Fail Quotes

[MrBogosity]

http://www.cracked.com/article_20841_5-things-i-learned-as-cop-that-movies-wont-show-you.html
Something tells me this is going to be a fail. Going just by the titles:
5) You signed up for it knowing it.  Cry me a river.  Just shows they're ineffective where they're 'needed' most.
4) So?
3) Meh.
2) Yeah, that's what happens when people are in a stressful situation like being under duress, OP.  And yes according to my own criminal justice professor, the presence of a police officer is force.
With Hawkeye pointing out:  "Myth: Cops use their emergency lights whenever they want, often just to have an excuse to break traffic laws.
Truth: Vehicles log when an officer turns on his lights. So someone abusing this will have to explain to an annoyed fleet sergeant why he keeps running down his batteries for no reason."
Horseshit.  We've all seen cops do this.
1) See my response to 2. Again, cry me a river.  You mean some people actually don't react well to being herded around like cattle?  Say it ain't so!  And besides, cops dish out quite a bit of that too.

Aren't most of those things basically, "It's your *&$%ing JOB!!!" territory?

[Travis Retriever]

Aren't most of those things basically, "It's your *&$%ing JOB!!!" territory?

If the "it" in that quote is "being a subservient cattle" then yeah, sounds about right.

[MrBogosity]

http://www.cracked.com/article_20753_5-movie-happy-endings-that-are-about-to-go-horribly-wrong.html
After getting a bit through 4, I stopped reading.  It's basically just the technological unemployment bit of "yes, but since they're 10 times more efficient they could still lay off 80% of their workers and still double production"  As if workers are the ONLY cost/source of production?  Really? snore.
And as Hawkeye pointed out:
"That's all well and good, but the monster world doesn't exactly appear to be in the grips of an energy crisis."
Uh...yes they were.  They said this many times.

Indeed. I call BS on the whole of that one. Besides, look at how hurried everyone was to get screams at the beginning, and how relaxed they were getting laughs at the end. And did you see the size of those canisters? Same pay for less work.

"And all of this is in a world where scream production was the center of their economy." Which now means they can DO SOMETHING ELSE. They can invent iPhones or whatever, and since they have nothing resembling a power crisis any more, there's not much standing in their way. One big problem the developing world has is lack of power; get power going and all sorts of progress happens.

I saw Django Unchained. First of all, he has GROSSLY overestimated the abilities of police in the antebellum south. Most places didn't even HAVE paid police! And as soon as he made it to another state he'd find what police there were to be FAR less interested in him. The only reason they kept getting runaway slaves is they had the US Marshals doing it for them.

And Django vs Marshals is a sequel I'd LOVE to see!

As for the Dementors, they were only able to do what they did because of Voldemort. Once he's gone, they went back to being minor annoyances.

[MrBogosity]

If the "it" in that quote is "being a subservient cattle" then yeah, sounds about right.

No, I mean, isn't it a policeman's job to do the very things he was complaining about?

[Travis Retriever]

No, I mean, isn't it a policeman's job to do the very things he was complaining about?

Ah.  That's a good point.  And yeah, I kinda don't have sympathy for him given that he signed up for it.  I mean, would it kill some people to do a little research, or maybe talk to those in the field before signing up?  It's what I did before I graduated.  And of course, the whole police brutality stuff and so on.
Ironic that they always throw the "I'm just doing my job!" crap at you when you complain about their horseshit.  As if that somehow is supposed to make it better, so of course they never accept it both ways.

[Travis Retriever]

Indeed. I call BS on the whole of that one. Besides, look at how hurried everyone was to get screams at the beginning, and how relaxed they were getting laughs at the end. And did you see the size of those canisters? Same pay for less work.

"And all of this is in a world where scream production was the center of their economy." Which now means they can DO SOMETHING ELSE. They can invent iPhones or whatever, and since they have nothing resembling a power crisis any more, there's not much standing in their way. One big problem the developing world has is lack of power; get power going and all sorts of progress happens.

I saw Django Unchained. First of all, he has GROSSLY overestimated the abilities of police in the antebellum south. Most places didn't even HAVE paid police! And as soon as he made it to another state he'd find what police there were to be FAR less interested in him. The only reason they kept getting runaway slaves is they had the US Marshals doing it for them.

And Django vs Marshals is a sequel I'd LOVE to see!

As for the Dementors, they were only able to do what they did because of Voldemort. Once he's gone, they went back to being minor annoyances.

Actually, from what I could tell, the monsters society is a tad more advanced than the human society.  Still doesn't matter though--it's a broken window fallacy to think more power would be terrible.

I didn't see either of those movies, but given the quality of number 4, I figured they might also be fails.

[Travis Retriever]

More FA fail, yay!
So context, this one's about a dude being arrested for bestiality and his best friend defending him (the OP is neither, he's just sharing the event).
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5389827/
Specifically the first/top comment:

This is my response

It doesn't matter if he waited until she was in heat. Being in heat isn't emotion, it isn't consent. It's just the dogs natural design. Basically, all he's doing is taking advantage of a dog's instincts.

We can't label everything as right just because it "feels good."
That's like a killer picking off someone who's suicidal. They both crave the end result but that doesn't make it right.

What we have here is a failure to distinct right from wrong. Hiding behind terms such as "love" and "respect." They say they see things clearly but a term comes to mind, "a crazy person doesn't know they're crazy."

Now I feel for the dude, don't get me wrong but it's his own fault for putting himself in that position. Mixing up a pet's affection for love is childish to say the least. When an animal is introduced to the family, it usually bonds with the primary caregiver or the first person to contact with it making that person it's alpha or master. It'll tend to favor this person above any person in the household. It may show more obedience, affection, etc. To mistake this for love is just, wrong.

There are many kinds of love. Just because you love a family member doesn't mean you should have a sexual relationship with any of them. Just because someone loves pizza doesn't mean he should wrap it around his sausage and make it a meat lovers. (haha now i've gotta wonder if someone's done that ROFL)

Something my English teacher once told my class, some quote from a writer or philosopher "don't love something too much, or else it will be taken away." Just something I thought i'd share cause this incident made me think of that.

Emphasis added by me.
By that logic if a woman never actually says yes, but just uses body language, it's rape.
Also, I once asked Shane for his thoughts on his issue via PM on YouTube, and I liked that answer.  Until animals become able to say "no" why should it be a crime/immoral? (something like that...I'm big time paraphrasing here).  As Stefan has pointed out, you can't really apply rules of morality meant for humans to animals because said rules break down.  So his example of a serial killer murdering a suicidal person falls apart at the seams.
Finally, I always found it a bit odd that people are okay with killing animals 'en masse for food, yet cringe and get all bent out of shape when even the idea of letting people fuck them comes to mind.  I could understand if the OP was a vegan or vegetarian making that argument.  At least they'd have integrity.  But from what I can tell, that just ain't so.

[ArtemisVale]

[ArtemisVale]

https://www.facebook.com/SLANCAP

This page still exist. Sometimes i wonder why i stay on facebook.

[BlameThe1st]

I created this post on Tumblr yesterday and the result was a SQUEE-storm of feminist trolls and spammers. Feel free to read the reblogs and replies if you dare. But perhaps the most failtastic quote has to be some random loser creating this image:



You lot feel free to tear it apart. I have more important things to do than address an internet troll.

[Travis Retriever]

I created this post on Tumblr yesterday and the result was a SQUEE-storm of feminist trolls and spammers. Feel free to read the reblogs and replies if you dare. But perhaps the most failtastic quote has to be some random loser creating this image:



You lot feel free to tear it apart. I have more important things to do than address an internet troll.

So do I to be honest. As soon as I saw the link saying, "rape culture quotes to remember" I knew it wasn't even worth the read.

[nilecroc]

So do I to be honest. As soon as I saw the link saying, "rape culture quotes to remember" I knew it wasn't even worth the read.

Are white knights' posts ever worth reading?

[Ibrahim90]

Yeah...line between being honest and just being a dick.  And the OP crossed it.

he may have, but I'm unfazed by it. Then again, I come from a culture where we have jokes like this one--which has two intended (equally unpleasant) implications:

Once a girl came back home crying to her waiting father--five hours late. the father asks annoyed: "where have you been?". the girl replies, weeping: "Daddy, daddy, I was gang-raped!" the father shot back "heh, the whole procedures is about an hour long, then where the hell did you go?

[AnCap Dave]

White privilege is the liberal equivalent to original sin.

[Travis Retriever]

White privilege is the liberal equivalent to original sin.

The sentence itself you used to describe that article is a fav quote though.
Kinda makes me want to rename the "Original Sin Fallacy" to  the "White Privilege Fallacy" when dealing with feminists.