9/11: A day we must never forget...

[Deep_Blue]

Well, Matt-I haven't been here on this board long enough to feel that way.

Maybe I will, maybe I won't. Time will tell.

But then again maybe I'm looking at the people here from a slightly different angle than you are.

It depends on what you expect from them, I guess.

I dunno.

Like I said, I used to be a CB'er and I ran into all kinds of people on the air. Got along with most of 'em and usually the ones I couldn't get along with-coudn't get along with ANYONE anyway.

Hell... I just get on here and shout "SKIP LAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNND!" and see what comes back to me

(For those of you that dunno what "skip" is, it's the way an AM radio signal bounces off the ionosphere and comes back down somewhere else. During summer sunspot activity the ionosphere changes and angles can really get crazy and a signal that wouldn't reach across the state suddenly reaches halfway around the world. Lotsa fun sometimes.)

Here I don't hafta worry about QRM and adjacent-channel bleedover and such.

BTW-Takeshi, If I remember correctly Saddam knew what we were gonna do sometimes before we did it during the Gulf war just by watching CNN.

It's that old "loose lips sink ships" thing that Americans are starting to rein in the media for nowadays.

BTW Max- Did you mention to me ever where in my area you're from? Sounds like yer fairly close by. *locking jaw like Thurston Howell III* "Yeeeeesss, You RHEEEEAly MUST sound like your snot can make COLEslaw to be able to fit in with the country club crowd".



And yes. The last part of your post was what I was referring to in regards to ebonics.

I'm sorry to alla you guys that think it's cool to talk like a moron, but just don't waste it on me 'cuz I can't understand just what the fuck you say.

I could flip my lips up and down with my index finger and make the same noise. See?

"B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B"

It all sounds like that to me.

Funny watchin' some white kid that thinks he's quite the thug suddenly find himself in-oh, I dunno...Mill Ridge housing project in Danbury or mebbe the old Father Panik Village in Bridgeport back when and try to talk to the people that live there alla time like that.

Even the black people will kick his ass just for makin' 'em sound stupid.

Yeah, sure, mebbe all of 'em don't show it to yer face, but those glances between 'em are saying "stupid white boy".

Cracks me up sometimes.

I kinda like listening to the English accent.

Or the Austrailian version of it- Lotta the new arrivals this school year in my area are from England or Austrailia and it's kinda refreshing to hear something besides a hardcore Long Island accent sometimes.

Proper English just sounds better coming from a proper English person.

Like when I lived in the southern US, I used to love to hear the women talk- damn..it was kinda like they were singing.

Ya don't hear that much up here in the northeast-everyone either speaks too gruffly or nasally or they just shorten so many words in their speech that ya dunno what the hell they just said. Kinda like listening to James Brown, but at least he had some style

And Real New Englanders? fergit it. I can't understand shit they say...talkin about yowwuns and ya caaaaahnt get thayah frum heeyah.

And it always sounds like they're almost asking a question when they make a statement.

Like "Youah haiyah's on fiyah?!"

"Why thank you-you have a nice day, too..."

Sheesh..

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[matt]

On a personal level i suppose i feel more like that about #carmageddon than this board, but that might well be because i'm out of touch with the community since tdr came about, and a lot of the people i established friendships with left and i just havent tried hard enough to adjust to the new contributers to the community. It's probably harder in #carma to have a decent discussion than it in on here because that's more real time which is a problem with timezones and the like, but we do have them from time to time and I do find them interesting, covering everything from religion sexuality genetic engineering drugs noodlez dog ... etc etc. Then again new people do seem to find it hard to settle into #carma as regulars although i think that might just be because they're too intolerant of us.

A carmageddon meet would indded be pretty decent i bet too, some face to face discussions and just having fun, the people ive met up with over the last few have all been cool enough too. Shame its extremely impractical.

Oh, and i have a truely dubious english accent, im sure noodz would agree I've moved up and down the country over the years but the southern english accent seemed to stick most.

[Mad Max RW]

DB, I'm currently living in Hamden right off Dixwell Ave by the New Haven townline.

[Deep_Blue]

Yeah, Matt, but I'm sure I could still fully understand you.

Ya wanna know what accent just baffles me?

Scottish accents.

I can understand an Irish brogue, but the Scots just dumbfound me.

Like: "All ye grogendahockenda coom off'n thot groggenhocken britch 'r tis goonna brek and ye'll all be grogendahocken swimmin!"

They talk kinda like music, too, but damned if I can tell what they're saying. So I ask 'em to please repeat it slowly for me and they get this look like I'm an insufferable idiot and sigh and slowly say something like:

"What're ye daft, man? I dinna keer if'n yer catholics, If ye doon't come oof thot rickity woodin britch, ye'll all be boptists."

Or something like that anyways

[Deep_Blue]

Aw hell, Max. I go out yer way quite a bit sometimes.

I recently bought a car from a guy in Hamden. You be out inna woods more 'r less like me.

I'm right smack inna middle of New Milford.

I can almost spit into the Housatonic from my front door. (If my face don't get taken off by a passing freight train first, that is. )

[-[ Raven-X ]-]

Mad Max RW:

If you dare them to do something, they'll sure as hell do it.

I'd dare them all to commit suicide

[Deep_Blue]

OK, Rave has got it down to a science, here.

He's thinkin' like a brigadier general.

Y'know? we oughtta try that sometime.

Daring them to commit suicide..

Good one, Rave

Back when those al Qaida bastards were taunting us with more falling planes and stuff. They thought what we did to them the first day of our retaliatory strike was the best we could do.

I remember seeing "Achmed" or whoever the al qaida jerk was standing on a hill in Afghanistan shouting at an al-Jazeera camera "Your attacks are ineffective!" and shaking his fist and trying to keep his balance as 15000-lb Pave Low "Daisy-Cutter" bombs were just starting to level entire mountains in the distance behind him.

Their not afraid of Americans, (read:civilians) but they ARE afraid of huge American bombs.

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[Mad Max RW]

Umm, that's precisely what we do. One of our methods is daring them to drink a whole bottle of Jack Daniels in one sitting or somekinda really strong drink like that. It's easier than a bullet.

DB, I've been to New Milford quite a few times. There used to be a comic book store I visited a lot when I was a kid. Where I live is more like the city than anything else. There are woods if you drive past SCSU, which is sort of nearby.

[Deep_Blue]

Oh, 'K Then you know where Hart's 5 and 10 used to be? I'm right around the corner.

Hart's is a coffehouse and some other little shops now right next to the Bank St. Theater.

I'm tryin' to remember if there was just a comic store around someplace. I've only been in New Milford for about 4 years-I've lived in Ridgefield, Redding (God! I couldn't stand the people but the place was pretty)Bethel, Georgetown and Danbury. Rents got so high I hadda book out into the cow town.

Damn Yuppies and ilegal immigrants that stack 'em eighteen high in one room so they can afford $1600/month rents.

Mine's only $850/ month out here in the sticks, but that's for a 3-BR place with off-street parking and a garage. (Hence "Weird and Gearley's").

Guess what? I dunno if ya been readin' the news, but that route 7 project is finally happenin'. Shovels hit the ground yesterday here. We got more earthmovin' equipment here now than Desert Storm.

Sounds like even the tree-huggers are gettin' sick up and fed of the traffic jams, heheh..

Shit, Some a the guys I know will have a bottle of JD and a sixpack o' beer for breakfast and come back at lunchtime and ask ya where the hard stuff is.

You know the types, they carry their cars to work

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[Mad Max RW]

The comic book store was on the town green, This was a good number of years ago, though. Last I heard it closed in the mid 90s.

Speaking of town community bullshit, you hear about Amity's money problems? I got a family member going through there now. It's also where I graduated way back before it went to hell. Apparently they're in millions of dollars of debt, and keep asking the towns (Woodbridge, Bethany, and Orange) to bail them out each month. The BOD (Board of Education) stole LOTS of money from the school, and since it's a public school nobody's going to jail. They can't afford jack shit and all the teachers are leaving. It's really pathetic.

Man, I did some crazy things in that school. Good to hear the places of my childhood are fading away

[Deep_Blue]

Nope, store's all gone.

Yep, lotsa embezzlement and corruption and mismanagement going on here, too.

Nice to know some things never change, eh?

[C2 Scientist]

How is one supposed to attack a group of losers, who destroy skyscrapers they don't have, use planes they don't have, to kill civilians, and then run and hide into some caves, and suddenly pop up to promise more attacks, and then return again to the cave? Pathetic. They don't fight like men, they aren't even humans, they are rats. "In the name of Allah" is just a stupid excuse.

"Look! I'm hiding in a cave middle of nowhere! I'm a great martyr!" Hah.

Hmm, oh well. Just said something.

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[Savage-Elve]

Why not bomb this country with a few tons of Playboy-magazines; This seems to harm them even more then those bombs.

[Savage-Elve]

Now we're dealing with muslim terorist, in Ireland there are christian terrorists, spain has just ... plain terrorists. And Holland has eco-terrorists (seriously !).I don't think it make much difference wich religion or culture you take, terrorism is just a separate kind of parasite-religion. It takes ideas from a religion and turns them into reasons for killing. Hitler even turned the german fairy tales into a reason for WWII.

Bombing an entire country is the old fashioned way to deal with old fashioned agression. This terrorism is about mental disordered individuals, wich give me the idea that institutes like the FBI can do more then the US army. C2 scientist is right; it's hard to be a hero against a coward.

[Mad Max RW]

The only way to get rid of terrorists is to live in military societies where everyone has a computer chip implant controlling their brains. I can easily go out right now and kill a bunch of people in the name of whoever. Nobody would see that coming. Well...maybe a few would.

In my opinion, Russia has the most organized and deadliest terrorist organizations. They're basically fighting for their freedom much like the American colonies did. In Russia everything is run by the army, and ex-KGB and old communist psychos are in charge of the government. The terrorists follow a cause most people can be sympathetic with. To me, that is what makes them so dangerous.

[Buzz]

i wanna know when we're gonna bomb them tree huggers up north

[Deep_Blue]

Good point, Scientist, and Elve. That's what the US and it's allies are trying to figure out now. Seems they've never had to do it this way before. The enemy was always a 'state'. Easy to find and do something about. Now they're hunting wackos in caves. Heh. Kinda like playin' Whack-a-Mole.

Seriously, Elve-Playboy magazines? Nah. I think part of the reason Americans are so aggressive is because their society has taught them to be so damn uptight about sex.

Restricted their thinking and all.

The whole 'puritanical' thing.

But that's a matter for the Freudians to figure out.

Me? I kinda admire the way Russia handles things sometimes. From what I've seen, mebbe they do go oveboard at times, but if you're wrong, they don't screw around. They just kick ass and take names.

Our police aren't so much allowed to do this.

Hell, I'd hate to get my ass kicked for running a stop sign....

And Buzz, we'll bomb the tree-huggers when they've moved far enuf away from us regular folks..kinda avoids so much collateral damage there, dude.

[Takeshi666]

Heh, when it comes to being loose about pornography, I couldn't thin of any toher country than my own. I mean, they SELL mags by putting nudity in them! One of the newspapers have sex polls in them every month, ie. "Have you ever though of partner exchange?" or "Have you ever tried threesome?". That sure is interesting to read, you know...

And my dad has a HUGE stash of porn films, which I "borrow" when needed...

[PumaY2K]

Damn... I lost the track of this tread... so... /me looks like this smily: ... lol

[Deep_Blue]

Yeah, Takeshi. They're pretty uptight about porn and stuff here, Prolly a good thing tho 'cause some Americans prolly couldn't handle a sudden relaxation of moral standards such as that.

Prolly would go a long way towards curbing violent sex crimes tho, giving people another way to take out their frustrations and all.

But again, mebbe it works better the way we're doing things here 'cuz it's hard enuf to find someone nowadays to want to get serious with that doesn't already think like a pig.

Fun for a few, that way of thinking, but it won't keep ya warm at night when ya get old, dig?

I have seen some Danish ads for stereo gear and all's I can say is "Holy Shit!"

They don't leave anything to the imagination..