Comments on: EPIC

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:24:47 +0000

“Picture by dunno”?!? Really?!? The man’s name was Ernie Pyle, and he was a war correspondent during WWII. This photograph made him famous. Geez, people, crack a friggin’ history book once in a while!

By: Donald Zerli, Patriot

Donald Zerli, Patriot — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:46:31 +0000

A scene from, probably, the 1960’s:

Some guy is in his kitchen, fixing hot chocolate. A package of Girl Scout chocolate mint cookies is on the counter.

Also on the counter is a bottle of peppermint schnapps.

He glances at the schnapps.

His brow knits.

He glances at the hot chocolate.

He glances again at the schnapps.

In the background, the opening notes of ‘Thus Spake Zarathustra’ begin to play softly.

By: Danbala

Danbala — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:23:32 +0000

I doubt I will get used. (And I am not talking about PK, I am talking about all people, right or left.)

By: zebra

zebra — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:10:45 +0000

They were Marines, with the exception of the Corps man. And they all died except Ira Hayes, the Navajo radio man, so i would bet they never saw those medals…

By: stewie

stewie — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:41:34 +0000

A solider from Slovakia is among them! Slovakia rules!

By: Aoife

Aoife — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:11:27 +0000

I know, I get the same sense of unease with over-hearty praise of war. To me there isn’t ever a true ‘winner’, just one side looses worse than the other. Both sides have horrible consequences.

Considering that the way WW2 ended led into the Korean War, Vietnam War, and Cold War, which then led to the war in Afghanistan and Iraq we see today, and WW2 having many of it’s routes in WW1, it does seem that war only begets more war, and evenutally we’ll have to, as a planet, find a more peaceful solution to actually stop the circle of violence.

By: bitter troll

bitter troll — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:44:25 +0000

YAY AND MAKE BITTER TROLL ONE TOO!!
and some pie…bitter troll loves pie

By: Aoife

Aoife — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:42:12 +0000

From what I read, Care Troll used the term ‘girls’ first: “you heard VNV girls.” VNV responded using the same terminology. Not really sexist at all, what I think VNV was going for was a Marxism feminist stance, which sees the introduction of women in the workforce as them loosing power to the bourgeoise, where previously they had limited control over their family lives, and that even now women are a second class of worker, paid less and under-valued, and that as they are now allowed/expected to work, their valuable imput raising families and so forth is extremely undervalued and considered a non-job (and yup, I have a va-j-j).

By: dsbartholet

dsbartholet — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:36:03 +0000

you fail because this is WWII. Marines did not say oo-rah untill the Korean War

By: B Hunter

B Hunter — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:09:16 +0000

By: Kriv Thor

Kriv Thor — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:58:54 +0000

Very bad. USA never had an epic win in war. Every War is EPIC FAIL. Dead People = WIN?

By: tb

tb — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:07:52 +0000

i feel that doing stuff like this is taking the easy way out just by taking historical events or people of service and glorifying it just to try and get sympathy or support for a cheap submission

By: Vast

Vast — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:19:34 +0000

dude, those are marines, the army was on the other side.
and if anyone has proof to prove me wrong, then i’ll ignore it.
this is a win.
And every solder deserves props.
hoo-rah.

By: bad fairie

bad fairie — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:34:15 +0000

don’t worry about it, you get used to teh stupid after a while, or more likely, just numb to it. there is an amazing lack of critical thinking among the non-elitist right (and the non-thinking left too), but if you let it get to you, it’ll short out the synapses in your brain and once they’re gone, that’s it. then you get to be like me, brain damaged

By: forge

forge — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:14:26 +0000

Obvious failure of understanding that you’d be speaking either Japanese or German if it hadn’t been for these guys right here.

By: IvanEusebio

IvanEusebio — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:56:22 +0000

I object. I do not see how war can ever be an epic win. In an epic win, there is a victory all the away around (we laugh, you laugh, people all over the world laugh). War, and Iwo Jima as an example of such, only separates and inevitably, someone loses. This is more like epic fail, especially in light of the wars America has fought after WII (where either there is disgrace or loss, on all sides).

So please, let us leave nationalisms aside when we enter this page. It only separates us more.

By: Semperfidd

Semperfidd — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:05:00 +0000

ILPB VNV is a corporations are bad, take the money from the rich and give it to the poor and make everyone middle class kind of guy. I will say that VNV is consistant though )

By: Danbala

Danbala — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:42:14 +0000

Curly brackets and square brackets, iirc.

By: Danbala

Danbala — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:40:46 +0000

I mean exactly those (or exactly us, as it probably were). I am horrified on a daily basis (not really true, but almost) about how many people seem to lack any sense of necessity for … ummm … Sorry, can’t think of the English term, but directly translated from “källkritik” would be “source criticism” or “source critique”or similar.

By: Semperfidd

Semperfidd — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:35:17 +0000

By targets are you refering to the many people who what the news, read the papers, watch commercials. There is not much in the real world that does not have some sort of slant or “propoganda” associated with it. Gonna go turn up the heat. This global warming is freezing my azz off.

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:14:25 +0000

I go away for a few days and miss all of this? From where are all of these new trolls coming? Where’s the Troll-Control spray? Some of them are horrible little pests, based on their sock-y posts.

By: Rando the Floydist/Beatlist

Rando the Floydist/Beatlist — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:09:08 +0000

More powerful than a locomotive? Sure! Wait, does Thomas the Tank Engine count?

By: I Like Peanut Butter

I Like Peanut Butter — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:48:54 +0000

Rando to the rescue!!! Ta Ta Ta Ta!!!

Can he stop a speeding bullet? Yes, once!

By: wallFly

wallFly — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:52:10 +0000

and here i thought you were typing in dialect

By: wallFly

wallFly — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:48:22 +0000

i gotta ask – which war do you think that picture is concerning?

By: wallFly

wallFly — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:39:35 +0000

so much fail in so few sentences (and a run-on at that), truly remarkable.

By: Isildo

Isildo — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:00:40 +0000

It takes about thirty Girl Scouts to raise a flag…

I remember growing up in Girl Scouts and working at a GS camp, and the counselors always had to teach the girls how to unfold and raise a flag. As in EVERY SINGLE TIME they went up the flag pole. We didn’t bother asking them to get it down, we did that ourselves.

By: Isildo

Isildo — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:55:17 +0000

It’s my understanding that they are both brackets, although the straight ones [] are more common. The curvy ones {} are hardly ever used, so I’m honestly not sure if they have a name of their own. I tried googling them, but apparently no documents matched my search terms. {:P}

By: Rando the Floydist/Beatlist

Rando the Floydist/Beatlist — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:56:49 +0000

I most certainly am not a corporate whore. I’m a corporate slut. Whores get paid.

By: bad fairie

bad fairie — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:41:54 +0000

because he was deemed vital to the war effort for the movies he made, also because of his age and old injuries he was classified as 4-f

By: bad fairie

bad fairie — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:35:04 +0000

doh! brain f@rt here blame it on lack of scotch in the bloodstream.
on the other hand i was doing good to not refer to them as bob hope parenthesis, which is what one of my grade school teachers called them
and a question – if these {} are brackets, then what are these []? are they both brackets? and if so, how do you tell them apart without using them?

By: something

something — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:30:43 +0000

but. the battle on iwo jima went on for 35 more days after this picture was taken

this is no win

By: Isildo

Isildo — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:12:19 +0000

English major attack. These brackets {} are not ellipses. An ellipsis is a three dot symbol like so… used to indicate an omission from a quote or, in written dialogue or discussions, to give the impression of a hesitation in speech.

Love ya!

By: someone

someone — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:48:34 +0000

well actually, if you think about it, “killing millions of people b/c of their religion…” is pretty much what happened in the crusades. Personally, I side with the allies, but during WWII, plenty of people sided with the axis (otherwise, how could there be a war?). It’s always “good VS evil,” and your side is always (in your opinion) the “good”. In reality, there really is no war between “good” and “evil,” only wars between two sides that both think of themselves as “good” and the other side as “evil”.

By: someone

someone — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:39:27 +0000

actually, the men on the island could see the original flag fine. this one was raised for three reasons:
A. so that the news photographers could get a picture,
B. so that a historically significant flag could be raised in it’s place (the second one was taken from the flagpole of one of the ships sunk at pearl harbor), and
C. so that one of the officers (I don’t remember his name) could take the original.

By: someone

someone — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:34:04 +0000

also, this photograph only got to be more famous than the one taken during the first raising because it was a newsperson rather than an army photographer, so it got to the presses much faster.

By: Rando the Floydist/Beatlist

Rando the Floydist/Beatlist — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:52:39 +0000

You will? Cool! Okay, I’m gonna be the white knight, and you get to be the scary dragon! I slay thee, evil dragon!!

By: Rando the Floydist/Beatlist

Rando the Floydist/Beatlist — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:51:39 +0000

Not pathetic. Just annoyed with you.

By: Rando the Floydist/Beatlist

Rando the Floydist/Beatlist — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:50:32 +0000

Fail? Nah. Juvenile, sure. But if you’re gonna go for stupid insults, why not me too?

By: Rando the Floydist/Beatlist

Rando the Floydist/Beatlist — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:49:29 +0000

How odd, I could have sworn the site has “LOL” all over it. But I suppose you’re right. The site is whatever you want it to be. That’s fine.

By: Dexaan

Dexaan — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:16:23 +0000

/salute

By: I Like Peanut Butter

I Like Peanut Butter — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:40:03 +0000

Actually the fire fight was still happening when the raised the second flag. There were Japanese soldiers in the tunnels under Suribachi. The Flag was riased on the 5th day of the battle and the battle lasted another 30 days. 3 of the 6 flag raisers would die on Iwo Jima.

So TJN, STFU.

By: JULIO LUGO!!!!

JULIO LUGO!!!! — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:31:35 +0000

My grandfather was at Iwo Jima. He won a Purple Heart.

Suck on that, Tojo.

By: I Like Peanut Butter

I Like Peanut Butter — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:24:42 +0000

Uno! **looks for INS**

By: I Like Peanut Butter

I Like Peanut Butter — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:14:31 +0000

Plus we showed those Ruskies who boss, and where to go to spy to get a BIG BANG!!

By: Eltom

Eltom — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:57:37 +0000

This is open comment to anyone who thinks that the pic was a photo opt to sale war bonds or that the fighting was over when the flag was raised. The second flag was raised on the 5th day of fighting the fighting took 35 days to complete. It dose not matter if there was gun fire at the time the flag went up or not. Those five Marines and one Nave Corpsman stood tall in a hell you can’t even conceive of. You are not showing that you are smart or witty just your own stupidity.

By: macburl

macburl — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:41:39 +0000

that is an excellent point, Brak

and like Chris said, this is definitely one of the most Epic Wins out there ^_^

By: Jojo

Jojo — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:31:17 +0000

Your mental ignorance was their resistance.

They still fought a battle. It is still a monumental scene. The fact that they (wisely) chose a photo-op AFTER the gunfire ceased doesn’t cheapen the image whatsoever.

By: Jojo

Jojo — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:29:47 +0000

I’m anal now because he claims this was not an important victory? Ok… I’ll play in your little fantasy world for now.

By: Jojo

Jojo — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:24:43 +0000

Insult fail. Your desperation to insult me just makes you look more pathetic.