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gradenko2k -> RE: Interesting poll BBC (1/1/2014 1:32:08 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Missouri_Rebel
Theres no 'vague notion of masculinity' when you're wearing a onesee.
What I see is some smug little puke pushing ideas so good they have to be forced on someone.
Look at the eyebrows, the chin, the nose - the two men are practically interchangeable if GI Joe was wearing flannel and his opposite was the one with the helmet and the fatigues. It even makes the guy on the right look more manly by association, provided your inherent prejudices don't have anything to say about the wearing of flannel.
"Thanks, Grandpa, you fought for my freedom, now I'm going to make sure I take care of you"
Consider the alternative,
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of disappointed shells that dropped behind.
GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro Patria Mori
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