Why not be a pushover, Salad? The thing here is that Uztopoke is, in his own way, difficult to defeat. In a true style of war, I'd much rather bow down to his wishes than experience a long and costly war. Of course, now that you've gone and said it Salad, I'm fine.

But maybe, just maybe, Uztopoke ISN'T difficult to defeat. He's no ShortCake, but the reason that he is classicaly hard is because:
a) he wouldn't ever show defeat, you couldn't tell, and he'd convince himself otherwise.
b) he's never had a decent sparring partner.

Saying that, I don't think Uzto is stupid at all. I love his posts a fair bit...but a whole thread adressed to me about ruminations? Aaahh...get out of here. I'm going to ruminate.

Saladbar, I'm going to get those shots for Ecuador. How's it coming along?

Uztopoke...the bully of the playground. I stole Joseph's car recently...but to be honest I don't think Joseph has much of a decent car. I'm trashing it and selling the scrap metal to France.

-Penguin