The worst book ever written.

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  1. Xiao_Caity

    Xiao_Caity New Member

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    Hrm. I think we have another addition for my 'People I Will Go After The Instant I Get A Sniper Rifle' list. It's getting a bit long. Maybe I need to upgrade the Sniper Rifle to a Tactical Nuke.
     
  2. Dark Elf

    Dark Elf Administrator Staff Member

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    I'm torn as to whether we need shitty writing like this to better appreciate the beauty of skillful prose, or if it actually ruins our ability to do so.
     
  3. rosenshyne

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    Perhaps we just have to apply your signature's maxim to the problem.
     
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    "Tactical," Xiao?

    What you need is something more like the Tsar Bomba.
     
  5. Dark Elf

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    We could.

    I do, however, have serious doubts over another famous maxim:

    "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"

    Since nobody could be so stupid, it stands to reason that the author of the above book is evil.
     
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    Nukes are pointless, since it's not like all the retards in the world are planning to gather in one place free of intelligent individuals. Yet if the number of worthy casualties doesn't matter in this mission for a greater good, I suggest the Death Star.
     
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    The idea of people like this writing books and then selling the books to people who pay money to read the books and then enjoy the books, does make you think 'hmm, genocide? Maybe we were too quick to judge..'
     
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    Xiao: Oooh! Oooh! Instead of tactical nuke, what about a crossbow to the neck?
     
  9. Ramidel

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    On the contrary. The idea that nobody could be so stupid is disproven by the following truism:

    "Make it idiot-proof, and the Universe will make a bigger idiot."
     
  10. Rain-Dog

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    Oh my god, I just read it again and a bit of the second part and it's left me feeling like my brain has been abused.
     
  11. JustaFishInaJar

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    In the military I once had to give a 30 minute lecture on the importance of bathing and at the end some of the Marines still had questions that needed answers. Most were shocked that dirty feet are more prone to athletes foot and other fungi.
     
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    Well, wars do contribute to natural selection, at least.
     
  13. Dark Elf

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    Teaching is awesome like that.
     
  14. JustaFishInaJar

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    I also had to explain constantly that you cannot pour quick-clot on someones face even if that's where the wound is. IT WILL KILL HIM.
     
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    There was so many contradictory description terms... Hemorrage welling up... brain dying... why did I go and buy the book... now I'll never read it... waste of 6 bucks... damn...
     
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