If you need to B*tch about something... this is the place — Page 9

Bingowings said:

I haven't had bacon for almost a quarter of a century, the weird thing was I rather liked it back then but now the smell of the stuff makes me feel ill.

 IF YOU SMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLALALALALLL THE BACON BINGO IS COOKIN!!

I think someone hit TheBoost upside the head with a rock.

...

Or maybe someone needs to.

I am really sick and tired of all the anti American crap I see on the web everyday.   I know we've done some bad things, but contrary to popular belief,  America is not out to conquer the world.     I tired of people that think "I'M COOL!!!   I HATE THE BIG BAD USA".    I'm tired of being made to feel shame just because I'm proud of my country.   I've had enough of all of that shit.   Why is it I see more hatred spewed against my country than I do against countries like North Korea or Iran or Libya or against monsters like Bin Laden and Gaddafi and Ahmadinejad and what not.  I've had enough of all of that shit.    I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!! 

^ True dat!

^ very much disagree.

too bad.

^ I have no problem with you feeling the way you do.  So when do we get to view the 'I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE' part?

*sigh*

^ Congratulations, you just won best post of the day. ;-)

Gaffer Tape said:

Wow, I tried to read that post, but all I could piece together was that trombone sound that adults in the Peanuts cartoons say... and something about rape.

Haha! Me too! I started trying to read it, then realized it was about some sport or another so I gave up. Didn't even make it to the rape part. So glad I am not alone in my complete and total disinterest in sports.

*bonks CP3S's and Gaffer's heads together*   knuckleheads.

Warbler said:

I am really sick and tired of all the anti American crap I see on the web everyday.   I know we've done some bad things, but contrary to popular belief,  America is not out to conquer the world.     I tired of people that think "I'M COOL!!!   I HATE THE BIG BAD USA".    I'm tired of being made to feel shame just because I'm proud of my country.   I've had enough of all of that shit.   Why is it I see more hatred spewed against my country than I do against countries like North Korea or Iran or Libya or against monsters like Bin Laden and Gaddafi and Ahmadinejad and what not.  I've had enough of all of that shit.    I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!! 

While not being jingoistic or trumpeting a "my country, right or wrong" mentality, I'll agree with you here that there's a lot of anti-America stuff out there on the interwebs.

I'd say that for every thoughtful critique or justified attack on American policies, there's at least one ignorant diatribe filled with vague notions and self-righteous if somewhat unfocused anger.

I think there are plenty of pundits online who can list from memory every inequality and mistake the US has ever committed, and probably couldn't give you more than a cursory understanding of who murdering asshats like Quadaffi even are.

EyeShotFirst said:

The NCAA picks for the tournament were poorly decided. Georgia get's in, but Alabama doesn't?

Kentucky rapes Florida, moves down to a 4th seed, while Florida moves up to a 2nd seed?

Colorado also got snubbed out of playing.

I'm in Denver with tickets for the first two rounds (or is it rounds two and three now?) and the locals are hopping mad about Colorado not getting in.

And rape?  Really?  Is there a Godwin'd term for that?

EyeShotFirst, just be glad there is a tournament.  Some college sport aren't smart enough to have a playoff system.  

Warbler said:

EyeShotFirst, just be glad there is a tournament.  Some college sports are too corrupt to have a playoff system.  

Fixed

yeah, I can agree with that. 

I want to bitch about the price of petrol in the U.K. , fucking £1.34.9 a litre, if this shit keeps up driving will only be for the rich. 

There's what 7 billion people on the planet, and less then 20 that make Star Wars fan preservations, and well...

Last night while doing a little digging for a post I made, I happened across Badmovies.org and was a bit surprised to see a number of movies that I would consider to be rather good movies (like Evil Dead II) being reviewed there.

Reading the review it was clear that the reviewer actually liked Evil Dead II as much as I did but it's a big old world and not everyone is going to agree on what constitutes a good film so I carried on reading.

Then I noticed Hedwig And The Angry Inch reviewed in there and suitably interested on how this film (which I love to bits) was going to fit in or not into the site's 'debt to raisins' I was slightly chaffed by the slight wiff of anti-homosexualism in the review (but maybe it was irony so I cut the writer a bit of slack) and then came the reader replies.

With a few exceptions almost every negative comment on the film had a bigoted basis and a lot violent undertones.

It wasn't that these people didn't like the film that I liked that upset me but rather the reasons (or lack of reasoning) and the violent language used in their comments.

I now must confess to a degree of prejudice on my own part.

I was under the impression that the nerds of the world would be the only sort of people who would be attracted to a site like that and that nerds were a pretty open minded nation (once you have seen The Shat hit on a green lady and survived, your mind should be primed for an open consideration of any configuration of life).

It was genuinely depressing to read people who like myself scan the interwebs for awful films posting extremist crap like that.

I took a bit of comfort in people countering those posts but once in a while it is necessary to lift a rock like this to be reminded that web world is just the real world in broad strokes and there is a sort of darkness in those woods.

*hug for xhonzi from Frink*

xhonzi said:

(And then the Mini Death Star blew up).