What's wrong with being a tough guy?
POSTED BY: ChrisMoorhead
UPDATED: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 21:49
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Hey lady, I jsut wanted a hug! What's all this hostility about?
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Group hug for CMH
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Bestower of Titles, Designer of Tshirts, Maker of Mottos, Keeper of the Pyre
I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"
FORSAKEN original
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Maybe I quoted too much of your statements and my meaning got lost.
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Originally posted by ChrisMoorhead: The only times I've resorted to name calling is when so many people were doing it to me that I lost my temper.
Mere words on a computer screen made you lose your temper...
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If you or anyone else feels threatened or uncomfortable because of words on your computer screen, then you're the one's who need tharapists, not me. And if you don't feel threatened, then why does it matter enough to respond to?
Why do you feel the need to respond to your detractors? Why give them that kind of power over you? I will be the first to say exercise your freedom of speech; I have a feeling that you may have actually earned that right, where many of us have only been handed that right by others. But freedom of speech is by constitutional definition a two-edged sword. People will disagree with each other. They will resort to shouting and name calling, and any other means that pop into their head up to the point of malice before it becomes illegal. "He started it!" is not a defense for engaging in tit for tat.
The manly thing to do in "society" is to walk away. The manly thing to do is realize that "I can take him" and then not do it. "I already know it and it won't teach him a damn thing." Using fists to win an argument, a shouting match or a name-calling session is not winning; it's the inability to win by Hoyle.
The manly thing to do in Warfare is quite different. You are encouraged to kill the enemy in warfare, you are prohibited from doing so to the populace at home. I'm afraid I'm going to go with FutureMrsFillion on this one, though. Friendly (Fists of) Fire isn't appropriate in our eyes. But we're not military. I won't pretend to know more than what I've heard from actual combatants or what I've seen on TV news or in the movies.
Is there whining from your comrades in arms? I expect from some. You would have me believe there are more than I estimate. Very well. I will not speak whereof I do not know. But of those whiners, how many looked death in the eye and yet did their duty? Courage is not having no fear, it is beating back fear to accomplish what you must. Surely some among you had courage, even by your definition.
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Originally posted by JonnyQuest:
Who is tougher: the person who holds his hand unflinching in the flame or the one who cries out in pain and tries to quench the flame?
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Originally posted by ChrisMoorhead:
Finally, to your last question, I'd have to say Scaevola.
Are you Gaius Mucius? Or do I hear you asking the Browncoats to stop hurting your feelings? Which one are you? (As a note of possible interest, I am left-handed)
Parting observation. Did you change your signature just for little ol' me? Kinda brings to mind the Firefly theme song to me...
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Originally posted by ChrisMoorhead:
Place my body on a ship and burn it on the sea,
Let my spirit rise, Valkiries carry me.
Take me to Valhalla where my brothers wait for me.
Fires burn into the sky, my spirit will never die.
What Would Buddha Do?
"Well, here I am...Does that seem right to you?"
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Quote:What, Rupert the Bear?
Originally posted by citizen:Quote:Of course, that guy is bad ass.
Originally posted by seryn:
yes, you'd be amazed by how many folk in pre-Roman Britain dressed like Rupert the Bear.
I always thought he was rather uppercrust and soppy.
But then, I was a Paddington fan.
PADDINGTON KICKS POSTERIOR! WHILST EATING JAM SANDWICHES!
*cough*
'scuse me.
Or did you mean the Picts or the Celts or whoever it was who where busy raping and pillaging their fellow countrymen at that point?
Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway?I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
http://www.myspace.com/seryndippyt
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... just.... wanted.... hugs...
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For a tough guy, you sure talk a lot.
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What are you talking about!? I never claimed to be tough! I WANTED A FUCKING HUG! IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK JUST A FUCKING HUG!? I'LL KILL YOU, I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU AND ALL THE OTHER FUCKING CRAZY PEOPLE WHO HAVE IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS WITH ME!!!
NO HUGS! FOR ANY OF YOU!
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Place my body on a ship and burn it on the sea,
Let my spirit rise, Valkiries carry me.
Take me to Valhalla where my brothers wait for me.
Fires burn into the sky, my spirit will never die.
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Quote:Rupert kicks arse with 99.999% efficency. Paddington wears a duffle coat. Just remember what Rupert did did to those limp wristed singing frogs. Kicked their warty arses is what. I know who my moneys on.
Originally posted by seryn:
PADDINGTON KICKS POSTERIOR! WHILST EATING JAM SANDWICHES!
Teddy Ruxton, obviously. That flying Galleon Airship thing was bad ass, big respect for any teddy bear that flys around in that.
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
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There's a hug thread for just such an eventuality.
And now Rupert the Bear is a hoodie thug, he'll cut Paddington just for looking at him:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006490105,00.html
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