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Post by
Haxzor
Americans
Post by
MyTie
Americans
The answer to "Who are the only ones that matter?" if you are a mindless patritic idiot redneck, or the answer to "Who are the only ones who don't matter?" if you are a mindless snobby arogant foreign jerk (also applies to self loathing liberal pansies).
Post by
Haxzor
I popped up without knowing what you were talking about but as I soon as I read:
..11,000 deaths are caused anually in America by bad design..
I started wondering: who is designing $%it that bad? Lol.
Americans
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124027
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
Squishalot
I popped up without knowing what you were talking about but as I soon as I read:
..11,000 deaths are caused anually in America by bad design..
I started wondering: who is designing $%it that bad? Lol.
Americans
I'm actually thinking the Swedes. Ikea's dangerous, don't you know!
Post by
Lombax
Hi and bai, of to the skiing slope.
Post by
MyTie
I just spent 10 minutes typing out a well researched reply to Haxzor, and then after I submitted it to wowhead, the whole thing disappears and I am left with nothing.
Nice.
Post by
Squishalot
It's a sign, no?
Or irony, at the very least.
Post by
MyTie
I popped up without knowing what you were talking about but as I soon as I read:
..11,000 deaths are caused anually in America by bad design..
I started wondering: who is designing $%it that bad? Lol.
Americans
This is now the second time I am going to type this, due to wowhead being stupid and 'losing' it:
It seems like everytime anything goes wrong in the world, Americans are blamed. War? Americans getting involved. Genocide? Americans not getting involved. Starvation? Americans not giving. Economic troubles? Americans sending over too much money. People too fat? Probably Americans. People too skinny? Americans. Peanuts too salty? Americans. Poo is stinky? Must be American poo. Even before the problem is described some people jump onto the ZOMG AMERICA bandwagon. I've seen it before: It's pretty sad in the world today when *interrupt* damn Americans.
Anyway, I was contemplating the root of this social phenomenon while enjoying Pink Panther cartoons earlier today. I received a whole pile of them in from Netflix. Around DVD 4, something very terrible happened to my Pink Panther: canned laughter. If you've ever seen The Flinstones, or Scooby Doo, then you know what I'm talking about. Someone stubs their toe, and for exactly 1.2 seconds there is intense laughter, which starts and ends abruptly. I was very bothered by the decision on the part of the artists to do this to the cartoons. All of a sudden, the cartoons were no longer enjoyable to me. Something about this canned laughter was ruining the cartoons. Nothing else changed about them. The panther was still placed in ironic situations where ridiculous things happened to him. Then it dawned on me that the situations themselves weren't really funny at all. I hadn't been laughing at all in the previous episodes. I thought about why I was watching them in the first place and came to the conclusion that I was admiring the artistic design of them. I enjoyed the cool and laid back setting, as well as the unforced pace. The music of the Pink Panther jived right along with the events. The mood, not the humor, drove them. So this canned laughter was completely out of place. It wasn't that it was offensive, in the way canned laughter placed in Schindler's List would have been, but it was out of place, the way canned laughter placed in Pirates of the Carribean would be. Pirates of the Carribean does have elements of humor, much like the pink panther, but also like the pink panther, is enjoyable because of the atmosphere, not because of it's value in humor. In retrospect, canned laughter in Schindler's List would be much more enjoyable than canned laughter in Pirates of the Carribean because of the shock value/dark humor at listening to people laugh at children being burned. But I digress, there was something more sinister at foot that offended me than the simple out of place distraction of the canned laughter. I then realized that I dislike being told what to think of something. No one ends a joke by saying "start laughing". No where in Schindler's List does a charachter look into the camera and tell you to "start crying". True, some of the actors/actresses do cry during the movie, but emotional acting is quite a bit different from the forced heaving of canned laughter. Then I realized that I was the minority in this. Looking at the huge success of the Flinstones, and Scooby Doo, I realize that most people don't mind being told what to think at certain points. I find myself wondering, when I hear the laughter, if it is genuinely funny enough to laugh at. I being weighing in my mind how un funny the event might actually be. The laughter actually gets me thinking about how
not funny
the whole joke is. But society is vastly different from me. Then I realized that the whole "Hate America" garbage is just like the canned laughter. People are told what to think of something, not by the merit of the actual idea being weighed, but by popular opinion. As if the joke itself needn't be funny, but the fact that other people are laughing at it means you should also find it funny. Similarly, Americans may not be all that bad, but because society says they are, you should also follow suit. Canned laughter reminded me of how mindless and stupid people can be. It was a reaffirmation of everything I despise about fashion and popular opinion.
TLDR: Think for yourself, Hax, instead of regurgitating popular opinion.
Post by
MyTie
It deleted it again that time, but I had copy pasta ready.
Post by
Haxzor
umad?
Post by
MyTie
umad?
Words cannot describe my anger. I'm like that guy from 'Falling Down', when he wanted breakfast but they were only serving lunch.
Actually, Haxzor, the substance of your post I was responding to is actually of very little value to me, as is my ability to convince you personally. Your post just offered me the opportunity to voice my opinion.
You set up the soapbox for me.
Post by
Haxzor
ALLEY OOP!
Post by
MyTie
ALLEY OOP!
Well played old boy!
Post by
340646
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Post by
Perkocet
I was soooo getting ready to read that huge wall of text.
But then I didn't. Can have summary?
Post by
Anmity
Good morning, Wowhead.I was soooo getting ready to read that huge wall of text.
But then I didn't. Can have summary?
There already is one. At the bottom.
Post by
Perkocet
I was soooo getting ready to read that huge wall of text.
But then I didn't. Can have summary?
There already is one. At the bottom.
That's a lot of words.
Post by
Patty
Dear America,
Wanna be a superpower? With great power comes great responsibility.
Yours sincerely, Britain. (Dated around 1948)
Post by
148723
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