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- inactive, on 12/15/2008, -1/+362The pic is Hef, not Clint.
- wrathofg0d, on 12/16/2008, -12/+172GET OFF MY LAWN
- inactive, on 12/16/2008, -70/+206It's true. Americans think their fellow taxpayers should:
pay their mortgages
give them free wireless internet
supply them jobs (but not too hard)
pay for their health care
give them cars and HDTVs
It's pathetic and soft.
How about: get a job, pay your way, punch a hippie. - rda1441, on 12/16/2008, -24/+120He's right.....most of people now a days are weak little cry-babies. It sucks, everyone either hides, or cries about every little thing.
What caused the sissification of America? I blame political correctness. - ASfinkterSezWut, on 12/16/2008, -3/+99When I was growing up we played with guns and made our own bow and arrows... we played with chemistry sets and made explosive materials out of household items, we constructed complex toys out of Meccano sets with real tools and parts small enough to lose forever even with the magnifying glass we used to start fires and burn insects... we rode bikes without helmets and made our own Dukes of Hazard ramps... got lost in the forest over-night, climbed buildings and jumped off bridges into rivers...
...Kids growing up today play with blocks labeled : "Do not ingest" . - BESTenemy, on 12/16/2008, -8/+91It all started when we quit being citizens and became consumers.
- outoforder, on 12/16/2008, -7/+65I think Digg is full of babies.
- Mykonos85, on 12/16/2008, -11/+68i think he hit the nail on the head. Dirty Harry could never be made today...unless harry takes up a superficial love interest who brings him out of his misanthropist shell and teaches him that violence breeds more violence and criminals are the byproduct of an ultra racist American society. oh, and it would be rated pg13
- GreatSunJester, on 12/16/2008, -0/+41And still they eat the blocks......
- Th3_anOmoLy, on 12/15/2008, -6/+47Sounds like a decent interview. I may actually go purchase the copy of Esquire...
..on second thought, I may just read the interview while standing in the periodical section of my local bookstore. - LoveWidescreen, on 12/16/2008, -2/+43"You got people like this around you? Country is full of them now! People walking around all day long, every minute of the day — worried about EVERYTHING! Worried about the air, worried about the water, worried about the soil. Worried about insecticides, pesticides, food additives, carcinogens; worried about radon gas; worried about asbestos. Worried about saving endangered species. "
"Where did this sudden fear of germs come from in this country? Have you noticed this? The media constantly running stories about all the latest infections? Salmonella, E-coli, hanta virus, bird flu, and Americans will panic easily so everybody's running around scrubbing this and spraying that and overcooking their food and repeatedly washing their hands, trying to avoid all contact with germs. It's ridiculous and it goes to ridiculous lengths. "
"One of the reasons is because we were using that soft language. That language that takes the life out of life. And it is a function of time. It does keep getting worse. I'll give you another example. Sometime during my life. Sometime during my life, toilet paper became bathroom tissue. I wasn't notified of this. No one asked me if I agreed with it. It just happened. Toilet paper became bathroom tissue. Sneakers became running shoes. False teeth became dental appliances. Medicine became medication. Information became directory assistance. The dump became the landfill. Car crashes became automobile accidents. Partly cloudy bacame partly sunny. Motels became motor lodges. House trailers became mobile homes. Used cars became previously owned transportation. Room service became guest-room dining. And constipation became occasional irregularity. When I was a little kid, if I got sick they wanted me to go to the hospital and see a doctor. Now they want me to go to a health maintenance organization...or a wellness center to consult a healthcare delivery professional. Poor people used to live in slums. Now the economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities. And they're broke! They're broke! They don't have a negative cash-flow position. They're ***** broke! Cause a lot of them were fired. You know, fired. management wanted to curtail redundancies in the human resources area, so many people are no longer viable members of the workforce."
-- George Carlin, who apparently agrees with Clint Eastwood (or the other way around) - bpoteat, on 12/16/2008, -6/+45To all above posters agreeing with him ^^^
You do realize he's talking about you, right? - korea, on 12/16/2008, -0/+36America went soft when Hef did?
- JohnFrum, on 12/16/2008, -2/+37I've long been concerned that we're raising a generation of nerf children.
- pintomp3, on 12/16/2008, -1/+36hef thinks america is full of pussies. but that's just his experience.
- bukkakeface, on 12/16/2008, -2/+36We can’t bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell ‘em stories that don’t go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. ‘Give me five bees for a quarter,’ you’d say.
Now where were we? Oh yeah - the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones... - haydukeqc, on 12/16/2008, -15/+49Spot on Mr. Eastwood
- mrmod, on 12/16/2008, -17/+50i agree. the Millenial (20-30) generation is a buch of 'now now now me me me' brats with no balls, intense apathy, and are generally sleazy. the post millenials(10-20) are a the same way, perhaps even more coddled, especially with their 'internet insulation'. it looks like evolution, but it's not, it's a top down pacification of people from advertising to the US fascist shift to Boomer-based ethics
and it's not violence, it's being responsible, being patient, being Honest. you know, being a good person. people seem to want to both hate authority when they don't like it and then cuddle up when they might have fight in the metaphorical and literal sense. - sodade, on 12/16/2008, -4/+34to crush your enemies, drive them before you and to hear the lamentations of their women?
- nicholasroussos, on 12/16/2008, -7/+35"the iconic Oscar winner thinks he knows when the problem began. 'Maybe when people started asking about the meaning of life,' "
*****, Renee Descartes was asking those questions more than 300 years earlier. So, try again. - rmkonves, on 12/16/2008, -12/+40Clint is and always will be a badass.
- arbysrocks, on 12/16/2008, -2/+25I really hope you don't drink decaf soy lattes. I'm really hoping so.
- awtripp, on 12/16/2008, -1/+22You forgot fund stadium's for their local sports team -- or is it only the Yankees who can request millions in tax payer money to do that?
- AaronCo, on 12/16/2008, -6/+27Boredom... it's all just boredom. You work a dead end job doing stuff that even a monkey wouldn't think was important, come home to a little life and at the end of the day it's all devoid of meaning. So yea, ppl get picky and start looking for problems where none exist. How else do you fill the time?
- stevedyun, on 12/16/2008, -4/+25Asking about the meaning of life is for people who haven't already discovered what is best in life.
- Pixelante, on 12/16/2008, -2/+23He actually says that in Gran Torino, and after that moment the sentence will never be the same thing again.
- jimw428, on 12/16/2008, -10/+31I think Clint may have been talking about people just like you.
- breckinshire, on 12/16/2008, -0/+20The submitter.
- creepermclurker, on 12/16/2008, -28/+48Right, this coming from a Texan. A state that's had its lips wrapped around the federal tit since the Alamo.
- santiago1, on 12/16/2008, -1/+20 Dugg for bringing back the memories....
- exgiexpcv, on 12/16/2008, -3/+22Like those 20-30 somethings in Iraq and Afghanistan, right? Bunch of crybaby pussies.
Sorry, your generalisation got me a bit miffed. Guess I'm just a bit oversensitive. - slvrbullet87, on 12/16/2008, -4/+22The problem with not handling bullies and such the old way is that now people want to sympathize with the bully, they want to "care about him" and "empathize" with his reasons for lashing out. Why he hits other kids isn't as important as getting him to quit hitting other kids. The simplest way for this to happen is for him to get the ***** beat out of him. Then you can get to the root.
You wouldn't try and figure out what started your house is on fire while it is still burning would you? - mcsloy, on 12/16/2008, -6/+23yes the same thing is killing the UK dam PC brigade has ruined my country
- Mykonos85, on 12/16/2008, -1/+18we've always been consumers, were just now idolizing it
- geodebug, on 12/16/2008, -9/+26I'm American and I don't think that at all. I do think that it is in a conservative person's nature to bitch about the way things are today and have nostalgia for a past that never really was.
I know a lot of people and none of them resemble Clint's condescending description. They all work their asses off, pay taxes, take care of their kids, and try to be positive about life even when ***** happens. If you are looking around and seeing a bunch of sissies I think that says more about you and the friends you keep.
Clint's been rich and famous for 40 years so what the hell does he know about how tough average Americans are? I love me some Clint and think he is one of our best living directors but sometimes I think he just likes to hear himself talk when he gives interviews.
On a grander scale aren't we as a country a bit tired of the chicken-hawk, conservative tough guy? The whole punch first, smoke-em out, dead-or-alive bit is a bit too close to what got us into our two highly-successful wars. - willsani, on 12/16/2008, -8/+24Way to categorize everyone in the 20-30 in the same group. I wonder if you use the same sweeping generalization so loosely in your life.
- luckyscs, on 12/16/2008, -0/+15Maybe he thought it was ***** Eastwood.
- AYork, on 12/16/2008, -0/+15Maybe YOUR kids.
My oldest is in second grade. My son has a tub of Lego blocks he can swim in, most of them mine from when I was a kid. He has a trebuchet that he and I built together, and he made all of the cuts with a handsaw. He can use it to launch rocks about the size of shooter marble a good 30'. My daughter knows how to use a soldering iron, used one to build a beetlebot. And she's turning into a pretty decent (if very messy) cook. She makes a pretty damn good biscuit, and no, not the canned kind. They both know how to get the hook out of a fish, and how to clean one. They're both pretty close to being able to start a campfire on their own. Just a few weeks ago, my son hit one of those big milestones as a kid: he lost his first Estes rocket. Poor little guy was fighting back the tears. Put his heart & soul (not to mention allowance) into that thing.
They're both bugging me to show them how to build a generator. Maybe over the holidays....kid-powered Christmas tree...heh.
So keep on pushing those padded Saf-T blocks on your kids, everybody!
My kids will rule the world, and I can retire in style. - Nidy1, on 12/16/2008, -2/+17To everyone in this thread chain: It's so easy to generalize a generation that you don't belong to.
- wihsds, on 12/16/2008, -0/+14lets be fair the Mets did too..
- sugarazor, on 12/16/2008, -2/+16But often a bully learns his behavior at home and that's certainly an important factor to consider. Sure, some kids are just *****, but most 8 year old kids don't start beating up a smaller kids just because they feel like it. If a bully is being bullied at home, that's certainly an issue that needs to be addressed.
- slvrbullet87, on 12/16/2008, -3/+17You're god damned right
- IHaveIssues, on 12/16/2008, -6/+19Laziness. Why work for your money when you can strike gold by suing everyone in sight for every slight that has happened to you?
- Mykonos85, on 12/16/2008, -3/+15i knew a kid in a highschool who followed the school policies and not to retaliate physically in a fight (otherwise he too would face suspension and juvinial misconduct sentences or somethin) so he curled up in a ball and took it until the teachers pulled the other kid off minutes later.
So not only did he get his ass severely beat, but he also got ridiculed and harrassed by many of his peers by pretty much the rest of year and then some....but hey, atleast he wasn't sent to juvi for a week, right?
and no smartasses...it wasn't me - McWhiskey, on 12/16/2008, -4/+16So, if this started with pondering the meaning of life, I guess we can all blame Socrates!
- sugarazor, on 12/16/2008, -1/+13The difference being that Carlin was funny and looked at things through a truly unique set of eyes. Eastwood just sounds like a grumpy old man pining for the glory days.
- RaggTopp, on 12/16/2008, -2/+14You forgot to add that the blocks are PADDED.
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