TechnoLust's Journal: Didn't we used to call them "bums"?

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I'm sorry, if you don't work, you live on the street, and you eat trash, you aren't "living an alternative lifestyle" or "sending a message" to anyone, you're a BUM! The only "message" you are sending is that you don't want to work, you'd rather eat trash. How about instead of being a bum, you actually do something active to combat the problem of wasted food? Because that'd be too much like work, that's why.

oh yeah

[mekkab]

Your revolution is over, Mr. Lebowski. Condolences. The bums lost. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?
The bums will always lose!

Re:oh yeah

[blinder]

say what you will about the tenents of nationalized socialism, at least its an ethos.

well, as always, the dude abides.

I am the walrus?

[mekkab]

V.I. Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!

Re:I am the walrus?

[btlzu2]

SHUT THE FUCK UP MEKKAB!

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Re:oh yeah

[TechnoLust]

I love that movie! I like to drink White Russians and wear my bathrobe while watching it.

damnit - I was hoping for the other sort of 'bums'

[SiliconJesus]

Yanno.

Re:damnit - I was hoping for the other sort of 'bu

[TechnoLust]

I don't think I have any pictures of bums on my cell phone... I have some pics of bewbs, but no bums. Sorry.

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[SiliconJesus]

I vastly prefer boobs to bums as well. Say what you will, but there's something about them that is much more satisfying than the posterior.

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[TechnoLust]

It's the nipples. If butt cheeks had nipples, I'd like them a lot better.

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[btlzu2]

you two must've been breast fed and have freudian mama issues. ;)

for me it's always: "wanna touch the heinie!"

Re:damnit - I was hoping for the other sort of 'bu

[TechnoLust]

Yes, I was breastfed, but I don't think I have any Freudian issues. My favorite breast size is 36B and my mother's are a whole lot larger than that, so if it were Freudian, I'd go for bigger ones.

Don't get me wrong, I love a nice perky ass as much the next guy, but if a girl has a nice ass and mediocre tits, it's not going to work. If she has nice perky tits and a and a mediocre ass, I'm fine.

Wow, you're not judgemental, are you?

[NeeNee3]

At least they aren't contributing to the problem. And it does seem that they are actively combating it. They have even set up a web site to get others to join them.

Besides, if this how they choose to use their voice, then I say "More power to them."

Now, pass me your trash bin, I'm still hungry. :-P

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Re:Sounds like he's living off the grid

[TechnoLust]

If in reading this it sounds snippy or sarcastic, I don't mean it that way. How is it different? I don't see a difference, so please tell me what it is, because I honestly don't see it and I want to see it from your PoV.

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Re:Sounds like he's living off the grid

[TechnoLust]

So my response to his "spend more time working for love" comment is. I imagine it takes a couple of hours to scrape together enough scraps to feed yourself a meal. Do that 3 times a day and you get 6 hours max, 3 hours min. I make enough in 1 hour to buy food for a day (or it'd be enough if I'd buy groceries and eat cheaply instead of going out and eating at places that aren't exactly cheap all the time), so they are claiming efficiency when it really is less efficient than working. If they feel that st

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[TechnoLust]

I just hate it when people delude themselves into thinking something that isn't true. These people have convinced themselves that they are making a huge difference when they really aren't. I agree with the cause, but not their method.

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Re:Sounds like he's living off the grid

[TechnoLust]

It's more that I thought it was funny than I am worked up about it. I really don't care what they do. They can eat horse manure for all I care. I'm just tired of people trying to justify the things they do by making it seem noble. I guess I'm sensitive to it because I used to do this myself. I would refuse sex and claim it was because I could "control my animal instincts and desires" and I was "preventing [the girl] from doing something she'd regret", when in fact it was my own fear and insecurity that

Re:Sounds like he's living off the grid

[subgeek]

it seems part of the goal is not to use money for anything.

this reminds me of a higher up guy at a place i used to work giving me and some other people advice about how to spend our money to have more free time and therefore a higher quality of life (basically paying servants and/or services to take care of various things). when i informed him that we didn't all have salaries well into the five figure range, his reply was that i should get a second job so i could afford these time savers. he wasn't amused

Website?

[Pirogoeth]

Freeganism, derived from the words "free" and "vegan," is spreading to Britain from the United States, where one of its founding fathers, Adam Weissman, has set up a Freegan information Web site to persuade others to join him.
No jobs or money, but they've got web hosting. Maybe they forage for discarded ones and zeroes to make that work?

Re:Website?

[TechnoLust]

Yeah, and how's the forum supposed to work? Have all "Freegans" scavenged a laptop with wifi and found an open access point?