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Started by derspiess, November 14, 2009, 09:50:31 PM

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Admiral Yi

#135
November 18, 2009, 05:35:06 PM
Quote from: DGuller on November 18, 2009, 05:14:32 PM
I understand that you need to get the protocol right, but really, isn't it BFD material?  Are Japanese now going to think "Hey, he acknowledged we're superior.  Prepare the invasion force at once."
No one will die directly as a result of this bow, if that's what you mean.

It's one tiny note in the long and complex coda on arrogance/submission, unilateralism/multilateralism, patriotic pride/ranting nationalism.

derspiess

#136
November 18, 2009, 05:46:12 PM
Quote from: Faeelin on November 18, 2009, 04:42:34 PM
I get it! Obama hates America, because....

Rev. Wright told him to!  :yeah:
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Jaron

#137
November 18, 2009, 09:15:38 PM
I bet Hans was in stitches over that one. :rolleyes:
Winner of THE grumbler point.

jimmy olsen

#138
November 18, 2009, 10:20:15 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 17, 2009, 01:48:38 PM
Quote from: Maximus on November 17, 2009, 01:24:58 PM
To be honest, I don't really care about the physical attractiveness of the President either.

I don't know there should be some minimum threshold. After all, he (one day she) becomes the face of America.
Lincoln was our greatest president and our ugliest.
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garbon

#139
November 18, 2009, 11:51:00 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 18, 2009, 10:20:15 PM
Lincoln was our greatest president and our ugliest.

We live in the 21st century. :mellow:
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Tonitrus

#140
November 18, 2009, 11:58:46 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 18, 2009, 11:51:00 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 18, 2009, 10:20:15 PM
Lincoln was our greatest president and our ugliest.

We live in the 21st century. :mellow:

"It's the 21st century" is as much an excuse for superficiality as "it was the 18th century" is an excuse for slavery.

garbon

#141
November 19, 2009, 12:00:50 AM
Okay, Martinus.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
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Eddie Teach

#142
November 19, 2009, 12:13:53 AM
Marnitrus?
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jimmy olsen

#143
November 19, 2009, 03:18:26 AM
Quote from: garbon on November 18, 2009, 11:51:00 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 18, 2009, 10:20:15 PM
Lincoln was our greatest president and our ugliest.

We live in the 21st century. :mellow:
What does that have to do with anything? Intelligence and competence have no relationship to physical appearance.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
--------------------------------------------
1 Karma Chameleon point

Neil

#144
November 19, 2009, 07:43:23 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 19, 2009, 03:18:26 AM
Quote from: garbon on November 18, 2009, 11:51:00 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 18, 2009, 10:20:15 PM
Lincoln was our greatest president and our ugliest.
We live in the 21st century. :mellow:
What does that have to do with anything? Intelligence and competence have no relationship to physical appearance.
Physical appearance has everything to do with securing the votes of homosexuals and women, two groups who really should never have had the vote to begin with.
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Valmy

#145
November 19, 2009, 05:27:31 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 18, 2009, 10:20:15 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 17, 2009, 01:48:38 PM
Quote from: Maximus on November 17, 2009, 01:24:58 PM
To be honest, I don't really care about the physical attractiveness of the President either.

I don't know there should be some minimum threshold. After all, he (one day she) becomes the face of America.
Lincoln was our greatest president and our ugliest.

1. He was savagely attacked in the press for looking like a gorilla and it was a serious political liability.  Fortunately Lincoln was a political genius.

2. It was the 19th century so you only ever saw a drawing or photo of him from time to time.  In the TV era appearance counts for even more than it did in the 19th.

3. Was he really that ugly?  I mean it is not like Obama is Johnny Dep compared to him or anything.
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Valmy

#146
November 19, 2009, 05:28:07 PM
Quote from: Neil on November 19, 2009, 07:43:23 AM
Physical appearance has everything to do with securing the votes of homosexuals and women, two groups who really should never have had the vote to begin with.

Homosexuals, white male landowning ones anyway, have always had the vote.
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garbon

#147
November 19, 2009, 05:49:40 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 19, 2009, 03:18:26 AM
What does that have to do with anything? Intelligence and competence have no relationship to physical appearance.

Because, people love a good show.  In this age of information, we don't want to be looking at a shrew. If Obama was butt ugly, hope and change would have stayed where it should have, in Illinois.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

derspiess

#148
November 19, 2009, 05:52:59 PM
Quote from: Valmy on November 19, 2009, 05:28:07 PM
Homosexuals, white male landowning ones anyway, have always had the vote.

What about gay Arabic linguists?  :D
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