Die in a fire OR What I learned from World of Warcraft

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I love posting population figures.  Nobody ever wants to even look at them.   

[Don Coyote]

I love posting population figures.  Nobody ever wants to even look at them.   

Much easier to ignore the Fire^TM and carrying with Winning^TM and blame the Tank/healer/mom/God/president/someone else for something you fucking broke.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Coyote, post links to the rants you've made in the last 24 hours to CDGASM, if you wish, or which ever ones you wish. I think it would be good to have you record some of these sermons and have them peppered in, maybe after a couple of quiet tracks, to jar the listener.

(Links, so we can find them later easily)

ETA: And if you do, deliver it all Fire and Brimstone

[BadBeast]

So are we going to burn Billy fucking Joel then, or what?

[Phox]

So are we going to burn Billy fucking Joel then, or what?

There he is.

[BadBeast]

So are we going to burn Billy fucking Joel then, or what?

There he is.

Yay! Thanks Foxy, I knew he'd burn like a good 'un!



Serves him right for "Still Rock and Roll to Me" The cunt!

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So are we going to burn Billy fucking Joel then, or what?

There he is.

Yay! Thanks Foxy, I knew he'd burn like a good 'un!



Serves him right for "Still Rock and Roll to Me" The cunt!

That song is an argument for species extinction.

[BadBeast]

At least for the "Billy Joel" part of the Species. And anyone who thinks singing his songs on Karaoke nights is in any way acceptable. They can go too.

[Sister Fracture]

At least for the "Billy Joel" part of the Species. And anyone who thinks singing his songs on Karaoke nights is in any way acceptable. They can go too.

[Requia ☣]

Goddamit now I have Billy Joel stuck in my head.

[Triple Zero]

I love posting population figures.  Nobody ever wants to even look at them.   

It's true.

Let me try.

HOLY FUCK 200 BABIES PER MINUTE WHAAAAAAT

OMG WHAT SHOULD BE DO?

SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT

*STARTS STOMPING OUT THE FIRE BABIES*

No but seriously. No actually the above is not at all un-serious. I know the figures. Seven billion plus two hundred a minute. They actually do scare me every time, but apart from that, I really have no fucking idea how to meaningfully act upon that information.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I love posting population figures.  Nobody ever wants to even look at them.   

It's true.

Let me try.

HOLY FUCK 200 BABIES PER MINUTE WHAAAAAAT

OMG WHAT SHOULD BE DO?

SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT

*STARTS STOMPING OUT THE FIRE BABIES*

No but seriously. No actually the above is not at all un-serious. I know the figures. Seven billion plus two hundred a minute. They actually do scare me every time, but apart from that, I really have no fucking idea how to meaningfully act upon that information.

Yeah, it's what I call bad signal.  It's correct information, but it's of no use.

[Eater of Clowns]

I love posting population figures.  Nobody ever wants to even look at them.   

It's true.

Let me try.

HOLY FUCK 200 BABIES PER MINUTE WHAAAAAAT

OMG WHAT SHOULD BE DO?

SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT

*STARTS STOMPING OUT THE FIRE BABIES*

No but seriously. No actually the above is not at all un-serious. I know the figures. Seven billion plus two hundred a minute. They actually do scare me every time, but apart from that, I really have no fucking idea how to meaningfully act upon that information.

Yeah, it's what I call bad signal.  It's correct information, but it's of no use.

The Boston Museum of Science has one of these clocks, probably outdated now, where it measures deaths on one dial and birth on another.  I can distinctly remember being a kid and watching that clock thinking "...uh, isn't this going to be a problem?"   

[Triple Zero]

The early part gets bogged down in ALL CAPS and WoW specific speak.  The point / moral is correct motorcycle.

Yeah.

In which case I'd say, redo the whole piece because the "Fire" analogy is nonsense as well, spoken by someone who apparently only knows fire from movies and computer games:

When someone tells you to die in a fire they are most likely telling you both die in a fire and that they think you are fucking toolbag dumb enough to actually stand in a FUCKING FIRE until you die.

No, dying in a fire usually goes like this: You go to bed, sleep, your house is burning, nobody saves you, you die of CO poisoning, your body burns to a crisp. Notice the lack of "standing around in a FUCKING FIRE until you die". It's why they invented smoke detectors.

So, once and a while. Stop look around, make sure you aren't in the FireTM and see what else is going on in your life. Tunnel vision kills. And it doesn't always kill you.

Die in a fire or don't. You can choose. You just need to wake up and pay attention.

"You just need to wake up" is truly the most useless and idiotic suggestion to prevent death by fire I have EVER heard.
Although "once in a while, stop and look around to make sure your house is not on fire" really comes to a close second.

Now since this thread isn't about fire prevention methods, I'm just going to leave it at that if you want an analogy for something that slowly kills you because you're not paying any attention right up until it is too late, fire is not exactly the first thing that comes to mind.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The early part gets bogged down in ALL CAPS and WoW specific speak.  The point / moral is correct motorcycle.

Yeah.

In which case I'd say, redo the whole piece because the "Fire" analogy is nonsense as well, spoken by someone who apparently only knows fire from movies and computer games:

When someone tells you to die in a fire they are most likely telling you both die in a fire and that they think you are fucking toolbag dumb enough to actually stand in a FUCKING FIRE until you die.

No, dying in a fire usually goes like this: You go to bed, sleep, your house is burning, nobody saves you, you die of CO poisoning, your body burns to a crisp. Notice the lack of "standing around in a FUCKING FIRE until you die". It's why they invented smoke detectors.

So, once and a while. Stop look around, make sure you aren't in the FireTM and see what else is going on in your life. Tunnel vision kills. And it doesn't always kill you.

Die in a fire or don't. You can choose. You just need to wake up and pay attention.

"You just need to wake up" is truly the most useless and idiotic suggestion to prevent death by fire I have EVER heard.
Although "once in a while, stop and look around to make sure your house is not on fire" really comes to a close second.

Now since this thread isn't about fire prevention methods, I'm just going to leave it at that if you want an analogy for something that slowly kills you because you're not paying any attention right up until it is too late, fire is not exactly the first thing that comes to mind.

Um, he's referring to World of Warcraft, where you can in fact stand in a fire until you die, without even realizing it.