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PassingFad · 12-06-2005, 01:40 PM

This summer, I was driving down the main street in my hometown, which has a population of around 25,000. To my right, I see about 10 police cars, a 20 foot long streak of blood and debris, a wrecked motorcycle, and a corpse. I simply turned my head back to the road and said, "Owned."

The internet has inured me to the most garish, outlandish shit on Earth, and I thank it for that.

Does anyone else have a similar experience?

Mr. Blonde · 12-06-2005, 01:42 PM

Yeah, the internet has definitely desentitized the shit out of me. With sites like rotten.com how can it not? I can't decide if this is a good or bad thing.

Mr. Blonde · 12-06-2005, 01:42 PM

fuckingwhorechrist

[ December 06, 2005, 10:42 AM: Message edited by: Mr. Blonde ]

Mr. Blonde · 12-06-2005, 01:42 PM

FUCK the library's internet.

[ December 06, 2005, 10:42 AM: Message edited by: Mr. Blonde ]

PassingFad · 12-06-2005, 01:44 PM

Haha... I guess the attention span issue is one for another day.

P.S.- Owned

[ December 06, 2005, 10:45 AM: Message edited by: PassingFad ]

SittinOnDubsWGW · 12-06-2005, 02:50 PM

I consider myself very jaded, in regards to a lot of different things and I'm really not a fan of it.

One that is very noticable to me over the past couple of years has been the value of money and regarding poker. I used to get pumped winning a small $5 buy-in with about 8-10 people, winning 40-50 bucks was awesome. Now its not a big deal, if I have a win of a +$100, its not a big deal at all, I had a +315 night in 45 mins just last week, and I was happy about it, but it wasn't a big deal, I also know that I can lose 100 bucks in a sitting, and it doesn't phase me a bit. It's just like "yeah, that sucks, I just lost a hundred bucks," but its not anything monumental.

Overall in life I often feel that not much affects me, I often think of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" as a good description.

I wish I could go back to not being jaded and have the amusement of a little kid very often in life.

[ December 06, 2005, 11:54 AM: Message edited by: SittinOnDubsWGW ]

bloodyfart · 12-06-2005, 03:03 PM

im much less jaded than i was when i lived with daddy

Heaven Can Wait · 12-06-2005, 04:26 PM

Had a similar experience to that, Guy lying dead in road in town, just pissed me off I couldn't turn right.

Repugnant Abomination · 12-06-2005, 04:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by PassingFad:
I simply turned my head back to the road and said, "Owned."

LOL! That's great, because it's just what I do.

Ironic Mustache · 12-06-2005, 05:22 PM

I usually say "pwn3d."

Heaven Can Wait · 12-06-2005, 06:06 PM

And how do you go about pronouncing that?

bloodyfart · 12-06-2005, 06:41 PM

swith a silent three

Repugnant Abomination · 12-06-2005, 06:42 PM

It's pronounced "Poand"

Ironic Mustache · 12-06-2005, 08:14 PM

Some people don't know anything.

PassingFad · 12-06-2005, 08:49 PM

Yeah, pwn3d is pretty cool. Pwnt is fine too. Pw4n3d is coming into favor, and you don't even WANNA know how to pronounce that.

I went full circle into pwn3d and all that, but after all the crazy variations, I've just gone back to basics. I'm The White Stripes of leetspeak.

Ironic Mustache · 12-06-2005, 09:19 PM

That's "l33tsp34k."

PassingFad · 12-06-2005, 10:03 PM

Well if you wanna get technical it's 1337sp34k, but you don't, because that makes it bump a thread that doesn't really seem like it deserves it.

THEINCREDIBLEdork · 12-06-2005, 11:08 PM

1337$p34k

12-07-2005, 12:01 AM

L337$P34|<

Lucy Fur · 12-07-2005, 12:19 AM

i'm extremely jaded.
my brother is a medic and calls to tell me about various runs he has throughout the day.

one day while i was at work he called to tell me about a guy who was fixing something under his big truck....
he had his gf get in the car and start it so that he could hear how it sounded. she did, then proceeded to put it into drive and run him over.
my bro told me that the guys insides were basically coming out his ass. all i did was laugh and say "natural selection at its finest"
people at work now think i am heartless...

another time he called me to say some guy had committed suicide in his minivan via bugbomb... my reply to that was.. "now they can sell the vehicle knowing that it is critter free".... and then i gave the guy a 10 for ingenuity

[ December 06, 2005, 10:50 PM: Message edited by: Lucy Fur ]

Carnivorous Flavor · 12-07-2005, 01:47 AM

next time use quotes to denote something as actually being spoken from those pouty lips of yours darling.

it has a better effect.

Lucy Fur · 12-07-2005, 01:51 AM

blow me...

there... i fixed it... is that better...

Carnivorous Flavor · 12-07-2005, 01:53 AM

yes..much better.....i can see you toungue lightly dancing out those words in my mind...

oh wait no.....it just another blowjob....and gagging..nevermind

ninjaface · 12-09-2005, 10:17 PM

I hate to resurrect a thread that has gone to hell, but I felt it was necessary.

Sometimes I feel ultra jaded, like I have no soul. Very little bothers me and I have trouble caring about much of anything. The internet is not to blame, but I sure as hell couldn't have gotten this far without it. Some people might see me as insensitive.. but I don't think I deserve that label. Insensitive seems more like a conscious decision. I think desensitized would be more fitting because its an unwanted side effect that I never planned for.

I recently had a few glimmers of hope, though. The first happened a few weeks ago. I was watching Futurama with one of my roommates and the episode was about Fry's dog. In short, Fry had the option of cloneing his dog. He chose not to because he felt his dog lived a full life and it would be selfish bring him back. Then there was a montage with sad music showing his dog waiting for him to come back.. for something like 10 years. This honestly made me feel sad. I remember saying, "That's fucking depressing."

The other was when I was watching the animal planet. It was some kind of veterinary show. Some woman brought in her dog. I'm not sure what was wrong with it, but it was very sick and it wasn't responding to any type of treatment. So the vet convinced her to put the dog down. But here's what got me.. they showed it. The woman was present and said she wanted to hold the dog while they administered the phenobarbitol. So I watched as this dog died in the arms of this woman. She was crying and rocking the dog back and forth.

This shit got to me as well. I actually felt tears welling up. What I don't understand is how animals can effect me so much while humans don't matter one bit to me. I can watch Trauma: Life in the E.R. all day and not be phased at all. But when it comes to animals, I have trouble watching it.

12-09-2005, 11:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by PassingFad:
Pw4n3d is coming into favor

Pwnz0r3d

12-06-2005, 01:40 PM	#1 (permalink)
PassingFad Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Muncie Posts: 38 Internets: 10	This summer, I was driving down the main street in my hometown, which has a population of around 25,000. To my right, I see about 10 police cars, a 20 foot long streak of blood and debris, a wrecked motorcycle, and a corpse. I simply turned my head back to the road and said, "Owned." The internet has inured me to the most garish, outlandish shit on Earth, and I thank it for that. Does anyone else have a similar experience?
	Disco, motherfucker!

12-06-2005, 01:42 PM	#2 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 278288	Yeah, the internet has definitely desentitized the shit out of me. With sites like rotten.com how can it not? I can't decide if this is a good or bad thing.
	Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. ― Terence McKenna

12-06-2005, 01:42 PM	#3 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 278288	fuckingwhorechrist [ December 06, 2005, 10:42 AM: Message edited by: Mr. Blonde ]
	Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. ― Terence McKenna

12-06-2005, 01:42 PM	#4 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 278288	FUCK the library's internet. [ December 06, 2005, 10:42 AM: Message edited by: Mr. Blonde ]
	Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. ― Terence McKenna

12-06-2005, 01:44 PM	#5 (permalink)
PassingFad Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Muncie Posts: 38 Internets: 10	Haha... I guess the attention span issue is one for another day. P.S.- Owned [ December 06, 2005, 10:45 AM: Message edited by: PassingFad ]
	Disco, motherfucker!

12-06-2005, 02:50 PM	#6 (permalink)
SittinOnDubsWGW I make bad decisions. Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: The Desert Posts: 3,018 Internets: 108015	I consider myself very jaded, in regards to a lot of different things and I'm really not a fan of it. One that is very noticable to me over the past couple of years has been the value of money and regarding poker. I used to get pumped winning a small $5 buy-in with about 8-10 people, winning 40-50 bucks was awesome. Now its not a big deal, if I have a win of a +$100, its not a big deal at all, I had a +315 night in 45 mins just last week, and I was happy about it, but it wasn't a big deal, I also know that I can lose 100 bucks in a sitting, and it doesn't phase me a bit. It's just like "yeah, that sucks, I just lost a hundred bucks," but its not anything monumental. Overall in life I often feel that not much affects me, I often think of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" as a good description. I wish I could go back to not being jaded and have the amusement of a little kid very often in life. [ December 06, 2005, 11:54 AM: Message edited by: SittinOnDubsWGW ]

12-06-2005, 03:03 PM	#7 (permalink)
bloodyfart Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: side control Posts: 2,044 Internets: 203	im much less jaded than i was when i lived with daddy
	<b>We're here, and we're queer, so get used to it</b>

12-06-2005, 04:26 PM	#8 (permalink)
Heaven Can Wait English. Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: England Posts: 868 Internets: 179	Had a similar experience to that, Guy lying dead in road in town, just pissed me off I couldn't turn right.
	there is little I wouldn't do for a dolphin.

12-06-2005, 05:22 PM	#10 (permalink)
Ironic Mustache G'd up from the feet up. Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Cali Posts: 7,146 Supreme Emperor of the Jiu Jitsu Shit Forum?: Yes Internets: 114735	I usually say "pwn3d."
	Creeping around as I please nonchalantly like any other Supreme Emperor might.

12-06-2005, 06:06 PM	#11 (permalink)
Heaven Can Wait English. Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: England Posts: 868 Internets: 179	And how do you go about pronouncing that?
	there is little I wouldn't do for a dolphin.

12-06-2005, 06:41 PM	#12 (permalink)
bloodyfart Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: side control Posts: 2,044 Internets: 203	swith a silent three
	<b>We're here, and we're queer, so get used to it</b>

12-06-2005, 06:42 PM	#13 (permalink)
Repugnant Abomination Almost there... Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 5,979 Internets: 161638	It's pronounced "Poand"

12-06-2005, 08:14 PM	#14 (permalink)
Ironic Mustache G'd up from the feet up. Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Cali Posts: 7,146 Supreme Emperor of the Jiu Jitsu Shit Forum?: Yes Internets: 114735	Some people don't know anything.
	Creeping around as I please nonchalantly like any other Supreme Emperor might.

12-06-2005, 08:49 PM	#15 (permalink)
PassingFad Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Muncie Posts: 38 Internets: 10	Yeah, pwn3d is pretty cool. Pwnt is fine too. Pw4n3d is coming into favor, and you don't even WANNA know how to pronounce that. I went full circle into pwn3d and all that, but after all the crazy variations, I've just gone back to basics. I'm The White Stripes of leetspeak.
	Disco, motherfucker!

12-06-2005, 09:19 PM	#16 (permalink)
Ironic Mustache G'd up from the feet up. Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Cali Posts: 7,146 Supreme Emperor of the Jiu Jitsu Shit Forum?: Yes Internets: 114735	That's "l33tsp34k."
	Creeping around as I please nonchalantly like any other Supreme Emperor might.

12-07-2005, 12:01 AM	#19 (permalink)
DJ FC Guest Posts: n/a	L337$P34\|<
DJ FC Guest Posts: n/a

12-06-2005, 10:03 PM	#17 (permalink)
PassingFad Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Muncie Posts: 38 Internets: 10	Well if you wanna get technical it's 1337sp34k, but you don't, because that makes it bump a thread that doesn't really seem like it deserves it.
	Disco, motherfucker!

12-06-2005, 11:08 PM	#18 (permalink)
THEINCREDIBLEdork Emperor Meow Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 9,316 Internets: 284585	1337$p34k
	#YOLO

12-07-2005, 12:19 AM	#20 (permalink)
Lucy Fur Empress Magnificent Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 825 Internets: 349	i'm extremely jaded. my brother is a medic and calls to tell me about various runs he has throughout the day. one day while i was at work he called to tell me about a guy who was fixing something under his big truck.... he had his gf get in the car and start it so that he could hear how it sounded. she did, then proceeded to put it into drive and run him over. my bro told me that the guys insides were basically coming out his ass. all i did was laugh and say "natural selection at its finest" people at work now think i am heartless... another time he called me to say some guy had committed suicide in his minivan via bugbomb... my reply to that was.. "now they can sell the vehicle knowing that it is critter free".... and then i gave the guy a 10 for ingenuity [ December 06, 2005, 10:50 PM: Message edited by: Lucy Fur ]
	I am chaos. It is my destiny to destroy.

12-07-2005, 01:47 AM	#21 (permalink)
Carnivorous Flavor Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: tracking schroeder Posts: 703 Internets: 10	next time use quotes to denote something as actually being spoken from those pouty lips of yours darling. it has a better effect.
	i'm the sinful stench that wafts through nostrils of the righteous....

12-07-2005, 01:51 AM	#22 (permalink)
Lucy Fur Empress Magnificent Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 825 Internets: 349	blow me... there... i fixed it... is that better...
	I am chaos. It is my destiny to destroy.

12-07-2005, 01:53 AM	#23 (permalink)
Carnivorous Flavor Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: tracking schroeder Posts: 703 Internets: 10	yes..much better.....i can see you toungue lightly dancing out those words in my mind... oh wait no.....it just another blowjob....and gagging..nevermind
	i'm the sinful stench that wafts through nostrils of the righteous....

12-09-2005, 10:17 PM	#24 (permalink)
ninjaface Level 20 Holothetan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Space Posts: 5,245 Internets: 210144	I hate to resurrect a thread that has gone to hell, but I felt it was necessary. Sometimes I feel ultra jaded, like I have no soul. Very little bothers me and I have trouble caring about much of anything. The internet is not to blame, but I sure as hell couldn't have gotten this far without it. Some people might see me as insensitive.. but I don't think I deserve that label. Insensitive seems more like a conscious decision. I think desensitized would be more fitting because its an unwanted side effect that I never planned for. I recently had a few glimmers of hope, though. The first happened a few weeks ago. I was watching Futurama with one of my roommates and the episode was about Fry's dog. In short, Fry had the option of cloneing his dog. He chose not to because he felt his dog lived a full life and it would be selfish bring him back. Then there was a montage with sad music showing his dog waiting for him to come back.. for something like 10 years. This honestly made me feel sad. I remember saying, "That's fucking depressing." The other was when I was watching the animal planet. It was some kind of veterinary show. Some woman brought in her dog. I'm not sure what was wrong with it, but it was very sick and it wasn't responding to any type of treatment. So the vet convinced her to put the dog down. But here's what got me.. they showed it. The woman was present and said she wanted to hold the dog while they administered the phenobarbitol. So I watched as this dog died in the arms of this woman. She was crying and rocking the dog back and forth. This shit got to me as well. I actually felt tears welling up. What I don't understand is how animals can effect me so much while humans don't matter one bit to me. I can watch Trauma: Life in the E.R. all day and not be phased at all. But when it comes to animals, I have trouble watching it.