Civil unrest in Georgia quelled by CP's/Combine?

[Trevelyan]

I apologize if it seems insensitive to a bad situation or if anyone's picked up on this before, but I can't help notice the striking similarity between the so called 'Georgian' authorities and the Civil Protection personnel in Half Life 2. Kind of ironic really

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7083485.stm

 

[Trevelyan]

From the New York Times. That's just scary looking: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/11/07/world/07georgia.ms.html

Yep, sorry, thought as much!

 

[<RJMC>]

 

[delusional]

WTF, <RJMC> Wins.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Jesus they look like twats with those helmets though...

 

[Druckles]

Lmao! PWNED!

 

[The Monkey]

WTF, that just looks silly. How are they gonna give any respect if they look like that?

 

[CyberPitz]

wtf is happening in georga...I'm so out of the loop lol..

 

[MJ12]

hahah, RJMC.... man, those masks are cool though.

They need to make a gasmask/helmet combination so it doesn't look so stupid/uncomfortable though.

 

[Irksome]

All I hear in my head as I read this thread is the womens voice ,who you hear during HL2, saying "Civil Protection..." over and over.

:angry:

 

[Krynn72]

man, those masks are cool though.

False. They look retarded.

 

[Ennui]

WTF, that just looks silly. How are they gonna give any respect if they look like that?

I imagine you wouldn't be laughing if they were walking towards you in phalanx formation with batons and guns loaded with rubber ammunition. As a matter of fact, I think you'd be scared as hell. Utility > appearance in this situation.

 

[MJ12]

False. They look retarded.

The masks alone have a cool smooth organic design. IMO

But with the helmets it looks silly.

 

[Krynn72]

I imagine you wouldn't be laughing if they were walking towards you in phalanx formation with batons and guns loaded with rubber ammunition. As a matter of fact, I think you'd be scared as hell. Utility > appearance in this situation.

I have a feeling I would still laugh. If I find something funny, I always laugh, no matter the circumstance. I cant even help it. When I was a kid and my parents would yell at me, I would find it really funny for some reason, and I always started laughing while they scream at me and get more pissed off. I was once even rendered defenseless because I was laughing so hard at my brother, and he proceeded to punch and kick the hell outta me, but I was laughing so hard the entire time.

So yeah, I'd be laughing if I saw a phalanx formation made up out of guys with silly masks, even if they were shooting me with rubber bullets.

 

[ZeeM]

WTF are these, mickey mouse gas masks?

 

[<RJMC>]

this masks looks more like the combine masks
http://www.gasmasks.net/database/russia3/ru-032.jpg
http://www.gasmasks.net/database/usa5/us-077.jpg

 

[chimpmunk]

Awesome masks, I want one.