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Mooseontheloose
May 13, 2003

THE GAYEST POSTER posted:

To be fair, ketchup on hot dogs is a terrible travesty towards tubed meats.

Also, I picked up this from a relative's facebook:



This person also told me America's culture was the best because it's "a melting pot". Then blocked me because I tried to explain that it wouldn't be a melting pot if everyone was only legally allowed to act one way :(

So the best way to make the United States great again is to turn it into Nazi Germany and Communist Russia according to that rant?

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babies havin rabies
Feb 24, 2006

THE GAYEST POSTER posted:

To be fair, ketchup on hot dogs is a terrible travesty towards tubed meats.

Also, I picked up this from a relative's facebook:



This person also told me America's culture was the best because it's "a melting pot". Then blocked me because I tried to explain that it wouldn't be a melting pot if everyone was only legally allowed to act one way :(

I would have just called him/her a fascist pig so good on you I guess.

Seriously that person's a psychopath. Hope their employer sees that.

Edit: or if you want to be really :smug: point out all the Amendments that their opinions violate

babies havin rabies fucked around with this message at 16:30 on May 9, 2011

Bob James
Nov 15, 2005

by Lowtax
Ultra Carp

quote:

What America needs is a president who would do these things ...

1 - Hold all politicians to a TRUTH ACCOUNTABILITY (violators get 2 years in prison)

You know what this country needs? The Executive to write the laws and a Department of Truth.

forbidden dialectics
Jul 26, 2005





THE GAYEST POSTER posted:

My favorite thing about the conservative hatred of Muslims is that they are actually working towards America being Iran.

Or even worse, a European country like Denmark which, according to my family, has already adopted Sharia Law.

Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Nostrum posted:

Or even worse, a European country like Denmark which, according to my family, has already adopted Sharia Law.

Denmark, chief exports; Carlsberg, Bacon, cartoons

MrNemo
Aug 26, 2010

"I just love beeting off"

Branis posted:

I've never understood the hatred towards the EPA and the Dept of Ed. Also when did it become a crime in america for christians to worship? I never got the memo.

See the EPA is in charge of stuff like emissions standards which is code for the government taking money from the people to bully corporations and stop them being able to make money and employ people. The Dept. of Education allows for public schooling which in and of itself causes socialism and satanism to spontaneously occur in young people.

More serious answer: The EPA spends some amount of money telling corporations they can't do things. Since most US conservatives are convinced any and all environmental issues are lies this just translates to tax money being wasted making companies less profitable. Please ignore any and all reality.

The Dept. of Education is because they only want things being taught in school that they personally believe in, they don't give a poo poo about science, factual history or anything similar. If school days in the US consisted of an hour of Christian prayers followed by a day spent in a mixture of Bible study and hearing about how the Constitution was designed to give people guns and preserve traditional family values followed by a short post-lunch lesson on global politics (The US is awesome, some people hate us because they are less awesome), they would fully endorse it. It would be a quick post lunch thing so the kids would have time to work their part-time jobs for the rest of the day.

TGLT
Aug 14, 2009

ibroxmassive posted:

Denmark, chief exports; Carlsberg, Bacon, cartoons

You're forgetting Windmills and Islamofascist Terrorism. What kind of an American are you?

Also, windmills are a plot by islamofascists to convert us all to inefficient green energy so that they can hoard all the oil for themselves. When shoddily built windmills by OPEC conspiracies all break in sync it'll end western civilization whil the Arabs bring forth the Anti-Christ and institute a new communist Caliphate.

This poo poo is easy to make up.

MrNemo
Aug 26, 2010

"I just love beeting off"

Don Quixote is the ultimate conservative poster boy.

jojoinnit
Dec 13, 2010

Strength and speed, that's why you're a special agent.

"MrNemo" posted:

Don Quixote is the ultimate conservative poster boy.
Not with an un-American name like that. He'll have to go by Dave Quilty.

Habibi
Dec 8, 2004

We have the capability to make San Jose's first Cup Champion.

The Sharks could be that Champion.

Dr Christmas posted:

Wrong! Obama is the only president to ever play golf, as well as the only president to go on vacation, show interest in professional or college sports, make a gesture of respect to the king of Saudi Arabia, or hire special advisors nicknamed "czars."

I'm pretty sure he's also the only president in the nation's history to have banged a black chick. That he didn't own. :colbert:

Thenipwax
Jun 20, 2001

by Ozmaugh
Aren't payroll deductions taken care of by the company doing payroll rather than the government?

Branis
Apr 14, 2006

by VG
I think government takes care of their own pay roll in the form of an auditor/treasurers office.

Dameius
Apr 3, 2006

Habibi posted:

I'm pretty sure he's also the only president in the nation's history to have banged a black chick. That he didn't own. :colbert:

That just means he is doing it wrong. Yet another thing Obama can't do right, gosh!

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

THE GAYEST POSTER posted:

To be fair, ketchup on hot dogs is a terrible travesty towards tubed meats.

Yeah you don't want to ruin the high-quality cow rear end that went into it.

So now that right-wingers are up in arms that Obama is getting any credit at all for the Osama assassination, does that mean it's fair to say that the Jews were not, in fact, responsible for Christ's death?

Sock on a Fish
Jul 17, 2004

What if that thing I said?

MrNemo posted:

The Dept. of Education is because they only want things being taught in school that they personally believe in, they don't give a poo poo about science, factual history or anything similar. If school days in the US consisted of an hour of Christian prayers followed by a day spent in a mixture of Bible study and hearing about how the Constitution was designed to give people guns and preserve traditional family values followed by a short post-lunch lesson on global politics (The US is awesome, some people hate us because they are less awesome), they would fully endorse it. It would be a quick post lunch thing so the kids would have time to work their part-time jobs for the rest of the day.

It's actually about uppity blacks attending our white schools, and also girls playing sports, along with a bit of pining for teacher-led prayer. The Department of Education has no role in curriculum, it pretty much just enforces civil rights laws and administers grants and loans for higher education.

Kubrick
Jul 20, 2004

It's story time guys...

quote:

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

This one is a little different .... Two Different Versions ... Two Different Morals

OLD VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:

Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN,and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green...' ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing, We shall overcome.

Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake, while he damns the ants.

President Obama condems the ant and blames President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight. Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper,and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood. The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Be careful how you vote in 2012.

Mooseontheloose
May 13, 2003

Kubrick posted:

It's story time guys...

I like the story better here.

quote:




Once upon a time there was a scorpion and a frog. The scorpion made over $2,000,000 a year and was receiving a 32.4% tax rate, but through lots of loopholes and was paying around 27% in taxes. The frog suggested that in order for the country to survive, the loopholes needed to be closed, and the Scorpion would need to pay the taxes he was paying under Clinton, 35%. The Scorpion said, "you can't raise my taxes, I am the person who is hiring everyone, and if you raise them, I will have no interest in working." The frog says, "bite me" and raises his taxes. The Scorpion then continues working hard because he's rich and he likes staying rich. The frog says, "I thought you were gonna quit working?" The scorpion says, "I can't help it, its in my nature." Then he bites and poisons the frog and installs his own toadie in congress who will cut taxes again. Also, he uses loopholes to pay almost no corporate taxes at all as well, neglecting his country so he can pocket some more moolah.

Kubrick
Jul 20, 2004

Mooseontheloose posted:

I like the story better here.

Thanks for this! I updated it a little and replied with:

quote:

Once upon a time there was a scorpion and a frog. The scorpion made over $2,000,000 a year and was receiving a 32.4% tax rate, but through lots of loopholes and was paying around 27% in taxes. The frog suggested that in order for the country to pay off it's debt the loopholes needed to be closed, and the Scorpion would need to pay the taxes he was paying under Clinton, 35%. The Scorpion said, "you can't raise my taxes, I am the person who is hiring everyone, and if you raise them, I will have no interest in working." The frog says, "actually you have only been creating jobs overseas. Analysis by the Congressional Budget Office shows that you'll only reduce national unemployment at the most by 0.1% over next two years...so bite me" and raises his taxes. The Scorpion then continues working hard because he's rich and he likes staying rich. The frog says, "I thought you were gonna quit working?" The scorpion says, "I can't help it, it's in my nature." Then he bites and poisons the frog and installs his own toadie in congress who will cut taxes again. Also, he uses loopholes to pay almost no corporate taxes at all as well, neglecting his country so he can pocket some more moolah.

Mo_Steel
Mar 7, 2008

Let's Clock Into The Sunset Together

Fun Shoe

Kubrick posted:

It's story time guys...

I can't find it anymore, but I distinctly recall a remake of this where instead the ant enjoyed a leisurely winter being entertained by the grasshopper's music in exchange for food and shelter for the winter as they agreed upon.

Lemniscate Blue
Apr 21, 2006

Here we go again.

Mo_Steel posted:

I can't find it anymore, but I distinctly recall a remake of this where instead the ant enjoyed a leisurely winter being entertained by the grasshopper's music in exchange for food and shelter for the winter as they agreed upon.

This what you're looking for?



Edit: tables

Iron Squid
Nov 23, 2005

by Ozmaugh

BatteredFeltFedora posted:

This what you're looking for?



Edit: tables

Awesome. :)

Ashcans
Jan 2, 2006

Let's do the space-time warp again!

Kubrick posted:

It's story time guys...

I shouldn't be surprised how shamelessly this equates 'lazy grasshopper' with 'lazy minority'.

And I know it never changes anything, but...

Matthew 25:41 posted:

Then [Christ] will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink; I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me.’ “Then they themselves also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of You?’ “Then He will answer them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ “These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Ant is a dick and is going to hell, the end.

Push El Burrito
May 9, 2006

Soiled Meat
And the 10,000 ants worked together to build a glorious underground utopia because they knew that a combined force of workers can do more than a solitary bug.

Seriously, if you're trying to make a point about the hard-working individual, an ant is probably not the best thing to go with. Stupid fables.

Dr Christmas
Apr 24, 2010

Berninating the one percent,
Berninating the Wall St.
Berninating all the people
In their high rise penthouses!
🔥😱🔥🔫👴🏻

Ashcans posted:

I shouldn't be surprised how shamelessly this equates 'lazy grasshopper' with 'lazy minority'.

And I know it never changes anything, but...


Ant is a dick and is going to hell, the end.

Well how is the ant supposed to give to the poor when the government is already doing it? :colbert:

Elder Postsman
Aug 30, 2000


i used hot bot to search for "teens"

Ashcans posted:

I shouldn't be surprised how shamelessly this equates 'lazy grasshopper' with 'lazy minority'.

And I know it never changes anything, but...


Ant is a dick and is going to hell, the end.
No, you see, Jesus also said "heal thyself", and so advocating for a free market society, one free of the heavy hand of government pushing us all down, will allow us all to be more free to feed, drink, house, clothe, and heal ourselves. I think you will find this also squares with when Jesus said "teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime".

GraveyTrain
Aug 30, 2008
I couldn't watch the whole thing, but this one is making the facebook rounds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKdScVerrBU&feature=share

quote:

In 2006 the Democrats and the media screamed bloody murder over the high price of gas. When Barack Obama was inaugurated, the average gas price was $1.87 a gallon. Now that the price has more than doubled, what are the Democrats and the administration saying now? If you guessed that high gas prices under Obama are somehow a good thing, give yourself a pat on the back. The liberal mindset is always an amazing thing to behold.

Mooseontheloose
May 13, 2003
Didn't the Bush administration reach 4 dollars more than once?

crime fighting hog
Jun 29, 2006

I only pray, Heaven knows when to lift you out
Someone remind me how much an American president influences the price of gas, please?

jojoinnit
Dec 13, 2010

Strength and speed, that's why you're a special agent.

crime fighting hog posted:

Someone remind me how much an American president influences the price of gas, please?
Well you see the President is a Muslim and Muslims have oil so if the Muslim President would just tell his fellow Muslims to lower gas prices...

Defenestration
Aug 10, 2006

"It wasn't my fault that my first unconscious thought turned out to be-"
"Jesus, kid, what?"
"That something smelled delicious!"


Grimey Drawer
Not sure if I should respond to this one. I don't really feel like arguing whether fetuses are babies today.

Maybe I'll just ask "if abortion is a crime equal to child murder, how should the women who have them be punished?"

JoshTheStampede
Sep 8, 2004

come at me bro

Defenestration posted:

Not sure if I should respond to this one. I don't really feel like arguing whether fetuses are babies today.

Maybe I'll just ask "if abortion is a crime equal to child murder, how should the women who have them be punished?"



I like how they overexplain it. "The doctor smiled because he knew he had made his point, and here it is! The woman had no reply because the doctor's point is so obviously right!"

I can just picture :smugdoc:

Mooseontheloose
May 13, 2003
Women: But Doctor, because of lack of education in our schools and our medieval view of sex, no one taught my proper sex ed. Why should I be punished for having sex? Also, are your tax dollars willing to support me and my child for stuff like free health care and public schooling? I mean if you are pro life you should pro life all the way through.

Doctor: SHUT UP WOMAN!

mojo1701a
Oct 9, 2008

Oh, yeah. Loud and clear. Emphasis on LOUD!
~ David Lee Roth

Dominion posted:

I like how they overexplain it. "The doctor smiled because he knew he had made his point, and here it is! The woman had no reply because the doctor's point is so obviously right!"

I can just picture :smugdoc:

It's the pro-life Facebook post version of a Buckley Box.

ninja edit: link in case someone's not aware.

York_M_Chan
Sep 11, 2003

Defenestration posted:

Not sure if I should respond to this one. I don't really feel like arguing whether fetuses are babies today.

Maybe I'll just ask "if abortion is a crime equal to child murder, how should the women who have them be punished?"



How about "A young girl was raped by her father and got pregnant. Abortion was made illegal the year before so the girl found an underground unsanitary clinic that performed the procedures. Unfortunately, because they were not properly trained, they punctured her uterus and she died on the table. Her other child was forced to move in with an aunt and uncle who didn't want him there. They kept him locked under the stairs until a witch and giant came to rescue him. He was taken to "wizard academy" and taught how to be a warlock. He now worships at Satan's feet. He spread his message all over the world through a series of popular book, brainwashing our children into becoming Satan worshipers, and thus instigating the apocalypse and killing all of mankind. Now, wouldn't it have been better if she could have just had a legal abortion?"

jojoinnit
Dec 13, 2010

Strength and speed, that's why you're a special agent.

York_M_Chan posted:

How about "A young girl was raped by her father and got pregnant. Abortion was made illegal the year before so the girl found an underground unsanitary clinic that performed the procedures. Unfortunately, because they were not properly trained, they punctured her uterus and she died on the table. Her other child was forced to move in with an aunt and uncle who didn't want him there. They kept him locked under the stairs until a witch and giant came to rescue him. He was taken to "wizard academy" and taught how to be a warlock. He now worships at Satan's feet. He spread his message all over the world through a series of popular book, brainwashing our children into becoming Satan worshipers, and thus instigating the apocalypse and killing all of mankind. Now, wouldn't it have been better if she could have just had a legal abortion?"

Sir, are you implying that unborn children could grow up to be criminals, evildoers and warlocks? Maybe this will change your mind: What if Jesus had been aborted? :smug:

duck monster
Dec 15, 2004

Not quite as nefarious as some of the things you folks have parents emailing around...

Ma sent me this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2GZWSqNviU

:confused:

TerminalSaint
Apr 21, 2007


Where must we go...

we who wander this Wasteland in search of our better selves?

duck monster posted:

Not quite as nefarious as some of the things you folks have parents emailing around...

Ma sent me this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2GZWSqNviU

:confused:

The video is pretty innocuous, but for some reason the mere mention of "Obama" has turned the comments section into a worse hellhole than usual(which is saying a lot for youtube).

Habibi
Dec 8, 2004

We have the capability to make San Jose's first Cup Champion.

The Sharks could be that Champion.

Defenestration posted:

Not sure if I should respond to this one. I don't really feel like arguing whether fetuses are babies today.

Maybe I'll just ask "if abortion is a crime equal to child murder, how should the women who have them be punished?"



Well, a miscarriage is often (when it occurs without external stimuli) an abortion that your body naturally undertakes because there's something wrong with the way the fetus is developing, so...are human bodies the world over committing Eugenics?

Or you could ask something like, "So if a 2-months-pregnant woman rear-ends another car and the trauma from the impact / airbag leads to a miscarriage - should she be arrested for vehicular manslaughter?"

The Sean
Apr 17, 2005

Am I handsome now?


jojoinnit posted:

Maybe this will change your mind: What if Jesus had been aborted? :smug:

Shortcut to salvation?

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Habibi
Dec 8, 2004

We have the capability to make San Jose's first Cup Champion.

The Sharks could be that Champion.

jojoinnit posted:

What if Jesus had been aborted? :smug:
Given the mysterious circumstances surrounding his conception, I imagine God would just shove him right back in there and call it a day.

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