Taliban Fumes Over Royal Gaming Thumbs
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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Amusing how the Taliban and the Stop the War Coalition effectively say the same thing but with localised dialogue. Just an observation.
From a standpoint of unrealistic logic, I find it irritating that this even made news. I salute him for being so candid. As a Prince and as a Soldier (and the complexity of that combination), its refreshing to see him speak so, well, common.
From a standpoint of unrealistic logic, I find it irritating that this even made news. I salute him for being so candid. As a Prince and as a Soldier (and the complexity of that combination), its refreshing to see him speak so, well, common.
Taliban are just jealous they can't shoot half as accurately as the badass prince.
"Prince Harry's comment about videogames making him a better Apache gunner has the Taliban up in arms."
What you did there Mr Chalk, I see it.
"Prince Harry's comment about videogames making him a better Apache gunner has the Taliban up in arms."
What you did there Mr Chalk, I see it.
I imagined they'd be more annoyed by the fact that one of the British Royal family is flying overhead, bombing the shit out of their women hating backward asses, before swooping off to play FIFA and party with sluts in Vegas. The man's an epitome of everything they hate.
So blowing yourself up in a crowded street full of civilians because a book said that a man in the sky thinks they deserve it is perfectly sane, but raising the possibility that games give you good hand-eye coordination is a sign of "mental problems"?
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Excuse me... this explains why we are losing? Mr Spokesman, I think you need to take another look at the scoreboard. It clearly shows our boot firmly entrenched inside your anus, so much so that a great effort or some sort of gastrointestinal reversal would be required to remove it. To be honest, I didn't think such an image was possible numerically, yet there it is.
Nothing he said possibly implied war was a game.
He made the very fair point that helicopter warfare is about fine control of electrically controlled weapons with your thumbs.
But so many people are commenting AS IF he did directly say war is a game in terms of consequences and loss of life, rather than the exact mode: using thumbs.
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Taliban: "Yeah, you can tell which is the side that is winning, it's the one that just had it's leader gunned down when Navy SEALs raid their mansion hideout. Yep, we're totally winning."2xDouble said:
It was a harmless statement on how his finger-eye coordination is kept in check by playing video games, but it was a crass statement in regards to the war we're in.
Still, I find it hilarious that he's ruffled the Taliban's feathers. I'm surprised they took it as an insult, then fired back with cheap shots and exclamations that they're winning... then again, I'm not surprised. It's the Taliban we're talking about. They murder innocent civilians and call it "war" - Not much of a war if you spend half your time killing women, children and passive/neutral non-combatants, and the other half hiding in a hole in a mountain hoping your crude landmine blows up the International Security Assistance Force.
The thing is, if the Taliban weren't religious nutters who forced their ideas on those who don't want them, with a taste for murdering innocents and non-combatants however they feel; if they just adhered to human right laws and allowed the west to co-exist on the same planet as them without the need to kill us all; we wouldn't be over there blowing their arses from the middle ages into the 21st century, the hard way.[footnote]Glorious simplification is glorious.[/footnote]
Still, I find it hilarious that he's ruffled the Taliban's feathers. I'm surprised they took it as an insult, then fired back with cheap shots and exclamations that they're winning... then again, I'm not surprised. It's the Taliban we're talking about. They murder innocent civilians and call it "war" - Not much of a war if you spend half your time killing women, children and passive/neutral non-combatants, and the other half hiding in a hole in a mountain hoping your crude landmine blows up the International Security Assistance Force.
The thing is, if the Taliban weren't religious nutters who forced their ideas on those who don't want them, with a taste for murdering innocents and non-combatants however they feel; if they just adhered to human right laws and allowed the west to co-exist on the same planet as them without the need to kill us all; we wouldn't be over there blowing their arses from the middle ages into the 21st century, the hard way.[footnote]Glorious simplification is glorious.[/footnote]
He compared the actual experience being the gunner on his helo to that of a video game, he never said the actual war itself was a game.
But hey, for the Taliban any attention is good attention.
But hey, for the Taliban any attention is good attention.
The Taliban claiming moral high ground? That's laughable and sad at the same time.
But really, who cares what the Taliban thinks.
But really, who cares what the Taliban thinks.
I do think that the Stop the War Coalition had more trouble with Harry's boasts of having killed taliban warriors, pointing out that more often than not innocent bystanders do get killed from western air-attacks. And wars being messy and unclear at times, Harry really had no real way of actually knowing the tiny figures down below he took out were Taliban fighters or regular Afghani civvies in the wrong place at the wrong time.Me55enger said:
