Times up!

faded glory · March 19, 2003, 20:58

....

no bombs yet !??

mrboo123 · March 19, 2003, 20:59

Azmaing, isn't it, its also azmaing that I can't spell "azmaing"

Lonestar · March 19, 2003, 21:00

Damn! We simulposted Faded!

mrboo123 · March 19, 2003, 21:01

Life's sucks, hu?

Ned · March 19, 2003, 21:04

ssssssSSSSSSSSSS.....ka BOOM!

I suspect the cruise missiles are on their way.

faded glory · March 19, 2003, 21:06

Its like the quiet before the storm. Ive got that wierd feeling 2% confused, 98% excited. Or is it the other way around?

Anyway, this is the ultimate Reality show! Now if CBS moved some americans into a baghdad buildings

chequita guevara · March 19, 2003, 21:11

Isn't it morning over there now? Plus there was a sandstorm this morning our time.

mrboo123 · March 19, 2003, 21:12

Its past mid-night (my guess) over there

Ned · March 19, 2003, 21:15

It is now 4:22 in the morning. Still dark.

Lonestar · March 19, 2003, 21:16

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Originally posted by 123john321
Its past mid-night (my guess) over there

After 4.

mrboo123 · March 19, 2003, 21:17

hey, I WAS RIGHT!!!!!!! YAAAA!!!!

GePap · March 19, 2003, 21:20

Hmm, they don't have much time before it becomes day over there. maybe they are moving troops in...

Damn them, making us wait even more time!

Spiffor · March 19, 2003, 21:23

Any good entertainment show must stall a bit to be very exciting. Remeber the phantom menace, where fans awaited in queues one week before.

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Times up!

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ssssssSSSSSSSSSS.....ka BOOM!

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Ive got that wierd feeling 2% confused, 98% excited. Or is it the other way around?

We're talking about a new Hollywood flick, right ?

mrboo123 · March 19, 2003, 21:35

Spiffor · March 19, 2003, 21:40

Seriously, I'm more and more thinking pro-war people really take this as a cool hollywood flick, even though they'd hate admitting it.
The "awesome pictures" thread shown real-life spectacular explosions and hardware, kinda Matrix-like. The whole "this war is right" phrase gives an Independence-day like moral. The refusal to see the horrors your war will create just adds to the way the reality is embellished, exactly like in a flick.

Before going to bed, my brother said : "I don't know if I'll sleep well. For I know that tomorrow, when I wake up, people will have been killed".
How many pro-war people here merely care about the death, suffering and havoc your splendid army will wreak ? Everytime I try to talk about this with a pro-war person, it is immediately dismissed by a "we are right, because we do this to topple a terrible dictator". I hear how terrible it was not to abide by UN resolutions, I hear about how terrible was Saddam to gas his own people, I hear how terrible the terrorists (supposedly linked to Iraq, we've yet to see a proof) are. Yet I don't hear how terrible your splendid little war will be.
It is sickening.

Sandman · March 19, 2003, 21:53

Outstanding post, Spiffor. I agree completely.

Spiffor · March 19, 2003, 22:03

Thanks. I tried to be as sincere as possible. I expect targeted people to simply overlook it as "whining" though

GePap · March 19, 2003, 22:05

Well, no need to get to worked up about those that think you are whinning: there is nothing to be done about them.

Hopefully the number of people who do die from this will be the smallest possible.

Edit: isn't it 1 am over there in the Republic of Freedom?

Spiffor · March 19, 2003, 22:08

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Originally posted by GePap
Well, no need to get to worked up about those that think you are whinning: there is nothing to be done about them.

True for most of them, but Ned is an intelligent guy, and often shows it when he isn't caught in the hysteria around.

Edit : It is 3:00 in France (please don't call it Republic of Freedom, it really makes as little sense as the Land of the Free). But I'm a night owl.

Traianvs · March 19, 2003, 22:09

Idd, I agree, though I won't have trouble sleeping, as there is simply so much injustice in the world (that I read in the paper everyday, perhaps these things don't reach the US media, save for the few quality papers there) that it's not really touching me.

Only when I get personally involved or if I get up and close to witness the carnage I wouldn't be able to sleep... However I DO care, something which a lot of interviewees on the telly don't seem to do!

Just watch CNN or BBC world

You'll get more Live shows, exclusive footages, dangerous pictures and explosions that you can take.... Naturally, you will only see the explosions from afar, not seeing the damage, and of course, civilian casualties won't be mentioned, unless there is no way possible to deny it!

24h/day non stop War on television, I know some people here who will be overjoyed, even though they won't want to admit! hah

I've given up on television, as there is only 1 reliable channel in Belgium and even that is being transformed into... popular subjective crap (well in news broadcasting that is)

GePap · March 19, 2003, 22:13

hmmm, so france is only one hour ahead of Baghdad? I thought it was more..anyway. Had to use the "freedom" bit, as a dig toat our oh so intelligent Congresspeople.

#am..I no longer stay up that late, as if i would be online anyway...

Odin · March 19, 2003, 22:49

WTF are you doing up at 4 in the morning, Spiffor?

GET SOME SLEEP!!!

Spiffor · March 20, 2003, 00:19

BTW, didn't the war begin precisely at prime time EST ?

GePap · March 20, 2003, 00:23

Thye late end of Primetime, but in time for the 10 pm and 11pm newscasts.