# am i evil? am i deranged? or am i just rational? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 8, 2005, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576 "2005-07-08T10:27:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/21 "2005-07-08T15:46:08Z")
Well-tanned, maybe, but they’re no browner than anybody else from the the Mideast or the Mediteranean rim. Wait a tic…that means Greeks, Italians, and Jews are brown people, too! I’ve rediscovered a way for Northern Europeans–well, the white ones, anyway–to feel superior to Greeks, Italians, and Jews! They must be no better than Iraqis, right? God, I’m going to Hell just for joking about that. Worse yet, Melina Kanakaredes, Monica Bellucci, and Rachel Weisz will never, ever sleep with me. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/22 "2005-07-08T16:25:33Z")
I, for one… gah, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/23 "2005-07-08T17:38:45Z")
> [@DarkSideoftheFloyd](#): > > I, for one… gah, never mind. I know, it’s almost \*too \* obvious, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/24 "2005-07-08T17:42:41Z")
There is no honor in grabbing low-hanging fruit. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/25 "2005-07-08T17:48:33Z")
Of course everyone who lives in London is white, and everyone effectd by the bombing in London is white. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,2763,1395534,00.html](http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,2763,1395534,00.html) So fuck you **Blah/Blah/Blah** for trying to change a moral outrage (like the moral outrages that occur in Iraq, Afganhistan and many many other countries) into a venting for your feelings against white people in general. You are being a racist. ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/26 "2005-07-08T18:01:43Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Worse yet, Melina Kanakaredes, Monica Bellucci, and Rachel Weisz will never, ever sleep with me. There was a danger of this happening to begin with? **bob\_loblaw** , you’re entitled to your opinion. But shitting in a thread like that isn’t appropriate. Getting indignant because some people choose to recognize a tragedy in a different manner is no reason to go on a tirade and accuse the board of racism against “brown people.” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/27 "2005-07-08T18:06:38Z")
> [@brianjedi](#): > > There was a danger of this happening to begin with? (pulling myself up to my full, though unimpressive, height and attempting to suck in my gut and fat ass at the same time, thus violating the physical law against the compression of fluids) It could happen. ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/28 "2005-07-08T18:09:12Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > (pulling myself up to my full, though unimpressive, height and attempting to suck in my gut and fat ass at the same time, thus violating the physical law against the compression of fluids) > > It could happen. Well, Pink Floyd did get back together, so I guess anything’s possible, but… Nah, this is just too out there. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/29 "2005-07-08T18:54:43Z")
> [@](#): > > and for the record, i’ve been mourning humanity since i was 14 years old, and started paying attention. Humans live and humans die. Deal with it. People have been dying for eons before you were born hopefully will continue to for eons afterward. There’s no sense in getting upset over it. Bad peope do bad things. Try and stop and them if you will, but you’ll never get them all. If the media picks up more on Britains than Iraqis, so what? America has extremely important historical and cultural ties to Britain, so it’s natural that we care for each other. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/30 "2005-07-08T19:02:49Z")
Huh, and here I was finding the OP’s e.e. cummings writing style more annoying than his politics, about which I’m fairly indifferent. In any case, I don’t think any of the suggested adjectives are fitting. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/31 "2005-07-08T20:20:31Z")
Oh yeah? I’ve been mourning humanity since I was TWELVE. Beat that! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/32 "2005-07-08T20:33:26Z")
I think we can rule out rational. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/33 "2005-07-08T21:39:08Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Oh yeah? I’ve been mourning humanity since I was TWELVE. Beat that! I emerged from my mother’s birth canal openly weeping for the fact that my birth had increased the amount of pain inflicted on the inhabitants of this planet. I also recycled my umbilical cord. ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/34 "2005-07-08T22:14:46Z")
> [@](#): > > I emerged from my mother’s birth canal openly weeping for the fact that my birth had increased the amount of pain inflicted on the inhabitants of this planet. > > I also recycled my umbilical cord. Ah, but did you also make a vegan-acceptable meat dish from your [placenta?](http://www.geocities.com/virtualbirth/placenta.html) ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/35 "2005-07-08T22:16:59Z")
> [@Rodd Hill](#): > > Ah, but did you also make a vegan-acceptable meat dish from your [placenta?](http://www.geocities.com/virtualbirth/placenta.html) That link disturbed me. Who knew there were so many things you could do with afterbirth? ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/36 "2005-07-08T22:54:59Z")
> [@Greathouse](#): > > That link disturbed me. Who knew there were so many things you could do with afterbirth? Who knew you could do ANYTHING with afterbirth? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/37 "2005-07-08T22:58:51Z")
> [@Greathouse](#): > > Who knew there were so many things you could do with afterbirth? Sadly, Martha Stewart’s conviction put the kibosh on that yet-to-be-filmed installment. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/38 "2005-07-08T23:19:03Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Sadly, Martha Stewart’s conviction put the kibosh on that yet-to-be-filmed installment. And who knew that the term “kibosh” was first used by Charles Dickens. Six degrees from London. ---
**Author:** ![Domokun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c77e96/32.png) [@Domokun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Domokun)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/39 "2005-07-08T23:46:06Z")
I mourn for your ever-white-ful imperialist English teacher. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576/40 "2005-07-09T01:59:26Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > And who knew that the term “kibosh” was first used by Charles Dickens. Six degrees from London. Ah, but did Dickens also make a vegan-acceptable meat dish from a placenta of acceptable origin? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-evil-am-i-deranged-or-am-i-just-rational/311576.md?page=3)