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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (View user info) at 2006-03-24 04:48:02 EST
I was just reading Kaelic's post about me and I know that he's right. http://www.ubersite.com/m/85726
All that stuff about me not helping matters by dictating to people (or at least seeming to) was right. The part about me going to an ivy league school and fighting the system from within...
Now that part is a little more complicated...
I wish I had come from a background that was priviledged enough that my parents could buy my way into any school regardless of my adolescent performance, and I wish that in spite of this I had kept my grades in school up to their potential, but this same rebellion streak that follows me now followed me then.
Sitting in a classroom, hearing the state-sanctioned curriculum jammed down people's throats only solidified my feeling that the only true life would be one that was lived as far away from society's grid as possible. There were eternal truths out there in places only God speaks to you - places that the structured world of money and status did not have their claws.
It's not as if I had some massive 'plan'. It's not as if I knew exactly how I was going to overcome this 'grid', but in my own way, I've just always known it wasn't for me. At the time, I guess I just thought I'd figure all of that out in due time, but I knew that all the things that my fellow classmates were being taught to covet from the very beginning were not for me.
I wasn't political back then in the same sense I have since become, so it was never a priority to persue life as if I had some grand future awaiting me in the world of men, or to approach everything as if it might one day be scrutinized by CNN or some shit. To put it bluntly, any aspirations I might have now for such a lofty goal weren't exactly nurtured in my youth.
I scored something like in the 99th percentile on the ASVAB (the military aptitude test given MANDATORY to high schoolers) that I had every branch of the military call me, offering me any job I wanted, but instead of seizing the opportunity to position myself for such aspirations by becoming some kind of model soldier and maybe eventually model politician in a position to make a REAL difference, I spent those phone calls explaining to the poor recruiters why I thought their trade was part of the evil empire that was nothing but a puppet for the ruling class and the wealthy elite to brainwash people and rule the planet with their rampant nationalism.
Well, maybe I wasn't quite that articulate about my reasoning, but essentially I told them in so many words to kindly fuck off - that they could keep their illusion of power to themselves.
It has always been my belief that if you look closely at a person's actions they can be traced back to their underlying motivations. It wasn't difficult to see the pressures placed on people to 'succeed' in this plastic world...a world propped up by nothing...a world devoid of anything REAL...a world that was caught up in circles of complete meaninglessness.
I didn't care about my fellow man. In fact, I wanted to get as far away from people as possible in a sense. I just didn't want to follow the rules when it comes right down to it. I had principles, even if I wasn't quite sure yet what those were.
I used to keep a notebook with me at all times. I have hundreds of pages of nothing but observations I'd written about the people around me during my high school days...observations about every detail of their interactions with others...observations about how much they cared what others thought of them...observations about what their thoughts might be. There were times when I would actually go up to people and ask them what they were just thinking so I could compare that to my record of all this data, looking for constants in everything.
Believe it or not, you can actually read people minds sometimes if you know what to look for and if you're sensitive to the subtle wealth of information they unknowingly give off - emitted like radiation or electromagnetic waves into the ether. Some people might call it an 'aura', but it's really about measuring body language against vocal inflection and surrounding stimuli.
Anyway, I don't know why I'm going into that. That's just one of the reasons I wasn't too keen on delving into what I perceived as the general 'evil' of society. I just didn't see where I had any responsibility to these people. I didn't feel like I owed anyone anything. I didn't see where they could possibly have anything to 'teach' me I couldn't find out on my own. I never read the shit on the curriculum. I would actually skip class sometimes - not to run to some party or to go get high - (well, sometimes I did that too), but I would sometimes just go to the library to read, not caring if I got a C or a D in that class. Then other times I would go to the councelor's office and talk to him for the full hour. He was sort of a kindred spirit. A real liberal-minded type guy. He had this cuckoo clock on his office wall that was completely made by him, by hand, out of wood. Brilliant guy.
We would talk about philosophy sometimes until well after the day had ended and the other students had boarded their busses to go home. I feel, to this day, like I got a better education from sitting in his office talking about everything from human behavior to the latest scientific developments than my fellow classmates could have possibly gotten sitting in their cold desks, staring a a cold, green chaulk board.
Unfortunately, the real world just doesn't operate inside the bubble of my life, and it does not move according to my will, so those C's and D's mixed in with the other A's and B's eventually caught up with me when it came time to decide what the hell I was gonna do with my future.
The other guidance councellor at the school called me in her office one day. Apparently it is their common practice create a record of what every student's goals are after high school as a measure of their "successful transition into adulthood". Her exact words. She only told me that because I asked. She said they would call back in a couple years to see how I was doing in accomplishing those goals, and in that way, they could 'measure' my 'success'.
I smirked at this, and true to form, I replied with a wink, "I want to be the most UNsuccessful person in history... And if I accomplish that, then I will have been successful." She was slightly amused, but looked at me waiting for the 'real' answer...but that WAS the real answer.
She shook her head as she wrote it down as if to say "what a total waste". But I already knew that. I guess in my mind then, it was a romantic thought to waste such potential or to burn it all away in a furious flash because wasn't that what ALL artists did? Hell, for that matter, didn't they all just die young anyway? Why should *I* be any different?
The world might record my actions or write my biography someday, but it wasn't going to be because I was running for public office or to be some public servant. FUCK THAT. I had REAL things to do. So many words to be written, you know... So many songs floating around in the void just waiting to be discovered. I guess I thought I would find my meaning in that - in living a life chasing them around till I caught 'em. And I caught quite a few over the next several years.
Then one day I got that phone call I was promised. "Are you successful?"
I remembered what I'd told my councellor and my proud answer was, "I am COMPLETELY UNsuccessful. Indeed, I am a total loser."
To me, in that little twist of words, I'd exposed the whole cherade, the whole facade, the whole illusion of 'success' as anything other than the finding of happiness.
Over the next several years I toiled and shuffled from this crappy job to that. Racked up a debt that still follows me to this day. But, I lived with a girlfriend I loved and who already had two beautiful children that I loved, and things were ok for me. Not 'complete'...but ok.
Eventually that all ended in a massive shitpile of ugliness that saw me sitting on a couch with a .22 pistol in my hand contemplating whether or not that would kill me or just make me a helpless vegetable, and taping a rag covered in paint thinner to my face thinking if I could just pass out it would all be over. You know...I'd seen enough.
It might be easy to point to this as some sort of evidence of my instability and craziness and whiny emo tendencies, but you know...shit happens sometimes. Anyone who HASN'T been to that point probably hasn't really lived. Anyone whose life is so cloudless that they've never at least contemplated suicide is just as incapable of understanding true happiness as they are deep sadness, because life is all about the contrast of light and dark. It's about the pain as much as it is the joy, and unless you've been to the bottom of the ocean, you'll never really know how deep it is.
So, now I know. And I think I am a better person for it. It had to happen. It tends to put things into perspective, and what I think I learned from it eventually was that there is more to life than just myself and it reminded of something I'd seen in a dream WAYYY back when I must've been nothing more than a baby... A shadowy figure came to me one night in my first childhood home. It took me into the basement and showed me the world outside through one of the tiny, rectangular windows and told me without really speaking that life was going to be hard, but I had something important to do here.
This thing seemed to me to be both good and evil at the same time. It was Satan, and yet it was Jesus too. It was a spirit that knew everything that was to come for me and it was preparing me for it in its own bliss-killing way. I could feel it in its energy that it was sad to be telling me this, but it wanted me to know it had to be done for my own good. My innocence died young.
Then one night, late 1995, while tripping acid, I caught a glimpse of it again.
I was falling through the blackness of my mind... All my memories were rewinding back to the source, like a tape that had recorded everything. Memories I didn't even know still existed were now right in front of me. I could hear the silence so loudly it sounded like humming. I thought for sure I was dying, because isn't this what's supposed to happen when you die? Your life flashes before your eyes, and all the people you've ever loved come to say "farewell"?
Later that night, I wrote the following words on a scrap of paper:
this
can you tell me what happens
when every door is closed
when every childhood memory
or dream is gone?
can you tell me what happens
when all we've ever known
is molten away like a liquidy metal broth
to nothing...
to black...
left out wet to wander into the
resonant undertones of that horrific
lateral dimension?
the same reason I want out
is the reason I came in
the infinite temple of conception -
STOP!
Don't open that door...
Hello, Mr. Serpent, it is
only by the pushing
of life's uncertain breeze
that hath brought us now
face to hideous face
in this labyrinth of trails yet blazed
Must you fill me now
with your bubbling death?
I'm not ready to die.
I actually went into it searching for death...wanting to get it over with, but again I was reminded I had something to do I hadn't yet done. I just wanted someone to come to me or something and SPIT IT THE FUCK OUT! What the hell am I supposed to fucking DO? This is bullshit, I thought. And it certainly wasn't fair. What did I owe to anyone? Besides, can't you just get someone else to do whatever the hell it is?
Guess not. I'm still around.
Only recently, with the rise in awareness of the whole global warming issue among other things have I begun to see what I might be here to do. I really don't mind that it's taken me this long to start to figure it out. Sometimes a little more ripening on the vine is a good thing.
To me, when I look at our world leaders, I see those kids who sat next to me in class way back when, and I see their motivations and I see what I think must be their thoughts. I see the obvious crookedness just beneath their veneer of lies and I see the power and money upon which they are propped and I feel guilty seeing my country's place at the top of the evil pyramid scheme wherein the rich trample the poor mercilessly.
I see a world that Jesus Christ, even, would have almost been ashamed of, and it's finally becoming clearer the general direction my inner voice is taking me. I don't know what lies at the end of this trip, but one thing is for sure, I am NOT some psycho, I am NOT some conspiracy theorist, and I'm not going to start shooting innocent people down in the street.
I am a man with a mission, but no target. That's because I suspect the target will most likely be me.
Call it a complex if you like. I call it instinct.
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Submitted by LSD420 (user info) at 2006-04-28 19:14:09 EDT (#)
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i could have, but the art would have been lost. Grow up. Faster.
Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2006-04-28 19:02:48 EDT (#)
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You could have just written "A raging queer" and been done with it.
Submitted by LSD420 (user info) at 2006-04-28 18:38:15 EDT (#)
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Hell this makes me WANT to be an alter of you.
Submitted by Ingsoc (user info) at 2006-04-22 19:22:04 EDT (#)
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Submitted by kimberly (user info) at 2006-03-28 02:58:20 EST (#)
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Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2006-03-27 16:22:01 EST (#)
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You're a good writer, and a pretty likeable guy, but it seems like you're straining to be complicated. If you purchased all the components required for making a human body it would cost less than dinner at Arby's, and life is pretty much the same when you sit down and think it through. It's the stuff we invent; the pretexts and politics and nuances that complicate things and make us miserable.
Submitted by Oxymoron (user info) at 2006-03-27 15:56:28 EST (#)
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what a waste of time
Submitted by paulblakeford (user info) at 2006-03-27 15:27:42 EST (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-03-27 12:40:05 EST (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-03-25 15:47:09 (#)
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I am loving all this talk of revolution.
I watch my TV and see all these hispanics taking to the streets to protest legislation against ILLEGAL aliens, and I can't see why we can't take to the streets and DEMAND that president Bush be impeached. If 60% of the country is sick of his bullshit lies and his BLATANT INFRINGEMENTS UPON OUR RIGHTS OF THE FIRST AND FOURTH AMENDMENTS OF THE MOTHERFUCKING CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, then there is no hope for us.
Is it really only through matters of race or 'moral' issues like abortion or the death penalty that we can get heated enough to take to the fucking streets?
What the hell is wrong with us?
How about the death of our environment? How about the fact that the polar ice caps are melting? How about the fact that in the 21st Century, we're still using the archaic method of internal combusion to get around in our vehicles, or buring coal to power our power plants?
You look on your television and see this campaign taking place right now to continue burning coal for another 10-20-50 years through what they're calling 'clean coal'. What a fucking joke.
Over and over again....they COUNT on not only the STUPIDITY of people to see what's going on, but they count on their unwillingness to get off their asses and do anything about it.
I say REVOLUTION. If we can't fix it from the inside, we should fix it from the outside.
For CHRIST's SAKE, people...WE HAVE HAD OUR ELECTIONS STOLEN FROM US! WE NO LONGER EVEN HAVE A VOTE! AS MUCH AS I'D LIKE TO KEEP LIVING IN A FUCKING DREAM WORLD, I CAN'T.
Elections are now bought and sold like a commodity, and wars are used as little more than a way to rally the troops at home behind some cause, intimidate other countries, and secure the future of our wealth so that we can keep sitting on our asses, exporting less than we consume, and generally not contributing our fair share.
We are like the Romans in the sense that we are lounging around in hammocks while the poor and downtrodden from thrid world countries, who work in dispicable conditions, make our goods for us.
We THINK we abolished slavery....we only moved it out of sight and started paying them just enough that people would keep their mouths SHUT.
We have no voice. We are the worker bees in a giant hive of world domination and lechery. The United States has become Rome. The sooner we END IT, the better.
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Americans revolting...hahahahah...yeah right! You're the the perfect example of why it will NEVER happen. You sit comfortably in your basement, scream for revolution on the Internet but we all know you will do FUCK. ALL. You are way too afraid to lose your belongings.
Submitted by shandythedog (user info) at 2006-03-26 22:37:29 EST (#)
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re isatoros comment on the misery of thining you are important, i would change that to 'the misery of thinking you are more important than most other cunts, and less important than cergain other cunts.'
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2006-03-26 02:31:42 EST (#)
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Istaros, you just blew my mind, man...
Heh. Well, not really. But what you had to say was interesting and was a valid train of thought. Thanks for the comments.
Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2006-03-26 02:08:12 EST (#)
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Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-03-25 19:01:50 EST (#)
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"Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2006-03-25 18:30:38 (#)
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I dunno...that viewpoint sounded pretty philosophical to me...
Anyway, my point is that just because you don't know something exists doesn't mean it doesn't exist. People see the effect, but don't bother to search for the cause.
Mmmm, intellectual debate on Uber...feels very awkward..."
there was a time when intellectual debate on Uber was fairly common. my user id's in the 3 digits, so i know what Razor is on about when he pines for the days of yore.
yes it is philosophical in the sense that it does relate to certain philosophical ideas. i know this. difference is, there is no philosophical motivation, only reality. i'm not talking about possibilities or theories or other imaginary turds, but what *is* known. it doens't have anything to do with the existence of something that can't be proven, because frankly that's pointless. if it doesn't have any bearing on your life, there's no reason to even consider it. seriously, it would just be a waste of time to get your panties in a wad because it's POSSIBLE that pink space cows are going to invade your brain on April 2nd.
the only people who think along these sorts of lines are those who live a fairly comfortable life; when people don't have to struggle daily just to live, they get BORED, and the result is endless mental wanderings into the realms of 'possibility'(i.e., nothingness) that lead to absolutely nothing but even more mental anguish. what's the point of life, maybe there's something greater, what unites humanity bla bla fucking BLA. who cares? there's life and there's death and anything that doesn't keep one safe and the other distant is really nothing more than an exercise in futility and a waste of time.
basically, there's no point in living life if you're not going to allow yourself to enjoy it while you have it. i don't pretend to know even a fraction of what ETS is 'really' like; the fact that i can't know is only part of the reason for that. the other part is that it doesn't matter. he chooses to display the aspects of himself that he does, so for anybody to say 'maybe you're wrong in your opinions on him' is foolish; he can decide what to show and what to not, but he can't decide how somebody else is going to react to that. as far as anybody here is concerned, for whom all they know of ETS(or anybody else) is what he says on Uber, what he says on Uber *is* the way he is.
and, since what he says suggests that he lives in the kind of misery that's so common in societies like ours -the misery of thinking you're actually important somehow- i would suggest he read Zorba the Greek. i used to be quite a bit like him, but i grew out of it. to him, surely that sounds shallow and weak. what's really weak, though, is lacking the courage to live life in happiness.
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2006-03-25 18:58:38 EST (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-03-25 15:47:09 (#)
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We have no voice. We are the worker bees in a giant hive of world domination and lechery. The United States has become Rome. The sooner we END IT, the better.
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Worker bees can leave,
Even drones can fly away.
The Queen is their slave.
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2006-03-25 18:56:50 EST (#)
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Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-03-24 12:43:23 (#)
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You preach on the internet, calling for change, all the while sucking on the tit of the US's "dollar hegemony", drinking from its polluting system, living comfortably on its imperialism.
You ARE everything you hate about the US.
A consumer, a polluter, a loudmouth who doesn't have the balls to back up anything you say.
If you believed a fraction of the BS you spew on a daily basis you would be working for green peace, peta, ELF, peace corps, something.
You could be doing something, but you aren't. You sit around writing manifestos of what "ETS" is. Preaching at others on the internet is all you do.
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I second that. From my couch.
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2006-03-25 18:30:38 EST (#)
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Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-03-25 07:59:36 (#)
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no. see, you're thinking too hard. you're working under the notion that there is some sort of underlying 'reality' to things, which is pure invention. and philosophy? bullshit. i used to care about it. nowadays i know it's utter bullshit. pointless rambling by old crinkly social rejects who feel a need to justify their horrid 'suffering' by unleashing droves of multisyllabic drivel on the world at large, and then have the gall to feel they're doing humanity a FAVOR. the only 'reality' you, as an individual, can POSSIBLY know *is* 'your own' reality. there's no point in differentiating between the subjective and the objective, because the subjective is the one and only thing that is universal among people's perceptions.
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I dunno...that viewpoint sounded pretty philosophical to me...
Anyway, my point is that just because you don't know something exists doesn't mean it doesn't exist. People see the effect, but don't bother to search for the cause.
Mmmm, intellectual debate on Uber...feels very awkward...
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2006-03-25 17:34:15 EST (#)
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Thats the first Shlongy comment I've ever seen that I found amusing.
and of course you can live off the grid, you need a lot of capital to set it up, but its possible.
I was thinkng iceland, but the whole 4 months of darkness thing puts me off.
Maybe an island, but that'd be REALLY expensive.
Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-25 16:55:17 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-25 15:58:02 EST (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-03-25 15:47:09 (#)
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I am loving all this talk of revolution.
I watch my TV and see all these hispanics taking to the streets to protest legislation against ILLEGAL aliens, and I can't see why we can't take to the streets and DEMAND that president Bush be impeached. If 60% of the country is sick of his bullshit lies and his BLATANT INFRINGEMENTS UPON OUR RIGHTS OF THE FIRST AND FOURTH AMENDMENTS OF THE MOTHERFUCKING CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, then there is no hope for us.
Is it really only through matters of race or 'moral' issues like abortion or the death penalty that we can get heated enough to take to the fucking streets?
What the hell is wrong with us?
How about the death of our environment? How about the fact that the polar ice caps are melting? How about the fact that in the 21st Century, we're still using the archaic method of internal combusion to get around in our vehicles, or buring coal to power our power plants?
You look on your television and see this campaign taking place right now to continue burning coal for another 10-20-50 years through what they're calling 'clean coal'. What a fucking joke.
Over and over again....they COUNT on not only the STUPIDITY of people to see what's going on, but they count on their unwillingness to get off their asses and do anything about it.
I say REVOLUTION. If we can't fix it from the inside, we should fix it from the outside.
For CHRIST's SAKE, people...WE HAVE HAD OUR ELECTIONS STOLEN FROM US! WE NO LONGER EVEN HAVE A VOTE! AS MUCH AS I'D LIKE TO KEEP LIVING IN A FUCKING DREAM WORLD, I CAN'T.
Elections are now bought and sold like a commodity, and wars are used as little more than a way to rally the troops at home behind some cause, intimidate other countries, and secure the future of our wealth so that we can keep sitting on our asses, exporting less than we consume, and generally not contributing our fair share.
We are like the Romans in the sense that we are lounging around in hammocks while the poor and downtrodden from thrid world countries, who work in dispicable conditions, make our goods for us.
We THINK we abolished slavery....we only moved it out of sight and started paying them just enough that people would keep their mouths SHUT.
We have no voice. We are the worker bees in a giant hive of world domination and lechery. The United States has become Rome. The sooner we END IT, the better.
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FUCK YEAH!!!! REVOLUTION!!!!
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-03-25 15:47:09 EST (#)
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I am loving all this talk of revolution.
I watch my TV and see all these hispanics taking to the streets to protest legislation against ILLEGAL aliens, and I can't see why we can't take to the streets and DEMAND that president Bush be impeached. If 60% of the country is sick of his bullshit lies and his BLATANT INFRINGEMENTS UPON OUR RIGHTS OF THE FIRST AND FOURTH AMENDMENTS OF THE MOTHERFUCKING CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, then there is no hope for us.
Is it really only through matters of race or 'moral' issues like abortion or the death penalty that we can get heated enough to take to the fucking streets?
What the hell is wrong with us?
How about the death of our environment? How about the fact that the polar ice caps are melting? How about the fact that in the 21st Century, we're still using the archaic method of internal combusion to get around in our vehicles, or buring coal to power our power plants?
You look on your television and see this campaign taking place right now to continue burning coal for another 10-20-50 years through what they're calling 'clean coal'. What a fucking joke.
Over and over again....they COUNT on not only the STUPIDITY of people to see what's going on, but they count on their unwillingness to get off their asses and do anything about it.
I say REVOLUTION. If we can't fix it from the inside, we should fix it from the outside.
For CHRIST's SAKE, people...WE HAVE HAD OUR ELECTIONS STOLEN FROM US! WE NO LONGER EVEN HAVE A VOTE! AS MUCH AS I'D LIKE TO KEEP LIVING IN A FUCKING DREAM WORLD, I CAN'T.
Elections are now bought and sold like a commodity, and wars are used as little more than a way to rally the troops at home behind some cause, intimidate other countries, and secure the future of our wealth so that we can keep sitting on our asses, exporting less than we consume, and generally not contributing our fair share.
We are like the Romans in the sense that we are lounging around in hammocks while the poor and downtrodden from thrid world countries, who work in dispicable conditions, make our goods for us.
We THINK we abolished slavery....we only moved it out of sight and started paying them just enough that people would keep their mouths SHUT.
We have no voice. We are the worker bees in a giant hive of world domination and lechery. The United States has become Rome. The sooner we END IT, the better.
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2006-03-25 14:30:00 EST (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/85803: Your thoughts?
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-03-25 07:59:36 EST (#)
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"Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2006-03-24 20:29:19 (#)
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Only in a philosophical sense -- and just because your subjective perception defines YOUR reality, it doesn't mean that your reality is right. What I was specifically referring to was the notion that people have that they know everything about a person based on their behaviour. As in, "Oh, so-and-so is a worthless slut because she sleeps around," or, "So-and-so is a whiny emo douche." But few people stop to dig any deeper than the surface. Maybe that slut was sexually abused by her father and sex is all she knows of intimacy. Maybe that douche saw his mother raped and killed as a child and it emotionally scarred him. How do we know?
Like someone said...I think indoninja? He went on about how ETS had every advantage in the world because he's white, male, and American, or something. That's a statement fit for a retard. White American males can be underpriviledged. White American males can be beaten, raped, abused, born into poverty, undereducated, corrupted, etc etc, just like anyone else.
I don't pretend to know ETS better than any of you. But at least, unlike most of you, I'm not arrogant enough to make the assumption that all I can see is the only thing that's there and pass inadequate judgement.
There are reasons for people acting the way they do."
no. see, you're thinking too hard. you're working under the notion that there is some sort of underlying 'reality' to things, which is pure invention. and philosophy? bullshit. i used to care about it. nowadays i know it's utter bullshit. pointless rambling by old crinkly social rejects who feel a need to justify their horrid 'suffering' by unleashing droves of multisyllabic drivel on the world at large, and then have the gall to feel they're doing humanity a FAVOR. the only 'reality' you, as an individual, can POSSIBLY know *is* 'your own' reality. there's no point in differentiating between the subjective and the objective, because the subjective is the one and only thing that is universal among people's perceptions.
"Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-03-24 20:44:23 (#)
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Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-24 20:40:24 (#)
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I don't judge anyone. Often times people's judgements are wrong. You can know all about a person just by talking to them.
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Talking to a person doesn't tell you shit about them. If you talk to
me I will say only what I want you to hear or know. The truth is mine
to keep. . . . ."
and you think that doesn't tell a person more about you than if you were honest outright?
Submitted by VelvetElvis (user info) at 2006-03-25 05:10:48 EST (#)
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Submitted by Garrik (user info) at 2006-03-25 04:48:33 (#)
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Please stop. I don't want to have to fight my way through a million of your reviews or posts about fighting the power or conspiracies every time I log on ubersite, there are sites dedicated to nutcase "revolutionaries" go spread the word there. What you really fail to realise is if the system wasn't how it is now then what would replace it would probably be as bad or worse and if you believe otherwise you are kidding yourself.
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The U.S., still in its infancy (age-wise) in comparison to other countries, is about to take its first steps. http://www.ubersite.com/m/85742#1900755
Submitted by maiorano84 (user info) at 2006-03-25 04:59:46 EST (#)
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Well..... how about you wash down those crazy-cakes with a nice tall glass of calm-down juice?
I gotta say, I hold a lot of respect for people who have a mastery of the English language, but I'm thinking Razor is right in saying that you need a nice long break from Uber. I needed it at one point myself, so I know what I'm talking about.
There is such a thing as talking until you're insane.
But then again, maybe we were all a little insane in the beginning.....
Submitted by Garrik (user info) at 2006-03-25 04:48:33 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Please stop. I don't want to have to fight my way through a million of your reviews or posts about fighting the power or conspiracies every time I log on ubersite, there are sites dedicated to nutcase "revolutionaries" go spread the word there. What you really fail to realise is if the system wasn't how it is now then what would replace it would probably be as bad or worse and if you believe otherwise you are kidding yourself.
Submitted by Deconstruction (user info) at 2006-03-25 00:42:59 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2006-03-24 21:11:45 (#)
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THIS IS SO FUCKING POINTLESS
Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-24 23:20:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Don't review it if you don't read it.
Submitted by Sinistral (user info) at 2006-03-24 23:07:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
WTF IM NOT READING ALL THAT
Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2006-03-24 22:51:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have heard this before.
But....I can't seem to remember if I leave when;
A- It starts to get light outside and the birds start signing, or
B- When someone has snorted the last line off the plate
O! I remember now,
it's B
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-03-24 21:23:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
LUTION!!!! Crown? You have WAY too much money to spend on drinks..... :P
Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-24 21:21:31 EST (#)
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"LUTION!"
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2006-03-24 21:11:45 EST (#)
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THIS IS SO FUCKING POINTLESS
Submitted by VelvetElvis (user info) at 2006-03-24 21:02:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-24 20:51:00 (#)
Ranking: 2
.....You can't just meet someone and judge what kind of person they are.
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Neither can you live with them for years, share every secret, and truly know them. "The Stranger" by Billy Joel comes to mind.
So does another Crown on the rocks, now that I think about it.
"REVO"
Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-24 20:51:00 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No it really was a typo. Honest. Read my other comments. You can't just meet someone and judge what kind of person they are.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-03-24 20:46:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Oh sure, Swizzle, change your mind after I post a scathing comment... :)
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-03-24 20:44:23 EST (#)
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Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-24 20:40:24 (#)
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Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2006-03-24 20:29:19 (#)
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But at least, unlike most of you, I'm not arrogant enough to make the assumption that all I can see is the only thing that's there and pass inadequate judgement.
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I don't judge anyone. Often times people's judgements are wrong. You can know all about a person just by talking to them.
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Talking to a person doesn't tell you shit about them. If you talk to
me I will say only what I want you to hear or know. The truth is mine
to keep. . . . .
Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-24 20:42:41 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
"You can't know all about a person just by talking to them."
sorry. typo.
Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-24 20:40:24 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2006-03-24 20:29:19 (#)
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But at least, unlike most of you, I'm not arrogant enough to make the assumption that all I can see is the only thing that's there and pass inadequate judgement.
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I don't judge anyone. Often times people's judgements are wrong. You can know all about a person just by talking to them.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-03-24 20:38:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Holy Sheep Shit, people. ETS is becoming the Master of the heated rant,
and most of you get sucked in in a heartbeat. HE'S FUCKING WITH YOUR
HEADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-2, +2, he doesn't give a shit. Dumb is as dumb does. . . . .
You tell 'em, ETS :D
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2006-03-24 20:29:19 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-03-24 14:08:11 (#)
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"Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2006-03-24 08:56:30 (#)
Ranking: 2
I thought this was thoughtful, interesting, and well written. Shame that it will be lost on most of the knee-jerk posters who lurk here. Does no one ever wonder WHY certain people are the way they are, or why you have a certain perception of a person...and what the reality of your subjective perception is?"
give me a break dude. 'subjective perception' IS reality.
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Only in a philosophical sense -- and just because your subjective perception defines YOUR reality, it doesn't mean that your reality is right. What I was specifically referring to was the notion that people have that they know everything about a person based on their behaviour. As in, "Oh, so-and-so is a worthless slut because she sleeps around," or, "So-and-so is a whiny emo douche." But few people stop to dig any deeper than the surface. Maybe that slut was sexually abused by her father and sex is all she knows of intimacy. Maybe that douche saw his mother raped and killed as a child and it emotionally scarred him. How do we know?
Like someone said...I think indoninja? He went on about how ETS had every advantage in the world because he's white, male, and American, or something. That's a statement fit for a retard. White American males can be underpriviledged. White American males can be beaten, raped, abused, born into poverty, undereducated, corrupted, etc etc, just like anyone else.
I don't pretend to know ETS better than any of you. But at least, unlike most of you, I'm not arrogant enough to make the assumption that all I can see is the only thing that's there and pass inadequate judgement.
There are reasons for people acting the way they do.
Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-24 20:18:00 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
"LUTION!" Yeah I know about that. Bush IS a puppet. The only problem is that the plan backfired. He really thinks he is the president and he actually makes all the decisions. Without Karl Rove, the brains behind the Bush white house, he has no real adviser. This is the reason for all of the political dictators of 2005.
Submitted by VelvetElvis (user info) at 2006-03-24 20:07:45 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-24 19:06:24 (#)
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.....The problem is the only way you can ever become a politician is have a clean record and lots of money, but none of our truly intelligent people have this....
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That problem was "solved" (and naturally corrupted) long ago, that's why we've mostly had puppet presidents.
Campaign finance reform would make your idea a reality, and several states are presently in the process of making those reforms. (Maine so far is doing this, Connecticut and Arizona are about to.)
Everyone would be on a level playing field then, big money, no longer in the picture.
I say "REVO" you say "LUTION!"
"REVO!"
Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-24 19:58:04 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-24 19:44:13 (#)
Ranking: -2
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Fuck a meant +2. What fuck is wrong with me. How could I put a -2 instead of a +2.
Must be the drugs. This should make it up.
Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-24 19:56:06 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by BadAssJulie (user info) at 2006-03-24 19:38:54 (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-24 19:24:09 (#)
Ranking: -2
Life isn't a car. You can't compare the value of one life to the value of another. Life only has value to the person that lives it.
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Ugh, the whole point of my response was that you should appreciate your life and realize how lucky you are that things aren't worse for you instead of slitting your wrists because your girlfriend broke up with you or jumping off a bridge because your little brother has a better job than you. People need to deal with the shit they're handed without bitching about it or taking the easy way out.
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Yeah I completly agree and I don't condone suicide. Recently a kid at my school commited suicide. I didn't know him at all. I have never even seen him. But then I heard a couple of teachers talking about how tough it is on the family, basicly what you said, and how he was just thinking of himself when he did it. They completly forgot how much shit he was probably going through in order to want to take his own life. Of course he shouldn't have killed himself, but you couldn't call him selfish for doing so, the only person he realy let down was himself.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2006-03-24 19:55:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
You done got yourself a regular cult of personality going on.
Half the cult wants you crucified but whatever.
Good Show.
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2006-03-24 19:51:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I hope you find the scent of money.
It changes everything.
Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-24 19:44:13 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-03-24 19:26:53 (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-03-24 05:44:30 (#)
Ranking: 0
I can not STAND people who think things like "Yeah, I was driving, and I REALLY thought about driving into the pillar of the bridge" and consider that attempted suicide.
The people who use fucking shaving razors to cut their wrists, knowing you can't get deep enough to cause some serious spurting.
The people who take 40 asprin and say "yeah, I swallowed a ton of drugs"
The people who try to hang themselves with extension cords, knowing they're to thin to support their weight.
Yeah, one of a growing list of things I get REAL pissed off about is when people make almost killing yourself a glamorous thing.
I've been there, you fucking dipshit.
I know what it's REALLY like to sit down, perfectly calmly, write out your quick little will for the shitty meager existance you've piled up, and the take every pill in a bottle, wash it down with a NICE draft from a glass of whatever alcohol you choose, and then lay your head on your desk and cry because you're so happy it's almost fucking over.
You have NO FUCKING CLUE, man. NO. FUCKING. CLUE.
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While I agree with you about the people like ETS who use suicide as their last bastion for attention, it is too bad you didn't succeed.
In nazi Germany you wouldn't have make it past birth, so I'm being nice here.
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Suicide isn't glamorous. You got that right. But jgreening made no sense when he said he tried to kill himself and then went on saying how he hates people who try to commit suicied. Do you hate yourself, is that what your saying? Then Caulaincourt says he agrees with jgreening, but he wishes he would have succeded in his suicide. Wow both you guys are retarded.
Submitted by BadAssJulie (user info) at 2006-03-24 19:38:54 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-24 19:24:09 (#)
Ranking: -2
Life isn't a car. You can't compare the value of one life to the value of another. Life only has value to the person that lives it.
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Ugh, the whole point of my response was that you should appreciate your life and realize how lucky you are that things aren't worse for you instead of slitting your wrists because your girlfriend broke up with you or jumping off a bridge because your little brother has a better job than you. People need to deal with the shit they're handed without bitching about it or taking the easy way out.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-03-24 19:26:53 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-03-24 05:44:30 (#)
Ranking: 0
I can not STAND people who think things like "Yeah, I was driving, and I REALLY thought about driving into the pillar of the bridge" and consider that attempted suicide.
The people who use fucking shaving razors to cut their wrists, knowing you can't get deep enough to cause some serious spurting.
The people who take 40 asprin and say "yeah, I swallowed a ton of drugs"
The people who try to hang themselves with extension cords, knowing they're to thin to support their weight.
Yeah, one of a growing list of things I get REAL pissed off about is when people make almost killing yourself a glamorous thing.
I've been there, you fucking dipshit.
I know what it's REALLY like to sit down, perfectly calmly, write out your quick little will for the shitty meager existance you've piled up, and the take every pill in a bottle, wash it down with a NICE draft from a glass of whatever alcohol you choose, and then lay your head on your desk and cry because you're so happy it's almost fucking over.
You have NO FUCKING CLUE, man. NO. FUCKING. CLUE.
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While I agree with you about the people like ETS who use suicide as their last bastion for attention, it is too bad you didn't succeed.
In nazi Germany you wouldn't have make it past birth, so I'm being nice here.
Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-24 19:24:09 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by BadAssJulie (user info) at 2006-03-24 17:32:32 (#)
Ranking: -2
There are people and children who are dying and in excruciating pain every single day who have lost everything and everyone but they're still grateful for every minute they're alive.
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Life isn't a car. You can't compare the value of one life to the value of another. Life only has value to the person that lives it.
Submitted by BadAssJulie (user info) at 2006-03-24 19:22:01 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-03-24 18:58:24 (#)
Ranking: 0
Yes, you're right. How inconvenient that must be for them.
You have no idea what you're talking about. You THINK you do. But you don't.
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I don't know what I'm talking about? Ok, please enlighten me ETS.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-03-24 19:19:25 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-03-24 18:58:24 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by BadAssJulie (user info) at 2006-03-24 17:32:32 (#)
Ranking: -2
Have you ever seen what it does to their family and friends and anyone else who loves them? What about the person who finds them dead? People who commit suicide or try to are self-centered, inconsiderate assholes.
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Yes, you're right. How inconvenient that must be for them.
You have no idea what you're talking about. You THINK you do. But you don't.
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Dead people don't feel anything. Those who have to deal with their stupid actions do. BadAssJulie's point is rather common and actually helps undermining suicide. It makes it sounds a less attractive option when you think you might be remembered as a an egoistical douchebag, which is actually the case...unless you're an old disabled fart, then your suicide is a relief.
You're so 1994 with your "KURT COBAIN KILLED HIMSELF, IF I DO TO, I WILL BE COOL AND IMMORTALIZED!"
Just so fucking do it. Nobody will care.
p.s. I hear the FBI is coming :-)
Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-24 19:15:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by BadAssJulie (user info) at 2006-03-24 17:32:32 (#)
Ranking: -2
Have you ever seen what it does to their family and friends and anyone else who loves them? What about the person who finds them dead? People who commit suicide or try to are self-centered, inconsiderate assholes.
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Anyone who says something that retarded lives a lie. You don't think it goes through their mind? What do you just think they only care about those people too? In fact that's the only reason some people contemplate suicide and don't do it. Obviously you have never been in this situation, and therefore have no say in the matter. But just to let you know YOUR LIFE is all about YOU. Life is self-centered. Get over it.
Submitted by sizzlemctwizzle (user info) at 2006-03-24 19:06:24 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
God if only our politicians could be as insightful as you. The problem is the only way you can ever become a politician is have a clean record and lots of money, but none of our truly intelligent people have this. What we need is someone with a mind for the issues, not some pretty face we can put on TV. I hope someday this can be fixed, so that finally our brilliant minds can be the leaders of our nation.
So I give you this +2 in admiration. I wish I could give you a +200000. You really deserve it.
Electrictoothsyndrome For President!
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-03-24 18:58:24 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by BadAssJulie (user info) at 2006-03-24 17:32:32 (#)
Ranking: -2
Have you ever seen what it does to their family and friends and anyone else who loves them? What about the person who finds them dead? People who commit suicide or try to are self-centered, inconsiderate assholes.
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Yes, you're right. How inconvenient that must be for them.
You have no idea what you're talking about. You THINK you do. But you don't.
Submitted by Kaelic (user info) at 2006-03-24 18:31:24 EST (#)
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I just want everyone to realize I coined the term "Mippy", the clever cross between a militant and a hippy. See, I took the "m" off militant and the "ippy" off hippy. Just for complete clarification.
Submitted by VelvetElvis (user info) at 2006-03-24 18:13:55 EST (#)
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Submitted by leilani (user info) at 2006-03-24 13:28:42 (#)
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did anyone else think of that snoop dogg song when they read the title?
"Bow wow wow yippie oh yippie yay, ETS in the muthafuckin HOUUuUUSE"
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haha:
They call me Snoop D-O-double-G
Cause I'ma fuckin' fool, I can get silly
But I'd rather sit back, relax, new jacks,
get smacked, cause I'm tryin'
to blaze up a sack
To my nigga ETS, if you please
Cause thats just the way this shit gon' be
Baby, N-O-L-I-M-I-T
Let me hear ya say
Woof! mothafucker, Woof! mothafucker
Bow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yay
ETS in the muthafuckin house today.
/
(sounds better with the musick, bitches)
Submitted by pen_name (user info) at 2006-03-24 17:59:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by BadAssJulie (user info) at 2006-03-24 17:32:32 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
I still think you're Schizophrenic. Maybe even more so than I did before.
-2 for the whole suicide bit. I know that was in the past and that you think you've grown because of it but nothing pisses me off more than people who want to or have wanted to kill themselves. They think their lives are so hard but they don't stop to think about anyone else. They don't realize how bad things can get and how lucky they are to be in the position they're in. There are people and children who are dying and in excruciating pain every single day who have lost everything and everyone but they're still grateful for every minute they're alive. You think you were at the bottom of the ocean? Believe me, standing on the shore with your feet in the water does not mean you've hit the bottom of the ocean. By the way, have you ever actually known someone who committed suicide? Have you ever seen what it does to their family and friends and anyone else who loves them? What about the person who finds them dead? People who commit suicide or try to are self-centered, inconsiderate assholes.
Submitted by ih8u2man (user info) at 2006-03-24 16:35:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I for one. Think a lot of what you say is correct.
Submitted by Drone_of_Industry (user info) at 2006-03-24 15:55:03 EST (#)
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I dunno. I'm thinkin the tip of South America might be a decent place. I'll just slay elephant seals and live off their blubber. Too bad I won't have any friends though.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-03-24 15:50:39 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
No, we're not. I'm not connected with you.
I bathe.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-03-24 15:16:05 EST (#)
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Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2006-03-24 14:42:59 (#)
Ranking: 2
Damn It you sound like me. I hope I don't ned up like you.
No offense or anything.
Nutter.
I guess I've already made different decisions, I don't care about the rest of the world any more I wanna get rich and get out. Go live cut of from society somewhere I can be self sufficient and unaffected by all the shit.
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God, I wish...
You can't live unaffected by the world when you still use its currency and breath its polluted air.
There is no such thing as living off the grid.
We are all connected.
Submitted by COMountain (user info) at 2006-03-24 14:44:14 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
shut your cumdumpsterific mouth.
Submitted by DCWoody (user info) at 2006-03-24 14:42:59 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Damn It you sound like me. I hope I don't ned up like you.
No offense or anything.
Nutter.
I guess I've already made different decisions, I don't care about the rest of the world any more I wanna get rich and get out. Go live cut of from society somewhere I can be self sufficient and unaffected by all the shit.
Submitted by Yes (user info) at 2006-03-24 14:34:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
you are stone cold crazy... we should hang out sometime.
Submitted by Kaelic (user info) at 2006-03-24 14:33:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
It's normal to want to feel as if you have a pre-destined "purpose". It's just another way of saying "God has a plan for us all, and my role is pivotal." It's a form of self aggrandizement. Most people have probably felt this way.
Submitted by SPECIALk (user info) at 2006-03-24 14:31:18 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
It seems like you're your own worst enemy. Maybe once you realize that and stop being so stubborn, you can actually make a difference in the world. Really. You're definitely intelligent enough.
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2006-03-24 14:24:15 EST (#)
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I don't see what the big deal is.
Remember everyone, it's the quiet ones you have to watch.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-03-24 14:15:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
i think shlongy would make a better creepy neighbor. you might make a funnier drunken one by that line though.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-03-24 14:13:53 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-03-24 14:05:54 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-03-24 13:34:39 (#)
Ranking: -2
In 15 yrs you will be the cool/creepy neighbor for teenagers who buys booze for them if they listen to your "theories".
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don't you buy minors booze? well to get into their pants anyway... i want you as my creepy neighbor.
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Damnit Inion, he was quoting me!!
I am more of a sketchy neighbor who people catch glimpses of at 3 in the morning running outside with a sledgehammer because he is drunk and saw too many zombie movies.
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-03-24 14:08:11 EST (#)
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"Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2006-03-24 08:56:30 (#)
Ranking: 2
I thought this was thoughtful, interesting, and well written. Shame that it will be lost on most of the knee-jerk posters who lurk here. Does no one ever wonder WHY certain people are the way they are, or why you have a certain perception of a person...and what the reality of your subjective perception is?"
give me a break dude. 'subjective perception' IS reality.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-03-24 14:05:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-03-24 13:34:39 (#)
Ranking: -2
In 15 yrs you will be the cool/creepy neighbor for teenagers who buys booze for them if they listen to your "theories".
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don't you buy minors booze? well to get into their pants anyway... i want you as my creepy neighbor.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-03-24 13:57:19 EST (#)
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Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2006-03-24 08:56:30 (#)
Ranking: 2
I thought this was thoughtful, interesting, and well written. Shame that it will be lost on most of the knee-jerk posters who lurk here. Does no one ever wonder WHY certain people are the way they are, or why you have a certain perception of a person...and what the reality of your subjective perception is?
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We all had tough times during our lives...that doesn't justify being a self-centered emo piece of shit. This guy is full of shit, get the hint already.
Submitted by OneCheapGeek (user info) at 2006-03-24 13:55:09 EST (#)
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Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2006-03-24 08:56:30 (#)
Ranking: 2
I thought this was thoughtful, interesting, and well written. Shame that it will be lost on most of the knee-jerk posters who lurk here. Does no one ever wonder WHY certain people are the way they are, or why you have a certain perception of a person...and what the reality of your subjective perception is?
He brings it on himself, what with the ranting and raving, calling us all fucking idiots for not agreeing with him and generally believing that he is the Light and the Way....
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2006-03-24 13:50:44 EST (#)
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Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2006-03-24 04:52:51 (#)
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this whole rambling, egocentric and tiresome bore merely says to me that you will never make the change you think you can because youre too ignorant and too arrogant to understand how change is really made.
to the people that will take issue at me using the word arrogant, i say you have no idea of who i am, and i give you far less of my personality than this fool does.
yorue a bright enough guy, ets. youre jsut a fucking idiot, thats all.
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2006-03-24 04:52:51 (#)
Ranking: 0
this whole rambling, egocentric and tiresome bore merely says to me that you will never make the change you think you can because youre too ignorant and too arrogant to understand how change is really made.
to the people that will take issue at me using the word arrogant, i say you have no idea of who i am, and i give you far less of my personality than this fool does.
yorue a bright enough guy, ets. youre jsut a fucking idiot, thats all.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-03-24 13:34:39 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-03-24 13:06:09 (#)
Ranking: -2
Eventually that all ended in a massive shitpile of ugliness that saw me sitting on a couch with a .22 pistol in my hand contemplating whether or not that would kill me or just make me a helpless vegetable, and taping a rag covered in paint thinner to my face thinking if I could just pass out it would all be over. You know...I'd seen enough.
It might be easy to point to this as some sort of evidence of my instability and craziness and whiny emo tendencies, but you know...shit happens sometimes. Anyone who HASN'T been to that point probably hasn't really lived. Anyone whose life is so cloudless that they've never at least contemplated suicide is just as incapable of understanding true happiness as they are deep sadness, because life is all about the contrast of light and dark. It's about the pain as much as it is the joy, and unless you've been to the bottom of the ocean, you'll never really know how deep it is.
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Hahaha,
I don't see instability, I see cowardice, I see calls for attention.
You weren't close to pulling the trigger, you wanted to be cool, you wanted someone to walk in and say, don't do it, don't be another Kurt.
You are like a girl with black fingernails who scratches her wrist so people think they are dark, and deep because you have fake suicide scars.
You haven't been to the bottom of the ocean, you have never suffered. Neither have I, but at least I have the fucking brain to know what suffering is.
You are stunningly average, the only thing special about you is how much you dwell on yourself, what a hyprocrite you are about other people.
In 15 yrs you will be the cool/creepy neighbor for teenagers who buys booze for them if they listen to your "theories". You will probably end up h ooking up with an overweight goth girl who has an old soul, and who had parents that just didn't understand.
Submitted by leilani (user info) at 2006-03-24 13:28:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
did anyone else think of that snoop dogg song when they read the title?
"Bow wow wow yippie oh yippie yay, ETS in the muthafuckin HOUUuUUSE"
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-03-24 13:23:50 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
"I am a man with a mission, but no target. "
You are a person with every advantage in the world.
Rich, white, and male.
If not for the internet you would be that asshole in the bar that nobody wants to stand next to when they are ordering a drink.
You have a new target every fucking week, but no balls to do anything about what you are preaching.
But keep going with your mission, I am sure it will get you more internet girlfriends, and desperate single mothers, and some followers here.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-03-24 13:22:58 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-03-24 13:06:09 (#)
Ranking: -2
Hahaha,
I don't see instability, I see cowardice, I see calls for attention.
You weren't close to pulling the trigger, you wanted to be cool, you wanted someone to walk in and say, don't do it, don't be another Kurt.
You are like a girl with black fingernails who scratches her wrist so people think they are dark, and deep because you have fake suicide scars.
You haven't been to the bottom of the ocean, you have never suffered. Neither have I, but at least I have the fucking brain to know what suffering is.
You are stunningly average, the only thing special about you is how much you dwell on yourself, what a hyprocrite you are about other people.
In 15 yrs you will be the cool/creepy neighbor for teenagers who buys booze for them if they listen to your "theories". You will probably end up h ooking up with an overweight goth girl who has an old soul, and who had parents that just didn't understand.
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AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE!
Seriously, thank you. At least I'm not the only one to see that this guy is full of shit.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-03-24 13:19:24 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
This posts fucking reeks of bullshit. It's no more different than a teenager's livejournal entry.
You are not special. You are not a man with a mission to fight against "the other kids", you're a clueless insecure idiot who tries to convince himself and others that he's different to feel better about himself.
I don't what's more unbearable, the people who haven't figured out yet that you're just a fucking joke or reading another one of your tedious ultra-egocentric post.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-03-24 13:06:09 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Eventually that all ended in a massive shitpile of ugliness that saw me sitting on a couch with a .22 pistol in my hand contemplating whether or not that would kill me or just make me a helpless vegetable, and taping a rag covered in paint thinner to my face thinking if I could just pass out it would all be over. You know...I'd seen enough.
It might be easy to point to this as some sort of evidence of my instability and craziness and whiny emo tendencies, but you know...shit happens sometimes. Anyone who HASN'T been to that point probably hasn't really lived. Anyone whose life is so cloudless that they've never at least contemplated suicide is just as incapable of understanding true happiness as they are deep sadness, because life is all about the contrast of light and dark. It's about the pain as much as it is the joy, and unless you've been to the bottom of the ocean, you'll never really know how deep it is.
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Hahaha,
I don't see instability, I see cowardice, I see calls for attention.
You weren't close to pulling the trigger, you wanted to be cool, you wanted someone to walk in and say, don't do it, don't be another Kurt.
You are like a girl with black fingernails who scratches her wrist so people think they are dark, and deep because you have fake suicide scars.
You haven't been to the bottom of the ocean, you have never suffered. Neither have I, but at least I have the fucking brain to know what suffering is.
You are stunningly average, the only thing special about you is how much you dwell on yourself, what a hyprocrite you are about other people.
In 15 yrs you will be the cool/creepy neighbor for teenagers who buys booze for them if they listen to your "theories". You will probably end up h ooking up with an overweight goth girl who has an old soul, and who had parents that just didn't understand.
Submitted by mikethescottish (user info) at 2006-03-24 13:04:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Ignoring Uber poilitics, this was well-written. There is a certain... messianic tone to the writing, but the content held my interest.
At the end of the day, this is an intersting post- I don't think that Uber's collective penchant for inter-personal melodrama should detract from that.
Submitted by ubetidid (user info) at 2006-03-24 12:51:15 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I enjoy your posts. I really do.
Submitted by Maddog (user info) at 2006-03-24 12:47:02 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Since you took the time and trouble to -2 all my posts, for no reason whatsoever, here is one back at ya, faggot.
Oh, and this whiny post sucked too. It's still not too late to drink some Drano.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-03-24 12:43:23 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
"I scored something like in the 99th percentile on the ASVAB (the military aptitude test given MANDATORY to high schoolers) that I had every branch of the military call me, offering me any job I wanted, but instead of seizing the opportunity to position myself for such aspirations by becoming some kind of model soldier and maybe eventually model politician in a position to make a REAL difference, I spent those phone calls explaining to the poor recruiters why I thought their trade was part of the evil empire that was nothing but a puppet for the ruling class and the wealthy elite to brainwash people and rule the planet with their rampant nationalism."
No, no you didn't.
and I have never heard of it being manditory, anywhere. Maybe I am wrong, when growing up I only lived in 6 states in the US that I am 100% sure that isn't a rule, and I have never heard someone say it is a rule.
You got called by recruiters because they call anyone who will talk to them.
I would guess you don't have the intestinal fortitude to become a model soilder.
You don't have the brain either. That isn't a compliment, I am not saying you are too clever, or can think too much, I am saying you have the attention span of a child. You have no dedication, and for all your BS no strong beliefs.
You preach on the internet, calling for change, all the while sucking on the tit of the US's "dollar hegemony", drinking from its polluting system, living comfortably on its imperialism.
You ARE everything you hate about the US.
A consumer, a polluter, a loudmouth who doesn't have the balls to back up anything you say.
If you believed a fraction of the BS you spew on a daily basis you would be working for green peace, peta, ELF, peace corps, something.
You could be doing something, but you aren't. You sit around writing manifestos of what "ETS" is. Preaching at others on the internet is all you do.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-03-24 12:28:26 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
"I wish I had come from a background that was priviledged enough that my parents could buy my way into any school regardless of my adolescent performance, and I wish that in spite of this I had kept my grades in school up to their potential, but this same rebellion streak that follows me now followed me then.
Sitting in a classroom, hearing the state-sanctioned curriculum jammed down people's throats only solidified my feeling that the only true life would be one that was lived as far away from society's grid as possible. There were eternal truths out there in places only God speaks to you - places that the structured world of money and status did not have their claws. "
-You DID come from a priveleged background. Richest country in the world, probably a very middle class background, never hungry, never cold, never any real suffering. I would guess your parents probably would have paid for your college.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-03-24 11:52:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
"I have hundreds of pages of nothing"
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yes sir, yes you do.
Submitted by leilani (user info) at 2006-03-24 11:44:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-03-24 10:47:44 (#)
Ranking: 1
leilani - the test wasn't mandatory for us (in PA) I took it because it was what I wanted to do.
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got it. i had never even heard of it.
How is your yeasty vag feeling today?
Submitted by THE_MASKED_MACABRE (user info) at 2006-03-24 11:19:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
YOU THINK YOU HAVE SEEN DARKNESS!
YOU THINK YOU HAVE SEEN BLACKNESS!
YOU CANNOT *SEE* THESE THINGS
UNTIL YOU HAVE MADE YOURSELF COMPLETELY VULNERABLE
TO THE VORACIOUS NATURE OF THE MACABRE!
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2006-03-24 11:17:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Flack (user info) at 2006-03-24 11:04:48 (#)
Ranking: -2
This was long, boring and retarded.
I hate you.
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Yeah, cause you post quality material.
Submitted by Flack (user info) at 2006-03-24 11:04:48 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
This was long, boring and retarded.
I hate you.
Submitted by Drone_of_Industry (user info) at 2006-03-24 11:00:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Your point in life was to write this email. YOU CAN -2DIE NOW, STUPID!
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-03-24 10:57:53 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
1.5 for saying "supposed to" in the same sentence as art. i hate that people, even artists, think they're supposed to be/do/have things a certain way to be true. that's bull.
Submitted by MistressFist (user info) at 2006-03-24 10:57:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2006-03-24 04:52:51 (#)
Ranking: 0
this whole rambling, egocentric and tiresome bore merely says to me that you will never make the change you think you can because youre too ignorant and too arrogant to understand how change is really made.
to the people that will take issue at me using the word arrogant, i say you have no idea of who i am, and i give you far less of my personality than this fool does.
yorue a bright enough guy, ets. youre jsut a fucking idiot, thats all.
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at the risk of sounding like a sheeple, i agree with this statement and could not agree more.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-03-24 10:55:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
"Anyone whose life is so cloudless that they've never at least contemplated suicide is just as incapable of understanding true happiness as they are deep sadness, because life is all about the contrast of light and dark. It's about the pain as much as it is the joy"
there are people out there who don't need pain to enjoy life. also, if someone knows nothing of unhappiness it doesn't mean they know nothing of happiness. it's different things to different people. think about babies and children, alot of them are innocent, naive, and unaware of bad things around them. it doesn't mean their lives are less fulfilled at that point because they don't know that it's great just because it can get worse.
the asvab is not mandatory to all highschoolers. in some states, like some ct counties and cities, they only make kids they think don't have the skills to get into college take it.
Submitted by COMountain (user info) at 2006-03-24 10:50:59 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
for fucks sake, shut your cumdumpsterific pie hole.
Submitted by scornednornery (user info) at 2006-03-24 10:49:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
"... and I'm not going to start shooting innocent people down in the street."
YOU FUCKING PUSSY!! GROW SOME NUTS!!
=O)
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-03-24 10:47:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
leilani - the test wasn't mandatory for us (in PA) I took it because it was what I wanted to do.
Submitted by r0fl (user info) at 2006-03-24 10:41:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This was my favorite ETS post.
Myself and a bunch of my buddies filled out complete C's throughout that ADSVAB test.
The best part to come out of it was we missed first and second period.
Submitted by leilani (user info) at 2006-03-24 10:29:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-03-24 10:23:31 (#)
Ranking: 1
I could write something like this but the middle would be a bit different because after my 98 on the ADSVAB I actually took the offer.
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i never had to take that thing. i guess certain states have it and other dont?
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-03-24 10:23:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Read the whole thing and liked it.
Feels odd giving a +1MadeMeSmile
I could write something like this but the middle would be a bit different because after my 98 on the ADSVAB I actually took the offer.
anyway...cool post.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-03-24 09:49:07 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2006-03-24 09:34:41 (#)
Ranking: 0
All the countries in our fair isles, Berty, all of them.
Except the channel islands as they're rubbish.
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I'll hear nothing against the chanel islands. They gave us the concept of alternate filter, without which we would be no better than americans, gunning one another down for the privelidge of turning right.
Submitted by leilani (user info) at 2006-03-24 09:48:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Excellent.
Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2006-03-24 09:34:41 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
All the countries in our fair isles, Berty, all of them.
Except the channel islands as they're rubbish.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-03-24 09:22:33 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2006-03-24 09:20:39 (#)
Ranking: 0
Ah, so it wasn't just an attempt to confuse me and obstruct me from my realm defending duties?
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Not unless you've started defending the realm of Scotland.
Although that may be more of a wasteland than a realm.
Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2006-03-24 09:20:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Ah, so it wasn't just an attempt to confuse me and obstruct me from my realm defending duties?
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-03-24 09:15:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I KNEW YOU WOULD SLIP BERTY!
That's five english pounds you owe me.
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I said there were no funny puns. That I may choose to make a poor pun may be a black mark against my charachter but it certainly does not justify this debauched practise.
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Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2006-03-24 09:09:16 (#)
Ranking: 0
Mr Bert, what were you just bumbling on about?
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I thought that getting into a 'with it' mindset would help me understand why chicken meat and chips costs £1.50, yet chicken tikka and chips costs £1.40.
Submitted by GodLovesALittleLovin (user info) at 2006-03-24 09:14:41 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I do not support your liberal agenda, trying to get everyone all riled up and think that money is plastic, or not real? You seen the new tens? Orange. That's what those counterfeiting liberals have done to this country, you have gayified my tens. Know what I buy with tens on a regular basis? Fear.
Aside from your flowers and beards, I blame this on the midwest. Just go to Indiana for more than a week and tell me you wouldn't be spouting the same crazy propoganda he does on a daily basis. Hell, last week I heard that Ohio wants to separate from Indiana for being king lame of West Lamersonson. I think the feelings are mutual on that front, though.
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2006-03-24 09:12:52 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
Jesus, kid.
I like the fact that you have opinions different from the ubermasses, and I really admire your musical talents, as I have none at all.
But I feel like a girl heading home after a First Date From Hell.
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2006-03-24 09:11:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Berty, I wasn't specifically talking about you...it was more a general comment on everyone who labels ETS as a psycho and don't bother looking any deeper than the surface.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-03-24 09:10:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-03-24 07:29:23 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2006-03-24 07:10:24 (#)
Ranking: 0
I can't see any anti-antipodean context there.
I fail to see how either you or your imaginary best friend's "daughter" could possibly take offence.
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*hangs head*
You caught me. I just wanted an excuse to make a bad pun. I am a terrible terrible person.
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I KNEW YOU WOULD SLIP BERTY!
That's five english pounds you owe me.
Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2006-03-24 09:09:16 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Mr Bert, what were you just bumbling on about?
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-03-24 09:04:23 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2006-03-24 08:56:30 (#)
Ranking: 2
I thought this was thoughtful, interesting, and well written. Shame that it will be lost on most of the knee-jerk posters who lurk here. Does no one ever wonder WHY certain people are the way they are, or why you have a certain perception of a person...and what the reality of your subjective perception is?
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Chill man, it's all just jokes. For real y'all?
*complicated hand gesture*
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2006-03-24 08:58:13 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-03-24 05:44:30 (#)
Ranking: 0
I can not STAND people who think things like "Yeah, I was driving, and I REALLY thought about driving into the pillar of the bridge" and consider that attempted suicide.
The people who use fucking shaving razors to cut their wrists, knowing you can't get deep enough to cause some serious spurting.
The people who take 40 asprin and say "yeah, I swallowed a ton of drugs"
The people who try to hang themselves with extension cords, knowing they're to thin to support their weight.
Yeah, one of a growing list of things I get REAL pissed off about is when people make almost killing yourself a glamorous thing.
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I don't think anyone here is doing that. And I'm not sure if you're aware of this jay, but you're starting to sound like you're bragging.
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2006-03-24 08:56:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I thought this was thoughtful, interesting, and well written. Shame that it will be lost on most of the knee-jerk posters who lurk here. Does no one ever wonder WHY certain people are the way they are, or why you have a certain perception of a person...and what the reality of your subjective perception is?
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-03-24 08:50:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
We seem to be having a vast increase in the number of dutch users. This is not a bad thing, I love the dutch. I think the dutch are some of the best Europeans in the world.
It is interesting though, is it not?
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2006-03-24 08:47:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Teephphah (user info) at 2006-03-24 08:33:04 (#)
Ranking: 2
I, for one, found this to be amazingly interesting.
Submitted by BranDo (user info) at 2006-03-24 08:45:43 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This is the stuff I like on Über and the funny absurd stories. I stated before that I like your drive but being from a total different part of the world I can't really place that in the context of your reality. I read this and saw great resemblance to my own experiences growing up and that made me smile a lot and also made me realize that you'll end up just fine.
Don't worry about the tendency of this website regulars to mock everything you believe in or stand for. I think you're well on your way of finding the goal or challenge that fits you.
Now some Dutch compliment:
Goed gedaan, jochie!!