I'm hoping to. I get a couple weeks vacation this winter. Somalia, Ireland and Cuba are all on the short list.
Somali piracy
#17
Posted 10 July 2009 - 01:29 AM
So you'll become a fully certified protestant bashing, cigar smuggling communist pirate?
Edit: Forgot that rock throwing license you obtained in Gaza.
Edit: Forgot that rock throwing license you obtained in Gaza.
This post has been edited by Gobbler: 10 July 2009 - 01:30 AM
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Pop quiz, hotshot. Garry Kasparov is coming to kill you, and the only way to change his mind is for you to beat him at chess. What do you do, what do you do?
#19
Posted 25 July 2009 - 10:42 AM
The question isn't what excuses these pirates use to justify kidnapping innocent bystanders and ransoming them for hundreds of thousands of dollars a piece but what they'd do if Somalia was landlocked. Would they have bought speedboats? Would they get jobs? Would they become land pirates? Someone, hurry up and make a sitcom out of this notion so we can do some in depth research.
Also, this.
Also, this.
"I felt insulted until I realized that the people trying to mock me were the same intellectual titans who claimed that people would be thrown out of skyscrapers and feudalism would be re-institutionalized if service cartels don't keep getting political favors and regulations are cut down to only a few thousand pages worth, that being able to take a walk in the park is worth driving your nation's economy into the ground, that sexual orientation is a choice that can be changed at a whim, that problems caused by having institutions can be solved by introducing more institutions or strengthening the existing ones that are causing the problems, and many more profound pearls of wisdom. I no longer feel insulted because I now feel grateful for being alive and witnessing such deep conclusions from my fellows."
-Jimmy McTavern, 1938.
-Jimmy McTavern, 1938.