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Beeb
Jun 29, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 14 days!

M_Gargantua posted:

Make Kurdistan the 51'st US state.

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lightpole
Jun 4, 2004
I think that MBAs are useful, in case you are looking for an answer to the question of "Is lightpole a total fucking idiot".

Duke Chin posted:

"Maybe Putin Was Right" says noted pedophile Senate candidate before speaking in Russian and awwwshucks'ing his way out of it.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/09/roy-moore-praise-putin-russia-alabama


lol we're all hosed and have been sold out

Not sure that you need to try and make the stretch tying Moore to Russia just because he knows how to say hello.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

Duke Chin posted:

"Maybe Putin Was Right" says noted pedophile Senate candidate before speaking in Russian and awwwshucks'ing his way out of it.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/09/roy-moore-praise-putin-russia-alabama


lol we're all hosed and have been sold out

quote:

To the suggestion “that’s the very argument that Vladimir Putin makes” about same-sex marriage, Moore tells Lewis: “Well, then maybe Putin is right. Maybe he’s more akin to me than I know.”

Asked what he would say to Putin should he meet him, Moore says “hello, how are you” in Russian.

I still can't get over how much the GOP has embraced Putin and the Russians. The Republicans, the party that put Nixon and Reagan in the White House, are now buddy-buddy with Russia.

Blind Rasputin
Nov 25, 2002

Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

In best news PYF finally found this
https://twitter.com/FrankDobson1/status/938487907979087874?s=17

Viva Miriya
Jan 9, 2007

Thalantos posted:

Hey my first red text! :) thanks, anonymous goon!

I wish I had a huge dick in my bag, tho.

just shut the gently caress up you worthless piece of poo poo

Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.
Hey guys make a thread for your slapfight

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Godholio posted:

Tom Clancy saves the world.

Tom Clancy would've given it to Israeli, c'mon now. Clancy was a Conservative that openly blamed 9/11 on the Left for cutting CIA funding.

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Dec 10, 2017

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

Godholio posted:


Tom Clancy saves the world.


Goddamn I forgot how much that book sucked. We permanently station a mechanised cav unit in Israel to keep the peace and Swiss Guardsmen from the Vatican guard Jerusalem.

Then Denver gets nuked and it's never mentioned again.

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.
I thought the Israel poo poo was after Denver got nuked and a Japanese guy bitter over WWII crashed a plane into the Capitol?

Flikken
Oct 23, 2009

10,363 snaps and not a playoff win to show for it

FrozenVent posted:

I thought the Israel poo poo was after Denver got nuked and a Japanese guy bitter over WWII crashed a plane into the Capitol?

No it was before, Jack Ryan fixed Israel by sending the Vatican swiss guard there to keep peace. Or something.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

BigDave posted:

I still can't get over how much the GOP has embraced Putin and the Russians. The Republicans, the party that put Nixon and Reagan in the White House, are now buddy-buddy with Russia.

its absolutely fascinating

mods changed my name
Oct 30, 2017
thanks mods!

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
do we have proof that tom clancy isn't actually god? have we ever seen them in the same room together?

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

FrozenVent posted:

I thought the Israel poo poo was after Denver got nuked and a Japanese guy bitter over WWII crashed a plane into the Capitol?

Other way around. Israel makes peace with the Arabs thanks to mild mannered CIA employee Jack Ryan. This causes a Palestinian terrorist leader who's dying from cancer to team up with a American Indian terrorist, and they find a Israeli nuclear warhead buried in a old man's garden. Working with a nihlistic East German scientist they nuke Denver and start shooting Americans at the Berlin Wall to trigger WWIII. Jack Ryan commits light treason and saves the day by intercepting the Hotline with Moscow.

Then Japan reinvades the Marshall and Marina Islands because Japanese Donald Trump has to avenge his parents deaths in WWII. The pilot kamakazies his plane into the Capitol Building because his son died while fighting the Americans.

And Jack Ryan bitches non-stop about how much his jobs suck.

mods changed my name
Oct 30, 2017
maybe we should make a thread about Tom Clancy because there is plenty of content to be posted here

mods changed my name
Oct 30, 2017

mods change my name posted:

maybe we should make a thread about Tom Clancy because there is plenty of content to be posted here

on it

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

:bisonyes:

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

CommieGIR posted:

Tom Clancy would've given it to Israeli, c'mon now. Clancy was a Conservative that openly blamed 9/11 on the Left for cutting CIA funding.

Clancy was a bugeyed retarded twerp, film at 11.

Smiling Jack
Dec 2, 2001

I sucked a dick for bus fare and then I walked home.


goddamit can't you fuckers keep the same name

Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Yep sorry there wasn't room for the entire name, but I made sure to fit in what I could! :downs:

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


BigDave posted:

I still can't get over how much the GOP has embraced Putin and the Russians. The Republicans, the party that put Nixon and Reagan in the White House, are now buddy-buddy with Russia.

Sure, because they finally subbed capitalism for socialism but kept the white nationalism.

Blind Rasputin
Nov 25, 2002

Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

Hey navy goons can we discuss how a log falling off a ship and subsequently hitting a submarine leads to a nuclear exchange and WWIII? Because that was the most realistic Tom Clancy plot.

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



BUG JUG posted:

Did we ever find out if Sobel is a Jew or not? Serious question.

Yes he was Jewish. He also attempted to commit suicide in 1970, but did it wrong and instead blinded himself by severing his optic nerve with the handgun bullet. He died of malnutrition 17 years later in a VA home. No funeral was held for him.

VA sucks et cetera.

orange juche fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Dec 11, 2017

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Doc Hawkins posted:

Sure, because they finally subbed capitalism for socialism but kept the white nationalism.

authoritarian leader with penchant for murdering dissidents who rules by decree rather than consensus and gay murdering religious nuts

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

Blind Rasputin posted:

Hey navy goons can we discuss how a log falling off a ship and subsequently hitting a submarine leads to a nuclear exchange and WWIII? Because that was the most realistic Tom Clancy plot.

The way that log fell off the ship was unrealistic as gently caress, even for Clancy.

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING

Viva Miriya posted:

just shut the gently caress up you worthless piece of poo poo

:10bux: spender spotted :laugh:

lightpole
Jun 4, 2004
I think that MBAs are useful, in case you are looking for an answer to the question of "Is lightpole a total fucking idiot".

FrozenVent posted:

The way that log fell off the ship was unrealistic as gently caress, even for Clancy.

Could have just been a box, I'm surprised that isn't a thing yet.

We only carried lumber but they always toss that poo poo in the hold due to GM

Edit: actually I have a good one for you in a biy

lightpole fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Dec 11, 2017

FrozenVent
May 1, 2009

The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

lightpole posted:

Could have just been a box, I'm surprised that isn't a thing yet.

We only carried lumber but they always toss that poo poo in the hold due to GM

Lumber on deck is an absolute loving PITA because of all the securing you have to do. Which they obviously didn't do in the book.

Also LOL at the guy turning on the deck lights in a storm and being instantly able to see the deck cargo. LOL.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

Blind Rasputin posted:

Hey navy goons can we discuss how a log falling off a ship and subsequently hitting a submarine leads to a nuclear exchange and WWIII? Because that was the most realistic Tom Clancy plot.

Oh, that's nothing! In the same book the National Security Adviser, who is sleeping with the President, gaslights everyone into thinking that Jack Ryan has a second family with 9 kids and is cheating on his wife.

Then, when Denver gets nuked, she keeps telling everyone that the Russians can't be trusted because there's been a imaginary coup in the Kremlin.

:phone: Hey Russia, did you nuke the Super Bowl and invade West Berlin?

:phoneb: lol no wtf are you talking about

:supaburn: THEY'RE LYING! WE NEED TO NUKE MOSCOW!!

BigDave fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Dec 11, 2017

Saint Celestine
Dec 17, 2008

Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.

- Saint Sabbat, Lessons
Grimey Drawer
What Clancy book is this?

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

Saint Celestine posted:

What Clancy book is this?

The Sum Of All Fears.

Should've called it Attack of the Unnecessary B-Story.

Professor Bling
Nov 12, 2008

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Wasn't the Denver nuke one made into that bad movie where Ben affleck is jack Ryan?


I know it's different than the one where the Japanese dude kamikazes the capital mainly because I also remember that the Japanese dude one also had a thing where F22s fought an aerial battle against Japanese F-15s (which were superior to US F-15s due to "Japanese electronics wizardry" or some poo poo)


I ate those books up as a kid

Saint Celestine
Dec 17, 2008

Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.

- Saint Sabbat, Lessons
Grimey Drawer

BigDave posted:

The Sum Of All Fears.

Should've called it Attack of the Unnecessary B-Story.

I don;'t remember the log falling off part...

Eugene V. Dubstep
Oct 4, 2013
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!
Yeah, I too read The Sum of All Fears as a kid and don't remember anything about kamikazes

Professor Bling
Nov 12, 2008

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Oh poo poo then there was "The Bear and the Dragon" which was about a Russo-Chinese border war that involved giving old SAC air attack plans to the Russians or something

Professor Bling
Nov 12, 2008

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
The Japanese kamikaze one was Debt of Honor


Edit: why do I remember all this poo poo milwank and not anything important?

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

Professor Bling posted:

Wasn't the Denver nuke one made into that bad movie where Ben affleck is jack Ryan?


I know it's different than the one where the Japanese dude kamikazes the capital mainly because I also remember that the Japanese dude one also had a thing where F22s fought an aerial battle against Japanese F-15s (which were superior to US F-15s due to "Japanese electronics wizardry" or some poo poo)


I ate those books up as a kid

Yup. They changed Denver to Baltimore and the Muslim terror mastermind was changed to a Uber-Neo-Nazi because the studio didn't think Islamic terrorism was a realistic plot.

And the F-15J's were able to splash the F22's because of magic AWACS.

Which the CIA force crashes by shining a really bright light into the cockpit on takeoff.

EDIT: Japan's Revenge was Debt of Honor, Big Log vs Sub & Nuclear Super Bowl was Sum of All Fears, Iran Hates Everyone was Executive Decisions.

BigDave fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Dec 11, 2017

Jarmak
Jan 24, 2005

BigDave posted:

Yup. They changed Denver to Baltimore and the Muslim terror mastermind was changed to a Uber-Neo-Nazi because the studio didn't think Islamic terrorism was a realistic plot.

And the F-15J's were able to splash the F22's because of magic AWACS.

Which the CIA force crashes by shining a really bright light into the cockpit on takeoff.

No they changed it from Muslims to Nazis because it was right after 9/11 and it was "too soon" to have islamic terrorists be a movie plot.

edit:also making that movie take place in modern times doomed it besides the silliness of clancy, plot makes no sense without the cold war.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

Jarmak posted:

No they changed it from Muslims to Nazis because it was right after 9/11 and it was "too soon" to have islamic terrorists be a movie plot.

Nope.

quote:

. A common misconception is that this was done as a reaction to the September 11, 2001 attacks, but the movie finished filming in June 2001.
On the "making-of" DVD extra, director Alden Robinson said that the change was purely for elements relating to the plot, because Arab terrorists would not be able to plausibly accomplish all that was necessary for the story to work. In addition, the terrorists in the book received significant aid from elements in East Germany, a country which had ceased to exist before the novel was even published. The group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) did mount a two-year lobbying campaign that ended on January 26, 2001, against using "Muslim villains", as the original book version did.

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Jarmak
Jan 24, 2005

BigDave posted:

Yup. They changed Denver to Baltimore and the Muslim terror mastermind was changed to a Uber-Neo-Nazi because the studio didn't think Islamic terrorism was a realistic plot.

And the F-15J's were able to splash the F22's because of magic AWACS.

Which the CIA force crashes by shining a really bright light into the cockpit on takeoff.

EDIT: Japan's Revenge was Debt of Honor, Big Log vs Sub & Nuclear Super Bowl was Sum of All Fears, Iran Hates Everyone was Executive Decisions.

executive orders :viggo:


Well, that's an interesting bit of trivia, and hilarious

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