Have you noticed that NOBODY can do ANYTHING right, anymore? We can't run a post office, much less a space program, banking is a mystery which we have not solved, and even the TERRORISTS are fucking pathetic. Just take a look at this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44518757/ns/us_news-security/
"I'm forced to wear prison clothes!" Yeah, jackass, because you've proven you can't be trusted with underpants. Not only that, the case against him is weakened, because they didn't fucking MIRANDIZE him...Because, apparently, a man with a burned off Johnson and veins full of Fentanyl is an immediate threat. So now the terrorist wants his statements thrown out and apparently the best way to do THAT is yell "JIHAD!" at the judge.
It fucking pains me.
The Obama administration is walking around with egg on its face concerning $500 million dollars they loaned to a company that had more red flags than a May Day parade, Bachmann thinks HPV vaccinations cause mental retardation, Perry is organizing "prayer warriors", and ALL of the GOP candidates at the debate the other night said that people dying unnecessarily is FUNNY, and one of them will no doubt be the next president.
I could go on...Hell, I WILL. A "final report" on the BP oil spill says that "bad decisions" caused the disaster. WELL, NO SHIT, SHERLOCK. Mind you, the report DIDN'T call for any form of punitive or even corrective action. "Doctor Oz" apparently didn't know that arsenic can be found in nature, and apparently some people still think CHARLIE FUCKING SHEEN has opinions worth listening to.
YOU FUCKERS ARE KILLING ME!
Look, just shut the fuck up, okay? Just close your Goddamn pie-hole, and get off my fucking planet. I do NOT have to put up with this shit. I am NOT REQUIRED to deal with the ever-increasing levels of RANK STUPIDITY that washes around my fucking knees every time I get out of fucking bed in the morning. It's all a fucking troll. It has to be. No species this STUPID could survive the gap between FALLING OUT OF THE TREES and INVENTING FIRE.
So, you know what? Bring Perry on. Just vote the crazy bastard into office, and let's get this shit over with. Fuck it, make Obama his VP, and we can REDLINE this shit. Let's just see what The Machine can take, shall we?
And the last few monkeys can carve our epitaph into the side of Mount Everest, for the education of any alien anthropologists that may happen along, in letters 300 feet high:
HERPADERP.
Okay for now,
Dok
You did have to post this as I'm trying to finish off my day.
:argh!:
I just can't understand it, Dok. Why did the Enlightenment fail?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 14, 2011, 08:22:00 PM
You did have to post this as I'm trying to finish off my day.
:argh!:
I just can't understand it, Dok. Why did the Enlightenment fail?
Because it was only a fad to begin with. Two million years of beating on log drums vs less than 500 years of progress. It couldn't fucking last, especially when Europe had the BRILLIANT idea of dumping all the religious nuts in one place, and then letting that place take charge of everything. It would be like feeding an infant lead every day, and then letting him drive the car when he turned 6.
This whole fucking planet is retarded. I can't fucking stand it.
Too much effort to think rationally?
Quote from: Nph. Twid. on September 14, 2011, 08:27:25 PM
Too much effort to think rationally?
BRAIN NOT DESIGNED TO THINK RATIONALLY.
The monkey brain is designed to survive on a savannah in groups of 10-30, not try to manage 301,000,000 members using symbols designed to replicate fear of predators and alpha males.
We are using a TRS80 to solve Fermat's Equation, and the results are entirely predictable.
It seems to me that Ron Paul (a man for whom my level of respect varies from sentence to sentence) is perhaps the LEAST fucked up GOP candidate this time around. However, that's not saying much, considering he's still a fucking moron.
Funny, four years ago I figured Romney would be the only worthwhile candidate at this point....
Young and naive maybe?
There has to be something good out there though, right? Right?
Quote from: Doktor Phox on September 14, 2011, 08:48:53 PM
It seems to me that Ron Paul (a man for whom my level of respect varies from sentence to sentence) is perhaps the LEAST fucked up GOP candidate this time around. However, that's not saying much, considering he's still a fucking moron.
Funny, four years ago I figured Romney would be the only worthwhile candidate at this point....
Young and naive maybe?
There has to be something good out there though, right? Right?
What
are you smoking?
Honestly romney doesnt really do much of anything and he tends to be moderate. At the very least he accepts evolution and agw to be fact.
In other words he wasnt a terrible governor here so im not terribly opposed to him winning the nomination. He probably is the best of the lot.
Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I've been watching our race since I grew eyes and trying to stay optimistic but lets look at the facts. Our language and our technology, our ability to stay kings of the food chain have all exploded, exponentially, year on year, since we first rubbed two sticks together. Our nature? Same as it was 200,000 years ago.
Civilisation was only ever a fucking pipedream.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 14, 2011, 09:23:23 PM
Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I've been watching our race since I grew eyes and trying to stay optimistic but lets look at the facts. Our language and our technology, our ability to stay kings of the food chain have all exploded, exponentially, year on year, since we first rubbed two sticks together. Our nature? Same as it was 200,000 years ago.
Civilisation was only ever a fucking pipedream.
A tiny brain eating amobea (sp) that lives in warm water may be trying to kick us out of first place. Killed a guy in Kansas recently.
Quote from: Hawk on September 14, 2011, 08:59:58 PM
Quote from: Doktor Phox on September 14, 2011, 08:48:53 PM
It seems to me that Ron Paul (a man for whom my level of respect varies from sentence to sentence) is perhaps the LEAST fucked up GOP candidate this time around. However, that's not saying much, considering he's still a fucking moron.
Funny, four years ago I figured Romney would be the only worthwhile candidate at this point....
Young and naive maybe?
There has to be something good out there though, right? Right?
What are you smoking?
Not enough, apparently. :lulz:
ETA: So, what's your take, Hawk? Genuinely curious, here.
Too many fucking people, not enough brains to go around.
For fuck's sake, you need a license to drive a car, to build a goddamn fence, but to breed? Go right ahead, have more fucking idiot children than you can afford.
Quote from: Luna on September 14, 2011, 09:48:24 PM
Too many fucking people, not enough brains to go around.
For fuck's sake, you need a license to drive a car, to build a goddamn fence, but to breed? Go right ahead, have more fucking idiot children than you can afford.
I don't agree with licensing having kids. No, some people do not have the skills necessary, but lets look at the nature of people.
We see today some very cruel and egregious characters (not egregiously anything in particular, just generally egregious) trying to "crack down on the illegal problem." If there were some system in place, starting out as a good intention to reduce the amount of child abuse and the population issues that'll eventually spawn an even bigger food shortage than exists and so on, if there were some system in place, these people would have absolutely no problem hijacking it for their own nefarious ends.
In the beginning, it would be to stop the "anchor babies." Next, it would be all brown people. And then who? Do you really think they'd stop there? Hell the fuck no. Next would be the restriction of children to people like us, who commit thoughtcrime and don't have the right values. Shit, even YOUR post comes across as intolerant and "they don't think like me, so they shouldn't have kids."
And that is the first step to actually being as bad as they are.
Quote from: Luna on September 14, 2011, 09:48:24 PM
Too many fucking people, not enough brains to go around.
For fuck's sake, you need a license to drive a car, to build a goddamn fence, but to breed? Go right ahead, have more fucking idiot children than you can afford.
The predicament runs far deeper than than. An ideal solution would appear to me, at least, to require development of a faculty that the vast majority of our primate brethren have neglected to develop. This being the ability to consciously take control of the underlying simian and stop a whole bunch of retarded and vicious shit from happening. It begins with education but something else is required that doesn't seem to be slotting into place for a lot of us.
The ape is strong and possessed of singular will and relentless persistence. It's also a complete fucking idiot. It's wrapped up in millions of years of "THIS MY TREE. STAY THE FUCK AWAY!" which gradually developed into "THIS OUR BIT OF FOREST... LOT OF US NOW... NEED MOAR..."
Whilst the society that part of us wants to be has sprung up around our monkey ears and the technology and the trappings have all but swallowed the rest of our furry little bodies, underneath it all, it's all about what King f'kin Louie want's to do. For some of us? Not so much and vigilantly trying to be less?
Quote from: Doktor Phox on September 14, 2011, 09:39:09 PM
Quote from: Hawk on September 14, 2011, 08:59:58 PM
Quote from: Doktor Phox on September 14, 2011, 08:48:53 PM
It seems to me that Ron Paul (a man for whom my level of respect varies from sentence to sentence) is perhaps the LEAST fucked up GOP candidate this time around. However, that's not saying much, considering he's still a fucking moron.
Funny, four years ago I figured Romney would be the only worthwhile candidate at this point....
Young and naive maybe?
There has to be something good out there though, right? Right?
What are you smoking?
Not enough, apparently. :lulz:
ETA: So, what's your take, Hawk? Genuinely curious, here.
Okay, but you won't like it very much. If for even a fleeting second you think any of them are in the Game of Thrones to help you, stop, ram your face into a brick wall until you see the error of your ways. Only then will you realize that really good people are too busy on a local or personal level doing what they can, not at the doorstep of power.
Quote from: Hawk on September 14, 2011, 11:41:52 PM
Quote from: Doktor Phox on September 14, 2011, 09:39:09 PM
Quote from: Hawk on September 14, 2011, 08:59:58 PM
Quote from: Doktor Phox on September 14, 2011, 08:48:53 PM
It seems to me that Ron Paul (a man for whom my level of respect varies from sentence to sentence) is perhaps the LEAST fucked up GOP candidate this time around. However, that's not saying much, considering he's still a fucking moron.
Funny, four years ago I figured Romney would be the only worthwhile candidate at this point....
Young and naive maybe?
There has to be something good out there though, right? Right?
What are you smoking?
Not enough, apparently. :lulz:
ETA: So, what's your take, Hawk? Genuinely curious, here.
Okay, but you won't like it very much. If for even a fleeting second you think any of them are in the Game of Thrones to help you, stop, ram your face into a brick wall until you see the error of your ways. Only then will you realize that really good people are too busy on a local or personal level doing what they can, not at the doorstep of power.
No, no, I completely agree with that. I think the issue is in the semantics. By "worthwhile" I meant from a GOP "win the election" perspective.
Quote from: Doktor Phox on September 14, 2011, 11:47:33 PM
Quote from: Hawk on September 14, 2011, 11:41:52 PM
Quote from: Doktor Phox on September 14, 2011, 09:39:09 PM
Quote from: Hawk on September 14, 2011, 08:59:58 PM
Quote from: Doktor Phox on September 14, 2011, 08:48:53 PM
It seems to me that Ron Paul (a man for whom my level of respect varies from sentence to sentence) is perhaps the LEAST fucked up GOP candidate this time around. However, that's not saying much, considering he's still a fucking moron.
Funny, four years ago I figured Romney would be the only worthwhile candidate at this point....
Young and naive maybe?
There has to be something good out there though, right? Right?
What are you smoking?
Not enough, apparently. :lulz:
ETA: So, what's your take, Hawk? Genuinely curious, here.
Okay, but you won't like it very much. If for even a fleeting second you think any of them are in the Game of Thrones to help you, stop, ram your face into a brick wall until you see the error of your ways. Only then will you realize that really good people are too busy on a local or personal level doing what they can, not at the doorstep of power.
No, no, I completely agree with that. I think the issue is in the semantics. By "worthwhile" I meant from a GOP "win the election" perspective.
My bad, sorry. The GOP is so fragmented right now that it's a crap shoot. The best they can hope for is that the mainstream Republicans shout down the extreme fringe, then the "most reasonable" will stand a chance. The only advantage the Dems have is that they have an incumbent in the White House and even that is on shaky ground.
But on a real gut time crunch I think the GOP has basically destroyed itself by allowing the fringe to even come close to the national stage.
I can see two ways which the GOP can easily lose...
they go completely insane and nominate someone like Bachman... or (more likely in my opinion) some of the more fanatical in the tea party actually split and run a third party candidate.
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on September 14, 2011, 11:52:55 PM
I can see two ways which the GOP can easily lose...
they go completely insane and nominate someone like Bachman... or (more likely in my opinion) some of the more fanatical in the tea party actually split and run a third party candidate.
I agree, a split is very possible.
I would be happy with that, I think. Obama is the devil we know (ETA: and the best we can hope for right now), if nothing else, and if there's a split, he's on solid ground.
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on September 14, 2011, 11:52:55 PM
I can see two ways which the GOP can easily lose...
they go completely insane and nominate someone like Bachman... or (more likely in my opinion) some of the more fanatical in the tea party actually split and run a third party candidate.
It really doesn't matter who does what this coming election cycle, those of us that are more spiteful, fearful, and ignorant have purposefully - it doesn't matter whether it comes from honest intentions or not - have forced some of the most irrelevant and regressive ideals and dialogue right smack into the middle of the public consciousness, a splinter deep in the eyeball of American society that only some sort of appropriately-effective metaphor for excision could ever remove.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 14, 2011, 08:17:54 PM
Bachmann thinks HPV vaccinations cause mental retardation, Perry is organizing "prayer warriors", and ALL of the GOP candidates at the debate the other night said that people dying unnecessarily is FUNNY, and one of them will no doubt be the next president.
Could they get any dumber?
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:facepalm:
Quote from: ThatGreenGentleman on September 15, 2011, 06:26:17 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 14, 2011, 08:17:54 PM
Bachmann thinks HPV vaccinations cause mental retardation, Perry is organizing "prayer warriors", and ALL of the GOP candidates at the debate the other night said that people dying unnecessarily is FUNNY, and one of them will no doubt be the next president.
Could they get any dumber?
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:facepalm:
Oh, yes. There is no bottom to the barrel.
I don't think we've seen anything, yet. It seems to be accelerating at an accelerating rate.
Quote from: Precious Moments Zalgo on September 15, 2011, 10:57:25 PM
I don't think we've seen anything, yet. It seems to be accelerating at an accelerating rate.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7PBNKfFWgSY/S0EkRsSqdmI/AAAAAAAAAio/WO8GSRX4K9Q/s320/rollercoaster.jpg)
Hang on to yer butts, it should be an exciting ride.
I don't think the problem is being stupid. The problem is being an asshole. That's it.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 14, 2011, 08:27:05 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 14, 2011, 08:22:00 PM
You did have to post this as I'm trying to finish off my day.
:argh!:
I just can't understand it, Dok. Why did the Enlightenment fail?
Because it was only a fad to begin with. Two million years of beating on log drums vs less than 500 years of progress. It couldn't fucking last, especially when Europe had the BRILLIANT idea of dumping all the religious nuts in one place, and then letting that place take charge of everything. It would be like feeding an infant lead every day, and then letting him drive the car when he turned 6.
This whole fucking planet is retarded. I can't fucking stand it.
Kind of makes you miss log drums, doesn't it?
NO WAY am I letting these critical thinking skills go down the pooper. I'm passing them on to the monkey, and I'll make sure he knows how valuable they are. Shit, I even found a Spongebob coloring book that includes activities that stimulate the part of your brain that draws conclusions and encourages answering ambiguous questions like "Spongebob and Patrick love catching jellyfish! To catch jellyfish, ____________." I don't even know what to put there! It's like, shitfuckdamn, there's a picture right there, what are they even doing man? What's the ending supposed to be? OH MY GOD SO EXCITED ABOUT FILL IN THE BLANK FOR LITTLE KIDS.
<---- An official Spaztard.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 14, 2011, 08:27:05 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 14, 2011, 08:22:00 PM
You did have to post this as I'm trying to finish off my day.
:argh!:
I just can't understand it, Dok. Why did the Enlightenment fail?
Because it was only a fad to begin with. Two million years of beating on log drums vs less than 500 years of progress. It couldn't fucking last, especially when Europe had the BRILLIANT idea of dumping all the religious nuts in one place, and then letting that place take charge of everything. It would be like feeding an infant lead every day, and then letting him drive the car when he turned 6.
This whole fucking planet is retarded. I can't fucking stand it.
This. There were like a dozen or so spags during the 1700s who truly believed that consulting our frontal lobes for more than 3 minutes at a time was a virtuous practice, and everyone else just wanted to be invited to the parties.
Quote from: Luna on September 15, 2011, 11:07:32 PM
Quote from: Precious Moments Zalgo on September 15, 2011, 10:57:25 PM
I don't think we've seen anything, yet. It seems to be accelerating at an accelerating rate.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7PBNKfFWgSY/S0EkRsSqdmI/AAAAAAAAAio/WO8GSRX4K9Q/s320/rollercoaster.jpg)
Hang on to yer butts, it should be an exciting ride.
More like this one:
(http://i.imgur.com/87S6Y.jpg) (http://www.di.research.rca.ac.uk/content/home)
(aka the euthanasia coaster, kills you with 10G, click image for specs!)
Quote from: Jenkem and SPACE/TIME on September 16, 2011, 05:41:38 AM
NO WAY am I letting these critical thinking skills go down the pooper. I'm passing them on to the monkey, and I'll make sure he knows how valuable they are. Shit, I even found a Spongebob coloring book that includes activities that stimulate the part of your brain that draws conclusions and encourages answering ambiguous questions like "Spongebob and Patrick love catching jellyfish! To catch jellyfish, ____________." I don't even know what to put there! It's like, shitfuckdamn, there's a picture right there, what are they even doing man? What's the ending supposed to be? OH MY GOD SO EXCITED ABOUT FILL IN THE BLANK FOR LITTLE KIDS.
<---- An official Spaztard.
bolded parts give me the warm fuzzies and a modicum of hope for the future, just sayin....
Quote from: Jenkem and SPACE/TIME on September 16, 2011, 05:41:38 AM
NO WAY am I letting these critical thinking skills go down the pooper. I'm passing them on to the monkey, and I'll make sure he knows how valuable they are. Shit, I even found a Spongebob coloring book that includes activities that stimulate the part of your brain that draws conclusions and encourages answering ambiguous questions like "Spongebob and Patrick love catching jellyfish! To catch jellyfish, ____________." I don't even know what to put there! It's like, shitfuckdamn, there's a picture right there, what are they even doing man? What's the ending supposed to be? OH MY GOD SO EXCITED ABOUT FILL IN THE BLANK FOR LITTLE KIDS.
<---- An official Spaztard.
That's not
really a question designed to stimulate general creativity, it's a secret test to see which of the youth of today will be the jellyfishermen of tomorrow, because given all the environmental changes happening to the oceans, jellyfish will be the only living things left.
The next coloring book will have a test to see which children can figure out how to cook the damn things.
Quote from: Jenkem and SPACE/TIME on September 16, 2011, 05:41:38 AM"Spongebob and Patrick love catching jellyfish! To catch jellyfish, ____________."
Easy, you hide behind a coral reef and make pudding sounds. Duh.
Don't they teach anything in schools any more??
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 14, 2011, 08:17:54 PM
Have you noticed that NOBODY can do ANYTHING right, anymore? We can't run a post office, much less a space program, banking is a mystery which we have not solved, and even the TERRORISTS are fucking pathetic. Just take a look at this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44518757/ns/us_news-security/
"I'm forced to wear prison clothes!" Yeah, jackass, because you've proven you can't be trusted with underpants. Not only that, the case against him is weakened, because they didn't fucking MIRANDIZE him...Because, apparently, a man with a burned off Johnson and veins full of Fentanyl is an immediate threat. So now the terrorist wants his statements thrown out and apparently the best way to do THAT is yell "JIHAD!" at the judge.
It fucking pains me.
The Obama administration is walking around with egg on its face concerning $500 million dollars they loaned to a company that had more red flags than a May Day parade, Bachmann thinks HPV vaccinations cause mental retardation, Perry is organizing "prayer warriors", and ALL of the GOP candidates at the debate the other night said that people dying unnecessarily is FUNNY, and one of them will no doubt be the next president.
I could go on...Hell, I WILL. A "final report" on the BP oil spill says that "bad decisions" caused the disaster. WELL, NO SHIT, SHERLOCK. Mind you, the report DIDN'T call for any form of punitive or even corrective action. "Doctor Oz" apparently didn't know that arsenic can be found in nature, and apparently some people still think CHARLIE FUCKING SHEEN has opinions worth listening to.
To be fair, compared to all that other stuff you brought up Charlie Sheen's starting to sound pretty levelheaded. I'd prefer people listening to him to people listening to Michelle Bachman.