The problem is people, that's what it is. (584 hits)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (View user info) at 2006-07-11 09:43:32 EDT
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Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2006-07-09 17:10:36 (#)
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I like America, it' the Americans that get on my nerves sometimes.
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I am of the opinion that the reason Americans get on so many people's nerves is our expansive and individualistic national history is clashing with the lack of personal space our modern life affords. It's a symptom of a disease caused by too-little space to move. People need space to be alone as much as they need human interaction. There is little of that space left.
It's true. It can be said about any planet/country/city/village/household. Places are just places. The people who suck are what makes the places appear to suck. Imagine how much better the experience of being *wherever you are/are going/live/work/want to be* would be if only half the people you know will be there were actually there when you showed up. Disney. The local park. The highway on your way to work. Your office. Your pub or bar or disco or restaurant. The concert or match. Übersite. People are the clearly problem. Not because they're different from you; everyone likes differences really. No, but because there are so very many of them. People everywhere.
I am not, of course, advocating the immediate slaughter of half the planet's population. Imagine the cleanup required after that day's labors. That is not the solution. Alas, I am sorry to say that it is too late for those of us who exist now to ever enjoy the freedom that our ancestors did when the looked out across a vast expanse of new land and thought, "I don't know what's over there but I'm going to go find out, and if I like it I'm going to live there." Having elbow room is rapidly becoming a privilege of wealth rather than the unstated right that Americans once thought was theirs.
However, it's not just Americans, you know. Places that tourists (those in America and American tourists overseas) go are mostly horribly overcrowded. Everyone there wants to experience every aspect of the place they have visited, and so you end up crowding into lines for the Rock and Rollercoaster or the Niagara Falls boat ride or the Eiffel Tower elevators or the Coliseum walking tour or whatever. Crowds cause stress, and Americans can stress with the best of them. The wave of individual freedom has crashed on the shore of the extent of available space. We have no more room to expand but there are ever more and more of us, so we get closer together. When that happens to gas molecules in a container, the result in increased pressure and temperature. It so happens that Americans are the latest to experience this, but it has happened in Europe and in Asia, and it will soon be happening everywhere.
Ages before there were European-based Americans, the population of the planet was growing and so people were migrating all around the world. Why? People migrated at first because the food migrated. Then came farming. People still left villages to form new villages, though, because eventually in each village there would simply be too many people to be supported by the surrounding farms. Farming became more and more efficient, and the population grew, and cities formed. More people concentrated into smaller areas. Eventually, Europe was considered to be full by the locals, so off they went to find new lands. New lands were found, and settled, and the same thing happened all over again. Now the places on the planet that are fit for human life are so overcrowded as to be almost unfit for human life. Who will colonize other planets? The same types of people who crossed the Bering Strait or The Alps or the Atlantic Ocean or the American Prairie so long ago. Those who feel that they need more room.
Before it's too late or too expensive to do so, my wife and I are building (or rather, causing to be built and helping as we can) a house on a relatively largish wooded lot in an as-yet relatively unpopulated area and making plans to effect the purchase a fair bit of the surrounding land. Don't want any neighbors crowding me when I'm busy exercising my freedom, you see. Not ETS-sort-of-but-not-really-planning-the-overthrow-of-the-government busy, but-sitting-on-the-floating-drink-holder-in-the-pool-basking-in-the-sun busy. We'll be driving an hour plus to work when we have to go into our respective offices, but that's a sacrifice that we're willing to make to not have to constantly be closely surrounded by people all of the time. <Digress> Actually, the commute will be more often than not on motorcycle, riding which offers a type of freedom unto itself. I may one day write something on why you never see a motorcycle in the patient's parking spaces of a Psychiatrist's office. </Digress>
Though we're Godparents to no less than 8 of our relatives' kids, we don't have kids ourselves. This allows us to fully enjoy the rewards of our efforts unencumbered with the day-to-day responsibility of other humans while still providing opportunities to make our nieces', nephews', and cousins' parents seem cheap at Christmas if we feel like doing so. It's not that we don't like children, it's that we believe that there are too many of them in the world and are willing to act on that belief.
In 20 years, if there hasn't been some global disease or war that has rectified the situation, the population will probably be seriously encroaching on the house we're currently building. I will build a wall around it if I have to. In 30 years, I'll be old, floating in the pool, drinking my Soylent Green protein shake, and watching the automated trespasser elimination system working on closed circuit TV. If there are 30 billion people on the planet, you can bet People-Zappers® will be legal. It should not come to that. It should be that everyone alive today realizes that one child is enough and two is too many for the future. If for the next five or twenty generations each two produced only one and the twos that cannot reproduce but want to adopt the excess, the planet just may be able to support us. People are the problem - that's what it is. There are just too many people.
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Submitted by fun_with_needles (user info) at 2006-08-09 03:05:01 EDT (#)
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Submitted by BobLobla (user info) at 2006-07-18 14:23:42 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2006-07-11 13:30:22 EDT (#)
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I am hardly ignorant of life outside the borders of the US. I'll wager I've visited more countries on more continents than have 95% of the people on Earth. In fact, I've see enough of it to know (that is 'know', not simply believe) that I'd rather live nowhere else than the US. Perhaps I, as an American, simply require more personal space than average, either for the reasons I gave in the post, or because *insert fat American joke here, ha*.
Britain has 20% of the US population in 3% of the space? That seems unlikely at first glance, but if true, then it seems rather stupid. What possible advantage could there be to packing people together like sardines in a tin? However, it does make a bit more sense of the Brit shows on our Home and Garden TV channel wherein they claim a backyard that's 25 feet wide and 50 feet deep with 8-foot tall blue-painted fences all around it is "large". Britain's accomplishments were largely due to their expansionist activities in previous times. Do you like IPA-type beers? Brought to you by the need to keep beer fresh on the voyage from Britan to India, which was part of the British Empire, on which the Sun Never Set. Remember that? Just one example. Since that era, in Europe and England there has been little but increases in human population and declines in human energy.
The Industrial Revolution was brought on by the need to rapidly and efficiently produce goods for the expanding population. Now, look what we've become. Technology is no longer a tool to be used but has become (among many other things, of course) an enabler of the human's addition to wanton irresponsible making of more humans. There will not always be food, nor safe water, nor energy, nor shelter, nor fulfillment of the basic human desire to explore the unknown for all of us if "all of us" keeps increasing in number.
Submitted by Molari (user info) at 2006-07-11 12:44:45 EDT (#)
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You are 100% on the money skrapmetal. No more kids plz. Theres alrdy too many. The planet is about to explode. If you have a kid, chances are the planet will explode in their lifetime. So please, just adopt. PLEASE.
Submitted by ripopotmus (user info) at 2006-07-11 12:02:43 EDT (#)
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- shut your
Submitted by ripopotmus (user info) at 2006-07-11 12:01:37 EDT (#)
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Get fucked with your anti-American bullshit. I was in Montreal this weekend in a bar having an arm wrestling competition with a couple of friends and some Canadians. The deal was that if the Canadian won - we sing "Oh, Canada", and if WE won, they sing the Star Spangled Banner. They won the first round so we burst into Oh, Canada (as best we could). We won the second round and as they began to sing OUR National Anthem we were booted from the bar and told that "This is why everyone hates you Americans." You motherfuckers need to shut your sack up and lick my ballbag.
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-07-11 11:04:04 EDT (#)
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America is not even close to being crowded. Britain has 20% of your population living on 3% of your land area. God knows what it's like in China.
People hate Americans because so many of them have no concept of the sheer variety of life outside of their borders, as this post has just proven.
Submitted by hour_man (user info) at 2006-07-11 10:28:16 EDT (#)
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Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-07-11 09:55:12 (#)
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People don't like Americans because of posts like this.
It isn't even that crowded in the US.
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You just tend to be self indulging, self deluding, idiotic, fat cunts. 9/10 when I'm about to have a cigerette in a London resteraunt someone will always come up to me and say something witty like
"You're not going to smoke that are you?" 9/10 THEY'RE AMERICAN.
"No, I'm just using it to light the next one."
Cunts.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-07-11 09:55:12 EDT (#)
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People don't like Americans because of posts like this.
It isn't even that crowded in the US.
Submitted by WildcatMcGee (user info) at 2006-07-11 09:53:23 EDT (#)
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I rompted a girl once. I finally left around 4am and walked in on my roommate wacking off to some shitty low level porn on the internet. We haven't talked about it since.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2006-07-11 09:44:43 EDT (#)
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...and sorry about the typo in the opening line. I suck.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2006-07-11 09:43:43 EDT (#)
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I am certain that there will be at least one "so go kill yourself already"- related response to this, to which I shall preemptively reply that it would do no good. Speaking metaphorically, when you're one million dollars in debt you don't need one dollar, you need one million dollars. Once you're alive and in the world, you can positively contribute and perhaps make the world better by your existence. Part of that positive contribution can be that you don't over-reproduce and thereby make the world a bit better for those that will inhabit it once you've become Soylent Green. That's a choice to leave a legacy to Humanity rather than to another bunch of humans. As I see it, a responsible choice.