Sue Bradfords Anti-Spanking Bill

[scumdog]

'Major' wars, not little brushfire affairs. Those are all hiccups compared to WW1 or WW2 or if there had been a war between US and USSR.
Are you saying that because a rogue state (US) ignores the UN, everyone should?

Yep, when the UN start dictating what kind of gun laws/control NZ should have they lose any respect I ever may have had for them, shove UN up you arse as far as I'm concerned, generaly throughout the world they have often shown that they are as useful as a chocolate fire-guard.

[mstriumph]

Absolut!
The phrase 'self-righteous, self-serving, dictatorial, lame-brained, pontificating, blind, ineffective arseholes' also springs to mind.

.... and, by the way, is there a REASON that almost everyone on KB actually uses 'arse' and 'ass' correctly [ie and not interchangeably?]? - it's most unusual?

Yep, when the UN start dictating what kind of gun laws/control NZ should have they lose any respect I ever may have had for them, shove UN up you arse as far as I'm concerned, generaly throughout the world they have often shown that they are as useful as a chocolate fire-guard.

[vifferman]

and, by the way, is there a REASON that almost everyone on KB actually uses 'arse' and 'ass' correctly [ie and not interchangeably?]? - it's most unusual?

Hitcher, the Arse Sheriff.

[Lou Girardin]

Absolut!
The phrase 'self-righteous, self-serving, dictatorial, lame-brained, pontificating, blind, ineffective arseholes' also springs to mind.

.... and, by the way, is there a REASON that almost everyone on KB actually uses 'arse' and 'ass' correctly [ie and not interchangeably?]? - it's most unusual?

We speak English, not USglish.

[vifferman]

We speak English, not USglish.

An increasingly difficult challenge, given our US-centric TV, and expandingly interdweeb-influenced lives...

[Lou Girardin]

An increasingly difficult challenge, given our US-centric TV, and expandingly interdweeb-influenced lives...

Kep fiting th gud fit.

[Hitcher]

Hitcher, the Arse Sheriff.

As a fully-paid-up member of the BDOTGNZA I do my bit...

[mstriumph]

Blue Ducks Order Twin Gerbrils Nuclear Zealot Attack?? Bent Down Over The Great New Zealand A...... ? ???? Too silly ... OK I give up - I'm gonna hav to ask for assistance on this one??

As a fully-paid-up member of the BDOTGNZA I do my bit...

[mstriumph]

Sorry - I'm an ex-brit .... we no longer know the difference

We speak English, not USglish.

[Hitcher]

BDOTGNZA is the venerable Brave Defenders Of The Great New Zealand ARSE. Tremble at the mention of their name!

[mstriumph]

- and a venerable, vunerable and delightfully attractive arse it is, too!
........ can i stop now?

[Pixie]

Perhaps because it presents a forum where diplomacy can avoid major wars. The last one was 60 years ago, probably the longest ever period between international conflicts.

Nothin' to do with MAD,Huh?

[James Deuce]

Nothin' to do with MAD,Huh?

Or the fact that more people have died in armed conflict during those 60 years of "peace" than the totals combined, civilian and military, of WW1 and WW2.

WW1 and WW2 were anomalies in the history of humankind. As a percentage, never had so many munitions been exhanged to such little effect - relatively. As a general rule professional soldiers, airmen and sailors made up 10% of the militarised population, but accounted for 90% of the death and destruction. I have to try to find, but the study that came to these findings was commssioned post-Vietnam, when it became obvious to the US military hierarchy who were spending more time in the field than ever before that conscript troops were good at carrying stuff, but weren't effective in the field. Poor kill ratio you see. The phenomenon was examined in more detail by discussing the issue with WW2 verts, both professional (some of whom served in Vietnam - it was only 20 years after WW2 that US involvement started) and conscript. A HUGE number of conscripts (more than 50%) in frontline active duty admitted shooting high, both literally and figuratively.

Conclusion?

Don't smack your kids unless you're a professional.

[Lou Girardin]

Nothin' to do with MAD,Huh?

MAD didn't stop the Cuban missile crisis.

[Lou Girardin]

Or the fact that more people have died in armed conflict during those 60 years of "peace" than the totals combined, civilian and military, of WW1 and WW2.

WW1 and WW2 were anomalies in the history of humankind. As a percentage, never had so many munitions been exhanged to such little effect - relatively. As a general rule professional soldiers, airmen and sailors made up 10% of the militarised population, but accounted for 90% of the death and destruction. I have to try to find, but the study that came to these findings was commssioned post-Vietnam, when it became obvious to the US military hierarchy who were spending more time in the field than ever before that conscript troops were good at carrying stuff, but weren't effective in the field. Poor kill ratio you see. The phenomenon was examined in more detail by discussing the issue with WW2 verts, both professional (some of whom served in Vietnam - it was only 20 years after WW2 that US involvement started) and conscript. A HUGE number of conscripts (more than 50%) in frontline active duty admitted shooting high, both literally and figuratively.

Conclusion?

Don't smack your kids unless you're a professional.

20,000,000 died in WW1, 60,000,000 diesd in WW2. Show me the evidence of 80,000,000 dead since 1945.