Nobel Prizes

[MontysDouble]

... in physics, chemistry and medecine are often awarded years after the breakthroughs they recognise.

Not to rain on Obama's parade or anything, but surely credit when credit is due.

[boo_cocky]

Couldn't agree with you more. I don't really get it...

He's funding a war and a violent occupation...peaceful?

Granted, I think he's working on a lot of ideas that may place him into the nominee category for the prize...IF he succeeds at them. As of now, everything he's done is tangled up in red tape...nothing's been accomplished.

I have a great idea...I want EVERYONE to love each other and stop causing each other pain. No fighting. Share your money with those who don't have enough. Perform random acts of kindness.

There...I did it!

Prize plox! :p

[mousewallrat]

I intend to make everyone wealthy and beautiful...oh yeah, and World Peace after that. I want one too.

[yup]

I have been stewing with this all day. This is the most blatant political ass kissery I think I have seen in resent time.

[Willow]

I have been stewing with this all day. This is the most blatant political ass kissery I think I have seen in resent time.Hahaha, I see what you did there!

[DC Thug]

what about when henry kissinger got the award?

during the vietnam war?

[LiquidBlue]

lol

[MontysDouble]

what about when henry kissinger got the award?

during the vietnam war?Yeah, that's like rewarding the school bully for not using the little kids as punching bags, starting sometime next semester. :omg:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/lundestad-review/index.html

In 1973 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to US National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and North Vietnamese leader and negotiator Le Duc Tho for the 1973 Paris agreement intended to bring about a cease-fire in the Vietnam war and a withdrawal of the American forces. This award is definitely the most controversial one in the history of the Nobel Peace Prize. Le Duc Tho declined the Peace Prize, the only person to have done so*, since there was still no peace agreement.

* Others have refused prizes, or been disallowed from accepting them by their governments.

[JooX]

It's been a lean season in the NPL, Nobel Prize League.
After everyone stopped work in the fields of physics, chemestry, medicine, health care, astro physics, art, animal welfare. And the worlds humanitarians all moved to China... President Obama was the obvious choice.

[JACKASS2010]

this reeks of faggotry

[Josh85]

don't rly know wat yas are talking about.

i might sleep nao

[MontysDouble]

Sleep causes cancer... everyone knows that!

:D

[JACKASS2010]

oh shut up neil!

[tgd_02]

lol
he made bank

[silenthill22]

I want the million dollars. Fuck the medal.

[mousewallrat]

I understand Nobel nominations have to be in no later than Feb. 1. Since the Bamster was only in office since Jan. 20, what do you think he did in about ten days that was so munificent??

[JACKASS2010]

simple. on jan 20 he became the first nigger prez.

[mousewallrat]

simple. on jan 20 he became the first nigger prez.
But he's only a Hafrican.

[Quackers]

To stop racism we should kill all ethnic minorities.

Wheres my fucking peace prize?

[JACKASS2010]

To stop racism we should kill all ethnic minorities.

Wheres my fucking peace prize?

thats a damn good one!

[Quackers]

I hope you know it includes skirt wearin ponces?

[JACKASS2010]

nigga plz, we pwned you at bannockburn and we could pwn you tomorrow if we felt like it.

[Quackers]

Hahahaha, don't get yer skirt in a twist now!

[MontysDouble]

I understand Nobel nominations have to be in no later than Feb. 1. Since the Bamster was only in office since Jan. 20, what do you think he did in about ten days that was so munificent??Interesting point... I wasn't aware of the nomination deadline.

Been reading a bit about Nobels: Jose Ramos-Horta was awarded one a year before East Timor gained independence from Indonesia.

Apparently Peace Prizes are also used to give recognition to causes that are works in progress.

Currently, I guess this has to count for something relatively concrete:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8301191.stm

Front seat view of Clinton diplomacy

...

Turks and Armenians, with a lot of help from the Swiss and the Americans, finalise the details of an agreement that had been in the works for weeks.

But when a conflict has been going for almost a century and the two parties are so bitter about the past and passionate about the issues, which touch on the very core of their identity, we should have known to expect a few bumps in the road.

High drama

It soon became clear something had gone wrong at the last minute.

The Armenians had objected to the statement that the Turks were planning to make at the ceremony and had never left the hotel. The Turks were already at the venue.

Intense shuttle diplomacy was going - the Turks were in one room, the Armenians in another as the Swiss mediators, and the American, Russians, French and others went back and forth, carrying pieces of paper.

...

Ministers missed their planes, Mrs Clinton missed her London dinner plans but an hour-and-a-half later, the Armenians and the Turks put pen to paper.

The solution? No-one made a public statement.

On the flight to London, we asked Mrs Clinton whether this had been the most challenging diplomatic endeavour she had undertaken.

"It's what you sign up for," she replied, "when you're trying to help people resolve long-standing problems."

As members of the state department press corps we, of course, get mainly one version of the events, the American one - so maybe the Russians feel they were actually the ones who clinched the deal, or perhaps the French will say they came up with the creative solution of not making a public statement.

But we certainly got a front seat view of the American diplomacy machine in full action. I guess it was a team effort by several governments besides the USA's, but still noteworthy. :shrug:

[DoMo]

I guess that most of ya couldt name other winners without useing google.

However, when Bush was still a president, more than 1/3 of all Europen seen USA as a danger. More or less also in Asia, Africa and South america.

Since Obama is President, ther is hope again. That simple it is.

[PlaneswalkerX]

I guess that most of ya couldt name other winners without useing google.

Even though your spelling is atrocious, I agree with this point. Other than Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa, I really don't know of anyone who has won the Nobel Peace Prize. I really couldn't care less who they give it to. That being said, I don't see anything Obama has done to deserve this award.

[rubicks]

I guess that most of ya couldt name other winners without useing google.

However, when Bush was still a president, more than 1/3 of all Europen seen USA as a danger. More or less also in Asia, Africa and South america.

Since Obama is President, ther is hope again. That simple it is.
Yoda is that you?

[DC Thug]

wtf planes, al gore got it a few years back

remember?

jimmy carter?

no?

[Afronaught]

I guess that most of ya couldt name other winners without useing google.

However, when Bush was still a president, more than 1/3 of all Europen seen USA as a danger. More or less also in Asia, Africa and South america.

Since Obama is President, ther is hope again. That simple it is.
Albert Schwitser ,Nelson Mandela, F.W. De Klerk, Jimmy Carter,Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Gorbachev, Kofi Anan, Yasser Arafat, Itsak, Rabin, Shimon Perez, Desmund Tutu, Martin Luther King, Aung Sun Su Ki. The Dali Lama, Mother Teresa.

[Echo1]

I guess that most of ya couldt name other winners without useing google.

However, when Bush was still a president, more than 1/3 of all Europen seen USA as a danger. More or less also in Asia, Africa and South america.

Since Obama is President, ther is hope again. That simple it is.

its an image thing. how simple that is.. especially for the simple minded who dont see that this is a celebrity fucking presidency. its people actually believing a politician whos talking about peace and thinking hell keep his promises for some fucking reason.. they all do it, they all lie. but what has he done besides talk about it? nothing.

[DoMo]

he brought the stability in world again?!

i mean, 1 year ago ther where way more peopel pissed on USA.

[Quackers]

Mother Teresa deserved a hanging not a peace prize.

Fuckin cunt whore.

[boo_cocky]

Mother Teresa deserved a hanging not a peace prize.

Fuckin cunt whore.
Yeah, because devoting yourself to a life of poverty and helping the less fortunate is a terrible way to live.

BTW...she donated the money and the car she was awarded...so, she didn't really get any 'prize'.

[Quackers]

Yeh, her real prize was trying to stop rape victims having abortions and pushing her religion on dying and vulnerable people.

She got a real kick out of that.

[DC Thug]

no she didn't

if you read her diaries, she lost her faith in god

truth

[tgd_02]

boo its a good thing u deleted that retarded ramblin cuz DC wasnt even talking to you

/whoops

[MCMXCII]

Obama just got the prize because he's doing such a good job at not being G.W Bush. Someone mentioned ass-kissery? I concur.

Also, and I want to point this out, Sweden may be the host and in charge of the whole Nobel Prize thing, but it is actually the Norwegians who pick who is going to win the Peace Prize, specifically. We gave them the "honour" of doing so, since they felt lonely without the Swedish occupation of their country until 1905.

[DC Thug]

what's wrong with norway?

[Echo1]

he brought the stability in world again?!

i mean, 1 year ago ther where way more peopel pissed on USA.

thats because they wanted to be. and they decided not to be now.

because of what? something the new guy HAS NOT FUCKING DONE YET!?

it really shows you how fucking stupid people are, if they wanna be pissed at "america" because of the president but can just flip that switch and everything is suddenly ok because a different guy whos good at speaking is in office. its a fucking joke.

[DC Thug]

shut yer mouf!!!

dats yer commander in chief, dawg

u take orders from da mang

u swore an oath to teh constitution to do his bidding

lewlz0r

[Afronaught]

http://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/revjerwright341.jpg

[MCMXCII]

what's not wrong with norway?

I actually can't think of anything....

[DC Thug]

what about finland? any problems with finland?

[MCMXCII]

what about finland? any problems with finland?

Yes. Actually more than with Norway.

[DC Thug]

you know, i've heard that norwegian food is terrible. like rated the worst in europe.

but you guys eat lutefisk which sounds and probably smells horrible

so... what's up with that?

[Echo1]

shut yer mouf!!!

dats yer commander in chief, dawg

u take orders from da mang

u swore an oath to teh constitution to do his bidding

lewlz0r

not yet i havent.

[MCMXCII]

you know, i've heard that norwegian food is terrible. like rated the worst in europe.

but you guys eat lutefisk which sounds and probably smells horrible

so... what's up with that?

Lutfisk is like dried fish. It's actually what poor people eat, but they made it into a class thing. Like it's cool to eat poor people's food.

[yup]

Lutfisk is like dried fish. It's actually what poor people eat, but they made it into a class thing. Like it's cool to eat poor people's food.

Like hot dogs, hamburgers and pizza :thumb:

[DC Thug]

so what do the fancy swedish ppl eat?

besides meatballs and lingonberries?

[MCMXCII]

so what do the fancy swedish ppl eat?

besides meatballs and lingonberries?

Meatballs and lingonberries are good!!

But fancy Swedish people? What do they eat? Um... Foreign cuisine, or like Swedish foods prepared italian or french style.

Otherwise, marinated raw herring, fermented herring, salmon, all kinds of fish and crustaceans, crayfish in particular. That would be it.

Not that it's fancy food, but moose is actually very good meat.

[MontysDouble]

I'd like to try moose.

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z159/countziero/bullwinkle.jpg

Anything like venison MCM?

[MCMXCII]

I'd like to try moose.

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z159/countziero/bullwinkle.jpg

Anything like venison MCM?

Ja, kind of. Still, it's rougher. A bit like a fucked up mix of venison and ox meat. It's perfect for making a stew or a boeuf Bourginion of some sorts. Good winter food.

[DC Thug]

eh all that seafood doesn't sound appealing. i guess i'd have to see it before rendering judgment

[MCMXCII]

eh all that seafood doesn't sound appealing. i guess i'd have to see it before rendering judgment

You just gotta get used to it man! Come over and I'll make you some real Swedish food! :thumb: