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so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 10:25AM

there is seriously SO much food in the grocery store.......it's really TOO much. I'm not even kidding you this time. I was in the grocer's the other day and I was in the breakfast foods aisle. I wanted some Pop Tarts. So I find where the Pop Tarts are. And then it hit me, right between the eyes: there are SO MANY different kinds of Pop Tarts, so many different choices and varieties....they have strawberry, they have brown sugar, they have cherry, they have strawberry cherry, they have s'mores, they have oreo Pop Tarts, they have gingerbread, they have blueberry, they have banana blueberry, they have banana blueberry blast, they have banana blueberry blast with brown sugar, they have raspberry, they have cranberry, they have cran-raspberry..........there are literally TOO MANY CHOICES of Pop Tarts. And it doesn't stop at Pop Tarts. There are too many choices of virtually every kind of product you can imagine. I can't decide. I LITERALLY CAN'T DECIDE sometimes. It's just too much. TOO MUCH. We need fewer choices. Fewer choices of Pop Tarts.......fewer choices in life. We are assaulted by too many choices. We need less, not more. I want as few choices in life as possible. I dream of a grocery store with only four aisles, and a dairy section. Possibly a produce section. But that's IT. No more. Only what you need. And all in plain brown wrapping paper......no fancy-schmancy designed packaging with anthropomorphized cartoon animals spouting catch-phrases. Just plain brown paper wrapping. A plain brown box that says "Cereal", in a plain, sans-serif font. A plain box that says "Chicken". And so on. This is how life ought to be. And furthermore, we should all stop wearing different clothes. There should be a standard-issue plain black bodysuit, one size fits all, that we all wear, everyday, no colors, no variations. Everyone looks the same. We all march to work or school in our plain black uniforms and never go anywhere or do anything but what absolutely HAS to be done: school, work, eat, go home, sleep. That's it. That's life. Life is a plain brown paper package that says "Potatoes". That's all. That's it. We're done. We're straight. That's how life should be. To me, that's what a decent life would be like.

We're straight. Peace, I'm out of here.
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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 10:32AM

nothing?

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 10:33AM

I'm not even kidding.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 10:39AM

seriously.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 10:46AM

this is what my world would look like


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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 10:47AM

really....nothing?

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 10:48AM

come on.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 10:50AM

this is not even a joke.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 10:52AM

most electrifying one-man thread in sports entertainment history.




...but then again, isn't everyone 'electrifying'? If everyone's 'electrifying', isn't it that no one is electrifying?...

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 10:53AM

the only way to be remarkable in this day and age is to be completely unremarkable.


let's all wear uniforms.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 10:54AM

I just smeared a jelly donut all over my face.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 10:57AM

the universe is expanding, at an exponential rate. After some time, every star, planet, moon, asteroid, will be so far apart that space and time itself will become a virtual deadzone. And you're worried about your credit score.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 10:59AM

Lorenzo de Medici was a very powerful, intelligent and interesting man. He financed some of the greatest artists in the world and made the Renaissance possible. Who the hell are you? Why are you watching Judge Judy?

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 11:03AM

do you know who the hell Socrates was? DO you have any idea how smart he was? Who the hell are you? What the hell are you doing? What makes you think you have the right to even breathe the same air that Socrates breathed? What makes you think you can even stand on the same earth that Socrates stood on? You're garbage. Socrates was somebody. You're nothing. Literally nothing. You should probably just drop dead. Nobody would even notice. You're garbage compared to Socrates.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 11:04AM

your life is worth nothing and without any meaning whatsoever compared to Louis Pasteur. Drop dead.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 11:07AM

the Chinese invented paper, gunpowder and moveable type. What the hell have you done?

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 11:08AM

you're pretty much scum. You really have no right to even be here.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 11:15AM

Ted Danson is a more important person in life than you. Ted Danson is a more valuable and worthwhile person than you.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 11:17AM

Corin Nemec is a more important, better person than you.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 11:18AM

don't know who Corin Nemec is?


He was the titular star of the short-lived FOX sitcom "Parker Lewis Can't Lose".


he's still better and more important than you.
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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 11:20AM

the guy who played Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is better than you.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 11:20AM

the guy in the Darth Vader suit in the Star Wars movies is better than you.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 11:20AM

the midget in the R2-D2 costume is better than you.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 11:21AM

the hand up Kermit the Frog's ass is better and more important and has contributed more to the world than you.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 11:22AM

the fat lady from those old Snapple commercials is better than you.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 11:24AM

the where's the beef lady, the Maytag repair man, the "it's time to make the donuts" guy, the fast-talking guy from the micro machines commercials, the "dude, you're getting a Dell" kid, are all better people than you.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 11:25AM

the "Kiss My Bumper" guy is better than you. You will be forgotten. The "Kiss My Bumper" guy will live on in history.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: DNA ()
Date: November 03, 2011 11:59AM

Miz.... Go shove a d in your a.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 06:33PM

that's seriously the only response in this whole thread? Go F yourselves. Harry, F you. You piece of S. You did this to me.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 06:46PM

come the F on.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 07:02PM

not a single GOD DAMN reply. Except for one lame guy.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 07:25PM

Harry Tuttle, comment on this. Where the F are you. I did this for you.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Harry Tuttle ()
Date: November 03, 2011 07:34PM

You trying to troll me, bro?

We've already been over this...


Garbage thread....




Signatures are for fags

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: dna ()
Date: November 03, 2011 07:35PM

Fuck you Mis. I was the only one to reply and you dont even say Thanks? You coon!!!!!!!!

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 07:35PM

Harry Tuttle Wrote:
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> You trying to troll me, bro?
>
> We've already been over this...
>
>
> Garbage thread....
>
>
> http://www.bandswallpapers.com/data/media/7/garbag
> e_wp1_1024.jpg


are you fucking serious.


are you being serious right now. Are you fucking calling my thread that I made for YOU a garbage thread, you son of a bitch?

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Harry Tuttle ()
Date: November 03, 2011 07:38PM

I completely disagree... there aren't enough choices... Why stress out about if you made the right choice?

By the way, this is a re-runs thread...

Therefore...


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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 07:43PM

I'm not worried about making the "wrong" choice, dickhead. I'm saying that an entire F-ING WALL OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF POP TARTS IS UNNECESSARY AND IT MAKES ME THE FUCK SICK! I don't need that kind of shit in my life. JUst give me a fucking Pop Tart. There are TOO MANY kinds out there. It's just CONFUSING AND UNNESSASARY. There are TOO MANY CHOICES. We need LESS. It's not about making "right" choices or "wrong " choices.....it's about the needless heaping of choices on choices, overloading the senses with unessecary choices of things that should be SIMPLE and UNCOMPLICATED. THAT'S what it's about.


If you call another thread of mine a garbage thread, I'll pop you in the nose.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Dingo ()
Date: November 03, 2011 07:46PM

You need to just stick with these and shut the fuck up
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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Harry Tuttle ()
Date: November 03, 2011 07:49PM

Let me ask you something, Hoss.... What is it about making choices that you don't like?

Even if someone told you what to do and what to wear and what to eat, you'd still have plenty of choices...

Even if you were locked in a room, in the dark, you'd have a virtually unlimited number of choices to make...

Why do choices make you uncomfortable?

Mr. Misery Wrote:
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> I'm not worried about making the "wrong" choice,
> dickhead. I'm saying that an entire F-ING WALL OF
> DIFFERENT KINDS OF POP TARTS IS UNNECESSARY AND IT
> MAKES ME THE FUCK SICK! I don't need that kind of
> shit in my life. JUst give me a fucking Pop Tart.
> There are TOO MANY kinds out there. It's just
> CONFUSING AND UNNESSASARY. There are TOO MANY
> CHOICES. We need LESS. It's not about making
> "right" choices or "wrong " choices.....it's about
> the needless heaping of choices on choices,
> overloading the senses with unessecary choices of
> things that should be SIMPLE and UNCOMPLICATED.
> THAT'S what it's about.
>
>
> If you call another thread of mine a garbage
> thread, I'll pop you in the nose.

Signatures are for fags

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Date: November 03, 2011 07:50PM

always go for the ice cream sundae pop tarts. my inner fat girl loves those.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Harry Tuttle ()
Date: November 03, 2011 07:51PM

If someone makes your choices for you.... you can blame the person for your unhappiness...

If you make all your choices, you've got no one to blame but yourself...

Thing is... if you're letting people make choices for you, you've made the choice to let them make your choices...

You can't escape it...

THE BUCK STOPS HERE!

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: garbage ()
Date: November 03, 2011 07:53PM

All of your threads are garbage

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Harry Tuttle ()
Date: November 03, 2011 07:55PM

I feel a thread change coming on...

Mr. Misery Wrote:
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> there is seriously SO much food in the grocery
> store.......it's really TOO much. I'm not even
> kidding you this time. I was in the grocer's the
> other day and I was in the breakfast foods aisle.
> I wanted some Pop Tarts. So I find where the Pop
> Tarts are. And then it hit me, right between the
> eyes: there are SO MANY different kinds of Pop
> Tarts, so many different choices and
> varieties....they have strawberry, they have brown
> sugar, they have cherry, they have strawberry
> cherry, they have s'mores, they have oreo Pop
> Tarts, they have gingerbread, they have blueberry,
> they have banana blueberry, they have banana
> blueberry blast, they have banana blueberry blast
> with brown sugar, they have raspberry, they have
> cranberry, they have cran-raspberry..........there
> are literally TOO MANY CHOICES of Pop Tarts. And
> it doesn't stop at Pop Tarts. There are too many
> choices of virtually every kind of product you can
> imagine. I can't decide. I LITERALLY CAN'T DECIDE
> sometimes. It's just too much. TOO MUCH. We need
> fewer choices. Fewer choices of Pop
> Tarts.......fewer choices in life. We are
> assaulted by too many choices. We need less, not
> more. I want as few choices in life as possible. I
> dream of a grocery store with only four aisles,
> and a dairy section. Possibly a produce section.
> But that's IT. No more. Only what you need. And
> all in plain brown wrapping paper......no
> fancy-schmancy designed packaging with
> anthropomorphized cartoon animals spouting
> catch-phrases. Just plain brown paper wrapping. A
> plain brown box that says "Cereal", in a plain,
> sans-serif font. A plain box that says "Chicken".
> And so on. This is how life ought to be. And
> furthermore, we should all stop wearing different
> clothes. There should be a standard-issue plain
> black bodysuit, one size fits all, that we all
> wear, everyday, no colors, no variations. Everyone
> looks the same. We all march to work or school in
> our plain black uniforms and never go anywhere or
> do anything but what absolutely HAS to be done:
> school, work, eat, go home, sleep. That's it.
> That's life. Life is a plain brown paper package
> that says "Potatoes". That's all. That's it. We're
> done. We're straight. That's how life should be.
> To me, that's what a decent life would be like.
>
> We're straight. Peace, I'm out of here.
> /

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: friskydingo ()
Date: November 03, 2011 07:58PM

Dingo Wrote:
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> You need to just stick with these and shut the
> fuck up


I would never say somethin so crass

 

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: dingo lover ()
Date: November 03, 2011 08:03PM

oh dingo! Ding me in the ass

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 08:07PM

Hary, I'll fuck you in the ass next time you call me a garbage thread.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Harry Tuttle ()
Date: November 03, 2011 08:08PM

I won't like it... so it won't be gay....

Mr. Misery Wrote:
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> Hary, I'll fuck you in the ass next time you call
> me a garbage thread.

Signatures are for fags

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 08:08PM

you're really pissing me the F off

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 08:08PM

I did this for you.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Harry Tuttle ()
Date: November 03, 2011 08:09PM

WHere's the "Knock it off" thread at?

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: GO fuck yourself ()
Date: November 03, 2011 08:10PM

This convo is beyond GAY

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: friskydingo ()
Date: November 03, 2011 08:10PM

Trouble in paradise boys?

 

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Fritz Lange ()
Date: November 03, 2011 08:14PM

Mr. Misery Wrote:
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> this is what my world would look like

That world is designed to be a repulsive image of the worst aspects of modern life.

Do you want to live in a dystopia?

Or would Fritz Lang's dystopia be your utopia?

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 08:38PM

Fritz Lange Wrote:
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> Mr. Misery Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > this is what my world would look like
>
> That world is designed to be a repulsive image of
> the worst aspects of modern life.
>
> Do you want to live in a dystopia?
>
> Or would Fritz Lang's dystopia be your utopia?


exactly. I find something oddly comforting in those scenes in Metropolis. I find the idea of unchecked individuality slightly more horrendous than the images depicted in that film. At a certain point, individualism is just as ghastly as the grim, droll vision of life as automaton. Face it......being a person is just about as horrific as it gets.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Suicidal Tendencies ()
Date: November 03, 2011 08:42PM

MIS Go shove a cucumber up your ass

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 08:43PM

why don't you eat some S first

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 08:51PM

harry, admit I have successful made a point.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Fritz Lange ()
Date: November 03, 2011 08:58PM

Mr. Misery Wrote:
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> Face it......being a person is just about as horrific
> as it gets.

While there's some truth to the that - perhaps more than I'd like to admit - the Metropolis alternative seems even worse.

Mindless, repetitive labor, hour after endless hour... trudging home exhausted, coming back the next day to the unvarying set of tasks... there are few things worse than that.

On the other hand, if we were non-persons - oxen, say - it might not be so bad.

Yet that's a trade I'm not quite prepared to make, as unpleasant as being a person, with all the burdens it entails, may be.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 09:14PM

Fritz Lange Wrote:
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> Mr. Misery Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Face it......being a person is just about as
> horrific
> > as it gets.
>
> While there's some truth to the that - perhaps
> more than I'd like to admit - the Metropolis
> alternative seems even worse.
>
> Mindless, repetitive labor, hour after endless
> hour... trudging home exhausted, coming back the
> next day to the unvarying set of tasks... there
> are few things worse than that.
>
> On the other hand, if we were non-persons - oxen,
> say - it might not be so bad.
>
> Yet that's a trade I'm not quite prepared to make,
> as unpleasant as being a person, with all the
> burdens it entails, may be.


you only have the illusion of individuality. Individuality doesn't really exist. I know if I lived long enough and was outgoing enough, I could easily meet a thousand different "me's" in my lifetime. Easy. It's just finding the different "me's" in such a short period of time, in a haystack of other needles, that's difficult. I know there are more of me out there. More of you. And we all do the same trudging home, exhausted, the same repetitive labor, wear the same droll uniforms..........we only trudge in different directions, exhausted in different ways, labor in different trades, wear different uniforms...that are, in the end, just that: uniform. A pair of army boots is the same as a pair of Russian army boots, a spade is the same as a shovel. Different shapes, that's all. We all do the same thing, just in different places, at different times. I'd rather do away with the illusion and just get it over with....let's all wear the same black uniform, one size fits all, and trudge in the same direction. What difference does it really make?

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Fritz Lange ()
Date: November 03, 2011 09:30PM

We part company on whether individuality is an illusion.

I don't think it is.

I think there are obvious, irreducible differences between people.

Even between siblings, much less as between, say, you and Harry Tuttle, or you and Alias.

This is not to say there aren't similarities, as well, between individuals.

For example, an audience - of individuals - collectively enjoying watching a movie, or listening to a musical performance.

But then there will be some who don't enjoy the movie, or the music.

Let's face, you're stuck with your inviduality... unless and until you accept and embrace the reign of Fleetwood Mac and Kenny Rogers.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 09:47PM

I believe there exists the potential for a technology that could predict human behavior the same way in which meteorologists can predict the weather. I'm not talking about the local TV weatherman when I say 'predict the weather'. I'm talking about meteorology. The science of predicting, based upon available data and observations about the past in similar circumstances, what is likely to happen. Not every prediction is 100 percent accurate. But there is enough evidence in the observation of people and historical accounts (historical meaning anything that has happened before and has been recorded factually or is simply "known" to be true, like the pain that follows a prick of the finger), that human behavior, in virtually any scenario imaginable, could theoretically be predicted like the weather. What does that mean. It means that people are far, far, far less individual than any of us realize. There will be a universally similar reaction to any given action exhibited by any one person in almost any number of situations or circumstances, or combinations thereof. Similar. Not identical, but universally similar enough that there must be recognized a pattern, such as in the upward movement of a hurricane from the gulf to the coast. To me, that symbolizes an intrinsic lack of individualism in all people. We carry with us hints and glimpses of things that might suggest otherwise--some things as superficial as the style of our hair, or as profound as the differences we hold in religious beliefs--all in the end, however, are only as different from each other as a species of fly is from another species of fly; variations on a theme, but remaining all part of the same extended family.

thank you.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Didn't read ()
Date: November 03, 2011 09:52PM

Noone is going to read the above post.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 09:53PM

Didn't read Wrote:
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> Noone is going to read the above post.


your loss, Poncho.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Fritz Lange ()
Date: November 03, 2011 09:56PM

I hear ya.

You seem to be coming out of BF Skinner type sensibility/assumptions re human nature, a little bit, maybe? A kind of extreme behaviorism/determinism.

But I think you can only get so far on that tip.

I don't see that technology happening, ever.

I could be wrong, I'll admit.

But I don't think human nature can or ever will be fully cabined in that fashion, although I acknowledge there are forms of mind-control-lite, if you will, happening even now (advertising, marketing, etc).

I'm not big into sci-fi, but I know there have been sci-fi stories that both embrace and repudiate the human determinism paradigm.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Fritz Lange ()
Date: November 03, 2011 10:01PM

PS. If I recall correctly, Metropolis is a sci-fi story that ultimately repudiates a hard determinism assumption about human nature -- it shows a society in which everything is ultra-controlled, but eventually human nature breaks through and destroys the socially imposed controls (my memory of the plot is kind of vague).

I.e., technology fails, and the human spirit, in all its individuality, triumphs.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 03, 2011 10:26PM

Fritz Lange Wrote:
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> PS. If I recall correctly, Metropolis is a sci-fi
> story that ultimately repudiates a hard
> determinism assumption about human nature -- it
> shows a society in which everything is
> ultra-controlled, but eventually human nature
> breaks through and destroys the socially imposed
> controls (my memory of the plot is kind of
> vague).
>
> I.e., technology fails, and the human spirit, in
> all its individuality, triumphs.


yeah, that's basically right. Great film, I love it, but you have to admit the resolution and the whole premise you just summarized is more than a little old-fashioned and simple. Naturally, I would have preferred a less optimistic angle. You know, another movie that would've been better with a less optimistic outlook on human nature and such is A.I. That movie should have ended with the little boy submerged at the bottom of the ocean. Roll credits. End of story. Instead, it goes on for another 20 or 30 damn minutes, and completely undoes every potentially thought-provoking thing it sets up. The boy's mother comes back, and they hug, and he's a real boy, etc. Discusting.

Kobo Abe's novel Inter Ice Age 4, very long out of print, deals with the idea of a machine that can predict human behavior. I think, if I remember correctly, the main conflict comes when the main character predicts himself committing a crime, or something like that. It's very interesting. Abe is, like myself, less optimistic in general about human nature. His characters are almost always lost, robbed of identity, blindsided by circumstance. That's how I see things. You're lost, blindsided, faceless. Completely lost. If you think you know where you are, you're really just less concerned with the question. Maybe that's a good thing.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Fritz Lange ()
Date: November 03, 2011 10:39PM

Yeah, I didn't dig the ending of A.I.

That said, the film as a whole draws a sharp distinction between being a 'real boy,' and not.

It takes, broadly speaking, the same assumptions about human nature and individuality that Metropolis does (although it is not a celebration of those things, but a meditation on whether a.i. can ever emulate human freedom, intelligence, love, etc).

Haven't read that book.

But there's another notable artist who held that modern life can crush individuality, yet the human spirit can rise above that, and touch at least the fringes of happiness by doing meaningful work.

I refer, of course, to:
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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Fritz Lange ()
Date: November 03, 2011 10:50PM

I don't think the protagonist of Ikiru was fooling himself, or lost in illusions.

Through meaningful work he found satisfaction, peace of mind, and touches the fringes of happiness.

This is a hard world, and it can be very cruel, but I don't think such achievements are out of the question or impossible.

I think Kurosawa was a great artist, and saw the world clearly; it's not *all* just ugliness and despair.

Feel like my soul has turned into steel
I’ve still got the scars that the sun didn’t heal
There’s not even room enough to be anywhere
It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 04, 2011 01:47AM

when Takashi Shimura was sitting alone on the swing, in the snow, I like to fall out. But then my tears turns to laughter. Ikiru is a great film. I also really like Red Beard. It's predictable, but worth the ride. One that I feel is terribly overlooked is The Lower Depths. Kurosawa captured the absurdity of life perfectly in that film. There are funny parts (the Japanese beatboxing scene) and sad parts. But overall it's just a picture of the throwing one's hands up in the air and saying "I don't know anymore"......just shrugging the shoulders and giving up on trying to make any sense out of it. That's how I see it. The final shot, and the final lines, where the guy looks straight into the camera and says something to the effect of "it was a great party....until the actor killed himself" was perfect. Who F-ing knows. I give up.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 04, 2011 11:02PM

lots of food in there tho

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Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 12, 2011 04:52PM

(.)(.)

o_0

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Posted by: Mr. Misery ()
Date: November 12, 2011 05:16PM

workin' in a lolz mine, go-in down, down, down...

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Sir Misery ()
Date: November 13, 2011 06:40AM

7/11 new business strategy seems to be cut back on the overpriced food stuffs and turn into a coffee/ fast food joint with soft lighting

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: classic thread ()
Date: April 20, 2019 04:04PM

Mr. Misery Wrote:
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> there is seriously SO much food in the grocery
> store.......it's really TOO much. I'm not even
> kidding you this time. I was in the grocer's the
> other day and I was in the breakfast foods aisle.
> I wanted some Pop Tarts. So I find where the Pop
> Tarts are. And then it hit me, right between the
> eyes: there are SO MANY different kinds of Pop
> Tarts, so many different choices and
> varieties....they have strawberry, they have brown
> sugar, they have cherry, they have strawberry
> cherry, they have s'mores, they have oreo Pop
> Tarts, they have gingerbread, they have blueberry,
> they have banana blueberry, they have banana
> blueberry blast, they have banana blueberry blast
> with brown sugar, they have raspberry, they have
> cranberry, they have cran-raspberry..........there
> are literally TOO MANY CHOICES of Pop Tarts. And
> it doesn't stop at Pop Tarts. There are too many
> choices of virtually every kind of product you can
> imagine. I can't decide. I LITERALLY CAN'T DECIDE
> sometimes. It's just too much. TOO MUCH. We need
> fewer choices. Fewer choices of Pop
> Tarts.......fewer choices in life. We are
> assaulted by too many choices. We need less, not
> more. I want as few choices in life as possible. I
> dream of a grocery store with only four aisles,
> and a dairy section. Possibly a produce section.
> But that's IT. No more. Only what you need. And
> all in plain brown wrapping paper......no
> fancy-schmancy designed packaging with
> anthropomorphized cartoon animals spouting
> catch-phrases. Just plain brown paper wrapping. A
> plain brown box that says "Cereal", in a plain,
> sans-serif font. A plain box that says "Chicken".
> And so on. This is how life ought to be. And
> furthermore, we should all stop wearing different
> clothes. There should be a standard-issue plain
> black bodysuit, one size fits all, that we all
> wear, everyday, no colors, no variations. Everyone
> looks the same. We all march to work or school in
> our plain black uniforms and never go anywhere or
> do anything but what absolutely HAS to be done:
> school, work, eat, go home, sleep. That's it.
> That's life. Life is a plain brown paper package
> that says "Potatoes". That's all. That's it. We're
> done. We're straight. That's how life should be.
> To me, that's what a decent life would be like.
>
> We're straight. Peace, I'm out of here.
> /


Classic!

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Classic thread indeed ()
Date: April 20, 2019 04:40PM

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: piggly wiggly ()
Date: April 21, 2019 10:29AM

Supermarkets in the USA throw away 43 billion pounds of food every year, according to the most recent study. Many stores are now committed to doing better, but grocery store food waste is still a massive problem.

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: WONDERNG ()
Date: April 21, 2019 01:16PM

What can you buy and not buy with EBT?

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Not anymore motherfucker!!!!! ()
Date: January 23, 2022 04:38PM

Mr. Misery Wrote:
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> there is seriously SO much food in the grocery
> store.......it's really TOO much.

Say that shit now motherfucker! (No pun intended)

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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Heckova job democrats!!!!!!!!!! ()
Date: January 23, 2022 04:41PM


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Re: so much food in the grocery store
Posted by: Leave some for others my ASS!!! ()
Date: January 23, 2022 04:43PM

I'm taking everything that isn't nailed down

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