Imponderable Watercooler: Age of Love by FlyVote

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Imponderable Watercooler: Age of Love

POSTED BY: FLYVOTE
UPDATED: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 03:33
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Monday, June 18, 2007 8:52 AM

YINYANG

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.

http://www.andkon.com/arcade/puzzle/theimpossiblequiz

"A witty saying proves nothing." Voltaire

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Monday, June 18, 2007 9:08 AM

FLYVOTE

Identity crisis!

*snicker*

*cackles!*

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You can't take the sky from me...

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Monday, June 18, 2007 9:09 AM

CHRISMOORHEAD

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Half naked AND a hippy? Something violent needs to happen to this person.

I don't usually recomend Steyr's, but the IWS 2000 has the largest hand fired rifle calibre that I know of. And I beleive this female is in need of all 15.2mm of it.

Mav - I just figured out the perfect career for you! http://www.fightergirls.net/

It's a step in the right direction. I thoroughly approve of this career for women, especially if it keeps them out of my Army.

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Ride down from Asgard to the battlefield,
Bringer of the valiant dead who died but never yielded,
Carry we who die in battle over land and sea,
Across the rainbow bridge to Valhalla,
Odin's waiting for me.

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Monday, June 18, 2007 9:11 AM

MAVOURNEEN

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Originally posted by nvghostrider:
Posting for posting sake.

Congrats, Joe! You've won best post of the day!

You've won a lifetime supply of Saltines, and a Lactona toothbrush!

Once again, congratulations!

(And I just got back from my sister's after having printed out the huge application form for the school system...)

*snippage*
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Monday, June 18, 2007 9:17 AM

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

-Edited-

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Monday, June 18, 2007 9:25 AM

RIVERISMYGODDESS

---edited---

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Monday, June 18, 2007 9:30 AM

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

Yeah, Jimi, you're probably right. Just askin for trouble there. So I'm just gunna take advantage of the Edit button, and pretend that didn't happen, hehe.

So how are you?

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

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Monday, June 18, 2007 9:35 AM

MAVOURNEEN

Quote:
Originally posted by RiverIsMyGoddess:
oh boy ...

Yeah. I just snipped mine, too. Just remove CK's quote and it will be scrubbed...

*Not interested in rocking the boat today*

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Monday, June 18, 2007 9:39 AM

NVGHOSTRIDER

Well then, why not just Rock The Casbah.

ADD: Hope the song gets as stuck in someone elses head the way it is in mine.

LIBERTAS SUMPTUS

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Monday, June 18, 2007 9:41 AM

CHRISMOORHEAD

CK - Actually, I've seen one or two female MMA matches. I was actually impressed by them, particularly by a Japanese women who was fighting an opponent about 40 lbs. above her weight and won. You could tell the loser's immaturity to the concept of MMA when she said that she "just couldn't muscle out of the arm-bar". All strikers have to do these days is know enough to get out of holds and stay on their feet, and she couldn't ever bother with that.

As for females in the military, pretty much all of the above. I don't "actually" hold the opinion that women belong in the kitchen, honestly I don't give a crap what they do as long as they're not in my face about it.

However, I have seen first hand what mixed-gender military environments are like, and they are NEVER as disciplined as single gender. The double standard is actually less of an issue, as women still are not allowed in combat roles, so the age old issue of "could she carry a fallen comrade" is still moot for the most part. However, the unconventional type of war we are fighting sees that even those non-combat roles get ambushed from time to time, so it's not a total non-issue.

There's only ever been one point in my career where I was temporarily stationed in a mixed-gender environment at Ft. Jackson. I'll admit, it was "nice" to be around females, the majority of whom were very nurturing, approachable and all around good people. But it's been over half a year and I still can't stop thinking about one of them. It didn't help when word got out about my little infatuation, either. It was like being in High School... High School! I've killed no less than 8 people, and they're holding a "crush" over my head?! There was a time where I would command more respect than that, but women managed to kill that about as thoroughly as they did chivalry.

EDIT: Oh, nice to see that nobody thinks that I'm capable of a mature debate. Ya bunch of muggers!

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Monday, June 18, 2007 9:51 AM

JONNYQUEST

"Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?"

Quote:
Originally posted by Mavourneen:
It is bad when the random people touch your hair while talking about it to someone else. THAT has happened to me and I nearly died!

Quote:
Originally posted by yinyang:
I think I've had the hair-touching thing happen to me, except I was really little. Ew.

*involuntary shudder*
Back in the days with I was a real toe head--hair like young cornsilk--my maternal grandma and her posse seemed really obsessed with it. As I got older and ruddied up, the denial was incredible. My red tints come from my dad's side (Oops! Did I just say that? Sorry, YY et al.) and that just couldn't be. (Of course the same denial turned my hazel eyes blue years earier. Sing about that Crystal Gayle!) Yucky hair touching! Ptui!

Quote:
Originally posted by ChrisMoorhead:
Half naked AND a hippy?

Real hippies are all nekkid. Although in the pic I don't see half-naked.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. - Walt Whitman

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Monday, June 18, 2007 9:54 AM

JONNYQUEST

"Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?"

Quote:
Originally posted by nvghostrider:
ADD: Hope the song gets as stuck in someone elses head the way it is in mine.

Dammit. Ricochet. And I just got She Blinded Me with Science out of my head from the weekend...Damn MTV. Now here comes Shock the Monkey. Make it stop!

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. - Walt Whitman

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Monday, June 18, 2007 9:54 AM

RIVERISMYGODDESS

CK, I am most of the way through a 12 hour day.

NVG, not stuck in mine, so

CMH, I just know your answer to that question, and how some people react to it.

~jimi

Dew. Be. Dew. Be. Dew.

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Monday, June 18, 2007 9:57 AM

FLYVOTE

New thread:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=29263

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Monday, June 18, 2007 9:58 AM

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

Well then, that wasn't bad at all...

I've been incredibly impressed with all the MMA I've seen (well, there's always a lame fight here or there, but as a sport it's quite impressive), so I guess my main worry would be about women's MMA not comparing to men's MMA. But I'll have to keep an eye out for women's matches. There's an MMA studio a few miles from my home, and they have a woman pictured on their webpage, but I wasn't sure if they actually had women training there, much less fighting. I'm impressed by anyone who has the discipline, drive, and endurance to compete at that level, even more so that most Olympic athletes. In my next life, I want to come back as Linda Hamilton from the second Terminator movie, heh.

I can see your point about mixed-gender units, and I don't disagree. I have a female cousin a few months younger than me who decided to go into the Army after high school, and again I admire her discipline, drive, and endurance. She ended up becoming a Korean translator and so hasn't been in any combat zones. The way our country is fighting wars these days, I don't think we should turn away anyone who volunteers for service and is fit to serve. But I don't agree with the idea that there's no difference between men and women, and for us to be "fair" to everyone, we have to have mixed-gender units. Some units I don't think it matters (not that I have any experience, just from what my cousin told me about her time stationed overseas), but I think it's silly to think that there's no difference between men and women, and no reason or circumstance in which it would be better to keep men and women separate.

As far as the crush thing, I think that's a weird part of human nature. No matter what we live through, evolution has created in us hormones that make us continue to think about creating the next generation of our species. And unfortunately, sometimes that manifests as teasing adults about crushes. We're a dumb species, sometimes.

(I'm sure someone here disagrees with me on this. Hopefully I haven't opened a huuuge can of worms in asking. We can all debate maturely, right?)

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

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Monday, June 18, 2007 10:05 AM

JONNYQUEST

"Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?"

Not here. New thread. Go away.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. - Walt Whitman

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Monday, June 18, 2007 10:06 AM

CHRISMOORHEAD

JQ - I do beleive you can see the begining of something covering her lower portion at the bottom of the picture. I could be mistaken: I'm trying to avoid getting filthy eyes by looking at the picture.

Quote:
Originally posted by RiverIsMyGoddess:
CMH, I just know your answer to that question, and how some people react to it.

I hardly even touched on the incapabilities of women in combat, and in fact that point was brought up by a seperate party. As I said before, it's mostly a moot point. However, I gave a personal observation that females were not condusive to the military enviornment, and not neccisarily through any fault of their own.

Ok, so here's another imponderable: Should people not share unbiased observations just because other people don't like them? My observation was much less "I perceive Jews to be cheap" and much more "Inner city areas with large minority populations have high crime rates". Yeah, people might not like the implications of the second, but does that mean it shouldn't be said at all? Wasn't the original purpose of these Imponderable threads to share differing opinions based on people's eclectic personal experiences?

Just let me know if I'm off base here. I'll even agree to stop posting on these threads if people are tired of getting more than one side of an issue.

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Monday, June 18, 2007 12:22 PM

HELL'S KITTEN

*stretches...* I now consider it my mission to violate the "mandate" wherever I find it. *smiles*

Quote:
Originally posted by ~~CaliforniaKaylee~~ ~~Hell's Kitten~~ Mavourneen:
Quote:
Originally posted by ~~Hell's Kitten~~ ~~Mavourneen~~ CaliforniaKaylee:
Quote:
Originally posted by ~~Hell's Kitten~~ ~~CaliforniaKaylee~~ Mavourneen ???:
I can touch my nose with my tongue.

Really.
Lol, Mav, so can I! Hmmm, I wonder if HK can too...
Yay CK! HK? Can you do this, too???

*snikkers*
Um. Maaaaaaybe....... maaaaaaaaybe not.

Quote:
Originally posted by One of the Three (Mavourneen, most likely):
And yingyang? I get that "red hair question", too.

Guh. Dumb question. Although, if we're holding a dumb question / statement contest, my submission is this: "Hey! You dyed your hair!" How the hell are you supposed to respond to that? "Wha--? What are you talking abo--ZOMG!!1! SOMEONE DYED MY HAIR WHEN I WAS ASLEEP!!! HELP! HELP!" ?? Or maybe just "No." ?? *shrugs*

Quote:
Originally posted by yinyang:
Quote:
Originally posted by FlyVote:
*HK is such a nerd*
Oh, and by the by... ?! Did we forget who we were for a minute?

*snikkers* No, he is correct.

Quote:
Originally posted by FlyVoteiforniaKavourneell's Kitten:
Identity crisis!

*snicker*

*cackles!*

*stares at FlyVote...*
Doood.
You spelled it wrong. It's *snikker*.
C**ksucking imposter.
*giggles*

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Monday, June 18, 2007 1:07 PM

FLYVOTE

Quote:
Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
Quote:
Originally posted by FlyVoteiforniaKavourneell's Kitten:
Identity crisis!

*snicker*

*cackles!*
*stares at FlyVote...*
Doood.
You spelled it wrong. It's *snikker*.
C**ksucking imposter.
*giggles*

Cut me some slack, Hellcalivoteneen. It is difficult, damned difficult to pretend to be you.

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Monday, June 18, 2007 11:53 PM

RIVERISMYGODDESS

Quote:
Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
Guh. Dumb question. Although, if we're holding a dumb question / statement contest, my submission is this: "Hey! You dyed your hair!" How the hell are you supposed to respond to that? "Wha--? What are you talking abo--ZOMG!!1! SOMEONE DYED MY HAIR WHEN I WAS ASLEEP!!! HELP! HELP!" ?? Or maybe just "No." ??

Yay for violating the Mandate.

I get similar questions when I shave my head, people ask, "Did you get your hair cut?" I like to respond with something akin to "No, your ignorant f*ck, it all fell off overnight."

RIMG anti-heart stupid people.

~jimi

Dew. Be. Dew. Be. Dew.

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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 2:39 AM

FLYVOTE

Quote:
Originally posted by RiverIsMyGoddess:
Yay for violating the Mandate.

The mandate feels so violated.

I refuse to violate it.

*looks around*

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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 3:06 AM

RIVERISMYGODDESS

*wonders where the "Who's the last to post to this thread" went, then goes to look for it*

~jimi

Dew. Be. Dew. Be. Dew.

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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 3:33 AM

MAVOURNEEN

Aha! Outsmarted my browser.

Morning, everyone. I'm having some serious IE issues with the main page of fff.net. It keeps detecting suspicious scripts, and chases me out. Anyone else having problems?

(I was able to get around by clicking the link in my email trash that notified me someone had responded to a post.

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