spoco2
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Married, 3 young kids, living in be-a-utiful Melbourne, Australia.
Life is good.
Also, opinionated pain in the arse.
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In reply to this comment by spoco2:
"Sometimes food is hot"
"You asshole, I've been working on that account for months"
Brilliant... and insane!
In reply to this comment by spoco2:
"Travasty"
"No, No, he wears men's clothes"
My god I love Ferguson...
And I know not of her, but she seems funny, intelligent and well read... bravo for a model with brains!
In reply to this comment by spoco2:
>> ^complacentnation:
fuck trucks
It's hard to without injury.
Um
So I've heard.
For some of us danger is uncommon but for a few of us danger is an every day thing.
That's why I got out of my last line of work.
Do i let it rule my life, no I don't. But do I let my guard down, I was trained not to.
I said stay off the highways, it means take a back road.
My posts are to be taken with salt.
By the way those are good odds, I should play the lotto.
I sure hope you're being sarcastic.
What an insanely fearful way to live that robs you of basic joys every day. If you spend all your time worrying about what could, possibly, in a 1 in a 100,000 chance, maybe happen if you go out of the house... then... really... what's the point of life.
But then, I get the impression you are joking because, well, your post makes little sense... how has anyone got any back to a wall, and how does this apply to subways?
In reply to this comment by spoco2:
It is, if you check just near the middle of yours it's the same thumbnail they have, all it takes is for a vid to be a sec or two longer or shorter for it to have a different thumbnail.
In reply to this comment by Aemaeth:
You sure it's the same vid? It seem similar, just strange to have such a different thumbnail.
In reply to this comment by spoco2:
*dupe of http://www.videosift.com/video/What-if-there-were-no-stop-signs , but their embed is gone, I'd say give this embed to them and discard this...
In reply to this comment by spoco2:
you know, this might be better if you explained what the hell the ad is you're talking about.
I have no idea what this is in relation to, so it makes no sense at all to me.
In reply to this comment by spoco2:
*dupe of http://www.videosift.com/video/What-if-there-were-no-stop-signs , but their embed is gone, I'd say give this embed to them and discard this...
In reply to this comment by spoco2:
Well, had to go to the link to see it, and the audio is atrocious, but that was... indeed... funny
In reply to this comment by spoco2:
Thought you might like this sift, a really great talk from an agnostic about his journey of trying to spend a year living by all the laws in the bible (all 700+ of them!), sifted by another user.
It says a lot of what I feel to be true, that there is a lot of good in the bible, and a lot of bad, it all comes down to how you follow it...
In reply to this comment by spoco2:
Sometimes I do wonder about what does and doesn't get sifted up.
I truly hate this apple ad, I've been a PC gamer for a long, long time (and programmer, it's what I do for a crust), and so suggesting that all PCs do is boring things just rubs me up the wrong way.
Cause there's SO many games available on the Mac compared to the PC.
Self righteous Apple people... grrr.
In reply to this comment by spoco2:
I agree, I don't think we're going to change either one of our minds.
So... we'll end this discussion.
And probably argue about something else later
In reply to this comment by thepinky:
I never said that I want to eliminate taxes altogether. As I said several times, I like government programs and I like the good things they do. But I don't want them to take any more of my money, I want them to start using correctly the money that they already take.
What about self-sufficiency? Who says that rural areas can't survive without help from Big Brother? I grew up in a small farming town, 60% of the population of which were Hispanic, many of those illegal immigrants. We didn't get enough funding for our high school so we worked our butts off to raise it. The town had a huge tourist event every year to raise money for the town, and all of the cultural organizations would work at the festival to earn money. My parents sruggled financially and we lived on beans and otmeal and rice for a few years. They learned to survive. The town built cultural centers and theaters with no government help whatsoever. You're probably going to say that I'm falling into the trap of saying that I didn't use the services so blahddy blahddy blah, but don't you think it is insulting for us to assume that people can't make it on their own? That they need help to get the things they need? That they shouldn't have to change their situation (move to a city if that's what is needed) or make sacrifices to succeed? Most people are just as intelligent as me and just as capable of making it as I am. We tell them that they can't do it so they don't. Yes, the government and taxes are good and necessary, but I don't believe that we ought to be so dependent on someone else. "Ask not what your country can do for you..." and all that. By making people feel like all of their problems are somebody else's fault, we are teaching people not to take responsibility for there own actions, and it is leaking into the moral attitudes of people as well. Everything is somebody else's fault.
And I obviously don't feel like we shouldn't help each other. We should! But we should do it in such a way that we give money where it's needed and teach people to become self-sufficient if they possibly can. It helps them to feel useful and good and capable and like human beings instead of like useless children.
I grow weary of this conversation because we're never going to agree. I'd rather talk about something like this in person because typing it all out gets so annoying.
What about self-sufficiency? Who says that rural areas can't survive without help from Big Brother? I grew up in a small farming town, 60% of the population of which were Hispanic, many of those illegal immigrants. We didn't get enough funding for our high school so we worked our butts off to raise it. The town had a huge tourist event every year to raise money for the town, and all of the cultural organizations would work at the festival to earn money. My parents sruggled financially and we lived on beans and otmeal and rice for a few years. They learned to survive. The town built cultural centers and theaters with no government help whatsoever. You're probably going to say that I'm falling into the trap of saying that I didn't use the services so blahddy blahddy blah, but don't you think it is insulting for us to assume that people can't make it on their own? That they need help to get the things they need? That they shouldn't have to change their situation (move to a city if that's what is needed) or make sacrifices to succeed? Most people are just as intelligent as me and just as capable of making it as I am. We tell them that they can't do it so they don't. Yes, the government and taxes are good and necessary, but I don't believe that we ought to be so dependent on someone else. "Ask not what your country can do for you..." and all that. By making people feel like all of their problems are somebody else's fault, we are teaching people not to take responsibility for there own actions, and it is leaking into the moral attitudes of people as well. Everything is somebody else's fault.
And I obviously don't feel like we shouldn't help each other. We should! But we should do it in such a way that we give money where it's needed and teach people to become self-sufficient if they possibly can. It helps them to feel useful and good and capable and like human beings instead of like useless children.
I grow weary of this conversation because we're never going to agree. I'd rather talk about something like this in person because typing it all out gets so annoying.
My siblings and other family members have had to make use of "those services," and I very much appreciate their existence. I don't believe in the idea that people on Welfare are lazy drunks. I agree with Karl Marx about a lot of things. But Welfare IS abused and it needs to be a system where we encourage self-reliance and help people break the cycle of poverty instead of perpetuating it. And I think by "a couple of bad eggs" you mean tens of thousands.
I don't care about Joe Shmoe's birth control. It is not a neccesity. I don't care how good his sex is. I intend to use birth control pills. I never had my teeth straightened. I still have my wisdom teeth. I'm not complaining about my quality of life. A vasectomy is a luxury, plain and simple.