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Title: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: GlasgowBandit on June 19, 2006, 10:23:24 PM TWO TOUGH QUESTIONS:
Question 1: If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis; would you recommend that she have an abortion? Read the next question before scrolling down to the answer of this one. Question 2: It is time to elect a new world leader, and your vote counts. Here are the facts about the three leading candidates: Candidate A: Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists. He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day. Candidate B: He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whisky every evening. Candidate C: He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and hasn't had any extramarital affairs. Which of these candidates would be your choice? Decide first, no peeking, then scroll down for the answer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt Candidate B is Winston Churchill Candidate C is Adolph Hitler And by the way: Answer to the abortion question - if you said yes, you just killed Beethoven. Pretty interesting isn't it? Makes a person think before judging someone. Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: The Baron on June 19, 2006, 10:26:27 PM Candidate C: hasn't had any extramarital affairs. That's not what I recall. Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 19, 2006, 10:30:05 PM Candidate C: hasn't had any extramarital affairs. That's not what I recall. You got something to confess Aaron....? ::) Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: The Baron on June 19, 2006, 10:34:55 PM Candidate C: hasn't had any extramarital affairs. That's not what I recall. You got something to confess Aaron....? ::) :D Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: Royal Flush on June 19, 2006, 11:13:42 PM And he used to get up later than noon....
Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: NoflopsHomer on June 19, 2006, 11:15:28 PM And he used to get up later than noon.... Who? Aaron? Have you got something to confess too? :D Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: Nem on June 19, 2006, 11:17:13 PM Pretty interesting isn't it? No, not really tbh. Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: bolt pp on June 19, 2006, 11:18:05 PM do world leaders take any other form than options a and b?
I dont care who i killed, one good film where the big dog drags people all over the place? big deal! Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: Trace on June 20, 2006, 11:16:09 AM Well I found it VERY interesting and also a bit scarey that I just killed Beethoven and put Hitler in power!!! rotflmfao
Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: thetank on June 20, 2006, 12:06:21 PM Well I found it VERY interesting and also a bit scarey that I just killed Beethoven and put Hitler in power!!! rotflmfao Maybe Emily didn't have a point after all ::) Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: Sark79 on June 20, 2006, 12:08:55 PM I just elected Hitler and killed Beethoven.
Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: patman on June 20, 2006, 12:20:30 PM bandit,
I dont get what point you are trying to make :dontask:it....is the correct answer that no one would make a decision based on information as scant as that in the first place....? and as a wee rejoinder churchill was far from perfect....despite being the perfect war time leader...but thats a different debate Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: Trace on June 20, 2006, 12:21:52 PM Well I found it VERY interesting and also a bit scarey that I just killed Beethoven and put Hitler in power!!! rotflmfao Maybe Emily didn't have a point after all ::) Oh go play with Annie and Clarabel on the main line!!! Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: Royal Flush on June 20, 2006, 12:40:55 PM This also has to be stated:
Hitler was a fantastic leader, he however was sadly also a psycho! Look at all the good he also did for Germany. Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: thetank on June 20, 2006, 12:43:40 PM If I had to make a fraction of the impossible desicions that were required of Churchill during WW2, I'd be drinking a hellava lot more than he did.
Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: stallyon on June 20, 2006, 01:03:45 PM This also has to be stated: Hitler was a fantastic leader, he however was sadly also a psycho! Look at all the good he also did for Germany. ;iagree; Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: portfolio on June 20, 2006, 01:42:02 PM This also has to be stated: Hitler was a fantastic leader, he however was sadly also a psycho! Look at all the good he also did for Germany. ;iagree; SHOCKED AT BOTH OF YOU. Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: Trace on June 20, 2006, 01:44:12 PM Is that not offensive to psychos?
Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: patman on June 20, 2006, 01:52:48 PM mmmh interesting,
dictators/meglomianiacs get things done type of logic there. I agree initially he got germany going and improved the infrastructure efficient and direct he may have been but good and hitler are not 2 words i would associate. i suspect he got things done by disappearing those that disagreed...not an ethical way of moving things forward. bit like the mafia don at the head of the family.... Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: Royal Flush on June 20, 2006, 02:21:02 PM mmmh interesting, dictators/meglomianiacs get things done type of logic there. I agree initially he got germany going and improved the infrastructure efficient and direct he may have been but good and hitler are not 2 words i would associate. i suspect he got things done by disappearing those that disagreed...not an ethical way of moving things forward. bit like the mafia don at the head of the family.... Well the diffrence is Hitler was elected..... Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: patman on June 20, 2006, 02:22:59 PM was it not one of those "elect me or else" type events..
Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: GlasgowBandit on June 20, 2006, 02:51:40 PM Its a cut and paste jobbie!!
Personally I never found it interesting, but I did think it appropriate given the debate yesterday. As for Hitler he was a great guy he knew what he was doing ;scarymoment; Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: Royal Flush on June 20, 2006, 04:03:42 PM was it not one of those "elect me or else" type events.. no Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: patman on June 20, 2006, 04:09:37 PM was it not one of those "elect me or else" type events.. no sure?....was he not invited into power as he and the national socialists basically paralysed politics and the running of germany if they didnt get their way... Needing support, and thinking he could control Hitler, President Hindenburg made the mistake in January 1933 of giving Hitler the post of Chancellor. Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: Royal Flush on June 20, 2006, 04:17:02 PM The Nazis devised an electoral strategy to win northern farmers and white collar voters in small towns, which produced a landslide victory in September 1930. He refused a chance to form a cabinet, and unwilling to share in a coalition regime. In 1932 Hitler ran for President and won 30% of the vote, forcing Paul von Hindenburg into a runoff election. After a bigger landslide in July 1932 (44%) their vote declined and their movement weakened (Hitler lost the presidential election to WWI veteran Paul von Hindenburg in Apri; elections of November 1932 roughly 42%) so Hitler decided to enter a coalition government as chancellor in January 1933.
When Hindeburg died in 1934, Hitler was the natural successor. You can hardly say he wasnt elected! Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: portfolio on June 20, 2006, 04:54:43 PM james,
for one so erudite and obv informed, i find your defense in this matter naive,misguided and thinly veiled imo. Title: Re: Question .................Appropriate given todays most viewed topic?? Post by: I, Zimbra on June 20, 2006, 05:04:04 PM Hitler's achievements in strengthening a poverty-stricken Germany that was in complete disarray following WWI go hand in hand with his methods of achieving it - which were unsavoury, to say the least.
I don't think anything about that particular period in history can be called 'good'. Perhaps we could figure out a way of rephrasing the statement that Flushy wants to make, in such a way that does not glorify tyranny and mass murder? |