[the fell bat]

Sigh… not you too, Solarian? It’s not my China, Tiananmen was disgusting and so is the censorship currently going on, but could you in all honesty tell me, where was a single shred of truth in the claims that Ashlee was unfortunately making about China and bin Laden? Why’re you of all people getting in on this mindless chest-thumping and doing metaphorical one-finger salutes? At an imaginary enemy, no less.

And if you want to do it, really, you could just PM me, it’d have about the same effect anyway, rather than further derail this thread.

Honestly it’s like, you read my litany of what I dislike about your people, seized upon the first phrase “thin-skinned”, disdained to read the rest, and decided to just… prove me right as strongly as you could.

I’m truly sorry for you. Unlike you, this isn’t misplaced sarcasm. I truly am.

[the fell bat]

Well, you’ve just very neatly proven my criticisms right, having completely failed at reading comprehension, logical thought, humility, intellectual honesty, and seeking a last refuge in numerical solidarity.

Any chance you want to take this to PMs instead of cluttering up this forum further? Lingster can do whatever he wishes as moderator, but in the meantime if you have any apology to issue for your very unseemly and unjustified address towards me I’ll be glad to accept them in private. Otherwise, you could very well choose to continue reinforcing the image you currently portray in your person, of you Americans being thin-skinned, willfully ignorant, foul-mouthed, closed-minded, borderline illiterate and blindly prejudiced individuals. Yours is the country of choice after all, is it not?

[the fell bat]

… have you Americans also lost the ability of reading comprehension?

Do refer to

a) my first paragraph, and

b) the fact that I wasn’t the one who first brought it up.

By all means let’s return to normal programming. Incidentally, I wonder if you’re cognizant at all that you’re not exactly providing any effective proof to the contrary for the claims I made about you Americans…

[the fell bat]

Ok, I wasn’t going to say anything, because it would derail this thread, which is about the artists that Ashlee can find who make really nice pictures of muscular girls and women, but really…

That is just a smorgasbord of different things being conflated with each other there, and on the whole I’m sorry, it’s just a crock of bullshit. And I’m hardly surprised you have people chiming in with agreement, because America has long since lost the habit of critical and conscientious thought.

Let me just deal with that, in order.

1) China undermining America — hello? Any more so than rival countries try to undermine each other regularly in the arena of geopolitics? btw, “rival” doesn’t mean “enemy”, you know.

2) China helping bin Laden — ok, this is now just plain paranoia and ludicrousness. Btw, are you aware that China has substantial investments in US assets (your much vaunted Treasury bonds, as well as others) and has a vested interest in seeing the US stay relatively strong and stable? Granted, China doesn’t actually need you guys to live, but the collapse of the US would create a shockwave no one really wants.

3) Muslim dissent in the border regions of China — Several things here. Firstly, the Muslim world is not homogenuous, bin Laden doesn’t have any demonstrable influence with the disaffected people of Xinjiang. Secondly, the dissent is not based on Muslim grounds, but on ethnic and nationalistic ones, bin Laden can NOT stir up any significant dissent by waving the metaphorical (and also non-existent) pan-Islamic flag at them.

4) Lack of access to Youtube — my heart goes out to 7legend on this one, but have you kept up at all with current affairs? You are surely aware, since this qualifies somewhat as an event that happened in your own country, that Google’s dealings in China have fallen through and they’ve pulled out. Youtube belongs to Google, another thing of which you’re surely aware. This has nothing to do with any anti-American sentiment, this is just Chinese internet censorship, which has nothing to do with undermining the US, and nothing to do with supposedly supporting terrorism, just with wrongheaded government policies for which time is slowly running out. You may not know this, being ignorant Americans who don’t know about anything outside your own borders, but China has a tremendously active online citizenship, and the CCCP’s days are numbered, however long it will take.

5) Inferior products — yes that’s been a joke for decades, even amongst us Asians, but it’s becoming an increasingly dated joke. Some of my major suppliers are Chinese companies whom I have picked over their Indian counterparts precisely because they exhibit good service, good quality control for product, and excellent prices. There’s a reason, you know, despite your little barbed jokes from the side, why “Made in China” is so ubiquitous. As for “Made in America”, I would never, never base a business around that. High costs, high duties, doubtful quality, zero customer service… nah, I’ll give that a miss, thanks.

I’m sure you believed all that with all your heart, Ashlee (except the 5th point which is separate), but at some point, you Americans have got to start using your heads as well.

[the fell bat]

China hasn’t been communist for decades. Right now, China is more capitalist than you Americans. China’s issue now is entrenched oligarchical interests and that’s more political than economic. I would much rather do business in China than America nowadays, and have done.

But yeah she was probably just having fun, like the crowd at a WWE show or smth, and holy shit those are some nice girls.

[the fell bat]

no i don’t think so, like i said she doesn’t look ripped or massive or whatever, she’s just nice, normally toned “natural muscle”, to my eyes a marked difference from stick figure girls or flabbiness. i can see it move under her skin especially for deltoids and arms, i observe the lack of jiggling on her physique, i say this is a healthy, fitter than normal woman.

of course, *shrug* i suppose after all this isn’t what the board is about…

oh btw, i’m not american, so please, don’t spoiler anything about the series :p

[the fell bat]

You know I’m watching some of the 3rd season of BBT right now, and I don’t care what anyone says, Kaley Cuoco has got some very nice muscle! Sure, nothing like in FMG sequences, nothing like what you’d see on even a high school bodybuilding competition stage, but dammit, I know it when I see it, and she definitely works out and it shows. It’s the nice, natural, normal sort of muscle you’d see on a girl who cared about how she looked enough to gym with any regularity, it’s the kind you’re most likely to see out on the streets. so I’m gonna just stick by my guns — or in this case, HER guns — and say she’s got it! 😛

[the fell bat]

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[the fell bat]

Yeah, what is happening?

And Moonwarrior has stopped updating too, since about October last year, talking about a hiatus.

I remember a while back, when one of my favourites, Yukihide Yoshida (you all know of him… Earthcolour fame?) just dropped off mysteriously and never resurfaced. And because I can’t read Japanese, I have no clue why.

Unless… did he somehow get into legal trouble of some sort? Because I remember that quite a number of his characters were what you might call “underage”… and yet they’d pose topless and all — I think a few were even nude?

Did he want a “change of direction” away from that or something?

[the fell bat]

Ok, have upgraded to 3.0… once more unto the breach.

A friend of mine has asked me to do some stuff she’d like to see… so yeah. I’m going to try my hand at this again. It’s better now, I have some real basic stuff up, but still no decent clothes because the stuff for V4 just cannot be used for A3 models…!

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