Fail Quotes

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Yeah...that second comic is nonsense.  If you give the one bad review out of many good ones, inevitable someone's going to look into it and find out you're full of it.

[Virgil0211]

Yeah...that second comic is nonsense.  If you give the one bad review out of many good ones, inevitable someone's going to look into it and find out you're full of it.

I don't think it's supposed to be taken that seriously, though. I mean, it strikes me as more of a parody of that sort of thing, like Tom failing to catch/eat Jerry.

[MrBogosity]

When you read XKCD, and it's one with Black Hat Guy, know that he's supposed to be the antagonist.

[evensgrey]

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/end-of-poverty/

Posted on an old friend's facebook page. I wouldn't exactly say he knows any better, but still...

EDIT: Crap! Meant to post this in fail quotes. How do I move posts again?

EDIT 2: Thank you, Mr. Bogosity! =D

Let's see, the background text and 'content' of the comments section strongly suggests that what the video's suggestions would actually result in the end of WEALTH.

[Travis Retriever]

When you read XKCD, and it's one with Black Hat Guy, know that he's supposed to be the antagonist.

I know.

[Travis Retriever]

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[MrBogosity]

I really don't get fringeelements.

[Travis Retriever]

@Shane:  Welcome to my world.

[Goaticus]

 

I really don't get fringeelements.

What's funny is that people on youtube tell me Libertarians are anti-social fanatics. When I ask them why they think that they give me a charming anecdote with guess who.

[Ibrahim90]

What's funny is that people on youtube tell me Libertarians are anti-social fanatics. When I ask them why they think that they give me a charming anecdote with guess who.

based on this, I conclude that "people"* are stupid: they look at the worst possible example (Fringeelements), and so assume that everyone is like him-a form of projection. People do it all the time to each other, a legacy of when we were like chimps. 

And yeah, this guy (Fringeelements) is just the ideal bundle of contradictions....I frankly have given up trying to figure out why he is like this...

*I'd say mob, but this lacks the violence.

[Goaticus]

based on this, I conclude that "people"* are stupid: they look at the worst possible example (Fringeelements), and so assume that everyone is like him-a form of projection. People do it all the time to each other, a legacy of when we were like chimps. 

And yeah, this guy (Fringeelements) is just the ideal bundle of contradictions....I frankly have given up trying to figure out why he is like this...

*I'd say mob, but this lacks the violence.

Unfortunately they don't so much look at him as the worse example as spend 4 hours blocking him and 87 of his accounts from their blogtv, facebook, youtube whatever when he wants to babble about race, statism, or misuse the word emergence in a conversation between 15 year old girls about how to put on make up.

I usually say something along these lines.

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[Ibrahim90]

Unfortunately they don't so much look at him as the worse example as spend 4 hours blocking him and 87 of his accounts from their blogtv, facebook, youtube whatever when he wants to babble about race, statism, or misuse the word emergence in a conversation between 15 year old girls about how to put on make up.

I frankly don't blame them for doing that to all (sic) 91 of his accounts-the guy is what Arabs euphemistically call "gheyr sawi" (lit. not level/even), and it shows in people's interactions with him. And I don't blame them for thinking he is a antisocial fanatic. my main issue was the generalization people draw based on this guy being a Libertarian, though it doesn't help that he's pretty vocal, so more people see him who aren't libertarian (I found out about him via Coughlan616)

but yeah, that Hank Hill line just about sums it up for all of us: that guy just isn't right.

[Travis Retriever]

Shane's comment (not a fail!): "OBL specifically mentioned US forces destroying hi-rise buildings in Lebanon in 1982 as the reason for the attack. Even before 9/11 he was saying that the US destroyed buildings in Lebanon, so he would destroy two of the biggest in the US. That 1982 war was in aid of Israel, who had been fighting the PLO in Lebanon. This was because when Israel was created the US and UK displaced many Palestinians, and over 300,000 of them went to Lebanon. They didn't forget."

Reminded me of this little gem by my conservatard former friend (the one in that thread).  It's going to be by memory, so it will be paraphrased, but the point will still be the same: "Israel belongs to the Israelitites.  It's THEIR land.  It was theirs over 2000 years ago.  They just simply reclaimed it." -- when talking about the abuse of Palestinians suffered at the hands of Israel.

[Travis Retriever]

Well I *WAS* going to post the exact quotes from a warmongering pillock, but I can't seem to find the video he commented on.

Oh well.

Basically his points were:  the excitement and peril of war is what encourages humans to be at their best; it's the reason technology peaks and skyrockets during war.  We don't see that now because we're not in a real threat against a huge enemy like in WWII.

[Travis Retriever]