Marines posed with flag resembling Nazi SS logo in Afghanistan

Started by FunkMonk, February 09, 2012, 04:08:36 PM

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Zanza

#30
February 10, 2012, 02:53:23 AM
Quote from: Martinus on February 10, 2012, 02:46:27 AM
Who the fuck is saying they used a logo from the "SS flag"?
PDH for example in the post that you quoted five minutes ago.

Martinus

#31
February 10, 2012, 02:54:40 AM
Quote from: Zanza on February 10, 2012, 02:53:23 AM
Quote from: Martinus on February 10, 2012, 02:46:27 AM
Who the fuck is saying they used a logo from the "SS flag"?
PDH for example in the post that you quoted five minutes ago.

You realize he was being sarcastic, right?

Richard Hakluyt

#32
February 10, 2012, 04:05:24 AM
The flag doesn't really matter, what disturbs me is that those guys look mean and tough, they are also carrying very big guns; I just hope they haven't been nasty to the poor Taliban  :(

Zanza

#33
February 10, 2012, 05:59:09 AM Last Edit: February 10, 2012, 06:09:04 AM by Zanza
Quote from: Martinus on February 10, 2012, 02:54:40 AM
Quote from: Zanza on February 10, 2012, 02:53:23 AM
Quote from: Martinus on February 10, 2012, 02:46:27 AM
Who the fuck is saying they used a logo from the "SS flag"?
PDH for example in the post that you quoted five minutes ago.

You realize he was being sarcastic, right?
So?

You realize that I just wondered whether the SS ever used that logo on a flag, right? I guess not, but in this forum full of history geeks, I expected a more definite answer. It's a pity I only got your not very helpful comment as answer so far.

CountDeMoney

#34
February 10, 2012, 07:42:47 AM
Quote from: The Brain on February 09, 2012, 04:15:16 PM
Partially covered Kiss flag. BFD :rolleyes:

Shame nobody in the Pentagon PR department has the cognitive ability to address that.

PDH

#35
February 10, 2012, 08:17:54 AM
Well, Zanza, this seems to imply at least the image of an SS flag...

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Josephus

#36
February 10, 2012, 08:21:40 AM
Right. I'm sure it's a coincidence. Nothing more.
One of those marines, though, looks like he needs to pee. Wonder if there's any Taliban nearby.
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CountDeMoney

#37
February 10, 2012, 08:22:58 AM
Quote from: PDH on February 10, 2012, 08:17:54 AM
Well, Zanza, this seems to imply at least the image of an SS flag...

Wouldn't be a problem if the Marines had picked Dokken.  Or even Ratt.

PDH

#38
February 10, 2012, 08:24:50 AM
Had they picked Ratt they would have been beaten up.

And rightfully so.
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Syt

#39
February 10, 2012, 08:40:08 AM
Quote from: Zanza on February 10, 2012, 05:59:09 AM
Quote from: Martinus on February 10, 2012, 02:54:40 AM
Quote from: Zanza on February 10, 2012, 02:53:23 AM
Quote from: Martinus on February 10, 2012, 02:46:27 AM
Who the fuck is saying they used a logo from the "SS flag"?
PDH for example in the post that you quoted five minutes ago.

You realize he was being sarcastic, right?
So?

You realize that I just wondered whether the SS ever used that logo on a flag, right? I guess not, but in this forum full of history geeks, I expected a more definite answer. It's a pity I only got your not very helpful comment as answer so far.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Flaggen_Nazi-Deutschlands#Flaggen_und_Standarten_der_SS

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PDH

#40
February 10, 2012, 08:42:59 AM
Quote from: Syt on February 10, 2012, 08:40:08 AM
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Flaggen_Nazi-Deutschlands#Flaggen_und_Standarten_der_SS

There you go, none on a blue background.  Some grunt was ready and changed the colors just in time.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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"I'm pretty sure my level of depression has nothing to do with how much of a fucking asshole you are."

-CdM

Syt

#41
February 10, 2012, 08:45:11 AM
My 1939 Brockhaus doesn't have an SS flag entry, but this supposedly contemporary chart floats about the web.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

PDH

#42
February 10, 2012, 08:46:38 AM
Snipers would never cover their runes with an ugly yellow circle.
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-Umberto Eco

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-CdM

11B4V

#43
February 10, 2012, 08:47:04 AM
Quote from: Tyr on February 09, 2012, 09:49:04 PM
Quote from: Monoriu on February 09, 2012, 05:48:53 PM
I can imagine that a lot of people who are not into history (that's at least 95% of the population) don't know what the flag means. 
Yep. Soldiers aren't known for being the brightest bunch.

Neither are you. Here you are calling "Marines", soldiers. You aren't too bright are you?

One more time for the slow people in regards to the US military:

Marines=Marines
Soldiers=Army
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PDH

#44
February 10, 2012, 08:52:20 AM
Can't we all call them "Guys who really, REALLY shouldn't take photos of themselves in compromising situations" and get along?
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-Umberto Eco

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