BREAKING: Four Dead in Arizona College Shooting
Monday, October 28, 2002 by Aqua. | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
DAMN I hate copycats
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bakerstreet
Reply #62 Tuesday, October 29, 2002 8:31 PM
Reply #62 Tuesday, October 29, 2002 8:31 PM
Jafo: You're a pal, I'm not gonna get up-in-arms about your beliefs. Your personal feelings about gun control aren't the point of my post, though. What *did* give me a bit of pause was the fact that you evacuate said feelings like a week-old burrito. If someone gets killed in my country, screw the criminal, let's whoop up on the gun lobby. Oddly enough, I don't see Americans offering unsolicted derision of Australia's or Canada's gun laws when their own flavors of nut pop a gasket and kills his friends and neighbors.
I really don't care anymore what people outside the US think about our 'gun culture'. I have to say though, when you see the death of several innocent people as a good excuse to make some sort of useless social commentary, it bothers me a bit. Not useless in terms of quality, or rational acceptability, but useless in terms of making a shit's worth of difference in the topic at hand, or to the people who are upset about it. From my perspective it would be akin to me responding to a post about today's Vietnamese office fire with a rant about that nation's building codes and inspection habits.
Again, you guys beat the hell out of each other if you like, but it's off-topic as far as I am concerned. The string was about something that happens everywhere, regardless of gun laws.
I really don't care anymore what people outside the US think about our 'gun culture'. I have to say though, when you see the death of several innocent people as a good excuse to make some sort of useless social commentary, it bothers me a bit. Not useless in terms of quality, or rational acceptability, but useless in terms of making a shit's worth of difference in the topic at hand, or to the people who are upset about it. From my perspective it would be akin to me responding to a post about today's Vietnamese office fire with a rant about that nation's building codes and inspection habits.
Again, you guys beat the hell out of each other if you like, but it's off-topic as far as I am concerned. The string was about something that happens everywhere, regardless of gun laws.
paxx
Reply #63 Tuesday, October 29, 2002 9:20 PM
Reply #63 Tuesday, October 29, 2002 9:20 PM
I'm a dove and proud of it. Anybody knows what Pax means? 
Jafo
Reply #65 Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:29 PM
Reply #65 Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:29 PM
'pax' means 'peace', WOM.
Baker, the fear everyone in 'Western culture' outside of the US has is that they are hell-bent on imitating US Culture and absorbing/embracing it, good or bad....and quite probably to our detriment.
I can endure 'baseball caps on backwards', even Capitalistic megalomania like Macca's and Coke, but I'll draw the line at infatuation with guns....
As for being 'on topic', I think the early comment about 'copy cat' was to do with the Shooting at Monash Uni in Melbourne, but perhaps the parochial US citizen is oblivious to what happens outside the US.
BTW.....Bali [the bomb], in equivalent population terms killed 1500 Australians.....in scale, not a hell of a lot different to 9/11....but then maybe we just don't warrant International compassion, after all, it was our fault for helping East Timor to Independence...
It's hard enough convincing kids in Oz NOT to dial '911' to get the Police....but they are swamped/inundated with Yankee Kulcha...to their own peril...[it's '000' here]...
Baker, the fear everyone in 'Western culture' outside of the US has is that they are hell-bent on imitating US Culture and absorbing/embracing it, good or bad....and quite probably to our detriment.
I can endure 'baseball caps on backwards', even Capitalistic megalomania like Macca's and Coke, but I'll draw the line at infatuation with guns....
As for being 'on topic', I think the early comment about 'copy cat' was to do with the Shooting at Monash Uni in Melbourne, but perhaps the parochial US citizen is oblivious to what happens outside the US.
BTW.....Bali [the bomb], in equivalent population terms killed 1500 Australians.....in scale, not a hell of a lot different to 9/11....but then maybe we just don't warrant International compassion, after all, it was our fault for helping East Timor to Independence...
It's hard enough convincing kids in Oz NOT to dial '911' to get the Police....but they are swamped/inundated with Yankee Kulcha...to their own peril...[it's '000' here]...
Jafo
Reply #66 Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:30 PM
Reply #66 Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:30 PM
'pax' means 'peace', WOM.
Baker, the fear everyone in 'Western culture' outside of the US has is that they are hell-bent on imitating US Culture and absorbing/embracing it, good or bad....and quite probably to our detriment.
I can endure 'baseball caps on backwards', even Capitalistic megalomania like Macca's and Coke, but I'll draw the line at infatuation with guns....
As for being 'on topic', I think the early comment about 'copy cat' was to do with the Shooting at Monash Uni in Melbourne, but perhaps the parochial US citizen is oblivious to what happens outside the US.
BTW.....Bali [the bomb], in equivalent population terms killed 1500 Australians.....in scale, not a hell of a lot different to 9/11....but then maybe we just don't warrant International compassion, after all, it was our fault for helping East Timor to Independence...
It's hard enough convincing kids in Oz NOT to dial '911' to get the Police....but they are swamped/inundated with Yankee Kulcha...to their own peril...[it's '000' here]...
Baker, the fear everyone in 'Western culture' outside of the US has is that they are hell-bent on imitating US Culture and absorbing/embracing it, good or bad....and quite probably to our detriment.
I can endure 'baseball caps on backwards', even Capitalistic megalomania like Macca's and Coke, but I'll draw the line at infatuation with guns....
As for being 'on topic', I think the early comment about 'copy cat' was to do with the Shooting at Monash Uni in Melbourne, but perhaps the parochial US citizen is oblivious to what happens outside the US.
BTW.....Bali [the bomb], in equivalent population terms killed 1500 Australians.....in scale, not a hell of a lot different to 9/11....but then maybe we just don't warrant International compassion, after all, it was our fault for helping East Timor to Independence...
It's hard enough convincing kids in Oz NOT to dial '911' to get the Police....but they are swamped/inundated with Yankee Kulcha...to their own peril...[it's '000' here]...
Jafo
Reply #67 Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:33 PM
Reply #67 Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:33 PM
There...I said it twice...like wearing 2 condoms...'to be sure, to be sure'....
Aqua.
Reply #68 Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:35 PM
Reply #68 Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:35 PM
Jafo! tsk! You double posted 
I'll agree to a peace on the gun issue within this thread.
I'll agree to a peace on the gun issue within this thread.
Aqua.
Reply #69 Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:39 PM and no, I won't start a new thread just to bash your opinion either (today at least 
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You know my position, I know yours... until next time
Reply #69 Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:39 PM
and no, I won't start a new thread just to bash your opinion either (today at least 
)You know my position, I know yours... until next time
paxx
Reply #71 Wednesday, October 30, 2002 5:52 AM
Reply #71 Wednesday, October 30, 2002 5:52 AM
OK for peace on this topic, but that's not what I meant.
My name here: Pax (well with an extra X but that's becasue there was already a Pax when I registered at Skinzdotorg.)
It means peace, confirming to Bakerstreet that I'm a dove.
My name here: Pax (well with an extra X but that's becasue there was already a Pax when I registered at Skinzdotorg.)
It means peace, confirming to Bakerstreet that I'm a dove.
Peff
Reply #72 Wednesday, October 30, 2002 7:59 AM
Reply #72 Wednesday, October 30, 2002 7:59 AM
Doves.....hmmmmm yummy...you have to be a good shot, though
Aqua.
Reply #73 Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:02 AM
Reply #73 Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:02 AM
Hmmm, there are still places where doves are (literally) sacrifices.
I've wanted to strangle a dove or two myself, especially the one that starts cooing right outside my window before the alarm clock goes off
I've wanted to strangle a dove or two myself, especially the one that starts cooing right outside my window before the alarm clock goes off
Bangkokboy
Reply #76 Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:04 PM
Reply #76 Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:04 PM
359.7, 359.8, 359.9, 360.0 degrees. Now we've officially come full circle. If it truly is the getting there that matters, rather than the destination, then we're OK. Bye
Peff
Reply #77 Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:28 PM
Reply #77 Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:28 PM
Damn I hate copycats.
Now we've come full circle.
Now we've come full circle.
KarmaGirl
Reply #78 Wednesday, October 30, 2002 3:06 PM
Reply #78 Wednesday, October 30, 2002 3:06 PM
hmmm....you can believe in guns and be peaceful. I'm not named "KarmaGirl" for being kill happy 
dig the new icon
dig the new icon
Peff
Reply #80 Wednesday, October 30, 2002 3:13 PM
Reply #80 Wednesday, October 30, 2002 3:13 PM
You can't job....believe me we've been down that road before. Only the 'priveledged' get their own icon.
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Reply #61 Tuesday, October 29, 2002 7:40 PM