This TV ad for the Discovery Channel is an adaption of an old campfire song.
Here are the lyrics that someone has transcribed.
I love the mountains
I love the great clear skies
I love big bridges
I love how great whites fly
I love the whole world and all its sights and sounds
boombiada boombiada boombiada boombiada boombiada
I love the ocean
I love real dirty things
I love to go fast
I love Egyptian kings
I love the whole world and all its craziness
boombiada "" "" ""
I love tornadoes
I love arachnids
I love hot magma
I love the giant squid
I love the whole world its such a brilliant place
boombiada '''''''' (forever)
Don't carry the gun to make you a man. Carry because you are in fact a man.
Always carry your gun regardless of social pressures
If you can't physically carry a gun, always have a knife.
Whenever you carry a gun, also carry a knife...and some spare ammunition.
Carry the gun you can use best regardless of social fashion
Make sure you are good with that gun through continual and obsessive practice
Don't bluff or threaten with the gun. If you pull it, be certain you are justified and willing to use it.
Using it means shooting the other man or men in the chest and/or the face. Yes, it means killing.
If you can avoid having to shoot, it is a good thing, but do not second guess yourself once it has begun.
To facilitate the former, do not go to stupid places with stupid people to do stupid things at stupid times.
If you are involved in such activities, take a team with you....and rifles.
The default should be to mind your own business.
The only time minding your own business is superseded by getting involved is if what you see shocks the conscience of humanity and needs to be stopped.
The amount of violence you can justify and the number of rules you can break is directly proportionate to the level of evil displayed by your adversary.
Never apologize for using violence. Not only is it indicative of weakness but also of a lack of moral standing.
posted by lrsd05 at SBPDL
originally from a bulletin board
called Warrior Talk.
Many are aware of the Darwin Awards and chuckled at such stupidity. The problem is that sometimes, many time, idiots don't cause their own destruction but kill the innocent and survive. It is like drunk driving, the stupid often harm more than just themselves.
I hate this business of bringing England over in pieces . It's strictly for the homesick.
Lane Pryce, Mad Men S05E05
He also talks about having no fond memories of watching football in pubs. I do during world cup, but I only follow in sport it doesn't involve professional teams. National teams in big world wide competitions are the only time to pay attention to hockey or football. For me the service that professional leagues provide is that it keeps athletes employed between international events.
“…if Barack was going to run, he had to decide quickly, a point the group made by laying out primary schedules and game plans for fund-raising and building an organization. Insights were offered from around the room.
It was Michelle, Axelrod remembers, who stopped the show. “You need to ask yourself, Why do you want to do this?” she said directly. “What are hoping to uniquely accomplish, Barack?”
Obama sat quietly for a moment, and everyone waited. “This I know: When I raise my hand and take that oath of office, I think the world will look at us differently,” he said. “And millions of kids across this country will look at themselves differently.””
A selection of 4X5 Kodachrome from a Russian photographer 's blog, Pavel Kosenko's blog, of Americans doing different sorts of war work.Came up in the discussion of the thread United American Flight 817 2.0 on Ah.com.
As an antidote to easy pessimism here is a UN report, or UNish, about inter and intra state violence, Human Security Report 2009/2010. According to the numbers things are getting better. There is still war but the numbers and severity has decreased. Of course people are still dying. But then things can always be bad as this passage from The General by SM Sterling shows.
Of course, the last battle—his first—had shown him you could get killed very dead indeed in the middle of the most smashing victory. Gharsia's lungs and spine blasted out through his back illustrated quite vividly what could happen to an experienced veteran on the winning end of a one-sided slaughter.
This might seem like mustache twirling. It seems like mustache twirling and something more humane. There was an episode of Life on Mars that focused on the terrible hassle, legal complications and the career limiting problem of a death of a prisoner. Questions will be asked. Forms will be filled out.
When asked by Jeremy Paxman, on BBC Empire, about trustworthiness of Lawrence of Arabia. I have watched the first episode/segment but the presentation is so guilt ridden. As normal for such histories British imperialism is condemned as inhuman compared to such fun fests as Arab imperialism, Turkish imperialism, Mogul imperialism.
