Thread: PETA Messes with the Wrong Crowd - Don't Mess w/ Bikers

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

I believe this forum is full of gentlemen, and gentlemen also have an obligation to stand up for what they believe. If it was your wife or child they just hit with paint and you let that go then maybe that's your opinion, but a man does not accept disrespect or assault, else he is not a man , and as a side note ( remember this was not real "satire" ) but in this situation that response was mild compared to what would have really happened so lighten up, Andrew . Like I said earlier in this thread, this biker would have made sure he couldn't never do it again , so if that makes me less a gentleman than your definition ,so be it , but I am a man with honor and I give respect where respect is due ,not to a bunch of activists willing to assault innocent people at their leisure time , uninvited Tc

I truly agree with this gentleman. to be a gentleman first be a man. protect what is yours and yourself. freedom of speech yes freedom to destroy or deface another's property no.

Funny how the word "bullying" seems to come up so often now. Are we all so hypersensitive that we cant see who started this mess? I for one consider myself a fair man but i really see the irony when one intends to pi$$ others off, he ends up pi$$ed on
Being a "gentleman" does not mean you will not 'drop the gloves" it simply means you do it with proper consideration.
Unfortunate the PETA members involved did not think this through
Just sayin

Mike

Did any of you guys read Glenn's and others' posts that this was a satire? (To be honest, I would probably disagree with Glenn on most political issues, but he does his homework!). Does that even matter anymore in the 24/7 media outrage machine?

No matter how many times I gently refer her to snopes and ask her to check these things, my own mother sends me crap like this all the time: somebody peed on a flag, desecrated an apple pie, wore the wrong lapel pin (or, yikes, none at all!), whatever, you've all seen 'em, and they're almost all made-up crap. I will refrain from sharing what I think about the underlying sociology behind most of them because it would probably offend a great many of you, and this post already sounds condescending enough.

But it just seems that a LOT of people on both sides of the political spectrum nowadays are just out shopping for something to be offended by, and I'd like to think we on SRP are bigger than that. No offense to your OP, Phrank. This is more a swipe at a general trend in society than it is at you personally. We've all fallen for sketchy internet stories at times, myself included.

Funny, we did a staff development this week on evaluating websites, and these sites were used as examples:

Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

Dog Island Free Forever

Y'all have fun. It's just the internet.

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

Did any of you guys read Glenn's and others' posts that this was a satire? (To be honest, I would probably disagree with Glenn on most political issues, but he does his homework!). Does that even matter anymore in the 24/7 media outrage machine?

Thanks

I hate seeing it too regardless of Political side

I just last night had to explain to my less then diligent Righty friends on FB that a story about an American Flag in NM was being written a very certain way just to illicit a very specific response from them, and to quit sharing it...

Google (et al) truly is a fantastic source of info one only has to research a few minutes to find multiple sides of just about every "Fact"

Jeez remember when finding one simple factoid and the proof of it meant a day at the library and a notepad filled with references now it takes seconds

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Google (et al) truly is a fantastic source of info one only has to research a few minutes to find multiple sides of just about every "Fact"

Jeez remember when finding one simple factoid and the proof of it meant a day at the library and a notepad filled with references now it takes seconds

Yeah, but the DOWNside of Google and the information overload on the internet is that so much of it is crap that the facts are getting harder and harder to parse. Try to teach research skills to seniors who believe everything they see on the internet. Trust me, it's getting harder and harder every year. I now have a whole laundry list of banned topics: gun control (sound familiar?), ALL conspiracy theories-I just can't, abortion, etc., etc. I'm not sure that the internet, for its incredible power to inform, is not rapidly taking us towards the "Idiocracy" in the movie of the same name.

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

Did any of you guys read Glenn's and others' posts that this was a satire? (To be honest, I would probably disagree with Glenn on most political issues, but he does his homework!). Does that even matter anymore in the 24/7 media outrage machine?

No matter how many times I gently refer her to snopes and ask her to check these things, my own mother sends me crap like this all the time: somebody peed on a flag, desecrated an apple pie, wore the wrong lapel pin (or, yikes, none at all!), whatever, you've all seen 'em, and they're almost all made-up crap. I will refrain from sharing what I think about the underlying sociology behind most of them because it would probably offend a great many of you, and this post already sounds condescending enough.

But it just seems that a LOT of people on both sides of the political spectrum nowadays are just out shopping for something to be offended by, and I'd like to think we on SRP are bigger than that. No offense to your OP, Phrank. This is more a swipe at a general trend in society than it is at you personally. We've all fallen for sketchy internet stories at times, myself included.

Funny, we did a staff development this week on evaluating websites, and these sites were used as examples:

Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

Dog Island Free Forever

Y'all have fun. It's just the internet.

I knew this was fictional, "satire" so to speak, posted it as a bit of humor for a laugh.

Like you, my Mother sends me stuff all the time, to her continued embarrassment...I as well have warned her. Her latest was the image of the reflected mountains, that only occur once a year, perfectly reflect the Buddha or something. When one of her friends told her this was BS and to stop sending her this crap...she got it...haha...so yes, know what you mean.

Nonetheless, the thought behind this I found funny and somewhat poetic, as this year, in attempting to take my son to the Remembrance ceremony held at St. James, where the actual horse guard comes in full dress uniform, and many veterans attend, had to be cancelled due to the Occupy protesters, who turned public land into their own swamp, several rapes occurred, drug overdoses, and theft, yet there they all were, protesting the man, with their iPhones, laptops, designer label clothes etc., having a party, yelling at people, preventing others from access to the area, spray painting the church, causing quite a substantial amount of $$'s in damage, and stealing from local business's while at the same time preventing these business's from operating normally.

So yes, I knew the original post was fictional, meant as a laugh, but AFAIK, since we've gone down this wormhole, in many way's it seems to have struck a chord, that many, including myself, feel represents some kind of poetic justice. That many are fed up with what many perceive as a segment imposing their values on others, breaking the law and causing damage to public properly, and having no consequences, or more to the point, expecting no consequences.

Those vets, from WWII and Korea, for many, that may have been there last year to see the magnificent horse parade and following ceremonies, my son and I couldn't go, and for what? Why?

So fictional humor, yes, the premise behind the poetic justice of being duct taped to a tree for being an a$$hole - perfect!

Yeah, I should have known the guy with the Einstein avatar wouldn't fall for such, but plenty of others did/do/will.

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

Yeah, I should have known the guy with the Einstein avatar wouldn't fall for such, but plenty of others did/do/will.

Were I "shopping for something to be offended by" as you stated in your initial response (the one you called condescending), this statement alone might do it by the apparent implication that we all fell for it.

Anyhow, I would like to thank Phrank. This thread has proven highly entertaining to say the least. I bet that you never imagined that it would take us this far into the wormhole. Well done sir, it has been a roller coaster and I am sure that the ride is far from over. Now where is my stick to poke this beehive with.....

Ah!
Yer a funny guy Phrank
Hook, Line and sinker

I think Phrank was just trying to draw me out of the shadows since I've not been hanging out in this part of the forums foe a while.