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Name one painting, song, sculpture, poem, or play that has the intellectual depth of a sophisticated and intellectual video game.

Painting: There isn't a game on this planet that's broken my brain as much as Relativity.

Sculpture:After seeing some of Joe Fafard's work this weekend, I'm still waiting for some of his sculptures to follow me home and stare at me.

Photo: You didn't request the name of a photo, but I'll still provide one, because Man vs. Tank sure says a hell of a lot

Poem: Following the theme, I dare you to try to look at a poppy in the same way after reading In Flanders Field

Play: Oh, dear frog, where to even begin with this one. Hell, I'll just plug one of my sister's plays for this one, Bigger Than Jesus, if for no reasons other than even as someone who isn't religious, I found it enlightening-- and because the end of the airplane scene still haunts me.

Song:Rather than point out yet another example, I'll simple refer to the massive cross-pollination of video games and music. Chopin's Prelude in D Flat Major, aka Raindrops, used in conjunction with a certain video game trailer

Hey, sometimes random number plates can be pretty unambiguous

http://www.manbottle.com/picture_library/ass_orgy_license_plate

Kill them all and let God sort 'em out.

The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.
Why was that gauge used?
Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US Railroads.
Why did the English build them like that?
Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
Why did "they" use that gauge then?
Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel! spacing.
Okay! Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.
So who built those old rutted roads?
Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England) for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts in the roads?
Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. And bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a spec and told we have always done it that way and wonder what horse's ass came up with that, you may be exactly right, because the Imperial Roman war chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two war horses.
Now the twist to the story...
When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a Horse's ass. http://www.manbottle.com/humor/railroads_to_space_ shuttles

Nice nazi thread you've started here, it'seems you've brought a few friend nazi moderators with you too. But I see allready some rebutals so I'll try to add some info so that people who might get swayed but your properly phrased stupidity will have something to balance your crap.

So you have bought in to the cultural/religious war theory. Wars are never about any of those - they are always about assets on a high level and fueld by manipulation and ignorance on a low level. To be able to aquire "good" soldiers they have to be ignorant, and being poor and uneducated is a good start. That is why cannon fodder in wars and rioter possies are always composed of poor population. They have nothing to lose but their already worthless lives.

Do you think christians for centuries have killed christians over religion? Have you heard the phrase "Kill them all. God will know his own" before? Do you think a muslim utterd it? What about the conquistadores 500 years ago, the serbs with Milosevic a dacade ago or Ireland today? "Oh, but those are not 'real' christians!" you say? So are there different kinds? Don't you fscking think there are different kinds of muslims? Ever been to a muslim country? (Yes, I've been to two, north and west Africa). Ever actually _met_ one? Gone to his home? I had a swedish girlfriend who was extremely xenophobic before we met, through me she met two muslim families and she told me that she had never seen anyone treat their wifes better that these two guys. All of her nazi friends "treated their cars better than their girlfriends" while talking shit of the muslim women oppressors. Btw, these families were well educate and prompted their sons and _daughters_ to get educated as well, so you can stick your "removing of educational opportunities" argument pretty high up too.

About France, you're so totaly wrong I don't know where to begin. What do you know of france? Except that thats where freedom fries, formerly known as french fries come from? (They're not even french). Do you know why there are som many north africans there? Well, it _might_ have to do with the french colonialism!? Ever heard of the harkis? They did a _lot_ for France, but the french government betrayed them when retiering from Algeria. The french officers had been given orders not let harkis retreat/immigrate to France although they before the Algerian independance had french sitizenship and they had fought against the independence movement. Thanks to some righteous french officers a great deal of them were able to flee to France. But there they were put in camps for _decades_ and treated like illegal imigrants. Early this year the french government finaly gave some recognition of what they did for france. If you have been treated like shit for decades, have low chances fo geting a decent job, the government has given up on you and your neighborhood and have nothing to lose - what do you do? What did the americans do in the independence war? Kill their own christian brothers of course! In the name of freedom!

You are concentrating on the images you see everyday on you brainwash box. Evil dark men all around you trying to kill you, take your belongings and you women. I am one of those, the other day a woman wouldn't let me into a clinique where I was going to do some support on a computer powered eye microscope. A longhaired latino? No fucking way! I told her I could call the people inside to come and get me she still wouldn't believe me. They happend to show up by chance and since they were swedes suddendly it was ok. She _almost_ apologised, but i had work to do so I left her there. Wtf can I do? I hope she learens from that experience, but chances are slim to none. Think of how big the muslim world is. Think of how big the christian world is. Media chooses to concentrate on the bad news and that is all you'll see. Or maybe you just have an agenda you want to push here? Go back to play Castle Wolfenstein and build WWII Luftwaffe models, I don't have more time for this..

The ICEE debuted in 1961 5 years before the Slurpee. ICEE is the original, and the best.

Think that's bad? Try this. I don't fancy yours much.

Not strictly true - the following is one of several true stories of WW2 bomber crew jumping without chutes and surviving.. in this case because he landed on a glass-roofed railwsy station and was slowed by successive levels of shattering glass

Man Survived 22,000-Foot Fall Out of Bomber

Also:
"The greatest fall without "riding" a piece of wreckage goes to Russian Lt. I.M. Chisov, who bailed out of his Ilyushin 4 bomber at 22,000 feet in January 1942, after being attacked by German fighters. His plan was to free-fall to 1,000 feet before opening his parachute, thus limiting his exposure to enemy fire while still in the air. Unfortunately he lost consciousness on the way down, and never opened his parachute. Like Vulovic, he landed in snow and survived, returning to duty three months later". - link

There was also a British gunner from a Lancaster bomber who fell from his aircraft during an attack and was saved by fir trees and deep snow.

That said, I still think this guy's a loon. Nobody ever volunteered to jump without a parachute before.

An even better remote.

... girlfriend remote?

Yes but my case mod can open that bottle on top of your case mod...

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