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7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable
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| 2007
| David Wong
Posted on 02/02/2008 10:20:31 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
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Surprisingly insightful article from a website best known for pieces like "The Week in Douchebaggery." WARNING: Contains strong language.
To: Slings and Arrows; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
Funny piece, but may strike a nerve or three.
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posted on
02/02/2008 10:21:56 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("Those who surrender personal liberty for lower global temperatures will receive neither."--weegee)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
02/02/2008 10:34:47 PM PST
by
pissant
(Time for a CONSERVATIVE party)
To: Slings and Arrows
-—say a photo turns up of you nakedly doing something that would shame you and your family for generations. Bestiality, perhaps.-—
One in four would post it on the net and tell all their stupid friends about it.
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posted on
02/02/2008 10:43:50 PM PST
by
claudiustg
(Sic Semper Tyrannus)
To: claudiustg
One in four would post it on the net and tell all their stupid friends about it. ...via a DU post.
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posted on
02/02/2008 10:55:42 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("Those who surrender personal liberty for lower global temperatures will receive neither."--weegee)
To: Slings and Arrows
This is actually a VERY GOOD article! Surprising considering the source!
To: Slings and Arrows
I once played a gig behind chicken wire. There. I said it.
Thankfully there are no pics ... ;o)
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posted on
02/02/2008 11:03:50 PM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
02/02/2008 11:22:06 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("Those who surrender personal liberty for lower global temperatures will receive neither."--weegee)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Re: The embarrassing photo. David's got to be a young guy. Ever since Phil Donahue everybody thinks they've got an obligation to reveal their private idiocies. I miss the days when people felt bad enough about being a pervert that they didn't tell anyone. BTW, if the perversion was bestiality, I'd tell ewe (ha, ha, I kill me.)
The article didn't apply to me. For one thing, I'm darned happy. I think the author might be happier if he had a better hobby than keeping a spreadsheet listing the number of times he's been insulted (please let that be a joke on his part.) I don't keep track of how many times I've been insulted, but I did have one of my students threaten to kill me and hang my spine out of a tree. I was flattered. I didn't know he cared that much.
Course, I've always lived my life pretty much how I want. Since I don't enjoy hurting other people, I figure how I live my life is my business. I think Mr. Wong should find a job he loves, help people on occasion, quit taking life so seriously, and I've always found it helpful to make a fool out of myself over a hot chick every so often. That was before I got married, of course. Now I just make a fool out of myself over my wife.
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posted on
02/02/2008 11:55:10 PM PST
by
Richard Kimball
(Sure, they'd love to kill me, as long as they can do it without admitting I exist)
To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; KlueLass; ...
Only seven?
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posted on
02/02/2008 11:58:06 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: pissant; martin_fierro; wildbill; The Spirit Of Allegiance; Daffynition
say a photo turns up of you nakedly doing something that would shame you and your family for generations.
How'd the b-tard find out about that?!?
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posted on
02/03/2008 12:00:00 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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02/03/2008 12:02:36 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
To: Slings and Arrows
This website is KILLER. Chock full of hillarious stuff. Check out the one on the 5 most crazy-assed bugs, or something to that effect. Scary.
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posted on
02/03/2008 12:09:02 AM PST
by
Captainpaintball
(www.whathappenedtojohnmccaininthehanoihilton.com)
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02/03/2008 12:25:53 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: Captainpaintball
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02/03/2008 12:28:53 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
To: Slings and Arrows
Ahhh...the monthly decisions of my youth...do I spend my money on ‘CRACKED’ magazine or on ‘MAD MAGAZINE’...such were the simple dilemmas of childhood.
I usually bought MAD.
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posted on
02/03/2008 12:38:35 AM PST
by
Tainan
(Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
To: Slings and Arrows
So did we really need a study to tell us that more than 40 percent of what you say in an e-mail is misunderstood? Well, they did one anyway. How many of your friends have you only spoken with online? If 40 percent of your personality has gotten lost in the text transition, do these people even really know you? The people who dislike you via text, on message boards or chatrooms or whatever, is it because you're really incompatible? Or, is it because of the misunderstood 40 percent? And, what about the ones who like you?
Many of us try to make up that difference in sheer numbers, piling up six dozen friends on MySpace. But here's the problem ...
I guess that proves it. I really do hate you.
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posted on
02/03/2008 3:13:00 AM PST
by
ovrtaxt
(No Rudy McRombee for me! I voted for Ron Paul. The GOP can curl up and die.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Very good article (the language was strong, but effective to make the point the author was striving to make).
I think part of the reason I’m such a happy person is that I am blessed to have a lot of great friends (of all kinds), a loving family, and a really caring church family. As the author notes, to have those connections means immersing yourself in the human condition rather than the electronic one. I use the internet to maintain contact with the people I don’t see on a regular basis, to let them know they are in my thoughts. And it is a valuable tool for people who cannot get out: as my parents age and get more frail, they keep in touch with grandchildren and greatgrandchildren through email on a much more frequent basis than they would through letters or phone calls. But for the rest of us, the point is valid that we need to exit the cybersphere occasionally to maintain real connections with real people because we need them and they need us.
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posted on
02/03/2008 5:00:20 AM PST
by
alwaysconservative
(Don't forget that you're unique--just like everybody else.)
To: Tainan
I subscribed to MAD when I was a kid. I thought Don Martin’s hinged shoes were so funny. And I liked the back cover where you fold it to make another picture. Then I tried National Lampoon but found it boring and gross. I don’t know what Cracked is.
To: ovrtaxt
I guess that proves it. I really do hate you. My public, what would they do without me?
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posted on
02/03/2008 7:20:55 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("Those who surrender personal liberty for lower global temperatures will receive neither."--weegee)
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