The Isolated Blurt Thread X: Dolf and Fata Are Lovely Cunts

[Saint Peter]

Oops.

Sorry.

 

[Wife of Bath]

Listening to bon iver while trying to accomplish tasks is counter productive.

 

[Learnsmith]

Listening to bon iver while trying to accomplish tasks is counter productive.

Not to mention weepy. I hope you're not driving.

 

[Saint Peter]

Listening to bon iver while trying to accomplish tasks is counter productive.

Good for productivity. Bad for the soul.

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[Wife of Bath]

Not to mention weepy. I hope you're not driving.

yeah no kidding. Pandora is mixing bon iver with ben howard, which is basically an ideal blend for ultimate melancholia. It's feeding my inner creative bleeding heart.

Good for productivity. Bad for the soul.

I'd rather be unproductive and emotional than productive and soul-less.

 

[Saint Peter]

There is a huge difference between bad for the soul and no soul.

 

[Wife of Bath]

There is a huge difference between bad for the soul and no soul.

this is a fair point.

 

[Learnsmith]

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I've long said that rape can be funny... If and only if the joke is at the expense of the rapist. And I'm fucking dying over here.

 

[Saint Peter]

Your humor is not my humor.

 

[dolf]

''i'm not angry, i'm just disappointed.''

 

[JohnnySavage]

Looking at the pictures of the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center, all covered in scaffolding and surrounded by cranes, I can't help but wonder how many homeless could be fed with all the money they are spending.

 

[phantom4533]

You're forgetting that construction workers have children too and they need to be fed.

 

[Learnsmith]

Looking at the pictures of the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center, all covered in scaffolding and surrounded by cranes, I can't help but wonder how many homeless could be fed with all the money they are spending.

I wonder that about Detroit, every time I remember that the Navy just spent untold billions on a new combat ship named for that city.

 

[phantom4533]

I may well have come back from Thailand suffering from PTSD save for the fact I spent most of the year stoned on really good hashish.

I do admit, though, that it makes me a little uncomfortable when people thank me for my service.

 

[Learnsmith]

I may well have come back from Thailand suffering from PTSD save for the fact I spent most of the year stoned on really good hashish.

I do admit, though, that it makes me a little uncomfortable when people thank me for my service.

I hate that bit. I smile and try to bear it graciously, but it never really gets any easier.

 

[dolf]

I hate that bit. I smile and try to bear it graciously, but it never really gets any easier.

I've never understood that one. it's terribly American and... well, like any line parroted a million times a day, it seems tripe and hollow. if it were me, I would hate to hear it.

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

I wonder that about Detroit, every time I remember that the Navy just spent untold billions on a new combat ship named for that city.

USS Bankrupt?

 

[Learnsmith]

I've never understood that one. it's terribly American and... well, like any line parroted a million times a day, it seems tripe and hollow. if it were me, I would hate to hear it.

It is, generally. The issue is that my parents' generation never got over their own guilt about how they treated their veterans coming back from Vietnam. What's interesting to me, is that they mostly blamed draftees who were too poor to avoid college and thus deferment. It's a profoundly middle-class white-people way of thinking - blame the underprivileged for their problems. Now we have the opposite problem, where we mindlessly line up to thank people for volunteering to be part of that system. Nowadays for many, the only way to GET healthcare, to GET money for college, is to pick up a rifle.

 

[phantom4533]

I've never understood that one. it's terribly American and... well, like any line parroted a million times a day, it seems tripe and hollow. if it were me, I would hate to hear it.

I wonder if it's a post 9/11 /generational thing. I don't ever remember being thanked when I was actually serving or anytime soon after.

I didn't ever feel a need to be thanked. I joined because I needed something to do after high school. I was not going to college - I was a lousy student - and there was nothing in my home town to hold my interest at that time. It allowed me to learn a trade.

I got to experience other cultures, both at home and overseas, and made some great friends. Serving was not a bad experience for me.

 

[Learnsmith]

I wonder if it's a post 9/11 /generational thing. I don't ever remember being thanked when I was actually serving or anytime soon after.

I didn't ever feel a need to be thanked. I joined because I needed something to do after high school. I was not going to college - I was a lousy student - and there was nothing in my home town to hold my interest at that time. It allowed me to learn a trade.

I got to experience other cultures, both at home and overseas, and made some great friends. Serving was not a bad experience for me.

Mine was some good and a whole lot of bad. Not trauma, necessarily, just disillusionment.

 

[dolf]

this needs a thread!

 

[JohnnySavage]

For the past week or so, all we've heard about on the local DC news is today's party on the Mall. No country can take a solemn day of remembrance and make it a commercial party event like America.

All the party-goers should have to get there through Arlington - but of course, Metro suspended train service there so that the people who want to pay their respects have to take a bus.

 

[Laurel]

this is AWESOME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpKDteQ3FIQ

 

[phantom4533]

this needs a thread!

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[dolf]

silly bugger