My, you’re a real winner, aren’t you. Too bad he wasn’t a Black Jew, too, or you could have gotten off a real zinger about a *nigger kike *faggot. :rolleyes:
Fake Marine in full uniform at his High School reunion is found out by classmate & arrested With pic
If you can’t be bothered to read it, perhaps you shouldn’t be bothered to post in it.
This is just plain inappropriate. You’ve been here long enough to know that.
Dear Try2b Comprehensive:
You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.
Well played, DCMS, well played.
To be fair, most of the thread has been a weird pissing contest about legal credentials; I think the actual thread is, “In a country where people have free reign to say and wear pretty much anything they like, are there ambiguities regarding the wearing of uniforms?”
I believe that dressing like or impersonating to be a police officer or fireman should have an asterisk, similar to yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater, but what about impersonating someone of great achievement (via conversation, dress and blog) when one is just an anonymous shlub? This might have motivated an interesting discussion.
The current thread has degenerated into, “Does your opinion about what’s constitutional have any legal relevance?” That’s a much less interesting question.
That’s “free rein”.
But you are quite right about the degeneration of this thread. It is much less interesting. Except to the 2 or 3 of them.
I generally agree with your post (err, the part about “people wearing military uniform/decorations when they’re not supposed to is bad”), but you know, there are faggots in the military. Homosexuals, bisexuals, queer-o’s, rugmunchers, carpetchompers, scissor sisters, chest shavers, even assgoblins too. Several who are quite well decorated themselves.
Shhhh… it’s a secret.
Freebird!
Sorry I can’t slog through all this bullshit, but I’m not Try2B Pedantic :rolleyes:
Yes, I can see that my zeal to insult this guy has resulted in collateral insult. Sorry folks, I’ll try to keep that in check from now on. But let’s face it, when you’re dealing with the US military you can expect a little collateral damage. You’re lucky I didn’t invade Haiti or something. Not that that would be soldiers’ fault.
If I can be allowed to sharpen my comments just a little… I don’t really want to get into a discussion of sin per se, but this reminds me of the ‘is it a sin to be gay?’ thread in which the Greek word arsenokoitus is discussed.
You see, this is the word that appears translated in many Bibles as ‘homosexual’. However, some groups (ex. the Lutherans) have ‘realized’ (or maybe it is just their Greek Scholar Opinion, though these are hardly ever casual opinions) that the word does not in fact refer to homosexuals at all, and have accordingly changed their policies to the effect that gay men can now become Lutheran ministers (though chicks are apparently still barred).
I would submit that the actions of this douchebag are in fact one kind of thing the word arsenokoitus does in fact refer to (regardless of his orientation). It won’t translate very well, (and probably someone can correct my views on this), but it seems like a reference to a sort of Persian or Oriental frivolity in which life is lived as if some kind of parade or fashion show, all make-up and show and surface without any genuine meaning- in fact undermining other worthwhile meaning in the process. Let’s face it- medals like this are displayed on the most prominent part of the interior of the homes of many many widows all over this country. For the things to be turned into something meaner than the treats at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box is almost certainly going to make some of them cry. Do you really support making war widows cry? More?!? So people like this can have toys whose shine implies something deeper than glitter?
My speech may be out of line, but I’m not impersonating decorated military personnel, and I seriously doubt I made any war widows cry.
My problem is really one of Greek translation, sorry, it isn’t my field.
I have to say I didn’t anticipate this defense.
I thought you’d appreciate an example of seemingly pedantry that has a great deal of gravity.
Not sure what kind of apology this is supposed to be. Either you recognize that you used a disgusting slur, or you don’t. There is no “collateral insult.”
This whole digression is equally inexplicable. Also, I love how you’re now equating some-Greek-work-that-may-or-may-not-relate-to-homosexuality with guy-who-is-a-jackass. That’s **so **much better. You’re coming off like one of those people who uses “gay” as a synonym for “stupid” and justifies it by saying, “Well, I don’t mean gay-gay, obviously!” I’d give you $5 if you had the balls to go to a mostly Black neighborhood and try the same thing with “nigger.”
Your “faggot” comment was inappropriate, but I didn’t give a warning because you were making a (nasty) generalization about a group rather than any specific posters. But at this point you’re on the verge of dragging the thread off topic. Drop the whole thing.
Ok, I’ll drop it.
I’m not out to get gays though. I’m out to get evangelicals. From whom do you think I leaned such talk?
You still seem to be clutching your broad brush. You don’t have to be an evangelical to smack-talk gays.
I bet you wouldn’t really give him $5.
Me either. It was kind of like tracking down the “Wooo I am masturbating like a motherfuck!” guy and finding out it was Patrick Stewart after a peyote trip.
If he could provide evidence that he actually did it, I most certainly would.
What sort of evidence? Gunshot wounds? Bruises? Candid photographs?
I’d settle for cell phone video.
Or, if properly acted, an amusing pantomime.