17-06-2003 07:39									#1
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I am glad that polio, for the most part, is a thing of the past.

I am glad that I have never had to scale cliffs, dig snow tunnels, or swim through floods to get to school.

I am happy that racial segregation is no longer legally sanctioned.

I am grateful that franchisement knows no difference between races.

I am grateful that increasing number of homosexuals can affirm who they really are.

I am glad that young adults and teenagers know how to have safe sex to prevent STDs and unwated pregnancies.

I appreciate the fact that women are less likely to be kept in an inferior, submissive strata of society.

I appreciate the fact that people have many more convenient ways to keep in regular contact with family and friends from around the world.

It's great that we have much more knowledge of individual psychology, and sociological behaviors to understand how society's problems can be approached, and how individuals can learn to live better lives.

It's great that we have a greater environmental awareness than we did 40 years ago.

Ah, the great days of the present -- kiss the yesteryears good-bye.

	17-06-2003 07:41									#2
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I'm glad that Communism collapsed and has been relegated to the assheap of history.

And yes, I purposely misspelled it.

	17-06-2003 07:41									#3
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT I'm glad that Communism collapsed and has been relegated to the assheap of history. And yes, I purposely misspelled it.

	17-06-2003 07:44									#4
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I'm angry that drug use is far more common...

I'm angry that divorces outnumber marriages...

I'm angry that children don't have fathers...

I'm angry that 10 million black babies have been slaughtered...

I'm angry that millions of babies period have been slaughtered...

I'm angry that teenage girls are getting pregnant left and right...

I'm angry that children's parents are drug addicts...


**** the present days

	17-06-2003 07:47									#5
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quote: Originally posted by Albert Speer I'm angry that drug use is far more common... I'm angry that divorces outnumber marriages... I'm angry that children don't have fathers... I'm angry that 10 million black babies have been slaughtered... I'm angry that millions of babies period have been slaughtered... I'm angry that teenage girls are getting pregnant left and right... I'm angry that children's parents are drug addicts... **** the present days

Take your Tylenol, man.

	17-06-2003 07:49									#6
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I'm angry that drug use is far more common...

Depends upon what drugs you are talking about. Smoking is down... way down. Though I will admit I have NO idea about alcohol usage.

I'm angry that divorces outnumber marriages...

Not true.

I'm angry that children don't have fathers...

Always been the case, Albert, regardless of the period of history you are talking about.


I'm angry that 10 million black babies have been slaughtered...

Uh, is this an abortion comment?

I'm angry that millions of babies period have been slaughtered...

This is.

I'm angry that teenage girls are getting pregnant left and right...

Teenage girls have been getting pregnant all throughout history, Albert.

I'm angry that children's parents are drug addicts...

Same as above regarding "throughout history."

	17-06-2003 07:49									#7
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Im glad that things are always gonna be the same.

As ****ed up as ever.

	17-06-2003 07:56									#8
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quote: Depends upon what drugs you are talking about. Smoking is down... way down. Though I will admit I have NO idea about alcohol usage.

weed, heroine, crack, acid, angel dust, etc. etc. ... i'll give crack credit because it's usage has dropped since the 80's but it's still more than it should be.

quote: Not true.

bah you knew what i meant... the divorce rate is ridiculously high now.

quote: Always been the case, Albert, regardless of the period of history you are talking about.

nah doubt it... or at least **** is several times worse than it was before.


thanks

	17-06-2003 07:56									#9
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I'm glad that modern technology gives me the power to ignore Albert Speer.

	17-06-2003 08:02									#10
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good... now i can secretly say how much i love monolith and he will never no... let it be our little secret, me and the rest of apolyon... but when i first saw that picture of monolith without his glasses on, i knew that i saw the man i was going to spend the rest of my life with... he is a god who i love with all my heart...

	17-06-2003 08:05									#11
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Actually Albert, the big difference isn't human nature but our ability to gather and collate statistics, and then spread the information to every household.

In other words, a lot of problems are not so much worse as they are understood.

	17-06-2003 08:38									#12
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quote: I'm angry that drug use is far more common...

thanks to poor addiction support services and poverty

quote: I'm angry that divorces outnumber marriages...

most are chronic divorces

quote: I'm angry that children don't have fathers...

you should promote the use of contraceptives

quote: I'm angry that 10 million black babies have been slaughtered...

me too, sh1t happens

quote: I'm angry that millions of babies period have been slaughtered...

I hope this isn't an abortion troll... if it is, I'm glad there aren't 40 million (or whatever the estimated # of abortions are) unwanted children running around...

quote: I'm angry that teenage girls are getting pregnant left and right...

teenage pregnancy is at its lowest level in like 25 years

quote: I'm angry that children's parents are drug addicts...

again, see above... this is also related to contraception and abortion

	17-06-2003 08:42									#13
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Albert - I never put you on ignore, I was just glorifying the fact that I could...

I've never put anyone on ignore. Well, markG, but he's an exception.

	17-06-2003 16:59									#14
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1.

quote: I am glad that polio, for the most part, is a thing of the past.

i'm not. polio builds character, which we have too little of these days.

2.

quote: I am glad that I have never had to scale cliffs, dig snow tunnels, or swim through floods to get to school.

i'm not. no pain, no gain. doing this builds character, which we desperately need to fix our soft children.

3.

quote: I am happy that racial segregation is no longer legally sanctioned.

i'm not. those damned asians are now snapping up all of the good colleges.

4.

quote: I am grateful that franchisement knows no difference between races.

i'm not. all those dairy queen franchises are run by indians.

5.

quote: I am grateful that increasing number of homosexuals can affirm who they really are.

i'm not. as the great jerry falwell said, they, along with feminists and foreigners are the ones responsible for god smiting those 3000 sinners.

6.

quote: I am glad that young adults and teenagers know how to have safe sex to prevent STDs and unwated pregnancies.

i'm not. stds are god's way of punishing sluts and whores.

7.

quote: I appreciate the fact that women are less likely to be kept in an inferior, submissive strata of society.

i'm not. see the comment right before the last one.

8.

quote: I appreciate the fact that people have many more convenient ways to keep in regular contact with family and friends from around the world.

i'm not. there's a reason why people move away from home.

9.

quote: It's great that we have much more knowledge of individual psychology, and sociological behaviors to understand how society's problems can be approached, and how individuals can learn to live better lives.

i'm not. it's a cop-out. it's your damn fault, whatever it is, and you just need the will to grin and bear it.

10.

quote: It's great that we have a greater environmental awareness than we did 40 years ago.

i'm not. it's because of those damned hippie green-smoking greens that i run a quiet, non-knocking leaded gas car.

down with the present! let's go back to the good old days!

actually, i'm just kidding about everything. well, maybe except for 8.

	17-06-2003 17:28									#15
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/edit: note to self ... read replies before posting.

	17-06-2003 21:44									#16
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You were scaring me, Q Cubed, until I read you were joking.

	17-06-2003 22:33									#17
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same sh1t different decade...

Polio may be gone, but we got AIDS and SARS to contend with now. Yet, I am happy that we know that we have the ability to solve these ailments, and that we have been able to increase the life expectancy... Yet, even that can be bad, because we now have to pay all them old geizers (no offense Asher) SS as long as they live and don't work, but rather squat...

Transportations and land management has gotten better to allow us to get to school easier, but with that comes smog, polution, and over population of areas that allow for the extinction of many species of animals.

Racial desegregation is great, yet we now have issues surrounding reverse prejudism along with the emergence of diseases that may or may not be attributed to interracial child birth, but we aren't even allowed to address that issue because that would be racist...

Franchisement knows no racism? Whatever...

I am happy that homosexuals can affirm who they are, and stay out of the closet... no other comment.

Safe sex is great, but then again it only seems to be the poverish and stupid people that have more babies than they need, or contract a majority of the STDs (not saying all poor ppl are stupid)... Thus, the problem falls on the richer, wiser minority that can't dictate policy to these people, because that would just not be PC.

Women getting out into the work place is great! Yet, the minute you ask them to make some copies for you or get you some coffee you get slapped with a sexual harrassment suit... even though she is your secretary!

Long distant communication is good...

Knowledge of social behaviors is nice, but in some cases it prevents anything from being done as to not to offend.

Environmental awareness is awesome, but when you force people to live somewhere else, or go without power, or even food because we need to save a slug we will have issues...

All in all I too am happier with the way the world is now than it was in yester year... Yet, it would be nice if people wouldn't of gotten so sensitive on top of it. You give people personal freedoms, and they take them and complain about them... SHUT UP!

Anyway. I am happy that we are now addressin larger issues in the world instead of isolated issues. I am happy that our horizons have extended beyond our own borders in to the world as a whole.

	18-06-2003 10:48									#18
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Nice to see people taking Mr. Fun's thread to rant about how horrible the days are now since he ruined Joseph's thread.

Why stop here?

I'm angry that people today care more about blessing homosexual unions, than patching existing marriages.

I'm angry that today's scientists researching stem cells don't wait for the Parliament to decide on the issue, but choose to go full stream ahead.

I'm angry that today, I could go to jail for praying near a clinic, yet pornography has 'artistic merit'.

I'm angry that Christian lawyers don't take more cases pro bono.

I'm angry that the only job my brother can get back home is telemarketing.

	18-06-2003 11:12									#19
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I'm happy I'm an American

and that's it.

I have much to be unhappy about, but I don't want to sound like a whiner

But I am thankful to be born in a good country. My standard of living is much better than I would get in other countries.

	18-06-2003 20:52									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Japher same sh1t different decade... Yet, even that can be bad, because we now have to pay all them old geizers (no offense Asher) SS as long as they live and don't work, but rather squat...

Huh?

	18-06-2003 22:44									#21
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I'm happy that bathing is no longer considered a sin.

I'm happy that I have my tooth brush and tooth paste.

I'm happy that people no longer dies from a simple appendix infection.

I'm happy that people from most ethnic groups can actually get along with each other. (even intermarry with each other!)

I'm happy that we can actually start explaining what's going on in the world.

I'm happy that fewer and fewer people offer sacrifice to gods if the weather doesn't go their way.

I'm happy that we become productive enough as not to cannibalize each other every 5 years due to famines.

I'm happy that I don't have to carry water from a potentially E-Coli infected wells several hundred yards away every day.

I'm happy that people no longer have to dump their sh1t and trash on the streets.

I'm happy that I can travel from point A to point B in much shorter time and without worrying about being ambushed by all the Robin Hood would-bes.

I'm happy that I can travel to far way place and still stay in contact with my family any time I want.

	07-07-2003 22:17									#22
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You know, as a once self-professed slut AND whore, I think that you may certainly put ME on ignore, because if that's where Mark G is, I'd rather be there.

Kind of like having a choice between heaven and hell:
Heaven has Barry Manilow and a bunch of old white men, while hell will get Denis Leary, Martin Scorcese, and Ozzy Osbourne. Who would you rather spend eternity chatting with?

'Unlike other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent.' -Cary Elwes, as Robin Hood in "Robin Hood: Men in Tights"

	07-07-2003 23:13									#23
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quote: You know, as a once self-professed slut AND whore, I think that you may certainly put ME on ignore, because if that's where Mark G is, I'd rather be there.

, Lemur (wo)man.

	07-07-2003 23:31									#24
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I thought this thread would be about all of the wonderful presents we got as kids.

	08-07-2003 00:17									#25
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Well, some of us were dirt-poor as kids, and to be honest, the best present my parents ever gave me was the ability to take care of myself.

My first bike came out of our neighbour's trashcan. I loved that bike, even though it was rusty and the chain always fell off and the seat had been torched and duct-taped back together.

It's how it makes you feel, not how much it's supposedly worth.

	08-07-2003 01:04									#26
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St:

my sister had a bike that also came from somebody's trash...

	08-07-2003 01:22									#27
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quote: Huh?

Sorry, I think I ment Lancer.

	08-07-2003 01:25									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Albert Speer I'm angry that drug use is far more common... I'm angry that divorces outnumber marriages... I'm angry that children don't have fathers... I'm angry that 10 million black babies have been slaughtered... I'm angry that millions of babies period have been slaughtered... I'm angry that teenage girls are getting pregnant left and right... I'm angry that children's parents are drug addicts... **** the present days

how is it possible that divorces outnumber marriages? are ppl getting divorced w/o getting married now?

	08-07-2003 05:23									#29
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Talk about threads coming back from the dead!

	08-07-2003 06:13									#30
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quote: Originally posted by Albert Speer I'm angry that divorces outnumber marriages...

10 points to whoever can explain why this must be a short-term phenomenon...