Fail Quotes

[MrBogosity]

Speaking of Being Liberal!

And if you're worried about NSA spying, you're probably a reason we need it.

So in other words, if you aren't doing anything wrong, you don't need to worry.

[Travis Retriever]

And if you're worried about NSA spying, you're probably a reason we need it.

So in other words, if you aren't doing anything wrong, you don't need to worry.

And as our old friend Harry Browne pointed out, your innocence is no defense or protection.

[Travis Retriever]

Wee. More bogosity from mom.
"I saw something on 60 Minutes showing how disgusting farm raised salmon is.  So yeah, no more of that.  And I saw online showing there's disease outbreaks in that waiting to happen.  Disgusting."
Yeah, sorry, I'm not buying it.  I've been lied to by the 'pure all natural' hippy fucktards too many times. Haven't these assholes ever heard of the boy who cried wolf? A lot of these are the same people crying about how we *need* government to protect us from having people poison our food or whatever.  Am I to conclude they're lying therefore on at least one of those accounts?  And if it's different people, why don't they ever call EACH OTHER out on it? Group Think that would make even the freakin' Nazi and Communist Parties blush.

[MrBogosity]

Wee. More bogosity from mom.
"I saw something on 60 Minutes showing how disgusting farm raised salmon is.  So yeah, no more of that.  And I saw online showing there's disease outbreaks in that waiting to happen.  Disgusting."
Yeah, sorry, I'm not buying it.  I've been lied to by the 'pure all natural' hippy fucktards too many times. Haven't these assholes ever heard of the boy who cried wolf? A lot of these are the same people crying about how we *need* government to protect us from having people poison our food or whatever.  Am I to conclude they're lying therefore on at least one of those accounts?  And if it's different people, why don't they ever call EACH OTHER out on it? Group Think that would make even the freakin' Nazi and Communist Parties blush.

Not to mention: "Let's ban catching wild salmon!" "Hey, why are all the wild salmon dying out?"

[Dallas Wildman]

Wee. More bogosity from mom.
"I saw something on 60 Minutes showing how disgusting farm raised salmon is.  So yeah, no more of that.  And I saw online showing there's disease outbreaks in that waiting to happen.  Disgusting."
Yeah, sorry, I'm not buying it.  I've been lied to by the 'pure all natural' hippy fucktards too many times. Haven't these assholes ever heard of the boy who cried wolf? A lot of these are the same people crying about how we *need* government to protect us from having people poison our food or whatever.  Am I to conclude they're lying therefore on at least one of those accounts?  And if it's different people, why don't they ever call EACH OTHER out on it? Group Think that would make even the freakin' Nazi and Communist Parties blush.

I think 60 Minutes is already widely known for outrageous reporting.

[Travis Retriever]

 'A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.' -- Paul Simon
'Speak for yourself, you don't speak for all men.'--Me, responding to the above.

[Travis Retriever]

Well, since I got the above quote from this guy, I figured I'd post this here too.  Since I already posted that godawful 'truism' poster of his earlier.
http://www.furaffinity.net/full/8206819/

My thoughts on it/would-be comment on it, since I don't feel like starting a flame war with this bloke:
"Let me preface this by saying that I LOVE porn.  It is the primary reason I'm on this site and have been almost since it first started.  Folks, like it or not, this site is and has always been a furry smut archive (seriously, the first piece submitted was a furry inflation fetish art piece) and I wouldn't have it any other way.  I've always seen it as a furry alternative to DA--which isn't exclusively furry and doesn't allow adult art.  We tried going to y!Gallery, but not long after, they banned all furry art around the time FA was launched, so a lot of us headed to the latter instead.  So FA simply filled a much needed niche.  Sites like DA, FA, Facebook, Twitter, etc were also becoming the norm as it takes skill, time, patience and other things a LOT of us didn't have enough to spare of to create and maintain individual websites.
I never got the crying and drama surrounding this meme's paradigm.  I also never got the puritan pseudo superiority complex of those that don't draw porn because they think it's beneath them, dirty, unclean, or whatever.  Why not just simply draw both but on separate accounts, or what have you, or maybe just put the porn pieces in scraps, and the clean stuff in your main gallery, etc.  Or if you're on an art site that lets you place stuff in folders, make a folder for them instead.  But if you're going to be a scrub about this, fine. Just don't complain when the consequences hit you. It reminds me of someone trying to choose between majoring in Art/Music/etc instead of Engineering/Accounting/etc--they might love the former, but the latter is where the money is at.  Money with a job you can tolerate vs poor with job you might love more.  Research your options and choose one that fits you and stop whining about how the grass is greener in the one you don't have.
Granted, it's one thing if you don't want to be known for it offline as well as online, *that* I can understand, but it's part of that same puritan nonsense that's still so prevalent in this culture.  I mean, war/people being blown up in movies is okay and awesome etc, but a nip slip? Someone call the fucking coast guard! Gimme a break.  May that nonsense die out soon."

BTW, if you're wondering why I post the full page instead of just embedding the image, it's because I've tried that here with Furaffinity, but it is very unreliable with that website and often doesn't even work.

[Ibrahim90]

Not to mention: "Let's ban catching wild salmon!" "Hey, why are all the wild salmon dying out?"

yeah, I've seen that way too many times. Unless it's a beaver or a crocodilian (the latter born survivors), attempts at these bans tend to go tits up: just ask the Rhinos.


(actually, I had this fancy idea today, after watching a documentary on them (obviously not a serious thought, but idle speculation): why not plant beavers along several key rivers in the Maghreb and the Holy land? sounds weird at first, till you realize that Beavers seem to be a major factor to soil fertiility in the Americas--even in Arid regions like the Sierra Nevadas. there is a lot of empty space back home, and could use a few trees (which are native to the area--we cut them all down 1,000-2,000 years ago: we've had to live with the consequences ever since.). If we can expand them gradually into the desert, and reforest/fertilize the area, we could feed more people, and perhaps alleviate (if not reverse) global warming.

I know, I know, it's whimsical, but that's how I roll at times.

[AnCap Dave]

This entire conversation is pretty fail

This quote in particular is super fail:

Worked for me. Every time I was dis-respectful, my dad made sure it never happened again. There's a fine line between discipline and abuse.

Let's look at what he just said shall we?

Use of the words "every time" and "never again" make this completely self-defeating. "Every time" implies more than once, meaning the "discipline" didn't prevent it from ever happening again. So clearly, it didn't work.

[R.E.H.W.R.]

HA HA HA HA!
http://www.shaolin.org/answers/sp-issues/prove.html
Man, the quacks China produces. (Not that the US is better.)

[dallen68]

This entire conversation is pretty fail

This quote in particular is super fail:
Let's look at what he just said shall we?

Use of the words "every time" and "never again" make this completely self-defeating. "Every time" implies more than once, meaning the "discipline" didn't prevent it from ever happening again. So clearly, it didn't work.

Unfortunately, that page appears to have been removed, I was hoping for a laugh. That specific thing, however, I suspect what was meant was "Every time I was disrespectful, my dad made sure that specific disrespectful thing never happened again." Which is a plausible statement, since there are many ways of being disrespectful. Since the conversation isn't there, I don't know what  supposedly "worked for him". The likelihood of it being strictly true, even allowing that he meant what I just said, is still marginal.

[AnCap Dave]

Unfortunately, that page appears to have been removed, I was hoping for a laugh. That specific thing, however, I suspect what was meant was "Every time I was disrespectful, my dad made sure that specific disrespectful thing never happened again." Which is a plausible statement, since there are many ways of being disrespectful. Since the conversation isn't there, I don't know what  supposedly "worked for him". The likelihood of it being strictly true, even allowing that he meant what I just said, is still marginal.

It's there, it's probably just friends only or something. I clicked the link and it brought me to the conversation just fine.

[MrBogosity]

Unfortunately, that page appears to have been removed, I was hoping for a laugh. That specific thing, however, I suspect what was meant was "Every time I was disrespectful, my dad made sure that specific disrespectful thing never happened again." Which is a plausible statement, since there are many ways of being disrespectful. Since the conversation isn't there, I don't know what  supposedly "worked for him". The likelihood of it being strictly true, even allowing that he meant what I just said, is still marginal.

Even so, it's still self-defeating. All it means is that he was unaware that that particular action was deemed disrespectful, in which case, simply informing him of it would have been sufficient. If his intention was to be disrespectful, then the prior punishments obviously didn't work. It would never have been "Don't be disrespectful in this particular way but it's still okay to be disrespectful in others"; negative reinforcement just doesn't work that way.

[AnCap Dave]

Unfortunately, tinypic shrunk the image, however everything is still readable if you look a little more closely.

The entire discussion:


OP just made another status with the following cowardly bullshit:

From now on I will not be posting touchie subject based videos/photos, etc on my wall. As it seems to trigger firefights. We can all agree to disagree, and then leave it like that. If I have things to share, I will share with close friends alike. So basically if I share anything, it will be mostly my hobbies. As I have been doing aside from things there and here. At the end of the day everyone has a opinion, and its just that.

[dallen68]

Even so, it's still self-defeating. All it means is that he was unaware that that particular action was deemed disrespectful, in which case, simply informing him of it would have been sufficient. If his intention was to be disrespectful, then the prior punishments obviously didn't work. It would never have been "Don't be disrespectful in this particular way but it's still okay to be disrespectful in others"; negative reinforcement just doesn't work that way.

Well, yes. In normal situations, that is true.

Except in cases where the parent is using the word "disrespectful" to mean any thought/action they don't like.

And "opposite of (disrespectful)" when your talking about someone on a platform like fucking X-box, where they're mainly trying to play with people their own age. In that case, the only thing that's "disrespectful" is being a douche that makes a youtube/facebook about a kid behaving exactly like everyone else, and singling him out in public. Especially if you don't know that kid or his parents; if you do know them - there are more discreet and effective ways to handle it.

@ D: I was wrong. I found no humour in that conversation. What I would do? Pretend I'm not there to parent other peoples kids on fucking X-box, and just play or if it bothered me that much (which it probably wouldn't) go to a different server.