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As 'they' drive all those launchers etc., with the tyre-walls painted white specially for annual parade day, down the main drag, the rest of the world's piss-takers tape cardboard or fibreglass nukes to their car roofs, not forgetting the tyre-walls, and parade en mass, at the same time if possible,
in their respective capital cities. Of course the whole thing is televised. Blues=Reds or vice versa, take your pick.
May not achieve world peace, but it would be quite funny, or maybe not.
(?) Taking the piss
http://www.matts-we...ord=taking+the+piss
to crack a joke or make an insult
I figured it meant "the ones who would be _hit_ by those missiles", but that turns out to be wrong. [jutta, Apr 06 2001]
Taking the piss
http://www.urbandic...taking%20the%20piss
[Voice, Apr 29 2017]
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For a moment there I thought this had something to do with NZ Rugby Reds and Blues and all that... Most hick towns already have pickup trucks outfitted with Gun Racks. I'm on my way to the Army Surplus store to pick a few missiles and a ski rack out. |
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What in the HAIL is a "piss-taker"? |
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For some reason I like the idea. The world needs more fake nuclear demonstrations so everyone gets the idea that the real ones are just as daft. |
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hmm, you must come from a country where patriotic parades are not the norm either that or you need to take a look around at the ostentatious shows of military force that we put on for the benefit of our communist friends. Taking the piss indeed. |
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//Are reds pro nuclear // |
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When I first saw this, I thought of those May Day parades of Red nuclear missiles through Moscow during the Cold War. |
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Back then, of course, the Reds were on the left ("The people's flag is deepest red / It's shrouded oft our martyred dead", etc.) Consequently, red left-wingers in western countries tended to be anti (western) nuclear weapons (but fairly quiet on the subject of Soviet nuclear weapons). |
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For reasons unclear to me, in the United States, the colour-coding has been reversed some time in the last ten years, so that now the Reds are on the right and the Blues are on the left. |
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Can anyone clear up for me how this happened? |
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Honestly I haven't a clue what was meant by red/blue in this idea. Could be Reps/Dems, Communists/Capitalists, Burger King/Pizza Hut, etc. |
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Its Coke/Pepsi. Trust me. |
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<crunching on a carrot> Dunno wot you mean</coac> |
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I doubt that there is much of this going on in rural china either. If you doubt that other nations see Britain as a muscle flexing super power you need to take a second look. Video of military exercises and operations by Brittan's Finest hit the international news almost every night. A bunch of fake missiles being paraded back and forth looks a lot less intimidating than video of actual planes and tanks projecting power half way around the world, no matter what their political leaning. Frankly I feel that the US government uses internal propaganda about the military and military power far more effectively. When they want to show US citizens how strong they "we" are they have their pick of "independent" journalists to parrot the message and an audience that doesn't even roll their eyes at the hyperbole. I don't like any of it but staged "parades" are better than staged "liberations" . |
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In the US, Hollywood gets use of all the cool (declassified) military tech they want so long as they portray the armed forces in a positive light. |
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Of course, the fake missiles aren't supposed to be intimidating, that's what the "piss-take" part is about. |
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Missiles are simply excellent phalli and thus perfect for demonstrating how virile the government is and how efficient it will be in pounding dissidents into submission. Obsession with virility and potency quite frequently accompanies domestic abuse. |
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//Missiles are simply excellent phalli // As someone on a
recent UK comedy programme pointed out, missiles would
be completely un-aerodynamic if they were fanny-shaped.
(That's pussy-shaped for Americans). Besides which, they'd
whistle and spoil the surprise. |
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//Missiles are simply excellent phalli// |
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While it would, of course, be deeply uncool to deny this claim, you might like to consider the following awkward questions: |
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1. By how many millennia do military parades pre-date phallus-shaped weapons? (By the way, if your phallus resembles a musket, seek medical attention).
2. How many times has any government, instead of just arresting a dissident during the hours of darkness, actually launched a large phallic missile at them?
3. How long do you think a government would continue to spend a large portion of its budget on phallus-shaped weapons once weapons of a different shape were shown to do more damage?
<self-censorship>
No, I wasn't going to add personally offensive questions here - I wouldn't dream of it.
</self-censorship> |
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That's not to say that defence procurement decisions aren't sometimes made for shallow and childish reasons - they are - just not the ones you imagine. |
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// instead of just arresting a dissident during the hours of darkness//
No doubt using a truncheon, fnarr-fnarr. |
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symbolic government phalli have been found all the way back to the reign of Hammurabi. It's hard to go any good with a giant stone penis. I suspect that the martial parade and the use of phallic symbolism by governments may have historical parallels. |
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Oh hey, there's some minor prior art here for my yonic
spacecraft idea. |
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Jutta, how'd you get newlines in your link description?
Does it require backend access? I tried just now, on
another idea, by editing the textbox to a textarea, but
that didn't work. Pasting in copied newlines doesn't
work either. |
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To clarify the definition of "taking the piss" for our colonial friends, it has several nuances. If I'm taking the piss out of someone, it means I'm making fun of them. If a mechanic tells me my cambelt will cost £3000 to replace, I might ask him if he's taking the piss, as in trying it on. |
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If I'm pissed, I'm not angry: I'm drunk - possibly as a result of having been on a piss-up. But if I'm pissed off, then I'm angry. If I'm sufficiently pissed off (or if I just fancy going somewhere to get pissed), then I might piss off down the pub. But if it's pissing it down then I might just stay home and piss about. |
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