What really pisses you off? please no posts about nexus lol

[27X]

13 minutes ago, AKM said:

 it's working exactly as it was designed to. 

 

[TheOzoneHole]

2 hours ago, 27X said:

That's not even kind of what he means. *pats head*

"TRASH PORN pisses me off...the kind of broads I can meet at a laundromat are now 'porn stars' because the LA ghetto-ass Dog Fart Leroys hijacked the CA porn industry with their early 2000's rapper-dope-money-laundering-bullshit AND the goddamned Russian mob Ivans in Florida with their shaved-and-infected bikini lines sluts with their 'show me your guts' Eastern European anal whores.  Not to mention the 'your father must be proud' Fans Only cam sluts and the Bad Dragon dildos flipping these bitch's assholes inside-out.  Modern porn is a fucking horror show."

 

Maybe not, but what I'm seeing on Pornhub these days, at least to me, sure fits what Kendo said (in terms of who is making it, maybe not so much with what they're doing) and is pretty much all trash. =p

[27X]

Context is king, and diction is transparent.

[Grey Cloud]

10 hours ago, FauxFurry said:

That is what has been referred to for some time as the Scunthorpe Problem.

Didn't think much of the article.

There is a tea company in the UK called Typhoo. Many years ago they had an ad with the slogan 'Typhoo puts the T in Britain'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0zbZDhjis0

 

The joke then arose: If Typhoo put the T in Britain, who put the cunt in Scunthorpe?

[landess]

During the civil war in the U.S., I'm sure many Americans felt as if their world was in jeopardy, and at best, nothing would ever be the same if the country somehow managed to pull through it. Yet for all the controversy and violence, there WAS a definitive line drawn in the sand for those wanting to take a side.

 

Today's upheaval hasn't made clear what exactly the end goal is. I believe in fairness and the right of the majority. Yet this recent unrest, the actions being taken by the mob and the unwillingness of government to make a stand is nothing short of confusing. When the Patriot Act was created I worried the government had the tools to enforce law in a way which might be deemed unlawful, and anti-american.

 

Now as I sit back and watch indecisiveness mixed with posturing from so many I'm starting to feel my world is in jeopardy and if things will ever be the same. I just don't feel that standing up for many of my 'fellow' Americans is even worth it anymore. The most base ideas used to found this country are the only things I can believe in.

 

I want to feel safe, but that safety is eroding around us and many are being pulled into violence and loss they personally had nothing to do with. This frightens me and really pisses me off.

[landess]

On 6/21/2020 at 11:51 PM, AKM said:

grade school level of required censorship

I'm not sure of the connection, but remember this type of 'electronic' censorship began after immature people thought it clever to incorporate these kinds of words into their monikers and other forms of communication. Stupid is as stupid does....

[Wolfstorm321]

On 6/23/2020 at 5:27 AM, TheOzoneHole said:

"TRASH PORN pisses me off...the kind of broads I can meet at a laundromat are now 'porn stars' because the LA ghetto-ass Dog Fart Leroys hijacked the CA porn industry with their early 2000's rapper-dope-money-laundering-bullshit AND the goddamned Russian mob Ivans in Florida with their shaved-and-infected bikini lines sluts with their 'show me your guts' Eastern European anal whores.  Not to mention the 'your father must be proud' Fans Only cam sluts and the Bad Dragon dildos flipping these bitch's assholes inside-out.  Modern porn is a fucking horror show."

 

 

I agree with the assertion. After 16 months without consuming industrial porn, I can say its really trashy. Every time I try to come back to it, I get scared by how bad, ugly and tacky it is. Industrial porn is the fast food of sex.

Also, industrial porn made people forget the meaning of eroticism. A woman with curves can have erotic posture while she is fully dressed. This is not appreciated anymore.

[Kendo 2]

Not so much pissed as conflicted.  Finished the last project for China National and there won't be another one.  Do I like their money? YES.  Do I like doing business with the modern day equivalent of Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union? NO.

[Mr. Otaku]

When life fucks you up for no reason and it wasn't your fault. It wasn't something you said or did, just out of nowhere life hands you an irreversible and severe loss. It's like the universe is telling you "haha no matter how hard you try you can't undo this shit stay sad lol" right to your face.

 

That pisses me off, and that's the biggest understatement ever.

[TheOzoneHole]

This feels really cheap after Otaku's post (good luck to you, hope something goes your way soon); but it just bugs me no end. 

 

*Image is NSFW (none of LL is but still) and only for context.*

 

Spoiler

 

The older I get the more this attitude of "but everyone else did it..." or "I-don't-want-to-be/I was the last one who didn't have/do..." just pisses me off more and more.  That line is just whining. It is just "I wanna..."  In the instance of the image what is going to happen in 20 years? At 38 is she still going to be glad that her "cosmetic" surgery removed her teeth and vocal cords? After 20 years of nothing but milkshakes and smoothies to eat is it still going to be "worth it"? 

We've gone round and round with the old people blaming the young people and vice versa; and yes, some of the fads that have come before were really, really stupid. (Flag pole sitting, phone booth stuffing and goldfish swallowing I'm looking at you.) By I swear that every time I hear that whine of "But everyone else is xxxxxx" it is the dumbest thing I've heard that day.

[AKM]

5 hours ago, TheOzoneHole said:

The older I get the more this attitude of "but everyone else did it... just pisses me off more and more."

One of the wonderful things about the internet is communication.  I have found, in my research, that there are people out there who think as I do on various issues.  The most critical message I've run into again, and again and again from people of a particular mindset I have is this:

It doesn't matter what others think of how you live your life.  If it makes you happy, that's what matters.  There is, of course, the basic level of human decency, that is, to not metaphorically shit on everyone else in the process, but there's zero need to follow the crowd. 

Of course, this also has a major downside - that of not knowing where the line is.  The line that, as mentioned above, appears to be so heavily blurred as to be missing in current events.  There must be a basic level of agreed "This is how we will ALL operate, these are the rules we will ALL abide by." that make up a society.  Without those, there is only chaos.  We've all seen exactly that happen in the States very recently.  It's still ongoing.  There MUST be a base set of rules that everyone abides by.

[27X]

44 minutes ago, AKM said:

There MUST be a base set of rules that everyone abides by.

Except that's never been a thing aside from the laws of physics.

 

The onus of that is America is an experiment in utter sophist bullshit. EVERYTHING about the way this country operates on and from is literally made up arbitrary froofroo bullcrap. It's all experimental and held together with duct tape and conviction, and that's also why it's in the state it's in right now.

[Mr. Otaku]

55 minutes ago, AKM said:

Of course, this also has a major downside - that of not knowing where the line is.  The line that, as mentioned above, appears to be so heavily blurred as to be missing in current events.

Often times the most complicated questions of life have the most simple of answers, that's one of the things i've come to learn in life. The line in my opinion is anywhere with tangible negative effects. Tangible is the key word here, since that's the "blurred line" you seem to be pointing out. Tangible as in observable and solvable in the most objective fashion. What is good according to me is not good according to someone else and vice versa, so who decides which one is objectively correct? The answer is to see which one is causing tangible, measurable harm. It may be both, may be neither, may be one or the other. Hypocrisy is a bigger enemy to man than anger.

 

One should do what they feel good about and not care about people's opinions, but one must also be observant and vigilant of what's going on around them. Losing that connection can lead to making decisions that aren't well informed. being aware of other's shortcomings is a way to tweak yourself to not have those shortcomings to begin with, or at least overcome them. Those who understand this can skip a whole lot of anxiety and emotional baggage in life and in turn attain a better understanding of society itself.

[Kendo 2]

Wikipedia (which is trash to begin with) has purged the Antifa page of any mention of their part in the recent riots and all mentions of past violence.  They're just an action group. ?

[AKM]

2 hours ago, 27X said:

Except that's never been a thing aside from the laws of physics.

 

The onus of that is America is an experiment in utter sophist bullshit. EVERYTHING about the way this country operates on and from is literally made up arbitrary froofroo bullcrap. It's all experimental and held together with duct tape and conviction, and that's also why it's in the state it's in right now.

Oh I know.  Examples all the way back to the middle school science classroom where, before doing something potentially dangerous, everyone must sign a "I will not do this particular thing that's the dangerous part despite having the access to the ability to do so" statement.  Only one kid did the action.  This child was... the school resource police officer's son.  Annddd, no consequences for kid or father.  Yes, I've seen how the world does work.  What I meant was that's the way it needs to work.

[AKM]

2 hours ago, Mr.Otaku said:

 one must also be observant and vigilant of what's going on around them.

Oh yeah, no question about that.  Situational awareness (and awareness of the other things you mentioned) will keep you out of a LOT of trouble.  Thing is, we've been at the top of the food chain for too long.  The number of people who have zero awareness of their environment is absolutely staggering.  I mean that in terms of personal defense, personal safety, geo-politically and, of course, earth-environmentally as well.  Actions and consequences.  It's amazing to watch the most basic of things (we can only destroy our living environment for so long before we, as a species will no longer find said living environment/rock habitable) get studiously ignored.  Just yesterday I called to a co-worker for assistance, thought I was being ignored, then noticed the idiot had earbuds in.  Totally oblivious to everything going on around him.  Stupid.

[Mr. Otaku]

1 hour ago, AKM said:

Just yesterday I called to a co-worker for assistance, thought I was being ignored, then noticed the idiot had earbuds in.  Totally oblivious to everything going on around him.  Stupid.

It makes you wanna pull those earbuds and throw them to the next city doesn't it? lol. Yeah, i've had similar experiences, and a lot of older people tend to do it as well which was surprising to me at first. And being the youngest or among the youngest in workplace, calling them out results in stink eyes and frowns as if i'm the one who was lazing off (thank goodness i can work from home most of the time). But then i realized that not everybody gets wiser with age, instead of learning humbleness they become more stubborn and grumpy which only makes them that much more short sighted and thus, increasingly ill-informed about many things until they "can't understand the youth no more".

 

Speaking of which, that's exactly the type of mindset that fucks everything up on a societal scale. Losing sight of what's important, not having a good enough foresight, constant need to be always correct regardless of what is objectively true, hyper resistant to change, dismissing serious problems due to said shortsightedness, the list goes on. In part i blame the education systems for not training people how to think and process the information around them. I mean we have a surge in anti-vaxxers and flat earthers in an era of technological boom and information, that's not a laughing matter (well it is kind of a laughing matter since they tend to be so retarded and cringy but still). It's a big problem that needs a radical solution, but try telling that to the stuck up bags of bones running these outdated indoctrination camps.

[AKM]

8 hours ago, Mr.Otaku said:

In part i blame the education systems for not training people how to think and process the information around them.

There's a reason for that, and it's not too far in the past.  When the education systems of today were set up (particularly in the U.S.), they were set up by the people in charge.  The people in charge needed people who were smart enough to do the work but not smart enough to question why, or how they could do better, etc.  The system as it stands was set up to work exactly as it is.  Things are working as designed.

Why the current social problems?  The internet.  The availability of sharing information. The inability to hide things that have been successfully hidden for a LONG time.

And you're absolutely correct, people are NOT trained to think for themselves.  Critical thinking is a non-entity in today's education system.  Nor is long term planning, or any number of other critical skills taught (like cooking, basic living place and vehicle repair, etc.) given any thought whatsoever by schools whose sole purpose is to prepare kids for college.

Forgot to mention, the purpose behind summer vacation for kids.  It wasn't vacation, it was so they could go home to the farm and work the fields.

[Mr. Otaku]

59 minutes ago, AKM said:

people are NOT trained to think for themselves.  Critical thinking is a non-entity in today's education system.  Nor is long term planning, or any number of other critical skills taught (like cooking, basic living place and vehicle repair, etc.) given any thought whatsoever by schools whose sole purpose is to prepare kids for college.

Exactly, i think i read somewhere that this education system which is practically indoctrination comes from german ideals for making good soldiers so that they can obey properly. So it comes from military ideals (i could be wrong on this one but i'm very convinced that i'm not). People tend to treat education as a hurdle and that's a problem since now people are only looking to pass their grades instead of learning life skills, which aren't being taught in the first place.

 

"Why do you study in school?" "So i can go to college" "And what then?" "I dunno, get a job" this essentially encapsulates it. On top of this, college lands so many into lifelong debts. It's like the system is geared towards keeping people in a short leash, forcing them to slave their lives away just so they stay afloat, where's the potential for growth in that?

 

It's ridiculous.

[AKM]

11 hours ago, Mr.Otaku said:

people are only looking to pass their grades instead of learning life skills, which aren't being taught in the first place.

 

"Why do you study in school?" "So i can go to college" "And what then?" "I dunno, get a job" this essentially encapsulates it. On top of this, college lands so many into lifelong debts. It's like the system is geared towards keeping people in a short leash, forcing them to slave their lives away just so they stay afloat, where's the potential for growth in that?

 

It's ridiculous.

I found it mildly amusing some years ago when I did a semester teaching "special education" students.  That is, students with obvious mental and sometimes physical problems that will never in any way be fully capable of integrating into society as adults.

But you know what these kids were taught?  Some basic home-econimics-esque cooking skills.  I'm sure there were others, but I saw people who were never going to be expected to be fully functioning members of society being taught more critical life skills than I ever was when I was their age.  The only reason I had those skills was due to 1. Scouts and 2. Parents  NOT the school system.

Absolutely, positively!  Got a friend who left college the same time I did at close to $100,000 in debt.  He went into the military, enlisted.  His wife has a degree she doesn't use, and is working close to minimum wage at a massive name treats-people-and-other-companies-like-shit chain store.

Growth?  The lower 98% or so's income/earning potential has been flatlined or negative since the 1970's due to the way the system's set up.  Only the upper 1-2% have seen any reasonable growth, and they've had unfathomable amounts of growth... because it's THEIR system, and they know how to manipulate it, and the people working it.

Recently saw something (I think it was Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson) talking about how the system only has to listen to the top 20% or so, the bottom 80% might as well not exist, as they have absolutely no ability to change anything, whatsoever.

[Mr. Otaku]

3 hours ago, AKM said:

Recently saw something (I think it was Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson) talking about how the system only has to listen to the top 20% or so, the bottom 80% might as well not exist, as they have absolutely no ability to change anything, whatsoever.

It makes me wonder how this problem can even be solved, assuming if it can be even solved.

 

1) System with power, obvious corruption. Telling that system to change it's way without any leverage, futile.

2) People in bad systems, completely oblivious and unprepared. Telling that same mass of people to wake up and prepare themselves, futile.

 

So it's locked from both ways and the best we can do is talk about these things in relatively obscure forums. Makes me wonder what even is the point in trying anymore.

[gregathit]

The point is to stop being a lemming.  College is worthless unless you have a specific reason for going.  Do some apprenticeships, and see what type of jobs interest you.  Over 85% of folks work in a field outside of their college major.  If you feel you MUST have some college to get where you think you want to get, go to a local 2 year college and get an associates degree.  There are NO RULES on how to be successful in life.  Stop listening to folks that push narratives and nonsense.  YOU BE YOU.  This is how you break the system that idiots are trying to funnel you into.  Think for yourself.

[TheOzoneHole]

I'll out myself a bit again; I teach college. (Note that college is different from university. (A university is made up of colleges in different fields but a college may be separate from a university.))

 

Many universities have programs for teachers. Many of the instructors for those programs have never taught K-12 school. In fact many of those instructors have never had a full time job outside of higher education. My aunt, who works in K-12 education, says that the new teachers come out of college repeating the same crap that she was taught in the 1970's that didn't work then and doesn't work now. Because of the way federal and state funding works, public schools want high pass rates so administrators will basically order teachers not to fail students even if the student doesn't submit work. State laws require students to take, and pass, some specific classes, all decided by politicians who have never worked in primary, secondary or higher education. Rules and policy decisions may be made by the Federal Board of Education, State Board of Education, local School Board, or individual school administrators that all conflict and some might even violate the policies of the others or state/federal laws.  Contracts between the schools and faculty or staff may be ignored if it is easier to just ignore the contract or one side can claim that it would be burdensome to comply as doing so would make complying with policy decisions for any of the aforementioned entities harder. And the national union only cares about how much money they bring in from different local unions when deciding which ones to back up with legal help. 

 

TL;DR: The chicken or the egg? Higher education trains incompetent teachers because the people who teach in both higher ed and K-12 are incompetent because they were taught by people who are incompetent... Oh and the pay is garbage so anyone smart goes into a different field and takes up teaching in retirement to supplement their 401k and Social Security. 

 

Edit: And my issue with my last post is with people jumping on the proverbial bandwagon for the sake of not being left out or just to jump because everyone else is jumping. The proverbial lemming, even though that is a myth. (Yes, it is a myth, blame Disney.)

[gregathit]

Also, we expect too much out of schools.  You can't teach someone if they refuse to learn.  Education should start in the home.  If kids refuse to learn, then kick their ass out of school and send them to a military type academy.  I don't give a fuck what their age is.  Stop those trouble makers from dragging down the rest of the class.  Also, no more frivolous classes.  Teach the 3 R's and basic history.  That is it.  If folks want their kids to learn other things, make them voluntary electives.  And I mean VOLUNTARY.  You don't have to have to take them.

[AKM]

19 minutes ago, TheOzoneHole said:

Oh and the pay is garbage so anyone smart goes into a different field

Funny you mention that.  I'm super close to finishing a "second" education, after doing what I liked rather than what I was trained for.  I realized that I'd better start making a little more, so I went back to school - for what I trained for in uni, though semi-indirectly.  First thing we're told: "You shouldn't be here if you want to make any money at all.".  Okay, well, I know the industry a little, so I figured I'd be okay, right?  WRONG!  The only good point is that I can take my skills to another industry, work 1/3 to 1/4 as hard, and make the same money, with SO much less bullshit.  Haven't even gotten into the system and I'm remembering what my college instructor told us about this industry my degree is in: "Guys, anyone can accuse you of anything, and the worst part is, if the investigation doesn't find what you're accused of, they'll keep digging until they find something else to pin on you.  This industry has so many rules, you WILL end up breaking a rule sooner rather than later, even unintentionally.  They WILL punish you for something you did, even if it's not what you're accused of."

It's unfortunate that I remember that NOW, rather than when I started the program.  Oh well.  At least my base goal of picking up exposure to new and interesting things that are transferable to the real world worked out, so that's something/ better than nothing.