Random stupid things on your mind. Post them.

[Eddie Coyle]

Only 1% empty? Hell man, you better start drinking before the prices go up! I'm one of those "half empty" types. Generally pessimistic and see shit often before it happens to hit me or society in general (its left the fan blades awareness and still has an ETA).  Well, hopefully your lady will see your wisdom. I've had what might be described as an overall successful life professionally but the stress has damn near killed me. My bride and I have been married 39 years and we have three grown children and three grandchildren. I'm retired so you can see why I have time to do things like hang around this forum and at this time of night - seven days per week.

So who is gonna win - Romney or Obama? In either case with international bankers, power brokers and the federal reserve fascists it will equate into the same pile of shit with a different texture - flavor can't be too different as the government is just one huge ass hole and the people are the toilet catching it all.

My parents are closing in on 39 years this fall. It's no mean feat these days, I should know, my only attempt thus far lasted only five! Like the man said: I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
            Personally, I think Obama wins, though it will be closer than I initially anticipated. Romney isn't Reagan, there won't be enough "independents" drawn to him. The Left may not be thrilled with Obama, and turnout will probably be less than '08, but they'll still vote for him. I find the whole damn thing ennervating and depressing.
         I see it being 51%-48%, with Obama getting 323 electoral votes.

[ziznak]

faith no more easy
cmon now this cover was a classic when Faith did it...

[preston]

Had enough asshole or do you want to flame some more??

Ouch you poor sad person sounds like you need a sandwich.

[ziznak]

ah man... like really? can a life get so bad that getting kicked from various forums has become a hobby?

[Ben Shockley]

1)... Like the man said: I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
2)... I see it being 51%-48%, with Obama getting 323 electoral votes.

1)  Exactly.   That's how I was and how I feel.    I wish all the 20-something haters and warmongers could get a little younger too.    I guess EXPERIENCE has something to do with it, which so many Americans never have, outside their little comfort zone.
2)  Okay, Coyle--  give us the state-by-state electoral breakdown 

[Zircon]

          My parents are closing in on 39 years this fall. It's no mean feat these days, I should know, my only attempt thus far lasted only five! Like the man said: I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
            Personally, I think Obama wins, though it will be closer than I initially anticipated. Romney isn't Reagan, there won't be enough "independents" drawn to him. The Left may not be thrilled with Obama, and turnout will probably be less than '08, but they'll still vote for him. I find the whole damn thing ennervating and depressing.
         I see it being 51%-48%, with Obama getting 323 electoral votes.

So those "swing" states like Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Missouri and Wisconsin you all see Obama taking? Well, Ohio has unions, Virginia has all of those useless civil servants who can't get enough money to spend, Florida is full of illegals and the Cuban/Haitian/Dominican/Bahama gay and Jewish vote and Missouri still thinks its voting for Truman. Wisconsin is odd since it has a GOP governor and leading senator. I think the Badger state may surprise you.

[BobGrau]

I think the Badger state may surprise you.

I was about to moan that politics doesn't belong in the Random Stupid thread, but then I read this. 

[ziznak]

nope politics totally belongs here

[RealCool Daddio]

Had enough asshole or do you want to flame some more??

Listen, fucktard, it is time to sack up and take your banning like a man.  Coming back here under a different name is a punk ass thing to do.  Please, just keep wandering, hopefully far away.

[Zircon]

Listen, fucktard, it is time to sack up and take your banning like a man.  Coming back here under a different name is a punk ass thing to do.  Please, just keep wandering, hopefully far away.

Who got banned, when and why?

[Frys Girl]

Vandeven/ Coyle '12


The General for Secretary of State


Hal 9000 for Secretary of Treasury


Herman Cain for Secretary of Commerce (Godfather's Pizza is good)

[Eddie Coyle]

Vandeven/ Coyle '12


The General for Secretary of State


Hal 9000 for Secretary of Treasury


Herman Cain for Secretary of Commerce (Godfather's Pizza is good)

I'd be thrilled to be the 2012 version of Thomas Eagleton.

[Ben Shockley]

          I'd be thrilled to be the 2012 version of Thomas Eagleton.

In 1972, I was somewhere between 1st and 12th grade.  My school homeroom was asked to vote in that election, with some hype that school kids' grades would count somehow.
Before you Republicans stroke out about that.... that IS just my kid recollections of teachers' hyping us to get us interested.
Of course, I "voted" for McGovern.

[Eddie Coyle]

In 1972, I was somewhere between 1st and 12th grade.  My school homeroom was asked to vote in that election, with some hype that school kids' grades would count somehow.
Before you Republicans stroke out about that.... that IS just my kid recollections of teachers' hyping us to get us interested.
Of course, I "voted" for McGovern.

        I would have done a protest vote for Eugene McCarthy. Or Pat Paulsen. Or Pigasus(if he wasn't bacon by '72)
       My kindergarten teachers did a similar thing in 1980. I voted for Carter because my kin didn't become "Reagan Democrats" until '84. Carter lost our election, too.

[Zircon]

Geez Ben and Eddie! Please don't get together and make ice cream. Eddie! Eagleton? You can't be serious? Ben, good to see that the teacher at least gave your classmates an option for who to support (presumably).

As a recent veteran I too voted for McGovern. Glad he lost as I was still stupid at almost 24. Yep, I know, I'll save you the time - still stupid.

[Eddie Coyle]

Geez Ben and Eddie! Please don't get together and make ice cream. Eddie! Eagleton? You can't be serious?

My one beef with Eagleton would be his repeated denials. He should have said "yeah, I'm shithouse rat crazy...next question". It's ironic he dropped out(by force) while the sitting president at the time  was the one espousing the "Madman theory"

[Marc.Knight]

someone asked me how much coastgab makes in ad click revenue.  it's about $1.2 trillion per month.

Too bad it is in Zimbabwe dollars.

[Camazotz Automat]

I started reading "The Talkers" today, by Robert W. Chambers,  1923. The very first page made me think of Eddie Coyle.  No offense, Eddie.

Chapter 1

   Sadoul's only experience in love had been gross.  The cynic in him admitted nothing better.

   Saturnine, without delusions, he went about his business in life, doing no particular good, and with a capacity for harm limited only by his talents.

   He had been a little of everything, and always clever -- an art student, medical student, reporter, critic, writer -- intelligent, adroit.

   His was a mordant pen and brilliant; and it was for sale.

- - - - -

   But life, there (France), taught him nothing nobler to expect of a world already proven sordid by personal experience.

   He entertained no delusions concerning mankind, its friendship, or its love; he neither expected or desired anything of it except the saturnine amusement which he extracted from it, and which was his principal form of pleasure.


- - - - -

The story progresses when "Chance" trips Sadoul up and he falls for a woman dressed in "lunar green" but she refuses him after leading him on a bit and he kills her by sticking a straight pin into a "gland" through the nape of her neck, then she is resurrected by a doctor who replaces the damaged gland using amoeba technology.

It goes on from there.

But damn if I didn't instantly think of Eddie.

[McPhallus]

I started reading "The Talkers" today, by Robert W. Chambers,  1923. The very first page made me think of Eddie Coyle.

The story progresses when "Chance" trips Sadoul up and he falls for a woman dressed in "lunar green" but she refuses him after leading him on a bit and he kills her by sticking a straight pin into a "gland" through the nape of her neck, then she is resurrected by a doctor who replaces the damaged gland using amoeba technology.

That's some fucked up shit (and I say that as a former lit student).

[aldousburbank]

Sometimes, at the end of a hard day of good physical work, a beer is as medicinal as a bong hit.  Gawd, I never thought I'd ever  say that.

[Eddie Coyle]

       No offense taken in the slightest, Cam. Actually, it's quite the upgrade to be compared to a fictional literary figure. Usually for me, it's a colleague or family member saying: "I was watching America's Most Wanted and goddamn if the guy didn't remind me of you". A History Channel profile of Edmund Kemper in the late 90's made many of my co-workers at the time wonder if I was a product of a conjugal visit afforded him.

[Marc.Knight]

Anyone notice how weird the RealPlayer web site has become?  It is probably run out of someone's basement.  The site looks like someone made it with Microsoft Word in 1983.  What the hell happened?

[HAL 9000]

Had enough asshole or do you want to flame some more??

Listen, fucktard, it is time to sack up and take your banning like a man.  Coming back here under a different name is a punk ass thing to do.  Please, just keep wandering, hopefully far away.

Who got banned, when and why?

@zircon:
As best I can reconstruct (I wasn't around/didn't read most of the relevant posts), a trouble maker with the screenname "the_wanderer" was banned, but then came back (re-registered) as "anarchist."

Apparently, he is a bit of a weirdo - but I'm basing this on remnant bits and pieces from the forum. It looks like his posts have all been deleted.

One thing is certain: I do know the_wanderer's real name, where he lives, and what he does for a living. I'll go under the assumption most folks already know this, as I really haven't read much of his stuff here, and remember even less.

[Evil Twin Of Zen]

@zircon:
As best I can reconstruct (I wasn't around/didn't read most of the relevant posts), a trouble maker with the screenname "the_wanderer" was banned, but then came back (re-registered) as "anarchist."

Apparently, he is a bit of a weirdo - but I'm basing this on remnant bits and pieces from the forum. It looks like his posts have all been deleted.

One thing is certain: I do know the_wanderer's real name, where he lives, and what he does for a living. I'll go under the assumption most folks already know this, as I really haven't read much of his stuff here, and remember even less.

i was all set to give him a run for his money. cheap thrill, so to speak. 

[Camazotz Automat]

Anyone notice how weird the RealPlayer web site has become?  It is probably run out of someone's basement.  The site looks like someone made it with Microsoft Word in 1983.  What the hell happened?

Early November, 2011:

Owner: Susie, it's just you and me. I had to let Deric, Eric, and Ric, go.

Susie:  Oh, dear!

Owner: We'll be OK.  You're so good with the bank stuff and the phones. I just want you to know that you're safe.

Susie: I don't know what to say!

Owner: Hey, remember when you put together that computer presentation for  the Teamsters Picnic as a favor for your brother?  You used Power Point, right? Made it look like the trucks had wings and the palm trees and stuff? Showed your brother doing his trucking job even though he has hooks for hands due to a machine shop accident in '84? Didn't you win some kind of award at the picnic?

Susie: (nods)

Owner: Thought so.  Everyone teared up at the end when he saluted.  Listen ... Deric, Eric, and Ric took their intellectual property with them.  Right now our URL is automatically pointing to Craig's List where I have my pool table listed for sale. That was the last thing I had the Three RICs do before giving them their checks.

Susie: But...

Owner: Whip up a new webpage for us.  No rush, since I have to sell that warped ass pool table.  But get on it, 'kay? Power Point it or something. For now, you can  make a Starbucks run. Be sure and get something for yourself, too.  We had someone bite for the upgrade and made another 49.99 last night even without Deric, Eric, and Ric. Time to be bold!

Susie: But,

Owner: I want the website clean and I want it hip.  Clean and hip. If someone calls about the pool table, you can go as low as 850. Warped piece of shit. Excuse my French.

Susie: Oh, dear!

Owner: I'll be in my office playing Angry Birds on my iPad. Coffee, Susie, coffee!  Chop, chop! Time's money, Money's time, and we're running out of both!

Susie: (running)

[Frys Girl]

       No offense taken in the slightest, Cam. Actually, it's quite the upgrade to be compared to a fictional literary figure. Usually for me, it's a colleague or family member saying: "I was watching America's Most Wanted and goddamn if the guy didn't remind me of you". A History Channel profile of Edmund Kemper in the late 90's made many of my co-workers at the time wonder if I was a product of a conjugal visit afforded him.

You're ridiculous! LOL. I'm sure you look like a nice Irish Catholic boy. You also said you're tall, so I'm picturing Larry Byrd, Bill O'reilly, and Bill Murray mixed in a blender.

[Camazotz Automat]

       No offense taken in the slightest, Cam.

Good. I didn't want to come across as flippant, which is my norm.

That's some fucked up shit (and I say that as a former lit student).

Isn't it? No matter how it pans out, the first twenty pages will have made it worth the read for me. The author is all over the place, in a good way IMO.

[McPhallus]

@zircon:
As best I can reconstruct (I wasn't around/didn't read most of the relevant posts), a trouble maker with the screenname "the_wanderer" was banned, but then came back (re-registered) as "anarchist."

Apparently, he is a bit of a weirdo - but I'm basing this on remnant bits and pieces from the forum. It looks like his posts have all been deleted.

One thing is certain: I do know the_wanderer's real name, where he lives, and what he does for a living. I'll go under the assumption most folks already know this, as I really haven't read much of his stuff here, and remember even less.

I certainly didn't know that much.  How'd you dig that up?

[McPhallus]

Related to a discussion in another three:


"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than to have a frontal lobotomy."

[McPhallus]

Anyone notice how weird the RealPlayer web site has become?  It is probably run out of someone's basement.  The site looks like someone made it with Microsoft Word in 1983.  What the hell happened?

One of those special programs whose popularity stems from the fact that everyone hates it.