The Ranting Room

6'6" with a perm?

Is that Ben?

I agree with darqdean about people in the pictures.  I was so annoyed last time I went, because a bunch of twonks to the side of me were busy playing with their mobile phones AND people were running to the lavs every so often!

The-Bullet wrote: Heavyfreight wrote: If you connect your DVD player to a monitor and speakers, i.e. nothing that has a TV receiver in it (most VHSplayers do) then you don't technically need a licence.  You can also get around the licence by using a battery set with a portable aerial. I think a PC with an internet connection make you liable also

1800iareyay wrote: I swear if I go to one more R-rated movie and hear some kid crying I'm going to go to jail. If you can't find a sitter, you stay home. Those are the rules. It's not my fault you think condoms are weird. If you don't take your little failure-spawn out of the theater right now I'll punt it out. Then I'll go to jail, because everyone will have used their  cell phone cameras to document my "crime". People should have to fill out an application to have children

Absolutely! Such an application form should use as many long words as possible in its questions, and the required answers should have to be no shorter than 200 words; that will sort those who should and those who shouldn't have children -

People: we must desist from breeding the planet stupid; those who should have children are more and more choosing not to, whereas the ICBMs* continue to expand the population exponentially




*Irretrievably Common Breeding Machines

darqdean wrote: eek! what you are saying sounds 100% true on face value, but you are suggesting tantamount to eugenics - and that's scary to the power 100!

I have to say I agree - I never liked anything after they released 'Sweet Dreams'

darqdean wrote: People aren't born stupid - their lifestyle, environment, education and society makes them stupid. We are still living in a victorian world geared to creating worker-drones in a post-industrial age that does not need them.

There's also the argument that in the past there would be a large mechanised war every 20 years or so to 'thin' the population down a little - who'd be the ones on the front lines...? The working classes - millions of them...

Of course I'm not seriously advocating eugenics (the whole point of this thread is irrational ranting after all ) and of course you're right in that social conditioning & nurture rather than nature creates what could loosely be referred to as the red-top tabloid classes... they just get on my nerves, that's all

I'm not a snob, honest...

Who's Belinda?   Is Jim secretly hiding his true identity?

darqdean wrote: Jim Garten wrote: 1800iareyay wrote: I swear if I go to one more R-rated movie and hear some kid crying I'm going to go to jail. If you can't find a sitter, you stay home. Those are the rules. It's not my fault you think condoms are weird. If you don't take your little failure-spawn out of the theater right now I'll punt it out. Then I'll go to jail, because everyone will have used their  cell phone cameras to document my "crime". People should have to fill out an application to have children Absolutely! Such an application form should use as many long words as possible in its questions, and the required answers should have to be no shorter than 200 words; that will sort those who should and those who shouldn't have children - People: we must desist from breeding the planet stupid; those who should have children are more and more choosing not to, whereas the ICBMs* continue to expand the population exponentially *Irretrievably Common Breeding Machines eek! what you are saying sounds100% true on face value, but you are suggesting tantamount to eugenics - and that's scary to the power 100!   People aren't born stupid - their lifestyle, environment, education and society makes them stupid. We are still living in a victorian world geared to creating worker-drones in a post-industrial age that does not need them.

People aren't born stupid, but if they're being dragged into R-rated films at an early age, it doesn't bode well. These are the kids who never read and their parents let them get away with everything, so that when they hit the real world they fail miserably.

Shakespeare wrote: So how about those salt shakers, eh?

God, those shakers! You clean them. then you leave them for three  days to dry, then you put salt in them, and it sticks because it's still wet. What kind of Hanukkah  is that? "Yea, and the shaker was wet for eight days, and the Israelites did praise the Lord". Then we they do work, you barely tip the thing and a volcano of sodium erupts like Mt. Vesuvius. Now, my hands are gonna shake for a week just because I tipped it one half degree too far. Why can't some engineer fix that . All you have to do is make the holes smaller! How hard is that? No wonder we can't build a proper levee for New Orleans.

Does that satisfy you?


Edited by 1800iareyay - August 14 2007 at 10:25

call me Jake

Spongebob? Kids TV use to be great. I grew up with the Looney Tunes, as well as the golden age of Nickelodeon. Hey Arnold, Rugrats, Rocko's Modern Life, Ren and Stimpy, and the king of kings, Doug. Now kids are fed processed crap that has none of the masterful subtlety of those shows (Rocko has so much adult humor it isn't funny. Actually, it is, it's hilarious). The only exception is the killer Fairly Oddparents, which is the only show that can stand up to those titans. Spongebob occasionally is funny, but the rest of Nick's programming has been creatively castrated by parents who are so afraid that their children might understand a well hidden adult joke and then the kids' heads'll explode. Morons. this is why people need to fill out applications to have kids.

I'm rather proud of how I brought this full circle

NaturalScience wrote: Joke= "eugenics" sounds like "eurythmics"

I got the joke...

I just didn't know they'd done a song called Belinda.