Did you have to go back and double check to avoid using the words you really meant?
-Joe
Says the guy who hates Southerners and freely uses words like redneck, hillbilly and white trash. :rolleyes: Look, I know you’re terrified that you may lose your middle class status and slip down into the white underclass, but it really isn’t necessary to spew such venom to make sure everybody knows you’re not one of “them.” Take the beam out of your own eye, putz.
Since next year the date falls on a Tuesday, just like in 2001, I image there will be a glurge of remembrance. By 2013 it will probably be closer to “just another day.”
But I will never forget.
Wow, that almost made sense.
I don’t hate Southerners, I just hate the ignorance-flaunting stupid fucking white trash like yourself.
As far as my middle class status, it’s quite fine. Please note that middle class does not equate to “I got me a double-wide”. At least, not for me it doesn’t.
How hard did you have to work to avoid typing “kike” and “nigger”?
-Joe
The admonition from the bus to “never forget” had me wondering what that really meant.
Clearly it can’t mean actually failiing to remember a historical event. Like, never forget that the Berlin Wall was taken down or the Challenger exploded. If I’m struggling to remember historical events, it kind of sounds like I’m suffering from some personal cognitive difficulty.
The implication to me is more like “never fail to be affected in an emotional way.” That got me to thinking “What if I did forget?” in that sense. If I wasn’t being affected by it, that would suggest that it lacked the inherent power to do so. If I responded to your reminder by being affected again, is that really the desired outcome? Are you really looking for an "oh yeah, that happened " reaction?
Thus, “Never Forget” falls in the same category as yellow ribbon bumper magnets or those window flags people fly on their cars to the point that they become tattered. An affectation, a manufactured emotion, an artifice that works against the true spirit it is designed to “honor”.
But that’s just me.
I’m from the South, and nobody uses those words more than white southerners.
Really? How are car accidents newsworthy? How is the information useful or edifying in any way?
I find it hard to believe this is a serious query.
Accidents increase public awareness of dangerous road conditions and dangerous driver conditions. I don’t think the last 30 years’ emphasis on drunk driving would have coalesced absent news stories about car accidents.
What’s this 9/11 thingy you all are talking about? Some sort of avant gard art movement or something?
Knowing how it’ll affect traffic is useful information, as is the possibility that you know someone who was involved.
I don’t really have a hard number for you there, because I’ve been trying to avoid it for my own sake. I can tell you that however much the big international edutainment channels have, they’ve been pushing it hard. One has been advertising a minute-by-minute reenactment for weeks now.
Weather and traffic reports are there for public awareness of dangerous road conditions. I don’t even know what you mean about “dangerous driver conditions”. If you need news reports of accidents to inform you that driving drunk is dangerous, you would seem to lack the most basic common sense. DUI laws have been on the books since 1910.
As I said, that’s what traffic reports are for, which is useful information. A news report on an accident is mere sensationalism. If somebody you knew was involved in an accident, I’m pretty sure you’d get that information whether there was a news report or not.
Mini-rant. Every damn middle executive in my company feels obligated to spam out their own “very special moment” email to the company distro list. We’ve already got a dozen different ones so far.
Photobucket, I guess.
My Facebook feed is filled with “Where were you on 9/11?” glurge. :smack:
Also a lot of “Well my friend’s father’s boss’s niece was killed in the Twin Towers, so it has a very personal meaning to meeeeee.”
The NPR show that comes on at noon here (sorry, can’t remember the name) had a segment on “What were you doing on 9/10?”
I guess next week it will be “What were you doing on 9/12”?
When do we stop ‘wallowing’ in that whole War of 1812 thingy? Gods…do we HAVE to hear that damn rockets and red glares song AGAIN??? :eek: And those damn French still going on about taking some old tower every year? Shameful! They REALLY need to get over all that and push on…it was freaking 222 years ago for the sake of the gods! But I suppose it’s better than the Brits fixation (a.k.a. ‘wallowing’) about some old get who FAILED to blow up Parliament! Woof! So maudlin! When are all these folks going to stop all this nationalistic wankage and stop all this wallowing stuff?
What were you doing on November 4th, 1605?? Can you tell me that? Let’s hope that within 406 years (give or take a few months) that we are over all of this wallowing wankage about the deaths of a mere 3000 or so people that resulted either directly or indirectly in the deaths of thousands (hell, hundreds of thousands) more, ehe?
-XT
That would be Ben Salomon (a dentist, actually).
Hmm, I heard a pretty good 9/11 joke the other day. It’s the first one I’ve ever heard, I wonder when I’ll be allowed to laugh at it?
When bigots stop whining about so-called “reverse racism”.