Charlie Chaplin: Finally Someone With Common Sense

[Samuraikoku]

*looks up from a tablet & peers over reading glasses* Yes, that about says it. And they don't have to be "dicks," as you so quaintly put it. Any young man is a potential problem, given the great number of triggers modern society serves up. *checks tablet* We're thinking about universal conscription ... Since it's early, is there any particular branch of the military you favor?

Do you have any idea how fucking sick I'm getting of people saying that? Why don't you just create a thread titled "Send anyone under 21 to prison" and take all of your adultism there?

Because you don't get irony.

[Simon Cowell of the RR]

Confirmed by what?

The communists have a little ceremony of confirmation. The inductee has to wear a red veil and usually takes a new name, like Vladimir or Friederick or Leon. It's very moving, really. Then they have a big party with dancing and a bad band and rubber chicken.

You forgot the vodka sacrament.

It is all very nice to talk about how inspiring that was/that we need to fix things. But what are you going to do about it?

[EnragedMaldivians]

War... War Never Changes.

According to Mary Kaldor, it has. (See also)

*looks up from a tablet & peers over reading glasses* Yes, that about says it. And they don't have to be "dicks," as you so quaintly put it. Any young man is a potential problem, given the great number of triggers modern society serves up. *checks tablet* We're thinking about universal conscription ... Since it's early, is there any particular branch of the military you favor?

Do you have any idea how fucking sick I'm getting of people saying that? Why don't you just create a thread titled "Send anyone under 21 to prison" and take all of your adultism there?

Tut tut. Language, young man; and don't take that tone with your elders. Go to your room.

[Farnhamia]

*looks up from a tablet & peers over reading glasses* Yes, that about says it. And they don't have to be "dicks," as you so quaintly put it. Any young man is a potential problem, given the great number of triggers modern society serves up. *checks tablet* We're thinking about universal conscription ... Since it's early, is there any particular branch of the military you favor?

Do you have any idea how fucking sick I'm getting of people saying that? Why don't you just create a thread titled "Send anyone under 21 to prison" and take all of your adultism there?

This is exactly what I mean. No sense of humor, unless it involves blowing something up or tits. We've had threads like that, though not with that title. Usually the title is something like "SCHOOL IS PRISON!!!111!!!oneone!!eleventy!" and is started by someone who thinks himself a victim of "adultism." We should talk about "adultism" later, say around 2040. I venture to suggest that your opinions will have changed.

[Samuraikoku]

This is exactly what I mean. No sense of humor, unless it involves blowing something up or tits.

When I was under 21 I didn't have access to any of those two possibilities... although my sense of humor IS rather weird. But at least it's inoffensive.

[Farnhamia]

This is exactly what I mean. No sense of humor, unless it involves blowing something up or tits.

When I was under 21 I didn't have access to any of those two possibilities... although my sense of humor IS rather weird. But at least it's inoffensive.

Surely you heard jokes about them, 'Koku-san. I didn't mean to suggest actual explosives or actual tits. Perhaps it's algo americano.

[Samuraikoku]

Surely you heard jokes about them, 'Koku-san. I didn't mean to suggest actual explosives or actual tits. Perhaps it's algo americano.

I have, but I didn't find them funny. Like I said... I've got a weird, albeit inoffensive, sense of humor.

[Ahtreil]

Nice speech, although it comes to mind..

When we hear it, we want to be an example of the things Chaplin talks about. But then i think about the ''Dictator''-example he had in that speech, and how they talk about how the world would be better, i can't take it seriously, because it would be exactly the same thing as those things he condemned...

[Velka Morava]

The communists have a little ceremony of confirmation. The inductee has to wear a red veil and usually takes a new name, like Vladimir or Friederick or Leon. It's very moving, really. Then they have a big party with dancing and a bad band and rubber chicken.

You forgot the vodka sacrament.

It is all very nice to talk about how inspiring that was/that we need to fix things. But what are you going to do about it?

Actually what he forgot was the partaking of barbecued babies...

[Farnhamia]

Surely you heard jokes about them, 'Koku-san. I didn't mean to suggest actual explosives or actual tits. Perhaps it's algo americano.

I have, but I didn't find them funny. Like I said... I've got a weird, albeit inoffensive, sense of humor.

*nods* Probably comes from living south of the equator.

[Samuraikoku]

*nods* Probably comes from living south of the equator.

Most teenagers and young adults around here (from both sexes) like jokes about breasts. The younger types - usually males - like jokes about things blowing up.

I like absurdity.

[AETEN II]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8HdOHrc3OQ&feature=fvst
Better version of the speech.

[Khanastan]

So basically, war is ok as long as keeps all the dicks out there in a foreign country where they can't bother us. Take a note kids.

*looks up from a tablet & peers over reading glasses* Yes, that about says it. And they don't have to be "dicks," as you so quaintly put it. Any young man is a potential problem, given the great number of triggers modern society serves up. *checks tablet* We're thinking about universal conscription ... Since it's early, is there any particular branch of the military you favor?

I don't favour per say, but I am not an anti militarist. It is apparent that every nation needs a capable army, but I feel that a nation shouldn't squander its men and resources by sticking its nose in other nations business if it has nothing to do with them. *looks at America, as it hangs its head in shame*
I actually agree with your idea of universal conscription. Most armies offer a fair wages, opportunities to advance other skills like accountancy and tradeships within and give many young men a sense of discipline and something to achieve in life. It would make for a more "get up and go" generation than the hedonistic one we currently live in and we could definitely use that right now.

... this has changed my perspective of things *shuffles papers* I hate it when that happens *throws papers in bin*