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19-09-2009, 00:43 #1Senior Member
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Strange, strange Septics!
This has got to be the strangest thing septic SF have ever done!
http://books.google.com/books?id=2ht...age&q=&f=falseTURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity
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19-09-2009, 10:33 #2Senior Member
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ISTR that one of the more deranged ideas was that US troops should approach the enemy whilst carrying lambs, and with 'sparkly eyes', set the lambs down in front of the enemy, who would then cave in en masse in the face of such rampant cuteness.
No mention of how to accomplish this in a hail of enemy mortar and MG fire.
Quite, quite mad.
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19-09-2009, 10:51 #3Senior Member
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Re: Strange, strange Septics!
The Welsh have been doing it for years
Originally Posted by kabulronin
And to think, I had no Idea I could bring so much fun and frivolity to others
There are two types of people that dislike me,
the envious and the stupid
HAPPY NOW
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19-09-2009, 10:53 #4Senior Member
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Re: Strange, strange Septics!
AND the staring. Originally Posted by tropper66
The Welsh have been doing it for years Originally Posted by kabulronin
I bought a military watch. It didn't tell me the time, it told me to get my hair cut.
Scribbler of long and boring stories since 2006 with most of them chucked in HERE.
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19-09-2009, 11:11 #5Senior Member
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Re: Strange, strange Septics!
Now there's some useful research. I've had a cabby at the "passing through walls" caper, and I came out the other side dusty as fuck. So if they can find a way to do it cleanly ........ they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them.
Killing goats by staring at them has already prevented a disaster, for the goats heard about it and postponed their invasion indefinitely.
On the other hand, this has got to be a piss-take.
MsG
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19-09-2009, 11:18 #6Senior Member
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Re: Strange, strange Septics!
Thought I'd seen that title on Arrse before.
Recent "The Men Who Stare at Goats" thread.
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19-09-2009, 13:00 #7Senior Member
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Re: Strange, strange Septics!
"Staring", or actually "stay-eh-ring" is actually Old Norse* for "bumming". So the whole thing was a complete misunderstanding. What the bloke meant was that you could kill a goat by bumming it.
*This is a lie, I’m afraid.
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19-09-2009, 19:45 #8Senior Member
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We knew that.
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Re: Strange, strange Septics!
But somehow it deserves to be true.
We need people who look to the stars, holding the nation and the world in their hearts but at the same time we need down-to-earth people who can do serious and trying work.
In a definite sense, a country's power and prestige isn't only a reflection of its economic power but also a reflection of its people's quality and morality. Moreover, I think the latter is actually more important in the long-term.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/multi...na_has_changed
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