I was just going to start this thread!

I, personally, I REALLY tired of all your anti-American rants!  And how dare you make any negative comments about our national saint, President Obama (hear the heavenly music), especially as he has an Irish 8th cousin! 

You'd better watch your back around town or some of us US thugs are going to kidnap you and make you listen to really bad US shit-kickin' Miley Cyrus...

PS Your Hamas Pottery Group will soon find its pieces systematically destroyed by people from a certain nation using hammers paid for by the US but made in China!   

I would not criticise you for being too polite nor boringly diplomatic.  I think these are admirable qualities that demonstrate your civility.  However I do think on occasion you try too hard to accomodate some people who will never grant you that priviledge.  As well one can be as polite and boringly dipolmatic with brick walls but it is unlikely to get you anywhere.

So you are the one buliding those incendiary Hamas pieces of pottery, smuggled into Gaza and being thrown at Apache helicopters!  And doing it in a 'Red' organisation using the cross to deflect from their commie atheism!  Shame, shame!

Give my best regards to your cat and some extra caresses from me.  I hope you didn't upset its felines.

Mark(ex)cuse

Not good enough;  I want to see that list!!!  I am an under-cover Mossad agent and no list escapes my scrutiny.  And leave you poor cat alone, you dangerous manic!!!!!

Manic

Diplomacy is the fine art of telling someone to "fekk off" and actually make him/her believe they will enjoy the journey.

I'm no diplomat, that's for certain, however I dont believe that you have reached the dizzy heights of telling anyone to get lost yet..(I may be wrong so I stand corrected if that's the case)...

So you still have a way to go before you reach "annoyingly nice status"...

Chill, and keep the PC levels high bro...Since there is a definite need for someone to counter-balance my obviously inept inability to be PC, to annoy almost everyone with my distinctly Un-PC and slanderous comments, and to gather reactionary feelings towards my misplaced and bad taste jokes....

Peace out.

@translator re the manics video...you had me at 'if'. LOVE that band so much it hurts! can any other band in the world write amazing political songs AND get to number one? a beautiful song about fighting fascism in the spanish civil war and an elegy for a time when working class people stood up for each other and stuck together.

@Manics1984 your forum "Amnesty International: Palestinian writer imprisoned..." has been removed, do u know why?

Has it? Really? How strange...I'll have to look into that. Perhaps it just got lost in the mass of other posts? In any case I'll go have a look.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention Geoffrey:o)

Talking about beautiful songs...."a beautiful song about fighting fascism in the xxxxxxxxxx and an elegy for a time when xxxxxxxxxxxxx( a whole nation) stood up for each other and stuck together".......If this doesnt evoke goose bumps and a tear in yer eye, then youre harder than the nails in your grannies coffin...

I bet he is a spy. That's why he is too polite. It all probably started with the year 1984, which was a rather neutral, diplomatic year to be born into this boring, peace-loving, non-violent planet.

One must also pay careful attention to the diet. Keep away from anything that rhymes with hummus or falafels & embrace openly, all smokable herbal supplements that heal the world.

If all these fail to toughen your stance, you may don hip-hop clothes like I do and move to the wrong side of the Franco-Swiss border. We're famous to deal with hand grenades and kalashnikov-wielding suicide bombers here on a daily basis, which should make you feel at home. They greeted me with open 'arms' too, but lowered them as I unleashed evidence of my quasi-jungle book upbringing.

Plus, we won a recent Racaille (riff-raff) award by a narrow margin, which makes it acceptable to be a LOT ruder than we truly are.

Hope this helps you in your quest for enlightenment, heaven, paradise and its 72 virgins in the same way it is helping me. And my cat. 

You may buy me a beer. I won't thank you for it, though. :)

@charlie: thanks for that, it's a hell of a song. wish i could have been at home to sing in the pub after dublin won the hurling! and we beat the cats! sweeeeet!!!

Well, Im a blue and gold man myself... So maybe see ya at Croke in Sept for the All Ireland Final.

(Or find a decent pub here that can screen it)

it is still unavalaible in spite of few minutes ago I could get in...

It's because it was MOVED to the current events subforum.

http://www.glocals.com/#/forums/politics-and-current-affairs/Amnesty-International--Palestinian-writer-imprisoned-without-charge--124345.htm%23msg_124725

@ charlie: so a Tipp man eh? yes, it all makes sense now ;o)

nothing like an afternoon in crokers followed by scoops in the pub for post match analysis/mutual slagging between the two sets of fans. im a big fan of tyrone as well, espeically cuz so many kerry people don't like them :o)

@andy: thanks for finding it again:o) 

You used links; that's now a no-no...  Next person violating the rules owes everyone on the thread a beer...

And remember, Manics, no Chomsky!

did someone say beer?.....

V. - I think the "links/pics etc" applied only to Odeds post on reasons why the subthread was created... not in general... At least I hope not, or my comic abilty will be severely restricted.

Yes, however, as the term "Hamas" is contained in the thread's title, I was certain that this subject would be moved to the less visible part of the forum...

Anyway, Manics1984, I love your posts. Wonder if you discuss them live with your cat.

I think I just fell in love lol

Karl Popper's paradox of the tolerance of intolerance offers some interesting ideas on and problems with tolerance.  What I find most powerful is the idea of using rational argument to keep intolerant philosophies in check.  His paradox offers up solutions but also problems such as who will define what is 'intolerant' and 'rational'.  Even Popper wrote on 'the problem of knowledge' and thus there is a problem with defining 'rational'.  So perhaps we should just bash those we can't tolerate over the head and/or tell 'em to fekk off (or go forth and multiply) and run fast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper#The_paradox_of_tolerance

And let's not forget the power of literature and Homage to Catalonia, 1984.  Or had that disappeared down an Orwellian memory hole?

too much information....

The line has already formed on the left...

He doesn't have  to cook; he's a musician...plus, he reads. And not simply the sports page...  

Driving me insane!

Left bank?  Are there any?  And the right banks?  Not likely.  Can't wait to read Manics' memoirs!

Dear manics1984,

I'd used 'links' last time and a certain Translator managed to attack that vulnerability, denying me of a well-deserved beer. Which is why, I'm writing this in Italics, so the English speaking folks on the forum cannot decode the message. 

I can see some ladies on this site are trying to make you lose your focus. They will sweet talk you into trusting them, but what they are really after is - your innate ability to whiff out the differences between a golden Guinness and the drink of infidels, the Budweiser. 

I have added a picture of the goodies you will be missing out in paradise, if you end up being nice to them. 

Arun...

Without being argumenta tive but I take issue at your statement ;

"....a golden Guinness......" ???????????

Guinness is very dark red.... but no where near golden.... as every self respecting Guinness drinker should know.

However, rather than continue to lambast and ridicule you for such schoolboy errors, I have attached a picture below which forms part of a eye test to spot colour blindness... spot the number and you're forgiven this once, but not allowed any further such Guinness related errors... If you dont see it.... get yerself along to the clinic and all will be solved.

Good luck

Charlie,

I am caught, due to a technical-error. But I will not let you push me back to the pavilion with a hit-wicket decision.

Guinness is liquid gold, you aren't probably able to see it as you are keen on its physical manifestation. Its free-flowing nature could also play an important role in you overlooking its spiritual equivalence with the coveted metal.

However, since we are discussing scientific properties, I have found how gold too can be red, thanks to my schoolboy state-of-mind.

I consider your molecular-amoeba-ball a racist attack. You hid the number 74, between floating pseudopodia to prove your point, having known of my colourless existence from my previous post.

I am sorry if I disturbed your colourful sentiments. For my clan will consider me a sinner for having hurt someone from your land of the dark-red Guinness, which may result in a reduction in my ration by a virgin or two.

Matey...

Two points:

1) its "71".... not (74)... although colour blindness is probably a good thing these days ~ sic.

2) Dark Ruby... the actual colour of Guinness, conforms more the the Cu element than to Au... although I forgive you the dropped slip catch of the "liquid gold euphamism" since many might agree with its spiritual properties.

So now , 3 overs played, its 3 wickets to me I think.

Any more spinners you want to play now? They seem to be all going wide .

71? Silly-point. It is 74. You may ask the third umpire, Dr. Google.

The second point you hurled at me from gully though, alongwith potent forgiveness hit bull's eye on my third eye. 

So, I stand corrected and withdraw my colourblind troops. 

You see, while we're chucking tomatoes at each other, there are others bowling the maidens over and creating war. We need more beer out here.

well the domestic situation has deteriorated massively. my cat isn't speaking to me anymore so I've been reduced to dressing up as giant mouse just to get some attention. the only problem is i'm beginning to get a little bit too used to wearing my mouse costume. nearly walked out to work in it today. still if it keeps her ladyship happy...

oh god... youre both right....my apologies, sincerely

I'm off to the eye doctor....

i wish my cat looked like that Marina!

I see no reason why your wishes can't come true Manics.

(damn I'm good)

@charlie: so many questions.

1. how does one get a cat (especially a grumpy cat) into such an outfit?

2. is this legal?

3. will posting and talking about this picture cause a new forum to be created on glocals for animal porn?

thanks dr. charlie.

It is prefectly legal to wear a Mickey Mouse costume and be on your way to loot a bank.

Don't even think of wearing a burkha and going for a walk in the park, though.

Mouse...of  a different color..

Usually I would have thanked Charlie for the photo.

Now, I am just freaked out.

well it's a beautiful day and i got through the whole night without having any nightmares about charlie's cat. hurrah! I hope the rest of you escaped too:o)

Hey i thought this was a Forum about insulting Maniac 1948 but it seems to have become one devoting to professing affection and understanding(?)!  Well if you can't beat em...  And Megalomanic, the first one is for you Bud!

"Bud"?????

This is "Bud". (dont let the cats watch it)

Moving on from Cats....

Back in the day when swordfighting was widely practiced by adults in the villages of Ireland.. instead of giving the children real swords, we gave them a ball and axe shaped sticks... this is what came out of it.....

Shouldn't this (technically) be on the Bob Marley Tribute Forum

(In the absence of a Mouse Forum, obviously.......

Fastest game on grass?  I've never known anyone fast on 'grass'. Watch some ice hockey in the land of True Patriot Love where lacrosse is/was(?) our national sport.  You don't nuffin, sport!