Title: "Support USA Troops"
Post by: Oddboy on 07 April, 2003, 03:51:59 PM
Post by: Oddboy on 07 April, 2003, 03:51:59 PM
I just got spam from "SupportUSATroops@excitingmail.com"
I think it's serious, which just makes it funnier.
Show Your American Patriotism & Support with High-Quality Shirts!
(Hurry, supplies are very limited & they are going FAST!)
I think it's serious, which just makes it funnier.
Show Your American Patriotism & Support with High-Quality Shirts!
(Hurry, supplies are very limited & they are going FAST!)
Title: Re:
Post by: Mudcrab on 07 April, 2003, 04:33:35 PM
Post by: Mudcrab on 07 April, 2003, 04:33:35 PM
I'm surprised they're not enforced by law! Seeing as you can get arrested for wearing a t-shirt with "Give peace a chance" on it.
Nice patriotic t-shirt this:
Business as usual
Nice patriotic t-shirt this:
Business as usual
Title: Re: Re:
Post by: HiEx on 07 April, 2003, 05:08:28 PM
Post by: HiEx on 07 April, 2003, 05:08:28 PM
Nothing wrong with supporting US troops, just wish they would stop shooting the British troops.
HiEx
HiEx
Title: Re: Re:
Post by: Mudcrab on 07 April, 2003, 07:03:04 PM
Post by: Mudcrab on 07 April, 2003, 07:03:04 PM
Indeed!!
I just don't get this "Support the troops" thing. I don't see exactly how we can 'support' them. I've certainly nothing against anyone in the military, more the politics that force them into it.
Anyway, let's hope it's over soon before everyone's killed by friendly fire.
I just don't get this "Support the troops" thing. I don't see exactly how we can 'support' them. I've certainly nothing against anyone in the military, more the politics that force them into it.
Anyway, let's hope it's over soon before everyone's killed by friendly fire.
Title: Re: Re:
Post by: Oddboy on 07 April, 2003, 07:05:19 PM
Post by: Oddboy on 07 April, 2003, 07:05:19 PM
Doug, you can support them by buying a t-shirt...
Presumably the profits go straight into guns and ammunition.
Presumably the profits go straight into guns and ammunition.
Title: Re: Re:
Post by: Mudcrab on 07 April, 2003, 07:10:32 PM
Post by: Mudcrab on 07 April, 2003, 07:10:32 PM
Do you get UK one's?
Title: Re: Re:
Post by: Wils on 07 April, 2003, 07:42:53 PM
Post by: Wils on 07 April, 2003, 07:42:53 PM
As I can't upload from work, the back print of this t-shirt's in your Yahoo inbox, Oddboy. :)
Title: Re: Re:
Post by: Oddboy on 07 April, 2003, 07:57:06 PM
Post by: Oddboy on 07 April, 2003, 07:57:06 PM
Hope this works:
Title: Re: Re:
Post by: Wils on 07 April, 2003, 08:05:45 PM
Post by: Wils on 07 April, 2003, 08:05:45 PM
Apparently not. Don't worry, I'll send it home and upload it later. Not that it's really worth it. :)
Title: Re: Re:
Post by: W. R. Logan on 07 April, 2003, 08:57:17 PM
Post by: W. R. Logan on 07 April, 2003, 08:57:17 PM
>I just don't get this "Support the troops" thing. I don't see exactly how we can 'support' them. I've certainly nothing against anyone in the military, more the politics that force them into it.
Many a squaddie couldn?t give a stuff what the ?folks? back home think. Even with 24 hour tv and so that people can ?feel? what its like to take part in a war the average person has no idea what its like.
I know that I never gave people back in the UK any thought or consideration, I was to busy watching my own arse and the people around me to worry about what someone sat behind a desk was thinking.
When someones pointing a gun at you you don?t worry about how many people at home are wearing t-shirts.
La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.
Many a squaddie couldn?t give a stuff what the ?folks? back home think. Even with 24 hour tv and so that people can ?feel? what its like to take part in a war the average person has no idea what its like.
I know that I never gave people back in the UK any thought or consideration, I was to busy watching my own arse and the people around me to worry about what someone sat behind a desk was thinking.
When someones pointing a gun at you you don?t worry about how many people at home are wearing t-shirts.
La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.
Title: Re:
Post by: Art on 07 April, 2003, 09:01:30 PM
Post by: Art on 07 April, 2003, 09:01:30 PM
I think their for the benefit of the kind of American who feels anyone not covered in flags should be deported to cam X-ray/fears deportation to camp X-Ray should they be seen to be insufficiently patriotic.
Title: Re: Re:
Post by: Wils on 07 April, 2003, 11:26:53 PM
Post by: Wils on 07 April, 2003, 11:26:53 PM
Now I'm home, here's the back print.
Title: Re:
Post by: JamieB on 07 April, 2003, 11:38:37 PM
Post by: JamieB on 07 April, 2003, 11:38:37 PM
If you're looking to get yer war on, Micah Wright (writer of Stormwatch: Team Achilles) has a load of great 'remixed' US propaganda posters on his website...
Link: Micah's Website
Title: Re: Re:
Post by: Mudcrab on 08 April, 2003, 12:05:42 AM
Post by: Mudcrab on 08 April, 2003, 12:05:42 AM
> When someones pointing a gun at you you don?t worry about how many people at home are wearing t-shirts.
Very true. It's police back home that enforce that one. In America at least, not here.
Anyway, before I sound like I'm talking out my arse, this is the story I'm on about:
Associated Press story:
ALBANY, N.Y. - A man was charged with trespassing in a mall after he refused to take off a T-shirt that said "Peace on Earth" and "Give peace a chance."
Mall security approached Stephen Downs, 61, and his 31-year-old son, Roger, on Monday night after they were spotted wearing the T-shirts at Crossgates Mall in a suburb of Albany, the men said.
The two said they were asked to remove the shirts made at a store there, or leave the mall. They refused.
The guards returned with a police officer who repeated the ultimatum. The son took his T-shirt off, but the father refused.
"'I said, `All right then, arrest me if you have to,'" Downs said. "So that's what they did. They put the handcuffs on and took me away."
Downs pleaded innocent to the charges Monday night. The New York Civil Liberties Union said it would help with his case if asked.
Police Chief James Murley said his officers were just responding to a complaint by mall security.
"We don't care what they have on their shirts, but they were asked to leave the property, and it's private property," Murley said.
A mall spokeswoman did not return calls Tuesday seeking comment.
Monday's arrest came less than three months after about 20 peace activists wearing similar T-shirts were told to leave by mall security and police. There were no arrests
Very true. It's police back home that enforce that one. In America at least, not here.
Anyway, before I sound like I'm talking out my arse, this is the story I'm on about:
Associated Press story:
ALBANY, N.Y. - A man was charged with trespassing in a mall after he refused to take off a T-shirt that said "Peace on Earth" and "Give peace a chance."
Mall security approached Stephen Downs, 61, and his 31-year-old son, Roger, on Monday night after they were spotted wearing the T-shirts at Crossgates Mall in a suburb of Albany, the men said.
The two said they were asked to remove the shirts made at a store there, or leave the mall. They refused.
The guards returned with a police officer who repeated the ultimatum. The son took his T-shirt off, but the father refused.
"'I said, `All right then, arrest me if you have to,'" Downs said. "So that's what they did. They put the handcuffs on and took me away."
Downs pleaded innocent to the charges Monday night. The New York Civil Liberties Union said it would help with his case if asked.
Police Chief James Murley said his officers were just responding to a complaint by mall security.
"We don't care what they have on their shirts, but they were asked to leave the property, and it's private property," Murley said.
A mall spokeswoman did not return calls Tuesday seeking comment.
Monday's arrest came less than three months after about 20 peace activists wearing similar T-shirts were told to leave by mall security and police. There were no arrests
Title: Re: Re:
Post by: McNulty on 08 April, 2003, 02:43:21 AM
Post by: McNulty on 08 April, 2003, 02:43:21 AM
Sorry, but that's going too far. Getting arrested for wearing a pro-peace t-shirt is just wrong.
Title: Re: Re:
Post by: Richmond Clements on 08 April, 2003, 03:23:10 AM
Post by: Richmond Clements on 08 April, 2003, 03:23:10 AM
This is pretty bad, too:
Title: Re: Re:
Post by: Mudcrab on 08 April, 2003, 04:28:14 PM
Post by: Mudcrab on 08 April, 2003, 04:28:14 PM
Hmm, makes me think of a certain song by The Exploited that I'd like to sing to them!
That'll probably go over most people's heads but suffice to say, it contains an expletive, a conjunction and a countries name. I won't quote it here in case it offends any genuine human beings who happen to be american.
That'll probably go over most people's heads but suffice to say, it contains an expletive, a conjunction and a countries name. I won't quote it here in case it offends any genuine human beings who happen to be american.
Title: Re: Re:
Post by: Dic Penderyn on 10 April, 2003, 01:57:22 AM
Post by: Dic Penderyn on 10 April, 2003, 01:57:22 AM
"fuck the USA" you mean.
Dic 'anyone-offended-whose-american-should-realise-they're-getting-off-lightly' Penderyn
Dic 'anyone-offended-whose-american-should-realise-they're-getting-off-lightly' Penderyn
Title: Re: Re:
Post by: Richmond Clements on 10 April, 2003, 02:29:34 AM
Post by: Richmond Clements on 10 April, 2003, 02:29:34 AM
Aww, come on Dic, tell us what you really think!
Title: Re: Re:
Post by: Mudcrab on 10 April, 2003, 04:38:27 PM
Post by: Mudcrab on 10 April, 2003, 04:38:27 PM
That's the one :o)
Two countries separated by a common language..............
The British speech : (Lt.Col Tim Collins)
"If you are ferocious in battle, remember to be Magnanimous in victory. We
go to liberate, not to conquer. We are entering Iraq to free a people, and
the only flag that will be flown in that ancient land is their own. Don't
treat them as refugees, for they are in their own country. If there are
casualties of war, then remember, when they woke up and got dressed in the
morning they did not plan to die this day. Allow them dignity in death. Bury
them properly and mark their graves. Iraq is steeped in history. It is the
site of the Garden of Eden, of the Great Flood and the birth of Abraham.
Tread lightly there."
The US speech : Vice Admiral Timothy Keating
"When the president says 'Go', look out - it's hammer time" (followed by We
Will Rock You played at high volume to the troops)
Two countries separated by a common language..............
The British speech : (Lt.Col Tim Collins)
"If you are ferocious in battle, remember to be Magnanimous in victory. We
go to liberate, not to conquer. We are entering Iraq to free a people, and
the only flag that will be flown in that ancient land is their own. Don't
treat them as refugees, for they are in their own country. If there are
casualties of war, then remember, when they woke up and got dressed in the
morning they did not plan to die this day. Allow them dignity in death. Bury
them properly and mark their graves. Iraq is steeped in history. It is the
site of the Garden of Eden, of the Great Flood and the birth of Abraham.
Tread lightly there."
The US speech : Vice Admiral Timothy Keating
"When the president says 'Go', look out - it's hammer time" (followed by We
Will Rock You played at high volume to the troops)