EPTBodes well for joint military activities, don't you think?
Brit: "Sir, we're going out and getting absolutely destroyed tonight"
American: "Holy shit, I better call in a preemptive airstrike!"
Brit: "Sir, you just blew up our stripbar..."
WOOOO!
British Couple Kicked out of the US for joking - Page 11
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Dr_Jones
Norway252 Posts
Bodes well for joint military activities, don't you think? Brit: "Sir, we're going out and getting absolutely destroyed tonight" American: "Holy shit, I better call in a preemptive airstrike!" Brit: "Sir, you just blew up our stripbar..." WOOOO! | ||
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Angra
United States2652 Posts
And they say the US are the ignorant ones who believe anything, lol. EU, the epitome of thought and reason. | ||
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Meser87
United States476 Posts
On January 31 2012 19:45 Aristodemus wrote: Atleast they didnt get shot, so a fairly successful trip to the US  Keep it classy | ||
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nihlon
Sweden5581 Posts
On January 31 2012 23:06 Angra wrote: I can't believe how many Europeans are taking this article seriously. It's a tabloid article. Dailymail shouldn't ever be taken seriously. And they say the US are the ignorant ones who believe anything, lol. EU, the epitome of thought and reason. Are your post supposed to be better? You attack people that make generalized ignorant claims by making one yourself. Good job... | ||
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Angra
United States2652 Posts
On January 31 2012 23:10 nihlon wrote: Are your post supposed to be better? You attack people that make generalized ignorant claims by making one yourself. Good job... Only way to get people's attention in threads like this, really. Otherwise it gets drowned in even more America-flaming posts. In all seriousness this thread should be closed, though. It's just fueling unneeded anger and bashing when its only source of info is a tabloid site. | ||
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QuanticHawk
United States32051 Posts
ROCK ON AMERICA | ||
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jello_biafra
United Kingdom6635 Posts
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vol_
Australia1608 Posts
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Magic_Mike
United States542 Posts
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lozarian
United Kingdom1043 Posts
On January 31 2012 21:42 malignant wrote: Too bad no one replied to my post and debated my points because the more I think of it the more I am convinced that the DHS' hands are tied in this. In essence, federal agents are forbidden from using racial profiling by the Department of Justice. Therefore if they allow this guy though the airport then if an Irani guy did something similar ( i.e. posting in ummah.com that he'd go to the US to destroy America) then DHS cannot apprehend him unless they have additional proof that he is involved in terrorism i.e. (in which case they can and will arrest him with or without him posting his intent ). To do so means they are making an arrest based on race / religion / nationality i.e. profiling. TL DR; I think the DHS are forced by the situation to detain the guy. This is a very good point that has been kinda ignored. I agree. They did not, however, need to kick them out of the country when they realised that they were speaking different slang and cracking a (rather bad) joke. Sure, detain them, put the willies up them so the authorities aren't forced, as you say, to deal with this nonsense. Kicking them out of the country is just pants on head retarded, however. | ||
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Mordanis
United States893 Posts
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koreasilver
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Mallidon
Scotland557 Posts
On January 31 2012 23:13 jello_biafra wrote: This doesn't surprise me very much and I don't think my country can really talk since they tried to send that guy to jail for making a joke on twitter about blowing up an airport. Yeah, reminds me of a story from a few years ago... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4879918.stm On January 31 2012 23:11 Angra wrote: Only way to get people's attention in threads like this, really. Otherwise it gets drowned in even more America-flaming posts. In all seriousness this thread should be closed, though. It's just fueling unneeded anger and bashing when its only source of info is a tabloid site. Bashing Europe for no reason and demanding the thread closed because you are scared of a little flaming of your country, really? | ||
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greyconnect
39 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States44317 Posts
On January 31 2012 23:16 vol_ wrote: Because before a terrorist bombs a country they announce it to the world on twitter right? Terrorists have announced plots through videos and other media outlets, but the internet is out of the question? Despite the fact that chaos and mass hysteria would be a primary goal on their part? You didn't really think that through, did you? | ||
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HaXXspetten
Sweden15718 Posts
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Angra
United States2652 Posts
On January 31 2012 23:24 Mallidon wrote: Yeah, reminds me of a story from a few years ago... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4879918.stm Bashing Europe for no reason and demanding the thread closed because you are scared of a little flaming of your country, really? No, I'm saying the thread should be closed because it's creating a discussion about a tabloid article from a website that has a terrible history of reporting accurate news - essentially a joke site. I don't really think it's thread-worthy, in fact I don't think ANY thread using Dailymail as its only source should be a thread, no matter what country, person, etc. they are talking about. And people are taking the article to be 100% factual when a majority of articles from this site are not. And as for the country flaming, it's not just "a little". It happens all the time on TL. But as soon as someone says 1 negative thing about Europe people get all defensive, it seems.. | ||
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Sermokala
United States13926 Posts
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Velr
Switzerland10700 Posts
perfectly reasoned. America doesn't fuck around when it comes to anti terror operations in airports and stuff like that. If anything they where flagged on the internet (terror websites stay up for this reason) and then where red flagged for coming into america. When I go to the UK I'm not going to tweet about killing the queen and defacing the graves of kings before I go there its just stupid and the same thing will happen to me. As long as people actually support bullshit like this, all the US-Ridicule is more than deserved. You arrested two guys for basically saying: "We gonna party in the US + a Family Guy quote". If you don't see something wrong with that, you have severe issues. | ||
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Technique
Netherlands1542 Posts
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