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[dougry]

Is this Emoticon shooting a sniper rifle?

With the Beltway sniper of last year and what appears to be a new one in West Virginia.Seems inappropriate.

[Will Hay]

Is this Emoticon shooting a sniper rifle?

With the Beltway sniper of last year and what appears to be a new one in West Virginia.Seems inappropriate.

Whilst I can appreciate your comments and the fact that these terrible crimes should not be trivialised I see that emoticon more as a heavy weapon Vietnam kind of thing.
Yes, if the symbol was a face in a clocktower with a gun I could appreciate it being inappropriate, but not this.
Will

[gmatov]

dougry,

Are you daft, man?

Is there nothing that someone can't find something wrong with?

Does it not look more like a UN soldier firing a heavy machine gun at your own disobedient workers?

Why the hell do you have to give THE most barbarous interpretation to anything you see?

Is it your upbringing, or your post secondary education?

I think this site is going to make me crazy with the stupid, really, really, stupid stuff I have read lately. And, I think this is one of the stupidest.

[jeex]

dougry,

Are you daft, man?

Is there nothing that someone can't find something wrong with?

Does it not look more like a UN soldier firing a heavy machine gun at your own disobedient workers?

Why the hell do you have to give THE most barbarous interpretation to anything you see?

Is it your upbringing, or your post secondary education?

I think this site is going to make me crazy with the stupid, really, really, stupid stuff I have read lately. And, I think this is one of the stupidest.

ditto..

[dougry]

gmatov

Sure it's stupid! But did you have to duck and hide every time you got gas? Did you walk in zig zag patterns as you walked through a parking lot? Did you rearrange your life because you were afraid of being shot? did you keep your kids inside because a sniper told you that your kids were not safe? Did you do any of this? I had to!!

So maybe it hits a little closer to home with me than it did to you. It was mearly an observation. I'm bored, okay!

[Will Hay]

A completely different set of circumstances but...
...I remember when a couple of kiddies went missing over here in the UK.
Weeks went by and no sign and then, found dead, murdered, sexually assaulted.
I didn't know the girls, but the whole country was united in shock, sympathy and then anger.
Personally (at the time) I found myself looking for a reason to argue with anyone who trivialised any aspect of the case.
Of course no one would be so dumb as to say they didn't care, that they derserved it or anything, but I was just waiting for some shit to say these girls shouldn't have been out on their own, what were the parents doing letting them out etc etc. etc so I could rip into them.
I felt a sense of injustice, and wanted to vent that fury on anyone.
I'm sure I'm a prime case case for councilling/medical help but my point is when a tragedy is so close to home sometimes it only takes the slightest little thing to set those emotions running.
Keep you and your family safe dougry, they're the most important thing (as you know)
Take care,
Will Hay

[dougry]

Thanks Will Hay.
It's not like a have a problem with it. It's just that my stomach sank when I saw the Snipersmile.gif.

Even now as I type the news is talking about the West Virginia sniper. And it's 5:00 AM (US East Coast time)

[jeex]

dougry

[Will Hay]

dougry

Do me a favour, walk out into the sidewalk.
W.

[dougry]

JEEX

[Hardcoreruss]

dougry

Do me a favour, walk out into the sidewalk.
W.

Understand where you are coming from, they are both as bad as each other. Dougry has been on here for two days and he is already moaning. Is Baldrick meant to go through this site everytime a new piece of news is published to check if he has inappropriate things on here, my answer is no.

[mysticgohan17]

anyone got a shiny, silver thread lock

[dougry]

Dougry has been on here for two days and he is already moaning

dougry has been here for a long time. But had to make a new username. And what moaning.!?! Did you just wake up or something?

[Hardcoreruss]

No need to lock a thread just because there is an argument. If there was the House's of Parliament would nver open. Arguments are a good resolution for problems, sometimes when people are angered the best responses occur.

[Will Hay]

dougry

Do me a favour, walk out into the sidewalk.
W.

Understand where you are coming from, they are both as bad as each other. Dougry has been on here for two days and he is already moaning. Is Baldrick meant to go through this site everytime a new piece of news is published to check if he has inappropriate things on here, my answer is no.

dougry was perhaps far too sensitive in his post, but that other guy?
Man, I can't say what I'm thinking but suffice to say I'd be a happy man if Baldrick would give me admin rights for twenty minutes
Will

[Hardcoreruss]

Dougry has been on here for two days and he is already moaning

dougry has been here for a long time. But had to make a new username. And what moaning.!?! Did you just wake up or something?

Sorry the 17th of August, 13 post things is a bit misleading, and no I have been awake since 5. And moaning yes, inappropriate bla bla bla, get a life, and answer someones problems that is the main element of this site.

[Hardcoreruss]

dougry

Do me a favour, walk out into the sidewalk.
W.

Understand where you are coming from, they are both as bad as each other. Dougry has been on here for two days and he is already moaning. Is Baldrick meant to go through this site everytime a new piece of news is published to check if he has inappropriate things on here, my answer is no.

dougry was perhaps far too sensitive in his post, but that other guy?
Man, I can't say what I'm thinking but suffice to say I'd be a happy man if Baldrick would give me admin rights for twenty minutes
Will

Yes I agree that JEEX a mug.

[dougry]

dougry was perhaps far too sensitive in his post

I'm not tring to be sensitive. Sorry I brought it up. It's obvious that no one here has ever lived with a sniper.

[Will Hay]

I didn't wat to go as far as name calling, it seems you only have to fart nowadays to get a yellow card
Will

[Will Hay]

dougry was perhaps far too sensitive in his post

I'm not tring to be sensitive. Sorry I brought it up. It's obvious that no one here has ever lived with a sniper.

Yes, it is obvious no one here has lived with the horror of a sniper.
I thought I made my intentions clear, no?
My point was your suggestion that the emoticon was similar to that of a sniper and therefore inappropriate was a little sensitive, taking into account the situation in which you describe.
The humans among us understand this, but if you expected whole-hearted agreement to your post then you came to the wrong place, sorry.
Will

[Hardcoreruss]

Could offend people with large eyes
Could offend people who are ill
Could offend people with one eye
Should be removed whenever there is a shooting
Could offend children, elderly and others
Could offend people who blush a lot
Could offend people with sick family
See number 4
Could religiously offend people
Should be removed whenever someone is bludgeoned
Sexually offend people
Swearing, rude, could offend many
Could offend nurses or others in the medical industry
Could offend jews, muslims - those who do not celebrate xmas
Could offend those with big T E tatoos
Should be removed whenever there is fighting or riots.

Could go on but I am sure I have used up my idiot quota for the day (hang on that may offend people who are bug eyed)

[dougry]

The humans among us understand this, but if you expected whole-hearted agreement to your post then you came to the wrong place, sorry.

I didn't think I would get a reply at all. I can't believe what a commotion this caused.

I was a little agitated but now it's really funny.

[dougry]

Could go on but I am sure I have used up my idiot quota for the day (hang on that may offend people who are bug eyed)

That is way funny. I had to stop laughing before I could write this. I printed this page just for that post. Okay fine, I take it all back.

[mysticgohan17]

those who do not celebrate xmas

could offend jesus for not having his name in his holiday :P

[Hardcoreruss]

The humans among us understand this, but if you expected whole-hearted agreement to your post then you came to the wrong place, sorry.

I didn't think I would get a reply at all. I can't believe what a commotion this caused.

I was a little agitated but now it's really funny.

If you did not want a reply then why did you post ?, surely you wanted to share and debate your views otherwise you would of stopped, thought and kept it in your head. Maybe you should do this in the future and YES that would stop all this commotion.

I think you are quite funny also.

[Hardcoreruss]

those who do not celebrate xmas

could offend jesus for not having his name in his holiday :P

I did realise that but I did not want to start a new line

[Will Hay]

Could go on but I am sure I have used up my idiot quota for the day (hang on that may offend people who are bug eyed)

Nice one, a little of bit of balance to an insane discussion

could offend Mick Jagger
could offend ghosts
8) could offend stevie wonder
could offend the poor
could offend those in a coma
could offend speccy-four eyed folk
could promote wife beating
could be construed as a personal attack on King John
could offend Austrailians
could offend those just been dumped
could offend hay fever sufferers
could offend that american kid sucked into the tv in charlieand the choc factory
could offend anyone currently sueing McDonalds for hot coffee


and my favourite.....

could offend the tin man from wizard of oz


No offence dougry, but take it as you will
Will

[dougry]

If you did not want a reply then why did you post ?,

Way back when I first started using this web site. Almost all my post went unanswered.

And I started it, so I'll end it.

I no longer care about

[gmatov]

Jeezus, dougry,
Look into our history a little bit.

You are going by the sensalisation that the one of 500 news channels has made of the sniper case, and, by extensiopn, the new case that the police chief there was forced into admitting had similar modii operandi.

There have always been mass murders in the world, and not always in the US. And Jack the Ripper, in Britain, was not the beginning. Watch some of the history channel, or, better yet, read some of the history of the world.

I do not care how much policing you do, until you come to a society like the movie, what was the name, where the guy was not guilty but the computer predicted he would kill,, you won't stop all killings. ( There are still frozen legs o'lamb, y'know.)

So you should hide in a cave, or behind walls because someone shot someone a hundred, or a thousand miles away?

Well, maybe YOU should.

I think it's ridiculous that you should even bring up the emoticon in question.

Can you believe that at my tender age I've lived into a world of pussies?

Go figure,

Cheers,

George

[Hardcoreruss]

Jeezus, dougry,
Look into our history a little bit.

You are going by the sensalisation that the one of 500 news channels has made of the sniper case, and, by extensiopn, the new case that the police chief there was forced into admitting had similar modii operandi.

There have always been mass murders in the world, and not always in the US. And Jack the Ripper, in Britain, was not the beginning. Watch some of the history channel, or, better yet, read some of the history of the world.

I do not care how much policing you do, until you come to a society like the movie, what was the name, where the guy was not guilty but the computer predicted he would kill,, you won't stop all killings. ( There are still frozen legs o'lamb, y'know.)

So you should hide in a cave, or behind walls because someone shot someone a hundred, or a thousand miles away?

Well, maybe YOU should.

I think it's ridiculous that you should even bring up the emoticon in question.

Can you believe that at my tender age I've lived into a world of pussies?

Go figure,

Cheers,

George

Well said