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Postby Benshir » Mon Jul 28, 2014 6:58 am

Hurdegaryp wrote:Good one. De Gaulle was actually one of the creative military thinkers that came up with the principle of fast modern warfare that we now know as the Blitzkrieg. The Germans didn't invent that concept, but they were the first to actually execute it. If only De Gaulle had risen to a more prominent place within the French military before the Second World War erupted, then the events of 1940 might have gone slightly different.

He was probably the only bloke in the entire peninsula who knew the Maginot line was a joke. Now I don't know if he would have been able to stop the 3rd Reich dead in its tracks in 1940, but they definitely would have had a much, much harder time.
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Postby Benshir » Mon Jul 28, 2014 6:59 am

Lordieth wrote:Well, I'm sure if you're flexible, I can be more than accommodating for your flexibility.

Watch the flexors now. :p
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Postby Gallade » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:00 am

Lordieth wrote:Ugh. The worst thing about the day after is the food. Healthy food just tastes awful. There's no tricking my body. It wants stodge and grease.

Why are you even attempting health today? Drown yyourself in chips, as is custom.
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Postby Benshir » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:00 am

Lordieth wrote:Ugh. The worst thing about the day after is the food. Healthy food just tastes awful. There's no tricking my body. It wants stodge and grease.

The morning after I work out, it's soy milk, Yakult, and yoghurt for me. :p
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Postby Hurdegaryp » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:01 am

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Hurdegaryp wrote:You will have to learn to do without. The only export product that the Indonesian wastelands will generate in that dark and terrible future are probably salafist terrorists.

Ideally I would've emigrated long before the Arab Spring returns to Southeast Asia next year.

The Arab Spring quickly became an Islamist Permafrost in Syria. The horror has been exported to Irak, where the salafist hordes delight in demolishing mosques, churches and holy shrines. Salafists not only desire to destroy everything that is not extremely conservative sunnism, they literally want to eradicate history.
CVT Temp wrote:I mean, we can actually create a mathematical definition for evolution in terms of the evolutionary algorithm and then write code to deal with abstract instances of evolution, which basically equates to mathematical proof that evolution works. All that remains is to show that biological systems replicate in such a way as to satisfy the minimal criteria required for evolution to apply to them, something which has already been adequately shown time and again. At this point, we've pretty much proven that not only can evolution happen, it pretty much must happen since it's basically impossible to prevent it from happening.

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Postby Benshir » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:01 am

Hurdegaryp wrote:The Arab Spring quickly became an Islamist Permafrost in Syria. The horror has been exported to Irak, where the salafist hordes delight in demolishing mosques, churches and holy shrines. Salafists not only desire to destroy everything that is not extremely conservative sunnism, they literally want to eradicate history.

ISIS?
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Postby Lordieth » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:02 am

Gallade wrote:
Lordieth wrote:Ugh. The worst thing about the day after is the food. Healthy food just tastes awful. There's no tricking my body. It wants stodge and grease.

Why are you even attempting health today? Drown yyourself in chips, as is custom.


I don't know, but it just tastes god awful.

Benshir wrote:
Lordieth wrote:Ugh. The worst thing about the day after is the food. Healthy food just tastes awful. There's no tricking my body. It wants stodge and grease.

The morning after I work out, it's soy milk, Yakult, and yoghurt for me. :p


This is the morning after heavy drinking. I can tolerate this stuff when I'm training, but not when I'm marinading my liver.
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Postby Modioperandi » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:02 am

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Modioperandi wrote:I told you to check your food for cyanide Issa. Can't have my roommate dying.

Listen to me as I gag awkwardly from the other side of this here wall.


Dammit Issa! I told you to warn me when you bring another man to the apartment!

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Postby Gallade » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:04 am

Lordieth wrote:
Gallade wrote:Why are you even attempting health today? Drown yyourself in chips, as is custom.


I don't know, but it just tastes god awful.

Benshir wrote:The morning after I work out, it's soy milk, Yakult, and yoghurt for me. :p


This is the morning after heavy drinking. I can tolerate this stuff when I'm training, but not when I'm marinading my liver.

Have a breakfast roll. Go on, you know you want to.
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Postby Lordieth » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:04 am

Benshir wrote:
Lordieth wrote:Well, I'm sure if you're flexible, I can be more than accommodating for your flexibility.

Watch the flexors now. :p


I think they'll manage just fine without me watching them. My eyes would most certainly be elsewhere. :p
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Postby Benshir » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:04 am

Lordieth wrote:This is the morning after heavy drinking. I can tolerate this stuff when I'm training, but not when I'm marinading my liver.

Well when it's done marinading, do give me a call. I've been meaning to bake a wicked pie for the National Day Parade this year.
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Postby The Holy Therns » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:04 am

Benshir wrote:I'd give him way more credit than Goering, but he's no Patton. :p

I'd mention Zhukov, but hurling bucketloads of bodies at enemies isn't exactly what I'd consider cunning strategy.


Well, in the right time and place, I suppose.
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Postby Lordieth » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:06 am

Gallade wrote:
Lordieth wrote:
I don't know, but it just tastes god awful.



This is the morning after heavy drinking. I can tolerate this stuff when I'm training, but not when I'm marinading my liver.

Have a breakfast roll. Go on, you know you want to.


The problem is, I don't really have any unhealthy food in the house. Just what I bought in last night. I might go into town and buy something, but I'm waiting for some family to visit to convey their best wishes and the like.
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Postby Benshir » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:06 am

The Holy Therns wrote:Well, in the right time and place, I suppose.

Yes, if you're House Tleilaxu. :p
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Postby Hurdegaryp » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:07 am

Benshir wrote:
Hurdegaryp wrote:Good one. De Gaulle was actually one of the creative military thinkers that came up with the principle of fast modern warfare that we now know as the Blitzkrieg. The Germans didn't invent that concept, but they were the first to actually execute it. If only De Gaulle had risen to a more prominent place within the French military before the Second World War erupted, then the events of 1940 might have gone slightly different.

He was probably the only bloke in the entire peninsula who knew the Maginot line was a joke. Now I don't know if he would have been able to stop the 3rd Reich dead in its tracks in 1940, but they definitely would have had a much, much harder time.

Which would probably have meant that the nazi warmachine would probably not have gotten their hands on large amounts of French and British combat vehicles and other equipment, which in reality was quickly incorporated into the Wehrmacht. Without all those additional military machines, operation Barbarossa would have become improbable.

Benshir wrote:
Hurdegaryp wrote:The Arab Spring quickly became an Islamist Permafrost in Syria. The horror has been exported to Irak, where the salafist hordes delight in demolishing mosques, churches and holy shrines. Salafists not only desire to destroy everything that is not extremely conservative sunnism, they literally want to eradicate history.

ISIS?

Yes, those. Those vile bastards are at least as cruel as the Third Reich and Imperial Japan combined. To them it is not cruelty, of course. In their mindset it is nothing less than pure religious dedication.
CVT Temp wrote:I mean, we can actually create a mathematical definition for evolution in terms of the evolutionary algorithm and then write code to deal with abstract instances of evolution, which basically equates to mathematical proof that evolution works. All that remains is to show that biological systems replicate in such a way as to satisfy the minimal criteria required for evolution to apply to them, something which has already been adequately shown time and again. At this point, we've pretty much proven that not only can evolution happen, it pretty much must happen since it's basically impossible to prevent it from happening.

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Postby Lordieth » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:07 am

Benshir wrote:
Lordieth wrote:This is the morning after heavy drinking. I can tolerate this stuff when I'm training, but not when I'm marinading my liver.

Well when it's done marinading, do give me a call. I've been meaning to bake a wicked pie for the National Day Parade this year.


I think the poor thing is in shock. Didn't know what hit it. I'm just grateful I don't have much in a way of hangover, but given how much I drank last night, I think I deserve one.
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Postby The Holy Therns » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:08 am

Benshir wrote:
The Holy Therns wrote:Well, in the right time and place, I suppose.

Yes, if you're House Tleilaxu. :p


See! Zhukov was just ahead of the times!!!
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Postby Gallade » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:08 am

Lordieth wrote:
Gallade wrote:Have a breakfast roll. Go on, you know you want to.


The problem is, I don't really have any unhealthy food in the house. Just what I bought in last night. I might go into town and buy something, but I'm waiting for some family to visit to convey their best wishes and the like.

Aha. Poorly timed hangover, one could speculate.
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Postby The Holy Therns » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:09 am

Hurdegaryp wrote:Which would probably have meant that the nazi warmachine would probably not have gotten their hands on large amounts of French and British combat vehicles and other equipment, which in reality was quickly incorporated into the Wehrmacht. Without all those additional military machines, operation Barbarossa would have become improbable.


Instead of, as in reality, executed but entirely impossible.
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Postby Lordieth » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:11 am

Gallade wrote:
Lordieth wrote:
The problem is, I don't really have any unhealthy food in the house. Just what I bought in last night. I might go into town and buy something, but I'm waiting for some family to visit to convey their best wishes and the like.

Aha. Poorly timed hangover, one could speculate.


I'm not really much in the way of hungover, but I know when my body is telling me it's recovering from something, and it's flat out refusing healthy food. I wish they'd hurry up and just turn up. Today is not a day I feel like being dressed for.
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Postby Benshir » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:11 am

The Holy Therns wrote:Instead of, as in reality, executed but entirely impossible.

Barbarossa did them in. The way the whole thing was executed and subsequently mismanaged was disastrous.
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Postby Hurdegaryp » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:12 am

The Holy Therns wrote:
Hurdegaryp wrote:Which would probably have meant that the nazi warmachine would probably not have gotten their hands on large amounts of French and British combat vehicles and other equipment, which in reality was quickly incorporated into the Wehrmacht. Without all those additional military machines, operation Barbarossa would have become improbable.

Instead of, as in reality, executed but entirely impossible.

Which pretty much resulted in Stalin acting in accordance with a Pet Shop Boys hit single by going west with the unstoppable might of the Red Army.
CVT Temp wrote:I mean, we can actually create a mathematical definition for evolution in terms of the evolutionary algorithm and then write code to deal with abstract instances of evolution, which basically equates to mathematical proof that evolution works. All that remains is to show that biological systems replicate in such a way as to satisfy the minimal criteria required for evolution to apply to them, something which has already been adequately shown time and again. At this point, we've pretty much proven that not only can evolution happen, it pretty much must happen since it's basically impossible to prevent it from happening.

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Postby Gallade » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:14 am

Lordieth wrote:
Gallade wrote:Aha. Poorly timed hangover, one could speculate.


I'm not really much in the way of hungover, but I know when my body is telling me it's recovering from something, and it's flat out refusing healthy food. I wish they'd hurry up and just turn up. Today is not a day I feel like being dressed for.

Mhm. I've opted for blanket, equally suffering boyfriend, dog footwarmer and occasionally breaking the silence with "nyeeeeeeh....."
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Postby Hurdegaryp » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:17 am

Gallade wrote:
Lordieth wrote:I'm not really much in the way of hungover, but I know when my body is telling me it's recovering from something, and it's flat out refusing healthy food. I wish they'd hurry up and just turn up. Today is not a day I feel like being dressed for.

Mhm. I've opted for blanket, equally suffering boyfriend, dog footwarmer and occasionally breaking the silence with "nyeeeeeeh....."

You clearly have too much free time at the moment. The both of you may suffer now, but I assume last night was pleasant enough. Or hilarious.
CVT Temp wrote:I mean, we can actually create a mathematical definition for evolution in terms of the evolutionary algorithm and then write code to deal with abstract instances of evolution, which basically equates to mathematical proof that evolution works. All that remains is to show that biological systems replicate in such a way as to satisfy the minimal criteria required for evolution to apply to them, something which has already been adequately shown time and again. At this point, we've pretty much proven that not only can evolution happen, it pretty much must happen since it's basically impossible to prevent it from happening.

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Postby Grenartia » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:17 am

Bunkeranlage wrote:
R the Zombie wrote:Why are all the good ones either married or straight?


You have Grenartia and Euroslavia, just to name a few...


I'm pretty sure I'm of an incompatible gender for R. Not to mention we're probably both out of each other's age ranges.

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You have Grenartia and Euroslavia, just to name a few...


I was a couple with Gren for a while. Fantastic person, honestly. Still one of my favorite people.


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Stagnant Axon Terminal wrote:Why are the good ones either married or not attracted to vagina-owners

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Isn't Gren nongender/gender neutral? And, Euro is a mod.


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