Well this guy is nuts...

[JungleMan]

This is why Slashdot pisses me off to no end...the nutcases that visit that place

http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/1....shtml?tid=129

I've been targeted right out of the market.

I've had it. I can't take any more advertising. Television, radio, magazines, billboards, even the Internet for Christ's sake. Everywhere. Why do they keep targeting me? I never did anything to them. I don't even buy anything! They're wasting their time! Fast food makes me feel like ****, soft drinks make me dizzy, candy is disgusting, chips make my stomach hurt, I don't smoke, and any band that has ever been advertised anywhere sucks unequivocally. I eat tortillas and vegetables, I drink tap water. I ride my $40 bike for entertainment. I buy a new pair of Dickies at the army navy store every year and I get all my other clothes at Costco in 3-packs. My car works fine, I use my Internet connection for long distance, I've had the same boots for three years and re-sole them when they wear out. As far as booze goes, well, as long as it's wet...

So why do they keep attacking me? Why are they filling every square inch of every available space in my life? Above urinals, on concert tickets, underneath the ice at hockey games, on blimps, in video games, as props in movies, plugs in rap songs, on ****ty Web Sites (No, I will not visit your mother****ing sponsor. If you're not in it for the love, and you can't figure out any better way to pay for your site than by slapping some ugly, corrupted banner across the top of your pathetic work, then ****ing close up shop, kill yourself, and leave the Web to non-polluters). They'd advertise on the backs of my eyelids if they could get away with it, and I can't hack it anymore. They win. I lose. They succeeded. I failed. Like Brian Wilson, I just wasn't built for these times. I fold. Here are all my cards. Keep the pot, keep my ante, keep the goddamn jacket on the back of my chair for all I care, I can get another at Costco. I'll be out in the parking lot getting drunk and yelling at cute girls because I can no longer stand the taste of tentacles. Marketing has poisoned everything worthwhile under the sun, so I'm giving it all up. Everything.

But the way I figure it, there's no real loss. I've seen all of the episodes of the Simpsons 200 times each. Most of the good writing was done 100 years ago. I haven't listened to FM radio in years. I could play all my records beginning to end alphabetically and I'd be 76 years old when I got to the Zeni Geva. Online culture is a ****ing yawn, only good for buying stuffed goats on Ebay and getting cracked copies of $1000 software. Movies always end up at the 99 cent video store across the street eventually, and you can fast forward through those commercials. My girlie's cute and the corner bar has Pabst on tap. What else matters?

True, by shutting myself off to everything, I'm probably limiting my future potential as a 'community building' or 'bleeding edge' cog in someone's nightmarish vision of Internet profitability, but ****, a simple read through my writing should've cured that anyway (Note to potential employers: The bidding starts at $120,000 a year with full dental).

So I'm out. No more.

I just feel bad for those of you I'm leaving behind. You'll be wearing your Slave Labor Nikes, sweating under a Third World Vest, listening to Everqueer or Fratboy Slim, your hair styled stupidly with gasoline and aborted pig placentas, trying to choke down a Double Meat **** Splattered Cow Testicles On The Slaughterhouse Floor Pus Coagulated Lactacious Secretion Yellow Dye #2 Deluxe. Man, will you be looking dumb. It makes me want to cry. You poor, oversugared demographic you. You're filling your apartments, your bodies, and your minds with useless junk. You stagger under your own weight, throwing money in random directions until you collapse and die, buried by a bunch of people who you failed to create meaningful human bonds with, who forget about you on the way home from the funeral.

What a hippie, get a life man, if you don't like ads don't buy the products

[Behemoth]

Gotta disagree with you there, Justin. Its a fairly thoughtful, well-written piece. I don't necessarily agree with everything he writes, but I agree that advertising has invaded every aspect of my personal waking life. Simply not buying the product won't change the number of adverts we're all bombarded with on a daily basis.

And "hippy" is no insult. Hell, I feel proud when someone calls me that.

[JungleMan]

Originally posted by Behemoth
And "hippy" is no insult. Hell, I feel proud when someone calls me that.

I can't stand hippies, nor if someone ever called me a hippie...

[chrisjk]

I wanna be a hippy and i wanna get stoned on mari, marijuana

[Behemoth]

I thought this was gonna be a sensible discussion *sigh*

• Hippies live with the land instead of killing and pollution.
• hippies care about what they do, who to, and what effect it will have.
• Hippies don't feel the need to rush out and buy the latest "fashions" and look like one of the crowd

agh! ****it, there's little point explaining it if people are going to be narrow-minded.

[chrisjk]

easy now...

[msimmons]

Subhumans, Labels
Call me punk cos I wear a leather jacket
Call me a hippie cos I believe in love and peace
Call me an idealist cos of songs like this one
You can call me what you like I am all and none of these

Chorus:
Fix a label on me to keep illusions happy
Fix a label on me does it make you feel secure?
Fix a label on me to keep me at a distance
And I'll label you as ignorant not wanting to know more

Before we understand ourselves do we have to fight each other?
Before we share opinions must we keep them undercover?
We classify and categorize to keep ourselves divided
We are all individuals not the images provided

Chorus

Labels are a subtle way of keeping us in line
Divided by conformity we waste away our time
We are all individuals divided by their rituals
Think again like I have done--throw away the labels!

Chorus

Michael

[Behemoth]

sorry guys, I did seem to be a bit grumpy earlier.

no offence intended.

[Gandalf_Grey_]

Slashdot isn't all that bad a site, sure there are some whackos on that site but you get them on every site. Most people who go on that site are sensible enough to maintain a lively discussion. If you notice the verbal thrashing that he got after he posted that

Just how much did Costco pay you to write this?

Although even though he is useing some drastic circumstances to describe his feelings towards marketing these days i agree with him (well the overall feel of the article). Advertisers are becoming waay to obtrusive these days. If i pay for tv i sure as hell don't want pop up adds blocking my view.

[BG]

Hippie chicks legs cause chaffage

[JungleMan]

Originally posted by Gandalf_Grey_
Slashdot isn't all that bad a site, sure there are some whackos on that site but you get them on every site. Most people who go on that site are sensible enough to maintain a lively discussion. If you notice the verbal thrashing that he got after he posted that

Most people who go on that site are zealotous enough to assume that Microsoft and Intel are spies that work for the government, and that everything should be free of charge...

Another site that is almost as bad is ZDNet. For a good laugh, check out their Talkback column sometime.

[barrk]

Originally posted by
Hippie chicks legs cause chaffage

Not all of us!!

[SoCalled]

Originally posted by barrk


Not all of us!!

Yeah !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Hang about that might be taken the wrong way.....


Behemoth ... onya totally agree man....

[beachbum]

I only skimmed cos I have no attention span but it seemed perfectly logical to me. I hate all that commercial crap and herd mentality... oops my yoyo fell... what was I saying? .. yeah I hate it all and I usually only watch SBS or ABC (the Aust one of course)... Big Brother? pffft does niente for me. Soaps? Does anyone except bored housewives watch them?

[SoCalled]

Originally posted by beachbum
I only skimmed cos I have no attention span but it seemed perfectly logical to me. I hate all that commercial crap and herd mentality... oops my yoyo fell... what was I saying? .. yeah I hate it all and I usually only watch SBS or ABC (the Aust one of course)... Big Brother? pffft does niente for me. Soaps? Does anyone except bored housewives watch them?

NW and Beaker apparently, they never miss an episode of Home and Away.

Did ya catch Billy Connolly last night

[beachbum]

Hmm... gotta admit it Jello but Billy dont do much for me. He is funny on occasion and I actually find him much funnier when he is being interviewed or something... I guess he is a love him or hate him type of comedian. I did see a bit tho and thought the jam session in the Irish Pub was excellent (well, except for his singing )

[SoCalled]

Thought the same really, Dublin looked good...

Walking With Beasts was excellent, filmed entirely in South Australia apparently...

[beachbum]

The Great Rift Valley of South Australia?? ... lol oh I do gotta make one comment about that WwBeasts show. lol... They really really really copy the style of the Big Cat show of a while back (I think that was the name) with funky cameras, music etc. But I laughed and laughed at the baby thingamyjig that got weaned off its mum and then got separated for a while. The narration went something like "we're worried about her .. havent seen her for weeks.. and then out of the forest we finally spot her" etc etc etc... lol you fooking drew her there!!! She aint real! lol... It just tickled me

[plenderj]

Originally posted by chrisjk
I wanna be a hippy and i wanna get stoned on mari, marijuana

I want to be a hippy

[Nightwalker83]

Originally posted by SoCalled


NW and Beaker apparently, they never miss an episode of Home and Away.

Did ya catch Billy Connolly last night

Since when did I come in to the conversation?

[beachbum]

Are you Billy Connolly?