<!--QuoteBegin--BadKarma+May 21 2003, 08:35 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BadKarma @ May 21 2003, 08:35 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Oi Dubers Im surprised you didnt mention Makos. There pretty common up here in Nova Scotia and get about 11 feet long. A mako will bite you long before a bull shark will too. And there much uglier. Plus, sharks like great whites and tigers dont attack underwater, so as a diver your pretty safe, less your bleeding or thrashing about or something silly like that. ive only dived once with great whites, in the mediterrainian(sp?) and I would give any amount of money to do it again. Just damned breath taking.
P.S. mako shark. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Please tell me you were in a shark cage.
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<!--QuoteBegin--Salty+May 21 2003, 01:12 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Salty @ May 21 2003, 01:12 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I was listening to NPR and they had this Spider dude who was like some arthopod specialist he said that they don't have any toxin like that.
I love snakes. If there is reincarnation I wanna be a snake. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> You should get a cool point for listening to NPR. One of the many signs of people with more than two brain cells to rub together.
I'm afraid of buzzing, stinging, poisonous insects. Never been stung, but allergy to stings runs on both sides of the family, so this is likely a good thing.
What scares me the most are people - more specificly, people that could be classifed as CS junkies or 12 year olds lacking any redeeming qualities or talents other that pegging someone with an AWP in under half a second. Now, don't get me wrong - CS is a decent game, although rather bare-bones (which is why I think the quality of the player base detracts from the game so much, but that's a different argument for a different day). Also, don't think that I'm blindly judging people based on limited interation in a stressed evironment. I have met these people. I have to deal with these people on a regular basis. A few of these people are actually friends of mine (I use the term "friends" lightly - basically anyone I don't abhor is a friend and decent human being).
Now, let me get into why these people scare me so much. Firstly, many are ignorant and arrogant. That alone is bad enough. However, if I've learned anything playing CS, it's that stupid people tend to be the most vocal.
In addition to general ignorance, they tend to lack creativity. Many don't do well in school out of lack of ambition and the inability to think for themselves. They make annoying, stupid jokes all the time, and think almost anything "non-mainstream" is cool - despite the fact that while they aren't following the mainstream pop-culture brain-drain, they <i>are</i> practicing the same behavior in a different genre.
Next: nearly complete lack of morals or inhabitions. These guys will do <i>anything</i>. I've seen them roll and smoke (while watching some truly nasty things on kazaa which I won't get into) without a care in the world <i>in the middle of my freaking LAN house!</i>. Now, I'm all for free rights, expression, whatever. But the people I've met take immorality to an extreme that is hard to comprehend. What's worse is that they don't care. They don't give a damn what someone thinks, even if you try to approach them in a tolerant, might I say "loving," way.
Now, all these things add up to being a really annoying person, but in the end, is that really so horrible? Not in an isolated context. Also, one usually presumes that people eventually do mature and grow out of this behavior.
Let me dispel this last sign of hope by saying neither of these events will ever occur. In the current generation of 12-16 year old, a very large portion play computer games. Many people of this demographic that play computer games fit the above description. This is a large portion of the human population. They are going to grow up being ignorant, selfish and immoral. And, like I alluded to above, they don't grow out of it. I've met people in their twenties and thirties that behave like this. There aren't as many, but gaming culture and MTV weren't as big of an influence in their childhood.
So, the truly scary part is that these people will soon be <i>everywhere</i>. They may be isolated in middle school and high school for now, but they will grow up. They will then enter the workforce, enter your communities, or some other aspect of your life. Only then will you learn to hate them as much as I have.
Man, trying to run servers at a LAN cafe really can cause some built up rage. Glad I vented that out. Apologies to anyone that actually reads it.
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P.S. mako shark. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Please tell me you were in a shark cage.
I love snakes. If there is reincarnation I wanna be a snake. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
You should get a cool point for listening to NPR. One of the many signs of people with more than two brain cells to rub together.
I'm afraid of buzzing, stinging, poisonous insects. Never been stung, but allergy to stings runs on both sides of the family, so this is likely a good thing.
What scares me the most are people - more specificly, people that could be classifed as CS junkies or 12 year olds lacking any redeeming qualities or talents other that pegging someone with an AWP in under half a second. Now, don't get me wrong - CS is a decent game, although rather bare-bones (which is why I think the quality of the player base detracts from the game so much, but that's a different argument for a different day). Also, don't think that I'm blindly judging people based on limited interation in a stressed evironment. I have met these people. I have to deal with these people on a regular basis. A few of these people are actually friends of mine (I use the term "friends" lightly - basically anyone I don't abhor is a friend and decent human being).
Now, let me get into why these people scare me so much. Firstly, many are ignorant and arrogant. That alone is bad enough. However, if I've learned anything playing CS, it's that stupid people tend to be the most vocal.
In addition to general ignorance, they tend to lack creativity. Many don't do well in school out of lack of ambition and the inability to think for themselves. They make annoying, stupid jokes all the time, and think almost anything "non-mainstream" is cool - despite the fact that while they aren't following the mainstream pop-culture brain-drain, they <i>are</i> practicing the same behavior in a different genre.
Next: nearly complete lack of morals or inhabitions. These guys will do <i>anything</i>. I've seen them roll and smoke (while watching some truly nasty things on kazaa which I won't get into) without a care in the world <i>in the middle of my freaking LAN house!</i>. Now, I'm all for free rights, expression, whatever. But the people I've met take immorality to an extreme that is hard to comprehend. What's worse is that they don't care. They don't give a damn what someone thinks, even if you try to approach them in a tolerant, might I say "loving," way.
Now, all these things add up to being a really annoying person, but in the end, is that really so horrible? Not in an isolated context. Also, one usually presumes that people eventually do mature and grow out of this behavior.
Let me dispel this last sign of hope by saying neither of these events will ever occur. In the current generation of 12-16 year old, a very large portion play computer games. Many people of this demographic that play computer games fit the above description. This is a large portion of the human population. They are going to grow up being ignorant, selfish and immoral. And, like I alluded to above, they don't grow out of it. I've met people in their twenties and thirties that behave like this. There aren't as many, but gaming culture and MTV weren't as big of an influence in their childhood.
So, the truly scary part is that these people will soon be <i>everywhere</i>. They may be isolated in middle school and high school for now, but they will grow up. They will then enter the workforce, enter your communities, or some other aspect of your life. Only then will you learn to hate them as much as I have.
Man, trying to run servers at a LAN cafe really can cause some built up rage. Glad I vented that out. Apologies to anyone that actually reads it.