http://finance.google.com/finance?q=LON%3AHBOS&hl=en Where were you at 0902 today as HBOS plc's share price more than halved , before bouncing back up as news broke of talks between HBOS and Lloyds TSB regarding a takeover (to somewhere still pathetic of course, since it is exposed to the things...

Just saying, thank you for delving into this, Mark. I haven't got anything to add, but I couldn't let it go unsaid.

COB Adder is near An Nasiriyah, so I'm assuming that when you say "from South to Central", you mean down to Basra and Qasr, right the way down to the border of Kuwait, and then also right the way up to Balad Airfield just north of Baghdad? That seems like quite a distance - would you perso...

Out on the road? What area would you be in?

This then, is why we have to agree to disagree. That's funny, coming from someone who was quite insistent about not dropping it when we were asked to stop derailing the topic. Well, we've got Chris now insisting that it be dropped, so I had to at least gesture in the direction of doing so to see if...

Another interesting thought that occurred to me when I was reading Gundam Sentinel, was how very fervently Ere-ism was adhered to and practised by the New Desides. And I think that might be an additional factor to them being able to work out a cooperation among their rank-and-file members as well - ...

The chief hypocrisy in my argument is that I'm telling you that calling the rest of us "moral backsliders" for not agreeing with you is wrong. However, given the nature of our respective arguments, I think I'm standing on slightly firmer ground. This then, is why we have to agree to disag...

In other words: lighten up, or else it looks ridiculous. You seem to be asking us to be deadly serious, 24/7. That's unreasonable. I haven't done that at all. I've simply made observations, and I've said that a line has been crossed, a line which I don't think is good to cross. Nowhere in there hav...

You are not God. You do not speak for God. Therefore, you do not have the keys to absolute morality. I'm now forced to quote Dr. Peikoff: " ...[an individual] does not know everything, but he does know what he knows. The choice is not: to make unwarranted, dogmatic claims or to give up the cog...

However, I think that in this particular case, this particular microcosm, is so insignificant and off-center that it's not worth spending the energy over. I think you're wasting your time getting angered and saddened over this instance when there are far greater ones to have those feelings for, if ...

People are still not actually adressing the issue I explained in my previous post. I addressed your argument directly. The majority of the others are talking about the sexploitation of little girls, which you say is equal or secondary to the use of WWII pilots' names. You later claimed that it was ...

By using these people, it shows a tremendous lack of respect for them. These people fought -- many of them died! -- for their respective countries. And now they're being treated in a fantastically undignified way, so some random people can make money. That's horrible . Granted, it may not be as emo...

People are still not actually adressing the issue I explained in my previous post. I'm still seeing people with arguments that refer to how it "doesn't cause harm", when I already explained that this was not the angle I had been approaching it from at all. To erect and argue against a poin...

Again, how about both?

You should know better than to try to imply that I'm unconcerned about the exploitation of my own sex.

Why not address the topic at hand?

What I tried to say is that it fits into the category I label as "harmless". Yes, but something causing (or not causing) harm, and something being a symptom of harm having been caused, are two different things. I'm trying to illustrate that what is being done with/by Strike Witches, is mo...

I don't think people are going to understand what I'm seeing as the fundamental difference between something like ZZ's Rommel tribute (which was fine), and Strike Witches' one. Even though Shadowcell actually highlighted it when he said: I'd like to think that any such pilots, if they're still alive...

Kenji wrote:The living can come to their own defense, in matters like this.

But again, what of the dead?

Kenji: None of that is exactly equivalent to what has happened here. All of the things you named were relatively serious portrayals or paradies of historical figures. Here we have German, Japanese, Italian, British, French, ect, all heroes, being parodied in the specific way that Strike Witches has ...

Well, I'm a little surprised that Strike Witches is mentioned here, and that it was even mentioned in a good light. And that no-one has actually talked about the big elephantic issue in the middle of the room. World War Two Pilots. Each character is named after a pilot hero. For many of you in this ...

Most awesome exchange in that episode:

"That forum [The Collosseum] became like The Ghetto of Mechatalk... it became an entire Collosseum full of degenerates - and filth."

"Ne'er do wells..."

"Yes."

"So, any other questions?"