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1981
Serious / ISIS is committing genocide; military action is necessary
« on: August 08, 2014, 03:29:00 AM »

1982
The Flood / MY FUCKING NEIGHBOURS WON'T SHUT THE FUCK UP
« on: August 08, 2014, 02:00:16 AM »
It's 8fuckingam and MY FUCKING NEIGHBOURS MAKE SO MUCH GODDAMN CUNTING NOISE.

The kids, who are between 8-12 are always fucking crying and screaming, and the mother is always shouting back at them - always this time in the morning - and IT'S DRIVING ME FUCKING INSANE. Jesus cunting Christ what do I do?

It's non-stop noise and arguing and shouting from two poor daughters driven to distraction by their patently shit mother. I don't want to hear any bollocks about single-parenting or devil children, this is fucking lunacy and she is a bad parent.

What do I do? It happens in the evening as well as the early morning, and it makes me want to turn to homicidal mania.

1983
The Flood / Are you happier single, or in a relationship?
« on: August 08, 2014, 01:29:02 AM »
About a year ago, I was the only person in my social group to be in a serious relationship. Now, I'm the only person to not be in a serious relationship. I think it can be easy to forget the flaws of being in the opposite state while in a relationship or single, but I think the problem is especially prevalent while single. Looking back, and realising how crap it sometimes was, sort of makes me wonder whether I'm better off single.

But, shit, maybe I'm deluding myself.

1984
Let's say a water main breaks in downtown Los Angeles and it floods an electrical substation, knocking out all the traffic lights and tying up the entire city and emergency vehicles can't get through. And at the same time, one of those month-long global warming heatwaves comes along but there's no air conditioning, there's no water for sanitation, so cholera, smallpox and dysentery break out and thousands of people start dying in the streets. But before they die parasites eat their brains and they go completely fucking crazy and they storm the hospital, but the hospital can't handle all the casualties so these people rape all the nurses and set the hospital on fire.

And the flames drive them even crazier so they start stabbing social workers and garbage-men, and a big wind comes along and the entire city goes up in flames and the people who are still healthy - they get mad at the sick people and they start crucifying them, nailing them to crosses, trying on their underwear, shit like that. Then everybody smokes crack and PCP and they march on city hall where they burn the mayor at the stake, strangle his wife and take turns sodomising the statue of Larry Flynt.

And at this point, at this point it looks like pretty soon things are gonna start to get out of control. So everybody panics and tries to leave the city at the same time, and they trample each other to death in the streets by the thousands and wild dogs eat their corpses, and the wild dogs chase the rest of the people down the highway. One by the one the dogs pick off the old fucks and the slow people because they're in the fast lane where they don't belong; get the fuck out of the fast lane if you're an old fuck or if you're a slow fuck, get over on the right. And then the lucky ones, the people who manage to make it all the way out of town, they discover when they get there that big sparks from the city have lit the suburbs on fire, and the suburbs burn uncontrollably, and thousands of identical homes have identical fires with identical smoke. Killing all the identical soccer moms and their identical kids named Jason and Jennifer.

And now the fire spreads to the farmlands, and the farmlands burn intensely at 425 degrees creating millions of baked potatoes. As the farmlands burn, thousands of barns and farmhouses begin to explode from all the hidden methamphetamine labs. And the meth chemicals run downhill into the rivers and streams where wild animals drink the water and get completely geeked on speed. So bears and wolves amped up on crank start roaming the countryside looking for people to eat, even though they're not really hungry.

And the fires spread to the forest and the forest burn furiously and hundreds of elves and trolls and fairies come running out of the woods screaming, "Bambi's dead! Bambi's dead!" And he is, he is, finally that fucking little cunt Bambi is dead. Dead! Now hundreds of regional fires come together into one huge interstate inferno and all twelve of the western United States are burning out of control, except Utah where the Mormons don't allow fires. And the fire spreads across the Great Plains, roasting the wheat, cooking the cattle and producing. . . hamburgers, actually.

Then it leaps to Mississippi and races through the South, blowing up stills, interrupting lynchings and killing millions of inbred people. And then it turns northeast and it heads for Washington D.C. where George Bush can't decide if it's an emergency or not. He doesn't know. It's hard work. He can't decide because Dick Cheney is in prison, so instead he takes a nap; he puts him empty, fucking brainless head down on the little pillow his mother gave him at Christmastime, and he takes a fucking nap. So the fire moves to Philadelphia, but it's a weekend and Philadelphia's closed on the weekend. So the fire moves to New York City and the people in New York tell the fire to go fuck itself, and it does.

So instead it burns down Long Island and Connecticut, killing all the rich white assholes and completely destroying their evil, faggoty golf courses. And while all this is going on, Canada burns to the ground but nobody notices. And now the entire North American continent is on fire, producing a huge thermal updraft and creating an incendiary cyclonic macro-system that forms a hemispheric megastorm, breaking down the molecular structure of the atmosphere and actually changing the laws of nature. Fire and water combine, burning clouds of flaming rain fall upward, gamma rays and solar winds ignite the ionosphere creating huge clouds of ionised plasma, bolts of lightening twenty-million miles long begin shooting out of the North Pole and the sky fills up with green shit!

And then suddenly, the entire fabric of space-time splits in two; a huge crack in the Universe opens and all the dead people from the past begin falling through - Babe Ruth, Groucho Marx, Davy Crockett, Tiny Tim, Porky Pig, Hitler, Janis Joplin, Alan Ludden, my Uncle Dave, your Uncle Dave, everybody's Uncle Dave; an endless stream of dead Uncle Daves falling through the crack. And all the dead Uncle Daves gather around the heavenly kitchen table, they light up cigarettes and they begin to talk; they talk about how they never got a break, how their parents didn't love them and their children were ungrateful, they talk about how the government screwed them out of money and how they just missed out on a big job. They say the Jews own everything and the Blacks get special treatment, and all the hatred and bitterness drips out of these people and forms a big pool of liquid hate.

And the pool of liquid hate begins to spin, round and round it spins, faster and faster, and the faster it spins the bigger it gets. Faster and faster, bigger and bigger, until the whirling pool of hate is bigger than the entire Universe and suddenly it explodes into trillions of tiny stars. And every star has a trillion planets, and every planet has a trillion Uncle Daves. And all the Uncle Daves have good jobs, perfect eyesight and shoes that fit. They have great sex lives and free healthcare, they understand the Internet, their kids thing they're cool and they all love their neighbours.

And every week, without fail, Uncle Dave wins the lottery. Forever and ever, until the end of time and every single Uncle Dave has a winning ticket. And Uncle Dave is finally happy; now do you see why I like it when nature gets even with humans?

1985
Serious / ISIS flag flown in East London
« on: August 07, 2014, 04:15:23 PM »

1986
The Flood / Wat do? Friend is blaming me for a ruined painting
« on: August 07, 2014, 01:21:52 PM »
So, basically, last night at a party a painting was ruined when somebody spilled something over it. There are three possible culprits, with me being the least likely one to be responsible.

My friend, however, keeps asking me what I'm going to do about it because her parents get back on Saturday. So, what do I do? I'm fairly certain I'm not responsible for it, so I don't see why I should take any of the ramifications. Not to mention, she held the party without her parents permission in the first place.

1988
The Flood / 9 things only 90s kids will understand
« on: August 07, 2014, 11:54:08 AM »
1 - Seeing the first internal combustion automobile. Young'ins today will never live in a world where they didn't exist.

2 - Newsboys striking for fair wages laws. Kids today are nancies, not having to fight for their living.

3 - Living without electricity. We did just fine readin' by candlelight and using old-fashioned fire for all our necessities.

4 - Having your father die in the Gold Rush. Kids today have their fathers go halfway around the World today, ours did it just fine here.

5 - Only spoiled 1910s brats play with Lincoln Logs, we had to make do with a hoop-and-stick.

6 - Living in a Union of just forty-four states. Now there's forty-eight.

7 - Remembering William McKinley as President. This yellow-belly Harding will probably be around for a while once you 1910s kids start votin'.

8 - Remembering when the womenfolk, rightfully, weren't allowed to vote.

9 - Havin' to use photograph cylinders.

1989
Serious / Just did a political party test on my grandma
« on: August 07, 2014, 11:01:45 AM »
After voting labour all her life she came out with a 7% match rate for them. . .

And an 84% match rate for the Conservatives.

Looks like I'm not a Rightist in a family of Leftists, then.

1990
The Flood / So, I did something bad and could end up getting arrested
« on: August 07, 2014, 07:51:04 AM »
Last night, while at a party, I used one of my friends phones to prank call two people (so they wouldn't recognise the number). The first person I rang happens to be dating a French guy in Bordeaux, so I rang up pretending to be an Interpol agent to tell her that he was caught trying to smuggle heroin.

I called the second person, and told them that their IP address was being monitored and that we found evidence of child porn on his system, and that a criminal case has been opened against him and he would be brought in for questioning soon.

Somebody at the party spilled the beans and told them both it was me, and they are pissed. Turns out the impersonation of a police officer is actually quite a serious crime.

1991
The Flood / A moth just jumped on me
« on: August 06, 2014, 08:20:30 PM »
I absolutely shit myself.

1992
Serious / Israel > Hamas
« on: August 06, 2014, 07:10:58 PM »

1993
The Flood / Some British police now carrying guns
« on: August 06, 2014, 09:40:09 AM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28656324

In a little-noticed move, a small number of police officers are now routinely carrying sidearms while on patrol in much of Scotland - the first in the UK outside Northern Ireland to do so. How did this come about, and does it alter the relationship between the constabulary and the public?

Saturday night in Inverness. Outside a McDonald's restaurant, a scuffle between two men breaks out. Three police officers arrive to intervene. So far, so mundane.

Except that strapped around the hips of each of the policemen approaching the brawl is a holstered Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol.

It's a sight that once would have been unthinkable. In this corner of the Scottish Highlands - an area with one of the lowest crime rates in the UK - the officers showing up to a relatively workaday disturbance are armed.

Although every police force has a firearms unit, for decades it has been an article of faith that in the mainland UK, almost uniquely among major industrialised nations, the police do not carry guns as a matter of course.

But with little fanfare at first, a policy of routinely allowing specialist officers to wear sidearms as they walk the streets of Scotland has come into being.

1994
The Flood / I will also answer any question with TOTAL honesty
« on: August 05, 2014, 07:31:15 PM »
shoot

1995
The Flood / My dog keeps talking about me behind my back
« on: August 05, 2014, 10:33:10 AM »
I don't know whether I should confront him about it.

1996
The Flood / Why can't we just spell phonetically?
« on: August 05, 2014, 09:40:25 AM »
it wud b so much eesier

1997
Serious / Are you a hypocrite? Take the test!
« on: August 04, 2014, 02:34:09 PM »
I'm going to make two lists. One will be a set of propositions which you will (most likely) support and believe in. The second list will be a set of beliefs. If you accept an initial proposition, and then go on to simultaneously hold one of the corresponding beliefs - you're a hypocrite.

Propositions:
1 - You support reliable sources of clean energy.
2 - You think "dirty" forms of energy generation should be replaced.
3 - You think it's a problem that billions of people go hungry throughout the world.
4 - You think the West should make an effort to help the Rest get out of poverty.
5 - You think greenhouses gases are heating up the Earth, and we need to try and slow or stop global warming.
6 - You think wages should be higher. 
7 - You think we should have the most efficient healthcare system possible .

Contradictory beliefs:
1 - You oppose nuclear energy.
2 - You oppose fracking.
3 - You oppose genetically modified crops.
4 - You support buying food locally; you oppose sweatshops.
5 - You oppose efforts to dump iron sulphate in the ocean.
6 - You think corporations should be taxed.
7 - You oppose the use of private services.

1998
Serious / Noam Chomsky is an idiot
« on: August 04, 2014, 02:05:31 PM »
Who do you think is an idiot.

1999
Serious / Let's see how stupid some people are (hint: very)
« on: August 03, 2014, 03:45:49 PM »
All data taken from poll results of isidewith.com; I'll only use examples where the stupid opinion is within the majority. I will do UK and US polls (I realise some of these will be more controversial than others). Yes, the judgement of stupidity is, in itself, an opinion. I'll put really controversial ones in italics. Particularly egregious statistics will be emboldened.

UK:
- 63% of voters (79,225) think we shouldn't renew our Trident nuclear weapons system.
- 67% of voters (510,605) think we should enact a stricter immigration policy. 9% of the total, however, think we should admit high-skilled workers, so not all bad.
- 73% of voters (329,513) think we shouldn't leave the EU.
- 50% of voters (375,458) think we should decrease foreign aid spending.
- 50% of voters (378,068) think the NHS shouldn't use private services.
- 63% of voters (320,081) think the government shouldn't make spending cuts.
- 58% of voters (297,510) think we should raise corporation tax.
- 61% of voters (293,301) don't support the use of hydraulic fracking.
- 60% of voters (454,913) think we should abolish tuition fees.
- 65% of voters (492,711) are against the establishment of free schools.
- 62% of voters (466,616) are against the legality of zero-hour contracts.
- 53% of voters (399,498) are for the construction of HS2.
- 52% of voters (391,001) are against the declaration of the London Underground as an essential service.

US:
- 52% of voters (4,706,659) think the government should expand NASA's budget.
- 46% of voters (4,327,247; not a majority, but close enough) support Obamacare.
- 73% of voters (5,959,878) support the death penalty.
- 69% of voters (305,699) think immigrants should be required to learn English.
- 67% of voters (369,087) support tougher immigration controls.
- 81% of voters (788,719) support term limits.
- 53% of voters (4,089,920) support the Patriot Act.
- 52% of voters (1,963,582) are against decriminalising drug use.

- 55% of voters (208,318) don't think the government should give immunity to Edward Snowden.
- 78% of voters (3,051,272) think able-bodied adults on welfare should be forced to work.
- 60% of voters (5,723,850) support a rise in the minimum wage.
- 77% of voters (762,252) think Wall Street execs. should be criminally liable for the 2008 financial crisis.
- 57% of voters (2,493,077) think the government should subsidise farmers.
- 62% of voters (6,232,450) think America should expand off-shore drilling.
- 65% of voters (1,715,066) think the government should subsidise wind power.

2000
The Flood / I'm a nihilist, AMA me anything
« on: August 02, 2014, 08:21:08 PM »
My philosophies, unless political, don't usually come up in conversation with anybody.

So, I guess a change of pace would be interesting for me. I am a nihilist, so ask me anything relating to that I guess.

A quick definition for the uninformed:
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Nihilism (/?na?.?l?z?m/ or /?ni?.?l?z?m/; from the Latin nihil, nothing) is a philosophical doctrine that suggests the negation of one or more reputedly meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism, which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value.[1] Moral nihilists assert that morality does not inherently exist, and that any established moral values are abstractly contrived. Nihilism can also take epistemological or ontological/metaphysical forms, meaning respectively that, in some aspect, knowledge is not possible, or that reality does not actually exist.

2001
The Flood / Favourite quote of all time
« on: August 02, 2014, 08:02:01 PM »
Mine is from T.S. Eliot's poem, The Hollow Men:

"This is the way the World ends, not with a bang but a whimper".

Gets me every time.

2002
Serious / There are good and bad forms of taxation
« on: August 02, 2014, 06:54:24 PM »
Bad forms of taxation:
- Corporation tax
- Inheritance tax
- Transfer or Transaction tax
- Wealth tax
- Excise tax
- Tariffs

Okay forms of taxation:
- Income tax
- Capital gains
- Property tax

Pretty boss forms of taxation:
- Negative income tax
- Land value tax
- Consumption tax

Just food for thought, really. A lot of the discussion regarding taxation doesn't seem to take into account that some forms of taxation are vastly superior to others. The solution? Do away with the bad ones.

2003
The Flood / Thank fuck I was having withdrawal symptoms.
« on: August 02, 2014, 06:29:00 PM »
*sigh*

Everything's okay now.

2004
Serious / England is an Orwellian dystopia
« on: August 01, 2014, 03:48:33 PM »


What the fuck, MPS?

2005
I was debating whether or not to stick this here, or the Serious board, but I want a general over-view of how people think and the information they approach. This isn't a discussion about personal beliefs or the validity of such, just your willingness to approach sources which may disagree with you (so things like newspapers, forums, magazines, videos, anything).

So, do you keep to sources already within your sphere, or do you look around for more perspective?

There are three immediate examples which come to mind for me: the BBC, the Daily Telegraph and Stefan Molyneux.


2006
The Flood / Does anybody remember Crimson?
« on: July 30, 2014, 05:28:54 PM »
The engineering student?

Fucking Christ he was a barrel of laughs.

2007
The Flood / Six reasons murder should be legalised
« on: July 30, 2014, 03:33:18 PM »
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1. Some people, like O. J. Simpson, are able to find good enough lawyers to get them acquitted if they commit a murder. This is an economic injustice which needs to be rectified. So murder should be legalized so that everyone, rich or poor, can knock people off without being punished.


2. The illegality of murder means that people are depending on the government, instead of on themselves, to protect their lives. Such government dependence is a bad thing, and would be eliminated if murder were legalized.

3. The unborn, since Roe. V. Wade, can be murdered at will. But protecting the lives of people after they are born is birth discrimination. Therefore, murder should be legalized.

4. ?Thou shalt not kill? is a religious commandment, and to enforce it as law it to impose religion on the public. Since church and state should be separate, and the imposition of religion by government is unconstitutional, murder should be legalized.

5. Government?s protection of people?s lives, instead of letting those who allow themselves to be murdered to die, weakens the gene pool. So we should legalize murder and let natural selection do its job.

6. The anti-natalist philosopher David Benatar has argued that it is better for people if they were never born. Legalizing murder will allow people to improve the lives of the victims.

Reading that gave me fucking brain cancer.

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