Would the U.S. Drop the Bomb Again? 59% of Americans would if similarly provoked

[lustindarkness]

Do ICBMs make a "rushing" sound?

[Caliga]

katmai is being wilfully obese. Film at 11.

[grumbler]

grumbler loves beating up on non-native English-speakers with English semantics, it's one of his specialties.

Indeed.  When people say things that make no sense and can't be parsed from the context, I question it.  Some see that as "beating up," some don't.  Feel free to interpret my actions as you please.

[grumbler]

I never said those events were not recent.
The reason they don't rate and 9/11 does is the premise (not mine) that modern day Americans are placed in certain conditions similar to those of Pearl Harbor, namely 2000 American deaths as a result of a foreign strike. I alluded to the fact that, in this sense, they had been not too long ago.

Okay, so someone made a bad analogy to Pearl Harbor and you made a bad analogy to 9/11.  Congrats, I guess.

My example would have been easily countered incidentally, Tim for one made a fair point.

Instead you centered on the admittedly vague meaning of recently (but to you apparently the only word that was not opaque)  and, ignoring the very specific (not opaque) meaning  of 2000 American deaths and the subsequent invasion of two countries, claimed that it must be about Bataclan.

I'm not going to chase you down this rat hole.  If you want to allude to 9/11, the term is "9/11."

Oxford, Macmillan, Merriam-Webster and Collins are good enough for me, thanks.
Although to be honest I was just winging it, I did not consult any of them when writing the sentence.

You should have consulted them, if you really wanted to use some obtuse definition rather than using the word.

[mongers]

Quality thread. 

[Razgovory]

grumbler loves beating up on non-native English-speakers with English semantics, it's one of his specialties.

Indeed.  When people say things that make no sense and can't be parsed from the context, I question it.  Some see that as "beating up," some don't.  Feel free to interpret my actions as you please.

How come every one else can figure it out?  Why is it you are the only one who has trouble understanding written English?  I mean, Marty figures this shit out, and his native language is essentially barking.

[CountDeMoney]

Quality thread. 

And grumbler rode it all the way down from the bomb bay, hat waving in the air.

[Josquius]

 We know what nuclear bombs do in great detail now. No need for further live tests.
And everyone already knows America could glass them if need be. No need to show off to the soviets.
So in a Hiroshima 2 scenario of course not.

[Maladict]

If you want to allude to 9/11, the term is "9/11."

If I used the term "9/11" I wouldn't be alluding to it. Don't make me post the definition again.

[CountDeMoney]

You assholes, everybody knows you're really referring to Rescue 911 with William Shatner.

[Admiral Yi]

Wasn't the projection something like 500k US casualties? And if the invasion of the Home Islands was anything like Okinawa, millions of armed civilians would have perished as well.

I've read 1,000,000 US casualties, of which 100K (200K?) dead.

[Razgovory]

We know what nuclear bombs do in great detail now. No need for further live tests.
And everyone already knows America could glass them if need be. No need to show off to the soviets.
So in a Hiroshima 2 scenario of course not.

What qualifies as "as need be"?

[lustindarkness]

Why is this still been discussed? Valmy, The Brain and I already decided what needs to happen earlier in the thread. Let's do this already and stop the useless blabbering.

[garbon]

stop the useless blabbering.

Cue the end of Languish.

[Martinus]

Quality thread. 

Yes, it is.