OT: And you thought the world was sane...

Krsqk · #1 August 23rd, 2003, 06:41 AM

Try these links on for size:

Isn't there a statue of limitations?

Watch out for the Fat Police, Tubby!

What a bootylicious book!

And they said I was robbing the cradle...

Enjoy!

Gandalph · #2 August 23rd, 2003, 06:48 AM

I've never thought the world to be sane. Isanity is the spice of life!!

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 August 23rd, 2003, 07:25 AM

geoshmoe's been wondering if you dropped of the face of the earth.

Tigbit · #4 August 23rd, 2003, 07:27 AM

The kind of world we live in, dude. When a burgler can successfully sue a homeowner for having nailed Boards (pointy side up) at the base of the window he was breaking in. When a kid's parent can sue a verocious dog owner for tearing his little boy apart after sending him in the yard (with signs on the fence stating clearly that the yard contains a bloodthirsty dog) to retrieve a frisbe. When a 16 year old gets off with a finger-wagging after dropping a large rock from a bridge right onto the windshield of a car below on the freeway (BTW, the driver was in critical condition after, yet managed to recover).

Sorry... rambled a bit there. But you get the point. Nothing surprizes me anymore.

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 August 23rd, 2003, 07:35 AM

now the Jews have to charge the Egyptions for 100 years or therabouts of slavery...

shades of 1986 with competitiveness instead of non-competitiveness. next thing you know, it's calorie intake. anyone want a triple-fudge chocalate banana split?

i don't think they should include a word from a gangster show.

ooh-kaay...i don't think their ready...

[ August 23, 2003, 06:38: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

Katchoo · #6 August 23rd, 2003, 07:53 AM

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Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
shades of 1986 with competitiveness instead of non-competitiveness. next thing you know, it's calorie intake. anyone want a triple-fudge chocalate banana split?

Hell ya! Place that bad boy down in front of me and stand back!

General Woundwort · #7 August 23rd, 2003, 02:28 PM

That Egyptian story sounds like it was lifted directly from The Onion. They've done stuff like that in the past...

Israelites Sue God for Breach of Contract

Thermodyne · #8 August 23rd, 2003, 03:31 PM

Until the like minded people band together and create an abrupt change in the course of society, these things will only get worse. Problem is that society is designed to prevent this from happening, we place all of our power in too few individual hands.

Should it ever come to pass��Then the lawyers and politicians go first

Baron Munchausen · #9 August 23rd, 2003, 05:53 PM

Bah... those Arabs are just playing 'tit for tat' on the lawsuit thing. If the Jews can claim they have a 'right' to a land their distant ancestors occupied 2,000+ years ago, then the Arabs can claim they have a 'right' to compensation for another wrong 3,000+ years ago. Funny in a dark sort of way, but they're probably aiming for a political effect rather than humour. That's clever to use the Torah itself as evidence in the case since it's the basis for the claim on Israel/Palestine as well. The lawsuits of a few years ago over the unpaid insurance & whatnot from the WW II era probably gave them the idea.

How is watching students' weight an 'insanity'? Aren't schools supposed to be monitoring the health and welfare of the students?

Dictionaries don't have to be sane. They just document how people talk and they're doing their job... If the contents of the dictionary are getting weird it's because of people actually talking that way.

Again, this is quite normal. It's our modern world where people don't get married until they're nearly 30 or something (the age of first marriage is still creeping up) that is the abberation. And marriage was a financial deal between families, not a 'love' match. Children would routinely be pledged (betrothed) by their parents soon after being born as a way of forming an alliance with another family. They would be married as soon as possible because lifepsans were short and you wanted the next generation of babies as soon as you could get them.

I'd say only the first item here really fits the 'insane' Category and it's a response to another type of insanity they have been subjected to.

Tigbit · #10 August 23rd, 2003, 06:11 PM

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
How is watching students' weight an 'insanity'? Aren't schools supposed to be monitoring the health and welfare of the students?

A governmental power (be it a country or a school) has to strike a certain ballance between control and freedom. If you have too little control you have trouble, if you have too much control you will have fear. How does a power decide which is which? Do they really care if a certain control is going too far? Well, sometimes it takes the public to complain loud enough that members of the controlling power hear the message.

Yes we are supposed to be concerned with weight, but most of us are not. In a free society all the power can hope to do is show the public what is wrong or damaging to themselves and allow them to change their behavior on their own. Personally I find it going too far to enforce correct eating habits. Why do I think this? Well once a school has succeeded in that they will move onto another personal freedom they feel is damaging and try to enforce that, thinking the whole time that they are doing good, when in actuality they are whittling at more and more freedoms. Little we realize what is happening till it is too late to turn them back. This is why the story falls well in the catagory of insane.