What really matters?

[JHE]

Mental health is not a joke and using it to take the piss is not welcome here.

What, not even there on your crazy paving?

 

[JimW]

Mental health is not a joke and using it to take the piss is not welcome here.

How right you are! What sort of cunt would do such a thing? We should probably get all het up about it. Who did that then?

 

[Carousel]

I'm not advocating it. It's just a fact.

I dunno, may be it's related. With Class War mentioned above, I'd like to say that stunts matter. They matter more than anything else. At least they really happen. At least the ones that have more than mere text to their name.

 

[Carousel]

By which I mean, the spectacular vanity and daring of Evil Knievel jumping to certain doom, all of the world in the moment, means more than some Christian take on exploitation passed off as "socialism". The working class as a persecuted group in a classical struggle-of-the-underdog-mythology.

 

[JHE]

A right stunt

Alf demonstrates that he is no mere patio-dweller

 

[JimW]

By which I mean, the spectacular vanity and daring of Evil Knievel jumping to certain doom, all of the world in the moment, means more than some Christian take on exploitation passed off as "socialism". The working class as a persecuted group in a classical struggle-of-the-underdog-mythology.

This is also true; if it weren't for Evil Knievel and his two-wheeled daredevil antics, my grandfather would have died in agony, the pain of his cancer unalleviated by vanity and daring. The psuedo-Boy's Brigade socialists and their NHS were useless by comparison.

 

[Carousel]

Ha ha. Ethics-boy in sanctity of life shocker.

 

[JimW]

Ha ha. Ethics-boy in sanctity of life shocker.

Whereas you completely astounded with your unprecedented insights. Could have managed a wheelie, at least.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Every war creates its traumatised veterans, many carrying a terrible psychological burden that makes it hard for them to adjust to "normal" social living. The class war is no different.

True, but I'm not talking about "the class war", I'm talking about the small anarchist grouping "Class War", from which about 90% of the membership seem to emerge as "traumatised veterans". I think that maybe attica poisoned them...

 

[ViolentPanda]

Mental health is not a joke and using it to take the piss is not welcome here.

Says the person who got torn off a strip by a moderator for doing exactly the same thing repeatedly.

 

[Pickman's model]

Says the person who got torn off a strip by a moderator for doing exactly the same thing repeatedly.

he's mad, bad and dangerous to know

 

[ViolentPanda]

Ha ha. Ethics-boy in sanctity of life shocker.

Except that the poster you quote has made no reference to the "sanctity of life", but merely rubbed alongside the idea of dying with dignity.

 

[Pickman's model]

I know I'm going to regret asking this, but how is it that a significant minority of the more - ahem - apparently-disturbed posters turn out to be (or claim to be) ex-Class War?

who d'you mean?

carousel? not ex-cw, afaik
phildwyer? not ex-cw, afaik
attica? guilty, m'lud, but expelled

 

[JimW]

Except that the poster you quote has made no reference to the "sanctity of life", but merely rubbed alongside the idea of dying with dignity.

Oh you and your petty notions of a conversation. Be more like Evil Knievel - he talked shite all day when he wasn't jumping buses.

 

[ViolentPanda]

he's mad, bad and dangerous to know

Or so he likes to imagine, whereas in reality he is Charles Pooter.

 

[Pickman's model]

Mental health is not a joke and using it to take the piss is not welcome here.

you'd think a poster coming out with that admirable sentiment would take better care with his own mental health instead of continually advertising his loonery.

 

[JHE]

Except that the poster you quote has made no reference to the "sanctity of life", but merely rubbed alongside the idea of dying with dignity.

...or even just dying without avoidable agony.

Alf wouldn't worry about a thing like that if it were him.

 

[ViolentPanda]

who d'you mean?

carousel? not ex-cw, afaik

Keeps claiming to be ex-cw.

phildwyer? not ex-cw, afaik

Of course not, he'd never belong to a group if membership would endanger his ability to reside in the US.

attica? guilty, m'lud, but expelled

Quite rightly too, I suspect!
Then there was Old Stoic, the mighty Thor himself. He was definitely a bit "differently-normal".

 

[ViolentPanda]

Oh you and your petty notions of a conversation. Be more like Evil Knievel - he talked shite all day when he wasn't jumping buses.

Probably because he'd knocked his brain into a custard-like consistency from all the crashes he had.

 

[ViolentPanda]

...or even just dying without avoidable agony.

Alf wouldn't worry about a thing like that if it were him.

Well, a true member of the ubermenschen wouldn't let something as prosaic as agonising pain distract him from fulfilling his Randian destiny of having brutal penetrative sex with compliant yet masochist women, would he?

 

[Carousel]

Political activism can only logically appeal to three social segments…

1. Inadequates
2. People of faith (Including humanists and those driven by sentiment)
3. Professional politicos, campaigners and social engineers

The political sphere is bound to be the preserve of the weak, the sanctimonious and the careerists that feed on them. I mean, really, what’s it all about comrades?

Somebody who appears to spend twenty-three hours a day on an obscure messageboard, even at weekends, repeating ad infinitum the kind of drivel to be found in this thread dares to talk with a straight face about inadequates.

By inadequates I sort of mean people who aren’t happy in themselves, you know, socially inhibited, depressed or ill for one reason or another, not really able to provide for themselves adequately and play the game, that kind of thing. People who kind of place the blame for their problems onto some idea of society or social institutions or whatever.

Whilst I’m at it, the idea that hypocrisy is somehow evidence against the hypocrite’s assertion is pure religious belief. It requires nothing in the way of daring to refute. No more than breaching the Boy Scout Honour Code that passes for contemporary “political” discourse.