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Okay, here's what you do for this game: You have to "ban" the person who posted above you for an outrageous, silly, or funny reason. Got it?
Banned for you didn't do it right.
This is how you do it;
struttin' that ass!
Or, if you want to get creative;
struttin' that azz!
Or, do it in song, like the video;
struttin' that ass!
struttin' that ass!
Strut that Ass!
Strut that Ass!
struttin' that ass!
struttin' that ass!
Strut that Ass!
Strut that Ass!
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That right there's how ya do it.
Banned because we will then make robots to build robots, put robots in charge of them, then make a computer to control them all, and then give it sentience.
First rule of robotics: Humans are dumb motherfuckers.
Banned for calling humans dumb, traitor.
The Admiral
Banned because you cannot betray an organization of which you were never a member... 
Banned for assuming that "Limey Man" is one of you surgery-obsessed, body-loathing, backwards-hat-wearing 'borgs. His "we" looked an awful lot like he was claiming to be H sapiens sapiens.
Banned because we already have robots making stuff.
Double banned because humans are FAR beyond mere 'dumb motherfuckers.'
I bet there's some alien species out there, who's wars have long since diminished, sitting around with a giant TV-like monitor, watching us blow up stuff we don't understand or agree with, and they are saying
'Stupid human people.'
'We should help them.'
'No. Let them learn from their own mistakes.'
The problem is we don't learn from our mistakes. There are still wars out there, still murders, and rapes, and other crimes being committed, and not just by the same people time after time. The crime rate is staggering, and is not what your local politician will tell you.
Heck, while I'm at it, I might as well let all of you know that the politicians we elect to run this country (BOTH Republicans and Democrats) say they are going to do one thing, then do something totally different. (IE, kiss their party's asses so they'll get sponsored again) And the majority of us, as citizens, are too stupid to realize it. The ones who do, are outnumbered 1000/1 at LEAST.
I know all I'm going to get for this comment is flak, but to be honest, I really don't care. Its what I've seen firsthand, and firmly believe.
Banned for a long ban. Damn alien races not lending a hand when we need 'em.
The Admiral
Banned because that's the royal we, not the British we, and the art doesn't look very royal to me.
Banned because I sympathize with much of your rant, with a big exception for the part about crime rates. Calling the rates "staggering" without defining a context is just so much hot air, and you say nothing about whether the FBI bureaucrats who compile UCR stats are 'politicians.'
I'll buy that the FBI at least does some passive book-cooking, and might be stirring the stats pot deliberately in some respects. But, rape stats aside, I'm fairly confident that the 'official' trends of declining violent and property crimes is a real change. Rape, on the other hand, is still subject to serious stigma problems and the degree of under-reporting is a big question. That doesn't even take into account the fact that the FBI has old, inadequate criteria for what counts as a rape on the UCR.
Banned because almost all of my knowledge regarding crime is limited to military crimes of one form or another, so I don't feel qualified to say one way or the other, While I trust cops a helluva lot more than I trust politicians from EITHER the Waffle or Wingnut parties, the fundamental conceit of the infantryman applies here as well.
Banned because you need to get over your bigotry issue there. And I'm saying that as a confirmed pacifist who has reluctantly accepted that my species has a horrible penchant for brutality--fixing this shit is a long-term problem, not something you and I can expect to see resolved in our 'average' lifetimes.
You're way off base when you talk that way about the U.S. and, if you're talking more generally, you're still way off base about "the fundamental conceit of the infantryman." When a military organization gets involved in abusing civilians, it is always a failure of the senior officer corps. That's as true of ancient armies pillaging the countryside on their way from one battlefield to another as it is of the folks my tax dollars sent to unjustly invade Iraq or irrationally attempt to occupy Afghanistan.
p.s. Your youth is really showing when you try to make a distinction between cops and soldiers in this way. Both groups are organized to use force in the name of communities; they only differ in scale and scope. Shooting an innocent youth because he looked like a gangster is no different from shooting an innocent youth because he looked like an insurgent.
Banned because it's a term I originally created to apply to the military, but now use in other contexts as well. In its original incarnation, it referred to the tendency of some soldiers to assume they had superior policy knowledge because they'd been "on the ground." Now I use it in any case where someone may be erroneously assuming superior knowledge based on proximity. I call it the fundamental conceit of the infantryman because they're usually the ones closest to the fighting, but generals are just as likely to demonstrate it.
banned because everyone has a point, but not on the same subject. Funny how the context keeps shifting sideways.
Banned for these issues are better discussed face-to-face.
Written(or typed) words can mean whatever you'd like them to...
The Admiral
Banned because writing helps you be more careful about your own thoughts.
Nattering face-to-face is much more vulnerable to subjectivity problems. When you write stuff, you're on the record and what you write can be parsed against other sources such as dictionaries, grammar manuals, and newspapers. When you start speaking extemporaneously with no recording devices around, all you have to go on in the future is individual memories, which are notoriously unreliable.
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