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Old 08-29-2018, 10:46 PM   #13471 (permalink)
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Ja I was just going by military presence. Still concerning.
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Old 08-29-2018, 10:46 PM   #13472 (permalink)
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Have you ever stepped on a roach?
I once crushed a roach with a dictionary, and a little white semi-transparent roach with a halo and a harp rose up from his flattened corpse and disappeared into the ceiling with a tiny flash of light.
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Old 08-29-2018, 10:59 PM   #13473 (permalink)
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Still concerning.
Why?
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Old 08-29-2018, 11:01 PM   #13474 (permalink)
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^ This is a surprisingly large figure. Are you confusing "occupying" (which implies controlling the govment and people by force) with "maintaining a presence in"? Plankton can explain the difference, I imagine, because he was stationed in Germany as part of a continuing US military presence there. I don't think he would have considered himself as part of an occupying force and nor should he have.
Also, how small is the presence? According to this we had a grand total of 8 members of the US military in Ireland in 2011. Does that mean the people in question were just guards for the embassy or something?
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Old 08-29-2018, 11:03 PM   #13475 (permalink)
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I once crushed a roach with a dictionary, and a little white semi-transparent roach with a halo and a harp rose up from his flattened corpse and disappeared into the ceiling with a tiny flash of light.
That's a beautiful story, Janszoon.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milita...3media_complex
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Old 08-29-2018, 11:14 PM   #13477 (permalink)
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That's a beautiful story, Janszoon.
He told me he forgave me. I could tell it wasn't in English or any other human language, and yet I understood.
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Old 08-29-2018, 11:17 PM   #13478 (permalink)
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Why?
If China ends up building a military base in California will you not be concerned?
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Old 08-29-2018, 11:38 PM   #13479 (permalink)
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Might be a little late, but is anybody really surprised that Madden is the game that enraged somebody enough to shoot up a tournament?

Luckily we don't have Monopoly tournaments.
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Old 08-29-2018, 11:59 PM   #13480 (permalink)
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Might be a little late, but is anybody really surprised that Madden is the game that enraged somebody enough to shoot up a tournament?

Luckily we don't have Monopoly tournaments.
I watched the video a day after this happened and you can hear gunshots and people screaming in it and I never want to watch it again.
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