Losing Interest???

[Mr.B]

"I can't read all the posts as it is.... but hey, maybe you have more free time than most of us do" :>

Don't I wish. Looks like I'm gonna have to retire again. Where I'm working, there's no set work schedule; you're bounced around like a football.
I won't have to worry for long though; I'm playing the lottery to secure my retirement future......

[bannination]

"I can't read all the posts as it is.... but hey, maybe you have more free time than most of us do" :>

Don't I wish. Looks like I'm gonna have to retire again. Where I'm working, there's no set work schedule; you're bounced around like a football.
I won't have to worry for long though; I'm playing the lottery to secure my retirement future......

Been there, done that. Sucks.

[JTA]

That's how it goes in a con, "pro-business", anti-union state. Welcome to what the rest of us have known for years. I mostly bite my tongue here because, despite holding my job for 6+ years and being one of the best at it, I can be canned for no reason at all with 2 weeks notice. My only loyalty is to my patients and other hard-working staff, I don't give 2 figs for my employer.

Here's my personal philosophy when it comes to work.

I sign a contract with my employer. They pay me X amount of money to get the job done. I do the job, and I do the best job I can. I'm on salary so any time I spend working over 40 hours is money out of my pocket, so I strive to get my tasks done within 40 hours every week because any time extra spent working means I'm getting paid less. If I can't get it done in the allotted time, I work over 40 hours and do what needs to be done. I also take every bit of my vacation time every year. On the other hand, some my fellow co-workers who like to boast about how they barely ever take any vacation time, and how they still work even when on vacation. Not I.

Why is this my philosophy? Because I know my company wouldn't hesitate to drop any of us if things went south. I'm a resource for them, and they're a resource for me. We've reached an agreement, I fulfill my part and they fulfill theirs. I produce X amount of value for them, they produce X amount of value for me in terms of pay, vacation time, benefits, etc. Its mutually beneficial for both of us.

When I'm lying on my death bed about to kill over, will I be saying "Gee, if only I had spent more time at my workplace...", or "Gee, I wish I spent more time with friends and family and seeing the world and living"? (I think it was George Carlin that said something along those lines)

[bannination]

That's how it goes in a con, "pro-business", anti-union state. Welcome to what the rest of us have known for years. I mostly bite my tongue here because, despite holding my job for 6+ years and being one of the best at it, I can be canned for no reason at all with 2 weeks notice. My only loyalty is to my patients and other hard-working staff, I don't give 2 figs for my employer.

Here's my personal philosophy when it comes to work.

I sign a contract with my employer. They pay me X amount of money to get the job done. I do the job, and I do the best job I can. I'm on salary so any time I spend working over 40 hours is money out of my pocket, so I strive to get my tasks done within 40 hours every week because any time extra spent working means I'm getting paid less. If I can't get it done in the allotted time, I work over 40 hours and do what needs to be done. I also take every bit of my vacation time every year. On the other hand, some my fellow co-workers who like to boast about how they barely ever take any vacation time, and how they still work even when on vacation. Not I.

Why is this my philosophy? Because I know my company wouldn't hesitate to drop any of us if things went south. I'm a resource for them, and they're a resource for me. We've reached an agreement, I fulfill my part and they fulfill theirs. I produce X amount of value for them, they produce X amount of value for me in terms of pay, vacation time, benefits, etc. Its mutually beneficial for both of us.

When I'm lying on my death bed about to kill over, will I be saying "Gee, if only I had spent more time at my workplace...", or "Gee, I wish I spent more time with friends and family and seeing the world and living"? (I think it was George Carlin that said something along those lines)

I think for some people work is all they have. :-( I guess that's ok if you enjoy it, but those same people are usually the loudest complainers.

[Crock Hunter]

It appears that the anti-CPFers are losing interest in the BRD Forums.....
What used to be a plethora of anti-this, anti-that, and liberal teeth-gnashing posts have dwindled down to almost nothingness......
Nothing interesting to comment on anymore......

LOL.. where do you think I've been.? CPF is a treasure chest of nitwits to ridicule and what better place to do so than within the walls of their Fortress of Gloom..

[bannination]

For example:

Charlie:

For the past few years various federal agencies such as Social Security, IRS and the Post Office have been buying large amounts of ammunition. I mean millions and millions. Some of us wondered what use Social Security would have for ammunition. Maybe they were going to shoot old people. Maybe the Post Office would shoot someone for postage due.

I think we know now what they are going to be doing with this ammunition. When Obama was campaigning the first time, he said that he would establish a domestic military force but he never said, as far as I know, what he was going to do with it. Recently we learned of a mock city in Virginia which has been used for practicing the occupation of a city, and the government indicated there was a mosque in the town, although it clearly was a church with a steeple and not a minaret.

I believe that it is possible that these cuts in military spending are part of Obama's plan to declare Martial Law and occupy our centers of population with his internal military force. He has been firing qualified military officers recently. I believe it is possible that he plans to use some of the established military whom he believes will follow the orders to take over the country and to replace the officers he has terminated with officers he can trust to carry out his orders.

I know that many will not believe this, that it is too farfetched, but how many of us would have believed he would establish his dictatorship and rule by fiat as an absolute monarch would do. I believe that he is a foreign-born Muslim, a usurper who has already completed his bloodless coup d'etat. I believe that it is possible that he is now set to establish his Grand Caliphate here in the US as a step to the world-wide Islamic Caliphate which is the goal as stated in the Koran and in the charter of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Scoff if you will, but nothing else makes any sense. His Secretary of Defense, Hagel, is sympathetic to Islam and might be one himself. I will not now again list the reasons that I believe Obama is a Muslim because I've done it many times before, but his purpose is becoming more clear with each imperial action.

[Boatrocker]

Forget gold- invest in aluminum.

[bannination]

Forget gold- invest in aluminum.

Oh that is awesome, I purchased two of these babies. These will make some great stocking stuffers.

Found this in the source code, dude knows his stuff.

Code: Select all

/**** SCAN ****/
int rs(int h)
{
	/*
	Although conveniently left out of most C textbooks, it's
	a well-known fact in the anti-mind-control community
	that the rand() function -- originally developed by the
	RAND Corporation for use in its political mind-control
	research -- interacts with a computer's underlying
	circuitry in complexly emergent ways, making the
	function useful for mind-control detection due to the
	quantum	effects of psychotronics on aluminum atoms.  A
	side-effect of this is that it also works well for
	pseudo-stochastic number generation, something many hack
	programmers ignorantly use it for.
	*/

	return (rand() / (RAND_MAX / h));
}

[Boatrocker]

[JTA]

I believe that it is possible that these cuts in military spending are part of Obama's plan to declare Martial Law

Let me ask everyone here a question. During past presidential elections, was it common for the opposition to believe the president was going to find a way to declare martial law and remain in power in perpetuity? I remember a lot of people on the left thinking Bush II was going to do this when his time was about up, and just as I suspected, those who don't like Obama are now doing the same.

Is this the new thing? I hear it a lot.

[bannination]

I believe that it is possible that these cuts in military spending are part of Obama's plan to declare Martial Law

Let me ask everyone here a question. During past presidential elections, was it common for the opposition to believe the president was going to find a way to declare martial law and remain in power in perpetuity? I remember a lot of people on the left thinking Bush II was going to do this when his time was about up, and just as I suspected, those who don't like Obama are now doing the same.

Is this the new thing? I hear it a lot.

I don't remember hearing that either, but that doesn't mean it wasn't said. I'm sure someone somewhere said it. :-) They'd be just as nutty.... I think there used to be an equal percentage of nuts on both "sides", but I think it's certainly concentrated in the tea party now.

I think a more likely scenario is that we're presented with an illusion of choice with the next president and those policies. No one would go along with a dictator that's clearly stated as such, but just having that illusion would be enough to keep people in check. Are we already there? How long have we been there?

(Putting on tinfoil hat...)

[bannination]

Let me ask everyone here a question. During past presidential elections, was it common for the opposition to believe the president was going to find a way to declare martial law and remain in power in perpetuity? I remember a lot of people on the left thinking Bush II was going to do this when his time was about up,

I don't remember that.

and just as I suspected, those who don't like Obama are now doing the same.

Is this the new thing? I hear it a lot.

There's a whole industry devoted to making gullible RWNJs wet their pants.

BUY GOLD NOW!!!

[Mr.B]

...Good-bye, call me all the childish names you want.

4 days for the resurrection, not bad. I'll call you Mr.Bejesus.

Yeah, well, don't get used to it. About those childish names....

I titled this thread "Losing Interest".....I should have named it "Lost Interest".

I went through the membership list and found 47 names of people who were, at one time, significant posters in these boards.
I was going to name each one, but I was surprised at the number, so I decided against it.
Thanks to the taunting, gouging, ridiculing of one's beliefs or political interests by a select few, especially one in particular, this forum is, in my opinion, doomed to eventually fail. It's original intention was to be a "debate" forum; one where each member could "debate" an issue. Instead, it's been taken over and practically completely dominated by the hateful rhetoric of a select few. Pity.

Example: Vrede Posts: 9066....as compared to: bannination (Administrator) Posts: 2222

[Mr.B]

That was hateful?

[Mr.B]

So, you object to the response to your hateful, homosexual sex-obsessed rhetoric of bigotry:

...un-natural relationship with one of the same sex...'gay' sex is an unnatural act, and I'll say it again...'gay' sex is an unnatural act.

A male was not designed to copulate with another male; nor was a female (with another female).
the sex act between two of the same gender is an unnatural act"...what they are doing is unnatural and perverted.

Gee, it must be so tough to be in the dominant race, gender, religion and sexual orientation.

That was hateful?

Unless "perversion" is how you express your Christian "love".
The Bible refers to "man that lieth with another man like he would a woman" abomination....look it up. I much prefer to believe what I read in the Bible rather than what is written by modern, liberal-minded "scholars".

Even the most anti-religious posters we've had have not posted such foul things about the faithful and you've whined for years about how hateful they supposedly are while no one, as far as I can recall, has expressed such disgust for the sex you have with your wife.
You think maybe it's because I have a wife; a female one......? and with the exception of you, I'm betting the other males here have a wife.....a female one.

Then, there's your repeated advocacy for official discrimination, which no one here has said should be enforced against white, male, Christian straights like you.
That's a lie.... where have I ever "advocated" such?

It doesn't get more hateful than that - real world effects.
You show me where, in any biology, history, religious, geography, math, driver's training, or whatever book where it states that homosexuality is a "perfectly normal" sex act, and that the male body was designed to accommodate sexual intercourse from another male.

Know thyself for the hater thou are, Mr.B.
Know the definition of "hate", Mr. "Peace"

Of course, you could choose to post to our Conservative Forum and delete anything you consider to be "hateful". I'll look forward to seeing your selections.
No, thank you. You're just as "hateful there" as you are anywhere else.......

"Our" Conservative Forum? Are you helping Banni pay for this website?

[Mr.B]

"I went through the membership list and found 47 names of people who were, at one time, significant posters in these boards.
I was going to name each one, but I was surprised at the number, so I decided against it."

I'm sure it sunk in, but my point was, those 47 are no longer posting; the number of those still posting generally is less than 10.

Gee....wonder why they left.....?

[O Really]

We've always been a dying forum. People leave for whatever reason and we have no means of recruiting new ones. .

True that. But quantity isn't a particularly good measure of quality (see, for example, Topix), and disagreement isn't always the same as debate. Many if not most of those who have moved on will not be missed here and can find a comfortable home in places beyond the pale.

[bannination]

"I went through the membership list and found 47 names of people who were, at one time, significant posters in these boards.
I was going to name each one, but I was surprised at the number, so I decided against it."

I'm sure it sunk in, but my point was, those 47 are no longer posting; the number of those still posting generally is less than 10.

Gee....wonder why they left.....?

Couldn't take it here, left for somewhere that will censor any opinions they do not agree with. No doubt they hope that this site will simply shut down and vanish so that their words will disappear. Not happening any time soon even if every poster left.

Even though those people left, there has been no downturn in visitors, which leads me to believe they're just lurking, biting their tongues. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

Oreally's example of topix is a really good point. Talk about a nightmare. I feel like I need to wash my computer after visiting there.

[JTA]

"I went through the membership list and found 47 names of people who were, at one time, significant posters in these boards.
I was going to name each one, but I was surprised at the number, so I decided against it."

I'm sure it sunk in, but my point was, those 47 are no longer posting; the number of those still posting generally is less than 10.

Gee....wonder why they left.....?

Couldn't take it here, left for somewhere that will censor any opinions they do not agree with. No doubt they hope that this site will simply shut down and vanish so that their words will disappear. Not happening any time soon even if every poster left.

Even though those people left, there has been no downturn in visitors, which leads me to believe they're just lurking, biting their tongues. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

Oreally's example of topix is a really good point. Talk about a nightmare. I feel like I need to wash my computer after visiting there.

Goupstate.com's old forum was a pretty heinous place.

[Bungalow Bill]

I used to post a few quick comments on Topix when I was kicked out of
the old BRN forum. It was pretty nutty, but entertaining. I recall one
hilarious thread listing all the (supposed) defects of the WLOS news
team. That was a few years ago. I just went over there now for the hell
of it and dropped a few juvenile comments. I will give it this--easy as
heck to post. I think I still recognize the names of some of the nutjobs
from a few years back.