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  • If this is how the world is, I want no part of it.......

    so right now, as I sit here and type, my co-worker is standing 6 feet away talking to possibly the most eccentric man I have ever encountered in my years of customer service. He is going on and on about world views that are just....WOW!!

    My head hurts just listening to it. So far we have heard how:

    - The goverenment is rigging us all like little pawns, using our money to monopolize the greater system
    -The banks (btw, my co-worker and I are bankers, standing in our bank) are stealing peoples money and leaving them bankrupt for the purposes of forcing individuals to borrow money. Also, the banks have all the government information of individuals and we share it ALL. (for the record guys, not true, banks knwo nothing more than what you give them)
    -the youth, as in myself, have no future and want no future, we are lazy, and all depressed and on meds. Yes, thats right, IM the one on meds.....
    -Police officers do nothing for the community, they do not help citizens and will allow individuals suffer for the purpose of mass hysteria..... no comment....(also, my co-workers husband is a police officer )
    -Money is nothing, it has no worth. It has no purpose to us. Its all fictional. *its not really there*...... funny, i wish his existance had the same principles.
    -Y2K really did happen, the government just covered it up with multiple generators.....ya.....Y2K....
    -Government employees are monitoring our spending so they can overview the money going into coporations to make sure they are being taxed correctly. Bank cards talk to the government and other entities. Yes thats right, they talk. I have conversations with my bank card daily actually, his name is Mike and he doesnt like my wallet, says it smells funny.


    I could keep going but, I wont. I just had to share. Totally crazy. And his breath smelled like an ancient ashtray thats been soaking in fried onion juice for several years......

    Anyone else have some crazies today???
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    i'm stuck wondering what he came in for and how all these wild theories relate to it.
    look! it's ghengis khan!
    Sorry, but while I can do many things, extracting heads from anuses isn't one of them. (so sayeth the irv)

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    • #3
      Geez what a nut. He has about 1/16th of a point though about our money. It is fictional in a way. It has no real worth. A dollar is only worth a dollar because the government says it's worth a dollar. Many many years ago holding a dollar bill meant that there was an actual dollar's worth of silver or gold sitting in a federal vault.

      Of course pointing this out, especially to a banker, is hardly revelational. Everyone knows our money has been declining in value since we stopped backing it up with anything tangible.

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      • #4
        Quoth Fufu487 View Post
        -the youth, as in myself, have no future and want no future, we are lazy, and all depressed and on meds. Yes, thats right, IM the one on meds.....
        Well, it's obvious that he isn't on them... but should be.

        -Government employees are monitoring our spending so they can overview the money going into coporations to make sure they are being taxed correctly. Bank cards talk to the government and other entities. Yes thats right, they talk. I have conversations with my bank card daily actually, his name is Mike and he doesnt like my wallet, says it smells funny.
        I don't know about my card, but I know my money talks to me pretty regularly.

        Usually, though, it's saying "goodbye".
        No matter how low my opinion of humanity as a whole gets, there are always over-achievers who seek to surpass my expectations.

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        • #5
          Quoth dbblsanta View Post
          He has about 1/16th of a point though about our money. It is fictithere was an actual dollar's worth of silver or gold sitting in a federal vault.

          Of course pointing this out, especially to a banker, is hardly revelational. Everyone knows our money has been declining in value since we stopped backing it up with anything tangible.


          Ya, this was the only somewhat valid point I made out, and it's called 'fiat money' according to R.A. Heinlien at least

          This has been your useless bit of trivia via Sci Fi Thank You and good night!
          I used to be disgusted... Now I'm just amused

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          • #6
            Quoth dbblsanta View Post
            Geez what a nut. He has about 1/16th of a point though about our money. It is fictional in a way. It has no real worth. A dollar is only worth a dollar because the government says it's worth a dollar. Many many years ago holding a dollar bill meant that there was an actual dollar's worth of silver or gold sitting in a federal vault.

            Of course pointing this out, especially to a banker, is hardly revelational. Everyone knows our money has been declining in value since we stopped backing it up with anything tangible.
            Yup. Money these days is based on faith. Faith that the money it worth something. It literally is only worth the paper its printed on, but because people have faith the money will continue to be valuable, it becomes valuable.

            So money works the same way Ork weaponry works.

            But are red ones faster?

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            • #7
              Quoth Fufu487 View Post
              -Y2K really did happen,
              He's also correct here.

              Fortunately, the hysteria finally got managers to allow programmers and sysadmins the resources to find and fix the critical cases in time.

              But I clearly remember seeing plenty of '1900' and '100' and other such glitches in unimportant places like website date counters.
              Seshat's self-help guide:
              1. Would you rather be right, or get the result you want?
              2. If you're consistently getting results you don't want, change what you do.
              3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
              4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.

              "All I want is a pretty girl, a decent meal, and the right to shoot lightning at fools." - Anders, Dragon Age.

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              • #8
                Quoth patiokitty View Post
                Sounds to me like you met one of Gravekeeper's callers face to face!
                AAAAAHHHH IT'S UNCLE VICK! ....We've missed you uncle Vick.
                "I'm not smiling because I'm happy. I'm smiling because every time I blink your head explodes!"
                -Red

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                • #9
                  Aw shit....sorry you had to deal with my neighbor.

                  Did he bring his gf along?
                  You really need to see a neurologist. - Wagegoth

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Red_Dazes View Post
                    AAAAAHHHH IT'S UNCLE VICK! ....We've missed you uncle Vick.
                    Is he related to Mr. Death to America?

                    He could have Alzheimer's or Senile Dementia, or some sort of mental illness . . . either way you slice it, sounds to me like this guy needs professional help.

                    I feel for his family . . . I'm sure they have their hands full with him.
                    Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Fufu487 View Post
                      -Money is nothing, it has no worth. It has no purpose to us. Its all fictional. *its not really there*
                      Hey buddy, if you don't like money, I'll be happy to take it off your hands...

                      There's always one. Sorry you had to deal with him.
                      I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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                      • #12
                        Quoth Fufu487 View Post
                        -the youth, as in myself, have no future and want no future, we are lazy, and all depressed and on meds. Yes, thats right, IM the one on meds.....
                        Well, if anything, this stellar model of sanity definitely seems to be off his.
                        "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

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                        • #13
                          One would think that watching somone at the height of crazy would be entertaining but they would be wrong.

                          I used to work with a guy who used to rant about how the world was controlled by aliens and they talked to certain people who became world leaders just to make war with each other to keep us from realizing our true potential.

                          Also that earth was just a piece of real estate that had been sold several times to different aliens and we were the equivilant to cattle.

                          He never explained the end game though. What would we yield in the end for the aliens if we are cattle.

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                          • #14
                            Quoth Kullervo View Post
                            What would we yield in the end for the aliens if we are cattle.
                            Tasty Soylent Green.
                            "I can tell her you're all tied up in the projection room." Sunset Boulevard.

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                            • #15
                              If you were in Maine I'd swear you'd met my brother!

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