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Thread: If your country started a wrongful war....

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    Not quite understanding where you're coming from, j2. You said it wasn't a gnat's weight toward a mass-movement, Dave correctly disputed it.

    He didn't assert that it was a mass movement, he simply said that it was more than a gnat's weight toward it. Two percent of an entire country's population travelling to London to protest against a decision undertaken by it's government is rather substantial - particularly in our, relatively lackadaisical, societies, eh.
    Last edited by manker; 04-25-2005 at 08:03 PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by j2k4
    it is merely fact that a great lot of anti-war protest is mounted by students (who have the time, venue and inclination to do so), augmented by an older crowd who long for the days "at university", and treat such occasions as nostalgic reunions.
    And hippies...you forgot hippies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by j2k4
    Quite true, but the psychology of the mass movement still applies.
    Well ... yeah, but you brought it up to dispute Dave's point about it being more than a gnat's weight, the mass-movement psycology doesn't work either because this protest demonstrates the depth of feeling among people who reside here concerning helping big boys bully smaller kids. If the government continued with similar foreign policy, the next statistic could be 5%, and then 10% ... and then ... .

    It may only have been 2% that felt compelled to shift their arses this time but the 80% is relevant as mass-movement could be used as a metaphor for a vote swing next month. Elections can be lost on a single issue, the opposition parties are homing in on this very one.

    Quote Originally Posted by j2k4
    In any case, talk is cheap; this nonsense about "almost militant" is bloody hilarious-I feel that way about nearly everything.

    Don't you?
    Oh quite. I will bash a keyboard all day about my opinions and ideas but I didn't go to the protest
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    lackadaisical


    i'm gonna leave you guys to use your long words to argue about this shit. even though i don't talk like some kind of self righteous thesaurus, i'm always right

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    Ide give my goverment the fists of furry

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    Quote Originally Posted by j2k4
    Weren't you ignoring me?

    What's changed?
    Yogi (a hippy ) got promoted. Or demoted depending on your viewpoint.

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    Quote Originally Posted by manker

    Oh quite. I will bash a keyboard all day about my opinions and ideas but I didn't go to the protest
    I went to a protest but it was more for the free coach trip to London than for the protest. Stupid shops were all closed though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by manker
    and then 10% ... and then ... .
    Now you know me, I'm an easy going sort of guy. Always have been, always will be.

    I can live with your grammatical nazism ... usually.

    However to type your ellipsis, leave a space, then place a fool stop is frankly beyond the pale.

    You, Sir have taken that too far, ken.
    "there is nothing misogynistic about anything, stop trippin.
    i type this way because im black and from nyc chill son "

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    Quote Originally Posted by MCHeshPants420
    Stupid shops were all closed though.
    I think they closed them all because the Anarchists were so well organized that day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr JP Fugley
    Now you know me, I'm an easy going sort of guy. Always have been, always will be.

    I can live with your grammatical nazism ... usually.

    However to type your ellipsis, leave a space, then place a fool stop is frankly beyond the pale.

    You, Sir have taken that too far, ken.
    AFAIC, it's the only logical course of action when confronted with a situation that demands an ellipsis at the end of a sentence, anything else would be utter ludocrisy.

    You, dear fellow, have dangled your rod in a swirlsome eddy
    Last edited by manker; 04-26-2005 at 08:23 AM.
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