I just don’t get it.
I thought Halifax attracted progressive, artistic, off-the-beaten-track kind of people. However, it appears you are all just rodents. Strange, furry creatures breading and brainwashing your offspring before they even have a chance to think for themselves. It’s the only plausible reason for why you all amble mindlessly towards The Commons to clamber onto the large scale hamster wheel that is the oval and circle foolishly for hours.
Do you not realize how silly it is? You little lab rats are subjecting yourselves to the drone of top 40 and blaring, blatant advertising. You aren’t breathing in fresh air, what you smell is sizzling, oily, fat-injected “beaver tails”. It’s all a fucking hoax! VERMIN! The commons used to be a beautiful grassy space where we could PLAY but now you half-witted gerbils are invading, oblivious to the fact that you are being cheated into believing that you are uncaged, when clearly a hamster wheel is only to allow rodents to run when their space is confined. —If I Were a Cat, I’d Eat You
This article appears in Dec 22-28, 2011.
this bitch reminds me of a cartoon i saw once. It was a bunch of faceless stick people on a bus thinking the same mundane, collective thought. Now.. i paraphrase, but the thought was essentially “Look at me, the world’s only independent thinker in a sea of sheep”
Don’t assume just because you accuse others of being brainwashed that you are not also brainwashed. You just judged a whole group of people because they don’t dress like you do, because they enjoy a little outdoors and exercise and because they are doing things your brainwashers tell you is brainwashed behaviour.
In fact, i bet you think everyone who doesn’t think and act exactly like you is some kind of conformist, am i right? They are conformists because they don’t conform to the ideals that you conform to? Is that about where we are?
Bravo….
..not hipster douchey enough…you could wear a “ugly christmas” sweater and a ironic hat….
Laerrus, if you were a cat you could lick your own ass and thus, get more action than you are currently receiving. Maybe you can qualify for an interest-free Occupy N.S. Loan and start your own “Breaded & Brainwashed Rodent” concession.
@IK: Was it this comic by any chance? http://xkcd.com/610/
@OP: Would you kindly fuck off?
Not that I agree with the post (I love Halifax), but I do agree with the eyesore that the Oval has become. For every concert hosted on the Commons there was an endless stream of harsh criticisms about how they damaged the ground and looked ugly. I just spent my spring,summer and fall, unable to use at least a quarter of the ‘common space’ , instead forced to look at a the very ugly and unusable space the Oval created. How is that fair?
OB … you said it best … “I just don’t get it.” That is quite obvious after reading the rest of your bitch, which isn’t even worth further comment … since I’m sure that no matter what I, or anyone else, would write … you still wouldn’t get it.
And to top it all off, the socialists get their digs in by mandating adults have to wear a helmet on their giant hampster wheel or get fined! lol. You can’t make this shit up!
Here we go, another bitter projectile wanker who wallows in his/her own putrid bile while the sight of skating rats causes his/her eyeballs to burst like cherry bombs.
No one gives a sweet shit what you think, you huge douche, certainly not the people having a great time on the Oval, gnawing on beaver tails and your last raw nerve.
He’s just jealous because he doesn’t get any beaver or tail.
..hmmm what about …snow angels on e..with back-ground dub-step ..yowser 🙂
The Oval set-up looks like crap. Also, the eyesore is used as marketing spin by NSPower. Get over it, everyone. At least acknowledge where you’re taking, when you’re taking it, and how deeply you’re taking it.
orgasmatron yup. That’s the one. All the sheep talking about sheep just like good little sheep 🙂
and OP dear.. perhaps the fate of the commons is best left in the hands of taxpayers. And not some turd with no education, no skills and no cogent ideas or thoughts of his own that still somehow manages to think he’s smarter than everyone else.
You’re dumb OP. I know a million like you. And after you’re gone there will be a million more. Fucking follower…
This isn’t as bad as that clown that was signing his/her/their names after famous people, though.
Thing is, though, I’m pretty sure the commons is getting used by more people and by a wider range of people than it does all summer/winter combined thanks to The Oval. (not by me though, I hate winter sports)
OB…while I won’t argue about how tacky or ‘smelly’ it may be. You can’t argue with the fact that if you want to skate right now, none of the lakes or ponds are safe.
Plus if the Oval becomes unsafe to skate on, no one should drown…pretty hard to do when the ice surface is only about a half inch thick.
WHen that melts, your standing on concrete ~;)
Jesus Christ I’ll never understand people like you OP, so concerned with what others are doing and what others think or don’t think. Either go skate on the oval or don’t. And for those that bitch about the oval because it takes up your beloved common space, it’s winter, what are you going to do there, snowshoe? There’s still plenty of room to walk your dog or whatever.
I don’t even skate but Christ, there are basketball courts, soccer fields, playgrounds on public space, why not a skating rink? The lakes don’t always freeze enough to safely skate on and there’s no one to really regulate if it’s safe or not. With a rink you can skate in a controlled, safe environment.
“I thought Halifax attracted progressive, artistic, off-the-beaten-track kind of people.”
What in the sweet fuck does that have to do with people skating on the oval? Is Halifax really not hipster enough for you? Maybe you should try San Fransisco or something. I think that the hipsters (progressive, artistic, off-the-beaten-track kind of people as you put it) and the people who want to go get some exercise and get outside during our horrible winter can co exist.
For FUCKS sake
Yo, Operation Hotpocket-
Go fuck yourself.
Some people choose to do physical activity around other people, and somehow manage to find great meaning and enjoyment in this activity.
Don’t you have some band to go like before everyone discovers them or some junk?
Dick.
Wpaul(thinks your Bitch is bottom shelf)
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If I were a cat I’d eat you
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If you were a cat I would tickle yer belly, Hot Pocket. What are you saying?
Most of the “artsy” people I know are enthusiastic as fuck to go skating at the oval. Jesus…don’t people like you usually complain about the “sheeple” sitting at home watching shows like King of Queens and getting fat? At least oval skaters are getting some exercise. I’m pretty sure there’s another place where you can go to get stoned and play hacky sack with your friends.
“THINKING FOR THEMSELVES”
The people of Halifax are, according to the poster, “Strange furry creatures breading (sic) and brainwashing your (sic) offspring before they ever have a chance to think for themselves.”
I have often puzzled over the phrase, to “think for oneself.” What, if anything, does it mean? Indeed, in what sense is it ever possible to “think for oneself?” Does to think for oneself, for example, imply some sort of transcendent standing relative to one’s own cultural (i.e. conceptual) environment and, if so, what would this transcendent standing look like? Is it possible to transcend one’s cultural environment at all? Could you explain this?
On the other hand, if one is necessarily a product of that environment, how is it possible that one can “think for oneself?” How is it that one can, simultaneously, be a product of one’s cultural environment yet “think for oneself?” Is not one’s thinking necessarily a reflection, indeed a replication, of that culture into which one was born? Could you explain this?
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
OP, do you realize this site is filled with/fueled by ads?
He’s just pissed off because all the sponsorship didn’t go to his favorite non-mainstream band…
So what you’re saying is if these people were playing in the grass instead of on the ice that would be alright. They would free, intelligent and making their own choices.
I’d like to state, for the record, TTFN, that while *I* have been wallowing in my own putrid bile over the past 5 days, I am, in fact, NOT the OB. AHHA.
A little C Difficile humour there, guys. AHAHA.
Also: I haven’t read any comments since TTFN’s comment.
PS: STAY OUT OF HOSPITALS.
we wait a whole fucking week and more, and this is the crap that comes to face us. fuck me people, doesn’t anyone have anything fucking new for a change.
just makes me wanna bite fucking spikes.
Sorry to hear you’re sick PK! I had food poisoning or something last week 🙁 I hope the kittehs are keeping good company!
http://images.cheezburger.com/completestor…
Thanks, Mel. You’re a sweetie! 🙂
Mom and I are back on our feet and back at work (yay?) but we’re both still kinda exhausted. Molly and Oscar were purrfect sick buddies — especially Oscar. He was all sad yesterday when mom went back to work.
I love kittehs! 🙂
HAPPY HUMP DAY EVERYONEZ!
“THINKING FOR THEMSELVES” (II): THE FAILURE OF THE POSTER’S PROJECT
Disappointingly, the poster failed to respond to Montrealman’s request for an explanation of what he meant by the people of Halifax “thinking for themselves” which, he claimed, they failed to do. As a consequence, according to the poster, they mindlessly skated around the Oval on the Commons like half-witted gerbils on a hamster wheel. But Montrealman’s request, contrary to what some might think, is not trivial. Indeed, the poster’s failure to respond has lethal consequences for his project. In a word, the poster’s failure to explain what he means by people “thinking for themselves” means that his project rests upon incoherent foundations and that his project, as a consequence, necessarily collapses.
Montrealman, giving the poster 24 hours to think it over, provided the poster with two possible options in respect to the people of Halifax “thinking for themselves.” The first, what might be called a “strong” or “robust” sense, required that the poster identify that transcendental perspective from which thinking for oneself would be possible. Here the thinker would be a “free chooser,” unconstrained by any cultural impediments. But the poster failed to do this.
The second option posed the conceptual problem as to how, if not a free chooser, the thinker could even possibly be said to think for himself since the content of his thought necessarily replicated the conceptual stock of his cultural environment. In other words, the thinker simply parroted the prevailing cultural views and so could not be said to think for himself. But the poster, in similar fashion, also failed to resolve the conundrum.
There is, of course, a third sense in which the thinker might be able to think for himself, call it the “weak” or the “trivial sense.” This means that the thinker does not simply parrot the prevailing views of his culture. But this trivial sense of thinking for oneself, while explaining what the thinker does NOT do, does not explain what he DOES do and therefore fails as an adequate explanation of thinking for oneself.
Philosophers, of course, will instantly recognize the problem as a variant of the “free will – determinism” question but Montrealman, ever mindful of the limited attention span of the readers on this site, will not address this question now.
In any case, the poster’s project may be dismissed without appeal.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz(snort)zzzzzzzzzzz
October 2012 cannot come soon enough, we get the chance to boot Kelly’s arse to the kerb!!!!
I hear the Occupy kids are planning on running a full slate of candidates. Piles? Wowe, that 16 year old “street kid” (har har) and this guy:
http://www.ultrasecured.com/stores/dreamse…
My vote is for the Hacky Sack
Mine too. I’m going with brains over “media savvy”.
somebody called?
checking google maps (which has been updated), that thing is fucking HUGE.
The only way I may be coaxed to go near that sucker is if they hold some ladies roller derby event this summer on it. maybe….
though I am just waiting for the vandalism to start and the ‘expected maintenance costs’ to skyrocket. if they can fuck up something as gorgeous as the public garden… who knows what they’ll do to the emereyesore oval.
Sorry OB, the “progressive, artistic, off-the-beaten-track kind of people” all disbanded when the cops tore down the Occupy Protester tents, but I think you can find a few in the Courthouse facing charges now. Good luck.
RSVPs
: Wheeliep Bader (Jan. 4, 10:18AM)
Many thanks for your reply to my post (9:53AM) which, in my view, surpasses in intelligence and understanding your previous “TLdr” on another thread to a previous post of mine. I do not think that your achievement should go unrecognized. I see an incremental progresss here Wheeliep, one that may even trump your earlier achievement. Congratulations!
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
I bet OP doesn’t even skate.
Strap on a pair of blades, plug in some ear buds, and go a-glidin’ OP, you have no idea you’re getting exercise while you’re having fun.
I feel sorry for Halifax that it doesn’t have a Rideau Canal, cuz that’s the only way winter is bearable in Ottawa. And now Ottawa is following suit and building a rink on the front lawn of City Hall.
Lighten up and have some fun OP…jeez…
maybe OB would like it more if it was Pabst plaza.
or the Commons Movalson
Moovalhead track.
Export Ellipse
if it were in quebec, you can bet it’d be the Labatt Lissajous.
and why in the sweet fuck didn’t Olands come on board for
Olands O-land ???
I’d cosign on O-LAND myself zZz
You’re all way off. I have seen the official name and it is…. (The) Emera Oval. Read it called that tonight by his Warship Mayor Kelly in my free copy of Chebucto News.