Unusual for its stupidity - news article

Lei · Post by **Lei** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:05 pm

Oddly, I'm more upset over the poodle than the baby....

MERBman · Post by **MERBman** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:09 pm

Poodles suck. But then, I hate little kids too, so I guess I'm just hateful and misanthropic.

Gengar003 · Post by **Gengar003** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:13 pm

legostargalactica wrote:dear god, what won't people do? Whatever happened to leaving the child you don't want on the steps of a church or something? dumpsters.. plastic bags in lakes... seriously...

People who don't go to churches...?

rkolter wrote:How about the poodle punter?

http://www.nbc4.com/news/6525189/detail.html

Eh, poodle had it coming. Some little dog runs up and attacks me, you bet I'mma kick it.

Well, not really, because I'm too gentle, but mentally I'll be kicking it. Viciously.

RemusShepherd · Post by **RemusShepherd** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:24 pm

Poodles are some of the greatest dogs in the world. And if I see someone kick one, I will castrate him with a cheese grater.

I present to you the greatest dog in the world:

Yes, my dogs walk all over me.

Pimpette · Post by **Pimpette** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:13 pm

I don't agree with the punting-across-the-street bit, but you can't really blame the guy for aiming a foot at it at least once, just to encourage it to go away. Some of those little dogs can get really vicious to strangers, especially people who are running. They just give chase and sink their teeth into someone's leg.
And yeah, I've seen it happen. My brother used to have a paper route, and sometimes came back after having been chewed on by a couple loose dogs.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:16 pm

Gengar003 wrote:
legostargalactica wrote:dear god, what won't people do? Whatever happened to leaving the child you don't want on the steps of a church or something? dumpsters.. plastic bags in lakes... seriously...
People who don't go to churches...?

you don't have to go IN to the church... just leave it on the doorstep of people who might care...

Gengar003 · Post by **Gengar003** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:27 pm

Well if you don't attend church regularly you might not know where they are or how to get there...

Aaand before I forget:

ManyWorlds wrote:Aaaaaand my faith in humanity takes another tiny dip. -_-

http://www.bash.org/?257382

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:33 pm

Gengar003 wrote:Well if you don't attend church regularly you might not know where they are or how to get there...

yeah... it's hard to notice those giant builings with huge frickin crosses on them...

Yeahduff · Post by **Yeahduff** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:36 pm

Let's all cease with the condescending ellipses already.

Gengar, any idiot can find a church, there are options. Lego, people who do this are desperate and often not in their right minds.

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:49 pm

ManyWorlds wrote:Aaaaaand my faith in humanity takes another tiny dip. -_-

You still have some? I don't.

Couple months of retail work will do that to ya.

My loathing for humanity just went up another notch, though. And the problem is, we've probably had her mental twin sister go through my parents foster home at some point in time.

CW

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:42 pm

Fair dinkum...we all love taking one stand alone incident and blaming the entire race, don't we. Ignore all the good that's happening in the world (there's a heap of it happening, it's just that it doesn't sell newspapers) and focus on the handful of bastards doing bastard things.

Fair dinkum, let's get over the lack of faith in humanity cult and start appreciating the stuff that the vast majority of the little people are doing in the world instead.

Otherwise you're only ever gonna see the dark side of the world. Most of the joint's filled wall to wall with colour, you do realise this, don't you?

Yeahduff · Post by **Yeahduff** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:46 pm

Whatever. There's reason to admire humanity, and there certainly is reason to be disgusted by it. Any attempt to view it solely as either is foolish and counterproductive. Plenty of people come in here talking about what excites them in life, but I guess one sees what they want to see.

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:53 pm

I admire the individuals who do good things.

I have not experianced very many of said individuals. I have experianced a great many self-absorbed, bitter, selfish, greedy, neglectful, abusive and downright nasty people. Some people are really, really nice when they know you or they feel like they need to be nice to you to get something out of you. When there's nothing they can get out of you, or they know that they may never have to speak to you again, the best that you can hope for is that they ignore you. I've known nothing nicer than a single, kind, caring, accepting individual. I've known nothing crueler than a mass of people heading for a single goal.

Individuals=good.

Clumps of humanity? Not so good.

CW

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:56 pm

To be fair, there is some precident for her defense...

...when they tied me to all those bodies they found in the harbour I too blamed it on hobos and got away scott-free.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:07 am

christwriter wrote:I admire the individuals who do good things.

I have not experianced very many of said individuals. I have experianced a great many self-absorbed, bitter, selfish, greedy, neglectful, abusive and downright nasty people. Some people are really, really nice when they know you or they feel like they need to be nice to you to get something out of you. When there's nothing they can get out of you, or they know that they may never have to speak to you again, the best that you can hope for is that they ignore you. I've known nothing nicer than a single, kind, caring, accepting individual. I've known nothing crueler than a mass of people heading for a single goal.

Individuals=good.

Clumps of humanity? Not so good.

CW

CW, though I understand your opinion, I gotta tell you that, whether you're going to notice all the bad things in the world and glaze over good things as "rare exceptions", is pretty much up to you. It is more about pre-defined opinion that people have, so things that they witness, they are trying to fit into that opinion. For instance, you can blame bad individual acts on entire humanity, yet take good individual acts as strictly individual, having nothing to do with humanity in whole. But that's what people do when they WANT to lost faith in humanity. It's true that some people think that the glass is half-empty and the other that it's half-full.
I for one have witnessed many acts of human kindness, I was in many situations where I or somebody close to me needed help, and many times, it was unknown passers-by who helped.
Of course, I know many different acts. Being that I grew up during the war time, probably more than most of people here.

People, they are not strictly good nor bad. Simply, we all have our quirks and whether in some situation we're going to react as utter bastards or as angels, sometimes it's just a matter of timing. Someone who helped you in some occasion might be a bank robber, you might never find out. Someone who did you something harm on one day, might have just been having a bad day. People are imperfect and, if you look at it deeper, you'll realise that that's the reason to love this world: because people are going on despite their imperfectness. If they were perfect, would anything good they do be extraordinary? I think not.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:24 am

Yeah...sort of what I was going for...but without the Australian 'aw, give humanity a fair go' element...

You know, if you ever learnt to type English properly, McDuffies, you'd almost pass as intelligent!

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:32 am

Australian humor.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:48 am

Yeah. Great, isn't it?

You do realise taking the piss is usually considered a form of social endearment, yes?

CorpAmis · Post by **CorpAmis** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:08 am

yeahduff wrote:Let's all cease with the condescending ellipses already.

Gengar, any idiot can find a church, there are options. Lego, people who do this are desperate and often not in their right minds.

That doesnt make it OKAY!!!

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:05 am

Just remember your average person is only 1/6,000,000,000th of humanity as a whole.