What do you find insane?
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August 20th, 2011
At my age not much can surprise me but this story here about a Driving Teacher who Offered Wine to Students made me fall out of my chair!! Has the apocalypse begun?? Is the whole world going insane? Any other stories out there you know about jaw dropping insanity??
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This story is just about as weird as they come. “Nowt as queer as folk” as they say.
Religion. Not the notion of god, but people participating and believing religion.
And the wine thing wasn’t bad. Yes, it’s ironic, but there’s a difference between driving drunk and sipping a sip of wine and driving.
The worship of paper (money). The selling of one’s life for paper (money). The slaughter of innocents for paper (money). The occupation of countries and their populations for paper (money). The rape and pillaging of Earth for paper (money). The cheapening of life for paper (money).
OMG @flutherother That is insane! Love it! ”“It seems crazy, but I just felt like I was being blessed by their energy.”
The political polarization of Washington DC.
I saw this on the news here in Florida this morning. “23-year-old Daytona Beach woman faces a charge of child neglect after she rode in the bed of a pickup truck with an 8-month-old child beside her in a stroller.
“Keyona Nicole Davis was baby-sitting the boy at the time, police said Thursday.”
On the WESH television report, the babysitter says, “It’s not like they give you a handbook on what is and what isn’t neglect.”
http://www.wesh.com/video/28911504/detail.html
Golf courses built in the desert.
@bkcunningham I heard that story on the radio yesterday and she also made the comment “it’s not my baby” like if it was hers she would have been more careful?? WTF!!!
Wow! The human race is really racking up the points in the insanity dept. @uberbatman, what do you find so insane about humanity and @Porifera what about humans do you find most insane?
@Blackberry: The golf courses are insane because:
They take up great swaths of land only a few humans can enjoy.
They take up great quantities of water to sustain grass sod only a few humans can enjoy.
In tournament season then they cause detours and gridlock congestion that affects just about everyone else but the few humans who are enjoying the tournament.
@Cruiser Human beings are selfish and wild inspite of being the only creatures on Earth with a large brain and a soul. We are self-destructive and because of that we are doomed to extinction while destroying the planet on our way there.
We (the Dutch) have one mountain (300+ meters).
But not for long.
Fortunately there is no such thing as an economic crisis and tens of thousands who face starvation in Africa….
20,000 people starve to death every single day of the year. This could be prevented by the proper distribution of Earth’s resources, as would be done in a civilized world.
@AmWiser My girlfriend agrees.
On periods.
The price of a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house in a shit area of Los Angeles. Also, the price of an equal house in a really nice part of L.A.
The extent to which politically correct language will go.
Neizvestnaya, in defense of golf courses; they can also add many benefits. Not only can they add benefits and enjoyment to the people who use them, but to many other people too. In an indirect and direct way. Me for instance, I live on a golf course in Florida. I actually live in a golf course community with 480 holes of golf and it will be 600 holes when it is completed.
We drive everywhere in our golf carts. Nearly all 80,000 of us. There are over 40,000 golf carts here in this one development. I would think that as far environmentally friendly that is amazing.
Nearly every golf course has a large area that is set aside as a wildlife preserve. It is off-limits to us. The wildlife is indescribable. Nature at it’s finest. Especially considering the oaks. Live oaks, water oaks…it is breathtaking.
I could go on to the economic benefits that this community gets from golf courses, but I will just through that little bit out there for you to at least think about. This place is paradise. Especially for a golfer. ;)
@bkcunningham: That is all good and fine, for Florida. I live in Arizona where most people avoid being out during the daylight unless going from controlled environment to controlled environment. For our terrain, it seems very wasteful of resources, some of which come from other states.
@AmWiser I am sorry..;-)
My girlfriend is already days waiting for it.
@Nullo I really am a domestic engineer – not a housewife
What we are seeing there is a “gymnastics Dad.” He’s starting his kid young and working him and working him. I wonder what happens when the camera is off. Gymnastics is incredible for strengthening your body. For a while my son wanted to do that, but fortunately he stopped, because I was not enjoying all the driving and waiting.
Insane? Well, if it’s insane for a parent to want to make his or her child do what the parent wants, then it’s insane. But over most of the world, that’s the way it is. The parents train the kid in what they know. I don’t know what I know. I don’t have a specialty. Maybe that rubs off on the kids. None of them seem to specialize in anything, either, unless you count being smart as a specialization.
I remember hearing this news report on the radio, about a guy who was being chased by the police for a robbery attempt. So he got in his car and drove off, with the cops chasing him. He ended up pulling into…the parking lot of a police station. After that, he took a marker, and drew a mustache on his face…then he got out of the car, and pretended like nothing was going on.
I know that’s probbaly more stupid than insane, but damn…you gotta be crazy to think that’s gonna work.
@King_Pariah Yeah. Who’s to really say the way most people in our societies live is anything but insane.
@Symbeline one of my favorite quotes “Your god guarantees my insanity, but may I ask? Who guarantees your god’s sanity?”
That makes sense when you think about it, but only when you consider a more psychological approach, about how we create gods and rip each other’s eyes out over it all. Man I’m all foncused now.
A gallon of milk costs more than a gallon of gasoline.
Boss schedules me to close Friday night and then assigns me the first shift on Saturday morning – which starts about seven hours after I’d finished closing. Between that and the fact that I don’t sleep very well to begin with, I’m quite groggy when I stumble in at 6 A.M.
The insane part? “You look awfully tired,” said Boss.
Dead serious.
Got him back, though. I took him aside and (referring to another of his comments) asked him why he was so handy with verbal abuse. I could almost see the cortisol entering his bloodstream.
I find it insane that the public servants we elect don’t do the job, and what they do get done is so they can get to a higher office. All the while John Q is too stupid to form a third or 4th party strong enough so it is not a cancel each other out pissing contest every time something needs to get done.
I find it insane that the poor, working and middle class outnumber the poor at least four to one yet all they can do is complain they are led around like sheep by the rich because the rich have all the money.
Electricity generated by nuclear power.
And its continued promotion as a sensible thing to be doing. Madness!
That “educated” people willfully pronounce words incorrectly, even though they know the proper pronunciation:
1. new-cue-ler (nuclear)
2. real-uh-ter (realtor)
3. chim-ley (chimney)
4. sim-yoo-ler (similar)
The only problem with the insanity of others mispronouncing easy words is that it, in turn, drives me batshit insane.
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