SpeedRacer 1 #1 June 22, 2007 http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28832 I used to know a couple people like this! Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Butters 0 #2 June 22, 2007 I love the people who buy material possesions with images of Che Guevara from Target, Wal-Mart, etc... "That looks dangerous." Leopold Stotch Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #3 June 22, 2007 Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Royd 0 #4 June 22, 2007 Funny how in supporting the working class, they remove themselves from it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #5 June 22, 2007 QuoteI used to know a couple people like this! Many of the hippies of the 1960's were indeed from very well to do families. Many of the anti-war leaders were very well educated and benefited from their draft exempt status to get that education and have since done quite well for themselves baded on thier family position. Many of the communists were from well to do families and suffered from guilt about their familial status.....but have gone on to embrace capitalism and consumerism. When you HAVE money you can afford these little detours in your life. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Richards 0 #6 June 22, 2007 Love some of his comments Quote"For years, much like the oppressed St. Petersburg factory worker of 1918, I was controlled by the ruling class," Briggs said. "The people who owned the house I lived in told me when to come to the table for supper, when to do my chores, and when to be home on Saturday nights. They even controlled the means of transportation, giving me the keys to their Ford Taurus when and only when they saw fit." Briggs said his parents still control him, as all capitalist running-dogs do the masses, using their payment of his rent and tuition as a means of influencing which courses he takes. 'This is what I'm spending $21,000 a year on? For you to watch Woody Allen movies?' Even here in college, hundreds of miles from my capitalist oppressors, they still hold sway over me. Until the day I am loosed from their chains, I shall not truly be free." Maybe our little hero should pay his own tuition, and earn money for his own car if freedom is what he so desires. I ran into so many shitheads like this in my younger days (not sure where they all went). Be good to see this spoiled ungratefull little fuck suddenly cut off from his "bourgeois" Daddy's money. He should be used for medical experiments. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #7 June 22, 2007 Quote Maybe our little hero should pay his own tuition, and earn money for his own car if freedom is what he so desires. I ran into so many shitheads like this in my younger days (not sure where they all went). Be good to see this spoiled ungratefull little fuck suddenly cut off from his "bourgeois" Daddy's money. He should be used for medical experiments. PSSST You do realize this is an ONION article right Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Butters 0 #8 June 22, 2007 I don't think he does which makes it all the more funny. "That looks dangerous." Leopold Stotch Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #9 June 22, 2007 I thought my laugh-ie faces and The Onion logo above the article was a give-away, but apparently not.maybe we should talk to HH about an option for "closed-captioning for the humor-impaired." Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Richards 0 #10 June 22, 2007 Quote PSSST You do realize this is an ONION article right OK. I am a bit slow on the uptake and I suspect this is one of those "woooosh right over my head" moments. What did I miss? Obviously the ONION is a rag magazine but it sounds like they were agreeing with him. My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Butters 0 #11 June 22, 2007 The ONION is to adults what MAD is to children."That looks dangerous." Leopold Stotch Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Richards 0 #12 June 22, 2007 Quote Quote The ONION is to adults what MAD is to children. DOH!!! Blushing like a fucking tomato at my computer!!!!!! Never heard of the ONION.My only defence is that I have actually met people who like this ficticious character who scream and rant about their capitalist parents while living high on their money, so to me this parody seemed like arguments I have heard from people who were serious. After all I live in the Peoples Socialist Republic of Canuckistan. I shall now glow crimson red in embarrasment for the better part of the evening My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Butters 0 #13 June 22, 2007 No harm, no foul. I think everyone has met someone like this at one time or another."That looks dangerous." Leopold Stotch Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #14 June 22, 2007 QuoteI don't think he does which makes it all the more funny. DUDE.. I really needed that laugh..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Richards 0 #15 June 22, 2007 Quote DUDE.. I really needed that laugh..... Glad to be of service My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewwhyte 1 #16 June 23, 2007 QuoteQuoteI used to know a couple people like this! Many of the hippies of the 1960's were indeed from very well to do families. Many of the anti-war leaders were very well educated and benefited from their draft exempt status to get that education and have since done quite well for themselves baded on thier family position. Many of the communists were from well to do families and suffered from guilt about their familial status.....but have gone on to embrace capitalism and consumerism. When you HAVE money you can afford these little detours in your life. Umm,.. ever heard of Fredrick Engles? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #17 June 23, 2007 Quote Friedrich Engels....yes I have heard of him. While serving in the Peoples Democratic Republic at USAF SERE .. in my Black uniform with red stars on the uniform ,we had a mandatory reading list. On it was The Communist Manifesto as well as Das Kapital by Karl Marx. We also studied some of the writings of Comrade Lenin ( rather prolific writer) as well as a translation of Quotations from Chairman Mao's "Little Red Book". They wanted to make sure that we were well read in the ideology of our major opponents at the time in the 1970's.. It made for more realistic training when dealing with the "criminals" we were holding during that phase of training. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewwhyte 1 #18 June 23, 2007 Karl Marx sponged off Engels' evil capitalist father for decades. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
