NationStates Jolt Archive

I mean to start this thread on a light hearted note, though I'm sure it will have it's share of attempts to hijack it onto some serious subject.

If you don't think terrorism can be funny, please don't contribute.

The essence of humour is outrage, so tread the line carefully. And consider: perhaps out there, in NSG-land, is a deadly serious prospective bomber, who'll change his mind when he sees us mocking terrorists, and join a political group where he can blow off steam without killing anyone's mother.

Remember the song "Take me to the April sun in Cuba?" 10cc. They were making fun of hijackers. Even the work 'hijack' has a comical intent. And some terrorism was seriously pathetic, Darwin-award stuff. I'm going to boot it off with:

Charles Bishop, a suicidal teen who "did it for Osama"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,628742,00.html

lol (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UlIeJcWmJQ&search=terrorist%20subtitles)

I don't have a source, but the funniest terrorists I ever heard of were some Palestinians who tried to launch carbomb attacks. The carbombs were timed, and Israel had recently changed the clocks for daylight saving. However, some of these terrorists had refused to go along. The attackers and the manufacturers of the bombs had different times. Net result: bombs blow up in terrorists' faces.

I have a source for that:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/09/17/world/main62701.shtml
"We don't need no steenking Israeli occupyer time! What's that ticking ...?"

The French that got caught by the Germans in World War Two doing Partisan missions.

all the indications are Charles Bishop was a troubled young man who acted alone without anyone else," Holder said.

I like the way the policeman said that, as if he's going to act alone with somebody else. :p

The French that got caught by the Germans in World War Two doing Partisan missions.

Why is that? :confused:

I like the way the policeman said that, as if he's going to act alone with somebody else. :p

Yeah, he didn't really think that through, did he! :p

Why is that? :confused:
Because the Germans called them Terorists.
Once the Germans infiltrated the spy network and everytime an agent was sent over the Germans would 'pick them up' after they had paradropped down and it led them to other Partisan 'cells'.

I did hear a funny joke about a welsh extremist a few years ago , he had painted in big letters on a prominant road in Wales "Twll Dyn Pob Sais" which means " F£"K you English Arseholes" his job was a painter and decorator , he had left an overall with the company he worked for at the place of the "Artwork" he left finger prints , paint from his boots led to his house , it wasn't long before the police called round his house and arrested him , also the Meibion Glyndwr colour party turned down help from the provo IRA In the 1970's then carried on with the pathetic lemonade bottle fire bombing campain...

I nominate political pie snipers like the Biotic Baking Brigade. :)

Remember the song "Take me to the April sun in Cuba?" 10cc. They were making fun of hijackers.
Ah, that was by a Kiwi band, Dragon.
Apparently it was inspired by a chess tournament Bobby Fischer played in Cuba in the 60's.
But if you know anything about the band members, I'd say it was probably more inspired by a shitload of drugs.

Symbionese Liberation Army :rolleyes:

Here once a guy from a leftist militia tried to pull out a weapon in a protesting crowd to open fire against them.

He was disarmed by an old lady and then he went to the hospital after being beaten heavily by a bunch of 14-16 years old boys with wooden flag poles.

Not actually terrorists, but unprecedented retardosity for special forces troops. It was back when the French were setting off nukes aboveground in the Pacific, and Greenpeace was driving their boat into the testing range to stop them from lighting off the bombs. So, the French government got tired of it, so they sent some SpecOps Frogmen to go blow up the Greenpeace boat, the Rainbow Warrior. They succeeded in blasting the boat, but instead of getting away, they were captured by Greenpeace. They probably noticed their lit cigarettes or something, you know?

Here once a guy from a leftist militia tried to pull out a weapon in a protesting crowd to open fire against them.

He was disarmed by an old lady and then he went to the hospital after being beaten heavily by a bunch of 14-16 years old boys with wooden flag poles.

Nice to see that the generation gap can come together to beat the shit out of a gun-toting maniac. :)

Not actually terrorists, but unprecedented retardosity for special forces troops. It was back when the French were setting off nukes aboveground in the Pacific, and Greenpeace was driving their boat into the testing range to stop them from lighting off the bombs. So, the French government got tired of it, so they sent some SpecOps Frogmen to go blow up the Greenpeace boat, the Rainbow Warrior. They succeeded in blasting the boat, but instead of getting away, they were captured by Greenpeace. They probably noticed their lit cigarettes or something, you know?
They weren't captured by Greenpeace. They were captured a few days later by the police.
In sinking the Rainbow Warrior, they also managed to kill one of the crew.

And for all intents and purposes, the two agents got away with it in the end. The French pressured the NZ govt so much the sentences were reduced to next-to-nothing and they were allowed to serve out their sentence in French Polynesia.
Only a few months into the sentence, the woman got pregnant and so, under some obscure French law, was released immediately.
They were welcomed back as heroes by the French govt, iirc.
For what? blowing up an unarmed peace boat that was docked at the time and killing an innocent man.
One of the better French naval victories at that.

The best terrorist organisation ever?
This one:
http://www.santarchy.com/images/santarchy_logo.jpg
SANTARCHY!!! (http://www.santarchy.com/)

The best terrorist organisation ever?
This one:
http://www.santarchy.com/images/santarchy_logo.jpg
SANTARCHY!!! (http://www.santarchy.com/)

No, no, no. Santa is not a terrorist. He's a dictator. With his army of elves and hypnotic toys, he'll take over the world.

http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/207951

Don't know if this is true or not, so take it with a grain of salt.

but in the days of the Unibomber, one non-descript address recieved a mailbomb. the occupant, the only victim, seemed a typical person, nothing special to make him a target.

after peicing together the events, investigators managed to put this scenario together.

the victim, in an attempt to produce a copycat incident to kill someone (sorry, but can't remember who or why) sent a mail bomb to his intended victim in a similar package used by the uni-bomber.

however, he made two mistakes, the first, was not putting sufficent postage on the package...

the second was putting his return address on said package.

so the post office, noticing the lack of funds, returned the package to the sender, who had forgotten what he had mailed out. curious, he opened his own mailbomb and, as they say, the rest is history...

I mean to start this thread on a light hearted note, though I'm sure it will have it's share of attempts to hijack it onto some serious subject.

If you don't think terrorism can be funny, please don't contribute.

The essence of humour is outrage, so tread the line carefully. And consider: perhaps out there, in NSG-land, is a deadly serious prospective bomber, who'll change his mind when he sees us mocking terrorists, and join a political group where he can blow off steam without killing anyone's mother.

Remember the song "Take me to the April sun in Cuba?" 10cc. They were making fun of hijackers. Even the work 'hijack' has a comical intent. And some terrorism was seriously pathetic, Darwin-award stuff. I'm going to boot it off with:

Charles Bishop, a suicidal teen who "did it for Osama"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,628742,00.html

How about this guy in training?
http://www.flurl.com/item/Doing_Jihad_u_92767/

Speaking of silly things nations do, the 2002 "invasion" of Spain by Britain takes the cake (parts bolded for emphasis):



GIBRALTAR -- British troops temporarily invaded Spain when a landing exercise on Gibraltar went wrong.

About 20 Royal Marines landed in bad weather on a Spanish beach, thinking they were on British territory.

They hastily retreated after locals told them of their error. Gibraltar has been a contested area between London and Madrid for 300 years.

The two European Union and NATO allies -- once the greatest of foes -- are negotiating a deal to resolve their tussle over Gibraltar, which British marines seized from Spain in 1704.

Spain's foreign ministry played down the incident as a harmless error that would not undermine negotiations aimed at resolving the Gibraltar issue.

"We are not going to protest. From our point of view the matter is closed," a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

A British Ministry of Defence spokesman told Reuters that two landing craft from HMS Ocean accidentally entered Spanish territorial waters and in bad weather one landing craft landed on the beach a few yards over the Spanish side of the border.

He added that it was the first time he had heard of such an error taking place during one of the frequent landing exercises.

"Clearly that is the end of the matter but obviously it is a situation we would rather not have taken place."

The two countries hope to reach a deal on the colony's future in the next few months but many of the 30,000 inhabitants of "The Rock," as the peninsula is known, say they will not accept any move towards Spanish sovereignty.

Abu Musaf Al'Zarqawi. A fanboy thug who managed to convince the United States that he really was a significant terrorist mastermind.

Ah, that was by a Kiwi band, Dragon.
Apparently it was inspired by a chess tournament Bobby Fischer played in Cuba in the 60's.
But if you know anything about the band members, I'd say it was probably more inspired by a shitload of drugs.
That is what i thought also, but figured someone had done a cover....

That is what i thought also, but figured someone had done a cover....
Well, I'm pretty sure Johnny Farhnam did a cover.
And of course every pub band in Australisia since the late 70's.

They were welcomed back as heroes by the French govt, iirc.
For what? blowing up an unarmed peace boat that was docked at the time and killing an innocent man.
One of the better French naval victories at that.

Well it was either that or the Rainbow Warrior would have eventually ended up as a pile of Radioactive metal when one day they stopped 'bothering to check' if the Rainbow Warrior was in the blast range.

lol (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UlIeJcWmJQ&search=terrorist%20subtitles)
roflmao!!11!! i needed that. where's it from?

I once saw a political cartoon. It was the standard line of increasingly-bigger fishes in the process of eating each other, except for the last one. He was this scrawny-scruffy, heavy-eyebrowed fish, about one-tenth the size of the fish in front of him, and he was wearing an explosive vest.

Not exactly terrorism but another thing my friends and I used to get a chuckle out of was Greenpeace's m.o. of spray-painting baby harp seals to make their pelts useless to seal hunters...and in the process, wrecking their natural camouflage so they'd be snapped up by the next polar bear or orca that happened along.