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[StopDemocratsDotCom]

Ok, So what's the deal with "5", I have a general idea of what it is but i want specifics. You see it everywhere and in all forms, what the heck is "5"?, other than the number after 4, before 6. Did Freepers start this trend?

[Lazamataz]

I'm sorry, you have me confused with someone who pays your posts any attention at all.

[Sir Gawain]

Just find the title of a thread that sounds the least bit critical of Bush and you'll see it.

[VaBthang4]

"I am usually left speechless by the "pants on fire" counter."

LOL

[Loyalist]

Fathom Five National Marine Park , Tobermory, Ontario.

Five Islands Provincial Park ,Five Islands, Nova Scotia.

Manic 5 Hydroelectric Power Project , Reservoir Manicougan, Quebec.

[Sir Gawain]

I'm not sure I can stand up to your level of "debate",

Translation: "I accused you of copying someone's idea for an image, but I can't prove it, but what the heck."

[muleboy]

Then please....by all means....logoff. The fewer idiot kneejerk contra/losertarians on this site, the better.

But if I did that who would you have to crusade against?

You'll just have to endure me (as a good christian should) as I have to endure you, aided by my pagan cynicism.

Oh yeah...dont hate on the word power...it's not my fault you were a dopesmoking wastoid [Turned Political Connoisseur].

There you go again, being eloquent and persuasive.

[PoorMuttly]

Coded Hatt-Baby reference, divided by the frequency that Kenneth changed...times the OLD thickness of Reynolds Wrap.

And/or the number of words in the chant "a moose bit my sister."

Or not.

Glad to be of help.

[Republican Wildcat]

No, actually it's more shorthand for refutations already issued an uncountable number of times to the same lies and stupidity over and over again. Rather than wasting our time with people who refuse to adhere to the facts, we just abbreviate with the 5 to signify what has already been argued time and time again.

[sarasmom]

Sorry laz, #5 at you.

[Diddle E. Squat]

And now for something completely different:

"I am mentioned in 'Barbershop' this many times:"

[rb22982]

Actually, it seems to be you who doesn't even remember your own comments.

You: Men don't play with toys
Him: Do they play with the number 5
You: No one's playing son. Or do you think that the families of the dead of 9/11 think it a game? Take out the big dog, and the Muslim world has no Army. Take out the megalomaniac who dared put out a hit on an American president. If they will not respect us, then let them fear us.

First and foremost, he never mentioned Iraq, nor 9/11 or anything else. His point was that anyone who posts a 5 to a dissenting opinion shows they are being intellectually lazy. Second, YOU insinuated that he did not support the war on terror because he thinks posting the number 5 in response to something is intellectually lazy and he called you on it. You are the one who needs to grow up, son, no boy. Third and my last point President Bush has not ONCE said Iraq was the cause of 9/11 so it was just silly to even mention it, even if he (sir Gawain) wasn't in favor of going to war with Iraq, which he is.

[Sir Gawain]

You are just POd because no one let you in on the joke.

Yeah that's it. Are you psychic just like Edmond? What's the winning lottery numbers for next week?

[FreedomFriend]

Kevin, not everyone who has legitimate concerns over the direction of the nation, via the US Patriot Act, Homeland Security, Tips, wide-open borders, CFR, Bush's support of the UN, environmental measures and support for "free trade", are libertarians. Many of us are individuals who have traditionally voted Republican but are seeing some disturbing trends. "Smart Borders", talks of a "trade of the AMerica's", DARPAS Office of Information Awareness speaking of tracking devices, etc., etc., etc., this is not the America we know.

[malakhi]

No there is something inherently wrong with having a contrarian character.

Conversely, then, you would argue that there is something inherently right with having a "go-with-the-crowd" character? I'm sorry, but I cannot accept this. Contrarians may be a pain in the ass, but they are the ones who spearhead change. A conformist would never think to question the status quo.

[Sir Gawain]

Three separate paragraphs? Oh geez. He'll never be able to follow it. I wonder what his banned freeper name is.

[Cold Heat]

If you believe -- correctly -- that this tactic has gotten out of hand, then rethink it, or preferably, put a stop to it.

I can't promise that, but I will go back to debating unreasonable people as required. I may change my screen name to Bush Bot or something. Sheesh there are only a handfull of us! We are party loyalists. Nothing more or less.

I remind you and all of ya'all that this is a election cycle and republicans need all the support we can muster.

Can we tone the rhetoric down until after the election?

[tomkat]

no laz, there's plenty of keyboard diarrhea in this place, so i'll leave the verbiage overkill to you prima donnas who seem to have little else in life to cling to.

the thing that i found the most ridiculous, among many, about going back to college in my mid30s was the incredible waste of time and paper devoted to the mental masturbation of utopians who were old enough to know better, yet insisted on passing their delusions of intellectual grandeur onto the (mostly sycophantic) children sitting in their classrooms.
those who labor to say in 5,000 words what could be better stated with 200 have never struck me as profound, merely tedious.

writing is a craft, and a valuable one.
some, by spending more time at it, are better writers than others.
it does not necessarily follow, however, that those lacking either the time or inclination to spend half their life at a keyboard are ipso facto devoid of reasoning skills.

the type of person i admire most in this life is one who understands that, on a personal level, our energy and resources are finite, and that one must choose his battles wisely, rather than tilting at every windmill, and who also understands that progress of any type is necessarily both incremental and, generally, painfully slow.

while i may harbor my own wishes about how this or that policy should be implemented, or not, i'm just one voice, and a small one, in a sea of 275,000,000 voices.
to be able to put that statement in type is a testament to a humility force-fed to me over the best part of five decades, and one that i would have been constitutionally incapable of making in my twenties or thirties, while i was still immortal.

so anyway laz, i may not be the sharpest pencil in the composition drawer, but i'm damned likely the best furniture maker you've ever come into contact with.
and unless you're the next bill buckley or a rising churchill, it's a pretty good bet that what i spend the majority of my time producing, with both hands and what's left of my mind, will be giving good service to folks long after all your words, and FR itself, have passed into the mists of memory ...

$0.02

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[PoorMuttly]

Is it safe ?