Idiocracy is happening

Lesley wrote: Canada? Hah! We may be a buncha rubes, but at least we don't have 57 channels of reality shows. Also- Kardashians.

The same people who pay attention to those 57 channels and the Kardashians are also fueled by the likes of Bieber, Dion, and Nickelback.

Thanks for the help..............

ransom wrote:

poopshovel wrote: Also, I wasn't trying to turn this into a political thread, so like, quit it, shiny happy people.

As this thread showed from the beginning, there is no shortage of stuff we can all agree is berkeleying idiotic no matter where you fall politically... United in frustration.

I like it.

So at least once a week, I have someone call or come in asking me how much a piece of artwork (typically a piece of E36 M3, to be more accurate) is worth. It's not my area of expertise, so unless it's an artist I'm familiar with, I typically refer them to an appraiser...an appraiser who probably hates my ass for sending him all these idiots. The only thing that makes this more frustrating is the way the question is phrased.

Yesterday, I had a woman call and say:

"Yeah. Uh how do a find out how mutch uh pitcher (PIC-TURE, for those not fluent in mongoloid) is?"

Me: "Um. Look at the price tag?"

Her: "Naw. It's lack, a pitcher I found cleanin out mah grandmaw's house, and I need to know how much it is."

Me: "How much it is...what?"

Her: "Huh?"

Me: "Do you need to know how much it is WORTH? Is that what you're asking me?"

Jesus christ. Sometimes it takes everything in me not to tell people "Well what yurr gunna wanna do first is find ya a gun - preferably a rifle or shotgun, load it, make sure the safety is off, point it at your genitals, and pull the goddamned trigger to ensure you won't further muck up the gene pool, mmmkay barney?"

I know there's eleventeen, but wasn't aware of twenty-fiveteen.

You guys should have seen Facebook in its first early years: No least common denominators. No snooping employers. No lurking mothers; no old people. It was a post-teen playground. It was an internet Eden. It was magical.

Appleseed wrote:

Please refrain from posting such things, as an engineering student, I have no choice but to drop everything and attempt to solve it.

Mitchell wrote: You guys should have seen the internet in its first early years: No least common denominators. No snooping employers. No lurking mothers; no old people. It was a post-teen playground. It was an internet Eden. It was magical.

FTFY. 1990-1991 was great. Sure, installing linux took a stack of floppies, but it even usenet was full of clever people. It's been going down hill ever since.

Many days I despair of the future of humanity. I swear the Idiocracy family tree thing is dead on the money.

Mitchell wrote: You guys should have seen Facebook in its first early years: No least common denominators. No snooping employers. No lurking mothers; no old people. It was a post-teen playground. It was an internet Eden. It was magical.

I know! I haven't touched the thing in years because I can remember when it was pretty much the best thing on the internet.

Anybody remember bulletin boards? I would dial up Blue Ridge Express and peruse files for download. Wow. I must be old.

I was a sysop for a few years...

JoeyM wrote:

Mitchell wrote: You guys should have seen the internet in its first early years: No least common denominators. No snooping employers. No lurking mothers; no old people. It was a post-teen playground. It was an internet Eden. It was magical.

FTFY. 1990-1991 was great. Sure, installing linux took a stack of floppies, but it even usenet was full of clever people. It's been going down hill ever since.

heh.. I have been online since the early/mid 80s

LainfordExpress wrote:

Mitchell wrote: You guys should have seen Facebook in its first early years: No least common denominators. No snooping employers. No lurking mothers; no old people. It was a post-teen playground. It was an internet Eden. It was magical.

I know! I haven't touched the thing in years because I can remember when it was pretty much the best thing on the internet.

Back when you were required to have a college e-mail address in order to sign up? Yeah, I remember that. It was awesome.

My Great Aunts are on Facebook now...

mad_machine wrote:

JoeyM wrote:

Mitchell wrote: You guys should have seen the internet in its first early years: No least common denominators. No snooping employers. No lurking mothers; no old people. It was a post-teen playground. It was an internet Eden. It was magical.

FTFY. 1990-1991 was great. Sure, installing linux took a stack of floppies, but it even usenet was full of clever people. It's been going down hill ever since.

heh.. I have been online since the early/mid 80s

Did you every play "Global Thermonuclear War?"

Appleseed wrote:

mad_machine wrote:

JoeyM wrote:

Mitchell wrote: You guys should have seen the internet in its first early years: No least common denominators. No snooping employers. No lurking mothers; no old people. It was a post-teen playground. It was an internet Eden. It was magical.

FTFY. 1990-1991 was great. Sure, installing linux took a stack of floppies, but it even usenet was full of clever people. It's been going down hill ever since.

heh.. I have been online since the early/mid 80s

Did you every play "Global Thermonuclear War?"

Maroon92 wrote:

LainfordExpress wrote:

Mitchell wrote: You guys should have seen Facebook in its first early years: No least common denominators. No snooping employers. No lurking mothers; no old people. It was a post-teen playground. It was an internet Eden. It was magical.

I know! I haven't touched the thing in years because I can remember when it was pretty much the best thing on the internet.

Back when you were required to have a college e-mail address in order to sign up? Yeah, I remember that. It was awesome. My Great Aunts are on Facebook now...

'Twas a simpler time, when Facebook was for lulz and for checking out friends of friends.

In reply to Appleseed:

No global thermonuclear war, but plenty of trade wars and barren realms.

I remember my roommate getting a 14.4k modem and selling his 9600 baud for real money, and that modem was bigger than my current laptop.

but that was all you needed. There was no streaming video, there was no flash, there was no need for fourteen billion pages of spam.

The internet was fresh, clean, and fun in a totally nerdy way

Warez...

Nothing like 4 hours to download DOOM.

mad_machine wrote: but that was all you needed. There was no streaming video, there was no flash, there was no need for fourteen billion pages of spam. The internet was fresh, clean, and fun in a totally nerdy way

Yeah, but the porn was text only.

I DO remember 56K porn. 3 minutes later, "Is that a boob!?!!?"

Mitchell wrote:

Maroon92 wrote:

LainfordExpress wrote:

Mitchell wrote: You guys should have seen Facebook in its first early years: No least common denominators. No snooping employers. No lurking mothers; no old people. It was a post-teen playground. It was an internet Eden. It was magical.

I know! I haven't touched the thing in years because I can remember when it was pretty much the best thing on the internet.

Back when you were required to have a college e-mail address in order to sign up? Yeah, I remember that. It was awesome. My Great Aunts are on Facebook now...

'Twas a simpler time, when Facebook was for lulz and for checking out friends of friends.

that's what i use facebook for now.. no games- i just use it to keep up with the lives of people i hated in school and haven't seen for over 20 years.. also, i use it to link to Andy Rehfeldt videos on youtube because that's pretty much what the internet was invented for.....

Appleseed wrote: I DO remember 56K porn. 3 minutes later, "Is that a boob!?!!?"

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.