did yo guys all know that 50 cent owns part of Glaceau, sports drink/vitamin water whaddever the hell you wanna call it? well just like his raps, its passable not the greatest thing ever but still better than drinking your own piss, or water if your in mexico. well here's 50 to tell you why you need to get you some
no sometimes people/companies will do anything to make a quick buck. i mean what does mr. Cent have to do with a flavored vitamin water? when will you think of the two together, like if your exhausted after poppin some caps in some bitch asses, or if your exhausted after running from the cops in your gunit cloths and your g-unit branded reeboks and think man i'm beat, i gots ta get me some nutrients n shit, then go to the store and pick up your favorite rappers drink? just a case of clickity clank more money in his piggy bank. may i also ad i could not find a single picture of him holding a bottle of it?
or a few weeks ago i was watching super size me, and what do i see advertised in almost every commercial break? Mc Donalds. who the hell comes up with this shit? we're playing a anti-mc donalds movie, lets advertise mc donalds when ever we can.
or the shrek whoring, first there was the commercials with the shrek stars encourging kids to get out and play, exersice, be healthy. then soon after they were thrown on every junk food around, m&m's, mc donalds, oreos, the list goes on and on. now i know that part of being a business or running a successful franchise is to make money. but when you contridict yourself you look like an ass. get out and play!!! then sit down and watch your shrek dvd and eat a happy meal, then snack on some m&m's, and maybe eat some oreos while playing shrek the third on your favorite consul so you counter act the fact you just got exercise. some people and companies are just far too willing to whore themselves out to anyone with enough money and doesn't care what message they convey in the process.
but the real question is, are they the whores?
or are we the whores for buying what they're pimping?
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Sorry to be so blunt, but if someone had a similar avatar of people being slaughtered in Rwanda because they didn't want the Hutu extremists President Juvenal Habyarimana to "win" i would say the same thing.
Like i said, i don't disagree that you can say what you want, but your reasoning is pretty stupid.
I've seen that video before too, I've laughed, and I will continue to laugh. NOT because thousands of people dying is funny, but because of what was done to that footage was funny. There is a huge difference.
If we can't laugh at the terrible shit that happens in the world, all we can do is cry.
laughter is the best medicine.
I agree that you can turn pretty much anything into a joke, but that doesn't mean it works well or how you intended.
I feel bad whenever anyone expresses the idea that something like this is in bad taste, not because of whether i find it funny or not, but because really, deep down, although i don't say much, i don't think it's a big deal.I feel bad because i probably should find it a big deal, i probably should care, but i don't. I feel bad because comfortable western culture has made it easier to be desensitised to distressing imagery. If something traumatising happens to me in life, well that's burnt toast, and i'll probably be really upset wah. Unfortunately, right now I tend to just nod along and say nothing if someone tells me that something is in bad taste, because i've no reason to react to it.
Your avatar is rubbish in my opinion, simply because it's just boring, not particularly witty or interesting, and just plays on that familiar shock tactic. I think a lot of comedy has gone downhill focusing soley on shock and no actual thought or wit. The concept of taste doesn't enter into it for me, it's just shit. Same goes for the video i just watched. Nothing particularly witty there.
If i were you, i would change that avatar, but purely because it's dog turd rubbish. But offensive? Well, that's as maybe. If people complain, they're well within their right to, and you're well within your right to just do whatever the hell you damn well like. It really comes down to how much you respect other people's values.
"My brothers and friends have been killed in ignorance by people with more money, power and freedom than me. Those people believe they are doing it in the name of their God, their religion, their book. They also take our resources and try to push their beliefs on us. No-one really knows what is happening here, but my religion, media and society talk of non-believers, war, greed, death, ignorance and suffering all in the same context, which leads me to believe that when said people come here, they are not here to help, but for their own ends. Therefore, i must defend my country, my people, my life and my beliefs."
They terrorists won't "win" if you don't have freedom of speech. Niether can you "win" the war against terrorism; there's no specific number of terrorists that you have to destroy to win, because every one you kill spawns two more. It's the worst damn pyramid scheme in history. The only way to "win" the war at all is to just stop fighting it, send them a bunch of flowers and say you're sorry. Then just stop listening to them.
You gotta think of it like, how many people started or participated in those wars to protect something or someone they loved? How many of the people that perhaps have saved a life did it because they wanted the attention? Humanity is very weird, but i suppose until you're dragged into the big game kicking and screaming, you can still stand on the sidelines and make observations about it all...
So...history is full of shit ... because stuff like WTC will happen.. and the world is full of assholes...because people like Ambulance will find humour in it... and humanity will always be rubbish.... because there are people like you guys who support him.
Just sayin.
Exactly! There's always boobs and puppies and trees and fields of cattle to eat that make the earth a good place. I love life and all the good stuff that comes with it. It's the damn asshole majority that screw it all up. Dunno, sometimes I wish a huge cataclysm of some sort wiped a majority of us out, hell, wiped us all out and let the earth heal for a while- at least until the dolphins start the first underwater war.
I remember some poem I read (don't remember it) about how if humans ceased to exist the world wouldn't miss us; tides would go in and out, buildings would rot into forests, chipmunks would still fuck and make lil' chipmunks. It was a beautiful calm piece of work. Ah, well...
Wrong. You can just say as much as you like, still wrong :). Humanity will be shit because it believe that it's problems are far worse than anyone elses. It believes that it is the best, that it will be the best, that it should be the best or is simply annoyed that something else is better than it. Not because some guy on a forum/blog somewhere supposed the idea of someone who took a series of causes and effects out of context and drew humour from them was an awkward yet ultimately acceptable practice.
Incidentally, I never implied support. Maybe you should pay more attention.
"See above...'I'm not a pessimist' "
Sure, i know, i wasn't really directly responding to you, just mubling away like some derranged politician who got drunk, stumbled out of office and now lives in a box beneath the sign at Stratham station.
Your neutrality makes you a pussy too. Make a point or GTFO.
Don't fucking tell me ' I don't support it so im not apart of it. ' You either are offended by it, or you aren't.
If you aren't, even if you don't have that little voice telling you not to laugh, then that should tell you what kind of person you are.
"Humanity will be shit because it believe that it's problems are far worse than anyone elses."
So humanity is shit... because "it" thinks "it's" problems are worse than "anyone else's"... ?
Humanity's thinks its problems are worse than... what? Birds? Frogs? Nature? That quote just didn't stick w/ me.
"I'm a fucking prick."
Anyway. Neutrality doesn't make me a pussy. That's just wrong, and it's embarressing to hear you say that. I literally cringed when i read it. Neautrality is considering both or all points of view and saying "there is no difinitive answer on this one". It's about avoiding ignorance by considering as many tangible points of view as possible. Aside from the fact that being a pussy online would be pointless, seeing as no-one can actually harm you in any way for your opinions, it's also totally irrelevant; being a pussy would be sucking up to moderators to cater for their views so you don't get banned, or to avoid criticism or... y'know, fuck it, it's a stupid fatuous statement and i don't even need to call you out on it.
"Even if you're not contributing to the problem, you are still apart of it."
That's a horrible cliché and it's the kind of thing that bitter people came up with to excuse the extreme things they did out of emotion. If you're to blind to see past your own point of view, then I feel for you, I really honestly do, but that's no excuse for being an idiot about your own... Even if you don't understand what someone else is talking about, you should at least be able to articulate your own thoughs in a way that doesn't make you sound like a fool...
One final point... You're right about one thing, i am a wimp in real life at least. I'm shy and retiring, i don't generally speak unless spoken too, i don't go anywhere unless i have to, and i've never had a job that didn't involve a member of my family. I'm well aware of all that, and i am trying to do something about it. But online? No, I just say what i think online, and there's nothing pussy or wimpish about that.
'Nuff said.