# Dear God(Allah, Budha, Pan, Gaiea, insert your god here) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 20, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716 "2003-03-20T03:51:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/61 "2003-03-20T05:48:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MachineHead \* > \*\*You just love seeing your post count go up, don’t cha Q.E.D. ? \*\* Percentagewise, yours has gone up far more than mine. And to actually answer you question, no. I couldn’t care less about post counts. Besides, I thought you weren’t going to respond to this thread anymore: > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by MachineHead_ > **…I will no longer read anymore of this thread, because it has been evidenced to me I cannot get a real debate.** ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/62 "2003-03-20T05:52:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MachineHead \* > \*\*Since I cannot get any real arguement, I will request that this thread be shut down. > I will no longer read anymore of this thread, because it has been evidenced to me I cannot get a real debate. > Sincerly, > MachineHead. \*\* Pinhead, I speak a little moron, since I have worked with them I have picked some of it up but I am not fluent in it . So I’ll put it in moron for ya emkay? If U start a thread sounding and acting like an idiot U will be treated like one, emkay? If U want to debate your point go _any_ one of the threads on this topic… ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/63 "2003-03-20T06:03:45Z")
d00d, u 0wnxxxd uzs! URA db8ng g@wD! Okay, that was just embarassing, would someone who can do this properly please give this thread the sendoff it deserves? ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/64 "2003-03-20T06:52:37Z")
> [@](#): > > would someone who can do this properly please give this thread the sendoff it deserves? Translated [here…](http://www.angstmonster.org/1337.html) “dud JOO Pwnd u5 j00 4r3 4 d3b47ing g0d” ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/65 "2003-03-20T07:13:56Z")
Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/66 "2003-03-20T07:46:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MachineHead \* > \*\*Use the so called ‘smart bombs’ to disable their weapons. > Or, use EMP based weapons. Less causalities. \*\* Are you aware that the only way we know to generate an EMP is to **detonate a nuclear weapon???!** If you’re proposing we nuke Iraq, you’re more aggressive than any of the hawks in the US government. ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/67 "2003-03-20T07:51:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Smeghead \* > Are you aware that the only way we know to generate an EMP is to **detonate a nuclear weapon???!** Nah, that’s not true anymore. This article is a few years old, but should give you the basics: [The Electromagnetic Bomb - a Weapon of Electrical Mass Destruction](http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/kopp/apjemp.html) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/68 "2003-03-20T09:08:53Z")
Quiet - you’re ruining my point… ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/69 "2003-03-20T09:20:18Z")
So, Machinehead, if you were walking down the street and saw a thug beating up an old man, you wouldn’t stop to help? ---
**Author:** ![MachineHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@MachineHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MachineHead)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/70 "2003-03-20T11:21:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > \*\*So, Machinehead, if you were walking down the street and saw a thug beating up an old man, you wouldn’t stop to help? \*\* Spoofe spoffity the spoff spoofiest guy I know, WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE WAR OR MY POSITION ON IT, YOU SHEEP FELCHING SHIT FILLED SACK OF DONKEY SPERM!!! ps. I saw your name on the last reply list, so I knew it was either going to be some dumbass flippant reply that has nothing to do with the actual thread, or it was going to be something even stupider. Thanks for proving my belief. Jackass. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/71 "2003-03-20T11:32:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MachineHead \* > \*\*Why are the americans such idiots? > I mean, do they really believe bombing Iraq with almost no provokation, and no real threat posed against them, will cast them in a favourable light? > Also, why do they think calling French toast and french coffee, etc., is going to improve the situation with them at all? > All the best, > Billy, age 6. \*\* Why are _Canadians_ such idiots? I mean, do they really believe that posting stupid stuff on a message board will cast them in a favourable light? Also, why do they think calling French toast and french coffee, etc., is going to improve the situation with them at all? All the best, Karen, age 6. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/72 "2003-03-20T12:14:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Desmostylus \* > Nah, that’s not true anymore. This article is a few years old, but should give you the basics: > > [The Electromagnetic Bomb - a Weapon of Electrical Mass Destruction](http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/kopp/apjemp.html) Well true, but those weapons don’t actually exist yet. 🙂 This moron is whining that the Americans (because of course, no other countries _cough_ are supplying any troops, right? :dubious: ) should be using smart bombs to destroy weapons and such targets when that’s what **is** being done, and using EMP weapons when none other than nukes currently exist. Dang, with that level of understanding about what’s going on right now, I guess I should just bow to his superior wisdom. (Caveat: I don’t like this war much, myself. I **really** don’t like ignorant fucktards who try to portray all Americans as gleeful warmongers.) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/73 "2003-03-20T12:21:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MachineHead \* > \*\*I will no longer read anymore of this thread, because it has been evidenced to me I cannot get a real debate. > \*\* How many lies can we count in this sentence? You keep reading, and responding. You have not yet presentented an argument, just a idiot opinion. Which is OK, that’s allowed here. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/74 "2003-03-20T12:55:16Z")
As someone against this war, I’d like to politely ask **MachineHead** to get off my side. Laaa-laaaa-laaa-laaalaaa, I’m not listening to you, laaaa-laaaaa-laaala-laaaaa" Is not exactly refined debating technique. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/75 "2003-03-20T13:26:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MachineHead \* > \*\*Since I cannot get any real arguement, I will request that this thread be shut down. > I will no longer read anymore of this thread, because it has been evidenced to me I cannot get a real debate. > Sincerly, > MachineHead. \*\* You don’t _deserve_ a real debate. You’re not smart enough to engage in a real debate. I hope a mod honors your request to close this thread quickly, because you’re wasting everyone’s time. ---
**Author:** ![carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrot)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/76 "2003-03-20T13:48:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally vomited out by MachineHead \* > **WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE WAR OR MY POSITION ON IT, YOU SHEEP FELCHING SHIT FILLED SACK OF DONKEY SPERM!!!** Actually, I believe he was using something we adults like to call “Argument by Analogy”. Go look it up. I’ll wait. Oh, fine. You seem to be too stupid to do much else, so why start with research? [Here you go.](http://www.philosophypages.com/lg/e13.htm) Now, **SPOOFE** has made his point using this method, and what _you_ must do is show that the analogy is faulty. Now, please go away and don’t come back until you learn what the word “debate” actually means. [sub]What exactly is a shit-filled sack of donkey sperm? You’d think that the sack would have to hold just one or the other. Is the sack made of donkey sperm?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![MachineHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@MachineHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MachineHead)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/77 "2003-03-20T13:51:11Z")
Carrots are my favuorite food. I am torn between reading his/her’s posts or eating some. What should I do? ---
**Author:** ![carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrot)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/78 "2003-03-20T13:58:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MachineHead \* > \*\*Carrots are my favuorite food. > I am torn between reading his/her’s posts or eating some. > What should I do? \*\* Wow. You really showed me. Guess I’ll crawl on back to the garden. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/79 "2003-03-20T16:59:24Z")
A friend forwarded me this [link](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=535&ncid=535&e=6&u=/ap/20030319/ap_on_re_mi_ea/e_bomb_2) on a rumored EMP weapon. Reading it over, it’s apparently rumored that we have a few poorly-tested expensive pieces of hardware that might not work that well or have anything resembling a decent range. And I’m sure they’re not cheap. If that article is anything close to what the reality is, I hope they actually work somewhat, rather than risking the lives of servicemen while they deploy highly classified and extremely expensive useless containers of metal and electronics to get smashed into bits. That being said, smart bombs are being used by the US and the coalition, and EMPs without a nuclear blast aren’t exactly common. ---
**Author:** ![lorinada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5e925/32.png) [@lorinada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorinada)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716/80 "2003-03-20T21:12:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MachineHead \* > \*\* > Also, why do they think calling French toast and french coffee, etc., is going to improve the situation with them at all? > \*\* Here, French toast! Here, French coffee! C’mon, boys! _whistle whistle_ Come here boys, we’ve got to go improve the situation with them all! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-god-allah-budha-pan-gaiea-insert-your-god-here/162716.md?page=5)