As you all know, Obama won the Nobel Prize for Peace a few days ago. What.The.Phoronida. I am truly disappointed by this. The mass media and plebs blindly following Obama I can accept--they're all stupid. But I honestly expected more from the bloody Norwegian Nobel Committee. Last time I checked, the Nobel Prize wasn't for people who were popular or in the news alot the recent years, but for people who actually DID something. I forgot her name; but the 1976 winner of this specific award has already criticised the fact Obama got it.


Because, what has Obama done? According to the Committee, and I quote, Source.

What the Phoronida? He has done nothing at all. Yes, he has URGED Israel and Palestina to talk. And as we speak, negotiations between those two countries are completely jammed. The only thing he has done is make speeches that are so simple it's beyond comprehension. Yes, a strong Europe is good, yes we need to help the economy, yes ofcourse world peace would be great, but Phoronidaing talking about it and mentioning things that are painfully obvious isn't changing a god damn thing. If I stand up tomorrow and say "Israel and Palestina need to co-operate, so change hope change I'm a Nemertea", will I get a Nobel Prize? No. And maybe the most retarded thing about this is the following: they actually agree with me. I, yet again, quote: .

Source

Now seriously, it's nice that he has INTENTIONS, but he has done nothing at all to contribute to world peace thus earning this Prize. In my opinion, it's an absolute mockery and a devaluation of the Noble Prize. You may now post.

I have intentions to create peace on an intergalactic scale. Did I win yet?

You won the Phoronidaing Noble Prize for Intergalactic Peace, organised by the Phoronidaing Martian Noble Prize Committee. Congratulations.

I'm sure nobody is more surprised than Obama himself.

I completely agree with you Smoby. When I read that, I was like was dumbfounded. I was like "What did he honestly do to deserve this?"

Obama has done nothing, and I mean nothing to deserve this great prize. This is like a complete joke in my opinion. They gave him the prize for what he is "going to do", not for what he has done. This is complete garbage and an insult. Plus, Obama was a last minute nominee for this and he received it when there were other candidates that actually deserved it.

I honestly never liked Obama much and this makes my feelings towards him even worse. I have no idea what the committee were even thinking when they awarded someone like him with an honorable prize like this. It's so absurd.

Exactly. And apparently, he was sleeping when he got it. I'd very much like to see the list of nominees.

I really can't put into words how much this pisses me the Phoronida off. He hasn't done a god damned thing that warrants him winning the Noble Peace Prize. I mean jesus he's only been in office 9 months, and I personally think it's been a pretty horrid 9 months. To me this kind of diminishes the value and prestige of the award since they awarded it to him for doing nothing.

I was never for Obama to begin with, I just don't agree with anything he's done or anything he plans to do. The fact that he's been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize just frustrates me even further because it seems like he was given it because he can use pretty words and make it seem like he's going to fix everything, when in reality I've yet to see him fix anything. This just re-enforces my belief that people think he's the greatest thing since sliced bread just because he's Barack Obama.

-Raganork

Man this is a bigger upset than the Runescape Machima competition.

Or Al Gore getting it.

Who were the other nominations?

Anyways, Yeah I think this is bull. Apparently the smartest people give out the award. Were they on vacation?

Apparently there was a record 205 nominees for the Peace Prize this year. I'm surprised that none of them had better intentions that Obama. We all really need to pick up our game.

I was among the 204 other nominees. If only you guys would've watched and voted ... !

now for some Improv. say that is if your on a speedboat shooting an AK-47 at a whale and running from the feds.

It's actually pretty ironic that Obama's winning the Nobel Peace prize is actually his greatest acheivement in office so far. He absolutely has great intentions but has so far failed to actually do anything. There has to be someone else that is more worthy of getting this award than Obama.

Screw intentions.

The world would be run by blue-eyed Germans if we did things by intentions, I'm sure of it.


I think his medal should make like a 200m Olympic Gold and get thrown away.

There....there are just no words that haven't been said yet...

Remember, he was nominated. Someone else put him up for the prize, and the panel chose him. Obama had nothing to do with winning or loosing, or even running for the Nobel Prize. Should he have won it? No. But it's not like he volunteered himself...

I like Obama and think he'll be a great president. I do however feel that between the world leaders, academics and previous winners who nominate potential winners and the Norwegian academics who compile a shortlist and the final judging committee, they may have made a slight error.

Illustration: Michael Mucci

lul

So you dislike him even more because he was awarded something he had no say in. Interesting.

I personally don't care. Who else could have won this thing?

wtf...

And I quote:

Incorrect Saeb.

Morgan Tsvangirai should have won it. I mean seriously, how many political leaders can you think of would de facto win an election but then to prevent the people of his country being slaughtered by the military would strike a deal with the force who's been oppressing him and his followers, put them in jail for no reason and destroyed the economy for the good of the country?

That may have made it worse. Who nominated him in the first place?

After 8 years of Bush, I'm not really surprised.
Winning a nobel peace prize doesn't change anything so if people's feelings about him changed because he won it, that would just be ridiculous.

Its actually made me feel ever so slightly worse about him, even though its not his fault.

Let's face it, the Nobel Peace Prize is just now a political tool to show who the people behind the prize favor.

Let's look back at the past 10 years.
Oh, what do we have here?

2002 - Jimmy Carter
2007 - Al Gore
2009 - Barack Obama

Now, I don't know a lot about Jimmy Carter, but Al Gore did... um... he went green. Barack Obama hasn't even had a chance to do anything. Basically, they just want to say that they hate Bush. Jesus Christ, we get it, he was a bad president (not entirely bad in my own eyes, but not ideal at all). I wonder when people are going to stop being butthurt and get the hell over it.

Gl Aore was silly too.

Dam, someone said it before I could...
Glad to see that I wasn't the only one who found this annoying, I was beginning to wonder if I was only pissed off about it because of my political standing and that everyone else around me would say he totally deserved it.... Glad i was wrong

Trees said everything else I could possibly say here already...

Emm has modding gone down hill in the last four years? This guys been banned and there is swearing in the title… has the trash can been removed for dumping stuff like this?

Shit isn't censored anymore and you can appeal bans.

emm, lot's of changes in the last 4 years oh well, i would have vetoed those two rules if i still could

I will quote from this link though http://www.runecrypt.com/forum/index.php?a...p;f=17&id=1

‘1. Any form of flaming (e.g. swearing, shouting by using continuous capitals, bad-mouthing, profanity, etc.) will NOT be accepted on RuneCrypt’s forums’

That just comes with a telling off now… i must of be a nasty mod in my days!

I am just getting old and grumpy I guess… ah well I will leave it, not on this forum to care enough to email the people of power!

Shit flies these days. Smoby was banned for something else having appealed his original ban and saying he'd behave himself. (Lie).

The filters were relaxed due to the fact that we don't really have any young members anymore.

I can say penis now and no one can stop me! Haha~

Also, it's nice to see an old member again.

I have no power to change the rules that have occurred since my time (makes me sound old).

The fact is I have not played runescape in over four years and I have only been on this forum once or twice a year since I left runescape. It does sadden me that forum appears to have gone down hill since then but if that what you guys want then, that’s cool with me. I will always see this forum in the ‘golden years’ of 6? years ago…

i remember the big hack of 2005?

Anyway, back on topic. I watched Obams speech today, he seemed to very gracious but it is funny that a man who wins a peace prize is sending 30000 men to war, ironic?

Ahhh the "golden years" what a great community and a great game. Those times can never come back now, was huuuge.
I randomly logged on first time in like a year? and see fade out is posting, i'm like huh no way is he still around.
Late night pkin trips "ftw" is a full rune kill still amazing these days?

Anyway i could go on and on but a mod mite tell me off for not being "on topic". Gooo Obama!?!

Omg its Wonesy

Even the mods go off topic.

Haha woo. It's rude not to pop in every now and again!

The game's still pretty good, guys.

You are still my hero for getting to 85 magic with seers teleports. And for sharing when we teamed a guy on one of those light night pk's where you did at least 95% of the damage. And for being awesome.

Rune is kind of nothing these days. You don't have to spend days picking flax and spinning it to get full rune anymore.



I quite like the swearing thing. Back in 2004/5/6 most of our member base was between 12-18. We've gained very few new, active members since then. As far as I'm aware everyone who posts on our forums is over 16. It seems somewhat insane that you can have sex and until recently buy cigarettes (UK) or drive (Some US states) yet not type the swear words which most of us found big and clever at 12. I can put more vitriol and vehemence into creating a putdown without swearing than I can with, simply because swearing requires no effort.

I loved Crypt back then. But I'm not the same person I was. The progression of life ensures that we change and it is therefore natural that those things we influence change with us. Perhaps unfortunately or perhaps fortunately, without new, younger members joining, the site simply grew up with the rest of us.

You also have to remember that back then, through some freakish occurrence, we managed to have about 100 active members and very few personality clashes. And yet, the ones that were there were so much worse than anything we have now. It's the age old adage of when times are good you're able to gloss over the bad. For instance the vent forum hasn't been used regularly by members of staff for an awfully long time. If I look at the front page of that forum I see posts from 2006 which I would be warning people for if they were made anywhere else. Further to this staff have always been able to bypass filters. All we've really done is make things a little more equal.
But there were still huge cases of drama regularly which inevitably ended in mass flamings (Denic, BDZ, Dryerasesmile, E_A_5_y + Junk etc.) which we just don't have anymore. Whilst we have swearing we don't have it directed at individuals. Somehow previously due to there being rigorous filters you're allowed to tell people to ---- off (Which everyone knows what it is) yet actually saying the word shit would get you a warning. I know which one I consider more offensive.

But hey ho. I'm getting distracted.

Fate

how's life treating you!

Madness really Fade, treating me so so you know buddy. I just remembered a time when i was talkin to you and was watchin cash in the attic when i shud of been studyin at college.

Big respect Rob your a top man, I love the fact you can remember those times

oi Guys stay on topic!

Oh wait I'm no mod, continue =p

God I miss this place!

Hey there guys, how's things ?

So... Obama eh?

To be honest I've never heard of Wonesy before and I only vaguely remember Fade Out. Vinnyruex is still in my memories though.
I'm such a newb.

So Maarten told me that we are going on a Kalq-whatevernamewas trip?

Ohgod. I have not KQ'd in almost 2 years. I would be so up for a trip.

Buy me full rune, some thing to hit with and members and i'll go bby <3

oh yeah! I member getting dragon chain out of that beast when it was quite new! Made me rich at the time.

Im glad to see ppl still remember be.

Obama shudnt of won btw =p

Real pros get chains from dusties.