In the desperate search for folk to look down on, whom will we hate next?

[IcePickFreak]

People who are clueless on the road.

Just today I was on the expressway and went to move over to the right after an interchange. 3 miles with my right blinker on and the idiot hanging in my right "blind" spot just hung right there. If I sped up when there was actually room, he would, if I slowed down he would... and of course five cars would pile in front of me. Finally I played the same game of just being oblivious to other cars on the road and moved over slightly like I couldn't see him. Was totally a dick move, but he slowed down quick so I could actually get over just in time to catch my exit. Of course I got the complimentary honk and bright light flash. Whatever, there's a turn signal marker on my front fender behind the front wheel so he would of definitely seen that one if he was too far forward for the rear one.

How can people drive for 10+ years and still be totally incompetent at it?

 

[sactoking]

If I knew who I would hate tomorrow, I'd already be hating them today.

 

[TecHNooB]

i hate everyone equally ()🙂

 

[BoomerD]

Yeah, FUCK Hemingway!

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That's actually a proper use of "whom." Hate not found.

People who are clueless on the road.

Just today I was on the expressway and went to move over to the right after an interchange. 3 miles with my right blinker on and the idiot hanging in my right "blind" spot just hung right there. If I sped up when there was actually room, he would, if I slowed down he would... and of course five cars would pile in front of me. Finally I played the same game of just being oblivious to other cars on the road and moved over slightly like I couldn't see him. Was totally a dick move, but he slowed down quick so I could actually get over just in time to catch my exit. Of course I got the complimentary honk and bright light flash. Whatever, there's a turn signal marker on my front fender behind the front wheel so he would of definitely seen that one if he was too far forward for the rear one.

How can people drive for 10+ years and still be totally incompetent at it?

heh-heh...I see whachoo did...

 

[ahenkel]

I've decided to hate people with more than the standard number of fingers or toes. Freaks of nature.

 

[BoberFett]

Moonie, I thought you already stated you want all Republicans dead? Seems you've already got your hate staked out.

 

[JulesMaximus]

IF your ramblings hold weight, i think it wont be a race or religion but a political group people will rage against.

Welcome to the last 20 years...might I interest you in a cup of rush limbaugh tea or glenn beck sparkling water or how about some keith olbermann koolaide?

 

[Ichinisan]

I'm waiting for the day when the unemployed in great numbers go looking for a job with a gun.

The sword of God is the empty bellies of the poor. A saying

This fucking attitude of entitlement really pisses me off. In the days before big governments and huge societies...you had to make your own way. If you wanted wealth, you had to produce a good or a service yourself...something that other people would want to pay for. If you did well, you might hire some help and they would be privileged to work with you and mutually benefit. If they do something to fuck it up, they're gone. If "employees" want prosperity, they'd have to stop working for you and start working for themselves.

"Waaah! Why do people think I'm worthless unless I work [for someone else]?" Work for yourself. Working for someone else is a privilege and shouldn't necessarily feed a sense of personal pride. We should learn to stop expecting privilege and make our own opportunity. Working for yourself is a right that we should all respect. Though gov't regulation blocks a LOT of opportunities, anyone who THINKS and WORKS can prosper.

You have a job? Great. You don't have a job? That's no reason to stop working.

 

[JulesMaximus]

This fucking entitlement culture really pisses me off. In the days before big governments and huge societies...you had to make your own way. If you wanted wealth, you had to produce a good or a service yourself...something that other people would want to pay for.

"People think I'm worthless unless I work for someone else." No. Work for yourself. Working for someone else is a privilege that we should learn not to expect. Working for yourself is a right that we should all respect.

Yeah, and back then you had people who were willing to buy those goods and services. Now everyone just goes to walmart.

It's not as though you can go out and even start a farm in this country and make a living at it because only a handful of huge corporations control our entire food supply and entire farming industry. Not to mention healthcare...what do you do when you get sick if you have no insurance? Unless you're lucky, work hard, don't get hurt, have a great idea, or have a real job to fall back on, what chance do you really stand "working for yourself?"

This country is completely fucked up.

 

[Corn]

Bigotry is constantly on the move. We hated blacks and Jews and now we're starting to lose gays. The Moooooslams have taken over lately as places to dump our garbage, but they're not really all that common to keep our hard ons up. No, those of us who hate ourselves and need somebody handy to dump on to make ourselves feel better have discovered a new target to look down on as being as worthless as we ourselves feel. And it is the long termed unemployed. Right, those most recently kicked in the ass by our competative structured society are now seen as probable losers. Why else wouldn't they have a job or have been let go. If they were worth anything they would still be working.

So now those who have been out of a job for a bit get to stay that way.

And imagine the misery this will bring, as if that weren't the real idea.

Man oh man, I feel so good because I'm a winner. I work because I'm worthy and I'm worthy because I work.

I'm waiting for the day when the unemployed in great numbers go looking for a job with a gun.

The sword of God is the empty bellies of the poor. A saying

Well, witnessing your desire for all Republicans to hurry up and die a month or so back, I'd say the target of your bigotry is clear. Perhaps you shouldn't be a hypocrite when giving your sermons, but then it is what we have come to expect.

[edit] Looks like Bober beat me to the punch.

 

[Ichinisan]

Yeah, and back then you had people who were willing to buy those goods and services. Now everyone just goes to walmart.

Sam Walton did it.

Do something else. Have artists stopped making music? Successful ideas are innovative enough to create a new "need" that you're in a position to satisfy.

It's not as though you can go out and even start a farm in this country and make a living at it because only a handful of huge corporations control our entire food supply and entire farming industry. Not to mention healthcare...what do you do when you get sick if you have no insurance? Unless you're lucky, work hard, don't get hurt, have a great idea, or have a real job to fall back on, what chance do you really stand "working for yourself?"

This country is completely fucked up.

Big gov't subsidies helped create this condition. A lotta good that's done, yessiree!

 

[Ichinisan]

Y'know what I'd do if I lost my job right now?

I've got a few ideas knocking around for iDevice apps to satisfy needs people don't yet know about. I might make a TON of money...I might not. If that doesn't work out, I'll stop turning down all the people begging me to fix their computers and connect their A/V equipment. If that doesn't work, I'll do something else.

My friend works a mind-numbing job (insurance sales), has 3 kids, an illegal immigrant wife (limiting the dual-income options). He refuses to accept a welfare check, but needed more money to support his family. About 1.5 years ago, he decided to offer PC repair and home networking services, even though he didn't know much at all about it (yeah, he was THAT GUY). He worked HARD and sought my advice constantly. Now he has so much work, he's spent the last 2 months pondering how he should quit his day-job because he makes more money from his side work. He doesn't actively advertise. He has more business than he can handle just from repeat customers and word-of-mouth.

"I don't work because I don't have a job. People probably think I'm worthless." If that's your attitude...maybe you ARE worthless!

 

[Moonbeam]

Who to look down on? I see you answered yourself by posting in this forum. You must really hate yourself.

Some folk are just so clever.

 

[Moonbeam]

Moonie,

This thread needs a poll. 😛

Don't do polls, don't vote in them.

 

[zokudu]

I thought they were working on fat people in here

 

[Moonbeam]

Alright, unlike some of your other posts where I have had much to say in disagreement, I have to completely agree with the basic message of your post.

My understanding of the vast history that surrounds current and previous species in the primate family tree, I unfortunately acknowledge the fact that we may be doomed due to the instincts in our bloodline.

We are tribal; not only have we been so tribal we fight - for blood and glory - among our own blood, many species in our lineage went to the same excessive lengths to prove worthiness and power. Often it was limited to fights for power in the Us group, but great feuds had been fueled over territorial ownership.

We are excessively tribal, and not only do we naturally assign groups to those outside of our main tribal community, we make and segregate groups within our larger tribe. We make many groups.

We have taken those small groups and made massive ones, thanks to our massive stance across the globe and the inter-connectedness of the greater community at large; that means hole continents can, at some level, feel as if they are in the same big tribal family. But we make our own mini-tribes down to the individual, and that can cause quite a mess.

And we have made such fine weapons to do our bidding; we sure have progressed since the days of large bones. 😉

It'd be quite the coming of age tale if we can actually design out those tendencies through genetic engineering. But wait... some zealots will argue that is tampering with God's perfect creation. We're a fucked up mess of an animal, I can't see how anyone can argue otherwise. I mean shit, our spines are a disgrace for an upright bipedal creature.

And that's on top of the mess in our heads. We're just resourceful little bastards that won't stay down. As a collective species, we have Napoleon Syndrome - we suck at everything, so we make shit to help us do them, because dammit we're going to do everything anyway. Damn this Nature, we're gonna do what we want to do! 😀

Seriously, that about does it, if you want to describe the human species. Petulant little shits, the lot of 'em.

We weren't always that way, but we were far too curious, and far too stubborn. Once we got a few positive results thanks to our adventures in curiosity, we got hooked. Everything is the holy grail, one that leads us onto a journey to find the next holy grail. We be sippin on that awesome, and dammit we want more!

I've said it before and I'll say it again, we need an alien species to come start some shit with us humans. We need Us and Them groups, it's what our genetics demand of us - and shit, I can't think of a better Them than some, well you know... other species. We need an enemy that is not human, for that is the quickest way to the marvelous Glory Flag for Humanity, the one sure way to unite the entirety of our species, to drive them to work together on one goal: doing what we do best, inventing and employing ways to kill. A Battle for Earth at least focuses all our pent up demand to save something.
And the other thing is to get our asses off this rock, at least some of us. After we colonize space for awhile, we'll eventually settle back into fighting our brothers, but at least it'll be whole colonies fighting colonies, so if we destroy Earth it won't be certain doom for everything we know.

I know nothing and have a lot less to say that I am sure of. You don't know anything either but I don't think you know it.

 

[BudAshes]

Some folk are just so clever.

Some folks 'll never lose a toe, but then again some folks 'll.

 

[Moonbeam]

"I'm waiting for the day when the unemployed in great numbers go looking for a job with a gun."

So you are waiting for the day when people kill others for a job?

You are one warped individual.

I am also waiting for the day I die. What the hell is the matter with you. How does waiting translate in to bated anticipation. I am talking about what I see as inexorable and ineluctable, MKay?

 

[Moonbeam]

Moonie, I thought you already stated you want all Republicans dead? Seems you've already got your hate staked out.

You thought that because what you call thinking isn't. I never said any such think. I said that when the curent crop of conservative idoits die off the country will be in a better place. That is a fact, not a wish or an aim.

I can't wait till I can't ever feel any pain. But I will wait anyway.

 

[Moonbeam]

This fucking attitude of entitlement really pisses me off. In the days before big governments and huge societies...you had to make your own way. If you wanted wealth, you had to produce a good or a service yourself...something that other people would want to pay for. If you did well, you might hire some help and they would be privileged to work with you and mutually benefit. If they do something to fuck it up, they're gone. If "employees" want prosperity, they'd have to stop working for you and start working for themselves.

"Waaah! Why do people think I'm worthless unless I work [for someone else]?" Work for yourself. Working for someone else is a privilege and shouldn't necessarily feed a sense of personal pride. We should learn to stop expecting privilege and make our own opportunity. Working for yourself is a right that we should all respect. Though gov't regulation blocks a LOT of opportunities, anyone who THINKS and WORKS can prosper.

You have a job? Great. You don't have a job? That's no reason to stop working.

I bet your best sex is with yourself. Such a great imagination. The starving don't work very well.

 

[Moonbeam]

Well, witnessing your desire for all Republicans to hurry up and die a month or so back, I'd say the target of your bigotry is clear. Perhaps you shouldn't be a hypocrite when giving your sermons, but then it is what we have come to expect.

[edit] Looks like Bober beat me to the punch.

Another idiot that heard what was not said but what he wanted to hear. Nice.

 

[Moonbeam]

Y'know what I'd do if I lost my job right now?

I've got a few ideas knocking around for iDevice apps to satisfy needs people don't yet know about. I might make a TON of money...I might not. If that doesn't work out, I'll stop turning down all the people begging me to fix their computers and connect their A/V equipment. If that doesn't work, I'll do something else.

My friend works a mind-numbing job (insurance sales), has 3 kids, an illegal immigrant wife (limiting the dual-income options). He refuses to accept a welfare check, but needed more money to support his family. About 1.5 years ago, he decided to offer PC repair and home networking, even though he didn't know much at all about it (yeah, he was THAT GUY). He worked HARD and sought my advice constantly. Now he has so much work, he's spent the last 2 months pondering how he should quit his day-job because he makes more money from his side work. He doesn't actively advertise. He has more business than he can handle just from repeat customers and word-of-mouth.

"I don't work because I don't have a job. People probably think I'm worthless." If that's your attitude...maybe you ARE worthless!

You're so cool. Wait till you have a stroke and can't tell your doctor from a hat.

 

[Ichinisan]

I bet your best sex is with yourself. Such a great imagination. The starving don't work very well.

Even if I'm an ugly troll, I could have sex with 3 different professional prostitutes. I'd pay them well. They'd spend that money on goods and services that stimulate (hurr hurr) the economy; and we ALL benefit. But the gov't restricts / regulates prostitution.

[rhetorical question]
Isn't gov't great for business?
[/rhetorical question]

 

[Ichinisan]

You're so cool. Wait till you have a stroke and can't tell your doctor from a hat.

If I was incapacitated, I'd rather be supported by my local community. Friends, family, church, town. At least they'd know I wasn't faking it. They'd also be more likely to come up with something I CAN do to be somewhat useful in my "disabled" state of existence. I know so many people who game the system and work while drawing a disability check. They aren't ashamed of it either. It's just sick.

The starving don't work very well.

In this country, with my work ethic...it should never reach that point. Our freedoms are not what they once were, but this is still the only place where hard work almost always leads to success.

 

[Corn]

You thought that because what you call thinking isn't. I never said any such think. I said that when the curent crop of conservative idoits die off the country will be in a better place. That is a fact, not a wish or an aim.

I can't wait till I can't ever feel any pain. But I will wait anyway.

As expected, not only are you a hypocrite, you are also a liar. Well done! http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2098799

The sooner all the asshole Republicans die the better. Only the brain dead sleep to the fact that the only reason there is any attention to a mosque at ground zero is because it can be used to gin up the dregs of society, the haters looking for something to hate so they can be turned out in their psychotic rage to vote for Rescumlicans. By this means do the shit of our society keep grasping for power. Only worthless scum who are anti-American oppose the religious freedoms of others granted by the Constitution. Scum loving Anti-Americans are what they are. Their bloom like a red tide is exactly why we were attacked. It is their hate and their fear that the terrorists sought to fester and boil like puss sacks in the flesh of this once great nation. You rotten worthless bastards are as worthless as the terrorists that attacked us, stupid, fearful, demented little cowards.