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Pissflaps posted:That's a bit like saying a flu vaccine didn't work because, while you didn't get flu, you did get a cold. you should make your argument more explicit if you want to make it. i mean, i *think* i get it, but i could just be interpreting your posts too charitably
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TinTower posted:
is it because we get to watch?
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Pissflaps posted:I don't know what that means. Having had territories invaded and then not using the very deterrent that allegedly prevents this sort of thing just underscores how useless it actually is. Pissflaps posted:I'll take the verified, sourced information in Wikipedia over your second hand anecdotal evidence tyvm. Guavanaut posted:The difference between vaccines and nuclear warchat is that only one of them causes symptoms of autism.
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# ? Feb 28, 2015 21:08 |
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Xmas Pterodactyl posted:So, SS flags and the British Army. Is it a Kiss poster?
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# ? Feb 28, 2015 21:12 |
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EmptyVessel posted:Just having a deterrent/vaccine means nothing unless you are prepared to use it. I think concluding that the UK would never use its nuclear weapons because Thatcher didn't nuke Buenos Aires when she had other options is a bit of a stretch. I do not have autism.
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V. Illych L. posted:is it because we get to watch?
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# ? Feb 28, 2015 21:21 |
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Pissflaps posted:I think concluding that the UK would never use its nuclear weapons because Thatcher didn't nuke Buenos Aires when she had other options is a bit of a stretch. While concluding, based only on anecdotal evidence, that having nuclear weapons deters acts of violence against a nation and it's possessions isn't a stretch? We all have autism.
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EmptyVessel posted:While concluding, based only on anecdotal evidence, that having nuclear weapons deters acts of violence against a nation and it's possessions isn't a stretch? I don't think anybody has suggested that nuclear weapons deter any act of violence against the country that possesses them, if that were the case then nuclear powers would need no other armed forces, surely? Maybe a little bit.
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# ? Feb 28, 2015 21:30 |
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Cool, the nuclear deterrent only deters those things that it has deterred, anything else that happens is something that it doesn't deter. Why didn't you say so before, it's so simple even a politician could grasp it.
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# ? Feb 28, 2015 21:42 |
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I have a small rock which deters invasion and terrorist attacks against the UK give me a million pounds a year or I throw it into the sea.
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# ? Feb 28, 2015 21:48 |
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namesake posted:I have a small cock. This isn't e/n
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# ? Feb 28, 2015 21:50 |
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JFairfax posted:This isn't e/n Maybe you should go back there then.
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# ? Feb 28, 2015 21:53 |
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To be fair, "a small cock which deters invasion and terrorist attacks against the UK" would be a pretty good, if Freudian, definition of Trident. Joking aside, Archbishop Pissflaps has made me completely rethink my position. I mean it's now obvious to me that Trident is the only thing keeping the Home Counties tiger free. Seen any tigers in the SE lately? See it works!
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# ? Feb 28, 2015 21:57 |
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see, that argument would make more sense if before we had the rock sixty million human beings were devoured by tigers
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# ? Feb 28, 2015 21:59 |
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namesake posted:Maybe you should go back there then. i am lost and confused
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# ? Feb 28, 2015 22:07 |
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TinTower posted:
Presumably with NHS funded contraceptives you pay for gay people to have sex full stop. Where's that comic strip about the mail and gay people with all the wonderful puns in it?
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# ? Feb 28, 2015 22:07 |
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the mail must be conflicted because we pay for straight idiots to have unprotected sex with all their BENEFITS and CHILD BENEFITS for their idiot asses loving and creating sprogs
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EmptyVessel posted:Seen any tigers in the SE lately?
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# ? Feb 28, 2015 22:18 |
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JFairfax posted:for their idiot asses loving and creating sprogs That's not how sprog creation works
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# ? Feb 28, 2015 22:48 |
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EmptyVessel posted:Cool, the nuclear deterrent only deters those things that it has deterred, anything else that happens is something that it doesn't deter. Well, yes?
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# ? Mar 1, 2015 00:21 |
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It's deterred the tiger invasion for several decades now! I call that a winning strategy in anyone's book Although they say WW4 will be fought with rocks and sticks, and I think those work too, so the future's looking good no matter what happens
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# ? Mar 1, 2015 01:17 |
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World war four will be fought...in cyber space.
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# ? Mar 1, 2015 01:23 |
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Where gamers will become the mighty generals of the battlefield Actually it's kinda weird that that Robin Williams film Toys is actually turning out to be a bang-on prediction of modern warfare
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# ? Mar 1, 2015 01:49 |
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The reason people become spergs is because some of you do talk a load of old shite about nukes.
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# ? Mar 1, 2015 02:06 |
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To much amusement and literally no ones surprise the greens are scrambling to limit bennetts screen time after fighting so hard to get her on tv in the first placequote:The Greens have sought to limit appearances by their leader, Natalie Bennett, during the potential leadership debates, only for the move to be blocked by the broadcasters. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/feb/28/natalie-bennett-green-party-limit-leader-screen-broadcasters Loving Africa Chaps fucked around with this message at 10:41 on Mar 1, 2015 |
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Christ they are such amateurs.
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# ? Mar 1, 2015 11:00 |
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Okay, who's on Smarch OP duty?
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Oberleutnant posted:Christ they are such amateurs. I don't really understand how you get to such a senior position being so incompetent?
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# ? Mar 1, 2015 11:39 |
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Jippa posted:I don't really understand how you get to such a senior position being so incompetent? 30% of 3,000 ballots
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# ? Mar 1, 2015 11:45 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:No. Having Nukes literally lets Britain be part of the big boy club. We are massively diminished as a world power but we're still on the security council. Still got veto powers just like every other nation who has nukes.
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# ? Mar 1, 2015 12:01 |
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I always feel like an idiot because by the time it comes to an election, like say, 2015, I have a hard time remembering all the stupid poo poo that happened in 2010/2011.
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Kaislioc posted:I always feel like an idiot because by the time it comes to an election, like say, 2015, I have a hard time remembering all the stupid poo poo that happened in 2010/2011. Hard to believe this was about 5 years ago. Also found the last election debates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0QsSoV0SRo
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Jippa posted:I don't really understand how you get to such a senior position being so incompetent? Are you talking about the greens or are you talking about politics in general
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# ? Mar 1, 2015 12:26 |
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It was a simpler time... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeYZQYHjjvo
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# ? Mar 1, 2015 12:32 |
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Kegluneq posted:Okay, who's on Smarch OP duty? March already? drat. Don't mind doing it again, if no-one minds, but I don't mind if anyone else wants to have a crack at it. Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Mar 1, 2015 |
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Serco are nice people and privatizing http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/National/article1525358.ece quote:AN UNDERCOVER investigation has revealed a culture of racism, sexism and threats of violence in Britain’s most notorious detention centre. e: actually, I'll quote the rest of the article because it's paywalled and, well... quote:Now, in a three-month investigation, Channel 4 News has for the first time gained access and uncovered a litany of abuse. The footage captures guards displaying an appalling attitude towards the women. One is heard recounting a story to another colleague and admitting he “headbutted the bitch”. UKMT March: I just like tits. I'm addicted to the viewing of tits. LemonDrizzle fucked around with this message at 14:03 on Mar 1, 2015 |
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I'm a bit late to nuke chat, but I've been idly wondering over the last few weeks whether we've somehow ended up in a situation where the UK having nuclear capacity actually matters, which I would never have thought could be true up until now. I can't help think that it might not be a coincidence that most people actively raising the possibility of Russia triggering NATO's Article V in the Baltics are British; it may be that someone somewhere has reckoned that Russia estimates the US wouldn't respond in that case. But of course, if one of the two other nuclear powers in NATO can plausibly show that it would then that doesn't matter; whoever said that all nuclear powers can in effect fire every nuclear missile in the world upthread is exactly correct. It may be that our deterrent capacity is currently more of a disincentive to moves that could trigger nuclear war than the US's is, absolutely insane though that would be. My feelings around Trident are complicated. Having a nuclear deterrent under European control suddenly seems important again in the post-Crimea world, and if it has to be somewhere it's probably for the best that it's based very near my house; I can put my money where my mouth is then. I would say that I think the odds of a non-accidental nuclear war before the decade runs out are much higher than most of the thread does, and I found the debate around Trident in the run-up to the independence referendum frustrating for that reason. "The Cold War's over!", everyone said. Well, yes, but the thing that came after it is now over too, and it would be good if more people talked about that.
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Pesky Splinter posted:March already? drat. Don't mind doing it again, if no-one minds, but I don't mind if anyone else wants to have a crack at it. I'll do it
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:I'll do it Right oh! Here's the archive poo poo, if it's of any use. New thread here; March 2015. Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Mar 1, 2015 |
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