Random BS people say that you get fed up with.

[Da Orky Man]

we would be much more advanced if christianity wouldnt have had ruled europe. how much is questionable, as we cant predict future, but it is undoubltedly true statement.

Then pray tell, why don't the Chinese have space ships? Or the Africans? Not only do they NOT have a Church, but their own belives are not dogmatic in a way that'd hinder scientific progress? Point is the Dark Ages are not a result of Christianity, it is the result of internal strife, foreign invasion, plagues and more. Had the Church, an organization that sponsored the arts AND sciences, not to mention did massive charity work and provided a somewhat central authority, not existed, the conditions of the continent would have been worse.

There have been many Dark Ages in history - the Greeks had two I believe, the Natives have at least one, there were a few in Asia. They are not the result of dogma, but of turbulent political environment.

And in the turbulent Dark Ages the Church was the one stable authority.

Um, China does have a space program. So does India and Nigeria. Hell, the Chinese are currently building a space station, and are looking at a possible manned Martian mission.

However, as you say, the Catholic Church only thing keeping some semblance of control over Europe, as the Romans had done previously.

 

[Strazdas]

Well, to be honest ive seen plenty of people buy pimp speakers, conenct them to a decade old booster thats fit only for laptop speakers and pretend to tell the difference, when there is no real difference since the booster is too crappy and is limiting the quality.
also most people confuse Boss with quality.

So what? Those people have nothing to do with someone who is truly looking for quality . Sure, it can get annoying when someone wants to show off their 2500 dollar Bose home theater and claim it's the worlds best home theater, but those people just want to show off, it has nothing to do with finding something with good quality.

Those people are sadly the majority, and as you know, majority forms stereotypes.

 

[Angelblaze]

Anything involving the word 'agenda'.
Like seriously.


Every single group that might be trying to do something to positively benefit people who need it like say, gay couples wanting equal fucking rights - obviously an evil fucking secretive agenda that we all need to be terrified about. Sure, sure, whatever they are doing may or may not technically fit under the word 'agenda' but when they (as in people like say FOX 'news') use it as a kind of 'yeah big evil scary plot FEAR IT MURICA, THEY COMIN TO TAKE YER PHREEDOMZ' its irritating.

And the
'women already have equal rights' statement ONLY WHEN THE DEFENSE FOR SAID ARGUMENT IS THE FOLLOWING 'they always get child custody' 'you can't hit them' and 'they get spoiled'.


Just...annoys me. No, women do not always get child custody. Some women don't even want a child. And no offense to guys out there but no. Just no.

I'm not quite sure what the mans name was but..

There was this man who had a child with a woman from Mexico. Long story short after she discovered that he was beating the kid and basically being a jerk she got the fuck away. Moved to America.

The man then took the Spanish papers from a Spanish court - these papers were for.his.arrest. - to an American court and claimed that they were for the child custody.

He got it.

Gets better.

After I believe he convinced the police that the mother was of danger because she had removed him from her own and the child's life they intercepted the son's school bus - without the mother's knowledge - and took the child.

While he yelled 'Please don't let him take me, he beats me' (which should be en-fucking-ough for increased investigation) and cried for his mother.

Child went missing until someone actually took to time to go 'hey wait these papers say this guy should be in jail'.

 

[Wraith]

Anything involving the word 'agenda'.
Like seriously.


Every single group that might be trying to do something to positively benefit people who need it like say, gay couples wanting equal fucking rights - obviously an evil fucking secretive agenda that we all need to be terrified about. Sure, sure, whatever they are doing may or may not technically fit under the word 'agenda' but when they (as in people like say FOX 'news') use it as a kind of 'yeah big evil scary plot FEAR IT MURICA, THEY COMIN TO TAKE YER PHREEDOMZ' its irritating.

Clearly, you have no idea of the dark AGENDAS (duhn, duhn,dunh) being held in certain secret clubs.

 

[EeveeElectro]

When people say "You/they need help", implying they have a mental problem. Usually over something stupidly trivial too.

It makes me sick to be honest. I've been around and suffered at the hands of people with actual mental disabilities and then a prat accuses someone of being mental because maybe they did something they personally don't like.

Funnily enough, those who accuse others of it usually have some kind of mental problem themselves.

 

[Strazdas]

Those people are sadly the majority, and as you know, majority forms stereotypes.

Yes, they use the fallacy guilt by association to argue against the existence of any kind of difference in quality between things.

Here is George Carlin making a guilt by association in an attempt to disprove the existence of good food:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X08upzdwejg

He is basically saying; "High quality food doesn't exist! High quality food is toasted snail penises and that isn't really good."

Which is the same as saying; "High quality stereos don't exist! High quality stereos are Bose and they all produce bad sound"

so you use a comic, making an obvious joke, as a proof for a fallacy. yeah. okay.
Sure there are plenty of good quality stereos that people use. but when someone comes up and says "look i just bought this great quality audio system" the safe bet is to assume he bought a big boss. BOss is not bad when its used properly, heck, boss is very pleasant to my eats (actually my hearing is a bit difficult as for example high pitch voices would annoy me extremely, but even higher pitch mechanical sound will never will), but thats not the only thing in an audio system...

Just...annoys me. No, women do not always get child custody. Some women don't even want a child. And no offense to guys out there but no. Just no.

so one anecdotical case is used to prove a false point...
nice. WOman are much more likely to get child custody. if everything else is equal, woman will always get it. in fact the only way our courts would give the child to the man is if the woman are extremely uncapable of raising it (jail, bum, drug addict). It does not matter that the child wants to stay with dad and dad has a steady income and can provide, the argument for "mother loves him more" always win in court.

When people say "You/they need help", implying they have a mental problem. Usually over something stupidly trivial too.

It makes me sick to be honest. I've been around and suffered at the hands of people with actual mental disabilities and then a prat accuses someone of being mental because maybe they did something they personally don't like.

Funnily enough, those who accuse others of it usually have some kind of mental problem themselves.

you are aware that 1 out of 3 people in the world has mental problems, mostly not diagnosed and ignored, right?
Heck, i know i got a couple and noone ever diagnosed me with anything. in fact most people pretend to not see it.
i understand that there are people going around "your mental" to everyone, and thats silly, but many peopel do indeed are mental.

 

[Resonantscythe]

People using the word n00b in the gaming community...
Seriously, because I have one bad game doesn't make me a n00b if I've been playing it for 2 year, geez! -.-

newb= novice N00B=unskilled

Well I'm still on the side that one bad game doesn't make one an unskilled player if we use your description of the word.
Everyone has a bad day or a bad game every ones in a while, unskilled is if you don't get better at a game from play number 5 to 2 years later. Having bad stats in 1 match doesn't make one a noob.
So even with your description I think the noob term is used wrongly a lot in the gaming commnity.

I don't disagree with you on that, just was commenting on the amount of experience. Anyway the people who use those terms deserve to be ignored.

 

[Guffe]

People using the word n00b in the gaming community...
Seriously, because I have one bad game doesn't make me a n00b if I've been playing it for 2 year, geez! -.-

newb= novice N00B=unskilled

Well I'm still on the side that one bad game doesn't make one an unskilled player if we use your description of the word.
Everyone has a bad day or a bad game every ones in a while, unskilled is if you don't get better at a game from play number 5 to 2 years later. Having bad stats in 1 match doesn't make one a noob.
So even with your description I think the noob term is used wrongly a lot in the gaming commnity.

Anyway the people who use those terms deserve to be ignored.

This is usually my approach too the ones spamming "n00b" in the comments all the time
I just turn my game mode on and prove them wrong right there and then instead

 

[EeveeElectro]

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Besides the point. People have questioned my mental stability because I cosplay for crying out loud. Clearly I can't tell the difference between fiction and reality because I like to have a laugh and dress up sometimes. Same with playing games and watching anime. People like to throw around "You're mental, you need help" without even thinking about what they're accusing someone of.
They're using the same thought pattern of an abusive partner, trying to grind someone down and make them think they're mental.
Just because you don't partake in someone's hobby and find it odd, doesn't make them insane.