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Kannap
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Postby Kannap » Sat May 02, 2015 8:52 am

Dyakovo wrote:
Coffee Cakes wrote:
High school reunions and Facebook are things, you know. :p :hug:

HS reunions are a stupid thing.


Lies, I will definitely be going to mine when the time comes.
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Postby Jute » Sat May 02, 2015 8:53 am

Ava Ire wrote:
Jute wrote:Last time you said my mannerism kinda point towards me being male, though :P

I know that. But if I were to guess at first glance without being familiar with you, I would have said you were a guy.

So... why exactly did you say "but"? You didn't exactly contradict me.
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Postby Big Jim P » Sat May 02, 2015 8:53 am

Ava Ire wrote:
Big Jim P wrote:
I assume male as a default.

Same here.


Once informed otherwise, I tend to remember though.
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sat May 02, 2015 8:54 am

Big Jim P wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:I am a mediocre shot, I need a grenade.


I am a good shot. I need a grenade launcher. *nod*

Which is why I keep on friendly terms with the dark side, they are usually better armed.
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Dyakovo
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Postby Dyakovo » Sat May 02, 2015 8:54 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Dyakovo wrote:I've yet to be scared of a person, don't see that ever changing.

Depends on how well they are armed.

At that point it would hardly be the person that I was scared of...

The only time I can think of that I was honestly scared was when I had a flight of helicopter gunships inbound on my position...
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Ava Ire
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Postby Ava Ire » Sat May 02, 2015 8:54 am

Jute wrote:
Ava Ire wrote:I know that. But if I were to guess at first glance without being familiar with you, I would have said you were a guy.

So... why exactly did you say "but"? You didn't exactly contradict me.

I don't know. :p
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Postby Kannap » Sat May 02, 2015 8:54 am

Jute wrote:
Big Jim P wrote:
I was about to say something similar. Great minds think alike.

It's what happens when you grow in a small town, I guess.


Meh, I didn't really get to know about all that stuff until like the 8th grade.
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sat May 02, 2015 8:55 am

Jute wrote:
Dumb Ideologies wrote:
In the trans group of friends I had at university, "Bernard" or "Bernadette" was used as the universal shorthand for someone's "old" name (in the form of "they called me by my Bernard!" etc.) True story.

"Bernd" is also the German equivalent to "Anon", apparently.

Bernice is another female bernard.
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Jute
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Postby Jute » Sat May 02, 2015 8:55 am

Val Halla wrote:
Dyakovo wrote:Yes.
I claim the world.

I'll just give you Russia. :p

Jute wrote:What?

In EUIV.

So you'll name nations after users here and let them fight each other later?
Italios wrote:Jute's probably some sort of Robin Hood-type outlaw
Carl Sagan, astrophysicist and atheist wrote:"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages,
when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling,
that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual...The notion that science
and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both."
"A rejection of all philosophy is in itself philosophy."
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Dumb Ideologies
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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Sat May 02, 2015 8:55 am

Big Jim P wrote:
Ava Ire wrote:Same here.


Once informed otherwise, I tend to remember though.


I haven't had anyone be shocked in over a year now, so I guess the message does get through eventually.
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Val Halla
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Postby Val Halla » Sat May 02, 2015 8:55 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Big Jim P wrote:
I am a good shot. I need a grenade launcher. *nod*

Which is why I keep on friendly terms with the dark side, they are usually better armed.

As evidenced in GTA.

Police, they have pistols, maybe shotguns. You get miniguns, RPGs, tanks, fighter jets… :p
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sat May 02, 2015 8:56 am

Dyakovo wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Depends on how well they are armed.

At that point it would hardly be the person that I was scared of...

The only time I can think of that I was honestly scared was when I had a flight of helicopter gunships inbound on my position...

A reasonable time to be afraid, when was that?
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

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Dyakovo
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Postby Dyakovo » Sat May 02, 2015 8:57 am

Big Jim P wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:I am a mediocre shot, I need a grenade.


I am a good shot. I need a grenade launcher. *nod*

One Mark19 coming right up.
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Val Halla
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Postby Val Halla » Sat May 02, 2015 8:57 am

Jute wrote:
Val Halla wrote:I'll just give you Russia. :p


In EUIV.

So you'll name nations after users here and let them fight each other later?

Yep. I could, for example, make a nation for Ethel in NY, and make it Jewish.
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Jute
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Postby Jute » Sat May 02, 2015 8:57 am

Kannap wrote:
Jute wrote:It's what happens when you grow in a small town, I guess.


Meh, I didn't really get to know about all that stuff until like the 8th grade.

In 8th grade I didn't know anything about that. This includes a complete lack of knowing over what sex is, how it is done, and why exactly. And I still somehow passed sex education...
Italios wrote:Jute's probably some sort of Robin Hood-type outlaw
Carl Sagan, astrophysicist and atheist wrote:"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages,
when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling,
that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual...The notion that science
and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both."
"A rejection of all philosophy is in itself philosophy."
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Postby Big Jim P » Sat May 02, 2015 8:59 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Big Jim P wrote:
I am a good shot. I need a grenade launcher. *nod*

Which is why I keep on friendly terms with the dark side, they are usually better armed.


Indeed. :twisted:
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Postby Ava Ire » Sat May 02, 2015 8:59 am

Jute wrote:
Kannap wrote:
Meh, I didn't really get to know about all that stuff until like the 8th grade.

In 8th grade I didn't know anything about that. This includes a complete lack of knowing over what sex is, how it is done, and why exactly. And I still somehow passed sex education...

My views on gay marriage were starkly different when I was in the 8th grade...
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sat May 02, 2015 8:59 am

Val Halla wrote:
Jute wrote:So you'll name nations after users here and let them fight each other later?

Yep. I could, for example, make a nation for Ethel in NY, and make it Jewish.

Bernie schwartz
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

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Postby Big Jim P » Sat May 02, 2015 9:00 am

Dyakovo wrote:
Big Jim P wrote:
I am a good shot. I need a grenade launcher. *nod*

One Mark19 coming right up.


Fucking A.
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Postby Dyakovo » Sat May 02, 2015 9:00 am

Kannap wrote:
Dyakovo wrote:HS reunions are a stupid thing.


Lies, I will definitely be going to mine when the time comes.

HS reunions are for pathetic people who have failed to live an interesting adult life.
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Postby Val Halla » Sat May 02, 2015 9:00 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Val Halla wrote:Yep. I could, for example, make a nation for Ethel in NY, and make it Jewish.

Bernie schwartz

Who? I don't get it.
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Postby Big Jim P » Sat May 02, 2015 9:00 am

Dyakovo wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Depends on how well they are armed.

At that point it would hardly be the person that I was scared of...

The only time I can think of that I was honestly scared was when I had a flight of helicopter gunships inbound on my position...


That'll do it.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sat May 02, 2015 9:01 am

Dyakovo wrote:
Big Jim P wrote:
I am a good shot. I need a grenade launcher. *nod*

One Mark19 coming right up.

good thing I have my safety equipment.
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

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Postby Big Jim P » Sat May 02, 2015 9:01 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Dyakovo wrote:One Mark19 coming right up.

good thing I have my safety equipment.


A Mk19 IS safety equipment. :twisted:
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sat May 02, 2015 9:02 am

Big Jim P wrote:
Dyakovo wrote:One Mark19 coming right up.


Fucking A.

I am not liking the fairly obvious outcome of this conversation.
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

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