Quote from: Falkie2013 on September 08, 2012, 10:23:11 PM
Someone needs to photoshop the photo below and change it to :
Talking to the Bored.
Or Boring the Dead
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Someone needs to photoshop the photo below and change it to :
Talking to the Bored.
Quote from: Sardondi on September 08, 2012, 04:28:44 PM
...Sound-level anomaly between tv programs and the commercials. Just what the hell kind of perversity/ineptitude/arrogance is it that permits this? Were I paying gazillions to advertise my products, I think I would realize that it tend to piss people off when ads for my product abruptly blast them from the comfort of their Barcaloungers.
It seems a problem that could be fixed, at least coordinated, by the sponsors, the ad producers/sellers, the networks or the FCC. So I can only assume the blaring-commercial problem must be perceived by these entities as a benefit to them. HOW?!?!
Quote from: HorrorReporter on September 08, 2012, 12:08:53 PM
During 'open lines' last night, Tommy stopped by the studio to tell George he got "texasted" by someone who wanted to know what mistake George has made that he never told anyone before. George went on to tell something that he has told countless times before, obviously ignoring the second part of the 'texasted." George said he was interviewing people on local TV, two kids of a women who was murdered by their dad, the woman's husband.. apparently the mom made steak with too much fat on it, the dad chocked the mom with it, and the daughters appeared with Snoory on local TV. George laughed as he recounted that he asked them, "What's your beef!?" George didn't understand why they began to cry until he realized that he said 'beef' and maybe it hit a raw nerve. And the lesson? George learned to 'think before he spoke.'
I found the story amazing.
1) George mangles words beyond recognition.
2) He often doesn't think before he speaks, many times does not even think for 4 straight hours a night.
3) He pretends to be innocent, all the while the smug Noory no doubt knew the inside joke of what he was doing back on local TV. Once a jerk always a jerk. His 'nice guy' routine is getting really disgusting.
and 4) I really don't even believe the story.
Quote from: Eddie Coyle on September 07, 2012, 11:02:08 PM
Predisposition indeed. They're essentially from the same sociopathic branch that produces politicians and bankers. Power, power and a little more power is what they seek. Even, a small timer like "Deacon Punnett" has these traits.
The bright side of the 11 years spent in Catholic schools? I learned what utter bullshit organized religion was up close and personal.
Quote from: ChewMouse on September 07, 2012, 07:47:18 PM
You know, in my day, you took your chances and did your time. Eat that sweet-looking cleaner block out of the toilet? Fine, that's three days of diarrhea for you. Break open your Etch-A-Sketch to see and taste the lead pellets? Great, there went 50 points off your IQ. Kiss the dog when he's chewing a bone? Very good, we'll go to the hospital for nineteen stitches but there's no "plastic surgery" talk involved here, and nobody is hurting the dog over this event, the dog was justified. Fall off your bike and crack your skull? Excellent, now you'll be riding the short bus when school starts. Stick a coat hanger into a wall outlet? That hurt, didn't it? Bet you won't do that again. Fly forward from the backseat into the ashtray when Daddy slammed on the brakes? Well hang on back there, it's not like you didn't know you were in a moving vehicle, even if you were just three...
Quote from: Zircon on September 06, 2012, 12:15:59 PM
... Renton was a cesspool then and remains one now - even with all that money once coming in. Typical government waste and tons of social programs funded by hard working people and a highly successful company. You would not believe how lucrative it once was for those on the dole in King Country in the 1980s-1990s.
Quote from: b_dubb on September 04, 2012, 08:20:30 PM
we need to load up a stealth bomber with marijuana seeds and disperse that payload all over northern korea. actually that would be quasi-barbarous because it's not like they have anything to eat when the munchies set in
Quote from: M. Knight on September 06, 2012, 09:38:02 AM
I would also add something else that should not be considered a commodity: homes
Quote from: Morgus on September 06, 2012, 12:43:37 AM
Noory had both the earthquake predictor scientist and psychic Dr. Louis Turi on in the first hour for a few minutes for them to confirm they had correct recent predictions regarding earthquakes and other disasters.
Quote from: Jasmine on August 31, 2012, 11:12:27 AM
... What positive changes have ever resulted from a change of political party winning the Presidency? Can someone enlighten me, because perhaps I cannot see the forest for the trees. From where I sit, there is never change...
... "The reason they call it the 'American Dream' is that you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin...
Quote from: JulietCapulet on September 05, 2012, 06:13:43 PM
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, and novel without falsehood.
And, so I go into this good night with no expectation but to experience what the most courteous hosts of the enjoyable Coast shall enlighten me with and upon. So hungrily I await.
Quote from: Ben Shockley on September 04, 2012, 10:41:44 PM
First, let me say that I have nothing personal against Paper*Boy, despite his efforts like in the post I'm about to reference. PB, you occasionally bug me in these political threads, but I'm generally with you on the "Coast"-related stuff. But in this latest attempt to school my sorry ass, you just served up too easy of a target, and asked for this. You lobbed a slow one across home plate. You didn't even walk into an ambush; you walked into my camp and surrendered.
There is an old saying that "it's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt." In online forums, the choice is even easier. "Silence" in a forum does not connote "foolishness" nor anything else; you're just not there. Particularly in a thread where you have no early stake, "remaining silent" is just the default condition for the majority of forum members. But when you choose to speak up, you take on all the weight of the topics under discussion, and you really should be up to the task, lest you "remove all doubt" of foolishness.
Monday night, our pal Paper*Boy spoke up, and removed all doubt.
I had earlier been trying to lead McPhallus out of a jumble of cartoonish political epithets and into real life when I admitted that:which apparently so exercised Paper*Boy that he threw all notions of self-restraint and fact-checking to the wind, and, using exactly that quote from me as his necessary and sufficient cause, he by god waded in!
HUH?
No, Paper*Boy.
If you could have contained your zeal for just a bit, it shouldn't have taken more than a few seconds online searching to reveal that Max Weber and Ralf Dahrendorf were 2 of the most important, mainstream, and generally non-controversial social-science academics of the last 100+ years. Unlike what PB went on to imply, those men had/have absolutely nothing to do with "murders of tens of millions, mass deportations, intentional starvations, [etc.]" They were 2 academic figures who happened to shape my thinking particularly with regard to social conflict, and should be familiar at least by name to anyone who has ever been exposed to even Intro-level Sociology, or to higher levels of History, Political Science, or Economics. You know: disciplines focusing on the kind of things that people in these political threads like to wax profound on and therefore, ideally, should know something about. I dropped those names with the exact purpose of steering McPhallus' earlier labeling of me away from his Orwellianly-inaccurate "Fascist," past "Marxist," and on to some eponymous tenets (academic, not political) I actually have some connection to.
I'm not suggesting that anyone needs any particular type or level of education to post here, although one might expect that, given the level of passion that many people bring into the political threads --and the interpersonal stakes thus created-- they might have a little more knowledge about what they're spouting than just whatever "their gut tells them." Especially since --as PB shows us-- "your gut" may be a better projector of your own prejudices about another poster than an interpreter of what he wrote. So when you think you're using some reference (names in this case) as evidence for a real killing debate point against someone, you might do well to know just who the hell the names are, and whether or not they have a damn thing to do with the "therefore" part of your smashing argument.
Finishing up:
Where did that come from? I never said anything like that in this thread so far. Nagging conscience, PB?We wouldn't want to exaggerate, would we?
Thanks at least for assuming that I have some positive qualities. I mean-- assuming that you think being "educated and informed" IS good. Or are those supposed to be the charges that get me burned at the stake?
Somehow, I'm reminded of the Rush song "Witch Hunt."
Quote from: Starbreaker on September 05, 2012, 12:46:33 PM
I've decided George Noory needs to stop picking guests...
Quote from: HorrorRetro on September 05, 2012, 04:36:42 PM
I'm annoyed when I see adults write alot rather than a lot...
Quote from: b_dubb on September 04, 2012, 08:16:20 PM
... in the court of the crimson king ...
Quote from: HorrorRetro on September 04, 2012, 11:41:37 AM
I had my own legal document editing and proofreading business, so I am particularly sensitive to seeing mistakes in the news. After reading a story written at a 3rd-grade level, I became so disgusted that I wrote the editor of the local news organization's web site and complained. The response I got back was, "Do you want the news fast or correct?" I swear to God, that was the reply I got back. I wrote back, "Both. I don't think it's too much to ask that professionals write the story rapidly and correctly." They then replied back that every story went though seven proofreaders, blah, blah, blah. Well, I guess all seven proofreaders were illiterate, because the stories were almost incomprehensible.
At the time, I thought it might have been a local thing. We've since moved twice, and I see the same mistakes over and over again on the local news.
(If you see any mistakes in my post, I haven't reached my optimal coffee levels yet.)
Quote from: onan on September 04, 2012, 05:33:30 AM
Yeah, Hands Across America was a confluence of many of the things I hate: Large groups of non-thinking mouth breathers. Mouth breathers that think standing akimbo is the same thing as doing something noble. Businesses that want to make a buck off of mouth breathers in a group. "Artists" that want to share their vision of peace and happiness in song and T shirts.
We are the world would have been a much better song if they had video of the hand holders being ran over by truckers.
Quote from: PhantasticSanShiSan on September 03, 2012, 11:40:19 PM
... Unfortunately, it's impossible to properly judge the true value of a socio-political system when it has never been implemented properly and honestly on a national level. And I'm not sure if it is logically viable to judge one system by the mores and values espoused in another, especially when using selective historical evidence.
Quote from: Ben Shockley on September 03, 2012, 09:32:55 PM
... Actually, by training, I'm a "Weberian-Dahrendorfian" theorist...