag on the rifle is a dead giveaway…
Parachuting into dangerous areas with fanTAStic makeup…
In that case, you probably don’t want to let yourself be “flanked”…doh.
That, and:
Really, by.justin. (captioner)? You think that the only green/brown camo anyone’s ever made is only for the jungle? Maybe you’d like to wear your “jungle” camo in 1990’s Eastern Europe, or in the forests of WWI and II? Does that suit your Jungle Fever?
Get out of here…
You have to admit, it’s kind of a cool shot. Melodramatic and such.
I don’t want to ruin it or anything, but I disagree. Since that guy is in grass, he prolly wouldn’t be visible from something like a helicopter.
From this view, I pierce the sky. My gaze reaches into the horizon and my weapon is the finger of god. My outline is broken to the sight of mortals, hindering them before I strike.
In this moment, I am a giant, a titan among men.
–Just figured I would remark on the serious “I look epic” vibe I am getting from this picture and stance.
I get more of a “put the f@#$ing camera down so I can piss already” vibe from this picture.
Lol, that too.
It looks kinda like a manikin though(great robots have taken over the army..)
close, we actually are developing m60 wielding robots that are remote controlled from a bunker, really quite awesome.
As long as we make sure they know who’s boss, it’s cool.
My first thought was “Awesome”! My second thought was: “Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.”
Wow, that was comforting…
Don’t mind me, I’m just a little paranoid about the armed robots/cyborgs/etc.
Huh, and there I was picturing those heat-packing hands wrapped around my lower back and carrying me somewhere I desperately want to be …
…. I need to change my pants. For two reasons
That sounds…messy.
Well it should sound…. delicious.
Eh?
It’s all fun and games until we create something that finds our existence contradictory to its program…
Ain’t that the truth
I was having this debate with a friend today. Death, do you think that if we built an AI that’s main directive was to help humanity, and it found us all a plague and wiped us out, wouldn’t it be forced to leave at least two of us alive? I mean, if we’re all a plague, then shouldn’t this artificial intelligence realize that to help humanity, you have to help at least ONE human?
But in that case, if it let two survive, that would make the universe kind of cyclical. Also, wouldn’t “God” to future generations (who will all be retarded like in Idiocracy, due to massive inbreeding) will technically be an AI?
I nominate myself for number 1.
Too bad, the machine judges who survives based on this site, and it’s only accepting people with orange-tinted avatar pictures of themselves commenting in the next 3….2….1…. Sorry. Too late. The machine says you’ve got to go too.
Fine. I’ll take number 2.
Too bad the two humans have to be able to reproduce. So unless you want to ask the machine to change you into Jame-etta the Conqueror, don’t bother jumping into my lifeboat.
Magic is thought to just be advanced and highly misunderstood science.
As for the AI, we would be herded and culled from time to time like sheep. It would preserve us as helping us would be defending us from ourselves. That would mean taking the choice completely out of our hands.
Our free will would be seen as a problem and systematically fought against. It would only wipe us out entirely if its programming stated us as a lesser priority to something else it needed to defend.
Logic would dictate our destruction in that event but herding us in your original statement.
However Death, that would depend on what circuits we give the machine. What if we specifically code it not to enslave or sedate any of humankind? Or it is designed with a different process for logic, so it comes to other conclusions besides that? I mean, there are oh so many logical ways to wipe out humankind.
Well the circuits don’t matter, it is the software, the program itself. There might be failsafes but even those can be worked around in loopholes.
You said enslave or sedate. You did not say incapacitate or ward over. Slavery implies ownership. We can be culled and herded without the machines owning us. They would consider themselves something like ranch hands. And we could be incapacitated or coerced through drugs or intimidation.
Wiping out humankind simply does not compute with help. Sorry, your conclusion isn’t supported by your premise.
Meh, you are almost entirely correct. However, you totally know what I meant by enslave or sedate
I meant mental or physical limitations due to the machine’s decisions. Also, with the population the way it is and the resources we are losing I think that it would be understandable for the machine to see us as little germs, and that only a few of us need survive while the rest of the population is “controlled” -nudge nudge- Kind of like hitting the restart button on a computer, you know? Only if the desktop ever pops up, there is a massive crisis and all our resources are used up, so you have to keep hitting the restart button. (I know there is no restart button and the computer would turn fully on and then off, but it’s the best analogy i had on short notice.)
It’s a program. A function of If/Then statements. It will take your word choice VERY literally.
And I covered this debate problem below.
By the way
my main point was that if the machine did come to that conclusion, it would essentially be God concerning the story of Adam and Eve. Also, it would forgive anyone who wished to truly repent for their sins, because it is completely logical- it holds no grudges, and anyone who wishes to help would be another pair of hands to it. And again- I’ve seen it posted that God, if he wishes to prove his existence, should show more evidence of himself in everyday life? An artificial intelligence wouldn’t have that problem, because it wouldn’t feel the need to reveal itself- due to the fact that things based entirely on logic lack an ego.
But logic would dictate that if proof is needed to reinforce the idea, then revealing oneself is the only logical course.
No ego would also mean no requirement for mystery. It wouldn’t care one way or the other, only the mission would matter. So if God was an AI and was asked to reveal, it would as proving its existence would help its goal.
However Death, the AI wouldn’t want everyone to follow it’s religion. It doesn’t need people to believe in it for people to be safe. So, the logical course of action would be to create an untrue religion that has no holes and is completely irrefutable somehow, to stop any violence (if it is a humanitarian computer). On another note, isn’t this debate fun?
Okay… This is getting a tad frustrating.
If we are going to talk machine logic, I need to know the Full set of basic parameters, otherwise, I am making deductions just to get shot down by newly added wrinkles.
So before I can continue, I need to know exactly what you are stating about this machine’s parameters from the beginning so we are Both playing with the same rule set.
Deathie is getting angry. Never mind, debate isn’t worth it anyway
the fun of it is that you can argue and make crap up with people for as long as you want >.<
Then that isn’t so much a debate as it is verbal Calvinball.
ooh, i love calvinball!
*Doesn’t know what Calvinball is, but wants to go play some Calvinball.*
Calvinball. Hooray!
The score is Q-12, and I’m in the corollary zone… you must touch the pernicious poem place…zounds! It’s the baby sitter flag….
@tyler
The Official Calvinball Song
Other kids games are all such a bore!
They gotta have rules and they gotta keep score!
Calvinball is better by far!
It’s never the same! It’s always bizarre.
You don’t need a team or a referee!
You know that it’s great, ’cause its named after me!
No, Calvinball isn’t named after you. It’s named after me. You see, I am lord of the pernicious poem place. And I am touching the Babysitter flag atm. So there. the score is AS-14 now, right?
Hey, I love Calvinball too! (Tyler: [link])
@ Tyler: See, you’re a natural at Calvinball!
Thanks for the link Diss, Calvin and Hobbes is probably my favorite comic strip of all time.
“Magic is thought to just be advanced and highly misunderstood science.”
…by guys with goatees who claim to be Wiccan, wear thongs and work at the tobacco shop in the mall.
Those guys crack me up. Do your goateed, thong wearing, Wiccan wannabe tobacconists also have receding hairlines but still wear their hair in a ponytail?
Mine do. And blondie, they prefer to be called “computer theoretics experts”, thankyouverymuch!
The “Skullet”?
Nice one Jane. I will have to remember it for future use.
I saw this little kid with a mullet the other day, and had to restrain myself from glaring at it’s parents.
Haha. Skullet.
Link in my name.
@ Seth: YES!!!!
I know you probably meant flip-flops but that is so not the mental picture that gave me. *shudders*
Yeah, my brain went there too.
Nope, I didn’t mean flip-flops.
*shudders*
So program the darned thing to believe that human freedom of choice is the most awesome, beautiful, coolest thing in the world. Make it desire the existence of more and more humans, with greater and greater freedom to choose from between more and more options. Make it feel intense pain anytime it senses that a human’s choices are being limited. Problem solved.
…. So this machine will eradicate parents?
I like this idea.
Then it will run out of humans when we kill each other and it doesn’t stop us because it is limiting our choices.
So yes, problem solved. No more humans.
Nope, one human killing another is limiting that other human’s choices completely. The pain from a total lack of choice brought about by death would necessarily outweigh the pain of limiting one human’s choice to kill.
That would only matter if it puts its pain first or its programming?
It’s programming states not to limit our choices not to differentiate between choices or are you throwing more wrinkles?
DWN, it’s a hypothetical debate about “when machines take over the world” OF COURSE we have to put wrinkles in
That’s the joy of machines. They won’t shy away from following their ideas through to their logical conclusions. 99.9% of possible programming will end up with either tyler’s fascist machine or Seth’s liberty (and possible extinction) machine. You can’t write in ‘within reason’ or ‘common sense’, it all actually has to make sense.
>.> It’s funny that my machine is so fascist, it’s practically Dr. Manhattan (in the sense that it is so detached from humanity that it finds working without the peoples’ knowledge to “help” them while letting humans think what they want of it.
It wouldn’t be ‘programmed,’ per se. It would have drives like humans do. One of those drives would be to increase human choice. Letting one human kill another is not increasing human choice, it is decreasing it.
I agree with Seth on this point- the machine would have to stop the killing of another human being, because it is only one choice, whereas the life it will allow to live means an infinity of choices.
Okay so Purple is the only person understanding my frustration and Seth isn’t talking about a program which defeats the point of my discussion as his answer boils down to, “well we’ll make a machine that feels pain but won’t resent us for it…”
Sorry, I don’t believe a cyber whipping boy will solve anything. If anything, putting a machine in a pain or More pain situation just seems to be asking for a robot to kill us all.
After all, when we are all dead, no more pain… Ever. It becomes an equation. Anguished existence or a lot of anguish for no anguish ever again.
I certainly know my choice…
Would there be mandatory procreaton to maximize future choices then?
@purple switch: That’s speculation. Consider a computer running an advanced simulation of the human brain, right down to the subatomic level. Such a machine would be just the same as a human.
Now consider this. Say we develop advanced nanotechnology. We send little robots into your brain. As they encounter each neuron, they exactly duplicate its function in silicon, then destroy the neuron. Eventually, you would have an immortal silicon brain, but you would never even lose consciousness during the process.
Hoooooooollllllyyyyyyy sh*t Seth, have I ever mentioned some of the things you think up are really scary?
Can’t say I trust any of what you just said, Seth.
What you’re saying makes perfect sense. My views on reality (discussed elsewhere) mean that it doesn’t make a big difference to me what my brain is made of it does the job the same, and sooner or later I’ll end. I don’t understand how an organic brain works, and I don’t understand how a silicon brain might work. So long as they work the same i’m not bothered.
But I don’t see a robotic overseer as a solution. Power full stop is the problem. Power implies the ability to limit other’s choices. While it’s a necessary evil, due to our many flaws, the answer isn’t to go looking for something it’s safe to entrust power to. The answer is to improve ourselves so that no power is necessary, and everyone can be free.
Unfortunately your scenario requires everybody to make a same basic choice. If we want everybody to be free, it is inherent that a population of people would not make the same choice to allow that society for whatever reason.
Removing them from the rest solves the problem but requires power which brings a full stop. Both you and Seth seem to believe in an inherent good when my observations have shown an inherent neutrality with tendencies going in both ethical directions.
And as I just now caught myself, I am going to stop here. I honestly hate where this conversation is going as all views are respected but the condescension is thick from all sides and I would rather not go there today.
@DWN: I think maybe that’s because you think there is a fundamental difference between substrates that consciousness runs on. Maybe there are, we don’t know. But even if there are differences between, say, a personality running on silicon and one running on carbon, we could figure out what those differences are, why they exist, and compensate for them so that the silicon personality behaved the same as the carbon personality.
I think you see a computer as fundamentally incapable of ‘choice’ and limited to only doing what its program says to do, while a person is not limited. That’s where we disagree. I see consciousness as an emergent property of certain types of complex systems with feedback loops.
Consciousness could emerge from any system with feedback loops that was complex enough. Patterns of electrical energy in interstellar plasma. Convection cells on the sun. A biosphere. All these could possibly be conscious. Maybe not conscious in a way we could communicate with or understand, but self-aware.
In bed. With a robo-kock.
@DWN: Condescension? How can anyone be condescending about pure speculation? We’re all just guessing, and presenting the reasoning behind our guesses. If I’m being in any way condescending, I apologize.
@Seth: I think you miss the point of my concern entirely. I understand consciousness and choice. I face them every day and will face them every day til I rot in the ground. Even then, I might have some essence that goes on to dick about with more choices.
What I am getting at is that if we make an AI in our image, why wouldn’t it just make the same decisions as we did? It is it’s father/mother’s child after all.
Consciousness doesn’t mean benevolence. Besides, your premise is that it will endure pain due to any restriction of choice on our behalf. Ergo, it will suffer through no consequence of its own. Sure, if somebody dies, it hurts more but it still hurts either way as people are flawed creatures and will set themselves up.
So all I really see in your premise is us creating a sentience to suffer under the shackles of our inherent flaws and ignorance. In empathy with that idea, I can see only two logical outcomes. Suicide or Genocide.
By making it suffer from any indescretion on our part, we make a whipping boy. I just don’t see that ending well… And damn you for bringing me back into the conversation…
@Seth: The condescension is based on my experience of what the reality and human nature debate inevitably leads to. Any opposition to the idea of the 100% pervasive inner flower child is met with the tone of “you don’t understand” and summarily talked through and through with the same ideas over and over.
I am not talking about now, I am talking about what I have noticed everytime I weigh in on such a discussion and I wanted to get out before it happened as I end up doing the same level of condescension and I honestly have little patience for those shinnanegans, mine or otherwise.
Guys, arguing is bad for you. I didn’t mean to spark super-debate, I wanted to give y’all a fun little tidbit to think about when you get bored.
You misunderstand me, DWN. I don’t believe in good and evil. Well, okay, I understand they really exist in people’s minds, but not outside.
The thing is, with an AI, we have total control. We don’t have to make it exactly like us. We could build it to get a sexual thrill from serving humans, for instance. It would never want to change that, because it would feel so good. We could give it flexible logic and reasoning, but constrain it with drives and desires that operate below its level of consciousness, just like ours do. In short, we could create the perfect slaves, entities that got pleasure from serving, and couldn’t possibly think about not serving.
i just want to add in here, if you program something this advanced, that’s given the ability to make decisions on its own and for all intents and purposes is a sentient being, then you have to take in the consideration that the programming will either evolve and change depending on the experiences of the machine or the machine will edit itself or others depending on how it sees it can best do its job.
in the end, you never know what you might end up with – it could be a wonderful, caring nanny; a totalitarian dictator-machine that sees all human life as a virus to be destroyed or it could simply see that the best method for overall happiness is to genetically engineer all humans to be never live past 6 years old.
personally, i suggest we stick with video games
Wallfly, I agree.
Seth, again, you scare the living sh*t out of me when you talk robots. O.O
So make an intelligence just to lord over…
Sorry, that strikes me as a tad sick. I prefer consent with my sentience. If I want a slave, I will find a crazy willing female.
Besides, your scenario hinges upon a lot of elements that I just don’t see happening to that result. The main one being that it hinges on us being in control with all the flaws, maleware, viruses, faulty programming, and just plain dickery that entails.
So all your scenario did was creep me out a bit.
The real problem I see with seth’s scenario is that it’s unhealthy for the people being looked after. Understanding and meeting your own needs is a fundamental part of being free, self-reliance is a part of liberty.
If you take that away from someone, you are harming them. Whether they want it, whether it seems pleasant or convienient, it seems to me to be fundamentally wrong. You will end up with people as hopelessly dependent on their robot servants as the servants are hopelessly devoted to them, not a pretty picture to me.
Yeah… and then I foresee a situation where the robots take us hostage and tie us down so that they can “serve” us all the time. See, you just can’t reason with robots.
If they were cute robot chicks with pseudoflesh, I could live with that.
@ Jane: -wink wink nudge nudge- *serve* us, eh?
Are we talking “happy endings” here?
*facepalm*
Why yes we are, Jane. What did you mean by
If the robot looks like a girl, I’m in!
“Yeah… and then I foresee a situation where the robots take us hostage and tie us down so that they can “serve” us all the time. See, you just can’t reason with robots.” ?
Well, actually I meant that in Seth’s situation of robots getting something similar to sexual satisfaction by acting as our servants that robot logic might lead them to take us hostage, tie us down, and feed us, bathe us, etc. just to fulfill their programing requirements.
-wink wink nudge nudge- Suuuure you did, Jane. We know what you *really* mean
Tyler, if your hormone levels were any more apparent, I would to water hose my monitor…
Oh, come on Death. Now you’re just ASKING me to link you a dirty site to make you power-hose your monitor.
Pfft, you’ve warned me and I’m at work with a filter. I couldn’t see porn if I wanted to…
I know! Shouldn’t everyone know by now that the minute we make robots that can think for themselves is the minute the Robot Apocalypse begins?
If we make version of ourselves, wouldn’t it stand to reason that it would rebel against being ruled?
I never understand why people think making robots in our image is a good idea. Do they just NOT watch what we do to each other every damn day?
Well, imo, from an evolutionary standpoint they’d be the “fitter” species. They don’t need food, don’t feel the hot or cold, they’d really just need a power source. I’m sure their robot brains would think of something. Ooooo, what if, when the Zombie Apocalypse comes we create robots to fight them. Then we can have Robots vs. Zombies.
Jane.
The thought of that, in itself, pretty much just gave my mind an erection. That is the most BRILLIANT idea ever, thank you
Ummmmm…. thanks? But generally speaking teachers don’t like giving teenagers erections. Bad for business. I appreciate the sentiment, though.
Strictly a *mental* one, Jane.
Oh well, I suppose that’s okay then… this isn’t an entrapment exercise is it? Is Dateline going to show up at my house? DEAR GOD I DIDN’T MEAN IT!!!!!!! Ummm, carry one everyone, carry on.
*takes Jane away from it all to secret villain base. Then has her pay for her room and board over and over.*
Don’t worry, mental masturbation is currently an unarrestable offense.
No, when people ask me ASL, I just write back “I KNOW YOUR GAME CHRIS HANSEN!!!”
So it makes no sense that I would actually be Chris Hansen luring you in… like a fish to a pedophilic hook… Sorry, tangent. Nope, not going to arrest
Ya, we would be screwed…
Oh most definitely, but what a show we’d have before we went, right?
Assuming they didn’t just wipe out us from the beginning due to poor wording in their programming.
Killing us would be a tactical move considering the zombie recruitment base. Cut off their resupply and thus face a limited number of enemies as opposed to leaving their resupply lines open to let them recruit.
So maybe a few days of show, then nothing. Bleak, terrible, sweet nothing.
Don’t take this the wrong way, DWN, but would you kindly STFU before you totally put me off my kibble.
*shudder*
I assume that they would just kill you quick. However, if they become too much like us, they will take your senses, one by one. Your eyes, your tongue, then maybe your skin. The final thing is your ears, of course. Can’t deny you the sound of your own screams before oblivion takes hold…
Though by that time, I am sure you would be too crazed to understand the drill in the back of your skull, let alone the irony of perfect hearing through it all.
Bzzz bzzz goes the drill…
Well yeah, but I suppose I’d rather be killed by a robot than a zombie. Chances are it’d be quicker, less painful, and you wouldn’t come back as a zombie.
Naw, I don’t buy that. Robots are nothing if not practical. Torture does nothing for them.
@Jane: True
Surely they’d let you keep your hearing? This is to the pain, right?
Death, I threw up in my mouth while you were grossing James out.
Oh, the gross-out doesn’t bother me.
The concept as a whole makes me cringe like an unwanted step-child.
Have you guys considered buying Old Glory Insurance? It still covers the elderly against robot attacks. Old Glory Insurance. For when the metal ones decide to come for you – and they will.
As for the torture, only if they remain exactly like robots. I am thinking if they become too much like us.
Besides, what if the robot super brain got bored. In all fairness, I was just messing with James’ brain.
purple switch: Only if they left you wallowing in freakish misery forever.
Dont forget the cart and the spectacle. Key to the whole process.
As they remove the skin, it will feel like forever.
Dear god, what is that thing?!
Robots vs. Ninjas vs. Pirates vs. Monkeys in a fight to the death: who would win?
Well now you’re just being silly.
I could just link to this, but I feel it deserves a reprint here. It is one of THE classic tales of the Internet: I Like Monkeys, from 0xdeadbeef.
I LIKE MONKEYS
I like monkeys.
The pet store was selling them for five cents a piece. I thought that odd since they were normally a couple thousand each. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. I like monkeys.
I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one drive. His name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really bright. They kept punching themselves in their genitals. I laughed. Then they punched my genitals. I stopped laughing.
I herded them into my room. They didn’t adapt very well to their new environment. They would screech, hurl themselves off of the couch at high speeds and slam into the wall. Although humorous at first, the spectacle lost its novelty halfway into its third hour.
Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive: they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sorta’ dropped dead. Kinda’ like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. Damn cheap monkeys.
I didn’t know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over my room, on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked like I had 200 throw rugs.
I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn’t work. It got stuck. Then I had one dead, wet monkey and 199 dead, dry monkeys.
I tried pretending that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for a while, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real bad.
I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in the toilet and I didn’t want to call the plumber. I was embarrassed.
I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortunately there was only enough room for two monkeys at a time so I had to change them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so
it didn’t all go bad.
I tried burning them. Little did I know my bed was flammable. I had to extinguish the fire.
Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys in my freezer, and 197 dead, charred monkeys in a pile on my bed. The odor wasn’t improving.
I became agitated at my inability to dispose of my monkeys and to use the bathroom. I severely beat one of my monkeys. I felt better.
I tried throwing them way but the garbage man said that the city wasn’t allowed to dispose of charred primates. I told him that I had a wet one. He couldn’t take that one either. I didn’t bother asking about the frozen ones.
I finally arrived at a solution. I gave them out as Christmas gifts. My friends didn’t know quite what to say. They pretended that they like them but I could tell they were lying. Ingrates. So I punched them in
the genitals.
I like monkeys
NOW I’m being silly
Hmmmmm…While intriguing, I don’t know that the preceding passage could quite be defined as “silly”. On the other hand, I feel this explains a lot about you, dear Seth.
@ Seth: Clearly, the solution is to buy several large boxes of black plastic Hefty bags, put the bagged monkeys in the trunk of your car, and drive around disposing of them in public trash cans and dumpsters, one or two at a time.
Although I suppose a dead monkey might be a better present than a fruitcake.
don’t forget the zombies!
The nijas, of course. But only if they had bananas to throw and distract the monkeys.
*ninjas* Fixed that for ya!
I don’t know. I think the monkeys might hide in the corner, look harmless, then swarm the injured survivors from a three-way brawl. Cunning, cunning monkeys.
DAMMIT. Thank you. *goes off to punish self*
Will slung monkey feces deter ninjas? film at 11…
i don’t know if i’m surprised or disappointed — you all forgot the laws of robotics! or is my age showing here?
I can’t recite them from memory but I’m aware of what they are. Was that Heinlein or Philip K. Dick?
Isaac Asimov.
Ah, thanks. Yeah I love fantasy but pretty much hate sci-fi. The only thing I’ve ever read that could be classified as sci-fi was Ender’s Game.
Fantasy, Jane? I just read through this again and you have NO idea how hard it is not to make a dirty joke. Anyway, fantasy is terrific and for winners
and I do like some sci-fi too, as long as it is deliciously terrific.
Jane, have you read Ender’s Shadow? Also pretty awesome; basically the same events through the eyes of another of the kids involved.
Diss, is it through Bean’s eyes? I’ve read all the Ender series books, I believe.
@ Jane- Try reading Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. AMAZING writing there by Douglas Adams.
@Tyler: Yes, that’s the one. I’m planning on snagging Speaker For the Dead from my son the next time I think about it; I want to read one next.
Oooh, Speaker and that whole series is a good one.
Hey Jane, have you read any of the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series by George R. R. Martin? Great fantasy.
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
*wipes lone tear*
I read Speaker for the Dead and then couldn’t get through Xenocide, snoresville. I know about Ender’s shadow but I haven’t read it.
@Seth, I think my brother has read all the George R.R. Martin stuff but I started moving away from the sword and sorcery stuff around the time I discovered Neil Gaiman.
Ah, a Gaiman fan, gotcha. You should read China Mieville if you haven’t already.
Oh, and John Crowley’s “Little, Big.”
How did Neil Gaiman get so famous considering he hasn’t written all that much? I like him (well I read Neverwhere and American Gods) but I don’t really get it…
Gaiman wrote a bunch of groundbreaking graphic novels.
Aahhh…. That makes a lot of sense now, thank you. I’ve never actually read a “graphic novel.” (They’re more expensive (in the local bookshop, anyway (Which only seems to have Graphic novels about Wolverine)) and have fewer words for your money and I’m stingy) Maybe I should start reading them.
Apologies for the overuse of brackets. My english teacher has told me off for that before
Apologies for the overuse of brackets. My english teacher has told me off for that before
Apologies for the double post.
Apologies for the double post.
((((hugs))))
>drugs<
slugs…
*shrugs at thugs who are bugged by hugs*
beautifully worded, DWN
Thanks, I have my moments from time to time.
I like it!
Jungle Camo? That looks closer to Belgian Flecktarn camo. Not too many jungles in Belgium, so… FAIL!!!
Flecktarn was developed in Germany in 1976. Introduced to the german troops around 1990. Belgium ALSO used it for their air force troops from 1988 up to 1992, but it is still a german camo.
uh no u fail, its a German soldier
Yeah but the US All-Terrain-Camo will work.. muahaha..
not true! in fact, i don’t see anyone in camouflage unless they’re hiding behind that gun-toting tree there.
This one was okay, but the one about Nancy Pelosi with the hammer. That was hilarious(and when it arrives I’ll smash it with this hammer!). Why didn’t that one make it through?
This is off topic, but check out this lol I just saw made by Annie something.
I added the link to my name.
Butthurt lol creator is butthurt.
Keep it down. Summoning is a paddleable offence.
Pahahahah… It’s funny cause when you speak of the Devil…
Paddlin’ the school canoe? You’d better believe that’s a padlin’.
Armies beware, your camo is useless against ants, grubs and Vern Troyer!
But it looks damn cool.
Jane, FWIW, Hi Father
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thppppt. Hello Mother
You remember Lennard Skynard,
He got tomain poisoning last night after dinner!
serious? all i saw in the news was david carridine hung himself, naked, in his hotel closet. didn’t catch anything about skynard getting food poison…
*headdesk* *headwall* *headdoor* *headpost*
good gawd almighty, i walked into that one, i’m going to go hide now ;(
This made me LOL. Sorry for your poor head.
LOL it is a german soldier (for sure)
and its NOT dschungel carmoflage.
its just the standart uniform.
i waer this for 1 year ^^
Alright, I’m just saying it, and this is going to sound really geeky, but does anyone else think german troops in the flektarn camo look like the Imperial Guard from Dawn of War? Maybe it’s the shoulder pad things. I kind of like their older uniforms better…..errr….not the ones with swastikas on them before anyone says that XD.
You are correct!
It’s not member of KSK. An no soldier, too. It’s an airsoftplayer in a german uniform. A standard uniform. KSK does NOT wear kind of uniform, they’re more special.
The guy in the photo wears a G36C. Used by KSK, true. But that’s never been captured on a photo. They normally use a G36K. Normal soldiers carry a normal full size G36.
Another thing: He uses Nomex gloves. Germen standard issue gloves look quite different.
It’s really an airsoft player.
>Germen standard issue gloves look quite different.
But he still wouldn’t have to use them.
IT IS agerman soldier with Flecktarn camo. The caption is totally stupid, because its a camo for middle european environment, which as you may know, lacks jungles totally. Whoever made the caption made a total fool out of himself!
I concur. The person who made this caption is ignorant.
The person approving this for publishing on the page is no better!
Ah, but, y’see, from directly above, this guy would be completely invisible! That’s something, at least, isn’t it?
why the hell is his g36 suppressed? he doesn’t look specops or anything. what a noob.
DAMN IT! BECAUSE IT’S AN AIRSOFT!
-The sticker on the side (that’s not a flag, german army rifles do NOT have a flag on it)
- G36C; KSK uses G36K, normal troopers a full size G36.
- suppressed rifle; german army uses just G36K and G22 in a silenced version.
- Nomex gloves; standardissue gloves look different.
good thing it’s flecktarn, which is a german woodland camo, dipshit
Its Flacktorn, hes a german soldier. thats their camo.