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- Bigcat1021, on 10/12/2007, -2/+79"streetlamp, you're possibly the gayest person on Digg."
Says the guy whose username is HanSolo69. - davidirock, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24the guy named himself after the transformer character, lol this is funny
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20""streetlamp, you're possibly the gayest person on Digg."
Says the guy whose username is HanSolo69."
LMFAO, oh ***** my sides. Now i need to go get some napkins to clean the spit off of my sceen - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22"Anyone joining the army is a robot, so I guess the name is fitting."
I have to say that I resent that comment.
I agree that the military is typically the place that attracts people who need guidance are lost or have no other resort and, usually, are in the lower income brackets. However, that does not make them robots. Not all or most of them, anyway.
My friend is turning 20 in a few days. She's beautiful, stunning, intelligent, educated, comes from a wealthy background and could do anything she wants to do. She has always gone her own way rather than live off of her family's wealth. She put herself through college when most kids were still in highschool. She speaks fluent french. She worked hard to buy her own home and car. she's gone through lots of difficult ***** that makes anything I've been through (and I've been through a lot) look insignificant.
She has experience in the mortuary field and is is advanced in mathematics and was originally working toward a chemistry major. This girl is the smartest female I've ever met despite being ten years my junior.
This dainty little princess type girl (her favorite color is pink and owns 400 pairs of shoes) joined the Army in December. They tried to lure her into the intelligence department based on her education and aptitude, but she took a raincheck on that (they'll consider her if she hates her job in another year).
She just got out of Basic a few weeks ago. For that alone, I have the greatest respect and admiration for her. I would fail after the first jarhead started bitching at me and would probably end up dead, hospitalized or in the brigg for a few years (I have an authority problem). And I'm not a petite chick. I'm a huge ex-wrestler.
She's in AIT (advanced individual training) right now and before long, she'll be shipping off to Iraq to perform mortuary services. She is going to endure temperatures and conditions I have never imagined. She'll be taking care of the dead -- local civilizans, coalition military and our own. She'll be there for most of a year before coming back for a bit and then going overseas again for the last two or three of her service (unless she signs up again at that time).
It's still hard for me to wrap my head around this girl joining the army, but she is anything but a robot. And there are many like here. People who are strong and intelligent and rational and critical thinkers and they are not all joining the army for a free ride or a chance to shoot brown people (speaking of which, she's asian/arab/african-american and gorgeous).
Yeah, there are some prototypical jarheads, but most of them still think for themselves and are more critical than you may think. Just like you and I are critical of the industries we work in and the employers and companies we work for. Just like someone who is a Microsoft employee. Just because they work at MS doesn't mean they buy their company's party line and aren't intelligent, hardworking people who sometimes agree and disagree with the world around them.
As much as I dislike our military action, our military and our administration, I will forever tip my hat to individuals like her. Not for the whole "defending mah country" crap. But simply for the dedication and willpower and self-assuredness it takes to make it through the military machine and make that committment for several years. It is a thing I could never do and something I can't see most people doing. And no offense to you, but I think it trivializes them to suggest that being in the military inherently reduces you to a robot.
And as for blahblah's comment above -- that's ridiculous. Does a medic go into the military to kill people? Or a chaplain? Or a nurse? Or a mortuary professional? Or a barber? Come on now... Don't judge the individuals by the actions and attitudes of the few elite, rich powermongers at the helm in this nation that uses them as their tool when necessary. - DetroitTigers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15He is screwed when he runs into the infamous terrorist.....Megatron
- jiub, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15That was Optimus Primal in the Beast Wars series. Beast Wars was sortof a side series to the origional transformers. Optimus Prime was a semi truck.
- streetlamp, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Ok so I know this was posted in a digg story earlier but I had to submit it as its own story. I just hope it makes diggnation and kevin somehow gets him on as a guest.
- Vimes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Jeebus. Tell me you're joking.
Now I feel so damn old...
Also, doesn't anyone else think it's kind of sad that this guy felt a cartoon character who was half robot-half trailer was his "father figure". - serra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Damn whippersnappers, don't even know who the OP is! Kids these days.
Now get off my lawn! - Bluth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"Prime has a girlfriend, Vanessa, and four children: Nick, Jessie, Mike, and Shyann."
He also has a fifth child on the way...Rodimus. - briangig, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11lol...imagine roll call...
Jim Smith....here!
Brian Tuttle....here!
Optimus Prime.....[robot voice]HERE![/robot voice] - hrddrv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Optimus prime is a leader on transformers the cartoon series from the 80's. I am assuming you are a little too young to remeber them. The article did have a link to look at about Transformers.
- zeldafan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Sorta, you're thinking of Beast Wars, not Transformers.
Transformers had Optimus Prime and the concept was cars that transformed into robots.
Beast Wars had Optimus Primal and the concept was animals into robots.
Beast Wars is actually a sequel type thing of transformers and was all in 3D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_Wars
edit: Damn, jiub beat me >> - scott1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9He's a national guardsman and changed his name to Optimus Prime?
Transfromers in Iraq?What a brillant idea! - harmlessinc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7dukeofspades - you apparently missed the news that the US has large numbers of national guard troops serving overseas currently.
- zweben, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Optimus Prime (The cartoon character):
Info-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Prime
Pics-
http://images.google.com/images?q=optimus%20prime - everfalling, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11a robot? ya sure it isn't to serve ones country? just because the administration above you telling you what to do are idiots doesn't make your job any less honorable.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+57% AJAX
- Silencer7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'd better not hear any bitching about how digg is just for tech stories.
You have no idea how much technology Optimus Prime required. =D - thegsa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Girlfriend Doesn't Match.
Hooray For Me! - Amplix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6those kids are lucky "My dad's name is Optimus Prime"
- gab00n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This is so ***** stupid.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"He claims to have done this because the fictional character of the same name, from the Transformers, was like a father figure when he was growing up"
Now that's a sad childhood, when a cartoon robot is your father figure.
"Prime has a girlfriend, Vanessa, and four children: Nick, Jessie, Mike, and Shyann."
One of these things, is not like the other.
One of these things just doesn't belong.
One of these things, is not like the other.
Can you figure which one before the end of this song? - jiub, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Is that Captain Tuttle?
"There's a little bit of Tuttle left in all of us--in fact, you might say that all of us together made up Tuttle."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuttle_(M*A*S*H_episode) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6So..a short article on a dumbass who named himself after a cartoon is "possibly the greatest artciel on Wikipedia"? Doesn't say much for Wikipedia.
- booc0mtaco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I am officially a geezer. Young whipper-snappers born in 1990 can drive now... scary.
- digitalgopher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4LOL! That's it!
I'm changing my name to Master Chief... - RpgActioN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://www.wkyc.com/assetpool/images/0331941134_optimus1.jpg
- SweetsGreen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Hey Vanessa where did you get that black eye?"
"Optimus had a little too much energon last night...." - minime283, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Doesn't say much for someone who can't spell "article"
- ProAm500, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6you can neg. digg my comment all you want, but i can not believe this is on the front page....
- Amplix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3what about apple?
- booc0mtaco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well, Keep in mind, those kids won't have any idea who/what Optimus Prime is, nor will their peers. But, I'm sure they'll all agree it's a pretty sweet name.
BTW, are their last names "prime". Follow any name like that, and your set. (Think, Thadeus, Beauregard, Nate...) - HAKdragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well, I guess there goes Dane Cook's bit.
- positron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Optimus Prime? Please! He's no match for the mighty Voltron, defender of the Universe...
- ramiro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How was this Optimus Prime character to make such a strong impression as a father figure on the kid?
- willclarke, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I agree, let's mark this as lame.
- shawnanigans, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Lets all hope that his girlfriends last name is Ribb and when they get married she hyphonates.... Prime-Ribb, thats right.
- thegsa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4...So That Would Mean
Autobots = US Army
Decepticons = Terrorists - grendel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2is there a way to burn this thread?
- Sixcolors, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So we're linking to Wiki entries now? Not only that, but its already been vandalized by the fine children of Digg.
- RezSav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2rofl
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Blahblah, I give up on you. You are a complete idiot and a lost cause.
People don't defend their flag. A flag means nothing. But you do defend the people of your nation in a time of war (note that we are NOT in a time of war however as congress has declared no such thing). Your attitude is really repulsive and you should get out of your parent's patchoulie scented basement long enough to realize that sometimes good people have to brush elbows with evil people. Priests don't get to choose who they take a confession from and doctors don't get to pick and choose who they operate on in the ER.
You're an asshat of the same ignorant quality as a Bill O'Reilly.
The military is a necessity. We have to defend ourselves. People want to defend their country. Not everyone who has joined the military did so with the intention of going overseas and fighting for Haliburton on foreign soil. My grandfather was drafted in WWII and he proudly served, though he was a pacifist his entire life, but it was something he had to do.
It takes a lot to join the army, whether it's in a time of peace, fighting Nazi Germany or going overseas to fight on the sand for whatever reason we really are fighting this one for (not that we don't all really know why of course).
But for you to simply disregard everyone who has anything to do with the military or supporting it in anyway because they "support an organization whos only cause is to kill people" is narrow-minded and ignorant. The military, unfortunately has to kill people. However, they are intended to protect our country. I would agree that they're not meant to be protecting oil fields in Iraq, but just because that's what the jackasses in Washington have them doing right now does not mean that is the intended use for the military tool by nature.
If you are going to disregard and insult everyone for supporting the military (I know people in the military who do not agree with what is going on) then you should have the same insulting attitude toward yourself if you're an American. Your taxes pay for the militar and the current military action. Microsoft and Sun Microsystems suppport the military (they do business with them with regard to software and hardware, of course). By your logic, Johnson & Johnson is guilty and horrible and are robots, because they make bandaids and doctors who joined the army to SAVE LIVES use those bandaids to patch people up.
Look, I'm not a military supporter. I hate a lot of the "rah rah" attitude. People with their stupid little yellow ribbons on their SUVs make me sick. And when people in the militar whine about life in the military and the low pay, I have no more sympathy for them than I would for anyone else with similar problems -- not because I hate them or disregard what they're doing, but because the military is a career choice and every career has it's downside. For some it's income. For other's it's health coverage. For other's, it's lack of stable employment. You just never know.
However, I am not going to attack individual people who choose to serve time in the military and you are wrong for doing so. I'm sure you have parents or grandparents who served in the military and it would be wrong for you to attack them as people because they were called to do things you might not agree with by their country.
I'm not going to stuff some ***** down your throat about "these people die for your freedom to say such dumb ***** on digg", because that's just rhetorical burning asshair. But I am going to say that you should learn to view people as individuals and realize that a lot of people join the militar for reasons other than supporting the "father land". Some of them have no other way of getting training for a career or afford to go to college. Others want to bring comfort to soldiers by way of medical treatment, psychological treatment or - in the saddest of situations - by preparing them for a return to their family in a coffin.
Your attitude bout individuals in the militar is as ignorant and broadstroked and self-rightous as religious people who go around talking about how evil "those gays" are. That you are so blinded by your hate of Bush or whatever it is that you can't see these young kids for the difficult choices they make and the characther it takes to plunge into such a new world and life (that while not necessarily altruistic is moreso than many vocations), then I'm sorry for you.
And if you think I'm some lunatic war-lover. I'm not. I couldn't care less for the military as a whole. In fact, I would classify myself as a pacifist in most situations (obviously, I would not have a problem if we had stepped in to prevent the genocide in Rwanda or Daffur and I wouldn't have a problem directly defending our country in an actual attack).
I'm not even going to bother reading your responses, because they're just going to make me want to block you. You don't seem to have a coherent or rational thought. You seem to be very angry about something to the point that you can't think outside of your own little ideaology at any cost. *****, even people at IndyMedia would recognize the distinction between Donald Rumsfeld and George Bush and a young man or woman with their own family joining the military to learn how to fix jeeps so he can take care of his family and make a man out of himself.
But I'm probably talking to a wall now. I'll let your spoiled little trust-fund ass go back to playing your PSP and painting your fingernails. - matija, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2'firefighters, transform and roll out!'
- kolop1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2 He said Prime was a father figure. He must have been real depressed when he died in the movie.
- beejay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2One of my coworkers knew this guy at New Mexico Tech who had his name legally changed to "Snaphappy Fishsuit Mokiligon." Apparently, Snaphappy also has a naked man tattooed on his forehead.
- AJ4289, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If you don't like it, then don't digg it. Dig it?
- SouthernDigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I loved Transformers! O-P (as I call him) was the sh*t! We can only hope that this is a real entry into WiKi and not a joke...
- kylemeans, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Bravo, Seumas!!!! --applause--
- ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1humm... I wonder if there are there also Mr. Lionos, He-Mans, Robotechs, Mazingers and Gi-Joes our there.
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