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Offline smartcooky

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #495 on: March 10, 2013, 02:41:41 PM »
Interviewer. Can you keep a secret?
Applicant. Yes.
Interviewer. Right, your are in. Start Monday.
Applicant. What will my duties be?
Interviewer. Can't tell you, its secret.

I used to have a poster expressing a similar sentiment on the wall of my office when I was in the Air Force.

"The secrecy of my job prevents me from knowing what I am doing"
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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #496 on: March 10, 2013, 09:16:25 PM »
Often wondered who watches the death squads, who watches the watchmen and all that, it seems to be a stance many a hoax believer takes. So, how do you prove the squads loyalty?

Interviewer. Can you keep a secret?
Applicant. Yes.
Interviewer. Right, your are in. Start Monday.
Applicant. What will my duties be?
Interviewer. Can't tell you, its secret.

Reg:  If you want to join us, you've got to really hate the Romans.
Brian:  I do!
Reg:  How much?
Brian:  A lot.
(pause)
Reg:  All right, you're in.
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Offline Laurel

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #497 on: March 10, 2013, 10:33:20 PM »
Interviewer. Can you keep a secret?
Applicant. Yes.
Interviewer. Right, your are in. Start Monday.
Applicant. What will my duties be?
Interviewer. Can't tell you, its secret.

I used to have a poster expressing a similar sentiment on the wall of my office when I was in the Air Force.

"The secrecy of my job prevents me from knowing what I am doing"
As Colonel Flagg on M*A*S*H once said, "Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don't know what it is. I keep myself in a constant state of utter confusion."
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Offline gillianren

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #498 on: March 10, 2013, 11:39:57 PM »
Oh, that's an interesting thought--an entire death squad of Colonel Flaggs.  There would be no survivors--of the death squad.  They'd all start killing each other!
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Offline Tedward

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #499 on: March 11, 2013, 04:30:51 AM »
On top of that how do you enforce the rule using squad 1. Squad 2 will obviously be concentrating on squad 1 and will not know what they are protecting and there might be a standby squad three to cover for sick leave and family emergencies, holidays etc. Apart from when squads trail them they keep going to this place with rockets, they might start to think about it.

But, in this day and age you send an e mail. Seminars still go on, they will never go away? So, 400,000 to get through and replace those that will not play ball before the day of e mails.

Couple of seminars, how many people can you get in a decent sized room? Maybe more than a few seminars then, and have to start earlier to get through 4000 events, OK, silly idea really but your squad number one has to get through 400,000 people to tell them to keep mum. (Keep mum, phrase in the UK for keeping quiet, used else where?).

Seminars bit silly as well. So smaller numbers, your squad has to get through 400,000 in moody lighted underground car parks and so on, so 365 days in a year, how many years before this event do they have to start? Slowly and they need less in squad 1, lot in squad 1 and they can get through it quickly. Increasing the numbers in Squad 1 increases the chances of letting the cat out the bag.....

In that screening you find someone who is not going to play ball or does not sit right, what do you do?

Interviewer 1. What do you reckon?
Interviewer 2. He has changed sides already.
Interviewer 2. And he looks shifty.

Sorry, my mind wanders at times ;)


Offline frenat

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #500 on: March 11, 2013, 09:21:52 AM »
Remember cosmored/rocky/davidc/Scott, etc.?  His latest is to post trollish first posts on random internet boards and then claim censorship when they either don't allow the post or ban him shortly afterward. (links to the bragging posts on the few forums that haven't yet banned him)  Careful with the Spurstalk links as some of the other posters are rather trollish as well.  Some content is NSFW.

Here's where he braggs about making a post on a Mythbusters fan site insulting the mythbusters
http://www.politicalforum.com/moon-landing/190138-apollo-moon-missions-were-faked-studio-41.html#post1062380233

Here's where he tried it on an astronomy forum
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=201736&page=14&p=6372351&viewfull=1#post6372351

Here he got banned from militaryphotos.net after a single post.  His first post had multiple youtube videos and their forum automatically made them all playable instead of links.  Consequently, in one post he was crashing their forum.
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=201736&page=14&p=6381991&viewfull=1#post6381991

Sadly he still doesn't realize that he is not being banned for content but rather his actions.  He doesn't think he looks like a troll.
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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #501 on: March 11, 2013, 01:15:43 PM »
No; he's one of the few people where I assume there is some mental health issue involved.
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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #502 on: March 11, 2013, 01:22:00 PM »
Sadly he still doesn't realize that he is not being banned for content but rather his actions.  He doesn't think he looks like a troll.

Yeah he's like showing up to a party and peeing in the punchbowl while singing.  When they kick you out, it's not because they don't like your singing.
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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #503 on: March 11, 2013, 01:25:30 PM »
No; he's one of the few people where I assume there is some mental health issue involved.

Likewise.  I hate mentioning that because I share the same sensitivity to those accusations as you do.  But he's one of the only three people I've encountered over the past decade whom I suspect of a legitimate mental health problem.
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Re: Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #504 on: March 11, 2013, 02:09:23 PM »
No; he's one of the few people where I assume there is some mental health issue involved.

Likewise.  I hate mentioning that because I share the same sensitivity to those accusations as you do.  But he's one of the only three people I've encountered over the past decade whom I suspect of a legitimate mental health problem.

Who are the others?

Offline gillianren

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #505 on: March 11, 2013, 02:28:18 PM »
I'm certain Nancy Lieder has something wrong.  This is because I know she has done things in life that are symptoms of mental illness, not just said crazy things on the internet.
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Offline Abaddon

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #506 on: March 11, 2013, 04:02:46 PM »
No; he's one of the few people where I assume there is some mental health issue involved.

Likewise.  I hate mentioning that because I share the same sensitivity to those accusations as you do.  But he's one of the only three people I've encountered over the past decade whom I suspect of a legitimate mental health problem.

Who are the others?
Gotta be DavidC/Scott/Fatfreddy88 Etc. That dude is such a loon.

Offline Andromeda

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #507 on: March 11, 2013, 04:48:08 PM »
No; he's one of the few people where I assume there is some mental health issue involved.

Likewise.  I hate mentioning that because I share the same sensitivity to those accusations as you do.  But he's one of the only three people I've encountered over the past decade whom I suspect of a legitimate mental health problem.

Who are the others?
Gotta be DavidC/Scott/Fatfreddy88 Etc. That dude is such a loon.

That kind of language really doesn't help.
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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #508 on: March 11, 2013, 05:31:16 PM »
Gotta be DavidC/Scott/Fatfreddy88 Etc. That dude is such a loon.

We already discussed him.  And I agree--"loon" is not the term I'd prefer.
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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #509 on: March 11, 2013, 05:37:09 PM »
No; he's one of the few people where I assume there is some mental health issue involved.

Likewise.  I hate mentioning that because I share the same sensitivity to those accusations as you do.  But he's one of the only three people I've encountered over the past decade whom I suspect of a legitimate mental health problem.

Who are the others?
Gotta be DavidC/Scott/Fatfreddy88 Etc. That dude is such a loon.
I'm pretty sure he only counts as one person though.