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Similair to friendly fire.
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Brave aren't they cutting the head off a bound man's body...what kind of religion thinks that that is right ??
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>> Brave aren't they cutting the head off a bound man's body...what kind of religion thinks
>> that that is right ??
One that shoots a teenage girl for getting an education?
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>> >> Brave aren't they cutting the head off a bound man's body...what kind of religion
>> thinks
>> >> that that is right ??
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>> One that shoots a teenage girl for getting an education?
No religion thinks that is right. Its got nothing to do with religion, merely a desire for greed power and control. Like all wars.
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No religion thinks that is right. Its got nothing to do with religion, merely a desire for greed power and control. Like all wars organised religions.
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I'd just add tribalism and xenopobia to Zero's list.
Religion just gets hijacked for all those reasons, and provides a convenient distinction between factions.
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>>>Schadenfreude.
He who lives by the sword.....
No sympathy here.
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One down , several more to go..
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Two points.
What does the use of the word "originally" imply here: "But the head was recognised from the video as originally belonging to a member of Ahrar al-Sham"
Secondly, you're wrong to refer to the "brave men" who killed a bound man. The prisoner (apparently) *asked* to be killed as he thought he had been captured by the enemy.
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>> Secondly, you're wrong to refer to the "brave men" who killed a bound man.
I think that was intended to be irony. Or is it sarcasm? I am never quite sure of the difference.
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There may be well-meaning Islamist outfits but I haven't noticed any. Islamism is essentially a modern political perversion of Islam whose proponents, systematically lying, cruel and mischievous, would not be regarded as true Muslims by most believers. It's difficult to understand what these swine think they are trying to achieve, but it's probably just a matter of revolutionary seizure of power here or there. Some hope, with the foot-soldiers often incredibly stupid and fixated on their perverse violence.
I must disagree with people on the beheading issue. If you are going to behead someone you want them to be bound and held in the right position. You don't want them squirming about and trying to protect their necks with their hands. That will make the whole thing messy and difficult. Executioners, even amateur ones, take pride in their work.
God this is all so nauseating.
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>> The
>> prisoner (apparently) *asked* to be killed as he thought he had been captured by the
>> enemy.
No-one disputes that both sides are d*******s.
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>> No-one disputes that both sides are d*******s.
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Hmm.
Nine letter word beginning with d and ending in s?
Dinosaurs? Why would that trip the swear filter?
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Perhaps because it was designed by Neanderthals?
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Surely not daffodils?
wrong time of year innit
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Daffodils legacy?
OOh, ah, I get it perhaps, hello clouds hello flowers sort of thing?
Must say I'd like to be Fotherington Thomas again. I was once...
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Who was Armitage Shanks?
His name always fascinated me and he has never revealed himself on here.
Pat
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Armitage Shanks is a maker of glazed sanitary ware. tinyurl.com/mj4g53v
Last edited by: Meldrew on Sat 16 Nov 13 at 08:21
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Only when told the truth, he though it was a maker of fine old automobiles.
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?
Last edited by: Meldrew on Sat 16 Nov 13 at 08:49
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>> Who was Armitage Shanks?
Am I wrong in seeming to remember that there was in fact a Fotherington Thomas in the HJ forum?
I wasn't him. What I meant was that I used to be a pollyannaish 'wede and wet' like Nigel Molesworth's classmate FT... before becoming a professional observer of the world's dark side, or some of it.
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>> Am I wrong in seeming to remember that there was in fact a Fotherington Thomas in the HJ forum?
There was, and he came over here at the same time as a load of others.
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>> Who was Armitage Shanks?
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>> His name always fascinated me and he has never revealed himself on here.
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>> Pat
AFAIR, in the early days of HJ, somebody found a plastic badge on a beach carrying a logo in the form of stylised letters A&S. Assuming it to be car related he asked forumers to identify the tpye.
Inevitably it was quickly recognised as coming from a lavatory cistern providing an hour or so of fun with puns and analogies.
On member then adopted it as his forum name. I think he's actually still here having gone via Perky Penguin to the name of a well known TV curmudgeon. Certainly both were ex RAF jet pilots and resident in the East Midlands.
The AS moniker still pops up in HJ.
Unless he's re-registered with a new identity Fotherington Thomas appears to be one of the 'lost in action'.
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Fothers last visited under that name on 3rd May 2011...long time ago. Look on the early pages of ' Introduce yourself ' to see some names you recognize from the past.
Ted
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Time for me to come out of the closet, in a manner of speaking. I was/am Armitage Shanks and when asked why I picked that name, not having seen any banter or repartee about plaques and beaches, I replied that it was because I am white and get drunk on a lot!
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I've always been me.
But has anyone else got any aliases to confess?
I didn't realise Meldrew was AS, but who else is deep in the closet?
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Am I deeply unimaginative, or comfortable in the 'identity' if have created (or unable to remember more than a limited number of id's and passwords ?)
A quick google shows I've been using the same name (starting in another place) since 2002, even though the Bora is long since a memory.
And one of the earliest respondents to on of my posts was Dave_TD. Can't think what sort of pseudonym he might assume :-)
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I think he has morphed into some variant of that; there was also a "Dave" who was facing some financial disaster and we mucked in and gave him some money to dig him out.
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>> I think he has morphed into some variant of that; there was also a "Dave"
>> who was facing some financial disaster and we mucked in and gave him some money
>> to dig him out.
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or he's grown an extra i
and some so and so called 'Mark (RLBS)' also stuck his oar in on that conversation. I bet he's gone to the bad.
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I quite liked Mark (RLBS) and his riveting sense of humour and ready friendly word. Always rather reminded me of Mark (Brasil), another shining wit.
Seemingly he first posted on HJ in 2001 . Actually I think it was earlier than that but the original forum has been lost in the midst of time.
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> another shining wit.
Rhyming slang?
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No, a spoonerism. Do sharpen up.
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Not so much as the midst of time asthe beginning of time ?
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Mark (RLBS) was a power mad megalomaniac, ruling the forum like some dictator, chopping posts like Pol Pot chopped of heads.
The problem was, after his gory and sickening (but necessary) overthrow and execution, his trainee henchman, one Dynamic Dave, was let loose on an unsuspecting public.
Glad we got rid of that lot.
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That must be why I felt such affinity for him.
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>> his trainee henchman, one Dynamic Dave, was let loose on an unsuspecting public.
>> Glad we got rid of that lot.
D'you mean none of our Daves are the dynamic one? Surely, er...
There used to be this frightful silly woman though. Cultured in the modern lefty manner, but silly.
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>> There used to be this frightful silly woman though. Cultured in the modern lefty manner,
>> but silly.
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No Wheels/Now Wheels?
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Schadenfreude. - Dutchie
