stockula said:
Different strokes, man. I wouldn't want to live in LA.
Hey, you like Alaska, its all yours, all 571,000 permafrosted square miles of it. The fact remains that you have more caribou than people and your little corner of the world isn't known for attracting gregarious urban sophisticates
You say that like it's a bad thing, elitist snob. One of the most unapplealling features of Liberals is their condescending, disparaging attitudes towards people who don't agree with them.
The irony here is palpable.
"You unsophisticated hicks, don't you understand we know what's best for you? Why wouldn't everyone want to live in a congested, polluted, crime-ridden city like we live in?"
You do realize that Anchorage is just as polluted and congested as any other city and its crime rate is significantly higher than average, right? More to the point there are plenty of places in America that are none of the above and also aren't frozen, desolate wastelands.
I have a hard time believing you'd be dissing the homelands of other SG members who live in places like Iceland, Norway, Finland, or Canada with similar climes like this. The clime has an added bonus of keeping away Californians fleeing their state as it slowly sinks. They instead go to ruin neighboring states.
stockula said:
Different strokes, man. I wouldn't want to live in LA.
Hey, you like Alaska, its all yours, all 571,000 permafrosted square miles of it. The fact remains that you have more caribou than people and your little corner of the world isn't known for attracting gregarious urban sophisticates
You say that like it's a bad thing, elitist snob.
[Edited on Mar 22, 2005 by stockula]
I've been musing about something lately, perhaps you can help. If an athlete is better than most everyone else we give him or her laurels, medals, and sneaker endorsements. We make them heroes and everyone from kindergartners to senators dutifully sing their praises. Rapacious bastards like Donald Trump get TV shows that millions slaver over because they're better at making money than other people. Hell, people like Paris Hilton are adored for simply having money better than other people. All of this adulation of ability and achievement is viewed as a good thing pretty much across the board, and yet if you have the temerity to happen to mention, or even imply, that maybe smart educated people might just have something over stupid, ignorant people somehow its a bad thing.
So, my question to you is this: What's so fucking great about stupidity and ignorance?
Again with the contemptuous arrogance; the assumption that if I dont have your politics I'm ignorant or stupid.
stockula said:
Different strokes, man. I wouldn't want to live in LA.
Hey, you like Alaska, its all yours, all 571,000 permafrosted square miles of it. The fact remains that you have more caribou than people and your little corner of the world isn't known for attracting gregarious urban sophisticates
You say that like it's a bad thing, elitist snob. One of the most unapplealling features of Liberals is their condescending, disparaging attitudes towards people who don't agree with them.
The irony here is palpable.
"You unsophisticated hicks, don't you understand we know what's best for you? Why wouldn't everyone want to live in a congested, polluted, crime-ridden city like we live in?"
You do realize that Anchorage is just as polluted and congested as any other city and its crime rate is significantly higher than average, right? More to the point there are plenty of places in America that are none of the above and also aren't frozen, desolate wastelands.
I have a hard time believing you'd be dissing the homelands of other SG members who live in places like Iceland, Norway, Finland, or Canada with similar climes like this. The clime has an added bonus of keeping away Californians fleeing their state as it slowly sinks. They instead go to ruin neighboring states.
Well, at the moment, its significantly warmer in Oslo, Helsinki, and Reykjavik than Anchorage, which is in turn, just about the balmiest place in Alaska. The other funny think about all those places that's different than Alaska is that people are actually from there. They didn't elect to move there. As for people fleeing California, you seem to have that backwards. More people than your entire population move here roughly every 18 months.
stockula said:
Different strokes, man. I wouldn't want to live in LA.
Hey, you like Alaska, its all yours, all 571,000 permafrosted square miles of it. The fact remains that you have more caribou than people and your little corner of the world isn't known for attracting gregarious urban sophisticates
You say that like it's a bad thing, elitist snob.
[Edited on Mar 22, 2005 by stockula]
I've been musing about something lately, perhaps you can help. If an athlete is better than most everyone else we give him or her laurels, medals, and sneaker endorsements. We make them heroes and everyone from kindergartners to senators dutifully sing their praises. Rapacious bastards like Donald Trump get TV shows that millions slaver over because they're better at making money than other people. Hell, people like Paris Hilton are adored for simply having money better than other people. All of this adulation of ability and achievement is viewed as a good thing pretty much across the board, and yet if you have the temerity to happen to mention, or even imply, that maybe smart educated people might just have something over stupid, ignorant people somehow its a bad thing.
So, my question to you is this: What's so fucking great about stupidity and ignorance?
Again with the contemptuous arrogance; the assumption that if I dont have your politics I'm ignorant or stupid.
[Edited on Mar 23, 2005 by stockula]
Actually, I was referring broadly to uneducated, ignorant people of which your state seems to have a rather high proportion. You, personally are just... special.
Holden_Caulfield
Ann Arbor, MI
April 2004
MAR 23, 2005 02:00 AM