Done.

@berticus - Vietnamese should be in the list of cuisines. Buddhism should be in the list of spiritual (dis)beliefs. You have "exclusively heterosexual" listed twice.

This nicely sums up the Vietnamese way of doing pretty much anything. If they can find a way to do something with the tools at hand, they'll do it. It's awesome.

In the spirit of satirical suspension of disbelief, since Vietnam is one of the many countries in which sepak takraw is a popular and competitive sport, it's not impossible for a Vietnamese player to play for a Thai team, much like Ronaldo played for Real Madrid or Ronaldinho played for A.C. Milan despite neither being their country of origin. They just go where the money/talent is. Kinda adds an extra layer of "star player antics" to Nguyen's behavior, lol.

>> ^lucky760:

This is LMFAHS hilarious, except for the needle in my eye of them using a Vietnamese name for a Thai player on a Thai team who's speaking Thai to the camera. That's irksome.
Onion fail.

This is LMFAHS hilarious, except for the needle in my eye of them using a Vietnamese name for a Thai player on a Thai team who's speaking Thai to the camera. That's irksome.

Onion *fail.

Well you're taking him out of context...meaning that you forgot he's from Boston. So, for a Boston hooligan, he's a nice guy.>> ^spoco2:

>> ^rottenseed:
Don't hate Mark. He's a sweet guy...>> ^Shepppard:
Meh, I think my hatred of Mark Whalberg is keeping me from enjoying this clip.


Yeah, no... he's not:

"When he was 16, Wahlberg approached a middle-aged Vietnamese man on the street and, using a large wooden stick, knocked him unconscious (while calling him "Vietnam fucking shit"). He also attacked another Vietnamese man, leaving him permanently blind in one eye, and attacked a security guard (again using racist language)."
"In another incident, the 21-year-old Wahlberg fractured the jaw of a neighbor in an unprovoked attack"

>> ^rottenseed:

Don't hate Mark. He's a sweet guy...>> ^Shepppard:
Meh, I think my hatred of Mark Whalberg is keeping me from enjoying this clip.



Yeah, no... he's not:

"When he was 16, Wahlberg approached a middle-aged Vietnamese man on the street and, using a large wooden stick, knocked him unconscious (while calling him "Vietnam fucking shit"). He also attacked another Vietnamese man, leaving him permanently blind in one eye, and attacked a security guard (again using racist language)."

"In another incident, the 21-year-old Wahlberg fractured the jaw of a neighbor in an unprovoked attack"

"If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn't have went down like it did. There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, 'OK, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry,'"

What?!? Some Vietnamese girl riding a bike in a rice patty has my job?

Peter Schiff was also 100% correct about the 2008 crash, but that still doesn't exonerate him as being a complete tool. i do not care for these examples of suitability for office due to correlation, correlation is not causation, and these attempts at power of authority figures to garner support for his cause is just appalling - just because a veteran says it does not make it a fact (& they are trained to follow order, not be free-thinkers) to me the true patriots shun military service 'Think of Muhammad Ali' when he so famously stated (No Vietnamese person ever called me nigger).

Paul may be right about wanting to bring the troops home, but he is very wrong about more broader issues & before of the cultists ask me for what those are read my older posts on my profile, i don't feel like repeating myself to people who close their ears & their minds.

"Their plane was shot down and the two men were captured by hostile forces. Denton and Tschudy were both held as prisoners of war for almost eight years, four of which were spent in solitary confinement...

"Denton was part of a group of about 11 prisoners known as the "Alcatraz Gang"... which was separated from other captives and placed in solitary confinement for their leadership in resisting their captors. "Alcatraz" was a special facility in a courtyard behind the North Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense, located about one mile away from Hoa Lo Prison.

"In Alcatraz, each of the 11 men were kept in solitary confinement, where cells measured 3 feet by 9 feet and had a light bulb kept on around the clock; the prisoners were locked each night in irons by a guard."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Denton

>> ^Morganth:

Very ballsy too. If the Vietnamese figured it out he might all of a sudden "get sick."


Probably a good chance of that anyway. I mean, he got 2 weeks of food and a chance at getting a message home so pretty good deal, in that situation it might be a no brainer.

Very ballsy too. If the Vietnamese figured it out he might all of a sudden "get sick."

According to his biography by Michael Eric Dyson, ML King considered himself a Marxist, but not a Communist. He is usually described as a democratic socialist. He believed the US was on the wrong side of the Vietnam war and that the US should've been on the side of the North Vietnamese. He did think there should be radical wealth distribution in the US.

@enoch

Whoa there partner, you might want to re-read what I posted above. Let me restate myself in more specific terms to avoid confusion.

My exact criticism is that if you're going to criticize anyone for being dishonest about history, you should do it in a very earnest way so as not to create a self defeating argument.

@quantumushroom makes a valid point. Saying that, specifically, the American military killed 4 million Southeast Asians IS an over-generalization. According to The National Archives, roughly 58,000 American military personnel died in the Vietnam War. It wouldn't be fair to say "Look through the eyes of truth. 1960-1975, South Vietnamese military kills 58,000 Americans."

On another note, here's another source that confirms the 58,000~ I quoted above. I've spent 20 minutes now trying to find any credible record of the 4 million dead (the closest I came was 3.9 million total dead but that also included the deaths of French, Australian, New Zealand, South Vietnam, Korean, and American Forces which account for roughly 410,000 of the original figure).

So the problem is tri-fold here. The American military is not solely responsible for the 3.9 million deaths that happened during the occupation of Vietnam from 1960-1975. Furthermore, 3.9 can be assumed to be an inflated figure since it's likely safe to say that American forces were not assassinating allies and their own squad members en mass. Finally, again, if you're going to attack someone (or some group) for being dishonest, you yourself had better get your facts straight and not just gloss over the unpleasant details.

p.s. Learn how to use a fucking paragraph enoch.

>> ^rich_magnet:

Some loosely-backed claims there, but at least it's reasonably non-partisan.
It doesn't, however, answer it's main thematic question: "Is it really 99% versus 1%?"


I doubt it is necessarily 99% vs 1%. It's more likely 95% vs 5%...

What it certainly isn't is 51% vs 49%...it's a huge difference no matter who's numbers you use.

Kinda like the estimates of the Vietnam war being from 2 million Vietnamese to 4 million dead. Will anyone argue that 2 million is negligible?...in any direction?

Disgusting how many people on this page are rooting against their own country.

And before you get off on how "evil" we are, have you idiots ever thought about the hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people were sent to re-education camps after we sold them out? Or do you just get all of your oxygen from Chomsky and idiots like him?

Try whitewashing the bloodstains out all you want, but calling us "evil" in comparison to the North Vietnamese is just a statement of profound ignorance.