The World I Know

[Kaos]

Good song.  Too bad I don't know the world any more. 

I'm not that old.  But my generation has endured more social upheaval and change than any in the history of mankind.  I don't think I can take much more.   

>> Target is taking gender labels off items in its stores. Today it's toys and assorted other things.  Tomorrow it will be clothes and shoes.  Lady wants to buy a bra and panties for her infant son? By all means!  He's not old enough yet to decide what he wants to be.  He might one day wake up and dislike his little pee-pee and decide to be Raylene instead of Ray.  We shouldn't force him to decide that when he's so young. 

Think I'm kidding?

This from Time Magazine in the wake of the Target decision:

To me, Target’s move is just the tip of the iceberg. We need to pressure manufacturers to get rid of the labeling on the products. We need to pressure advertisers to lose the labeling in their commercials. We need to tell ourselves that “girl” and “boy” interests do not exist. Every child is an individual, and we have a duty to find out who each and every one of them is instead of lumping children into categories before they can speak for themselves.

Girl and boy interests DO fucking exist.  People are made differently for a reason. Boys and girls. Birds and bees.

>>There's a movie coming out with that bug-eyed Sarandon wacko and Naomi Watts where some girl decides it's a boy and everybody is cool with it except for cro-magnon Daddy.  The people embracing the insanity of "deciding" you're a boy when you're really a girl are portrayed as the sane, level-headed, loving ones.  Those who oppose the change are knuckle-dragging miscreants, lost in the past.  It's APALLING to me.   

When I was growing up, freaks like this were rightfully put away or hidden.  We didn't embrace gender bending shit like this. 

>> That fucking Jace TV show.  Kid's not yet ten and the parents are all encouraging "him" to decide he's really a girl.  And then the freak laments that it "has trouble with boys."  YEAH, you fucking weirdo.  Boys don't much care for girls with DICKS. 

It's just too much.  I weathered the whole Civil Rights thing.  I survived bra burning and women's liberation. I dealt with reel-to-reel to vinyl to, 8-Track to cassette to CD, I handled the media going from reporting the news to making the news, I've seen wars and terrorist attacks, I've seen prayer taken out of school and black folks put up in there, girls playing baseball, women demanding access to the men's lockerroom, lesbians all over soccer, queers all over TV, the condemnation of the rebel flag, a muslim president, people making heroes out of losers like Kim Kardashian and Dale Earnhardt while our soldiers are mistreated. 

At some point it just becomes god damned enough.  I'm getting to that point. 

[AUJarhead]

I'm getting to that point.

I blew past that point a long time ago.  This country is fucked.

[dallaswareagle]

I blew past that point a long time ago.  This country is fucked.

The country will be fine, the next generation will be fucked. And they are doing it to themselves.

[Kaos]

The country will be fine, the next generation will be fucked. And they are doing it to themselves.

How will they be fucking?  They don't even know what they are. 

Time says it's perfectly okay for young boys to buy My Little Pony bedding and just as cool for girls to buy GI Joe.  Of course GI Joe doesn't exist any longer. 

Here's the problem with this.  Parents are going to be fucking afraid to say "No son, you can't have the fucking gay ass Strawberry Shortcake dolls.  Try this Transformer instead." 

Kids learn from emulation.  If men are afraid to be men and women are trying to be men and men are trying to be women, what the fuck are these kids going to know? 

I wish I knew where else to go.  I'd go there. 

[AUJarhead]

The country will be fine, the next generation will be fudgeed. And they are doing it to themselves.

Our Country won’t go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won’t be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!
– Lt. Gen. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC

[Kaos]

Our Country won’t go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won’t be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!
– Lt. Gen. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC

Again I say, look at Rome.

The sexual depravity of that society was legendary.  We're rapidly accelerating to the point that people will pick and choose sexual partners from a menu that includes young boys, virgin girls or whatever disgusting tastes one happens to have.  Just like Pompeii.

So, too, was the burden of a welfare state and a government that tried to be everything to everybody.  Augustus started the Congiaria promising free grain for all. Trajan expanded it to include schools, food and money (food stamps). It just kept on until it could not support itself.  And the people bailed. 

Same kind of collapse is coming here.  When more people rely on government than support it? It's over. 

We are there. 

[wesfau2]

Every generation thinks it's the end of the world.

Sorry that you're uncomfortable.

Life will go on and you will continue to rage against the dying of the light.

[chinook]

Every generation thinks it's the end of the world.

Sorry that you're uncomfortable.

Life will go on and you will continue to rage against the dying of the light.

my thoughts exactly.  no doubt...reading Undaunted Courage.  Shit isn't the same anymore.

[Kaos]

Every generation thinks it's the end of the world.

Sorry that you're uncomfortable.

Life will go on and you will continue to rage against the dying of the light.

Until the generation that is the end of the world.  No empire last forever.  Ours is ruined. 

[GH2001]

Every generation thinks it's the end of the world.

Sorry that you're uncomfortable.

Life will go on and you will continue to rage against the dying of the light.

Although I agree with you in theory that every generation has growing pains and adaption stings, Mr Kaos' concern holds water.

The numbers and actions somewhat support his stance (i.e. - national debt, labor participation rate, % of our economy on credit, number of people depending on assistance, etc to name a few). In non-numerically measured things, you have race relations, gender identity, morale, etc....all things that are in historically unprecedented territory, as are some of the numerical things. I mean, for all the times we want to tout science and its finite being to discuss climate change or pollution or evolution, or what have you - it seems as though its ok to take a shit on it and go against it when convenient as well in the name of social change i.e. this gender identity thing and refusing to acknowledge differences between the two. Science and nature define that..not us.

So on one hand science is awesome when it comes to try and disproving the existing of religion or proving the earth is getting hotter, but when nature tells us a boy is a boy? F that noise....Its a mere suggestion, I wanna be a girl damnit. You have to admit, it is weird territory we are wading into. Regardless of what you believe religiously or politically.

[Godfather]

There are no chicks with dicks, only guys with tits!

[AUJarhead]

I think it's time to play the Beetlejuice card.

[Godfather]

I think it's time to play the Beetlejuice card.

Stop Jarhead, you are messing with powers you don't understand.  No one wants that guy around here.

[Pell City Tiger]

Stop Jarhead, you are messing with powers you don't understand.  No one wants that guy around here.

He's the ghost with the most

[Snaggletiger]

Let me just say that in our changing world, there is one phrase that makes me want to punch somebody in the forehead...hard!

"insensitive tweet"


 

[GH2001]

Let me just say that in our changing world, there is one phrase that makes me want to punch somebody in the forehead...hard!

"insensitive tweet"


 

And in the heat of every one of Chizad's twitter battles, he has never ONCE sent an insenstive tweet...ever. And that folks, is called SKILL.

[AUJarhead]

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

[Godfather]

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

Smoke and a pancake?

[Hogwally]

Good song.  Too bad I don't know the world any more. 

I'm not that old.  But my generation has endured more social upheaval and change than any in the history of mankind.  I don't think I can take much more.   

>> Target is taking gender labels off items in its stores. Today it's toys and assorted other things.  Tomorrow it will be clothes and shoes.  Lady wants to buy a bra and panties for her infant son? By all means!  He's not old enough yet to decide what he wants to be.  He might one day wake up and dislike his little pee-pee and decide to be Raylene instead of Ray.  We shouldn't force him to decide that when he's so young. 

Think I'm kidding?

This from Time Magazine in the wake of the Target decision:

To me, Target’s move is just the tip of the iceberg. We need to pressure manufacturers to get rid of the labeling on the products. We need to pressure advertisers to lose the labeling in their commercials. We need to tell ourselves that “girl” and “boy” interests do not exist. Every child is an individual, and we have a duty to find out who each and every one of them is instead of lumping children into categories before they can speak for themselves.

Girl and boy interests DO fucking exist.  People are made differently for a reason. Boys and girls. Birds and bees.

>>There's a movie coming out with that bug-eyed Sarandon wacko and Naomi Watts where some girl decides it's a boy and everybody is cool with it except for cro-magnon Daddy.  The people embracing the insanity of "deciding" you're a boy when you're really a girl are portrayed as the sane, level-headed, loving ones.  Those who oppose the change are knuckle-dragging miscreants, lost in the past.  It's APALLING to me.   

When I was growing up, freaks like this were rightfully put away or hidden.  We didn't embrace gender bending shit like this. 

>> That fucking Jace TV show.  Kid's not yet ten and the parents are all encouraging "him" to decide he's really a girl.  And then the freak laments that it "has trouble with boys."  YEAH, you fucking weirdo.  Boys don't much care for girls with DICKS. 

It's just too much.  I weathered the whole Civil Rights thing.  I survived bra burning and women's liberation. I dealt with reel-to-reel to vinyl to, 8-Track to cassette to CD, I handled the media going from reporting the news to making the news, I've seen wars and terrorist attacks, I've seen prayer taken out of school and black folks put up in there, girls playing baseball, women demanding access to the men's lockerroom, lesbians all over soccer, queers all over TV, the condemnation of the rebel flag, a muslim president, people making heroes out of losers like Kim Kardashian and Dale Earnhardt while our soldiers are mistreated. 

At some point it just becomes god damned enough.  I'm getting to that point.

Participation trophies.  You forgot to throw in a big snit fit about participation trophies.

[Jumbo]

I wish Coke was still cola and a joint was a bad place to be.