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Frazzled, there may not be any lynchings or slave sales in America, but the parts of the world are still pretty fethed up, considering the hold ISIS has on the Middle East and thousand of people are fleeing their homelands.

You said racism in America. Unless Canada or Mexico has suddenly brought in 40mm or so slaves, your statement is patently false to the level of being absurd.

To the ISIL conflict, does WWI, WWII, Korea, Rwanda, or Pol Pot ring a bell?

Pol Pot killed 1mm people, in one country. The Glorious revolution killed 100mm in China. ISIL aint squat to that kind of killy.

Frazzled wrote:

 Bullockist wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

Yep. I'm running through Spring 2017 for the Boy and Dog knows what school GC wants to start staging her first protests as a SJW at.

Oh feth me , you mean the next generation is going to feature some firebrand for whom humour doesn't feature in their discourse?
GC, invading bullockists safe spaces since 2016.

She's appropriating lawyer culture.

btw frazz if she becomes an SJW you know her college boyfriend is going to be an unemployable,humanities studying, drug using miscreant.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Frazzled wrote:How many lynchings occurred this week? How many slave auctions on the piers of New York City? Thats all the counterpoint needed. Jeez people need to read a freaking book once in a while.

Maybe we should hold off on the lynching question until you meet the college boyfriend?

The biggest generation divide I notice in daily life is the smart phone divide. Like, when you go to a restaurant,, and notice a crowded table of friends, and they're all interacting with their smartphones instead of each other.

Humans transfer so much of their thinking processes to technology now, particularly smartphones, its interesting to speculate about the effect that could have on the human gene pool.

 jasper76 wrote:
The biggest generation divide I notice in daily life is the smart phone divide. Like, when you go to a restaurant,, and notice a crowded table of friends, and they're all interacting with their smartphones instead of each other.

Humans transfer so much of their thinking processes to technology now, particularly smartphones, its interesting to speculate about the effect that could have on the human gene pool.

That's why there's no fething phones at the dinner table.

Especially if I'm buying.

 jasper76 wrote:
The biggest generation divide I notice in daily life is the smart phone divide. Like, when you go to a restaurant,, and notice a crowded table of friends, and they're all interacting with their smartphones instead of each other.

Humans transfer so much of their thinking processes to technology now, particularly smartphones, its interesting to speculate about the effect that could have on the human gene pool.

I find it odd that someone would rather stare at a wall of text than a face. We should take 100 chronic smart phone users and take their phones to document the effects.

I wouldn't be surprised if they were highly displeased with the theft/robbery.

Sounds like the makings of the next intervention reality show.

 jasper76 wrote:
The biggest generation divide I notice in daily life is the smart phone divide. Like, when you go to a restaurant,, and notice a crowded table of friends, and they're all interacting with their smartphones instead of each other.

Humans transfer so much of their thinking processes to technology now, particularly smartphones, its interesting to speculate about the effect that could have on the human gene pool.

I see that too, and it really annoys me. Especially when my fething parents do it. Seriously, I, the 20YO, am sitting here chatting, while you, the 58YO are messing around with your phone? But that's probably just me.

 jasper76 wrote:
The biggest generation divide I notice in daily life is the smart phone divide. Like, when you go to a restaurant,, and notice a crowded table of friends, and they're all interacting with their smartphones instead of each other.

That's what happens when you realize those people are merely acquainted.

 Torga_DW wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

 Bullockist wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

Yep. I'm running through Spring 2017 for the Boy and Dog knows what school GC wants to start staging her first protests as a SJW at.

Oh feth me , you mean the next generation is going to feature some firebrand for whom humour doesn't feature in their discourse?
GC, invading bullockists safe spaces since 2016.

She's appropriating lawyer culture.

btw frazz if she becomes an SJW you know her college boyfriend is going to be an unemployable,humanities studying, drug using miscreant.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Frazzled wrote:How many lynchings occurred this week? How many slave auctions on the piers of New York City? Thats all the counterpoint needed. Jeez people need to read a freaking book once in a while.

Maybe we should hold off on the lynching question until you meet the college boyfriend?

No no, thats what the sap, the ducttape, saw, and alligators are for.

 jreilly89 wrote:


I'll concede to you, parts of the world are better off than in previous years, but that doesn't mean that everything is sunshine and butterflies. Terrible inhuman things still happen everyday, and I think it's a gakky attitude to pretend that what happens in another country doesn't matter because it isn't happening to you.

This isn't what I said. I don't care for what happens to people I do not care about at all. What matters to me is The West and all that belongs to it. It's the very culture I live in. Anything else is irrational. You're comparing a completely different culture to ours and judge it by your gusto - apples, oranges. Most of all: it's stuff you cannot change. You will never, ever be able to change anything about it. Never. If you still let that get close to you, then that's a personal issue. Normally, it shouldn't affect you that much, albeit we do get programmed to care for everyone and everything by mass media.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 jreilly89 wrote:


Don't get me wrong, I do believe each generation has contributed to the downfall of the world, but I believe the time has come to work together to fix the future rather than point fingers as the bus crashes.

The world has never been a better place than it is now. We have relative peace, strong economical relations across the entire world, prosperity is at an alltime high, critical social issues such as racism and sexism are at an all-time low and let's not talk about stuff like techonlogical prowess especially in areas like medicine. Today's world, at least the modern part of it, is absolutely amazing and while it certainly has its downsides too, in general, it's outstanding. Don't let all the bicking get to your head.

Yes, that is generally true, however we still have a lot of problems like unemployment, damage of the environment, the looming crisis of antibiotics, and others, so, we should not be complacent about things now, and we should work to continue improvement for the future.

Part of this is to persuade all current generations that one way or another they have a stake. Even the elders who may die in the next 30 years, presumably want their children and grand children to have good life.

I'd compare it to saying that we are now 65% done with our homework for next tuesday, up from 50%. An achievement to be sure, but there's much yet to do.