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Indiana Senator Evan Bayh has announced he's getting treatment for an addiction to the Facebook game Farmville.

"I realized that I had to make a choice between being a United States senator and tending my imaginary farm," a tearful Mr. Bayh told reporters."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/scandal-evan-bayh-admits_b_463203.html

No, seriously.

All I can say is 'God I hate Farmville' I DON'T GIVE A FLYING IF YOU'VE FOUND A SHEEP ON YOUR FARM THAT DOESN'T EXIST!!!!!!! Just get off my page!!!!!

The OC-D

He could of at least got addicted to MMOs, I'd have had some respect if he was all l33t r41d3rz!!1!

Freaking.
Amazing.
Kind of crazy though.
Everyone I know hates that game.

Actually Bayh announced he's leaving the Senate, one day before required deadline for getting back in. Pundits are calling this the "canary in the mine" for the Democrats in 2010.

Odds are he's positioning for a 2012 or more likely 2016 Presidential run.

And he's announcing his "down wid da kidz" credentials!

Ok I'm confused. Is he sick of the partisan politics or the lack of tax-payer funded Happy time that he is alotted everyday?

What I don't get is why does a guy from Australia care so much about a foreign countries politics beyond the president. I don't even know/care who the president of Australia is let alone any podunct senators from queensland etc.


GG

Come on GG you know how it works with non-Americans. Everytime an American politician says/does something dumb it just proves how stupid/ignorant/clueless the American People are (since he/she "represents" us).

We are the scum of the Earth and deserve the future depression/Mega-recession/Zombie-Apocalypse that is coming. /sarcasm

"This is all the more surprising because he hails from a farm state, where there are plenty of actual farms he could take care of."

I lol'd

I actually like Sen. Bayh. He is a good man, and a good senator...but this is just weird. I mean he was crying over this! This isn't some horrible addiction like to crack, cheap whores or cannabis, this is just an obsession to a video game!

I did find Sen. Reid's comment to be hilarious though, "This is all the more surprising because he hails from a farm state, where there are plenty of actual farms he could take care of."

generalgrog wrote:What I don't get is why does a guy from Australia care so much about a foreign countries politics beyond the president. I don't even know/care who the president of Australia is let alone any podunct senators from queensland etc.

Your politics are more fun than our politics. You don't know about our senators because none of them come out in the public media and tearfully announce their addiction to Facebook games.


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barlio wrote:Come on GG you know how it works with non-Americans. Everytime an American politician says/does something dumb it just proves how stupid/ignorant/clueless the American People are (since he/she "represents" us).

We are the scum of the Earth and deserve the future depression/Mega-recession/Zombie-Apocalypse that is coming. /sarcasm

Well that's ummm... a thing. I like Americans. Your politicians don't reflect on you directly... otherwise I'd have to admit our politicians directly reflect on me, and I really don't want that to be true. I hope to travel to the US as soon as money permits (gotta see New York, Vegas, the Grand Canyon, the Rockies, and that glorious country in the south - maybe Virginia is the best place?)

Not missing out on much not seeing NY. Liberty Island is cool though. Big giant crack in the Earth. Looks cooler from the air than travelling through it. Rockies are a great sight though.

Come up north between November and April. I dare an Aussie to subject himself to temps UNDER 10F.

Come to Minnesota. We have a really big shopping mall, and Fateweaver.

::EDIT:: Speak of the devil!

Largest mall in the world (and is growing bigger as we speak).

I'd buy Seb a round or two of Strohs.....err swamp water (as Strohs is for sure not real beer). LOL

Orkeosaurus wrote:Come to Minnesota. We have a really big shopping mall, and Fateweaver.

::EDIT:: Speak of the devil!

We have shopping malls here, some are bigger than others. It seems to me bigger just means 'easier to get lost'.

On the other hand;




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Fateweaver wrote:Not missing out on much not seeing NY. Liberty Island is cool though. Big giant crack in the Earth. Looks cooler from the air than travelling through it. Rockies are a great sight though.

People always tell me not to bother with NY. It certainly looks pretty in pictures, and it's one of the great cities of the world. How can you not go there?

Come up north between November and April. I dare an Aussie to subject himself to temps UNDER 10F.

I've never seen snow.


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Fateweaver wrote:Largest mall in the world (and is growing bigger as we speak).

I'd buy Seb a round or two of Strohs.....err swamp water (as Strohs is for sure not real beer). LOL

Apparently US boutique beer is really good. I've only ever had the mainstream stuff like Bud and Coors, that certainly sucked.

Frazzled wrote:
Odds are he's positioning for a 2012 or more likely 2016 Presidential run.

I'm not sure why anyone would resign from the Senate in order to pursue a Presidency. Generally a politician moves to put himself into the public eye, rather than take himself out of it.

I don't think Frazz was serious. If this guy ran for the presidency it would be an even bigger joke than Palin.

GG

generalgrog wrote:I don't think Frazz was serious. If this guy ran for the presidency it would be an even bigger joke than Palin.

GG

I'm stone cold serious. Thats much of the political scuttlebutt. Prospective players are bailing because they don't want to be tied to a failed Presidency (potentially) or failed House/Senate (definitely). Blue dogs are going to lose. By announcing he's out he can vote different and position himself in the party for a different run later.

You know the Founders would have said he's going back to private life, that "career politicians" are bad. They would be right.

Don't mistake him for Palin. He was a definite power in Congress.

That is kinda funny...I just hope he doesn't use that experience to go Jack Thompson by becoming an anti-video game activist.

Lets be sensitive here guys. The man has an addiction and any sort of addiction is very serious and dangerous.

Even if you are a pussy and get addicted to a Facebook game about farming.....

@sebster:

Come to Missouri. It's kind of like Minnesota, but with less snow and a different accent. Of course we have no Orkeo or Fateweaver, but we do have Cashew Chicken.

barlio wrote:@sebster:

Come to Missouri. It's kind of like Minnesota, but with less snow and a different accent. Of course we have no Orkeo or Fateweaver, but we do have Cashew Chicken.

Hmm...



That's pretty but it doesn't sing to me the same way that Minnesota image does.



But that looks delicious! Sign me up.

In other news, the story about Bayh's Farmville addiction is a joke, and all things considered its a pretty obvious one. A mate sent it to me assuming I'd know the author is a regular comedian on Huffington Post. I don't read the Huffington so I didn't. Well, colour me stupid.

I was leaning towards him covering up an affair or perhaps his sex-ring of the month membership. However, a fake story makes sense too...


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By the way, New York was cool, I'd check it out.

To clear things up.

Mn'ers have an accent but it's over-exaggerated in such epic movies like Fargo and New In Town.

Though I can say for certain that southern accent does sound like it does on TV. LOL.

Frazzled wrote:
I'm stone cold serious. Thats much of the political scuttlebutt. Prospective players are bailing because they don't want to be tied to a failed Presidency (potentially) or failed House/Senate (definitely). Blue dogs are going to lose. By announcing he's out he can vote different and position himself in the party for a different run later.

Not heard that anywhere, and I'm absolutely certain that I pay more attention to politics than you do. Particularly internal Democrat politics. To put it mildly, there is no benefit to leaving any representative system, and there is no precedent of representatives doing so. If he stayed, he had a better chance of being reelected. Now he has to battle the incumbent bias, which hasn't magically disappeared.




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Fateweaver wrote:To clear things up.

Mn'ers have an accent but it's over-exaggerated in such epic movies like Fargo and New In Town.

Though I can say for certain that southern accent does sound like it does on TV. LOL.

I lived in MN for 4 years, its not exaggerated, though the majority of people do not have the accent.

Actually, that is the major political rumors concerning Sen. Bayh. I don't know it there is any substance to them, especially since he ditched any efforts in 2006, but I have heard those repeatedly.

I should clarify. I've heard those rumors from people that don't, or shouldn't know what they're talking about. It makes sense in a sort of brutal way, but not once you apply nominal reasoning.

generalgrog wrote:What I don't get is why does a guy from Australia care so much about a foreign countries politics beyond the president. I don't even know/care who the president of Australia is let alone any podunct senators from queensland etc.


GG

Just quickly wanted to return to this.

All (vague generalisation) non-americans care about american politics, for a two main reasons.

Firstly, American culture dominates the world, and one has little choice but to know about it.

Secondly, America is so large that its decisions affect everybody. Just ask the recession.

Also, american politics are such a mess that they usually make our problems look like surmountable obsticales. Its nice to know that somebody else is more screwed than you.

Don't talk to fast boyo. Rumors of a real estate bubble Canada way...