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Have you noticed that problems only seem out of control when we get too complacent?

The economy is in shambles, because we decided that money is more important than self-control, standards, people.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that every time we let greed get out of control, we get slapped upside the head by means of economic collapse. Yet, in spite of these frequent reminders, we haven't learned what's really of value. Do you think we ever will?

Have you noticed that problems only seem out of control when we get too complacent?

The economy is in shambles, because we decided that money is more important than self-control, standards, people.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that every time we let greed get out of control, we get slapped upside the head by means of economic collapse. Yet, in spite of these frequent reminders, we haven't learned what's really of value. Do you think we ever will?

Nope, we'll never learn. Just the nature of the beast.

Greed runs the world you know.

Nope, we'll never learn. Just the nature of the beast.

Greed runs the world you know.

Is "Greed" the new code word for jewish lizardmen?

Is "Greed" the new code word for jewish lizardmen?
Icke's stepped his game up.

Have you noticed that problems only seem out of control when we get too complacent?

The economy is in shambles, because we decided that money is more important than self-control, standards, people.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that every time we let greed get out of control, we get slapped upside the head by means of economic collapse. Yet, in spite of these frequent reminders, we haven't learned what's really of value. Do you think we ever will?

It could just as well be presented with cause and effect reversed: we were complacent because the economy was doing well. We didn't need self-control as much, when money was cheap to borrow.

Or to put it yet another way: greed was doing fine, in a growing economy. To own shares at all is a degree of greed (admittedly one we don't have any choice but to participate in, if we have insurance or a retirement fund as a condition of employment) since a rising stock market allows money to multiply itself without actual work.

Is "Greed" the new code word for jewish lizardmen?

David Icke's latest decoder ring has not yet arrived in the mail so I cannot confirm or deny that, but that's just because the post has been infiltrated, too, you see.

Also, have you noticed that vague, sweeping questions with ambiguous buzzwords in them are almost as hard to even care about answering as they are to decipher?

Is "Greed" the new code word for jewish lizardmen?I believe it stems from the Old English word 'grædig' which, roughly translated, means 'Jewish Lizardmen Overlords.'

David Icke's latest decoder ring has not yet arrived in the mail so I cannot confirm or deny that...
Awww, copycat.

Get your own footballer-turned-conspiracy-nut.

Awww, copycat.

Get your own footballer-turned-conspiracy-nut.

Why can't we share? He could be the Chinese finger trap in our threesome.

Why can't we share? He could be the Chinese finger trap in our threesome.
As long as there's a secret button which makes him let go, I'm down with it.

As long as there's a secret button which makes him let go, I'm down with it.

Oh, the trick is to work together. Once his use is up, I bring the dirty and you the Sanchez.

Oh, the trick is to work together. Once his use is up, I bring the dirty and you the Sanchez.
I kinda feel sorry for the guy without giving him a new look... but we camn tell him it's an initiation ceremony for the Illuminati, to make him feel better.

Anyhoo...

[/sexually charged threadkjack]

who's we? how exactly did my small personal contribution to UK economy cause a global turndown?
perhaps i bought the wrong scarf for the winter, i knew if i bought the yellow one the global economy would be much better now. I do apologise for causing this global catastrophy, i'll just go out and buy a woolly hat to fix it.

i'll just go out and buy a woolly hat to fix it.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

either i buy the hat or i have to turn up the heating. i'm sorry that's just how it is, so much for global warming eh? it's fucking freezing where i'm at.

I propose that idealistic kids run the world. Surely they can't do a worse job than adults?

if i bought the yellow one

Honey, don't even joke about such hideousness, as they are only to be mentioned as autoasphyxiation tools for the "fashionably challenged".

I propose that idealistic kids run the world. Surely they can't do a worse job than adults?

"America bombs Russia following prom rejection controversy"

I propose that idealistic kids run the world.

I propose they shut their paedo-whore mouths when grown-ups are talking. Or maybe I'm just thinking of Thailand...

"America bombs Russia following prom rejection controversy"

"Russia wanted tumescence, all USA could offer was limp Florida"

Honey, don't even joke about such hideousness, as they are only to be mentioned as autoasphyxiation tools for the "fashionably challenged".

I know i know, but if i'd bought the yellow scarf instead of the black one the economy would be going upward not downward.
Then again there was that blue one, who knows what that would done to the stock markets?

I propose that idealistic kids run the world. Surely they can't do a worse job than adults?

But most world leaders ARE kids.

I know i know, but if i'd bought the yellow scarf instead of the black one the economy would be going upward not downward.
Then again there was that blue one, who knows what that would done to the stock markets?

Okay, you officially have the worst taste in scarves, ever. Go stand in the corner with this here cone on your head, while I pick you a nice plaid one with a suitable breast and/or prostate cancer awareness charity ribbon. The red ones are only for homosexualists, you see, and unless you're willing to suck cock with me overseeing as proof thereof...

Okay, you officially have the worst taste in scarves, ever. Go stand in the corner with this here cone on your head, while I pick you a nice plaid one with a suitable breast and/or prostate cancer awareness charity ribbon. The red ones are only for homosexualists, you see, and unless you're willing to suck cock as proof thereof...

what?

what?

Cock. I could draw you a picture, but why when there's xtube? You are familiar, certainly.

Cock. I could draw you a picture, but why when there's xtube? You are familiar, certainly.

is there something on your mind Fassitude?

is there something on your mind Fassitude?

There's always something on my mind, the problem here is there should be something non-yellow on someone's cheeks or around that general area. Regardless, you'll never go wrong with a nice plaid scarf that matches at least one other accessory and the red HIV/AIDS ribbons are not as nice as the pink breast ones this season, unless it's around December (which we just passed, unfortunately), so you should probably stick to that one if you're strong enough in your masculinity. Personally, I like purple but the connotations of Alzheimer's Disease, cystic fibrosis, epilepsy, Huntington's disease, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Fibromyalgia, Autism, Animal abuse, Arnold-Chiari Malformation, Eating Disorders, Gastrointestinal Cancers, Ulcerative Colitis and Chron's Disease, Pancreatic cancer, Domestic violence, cancer survival and freaking pagans have all but ruined it for me, 'cause I can't stand old people, shit, pain, chorea, rashes, lack of intellectual acumen and paganism, but I repeat myself there at the end.

There's always something on my mind, the problem here is there should be something non-yellow on someone's cheeks or around that general area. Regardless, you'll never go wrong with a nice plaid scarf that matches at least one other accessory and the red HIV/AIDS ribbons are not as nice as the pink breast ones this season, unless it's around December (which we just passed, unfortunately), so you should probably stick to that one if you're strong enough in your masculinity. Personally, I like purple but the connotations of Alzheimer's Disease, cystic fibrosis, epilepsy, Huntington's disease, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Fibromyalgia, Autism, Animal abuse, Arnold-Chiari Malformation, Eating Disorders, Gastrointestinal Cancers, Ulcerative Colitis and Chron's Disease, Pancreatic cancer, Domestic violence, cancer survival and freaking pagans have all but ruined it for me, 'cause I can't stand old people, shit, pain, chorea, rashes, lack of intellectual acumen and paganism, but I repeat myself there at the end.

You went from cock, to that.

Whatever it was that happened, I'm sorry it was so hard on you. I hope things get better.

You went from cock, to that.

Going from cock to anything and back and forth is just one of my talents.

Whatever it was that happened, I'm sorry it was so hard on you. I hope things get better.

No, you aren't and no, you don't.

Going from cock to anything and back and forth is just one of my talents.

No, you aren't and no, you don't.

Was it so bad that I can't feel bad that it happened to somebody? Is it beyond possible that a human somewhere can really hope that whatever it is can get better?

If its something that can't get better, can you heal from it at all? If its something that keeps happening, reopening the wound all the time, can I hope that something changes?

*taps a small metal machine repeatedly*

Yep, my disdain meter exploded. It will never work again.

I propose that idealistic kids run the world. Surely they can't do a worse job than adults?

Remember, the adults used to be idealistic kids. Someday, you idealistic kids will be adults.

If the problems were easy to solve, we'd have done it by now.

Remember, the adults used to be idealistic kids. Someday, you idealistic kids will be adults.

If the problems were easy to solve, we'd have done it by now.

Didn't they solve this on Mork from Ork's planet?

Which, now that I think about it, would be Ork...

Have you noticed that problems only seem out of control when we get too complacent?

The economy is in shambles, because we decided that money is more important than self-control, standards, people.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that every time we let greed get out of control, we get slapped upside the head by means of economic collapse. Yet, in spite of these frequent reminders, we haven't learned what's really of value. Do you think we ever will?

I'm a Jew, therefore it is my natural right to be a greedy miser regardless of the economic situation. :p

Have you noticed that problems only seem out of control when we get too complacent?

The economy is in shambles, because we decided that money is more important than self-control, standards, people.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that every time we let greed get out of control, we get slapped upside the head by means of economic collapse. Yet, in spite of these frequent reminders, we haven't learned what's really of value. Do you think we ever will?

absolute win. although i see greed as an element of aggressiveness and aggressiveness as an element of ego, but at any rate, to answer the second question, yes i do. but i also envision that we will be living in a very different world then anyone right now imagines when we do. the thing is though, we might very well find ourselves living in that world in not so many decades, or even years.

eventually even nature itself will be slapping us up along side the head, if it hasn't already started to.

Going from cock to anything and back and forth is just one of my talents.

That's hot.

Yet, in spite of these frequent reminders, we haven't learned what's really of value. Do you think we ever will?
Nothing is "really of value."
Some things are individually valued by people, but that value is arbitrary.

Nothing is "really of value."
Some things are individually valued by people, but that value is arbitrary.

gratification and survival are not "really of value"?

i rather expect an awareness that did not perceive SOME sense of them as being of some value just might, be a bit unusual.

now the value of anything and everything that neither provides measurable gratification nor contributes to survival, is, of course, questionable at best, and the degree to which self serving acquisition of symbolic value does either, is at the very least, among the most questionable of all.