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Claptrap
by PenultimateManStanding » Sat 17 Jan 2009, 22:03:22
I keep hearing this claptrap about how our children and grandchildren are going to have to pay for all of this deficit spending. Balderdash. They won't pay it. They'll be lucky to be alive.
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Re: Claptrap
by TheDude » Sat 17 Jan 2009, 22:09:11
Tax burial plots.
Cogito, ergo non satis bibivi
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And let me tell you something: I dig your work.
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Re: Claptrap
by PenultimateManStanding » Sat 17 Jan 2009, 22:24:17
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', 'T')ax burial plots.
So, ah, we tax burial plots and everything is groovy? I can see that. Might work.Turn those Machines back On! - Don Ameche in Trading Places
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Re: Claptrap
by yeahbut » Sun 18 Jan 2009, 00:59:56
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cbxer55', 'I')'m sure oobs will figure something out!
Come on, man! Even Plant can manage the occasional post without succumbing to partisan politics. For all our sakes, please try...it's beyond tedious.
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Re: Claptrap
by Narz » Sun 18 Jan 2009, 03:12:55
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I') keep hearing this claptrap about how our children and grandchildren are going to have to pay for all of this deficit spending. Balderdash. They won't pay it. They'll be lucky to be alive.
I keep hearing all this claptrap about we're all gonna die (except roccman).
They'll pay for it. Maybe not with dollars or Euros but we're all gonna have to pay for how bad we've fucked up the world.
You're a cornicopian with your "fuck making the bed, it's gonna burn up anyway". I'm pretty tired of that crap.
You're a fatalist & you think it's cute & romantic but I find it mentally lazy & morally repugnant.
It's not all going to crash & burn in one day leaving only the ones with the $30,000 worth of moldy rice to inheret the Earth. How many more years before you hardcore cornicopians recognize that.
It's going to be long & difficult & will inspire the best in some (and certainly will inspire the worst in many). Science won't die. Man won't roll over & die. Chaos may break out in pockets but it's not going to be doomer porn. That's why it's called porn, because it's pure fantasy.
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Re: Claptrap
by Homesteader » Sun 18 Jan 2009, 04:37:20
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Narz', '
') That's why it's called porn, because it's pure fantasy.
') That's why it's called porn, because it's pure fantasy.
Real porn is fake? Cr*p! Another dream shattered. . .
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PMS is gonna think I'm "picking on him" again but I'm not. I'm trying to be a friend and snap him out of his fatalistic rut. Fatalism is bad for health. It'd be sad & ironic if any of the hardcore sudden-doomers died prematurely before the doom they feared even hit. 
(sad because most of them seem to be good guys with the best of intentions... though I suppose it depends on your perspective, to Monte birth, not death is the real tragedy)
