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8Mud

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The following was lifted from another I-Net site:

"Humans once existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers.

They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer & would go to the coast & live on fish & lobster in winter.

The 2 most important events in all of history were the invention of beer & the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization & together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups: Liberals & Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered it required grain & that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early human ancestors were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking & killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as "the Conservative movement."

Other men who were weaker & less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q's & doing the sewing, fetching & hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement. Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as 'girleymen.'

Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy & group hugs & the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat & beer that conservatives provided.

Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth: the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.

Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, & French food are standard liberal fare.

Another interesting revolutionary side note: most liberal men like women with higher testosterone levels than themselves. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood & group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't "fair" to make the pitcher also bat.

Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat & still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, Marines, athletes & generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to "govern" the producers & decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America. They crept in after the Wild West was tamed & created a business of trying to get MORE for nothing.

Here ends today's lesson in world history. It should be noted that a Liberal will have an uncontrollable urge to respond to the above instead of laughing and simply deleting or forwarding it."
 
Erm, what if you like to make sure your dinner's fully dead (sorry, but I've spent enough time chasing it already. Don't want to chase it at the table,) don't like beer (or wine or imported water - I'm a long-time rum drinker,) and just don't give a damn about sports (since it's so hard to find precision long-range shooting, 3-gun matches, or full-contact martial arts that hasn't been sensationalised, and I think most of the rest of the so-called "athletes" are little more than overpaid prima donnas?)

Apart from that, we did enjoy the compare/contrast exercise here, and it's otherwise largely accurate.

I also enjoyed the point about how conservatives have "productive" jobs, but liberals tend to try to reap undeserved spoils. Kinda like the idea of economic Socialism - "From each according to his means, to each according to his needs." Note the parallel to welfare. I'd be less annoyed about welfare if the Pauper's Oath were reinstated...

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I think the writer got it wrong...

It's not Liberal or Conservative, it's urban and rural.

As a fatally flawed retrosexual I find the recent mainstreaming of metrosexuals completely offensive.

"Ooo, let's go down to the market and get some highlights put in our hair while sipping late's. Maybe go shopping for some slacks and a sweater".

[shudder]
 
"Metrosexual?" From what I've read, isn't that just a more acceptable label for "narcissist?"

I've ran into a few of those "guys," and from what I've seen, we're dealing with individuals there whose idea of an "ideal" sex partner would be a clone of themselves. Perhaps they'll fail to breed, and they'll die out soon.

Oh - I gotta know. What's a "Root Moose?"

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metrosexual:

An urban male with a heterosexual orientation who rejects many macho attributes often linked to masculinity. He adopts many traits often associated with heterosexual females and gay males -- eg expensive hair care, stylish clothes.

I would also add "doesn't know what end of a hammer to use even if it hit him in the head".

Finding a half decent definition of retrosexual was a little more difficult. Target audience of the web I guess.

A man with an undeveloped aesthetic sense who spends as little time and money as possible on his appearance and lifestyle.

This works pretty well though:

A TRUE Retrosexual is a man, whether of modest means or wealthy, powerful of body or physically lacking, Mensa candidate or dumb as a bag of fucking rocks, who instinctually KNOWS in his very bones his place in the world and how he should behave in it.

Some are self evident, some simply spring into being as the need to Deal With Shit rears up it's ugly head.

At it's most basic definition, a pure Retrosexual is a man so centered in his universe, so comfortable in his masculinity, he gives out an aura of confidence and competence so strong that Gloria Steinem herself would not hesitate to rush into the kitchen to make him a sandwich should he happen to look hungry.

(taken from http://www.frizzensparks.com/archives/000485.html)

As for wtf is a Root Moose, it's not terribly funny or enlightened. Let's just leave it as a modern SysAdmin's version of BOFH.
 
on the subject of metrosexuals...this kid, probably 15 at the oldest based on his appearance, decided he was gonna take a nice long look at my wife, while I was walking right there with her. I about stopped and hit him, but that probably wouldn't have been the smartest thing to do at the mall where they keep a sub-department of the police...
 
Ah. I still stand by my definition of "metrosexual" (i.e., pansified narcissist,) and I am familiar with BOFH - having read him since he came about in the first place (which can be found in archives at bofh.ntk.net.) New stories can be found at www.theregister.co.uk, click "Odds & Sods," then "BOFH" - for the unitiated.

It is not necessary to understand the duties of a SysOp in order to "get" BOFH humour - understanding surgically-applied sadism and a certain amount of misanthropism is plenty.

I found out about BOFH while I was running the maintenance crew at Adobe Systems (a crew of six - including me - supporting about 2400 people in several buildings.) Amazingly, it helped on quite a few of those sixteen-hour days - and there were an awful lot of those (about five to the week - sometimes six.)

I've sometimes thought of doing a BOFH spinoff - the maintenance guy that works with him. I knew a couple BOFH-types in IT/MIS while I was there, and it was interesting some of the things that were done when we got bored (the Statute of Limitations should be up in a couple more years...)

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IH8RDS said:
Damn....all this time..... I thought it stood for Moose XXXX(adoodle):wave:

:D
 
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