The Things We Don't Talk About:

8. When the people steering drones get it wrong and wipe out a wedding party in Waziristan.

Originally posted by FMF
When the story of the capture of an 'Enigma machine' from a German U-boat [an absolutely key moment in WW2] was made by American filmmakers, they had to pretend it was Americans who captured it and not the British [i.e. what actually happened] because American audiences would not like to think that it wasn't Americans who captured it and this would have affected how much money the American filmmakers would've made.

"On 25 July 1939, in Warsaw, the Poles initiated French and British military intelligence representatives into their Enigma-decryption techniques and equipment, including Zygalski sheets and the cryptologic bomb, and promised each delegation a Polish-reconstructed Enigma. The demonstration represented a vital basis for the later British continuation and effort.[3] During the war, British cryptologists decrypted a vast number of messages enciphered on Enigma. The intelligence gleaned from this source, codenamed "Ultra" by the British, was a substantial aid to the Allied war effort.[4]"

Wikipedia

Originally posted by Seitse
I am not bad and I am not an egg.

Prefer to be the ripe-but-not-yet-rotten avocado.

What do you call an avocado thats been blessed by Pope Francis?

Holy Guacamole.

😞

9. The hearing, vision or speech impairments and other disabilities of people irrespective of their gender or age.

10.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
9. The hearing, vision or speech impairments and other disabilities of people irrespective of their gender or age.

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10. A thing we don't talk about is elephants never eating raw vegetables after tasting Escargot Demi-Glace.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
7. Or the baggage in the closet.

8.

That's no way to talk about your wife, Gummy.

8. How nobody seems capable of writing a thread anymore that is not a stupid game?

9. How Russ killed all threads over 2000 posts long a while back, but seems happy to let the forum now fill up with puerile muck kept up by trolls who post more than they breathe?

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
8. How nobody seems capable of writing a thread anymore that is not a stupid game?

9. How Russ killed all threads over 2000 posts long a while back, but seems happy to let the forum now fill up with puerile muck kept up by trolls who post more than they breathe?

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Well said, Huck

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
8. How nobody seems capable of writing a thread anymore that is not a stupid game?

9. How Russ killed all threads over 2000 posts long a while back, but seems happy to let the forum now fill up with puerile muck kept up by trolls who post more than they breathe?

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
"8. How nobody seems capable of writing a thread anymore that is not a stupid game?"
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There's always the option of starting a few of your own (as in light a candle rather than curse the darkness).

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
9. How Russ killed all threads over 2000 posts long a while back, but seems happy to let the forum now fill up with puerile muck kept up by trolls who post more than they breathe?

10. How Russ, according to some, has cost himself untold amounts of revenue because he created a system for thumbing down posts. Apparently.

Originally posted by FMF
10. How Russ, according to some, has cost himself untold amounts of revenue because he created a system for thumbing down posts. Apparently.

It's way, WAY better than what existed before: a popularity contest. The opportunity for expressing disagreement or disapproval is paramount in a civil society. Allowing only positive votes denies the independent minds the possibility of equality. Herd mentality is only good for cattle. 'Thinning the herd' through the elimination of the 'cool kids clique' and their cattle followers was necessary.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Originally posted by huckleberryhound
"8. How nobody seems capable of writing a thread anymore that is not a stupid game?"
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There's always the option of starting a few of your own (as in light a candle rather than curse the darkness).

From the Book of Right on Bob.

Originally posted by Suzianne
Allowing only positive votes denies the independent minds the possibility of equality.

So you think thumbs down can be a sign of "independent minds"? Grampy Bobby thinks they are a sign of "cowardice". Most people, I'd hazard, are not in the slightest bit concerned by thumbs, be they up or down. 🙂

The whole thumbs thing is a juvenile exercise, completely meaningless. It's the herd mentality thing yet again. "sign up to see what your friends like"

Originally posted by FMF
So you think thumbs down can be a sign of "independent minds"? Grampy Bobby thinks they are a sign of "cowardice". Most people, I'd hazard, are not in the slightest bit concerned by thumbs, be they up or down. 🙂

"there you go again misrepresenting his comments in context." ~child anon