you've been to the south, you tell meAxver said:Do they drive obnoxious, noisy cars and have trouble forming one coherent sentence?
you've been to the south, you tell meAxver said:Do they drive obnoxious, noisy cars and have trouble forming one coherent sentence?
LemonMelon said:
Definitely. I can't believe some of what I'm reading over there. It's unbelievable. My problem isn't simply the constant debating, which comes with the territory, but the vague callout threads that have the tact and wit of an elementary school bullshitting match.
KhanadaRhodes said:i see no reason for me to post there really, unless i become a mod of the forums. and even then, my posts will consist of telling people to behave.
KhanadaRhodes said:
i agree. i can also imagine you getting suspended over something like that. i try to stay out of fym stuff since i don't mod it.
it's a shame though how politics makes so many people...irrational i guess is a good word. i'm not even naming names in fym. any board i've ever been to where there's a politics forum, it's always like that.
it's much more fun discussing it in person anyway, because the other person/people have to respond to your statements/opinions, unless they want to sit there silently like an idiot. it's not like i stonewall people when debating of course. but i've posted a handful of times this year, and i see no reason for me to post there really, unless i become a mod of the forums. and even then, my posts will consist of telling people to behave.
coolian2 said:
Not discussing politics
KhanadaRhodes said:
you've been to the south, you tell me
coolian2 said:You know what's even more fun than discussing politics in person?
Not discussing politics
On the plus side, you were a pubic hair away from qualifying for the disabled olympics
they do. i've seen it posted before on the forums. there's a liberal bias well sorry guys. the last mod i remember that was conservative was...fuck i forget his name. lol it just went out of my head! but it's someone who was demodded YEARS ago for being a shitty mod. and coincidentally, my ex got banned from the forums for calling said person a cunt although i don't want to dredge up old drama since neither person posts here anymore, i was just mentioning that that's the only conservative mod i can think of that we've ever had.Axver said:Why waste the time? I imagine the current mods deal with plenty of shit, like being accused of being partisan. They don't have an enviable task.
KhanadaRhodes said:oooh let me give one example of what i think our version of a bogan is: i went to school with someone who drove a jacked up suv (or maybe it was a truck, i forget. if it was an suv, keep in mind this was before the suv bubble, so only outdoorsy people drove them). he'd brag in class about hitting things - and when i say things, i mean DEER on his way to school. school wasn't in the boondocks. it was in a fairly populous neighbourhood, pretty close to my house. i guess he lived far away. i bet i could guess what city he lived in, i have it narrowed down to two cities
anyway, he would say several times in class (and he meant it) that sweet home alabama should be our nation's anthem. what the fuck. he was in german class with me. what he was doing taking german i don't know. i guess he liked our teacher, who was the soccer coach, but i don't think that fat fuck was in soccer. he was built more like a wrestler, although i don't think he had any muscle. he wasn't like 300 pounds fat, but he was just a bulky guy.
anyway, another example. one of the middle schools i went to here was at the end of a street which had houses too. like two houses down from the school was a house which would always have the confederate flag waving high on its flagpole. and i've seen trucks with it on their back window too. don't even get me started on my hatred of the confederate flag, for several reasons.
Axver said:
Signed,
The PolSci Student
coolian2 said:Meanwhile on another forum....one person posts about getting a neck injury playing league and is not able to play again, as well as loss of feeling in three fingers and weakness in his arm.
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anyway, he would say several times in class (and he meant it) that sweet home alabama should be our nation's anthem. what the fuck.
yeah, i agree. if you post a concise post saying why you feel why you do, you risk getting a ton of posts calling you a moron since you didn't link any sources or whatever.LemonMelon said:In some ways, the moderating in that section isn't bad at all or, at least, in the most obvious definition of the word; people rarely break out into namecalling or insults. But it's arguably one of the least fun sections of any forum I've ever been on. You have a fucking word document full of bullet points to support your argument, or you'll be eaten alive instantly.
This is also why I agree with you in that discussing politics in person is way better, because you're not expected to have a link to support each of your points, if you get what I mean.
if by the obnoxious, noisy cars you mean like a coupe that sounds like shit, we get that here too. i just call those things shitboxes. they sound like they're falling apart. although to avoid sounding racist, it's usually blacks or hispanics driving them. and even though we have inspection here every year (memphis is horrible in terms of car pollution), most have expired tags because you know they failed inspection.Axver said:It seems you guys don't do the boganmobiles, just redneck utes (er, redneck pickup trucks) or cars that are needlessly big and must guzzle shitloads of petrol.
What cracked me up is that in Australia, some carparks will have special smaller carparks just for little cars, while in Franklin, the two main parking buildings had special parks for LARGE vehicles. Way to encourage people buying idiotic and inappropriate vehicles.
Yeah, you're an atheist. How fucking brilliant of you. I have a cookie nearby that you can have if you want it. But you're clearly not sharp enough to figure out that no one here really gives a damn what you think about anything, nor will we ever. Make no mistake, even if I were an atheist, this thread would be a complete waste of time and I would treat it as such.
KhanadaRhodes said:
they do. i've seen it posted before on the forums. there's a liberal bias
well sorry guys. the last mod i remember that was conservative was...fuck i forget his name. lol it just went out of my head! but it's someone who was demodded YEARS ago for being a shitty mod. and coincidentally, my ex got banned from the forums for calling said person a cunt although i don't want to dredge up old drama since neither person posts here anymore, i was just mentioning that that's the only conservative mod i can think of that we've ever had.
he probably hates australia because of "that guy with the alligators" or whatever ignorant thing he'd say people like him is why i'd never want to go to a high school reunion.Axver said:Yeah, he'd probably fit right in with bogan culture here.
seriously. i look at it like this. the confederacy ceased to exist in 1865 when they lost the civil war. that's 143 years these rednecks have been going around with these dumb flags. i don't know if it's southern pride or what, but it's insulting to me because it's idiots like them that'll make us never be able to get past any intolerance (yeah i know calling them racist isn't tolerant either, lol), what with them walking around calling blacks niggers and such. or locking their doors if they see a black person standing on the street corner when they're at a traffic light. WHY YES, HE'S STANDING THERE BECAUSE HE'S WAITING TO CARJACK SOMEONE! AND HE WANTS ALL 500 OTHER CARS TO GET A GOOD LONG LOOK AT HIM SO THEY CAN BE YOUR EYEWITNESS!! dumbasses.I think those people just qualify as racist fucks!
KhanadaRhodes said:
if by the obnoxious, noisy cars you mean like a coupe that sounds like shit, we get that here too. i just call those things shitboxes. they sound like they're falling apart.
really? i've never seen separate lots anywhere around here (or nashville!) for larger cars. the closest i've ever seen, and i've seen this ever since i was a kid, is tiny ass spaces marked "compact cars only." the funny thing about that? i drive a compact and i'm not sure i'd want to park in one, but the hotel we always stay at in nashville has a spot designated as such, and there is ALWAYS an suv crammed in there. sure, you're really fucking compact.
KhanadaRhodes said:btw, i saw a bumper sticker once in high school that said "you lost. get over it!" with a confederate flag on it. it cracked me up! i wanted to get one too for my car but i was afraid someone would vandalize it. "ain't no bitch gonna tell me what ta believe in!"
KhanadaRhodes said:btw, i saw a bumper sticker once in high school that said "you lost. get over it!" with a confederate flag on it. it cracked me up! i wanted to get one too for my car but i was afraid someone would vandalize it. "ain't no bitch gonna tell me what ta believe in!"