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Have we just seen the beginning?

Is the financial crisis over?

  • Yes, it has ended

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Yes, it is jst about ending now

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Dont know

    Votes: 1 6.7%

  • Usure, it could tip over either way

    Votes: 2 13.3%

  • No, more is to come

    Votes: 7 46.7%

  • No, we havent seen the worst yet

    Votes: 5 33.3%

  • No, catastrophe is coming

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • It will end the world as we know it today

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    15
God I find it infuriating that hundreds of my neighbors die every year because we all have to indulge the ludicrous juvenile apocalypse fantasies of a bunch of overgrown children.

Your AK47 is not going to be useful in whatever insane Turner Diaries fantasy you have conjured, because it's not going to happen.
 
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new coup for you said:
God I find it infuriating that hundreds of my neighbors die every year because we all have to indulge the ludicrous juvenile apocalypse fantasies of a bunch of overgrown children.
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If you live somewhere that hundreds of your neighbors die each from gunfire, you need to move.

Your AK47 is not going to be useful in whatever insane Turner Diaries fantasy you have conjured, because it's not going to happen.
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This makes no sense at all.
 
No, here's what happens.

A conservative NEEDS an assault rifle, because otherwise watching Red Dawn obsessively just wont be as fun. He watches it happily and safely in his Dallas suburb.

A liberal is gunned down.

The conservative responds with "well if they all had guns they'd be safer" because they have no concept of what urban violence is actual like and will go to their grave denying the undeniable reality of gun-phobic Europe's lower murder rates.

Because to a conservative my life being put in CONSTANT DANGER is a reasonable trade off for their liberty to have an armory in their four car garage next to their hummer.

YOU want a toy.

I want a safe life.
 
I live in the murder capital of the country... and we also have the strictest gun control.

I'm not saying that gun control has CAUSED that excessive murder rate, I'm saying it hasn't done jack **** to stop it.

I'm also saying, I know urban violence.
 
new coup for you said:
No, here's what happens.
A conservative NEEDS an assault rifle....
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Can you provide an example of any of the conservatives here expressing a need for an assault rifle?
Or is this just a strawman?

A liberal is gunned down.
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Like a bus full of lawyers driving over a cliff...
:mrgreen:

The conservative responds with "well if they all had guns they'd be safer" because they have no concept of what urban violence is actual like
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How do you know this?
Is this another strawman?

and will go to their grave denying the undeniable reality of gun-phobic Europe's lower murder rates
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Show that the gun contril laws in Europe are what keep them from having a murder rate similar to the US.

Because to a conservative my life being put in CONSTANT DANGER is a reasonable trade off for their liberty to have an armory in their four car garage next to their hummer.
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Hmm. Jealous much?
My havng a gun, any number of them, doesnt put you in any danger whatsoever.

I want a safe life.
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There's no such thing.
 
No, here's what happens.

A conservative NEEDS an assault rifle, because otherwise watching Red Dawn obsessively just wont be as fun. He watches it happily and safely in his Dallas suburb.

A liberal is gunned down.

The conservative responds with "well if they all had guns they'd be safer" because they have no concept of what urban violence is actual like and will go to their grave denying the undeniable reality of gun-phobic Europe's lower murder rates.

Because to a conservative my life being put in CONSTANT DANGER is a reasonable trade off for their liberty to have an armory in their four car garage next to their hummer.

YOU want a toy.

I want a safe life.
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Just stick to fashion. Logic isn't your strong suit.
 
Maximus Zeebra said:
Wow, really? Chicago is my favorite US city, among other positive things, the people there are fantastic and the accent is barable, actually quite nice, people are smart and the city is better organized than most other US cities.
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Thanks, we rock AND we can dodge bullets! ;)
 
You know you're from Chicago when........
Author unknown but definately a Chicagoian

1. The "Living Room" is called the "front room"

2. You don't pronounce the "s" at the end of Illinois. You become irritated at people who do.

3. You measure distance in minutes (especially "from the city"). And you swear everything is pretty much 15 minutes away.

4. You have no problem spelling or pronouncing "Des Plaines" or "Lisle".

5. Your school classes were canceled because of cold.

6. Your school classes were canceled because of heat.

7. You've had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

8. Stores don't have sacks, they have bags.

9. You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example:
"Where's my coat at?" or "If you go to the mall I wanna go with."

10. Your idea of a great tenderloin is when the meat is twice as big as
the bun, "everything" is on it and a slice of dill pickle is on the side.

11. You carry jumper cables in your car.

12. You drink "pop."

13. You understand that I -290, I-90, I-94, and I-294 are all different roads.

14. You know the names of the interstates: Stevenson, Kennedy,
Eisenhower, Dan Ryan, and the Edens. But you call the interstates "expressways"

15. You refer to anything South of I-80 as "Southern Illinois".

16. You refer to Lake Michigan as "The Lake".

17. You refer to Chicago as "The City".

18. "The Super Bowl" refers to one specific game in a series of 35
played in January of 1986. GO BEARS!!

19. No matter where you are, when you hear the term "Downtown" you immediately assume they're talking about Downtown Chicago.

20. You have two favorite football teams: The Bears, and anyone who beats the Packers.

21. You buy "The Trib".

22. You think 35 degrees is great weather to wash your car!

23. You know what goes on a Chicago Style Hot Dog.

24. You know what Chicago Style Pizza REALLY is.

25. You know why they call Chicago "The Windy City", and it's not because of the wind.

26. You understand what "lake-effect" means.

27. You know the difference between Amtrak and Metra, and know which
station they end up at.

28. You have ridden the "L".

29. You can distinguish between the following area codes: 847, 630, 773, 708, 312, & 815

30. You have at some time in your life, used your furniture to guard your parking spot in winter.

31. You respond to the question "Where are you from" with a "side",
example: "WEST SIDE", "SOUTH SIDE" or "NORTH SIDE.

32. You know what the phone number is to Empire Carpet (588-2300)

Bonus. You brag about your city being the murder capital of the United States. Sup fools!? How you gonna act!?
 
You have a political machine that can raise the dead on election day, and gave us barack obama. :roll:
 
Ethereal said:
32. You know what the phone number is to Empire Carpet (588-2300)
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And don't forget, you always have to sing the number. You can find a Chicagoan anywhere in the world by using a variant of Marco Polo with this number.

Sing the "5-8-8" real loud and wait for the "2-3-hundred" reply. I've tested this in Mexico and it works.

Bonus. You brag about your city being the murder capital of the United States. Sup fools!? How you gonna act!?
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:rofl ;)
 
And don't forget, you always have to sing the number. You can find a Chicagoan anywhere in the world by using a variant of Marco Polo with this number.

Sing the "5-8-8" real loud and wait for the "2-3-hundred" reply. I've tested this in Mexico and it works.
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LOL! Really!? Or are you just pullin' my leg? Either way that's hilarious.
 
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LOL! Really!? Or are you just pullin' my leg? Either way that's hilarious.
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It's true. I was drunk on the beach and I couldn't find my friends because it was so dark so I startedhollering that at the top of my lungs. Ended up meeting up with a group of people from Evanston and didn;t find my friends till the next day.

Try it some time if you are ever at Mardi Gras or some other place like that, it's hillarious.
 
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