Wait, this is about hamburgers? Dude, Mexico already stole that with their hamburguesa technology.
I need to dump Occidental? But they just posted strong Q2 figures!
Well, if China is getting all QUANTUM on us, we’re doomed. Even the Greeks are ahead of Amerika.
Relax, have a burger.
Meh, a High School freshman stringing together big words to sound grown up isn’t anything new to the SDMB.
…derailing, derping dullard denomination…
Absolutely awesome alliteration…
Just FYI: No one calls it “the Occident” anymore, except on certain crank websites. It’s about as weird as referring to “the Orient” or “Oriental.”
And sesquipedalian loquaciousness does not make you correct.
I think maybe we’re part of a Turing test.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought –
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’
He chortled in his joy.
It totally sucks when you fail those…
That’s the only poetry I know by heart, unless you count one hen, two ducks, three squawking geese…
That iLemming uses his fingers fancier than a $20 whore!
There are two (count 'em!) streets a few miles from me named Occidental. Been known to cause a bit of confusion from time to time.
‘First comes pride; then disgrace.’
Sure – I’ve witnessed nihilism before. We all have: halal, harem and every hair-brained hybrid betwixt. But, the sheer level of self-immolating, indolent apathy on display here–at Straight Dope¹–the [erstwhile] escutcheon of epicurean E-erudition–careens even my capacious cerebrum into crash-to-desktop consternation! :smack:
Does being faced with one’s own, real-time extinction–the extinction of one’s progeny–the extinction of the society one profess to pride–that which was wrought, painstakingly from dirt–that had felled countless lives in its name… not concern you hive-minded hillbillies even a smidgen of a steric of a vibrating string…!?
Is the faecal spangled bandanna really that tightly wrapped that its tourniquet has occluded all blood flow to your sugar stupified, preservative poisoned, G.M.O. gangrened, rap “music” rotten, Kardaishian corrupted, bulbous, braggadocio, blowhard, bumpkin, bilge-bloated brains…?!
Was George Romero a government plant ‘conditioning agent’, and have zombies actually been the real, indigenous population of the United States, all along…?! 
¹ Bolfaced for emphasis
² Too long; has subtitles; not comic book schlock;didn’t watch
Am I the last one to figure out that iLemming isn’t posting sincerely here (i.e., he/she is just goofing off)?
Considering that* everyone* is a “potential adversary” that’s inevitable. And pointless to worry about, since any war big enough to threaten the nation would inevitably go nuclear and we’d all be dead anyway. Those fighter jets are for attacking other people, not defense.
He forgot to say sheeple.
Well, I can go along with the snide Kardashian reference.
However, his alliteration is getting a bit too Agnewoid for my tastes.*
*iLemming comes off as a niggling, neutered, nonsensical ninny.
Since his name was derived from a herding animal and an Apple product, I think it was implied.
Ahhh! The dulcet dirge of desperate disclaiming, droned by defeatist deadites, strikes as euphonious a refrain as ever!
See, the thing is, not everyone is a prostrating nihilist pause for incredulous gasp; and to assume that they are, not only makes an ass out of you and me, but evinces one’s own innate, self-immolatory inclinations. I guess that is why global vox populi surveys predominantly correlate to our very own “world police” as the most threatening element to the maintenance of world peace… ironically enough.
Even by your own war-hawk-ish, mawkish, machismo military’s estimates, the U.S. could not ‘win’ a war with China–today–without “heavy” losses and to ultimately achieve little more than an “inconclusive” outcome. Extrapolate this conservative estimate over the coming years, where the technological “gap”[citation needed] will invariably decrease in leaps of magnitude, and you’re confronted with a scenario of not only a greed-induced economic nadir, but the only ace the U.S. ever had - post WW2, ad hoc imperialism through armipotence-imposed hegemony - becoming little more than a nerf gun in the face of the chortling, teeming, predator-satiating, multitudinous Sino masses. Which, suffice it to say, speaks volumes for the $600 billion in disclosed military funding that, seemingly, gets poured down the pissoir per annum.
Sidebar: Did ol’ Rumsy ever end up knowing where that unknown two trillion fiat$ was known to have been unknown of…? :rolleyes:
How this does not pique even a corpuscle of urine-fetid perspiration upon the simian brow of broader, bulging burger bourgeois, is testament unequivocal to the efficacy the Zionist wittol MSN’s dog-waging, the dulcifying properties of high fructose corn syrup and the cerebrum stultifying supplementation of DNA-defiling Teflon carcinogens – in concert, having conspired to create an offensively obtuse, obnoxious opus of somnambulting simpletons; seduced into submissive sissification, in-keeping with the sadomasochistic stylings of their Satanic similarcurm, slave state subjugators.
‘Come he slow or come he fast,
'Tis but Death that comes at last!’
I keep checking in just to see if pathological greed has destroyed the Occident yet…