NationStates Jolt Archive

Across the world, there are tons of people who seem, well, somewhere between silly and insane wacko psychotic (insert picture of arabs burning Dutch flags over a cartoon strip (seriously, do these guys keep a stock of various countries flags to burn, and is there a market in opening a flag store over there - for burning?)) Lets face it, the only reason we spend more than two seconds thinking about these idiots is because they have oil, otherwise, we wouldn't care less what they did, and they wouldn't have enough money to buy a bucket to hold their rocks, let alone a firearm, or a plane ticket to get anywhere. Here is a poll to ask the real question -- can this thing be solved, and how? How do you reason with unreasonable, how do you do you civilize way-out insane.

Danish:
http://www.hotels-europe.com/denmark/images/denemarken.gif

Dutch:
http://newsfromrussia.com/images/newsline/17.10.05_netherlands.gif

Brainwashing Is The Answer.

What are the map images in aid of?

What are the map images in aid of?

Education.

What are the map images in aid of?
They are meant to illustrate the difference between the Netherlands and Denmark. In the OP, it says that people are burning Dutch flags because of the cartoons.

What are the map images in aid of?
Read the second line of the OP closely...

Good spot Neu Leonstein... :p

how much oil is in afghanistan?seriously, do these guys keep a stock of various countries flags to burn, and is there a market in opening a flag store over there - for burning?good question, charles moore, from the telegraph asked himself the same thing: It's some time since I visited Palestine, so I may be out of date, but I don't remember seeing many Danish flags on sale there. Not much demand, I suppose. I raise the question because, as soon as the row about the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in Jyllands-Posten broke, angry Muslims popped up in Gaza City, and many other places, well supplied with Danish flags ready to burn... (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/02/04/do0402.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2006/02/04/ixopinion.html)

was supposed to be a poll... got a browser error, appears it posted the text and then the poll - sucks...

See, the thing is you have to anticipate which random country is going to piss off Muslims next. It would be easy to just sell American and Israeli flags, but that's obvious. The market's innundated. You have to be on the ball about predicting when a random country like Denmark is going to infuriate the Muslim world, and get set up selling that nation's flags ahead of time. That's how you're going to be making real money. Anticipating market movements.

Either that, or the supporters of the Danish team trying to get into the World Cup gave up and had to offload them somewhere. So they approached a newspaper...

We could solve all of this by going in, stealing all their oil, and leave them with nothing.
Relativley few people get the oil money anyways so it wont hurt too many people.
Or we could always just bomb them.

Across the world, there are tons of people who seem, well, somewhere between silly and insane wacko psychotic (insert picture of arabs burning Dutch flags over a cartoon strip (seriously, do these guys keep a stock of various countries flags to burn, and is there a market in opening a flag store over there - for burning?)) Lets face it, the only reason we spend more than two seconds thinking about these idiots is because they have oil, otherwise, we wouldn't care less what they did, and they wouldn't have enough money to buy a bucket to hold their rocks, let alone a firearm, or a plane ticket to get anywhere. Here is a poll to ask the real question -- can this thing be solved, and how? How do you reason with unreasonable, how do you do you civilize way-out insane.
You develop alternate energy sources and efficient technologies, then you stop buying middle eastern oil and let them actually learn how the real world works if they want to trade with us, find jobs among us, and not starve to death in an oily desert.

It'd be better to just kidnap all the dirty teenagers and spray all the grease off em and get that.