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1 hour ago, Grey Cloud said:

I agree with you to a certain extent but governments can't win. If they order lock-down at the first sign of trouble then they are accused of being tyrannical; if they wait to see which way the wind is blowing then they are incompetent ditherers.

 

I've just watched a few-minute long video on the BBC's website by a senior virologist or some such. She explained very simply and very clearly why wearing face-masks is a waste of time for the general public. Basically, the thing spreads by touch (unless someone coughs or sneezes in your face).

The problem is that people wont listen to that, they will listen to some dipstick on twatter or facilebook or whatever other gathering place for the brain-dead they frequent.

Face-masks help if you're sick so the coughing and sneezing doesn't cause droplets flying everywhere. So masks for those that are sick and don't want others to get sick = ok but wearing face-masks hoping it will protect you is a meaningless effort and might even lead to a false sense of security. The reason people tend to listen to stupid advice on social media is because the trust in media and governments has been on a steady decline. But I do agree that no matter what the government will receive blame - if they crack down hard on the issue and major damage is prevented through this, all the dipshits will go 'lol why all the effort nothing did really happen in the end', failing to grasp that the extreme measures were the reason nothing bad happened. However, the approach of downplaying everything and then admitting you've either been lying the entire time or that you simply had no idea what you're talking about is worse, at least in my opinion. It's the same with certain statistics which are withheld from the public in order to not give ammunition to extremists.

 

And yeah, if you're not going to use force you might as well not bother. Asking nicely and closing schools won't matter much if all the idiots start throwing parties because corona-chan was so nice to give everyone some extra holidays. Which is what happened in Italy because nobody really took it seriously no matter what the government said, now they're on a national lockdown.

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6 minutes ago, Darkpig said:

What pisses me off is that I totally forgot.

I feel that, I gotta keep lists for everything now.

I actually forgot all about this birthday thing I complained about until today.

 

ALSO! People who honk at you .000000000000000000000001 seconds after the light turns green.

She cut me off trying to get into a parking spot and walking into the store too.

Fuck off, Karen. ?

 

I feel bad for retail workers in this trying time, they have it bad enough already.

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20 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

idiots start throwing parties because corona-chan was so nice to give everyone some extra holidays. Which is what happened in Italy

That's a very sweeping generalisation as to what happened in Italy.

 

21 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

why all the effort nothing did really happen in the end

I'm old enough to remember when we were all going to die of AIDS which was going to spread from gay to bi- to heterosexuals. (Cue the gay-bashing, figurative and literal). Okay, so AIDS isn't going to do but its running mate HIV will do it. Sure as eggs is eggs. (Cue more gay-bashing).

Roll on a few years and it was SARS. Then swine flu, bird flew, fucking chimney flue, plus a couple of others that never quite generated the publicity. (Probably something more important happening like a celebrity divorce).

I also remember when we were on the verge of a new ice age and obviously now we are on the verge of global warming or is it climate change.*

None of what happened with all the above means that eventually one wont come along and do the do. The influenza epidemic (Spanish flu) at the end of WW1 killed millions (more than the war) and it attacked the healthy.

 

*St Greta was in Bristol, UK last month. It rained every day in February and she was stood there like a drowned rat telling us the 'planet is burning'. I'm sure the tens of thousands of people who were being flooded out of their homes were well chuffed with that nugget.

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1 minute ago, Grey Cloud said:

That's a very sweeping generalisation as to what happened in Italy.

 

I'm old enough to remember when we were all going to die of AIDS which was going to spread from gay to bi- to heterosexuals. (Cue the gay-bashing, figurative and literal). Okay, so AIDS isn't going to do but its running mate HIV will do it. Sure as eggs is eggs. (Cue more gay-bashing).

Roll on a few years and it was SARS. Then swine flu, bird flew, fucking chimney flue, plus a couple of others that never quite generated the publicity. (Probably something more important happening like a celebrity divorce).

I also remember when we were on the verge of a new ice age and obviously now we are on the verge of global warming or is it climate change.*

None of what happened with all the above means that eventually one wont come along and do the do. The influenza epidemic (Spanish flu) at the end of WW1 killed millions (more than the war) and it attacked the healthy.

 

*St Greta was in Bristol, UK last month. It rained every day in February and she was stood there like a drowned rat telling us the 'planet is burning'. I'm sure the tens of thousands of people who were being flooded out of their homes were well chuffed with that nugget.

Yeah but it ain't wrong.

 

The problem with diseases is you never really know which path they'll take, especially if they're new. Any of the ones you mentioned COULD have been much, much worse (except HIV because the transmission is very specific, ebola has the same 'problem' if you want to call it that). The spanish flu killed so many people because essentially everyone got infected with it and the medical science wasn't as advanced as it is today - antibiotics weren't really used before 1928, for example. While antibiotics don't help directly with virus infections they do help to prevent or cure simultaneous infections with bacteria. Those superinfections are particularly nasty because the immune system is already weakened fighting one infection. It's hard to estimate how many people would die to the spanish flu today, I think.

 

When it comes to climate change it's a much better idea to listen to the scientists anyway. Global warming means that the median temperature will rise, which isn't necessarily associated with the planet literally burning up, it's just that it'll lead to extreme weather - be that heavy rain or drought - becoming more common everywhere, as well as already hostile places like deserts becoming even more hostile to the point where human life won't really be sustainable without heavy intervention. Some countries in the middle east are already very concerned with this. At least those that can afford to be concerned with such issues. There's also been new species of insects and tropical diseases settling in regions where they couldn't be found 20 years ago. The biggest concern scientists have however is that it'll eventually lead to a runaway climate change, i.e. setting things in motion that can't be stopped anymore and will have much more severe consequences.

 

At the end of the day, most people living today in western countries haven't really experienced life-changing catastrophies. The last one would be the cold war but most of it happened behind close door while the general public was just fed paranoia every now and then. Sure you had localized events like floodings, hurricanes, earth quakes and such but it never really went above that.

 

But alas, clickbait sells better than boring facts and that was already true before the term clickbait made sense because the internet wasn't invented yet. News sell well if they appeal to emotion, especially the negative ones like fear and anger are real bestsellers.

 

 

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1 hour ago, GrimReaper said:

Face-masks help if you're sick so the coughing and sneezing doesn't cause droplets flying everywhere. So masks for those that are sick and don't want others to get sick = ok but wearing face-masks hoping it will protect you is a meaningless effort and might even lead to a false sense of security.

Yes. The panic stockpiling of these masks makes me shake my head. I have to wear a surgeon's mask at my job- that is the exact purpose of the masks, to reduce the spread of what they call bio-burden within our work space. It doesn't do jack for preventing catching the latest bug from going around.

 

A couple of days ago I saw a woman whose little girl was wearing a mask while she was not. This mom completely missed the point. As for your earlier post, I get you. It doesn't help either that today's politics discourages people from questioning everything like people should, and being skeptical of the media. It used to be the right wing, now it's the left wing. Then the pendulum will swing again. Otherwise this mom might have had the sense to research exactly what these masks are good for, and kept her child at home instead.

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1 minute ago, Daedric_Cat said:

Yes. The panic stockpiling of these masks makes me shake my head. I have to wear a surgeon's mask at my job- that is the exact purpose of the masks, to reduce the spread of what they call bio-burden within our work space. It doesn't do jack for preventing catching the latest bug from going around.

 

A couple of days ago I saw a woman whose little girl was wearing a mask while she was not. This mom completely missed the point. As for your earlier post, I get you. It doesn't help either that today's politics discourages people from questioning everything like people should, and being skeptical of the media. It used to be the right wing, now it's the left wing. Then the pendulum will swing again. Otherwise this mom might have had the sense to research exactly what these masks are good for, and kept her child at home instead.

People stop questioning when their biases are confirmed and they won't stop questioning until their biases are confirmed. Being a partisan hack is the current year modus operandi.

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1 hour ago, GrimReaper said:

People stop questioning when their biases are confirmed and they won't stop questioning until their biases are confirmed. Being a partisan hack is the current year modus operandi.

I think there's another phenomenon at work as well which solidifies people's confirmation bias to a greater degree than existed in the past eras, let's say, pre-internet - the huge assortment of information dissemination. In the past, there were only a couple of news channels where people would get their information on current events. In the States, people would listen to Walter Cronkite for instance. Of course, with different personalities, experiences, and ways of processing information, etc., people would still draw different conclusions given the exact same information. But, at least there was consistency of the information itself, which, in and of itself I think created a lot more societal cohesion.

 

Contrast that to now, there's information coming from every direction with huge disparities in consistency. Add to that that most people are relatively low information decision makers, and you get an environment where there's significant gaps in what people understand to be happening and act on at any given time. So, when pundits wonder why there's so much confusion, misinformation, conspiracy theories, and friction in societies based on different narratives, I think that the dilution of consistent information circulation can't be understated. Add to that the large quantities of intentional spin and misinformation thrown into the mix, and yeah, it's no wonder that it results in a shitshow. It becomes kind of a math game at certain point, what % of information disseminated corresponds to reality, and what % of the population has been exposed to that information and accurately judged it to be valid... Who knows what this ratio is, but I bet it's not great.

 

There's also the situation that people tend to seek out information that supports their pre-existing biases, and with the incredible access to any pocket of information that you may want to find, I can't think of an easier time to be a flat-earther type who stays in an information bubble, only seeking out information that supports their thesis and only interacting with people who think similarly. - You can extrapolate this to every other type of thinking.

 

So, we live in the time of the information superhighway, but, there's a hell of a lot of ideas out there that are simply roadkill...

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10 hours ago, Daedric_Cat said:
11 hours ago, GrimReaper said:

Face-masks help if you're sick so the coughing and sneezing doesn't cause droplets flying everywhere. So masks for those that are sick and don't want others to get sick = ok but wearing face-masks hoping it will protect you is a meaningless effort and might even lead to a false sense of security.

Yes. The panic stockpiling of these masks makes me shake my head. I have to wear a surgeon's mask at my job- that is the exact purpose of the masks, to reduce the spread of what they call bio-burden within our work space. It doesn't do jack for preventing catching the latest bug from going around.

Just got back from a trip to Peru. The airport was full of paranoid goofs looking silly in their placebo face masks. Yet so few of those same people thought to wear gloves, something that might actually offer a little protection from any potentially contaminated surfaces in the airport. Also shared a seat row on the plane with a girl that wiped down her entire sitting area with cleaning wipes as if she was about to preform surgery there. Its a mess at the airports, OCD land, but the trip was fun other than that.

 

One thing about Corana panic did seriously piss me off during the trip: one of the family friends we were visiting down there was supposed to be getting an operation last Tuesday for a broken foot that healed wrong. Unfortunately his operation was postponed for nearly another month due to there being a single person with Corana being quarantined at the local hospital. Which left them short staffed due to all the knee-jerkers refusing to come into work. So stupid: as if any those employees haven't likely shown up to their job without a second thought on plenty of days in the past when there were patients with more serious contagious diseases in the building. The hysteria has gotten ridiculous.

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10 hours ago, Kendo 2 said:

You're dealing with someone who thinks "You have no right to be pissed about what you're pissed about because I said so."  Basically flies in the face of what the thread is for.  Funny that these people are calling others SJWs when one of them is the biggest SJW on the site.  Still shutting down posts and threads he doesn't personally agree with.  It's his thing.

 

Realistically, FUCK THESE PEOPLE.  'Communism is a meme."  Get off the fucking gas already.

 

Yeah, noticed that. 
Same people that refuse to face reality when it comes to other things like socialism being an absolute failure etc.

If multiple countries collapsing wont make them realise they wrong, quoting even hundreds of tweets or cases of millenials actually wanting to kill older people wouldnt either. 

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4 hours ago, MrEsturk said:

Just got back from a trip to Peru. The airport was full of paranoid goofs looking silly in their placebo face masks. Yet so few of those same people. thought to wear gloves, something that might actually offer a little protection from any potentially contaminated surfaces in the airport. Also shared a seat row on the plane with a girl that wiped down her entire sitting areas with cleaning wipes as if she was about to preform surgery there. Its a mess at the airports, OCD land, but the trip was fun other than that.

 

One thing about Corana panic did seriously piss me off during the trip: one of the family friends we were visiting down there was supposed to be getting an operation last Tuesday for a broken foot that healed wrong. Unfortunately his operation was postponed for nearly another month due to there being a single person with Corana being quarantined at the local hospital. Which left them short staffed due to all the knee-jerkers refusing to come into work. So stupid: as if any those employees haven't likely shown up to their job without a second thought on plenty of days in the past when there were patients with more serious contagious diseases in the building. The hysteria has gotten ridiculous.

Gloves, lol. I bet it's easy to buy gloves. One person at work was being ridiculous by not touching door handles, trying to open everything with elbows. Never mind that it's the cleanest place outside the hospitals. They even put extra hand sanitizers in the halls for extra measure.

 

I feel for your friend. That sucks. That is one of my concerns about this whole thing, how hard it would be to get hospital treatment for any other sickness or injury. Just have to be careful to not get sick or hurt.

 

This is worse than going through a hurricane or a blizzard.

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People that get pissed about dark humor. I understand that it's not everybody's preference but to go full nuclear on it because of that is just sad. The other day i had someone blasting my inbox (not in LL) because i laughed at bunch of dark jokes and posted some dark jokes as well. Like, how about you get a life? How about you get a thicker skin? And how about you fuck off? You're free to express your opinions on dark humor and how much you don't like them, but you can't tell me to stop enjoying them.

 

It's just annoying.

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3 hours ago, Horatius_PL said:

 

Yeah, noticed that. 
Same people that refuse to face reality when it comes to other things like socialism being an absolute failure etc.

If multiple countries collapsing wont make them realise they wrong, quoting even hundreds of tweets or cases of millenials actually wanting to kill older people wouldnt either. 

Schroedinger's extremists. It's a joke when someone's looking and serious when nobody does. It's sometimes hard to tell who is a crypto and who is just joking, but that's the point of it, I suppose.

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1 hour ago, Mr.Otaku said:

People that get pissed about dark humor. I understand that it's not everybody's preference but to go full nuclear on it because of that is just sad. The other day i had someone blasting my inbox (not in LL) because i laughed at bunch of dark jokes and posted some dark jokes as well. Like, how about you get a life? How about you get a thicker skin? And how about you fuck off? You're free to express your opinions on dark humor and how much you don't like them, but you can't tell me to stop enjoying them.

 

It's just annoying.

As I have repeated pointed out (to no avail) is the people I looked at who were tweeting about Boomer Remover are also the people who celebrate Antifa attacking 70 yr olds, fire bombing police stations and other Commie assfuckery.  They weren't joking, they weren't being edgy or shit posting.  I made that abundantly clear,  The people in this thread trying to frame it in any other way are wrong.  I don't give a fuck about 'jokes' because I've been shitlording since half the people on this site were still in high school.  The amateur hour gaslighting and strawman tactics in this thread proves they don't have a point to make.  When someone types 4 paragraphs of 'response' that should be a red flag. i.e. they're full of shit.

 

And I'm done with this.  I've had my say and no 'member' here is going to stop me from posting what I want to post.  I gave one person the benefit of doubt and I won't make that mistake again.  Moving on; what they say is irrelevant.

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4 minutes ago, Kendo 2 said:

As I have repeated pointed out (to no avail) is the people I looked at who were tweeting about Boomer Remover are also the people who celebrate Antifa attacking 70 yr olds, fire bombing police stations and other Commie assfuckery.  They weren't joking, they weren't being edgy or shit posting.  I made that abundantly clear,  The people in this thread trying to frame it in any other way are wrong.  I don't give a fuck about 'jokes' because I've been shitlording since half the people on this site were still in high school.  The amateur hour gaslighting and strawman tactics in this thread proves they don't have a point to make.  When someone types 4 paragraphs of 'response' that should be a red flag. i.e. they're full of shit.

 

And I'm done with this.  I've had my say and no 'member' here is going to stop me from posting what I want to post.  I gave one person the benefit of doubt and I won't make that mistake again.  Moving on; what they say is irrelevant.

That is what this thread is about after all. Just a suggestion O Mighty Lord of Shit. Be careful you don't get this thread shut down with your political wisdom.

Some refresher for my lord in case you forget:

https://www.loverslab.com/guidelines/

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14 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

Schroedinger's extremists. It's a joke when someone's looking and serious when nobody does. It's sometimes hard to tell who is a crypto and who is just joking, but that's the point of it, I suppose.

No its because Social Justice Whiners are a religion. 
Their main talking points like wage gap, pink tax, 1in5, peaceful islam, socialism working, diversity is strength etc have been debunked, rebuked, refuted and annihilated hundreds of times with data, statistics, experience and facts. But they wont admit it and just either move the goalpost or dismiss your evidence as a work of cis able bodied hetero white guy or ( if you arent cis hetero white guy ) internalized X, racism, sexism or other ism/phobia. 

Just like Flat Earthers, Creationists, Geocentrists, 9/11 truthers, moonhoaxers and rest of that trash. The same system of denial, dogma and "everyone who disagrees with us is a filthy heretic".
So i could post here dozens of examples of millenials being absolutely serious with their insane nonesense and some people will still go "nu uh they just joking". 

 

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42 minutes ago, Kendo 2 said:

As I have repeated pointed out (to no avail) is the people I looked at who were tweeting about Boomer Remover are also the people who celebrate Antifa attacking 70 yr olds, fire bombing police stations and other Commie assfuckery.  They weren't joking, they weren't being edgy or shit posting.  I made that abundantly clear,  The people in this thread trying to frame it in any other way are wrong.  I don't give a fuck about 'jokes' because I've been shitlording since half the people on this site were still in high school.  The amateur hour gaslighting and strawman tactics in this thread proves they don't have a point to make.  When someone types 4 paragraphs of 'response' that should be a red flag. i.e. they're full of shit.

 

And I'm done with this.  I've had my say and no 'member' here is going to stop me from posting what I want to post.  I gave one person the benefit of doubt and I won't make that mistake again.  Moving on; what they say is irrelevant.

My comment wasn't directed towards anyone here in particular so... I don't get why you took things so personally. Your post made me wonder if something happened previously in this thread and it seems to be the case after i went to take a look, but my comment wasn't addressing any of it so your aggression is misplaced to say the least.

 

But since you brought up the boomer remover thing, not quite. There is an overwhelmingly large number of people that are posting these jokes as simply jokes as opposed to people that celebrate terrorism and antifa posting these jokes. To suggest that all the boomer remover jokes are being made by antifa sympathizer is a gross simplification of things that ignores a lot of nuances. People tend to joke about things to ease the tension, that's a very real psychological phenomenon that can keep people from getting jaded. You can express that you don't like the jokes, but you can't enforce everyone to agree and comply with you, otherwise, how are you any different from the SJWs?

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Nothing I said can be in any way construed as 'aggressive' towards you.  And I NEVER said everyone tweeting Boomer Remover was a Commie or anything else.  I have repeatedly stated the people I looked at were Antifa-type trash...not 'everyone'.  But I guess that doesn't matter because people see what they wanna see.

 

And yet again I have someone gaslighting me that what I saw with my own eyes isn't what I saw.  YES, people were making jokes and I DON'T CARE about that and THAT wasn't what my initial post was about.  I posted about self-proclaimed Commie cunts reveling in the fact that people are going to die from COVID-19.  They were dead serious, no humor anywhere to be found.  If they had posted "I hope someone shoots people in the head" I sure people here would be bloviating about it being a meme/joke/whatever without context; just like they're doing with COVID-19 and Boomer Remover now.

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1 hour ago, Horatius_PL said:

No its because Social Justice Whiners are a religion. 
Their main talking points like wage gap, pink tax, 1in5, peaceful islam, socialism working, diversity is strength etc have been debunked, rebuked, refuted and annihilated hundreds of times with data, statistics, experience and facts. But they wont admit it and just either move the goalpost or dismiss your evidence as a work of cis able bodied hetero white guy or ( if you arent cis hetero white guy ) internalized X, racism, sexism or other ism/phobia. 

Just like Flat Earthers, Creationists, Geocentrists, 9/11 truthers, moonhoaxers and rest of that trash. The same system of denial, dogma and "everyone who disagrees with us is a filthy heretic".
So i could post here dozens of examples of millenials being absolutely serious with their insane nonesense and some people will still go "nu uh they just joking". 

 

may I direct your attention to the likes of /pol/ and stormfront

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33 minutes ago, Kendo 2 said:

Nothing I said can be in any way construed as 'aggressive' towards you.  And I NEVER said everyone tweeting Boomer Remover was a Commie or anything else.  I have repeatedly stated the people I looked at were Antifa-type trash...not 'everyone'.  But I guess that doesn't matter because people see what they wanna see.

You gotta tag/quote the people you're replying to man, otherwise your replies could go completely unseen. You did make a very aggressive reply to me, maybe you weren't intending it to be aggressive but it came off that way. And if you weren't talking about everyone, then you did you attribute the people making boomer remover jokes to antifa apologists? Isn't that what you did when you said "As I have repeated pointed out (to no avail) is the people I looked at who were tweeting about Boomer Remover are also the people who celebrate Antifa attacking 70 yr olds, fire bombing police stations and other Commie assfuckery."?

I know you didn't say everyone but you didn't make any distinction either. Yes, antifa apologists are also making the joke, but they're by far not the only ones.

 

33 minutes ago, Kendo 2 said:

And yet again I have someone gaslighting me that what I saw with my own eyes isn't what I saw.  YES, people were making jokes and I DON'T CARE about that and THAT wasn't what my initial post was about.  I posted about self-proclaimed Commie cunts reveling in the fact that people are going to die from COVID-19.  They were dead serious, no humor anywhere to be found.  If they had posted "I hope someone shoots people in the head" I sure people here would be bloviating about it being a meme/joke/whatever without context; just like they're doing with COVID-19 and Boomer Remover now.

I'm not gaslighting you and i'm certainly not saying you didn't see what you saw. My comment here didn't even take your initial post into account, so when you made your reply to me it came off as aggressive. I just wanna clear that up, i'm not looking for a fight. If you're simply addressing the commie retards then we're on the same page on that, since they're always dead serious and want to see people die, especially those that don't share their political ideas. But you need to make a distinction when you address such things, you need to be clear and very exact with your words to prevent miscommunication. You can't say "people that are making boomer remover memes are the same people who celebrate when antifa attacks a 70 year old" because that's a bold claim about all the people making this joke, when you're addressing only a part of that group.

That's all i'm saying.

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At work yesterday, the boss told me about someone from one of the areas where this carona thing is getting bad.  Bad enough that they effectively had the next county over from where this guy lives on lockdown.  ...And here's this schmuck, drove all the way HERE, and sticks out his hand to shake hands with my boss.  She declined.  Then he was like "oh yeah..."  Derp.  Dumbass. 

That night, went out to dinner, ran into a couple guys who'd driven half way across the country.  And here's the CDC talking about how we really should try for some travel restrictions. 

That's nice, CDC.  How do you propose to restrict travel and still keep the economy going?

People are stupid.

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