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Started by B_M_W, May 13, 2005, 01:12:39 AM

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Cain

#15
May 13, 2005, 01:58:23 AM
It could be worse.  In Australia, there is more culture in the yoghurt.  Drinking Fosters is classy in alot of places.

Horab Fibslager

#16
May 13, 2005, 02:01:38 AM
Quote from: Buddhist_Monk_Wannabe
I think its more that I feel so distant from anything that has any depth. At college, theres really no sense of community. People can live next door to each other for four years and not even converse once.

I need community, and maybe I have found it here. And I thank you for saying I belong here. But words on a screen do not give me the same kind of connectedness that "in person" does.

~BMW


i i totally agree man, i don't even talk to ppl much. a recent phone call with a certain somone was by far the longest and best phone conversation i 've proably ever had.

as for canada's cutlure, we're chockfuckinful of it. it makes a decent canucki ill soemtimes.
Hell is other people.

The Good Reverend Roger

#17
May 13, 2005, 02:04:22 AM
Quote from: ScribeIt could be worse.  In Australia, there is more culture in the yoghurt.  Drinking Fosters is classy in alot of places.

Fosters isn't classy? :(
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

agent compassion

#18
May 13, 2005, 02:29:33 AM
I think the problem is that the average carton of yogurt in the grocery store has more fully developed culture than this land does.

However, as I remind myself often, we are NOT an old nation yet. We're just over 200 years old. And so we're like the kid at the mall who buys one of everything just to see what might fit. In time, we'll develop our own style.

If we actually have time, that is.

8)

'I'll take you out for a meal with Mr. and Mrs. Pain, order up some violent quiche. Do you want some?' - ++++++ Moon

The Good Reverend Roger

#19
May 13, 2005, 02:31:34 AM
Quote from: agent compassionI think the problem is that the average carton of yogurt in the grocery store has more fully developed culture than this land does.

However, as I remind myself often, we are NOT an old nation yet. We're just over 200 years old. And so we're like the kid at the mall who buys one of everything just to see what might fit. In time, we'll develop our own style.

If we actually have time, that is.

8)

Our culture will be this:

No middle class.

Lots of peasants.

A few overlords.

Reality TV, to keep the peasants believing in Horatio Alger's filthy lies.

And war after war, forever and ever, amen.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cain

#20
May 13, 2005, 02:39:28 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger
Quote from: ScribeIt could be worse.  In Australia, there is more culture in the yoghurt.  Drinking Fosters is classy in alot of places.

Fosters isn't classy? :(

Afraid not, espescially with some of the wines nowadays from down under.  

And America does have a culture (says the impartial outsider).  Or rather, it has several.  It has a rather tacky corporate spread fast food/music/entertainment culture.  It has an outstanding literary and interesting philosophical culture.  It has traditions concerning its fight against Britian, and coming over the Atlantic to a new land.  And many more belonging to different various groups.  However, there is one culture that has predominatly spread outwards, and overtaken the others, to the point it masks the other ones and spread overseas to be your unwitting Ambassador.  No prizes for guessing which one of the previously mentioned it is.

The Good Reverend Roger

#21
May 13, 2005, 02:41:27 AM
Quote from: Scribe
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger
Quote from: ScribeIt could be worse.  In Australia, there is more culture in the yoghurt.  Drinking Fosters is classy in alot of places.

Fosters isn't classy? :(

Afraid not, espescially with some of the wines nowadays from down under.  

And America does have a culture (says the impartial outsider).  Or rather, it has several.  It has a rather tacky corporate spread fast food/music/entertainment culture.  It has an outstanding literary and interesting philosophical culture.  It has traditions concerning its fight against Britian, and coming over the Atlantic to a new land.  And many more belonging to different various groups.  However, there is one culture that has predominatly spread outwards, and overtaken the others, to the point it masks the other ones and spread overseas to be your unwitting Ambassador.  No prizes for guessing which one of the previously mentioned it is.

We have the music, as well.

However, we balance that out with the fact that we let Tony Danza on TV.

And Fosters is the shit.  You know it's working, because your head hurts.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

B_M_W

#22
May 13, 2005, 02:52:47 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger

We have the music, as well.

Okay, I'll sure as hell concied that. Jazz is American as they come. Well, unless you are talking about something else...


~BMW
One by one, we break the sheep from their Iron Bar Prisons and expand their imaginations, make them think for themselves. In turn, they break more from their prisons. Eventually, critical mass is reached. Our key word: Resolve. Evangelize with compassion and determination. And realize that there will be few in the beginning. We are hand picking our successors. They are the future of Discordianism. Let us guide our future with intelligence.

     --Reverse Brainwashing: A Guide http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=9801.0

6.5 billion Buddhas walking around.

99.xxxxxxx% forgot they are Buddha.

The Good Reverend Roger

#23
May 13, 2005, 02:55:27 AM
Quote from: Buddhist_Monk_Wannabe
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger

We have the music, as well.

Okay, I'll sure as hell concied that. Jazz is American as they come. Well, unless you are talking about something else...


~BMW

Well, the blues, Motown, and rock (before the Brits fucked it up*).






* I kid, I kid.  The Brits were the bomb, especially the Stones, though we shouldn't let Keith Richards on our sacred soil.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

B_M_W

#24
May 13, 2005, 03:13:15 AM
Well, either way, its more about african americans than european-americans. They came up with all the good stuff and we just copied it.

~BMW
One by one, we break the sheep from their Iron Bar Prisons and expand their imaginations, make them think for themselves. In turn, they break more from their prisons. Eventually, critical mass is reached. Our key word: Resolve. Evangelize with compassion and determination. And realize that there will be few in the beginning. We are hand picking our successors. They are the future of Discordianism. Let us guide our future with intelligence.

     --Reverse Brainwashing: A Guide http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=9801.0

6.5 billion Buddhas walking around.

99.xxxxxxx% forgot they are Buddha.

The Good Reverend Roger

#25
May 13, 2005, 03:14:35 AM
Quote from: Buddhist_Monk_WannabeWell, either way, its more about african americans than european-americans. They came up with all the good stuff and we just copied it.

~BMW

Not totally.

Elvis did, but Johnny Cash didn't.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Bob the Mediocre

#26
May 13, 2005, 03:33:53 AM
"Bacteria is the only culture some people have" -from somewhere I can't remember

And B_M_W, wandering around the dorms helped me meet interesting people, but maybe I was just lucky
"we are building a religion
we are making a brand
we're the only ones to turn to when your castles turn to sand
take a bite of this apple
mister corporate events
take a walk through the jungle
of cardboard shanties and tents
some people drink pepsi
some people drink coke
the wacky morning dj says democracy's a joke
he says now do you believe in the one big song
he is now accepting callers who would like to sing along"

I AM A COMPLETE AND UTTER FUCKING IDIOT!

B_M_W

#27
May 13, 2005, 03:57:53 AM
Yeah, you were fortunate, and probably didn't go to a Uni in Central Wisconsin. I swear, sometimes I feel like its an Xtian college...
One by one, we break the sheep from their Iron Bar Prisons and expand their imaginations, make them think for themselves. In turn, they break more from their prisons. Eventually, critical mass is reached. Our key word: Resolve. Evangelize with compassion and determination. And realize that there will be few in the beginning. We are hand picking our successors. They are the future of Discordianism. Let us guide our future with intelligence.

     --Reverse Brainwashing: A Guide http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=9801.0

6.5 billion Buddhas walking around.

99.xxxxxxx% forgot they are Buddha.

The Good Reverend Roger

#28
May 13, 2005, 03:59:16 AM
Quote from: Buddhist_Monk_WannabeYeah, you were fortunate, and probably didn't go to a Uni in Central Wisconsin. I swear, sometimes I feel like its an Xtian college...

Hell, dude...they're almost ALL Xian colleges, now...de facto, if not de jure.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Bob the Mediocre

#29
May 13, 2005, 04:36:42 AM
Quote from: Buddhist_Monk_WannabeYeah, you were fortunate, and probably didn't go to a Uni in Central Wisconsin. I swear, sometimes I feel like its an Xtian college...

damn. I went to the University at buffalo. Guess it's just big enough, or something
"we are building a religion
we are making a brand
we're the only ones to turn to when your castles turn to sand
take a bite of this apple
mister corporate events
take a walk through the jungle
of cardboard shanties and tents
some people drink pepsi
some people drink coke
the wacky morning dj says democracy's a joke
he says now do you believe in the one big song
he is now accepting callers who would like to sing along"

I AM A COMPLETE AND UTTER FUCKING IDIOT!
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