What the hell? What makes you think his father and brothers are in the more violent subset of Americans? A violent individual is more likely to commit a violent act than non-violent relatives. The comparison only becomes valid when comparing all people, violent or not, to your relatives–then your relatives are more likely to commit violent acts towards you.
Most rational people are more afraid of violent individuals are more afraid of violent individuals than non-violent ones. If you aren’t, what’s wrong with you?
Honestly, I’m not convinced the current security policies aboard airplanes even do much to deter terrorism. I’ve heard it described as “security theatre” and I think that’s mostly correct.
Statistically speaking, the vast majority of murders are committed by a close family member. And men are statistically more likely to be murderers than women. So, statistically speaking, if you have any brothers or your father is still around, stay the fuck away from them, because out of all the people on the planet, they are far and away the most likely to take your ass out.
What the hell? What makes him think Muslims are in the more violent subset of people? A violent individual is more likely to commit a violent act than non-violent Muslims. The comparison only becomes valid when comparing all people, violent or not, to violent Muslims --then violent Muslims are more likely to commit violent acts towards him than all people.
Well what the hell makes him think that me and mine are in the more violent subset of Americans/American residents because of the religion we practice? Assumptions work both ways.
I’ve been trying to teach Attackdog the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold path, and I don’t really think he’s getting it. Although, to be fair, he’s cool with the lack of possessions and the begging. Y’know that Zen story where the leper’s thumb falls in the beggar’s bowl? He’d have no problem. I doubt he’d do as well with Islam though, especially the dietary restrictions, since he’ll fight like hell to eat a old piece of ham that he finds in the grass.
Anyway, we already have **Angua, **so assuming that she can sniff, we have our own Muslim sniffing werewolf!
Argent Towers was a guy who knew a lot about armor and art, and I thought he was a solid poster. He dropped off the boards after a [thread=552422]kerfluffle involving Hogg[/thread], a favourite book -or perhaps obsession - of his.
During the kerfluffle it became apparent that most people could not tell the difference between Argent Towers and Agent Foxtrot, so he changed his handle to Tours d’Argent, and soon stopped posting here. This would have been in February or March.
You started posting here soon afterwards, and, like AT, you seem to be a young guy, and a fairly prolific poster (although at 3602 since March, versus AT’s 11,000 since '05, prolific may not be a sufficient descriptor). I made the suggestion in [thread=566305] this thread[/thread], as a [post=12551905] a throwaway line[/post] when the damned book was mentioned. You’re not actually that much alike, but the stopped posting/started posting time was similar.
No offence was intended, it was meant as a jibe, but obviously you didn’t see it.
Wait, so was being compared to Towers supposed to be a compliment or an insult? If the latter, I’ll release the hounds! You saw what happened last time someone tried to pit me!
Actually, I liked the guy, so it would have been a compliment if anything, but in fact it was merely that the f-ing book was mentioned, and I had already noted in my mind that you had arrived just as AT had left. A complete decryption would be:
*Hogg. *
Where is Argent Towers to blah blah about Hogg? Argent Towers is gone.
No one will blah blah about *Hogg. *
Wait, isn’t there a new guy who showed up just when AT left?
Wouldn’t it be funny if he were really Argent Towers and he started talking about Hogg?
Hee Hee.
That is funny, I shall post it.
I mean this in the nicest way possible–you (and magellan01, in this thread already) are not NEARLY close to the heights of frothing insanity that Perciful and Valteron can hit.