Thread: MPnet's Fire Support Base Vengeance: Dry Mess & Canteen

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    Quote Originally Posted by Arnie100 View Post
    You got a still?
    sure do, totally legal here as long as i dont sell it for profit, generally give it away to family and friends. On the night of osama's death i had around 50 US, Brit, Aussie and NZ ex soldiers/pmc's celebrating and we went through 100+ litres.

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    Why do you call the letter Z zee?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cipher View Post
    Why do Americans call football soccer and not the other way around?
    Because soccer is gay. Yup. Although its homo******ity is spreading like the chance to win an all paid trip to a prepubescent boy farm at the Catholic Church priest lottery these days.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lima25218 View Post
    and we went through 100+ litres.
    What does that convert to in American?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cipher View Post
    Why do Americans call football soccer and not the other way around?
    SOCCER - "The brutal game once known in England as 'kicking the bladder' actually dates back at least to the Roman conquest in A.D. 43. The name 'fut balle' was given the game in the 12th century, when it was first played on a large 'field' with boundary lines, with approximately 50 men on each side. It was already causing so many injuries that a number of English monarchs, including Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, tried to ban it. The modern spelling 'football' appeared in England by 1650. Football didn't become respectable until James I of England lifted the ban imposed by Elizabeth I, and the rules against mayhem slowly began to evolve.The English game was, of course, developing into what we Americans now call 'soccer' (1889, a clipping and alliteration of 'association football') but which the rest of the world still calls, by some variant or translation of English, 'football'." From "Speaking Freely: A Guided Tour of American English from Plymouth Rock to Silicon Valley" by Stuart Berg Flexner and Anne H. Soukhanov (Oxford University Press, New York, 1997).

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    Quote Originally Posted by lima25218 View Post
    Interesting, we dont have the same laws here, self defence is not a reasonable excuse in nz, there have been numerous cases of farmers shooting thieves in nz and being charged with murder/manslaughter by our "police". Luckily enough, in each case the juries have aquitted them because the average citizen here has more common sense than the authorities.
    ...and police officers being charged when shooting meth raged assholes.

    Remember that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterRJG View Post
    Why do you call the letter Z zee?
    ...'cause it's not a zed.







    BTW, football belongs to germany anway now and forever so you can change the subject all...Fußball gehört zu Deutschland!

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterRJG View Post
    Why do you call the letter Z zee?
    Because calling it "eh" would be Canadian, and thus damaged.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anthony91 View Post
    What does that convert to in American?
    About 26 and 1/2 us gallons.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anthony91 View Post
    What does that convert to in American?
    About 40 furlongs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterRJG View Post
    Why do you call the letter Z zee?
    Nobody in the English speaking world but Rodney McKay uses any word starting with "Z" with any consistency.

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    Quote Originally Posted by meinteil View Post
    ...'cause it's not a zed.
    In English it is. You guys can't help being Dutch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DaveDash View Post
    ...and police officers being charged when shooting meth raged assholes.

    Remember that?
    Sure do mate, wish they would let ppl like me go open season on our P dealers, cooks etc, police are hamstrung by the letter of law, pmc's like me just take the fight to the problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterRJG View Post
    About 40 furlongs.
    Which system of measurements are you using, Rob Furlongs or Edward Furlongs?

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    While we're on the topic of American "English".... "A-lume-e-num" just sounds weird.

    Also, since the Internet is largely US dominated and I have spent many formative years on it, you guys have royally fvcked up my spelling.

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