Total Madness

[LMNO]

Well, wouldn't you be? I mean you'd be doing it to piss of THE MAN, wouldn't you?

No, only for kicks.
"I'm the man and you're the man and he's the man as well," etc.
P.S brotatoes I'm not any kind of pagan, etc, no religious nonsense, so if you're getting that from my decorative text, don't

No, actually, LMNO and I are The Man.  Richter is a candidate for The Man-ness, but he has 5-10 years before he will have wormed his way high enough up into the corporate structure.

This is True.  Dok works in Big Oil, I work in Big Finance.

Both of us are White Males.



BUT ONLY ONE OF US HAS A FABULOUS MOUSTACHE.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Well, wouldn't you be? I mean you'd be doing it to piss of THE MAN, wouldn't you?

No, only for kicks.
"I'm the man and you're the man and he's the man as well," etc.
P.S brotatoes I'm not any kind of pagan, etc, no religious nonsense, so if you're getting that from my decorative text, don't

No, actually, LMNO and I are The Man.  Richter is a candidate for The Man-ness, but he has 5-10 years before he will have wormed his way high enough up into the corporate structure.

This is True.  Dok works in Big Oil, I work in Big Finance.

Both of us are White Males.



BUT ONLY ONE OF US HAS A FABULOUS MOUSTACHE.

Dok's working on that though

[Doktor Howl]

Well, wouldn't you be? I mean you'd be doing it to piss of THE MAN, wouldn't you?

No, only for kicks.
"I'm the man and you're the man and he's the man as well," etc.
P.S brotatoes I'm not any kind of pagan, etc, no religious nonsense, so if you're getting that from my decorative text, don't

No, actually, LMNO and I are The Man.  Richter is a candidate for The Man-ness, but he has 5-10 years before he will have wormed his way high enough up into the corporate structure.

This is True.  Dok works in Big Oil, I work in Big Finance.

Both of us are White Males.



BUT ONLY ONE OF US HAS A FABULOUS MOUSTACHE.

I have the classic corporate villain face, whereas LMNO looks like he staggered out of Tammany Hall with his lungs half full of lobbyist semen.

[Cain]

I'm not The Man, but I have his children in a safe location.

Well, safe for now.

[Doktor Howl]

I'm not The Man, but I have his children in a safe location.

Well, safe for now.

You're young yet, Cain.  You will be The Man one day, if anyone will.

Or they'll chop you into bits and stuff you in a 55 gal drum.  One or the other.

[Cain]

The two need not be mutually exclusive.  Or in that exact order.

[Doktor Howl]

The two need not be mutually exclusive.  Or in that exact order.

Point.

[Cain]

OK, Jack, since I'm crashing in your thread, I may as well make some points about your rant:

You do realize actually Really Real Crimes Against Humanity are happening right now that make not being allowed to masturbate in public look like a minor issue?  Not to harsh on your buzz man, but right now we send out killer robots to bomb villages and kidnap people and slice their testicles with scalpels, while asking them questions they cannot answer.  We lock up 15 year old children on no charge, and then when no evidence can be found to justify their detention, change the laws to keep them in.  We carry out medical experiments on kidnapped people who may be, but are probably not, guilty of terrorism charges.

Starting to see my point here?

Same again for the meat.  Meat is not murder.  It is unpleasant (for the animal certainly), messy and not always economical.  However, it is also tasty, and most animals, at least in the western world, have a far better standard of life than they do in the wild, where their domesticated nature and inability to flourish in a natural environment would quickly lead to their extinction at the hand of some very amazed predators. 

If you want to see a real, modern day holocaust, you could always go to Sri Lanka, where they're herding the Tamil population into concentration camps, probably as a prelude to a massacre.  You could go to Gaza City, kept under a blockade designed as part of an "economic warfare" program to starve and deplete the Palestinians there into defeat.  You could at Chinese attempts at ethnic cleansing in Tibet, or the many, many examples of genocide in central African wars, where the chief tactic is to ride into a village with a bunch of armed men and kill everyone, then vanish back into the jungle.

I guess what I'm saying is your hyperbole betrays a lack of understanding of the world, and your concerns are very small in relation to what is actually going on, and either you have not attempted to educate yourself on these topics or simply do not care.

[LMNO]

Well, wouldn't you be? I mean you'd be doing it to piss of THE MAN, wouldn't you?

No, only for kicks.
"I'm the man and you're the man and he's the man as well," etc.
P.S brotatoes I'm not any kind of pagan, etc, no religious nonsense, so if you're getting that from my decorative text, don't

No, actually, LMNO and I are The Man.  Richter is a candidate for The Man-ness, but he has 5-10 years before he will have wormed his way high enough up into the corporate structure.

This is True.  Dok works in Big Oil, I work in Big Finance.

Both of us are White Males.



BUT ONLY ONE OF US HAS A FABULOUS MOUSTACHE.

I have the classic corporate villain face, whereas LMNO looks like he staggered out of Tammany Hall with his lungs half full of lobbyist semen.

Also, because it's too good to threadjack:

OK, Jack, since I'm crashing in your thread, I may as well make some points about your rant:

You do realize actually Really Real Crimes Against Humanity are happening right now that make not being allowed to masturbate in public look like a minor issue?  Not to harsh on your buzz man, but right now we send out killer robots to bomb villages and kidnap people and slice their testicles with scalpels, while asking them questions they cannot answer.  We lock up 15 year old children on no charge, and then when no evidence can be found to justify their detention, change the laws to keep them in.  We carry out medical experiments on kidnapped people who may be, but are probably not, guilty of terrorism charges.

Starting to see my point here?

Same again for the meat.  Meat is not murder.  It is unpleasant (for the animal certainly), messy and not always economical.  However, it is also tasty, and most animals, at least in the western world, have a far better standard of life than they do in the wild, where their domesticated nature and inability to flourish in a natural environment would quickly lead to their extinction at the hand of some very amazed predators. 

If you want to see a real, modern day holocaust, you could always go to Sri Lanka, where they're herding the Tamil population into concentration camps, probably as a prelude to a massacre.  You could go to Gaza City, kept under a blockade designed as part of an "economic warfare" program to starve and deplete the Palestinians there into defeat.  You could at Chinese attempts at ethnic cleansing in Tibet, or the many, many examples of genocide in central African wars, where the chief tactic is to ride into a village with a bunch of armed men and kill everyone, then vanish back into the jungle.

I guess what I'm saying is your hyperbole betrays a lack of understanding of the world, and your concerns are very small in relation to what is actually going on, and either you have not attempted to educate yourself on these topics or simply do not care.

[Doktor Howl]

Okay, Cain, thank you.

I guess a better introduction would have been, I'm here to learn. I was just pissed off at the time and tried to be creative about it.

Good, good.  Being pissed off is a good place to start, but the thing is, you have to be pissed off at something appropriate, not just Fiona Apple's cause of the day.

If you looked around for a bit, and saw how you're REALLY being fucked, you'd be a lot MORE pissed off than you are at some jackass running a factory farm (You know, the ones that mean you can eat whatever you please, whenever you please).

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Okay, Cain, thank you.

I guess a better introduction would have been, I'm here to learn. I was just pissed off at the time and tried to be creative about it.

That's fine and good but speaking about the evils of meat and keeping your pants on around children is silly, as Cain has pointed out.

Edit: 43 posts to go then?

[Doktor Howl]

Okay, Cain, thank you.

I guess a better introduction would have been, I'm here to learn. I was just pissed off at the time and tried to be creative about it.

That's fine and good but speaking about the evils of meat and keeping your pants on around children is silly, as Cain has pointed out.

Edit: 43 posts to go then?

Reserving judgment here.  The initial post may have been retarded, but based on subsequent posts and one PM, I think this guy might be a human stuck in a meme, instead of the other way around.

Not saying he's a biped, mind you, I'm saying I don't know. 

[Cain]

OK Jack.  I'll give you a couple of links, to people who generally report on things you may find disturbing, but are pretty much worth knowing:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/index.html
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/
http://exiledonline.com/
http://www.atimes.com/
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/

Right, that's your starter for 10.  You don't have to read these every day, but doing so will give you a good idea of what is going on "out there".  Better than that, they'll also get you acquainted with several of the key movers and shakers in how we all live our lives, as well as how business is really done in this cut-throat world of ours.

That's only a beginning, of course.  But sooner or later, you'll develop the bullshit detectors which will allow you to parse everyday news and events and understand the reality behind it.  This is just the quicker way of doing it.

[LMNO]

:quietly bookmarks the above links:

[The Wizard]

I'm here to learn.

Well, if he's being honest about that part, then he's okay in my book.

Howdy, Jack. Names Dr. James Semaj. Welcome.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/index.html
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/
http://exiledonline.com/
http://www.atimes.com/
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/

Awesome. Bookmarking all of this.