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!
:mittens:
I REALLY like this.
very nice
fuck yeah, Pent!
:mittens: :mittens:
That was great!
P3nT, is it cool if I posterize this for my own sinister 100% benign purposes? I'll gladly provide attribution, of course.
Quote from: Cainad on January 18, 2009, 03:41:12 AM
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
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/forum/mittens2.gif)
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.
QuoteI 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.
beard in an hour
they did it on "jack ass" using nasty crab infested pubes
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.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 16, 2009, 03:55:14 PM
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.
Quote from: Cramulus on January 24, 2009, 06:06:13 PM
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this should be made into an emoticon
also, good thread
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
Its almost certainly Jonathon Ross and Russell Brand - both of whom were forced off of BBC Radio 2 by a hysterical "moral majority who are really a minority" witch hunt of epic proportions.
Quote from: Cain on January 24, 2009, 07:28:33 PM
Its almost certainly Jonathon Ross and Russell Brand - both of whom were forced off of BBC Radio 2 by a hysterical "moral majority who are really a minority" witch hunt of epic proportions.
Who made the actual decision? We should all send him emails thanking him for his moral rectitude.
Our way.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 24, 2009, 07:43:43 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 24, 2009, 07:28:33 PM
Its almost certainly Jonathon Ross and Russell Brand - both of whom were forced off of BBC Radio 2 by a hysterical "moral majority who are really a minority" witch hunt of epic proportions.
Who made the actual decision? We should all send him emails thanking him for his moral rectitude. Our way.
I think it was a case of them falling on their
swords microphones after a week of non-stop harassment from Paul Dacre, editor of the
Daily Mail, and Rebekah Wade, editor of
The Sun, though I'd have to check. They were the people most responsible for whipping up the mob and handing out pitchforks, with Dacre's flunkies even going so far as to provide the complaints line number for those who missed the show
but still wanted to complain anyway.
It was a farce from start to finish.
Quote from: Cain on January 24, 2009, 07:52:31 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 24, 2009, 07:43:43 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 24, 2009, 07:28:33 PM
Its almost certainly Jonathon Ross and Russell Brand - both of whom were forced off of BBC Radio 2 by a hysterical "moral majority who are really a minority" witch hunt of epic proportions.
Who made the actual decision? We should all send him emails thanking him for his moral rectitude. Our way.
I think it was a case of them falling on their swords microphones after a week of non-stop harassment from Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, and Rebekah Wade, editor of The Sun, though I'd have to check. They were the people most responsible for whipping up the mob and handing out pitchforks, with Dacre's flunkies even going so far as to provide the complaints line number for those who missed the show but still wanted to complain anyway.
It was a farce from start to finish.
No, I want to fuck with the wimp who caved.
Can't find out. Suspensions appear to have been decided by a faceless board, the controller at BBC Radio 2 quit, and Brand's decision to quit was uncoerced by management.
Cram: afaik you cannot get sued for shooting a movie in which you use objects with brands on them. some public broadcasting networks might give trouble if you do too obvious product-placement type shots, but in no way does the company carrying the brand have any case for copyright if you use their branded wares as props in a movie. "Fair Use" doesn't even come into it, it's simply not copyright infringement.
Also, I'm surprised that you can get sued in America for not shoveling your front walk if people slip on it? Is that really true? I mean, I can understand if someone pours water on the front walk before a frosty night on purpose, but simply neglecting to shovel it?
Quote from: Triple "Dave" Zero on January 27, 2009, 07:24:37 PM
Cram: afaik you cannot get sued for shooting a movie in which you use objects with brands on them.
THAT'S WHAT I SAID!
QuoteAlso, I'm surprised that you can get sued in America for not shoveling your front walk if people slip on it? Is that really true? I mean, I can understand if someone pours water on the front walk before a frosty night on purpose, but simply neglecting to shovel it?
You can get sued for all sorts of shit. Yeah, if someone injures themselves on your property, you're generally liable. It's retarded, but it's also the law that stops me from hosing down my front steps in January.
Quote from: rong on January 24, 2009, 07:21:57 PM
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
Was a hypothetical situation but I was thinking of things like the recent Ross/Brand fiasco or Gerry Sadowitz before them or Lenny Bruce before him.
Pretty much anyone who's been on the receiving end of a handful of uppity bastards.
Except Bill Grundy - that wanker had it coming :lulz:
HAY GUISE LOOK
I maed a shitty PDF of this (and Ammuricanized the spelling): http://www.scribd.com/doc/11473728/Greyface-Fence
I am most impressed.
Permission to spread the goodness?
:FFF:
asking permission is for serfs!