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Post by Audley Strange » Thu Oct 04, 2012 5:03 pm

In the first of Lyndsey Anderson's Mick Travis trilogy, Travis has a great line. "One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place. "

Where would you place that bullet, If you were given the chance?
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Thu Oct 04, 2012 5:04 pm

I don't have an answer, but I bloody love that film, and Anderson.
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Post by Audley Strange » Thu Oct 04, 2012 5:09 pm

It's a great movie.
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Post by Gerald McGrew » Thu Oct 04, 2012 5:12 pm

Audley Strange wrote:Where would you place that bullet, If you were given the chance?
My neighbor's dog. Wouldn't even hesitate.
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Thu Oct 04, 2012 5:14 pm

Audley Strange wrote:It's a great movie.
Different discussion to be held elsewhere, perhaps, but I'd be curious what you thought of O Lucky Man! I pay you the compliment of assuming you've seen it. 8-)
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Post by Rum » Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:52 pm

I don't want to shoot anyone, but I suppose it would be quite good to have taken a pot shot at Hitler in around 1934 or 5.

Both films are top notch for me too btw!

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Post by Tero » Thu Oct 04, 2012 7:03 pm

In Nancy's little gun.

(a joke on libertarians)

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Post by HomerJay » Thu Oct 04, 2012 7:24 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:
Audley Strange wrote:It's a great movie.
Different discussion to be held elsewhere, perhaps, but I'd be curious what you thought of O Lucky Man! I pay you the compliment of assuming you've seen it. 8-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oL7XP0ROvk#t=2m0s

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Post by Svartalf » Thu Oct 04, 2012 7:26 pm

Audley Strange wrote:In the first of Lyndsey Anderson's Mick Travis trilogy, Travis has a great line. "One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place. "

Where would you place that bullet, If you were given the chance?
Julius Caesar's head, some time between his mother becoming pregnant and the Syvil war between Marians and Sylla supporters.
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Thu Oct 04, 2012 7:28 pm

HomerJay wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote:
Audley Strange wrote:It's a great movie.
Different discussion to be held elsewhere, perhaps, but I'd be curious what you thought of O Lucky Man! I pay you the compliment of assuming you've seen it. 8-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oL7XP0ROvk#t=2m0s
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Post by MiM » Thu Oct 04, 2012 7:58 pm

A damned good question :think:. If you are allowed to go historical, I believe Rum gave the only obvious answer. Hitler was recent enough, and his personal impact was strong enough, that one can bet high odds on that the world would have taken a better course without him. Today - very difficult, there are few persons of high enough magnitude, where some other person would not step in and act similarily.

A distant relative of mine, Eugen Schauman, might have done such a deed for Finland in 1904, when he shot the Russian general governor of Finland, Nikolai Bobrikov.
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Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:13 am

The problem with all the possible options I can think of (past and present) is that some other shit comes along and takes their place.
Kill Hitler? The Nazis rise to power under someone else.
Kill Jesus (if he ever existed)? One of the other fucked-up cults of that age grows to take over the Roman Empire.
Kill George Osbourne? Some other callous, worthless, mindless, libertarian sack-of-shit goes-on to murder our nation.

A single bullet is never enough. Now send me back to 1066 with an army and that's a whole different ballgame :plot:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:22 am

I've already done that. Most of you never noticed.
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Post by Robert_S » Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:32 am

What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Oct 05, 2012 6:20 am

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