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Cannon Fodder

Unread postby dukey » Mon 30 Oct 2006, 14:21:26

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Re: Cannon Fodder

Unread postby artiko » Mon 30 Oct 2006, 14:47:14

Very good... :)
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Re: Cannon Fodder

Unread postby Schneider » Tue 31 Oct 2006, 20:40:37

eh..

Gotta to get platoon or apocalypse now on DVD..might be usefull is one day i have a kid wanting to go to war :x !

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Re: Cannon Fodder

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 31 Oct 2006, 22:10:11

it isn't news that the Pentagon would cooperate with films that glorify the US Military. Personally, I don't watch Vampire movies or War movies anymore because I've seen enough of both of them. As for the US and it's war making past, present, and future, as AgentR has said, "Gentlemen, we have Resource Wars to fight". Tongue in cheek or not, that's the facts. As for what I think should happen, what difference does it make? I'm a mere inconsequential leaf, a feather blowing in the wind like the in the movie Forrest Gump. Maybe tomorrow, maybe ten years from now, who knows, I'll be dead and off to eternity. Say bye bye, humanity. Ye never knew me, or anyone else for that matter. All individuals are ciphers. BTW, I had a very interesting dream last night. I dreamed that the number "zero" came about as an extension of counting with fingers. That ten fingers became two cupped hands, to receive water, and the outline was a zero: i.e. a holding place.
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Re: Cannon Fodder

Unread postby NEOPO » Tue 31 Oct 2006, 22:33:34

I am sorry but you have many more lives to live and many more lessons to learn.
Your beliefs matter not to the master of time.

edit - Great video BTW - gonna bookmark and then revisit the entire series.

100 greatest war movies

I say #1 and #5 were anti war movies.
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Re: Cannon Fodder

Unread postby Daculling » Tue 31 Oct 2006, 22:38:07

I had a dream last night that I was on an elevator that was moving too fast and I would bump my head or land on my ass when it stopped. Then I got off and I spilled my coffee on a female navel officer who told me to "take a close look at myself and clean up." Then I wandered into a garden and had sex with an attractive Indian woman.

Then I woke up and it sucked.
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Re: Cannon Fodder

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 31 Oct 2006, 22:50:25

sex dreams, yeah, we all have them. puppets dancing on DNA strings.
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Re: Cannon Fodder

Unread postby NEOPO » Tue 31 Oct 2006, 22:53:39

Where does the falling dream fit in here?
are we really somewhere falling and only able to sense it occassionally in dreams?
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! ;-)
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Re: Cannon Fodder

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Tue 31 Oct 2006, 22:59:16

One time I dreamed that The Alien monster was chasing me, I ran into a back yard with a swimming pool and ran around it to escape but it was gaining ground so I jumped into the pool. In my sleep I jumped out of my bed and landed on the floor, woke up, and started laughing.
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Re: Cannon Fodder

Unread postby NEOPO » Wed 01 Nov 2006, 01:21:37

my sources tell me that the next time this occurs that you wont wake up and you wont be laughing ;-)
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Re: Cannon Fodder

Unread postby gampy » Wed 01 Nov 2006, 02:40:19

Hollywood is not the only tool available to military recruiters.

http://www.americasarmy.com/

Some of you may have played the free game developed by the Army. I have...actually pretty cool, and fun. Although it's recruitment power is debated, I am sure it's useful as a "closer". Getting the kids who are borderline, to call that recruitment office.

It's ability to create a sense of excitement about being a soldier is really quite scary. I am a Canadian citizen, and even I was having thoughts of signing up.

From the website:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he game has exceeded all expectations in placing Soldiering front and center within popular culture and showcasing the roles training, teamwork and technology play in the Army.


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')merica's Army is one of the five most popular PC action games played online. It provides players with the most authentic military experience available, from exploring the development of Soldiers in individual and collective training to their deployment in simulated missions in the War on Terror.
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Re: Cannon Fodder

Unread postby seldom_seen » Wed 01 Nov 2006, 02:53:40

I had a dream the other night where I was in the woods trying to get back to my camp, but between me and my camp was a big grizzly bear. I was watching the bear and trying to move in the opposite direction to avoid a confrontation. I was completely focused in on the bear when I was suddenly attacked by a cougar. hah. Then I woke up.
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Re: Cannon Fodder

Unread postby rogerhb » Wed 01 Nov 2006, 03:51:38

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NEOPO', 'I') say #1 and #5 were anti war movies.


So was #9. Alas it ended up pro-war due to the insane way the breakout from Omaha was depicted.
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