Comment Kindergarten Rules (Score 4, Insightful) 45
Don't take things that don't belong to you.
Share your toys with others.
See where all the confusion comes from?
Share your toys with others.
See where all the confusion comes from?
The system as designed in the 1700s was not intended to provide a safety net, merely reward hard work.
Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Hancock could not have imagined the World of today any more than a goldfish on acid could comprehend Disneyland.
They crafted the rules so as not to disadvantage gentlemen such as themselves.
I'm certain there's a rhyme and reason for this behavior, but I find myself unable, as a mere alpha primate, to understand her great feline intellect.
In an attempt to bring her into the electronic age, I placed some transcripts from Reddit beneath and around her beloved evacuation site. It kept her out of my shower, but her aim began to suffer, and more of her scat hit the paper than the litter.
One person tried to intimidate me once. He told me to see him outside school and wait for him. I told him I won't do that. If he wants to fight he must wait for me. The only reason I would say that, HE thought, was that I was sure to beat his ass. He appologized the next day. My reasoning was different: I was not willing to wait to get a beating.
I had a similar experience in school. In hindsight, it was the stressful equivalent of my mother saying, Wait until your father gets home! Waiting all day for an after school fight is a textbook case of "the dreading is worse than the doing".
The final result was that everybody had repect for me. It was scary. Think The Wave. I seriously hope that I never abused that power. It was very hard for me to see the difference between respect, fear and blind adoration. The last one is the most horid one. Having people following you without asking any questions and without thinking is extremely frightening. Having nobody to talk to concerning at a young age was terrible. How do you explain that you are afraid because people respect and like you?
It bothered you because you are a good and decent person, worried about the consequences of your influence on others. There is no shame in that. The unfortunate reality is that many in your position would've happily abused this power over others. History is filled with them.
Sorry for ranting. It is the first time I put this fear into words after 30+ years.
No worries... ranting is what we do here on the Green Line Site.
There is an American film called Alpha Dog based on a true story that you might find interesting.
Current movements to limit it are in place, seemingly prompted by several high profile suicides-by-bullying via social networking.
Growing up in the 70's and 80's, there were fewer publicized concerns regarding intimidation by the older, bigger, or meaner.
We learned young that getting pushed around sucked, but getting pushed around and labeled a rat or tattletale was worse.
Kids live by the law of the playground jungle when adult supervision and rules are absent from the equation. It is ingrained into us as some form of social stepping stone, the animal in each of us at work, attempting dominance and security for an insecure bully.
There is a time honored civil process in which we attempt to retrain our young into civilized little pricks. Picking on the weak is wrong, and you don't get to take advantage of a fellow human because you're physically or mentally able to do so.
Everyone is small and helpless early, and many are old and helpless late in life. These rules benefit us all, and what happened here sends precisely the wrong message.
"I'm into the leather scene."
Leather makes a fine recliner, but in the hot months your napping face still sticks to it.
"San Francisco used to be our Mecca. You know how Las Vegas is Disneyland for adults (tm) or something like that? Well, San Francisco is Disney Land for gay men. Or was."
Best quote ever was Like Disneyland on acid.
"Quite frankly, it's gotten too fucking creepy for me -- And I have no problem getting fisted by a midget while a tranny shits on my chest! I have friends that put the goatse man to shame. San Fransisco is just fucked up."
Fucking creepy is in the eye of the beholder, but no brainer, I too would choose a midget fist if fisting were eminent... but maybe, and I mean just barely maybe, you should stop experimenting with the recommended dosage of those vitamins they've prescribed.
What have you done to make it more painful? Do you even vote? How about writing some letters? Or giving money to a candidate?
That is, of course, the wrong way to look at apathy. Voter/citizen apathy is like a gay man... how could you rationally hate him when he's making your priorities statistically more likely to occur?
But when you call out a lack of equal opportunity bastards in reference to a liberal whistle-blower, you sort of tip your hand.
Now you wouldn't want these liberal rat bastards (and don't kid yourself a rat bastard is an order of bastard more than mean) to suspect your intelligent reply is ridden with partisan nonsense.
You may stay true to your roots and remain cognizant that the problems with this Republic are on both sides of the aisle.
As an aside, this seems to come right on the heels of the latest massive recall at Toyota, an auto manufacturer previously known for quality manufacturing.
Perhaps they're on to something. A skilled human can still make leaps of imagination beyond what a machine is presently capable of.
it is reassuring that the Press remains a thorn in the side of those who would oppress.
"A car is just a big purse on wheels." -- Johanna Reynolds
