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Dream recording machines should have been invented and put on the market by now, goddammit!

Warbler said:

While I do really love this forum, there are aspects that I can't stand.  One of them is that is seems that whenever something happens that I like/cherish/care about/think is good/ think is important,  someone here as got to find a reason to piss on it.   It is like some are not happy until they can find a reason to piss on some else's parade.   People here have pissed on My Country, the Constitution,  my religion, now the Olympics,  Christmas and the rest of the holidays,  911 tributes, various things and traditions and what not.    Heck, I remember I created an "r.i.p." thread for Rosa Parks when she died and people had to come in there and piss on her.   I've really had enough of it.  

*pisses on everyone that have pissed on the things I mentioned* 

Why don't you tell us how you really feel?

;)

Dude, relax. For everything you love, there will be plenty those who find it equally distasteful. Why should this bother you so much? Zombie made some good points on the Olympics thing. You could either make some great rebuttals about why the Olympics are so admirable and uplifting regardless of the things he said, disprove the things he said, or just write it off and someone elses opinion, disagree with it, and move on uneffected.

I too think the Olympics are pointless nationalistic BS. But why should that ruin your enjoyment of them any? Who cares what I think about them. It seems like anytime someone questions these great or sacred things you feel are beyond any criticism, you feel like you need to defend their honor. America is a great country, but there are other countries out there that are pretty damn awesome. Stands to reason that some people might not think America is the end all be all of countries. Same thing for holidays, not everyone is obligated to love commercialized, Christianized, and Americanized old pagan holidays. And so on. Maybe they are not trying to piss on your parade just to make you mad. Maybe they are just sharing their personal perspectives. Personally, I like seeing the other side of the coin. If I have something I love and discover someone else hates it, I like hearing and trying to understand why, if it sparks a debate, maybe that is a good opportunity for me to take a half hour or so to do some brief reading and educate myself so I can better defend these things I love. Shoving my fingers in my ears and shouting, "lalalalalalalalalala" isn't going to benefit me any, and it isn't going to convince any neutral observers who may potentially be swayed one way or the other on the subject. 

whatever.

Akwat Kbrana said:

FWIW, I can appreciate Warb's point of view. The purpose of his thread wasn't so much to debate the various merits (or lack thereof) of the Olympic games in general, it was to discuss the particulars of the current games.

I get this, and I agree. My point was he seems to think it is only him, and that people do it specifically to piss on things he cares about. Any one of us could make a thread on something we care about, and someone would come in and make a comment on how they don't care much for whatever it is we are so passionate about. Most of us wouldn't react the way Warbler does and make it into a huge devastating thing, respond telling the other person they are totally wrong without anything to back it but "whatevers".

A respectful, "interesting insights, Zomb, but can we keep this thread related to discussion related to the games themselves?" might have gone a long way. His first response to Zombie and the beginning of the degeneration did include the words, "fuck attitudes like yours". Though I think it was the long quote block sentence by sentence response that encourages further discussion more than anything else.

Best move would have been to just ignore it all, IMO. It would have died out eventually (like it has now), and even if it hadn't, so what? Just keep bringing it back to the original topic.

Not to mention, if you read the OP, he does say "discuss anything related to the Olympics" or something like that.

CP3S said: His first response to Zombie and the beginning of the degeneration did include the words, "fuck attitudes like yours".

may I remind you that I was responding to someone who said "fuck the Olympics"?     I thought he had bad attitude and I told him so.   And no, I don't think people piss on these things just to attack me.    What I do think is some people delight in pissing on what is popular.  

Sorry.

greenpenguino said:

What really pisses me off are the brain-dead morons who think that the moon landings were faked. They make me so mad sometimes that I wish I could reach through my computer screen and punch them really hard, Buzz Aldrin style.

I hate that shit too, and I used to be one of those brain-dead morons in my college days. I wizened up. The only people I know that don't believe in the moon landing are people that hate the government and think they lie all the time, so why wouldn't they lie about the moon landing too? It's specious reasoning to begin with, and then they work backwards to find evidence to support the conclusion.

The fact is that it would be easier to strap a few death-defying test pilots to a rocket and shoot it successfully at the moon than it would be to pull off a conspiracy of that magnitude.

I love the video of Buzz Aldrin punching one of these assholes in the face. It was about time. How would you like someone to yell at you you that your proudest life accomplishment is fake and you're a liar?

yeah, if someone did that to Mr. Aldrin,  they deserve to have their ass kicked. 

Warbler said:

yeah, if someone did that to Mr. Aldrin,  they deserve to have their ass kicked. 

Seriously! If you haven't seen the video, it's absolute gold:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wcrkxOgzhU

walkingdork said:

asterisk8 said:

Warbler said:

yeah, if someone did that to Mr. Aldrin,  they deserve to have their ass kicked. 

Seriously! If you haven't seen the video, it's absolute gold:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wcrkxOgzhU

That is great!

Come on guys! Buzz Aldrin never punched that guy, the video is clearly faked. Funded by our government as a warning to those who go around saying the moon landing was faked. The Van Allen radiation belts in Aldrin's fists make it physically impossible that he could ever actually punch someone, it is therefore a staged lie.

I'm pissed off that indecent exposure isn't allowed in this ostensibly enlightened society. I should be allowed to make any lewd gesture to any damn woman I want with my two golf balls and driver without fear of being tossed in a dank pee-pee soaked heckhole to become the plaything of a giant greasy biker named Bubba.

This is what I think about school starting on Tuesday. Thanks Paint.

If the homework brings you down, then we'll throw it on the fire and take the car downtown (the bus actually or at a pinch a cab or we could walk but I haven't got sensible shoes).