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Post by magoonie on Feb 4, 2013 22:44:52 GMT -5
I figured I would make a thread for us to complain about something either it being something that annoyed you that day or something that's annoyed you in the past and/or on a regular basis.
So I went to Wal Mart to pick up a few things and I parked in a handicapped spot. No I wasn't being a dick, I do have a placard. I don't know if I've talked about it here but I was in a couple of pretty bad car accidents that left my spine in really bad shape. I was in a wheelchair for a while, have had two spinal surgeries and now I live with pain every day of my life. I'm not saying this for sympathy just trying to show I'm not just some dick who thinks its fun to take the close spots. I also don't use it every time, I use it probably 1/10th of the time, it's there for bad days when I'm a bit more sore than usual.
Anyway I park, put my placard up and as I'm getting out of the truck I hear "sir! Sir!" and this older women who was parked in the spot next to mine was coming up to me. I thought she needed help with something so I waited and said "yes?", her: "you're not allowed to park there", I gave her a WTF look and said very slowly and condescending "I have a handicap sticker mam" and get ready to walk away. This bitch then grabs my arm and says "I know that's not yours! What did you do, steal it from your grandparents?" I then shot her a big fuck you look that got her to let go of my arm and said "Listen that is MY sticker, I'm going in the store now". As I'm walking away I hear her say "well I'm calling the cops so you better move your car!", I just yell out as I'm walking "you do that bitch" and flip her off. I heard her gasp in horror which was funny. When I got out of the store she was of course gone and no cops. Dumb busy body bitch, did she have nothing better to do than annoy the shit out of me?
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Post by Caliber on Feb 5, 2013 6:30:40 GMT -5
Haha, what the bloody hell?
First off, Wal-Mart has like 50 handicapped spots. I've never seen them fully used up. Second, even if I saw someone parking in a spot like that, that I was suspect of, I would NEVER say anything, just in case. I have a buddy who's got one of those placecards because when he was 16 he snapped his leg clean in half while playing football. So, over the years he's had multiple surgeries and part of his leg looks like a shark took a bite out of it. Every now and then it gets infected, he gets laid up, and limps around for a while. So, as far as I'm concerned he's earned the spot by having less than ideal living conditions.
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Post by parallax1978 on Feb 5, 2013 8:37:04 GMT -5
That is a typical "Greatest generation" or "Baby boomer" reaction. I did a report on their behavior for a sociology paper in college... it is very revealing to see how deeply insecure and angry these 2 generations are (particularly the baby boomers) at the idea of no longer having the world revolve around them that they take every opportunity to try and control people... all of this usually done without consciously deciding to do so. This goes for every day stuff like this and big stuff like public policy, and entertainment... they feel like they have to direct everything or some how face irrelevance.
Or to put it in less of a wordy over thought way... WHAT A CRANKY OLD BITCH
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Post by Caliber on Feb 5, 2013 9:20:11 GMT -5
The generation now is Greatest Generation, right? Because of how we over-inflate everyone's self-confidence. From the cradle we're telling them how fantastic they are, and Nike & Reebok are saying "It's your world!" type of shit. We have parents who don't disipline, and we're creating these ego-driven little monsters who need the absolute shit slapped out of them. It's funny too, this generation thinks it's the greatest when in fact it's the absolute worst. People are dumber than they've ever been, while paying lip-service to vanity in the worst way.
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Post by parallax1978 on Feb 5, 2013 14:48:45 GMT -5
No the "Greatest Generation" is the World War II generation. The current generation is the "Millennial Generation" they are parented by either "Generation X" or "Baby Boomer" as there is a lot of overlap and Generation X is far smaller than the aforementioned generations. This is part of the problem, the Baby Boom generation in particular is used to being catered to due to its size. Baby Boomers were already more likely to ingrain children with the inflated ego and other problems you describe due to the fact that they pass on the idea that the world revolves around them. Advertisers, corporations, and even politicians have seized upon this and altered the culture so as to further inflate the ego of these young punks creating the little douchebags you describe... that said Millennials tend to be a lot more opened minded to differences in race, gender, sexual orientation and other areas than are the previous generations... I'm sorry I know this is all dreadfully boring to most people but I find it fascinating. A good book on the subject that is more interesting and less preachy than I just was is "X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking" www.amazon.com/Saves-World-Generation-Everything-Sucking/dp/0143115154 |
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Post by Caliber on Feb 5, 2013 17:20:17 GMT -5
I don't see how anyone could find that boring. I find sociology and the over-all study of how people work, especially in a society to be extremely fascinating.
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Post by parallax1978 on Feb 5, 2013 19:37:42 GMT -5
Switching gears...
I know it is his site and he can do whatever he likes... but am I the only one that thinks the new design on the BoD is AWFUL and somewhere in the neighborhood of "Dogshit Ugly"?
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Post by acsativa on Feb 5, 2013 20:09:05 GMT -5
Switching gears... I know it is his site and he can do whatever he likes... but am I the only one that thinks the new design on the BoD is AWFUL and somewhere in the neighborhood of "Dogshit Ugly"? It's close to the same color as dogshit... I definitely liked the old look better. |
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Post by parallax1978 on Feb 5, 2013 20:47:05 GMT -5
It looks kind of amateurish also with the weird picture next to the big empty whiteness at the top.
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Post by The Fuj on Feb 5, 2013 22:58:34 GMT -5
I figured I would make a thread for us to complain about something either it being something that annoyed you that day or something that's annoyed you in the past and/or on a regular basis. So I went to Wal Mart to pick up a few things and I parked in a handicapped spot. No I wasn't being a dick, I do have a placard. I don't know if I've talked about it here but I was in a couple of pretty bad car accidents that left my spine in really bad shape. I was in a wheelchair for a while, have had two spinal surgeries and now I live with pain every day of my life. I'm not saying this for sympathy just trying to show I'm not just some dick who thinks its fun to take the close spots. I also don't use it every time, I use it probably 1/10th of the time, it's there for bad days when I'm a bit more sore than usual. Anyway I park, put my placard up and as I'm getting out of the truck I hear "sir! Sir!" and this older women who was parked in the spot next to mine was coming up to me. I thought she needed help with something so I waited and said "yes?", her: "you're not allowed to park there", I gave her a WTF look and said very slowly and condescending "I have a handicap sticker mam" and get ready to walk away. This bitch then grabs my arm and says "I know that's not yours! What did you do, steal it from your grandparents?" I then shot her a big fuck you look that got her to let go of my arm and said "Listen that is MY sticker, I'm going in the store now". As I'm walking away I hear her say "well I'm calling the cops so you better move your car!", I just yell out as I'm walking "you do that bitch" and flip her off. I heard her gasp in horror which was funny. When I got out of the store she was of course gone and no cops. Dumb busy body bitch, did she have nothing better to do than annoy the shit out of me? First of all, im sorry to hear about your accidents. Damn I cant even imagine. Secondly, fucking hilarious! Tell these old hoes to stay in they place. |
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Post by scottyflamingo on Feb 6, 2013 8:58:39 GMT -5
Switching gears... I know it is his site and he can do whatever he likes... but am I the only one that thinks the new design on the BoD is AWFUL and somewhere in the neighborhood of "Dogshit Ugly"? He's using that baby diareaha orange that AICN uses. I like the Pulp style poster instead of the old logo, but he should have at least chopped off the bottom that said he used a web tool to make it. Really he needs a rectangular pic/logo at the top. |
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Post by magoonie on Feb 6, 2013 9:36:02 GMT -5
Thanks Fuj, my life's pretty good though, yeah some days it gets bad but for the most part I do fine and I never let it get me down. I've seen other people with much less severe injuries than myself constantly complaining about how horrible their life is and I made a conscious decision never to become like that. It is pretty hilarious though, I even gave a chuckle as I heard her gasp. And I am for the most part a nice guy and would never call an old women a bitch but this bitch just pushed me too far and she honestly had it coming. Good to see you back round these parts Fuj, oh and I thought your 69cc of vagine joke was funny even if the blog gave you so many down votes.
Yeah Parallax, I've found that too that generation has that entitlement attitude and that their generation was the best, kinda just thought it was an old person thing. As generations go on thankfully there seems to be a more open minded ness all around. Although Caliber does have a point in that we've gone a little too far with "everybody gets a trophy, everybody's a winner" type mentality. Like you guys I find this type of stuff very interesting. There's a really great movie that kinda deals with the same kind of subjects called Freakonomics, you should check it out.
The new design on the Blog is a bit ugly to be honest, just has a bleh feel to it. I do like the poster on top though.
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Post by parallax1978 on Feb 6, 2013 10:21:36 GMT -5
Oh the "Everyone gets a trophy" thing drives me absolutely insane. I have a 5 year old step son who is enrolled in a karate class... and they do the "Participation Medal" award thing... you would think out of all social environments that a martial arts class would understand the work/reward model but I guess not. I think this is also a product of Baby Boomer egocentrism also though... they expect everything to be about them (or their child in this case) but since everyone can't legit be the best at everything society has responded by creating constructs wherein someone gets the reward without the effort of the risk... problem is that when these little shit heads get into the "real world" (as much as I hate that expression) and someone criticizes them or they don't get rewarded for accomplishing something that is expected of them they won't know how to react and are likely to quit or something.
I have watched some of Freaknomics and a lot of it is interesting but the part with the Sumo wrestlers is crazy boring... still it is a very interesting research topic and if we could apply some of the lesson learned from the data we could do a lot of good for our society.
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Post by Caliber on Feb 6, 2013 10:26:55 GMT -5
Apparently there are little leagues that are having games where they don't keep score. What the FUCK is that? How pathetic.
As for the new look of BOD, it looks sloppy. I dig the banner, but like Scotty said, he needs to cut off the stupid "made with pulp maker!" or whatever. I don't know why he didn't ask me to make a header. I make pretty simple graphics, but they work. Also, it needs to be rectangle.
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Post by scottyflamingo on Feb 6, 2013 20:10:11 GMT -5
Valentine's Day - Basically a guy gets NOTHING out of it. He HAS to drop a bunch of money on dinner and roses and if he doesn't he's screwed, but even if he does, he doesn't really get anything extra.
For once women should get off their ass on February 14th, make a nice all out HOMEMADE dinner, put on a slinky dress, eat with her man and then bust out some new lingere. Guys would be so blown away they'd be doing romantic shit for the next month.
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