What could he possibly be talking about that hasn’t been generally available for years? It’s like proposing that somebody ought to invent a machine to scan your groceries at the checkout so a computer can add up the prices.
America Speaking Out Dot Com:[ol]
[li]Select a Category[/li][li]Submit an Idea[/li][li]Vote on an Idea[/li][li]Post a Response[/li][li]Earn Badges[/li][/ol]I would suggest that the badges be dipped in perfume, but am not certain of which category in which to submit that idea.
Also, is six Profit?
There should be Profit somewhere!
Have you read the suggestions there? It’s like 95 percent trolling, and some of it is pretty funny IMHO.
Samples from the current “Liberty and Freedom” topic:
Badges dipped in perfume? We don’t need no stinking badges!
Don’t you think it makes sense in Washington DC when you’re primarily talking to other people who live and work in DC? It seems like with any communication dealing with national politics one should be explicit when talking about that other Washington, the state, at least on first mention.
It seems much more likely he doesnt really care and thought that telling people it was the software they used to map the moon would sound cool. He wouldn't be wrong about that if he'd found a better way to explain it. You shouldnt assume people are too stupid to understand technicalities if there’s ample reason to believe they just don’t care about them.
Hence the need to dip them in perfume. It all hangs together.
Why did you tell me about that website? I was supposed to get work done today but I am giving myself cramps from trying to suppress the giggling and I’m going to have to go home sick, I think. Such a shame, it’s a nice day, too!
I think this is pretty clever. Now they don’t have to listen to their idiot constituents in person, like they did in those “town hall meetings”.
First thread I opened, first posted commenfL
Here’s another good one from ‘American Prosperity’:
Some more:
Boyo Jim, I know. I know. I really think some of those comments were left by Dopers, or at least the Doper-adjacent. I mean, come on:
That’s all [sic], of course, but I think it’s intentional anyway. Now I have a cramp and I’m starting to get blurred vision from the lack of oxygen to my brain.
I think I want to kiss whichever agent provocateur posted that one. It’s beautiful.
Oh my god that is the funniest Web site I’ve seen in a long time. Clearly they can’t let the open forum continue, clearly this will be lambasted as a lib’ plot of unAmerican proportions (said with a straight face by the same people who advocated disrupting town hall meetings). Clearly someone needs to be capturing all the responses … won’t someone think of the comedy?! (Anyone notice how hard it is to tell some of the serious replies from the vandalism?)
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[li]America needs a crack team of genetically engineered velociraptors who constantly patrol the skies in robot spyplanes. Terrorism threat? BAM! Robot controlled spyplane drops raptors from the sky. THESE COLORS NEVER RUN![/li]
[li]We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody’s civil rights to say whatever he pleases. [/li]
[li]we should invade mexico and convert them all to christianity!!! JESUS FOREVER I LOVE YOU JESUS![/li]
[li]To make this country safer, all members of the tea party should immediately go speak with King Leonidas over by the giant well. He will surely have something important to say.[/li]
[li]Arrest all people whose name ends with a ‘z’. Decapitate them and display their headless bodys on the border. And then bombard Mexico city with severed heads from a B-2. It’ll solve illegal immigration problem once and for all.[/li]
[li]Unfriend Islam on Facebook, NOW!!! [/li]
[li]America needs more weapons to fight its enemies. I recommend adding fear, surprise, and a fanatical devotion to the pope. [/li]
[li]We should flood the entire American Southwest with polluted water from the Gulf. Mutant alligators could inhabit the murky waterways and eat illegals that try to tube across.[/li][/ul]
ETA:
Note the reference to velociraptors. Methinks there’s a few XKCD fans out there.
On a side note, wouldn’t it be great if a political party could solicit ideas in an open forum and not have the place trashed. Sure, there are a host of hysterical posts there, but they are vandalism after all. The idea of the Internet as a great communicative device and open forum belongs on failblog. The “stupid Republican idea of the day” is not recognizing that.
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Poe’s Law is working overtime there.
'Cause it’s quimcraft, wicked quimcraft
And although, I know, it’s strictly taboo
When you arouse the need in me
My heart says yes indeed in me
Proceed with what you’re leading me to…
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[li]To make this country safer, all members of the tea party should immediately go speak with King Leonidas over by the giant well. He will surely have something important to say.[/li][/QUOTE]
What is this reference?
When you build a forum using software designed to map the moon, is it really surprising that you end up with a forum full of loonies?
The site seems to be overloading; now nobody will ever know about my plan to ban pocket protectors, seize the computer companies under civil forfeiture laws, and use the assets to pay off the national debt…
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It’s a reference to the movie 300 or It’s-okay-to-watch-oily-men-wrestle-your-heteosexuality-is-protected-by-our-special-effects. I think the scene was parodied in Epic Movie. I’ll see if I can find it…
Youtube link. Check out the others for fun remixes!
In 300, and in Meet the Spartans, there is a bottomless pit that Leonidas pushes annoying people into.