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Started by Syt, December 06, 2015, 01:55:02 PM

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Darth Wagtaros

#8085
October 23, 2019, 06:41:13 AM
Quote from: dps on October 22, 2019, 04:46:42 PM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on October 22, 2019, 12:03:07 PM
Quote from: Malthus on October 22, 2019, 09:51:17 AM
Never could understand the appeal of this sort of meme - unless the meme-makers believe they are immortal, the implication is that the world is basically doomed.
Boomers have to feel superior about something. it started during their judgmental hippie face and continued into their smug yuppie stage and is perfected in their grouchy old tool stage.

Yeah, but those memes aren't comparing/contrasting millennials or Gen X or Gen Z to boomers, they're about the Greatest Generation.  And I bet almost none of them are ever posted by someone who is actually part of the Greatest Generation.
It has nothing to do with reality.  Memes are anti-communication and anti-fact.  They're a throw away comment by people who just hit share and get a thrill of outragegasm.
PDH!

The Minsky Moment

#8086
October 23, 2019, 06:45:09 AM
Quote from: dps on October 22, 2019, 04:46:42 PM
And I bet almost none of them are ever posted by someone who is actually part of the Greatest Generation.

The picture used is two actors in a fake story about soldiers who go AWOL to commit a theft so I doubt it.
At least Telly Savalas served; Clint was still a teenager when WW2 ended.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

The Brain

#8088
October 23, 2019, 10:43:20 AM
Quote from: dps on October 23, 2019, 12:48:28 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 22, 2019, 07:10:44 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on October 22, 2019, 06:57:02 PM
Maybe the work week thing, but there's nothing wrong with eating meat

Arguably the carbon footprint

Not if you eat it raw.

:hmm:
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Habbaku

#8089
October 23, 2019, 11:27:27 AM
No carbonizing if it's not cooked. Duh.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Admiral Yi

#8090
October 23, 2019, 11:48:05 AM
If I read correctly (from an Economist article about fake meat), livestock farts account for 14% of carbon emissions.

Darth Wagtaros

#8091
October 23, 2019, 11:54:14 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 23, 2019, 11:48:05 AM
If I read correctly (from an Economist article about fake meat), livestock farts account for 14% of carbon emissions.
Yes. Methane.
PDH!

Syt

#8092
October 23, 2019, 11:54:31 AM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Razgovory

#8093
October 23, 2019, 12:12:20 PM
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Valmy

#8095
October 23, 2019, 12:32:06 PM
Is that a Keanu Reeves quote?
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Eddie Teach

#8096
October 23, 2019, 01:56:43 PM
Quote from: Valmy on October 23, 2019, 12:32:06 PM
Is that a Keanu Reeves quote?

Rhetorical?
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Valmy

#8097
October 23, 2019, 02:10:28 PM
I still just get so puzzled with how unrelated the image is to the text.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Grey Fox

#8098
October 24, 2019, 08:30:58 AM
It's because they think Keanu actually said it.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

grumbler

#8099
October 24, 2019, 08:36:15 AM
Quote from: Valmy on October 23, 2019, 02:10:28 PM
I still just get so puzzled with how unrelated the image is to the text.

Chop out about 80% of your brain and you will be able to understand "memes."
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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