I don't know man. I don't know how much longer I can watch all of the craziness without vomiting my intestines. There is just so much bat-shit crazy coming from all angles, crawling out from every rock and pebble. Maybe there has always been dumbshit stupid surrounding us and the internet and 24-hour cable "news" stations just make it more obvious. I dunno. It just seems like someone turned it up to 11 and broke the fucking knob off.
I feel like whatever shred of faith I had in the future is inches away from the gaping, razor-toothed maw of hopelessness. It's like nobody has no damned clue of what they are talking about. Everyone is getting their information from "experts" who are getting their information from their staffers who are just copying and pasting shit from wikipedia. Nobody has a fucking clue. And the few that due, are marginilized.
This shit just isn't going to end well. And it seems like it is only when everything is asunder that there will be agreement. But everything is already fucked. I think the new Dark Age has started.
I like this
It should be in the or kill me section
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 22, 2010, 02:59:39 AM
I don't know man. I don't know how much longer I can watch all of the craziness without vomiting my intestines. There is just so much bat-shit crazy coming from all angles, crawling out from every rock and pebble. Maybe there has always been dumbshit stupid surrounding us and the internet and 24-hour cable "news" stations just make it more obvious. I dunno. It just seems like someone turned it up to 11 and broke the fucking knob off.
I feel like whatever shred of faith I had in the future is inches away from the gaping, razor-toothed maw of hopelessness. It's like nobody has no damned clue of what they are talking about. Everyone is getting their information from "experts" who are getting their information from their staffers who are just copying and pasting shit from wikipedia. Nobody has a fucking clue. And the few that due, are marginilized.
This shit just isn't going to end well. And it seems like it is only when everything is asunder that there will be agreement. But everything is already fucked. I think the new Dark Age has started.
Well, there really is no hope (Fact is, as bad as PD has gotten recently, that's not a patch on the
real world. For example, nobody here has tried to kill you and your kids over a fucking
bumper sticker...no shit). The real world is going to hell, and the only consolation is that it's
always been going to hell, and still hasn't actually managed to get there.
"The world has always been going to hell, and it still hasn't actually managed to get there."
--Doktor Howl
:mittens:
YES.
There's a point I reach where I don't want to complain, I don't want to be morose and hopeless about the future. But...WHAT future?
We've covered the planet, we've hoarded all that's worth hoarding and now just trying to balance on top of the pile while shoving off anyone that comes close, we're at the point where even the time-honored tradition of invading other countries for fun and profit is passe, uninteresting, humdrum.
Where is the frontier? Where do we reach out with our bodies and hearts to discover and create and build?
It's no shock to me that kids try to get as high as quickly as possible, having been one of them. What possibilities can they unlock beyond Good Credit? They have all the information they need at their fingertips AND WHAT DO THEY FUCKING NEED IT FOR?
Quote from: Alty on April 22, 2010, 03:13:06 AM
:mittens:
YES.
There's a point I reach where I don't want to complain, I don't want to be morose and hopeless about the future. But...WHAT future?
More to the point, where's my alien/android girlfriend? Where's my goddamn vacation on the moon?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 22, 2010, 03:14:40 AM
Quote from: Alty on April 22, 2010, 03:13:06 AM
:mittens:
YES.
There's a point I reach where I don't want to complain, I don't want to be morose and hopeless about the future. But...WHAT future?
More to the point, where's my alien/android girlfriend? Where's my goddamn vacation on the moon?
The androids just turned out to be teapartiers and your vacation to the moon a new brand of meth
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on April 22, 2010, 03:16:04 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 22, 2010, 03:14:40 AM
Quote from: Alty on April 22, 2010, 03:13:06 AM
:mittens:
YES.
There's a point I reach where I don't want to complain, I don't want to be morose and hopeless about the future. But...WHAT future?
More to the point, where's my alien/android girlfriend? Where's my goddamn vacation on the moon?
The androids just turned out to be teapartiers and your vacation to the moon a new brand of meth
See, this is BULLSHIT. This is NOT MY FUCKING FUTURE.
Take it back.
I still have the shred of faith. I have to. I've got these two kids who have to live in it after I kick the bucket. I guess, maybe, the faith, hope, whatever, is that it at least allows them to live the kind of life I've been able to live where I've managed to carve out a little niche of happiness. But then again, they'll probably have kids.
I mean, fuck, this shit is so insane that the GEICO announcer just got canned because he said shit about the fucking Tea Party.
Who the fuck cares what the GEICO guy thinks or says?
does this mean we longer save 15% on car insurance?
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 22, 2010, 03:18:54 AM
I still have the shred of faith. I have to. I've got these two kids who have to live in it after I kick the bucket.
They'll have to muddle along, just like we did. My kids pay too much attention to the state of things, and they have announced their intention to beat me when I'm old.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 22, 2010, 03:18:54 AM
I mean, fuck, this shit is so insane that the GEICO announcer just got canned because he said shit about the fucking Tea Party.
Who the fuck cares what the GEICO guy thinks or says?
That's some funny shit. Do you perchance have a link?
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on April 22, 2010, 03:20:18 AM
does this mean we longer save 15% on car insurance?
No, now you get a brick through the window.
Christ, what an asshole.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 22, 2010, 03:20:57 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 22, 2010, 03:18:54 AM
I still have the shred of faith. I have to. I've got these two kids who have to live in it after I kick the bucket.
They'll have to muddle along, just like we did. My kids pay too much attention to the state of things, and they have announced their intention to beat me when I'm old.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 22, 2010, 03:18:54 AM
I mean, fuck, this shit is so insane that the GEICO announcer just got canned because he said shit about the fucking Tea Party.
Who the fuck cares what the GEICO guy thinks or says?
That's some funny shit. Do you perchance have a link?
http://www.mediaite.com/online/geico-announcer-fired-for-calling-tea-partiers-retarded-potential-murderers/
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 22, 2010, 02:59:39 AM
I feel like whatever shred of faith I had in the future is inches away from the gaping, razor-toothed maw of hopelessness.
It's almost as if the entire human race is composed of self-centered out of control monkeys.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 22, 2010, 03:25:01 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 22, 2010, 03:20:57 AM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 22, 2010, 03:18:54 AM
I still have the shred of faith. I have to. I've got these two kids who have to live in it after I kick the bucket.
They'll have to muddle along, just like we did. My kids pay too much attention to the state of things, and they have announced their intention to beat me when I'm old.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 22, 2010, 03:18:54 AM
I mean, fuck, this shit is so insane that the GEICO announcer just got canned because he said shit about the fucking Tea Party.
Who the fuck cares what the GEICO guy thinks or says?
That's some funny shit. Do you perchance have a link?
http://www.mediaite.com/online/geico-announcer-fired-for-calling-tea-partiers-retarded-potential-murderers/
My browser keeps dropping the page. Could you post the relevant bits, please?
QuoteYou'd think people learned that if Rahm Emanuel can't get away with it, it's probably best not to use the word. Lance Baxter, AKA "D.C. Douglas," the voice actor most notable for his work in GEICO commercials, has been dismissed from his job for using his highly recognizable voice to leave a voicemail in the mailbox of Tea Party group Freedomworks asking how many of its members were "mentally retarded" and what the response would be when a member inevitably killed someone.
Douglas responded to his removal with a blog post that is now offline but partially reproduced on PRWire.com:
"I called as a private citizen to make a complaint," explains Mr. Douglas. "Racism and homophobia are my Achilles heal, but unfortunately my message included inappropriate words and I am sorry for that. However, telling their members to harass my employer to get me fired is an egregiously disproportionate response to my actions."
He also says on his Facebook page that he is going to "take tea bags and make lemonade" and thanks fans for being "NICE" and "REASONABLE."
It's worth noting that GEICO is not exactly in the Tea Party movement's pocket, either, as it was one of many companies to boycott Tea Party darling The Glenn Beck Program when its host claimed Barack Obama had a "deep-seeded hatred of white people, or the white culture."
This world has gone fricken insane
Here's a better link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/21/geico-fires-dc-douglas-vo_n_546038.html
But I'll C+P too, just in case.
QuoteLance Baxter, better known as D.C. Douglas but perhaps best known as the voice of certain Geico commercials (primarily as the tag announcer of a 2007-2008 celebrity ad campaign) has been fired by the insurance company after leaving a voicemail for Tea Party group FreedomWorks.
Douglas asked FreedomWorks in his voicemail what "the percentage of people that are mentally retarded who are working for FreedomWorks and who are following it," or as he has since put it, he "inquired as to their intelligence level."
In the voicemail, Douglas also questions how FreedomWorks will "spin it when one of your members does actually kill somebody, wondering if you've got a PR spinning routine planned for that or are you just gonna take it when it happens."
In the aftermath, FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe published a post on the conservative website biggovernment.com, providing readers with a recording of the voicemail -- which included Douglas's personal phone number -- and encouraging people to call both Douglas and Geico to "[l]et them know that you, in fact, are not a mentally retarded killer."
According to a press release from Wednesday, Geico held auditions to replace Douglas the next day.
Douglas has since acknowledged such an impulsive move was "STUPID!," but says he was impassioned by the "slurs the Tea Party crowd angrily yelled at Barney Frank, et al," during the climax of health care reform.
He also holds no grudge against his former employer, saying in the press release: "I don't blame GEICO for protecting themselves. They have a business to run and can't waste time getting caught up in FreedomWorks' circus. And they've been very good to me in the past."
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on April 22, 2010, 03:33:51 AM
This world has gone fricken insane
No its seemingly average
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 22, 2010, 03:14:40 AM
Where's my goddamn vacation on the moon?
People have pretty much stopped flying things to the moon and seem to have taken up flying things into buildings instead.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 22, 2010, 03:36:21 AM
Here's a better link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/21/geico-fires-dc-douglas-vo_n_546038.html
But I'll C+P too, just in case.
QuoteLance Baxter, better known as D.C. Douglas but perhaps best known as the voice of certain Geico commercials (primarily as the tag announcer of a 2007-2008 celebrity ad campaign) has been fired by the insurance company after leaving a voicemail for Tea Party group FreedomWorks.
Douglas asked FreedomWorks in his voicemail what "the percentage of people that are mentally retarded who are working for FreedomWorks and who are following it," or as he has since put it, he "inquired as to their intelligence level."
In the voicemail, Douglas also questions how FreedomWorks will "spin it when one of your members does actually kill somebody, wondering if you've got a PR spinning routine planned for that or are you just gonna take it when it happens."
In the aftermath, FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe published a post on the conservative website biggovernment.com, providing readers with a recording of the voicemail -- which included Douglas's personal phone number -- and encouraging people to call both Douglas and Geico to "[l]et them know that you, in fact, are not a mentally retarded killer."
According to a press release from Wednesday, Geico held auditions to replace Douglas the next day.
Douglas has since acknowledged such an impulsive move was "STUPID!," but says he was impassioned by the "slurs the Tea Party crowd angrily yelled at Barney Frank, et al," during the climax of health care reform.
He also holds no grudge against his former employer, saying in the press release: "I don't blame GEICO for protecting themselves. They have a business to run and can't waste time getting caught up in FreedomWorks' circus. And they've been very good to me in the past."
Whoops. I guess I won't ever be using Geico. I can't stand spineless companies (or people).
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on April 22, 2010, 03:33:51 AM
QuoteYou'd think people learned that if Rahm Emanuel can't get away with it, it's probably best not to use the word. Lance Baxter, AKA "D.C. Douglas," the voice actor most notable for his work in GEICO commercials, has been dismissed from his job for using his highly recognizable voice to leave a voicemail in the mailbox of Tea Party group Freedomworks asking how many of its members were "mentally retarded" and what the response would be when a member inevitably killed someone.
Douglas responded to his removal with a blog post that is now offline but partially reproduced on PRWire.com:
"I called as a private citizen to make a complaint," explains Mr. Douglas. "Racism and homophobia are my Achilles heal, but unfortunately my message included inappropriate words and I am sorry for that. However, telling their members to harass my employer to get me fired is an egregiously disproportionate response to my actions."
He also says on his Facebook page that he is going to "take tea bags and make lemonade" and thanks fans for being "NICE" and "REASONABLE."
It's worth noting that GEICO is not exactly in the Tea Party movement's pocket, either, as it was one of many companies to boycott Tea Party darling The Glenn Beck Program when its host claimed Barack Obama had a "deep-seeded hatred of white people, or the white culture."
This world has gone fricken insane
And they post his PI. I mean, yeah, it was probably kind of stupid for GEICO guy to leave his phone number like that, but still.
Quote from: NotPubli on April 22, 2010, 03:36:57 AM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on April 22, 2010, 03:33:51 AM
This world has gone fricken insane
No its seemingly average
I feel like Im at a circus watching a monkey ride a dog, just slightly less stimulated
Quote from: Ten Ton Mantis on April 22, 2010, 03:37:36 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 22, 2010, 03:14:40 AM
Where's my goddamn vacation on the moon?
People have pretty much stopped flying things to the moon and seem to have taken up flying things into buildings instead.
That's
something, I suppose. But it isn't enough.
I feel an urge to fuck with Matt Kibbe, in some horribly sneaky fashion.
Also if someone called me to inform me they are not a "mentally retarded killer" I would automatically assume they were in fact a "mentally retarded killer".
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on April 22, 2010, 03:38:32 AM
Quote from: NotPubli on April 22, 2010, 03:36:57 AM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on April 22, 2010, 03:33:51 AM
This world has gone fricken insane
No its seemingly average
I feel like Im at a circus watching a monkey ride a dog, just slightly less stimulated
It gets better. The woman that is running against Harry Reid, who is beating him by 10 points in the polls, is proposing the solution to affordable health care is patients paying for their care in chickens. Yep, she is 100% seriously proposing people pay for health care by bartering with chickens.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/apr/20/sue-lowden-draws-fire-repeating-health-care-barter/
QuoteLowden was recently the subject of late-night humor after saying health care costs would be lowered if health consumers paid with cash and bargained down prices with health providers. She called it "bartering," a term normally referring to a trade of one good or service for another.
Lowden defended her remarks Monday on the "Nevada Newsmakers" TV show.
"You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor, they would say I'll paint your house," she said. "I mean, that's the old days of what people would do to get health care with your doctors. Doctors are very sympathetic people. I'm not backing down from that system."
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on April 22, 2010, 03:44:44 AM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on April 22, 2010, 03:38:32 AM
Quote from: NotPubli on April 22, 2010, 03:36:57 AM
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on April 22, 2010, 03:33:51 AM
This world has gone fricken insane
No its seemingly average
I feel like Im at a circus watching a monkey ride a dog, just slightly less stimulated
It gets better. The woman that is running against Harry Reid, who is beating him by 10 points in the polls, is proposing the solution to affordable health care is patients paying for their care in chickens. Yep, she is 100% seriously proposing people pay for health care by bartering with chickens.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/apr/20/sue-lowden-draws-fire-repeating-health-care-barter/
QuoteLowden was recently the subject of late-night humor after saying health care costs would be lowered if health consumers paid with cash and bargained down prices with health providers. She called it "bartering," a term normally referring to a trade of one good or service for another.
Lowden defended her remarks Monday on the "Nevada Newsmakers" TV show.
"You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor, they would say I'll paint your house," she said. "I mean, that's the old days of what people would do to get health care with your doctors. Doctors are very sympathetic people. I'm not backing down from that system."
Wait. WAIT. NO FUCKING WAY.
Has the American dollar become so worthless that
bartering with chickens at the doctor is more reasonable than paying money?THIS IS THE BEST NEWS I HAVE EVER HEARD EVER. END OF WORLD. :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
HEY! I can save $1.28 by switching to Progressive!!!
That's a tall Pike Place at Starbucks, bitches!!
Whats progressive?
Oh wait, no. No.
I'd be .32 short.
FUCK! END OF WORLD!!
Progressive is a competing insurance company
Quote from: NotPubli on April 22, 2010, 05:41:50 AM
Whats progressive?
It's an insurance company, namely car insurance.
Quote from: NotPubli on April 22, 2010, 05:41:50 AM
Whats progressive?
They're like GEICO, except with less cavemen and geckos.
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on April 22, 2010, 03:03:06 AM
I like this
It should be in the or kill me section
maybe OKM and apple talk should shift forum spots
with AT having starting new topics turned off for say a week or so
Quote from: NotPubli on April 22, 2010, 05:41:50 AM
Whats progressive?
A portmanteau of "passive" and "agressive".
:asplode: