Funny Stuff Thread.... to loosen your day

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ahho

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Sarcasm?
Perhaps not. I can tell you that this is how things are done in government agencies. Be it a roadway project or a tank, it's design by committee. :(
[video=youtube;aXQ2lO3ieBA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aXQ2lO3ieBA[/video]



I will now get back to bottling my Malbec

I wish the did one for the Russian side for the BMP-1. Especially of the Gas Tank doors
 

nemo

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This guy actually is serious about this ---
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Destroy Chinese military bases in PH now!
This is the reality: China’s military leaders are rushing the construction of military bases in six different reef areas inside the Philippines’ exclusive 200 mile economic zone. The Philippines is doing nothing to immediately stop it.

In a year’s time, these bases will practically be completed. Once they are completed fighter planes, bombers, helicopters, missiles and heavily armed warships will be stationed there. It will then be practically impossible to remove them.

This is a very dangerous situation for the national security of the Philippines and surrounding countries. This is the same kind of grave danger for which President John Kennedy risked going to war when Russia was establishing missile bases in Cuba. He ordered the immediate blockade of Russian ships proceeding to Cuba to set up the bases.

In an article I wrote last June, I warned about the initiation of the construction of these Chinese bases and the terrible danger that they posed. I suggested what the Philippines could do to destroy these bases, that the Philippines was not helpless and could and should absolutely destroy these bases. Terrible consequences would result if nothing is done.

On February 27, 2015, the USPinoys for Good Governance (USP4GG), led by its Chairperson, prominent New York-based philantropist Loida Nicolas Lewis, hosted a dinner for about a hundred prominent overseas Filipinos at a Fil-Am’s Makati penthouse. Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario was the main guest.

When the issue of the rushed construction of Chinese military bases in Philippine territory was brought up and Secretary Del Rosario was asked what the Philippines was doing to immediately stop it, Del Rosario said that the Philippines had already brought a case against China’s intrusion in the International Tribunal on the Law of the Seas (ITLOS) where the applicable law would be the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas (UNCLOS).

Being a lawyer and familiar with the law and procedures involved, I responded to the soft-spoken Secretary whom I have no doubt is a good man: “I have little doubt that we will win our case in ITLOS, but the problem is that this will take another year or two. China also has already declared that she will not abide by the decision. Meanwhile, they continue to rush the construction of these deadly military bases. Unless we immediately stop their construction, at the rate they are going, these bases will be realities in a year’s time or so. What therefore are we doing to immediately stop these constructions?”

Practically everyone was shocked when Secretary del Rosario said nothing was really being done except the legal action in ITLOS and added: “I don’t really know what to do (to immediately stop the construction of these bases).”

This non-action on the part of the Philippine government is not only terribly alarming, but it’s also very disappointing and frustrating. Obviously, a stronger more decisive leadership is immediately needed on the part of President Benigno Simeon Aquino III and other leaders on this very important issue. It’s even more more important than the Basic Bangsamoro Law (BBL) to which the President and Congress are giving full attention. Here, national security and the future of the entire Filipino people are at a definite risk.

Secretary del Rosario’s statement clearly reveals that nothing is being done to immediately stop the construction of these deadly bases. If we proceed on this non-action mode, they would definitely be completed. If we were to act only then to destroy them, it would mean more lives on both sides lost and we would be on the losing end. If we act now, focused only on the physical destruction of these bases, few lives would be lost if any. We are not warring against China, we are simply legitimately defending ourselves against possible future attacks from inside our territory.

We need to destroy these bases now. We really have no choice.

And something which is *presumably* not serious, or the guy who generated that seriously have some screw loose...


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Philippine Sends Navy Fleet, Fighter Jets to Disputed Spratly Islands
11/16/2014 – Manila | Philippines has finally decided to protect its natural resources surrounding the island country, by
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s, on Saturday morning, 8:00AM Philippine standard time.

The tough decision made by the Philippine president follows the failure of the British special agent who was hired earlier to negotiate with the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, to abandon the disputed Spratly Islands.

The naval maneuver involves one of three of the country’s powerful and heavily-armed aircraft carriers, four missile-guided destroyers, seven small torpedo boats, and 4 high-endurance cutters including BRP Gregorio del Pilar.

Twenty three F/A-18 Hornets, and sixteen F-16 Fighting Falcons were also fitted on board the BRP Magdalo, the newest Philippine air craft carrier.

BRP Magdalo is the first of 5 aircraft carriers ordered by the Philippine government from Newport News Shipbuilding. The other four will be completed between 2016 and 2020. BRP Magdalo is named after the ill-fated Magdalo Group. A group of patriotic Philippine Marines that was abandoned by its leader after the latter tasted success in Philippine senate race.

Admiral Perfecto Claro, commander of the navy fleet who is tasked to deliver the force told the Philippine Pride over a radio communication, that the Iwahig Naval Station in Palawan has already activated the Iron Dome two days prior to the dispatch of the fleet.

Iron Dome is an all-weather air defense system purchased by the Department of Defense from Israel earlier this year, and is capable to protect the whole country from any outside missile attack.

US Pacific Fleet stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii is already aware of the situation, and Obama is expected to call the Philippine president to hold the plan. America owned trillions of dollars from China and is expected to abstain.


CIDG and NBI earlier this week asked Britain’s help but the
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who was tasked to convince the Chinese leader failed miserably. Britain’s MI6 is not aware yet about the fate of the ill-fated agent after going to China two days ago.

China is not expected to resist with their inferior naval technology. Philippines purpose is to show the world that it has a
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not known to many.

China has been persuasive to steal the Spratly Islands after the death of Philippine hero, and former President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos.

Marcos was the only Philippine president who protected and guarded the archipelago from foreign invasions during the course of his 20-year reign.

 
Bromancing the phone:

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U.S.-China 'bromance' sparked by stolen iPhone moves China's netizens
BY ALEXANDRA HARNEY
SHANGHAI Wed Mar 18, 2015 3:38am EDT

(Reuters) - It was a rare, if bizarre, moment of tenderness in the otherwise tense US-China relationship: an American journalist embracing the Chinese man who had been using his stolen iPhone.

Matt Stopera and Li Hongjun met for the first time on Tuesday night at an airport in southern China, in the latest chapter of what some Chinese are calling an international "bromance".

In February, Stopera, a New York-based writer for website Buzzfeed, became famous in China for an article describing how photos from China began to appear on his phone's photo stream after his iPhone was stolen in New York.

Chinese netizens tracked the photos, and the stolen iPhone, to Li Hongjun, a 30-year-old restaurateur in Meizhou, a city in the southern province of Guangdong. Li and Stopera, who is 25, connected online and planned this week's meeting in Meizhou.

Li, known online as Brother Orange after his selfies with tangerine trees showed up in Stopera's photo stream, said his nephew gave him the secondhand phone as a gift last October, but he had no idea where the phone came from.

Many iPhones stolen in the US end up in China.

Fittingly for a relationship developed over the Internet, the activities of Stopera and Li in Meizhou were exhaustively documented online.

Stopera, whose month-old Weibo account has nearly 180,000 fans, posted pictures of himself eating Chinese porridge and pickled radish, planting a tree, and taking a selfie with Li and tangerine trees.

Weibo users seemed tickled by the duo. "A genuine and slightly serious middle aged man versus an amiable, smiley American fellow - such an interesting pair," wrote one user.

Reached by telephone, Li said his life had not changed much since meeting Stopera.

"It's no big deal if customers want to take pictures with me. People call me 'Brother Orange', or take pictures of me when I'm walking on the street. It doesn't bother me. It feels really good."

Meizhou, a city of about 5 million people about 2,000 km (1,243 miles) from the capital, Beijing, is about 360 km (224 miles) from Shenzhen, where Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn makes the iPhone.

(Reporting by Alexandra Harney; Additional reporting by Anita Li; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
 

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Broccoli

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Eesy way to learn Finnish by using word "six/kuusi".
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