What are some things that make you lose hope in society?
I'll start us off with a couple things.
electronics completely taking over peoples lives, leaving them like zombies
music, a lot of music is just crap, and the lyrics will be something like:
kids being wimpy brats that get everything they want

Parents not disciplining their kids.

Using the TV as a babysitter....
anyone remember when you would play outside from the time you got off the school bus to the time your parents threatened to punish you if you didnt come inside... THEN you did your homework....
Now its do your homework so you can watch tv/play video games...

People who make poor life choices and expect others to pick up their slack (looking at you US welfare system).

People on welfare and medicaid having more kids...

People who make "I'm losing hope in people/society" threads on the internet.

Its best to give up hope now. Then you can learn to capitalize on it! If we're all rats then someone has to be King Rat!

Seeing people get away with things because people refuse to react to the or on technicallities. This happns while others get punished for stupid crimes because people lack common sense.

Dominos Pizza taking 30 minutes to deliver.

Frazzled wrote:Its best to give up hope now. Then you can learn to capitalize on it! If we're all rats then someone has to be King Rat!

Yup just take a people are idiots until proven otherwise approach. Then you are never disappointed, just surprised!!!

I think this expresses it perfectly:

What makes me lose faith in society?

Justin effing Bieber.

i blame McDonalds and rap music.

I rather like our society. There's lots of interesting things to look at, and do.

Are you talking about looking at Bewbs and doing the neighbor?
Sadly, that was my kneejerk reaction to your post Dogma

dogma wrote:I rather like our society. There's lots of interesting things to look at, and do.

Same here - I find people who complain about western society to be a curious mix of boring and childish.


Seriously, all you people complaining - would you rather be living in pre-industrial revolution London/New York/Wherever? Earning near-starvation wages and working 16-hour days in a filthy and dangerous workplace? For your wife to have around 10 kids, and for you to feel lucky that a percentage of them actually survive their first year? Leisure time? What's that? Holidays? What are they? Retirement? All there would be to look forward to is the squalor and penury of the workhouse, or a sudden death.

Life is pretty good.


Quit. Whining. You. Pussies.


SIDEBAR: I bet the OP is like, 13 years old.

Depending on where you live, those may be among the referenced group.

Ugly people. They're ruining our society.

dogma wrote:Depending on where you live, those may be among the referenced group.

Who, pussies?

Nah, responding to:

Sanctjud wrote:Are you talking about looking at Bewbs and doing the neighbor?
Sadly, that was my kneejerk reaction to your post Dogma

I lost faith in society when I realised that Britain is a (sorry I meant gak) hole. There goes everything my Grandma said about being british and having british pride....

@Dogma - Ah. That's what I like about you, Dogma - after all, why answer a post with a simple 'yes', when you can speak like Robocop instead?

People often confuse society with a few individuals. Most of us are ok, it's the occassional feth wit that tend to drag us down a bit.

My theory runs thus... If you imagine that 1% of the population are feth wits, you only have to pass 100 people a day, to encounter or bear witness to the actions of a feth wit. Yet the other 99 people were just like you or me and if you think about it, we could all gang together and give those feth wits a good kicking

Ratbarf wrote:I lost faith in society when I realised that Britian is a (sorry I meant gak) hole.

Yeah, som ov us can't even spel. Unlike you, of course.

Albatross wrote:@Dogma - Ah. That's what I like about you, Dogma - after all, why answer a post with a simple 'yes', when you can speak like Robocop instead?

Four years of logic destroyed my ability to write in a colloquial fashion.

The OP has to be prepubescent. College cures any and all loss of faith in society.

dogma wrote:

Albatross wrote:@Dogma - Ah. That's what I like about you, Dogma - after all, why answer a post with a simple 'yes', when you can speak like Robocop instead?

Four years of logic destroyed my ability to write in a colloquial fashion.

Hey, don't worry about it - it makes a refreshing change from all the OMGLMAOROFLN000000BBZZZZORZZZ!!!1!!!ONE!!! -type stuff I see floating around the internet. It seems we (as a culture) are making a virtue of uncouth behaviour. The rising tide of anti-intellectualism is something which actually really worrying - there is a lot of pride in ignorance starting to take hold in our respective societies, and there are people who use this very forum who exemplify this.

Honestly, I think North America blows. I know i live here I'm so fething shallow.

But Europe looks sweet, same with Australia. Most people wana go to Japan due to the Anime and stuff.

That and at least in the UK I wouldn't have to learn a new language.

@Shads - You should come to the UK - it's pretty awesome, and we have a gakload of castles... eh? Eh? Tempted?



Don't listen to Ratbarf, his opinions are about as intelligent and well thought-out as his username.
I've met quite a few North-Americans who live and work in the UK, and they seem to like it. My Uni course co-ordinator moved here from Texas about 20 years ago, and he LOVES it. But then he's a liberal Texan - that's got to be a fairly lonely existence...

Albatross wrote:@Shads - You should come to the UK - it's pretty awesome, and we have a gakload of castles... eh? Eh? Tempted?

Don't listen to him. In Australia we have... uh... Funnelweb spiders!



I mean, just look at the cute little guy!



(Fun fact: Funnelweb spiders are very aggressive and will latch on to you with their fangs. They can swim across water with ease and will actively chase you if you piss them off. Oh, and their venom is fatal to a fully-grown man in less than an hour.)

The Dreadnote wrote:People who make "I'm losing hope in people/society" threads on the internet.

/endthread

Shadowbrand wrote:Honestly, I think North America blows. I know i live here I'm so fething shallow.

But Europe looks sweet, same with Australia. Most people wana go to Japan due to the Anime and stuff.

That and at least in the UK I wouldn't have to learn a new language.

Maybe it's the "copy and paste" sameness of North American suburbs & small cities that you don't like Shadow (?).

As far as "losing hope in society",sure things could be alot better,but as Alba pointed out,things could be a hell of alot worse.

Cheese wrote:(Fun fact: Funnelweb spiders are very aggressive and will latch on to you with their fangs. They can swim across water with ease and will actively chase you if you piss them off. Oh, and their venom is fatal to a fully-grown man in less than an hour.)

Oh yeah? Just try and beat our murder rate!

cormz wrote:What are some things that make you lose hope in society?
I'll start us off with a couple things.
electronics completely taking over peoples lives, leaving them like zombies
music, a lot of music is just crap, and the lyrics will be something like:
kids being wimpy brats that get everything they want

If you're losing faith in society may I suggest some of these tips at the link below that might make you feel better.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=manly_suicide

Orkeosaurus wrote:

Cheese wrote:(Fun fact: Funnelweb spiders are very aggressive and will latch on to you with their fangs. They can swim across water with ease and will actively chase you if you piss them off. Oh, and their venom is fatal to a fully-grown man in less than an hour.)

Oh yeah? Just try and beat our murder rate!

Orke hit the nail on the head. Thats rule #1 in KingCrackers self defense school. If ANYTHING messes with you, just fckin shoot um. That covers evil jesus spiders too

I think our current state of the world, is pretty well off. Sure you can bitch about it, but really name one thing that NO ONE will be able to bitch about. We are all basically turning into technology worshipping pigs so who cares. If Im hungry, I can order a pizza with my cell phone, check my bank account while sitting on my ass, and ask my son to answer the door when the pizza guy shows up. After that I can goto on demand, and order a movie for all of us to watch. I mean really.....whats so bad about that?
My grandfather worked himself into the grave, and I dont have to. Sounds like a good progression of things to me

Albatross wrote:You should come to the UK - it's pretty awesome, and we have a gakload of castles... eh? Eh? Tempted?

One of my fantasies involves purchasing a castle in England, a pair of jean shorts, a Hawaiian shirt, and a lawn chair. Then wearing the clothing items while sitting in the lawn chair in front of the castle's drawbridge while consuming a tropical drink contained in a hollowed out coconut; saying to all passersby "Good day, lads!"


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KingCracker wrote:
I think our current state of the world, is pretty well off. Sure you can bitch about it, but really name one thing that NO ONE will be able to bitch about. We are all basically turning into technology worshipping pigs so who cares. If Im hungry, I can order a pizza with my cell phone, check my bank account while sitting on my ass, and ask my son to answer the door when the pizza guy shows up. After that I can goto on demand, and order a movie for all of us to watch. I mean really.....whats so bad about that?

But you can't have tequila delivered to your house, with a silly straw, which is a huge downer.

OP, your opinions will change when you grow up a bit.

As in stop being 12 years old and idealizing a past you haven't sufficiently studied.

dogma wrote:

One of my fantasies involves purchasing a castle in England, a pair of jean shorts, a Hawaiian shirt, and a lawn chair. Then wearing the clothing items while sitting in the lawn chair in front of the castle's drawbridge while consuming a tropical drink contained in a hollowed out coconut; saying to all passersby "Good day, lads!"

But then you would have a snooty Frenchman walk up to you and ask how could you possibly get a coconut up here in England, as the coconot only exists in a tropical climate and the only way to get a coconut up to a temparate environment is to have an African swallow carry it all the way from Africa.

And having that tequila will do this:

Thankfully another of my fantasies involves possessing command of an entirely avian air force. Guard eagles, messenger falcons, and courier swallows.

dogma wrote:

Albatross wrote:You should come to the UK - it's pretty awesome, and we have a gakload of castles... eh? Eh? Tempted?

One of my fantasies involves purchasing a castle in England, a pair of jean shorts, a Hawaiian shirt, and a lawn chair. Then wearing the clothing items while sitting in the lawn chair in front of the castle's drawbridge while consuming a tropical drink contained in a hollowed out coconut; saying to all passersby "Good day, lads!"

I had to google 'jean shorts' - little did I know...



SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE!

*runs away*

WarOne wrote:
And having that tequila will do this:

If you wake up in your own bed, then your night was less than satisfactory.


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Albatross wrote:
I had to google 'jean shorts' - little did I know...



SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE!

*runs away*

You've found the first Islamist terrorist.

dogma wrote:
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KingCracker wrote:
I think our current state of the world, is pretty well off. Sure you can bitch about it, but really name one thing that NO ONE will be able to bitch about. We are all basically turning into technology worshipping pigs so who cares. If Im hungry, I can order a pizza with my cell phone, check my bank account while sitting on my ass, and ask my son to answer the door when the pizza guy shows up. After that I can goto on demand, and order a movie for all of us to watch. I mean really.....whats so bad about that?

But you can't have tequila delivered to your house, with a silly straw, which is a huge downer.

Well to be totally honest....Ive got nothing for that one :
I guess the world should come to an end

ACH!....Well,if that photo Alby posted doesn't make you loose hope in society,nothing will.

FITZZ wrote: ACH!....Well,if that photo Alby posted doesn't make you loose hope in society,nothing will.

Finding that picture not only made me lose hope for society, but it also made me lose all respect for myself.

Sidenote: That guy looks worryingly like mattyrm. True story.

Ratbarf wrote:I lost faith in society when I realised that Britain is a (sorry I meant gak) hole. There goes everything my Grandma said about being british and having british pride....

Let's avoid slagging off entire countries, 'k?

@Albatross.

I can just see it now, my band rocking out in some abandoned British Castle.

VERY black metal!!!! \,,/

Now to grad and get a plane ticket, feth clothes I just need my war gaming stuff, my 6 string and beer.

Cheese Elemental wrote:

Albatross wrote:@Shads - You should come to the UK - it's pretty awesome, and we have a gakload of castles... eh? Eh? Tempted?

Don't listen to him. In Australia we have... uh... Funnelweb spiders!



I mean, just look at the cute little guy!



(Fun fact: Funnelweb spiders are very aggressive and will latch on to you with their fangs. They can swim across water with ease and will actively chase you if you piss them off. Oh, and their venom is fatal to a fully-grown man in less than an hour.)

Well, Canada is even better than the UK and Australia (if that's possible).

We have some of the most manliest men (lumberjacks)

(above) a picture of your average Canadian citizen

Canadian drinks!

Yes maple syrup is that good that we drink it straight from a shot glass

We have Hockey! (okay you probably don't even know what it is )


Canada also has polar bears which are even cooler than Funnelweb spiders

Oi, I live near Kamloops, I play with mettalifan whenever i'm in town lol.

I dunno I don't feel I fit in at all with the Canadians, even though I am one.

Shadowbrand wrote:Oi, I live near Kamloops, I play with mettalifan whenever i'm in town lol.

I dunno I don't feel I fit in at all with the Canadians, even though I am one.

That's because you're not a lumberjack!

I'm a butcher though... Not that much farther.

Shadowbrand wrote:I'm a butcher though... Not that much farther.

Yes, hacking meat is similar to chopping wood. But maybe you would fit into Germany better, since you are a butcher.

Shadowbrand wrote:I'm a butcher though... Not that much farther.

How often do trees fall on top of butchers?,or a butcher sever a limb with a chainsaw?

I have severed a few limbs with a chainsaw.

And point proven.

I love Australia.

In a purely from afar so no nasty poisonous insects, spiders or reptiles can get on me kind of way.

Shadowbrand wrote:I have severed a few limbs with a chainsaw.

And point proven.

I didn't mean severing limbs in a "Leatherface" type fasion Shadow ...I was refering to "Oops! I cut my leg off"

I'm a viking its a occupational hazard.

WarOne wrote:

dogma wrote:

One of my fantasies involves purchasing a castle in England, a pair of jean shorts, a Hawaiian shirt, and a lawn chair. Then wearing the clothing items while sitting in the lawn chair in front of the castle's drawbridge while consuming a tropical drink contained in a hollowed out coconut; saying to all passersby "Good day, lads!"

But then you would have a snooty Frenchman walk up to you and ask how could you possibly get a coconut up here in England, as the coconot only exists in a tropical climate and the only way to get a coconut up to a temparate environment is to have an African swallow carry it all the way from Africa.

And having that tequila will do this:

Are you sure it is an African Swallow and not a European Swallow?

and to the OP: Yes, I have seen things that made me say "I have lost all faith in humanity", mostly because of all the isolated incidents that made me want to break something close to me, and the fact that the world seems to be filled with people who don't seem to have balls unless there are 5 of them to every 1 of you (though that may just be high school). It could be alot better, but there are a few things life has taught me in my 18 years here:

1) There is ALWAYS margin for error.
2) There is ALWAYS going to be someone better than you at whatever you do, so do what you want because you enjoy it, not because you want to be the best.
3) Don't bitch that things "Should be better" because they can ALWAYS get worse really fast.

Shadowbrand wrote:I'm a viking its a occupational hazard.

Vikings could be considered a hybrid between a lumberjack and a butcher, so does that make vikings a hybrid between Canadians (cold weather and Lief Ericson) and Germans (Germanic Tribesmen)?

Dunno, the only Canadians in those days were nomadic Native Americans, although their were some tribes that were part of the Iroquois here.

Germanic people honestly I think of the Huns or Goths or etc.

Vikings are the tall bright haired and eyed invaders from the north in their own category really.

Shadowbrand wrote:Dunno, the only Canadians in those days were nomadic Native Americans, although their were some tribes that were part of the Iroquois here.

Germanic people honestly I think of the Huns or Goths or etc.

Vikings are the tall bright haired and eyed invaders from the north in their own category really.

Yeah, but Vikings did come to Canada so does that make them part Canadian?

Yes, Vinland was the name my ancestors had for Canada.

I say no, just because the colony did not last the natives drove us away, something about raping and pillaging the new world.

Shadowbrand wrote:Yes, Vinland was the name my ancestors had for Canada.

I say no, just because the colony did not last the natives drove us away, something about raping and pillaging the new world.

Yes, Even before Canada had lumberjack's, the local population was still too manly for the Vikings to survive.

I think the only thing that makes me loose faith in general is:

People who demonstrate a lack of empathy as a lifestyle (not choosing to ignore, just plain not getting it).
Throw in the definition of evil: "A weak mind with a cold heart" and it makes me want to join the monks.

What makes me gain faith: the odd compliment, willingness to help, humor, a friend being absolutely EVIL to me "because I needed it".

If all else fails live with the saying "Love everyone, trust no-one", translation: everyone is worthy of respect and consideration but do not take their motivations at face value

Keep the faith...

Shadowbrand wrote:Oi, I live near Kamloops, I play with mettalifan whenever i'm in town lol.

I dunno I don't feel I fit in at all with the Canadians, even though I am one.

That's cool what instruments do you play and do you guys do any performances?

@Cheesecat

Alright, ill give ya that one, but honestly upon landing in pre-European Canada. I would of said "This sucks, lets go burn something" if I were leading the colony.

Although this was a colony not a raiding force.

Also. Metalli doesn't play a instrument atleast I don't think. We play 40k together when i'm in town.

My band right now has a singer and me. So were lacking pieces and thus have not preformed.

I'd love to in a few years, when School and my learners are out of the way.

That and Iron Warriors don't build themselves! or do they.....?

KingCracker wrote:But you can't have tequila delivered to your house, with a silly straw, which is a huge downer.

Here in London you can get booze (including tequila) delivered at any time of day at 50-100% markup so that nobody has to go out to top up for your party. So yes, we can get tequila delivered. They dont do silly straws yet but you can get fresh sliced lemon, lime and other cocktail style condiments delivered with them. So close!


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Oh and if you are talking about daytime, all the supermarkets here will deliver both tequila and silly straws. Hurrah!

The US has drive through liquor stores.

Oh, and Texas.

I lose hope in society when I realize how pc and pussified gak is getting these days. School playgrounds are built as if every kid on them is the "boy in the bubble"; fights don't involve fists now but guns (and I can already detect the hand wringing of the liberals eager to jump all over this and blame lax gun laws); oh and crappy, crappy kids cartoons and kids educational programming. I mean Dora? Wonder pets?

My brain hurts just thinking about those kids shows.

I concur death to the liberals!!! And their pussifying of well... everything.

When I was a kid tire swings ruled. Big ol' tractor tire suspended by chain. Could pack nearly a dozen kids on it. Sure fingers got pinched, maybe even the occasional dislocation but that was it.

Now everything is so kid safe that kids don't even want to play on the gak.

Yea, I'm young but alot has changed since my days as a small child. Now all the kids smoke pot.

I used to go onto tire swings and spin it around, sometimes hitting the metal bars supporting it, once giving myself a concussion.

Gak happens, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

But now it's all Fisher Price grade bs.

Mn has harsh winters. I know that cheap gak breaks in the winter. I bet the schools spend more replacing broken and cracked playground equipment every year than getting a little extra insurance to cover themselves from injury.

Oh, and with the exception of Law & Order and the military and history channel and Avatar: The last airbender television sucks compared to 20+ years ago.

Here in J-pan, it is the total dumbing down of the education system which caters to the dullest bulb in the bunch. How are these little schmucks going to hold a job and pay their taxes in the future if they can't even tie their shoes by age 11? Redonkulus.

That and the amount of creepy anime porn.

I lost hope in society long ago, but im stronger willed than most, so it doesnt concern me, i just keep on trucking. The worlds full of freaks, left wing hand wringing woofters, right wing nut jobs, bigots, racists, homophobes, religious zealouts, creationists, reality tv loving idiot women who read gossip mags, and macho girly men who think they are tough while reading FHM and applying moisturiser. Basically i hate 90% of the population of the world, but it doesnt get me down, as long as i can find someone to play 40k with (and i dont like half of them either!) :-)

Fateweaver wrote:The US has drive through liquor stores.

Dude, the world has those.

Oh, and Texas.

It does look a cute little place, I'll give you that.

Just become communists. seriously.

Is something wrong with me when, the more I study History, the more I get Communist views?

i would follow the Leninism system if they didnt have a secret police.

On the topic of hope-

As long as I live in a country which is able to create privateers, there is hope. Fortunately, congress still has the right to issue letters of marque.

Bearing arms is a great perk too, but the right to seize foreign shipping is much better. Imagine creating an international incident for a good day's work, and becoming fabulously wealthy. I would even name my good ship 'Obama's Revenge' and take glee in employing the captured crews in the task of tagging their former ship until the owning country pays its ransom. A picture of Obama with an upraised middle finger on the side of a looted tanker painted by the kidnapped crew of that tanker would be soaked in awesome.

You wouldn't even have to commit any torture or executions. I think you'd have a fair chance of success taking a ship with just tasers, tear gas, swashes, buckles, and other non-lethal alternatives.

Sanctions? Please! If we need to apply economic pressure to someone just churn out writs of mark for all shipping coming to the country or going from it.

I may have become a bit carried away. Basically, that's my hope. That one day we will once more deal in direct diplomacy, and that when that day comes I willl be able to become a privateer.

Somalians are seizing plenty of foreign shipping without the necessity of tedious bureacratic formalities such as letters of marque.

Ah, but I have a wife and child. The life of a pirate is too short, and ends too badly. I need the legalized version where I can retire to safety once I've had my fill of oceanic theft.

Communism would be fine and dandy if everybody put the same amount of effort in, leaders were immune to corruption and all the crap jobs like toilet cleaning got rotated around.

Watch the episode of BSG where they go on strike for a good picture as to why communism wouldn't work, especially with regards to the latter point.

dogma wrote:

But you can't have tequila delivered to your house, with a silly straw, which is a huge downer.

.... http://www.liquidfriends.com/index.html .. under "shots"

a wide range of liquid oblivion is available and.... delivered Hookah pipes

Uh, dude, can I move into your apartment for awhile? I've discovered a new place in which I must live.

castles are over rated, you don't want there heating bills, or there cleaning bills for that matter, don't bother trying to maintain them either, THAT'S expensive.

sadly to own a castle you do pretty much have to be a millionaire and earning millions to pay for the damn thing, or be a state payed lord.

Anyway! my personal problem with society is more ignorance to others and general lack of respect for others whilst demanding 100% respect back from them. IT MAKES NO SENSE!!!!! and stabbing them for it isn't gonna get you anywhere... i personally think America has a good system for that, (well some states) legal concealed carrying of arms! you aint gonna piss someone off who can kill you back are you!

IRPurple wrote:castles are over rated, you don't want there heating bills, or there cleaning bills for that matter, don't bother trying to maintain them either, THAT'S expensive.

easy, just become an MP and the taxpayer will pay for it, you'll never get caught and....err......hmm....

@ Mr. Dogma.. anytime

reds8n wrote:

IRPurple wrote:castles are over rated, you don't want there heating bills, or there cleaning bills for that matter, don't bother trying to maintain them either, THAT'S expensive.

easy, just become an MP and the taxpayer will pay for it, you'll never get caught and....err......hmm....

State payed lord is better, it is an inherited position usually, and they cant vote you out.

Either that or Bump off anyone closer to the throne than yourself, This is not a small task mind you!

Khornholio wrote:Here in J-pan, it is the total dumbing down of the education system which caters to the dullest bulb in the bunch. How are these little schmucks going to hold a job and pay their taxes in the future if they can't even tie their shoes by age 11? Redonkulus.

That and the amount of creepy anime porn.

At least in Japan the dumbest kid is smarter than the smartest kid in US public schools........

I lose hope when Australians act like wildlife is so scary..

Insects are pussies. Unless its in your shoe who cares. If Australian wildlife was so deadly there wouldn't be any Australians left.

I have a Kangaroo to take me to work and a wombat to bring me my paper, Drop bears to scare tourists and Dingos to punish irresponsible parents.. Plus its not cold.

The other thing that makes me lose hope is how insecure Australians are about Australia being good. They always ask people what do you think? Is like the girl who needs to be validated in looking good every day.. Am I pretty what do you think. .Bah.

But otherwise everythings peachy.

IRPurple wrote:castles are over rated, you don't want there heating bills, or there cleaning bills for that matter, don't bother trying to maintain them either, THAT'S expensive.

sadly to own a castle you do pretty much have to be a millionaire and earning millions to pay for the damn thing, or be a state payed lord.

Anyway! my personal problem with society is more ignorance to others and general lack of respect for others whilst demanding 100% respect back from them. IT MAKES NO SENSE!!!!! and stabbing them for it isn't gonna get you anywhere... i personally think America has a good system for that, (well some states) legal concealed carrying of arms! you aint gonna piss someone off who can kill you back are you!

Well, the US murder rate is three times ours but it may have nothing to do with personal weapons.


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Shaman wrote:I lose hope when Australians act like wildlife is so scary..

Insects are pussies. ....

So you claim but we know the truth...

That spider looks like a brown recluse.....

Which is native to North America...

Regardless if i saw it i would still probably gak myself.

Shaman wrote:I lose hope when Australians act like wildlife is so scary..

Insects are pussies. Unless its in your shoe who cares. If Australian wildlife was so deadly there wouldn't be any Australians left.

I have a Kangaroo to take me to work and a wombat to bring me my paper, Drop bears to scare tourists and Dingos to punish irresponsible parents.. Plus its not cold.

The other thing that makes me lose hope is how insecure Australians are about Australia being good. They always ask people what do you think? Is like the girl who needs to be validated in looking good every day.. Am I pretty what do you think. .Bah.

But otherwise everythings peachy.

Worst part of Australia is the game censorship nonsense.

Shaman wrote:I lose hope when Australians act like wildlife is so scary..

Insects are pussies. ....

Thats just to warn you, after a while we basically get used to it. Ever removed a large wasp from a room with a piece of paper, a glass jar and a rubber band (to stop it from escaping the jar )?

Or removed two spiders at the same time relatively the same size as the one in the picture Killkrazy posted, but two different species with a Xbox 360 game?

The real threat is not the insects or the reptiles or the few birds that will try to kill you, it's the bears...


Censorship shenanigans mostly come from SA's premier, but they've recently backed down a bit (iirc) so we might get to beat each others brains out with matchbox cars in video games yet.

n0t_u wrote:

Shaman wrote:I lose hope when Australians act like wildlife is so scary..

Insects are pussies. ....

The real threat is not the insects or the reptiles or the few birds that will try to kill you, it's the bears..

this made me laugh...

OH forget those animals that can kill you, you really need to worry about this one!!!

At least here in Texas the snakes make a shitton of noise before they bite you!

Flashman wrote:Communism would be fine and dandy if everybody put the same amount of effort in, leaders were immune to corruption and all the crap jobs like toilet cleaning got rotated around.

that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work

ShivanAngel wrote:That spider looks like a brown recluse.....

Which is native to North America...

Regardless if i saw it i would still probably gak myself.

Australian spiders have excellent disguise skills.

sebster wrote:

Flashman wrote:Communism would be fine and dandy if everybody put the same amount of effort in, leaders were immune to corruption and all the crap jobs like toilet cleaning got rotated around.

that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work
that isn't communism you need to find out what things actually are beforing talking about why they may or may not work

And this helped.. how?

ShivanAngel wrote:That spider looks like a brown recluse.....

Which is native to North America...

Regardless if i saw it i would still probably gak myself.

It's a Huntsman. They're totally harmless.

Now Black Widows, on the other hand...

Cheese Elemental wrote:

ShivanAngel wrote:That spider looks like a brown recluse.....

Which is native to North America...

Regardless if i saw it i would still probably gak myself.

It's a Huntsman. They're totally harmless.

Now Black Widows, on the other hand...

Are awfully overrated. They have less then 10% kill chance IIRC.

They're pretty fething scary though.

Shadowbrand wrote:Yea, I'm young but alot has changed since my days as a small child. Now all the kids smoke pot.

That hasn't changed, you only have to look back to the 60's to see that all the kid's were smoking pot, even then.


Survivors from the 60's (remember kids if you don't want to look like these guys don't do drugs ).

This threads a downer. No one seems to really have any perspective.

ShumaGorath wrote:This threads a downer. No one seems to really have any perspective.

I have perspective! I have hope for society! Because Obama gave me hope!

^^


I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Stop drinking so much liquor then.

I need to drink to survive Obamanation. LOL.

I lost hope in society years ago when I started to notice that if todays teens remain the same into adulthood this world is fethed.

Fateweaver wrote:^^


I just threw up in my mouth a little.

At what, this?


Or this?

I lose faith in society every time I realize that the world is full of ignorant pricks and that they've stacked the deck so that I cannot legally kill every last one of them.

and I mean KILL.

Obama.

Can tolerate wrinkled old hippies more than I can PresBO.

BaronIveagh wrote:I lose faith in society every time I realize that the world is full of ignorant pricks and that they've stacked the deck so that I cannot legally kill every last one of them.

and I mean KILL.

Says the man wishing he could kill people on a forum dedicated to a toy game with little tiny cutsey monsters in his signature line.

*looks at Shuma* Yes, and I have a cute little keychain on the end of my BAR. Hell, my people have been wearing cute little bells on thier feet to war for longer then the USA has existed. Do you have a problem with that?

The scope on my hunting rifle has a smiley face on it.

Fateweaver wrote:The scope on my hunting rifle has a smiley face on it.

Does it say on the rim of the lens "Have a Nice Day"?

BaronIveagh wrote:Hell, my people have been wearing cute little bells on thier feet to war for longer then the USA has existed. Do you have a problem with that?

Santa's elves?

dogma wrote:

BaronIveagh wrote:Hell, my people have been wearing cute little bells on thier feet to war for longer then the USA has existed. Do you have a problem with that?

Santa's elves?

If by 'Santa's Elves' you mean the Seneca people, then sure. We also inflicted 97.4% casualties on the United States Army. A feat, I might point out, that no military has ever since equaled. (Take THAT Herr Rommel!)

No but that's a wonderful idea.

I just like the "Don't worry, be happy" engraved into it.

Nice. The BAR's key-chain is an SD B-Rabbit from Pandora Hearts. They didn't have Hello Kitty.

Ever used TA5s? They're too short for barrel ornaments, but I've been considering doing some engraving work on the drums.

BaronIveagh wrote:
If by 'Santa's Elves' you mean the Seneca people, then sure. We also inflicted 97.4% casualties on the United States Army. A feat, I might point out, that no military has ever since equaled. (Take THAT Herr Rommel!)

Well, I assume they had to go somewhere after being relocated.

Soladrin wrote:And this helped.. how?

Comments like this come up a lot here. How many times could you hear someone say ‘I don’t like 40K because you have to buy a new model every time one dies in a game’ before it started to annoy you?

BaronIveagh wrote:*looks at Shuma* Yes, and I have a cute little keychain on the end of my BAR. Hell, my people have been wearing cute little bells on thier feet to war for longer then the USA has existed. Do you have a problem with that?

But you’re not at war. You’re on an internet message board. In this context cute trinkets look less like a part of battle garb on more like cute trinkets.

Um....actually, friend dogma, we still hold parts of our sovereign territory (amusingly, the US Government had to pay us half a billion dollars in reparations for the parts of it we don't have anymore). Unlike some less fortunate peoples.

Since you obviously know little about it, come to our tax free gas stations and casinos in New York state and learn about us.

@sebster
True, the internet does lack things like the realization imminent danger that the real world provides. And internet message boards ARE a battleground. Have you been over on /tg/?

BaronIveagh wrote:Um....actually, friend dogma, we still hold parts of our sovereign territory (amusingly, the US Government had to pay us half a billion dollars in reparations for the parts of it we don't have anymore). Unlike some less fortunate peoples.

The Treaty of Buffalo Creek wasn't very nice to you vis a vis relocation.

BaronIveagh wrote:
Since you obviously know little about it, come to our tax free gas stations and casinos in New York state and learn about us.

I'd rather play poker at Luxor.

BaronIveagh wrote:True, the internet does lack things like the realization imminent danger that the real world provides. And internet message boards ARE a battleground. Have you been over on /tg/?

True. And people do talk about the waste of young men's lives on pointless fights. That probably happens in war too.



Oh, and Dogma you've got a quote from the Baron attributed to me.

Whoops, fixing that.

Shadowbrand wrote:Dunno, the only Canadians in those days were nomadic Native Americans, although their were some tribes that were part of the Iroquois here.

Germanic people honestly I think of the Huns or Goths or etc.

Vikings are the tall bright haired and eyed invaders from the north in their own category really.

The Hun's were not German, the Huns were from Mongolia, they got tired of trying to break down his gakky wall, and then decided to try and kill some Romans....

And the Vikings are descendants of our Lumberjacks. In the not so far future, we developed a time machine, took it to L'Anse Aux Meadows in Newfoundland. After arriving in the past we realized how bad ass the Natives truly are, and we decided we didn't want to share our beer with them, and then sailed across the ocean in Long Boats and took over Scandinavia, over the generations forgetting what happened, and the cycle repeats....

(Fun fact: Funnelweb spiders are very aggressive and will latch on to you with their fangs. They can swim across water with ease and will actively chase you if you piss them off. Oh, and their venom is fatal to a fully-grown man in less than an hour.)

Excuse me fellow posters, but the Funnel Web, whilst similar and shares many alike traits, is not to be confused with our women.

There is hope. Every person has inside them the potential to want to help others if they can. The world isn't fair so we lose our way sometimes and get unnecessarily angry or greedy or close ourselves off from time to time because we are tired of that same behavior in those around us. There are those moments of helping a little old lady carry her groceries, or calming down an angry fight waiting to happen, or whatever, that snap us back into the truth, and we realize that our actions can be good, but they are not always necessarily good at the same time. That would be the problem of society. Complications of other people's bad day become yours and all of a sudden perspective is lost.

I don't agree with communism as a political force, but I do agree with commune-like caring about ones neighbor, or a stray cat, or someone who has had a bad day... lots of people have bad days lots of the time (sorry I can't quote statistics here, I just assume) and lots of the time its because someone else had a bad day and the cascade begins.

There is hope. Every person has inside them the potential to want to help others if they can. The world isn't fair so we lose our way sometimes and get unnecessarily angry or greedy or close ourselves off from time to time because we are tired of that same behavior in those around us. There are those moments of helping a little old lady carry her groceries, or calming down an angry fight waiting to happen, or whatever, that snap us back into the truth, and we realize that our actions can be good, but they are not always necessarily good at the same time. That would be the problem of society. Complications of other people's bad day become yours and all of a sudden perspective is lost.

I don't agree with communism as a political force, but I do agree with commune-like caring about ones neighbor, or a stray cat, or someone who has had a bad day... lots of people have bad days lots of the time (sorry I can't quote statistics here, I just assume) and lots of the time its because someone else had a bad day and the cascade begins.

Thaanos wrote:

Shadowbrand wrote:Dunno, the only Canadians in those days were nomadic Native Americans, although their were some tribes that were part of the Iroquois here.

Germanic people honestly I think of the Huns or Goths or etc.

Vikings are the tall bright haired and eyed invaders from the north in their own category really.

The Hun's were not German, the Huns were from Mongolia, they got tired of trying to break down his gakky wall, and then decided to try and kill some Romans....

And the Vikings are descendants of our Lumberjacks. In the not so far future, we developed a time machine, took it to L'Anse Aux Meadows in Newfoundland. After arriving in the past we realized how bad ass the Natives truly are, and we decided we didn't want to share our beer with them, and then sailed across the ocean in Long Boats and took over Scandinavia, over the generations forgetting what happened, and the cycle repeats....

Awesome theory there. But there is one problem.... Vikings are far superior to lumberjacks.

And I'm probably a goth descendant.

So on the manliest men scale would it be like this?

ninjas < lumberjacks < vikings < native aboriginals < rock/metal stars < pirates

All of the above wouldnt last 5 minutes with my brethren.

mattyrm wrote:All of the above wouldnt last 5 minutes with my brethren.

Ok, you're a bad mofo when you're hangin off the side of a helicopter gunship with an assault rifle, because it doesn't have enough DAKKA!

mattyrm wrote:All of the above wouldnt last 5 minutes with my brethren.

Don't we sell you those?

The Dear Abby column in the paper. I read this when I need to laugh at the stupidity of others.

"Dear Abby: My husband beats me, is that physical abuse? What should I do?"

"Dear Abby: My Children have gained weight steadily since we bought a Computer/Satellite TV. Do you know what might be causing this?"

"Dear Abby: My Stepmother is very rude to us when we visit. Should I ask her to stop being so rude?"

All three of these are simplified versions of real letters I've read in that column. If slowed questions like these won't kill your faith in humanity, I don't know what will.

All three of these are simplified versions of real letters I've read in that column. If slowed questions like these won't kill your faith in humanity, I don't know what will.

You people aren't particularly resilient.

ShumaGorath wrote:

mattyrm wrote:All of the above wouldnt last 5 minutes with my brethren.

Don't we sell you those?

Yeah you do. Apache Gunships that is, not Royal Marines.

We sell you guys Newcastle Brown Ale though so its a fair swop.

mattyrm wrote:

ShumaGorath wrote:

mattyrm wrote:All of the above wouldnt last 5 minutes with my brethren.

Don't we sell you those?

Yeah you do. Apache Gunships that is, not Royal Marines.

We sell you guys Newcastle Brown Ale though so its a fair swop.

Two great tastes that go great together.

mattyrm wrote:

ShumaGorath wrote:

mattyrm wrote:All of the above wouldnt last 5 minutes with my brethren.

Don't we sell you those?

Yeah you do. Apache Gunships that is, not Royal Marines.

We sell you guys Newcastle Brown Ale though so its a fair swop.

Newcastle is quite excellent.

AWESOME! KILLING MACHINES AND BEER ENTHUSIASTS COMBINED INTO ONE UNSTOPPABLE FORCE!

now I have hope.

Hopefully this works (adding an image, that is)

hmmm.... I think its missing a big pink daisy painted on the front, and a peace symbol.

Well, that poster is way too long to be funny, but it gets the point across

Extra firepower is extra firepower, regardless of how unneccessary it is

(sigh) tax dollars at work.

Try again?!

It must be really loud in front of those turbine intakes.

Still too long. (top) "There's no such thing" (bottom) "As too much Dakka" would be a good example of a poster that works.

One last try

how about "compensating?"

the "Upgrade" one works

metallifan wrote:the "Upgrade" one works

Agreed.

tru dat

Royal Marines are fething nuts - did anyone see that picture of them flying out to retrieve the body of a fallen comrade where they were strapped to the wings of one of those things?

Alow me to re-iterate:

STRAPPED TO THE WINGS!

EDIT:Found a pic of it!

Maybe it's the same one from a different angle?

Hope was your first mistake.

Forgetting the condom is usually the second.

Does this look like a genital wart to you?

ShivanAngel wrote:

Khornholio wrote:Here in J-pan, it is the total dumbing down of the education system which caters to the dullest bulb in the bunch. How are these little schmucks going to hold a job and pay their taxes in the future if they can't even tie their shoes by age 11? Redonkulus.

That and the amount of creepy anime porn.

At least in Japan the dumbest kid is smarter than the smartest kid in US public schools........

This is a bet I'd never take. Better behaved, yes. Smarter, ooooh, I don't know about that. My buddy has a theory that the kids here are so over-stimulated with everything that they can't remember anything. But, I've seen their textbooks for all subjects and they are basically comic books. The "book" I have to use is something out of Fahrenheit 451.

I just had to watch Paris Hilton's new show "my Best british friend" on the TV guide channel playing in the background as I was waiting to find out what was scrolling by the menu that I wanted to watch. I couldn't get away from it, since the show is on in the background of the very channel you go to to FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO WATCH... so she has her token gay guy and a bunch of retarder fashion junkies and she puts them through weekly tests to see who gets knocked off the show, and she can't stop saying what is "hot" or "not hot" about anything. errrrrg... i just wanted to find out if xfiles or something was on...

BaronIveagh wrote:I lose faith in society every time I realize that the world is full of ignorant pricks and that they've stacked the deck so that I cannot legally kill every last one of them.

and I mean KILL.

I wouldn't happen to be one of those pricks would I?

Cheesecat wrote:

BaronIveagh wrote:I lose faith in society every time I realize that the world is full of ignorant pricks and that they've stacked the deck so that I cannot legally kill every last one of them.

and I mean KILL.

I wouldn't happen to be one of those pricks would I?

That group doesn't actually have anyone in it.

Fateweaver wrote:I need to drink to survive Obamanation. LOL.

I lost hope in society years ago when I started to notice that if todays teens remain the same into adulthood this world is fethed.

Drinking is bad you should know better.

I lose faith in society when I hear the protesters in Arizona. "theer takin ur jaabs!", "they don't even speak american", "they come over here for handouts!", "mah unemploymint check comes in next week"


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"they don't even speak american" is the one that particularly stood out to me.

Have faith. I was suposed to be dead at 19. Now I've promised to see Genghis Connie's wedding no matter what. Your perspective changes as you get older. Everyone sucks but they have always sucksed and inversely there have been the briliant angels of our better nature since time immemorial. Nothing has changed, nothing will changed.


And shouldn't post when you'redrunk

I like society.

Me too. Sucks ass sometimes, but mostly i like it in spite its flaws

No offense to our US posters, but I don't actually like America. At all.
I mean, having to worship the flag every day was kind of a bitch. Three years was enough. Oz is nice though. Hardly doom-spidery at all.

Unlike OP , i never had any hope in our society to start with.

The whole world is suffering for different reasons.

Majority of us turn a blind eye to what we dont want to see. Instead of reaching out to help, we look the other way so we wont be burdened with inconvenience.

We would rather put others in misery to make sure our way of life remain at our favorable level.

When we are little , we have all questioned about these suffering around us haven't we? Yet we "grow" up masking all the wrong doings as long as we have money and power.

Sure having money and power we can live warmly and without going to bed hungry , but at what cost? Humans have long lost sight of what we deserve and just wanted more and more.

Humans fight and bicker just for the sake of ego. What exactly do you accomplish, what have you gain from such action. Better yet , do you realize what you have lost during the process?

We grow up , we are supposed to grow thicker skin so the pain and suffering wont effect us as much?

You are wrong. Growing thicker skin doesn't make us tolerant against pain , it just dulls our sensations. What are we? if we lose what it is to be a human?

Considering, Luna, that we are experiencing arguably one of the most peaceful periods in the history of humanity, we're not doing all that bad. Sure, the potential for us to stuff ourselves up with Nuclear Weapons is there, but is not as likely as many might think.

I for one think Humanity is on a high. Whether this is due to our newfound, and possibly destructive, addiction to some form of illicit drug or other is still to be decided.

It certainly isn't becuase of anime. Or is it?

@alexwars1: Don't tease the single-most-powerful-armed-force-in-the-world-second-only-to-maybe-Finland/Flamethrower Sharks and Drop Bears. It isn't smart. Just look at Iraq, you give a little lip and guess what happens?

We are peaceful atm because our laws progressed.

I doubt our hearts and state of mind changed much.

LunaHound wrote:We are peaceful atm because our laws progressed.

I doubt our hearts and state of mind changed much.

You think its because our laws progressed? Thats interesting. Explain.

Gah, you're such a downer, Luna.

Frazzled wrote:

LunaHound wrote:We are peaceful atm because our laws progressed.

I doubt our hearts and state of mind changed much.

You think its because our laws progressed? Thats interesting. Explain.

Our society , and "standards" have progressed.

And nothing else within has changed as in:

the 7 sins are still alive and well.
Like do you feel, the human race have become nobler? kinder?
Or have we just implemented more rules to keep things more "humane" ?

Cheese Elemental wrote:Gah, you're such a downer, Luna.

Oh well , everyone have their bad mood days

"The View"

alexwars1 wrote:No offense to our US posters, but I don't actually like America. At all.
I mean, having to worship the flag every day was kind of a bitch. Three years was enough. Oz is nice though. Hardly doom-spidery at all.

I wish they'd bring the Pledge back into more schools.

Never could figure out the hatred for reciting it.

My 16 year old calculator just died. Oh the humanity!!!

Frazzled wrote:My 16 year old calculator just died. Oh the humanity!!!

They only gave me back five dollars when I resold a textbook today. The earth is a shallow and cold place.

The price of a box of .45 rounds at Gander Mountain went up a $1. Damn bloodsuckers would try to squeeze blood from a rock.

The OT thread.

Fateweaver wrote:The price of a box of .45 rounds at Gander Mountain went up a $1. Damn bloodsuckers would try to squeeze blood from a rock.

You should not be buying rounds from Gander Mountain unless they are on sale.

ShumaGorath wrote:They only gave me back five dollars when I resold a textbook today. The earth is a shallow and cold place.

It is time.

I lost a bit of faith in socity when the Church thread was shut down. You know, the one based on delicious confectionary terrapins. They stood against time wasting nonsense and for delectable Turtle Pie.

Frazzled wrote:

Fateweaver wrote:The price of a box of .45 rounds at Gander Mountain went up a $1. Damn bloodsuckers would try to squeeze blood from a rock.

You should not be buying rounds from Gander Mountain unless they are on sale.

Yeah. It was the most convenient place to shop this morning that was A) Open and B) Sold .45 rounds. Kmart and Walmart don't sell them.

Fateweaver wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

Fateweaver wrote:The price of a box of .45 rounds at Gander Mountain went up a $1. Damn bloodsuckers would try to squeeze blood from a rock.

You should not be buying rounds from Gander Mountain unless they are on sale.

Yeah. It was the most convenient place to shop this morning that was A) Open and B) Sold .45 rounds. Kmart and Walmart don't sell them.

Wait, what kind of Godless Commie Pinko verbiage is this?
1. You still have Kmarts? wow.
2. Your Walmarts don't sell ammo? Oh the humanity!

Ours sells rifle ammo but not handgun ammo.

We still have a Kmart though it's on it's last breath.

Fateweaver wrote:Ours sells rifle ammo but not handgun ammo.

LunaHound wrote:We are peaceful atm because our laws progressed.

I doubt our hearts and state of mind changed much.

I'm not sure that's really true, because I try my best to avoid as much physical fights as I can and control my anger (and I'm sure others do, too). Sure I've gotten into a few scraps in my life but it's gradually decreased over

the years to almost none. I find people to be unpredictable, one moment they make me happy, next moment they piss me off but no one pisses me off permanently that I feel I need to be enemies with them (In other words I'm very

forgiving even if it's not always the smartest thing to do). I'm also in a state of mind where I don't hold grudges anymore as I feel it causes unnecessary stress and rage.

Frazzled wrote:

Fateweaver wrote:Ours sells rifle ammo but not handgun ammo.

Fraz, that pic is hilarious. New monitor, pls.

Although I kind of agree with you cheesecat, I also recognize and am far too aware that many are not necessarily as easy going as I may be and just last week a grown man wanted to try and pick a fight with me over KARAOKE at a bar. Yeah he was an ass, he looked an ass to everyone in the bar, but the fact that he was twice my size and nobody was stepping in between his fight-waiting-to-happen led me to be extremely cautious in how I responded to him. Could I have taken him? yes, he was hammered and stupid. Did I want to make that scene? Hell no. Other people's stupidity and ego hangups don't need to ruin everyone else's night. DUDE ITS KARAOKE!!? DO YOU REALLY WANT TO GO TO JAIL OVER KARAOKE??!! I went to the bar to have a good time and chat with people and play pool and sing John Lennon, not to deal with an angrier version of forrest gump trying his best to puff out his chest.

You best not be dissing Forrest Gump.

Luna, isn't our willingness to create and enforce such new laws (such as the Abolition of the Slave Trade) a sign of our progression as a civilised species? Speaking of which, William Wilberforce is awesome.



Slave-O Rly?

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Guitardian wrote:Although I kind of agree with you cheesecat, I also recognize and am far too aware that many are not necessarily as easy going as I may be and just last week a grown man wanted to try and pick a fight with me over KARAOKE at a bar. Yeah he was an ass, he looked an ass to everyone in the bar, but the fact that he was twice my size and nobody was stepping in between his fight-waiting-to-happen led me to be extremely cautious in how I responded to him. Could I have taken him? yes, he was hammered and stupid. Did I want to make that scene? Hell no. Other people's stupidity and ego hangups don't need to ruin everyone else's night. DUDE ITS KARAOKE!!? DO YOU REALLY WANT TO GO TO JAIL OVER KARAOKE??!! I went to the bar to have a good time and chat with people and play pool and sing John Lennon, not to deal with an angrier version of forrest gump trying his best to puff out his chest.

Smart move Gman. You have to watch angry drunks. They are slower yes, but their pain threshold is much much higher, and as you noted they're probably looking for a fight.

Besides, only cute college chicks or teachers should do karaoke in public. That way its win win!

If you want to change society, change yourself and set an example. Or go volunteer to help an organization rather than sitting around talking about it on the computer.

Studying history, I can't say it is much worse now than it was in any era. There is just more technology to broadcast the stupid. Publishing before the advent of blogs and youtube was elititst. there were qualities and standards that had to be met. now any moron with a camera can broadcast their opinion. It doesn't mean that a higher percentage of society is stupid. Rather it means that we are hearing the voices of a larger segment of society.

loranafaeriequeen wrote:It doesn't mean that a higher percentage of society is stupid. Rather it means that we are hearing the voices of a larger segment of society.

Though I doubt things like MTV are helping to make people smarter. I once saw a show on there that was nothing but fat kids and Blinged-up "Gangstas" cracking 'Yo-Momma' jokes on eachother. That was the whole show.

metallifan wrote:

loranafaeriequeen wrote:It doesn't mean that a higher percentage of society is stupid. Rather it means that we are hearing the voices of a larger segment of society.

Though I doubt things like MTV are helping to make people smarter. I once saw a show on there that was nothing but fat kids and Blinged-up "Gangstas" cracking 'Yo-Momma' jokes on eachother. That was the whole show.

And 500 years ago public education consisted of learning your bible and helping at the farm. Stop watching stupid things and you will stop seeing them.

ShumaGorath wrote:

metallifan wrote:

loranafaeriequeen wrote:It doesn't mean that a higher percentage of society is stupid. Rather it means that we are hearing the voices of a larger segment of society.

Though I doubt things like MTV are helping to make people smarter. I once saw a show on there that was nothing but fat kids and Blinged-up "Gangstas" cracking 'Yo-Momma' jokes on eachother. That was the whole show.

And 500 years ago public education consisted of learning your bible and helping at the farm. Stop watching stupid things and you will stop seeing them.

But if I can't watch idiots be idiots, who am I supposed to feel superior to?

metallifan wrote:

ShumaGorath wrote:

metallifan wrote:

loranafaeriequeen wrote:It doesn't mean that a higher percentage of society is stupid. Rather it means that we are hearing the voices of a larger segment of society.

Though I doubt things like MTV are helping to make people smarter. I once saw a show on there that was nothing but fat kids and Blinged-up "Gangstas" cracking 'Yo-Momma' jokes on eachother. That was the whole show.

And 500 years ago public education consisted of learning your bible and helping at the farm. Stop watching stupid things and you will stop seeing them.

But if I can't watch idiots be idiots, who am I supposed to feel superior to?

Twilight fans, LARPers, people who think Lady Gaga is a genius, the French, Jervis, Creationists, people who don't paint their armies, 'Birthers', roughly 70% of posters on the OT forum...

Really? Huh. Thanks for that list! I'm going to get straight to some superiority...ing

...people who enter reality TV shows, tournament gamers, people who think that listening to Black Metal makes them 'scary', Belgium, Other-Kin....

Fateweaver wrote:I need to drink to survive Obamanation. LOL.

I lost hope in society years ago when I started to notice that if todays teens remain the same into adulthood this world is fethed.

What's wrong with Obama?

Cheesecat wrote:
What's wrong with Obama?

If Fate sees that pic I guarentee you he will choke on a watermellon.

Cheesecat wrote:

Fateweaver wrote:I need to drink to survive Obamanation. LOL.

I lost hope in society years ago when I started to notice that if todays teens remain the same into adulthood this world is fethed.

What's wrong with Obama?

I'm slowly coming round to the idea that he might be a total knobhead. So he supports off-shore drilling, but cries when there is an oilspill? I love how eager he was to simply 'blame the Brits', I honestly thought he wouldn't cater to that sort of lowest common denominator populism - gak, Americans need little enough excuse to paint us as the villains in anything as it is!

He will set the 'Special Relationship' (which is already full of crap) back years.

For those who are just about to give it all up...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/292989.page

Emperors Faithful wrote:For those who are just about to give it all up...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/292989.page

Anything I could say on this matter would probably get me banned by vengeful American MODs, so I'm just going to reply by saying that I have a black heart.

Yes restraint would be wise in this instance. very wise.

I'm right there with you, Albatross.

Frazzled wrote:Yes restraint would be wise in this instance. very wise.

So sayeth King Frazzled, who's status as a MOD allows him to win arguments, if not moderate.

Albatross wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Yes restraint would be wise in this instance. very wise.

So sayeth King Frazzled, who's status as a MOD allows him to win arguments, if not moderate.

Holding back some snarky comment about a kid with cancer is exceedingly wise when many of us have had cancer, or know people who have. Something about good taste and don't be a douche.

And of course, Ancient Buddha says Moderators never have to be moderate.

Frazzled wrote:

Albatross wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Yes restraint would be wise in this instance. very wise.

So sayeth King Frazzled, who's status as a MOD allows him to win arguments, if not moderate.

Holding back some snarky comment about a kid with cancer is exceedingly wise when many of us have had cancer, or know people who have. Something about good taste and don't be a douche.

And of course, Ancient Buddha says Moderators never have to be moderate.

I too know people who have had cancer. Do I win a prize?
You had no idea what I wanted to say, and if I had wanted to say it I would have. Sufficed to say, the story did not restore my faith in society - I wasn't going to make a tasteless comment, so don't project your crassness onto me, and quit throwing your weight around. I would have reported you for calling me a douche but at the end of the day, it's your sandpit - feel free to act like the biggest kid in it.

I didn't call you a douche. I said don't be a douche. Come on English, get the English right!

Frazzled wrote:I didn't call you a douche. I said don't be a douche. Come on English, get the English right!

Ok, fine. Don't be a crass, reactionary, neo-con Christian gun-nut, jingoistic arsehole.

Whatever you do, DON'T do that.


...and this is acceptable yes? Sweet.

Albatross wrote:

Frazzled wrote:I didn't call you a douche. I said don't be a douche. Come on English, get the English right!

Ok, fine. Don't be a crass, reactionary, neo-con Christian gun-nut, Tex Mex eating, jingoistic arsehole.

Whatever you do, DON'T do that.


...and this is acceptable yes? Sweet.

Corrected your typo.

Why wouldn't I want you to eat Tex-Mex? I want EVERYONE to eat Tex-Mex!

It's awesome. I hope we can at least agree on that.

Tex-Mex? What, like Tacos, that sort of thing?

Tex-Mex, and its other derivation Mex-Mex, is proof of the existence of God (and cheese).

Didn't Tex-Mex come into existence because the Texans and Mexicans were at peace, and had to settle their differences with ancinet Iron Chef style cook offs, where the secret ingredients were always tortilla, beans, or cheese?

filbert wrote:Tex-Mex? What, like Tacos, that sort of thing?

Tex Mex is a style of mexican food. Basically Northern Mexico peasant food with the addition of a Texas sized amount of cheese and more meat. It should not be confused with anything that comes out of a Taco Bell or other fast food place. Spiced Queso is required. Fajitas, carne asada, enchiladas, and tacos are the staples. Fajitas are the penultimate. Ideally there will be a mariachi band playing and margaritas will be served that will make you question what planet you are on halfway through the first one.


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You're thinking Chili cookoffs. Losers do not survive. Winners and conterestants barely survive. But its so worth it.

Well I cook a mean chilli and I have been tempted recently to try a huevos rancheros recipe that I saw online although that idea has been vetoed by the missus thus far.

Emperors Faithful wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:
What's wrong with Obama?

If Fate sees that pic I guarentee you he will choke on a watermellon.

Naw, that pic couldn't be any further from the truth.

Alba, I'm not into conspiracies but I find it ironic that now that Obama gave the go ahead to offshore drilling the liberals and tree-kissers will have even MORE reason to be against offshore drilling.

I'm thinking that the tree-huggers see this as even more ammo for their debate.

Oh well, might as well let China have it; they already control our economy.

Alba, I'm not into conspiracies but I find it ironic that now that Obama gave the go ahead to offshore drilling the liberals and tree-kissers will have even MORE reason to be against offshore drilling.

I know, it's almost as if what they are saying has some merit.

I'm thinking that the tree-huggers see this as even more ammo for their debate.

Wow! Can you predict the weather too!

Oh well, might as well let China have it; they already control our economy.

You listen to frazzled too much.

Nope. I knew China controlled us even before entering Dakka. Thanks for assuming I can't think for myself though.

Gold star.

Perhaps if more competent people were doing the drilling we wouldn't have oil spills. Just saying.

Nope. I knew China controlled us even before entering Dakka. Thanks for assuming I can't think for myself though.

Well this will be interesting.

How does china control us?

Please only answer by stating facts that pertain to the question.

Fateweaver wrote:Nope. I knew China controlled us even before entering Dakka. Thanks for assuming I can't think for myself though.

Gold star.

Perhaps if more competent people were doing the drilling we wouldn't have oil spills. Just saying.

Well, to be fair to BP (which is something I never thought I'd have to say...) Halliburton have been implicated in the current fiasco too.

Albatross wrote:

Fateweaver wrote:Nope. I knew China controlled us even before entering Dakka. Thanks for assuming I can't think for myself though.

Gold star.

Perhaps if more competent people were doing the drilling we wouldn't have oil spills. Just saying.

Well, to be fair to BP (which is something I never thought I'd have to say...) Halliburton have been implicated in the current fiasco too.

Yes there is a substantial blame game, just starting. Thats to be expected.

Grrr.... double post.