Got some sheeple gasps this weekend

komondor said:
Bunch of office sissies were gasping as I used my serrated Police last Thursday. I was like, "What the hell do y'all use to take out your contacts?"

Girly-men, all.
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Rock on, brother. Reminds me of the time I was asked to sit on the social committee at the office. We were tasked with coming up with something to do on a weekend retreat that summer. I suggested skydiving, on the grounds that there's nothing like sharing intense terror, beer and a barbeque to jump-start the group bonding process. The chair shot it down immediately on the grounds that it was "too dangerous".

So then I proposed a canoe/camping trip, only to have one of the very well-groomed, well-dressed, gym-buffed, clearly metrosexual and proud of it guys from another department nix the idea because it would be "too uncomfortable".

They haven't asked me to sit on that committee since :).
 
Fearsclave said:
IMHO, it's time to ditch both of the terms.
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Nice post mate - very close to how I view the debate of both 'sides' of politics. I think we need to spend less time debating how the deckchairs should be arranged on the Titanic.

I was pondering this whole 'sheeple' business as well. I've heard the term NKP (non knife people) bandied about. I'm a bit suspicious when a group of people develops aterm for the 'the rest' of humanity. Terms like civilian, punter etc are a great way to make yourself disntinct from people who aren't part of your group but also a bit limiting.

If following a group mindlessly earns the label then Busse Hogs, Sebenzanistas, Striderguys and Spiderholics are all sheeple too. :D

Ah, we shouldn't get too hung up about it - but we need a better term than sheeple. The derogatory term 'sheeple' is sometimes very appropriate. But but using it all the time we have a very blunt tool - and blunt is not what we are about right? I've come up with some.

YKN (yet to be knife nuts)
NBK (Need to borrow knife)
LBW (lives in a blunt world)
WNS (Will not survive)

any others?
 
Gryffin said:
Is it too late to resurrect the word "progressive"??? :rolleyes:
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Probably. The country is so polarized politically now that it's hard for some to understand what the center really is. Progressive is a good way to describe my political thinking... I think.
 
I like the term "Poodles". Poodles have forgotten that once, they were wolves before society twisted them into loathesome parodies of what evolution intended them to be.
 
Psychopomp said:
The country is so polarized politically now that it's hard for some to understand what the center really is.
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You may be right. I have a feeling that the "center" these days consists mainly of people who don't believe strongly in anything in particular.

Maybe we should disband both the Republican and Democratic party, and just have the Apathy Party... :rolleyes:
 
"Is it too late to resurrect the word "progressive"??? :rolleyes:
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Too late?? Naahhh. It's been in constant use every since Karl Marx used it in his writings, and Lenin and Stalin, the Soviet (and Cuban) political establishemnt and the KGB/NKVD members/operatives used it to designate any one as an "enemy of the State" who was not "progressive." Either the firing squad, or the Gulags in Siberia awaited anyone who was not "progressive."

Today, the radical left wing liberals now use "progressive" to label their politics, instead of their old long time standby, "liberalism." To paraphrase Billy the Shake, "Progressive Liberalism, by any other name, still smells of tyranny."

L.W.
 
Leanwolf said:
Today, the radical left wing liberals now use "progressive" to label their politics, instead of their old long time standby, "liberalism." To paraphrase Billy the Shake, "Progressive Liberalism, by any other name, still smells of tyranny."
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Greeeeeat. Not quite what I had in mind...

I always liked the word (if not the political usage), since what we need is some sort of progress in our political system. This left/right stalemate and entrenched two-party-only system has done little but cause voter apathy and cynicism. Neither party seems to shive a git about us, only their corporate owners and hard-core extremists. :rolleyes:
 
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and just say what comes to mind...

What I believe this country needs is some one like Teddy Roosevelt. A strong, level-headed, no BS, reformer. A moral man, with few faults that I can see, with the right ideas and the balls to carry them out. I believe that over the years the liberal views adopted by a large group of American society have tainted what our country was founded, built, and thrived on, and have made us VERY weak as a nation. Yes I am conservative as hell, even fundementalist if you feel so bold, but just because government and society has progressed through time does NOT mean that we have progressed and become more civilized or less corrupt as human beings. I think that our founding fathers are turning in their graves at what spectacle our country has become. The fact that it took a tragedy for our country to appreciate what it had appalls me! Yes I believe that we should look back to the "good 'ol days" as someone said and take to heart the MORAL beliefs and views of our predecesors. Whoever made the comment about Hitler, right on! Why should we standby and let atrocities be carried out? I used to be one of the ones that said "why be the world's police?" Now I say WHY NOT? No one else has the moral COURAGE to do so! I think President Bush is a sight for sore eyes in my opinion. His upstanding morals, service to his country, and honor are a welcome change as opposed to our previous amoral, sleazy politicians. I don't just think that liberalism is to blame for our country's political and social problems but hand in hand with it would be the lack of moral discipline seen, or unseen in this case. Like it or not, our country was founded on solid morals and values, based upon Chritianity. Am I saying that everyone should practice Christianity? No, I'm making the stated fact of what the men who founded our country believed in. You don't even have to practice a religion to understand the power of belief and good will. They had goals, they had principles and they had beliefs. All of which they would have died for, and some following them did. The liberalism and amoral beliefs go hand in hand, in my opinion. If you are amoral in your beliefs then you will be more likely to be as liberal as possible when interpreting the Constitution. Just so, if you were liberal, you would be less likely to practice a good set of moral principles. Are there exceptions? Of Course. Is this always the case? Of course not. I'm stating what I see and what others of authority have displayed in the immediate past and present. We were once the strongest country on the planet morally, ethically, and politically. Now I see much of that strength drain in the pointless squablling of our politicians and leaders over petty arguments. President Bush is well on his way into leading this country back into it's previous glory. Does he do everything right? No. But he does do everything he believes to be right which is more than I can say for some of our previous leaders.


These are MY observations and MY beliefs. If you're offended, I apologize.
 
Thomas Linton said:
Playing soon at a theater near you: "TEXAS KATANA MASSACRES."
The blood! The gore! The half-clothed starlets in danger!!!!! :eek:
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HEY! I want my money back! Where are my half-clothed starlets!?!?!?
 
silenthunterstudios said:
Well, I got some gasps when I used my Native III from both Liberals and Conservatives :D!
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It doesn't seem to make that much of a difference. What seems to matter the most in my experience is the frequency in which the person in question sees knives. I had a bunch of upperclassmen, ranging from moderate to extremely conservative, all in my Air Force ROTC detachment, spaz at me when I pulled out a serrated knife to slash cardboard for an ROTC activity.
 
Planterz said:
Surely, there's nothing more dangerous to the public than a man doing his thing on his own property. Not like a hedge trimmer or chainsaw is any less dangerous.... :rolleyes:
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lol, though I suppose I myself would gawk curiously if I saw a guy doing combative training with a chainsaw. ;)
 
nenofury said:
Please tell me how ANY uniquely leftist position is logical or responsible.
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Please tell me what a uniquely leftist position is, and how it compared to uniquely 'rightist' positions.
 
Moderators,

The thread has moved from discussion about knife experience with sheeple into policitical debate. Is there any way to split into different thread?
 
Fearsclave said:
I like the term "Poodles". Poodles have forgotten that once, they were wolves before society twisted them into loathesome parodies of what evolution intended them to be.
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EXCELLENT! Many of us grew up on Dr. Suess and his wonderful commentary of society in "The Sneetches".
 
Sneetches?

I never read any Dr. Seuss when I was a kid. Of course, given that I was raised in a barn by a pack of anarchist wolves...:)
 
Psychopomp said:
I don't understand where this whole idea of liberalism = anti-weapon comes from. I'm as liberal as it gets, I hate Bush, I think the war is wrong... but I love my knives and I know how to handle a gun, and I'll put up a fight if someone tries to take them away (liberal or conservative).
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Yep, amen, me too on all counts.

And what Moore wants to know is why the administration isn't hell-bent after the Saudis, since 19 of the 21 9/11 hijackers were Saudis, and NONE of the hijackers were Iraqis? I'd like to know that one myself.
 
Psychopomp said:
I don't understand where this whole idea of liberalism = anti-weapon comes from. I'm as liberal as it gets, I hate Bush, I think the war is wrong... but I love my knives and I know how to handle a gun, and I'll put up a fight if someone tries to take them away (liberal or conservative).
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That all goes for me too. And it's good to know that I'm not the only one on these forums who thinks that way. :)

I think there are way too many people in this country who like only selected parts of the Bill of Rights.

--Bob Q
 
Somewhere in Washington and the Pentagon there is a small list. On that small list are the names and sponsoring nations of all the 9/11 terrorists. I believe Iraq was the first on that small list and somewhere down, say third or fifth place is the name "Saudi Arabia".

They'll get what's coming to them.

They'll just have to wait their turn. :mad:
 
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