What's on your mind?

[forge]

Funny new cover art: Download And Alcohol for All by Drunk Motherfuckers | eMusic. The aptly named Drunk Motherfuckers! The music's not half bad, either, kind of a thrashy garage band thing.

[Ghouly]

[RelentlessOblivion]

Well I'm in for a disappointing weekend. Brother is sick and so I can't get out to cycling training. That means I've missed today's hills ride and will miss tomorrow's time trial. At least I have the indoor trainer so it's not like I won't do any cycling at all but damn that shit gets boring after a while.

[FatherAlabaster]

Is this the same brother who listens to horrible music? Curses!

[RelentlessOblivion]

Yep, he's the only one who can drive (youngest brother is only 9 and the other brother has the same vision problem as me).

[Iceni]

I hate the anti-patriots, I really do... it'd be much more fun watching the Olympics without their polemical myopic bitching. By and large the people who whine about this country in this way seem to have no sense of perspective. That might be because it's difficult to see when you've got your head up your ass.

[RelentlessOblivion]

We don't have that problem in Australia. People complain about how incompetent the government is but outside of that there's no pointless bitching about how "awful" it is living in a first world country.

[Iceni]

We don't have that problem in Australia. People complain about how incompetent the government is but outside of that there's no pointless bitching about how "awful" it is living in a first world country.

From what I understand you go to a pretty high-level university though, right? I would have expected there to be more ungrateful assholes. Nonetheless Australia does routinely rank near the top of most indicators of transparency and human development so I suppose too much criticism would simply fly in the face of the facts. I can't imagine Denmark, Iceland and New Zealand have too many bratty whiners either.

[FatherAlabaster]

I hate the anti-patriots' date=' I really do... it'd be much more fun watching the Olympics without their polemical myopic bitching. By and large the people who whine about this country in this way seem to have no sense of perspective. That might be because it's difficult to see when you've got your head up your ass.[/quote'] Who exactly are you talking about?

[FatherAlabaster]

Yep' date=' he's the only one who can drive (youngest brother is only 9 and the other brother has the same vision problem as me).[/quote'] Oh, man, that's a bummer! I'm sorry to hear about that. I suppose your family is used to dealing with it, but it sounds tough.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Not that tough, we've been lucky in the sense that we (my v.i brother and I) have been brought up the same way you would raise any other child. Because of that we've always believed there's not much we can't do if we want to do it. You would be shocked to learn how many vision impaired people I've met who have no aspiration in life. On the odd occasion I've actually spoken to these people they're amazed that I could have gotten into university.

[BlutAusNerd]

Re: What's on your mind?

I hate the anti-patriots' date=' I really do... it'd be much more fun watching the Olympics without their polemical myopic bitching. By and large the people who whine about this country in this way seem to have no sense of perspective. That might be because it's difficult to see when you've got your head up your ass.[/quote'] Most people bitch from the ignorant point of view that some perceived "other side" is to blame for their woes, when every Joe Blow is contributing to the problem. At the end of the day, those causing the problems need our votes to stay in power, and they continue to get them despite said bitching. People in this country love to complain, but do nothing to change what is bothering them, they just keep supporting the corrupt politicians and corporations that are making all of our lives worse. Another way in which we suffer for the stupidity and selfishness of others. As far as the Olympics go, I haven't watched any (not a sports guy), but have been dumbfounded by the reports of horrible lodging with brown water and doors that don't work, misused funds, and of course all of the anti-gay laws. For the most expensive Olympics in history, they really don't have their shit together, and they'll fail to recover that investment in low attendance due to dropping the ball so badly. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

[deathstorm]

In mother Russia. The Russian. Judge Gave the attendance a 10. Lol

[SBird94]

Re: What's on your mind?

That is beautiful :')

[deathstorm]

Thinking of. Obscura

[RelentlessOblivion]

Thinking that half a bottle of habanero hot sauce being accidentally poured all over your food is both a good and a bad thing.

[deathstorm]

Thanks ghouly. We love you too

[SBird94]

Re: What's on your mind?

Thinking that half a bottle of habanero hot sauce being accidentally poured all over your food is both a good and a bad thing.

Sauce overload?

[FatherAlabaster]

It's good because it's yummy but it's bad because you can't share with your loved ones. No wait, I don't see a downside.

[FatherAlabaster]

Hey BAN, how's your family? How's that little girl doing?

[Iceni]

Who exactly are you talking about?

I suppose I was a bit too specific. I was talking about people who complain about the United States without any context. To say that this nation's education system and general public health sucks considering how wealthy it is per capita is perfectly acceptable, but to just whinge about how the country has no culture or about how everyone is stupid really grates on my sensibilities. The thing is, these people have traveled a lot but I suspect that they have no impression of what it's like to have lived in a nation for a substantial proportion of one's life, or how one's perceptions might be colored by one's age and situation. I have fond memories of South Africa and I could easily make blanket statements about how everyone was really nice and made great food, but the fact is that the country is a far more complex beast than the suburb where I grew up from age 3-8. I wish these people could meet a few immigrants once in a while, just to give them some perspective on how great we have it here. The US still has the highest percentage of the world's immigrants and the highest gross number of immigrants. This nation has flaws but I suspect many of them are not uniquely American as these witless sods imply.

[RelentlessOblivion]

This weather makes absolutely no sense. It was 40 degrees plus just three days ago. It's been raining almost nonstop for the last two days. The upside of that is it's drowned the bushfires that were burning around the state. The downside is we have flooding instead now.

[SBird94]

Re: What's on your mind?

This weather makes absolutely no sense. It was 40 degrees plus just three days ago. It's been raining almost nonstop for the last two days. The upside of that is it's drowned the bushfires that were burning around the state. The downside is we have flooding instead now.

The tempurature has gone from the 40's to the 20's suddenly and we are getting a lot of rain now, luckily the bushfires in victoria have ceased. I hope flooding doesn't occur here.

[Atrocity]

Bought Metal Hammer today and got a large Behemoth poster. I'm not a big fan, but I'll put it on my wall nonetheless (the wall in my room is so very very blue and I'm trying to cover it as much possible) so I guess my new roommate is going to think I sacrifice goats in my free time.

[Iceni]

I guess my new roommate is going to think I sacrifice goats in my free time.

Yeah, to the great god Chevre.