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  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Creasy47 wrote:
    I'd have to say that, while he isn't my favorite, the best fighter that has ever had screen presence would have to be Bruce Lee.
    I'd have to agree.
    You have to remember though he was like, about 5'8" & 145 lbs. Bare handed in a cage match, there are a lot of dudes that could have kicked his butt through sheer size & random chance.
    But that takes environmental creativity out of the equation....
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Yeah, that's true. In terms of size, he is lacking, but in pure skill, he is THE man.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Creasy47 wrote:
    Yeah, that's true. In terms of size, he is lacking, but in pure skill, he is THE man.
    I fully believe that Lee could have taken Mike Tyson out easily in a street fight, but in the Boxing ring with all the rules? Lee would have lost pretty badly after a valiant struggle.
    It's all relative.
    Cage matches & conventional Boxing remove many variables and distil it down to brute strength vs. technique. In most cases, brute strength will win out.
    In real life, 'technology' (weapons, chairs, trees, rocks, garbage cans, electrical cords) can make a very big difference.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    @chrisisall, it just depends on the situation. In a street fight, I'm sure Bruce Lee's skill would be unmatched, but he would be nothing against someone if they had a shotgun and he was a pretty good distance away.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    @Creasy47, precisely.

    I once used 'martial arts' to get out of a highway incident; I was on my motorcycle in 1995, and I saw two guys in cars ahead of me swerve into each other, and as they moved apart, I downshifted and gunned it to move out of the situation straight through them. In my rear view mirror I saw them come back together, sliding around & causing a pile up. If I had simply braked behind them I know I wouldn't be here now to be typing this. :))

    Be like water, my friend. ;)
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Not only did you save your own life, but you made it look cool in the process. Very well done. ;-)
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Suzuki GS550E, 55 to 90 in 3 seconds (or less)! :D
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
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    I rate Dire Strait's 'forgotten' album Love Over Gold way above the world-conquering Brothers In Arms.
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    I think all nations should have Nukes. Before some of you tear my head off, hear me out.
    Back in 2001 President Bush declared North Korea, Iran and Iraq as this "Axis of Evil" then he promptly invaded Iraq. North Korea had the nuclear arsenal and Iraq did not. Experts determined that North Korea posed the greater threat to world harmony, yet the USA invaded Iraq. Now what Message does Iran draw from that? What Message did we send to the world? "If you have the bomb we won't fukk with you."

    More than 4 decades of squaring off with the Soviet Union (a nuclear power) and the US and the Soviets never got into a war? Why? Both had the bomb. Recent events in Ukraine has shown that had Ukraine kept their arsenal rather than giving it back to Russia then the Russians might never have invaded Crimea. Think about that .

    Nuclear arsenals seem to be the real deterrent . so maybe if everyone had the bomb then the shytt we see around the world would stop.

    One final note on Iran: Israel has nuclear weapons (supplied by the USA) now if Israel has the bomb why can't Iran have one?
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    OHMSS69 wrote: »
    I think all nations should have Nukes. Before some of you tear my head off, hear me out.
    Back in 2001 President Bush declared North Korea, Iran and Iraq as this "Axis of Evil" then he promptly invaded Iraq. North Korea had the nuclear arsenal and Iraq did not. Experts determined that North Korea posed the greater threat to world harmony, yet the USA invaded Iraq. Now what Message does Iran draw from that? What Message did we send to the world? "If you have the bomb we won't fukk with you."

    NO. the message was we will invent a reason to get rid of Saddam even if the whole world knows it was false.

    More than 4 decades of squaring off with the Soviet Union (a nuclear power) and the US and the Soviets never got into a war? Why? Both had the bomb. Recent events in Ukraine has shown that had Ukraine kept their arsenal rather than giving it back to Russia then the Russians might never have invaded Crimea. Think about that .

    How close and how often we were to a nuclear war we probably never know and perhaps do not want to know. Ukraine sold his arsenal to the west mostly on behest of the US, and perhaps we would have had a nuclear war in Ukraine. The tensions there ran high. Be glad that the US paid for those nukes. Think about that.

    Nuclear arsenals seem to be the real deterrent . so maybe if everyone had the bomb then the shytt we see around the world would stop.

    A deterrent against nations with sensible governments, I am still very on edge with Pakistan & India both being in the Nuclear family. If it ever goes wrong that is the place it probably will happen

    One final note on Iran: Israel has nuclear weapons (supplied by the USA) now if Israel has the bomb why can't Iran have one?

    You really want to have a nation that would most probably use that weapon to have one??? It will not be a deterrent but a matter of time before Jerusalem no longer exists. It would be as bad as giving the religious Christians in the US a bomb and delivery capability, a bloody mess.

    the best option would be NO NATION HAVING a nuclear weapon, everybody would probably have Africa & the middle East being covered by clouds of radio active material.
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  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    OHMSS69 wrote: »
    I think all nations should have Nukes. Before some of you tear my head off, hear me out.
    Back in 2001 President Bush declared North Korea, Iran and Iraq as this "Axis of Evil" then he promptly invaded Iraq. North Korea had the nuclear arsenal and Iraq did not. Experts determined that North Korea posed the greater threat to world harmony, yet the USA invaded Iraq. Now what Message does Iran draw from that? What Message did we send to the world? "If you have the bomb we won't fukk with you."

    More than 4 decades of squaring off with the Soviet Union (a nuclear power) and the US and the Soviets never got into a war? Why? Both had the bomb. Recent events in Ukraine has shown that had Ukraine kept their arsenal rather than giving it back to Russia then the Russians might never have invaded Crimea. Think about that .

    Nuclear arsenals seem to be the real deterrent . so maybe if everyone had the bomb then the shytt we see around the world would stop.

    One final note on Iran: Israel has nuclear weapons (supplied by the USA) now if Israel has the bomb why can't Iran have one?

    The idealism is admirable but the idea is ludicrous.

    Yes it's unfair that Israel can have nukes but Iran can't. But then did Israel ever say Iran should be wiped off the map?

    Maybe the line that the government keeps pushing at us after each fresh atrocity that Islam is a religion of peace and love and it's only a minority that causes trouble blah blah is true but personally I don't want to take the risk.

    Frankly if it's a choice between pre-emptively bombing places like Iran and Afghanistan back to the stone age (not a great hardship seeing as they practically there are already) to prevent them getting a nuke or offering a naive leftist olive branch of giving them a load of warheads and trusting them not to fire at us then I'm with Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now.

    It's not something to worry about too much though thanks to the existence of Israel.

    Western politicians can drone on about working and cooperating with Islam and finding peaceful solutions etc and all the time they are enriching uranium on the quiet but Israel can't afford such platitudes.

    Any sniff that Iran is close to having a bomb and Israel will go in and not give two shits what the west thinks. It's a lot easier to favour appeasement when you're sitting in your cushy Whitehall office.

    It's all well and good espousing these fluffy sounding socialist ideals but think very carefully if you really want to live in a world where Boko Haram, Isis, The Taliban, Al Qaeda and gangs of Somalian pirates all have access to as many nukes as they want and then decide would you like to leave things as they are or be glad that your egalitarian nuclear utopia is not a reality.
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    Only saw the first series after everyone was raving about it but anyway: I think Game Of Thrones is rubbish. It's boring and confusing with way too many characters to keep track of (none of which I cared about) and hardly any of them are memorable. It's deadly serious, there are no fun moments like in other, better dramas (such as Life On Mars or Breaking Bad), which would be fine if the show was still entertaining (24 for example is really po faced but it has enough tension and excitement to make up for that, it's still entertaining; Game Of Thrones is mostly just long, dull conversations). The dialouge is clunky and I have no idea what the characters are on about most of the time. I really don't understand why this show is as successful as it is. Overrated, overcomplicated snoozefest imo.
  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
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    yes, but it has boobs ;-)
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    Only saw the first series after everyone was raving about it but anyway: I think Game Of Thrones is rubbish. It's boring and confusing with way too many characters to keep track of (none of which I cared about) and hardly any of them are memorable. It's deadly serious, there are no fun moments like in other, better dramas (such as Life On Mars or Breaking Bad), which would be fine if the show was still entertaining (24 for example is really po faced but it has enough tension and excitement to make up for that, it's still entertaining; Game Of Thrones is mostly just long, dull conversations). The dialouge is clunky and I have no idea what the characters are on about most of the time. I really don't understand why this show is as successful as it is. Overrated, overcomplicated snoozefest imo.

    Thank you, and amen!
    =D>
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    I don't think Game of Thrones is rubbish. It's well made and for the most part well acted, but it is somewhat overrated. I agree with you @thelivingroyale about not caring all that much about a lot of the characters and there being a few too many plot-lines to
    follow.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    I never find GoT boring, nor do I think saying that it's too hard to follow is a legitimate excuse. I said the same thing in the beginning, but if you don't try, you'll never know who is who and where is where. That's the fun of it: being nerdy enough to figure out all of the character's names, banners, backstories, etc. :-B

    I believe the payoff is worth it. I've watched it quite a few times, and I'll admit, there is a lot to soak up and follow along with, but it's really quite good. For anyone who has trouble following it or ever wants to give it another shot, see if you can borrow it on DVD/blu-ray from someone, put on the subtitles, and watch through as many seasons as you can. The more you dive into it, the more you'll know, and the more you know, the more interesting it becomes.
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    I'm reading the book Dune at the moment which is quite similar in terms of its vast universe, complex backstory and many different characters.
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    Personally I have a hard time caring to get into it, as a few scenes usually is enough to put me off. It just seems very sope opery to me, which is unfortunate when it's supposed to sime kind of epic action drama tale. Or maybe I have missed the point entirely...?

    And is it me, or is the pace extremely slow? At least it seems that way to me based on what I've seen. I can appreciate a slow pace in spades if the characters are interesting and the actors feel alive. But in GoT they don't... at least not for me.
  • edited July 2014 Posts: 12,837
    @Creasy47 I gave it a chance and tried my best to enjoy it but I couldn't. I watched the whole first season and I still didn't get half of what was going on or care about the characters. Still, I would have kept watching it if I was at least entertained but I wasn't. It bored me.

    @jobo I found it really slow paced too, so it's not just you, and I completely agree with you.
    royale65 wrote: »
    yes, but it has boobs ;-)

    So does my mother in law. Doesn't mean I like her :P

    Seriously though I heard that a lot before I watched it, that there was loads of sex and gore and it was dead shocking but there really wasn't that much. The show was just a let down for me, after all the hype I was expecting it to at least entertain me.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    I think all the sex and nudity is in the first season, really. You do see some nudity here and there, but that's about it, and it certainly isn't a feature that should define the show or be a big selling point. It does have a lot going for it and it does get very exciting, but with that, I can see how people may not like it. At least you gave it a proper try, @thelivingroyale, instead of only watching a few minutes and calling it then.
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    I like it but there are other shows I find more entertaining (Breaking Bad for one)
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    'Breaking Bad' was one great thrill ride from start to finish, but with any show, I do grow tired of hearing about it after a while, whether I liked it or not. Take 'The Walking Dead': can't stand it now, and even if I did, all those memes and memorabilia and posts and all the praise it somehow gets grows really, really old to my ears.
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    In regards to Israel having nuclear weapons, those who claim that Israel has a right to defend itself has made my earlier point: No body messes with Israel because she has the bomb. A deterrent. There.

    As for Israel defending herself, I don;t hear about Israel beating up on Iran. All we hear is how they fukk with the Palestanians.

    Here is a question for my fellow American Pro Israel party: How would you feel if say the Chinese and Russians decided that the US should be returned to the Native American? Native Americans would come in push the rest of us around like Israelis do the Palestanians.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Israel and Palestine are fighting one another? Well there's a first!
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    OHMSS69 wrote: »
    Here is a question for my fellow American Pro Israel party: How would you feel if say the Chinese and Russians decided that the US should be returned to the Native American? Native Americans would come in push the rest of us around like Israelis do the Palestanians.
    I am *so* confused by this... You say Israel 'pushes around' the Palestinians, yet you are PRO Israel? Have I got that right? :-O
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    RC7 wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote:
    OHMSS69 wrote:
    m Night Shyamalan was on top of the world with "Sixth Sense" and his next few films were sad attempts to duplicate that success. He failed.

    Here's a controversial opinion for you: Unbreakable is superior to The Sixth Sense. Okay, maybe not better, but it sure was more fun.

    Unbreakable is his best film IMO. Vastly underrated.

    I really enjoyed it. I find it more intelligent as well and less gimmicky.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Israel and Palestine are fighting one another? Well there's a first!

    Yeah, it's incredible isn't it. Problem is, it's become very difficult to point an accusing finger to merely one of the two countries and say you started this. This mess has grown so terribly complicated, I doubt the average citizen of Israel or Palestine actually understands the true logic - if any exists at all - behind these constant attacks. What does one do? Support Palestine and throw out the Jews so that these people have once again nowhere to go? Or support Israel and throw out the Palestinians, whose land was (one might argue) simply stolen from them.

    I'm not an historian so I must admit that my views on this matter are generally incomplete. Therefore my opinions, like the one above, certainly are open for debate.

  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    @DarthDimi, it's definitely a vicious debate that leaves you hard pressed to choose a side. I'd say the only easy choice on who stands behind whom would be the Israelis and the Palestinians themselves.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Guys, the Palestinians have these little areas of land to live on. and Israel keeps allowing 'settlers' to shrink it more and more, and bulldozing homes & even killing Palestinians in the process is kind of accepted. Where are they supposed to fall back to- the sea? Seems easy to settle, just give them back some land, ANY land, and respect them as a people. Give Hamas nothing to accomplish.
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