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#195181
Topic
The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/195181/action/topic#195181
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Originally posted by: Darth Simon
Originally posted by: sybeman
I hate when people say that China is "fast becoming a global super-power." China has been a "super-power" for, easily, 1600 of the last 2000 years. Jeez

Originally posted by: Shimraa
naw i would say from 500 - 1500 then now so thats a total of 1010 years


I'm confused, i was when this was first posted but figured whatever, since DAYV called out the 'math' and Shimraa is defending it, i feel the need to ask for clarification.

sybeman's comment (taken at face value) would mean that China has been a super power for 1600 of the last 2000 years, the last 2000 years would go from 6 A.D. to 2006 A.D. I assume the 1600 years he refers to would be the previous ones, so from the year 406 A.D. they were a super power. That last part might be a wrong interpretation, but the point still makes sense.

Then Shimraa responds with (gonna break this down into parts):
naw : simple, he disagrees with sybeman (the first post on the subject and the one right before his)
i would say from 500 - 1500 : confusing. is this 500 - 1500 years that you think they are a super power? given the context of what is being replied to, that would be a logical assumption. from later statements, it would seem he's talking about 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D.
then now : ok, i generally understand shimraaese but can we get a coma or something here. then now means pretty much nothing. Apparently, from later comments, then now is the past 10 years, how anyone can get that from the above statement is beyond me.
so thats a total of 1010 years : ok, well this makes sense, after later posts. but in the context of the original post, its a number pulled out of thin air.

posting this seemed to straighten the post out for me (still dont know how 'now' is 10 years, i always thought now was now, didnt realize now was a 10 year span)

but still gonna have to agree with DAYV, 'Nice Math'

-Darth Simon


HAHAHAHA
Post
#194993
Topic
The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/194993/action/topic#194993
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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
Originally posted by: Shimraa
Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
Originally posted by: Shimraa
naw i would say from 500 - 1500 then now so thats a total of 1010 years


NICE MATH THERE, BUDDY.


1500 - 500 plus the last 10 years

1500 - 500 + 10 = 1010 right dayv


YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE "+10" IN YOUR ORIGINAL MATH PROBLEM.


the 'plus now' implied the past 10 years
Post
#194920
Topic
things we Love
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/194920/action/topic#194920
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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
Originally posted by: sean wookie
I am afraid of asian people. An asian girl today made me very inferior at my party where there were many krazy koreans.


THAT REMINDS ME OF HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE.


that movie is too much,
"COMON DAD"
"DADDY IS NOT COMING ON ANYTHING"
Post
#193933
Topic
Powerful movies
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/193933/action/topic#193933
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good will hunting there is another great movie. no one died in that one and it was very much a comming of age movie. well more of finding oneself, but thats what comming of age movies are.

i dont think someone has to die at the end of ALL coming of age things. some great examples are the catcher in the rye, and about a boy.
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#193900
Topic
Star Wars Expanded Universe and Official Fan-Made Stuff question.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/193900/action/topic#193900
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hmm i donno about that i love the EU even more then the movies, find it great how detailed it is. i havent read much of the clonewars books but from waht i did read they werent very good, nor were many of the books between ROTJ and NJO. read the NJO books though they are fantastic. some of them are shitty but the whole story ark is amazing. 5 years covered in 20 books you pretty much read the entire war it is very cool. puts the war back in star wars too.
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#193640
Topic
Palpatine's crew?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/193640/action/topic#193640
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i am guessing that it was a ploy, remember he was still riseing to full power, and he needed as many allies a possible, i bet he would have done anything he had to regardless of personal preferences, then after he was in a secure position, he showed he true colours. same sort of idea as with the jedi, he spent year working with them, then when the time was right bam.