Things people need to just SHUT UP about.

[Frankydee]

Anything Nancy Grace has anything to say about. I swear I want to slice out my eardrums every time I hear her voice.

 

[TheSentinel]

Nothing.

Freedom of Speech, people. Freedom of Speech.

 

[Blackhol]

People thinking that they are cool and unique for saying popular stuff suck . The fact that they are popular in the first place should be enough evidence to say they don't suck.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

1. Popular FPS hate (Halo, Modern Warfare)
2. Final fantasy 7 (i refuse to use the roman numerals)
3. Twilight, Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus (tween girl shit that has no real place in the world)
4. PC/Console gamers are the master race, and all others are sub-human mutants.
5. World Of Warcrack, it used to be ok, but now i found it way too overdone
6. Music Wars (Genre VS Genre)

People that need to SHUT THE FUCK UP

1. Fox News
2. Religious nut jobs
3. Jack Thompson
4. Any girl between the ages of 13-19 that reads twilight
5. Racists (Whites, Blacks i don't care, don't preach your hate)
6. Homophobes

...You pretty much hit the nail on the head there, pal.

 

[Devil Gamer]

1. Popular FPS hate (Halo, Modern Warfare)
2. Final fantasy 7 (i refuse to use the roman numerals)
3. Twilight, Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus (tween girl shit that has no real place in the world)
4. PC/Console gamers are the master race, and all others are sub-human mutants.
5. World Of Warcrack, it used to be ok, but now i found it way too overdone
6. Music Wars (Genre VS Genre)

People that need to SHUT THE FUCK UP

1. Fox News
2. Religious nut jobs
3. Jack Thompson
4. Any girl between the ages of 13-19 that reads twilight
5. Racists (Whites, Blacks i don't care, don't preach your hate)
6. Homophobes

This guy knows what he is tawking about.

 

[Smokeydubbs]

There is no such thing as Liberals in American politics, just less extreme conservatives.

Over here the Conservatives are known for not doing much(i.e. low taxes, cut spending, essentially minimalists when it comes the economy). It's the Liberals that want to increase social spending and have ambitious bills.

 

[gr33l]

endlss discussions about political correctness of happy holidays vs merry christmas

 

[geldonyetich]

Personally, I think people need to just shut up about inane list threads.

It begs a certain question of why I keep coming back to these forums seeing how easily 80% of the posts seem to be one.

 

[Dr. UBAR]

1. Popular FPS hate (Halo, Modern Warfare)
2. Final fantasy 7 (i refuse to use the roman numerals)
3. Twilight, Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus (tween girl shit that has no real place in the world)
4. PC/Console gamers are the master race, and all others are sub-human mutants.
5. World Of Warcrack, it used to be ok, but now i found it way too overdone
6. Music Wars (Genre VS Genre)

People that need to SHUT THE FUCK UP

1. Fox News
2. Religious nut jobs
3. Jack Thompson
4. Any girl between the ages of 13-19 that reads twilight
5. Racists (Whites, Blacks i don't care, don't preach your hate)
6. Homophobes

You, ninja'd me. I feel so... ninja'd.

Okay, to be serious. People should shut up about things they feel strongly about.

Agreed...

We should start a group...

I'm sorry if this is an insult I can't resist,
So you guys feel strongly about people shutting up about things they feel strongly about?
I would try to point out some more but I like being a hypocrite so let me contribute from my personal list. I am sorry for the wall of text to follow:
- People who follow fads because they're fads.

- People who do the opposite of fads just because they're the opposite of fads.

- People who smoke near me.

- People who try to ban things they don't like.

- Racists.

- Black people who use the word "******" then get pissed when a white person uses it in a friendly context. Make up your mind dumbasses.

- Politically correct people.

- People who have yet to mature past the mental age of 9 despite their chronological age having long since passed that mark.

- People who speak in phonics.

- People who TYPE in "webphonics". Or in other way shorten every other word by removing letters or just overall forget vowels exist.

- People who completely ignore punctuation.

- English people that seem to know as much English as I know Samoan. It's your goddamn language the least you could do is learn it.

- People who get all uppity over a swear word like someone just dismembered an infant with their teeth in front of their eyes.

- Children who swear every other word just because it's cool.

- People who think or try to act like they're badasses.

- People who sell religion.

- People who wanted religion to be taught in science class.

- People who think it's ok to rape a woman that was dressed provocatively because "she had it coming".

- Uneducated pious hillbillies.

- People who act like they're better than everyone else.

- Wimps.

- MMOs.

- Boy and Girl scouts.

- Door to door and telemarketers who think calling you home before 9 on a weekend or holiday is acceptable.

- People who hack videogames.

- Rapists.

- Child abusers.

- MTV.

- Mostly everyone and everything on MTV.

- People who ACT like they're on MTV.

- Nintendo these days.

- Every time Nintendo releases something that had true potential but then completely disregard it in favor of cheap gimmicks.

- Server admins that don't know or even understand when to use admin commands.

- Anything or anyone that enforces no swearing policies.

- Stupid people. I'm not talking about mentally handicapped people, I'm talking people that have no physical problems with their brains but are just stupid... So completely ignorant and aggressively idiotic
you just wanna kill them.

- Plagiarism.

- Greed.

- Self-centered people.

- Bad parents.

- Parents who think it's ok for their child to play a game about murdering people, so long as there's no blood, swear words or nipples.

- People who get offended at sex.

- People who use public transports and don't have the common decency to take a bath.

- People who use public transports and apparently take a bath in perfume.

- People who can't seem to lower their voice. No, I don't need to hear what you're saying across the goddamn street.

- "Radios with cars attached". Basically when some retards go around with their radios blasting music high enough for the whole street to hear it... Usually shitty music... Usually it's not music at all,
it's a bunch of people that can't even seem to speak the language they're attempting to replicate with an electronic beat behind.

- People who think they're smart and witty while copying other people.

- Lack of creativity.

- Fanboys.

- People in denial.

- People who aren't aware their actions have consequences.

- People that still think Psychology is akin to witchcraft.

- Feminists.

- People who think abortion before a 12 week period is murder.

- Politicians who get to decide what offends which particular sub-culture.

- "Wanksters"

- Peolple who say "like" at every possible moment.

- People who use internet abbreviations in real life eg. lol, rofl etc

- People who use internet abbreviations on the internet.

- Ignorance.

- Political correctness.

- Emo's of each and every kind.

- Kids who follow fad's and kids that excessively announce that they're different because they don't follow the fad.

- Attention seekers.

- Rap

- Rappers

- Souljia Boy

- Flavour Flav

- Babies

- Saints Row 2

- The internet's power to give people anonyminity

- People who abuse kids.

- People who let their kids run around like shit-spawn.

- Parents who think there is an alternative to smacking.

- People who abuse other people with no good reason.

- People who blow their noses in public.

- Absolutely anyone that has no respect, especially kids.

- Fat chicks who think they're hot shit.

- Commercialism

- Neo-nazi's

- People who think choices are black and white, bad or good etc.

- People who go to extremes to try and prove an invalid point. eg. "Well then, if you hate people banning things they don't like, then your obviously against bans on murder or peodaphilia."

- People who think they are "articulated" and "well read" because they've finished the new Harry Potter book.

- People who accuse games of turning choir boys into serial rapists with a murderous fetish.

- American accents

- The word "netiquette"

- 7 Year old rude dipshits with a phone.

- Any rudeness related to mobile phones.

- "Independent" artists, programmers. If they're so good, why aren't they employed?

- Britney Spears

- Any person following the ideals set down by spears or any pop culture icon.

- Ass-kissers

- "Bling"

- "Wigga's"

- Gangsta"s, because a gangstER is akin to Godfather AKA Awesome

- Facism

- Ipods or any apple technologies.

- Cliffhangers in any sort of media.

- "whine rock"

- People who think above stated rock is actually good compared to the real stuff

- Nostalgia

- Shoddy products

- Graffitti of almost every kind.

- Big belt buckles.

- This phrases often quoted by teenage girls "Like, oh my god"

- Mobile content advertisments, all of them.

- Advertisments

- Obnoxious Advertisments

 

[lasherman]

2012.

Seriously, like, half a dozen of my friends are going nuts over this shit. My high school english teacher is stocking her garage with canned food and bottled water for the end of the world.

I can't wait to barge into her classroom on jan 4th or whenever school starts again. Point my finger at her and yell...

[HEADING=1]HA![/HEADING]

A-freakin'-men. The 2012 hype is really beginning to annoy me. I've got this one insanely annoying girl in my class who refuses to believe the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (because she knows so much more than an ass-tonne of PhD holding scientists) and maintains that Nibiru (a fictional planet this 2012 bullshittery has latched onto) is hiding behind Jupiter and will fly past us.

At first she maintained that, as is the current craze with this ridiculous hype, the incoming planet's gravitational pull would flip our planet's geomagnetic field. When I pointed out to her that geomagnetic reversals are a steady occurrence and have been so since the formation of our magnetic field with no proven effect upon the biosphere she changed the trajectory of her fictional planet and starting claiming it'd hit earth. When I showed her the long, long list of facepalm-worthy, whiny, plebeian fears that the poor (probably pill-popping by now) astronomers at the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry have answered (one of which outright stated that there was no such thing as this Nibiru/Planet X bull claims and that any large masses such as this approaching our solar system would be spotted tens of thousands of years before they came close, even with our current technology) she started claiming they were working for the government. Can't win with conspiracy theorists.

Another thing I wish people would just shut the fuck up about is anthropogenic global warming. Humans contribute 3.6% of carbon emissions (that's not some crazy right-wing lie, that's New Scientist's data). Even if we manage to cut the 19% of worldwide human emissions required by the Copenhagen summit that still amounts to roughly 0.7% of total carbon dioxide emissions. I'm not saying CO2 doesn't have a causal affect upon climate (it's demonstrably proven that it does), nor, for the same reason, am I arguing that cutting CO2 won't change the climate, I'm arguing that it's illogical to claim that our race's piddling little contribution to total CO2 emissions can be solely responsible for global warming (which is occurring) and whilst everyone and their mother is out demonising this single gas as if it is the fifth horseman of the apocalypse we're not looking at what else could be the cause of the warming or any other mitigation strategies than "Oh em gee buy this car because it doesn't produce as much carbon!111"

In the midst of all this hysteria we miss out on simple and interesting solutions to any potentially damaging warming (which, despite the media's overreaction, hasn't yet occurred), such as Myhrvold et al's Nitrogen Dioxide delivery system for artificial cooling.


EDIT: (there's a lot that annoys me, I'll just throw in one more)

Gender. That's another thing I want people to shut the fuck up about. The American media is obsessed with gender. I can't watch a damn television show without seeing men being thrown into one of the following stereotypical roles: competitive, immature, aggressive (this one has some truth to it at least, I'll explain later), sex obsessed, unemotional/emotionally insensitive and so on. Even more irritating (and nonsensical) is the fact that women are always portrayed as the tonic to these masculine gender defects. However, women don't get off scot-free either; women in the media are usually portrayed as one of the following: irrational, innocent/naive (may not sound like a bad thing, but innocence and infantilization go hand in hand and no-one wants to be denigrated to the position of a child), stupid and, more often than not, unpleasant/bitchy.

This is really annoying because a spiffing brilliant 46 study meta-analysis by Hyde et al (2005) of the University of Wisconsin discovered that there were no statistically significant differences between genders in any behavioural or cognitive areas other than aggression (moderate to strong correlation with males, especially when aware of observation (0.58-0.64 correlation on all types of aggression)), sexual attitudes (men don't tend to see masturbation as 'wrong' and don't tend to consider casual sex to be 'wrong' either (interestingly, despite the media portrayal, Hyde et al found that sexual satisfaction (amount and pleasure gained) leaned very slightly more towards women than men)) and lastly motor-skills and complex shape manipulation (being able to mentally rotate and manipulate 3-D shapes, just seems that women aren't usually created in such a way as to be neurologically geared towards this sort of task). A recent study of testosterone has also shined doubts upon its efficacy in causing aggression, as it was found that women in a blind trial were significantly more likely to exhibit aggressive/competitive tendencies when told they'd been given testosterone (when in fact none had been administered) than when they actually received testosterone. Basically, gender has jack shit to do with anything; the way your life has treated you is the most crucial factor in what makes you different from other people in nearly all aspects.

Well sir, you have won the internet.

 

[Lavi]

Fundamentalist atheists need to stfu. Seriously, you are not anything special just cause.

 

[BENZOOKA]

Senseless complaining and unjustified/prejudice-based hatred are the first to come to mind. Also big brother.

 

[fuckwit]

Dream Theater

Huh. I haven't seen any threads on them. They are very good, you know.

 

[Darmort]

2012.

Seriously, like, half a dozen of my friends are going nuts over this shit. My high school english teacher is stocking her garage with canned food and bottled water for the end of the world.

I can't wait to barge into her classroom on jan 4th or whenever school starts again. Point my finger at her and yell...

[HEADING=1]HA![/HEADING]

A-freakin'-men. The 2012 hype is really beginning to annoy me. I've got this one insanely annoying girl in my class who refuses to believe the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (because she knows so much more than an ass-tonne of PhD holding scientists) and maintains that Nibiru (a fictional planet this 2012 bullshittery has latched onto) is hiding behind Jupiter and will fly past us.

At first she maintained that, as is the current craze with this ridiculous hype, the incoming planet's gravitational pull would flip our planet's geomagnetic field. When I pointed out to her that geomagnetic reversals are a steady occurrence and have been so since the formation of our magnetic field with no proven effect upon the biosphere she changed the trajectory of her fictional planet and starting claiming it'd hit earth. When I showed her the long, long list of facepalm-worthy, whiny, plebeian fears that the poor (probably pill-popping by now) astronomers at the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry have answered (one of which outright stated that there was no such thing as this Nibiru/Planet X bull claims and that any large masses such as this approaching our solar system would be spotted tens of thousands of years before they came close, even with our current technology) she started claiming they were working for the government. Can't win with conspiracy theorists.

Another thing I wish people would just shut the fuck up about is anthropogenic global warming. Humans contribute 3.6% of carbon emissions (that's not some crazy right-wing lie, that's New Scientist's data). Even if we manage to cut the 19% of worldwide human emissions required by the Copenhagen summit that still amounts to roughly 0.7% of total carbon dioxide emissions. I'm not saying CO2 doesn't have a causal affect upon climate (it's demonstrably proven that it does), nor, for the same reason, am I arguing that cutting CO2 won't change the climate, I'm arguing that it's illogical to claim that our race's piddling little contribution to total CO2 emissions can be solely responsible for global warming (which is occurring) and whilst everyone and their mother is out demonising this single gas as if it is the fifth horseman of the apocalypse we're not looking at what else could be the cause of the warming or any other mitigation strategies than "Oh em gee buy this car because it doesn't produce as much carbon!111"

In the midst of all this hysteria we miss out on simple and interesting solutions to any potentially damaging warming (which, despite the media's overreaction, hasn't yet occurred), such as Myhrvold et al's Nitrogen Dioxide delivery system for artificial cooling.


EDIT: (there's a lot that annoys me, I'll just throw in one more)

Gender. That's another thing I want people to shut the fuck up about. The American media is obsessed with gender. I can't watch a damn television show without seeing men being thrown into one of the following stereotypical roles: competitive, immature, aggressive (this one has some truth to it at least, I'll explain later), sex obsessed, unemotional/emotionally insensitive and so on. Even more irritating (and nonsensical) is the fact that women are always portrayed as the tonic to these masculine gender defects. However, women don't get off scot-free either; women in the media are usually portrayed as one of the following: irrational, innocent/naive (may not sound like a bad thing, but innocence and infantilization go hand in hand and no-one wants to be denigrated to the position of a child), stupid and, more often than not, unpleasant/bitchy.

This is really annoying because a spiffing brilliant 46 study meta-analysis by Hyde et al (2005) of the University of Wisconsin discovered that there were no statistically significant differences between genders in any behavioural or cognitive areas other than aggression (moderate to strong correlation with males, especially when aware of observation (0.58-0.64 correlation on all types of aggression)), sexual attitudes (men don't tend to see masturbation as 'wrong' and don't tend to consider casual sex to be 'wrong' either (interestingly, despite the media portrayal, Hyde et al found that sexual satisfaction (amount and pleasure gained) leaned very slightly more towards women than men)) and lastly motor-skills and complex shape manipulation (being able to mentally rotate and manipulate 3-D shapes, just seems that women aren't usually created in such a way as to be neurologically geared towards this sort of task). A recent study of testosterone has also shined doubts upon its efficacy in causing aggression, as it was found that women in a blind trial were significantly more likely to exhibit aggressive/competitive tendencies when told they'd been given testosterone (when in fact none had been administered) than when they actually received testosterone. Basically, gender has jack shit to do with anything; the way your life has treated you is the most crucial factor in what makes you different from other people in nearly all aspects.

That gave me a fantastic little chuckle.

Personally, and I know it's been said before, but Twilight. It's a badly written emo-sop romance novel with pseudo emos. I mean Vampires.

Also, Madeline McCann... half my class still tells the jokes.

The game is not funny.

And people saying that you should give everything you can to charity... I'm not against charity, and if I see somewhere that I can deposit some cash then I will if it's right there in my pocket, but I'm not going to tell people to go spare/go spare myself over not finding something every week to give to charity.

 

[BGH122]

That gave me a fantastic little chuckle.

Well sir, you have won the internet.

THANK YOU.
I need to show this to all sexists, maybe shut up both sides, if I'm lucky.

I tip my hat to you sir, you picked all the things that really piss me off and said it in a far better way than I ever could. Nice to see someone still reads up on what they are talking about, makes a refreshing change.

Your Wall-o-Text appeals to me. You have my appproval, sir.
Anyone who argues with cold data is on my "Ignored for stupidity" list.

You lot are all welcome, I try and throw data behind my claims.

If you enjoyed my empirically based rants then you might be interested to hear that both New Scientist and the British Medical Journal (the latter can be a little meaty if you're unused to scientific journals or medicine itself) have a continuous publication policy with masses of free research daily. This [http://www.spring.org.uk/] gorgeous little research compilation/disambiguation run by Jeremy Dean (psychology researcher at University College London) provides a gigantic amount of unbiased, well presented and all out fantastic studies.

I doff my hat to y'all fine gents.

EDIT: I wrote an absolutely gigantic study compilation on the effects of desensitization which I could post here (esp. causal relation between violent media exposure and real-life violence) if you're hungry for more data, but it's 5 A4 pages, so it'll be a true wall of text. It concludes that there's no long-lasting causal relation between exposure to media violence and real life violent behaviour.

 

[Ophiuchus]

Dream Theater

Huh. I haven't seen any threads on them. They are very good, you know.

Not here so much, but other people I know are completely obsessed. I've tried to like them and understand what the obsession is about but... nah.

 

[Captain Schpack]

Zombies, Pirates and ninjas.




And monkeys. Those God. Damned. Monkeys.

 

[The Warden]

Twilight, Religion, and Iphones.
I'll edit more in if I think of something.