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New US Warship built from Twin Towers Steel

  • 02-11-2009 06:52PM
    #1
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,000 ✭✭✭✭


    Hmmm I'm not sure how i feel about this:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8337868.stm

    Its certainly a statement - u blow up our buildings and we'll build warships out of them. but it also seems quite warped to me somehow in someway i can't really express.

    Thoughts ?


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  • #2
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    I'm trying to think up a witty comment involving WWII Kamikazi pilots, but I'm drawing a blank.


  • #3
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,822 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    It's good to see America taking a pro recycling attitude. The green party would be delighted...


  • #4
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Well it's very American

    that's all I'll say


  • #5
    Neamhshuntasach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭Neamhshuntasach


    So now the real reason behind 11/9 surfaces. Conspiracy nuts will have hard ons for days over this one.


  • #6
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,182 ✭✭✭dvpower


    ... now, if Al Queda were to sink it by crashing passenger jets into it, that would be *impressive*.


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  • #7
    rizzee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,882 ✭✭✭rizzee


    @ Wilson10 - I think he's dyslexic


  • #8
    jumpguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    I agree, it's abit twisted in the way that it seems the US are vouching more for war and retaliation than peace and rememberance, as is usual when it comes to death. Great recycling though.


  • #9
    Prof.Badass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Prof.Badass


    Personally I think it's a bit weird. But I'm not american so why should i care?

    Whatever floats their boat i guess.


  • #10
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    longshanks wrote: »
    why do you give a fuck onion gay?

    Banned.


  • #11
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    wilson10 wrote: »
    Where did onion gay come from ?
    The French?


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  • #12
    bigeasyeah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭bigeasyeah


    Sweeeeeeet


  • #13
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    opinion guy wrote: »
    Hmmm I'm not sure how i feel about this:

    You need to pick another username.


  • #14
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    This video needs updating.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS-FoXbjVI


  • #15
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    It should be a catamaran named Titanic 2.


  • #16
    RMD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,662 ✭✭✭RMD


    "We have to remember. It's a way to honour them,"

    Suppose best way of honouring the dead is to build an item used to cause further death. Only in America tbh.


  • #17
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    dvpower wrote: »
    ... now, if Al Queda were to sink it by crashing passenger jets into it, that would be *impressive*.
    Or if they were to crash skyscrapers into it!

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #18
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,607 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Or if they were to crash skyscrapers into it!
    Plane is to Skyscraper as Boat is to x.

    Solve for x.


  • #19
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    sceptre wrote: »
    Plane is to Skyscraper as Boat is to x.

    Solve for x.

    ?


  • #20
    Joey the lips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    It brings new meaning to this steel has the sweat and blood of a thousand men.....


  • #21
    jumpguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    Hadassah Shaggy Xylophone wrote: »
    ?
    Yes Hadassah Shaggy Xylophone, where is the love?


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  • #22
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    sceptre wrote: »
    Plane is to Skyscraper as Boat is to x.

    Solve for x.
    Surely it would be:

    Plane is to Skyscraper as x is to boat.

    Solve for x.

    (cos the plane and x are the attacking objects and the skyscraper and boat are the victims)

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #23
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Joey the lips wrote: »
    It brings new meaning to this steel has the sweat and blood of a thousand men.....
    It'll probably freak out superstitious Muslims. I bet Psyops is spreading all kinds of propaganda throughout the middle east as we speak.


  • #24
    jif
    Closed Accounts Posts: 340 ✭✭jif


    right lets see them knock that fcuker down now then.....said Obama.


  • #25
    bigeasyeah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭bigeasyeah


    x = profit


  • #26
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    jumpguy wrote: »
    Yes Frada, where is the love?

    Are you the OP's brother?


  • #27
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Warship my pale ass. BBC spin.
    USS New York (LPD-21), the fifth San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named after the state of New York. The New York has a crew of 360, and can also carry up to 700 Marines.

    I guess Amphibious Transport Dock just doesnt have the same ring to it.

    If you wanna talk about Weapons she only has 2 Close-in defensive cannons and 2 Point-Defense RAM launcher pods.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_New_York_%28LPD-21%29


  • #28
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,789 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    Why a warship?

    What's wrong with a bridge, for example?


  • #29
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Overheal wrote: »
    Warship my pale ass. BBC spin.



    I guess Amphibious Transport Dock just doesnt have the same ring to it.

    It can carry up to 700 marines and it's not a War Ship?

    I guess they're heading to the Bahamas and not Baghdad then =p


  • #30
    Tipsy Mac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭Tipsy Mac


    Strange and kind of a touch sickening in a way that salvaged steel from a terrorist attack on innocent people is now going to be used to attack more people, some of them also innocent.


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  • #31
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Overheal wrote: »
    Warship my pale ass. BBC spin.



    I guess Amphibious Transport Dock just doesnt have the same ring to it.
    It's still a ship in involved in war stuff, so technically it is a warship.


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