Space white van men. Also, please remember the bindings on your hotas......

skuzzbag

skuzzbag
Chemicalgibbon said:
Title changed due to sense of humour failure.
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Are you kidding? To Irish travelers that word is as bad as the N word is to the black community. Hardly "sense of humour failure"!

Though I suppose you'll accuse me of being a care-bear now though eh?

Well done in advance, keep it up.
 

Normalguy

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skuzzbag said:
Are you kidding? To Irish travelers that word is as bad as the N word is to the black community. Hardly "sense of humour failure"!

Though I suppose you'll accuse me of being a care-bear now though eh?

Well done in advance, keep it up.
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Please, everyone, step away from this whole topic. It does no one any good.
 

Blast Hardcheese

Blast Hardcheese
Why would you ever bind a button on your Hotas to jettison?!? i mean i have a voice command to do it if it's really needed, but on your hotas? too risky

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skuzzbag said:
Are you kidding? To Irish travelers that word is as bad as the N word is to the black community. Hardly "sense of humour failure"!

Though I suppose you'll accuse me of being a care-bear now though eh?

Well done in advance, keep it up.
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wouldn't want someones precious little internet feelings to get hurt lol
 

Stench

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epoch71 said:
I said "widely regarded". Just as the widely known derogatory (as you put it) terms are for Italians, French, Germans, Irish etc. It's not about skin colour. It's still considered by many to be a racist slur. So yeah - not humour. Not even when Chubby Brown uses them.
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It may be considered by many but that is an appeal to numbers which is a logical fallacy and does not make it a racist slur, it just means those many are ignorant or misinformed.

Also, humor is subjective. What you and I find funny or not funny may be entirely different. So citing a subjective variable as you have is also a fallacious argument.

Not arguing with you here or meaning to be antagonistic by the way. But this is the internet, and political correctness is basically thought and speech control. I (we) have the ability to say what we will and you and we have the ability to say what we will in response to that, but aside some clearly stated (if subjective and ill-defined laws) we can all say and do as we please. If it causes offence, well, nothing happens. Be offended, say your piece and move on. But do not try to control what others say, especially on the basis of ignorance. As a fellow member of the forums, that is not your job, that is for the moderators to do should the use of such words be contrary to house rules or the host countries legal jurisdiction.
 

Stench

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Wrathchilde said:
How I wish I could give more than a measly +1.

Edit: Hmm. Should have quoted Stench there.
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Thank you Wrathchilde. For the record, Epoch71 saw fit to give me negative rep, and abstain from providing me a rational response. So that spells his / her character out nicely.
 

epoch71

epoch71
Stench said:
Thank you Wrathchilde. For the record, Epoch71 saw fit to give me negative rep, and abstain from providing me a rational response. So that spells his / her character out nicely.
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Just like Wrathchilde did for me. Guess we're two of a kind eh?
 

Stench

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Epoch, referencing Wrathchilde's response to you does nothing to address or continue debate with me. That is a straw man argument and is another logical fallacy.
I said in my post I was not being antagonistic. What I posted is fact. You immediately surrender the intellectual debate when you do nothing more than poke someone (comparable to an ad hominem attack I'd suggest) with a negative rep and contribute nothing sensible to the debate, especially when someone has taken time to provide you a reasoned reply.
 

epoch71

epoch71
Hey, I'm fine with all responses. I believe what I posted has merit, others don't. We can agree to disagree on this and focus on better things (like the game).

To be honest the negativity in the forums is becoming pretty depressing.
 

Stench

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epoch71 said:
Hey, I'm fine with all responses. I believe what I posted has merit, others don't. We can agree to disagree on this and focus on better things (like the game).

To be honest the negativity in the forums is becoming pretty depressing.
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And I showed what you posted did not. Now you don't have to agree with that. But intellectually that means defending your position. Not just hitting the negative rep button and moving on. THAT is negative. We're adults (I presume of you) and that means we can have reasoned conversations without it being negative. I even said in my post to you that I intended no antagonism.

What you make of that is indeed up to you. A persons character is defined more by their actions than their words. Words are easy.
 

Dave1235

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Chemicalgibbon said:
I recently purchased a Cobra after what felt like an eternity. I promptly upgraded said Cobra, and then set about the seedy task of hanging around at nav points, looking for cheap targets (which sounds like a space based version of kerb crawling, maybe an idea for an expansion? ).

Anyway, I've had good success up to this point, with the odd Dangerous ranked npcs falling to my "mad skillz yo", as todays yoof call it, and then I see it....

Floating along haphazardly and somewhat drunkenly was a "Dangerous" Hauler. I could just picture this futuristic P reg rusty Transit van of the space lanes, complete with copies of the Daily Sport and Ginsters pasty wrappers strewn all over the dashboard.

Right, I thought. Well these buggers are probably making their way home after ripping off some old lady, no doubt after shoddily resurfacing her space driveway for an extortionate amount, so I'm going to give em' a hiding.

I fumbled with the switches of my X55 hotas which I had just rebound all of the controls on in order to bring up my weapons. Then I hear a rapid "kerthunk", "kerthunk", this goes on for quite some time.

Now there are contacts all over my radar, so many that it looks like it's snowing. "Bloody hell, they've bought the boys along, I'm in for a pasting here", I thought to myself.

Then it dawned on me.

The contacts were white, not yellow.....

I had forgotten what switch was bound to what, and had just jettisoned all 40 tonnes of cargo in one go.

Insert a very loud random naughty word here.......

After several minutes scooping up what I could, 21 tonnes of cargo.......and the space pikey Transit....were never to be seen again.

So if someone driving a space Transit with a dogeared copy of Readers Wives on the dash knocks on your door and offers you some Gallite that fell off the back of a lorry, please do me a favour.......

Shoot them in the face. Repeatedly.

Ta.
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+1 rep for making me LOL.

If I spot anyone with "a dogeared copy of Readers Wives on the dash" I will be sure to shoot them in the face, I will also PM you how many "Ginsters pasty wrappers" I see :D
 
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