Pirate surrender to France... Wait what?!
"The ghost of Belle Starr she hands down her wits
To Jezebel the nun she violently knits
A bald wig for Jack the Ripper who sits
At the head of the chamber of commerce"
~Bob Dylan
Rocket Launchers?
Holy. Shit.
This quote made me click the linkOriginally Posted by llFidoll
this is not wtf-worthy
PANDAS
If you don't like them, then get the fuck out.
This is the last line in the article, and it is more WTF worthy than everything before it.
I thought dynamite fishing was pretty well known.
me too, as well as the fact that it is by and large illegal.
PANDAS
If you don't like them, then get the fuck out.
France wins the day?
wtf?
Somalian pirates, we...
The French not running away is pretty "wtf".
RPGs? In a lawless, war-torn African shithole? Goodness gracious, I was just surprised so badly that my monocle fell right out and landed in my teacup!
The French military is actually pretty hardass, is more active around the world than most other countries', and usually gets the job done.
Hey you cut your intellectual garbage this here is stereotype country.
Also, the French have a crap military, don't even pretend that they're any better than crap.
Nope, sorry, they are better than crap. Only the US and China have larger defense budgets.
Defense budget =/= military strength. Granted they're probably in the top ten but after the top five the dropoff is so huge that everything under that is irrelevant.
The only people that matter from a military standpoint are Russia, China, U.S.(#1 bitches) and Israel. Special mentions go out to Iran and Germany. France and England rank about equal imo. Equally unimportant that is. Hahahahahaha look I made a joke.
Guh, you don't know what you're talking about. Sorry.
EDIT: Israel? Really? Capability and experience =/= importance.
Also Iran does not deserve the high ranking you give it.
Last edited by Syme; 05-05-2009 at 12:42 AM.
Finally, the french can intimidate someone!
can someone finally tell me how "seychelles" is pronounced?
is it just "say-shells"??
Yep.
god damn! i always over complicate things
How could you not know that? Did you get dropped on your head as a child, or was your jew hat too tight for you? It isn't a complicated issue and it forces me to blow this up and be critical of you for making it complicated. Asking this on an internet forum is serious business. I don't care how stuff is pronounced, certainly not enough to ask in an internet forum, which is the most profound act of caring there is. There are other souces of information which would have answered this frankly emotionally unstable and suspiciously girly question, but no, you need to post it here. Were you raped as a child? I mean wtf? How dare you, who the fuck do you think you are to come on here and start asking stuff like that? Knowing how some place that you will never visit is pronounced isn't something worthy of care. There is only one response to the pronounciation of places with dark people live, and that is not caring, anything else is a serious character flaw and indicates a whole manner of serious issues. I shall list them and give some commentary on these, since you are too big a moron to figure them out.
1 - You got fucked in the ass by your daddy as a boy. However, you aren't a victim of paedophillia, as they do not care about this stuff, only those who wanted to get violently bummed across the bedroom care about stuff like this.
2 - You therefore are a sexual deviant. And probable danger to young children. You see them and think "oh my lawd" and your 2 inch penis transforms into a 3 inch pussy botherer.
3 - You cross dress. Because only homo's care about stuff so trivial and gay like this.
4 - You go mad for glory holes. All the sweaty, shit ridden action of tiolet sex, without the embarassment of them having to see your deformed face. It is win win, with an added dash of super win.
5 - You look like the elephant man. To care about this stuff, you must be detatched from reality and the only way that can happen is if you have massive growth's forming on your face and people find you repulsive to look at.
6 - You are emotionally unstable. The issue you care for is a trivial one, yet you obsess over it. You cannot get it out of your mind, you write on the walls of your dormitory crap like "say shells, "say chel-es" and lots of "??????????", you can't shit properly because it makes you so tense and your cat hates you for it.
7 - You probably have had sex with your mother. There isn't anything in your post to indicate that this is true, but I suspect it probably is. Indeed there is nothing in your post to indicate any of what I just said, but stuff like that doesn't matter as I like to blow things out of proportion in order to criticise people, so that I can feel a bit better.
8 - You have AIDS. The place you long for is infested with dark people. And they are the carriers of AIDS, due to centuries of monkey sex.
It is just a place, stop caring. Come on man, go out, make friends, get a job or something, you cannot live like this. Jesus.
Haha, really? Israel's military isn't important? I'll give you Iran because that was just an honorable mention in my list, but if you don't believe that Israel has a powerful, well trained and significant military that puts them at least in the top five I can't have a serious discussion with you on the topic. Not to mention the fact that their position is bolstered by having two of the most powerful countries on the planet(U.S. and India) backing them up and letting them do whatever the feck they want.
What I'm getting at is that yes, capability and experience=importance.
I guess we should probably clarify what we mean by "importance", then. I wouldn't consider Israel's military to be particularly "important" because it's not particularly large, it lacks serious force projection capability, and is basically limited to localized operations. Yeah, it's "important" in the context of Near Eastern affairs; you will definitely view the IDF as a major consideration if you happen to be Lebanese, Syrian, or Palestinian (or, to a lesser degree, if you're a potentially hostile country operating a weapons-oriented nuclear program within a fighter-bomber's striking range of Israel). Outside of that, no. They get a lot of media attention and are well-known due to the fact that the whole Middle East situation is contentious and heavily covered in the news, and they have a well-deserved reputation for competence... but on a global level they are just another small country whose military is only involved in the local low-intensity squabbles and isn't seriously capable of much more than that, no matter how badass they may be within that context. What possible definition of "importance" could you have that puts the IDF "at least in the top five"?
The militaries of France and the UK, on the other hand, have global power projection capabilities. They have serious navies with carriers, nuclear subs, sizable surface combatants, and substantial amphibious capability. They can carry out operations basically anywhere in the world. Perhaps not as readily as the US, but they're still capable of it. In terms of manpower they are also significantly larger than the Israeli military and their ground forces are just as well-equipped. And both the French and British defense budgets are about five times larger than the Israeli budget; and yes, that DOES reflect capability to a large degree. I agree that the correspondence is far from precise, but it is significant. France and the UK also have significantly more powerful armed forces than Germany, so I don't know why you gave Germany high ranking either. The German Navy is small and lightly equipped (a handful of frigates and non-nuclear submarines, nothing more) and they have no nuclear arsenal, for one thing. Their air force is significantly smaller in terms of combat aircraft as well, especially compared to the British, and a lot of those combat aircraft are still F-4 Phantoms.
And no, there is no huge dropoff after the "top five" that makes everything else irrelevant. The only huge dropoff is probably the one after the US, with every other country in the world on the other side of that dropoff.
Last edited by Syme; 05-06-2009 at 07:44 PM.
Dynamite fishing yes, but Rocket Launcher fishing?
France has a really bad stigma about them that people who know nothing of the military will arrogantly make untrue statements.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein
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