November 17, 2005
The Descent of Mainstream Media
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Dude, I normally don't mess with other's posts, but I had to re-size it, hope you don't mind. It was bleeding into the sidebar.
Posted by: Vinnie's Ghost at November 17, 2005 11:55 PM (Kr6/f)
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There, this should work.
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at November 17, 2005 11:58 PM (RHG+K)
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Hmm... All "this is what I think, read/listen/watch!"-type things with a fixated view are in the agenda journalist category. Therefore all bloggers who post politics to support a certain ideologys side of the story are monkeys. Naturally, that makes y'all monkeys. Bwahahahaha! And a LOL to annoy.
Posted by: A Finn at November 18, 2005 03:57 AM (cWMi4)
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Oh, terribly sorry, I meant apes.
Posted by: A Finn at November 18, 2005 05:02 AM (cWMi4)
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Call us monkeys if you will, but ...
Imagine the evolutionary branch Bluto displays. And imagine that righty bloggers, in adapting to a hostile environment, are a new branch extending from the the proliferation of lefty "agenda journalists". We were born of necessity. Because of that, lefty bloggers came into being as well to provide balance in evolution. And the "agenda journalist", unable to adapt, is now moving on toward extinction.
Monkeys? Maybe. But bad-ass monkeys with big tools and big brains.
Posted by: Oyster at November 18, 2005 05:34 AM (YudAC)
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BRILLIANT!
Posted by: The Ghost of Macktastick Rusty Wicked at November 18, 2005 08:36 AM (JQjhA)
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Finn, bloggers are commenters and critics, not reporters or journalists, really. It's called free speech; just another benefit of living in America.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 18, 2005 09:21 AM (0yYS2)
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Fine, be monkeys, I was just being nice when I upgraded you to the scientifically more accurate ape-status.
Monkey see, monkey do, but with far inferior quality. Darn the Internet. This doesn't even pass for entertainment anymore. Oh yes, Homo Erectus had bigger brains than the brains of Homo Sapiens, yet it was too stupid to outlast the more complex contestant.
All the people who matter (EU, Canada, Australia) have free speech, it's not a benefit for you only. Theirs is not limited like yours, since they don't get arrested for trying to protest against the president outside the designated area 2342 miles away from the Führer and cameras of biased media rats.
Yes, I'm starting to lean way left despite attempts to bounce from extreme to another, ban me already. I hate having opinions on things I don't really care about.
Posted by: A Finn at November 18, 2005 10:29 AM (lGolT)
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Fine, so your presidents have a tendency of getting shot. That doesn't matter, protester picking is not right if you're going to act like you're some kind of free country..
Posted by: A Finn at November 18, 2005 10:32 AM (lGolT)
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WTF?
Posted by: Oyster at November 18, 2005 11:27 AM (YudAC)
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A Finn: why don't you go to Austria, set up a soapbox, and start telling passersby that the Holocaust wasn't as bad as everyone says. Then come back and tell me about "freedom of speech".
Or let's say that I used your true name to publish hypothetical suspicions about your predilection for cornholing plump little boys. Would you shriek "libel!"? Of course you would, but wouldn't you be limiting my right to freedom of speech?
Only fools and anarchists believe that "freedom of speech" means that anyone can say anything that pops into his head at any time.
Now, as for your thoughts about the evolutionary relationship of old vs. new media. Which media has a shrinking audience and which one has a growing audience?
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at November 18, 2005 11:39 AM (RHG+K)
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Great image. Some people obviously not evolved enough to get it.
Posted by: d-rod at November 18, 2005 01:10 PM (XuVja)
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A Finn is just a fool, and I thought he was going to be gone for awhile fishing in the ice and making snow balls. Damn, just when I thought it was safe to come out.
Free speech, Mr. Finn, tell it to the people in Sweden, Norway, and other parts of the EU who are fined and jailed for saying what they believe, about the Muslims for instance. Your free speech is nothing in the EU. Means nothing and is nothing.
Posted by: jesusland joe at November 18, 2005 01:35 PM (rUyw4)
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Oyster: You know, Kennedy, Reagan, Lincoln, Garfield and many less known unsuccesful attempts like the grenade in Georgia (the CCCP one, not yours) earlier this year.
Would have been gone, but no, the darn weather was too warm to keep all the snow, so it melted to a pretty wintery landscape level, but it's way too little for winter sports and the lakes aren't frozen at all. At least the temperature is way below 0 now. (In my brains? No, outside...)
Jailed they are, for they are doing a thing called hate crime. I believe you've heard of such. Everyone can say what they want where they want, but if they mob up and go scare people, telling people to die or go back to Africa/Asia/America, they are punished because of all the international human rights agreement stuff.
Pluto, if I did that in Austria, I'd damn sure get some likeminded individuals. In case you don't know, their "Republicans", also known as the National Socialists democratic wing, got the rule by a landslide victory. As for the other thing, I'd surely kill you instead of argueing, since I definitely don't take kindly to such perverse accusations and it's not even a challenge to identify every person on this blog. Might result in killing the guy who owns your comps, but nevermind, revenge does not need to be accurate. And yes, freedom of speech should be the ability to say whatever pops into mind, it's up to other people to choose whether or not they want to listen or sue the talker for various mental damage listed in international agreements, or better yet send a powerful argument of rage in a swinging fist to his face.
(Nice transformation from casual complaining to murderous rage... Gotta do that more often)
Suggestion: your post, just edit. Fuck freedom of speech, this is the internet and definition of troll is a matter of opinion.
Posted by: A Finn at November 18, 2005 04:14 PM (lGolT)
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That's a long rant, so long story short:
Blaa blaa blaa, Nazis, blaa blaa nblaa kill this kill that, blaa blaa blaa, troll...
Posted by: A Finn at November 18, 2005 04:16 PM (lGolT)
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You show your ignorance, A Finn. It's illegal to dis the Holocaust in Austria. They can put you in jail. That was the point, which you missed.
Any time you'd like to show up and try swinging a fist, feel free. Did I mention that I fight in full contact Tae Kwon Do tournaments?
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at November 18, 2005 04:29 PM (RHG+K)
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I used to do the Tae Kwon Do thing, but I found I have fewer strained hamstrings if I just pistol-whip anyone who screws with me.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 18, 2005 04:33 PM (0yYS2)
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They can't really put ME in jail for that unless the Finnish Consulate decides to let them judge under Austrian law. But sure, Austria has it's Nazis, and their gov. has it's problems with those Nazis, so public Nazi stuff is restricted as hate crime, which it obviously is when brought to public places. They don't want to have stuff like Paris 2005.
I did some Taek Won Do, but then they went all "selfdiscipline, control of temper, run away from fights, live healthy", so I stayed at yellow belt. And I'll kick your ass if I want to, your reflex movements are predictable and I got a very good mass, height, reach and force advantage. And there's always rifles, if I don't want any legal responsibility for my actions.
Posted by: A Finn at November 18, 2005 04:56 PM (lGolT)
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So, A Finn, you were saying about European "freedom of speech"? That was your original point, which you have just abandoned with the "hate speech" dealy. There's a thing my sabumnim taught us about anger: "Once a man becomes angry, he is already half-defeated." You lose.
That's why they were trying to teach you the "self discipline, control of anger" business. Unfortunately, you stopped at the yellow belt level (one step above white belt). Many emotionally unstable people tend to drop out at yellow or green belt, when the training starts to get more difficult.
I'm 6'1", 250, and very fast.
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at November 18, 2005 06:34 PM (RHG+K)
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You know, it's one thing to argue with greg and actus and others. They at least seem to hold a train of thought, even though it's on another track - and a different planet. But Finn?
Wow. Finn is proof of M-theory.
Whole 'nother dimension.
Posted by: Oyster at November 18, 2005 07:43 PM (YudAC)
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Hahaa! I'm taller and bigger than you, and I knocked out a 4 dan black belt in training, so bring it on. Quit Taek Won Do for ultimate fighting, somehow more interresting. And who said I'm angry? That would be a feeling, don't have that or pain, cold enough not to feel. Just reacting on carnivore instinct: double threat for threat, trice the violence for challenge. Plus I was too tired to act civil, since it was like 2 AM (GMT+2).
Oyster, thank you. It's an honor to be a whole new dimension of thinking.
Posted by: A Finn at November 19, 2005 05:55 AM (lGolT)
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A Finn,
I thought you were doing your winter activities like ice fishing and making snow balls and all that crap. Your trolling days were supposed to be over, and I come back from my deer hunt and here you are. Damn, and acting(maybe not acting, I don't know) stupid you are. WTF is up with that?
Posted by: jesusland joe at November 19, 2005 09:13 AM (rUyw4)
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The snow didn't stay, man... It melted to a pitiful layer not good enough for anything other than looking pretty. Just about 10 cm of good snow.
Posted by: A Finn at November 19, 2005 10:10 AM (lGolT)
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Well, all I have to say is that my deer hunt was a hell of a lot more successful than your winter wonderland. Although you could still make some good snow balls to throw at your kids or your neighbors, whichever is available. I prefer pounding my daughter with snow balls, cause she gets mad as hell. Messes her hair up and all. Haha!
Posted by: jesusland joe at November 19, 2005 10:30 AM (rUyw4)
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A 4 dan black belt? What was her name? Did she catch you with her little brother?
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at November 19, 2005 11:04 AM (RHG+K)
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Nothing like a snowball at an unsuspecting sibling. At least the lakes seem to be freezing, all that snow melting took the heat energy away and the temperatures stay low for weeks.
Bluto, it was a half-my-weight dude, told me to attack, guess he thought it might be a good way to prove to the rest of the class that Taek Won Do works even on people you normally would not have a chance against. Well... he was wrong, I did a fakie to sleeve-grab to fling-away, he hit his head on a radiator and was out cold for a while. Then he explained how underestimating opponents and losing focus can be painful afterwards...
And I'm not into that stuff you love, so stop being such a pervert with your implications.
Posted by: A Finn at November 19, 2005 04:48 PM (lGolT)
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I don't like the Taek Won Do, or whatever myself, and that's why I carry a Colt .45 Combat Commander. It beats the hell out of all that judo shit every time.
Posted by: jesusland joe at November 19, 2005 06:45 PM (rUyw4)
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I thought you wingnuts were all cretinists, i mean, creationists.
Posted by: actus at November 19, 2005 07:04 PM (Zi15r)
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Actus, that's what you get for thinking. Leave that for the adults.
Posted by: jesusland joe at November 19, 2005 08:26 PM (rUyw4)
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"Actus, that's what you get for thinking. Leave that for the adults."
You're doing such a great job with it.
Posted by: actus at November 19, 2005 09:46 PM (Zi15r)
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Thank you, thank you very much!
Posted by: jesusland joe at November 19, 2005 10:38 PM (rUyw4)
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A Finn: your story is one of the fishier ones I've heard (and it's "Tae Kwon Do", not "Taek won do"). Come back when you make up something more plausible.
jesusland joe: I live in the People's Republic of New York. Only cops and criminals are allowed to carry firearms here.
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at November 19, 2005 11:30 PM (RHG+K)
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No, really. The guy wasn't paying enough attention, and I had my mind set on kicking his ass for thinking he can kick my ass. Fake-jab, he tried to grab my hand to toss me or do some hand-behind-back submission move, but I pulled the punch, grabbed his sleeve and with a powerful forward+turning motion got him off balance enough to toss him across the floor to the metal warming device.
Posted by: A Finn at November 20, 2005 07:14 AM (lGolT)
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Oh well, I suppose if you say "No, really." I have to believe you. Doofus. "Tae Kwon Do" means "the way of hand and foot" (or "punching and kicking"). It's not a grappling form. You're thinking of hapkido or aikido. Six demerits for poor research. Your tale is still as fishy as a French bordello.
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at November 20, 2005 02:18 PM (RHG+K)
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Well, hello, noobie vs. master, did you think he would just take a friggin' swing at me? If you've not learned a single grapple move in your years of Taekwondo, there's something wrong with your teacher, since he's teaching offense only. Submission grapples (you know, off balance, down to the ground with a sweep kick or palm thrust, suitable lock hold or painful twist situation), one of the first things I got, since those are the stuff you're supposed to use if you can't run and need to undo your opponent even after you've ran a foot through his ribs. Or then I was in some taekwondo-judo fusion thingie like the one they're teaching in the army (in Finland...), I dunno. Check for Sami Greus (not the knock-out, I think Greus was 3 dan), see which he's teaching, he was the teacher from the other half of the class' belt exam.
Posted by: A Finn at November 21, 2005 01:55 AM (cWMi4)
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Oh, he's 5 dan now. A lot has happened in 2 years, I guess.
Posted by: A Finn at November 21, 2005 01:56 AM (cWMi4)
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Finn: at the level you claim (yellow belt), real TKD instructors are just trying to get you to kick and punch with some semblance of having a basic idea of what you might want to be capable of doing in a year or so.
Your story smells.
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at November 21, 2005 12:15 PM (RHG+K)
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Since it's not that popular in here, the groups are mixes of various belts, so I had blue belts, red belts, a second black belt occasionally and a whole lot of green belts with the yellows and whites I started with. Got to see all possible Taekwondo in the 6 months or something I spent my Saturday mornings there. But yeah, most of the time I just kicked and punched air in the same patterns over and over again...
The blue belts ran the noobies every now and then, teaching some, well, less taekwondic things when the better belts where fighting, like pressure spots, jump-spin-footsweep thingie Jin does in Tekken. Tried to learn that Bruce Lees one inch punch, a red belt had it pretty well.
Posted by: A Finn at November 22, 2005 02:32 AM (cWMi4)
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