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demonrail666 01.25.2010 02:35 PM

in a few months time, I suspect it'll be this cunt:

 

Dead-Air 01.25.2010 03:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RanaldoNecro
Why do Americans hate authority so much?
Don't they know that authority can be a good thing...

For example a mechanic is an authority on fixing engines....


You have answered your own question here. A mechanic is an authority on fixing engines, and so people who don't know how to do so are at the mercy of the mechanic. There are good people who use their mechanical skill in a way that doesn't take advantage of those without it, but there are at least as many who see their "authority" as a ticket to getting paid excessive fees by those who are vulnerable to them. Ask most people to describe a "typical mechanic" and they will describe the latter.

Keeping It Simple 01.25.2010 03:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by demonrail666
in a few months time, I suspect it'll be this cunt:

 


As opposed to this cunt, and the bigger cunt before him?

 

demonrail666 01.25.2010 03:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keeping It Simple
As opposed to this cunt, and the bigger cunt before him?





 


I probably dislike Blair and Brown (almost) as much as you do. Neither of them have made my skin crawl quite as much as Cameron seems to, though.

the ikara cult 01.25.2010 04:02 PM

Cameron is the cunts' cunt

!@#$%! 01.25.2010 04:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RanaldoNecro
Why do Americans hate authority so much?
Don't they know that authority can be a good thing...

For example a mechanic is an authority on fixing engines....


yeah but that's not "authority" as the question defined it. here you mean it as expertise; there, it's synonymous with power: "people in power". a mechanic may be an expert on engines, but it doesn't have power over them-- "hey you, i command you to run"-- let's not stretch metaphors.

"authority" in the context of the question however has the connotation that the power is legitimate-- which is another story.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ploesj
anyone who abuses his authority. there's nothig wrong with authority on itself.


well, sure, rationally, i agree with this, but instinctually, lemme just say, from the bottom of my heart, FUCK THE BOSSES.

such attitude has made me highly unemployable over the years. oh yeah.

Keeping It Simple 01.26.2010 07:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by the ikara cult
Cameron is the cunts' cunt


You'd have to be a cunt's cunt to know a cunt's cunt. Cunt.

Genteel Death 01.28.2010 02:45 AM

Anyone in charge of a bank

Inhuman 01.28.2010 10:26 AM

-Berlusconi
-People have dislike all feds. Sure a lot of police officers are dicks, but I hate encountering "counter-cultural" pricks who holla 'Fuck The Police' everywhere they go or blow up police cars with petrol bombs when their favorite team wins a hockey game....

artsygrrl 01.28.2010 01:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ploesj
anyone who abuses his authority. there's nothig wrong with authority on itself.

Yeah, that's exactly what I meant.


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