NationStates Jolt Archive

What fools are voting for this? Your national animal may survive, but it will take money from your businesses, which will hurt your economy!


And why hippos!? :?

Why not?

A rather biased poll, but I voted yes on the resolution.

I voted no. It is of my opinion that such yammerheads should be forewarned to keep their posts reasonably serious and at very least, pertinent to official business. Somehow, I think our time could be better spent, comrades, sitting around waiting for sed hippos to evolve powered flight. Hippo Awareness Day! Pour l'amour du christ! I am aware that they exist!

What can I say? I like hippos, and being ridiculed in junior high and being incorrectly known as the world's third largest land animal could hurt anyone, but hippos especially. They're very sensitive.

awesometivity is right! I'm happy that this bill won't be passed. How did this person get the support? foolish delegates who endorse him. :twisted: Die!

I voted no. It is of my opinion that such yammerheads should be forewarned to keep their posts reasonably serious and at very least, pertinent to official business. Somehow, I think our time could be better spent, comrades, sitting around waiting for sed hippos to evolve powered flight. Hippo Awareness Day! Pour l'amour du christ! I am aware that they exist!

But were you aware that they were mocked in Junior High? Were you aware that Hippos were environmentalists? Also, Hippos invented spontaneous human combustion.

What can I say? I like hippos, and being ridiculed in junior high and being incorrectly known as the world's third largest land animal could hurt anyone, but hippos especially. They're very sensitive.

You are very wise.

I'm sorry. I was not aware that hippos even went to school, or that they could have opinions on environmentalism. idiots!

Maybe, it would be better, if, instead of trying to meddle in the business of hippos, our time would be better spent exterminating the human parasite that has infected earth. Thin its populations a little bit, to the benefit of the global ecology! It's a win-win situation!

Orion only says these things because it is orion's proposal! Maybe you were teased in jr. high. I bet you were. :lol: Don't say anything about clothing.

Orion only says these things because it is orion's proposal! Maybe you were teased in jr. high. I bet you were. :lol:

I can tell you that I have never once worn a windbreaker.

Did you tell them about the mittens?

I'm sorry. I was not aware that hippos even went to school, or that they could have opinions on environmentalism. idiots!

Idiots have feelings too! As do hippos! Vote yes.

awesometivity is right! I'm happy that this bill won't be passed. How did this person get the support? foolish delegates who endorse him. :twisted: Die!

And so the ass-stick resolution was passed with a resounding AYE! Or was that ow?

Did you tell them about the mittens?

I forgot about the mittens. Please tell them.

Yes. By all means, tell us.

I want mittens.

"You are speaking to the man who lost his mittens in Sweden." Jonathan Treitel

Oh well. at least i'll always be awesome

So tell us of the mittens :tantrum:

Pour l'amour du christ!

woah. for the love of god in french. awesomeness.

Hippos often wear mittens to hide cracked and fungus-infested nails. This is a common, but very embarrassing problem in hippo circles.

Mittens, as you know, are very warm and snuggly, however, so they turn an embarrassing affliction into a fashion statement that everyone loves.

"Do not look ye with shame on a mitten-wearing hippo, for know that he hast overcome great adversity and triumphed with all due snuggliness."

Churchill said that.

why did you use the word "however"?

Everyone who is questioning the validity of this act needs to look at what they are saying. THis is just a fucking online game!!!!! Its not the end of the world. It is supposed to be fun. Why would you care if someone wanted to have a good time by doing this? Last time I checked, none of this shit ever mattered in real life. The people who are getting upset with this act need to look at what they are wating their life on. To get verbal enraged over a mock UN game is stupid. IT DOESNT MATTER.

What is the UN coming to when THIS USELESS TOPIC is what is being debated? Hippos? Who would propose that? who would approve it? :evil:

Evidently, mon ami, about 3700 people.

Moreover, 3700, beautiful, well dressed, nice people who are kind to animals and don't vote Tory.

What is the UN coming to when THIS USELESS TOPIC is what is being debated? Hippos? Who would propose that? who would approve it? :evil:

Did I mention you're humourless?

What is the UN coming to when THIS USELESS TOPIC is what is being debated? Hippos? Who would propose that? who would approve it? :evil:

As I remember looking at it, I remember it being supported by such eminent people as Francos Spain (well, maybe eminent and no longer a delegate interestingly), TwoSlit Experiment, the World Market (or Global Market or whatever his name is), and other high profile delegates. Quite interesting that, anyway the resolution rox, if only to take the mickey out of the UN ;)

Everyone who is questioning the validity of this act needs to look at what they are saying. THis is just a f--- online game!!!!! Its not the end of the world. It is supposed to be fun. Why would you care if someone wanted to have a good time by doing this? Last time I checked, none of this shit ever mattered in real life. The people who are getting upset with this act need to look at what they are wating their life on. To get verbal enraged over a mock UN game is stupid. IT DOESNT MATTER.

You are very wise! 8)

Pesonally, I am more offended that there should be so many different threads ont his proposal, then I am offended about the proposal itself.

4 threads on the same proposal means you don't care what anyone else thinks, you refuse to have a conversation with already stated thoughts.

A humourous proposal means this is a game, and we should tackle real issue through humor.

Plus, no one has proven that hippos are not big.

It's a damn outrage.

If this resolution does not pass, would that mean the maj. of UN nations find that Hippos are small? And what world effect would this have?

Would everyone please remember to capitalize the word Hippos.

Quite obviously, the (incorrect) majority in the UN hasn't witnessed spontaneous human combustion. I have, and let me tell you, Hippos are an underappreciated bunch. How sad it would be if they were all continued to be made fun of by the cruel delegates at the UN. How unfair would it be if the quite large (and big!) Hippo was relegated to the dustbin of other large, and now forgotten animals (viz. the dodo bird, brontosauri, Marlon Brando, etc.). All the Hippo haters should switch their votes, for the sake of the Hippos! Also, huzzah.

Quite obviously, the (incorrect) majority in the UN hasn't witnessed spontaneous human combustion. I have, and let me tell you, Hippos are an underappreciated bunch. How sad it would be if they were all continued to be made fun of by the cruel delegates at the UN. How unfair would it be if the quite large (and big!) Hippo was relegated to the dustbin of other large, and now forgotten animals (viz. the dodo bird, brontosauri, Marlon Brando, etc.). All the Hippo haters should switch their votes, for the sake of the Hippos! Also, huzzah.

Spontaneous human combustion is a humorous phenomenon. About 70% of all man made fires occur when some inbred hillbilly bursts into flames for no apparent reason. This is funniest when the inbred hillbilly in question is a Los Angeles record producer who takes his obnoxiously large home with him while thousands of acres are cleared of dead and unhealthy underbrush.

If you pay careful attention, you will discover that there is an increase in hippo sightings directly before and after any large fire. There are corresponding increases in cattle mutilations and sightings of those little grey aliens with the big friendly eyes.

Mankind has been a piss poor custodian of nature and now, the hippos want us out. The aliens on the other hand seem mostly interested in bar-b-que and because of this a large percentage of all crop circles are actually in the shape of the trademark of a well known brand of steak sauce. I know of what I speak for many of these aliens are originally from the sector of space containing the Orion Nebula.

Meanwhile, the hippos and the aliens have been allied against humans and their corporations for many years. The United States government does not want you to know that Abraham Lincoln was not shot, but spontaneously combusted as several hippos were sighted near Ford's Theater. There never was a John Wilkes Booth.

Every time the United States seems to be on the verge of having a truly great leader, the hippos intervene. They were behind John Hinkley who fired the shots that destroyed the effectiveness of Ronald Reagan and they engineered the assassination attempt on FDR although they soon were forced to turn their attention toward Hitler.

The Hippos shot Malcolm X, whose hair was too short because he did not have an afro. There was a hippo on the grassy knoll. If you ever feel a persistent burning sensation in your rectum, there is very likely a hippo in your butt trying to make you spontaneously combust. This would be an especially trained and talented hippo who obviously has ninja like skills because hippos are large. Much larger in fact than even the largest of asses. Beware.

ALSO, most hippos believe that life is sacred and will not kill unless someone invades their territory. They do not condone the actions of these extremists.