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Gonna need proof of that there mister.

Also, following my own personal rules. I'm gonna overlook it if they apologized for it.

(I'm pulling that quote totally out of context btw).

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lol, sextuplet post! You shoudl get a prize

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/blog.php?b=438

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Sorry, but I couldn't skip over this utter nonsense. And banning Calahan, one of the most contributing members of what is left of this degenerating forum is promoting harmony in which way exactly?
From what I see all you've managed to do is piss off a lot of people. You'll doubtlessly piss off even more when Strider, Anette or whoever shows up here to "promote some more harmony" I recon.
And that "harmony" will result in more people getting banned (maybe myself, soy, admiral aorta...) and more people leaving the forum. :up::up::up:

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Ive been wondering where the reoccurring claim was coming from also...
Hmmmm..... I doubt very much that he has come into contact with Hadendoa natives
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadendoa
so Id suspect the more common source of Rudyard Kiplings poem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy-Wuzzy
which praised them for breaking the famed British bayonet square using nothing but spears.
Seems like a reasonable grognard reference to the conversation that was going on.

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I'm afraid I might get it :D.

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he referenced a poem by someone who was also racist! that makes it totally fine

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http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/146100.html
http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...=fuzzy%20wuzzy

But apprantly, fuzzy wuzzy is also part of the US defense language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanchester%27s_laws). So it is more unintended racism.

I'm going to allow it. If Krol promises to not use the term anymore.

Also, lets stop this line of reasoning. It isn't related to the banning of Calahan.

(And it all these conversations distract me from my blitz).

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So, what I want to know: was Valerius correct?

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Wir müssen die Juden ausrotten!

I guess referencing something like this is perfectly acceptable here than?
I don't see how your argument caries any weight.

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PC blunder vs genocidal hatred.

Mismatched characterizations just look ridiculous :/

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More tears to fuel the Ermor war machine.

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Ridiculous. I agree. Mismatched? Perhaps. But both are rules violations from what I see.

Rules are rules.

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Rules are not rules!

No wait, you are right. Damn you're good ^^

ok, sry I'm just being silly now. I'll stop posting

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Racism is racism. The minor PC blunders do add up. Esp if the person in question just ignores the offence.

Edit:

But really:
NOT THE ISSUE HERE.

If you want to make something out of this, post it in the general shrapnel forum. This isn't related to dom3 or dom3 community.

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how many minor PC blunders add up to genocidal hatred? >>

edit: sry cant help myself

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Tangent time! :-)

In my case, it is the neighbor's dogs. I kinda like the dogs, but am not interested in doing the jail time associated with geeking the neighbor. It sure is a puzzler. I suppose I could cr*p on the neighbor's lawn one night, but that requires a lot of effort and also the risk of frost bite to exposed posterior bits. :confused:

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Buy fake poop and rub some mud onto it. Should get the idea across without risking your posterior region.

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A little bit "noble savage" style condescension, but certainly not malicious or overtly detestable.

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What's there to add up exactly? I don't see your point.
What he said is in violation with their own moral conduct rules.
Clearly there are people who consider that post offensive, condescending, racist or whatever.

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Sure, lets summarise all the opinions:
- gandalf calls it "a poem by rudyard kipling"
- soy calls it "US defense language"
- Executor compares it to nazi propoganda
- I call it "a minor PC blunder"
- brxbrx calls it '"noble savage" style condescension'
- half of us consider it racism
See what you did there? You left the realm of serious discussion.


Ok, so Calahan put a link to a porn site in his sig.

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I'm not comparing it to anything.
If such statements, which like I said people clearly mark racist or whatever, are okay solely by being based on references (Gandalfs comment) than any other reference that is as well in conflict with said moral conducts should in fact be considered okay. Otherwise I call double standards on Shrapnel.
Nazies are just an absurd example.

EDIT; Not that that particular comment has anything to do with Kipling.

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I have.

So you say...

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what does this say about the other half, i wonder

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Most likely that they are unaware of the ramifications of certain words and the impact of their use. It could also mean that they are in fact racist, but it's better to assume the first

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lol nope, nice try

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You don't have a sense of humor lying around somewhere? I consider ALL censorship hypocrisy, especially automated censorship. That's my opinion, so it cannot be factually wrong. I could explain why I hold this position but why bother, it's boring to explain the obvious and everyone smart enough can figure it out by themselves. And I'm not a guy, it's getting tired of the default masculinum that makes me use a picture of myself as avatar, but I guess that's not obvious enough.

I assume whatever other post you're referring to being a similar case.

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I apologise. 1 out of 3 for correctness and 3 out of 3 for rudeness. I don't see your avatar.. maybe I turned them off or smthing.

yah, nice troll. Well he has posted a rough facsimile now so at least my idle curiosity is sated ^^

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your name is fantoMEN. i think that is why people incorrectly think you might be a guy.

i am totally with you on cencorship(except swear words in elementary schools-im pro censorship there)

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Fan-to-men, that breakdown should statistically make me a woman 9 times of 10 and gay male 1 out of 10, the slightly ironic truth is that I'm a lesbian.

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Seriously dude?:)
How did you not see that? You break the last word out but don't stop to wonder what the heck it all means.

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Did you know, the ****ake mushroom also has medical properties.

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I've gotten in the habit of assuming that everyone on the internet is a male until shown to be otherwise. It's probably a bad habit.

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anyone think I'm a mom? I'm not. mom is an acronym (nick is >10 yrs old).

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I actually assumed you where.

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Sigh, why girls always turn lesbian after they communicate with me? :eek:

Anyways, Fantomen is Swedish for the phantom with cap P, and being a viking she knows it.

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How many of you checked Fantomens profile just now?

Back on important matters now, Shrapnel be hypocrites.

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If your nickname refers to your private parts, that could be why.

Fantomen, the phantom, is a classic Swedish comic book hero. Fantomen, the man who cannot die. (which is the real correlation, the presupposition of everyone being men by default never seems to die)

Back on topic, ****nel shape up and make up!

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let's ask this question-since the prevailing opinion is obviously that a mistake seems to have been made here, is there any chance he will be reinstated? or failing that, that an explanation might be given...

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That isn't a Swedish comic book hero at all!

Are you going to tell me Prince Valiant is European next?

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Oh, right. It's not swedish. I just always read it in swedish as a child and relates it to sweden a lot.

Of course prince valiant is european! Where else was there a middle age like that?

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And Lee Falk, the guy who created Fantomen, has a quite swedish sounding surname. Falk = Falcon in swedish.

I remember being kind of surprised when I found out it wasn't swedish too. I mean, we even had Fantomen soda pops here for a while.

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Actually I've always read your name as a man who has a mom fetish.

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That makes two of us, rdonj. Ahem.

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Im old, and many conversations here. For some reason I read it as MoMfreeek (Masters of Magic)

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You have a mom fetish too? :confused:

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yeah, gandalf knows. I loved that game

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The price of it makes Dominions 3 look cheap.
http://astore.amazon.com/dom3-20/detail/B00079V5WQ
and check out some of the other old favorites in the "lives forever" link on the side

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It's also released as a free download: http://www.bestoldgames.net/eng/old-...r-of-magic.php

It's legal in case you're wondering, they let it go some years back.

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Wait, so Fantomen is named after the Phantom comic? That is very cool :-)