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What is the greatest weapon of war?

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  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Propaganda! Tell the same lies often enough, it will eventually be believed as the "truth".

    edit:were it not for the internet allowing us to see alternative viewpoints, we'd all* be brainwashed drones by now.

    *unfortunately, the majority just swallow the official line!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    Being strapped into a chair and made watch Sex and the City.
    Inhuman. :eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    The funniest joke in the world written by Arthur Scribbler.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    liah wrote: »
    Boobs.

    I'm actually convinced that if every woman in the world simultaneously made the decision to remove their shirts, war would end and we would enter into world peace.

    At least, til the insecurities set in..

    I got here late.

    Have I missed the boobs?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭latenia


    Raygun + M1919 deployable


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭gleep


    Endurance






    *Thats that deep sh1t right there*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭MajorMax


    "I do not know what the third world war will be fought with, but the fourth world war will be fought with sticks and stones."
    Albert Einstein


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 544 ✭✭✭Pookah


    liah wrote: »

    I clicked on that link, in an interent cafe, just as the owner walked by. :o :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭johnny_knoxvile


    we are fighting a financial war...Harney and Cowan are the super villians, like the Joker and Catwoman... Though on second thoughts Cowan is as funny as piles & Harney aint squeezing into a latex cat suit any time soon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭cyrusdvirus


    Terry wrote: »
    The Irish population went from 8.5 million in 1801 to 2.5 million in 1901 and it wasn't from smallpox.
    Sometimes it's all down to ignorance, hatred and greed.



    She has 45 minutes until it's Thursday here..

    By the way, we're the same age. Stop trying to pretend that you're young by calling me a young man.
    Given the average time of death for Irish men, we're almost middle aged.


    I'm a month older than you! :)

    I was trying to make you sound more appealing.

    And make myself sound young.

    I accepted the middle age thing when talking to my older sister on my birthday, she said that i'm not middle aged, cos she's not middle aged.

    So talk to an older female cousin, she'll tell you we're not middle aged


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,500 ✭✭✭ReacherCreature


    ardinn wrote: »
    Sure it has to be attack dogs - Highest kill streak on Black ops!!! :cool:

    That's seriously lame.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Dusty87




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Mind bullets, they've got the power to kill a yak at 200 yards. :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭Bunny Buster


    The Brain...... You can have all the man power, fire power etc.. but if you don't use the auld noggin, you would be aswell off staying in the kitchen and baking some scones! :D:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭BigDuffman


    Increasing college fees by the looks of things..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    It is the Joke that was invented in WW2 and used against the Germans.


    "Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! .. Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Dusty87


    Nodin Quote:Originally Posted by Dusty87
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock
    gets my vote

    Nope....
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4

    For confirmed kills yeah, but look at the stuff hathcock did.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭MarkGrisham


    Greatest weapon? A general who wins wars without obsessing over big, bright battles. When the enemy is confused as **** as to how they lost. Sun Tzu style.


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    logistics


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,182 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    Superflu, the plague doesn't discriminate


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    sarah palin, that bitch could be seriously dangerous in power!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    df1985 wrote: »
    sarah palin, that bitch could be seriously dangerous in power!

    I can see Russia from my house.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Im sure it's already been said in some way or another, but The Pen.

    Whoever said 'The pen is mightier than the sword' has never stared down the wrong end of an AK-47

    NTM


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    Whoever said 'The pen is mightier than the sword' has never stared down the wrong end of an AK-47

    NTM
    However, war is stupid.
    Take Afghanistan, for instance. Even if you were able to defeat all the Taliban, some other fundamentalist nutters would soon take their place.
    The mightiest weapon you could think of would also be useless. Violence creates violence. You'd think, in 2010, people would've got it by now.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,612 ✭✭✭bullets


    Blay wrote: »
    without them bullets wouldn't be fired,
    :pac:

    I'm not fired I still have a job.
    :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

    ~B


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Whoever said 'The pen is mightier than the sword' has never stared down the wrong end of an AK-47

    NTM
    So the AK74 is mightier than the sword :eek:

    who'd have thunk it ?


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,539 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    Having god on your side, apparently.

    I'd prefer a large well trained and well equipped army to be honest.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    bullets wrote: »
    I'm not fired I still have a job.
    :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

    ~B
    for now

    *pats winged monkey and waits "soon my pretties"*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,553 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    Computers are now the greatest weapons of war, they are integrated into everything.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    The U.S Army.

    It's just a shame they kill as many of their own soldiers as the "opposition"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭FrostyJack


    Doomsday is the greatest weapon of war, lock thread please.

    edit: Sorry John Matrix is the numero uno


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh-QUh69MCg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    F#ck it, changed my mind, thread locking is the greatest weapon available.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Tesco Marys thighs!

    desgroyed more men round ballyfermot than dutch gold!


  • Registered Users Posts: 43 Mikill87


    the greatest conventional weapon in history was definitely the german "schwerer gustaf" ( railway siege gun)
    it was also the most ridiculous weapon ever build! it could fire shells weighing 7 tonnes, but it took 250people to assemble the gun in 3 days and more than 2000 people to lay the tracks and dig embankments!!!

    Also this gun could only fire one round every 45mins! one single shot haha

    but it was definitely the most conventional destructive weapon ever build!


    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/80_cm_Gustav_shell_compared_to_T-34.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,553 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    Mikill87 wrote: »
    the greatest conventional weapon in history was definitely the german "schwerer gustaf" ( railway siege gun)
    it was also the most ridiculous weapon ever build! it could fire shells weighing 7 tonnes, but it took 250people to assemble the gun in 3 days and more than 2000 people to lay the tracks and dig embankments!!!

    Also this gun could only fire one round every 45mins! one single shot haha

    but it was definitely the most conventional destructive weapon ever build!


    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/80_cm_Gustav_shell_compared_to_T-34.jpg

    http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTef6YlPhLfVCdDjWGkgOjNdtQ_K6OJe77PvHBMjhMEClaFGwTLew



    Rambo's knife is more impressive :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭FrostyJack


    Mikill87 wrote: »
    the greatest conventional weapon in history was definitely the german "schwerer gustaf"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lppFyLKDRck

    21,000lbs = 9.5 tons > 7 tons

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMSfD4roMxY&feature=related


  • Registered Users Posts: 43 Mikill87


    yeah u are right, but i was talking about the gun itself, not just the bomb or shell.

    and a 1350t gun is impressive ;)


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Mechagodzilla
    which one ?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,798 ✭✭✭karma_


    Whoever said 'The pen is mightier than the sword' has never stared down the wrong end of an AK-47

    NTM

    It wasn't meant literally... just in case you didn't already realise that.

    The greatest weapon of war is man, and his tendency for violence.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    Whoever said 'The pen is mightier than the sword' has never stared down the wrong end of an AK-47

    NTM

    "Augustus Caesar had sent our Latin master's beloved Ovid into exile...
    Yet the effect of all these stories was to make me feel not Caesar's
    power, but his fear of Ovid. And why would Caesar fear Ovid, except for
    knowing that neither his divinity nor all his legions could save him from a
    good line of poetry."
    Tobias Wolff


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 861 ✭✭✭yawnstretch


    Nothing. There is nothing great about war.

    The sooner we realise that harming instead of helping each other is the only way forward the quicker we can forget such foolish questions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭FrostyJack


    Nothing. There is nothing great about war.

    The sooner we realise that harming instead of helping each other is the only way forward the quicker we can forget such foolish questions.

    True.... but nukes are great though :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Nothing. There is nothing great about war.

    The sooner we realise that harming instead of helping each other is the only way forward the quicker we can forget such foolish questions.

    Kim Jong Il begs to differ

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b49Iwfp8U-U&feature=related


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    Nothing. There is nothing great about war.

    The sooner we realise that harming instead of helping each other is the only way forward the quicker we can forget such foolish questions.
    Wait, what?

    Harming each other is the way forward?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    liah wrote: »
    Boobs.

    I'm actually convinced that if every woman in the world simultaneously made the decision to remove their shirts, war would end and we would enter into world peace.

    At least, til the insecurities set in..
    Im pretty sure lots of people would puke at the horrid site. How about all the attractive young uns' do it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    Flint the weapon that first assured our acendency to where we are now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭stateofflux


    squadron commander flashheart


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    ascanbe wrote: »
    "Augustus Caesar had sent our Latin master's beloved Ovid into exile...
    Yet the effect of all these stories was to make me feel not Caesar's
    power, but his fear of Ovid. And why would Caesar fear Ovid, except for
    knowing that neither his divinity nor all his legions could save him from a
    good line of poetry."
    Tobias Wolff

    Here's the problem with that, though.

    If Caesar had a mind to, Mr Ovoid could have been killed by use of a sword or pilum. That would have rather settled the issue, as far as Mr Ovoid was concerned, his pen probably wouldn't have saved him. Any attempt to use words to effect revolution or change ultimately depends on the opposition's willingness to show mercy or otherwise think it's just not worth it. Sometimes it works, other times, it's blood and no change. Similarly, there is a reason the AK-47 is so associated with revolutionary movements in latin America and Africa: Words alone were insufficient, they needed good, old-fashioned, projectile technology.

    NTM


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  • Registered Users Posts: 724 ✭✭✭cock robin


    Fear.


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