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A swiss army knife has many functions, and it would be funny to think of it as a weapon. Pretty much anything we use can become a weapon. You can kill someone with a keyboard's cord, or with air but these aren't the intended uses of either the cord or the air.

Guns were created for one purpose - to kill.

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Go ahead and join the likes of noiimigration, michal2 and puzzler.

No more responses from me to you, unless you behave you malicious half-brain.

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I yet have to read one single argument from you in any of the exchanges you decided to throw in some more of your vicious comments.

Spare yourself.
Either offer an argument or just keep your Americunt opinion to yourself.

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Sorry boat, but you are spewing poems, not arguments.

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Nice and poetic metaphor. Does it show how praying on one's knees is unhealthy, or immoral? Or do you mean doggy style is immoral?

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Morality is a convention, an agreement - not an absolute. It varies from one group of people to another and it is probably among the least reliable solutions to anything.

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No need to travel so far to see a fight when people go nuts for bargains. Boxing Day is just a few weeks away. There'll be plenty of fighting.

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Are these some kind of edible condoms? ;)

A true story I read in a Polish legal magazine "Prawo i Zycie" (Law and Life) sometime in the 80's.

A guy bought a bunch of condoms in a pharmacy and asked the pharmacist how they should be used. The pharmacists thought the fella was into some funny joking so she "retaliated", told him to swallow one before sex and to drink a glass of water.

The guy did exactly that, and ended up needing an emergency surgery.

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Before:



and after:

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If the eating is unauthorized then it's not only rude, but it's theft ;)

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are you sure?
How about this tiny sample?
gallup.com/poll/106864/McCain-Widely-Recognized-War-Hero.aspx

or this one
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/americas/2000/us_elections/profiles/576507.stm

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You're full of sshit BBoy.
If I were a bigot then I wouldn't have written about my family's experience with Germans. I varied, but they were lucky to come across a decent one. He was probably just like some of the frightened American kids dropped in Hanoi. Saying that 100 of Germans were bad people would be as stupid as saying that 100% of Americans were glad to have played patriots in Vietnam.

WW2 wouldn't have been possible with the enthusiasm of Germans longing for that Polish cow or a farm in Poland. Vietnam war had significant oppositon in the US. WW2 had minimal opposition in Germany. That is a heck of a difference.

There are millions of shades between black and white.

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Probably not. Some were forced to go to Vietnam. But I would would protest their aspirations to pride.


Absolutely.

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I do. When a man murders another person in an ingenuous way, I see every reason to spit on him, but none to admire him.


Of course it is, and that's how many started or joined the anti-war movement. They didn't take pride in the awesome power of napalm dropped on a Vietnamese village. Eventually, after just a couple decades, and a few Rambo movies those who took part in the Vietnam catastrophe became heroes. To me they were participating in crime, and many eventually became victims.


Yes. They sucked as human beings. They were either criminals, or helped criminals. As for flying and fighting skills - they were some of the best.

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During marshal law, when there was a significant increase of Catholic activities by even those who had never been baptised, one of the most sought after goods were condoms. Are condom sales that low these days?

What the church says is not what the people do. I wouldn't go as far as to blame the RC in Poland for what people in Poland "wear" during sex.

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I never said you need an approval to say or write anything here. But neither do I need your approval to express my view that there is nothing honorable or admirable in any of the German genius and skill used to annihilate millions of innocent lives.

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I do, and I still don't get it how participation in a failed and unjust war ended up being a test of American patriotism.


There were sacrifices by Poles, Brits, French, Belgians, Dutch, Jews, Russians and others. Those sacrifices resulted from a collective insanity of the German nation which decided to sacrifice other nations for some Lebensraum. These were the REAL SACRIFICES. Inflicted on millions by German insanity.

In 1939 Germans went on a ruthless stealing rampage and killing spree. The sacrifices were those of their victims. German soldiers who died during the plunder and murder deserved no less. Their deaths were accidents during a heist.

Germans were criminals, about half of Europe were the victims. The victims eventually prevailed and killed some of those who wanted to kill them. If you can't see a difference between the criminal and the victim we'll never understand each other.


That German officer was not following the policy.


Franek was a US soldier. Poles were considered Untermensch, unworthy to live. His incident wasn't lone on the other side of Europe. It would have been very unusual on the Eastern front.

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I didn't care. If I didn't feel like giving them 2.33 then I said I had no change and that was that.

Now, here I sometimes see people doing just that. They will offer the change so that they don't end up with yet another jar of pennies. Some cashiers (older ones) know what to do. Younger ones are confused because the monitor doesn't show them what to do in this situation, and they just can;t come up with the simple idea of applying rudimentary arithmetic in real life.

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I am not American, and I did not support McCain.

Also, what the picture shows that was never discussed in this thread. (I actually met that "girl" in the first picture, she now lives in Canada). I will be the first to point out the American war crimes after WW2.

During WW2 Americans had a fair share of incidents of war crimes. For Germans war crimes during WW2 were not incidental, it was a policy.

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No, the enemy wasn't criminal because it was skilled. It was criminal because of what they used that skill for.

But then, how much skill did the honorable German soldier need to do this:



or this:



How low, and below humanity did Germans have to fall to kill a mother holding her child?

BBoy, you are glorifying murderers and those who aided murderers commit the atrocities. I see no glory in this for Germany, or you. You may as well declare a genius the person who came with the idea to use Zykoln-B to kill hundreds of thousand of innocent people. An idea that lead to efficiency, great organization, significant savings in bullets and man power. Long live German genius and skill!

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Of course they would have been sued. After all it's good ole' US of A.

Without any power to detain a shoplifter any security guard would be simply an additional waste of money, and frankly a laughing stock of all petty criminals.

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Whether it's false or not is not decided in the store by the store's security, or even by the cops.

In fact shoplifters are detained, and it is legal for them to do so if they have reasons to do so. A great amount of touching may occur and it does if the person resists, tries to escape etc. What actually happens varies from store to store and from state to state, but store security is not forbidden by any law from detaining a shoplifter if the process follows all the steps required by law, and if the amount of force used is adequate to the situation.

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So how do they ensure the shoplifter stays put and waits for the police?

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Yeah, kinda late here too and I gotta do some woodworking tomorrow. Wood will be flying :)

later alligator.

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What's ridiculous is that you continue taking pride in the death Luftwaffe inflicted on the innocent. When I said Luftwaffe sucked that is what I meant. I don't give a flying fvck about how great the German aces were. I do think it is regrettable that Luftwaffe killed so many innocent people. In that respect they suck more than any other air force in history.


You got a point here, and hence not all German soldiers were subject to post war criminal investigations.


That varied. A lot of British troops were forced to become troops, sometimes literally kidnapped. Ask the Irish.

The individual soldiers was not necessarily a criminal, the Crown was, just like Luftwaffe as a whole was.

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You don't come even close to understanding how much I don't know. One day you'll realize you suffer from the same.


Agreed. The enemy was criminal not because of the strength, but because of the purpose for which that strength was used.

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I didn't know about that. I heard German pilots did that too. They practiced in Poland in September of 1939 by shooting Polish civilians on open roads.


Not at all. Germans had more than enough pilots at the top to even try to dispute that.

But if you have 6 years to learn something, and someone else has 1 year, and the latter learns 1/6th of what the former knows then who is a faster learner?

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I am interested in the ratio of pilots to aces. Poles had 29 (on that list) but they didn't fly as much as Germans aces did, there was far fewer of them and when they did fly, they fought against the best - Germans, while a bulk of German pilots fought against Russians. On the same list there are only 11 or 12 Russian aces.

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I think you misunderstood the question. I am not asking how many pilots were aces, but how many pilots Germans had in WW2?