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RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Nuclearcow — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:10:08 GMT

He just wants to talk tough and get cool-points in his region and more so from his own country. I think maybe Ahmadinejad falls into that same category.

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

frogmanFW — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:16:41 GMT

Venezuela is a joke. Chavez wishes he could stand up to the US and our central/south american allies but he's quite kidding himself if he seriously thinks he can.

Besides, with Colombia to the west and Brazil to the southeast, he's surrounded by cocaine and boobs so he can't possibly get his people to concentrate on destroying America for any length of time.

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Scipio Africanus — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:50:16 GMT

Ha! Let them try!!

Not on Uncle Sam's Watch!

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Locus Coeruleus — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:06:18 GMT

I meant to reply to this a while back but forgot.

Hey doc, you think maybe Venezuela might be more interested, right now, in dominating and extending their sphere of influence over, say smaller, poorer countries in South and Central America, than trying to pull a funny one on the US of A with those outdated Russian fighter planes?

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Scipio Africanus — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:33:28 GMT

[quote][b]Locus Coeruleus (9/10/2008)[/b][hr]I knew we had a Cold War thread!!!!

Cold War heatin' up! !!!!

[url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/10/russia.venezuela/index.html]Russian Bombers Land in Venezuela[/url]
[/quote]

Heh. What an utterly moronic, and inconsequential effort by the Axis of Evil to generate a public relations, and agitational propaganda opportunity.

Such bombers would have virtually zero utility against the U.S. With our myriad of high-tech intelligence and F-22 Raptors on the job, those two measly Tupolevs would be 'shot down' in flames before their pilots even got word to leave the ready room :P

If this is the tone of the "New Cold War Song" I say let the band play on!

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Locus Coeruleus — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:22:13 GMT

I knew we had a Cold War thread!!!!

Cold War heatin' up! !!!!

[url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/10/russia.venezuela/index.html]Russian Bombers Land in Venezuela[/url]

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Nuclearcow — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:32:20 GMT

Wait... theirs fly?! :blink:

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Scipio Africanus — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:15:23 GMT

The really do have a penile complex over there don't they?

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Konrad von Richtmark — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:47:30 GMT

*Reads the invocation of thread necromancy*

Sorry, couldn't resist, just laughed my socks off and had to "contribute" to this thread. It appears like the Putin gang is taking [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H02h0nGBryU&eurl=http://perezhilton.com/page/2/]showing off who has the biggest dick from the figurative to the literal[/url], disrupting a speecy by oppositionist Kasparov.

Paramilitary stormtroopers are passé! Welcome to next-generation disruption of the democratic process!

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Konrad von Richtmark — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:32:57 GMT

NEWS FLASH:

Iran today joined the nuclear (aka international dick measurement) club by announcing its possession of intercontinental ballistic missiles equipped with nuclear warheads. President Ahmadinejad just broke the news to an interested crowd:
[img]http://www.1bcciv.com/Attachment926.aspx[/img]

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Black Owl — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:01:01 GMT

ROFL----Toys, just toys Omegan SCUM!!!!:w00t::hehe::D (oops! wrong thread!)
(See attatched file. WHY WON"T THIS LOAD DIRECTLY????!!!!):pinch:

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Konrad von Richtmark — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:01:25 GMT

[quote][b]Black Owl (2/13/2008)[/b][hr]Alphan scientists have determined it to be an Alphan genetic trait!:w00t:[/quote]

Which is why we Omegans overcompensate by having the biggest guns :w00t:

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Scipio Africanus — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:27:37 GMT

[quote][b]muk14 (3/1/2008)[/b][hr]Man a sword that big is sure to be unpractical unless u are of Goliathan proportions[/quote]

Well, that's why the guy became gay evidently. Oh! You were talking about the dude with the _weapon_. Oh yeah; right you are.

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

-M- — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:19:43 GMT

Man a sword that big is sure to be unpractical unless u are of Goliathan proportions

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Konrad von Richtmark — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:48:50 GMT

Maybe the Russians should equip their army with the outrageously big codpieces worn by Renaissance landsknechts.

Speaking of that, a particular Black Adder episode comes to mind :ermm:

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Black Owl — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:25:36 GMT

:w00t:HEY!! How 'bout a warning flag on that Scipio!

Well....bigger may not be better but it sure makes a great place to store extra brain cells! :hehe:

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Scipio Africanus — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:25:53 GMT

WARNING FLAG! the following YouTube link is to a video that YouTube has not flagged as verbotten for persons under 18 years of age to view. However, it involves the topic of the penis and anal penetration, so maybe your 17 year old might find it really funny.

Actually, it seems [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHl2kcBEc0g&feature=related]bigger may not really be better[/url]?

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Rishbhav — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:16:16 GMT

"I see your Schwartz is as big as mine. Let's see how well you handle it"

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Bismarck2990 — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:10:55 GMT

Ouch, that was harsh. :crying:

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Scipio Africanus — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:55:05 GMT

[quote][b]Bismarck2990 (2/13/2008)[/b][hr]Hey! I DO have 80 gbs of space...[/quote]

Yeah right. And you have to use both hands to 'download' it right . . .

And when you 'unzip' your files it sounds like a chainsaw . . .

. . . I think the Russians are pretty cool actually. I mean, they do have Pravda in English online and all that.

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Black Owl — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:43:45 GMT

Alphan scientists have determined it to be an Alphan genetic trait!:w00t:

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Bismarck2990 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:41:22 GMT

Hey! I DO have 80 gbs of space...

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Black Owl — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:24:51 GMT

GAWD.....!!!!, It is rather a large sword isn't it?!!!! I must have been suffering from feelings of inadequacy when I posted about the missile thingy.:w00t:

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Scipio Africanus — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:13:49 GMT

Yeah, but look at the size of that sword . . . I mean geeeze . . .

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Black Owl — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:45:20 GMT

Ah..., but if you have the size, plus the smack(which) a nuclear tipped ballistic missle does have.......;)

Still tho, I did learn something from your post Konrad. Thanks. :D

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Konrad von Richtmark — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:16:18 GMT

On the contrary, it's not the size that matters, but how hard you can smack people with it!

Case in point: The Nazi re-annexation of the Rhineland in 1936. Against all international diplomatic decorum, Hitler sent in the wehrmacht to unilaterally seize the land, which had been a de-militarized zone under French control until then. Had the French decided to contest it, the Germans would very certainly have lost, the wehrmacht was nowhere ready for war yet. But the sheer audacity and aggressivity of the act caused a diplomatic shock effect, nobody dared to do anything about it, greatly overestimating German military might.

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Black Owl — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:52:08 GMT

Dangerous game, when your d**k is an intercontinental ballistic missle. SIZE MATTERS!

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Scipio Africanus — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:29:21 GMT

The Russians should get a big sword or a big truck or something :D

RE: Cold War Shenannigans

Konrad von Richtmark — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:40:37 GMT

Yep. I heard on the national radio once (I think it was around 2000), about a poll conducted in Russia. The question was: Would you rather want Russia to be an internationally recognized superpower, or would you want the living standards of Canada? 79% of the people answering the poll wanted the superpower!

Putin knows this, I will say again what I said in the thread about Russia claiming the North Pole: He is solely doing it to create a strong impression at home. Or, to continue with the vulgar analogies: The Russians really want to believe that their national dick is bigger than it is, and Putin feeds them the illusion to keep them happy. He knows that size deficiency can be compensated for by aggressive use.

Cold War Shenannigans

Locus Coeruleus — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:29:52 GMT

[url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080211/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_navy_russian_bombers] Navy intercepts Russian bombers[/url]

I was talking with a kid from Ukraine the other night in the bahhh, few years younger than I, in the graduate program. Naturally, the conversation drifted to geopolitical issues, as it usually does when I am chatting with someone from another part of the world.

They say the topics to avoid are politics and religion mainly. Well I typically ignore that rule, even with strangers! :w00t:

But I asked him you know,... there is this impression over hear that in Russia, there is the sentiment that Russians would much prefer a super-duper strong Mother Russia at the expense of democracy, liberties and freedom, etc. He pretty much agreed with that sentiment, and suggested that with the Russians, they always feel as if the world is a stage for a competition to determine who has the "biggest d**k" (something Konrad likes to say around here too ;) ), and for the Americans it is the same as well, and he being from the Ukraine, couldn't quite grasp that kind of sentiment or world view.

Interesting conversation anyways.