Greyface

[P3nT4gR4m]

People like you write winy little letters of complaint
Five measly hundred out of a couple of million that watched the show
And now the guy who made so many laugh is off the air
Thanks for that, asshole!

People like you do nothing but bitch and whine
about every little thing that offends your pernickety sense of what is right and wrong
And suddenly another fucking sign appears
and we can't do our favourite thing, in our favourite place anymore

People like you are the reason there's a warning on my vending machine coffee cup
"Caution: Contents may be hot"
and a wire fence that fucks up the view from my favourite cliff
with a sign - "Caution: Don't stand too close to the edge"

But people like you never do anything, anywhere near the fucking edge
People like you are so far back from the edge it does my head in
You point your sad, pathetic little fingers at the poor bastards
having fun, on the edge, where all the fun resides
and you bitch and whine until they move the fences back another yard
and then suddenly it's not so much fun anymore

People like you are what's wrong with the world
but because of people like you, sticking your nosey little noses into other peoples business
the world is convinced that everyone else is the problem
Five lousy hundred out of a couple of million that watched the show
and you're the moral "majority"
Who's fucking maths is that?

People like you spend so much time frowning on anything you can get your beady little eyes to focus on
that the whole world is becoming tainted, homogenised, one cliff face at a time
But you can only move the fences so far back
until we're all penned in like sardines
and that's when you're going to find out the hard way
that you're surrounded by people like me!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I REALLY like this.

[fomenter]

very nice

[East Coast Hustle]

fuck yeah, Pent!

[Cainad (dec.)]

[Murmur]

That was great!

[Cainad (dec.)]

P3nT, is it cool if I posterize this for my own sinister 100% benign purposes? I'll gladly provide attribution, of course.

[Pariah]

P3nT, is it cool if I posterize this for my own sinister 100% benign purposes? I'll gladly provide attribution, of course.

IF you do, send me the link

[Cramulus]

totally dude


I was in this video that this kid was making
and he was so bent out of shape about protecting himself from copyright infringement.
I mean, he was making a small independent film, probably won't be seen by more than 500 people
and we wasted like half an hour while he found us shirts that didn't have logos on them
poured our beers into pint glasses so we wouldn't get sued by beer companies

telling him, "dude, nobody cares, let's just film" only made him defend his paranoia and thereby make it worse.

I want to carry a card in my back pocket which describes "fair use" so I can whip it out and cut people with it,
because the copyright issue is a serious hamper on creativity, and I've always thought, "FUCK IT, I'll deal with the fallout later." Like in my pamphlet "23 things to amuse yourself while you wait", there's a comic panel from The Parking Lot is Full. And this one kid was trying his damnedest to convince me to take it out, because he didn't want to see me get sued.

Sued for what? I'm not making a profit. I'm not harming anyone. My name's not even on it. This pamphlet is barely even REAL.

Likewise I have this idea for a product - BEARD IN JUST AN HOUR. And when you give me the money, I'll give you a tube of epoxy and some hair clippings so you can beard yourself. I was telling someone about this idea, and they were DEAD SET on convincing me to include a warning telling you not to actually put epoxy on your face.

FUCK that, that totally spoils the joke!


Stop getting bent out of shape about stupid little shit! Relax and live a little - nobody's gonna sue your ass.

[Cain]

I want to carry a card in my back pocket which describes "fair use" so I can whip it out and cut people with it

This is fairly easy to do, if you have a plastic card, a razor, another razor, a steady hand and some glue.

[fomenter]

beard in an hour

they did it on "jack ass" using nasty crab infested pubes

[Cramulus]

nietzsche wrote about how people used to enter into contracts because if the other party welched, you could take a pound of flesh from them.

He thought that morality kind of arose from this - originally you better pay your debts, not because it's the "right thing to do", but because you didn't want to give some vindictive fuck with a knife and an ice cream scoop legal recourse to make a blood-and-guts-colada.

So what he's saying is that justice is based on sadism and fear of that sadism. I think that's still going strong, and part of the grayface mentality includes this.

I mean, after it snows, you shovel your front walk. (at least in my mom's neighborhood) You don't shovel your front walk for people's convenience.  You shovel it because you don't wanna get sued if they slip on your property. Shoveling your walk is the "right thing to do", but if you do it out of fear of recourse, it's not a moral choice, it's a protective one.

People gotta protect themselves from this crazy society, and that makes them do equally crazy things. It escalates. It's additive. It gets more insane every year.


The saving grace is the horrormirth - like for example I laugh at the fact that your hair dryer has a warning printed on it about using it in the bathtub. That's probably there because some stupid fuck failed so hard he had to make a court case out of it. And even though everybody goddamn knows not to talke a blow dryer into the bath, now they have to spell it out for you.  What's funny about this is that someone out there was stupid enough to do it in the first place - and that for SOME people, it's really important that these written warnings are everywhere because otherwise they'd be weeding themselves out of the gene pool.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

People like you write winy little letters of complaint
Five measly hundred out of a couple of million that watched the show
And now the guy who made so many laugh is off the air
Thanks for that, asshole!

People like you do nothing but bitch and whine
about every little thing that offends your pernickety sense of what is right and wrong
And suddenly another fucking sign appears
and we can't do our favourite thing, in our favourite place anymore

People like you are the reason there's a warning on my vending machine coffee cup
"Caution: Contents may be hot"
and a wire fence that fucks up the view from my favourite cliff
with a sign - "Caution: Don't stand too close to the edge"

But people like you never do anything, anywhere near the fucking edge
People like you are so far back from the edge it does my head in
You point your sad, pathetic little fingers at the poor bastards
having fun, on the edge, where all the fun resides
and you bitch and whine until they move the fences back another yard
and then suddenly it's not so much fun anymore

People like you are what's wrong with the world
but because of people like you, sticking your nosey little noses into other peoples business
the world is convinced that everyone else is the problem
Five lousy hundred out of a couple of million that watched the show
and you're the moral "majority"
Who's fucking maths is that?

People like you spend so much time frowning on anything you can get your beady little eyes to focus on
that the whole world is becoming tainted, homogenised, one cliff face at a time
But you can only move the fences so far back
until we're all penned in like sardines
and that's when you're going to find out the hard way
that you're surrounded by people like me!

That rant was fucking amazing.

Back in Chi-town, my son tells me that they have outlawed every single outdoor activity that a teenager can enjoy.  Skateboarding, rollerblading, bike riding, handball, even football in the park (I shit you not).  "Hey, Kids!  There's plenty of alternatives to doing drugs!  But we made THEM all illegal, too!"

There's nowhere you can go and nothing you can do without running into these sanctimonious shitheads.  OH, I THINK YOU KNOW WHO WE'RE TALKING TO, MRS HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION NAZI, YEAH WE DO, MR DEATH PENALTY FOR SMOKING IN THE BOYS ROOM, MRS MORAL MAJORITY, MR IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN!

Oh, yes, we know who you are.  You are the No Fun Crowd, the Safety Nazis, the self-appointed guardian of television values...and one fine day, we'll tar and feather you and leave you out for the dire vultures. 

You bastards.

[indigoblade]

this should be made into an emoticon

also, good thread

[rong]

uh - who's off the air now? (or is this a metaphorical "guy off the air due to letters of complaint")

just wondering.

good rant, btw