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Post by renaissanceblonde on May 15, 2009 3:57:12 GMT -5
"The citing of Proverbs e.g. 'An empty vessel makes the most noise'."
The irony is strong with this one.
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Post by Trillian on May 15, 2009 4:18:42 GMT -5
As a women who fell pregnant out of wedlock and raised my bastard (only, spoiled) child on my own, with the money that I make being the sole breadwinner in my home, this guy can kiss my dimply-hard-working-bastard-rearing ass!
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Post by Lady Renae on May 15, 2009 8:43:28 GMT -5
This spoilt bastard of a broken home would like to tell him to shove off a cliff with a slow-leaking parachute.
Also, how DARE you pity me for not birthing my daughter! Share sympathy when I get painfully reminded of it on Mothers' Day, by all means, but pity me and risk the sanctity of your skin!
Oh, and stop sucking on those lollies. They're made of kool-aid.
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Post by CtraK on May 15, 2009 11:38:08 GMT -5
He just managed to gather it into a gigantic mountain of fail I wouldn't call it a mountain. Mountains are impressive natural formations that arrive gradually over time; they're often home to fresh springs and wildlife. To climb it, conquer it, and understand the terrain can often present an almighty challenge to anyone with the courage to take it on. No, this is a landfill heap - a huge one, to be sure, but the smell of soiled diapers and nappies* is definitely there. *transatlantic analogy ftw?
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Post by ausador on May 15, 2009 12:00:50 GMT -5
Funny thing about that story you just made up ausador...it actually happened. Ironbite-I miss Gog. Yeah he was a spunky old fart wasn't he? A bit too talkative for my tastes though, once you got him started talking he never would shut up.
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Post by David D.G. on May 15, 2009 12:48:03 GMT -5
He just managed to gather it into a gigantic mountain of fail I wouldn't call it a mountain. Mountains are impressive natural formations that arrive gradually over time; they're often home to fresh springs and wildlife. To climb it, conquer it, and understand the terrain can often present an almighty challenge to anyone with the courage to take it on. No, this is a landfill heap - a huge one, to be sure, but the smell of soiled diapers and nappies* is definitely there. *transatlantic analogy ftw?I like it! ~David D.G.
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Post by Old Viking on May 15, 2009 14:12:50 GMT -5
Psychotic nostalgia.
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Post by antichrist on May 15, 2009 15:41:28 GMT -5
I just read his biography.
Poor little pookie has never been liked, but it's everybodies elses fault (and damn does he have daddy issues). Also Mr. right and holy has a second wife? He wants to go back to the 50's, but his wife works while he sits on his ass? How well would that of gone over in the 50's?
Edit: I'll add notes as I go through this shit (as long as I can)
- He thinks that the Simpsons and Yes Minister are examples of real life? - I always love listening to a divorced person going on about the evils of divorce. And he really goes on about the evils of divorce. To the point that divorced people should be shunned. - He was fired because he was the best. - Managers seek to further their own careers! Wow, what insight. -University degrees are useless! Except when it comes to getting promotions, which is a secret plot against those without degrees. - The tax department is inherently evil. - Speed limits were only created to promote Revenue for the government. The same with DWI laws. - In one of his rants he bitches about a boss that took interest in female employees, in another he bitches about being fired for wolf whistling at pretty women. Pick a side buddy. - He's actually against leash laws and having to pick up after your dog? I've never met anyone who openly says that, although I have handed poop bags to many an "unprepared" dog walker (dogs poop, deal with it). - He calls the government, management, and anyone in authority inept, but damn it, you better respect the Queen! - Saving endangered species is animal worship?
Some quotes - The idea that something was fundamentally wrong with our community did not occur quickly. Such concerns always seemed to belong to religious fanatics or the clearly unbalanced.
-Women have been allowed to join all military units, which insensibly destroys the unit's morale, while increasing the tensions and difficulties that must arise during their deployment.
1. Children are considered sacred so sexual relations with a child is desecration, {He actually complains about this?}
This man spends way too much time watching TV. All of his ideas seem to come from mulling over TV movies. I do agree with some of his observations, but he takes these observations to strange places.
And after reading this, I'm sure he's got every government office on speed dial and they all know him by name. Then he wonders why nobody takes him seriously?
I'm only about 1/2 way through (if that) I just can't deal anymore.
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Post by Thejebusfire on May 15, 2009 19:12:09 GMT -5
I've never heard anyone say that before. I have heard people say that "going green" is Earth worship.
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Post by Nutcase on May 15, 2009 21:58:03 GMT -5
Here's a snippet of Atkinson's views on how the abuse of language is evidence of social decay. Yes, he did post the following as a single paragraph, but I've broken it down for ease of reading and because there are certain points - I'll underline them - on which I'd like to comment (in green). Determine if the general use of language is losing discipline, for this can only mean the general use of thought is also losing discipline, which is a decay of understanding. Thought is the matrix in which reason occurs and through which language is chosen. How can it, in and of itself, be misused?Such a result is indicated by the disappearance of plain speaking from citizens' sentiments. Above, we find an unwieldy sentence where the word 'sentiment' is used instead of the plainer, more accurate term 'speech.'
An undeniable symptom of the malaise is the deliberate use of more words than necessary, such as invoking "at this moment in time" instead of "now", or "the state of the art" instead of "latest". 'Malaise' can mean either bodily discomfort or fatigue. That term is being misused here, and so too is the word invoke. The latter means to call upon, raise, or summon something. The plainer, more common word 'using' would have been more appropriate. And the addition of surplus words such as converting a "riot" into a "riot situation" and "opportunity" into "a window of opportunity". The above is a sentence fragment, and a poorly written one at that. As well as the blurring of meaning caused by the popular adoption of vague words like "situation, position" and now (circa 2003) "focus". And here we find another sentence fragment - a flaw that can be found throughout Atkinson's writing. Worse, though, is Atkinson's failure to provide contextual examples of how these words are misused as opposed to merely condemning the words themselves. The less precise our language the less precise our thoughts, and the less precise our thoughts the more vague our language; which is a self-sustaining cycle of increasing weakness of understanding. George Orwell would have pummeled your ass if he'd lived long enough to see you mangle his theories like this.
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Post by Pyena on May 16, 2009 12:30:29 GMT -5
That's one insane list. This one made me laugh, though: "Each family has a doctor who has long experience of the family and visits when his patient feels too ill to attend surgery."
I never knew that doctors in the 50s made housecalls for operations.
And then I read these: Christian names have a standard spelling (see those displayed by the girls on store check-out). Neighbours are expected to be quiet. Labels appear on the inside rear of a garment The accepted method of opening food containers does not contaminate the contents. As of circa 1975 the mechanism supplied to open cans of drink dips part of the outside of the can into the contents.
WTF does that have to do with anything?
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Post by terri on May 17, 2009 14:22:18 GMT -5
This Atkinson guy sounds like a modern Sydney Horler (a trash-novelist of the '30s and '40s, whose personal views were printed in a book called "Now Let Us Hate").
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Post by katz on May 17, 2009 16:02:14 GMT -5
I think that toilet paper should always be put sheet-out and that anyone who orders sandwiches in the Timmy's drive through is an ass, I would neither outlaw these things or attribute the decline of civilization to them.
Some people really need to clip their ego down with their toenails.
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Post by antichrist on May 17, 2009 19:01:34 GMT -5
Whats wrong with ordering a sandwich at Timmy's drive through?
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Post by Thejebusfire on May 17, 2009 19:14:47 GMT -5
I think that toilet paper should always be put sheet-out and that anyone who orders sandwiches in the Timmy's drive through is an ass, I would neither outlaw these things or attribute the decline of civilization to them. Some people really need to clip their ego down with their toenails. I think that anyone who orders a x-large combo at the fast food restaurant I work at is an asshat, but I don't ban it.
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