# Another Dead Pakistani - Would this one finally be too many? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 18, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-dead-pakistani-would-this-one-finally-be-too-many/635101 "2012-09-18T19:53:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-dead-pakistani-would-this-one-finally-be-too-many/635101/41 "2012-09-19T14:07:32Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Clearly, this Pakistani protestor had a Chinese-made American flag, which is why it was poisonous. A-HA! ReVENGE! Wow, so now poor Gandhi is linked with every brown person protest ever. I’m not sure whether to laugh or :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-dead-pakistani-would-this-one-finally-be-too-many/635101/42 "2012-09-19T14:12:19Z")
FFS. Gandhi just happened to be a brown dude. My point was he was a peace-lovin guy who didn’t die right, unlike the OP dude. Suppose I could have used John Lennon as an example but I’m sure that would have been wrong too. > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > He’s also kind of a terrible counter-example because he was shot for (purportedly) selling out India… to Pakistan. Simple Republican propaganda. Welcome to Inigo-land. Pull up a hamster, and have some freshly baked mercury dots. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-dead-pakistani-would-this-one-finally-be-too-many/635101/43 "2012-09-19T14:13:31Z")
… well, alright then. But just one. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-dead-pakistani-would-this-one-finally-be-too-many/635101/44 "2012-09-19T14:15:51Z")
That’s all it takes… ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-dead-pakistani-would-this-one-finally-be-too-many/635101/45 "2012-09-19T14:31:42Z")
What’s a mercury dot? I’d say I’d have one but apparently I wasn’t invited… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-dead-pakistani-would-this-one-finally-be-too-many/635101/46 "2012-09-19T14:49:31Z")
All are invited to share in my mercury dots–I’d openly invite the SDMB to share in MPSIMS but the Twickster would lock the thread down. I think she secretly covets them. So dig in, just hang onto yourself, they’ve got a bit of a kick to them. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-dead-pakistani-would-this-one-finally-be-too-many/635101/47 "2012-09-19T14:54:08Z")
I want the last minute of my life back. ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-dead-pakistani-would-this-one-finally-be-too-many/635101/48 "2012-09-19T20:39:32Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > I want the last minute of my life back. Well, ok, but you’re not going to like it! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-dead-pakistani-would-this-one-finally-be-too-many/635101/49 "2012-09-19T21:18:22Z")
_Groundhog Minute_ Starring **Smeghead** “Please kill me, I beg you.” ---
**Author:** ![Michael63129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@Michael63129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael63129)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-dead-pakistani-would-this-one-finally-be-too-many/635101/50 "2012-09-19T22:18:55Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > I doubt it: breathing the smoke and fumes from pretty much **any** substance is not at all good for you. > > Moreover, AFAICT from the photo in your link, the protesters weren’t burning just one American flag, but had a fairly big pile of rubbish and flammable chemical substances blazing there. There were probably enough nasty toxins in that mix to poison people who breathed the fumes even if no American flag had got within a mile of the conflagration. After reading the [thread and linked story in MPSIMS on the same subject](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=665994), I was wondering how they died from smoke inhalation from a flag, unless the flag was made of Teflon or PVC, since one flag isn’t going to be able to produce deadly amounts of smoke (unless it is confined; how many people die from their barbecues, assuming they aren’t doing it inside). Evidently though, the picture shown in the aforementioned link (a guy waving a burning “American” flag around) isn’t of the actual flag. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-dead-pakistani-would-this-one-finally-be-too-many/635101/51 "2012-09-19T22:29:44Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > _Groundhog Minute_ > Starring **Smeghead** > > “Please kill me, I beg you.” On the plus side, I play a killer piano now. ---
**Author:** ![scratch\_llll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@scratch\_llll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch_llll)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-dead-pakistani-would-this-one-finally-be-too-many/635101/52 "2012-09-20T01:24:10Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > So you think their ‘hatred’ is all about holy book burnings? Couldn’t possibly have anything to do with this, could it? > > [**Obama’s 262 Drone Strikes in Pakistan**](http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_week/2012/06/obama_drone_strikes_the_president_ordered_more_than_george_w_bush.html) > > Simplistic douchebag. Yeah. That’s the problem with killing the people shooting at you. You have to go where they are. The eye in the sky can follow them from where they ambush patrols and scatter back across the boarder where the troops cannot follow lest they create another incident but it can’t seperate the shooters from whoever else is in the house they enter. The main reason Pakistanis are angry at drone strikes is for the same reason they are angry Osama was killed. It’s not because it is done in thier counry, afterall that is where the majority of Taliban are, and not even because of collateral damage, but because they are successful. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-dead-pakistani-would-this-one-finally-be-too-many/635101/53 "2012-09-20T01:44:06Z")
> [@scratch\_llll](#): > > The main reason Pakistanis are angry at drone strikes is for the same reason they are angry Osama was killed. It’s not because it is done in thier counry, afterall that is where the majority of Taliban are, and not even because of collateral damage, but because they are successful. Yeah, right. They aren’t like _real_ humans who get angry when you kill their friends and relatives; they are soulless killing machines who only care about their ceaseless, monomaniacal efforts to destroy America. ---
**Author:** ![scratch\_llll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@scratch\_llll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch_llll)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-dead-pakistani-would-this-one-finally-be-too-many/635101/54 "2012-09-20T02:30:08Z")
On an individual level you are correct of course. And too my reply doesn’t apply to those of south Pakistan who aren’t particularly fond of Taliban either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-dead-pakistani-would-this-one-finally-be-too-many/635101.md?page=2)