I Rant, Therefore I Am (613 hits)
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Submitted by moneyshot (View user info) at 2005-02-16 21:49:03 EST
I don't care whenever a NASCAR driver dies or when astronauts die.
NASCAR is stupid, but more than that, they're driving at 300 miles an hour. Accidents happen. They should be prepared for the possiblility of catching fire. It isn't sad when they die because that's almost part of their job.
Astronauts. I was in school when the last shuttle exploded. It got so far and then burst into flames, then all the media outlets had a field day with how heroic they were. I don't know about heroic in that sense. I also don't get all the mourning everyone did. In one of my classes everyone was upset for some reason and then went into a discussion that could've been a direct quote from Fox News. It was weird. "They were such heros." "Unfair." "Unbelievable."
I was the only dissenter in the group. I stood up and said the following and thought the entire room was going to lynch me.
"It's sad that they died, they all had people that loved them. But I think everyone is missing one thing. They take these people and they put them in a ROCKET and then they blast them into OUTER-SPACE. It's more amazing that more rockets don't explode. They knew what they were getting into. They're sitting on forty tons of rocket fuel. This is going to happen." So everyone in that class hated me. But I felt like it was a valid point. It doesn't make it less sad, but it sure as hell makes it a lot less surprising. It's not like they were a horse and buggy team and suddenly exploded. It's a spaceship. It's very complicated. I'm sure they were all fully aware of the dangers.
People misplace sadness sometimes, and it bothers me because it seems like there are enough things to be legitimately sad about without having to project it onto something that doesn't impact you or people you know. Besides, isn't it nice that while these people died, they got to live their greatest fantasy and fulfill their wildest dreams. Thanks Pedro. Becoming a famous actor, comedian, or a great race car driver, and TRAVELLING TO OUTERSPACE. It's much more sad when people just die in their houses old and lonely. That's sad. Some millionaire dying after he's accomplished two lifetimes worth of goals. He's lived a full life. Let him go.
Like Reagan. There were parades and specials and dedications for Reagan. I won't even get into the fact that he killed thousands of people, lets put that aside for right now. That guy was a movie star AND the president AND he got to live until he was 94. It's not sad that he died, he's done. He's just done. He lived a greater life than you can even imagine when you're a kid. Every kid says something like movie star, or president, but even as a kid you didn't have the balls to say "Movie star and president."
I could go on about this forever, and I almost have, but it just bothers me when people worship people that are nothing more in their lives than images on a television set or bits of paper. Although, if I ever get to be a famous writer, I will denounce these thoughts for lunacy.
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Submitted by Mitchapalooza (user info) at 2005-02-17 08:28:04 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2005-02-17 06:13:42 (#)
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I agree 100% on this one. In fact I'd go further, what about babies? When a baby dies, everyone shakes their heads and says it's a terrible thing, but is it really? After all it's not like they'v been around for years, forming relationships and feelings. Granted the parents might be pretty blown away, but they can spawn another one in less than a year.
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exactly. Same goes for kittens, puppies, bunny rabbits, the tooth fairy, santa claus, and your grandma.
Fuckem all. If they die, they die. It's nature's way of telling them no one gives a shit.
Fuck everybody, and fuck the world.
I got a mortgage to worry about.
amen.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2005-02-17 06:13:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I agree 100% on this one. In fact I'd go further, what about babies? When a baby dies, everyone shakes their heads and says it's a terrible thing, but is it really? After all it's not like they'v been around for years, forming relationships and feelings. Granted the parents might be pretty blown away, but they can spawn another one in less than a year.
Submitted by Naery (user info) at 2005-02-17 05:14:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Sorry, I made a mistake. It's called "transference" not "transferal." I apologize.
Submitted by Naery (user info) at 2005-02-17 05:10:52 EST (#)
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Submitted by PizzaEagle (user info) at 2005-02-16 22:18:29 (#)
Ranking: -2
English is your second language, isn't it? You don't have a first. Your post is an orgy of stultifying cacophonous verbal depravity; an exercise in literary impotence, and an offense to all of good taste and decency.
It's just as well you can type, for if you had to speak your mind, you'd be speechless. Generally, there is nothing wrong with having nothing worthwhile to say - unless you insist on saying it. A long period of non-posting would be most welcome on your part. I am reminded of something relevant that Benjamin Disraeli said: "He was distinguished for ignorance - for he had only one idea and that was wrong."
What possessed you to think that you were capable of being entertaining or interesting to read? You are nastier than a five-dollar whore getting a shit enema. You're a waste of time, space, air, flesh, and the rectum you were born from, retard. Maybe you wouldn't read like such a pathetic loser if you didn't have that botched back street lobotomy that left you that crisscrossed shoelace scar on your forehead; if your weren't so fat that all the restaurants in town have signs that say: "Maximum Occupancy: 80 Patrons OR You.", or if you didn't have a face that could scare a hungry wolf off a meat truck. Nah, of course you would.
In closing, I suggest the next time that you feel an urge to embarrass yourself and bore others, that you summon all your might, and resist.
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First of all, this only gets a +1 because it was not as well written as it could have been. There was some unwieldy grammar that, while being technically correct, was less than smooth. On the other hand, I totally fuckin' agree. Don't cry for those silly bitches. Like Christopher Reeves. What a fucktard.
Anyway. I also wanted to comment on PizzaEagle (what kind of name is that? And before you ask, my name means "stubborn" in a Southern Irish Gaelic dialect) says in response to this post, mostly because I think it's funny when people with mothballs between their ears try to make others out to be dolts.
Firstly, he says, "English is your second language" and then immediately goes on to say that "You don't have a first." However, even a simple-minded kindergardener can see the flaming flaw in this logic, so I'm not going to do more than point it out as exhibit one.
Secondly, PizzaEagle quotes Disraeli. "What," you ask, "is wrong with that?" Not much really, I just find it hard to find wiisdom from people who switch political parties because the head of their current political party does not nominate them for a ministerial position. Chump.
Thirdly, in the earlier part of his reply, this Master of Moronics says the following: "an offense to all of good taste and decency." He uses this phrase as an insult and a reason why this post should not have been. Then, as if to prove the point that this kind of offense should not be allowed to be posted, he references, and I quote again, "a five-dollar whore getting a shit enema." Clearly, this is the kind of language and imagery that ranks as "good taste and decency" in this person's world.
Fourth, in the latter part of his reply, the phrase "If your [sic] weren't so fat" appears. There are two problems with this, one ironic and the other sad. The irony here is that PizzaEater, or whatever that dumb name was, claims that this piece is an "an exercise in literary impotence" and then goes on to prove his own! How rich! The sad part of this is that, as a pizza fan (which is what the name implies), this person is probably very overweight and is lashing out against his/her self-loathing by a simple trick referred to in psychology as "transferral."
There's more, but I'm tired.
Damn, that was fun.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2005-02-17 05:01:35 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I disagree on the point that the astronauts weren't "heroes" though. That is assuming my definiton of hero is right.
I dislike the use of the term by the media for sportspeople etc., but doesn't the fact that the astronauts DID know the danger and yet still went ahead and performed their job make them a hero?
Then again, so many people do risk their lives every day that applying the word hero to all of them does become tiresome and sort of cheap.
Hmm... I don't know where I stand on this. "Why I am I reviewing it then?" you say. Because I have no life. None.
Submitted by Mitchapalooza (user info) at 2005-02-17 04:41:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-02-17 04:27:26 (#)
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I hate how we are expected to mourn. My mother asked me to give a minute's silence for 9/11 victims. Sure, it sucks to be them, but to be honest, i don't feel sad for them. I don't know them, and as far as i can see, they have done nothing to earn my respect.
I just don't care about people i don't know.
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From the guy who preaches that anyone who has an abortion is a whore.
Why should THEY care about a cluster of cells they don't know??
Just when i think you couldn't get dumber, you go and get a lobotomy.
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-02-17 04:27:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I hate how we are expected to mourn. My mother asked me to give a minute's silence for 9/11 victims. Sure, it sucks to be them, but to be honest, i don't feel sad for them. I don't know them, and as far as i can see, they have done nothing to earn my respect.
I just don't care about people i don't know.
Submitted by Joemama (user info) at 2005-02-17 00:35:24 EST (#)
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Include Firemen on your list
Submitted by Sassmasterr (user info) at 2005-02-17 00:32:08 EST (#)
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i agree with the nascar and shuttle things. but reagan was the man.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-02-16 23:11:11 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
300 mph?
Do a LITTLE research befoe you rant.
You're off by about a c-note.
Submitted by moneyshot (user info) at 2005-02-16 23:03:22 EST (#)
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MyNameIsTim I went back and read your CNN story and I couldn't agree more.
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2005-02-16 23:02:48 EST (#)
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Makes perfect sense to me.
Submitted by moneyshot (user info) at 2005-02-16 23:01:23 EST (#)
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Sory bout all those wedgies domenand. Let's start over and be friends.
Submitted by moneyshot (user info) at 2005-02-16 22:59:07 EST (#)
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PizzaEagle was there even a point to your comment? Not even one iota of constructive criticism. Sorry my opinion hurts your sensitive little feelings but then again you were probably one of the people who were balling they're eyes out when the space shuttle exploded so its no suprise. I'm not trying to win any popularity contests here just telling it like it is. Oh and by the way fuck off.
Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2005-02-16 22:49:15 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
You were an asshole in school. Things have not changed.
Submitted by Jarvis (user info) at 2005-02-16 22:39:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
It appears that PizzaEagle has never heard of a literary movement called "realism".
Submitted by JohosaPhaTZ (user info) at 2005-02-16 22:30:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
My thoughts on the space shuttle disaster, EXACTLY!
Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2005-02-16 22:20:05 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
you're alright by me, son. you're alright by me...
i wrote somethign on the brad/jen/cnn thing a while back...chedcdk it out.
but first
Submitted by PizzaEagle (user info) at 2005-02-16 22:18:29 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
English is your second language, isn't it? You don't have a first. Your post is an orgy of stultifying cacophonous verbal depravity; an exercise in literary impotence, and an offense to all of good taste and decency.
It's just as well you can type, for if you had to speak your mind, you'd be speechless. Generally, there is nothing wrong with having nothing worthwhile to say - unless you insist on saying it. A long period of non-posting would be most welcome on your part. I am reminded of something relevant that Benjamin Disraeli said: "He was distinguished for ignorance - for he had only one idea and that was wrong."
What possessed you to think that you were capable of being entertaining or interesting to read? You are nastier than a five-dollar whore getting a shit enema. You're a waste of time, space, air, flesh, and the rectum you were born from, retard. Maybe you wouldn't read like such a pathetic loser if you didn't have that botched back street lobotomy that left you that crisscrossed shoelace scar on your forehead; if your weren't so fat that all the restaurants in town have signs that say: "Maximum Occupancy: 80 Patrons OR You.", or if you didn't have a face that could scare a hungry wolf off a meat truck. Nah, of course you would.
In closing, I suggest the next time that you feel an urge to embarrass yourself and bore others, that you summon all your might, and resist.
Submitted by MandaPanda (user info) at 2005-02-16 22:12:04 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
One of my coworkers asked me if I had heard anything about the shuttle the day after that happened.
She wanted to know if there were any survivors.
Submitted by garcon_fou (user info) at 2005-02-16 22:00:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Don't forget celebrity divorces man, that's even worse.
Submitted by FuckTheArmy (user info) at 2005-02-16 21:54:13 EST (#)
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Such is the inherent fucked-up-edness that is the capitalist system.