Posting from phone so fuck c&p/ital. Anyways, D-40, it's not just you who's offtm; in fact I don't even think you're that offtm...? I mean, it's not like I'm gonna swoop into Mexico like Rambo and take out some Zetas. I just feel like 'stop doing coke' is kind of a weak response to 'thousands of Mexicans are being brutally murdered' that for it (the response) to be so vigorously defended here just seems o_O to me.
Fwiw I am not exactly thrilled with icey's 'well, countries be growin' response either
― revelatory juxtaposition there, bro (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 3 October 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
Flippant, that is the word I have been trying to think of. The topic I thought we were discussing deserves a less flippant treatment than the one it has been given.
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Monday, 3 October 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
us troops will never end up in mexico ... ?
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Monday, 3 October 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
rick perry has proposed that, fyi
― banana mogul (goole), Monday, 3 October 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
U think I'm being too flippant? I feel like maybe towards other ILXors, not towards the larger topic...
Xxp
― revelatory juxtaposition there, bro (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 3 October 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
Nonono -- I don't think you're being flippant. The digression into lols and countries be growin' is what I was referring to.
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Monday, 3 October 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
really dudes 'countries be growin'
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
you really think the fact that mexico grew at historic levels over the last decade is irrelevant and has nothing at all to do w/this shit
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
yall get a big seriousness award, congratulations
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
who said that? maybe if you would stop being dismissive for like 5 seconds we could all have a rational conversation, but i don't know if that's going to happen either.
thanks for my seriousness award, will hang it next to my harpie prize
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Monday, 3 October 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
man I think creamy's hearts in the right place here, but it reads like he sort of skims this thread and races off on a tangent that really misses the mark
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
The digression into lols and countries be growin' is what I was referring to.
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Monday, October 3, 2011 3:03 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
who said that? maybe if you would stop being dismissive for like 5 seconds we could all have a rational conversation
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Monday, October 3, 2011 3:12 PM (57 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
*rolls eyes*
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
you're impossible!
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Monday, 3 October 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
Another severed heads news story should cast off the lols.
― per metal injection (Eazy), Monday, 3 October 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
lol you seriously do not see the irony in accusing someone of being dismissive and frivolous while using the phrase 'countries be growin'
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
btw everyone has been i think p nice in mostly ignoring yr omg this thread is barbarous i know things abt mexico shtick
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
Dude she was directly quoting another post itt:
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i noticed that obvs duh
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
okay you really are impossible
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
omg did i you point out something i already knew, in quoting it did she endorse it, next time in questions from an impossible poster
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
iirc, she was pretty much doing the exact opposite of endorsing it
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
thanks a lot everyone for being nice to me in spite of my schtick
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Monday, 3 October 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
― revelatory juxtaposition there, bro (Drugs A. Money), Monday, October 3, 2011 2:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Monday, October 3, 2011 2:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― revelatory juxtaposition there, bro (Drugs A. Money), Monday, October 3, 2011 2:28 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Monday, October 3, 2011 3:03 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
now jon i know you think 'sort of skim this thread' but here is a lesson in reading comprehension 4 u - the first usage of 'countries be growin' is by my mans drugs a money, who was bless his heart generally defending me, except that hes not thrilled w/my countries be growin response which im taking to mean he thinks my treatment of the importance of the mexican economy was somewhat dismissive in the context of all the violence, like i was saying 'its ndb dudes the economy is growin' which of course i was not at all saying - then you can see he asks la lechera, winner of the 2011 thread scold award, if she thinks hes being flippant to which she replies 'nonono' - now if she were doing the exact opposite of endorsing the quote this wouldve been a good time to mention that she thought the quote was in fact, flippant, which it is, but instead she said no three times which does to me make her subsequent quoting of it look a lot more like an endorsement, particularly since its in line w/her general sentiment in this thread, which is that peoples opinions on this topic that are not her own are frivolous
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
oh boy semantics and namecalling, just what the internet was missing
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 3 October 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
That would be a great lesson for me if it weren't, you know, completely wrong.
(xpost)
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
But then I tend to avoid lessons in reading comprehension from angry internet types that think it takes too long to type out the words "for" and "you".
great argument thx
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
tldrsb
― dan m, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
tldrsbice cr?m
― dan m, Monday, October 3, 2011 9:45 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 3 October 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
j/k hermanos
btw lechera feel free to chime in anytime here
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I'm not going to waste anymore time arguing someone else's intent, but I'm pretty certain she was never endorsing the "countries be growin'" line. I read it as the thread in general was veering towards flippant with all the zings and jokes.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
I guess I don't really have anything to say at the moment. Now that I have been put in my place, let me see how it feels here and get my bearings.
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Monday, 3 October 2011 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Mexico+uncovers+tunnel+beneath+border/5251295/story.html
has this been discussed yet or are we now way past ever talking about the actual thread topic on this thread again
― the tax avocado (DJP), Monday, 3 October 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
that article is beneath my dignity
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
Oh man I want to post a zing here so bad (NB actually not one at cream's expense).
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
wait, Google claimed that article went up an hour ago but the byline is Aug 13
what happened, I am confused
― the tax avocado (DJP), Monday, 3 October 2011 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
'U.S. officials said in June that more than 150 secret tunnels for smuggling people and drugs into the United States have been found since 1990.'
wonder how many there are in all
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
in the face of widespread tunneling, I am not sure exactly what the "BUILD A BIGGER WALL" ppl think they will be achieving
― the tax avocado (DJP), Monday, 3 October 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
the thing abt the war on drugs in general and like many other wars is that the enemy will always be more dedicated and creative than we are, because its a bigger deal to them
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
But you see the wall will also go down a hundred miles too!
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHjKBjM1ngw
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 October 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r65sGnwf5bk
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 October 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure if this will reach you guys as a full article or in part, but today's WSJ has a lengthy piece on the repercussions of targeting bloggers.
― per metal injection (Eazy), Monday, 3 October 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
just google it then click through
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 October 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
wonder how many tunnels there are in total... ALIEN ANT FARM!
― (╯°□°)╯︵ mode squad) (dayo), Monday, 3 October 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jlucr_XJ30&feature=related
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Monday, 3 October 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
xpost Those girls may have gotten to the top, but they didn't swing over and get down to the bottom again. No border crossing, no credibility.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 October 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
Real quick: icey p much otm about what I was saying: I really don't have time to go into what it was that led me to misrepresent icey"s analysis so badly but def one reason was me trying to be clever and another was that I was rushing to go to work; I wish I wouldve left that whole thing off. LL otm about it being floppant, though more in the vein of flippantly dismissing the nuances in icey's take rather tham about the situation. But it still sounded way bad and LL being my friend, I believe her 'nonono' was more to soften the blow of the dawning realization that I justed outed myself as a crass moron rather than condoning that phrase as a valid take on anything icey said.
Anyways I hope don't re-derail this thread. I just wanted to apologize to the both of you aned to everybody. Have a good night!
― revelatory juxtaposition there, bro (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
no harm done -- icey is not incorrect in finding me annoying, and the only thing that kinda stung genuinely was when he said that people were being "nice" to mei sent him a webmail with an olive branch in itwe're all good afaic
anyway the song i posted is pretty good and it is about antswhat an exhausting day
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Monday, 3 October 2011 23:50 (twelve years ago) link