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Old 10-24-2009, 08:42 AM   #1
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Netball is similar to basketball but:
no running with the ball
no backboard
all goals are worth one point
less contact (officially ... HA!)
generallly played by women
main countries are Australia, New Zealand, England and Jamaica.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7dja...eature=related
Wow, it looks like once the offensive player gets the ball, the defender can't take a step, either.
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Old 10-22-2009, 11:07 PM   #2
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huh. thanks!
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Old 10-22-2009, 11:52 PM   #3
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Well, an all queer military would cut down on the number of fraternization pregnancies ...

But it leads to other problems. Currently women are relegated to "non-combat" roles. In an all gay military, would the non-combat divisions be composed lipstick lesbians and flamers, with anyone with a certain level of butchness placed on the front lines?

(I'm sorry, I'm bad, I just keep thinking Village People here, you know?)
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Old 10-23-2009, 07:07 AM   #4
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Well if we're getting into that sort of thing, for any job, military or otherwise, anyone who is physically and mentally capable of doing it should be allowed to do it, and anyone who isn't so capable, shouldn't, regardless of what is between their legs.
Maybe the Flamboyant Fellow support units could help the Butch Dyke Commando regiment with their camouflage face-paint.
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Old 10-26-2009, 02:41 AM   #5
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I believe it is in Plato's Symposium where he says that a soldier will fight better if his lover is at his side, because he will not want to seem cowardly in front of his lover.
Thebes tried it, in several tactical methods in the classical hoplite organization -- the Sacred Band of Thebes, a hoplite unit of a strength of a few hundred that for forty years swept all before them before finally getting ground up, one hundred percent casualties, at Chaeronaea, 338 BC. Took Alexander (not quite yet the Great), the innovation of a pike phalanx, and Philip of Macedon to do the job.

What they had to say about it, at their beginning, translated by Dryden.

And the end of the Sacred Band
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Old 10-26-2009, 07:00 PM   #6
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That would be one way to thin 'em out.
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Old 10-26-2009, 08:11 PM   #7
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as historically interesting as it is, I don't really think that ancient Greek practices have much bearing on our own DADT shit.

Men, get over yourselves and stop being 'phobes. The world will not end if another guy admires your dick.
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Old 11-04-2009, 04:04 AM   #8
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And anybody with half a brain can tell you it's really no fun to fuck somebody who doesn't want you fucking 'em. The magic goes right out of the activity.
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:05 AM   #9
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Evidently, not for rapists.
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Old 11-04-2009, 11:49 AM   #10
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I am not aware of ever having fucked anyone who didn't want me fucking them. I'll have to take your word for it.
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Old 11-05-2009, 11:58 AM   #11
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