BOY THIS MAKES ME MAD !!!!!!!!!

[Spankbelly]

Well I've done lots of stupid things myself, and had many close calls.
Like when I was going 120mph on a motorcycle in a 30mph zone. A truck made a left turn in front of me, because he had no idea I was closing so fast.
I managed to change lanes in time to pass in front of the truck. His bumper caught my jeans and riped a big gash at the knee, but didn't touch my skin. Talk about close calls. I could have lost my leg. I could have gone head first into the trucks engine bay. My bike and I could have gone into the passenger compartment, killing both of us.

[No, I don't do 120mph in a residential zone anymore. Because I've started to think about hitting kids chasing balls]

Yes we all do stupid dangerous things. But if I had died, and was waiting in line at the pearly gates, and someone asked me how I got there, I wouldn't say "Some Jerk turned in front of my bike, even though I had the right of way." No. I'd say "I was driving recklessly, endangering the lives of others for my own pathetic thrills. Some innocent motorist turned in front of me, because it was imposable for him to judge my closing speed. Because I was going four times the posted limit. Gosh, I hope he doesn't feel responsible for my stupidity."
I once got a big horse foot in my chest, that smashed some ribs and stopped my heart for a few minutes. But that didn't happen because the horse kicked me. It happened because I was dumb enough to stand behind a nervous horse that was well known for kicking.
If I did go swimming with gators and lost an arm, I would not say "It happened because an animal attacked me." I would say "It happened because I was swimming with predators. Duh!"

 

[Spankbelly]

And yeah BTW, If anyone is dumb enough to start playing Russian Roulette, they have more than earned the Right to Die. I don't care how drunk they are.
If you are dumb enough to get that drunk, you are dumb enough to die.
How about that Right?

 

[Spankbelly]

Live in the real world, not movie quotes, MR APEX

Exactly. The real world where real people really swim with real predators that really chew arms off and those real people really do this really retarded thing often enough that real politicians have to pass real laws on how many real animals can be really slaughtered to avenge a real idiot.

Yeah, laugh it up. I think it's really funny too.

 

[rye]

I drink and I'm from Tennessee and I say kill em all for all I care. Feel guilty about a killing a bunch of animals after one of them ate his arm? ha! The only thing that I'd feel bad about would be that i didnt get to kill em myself. Are you some kind of hippie or something? If something ate my arm I'd be P-O'd if someone killed it before me.

About the comment that florida is not an evolved state...Florida is not a part of the deep south as you imply, florida is the north of the south. As a person from the area that you are making light of, I'd just like to say that all because lots of us have a different lifestyle doesnt make anyone any smarter or better than us. I know there are good folks up north (and in florida) and bad ones in the south, but since we're generalizing...If the economy collapsed, there are a LOT of people in the south who could get by just fine living off the land, who would look smart then?

I hunt for dove, bobwhite, deer, hog, rabbit, and squirrel. I fur trap four months a year and make several thousand dollars a year doing it. I can catch enough fish in a day to feed me for a week in unstocked streams and rivers. I can tan fur with natural materials(no chemicals), I work as a butcher, I am an amateur blacksmith with a coal burning forge, I have a huge garden behind my house growing peas, pole beans, tomatos, potatos, watermelon, cantaloupe, and green leaf lettuce. I have a coup with about 30 chickens and a cock. When the time comes I slaughter, pluck, and butcher them myself. I handle all of my own fur and meat. My only real hobbies are keeping fish and reading, and once a week I play chess with an old man at the gas station down the road. If being more 'evolved' means living off soy beans and raisins in a forest made of concrete and steel and not helping your neighbor, you can have it. I dont live the way I do because I dont have a choice.

I guess that means I'm stupid and I dont have the right to live. If it all ended, the economy, countries, currency, whatever, I'd have a pretty good shot at survival and a vegetarian hippie would have less chance. If you want to talk about natural selection, maybe you shouldnt be making fun of the rural 'rednecks' like me. Sure what the kid did was stupid, but to say he deserved it or he oughta be killed over a bunch of lizards is just stupid. If some looney had killed 8 human beings it wouldnt have hardly made the news but everyone cares more about the poor lizards now than each other.

 

[SteveR]

And yeah BTW, If anyone is dumb enough to start playing Russian Roulette, they have more than earned the Right to Die. I don't care how drunk they are.
If you are dumb enough to get that drunk, you are dumb enough to die.
How about that Right?

I agree with you here, you have to draw the line and take responsibility, everyone's always looking for blame when it is usually themselves that's the utter prat.

 

[Hawkfish3.0]

Wow really, rye?

You know, you make some great points, but then you screw it all up with some really ignorant statements.

The person that said that Florida was not evolved made an ignorant statement, for sure.

But it does no one any good for you to make the same broad-sweeping generalizations in return.

Finally, this is a forum that has many members that you may qualify as 'hippies'. If by 'hippies' you mean people that have a strong sense of animal rights. There is always more than one way to look at things my friend. I understand your points, I just think you could have made them a little more effectively.

 

[SteveR]

Sorry to tell you whether Florida is the south or the north or the ass end of mexico - the rest of the world on the whole thinks its a backwards place and full of old folk driving cars with 5 litre engines on roads that the speed limit is 55mph! Having been there myself I can confirm these fears!

 

[Spankbelly]

I drink and I'm from Tennessee and I say kill em all for all I care. Feel guilty about a killing a bunch of animals after one of them ate his arm? ha! The only thing that I'd feel bad about would be that i didnt get to kill em myself. Are you some kind of hippie or something? If something ate my arm I'd be P-O'd if someone killed it before me.

About the comment that florida is not an evolved state...Florida is not a part of the deep south as you imply, florida is the north of the south. As a person from the area that you are making light of, I'd just like to say that all because lots of us have a different lifestyle doesnt make anyone any smarter or better than us. I know there are good folks up north (and in florida) and bad ones in the south, but since we're generalizing...If the economy collapsed, there are a LOT of people in the south who could get by just fine living off the land, who would look smart then?

I hunt for dove, bobwhite, deer, hog, rabbit, and squirrel. I fur trap four months a year and make several thousand dollars a year doing it. I can catch enough fish in a day to feed me for a week in unstocked streams and rivers. I can tan fur with natural materials(no chemicals), I work as a butcher, I am an amateur blacksmith with a coal burning forge, I have a huge garden behind my house growing peas, pole beans, tomatos, potatos, watermelon, cantaloupe, and green leaf lettuce. I have a coup with about 30 chickens and a cock. When the time comes I slaughter, pluck, and butcher them myself. I handle all of my own fur and meat. My only real hobbies are keeping fish and reading, and once a week I play chess with an old man at the gas station down the road. If being more 'evolved' means living off soy beans and raisins in a forest made of concrete and steel and not helping your neighbor, you can have it. I dont live the way I do because I dont have a choice.

I guess that means I'm stupid and I dont have the right to live. If it all ended, the economy, countries, currency, whatever, I'd have a pretty good shot at survival and a vegetarian hippie would have less chance. If you want to talk about natural selection, maybe you shouldnt be making fun of the rural 'rednecks' like me. Sure what the kid did was stupid, but to say he deserved it or he oughta be killed over a bunch of lizards is just stupid. If some looney had killed 8 human beings it wouldnt have hardly made the news but everyone cares more about the poor lizards now than each other.

This was well written.
So let me ask you, one land living hillbilly redneck to another...
If you lived in an area with gators, you LIVE THERE you are not just some dumb tourist, and you go swimming with 8 or more gators when you know better, and you get an arm gnawed off...is that the lizards fault?
Before you answer, remember that you are an intelligent and experienced human. And the lizard is just a lizard.
That's what we are discussing. Personal responsibility.
If you don't have any, sooner or later, you lose.
As nature intended.

 

[CrazyMan298]

It's sad that our society caters to morons... People like this is why I think they need to take warning labels off of things. That would solve a bunch of issues with morons right there.

Hooray for natural selection!

 

[Nabbig2]

It's sad that our society caters to morons... People like this is why I think they need to take warning labels off of things. That would solve a bunch of issues with morons right there.

Hooray for natural selection!

Haha yeah. If we had some more natural selection among humans, morons like that guy wouldn't be around to ruin the world