Examples of the Pussification of America

[Parkbandit]

Just opened up a new garage door opener.. and these stickers fell out:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e6/belike53/IMG_0042.jpg

[WRoss]

Whoa! The doors have potential energy themselves? It isn't just stored as mechanical energy?

[RichardCranium]

Why doesn't it have instructions in Spanish, French, and German as well?

[LMingrone]

It's to protect them from lawsuits from stupid people. If they didn't have to worry about that, they'd just put a sticker on it saying, "This thing is serious business. Don't be an idiot.".

I saw a commercial for some drug today that said this: "This medicine may cause death. If you experience this, call your doctor.". LOL

[Carl Spackler]

Guy sues because mascot hit him in eye with a hotdog at a game. Pussy.

http://deadspin.com/#!5780102/sluggerrr-sued-for-ol-hot+dog+in+the+eye-trick

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/deadspin/2011/03/sluggerrr-800x600.jpg

[WRoss]

If I ever have to include those instructions with something I sell, there well be a coupon for a Darwin Award.

[Jayvn]

warning...cape will not allow your child to fly

[Latrinsorm]

I don't see how the OP is an example of what everyone else is talking about. It's not like it says "putting hands in gears can be dangerous".

[Parkbandit]

Whoa! The doors have potential energy themselves? It isn't just stored as mechanical energy?

This opener has a battery backup system.


I don't see how the OP is an example of what everyone else is talking about. It's not like it says "putting hands in gears can be dangerous".

I imagine you would be the type who would not only conduct safety tests every month, but also track the results in your diary.

[Latrinsorm]

I check my tire pressure and oil too. I thought about just using scowling bravado to keep machinery in line, but if it doesn't work for Special Agent Gibbs (hold on I have the vapors... ok I'm good to finish the post) it's obvious there's no hope for me.

[Parkbandit]

I check my tire pressure and oil too. I thought about just using scowling bravado to keep machinery in line, but if it doesn't work for Special Agent Gibbs (hold on I have the vapors... ok I'm good to finish the post) it's obvious there's no hope for me.

Perhaps it's just that you can't see pussification through your pretty pink sunglasses that match your pretty pink sundress?

[Cephalopod]

This (OP) reminds me of the warning labels they have included on ladders for the last 20 years or so, which basically add up to tell me that at some point in the past: some naked jerkoff climbed to the top of his ladder and electrocuted himself, then fell off the ladder and impaled his naked ass on a teacup.

A semi-amusing parody: here (http://www.lawhaha.com/label_1.asp).

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Just opened up a new garage door opener.. and these stickers fell out:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e6/belike53/IMG_0042.jpg


I installed a new "quiet" garage door opener last year - It's amazing how quiet they are now days. But it had all the same bullshit warnings - I called all my family and let them know I was testing the door, and if they didn't hear from me in a day, to send in the Army to rescue me.

[Liagala]

I check my tire pressure and oil too. I thought about just using scowling bravado to keep machinery in line, but if it doesn't work for Special Agent Gibbs (hold on I have the vapors... ok I'm good to finish the post) it's obvious there's no hope for me.
Yes, because required preventative maintenance on your car is exactly the same thing as going out to your garage every month, putting a 1.5 inch item under the door, watching, and saying, "Yup. Still works. Still haven't needed it for anything... but I test it monthly!"

[Latrinsorm]

If you will, what makes checking tire pressure more "required" than checking a garage door reverse mechanism? Surely they are both preventative measures that are usually unnecessary.

[Back]

You could also look at these as examples of how uneducated and lazy the majority of Americans are.

Whoops! I grabbed the business end of a chainsaw and there was no warning so now I will sue the company and retire. Ouch! That coffee was way too hot and there was no warning so now I’m dragging McChain to court.

[Carl Spackler]

You could also look at these as examples of how uneducated and lazy the majority of Americans are.

Whoops! I grabbed the business end of a chainsaw and there was no warning so now I will sue the company and retire. Ouch! That coffee was way too hot and there was no warning so now I’m dragging McChain to court.

Uneducated isn't the right word. Stupid is. You can be educated and still be a complete fucking moron and lazy.

[Warriorbird]

Your error was actually acknowledging the paper existed. I let slips like it blow away in the wind.

[Cephalopod]

You could also look...

Hey, I'll tell you what. You can get a good look at a butcher's ass by sticking your head up there. But, wouldn't you rather to take his word for it?

No, I mean is, you can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking your head up a butcher's ass... No, wait. It's gotta be your bull.

[TheEschaton]

I pet it, and I stroke it, it's my little sale, I love it, and then I RIP IT TO PIECES.

[Stanley Burrell]

Duck and cover.

[Parkbandit]

Hey, I'll tell you what. You can get a good look at a butcher's ass by sticking your head up there. But, wouldn't you rather to take his word for it?

No, I mean is, you can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking your head up a butcher's ass... No, wait. It's gotta be your bull.

The point is, how do you know the fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer? "Building model airplanes" says the little fairy; well, we're not buying it. He sneaks into your house once, that's all it takes. The next thing you know, there's money missing off the dresser, and your daughter's knocked up. I seen it a hundred times.

[RichardCranium]

I like to think of this as the poster thread of the PC.

[Warriorbird]

What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public.

[Back]

What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public.

I like this statement and may use it sometime if you don’t mind.

[TheEschaton]

It's from Tommy Boy, you failure of a man.

[Back]

I'll have to watch it then.

[ZeP]

Did I catch a niner in there?

EDIT: No, no, too much innuendo. I want to go with endline specs on the rotary girder

[Parkbandit]

I like this statement and may use it sometime if you don’t mind.

http://media.fakeposters.com/results/2010/09/28/umpzk1b8cc.jpg

[Cephalopod]

I like to think of this as the poster thread of the PC.


What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public.


I like this statement and may use it sometime if you don’t mind.

RC, you were prophetic.

[Carl Spackler]

pussification:

http://boston.barstoolsports.com/around-barstool/maine-elementary-schools-set-up-grief-counselling-sessions-for-students-who-witnessed-hockey-fight-on-school-field-trip/

[Parkbandit]

Your link also linked this story.. which is local to me.

http://boston.barstoolsports.com/random-thoughts/reader-email-hey-pres-stop-molesting-little-kids/

This is the alleged molester....................

http://nyc.3432.voxcdn.com/files/2011/03/zoo.jpg

[Deathravin]

Dumbing things down as much as possible makes most fiscal sense to a business. It reduces your support calls (thus your support staff) and your liability in the case of a lawsuit. It can even increase your sales ('so easy a caveman can do it').

As such the ultimate result of a capitalist society is eventual 'pussification,' as you so eloquently put it.

[Parkbandit]

Dumbing things down as much as possible makes most fiscal sense to a business. It reduces your support calls (thus your support staff) and your liability in the case of a lawsuit. It can even increase your sales ('so easy a caveman can do it').

As such the ultimate result of a capitalist society is eventual 'pussification,' as you so eloquently put it.

You've spouted on about how bad capitalism is... in your mind, what's the best economic system to have a country use?

[AnticorRifling]

I didn't read all of the sticker but I'm not sure it's a good example of pussification. What exactly is the issue of doing PM on your gear?

[Deathravin]

You've spouted on about how bad capitalism is... in your mind, what's the best economic system to have a country use?

What economic system does a first-world country with the healthiest people, highest life expectancy, lowest children mortality rate, highest education rate, tops happiness indexes, fewest people in prison per capita, lowest unemployment rate, lowest poverty rates...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mortality_rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_percentage_of_population_livi ng_in_poverty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_unemployment_rate



Capitalism is fine in some ways, and rotten in others. Any system that not just promotes corruption but breeds it is flawed. I'm not sure any country in history has it 100% correct yet. But this money makes money system we have going now is going to take us right into the ground.

Is it any coincidence the countries that did the best in the global economic downturn and rebounded the fastest were the countries that made things rather than innovated the newest banking/trading advances?

The trading system we have in place today was meant for the public to become shareholders in a company they feel should do well and share in its success. What we have turned it into is nothing more than a gambling system where it's possible to win more than you risk if you can write the best trading software.

I'm not sure what a suitable resolution would be but un-exempting all top-governmental positions (congress, president's office, SCOTUS) from insider trading laws would be a good start. Other than that, a hard waiting period between market transactions (say a week), and dissolving all but the most straightforward market strategies (no more hiring MIT mathematics PHDs to devise complex systems that are too confusing to be regulated).


This is all ridiculous to speculate. The only way any of these deeply entrenched ideals would be changed is a complete collapse of the country. In the end, it doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't matter what you think. The only thing that matters is how far the rich can stretch the middle class before revolution.

But just for fun, you should research the correlation between market stability, middle-class prosperity, federal debt, and the tax rates (especially the highest bracket). And by research I don't mean going to whatever conservative rags you read, but downloading the historical tax rate data, the prosperity figures, the debt data, and market data and actually viewing the correlations yourself.


I know it's a lot of work that you can't be bothered with. But I'll just say it's amazing what a population will accept as long as it happens slowly, and how much can be accomplished when you control the media.


All that being said, PB. You're not interested in what I think. You're simply interested in feeling superior to everybody you can. You're not interested in changing your mind on any issue. You're simply interested in taring down people as often as possible. You're not interested in a discussion. You're interested in reinforcing your own ideas.

http://komincents.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/disagreement-hierarchy.jpg

[Parkbandit]

I didn't read all of the sticker but I'm not sure it's a good example of pussification. What exactly is the issue of doing PM on your gear?

It wasn't about the PM, it was about the safety tests that should be conducted at least monthly.

[Parkbandit]

All that being said, PB. You're not interested in what I think. You're simply interested in feeling superior to everybody you can. You're not interested in changing your mind on any issue. You're simply interested in taring down people as often as possible. You're not interested in a discussion. You're interested in reinforcing your own ideas.


:rofl:

Defensive much? It was a simple question, given your general disdain for capitalism. If you hate capitalism so much, I assumed you had a much better plan in mind.

[Clove]

Is it any coincidence the countries that did the best in the global economic downturn and rebounded the fastest were the countries that made things rather than innovated the newest banking/trading advances?It might be. Care to guess which country is the global leader in manufacturing?

[Warriorbird]

It might be. Care to guess which country is the global leader in manufacturing?

China?

[Tgo01]

China?

And we all know they use a trade and barter system!

[Deathravin]

:rofl:

Defensive much? It was a simple question, given your general disdain for capitalism. If you hate capitalism so much, I assumed you had a much better plan in mind.

Just because one can see the problem, doesn't mean one knows the best solution. If the solution were that clear, it would be part of the daily public discourse.

Furthermore, what difference does it make? I could find the perfectly correct answer and it wouldn't matter. Is somebody who can do something about it going to happen upon my post on a GSPlayers forum? Am I going to change the mind of even one person?

[Tgo01]

Furthermore, what difference does it make? I could find the perfectly correct answer and it wouldn't matter. Is somebody who can do something about it going to happen upon my post on a GSPlayers forum? Am I going to change the mind of even one person?

Not with that negative attitude.

[Warriorbird]

None of us are likely to change the minds of anybody. If you're not posting here for the entertainment of yourself and others you're going to be let down.

[Clove]

China?Yup! In 1830.

[Warriorbird]

Yup! In 1830.

For a more serious take on it, compare their increase in manufacturing output to ours over time.

[Clove]

Yes if the current trend continues they will eventually outpace us. The fact remains that today we are the world manufacturing leader by a good margin.

[subzero]

If you will, what makes checking tire pressure more "required" than checking a garage door reverse mechanism? Surely they are both preventative measures that are usually unnecessary.

I'm far more concerned with a tire blowing than a fucking garage door "crushing" me underneath it if the auto-reverse feature fails to work.


edit: This thread smells like the work of the Army.

[Parkbandit]

Furthermore, what difference does it make? I could find the perfectly correct answer and it wouldn't matter. Is somebody who can do something about it going to happen upon my post on a GSPlayers forum?

http://www.nastyhobbit.org/data/media/13/derp-derp.jpg

If that's your benchmark for posting your opinion.. stop posting.

[Tsa`ah]

I don't know which is funnier, claiming that a label suggesting safety tests for an automatic garage door is pussification ... or not realizing that even having an automatic garage door is a level of pussification all on its own.

[Parkbandit]

I don't know which is funnier, claiming that a label suggesting safety tests for an automatic garage door is pussification ... or not realizing that even having an automatic garage door is a level of pussification all on its own.

Even needing a garage for your mule is a level of pussification! I mean, he's an animal, he should be in a barn! Heck, having electricity to power that garage door is the real level of pussification.

.......

[Tgo01]

I don't even churn my own butter anymore.

[AnticorRifling]

I don't even churn my own butter anymore.

I'm pretty sure that's code and I'm going to have to call you a liar.

[LMingrone]

I have an antique butter churning thingy. I'm pretty sure whoever designed the Shake Weight was a serial butter churner.

[AnticorRifling]

South Park Shake Weight best episode in a long time.

[LMingrone]

I need to catch up on South park. Last one I saw was the episode of them mocking Catcher in the Rye. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQwox_cAt04&feature=related.

I'd rather read Butters' book than ever read CitR again. Most overrated book ever. I made the mistake of marrying somone whose favorite book is CitR. I'm stupid.

[Tsa`ah]

Even needing a garage for your mule is a level of pussification! I mean, he's an animal, he should be in a barn! Heck, having electricity to power that garage door is the real level of pussification.

.......

Or that you're just too much of a lazy puss to open and close the door manually.

I won't point out how much of a lazy pussy you are if you promise not to make any more threads that point out how much of a lazy pussy you are ... even if the irony escapes you.

[Parkbandit]

Or that you're just too much of a lazy puss to open and close the door manually.

You really are a Shit4Brains, aren't you? I suppose you must be a lazy puss because you no longer push a plow behind an ox? Maybe you are a lazy puss because you use the Internet instead of carving your thoughts out on a stone slab?

But thanks for bumping an old thread so I can laugh at you one more time. Hopefully, you continue.. it's raining here and I'm bored enough to pick on retards.

[Tsa`ah]

Wow ... you just continue to be an idiot don't you.

[Parkbandit]

Wow ... I just continue to be an idiot don't I.

Corrected for accuracy.

Please, I beg you.. continue.

[Atlanteax]

Your error was actually acknowledging the paper existed. I let slips like it blow away in the wind.

Litterer!! =(

[Delias]

Litterer!! =(

It's cool- paper is biodegradable.

[Deathravin]

Wow ... I just continue to be an idiot don't I.

Corrected for accuracy.

Please, I beg you.. continue.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9nXmCKwpzW0/Sr1oK2Mx7aI/AAAAAAAAAOc/Z-ovsTl3O4Y/s320/pee-wee.jpghttp://images7.cpcache.com/product_zoom/354714667v2_400x400_Front_Color-White.jpg

Keeping it classic.

[Carl Spackler]

The Hammer was too Violent, really?


Yahoo – A Boilermaker is nothing without his hammer.Besides the incredible 67-yard field goal by kicker Carson Wiggs, the highlight of Purdue‘s spring game was the ceremonial passing of the hammer to the latest incarnation of mascot “Purdue Pete.” Officials ordered the makeover last year, in part because the old version apparently frightened the children; his replacement was designed to be “both heroic and approachable,” The new edition also has “a deeper tan to represent more ethnicities” and a full-body suit as opposed to merely a head, allowing females to play what has up to now been all-male role. The New Pete will reportedly lose his trusty sledgehammer, as well, which wasdeemed “too violent” for a mascot — even for a Boilermaker mascot?

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Headlinin-Notre-Dame-embraces-the-dark-side-A?urn=ncaaf-wp684

http://www.mancavesports.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/purdue-pete.jpg

[Latrinsorm]

He clearly still has the hammer in the article's picture.

[Carl Spackler]

He clearly still has the hammer in the article's picture.

The picture was put there to show the Hammer. Thanks for the input though.

[Stanley Burrell]

I dunno, probably something about a great big pussy waiting to get fucked.

Joowanna go to war, I take joo to war, okay?

[Latrinsorm]

The picture was put there to show the Hammer. Thanks for the input though.If you go to the article you linked, it has a picture of the new mascot proposing surprise buttseks to a cheerleader. In his right hand is a hammer.
I dunno, probably something about a great big pussy waiting to get fucked.

Joowanna go to war, I take joo to war, okay?I BURY THOSE COCKAROACHES!!

[Carl Spackler]

If you go to the article you linked, it has a picture of the new mascot proposing surprise buttseks to a cheerleader.

Because he's carrying his hammer there means he's going to have it in the fall? The article said reportedly he's going to not be able to carry it anymore. I think that's pussification.

[pabstblueribbon]

I came here looking for the thread that contained a bunch of vagina pictures.

I guess this is the wrong thread.

I am dissapoint.

[Delias]

I think one excellent example might be a man telling another man he needs a bed skirt or dust ruffle.

[Keller]

Citing the fact that their female student body scares children more than the old Purdue Pete, Purdue has canned the new Purdue Pete.

Half of that is not intended to be a factual statement.

[Tgo01]

I saw a jar of peanut butter with the following warning:

"Product may contain peanuts or other nuts"