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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?