Quotes of the Moment II

[Salty]

It's not good enough. They have to PAY for this. Someone has to PAY.

I'm just glad I'm not dealing with it by myself.

[Salty]

I just got completely exhausted trolling facebook after this last election. There's just no way to keep up. We would have to have teams working in shifts and it STILL wouldn't be enough to make a dent in that wall of dumb that is FB.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

I just got completely exhausted trolling facebook after this last election. There's just no way to keep up. We would have to have teams working in shifts and it STILL wouldn't be enough to make a dent in that wall of dumb that is FB.

Burn it down, baby.

[Lenin McCarthy]

My Norwegian exam essay today got terribly polemical:
(translated)
"And where are the children in the middle of all this? They sit at home, watching pedagogically correct television shows made by grown-ups. They sit inside storage boxes euphemistically named "kindergarten" and "school", where they are passively fed the knowledge of the grown-up world. Prison, I think we should call it. Or concentration camps. Luckily, you won't get killed, but in return you'll end up an unspontaneous and thoroughly dull adult with absolutely no sense of imagination or creativity. Congratulations, you are now a "responsible citizen", as in "no threat to the status quo"."

"We see all the time how children are regarded with suspicion. In the news we hear about kids as young as 12 using alcohol and illegal drugs, watching violent movies and visiting pornographic websites. This is things adults do all the time. But kids have to be controlled, they need to be kept on a leash like pet dogs until they reach a certain age. That kids do these things is not really that strange. The adults have turned "adulthood" into something unattainable that children are still told to prepare for, a state of unrestricted power and freedom, but which they won't achieve before they've reached an arbitrarily decided age. This turns the adult world into an irresistible attraction. For kids everything becomes a competition to grow up first, and many turn into obnoxious, precocious youth politicians and student council leaders. But for them, the power of the grown-ups is impossible to attain, so instead they have to console themselves with the mythical consumer goods of the adult world: Booze, drugs, pills, porn and violent movies."

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Yeah, it's been interesting dealing with other parents who seem to view anyone under 18 as incapable and needing to be controlled.

My view is more that this time in between 12 and 18 is when they have a chance to try adult things out with a parental safety net firmly underneath them. They can venture into the adult world, and when it's overwhelming or scary or they make a mistake, they still get to retreat back into childhood for a while.

Being a teenager is when you get to practice being an adult, so that by the time you actually are an adult you can do it with no handlebars.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

My 13-year-old son is more mature and capable than most adults I know.

But then, he was kind of born a 30-year-old lawyer.

He thinks I'm silly. 

[P3nT4gR4m]

Guy on typically mind numbing, spirit crushing gameshow that's on teevee in the background when asked what a pair of crossed swords on an OS map represents.

"A Jousting arena"

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Guy on typically mind numbing, spirit crushing gameshow that's on teevee in the background when asked what a pair of crossed swords on an OS map represents.

"A Jousting arena"

What is an OS map, and what do the swords mean?

Is this something I ought to know about?

Are you from an alternate universe?

[Reginald Ret]

Guy on typically mind numbing, spirit crushing gameshow that's on teevee in the background when asked what a pair of crossed swords on an OS map represents.

"A Jousting arena"

What is an OS map, and what do the swords mean?

Is this something I ought to know about?

Are you from an alternate universe?

OS stands for operating system, so it is a map of the bits and sprites that run your computer.
The crossed swords are a symboligraphic representation of the old "Here be Dragons"
Also known as BIOS. They use the old symbol for 'unknown, but dangerous'  because BIOS problems equal get a new computer. Nobody knows what it does or how it got in there, but fiddling with it sinks your explorer. Just like in the old sailing days, when ships that went to Here Be Dragons just never returned.

[Junkenstein]

Guy on typically mind numbing, spirit crushing gameshow that's on teevee in the background when asked what a pair of crossed swords on an OS map represents.

"A Jousting arena"

What is an OS map, and what do the swords mean?

Is this something I ought to know about?

Are you from an alternate universe?

OS Maps are Orchestrated scuffling Map. Crossed swords denotes an ancient duelling spots. Antique weapons are frequently found in such places. They are used in the UK today to arrange gang fights and select dogging locations.

[Forsooth]

a few quotes that i found amongst some old papers


"Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound like it was."
"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."


-Salvor Hardin, from Isaac Asimov's Foundation series

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I try to have understanding about the poor education system, and certainly this guy is its product. Every time I come over, and trust me when i say I must do so, it's One World Order, God Created Races And Intended Them To Be Seperate, I Totally Know How To Create *removed because NSA*, It Is Your Duty To Take Out Your Government If They Disrupt Your Freedom.

Which pissed me right the fuck off. I pulled back my sleeves and showed him my arms.

"Do you see this? It says Give Me Freedom Or Kill Me, not Give Me Freedom Or Kill Them."

This is not too difficult to understand, yes? You keep them from taking life, you don't take life to keep your freedom, unless that freedom is you actual MOTHERFUCKING LIFE. Or that of another.

Anyway, this guy does not have an abnormal brain, AFAIK. He can reason, he's just all mixed up, and there's no unmixing that shit. Once certain chemicals have settled and the brain's been etched is there a way to well and truly reverse that shit? Without breaking the person? Is being broken down preferable? I would say so.

Yeah, lightspeed, you can get passed it since you are atoms.

:slowclap:

Overused, cliche, but totally appropriate here

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

Guy on typically mind numbing, spirit crushing gameshow that's on teevee in the background when asked what a pair of crossed swords on an OS map represents.

"A Jousting arena"

What is an OS map, and what do the swords mean?

Is this something I ought to know about?

Are you from an alternate universe?

OS = Ordnance Survey, the UK's official civil service mapping department.. Based in Southampton, actually.

I have no idea what the crossed swords are. I suspect it's old battle sites.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

My 13-year-old son is more mature and capable than most adults I know.

But then, he was kind of born a 30-year-old lawyer.

He thinks I'm silly. 

I kind of love serious sensible teenagers.

[Cain]

Yes, they represent battlefields.  And the Battle of Aylesbury.