Any other Brits find this image offensive?

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Have you ever eaten a tank bullet, Darrin? Ah, you don't have the balls for that now do you?
Whatever flag one would use doesn't matter, but I really would be offended if a Dutch flag would be used in such an avatar. As if I, as a Dutch citizen, should agree with people being blown to pieces.

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Darrin wrote:
Let me see, I'm a British citizen, living in America and have served in the British Army.  I served for 3 years with The Queens Own Hussars which was a type 57 Challenger tank regiment.  The tank in the picture is a Challenger tank (a Challenger 2 to be exact).

If you have a problem with my avitar then too bad.  I have no idea what your dumb "eating tank bullets" remark is about.  Tanks fire shells, but are also equipped with machine guns.  Of course, you have no idea about the military, no idea about world politics and never been to the Middle East.

Please feel free to post again and make yourself look like a bigger idiot.

Why haven't you been blown to pieces then? I mean, if you enjoy war so much you should like every aspect of it, no?
No, you get aroused of killing people, so much you have to rape women over there.  :pissed:  :pissed:  :pissed:  :pissed:  :pissed:  :pissed:  :pissed:

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LOL. You're so stupid it's probably not worth even chatting with you.

Still, you do.

Darrin wrote:
It's the media that likes a good war so they can feed the brainless masses some good old propaganda.  

and apparently you love it too, otherwise you wouldn't use such an avatar.

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Darrin wrote:
Tell me what you really feel about my avitar.

Can't you read? (Well, obviously you can't write)

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Darrin wrote:Obviously, you know as much about that as you do about orgasms and from your post it is plain to see that you associate sex with rape.

No, that's a non-sequitor, because I clearly wrote that I associate war with rape. And that's quite factual, I can back up that statement with countless of facts.

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Darrin wrote:
My avitar is to show my support for the troops in this world-wide war.  You can believe whatever you like because thankfully for you there are soldiers dieing to keep you free to keep thinking these things.

I just find it amazing that I've had this avitar for years and only now, when I enter a forum and make a post to thank I guy who was worried about us members living near New Orleans, do I get attacked for it.

Chapeau, mission accomplished, see propaganda at work, you THINK you die for freedom. But freedom can only be obtained when people understand the advantages.

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Gee, out of arguments, so you make things up yourself.

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cecilia wrote:
why waste time talking about a picture when there's so much more to be offended by.

Because people "think" the way they act. A war does not simply begin with a gunshot, a war begins with propaganda.

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Darrin wrote:

I could go on, but I think I've made my point.

No you did not :-)
(just discussing the way you do)

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There are very few things I do not take up lightly. War is one of them.

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Darrin wrote:

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

cecilia wrote:
why waste time talking about a picture when there's so much more to be offended by.

Because people "think" the way they act. A war does not simply begin with a gunshot, a war begins with propaganda.

But the point is, how do they end?  That's the important thing (assuming you can't stop them to start with).

If propaganda is the cause, propaganda is the measure. Take out both fox and al jazeera. But also, don't lie about it, be clear about it. We've seen it by our friendly neighbours, the Germans (difference in amount of nazi's in former DDR and BRD - The Communists ignored the Nazi past, but the BRD did not)

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Darrin wrote:

If propaganda is the cause, propaganda is the measure. Take out both fox and al jazeera. But also, don't lie about it, be clear about it. We've seen it by our friendly neighbours, the Germans (difference in amount of nazi's in former DDR and BRD)

Yes, taking out the extreme viewpoints on both the lefta nd right would help.  The trouble is that we would then have people screaming "censorship!" and "freedom of speech".

Ah yes, but it's more about the amount. Like spam. If people only see fox fox fox fox they think fox and they do fox. If people see war war war war they think war and they do war. If people only see once war then there's no prob.

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Darrin wrote:
You're right.  And as a non-smoker, I find it HIGHLY OFFENSIVE!  Does anyone else find it HIGHLY OFFENSIVE?   ;-)

- he just stopped -

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Darrin wrote:
Yes, taking out the extreme viewpoints on both the lefta nd right would help.

Oh, and btw. it's not about extreme viewpoints, nor it's about left and right, it's about how they think how good their viewpoint is and that it's truly worth dying for.