47 Replies to “No Fun”

  1. Life did suck in the GDR as well. That is why so many Germans were chomping at the bit for its fall in ’89.

    Who in their right mind would want to live under a system where you were one denunciation away from having your life ruined?

  2. We used to get sick, really sick, in the past. People died from sickness all the time.

    Most of society as a whole are now paranoid, which leads to irrational decision making because most are in the fight or flight response mode…except Florida.

  3. Boo Hoo.
    Sucks to be him.
    I am having fun and anticipate even more fun in the near future.
    When we start hunting Liberal Style Parasites,will we need a bag limit?

    My enemies have openly declared war and proudly self identified..
    Life is good and getting better by the day.

    As for “returning to normal” yeah,good luck with that,you Statist Thugs and quivering cowards.
    While you are cringing in terror from life,why would I not encourage you to huddle ever deeper into your “safe space”..

    Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

    If you have not figured that out by now,nothing can save you..from a miserable existence.
    Life is short,fit only to be lived.
    For death is the completion..of your lifecycle.

  4. Something of an intellectual piece from Rick. Didn’t he form the proud boys and overthrow the US government or somethink?

  5. “We once consumed a shared, mass culture, whose products we understood even if we didn’t enjoy them, and that provided a sense of commonality. “The digital revolution has shattered that mirror,” ”

    Good. The ‘shared mass culture’ was awful. Television in the 3 decades from 1990 was infinitely better than the 3 decades before.

    If you need something fun buy a VR system.

      1. I think we know how xim/xer/xit entertained xim/xer/xitself before xim/xer/xit started watching TV…..

    1. God you’re bad at this trolling thing. “Television in the 3 decades from 1990 was infinitely better than the 3 decades before.”

      That’s not even wrong, it’s from another planet.

      1. No it’s objectively true, as usual I am completely right. There were a few good shows back then like The Rockford Files but there was also tons of crap like OG Star Trek, which sucked and was inferior to TNG (which got good after Roddenberry left, natch). They had Magnum PI, we have Breaking Bad. Men of nostalgic shlock will take the former, men of culture and taste the latter.

        On children’s cartoons the divide is even starker. The Before Times had Johnny Quest, everything else sucked and everything else by Hannah Barbera in particular is a damn war crime. Today’s kids have an amazing array of show, the 2007-2011 dark ages notwithstanding.

        1. Breaking Bad is culture? This coming from an idiot who believes that comic books are culture if you call them “graphic novels”, this is actually predictable.

    2. “If you need something fun buy a VR system.”

      Yeah, in your case VR may actually be an improvement.

      The reality is that we had much more fun, sex, parties, freedom, driving, doing crazy shit and gettign away with it than your generation. A kid could work a couple of summers and have enough cash to buy his own car and to drive it to high school during the week, and pick up his girl camping on the weekend. This was a reality even in early 90s when I got here. Kid Rock singing “All Summer Long” is sci-fi for you and was normal for us.
      You? You finger paint on your phone on the bus ride to your VR.

      1. “have enough cash to buy his own car and to drive it to high school during the week, ”

        We have better things to spend it on, like VR and vastly better cars. Cars back then sucked. Kid Rock also sucked.

        1. You can’t afford a car anymore you dumb shit, and you will not be insured, and you cannot even drive it by yourself without a nanny in it. Nor can you work on it. And no, you don’t have better cars. You have more reliable appliances. There is a difference, driving is like sex, you can’t VR it.

          Kid Rock wasn’t then. He is singing about the world then. A world that you will never experience. Not even in VR.

          1. 1) The spike in car prices is temporary. A monetary-driven phenomenon that will end

            2) Before The Spike, I could easily afford a used car. A good one too, like the one just outside my place.

            “you will not be insured”

            But I am.

            “you cannot even drive it by yourself without a nanny in it”

            But I can.

            “you don’t have better cars. You have more reliable appliances.”

            IOW better cars. Cars that don’t break down if I look at them funny. Cars where I don’t have to fiddle with the choke and pray it turns over. It doesn’t have a metal dashboard that will filet my face in the event of an accident. Thanks Japan & Korea!

            I see what the problem is: you don’t live in the real world. You live in a fantasy realm of your own imagining.

          2. I was talking about the fun young people had, highschool, undergrads. You’re proud of having a used car with an MA. Case closed. You lose. You can’t even relate how much your generation has been robbed.

            Also cars have been increasing in price steadily for decades.

          3. “cars have been increasing in price steadily for decades.”

            The point that elides you is that the quality has vastly increased. Yeah you could get a new car for nothing in 1970. But those cars were terrible. Wouldn’t make it to 100K miles.

            “I was talking about the fun young people had, highschool, undergrads. ”

            Yeah, and you were pretending that camping is fun. It doesn’t lose harder than that.

          4. Your point about cars only illustrates how limited your perspective is. Very few fun cars left that one can afford on middle class income. And there is less of those every year.

            Yes camping is fun. That is why I go camping, and canoeing, and hiking, and wild life photography. They’re fun, that’s why people do it. Just because you can’t relate to something that is beyond you, it does not mean it is not fun.

        2. Unme.

          “…We have better things to spend it on..”

          No you didn’t..not even close.

          Fact of the matter is this: All the Digital “revolution” did was increase the distance from your friends & Family…ergo you’re in your basement jerkin one off by YERSLF 9 times outa 10.

          I Survived/Lived quite well in the 70’s/80’s..and into the 90’s without ever a cpu in my possesion as did most of us….and I have never lived in a basement.

      1. Thanks for doing such a good job of demonstrating the kind of ‘shared shlock’ we’re leaving behind, hopefully forever. Imagine thinking Kid Rock is good and not dying of embarrassment when you post him.

        EDIT: also, camping sucks. At least any kind of ‘serious’ camping. The only fun kind is the type where you “hike” for 20 min at most with a small liquor store in tow and spend the day drinking with friends and listening to The Rolling Stones. Serious ‘roughing it’ is god damned awful. It’s just simulating being a refugee. Bugs, sub-par food, uncomfortable sleeping arrangements. FTS

          1. I see what the problem is: you don’t live in the real world. You live in a fantasy realm of your own imagining.

            Halo 3 > camping

          2. IKR, cretin disses everything old, like Kid Rock, and loves everything modern, like Rolling Stones.

        1. “All Summer Long” is written to the sound of “Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyrd. It is a tribute to those times and references the Skynyrd song in the lyrics. “Werewolves of London” was released few years after “Sweet Home Alabama”. “Werewolves of London” was “inspired” by the sound of “Sweet Home Alabama”.

  6. “What the designers at Facebook and Twitter didn’t understand – but James Madison and other constitutional authors did – was that people are engaged as much if not more by anger than pleasure.”

    Not so sure about the “didn’t understand” part. I’m sure it’s more along the lines of “didn’t care”.

    But I agree with much of what he has said.

    1. I’m sure it’s more along the lines of “didn’t care”

      I know people who work at Facebook. I can tell you with authority that it’s “built a business model on it”.

  7. If I were to actually acknowledge the trolls, I am now starting to believe their existence and purpose is to but try and dig into the recesses of banality, conjecture and virtue signalling to find value in life. They cannot be that foolish as to believe what they deposit here or any other common sense site. That twisted mind can only come from depravity and willful evil.

    Prove me wrong.

    1. Well imagine the soul-rot and unbearable inner state involved in wanting to delete childhood. And every gaslight is an act of vandalism on the reality they despise.

      When pressed they’ll probably tell you they love people so much they get jaded when they don’t live up to their proper potential

    2. Glacierman

      +++++/\

      Yea, folks that weren’t around when Ed Sullivan introduced the Beatles….dats shit you’ll never see again.

  8. Problematically, the idiots in the media believe that the opinions voiced on social media reflect popular opinion. I don’t accept that. We’re really not all jerks.

  9. Riddle me this.

    Why I am I seeing so many chipmunks in urban areas lately?

    Lockdowns starved the rats?

    Chipmunks are so beautiful and are masters of the skedaddle.

  10. What’s more fun than banning your political opponents pastimes?.. Boycotts and sanctions on everything.. Its all for the best, except its not.. We have gone from reasonable logical regulation to parts per million hair splitting.. Regulation grows with government.. Our dystopian future..

  11. Leftism is a form of Cromwellian puritanism.

    Christmas must be banned, as any other holiday must be, as well, because (insert word salad reason here).

    There is an almost evangelical fervor in support of the cause-du-jour, which changes jour by jour.

    The inflated sense of self-worth has also rocketed up to the point where even a mere look can get someone arrested.

    This tiresome, miserable trope has been going on for a while.

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