Its official - Freepers are but dimwitted children

[RadiDem]

While browsing Freak Repugnic looking for more Mangate Denial, I came across this bizzare thread.

I thought the title " Fun With Army Men " was gonna be about Gannon !

These nerds are off their rockers !

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1346558/posts




Fun with Army Men

There are many ways to enjoy Army Men.

The simplest and most common involves a sandpile or dirt backyard, small garden trowel and wood twigs. You can dig bunkers, fortifications and trenchlines.

Outdoors, soldiers can be bombed with 'enemy dirt bombs." Small, dry clumps of dirt will seem to explode upon impact.

[realisticphish]

1. Hell, i've done that

not since i was twelve, but....


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[LiberallyInclined]

2. or you can get the can of lighter fluid...

and play "napalm strike"...that was our favorite.

[pres2032]

3. what's wrong with setting up army men?

I'd love to have the time and money to set up recreations of civil war or battlefields. I loved setting up little battles with my toys and playing army. nothing wrong with that.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Absolutely nothing

And by the way Historicals are very much alive and quite a good hobby and way to teach history...

[punpirate]

4. Hmmm...

... don't see any car bombs. *sigh*

[Downtown Hound]

5. Looks like they're getting in touch with their inner child

How sweeeeeet. Hey freeps, when you grow up and become big boys, you might realize that war isn't fun. You're not getting bombed with "enemy dirt bombs." It's the real thing, and you really die and get maimed.

Stick to playing with your toys, and leave the real war making decisions up to the adults.

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. The author sounds to be an adolescent boy desperate to share

his hobby with his buddies. I would be almost impossible to believe that a mature person would display a wonder for "Small, dry clumps of dirt"

It makes sense that freeper idiots might in many cases be adolescent youth mirroring in a distorted way, the views of their parents.

[Radical Activist]

7. was there ever any doubt of that? n/t

[fishnfla]

8. The dude is a closet liberal

"nukes can destroy both sides, so nobody can use them"

l-o-l

[devilgrrl]

10. This is about as close to actual combat as they probably got.

:+

[Melynn]

11. Where are the toy Iraqi insurgents?

I know that some people here on DU say they like to play with toy soldiers but I think this is psycho for adults to be engaging in this behavior.

[ComerPerro]

12. This is what they mean when they say "I am a veteran"

A veteran of backyard army men.

Shit, they probably still play with army men at age 45.

[The Minus World]

13. If I were a disruptor on FreeRepublic,

I would be hard-pressed to conjure up a post as worthy of a giggle as that one is. Right-wingers take their war games seriously, and the fact that it's absolutely plausible that this was an honest post makes the matter so much more laughable.

[baron j]

14. Apparently, they love playing army men with history, too.

Look at Newt's book:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/031230935X/ref=cm_rev_sort/104-0597533-6752739?customer-reviews.sort_by=%2BOverallRating&x=9&y=6&me=ATVPDKIKX0DER

It seems he wishes America had been divided, and slavery wasn't abolished.

[Enraged_Ape]

15. I think this is cool

It may be the most useful thing ever posted on Free Republic.

Hell, I still play with "toy soldiers" in the form of RTS war games on the computer.