Just a quick update on Eivind Berge: According to this news account, the Norwegian Men’s Rights blogger is considered enough of a threat to police officers that his two-week detention has been extended by four more weeks. According to the prosecutor, the “risk of recurrence of new criminal offenses” makes releasing him dangerous.
See my posts here and here for more on his arrest.
@David Futrelle
“You know, NWO, Wetherby wasn’t the only one who thought that Berge might go on a killing rampage. It turns out that Berge himself thought so. After Brievik’s murders, he wrote:”
I thought by this point in my life I’d be a millionaire living on a private tropical island, smoking fine cannabis and chasing scantily clad girls around that I owned. That’s right baby. Owned.
Those thoughts didn’t mean shit either. Feelings and words and thoughts don’t at up to a hill of beans in reality. Yet the personal is the political, words get you locked up, sued and fired and thinking incorrectly brands you a hater, bigot, racist, sexist, ect. How’d that happen?
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@Cliff Pervocracy
“…fffuuuck, yeah, you probably could.”
That’s only cause I’m a slavering beast. Just waiting to stalk some helpless waif on a dark, stormy night. Testosterone poisoning.
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@David Futrelle
“Oh, and here are NWOs comments about vision tests for drivers licenses and Pol Pot. (The first paragraph is a quote from Pecunium talking about vision tests):”
But, Dave? I ask again, why does anyone need a license to drive? At best, this poor excuse should mean that only those with poor vision need corrective lenses. The only reason anyone has to have a license is because you’ll be fined and eventually jailed for driving without one. If I drive without a license they take away my right to drive. A rule was made by the enforcers that enforce any rule they make.
Car insurance is the same thing. Up until 30 years ago no one had to have car insurance and most people didn’t. People only insured cars where the value of the car made it worth insuring. Why pay hundreds or thousands of dollars a year when the cost of the insurance exceeds the value of the car? The enforcers made a rule that profits someone, and they enforce the rule. If I don’t play by the rules I get fined, eventually I go to jail.
The rules say I pay federal tax. The rules say I pay state tax. The rules say I pay local tax. The rules say I pay property tax. The rules say I pay sales tax. The rules say I get a license to drive, to boat, to fish, to hunt. The rules say I get car insurance. The rules say send the kiddies to the indoctrination centers or they’re truant. The rules say go 55 here and 65 here. There’s over 60 million rules in the good old USA and I’m sure Canada is the same. If I break any of the rules they take more of my wealth. I can scarcely obey one rule without breaking another.
What say we go back to the old rules. Life, freedom and property? That way we all keep our life, freedom and wealth.
Well that was an entertaining little rant from the Owlyverse, this might be my favorite though — “Was it really? I guess you were wrong.” — you were wrong about your guess at who the mass murderer was! Bet you feel terrible now!
NWO — everyone but you (and I guess narcissists) realizes that they’re going to be, and have been, wrong on occasion. The words “to err is human” may ring some bells?
Ithiliana — I am suddenly glad that I’m being invaded by boring old jumping spiders, much as I hate spiders, at least I’ve got harmless easily ID’ed ones. And in “things that almost make up for it” — yesterday I saw the first praying mantis I’ve seen here, I’d missed them (and I’d swear I heard a crow earlier, not that I’ve seen one since I moved here nearly a decade ago…still don’t miss the Canadian geese though). The point here is that the local strange and unusual creatures are ones I know, and big and large, ones I had missed.
NWO- If you don’t like following our rules, you don’t have to live in our country. No one is stopping you from leaving.
I hear Somalia is nice for the libertarian set.
Owlster, you just said you have fantasies about chasing women around… but stalking a woman is totally definitely something we should believe you would never do. You do realize the first thing is basically the same as the last thing except one involves running and the other involves walking, right???
Do you want those bikini-wearing 8-year-olds to be driving a car around?
@Argenti Aertheri
“Owlyverse???”
Ten words in before demeaning me. Bet you felt quite smug writing that? Or is it you’re so used to casually insulting men you didn’t even realize you were doing it?
“The words “to err is human” may ring some bells?”
I forgive you for condescending and insulting me in your opening sentence. Ain’t I divine?
@kladle
“Do you want those bikini-wearing 8-year-olds to be driving a car around?”
Bikini-wearing 8-year-olds???
Whaddya say to a bikini-wearing 8-year-olds?
Got any younger sisters! Zing!!!
“Whaddya say to a bikini-wearing 8-year-olds?
Got any younger sisters! Zing!!!”
Is it stupid joke time?
Me next.
Did you pick that joke up while smoking weed with your buddies?
Wait, what buddies?
Zing!
Sooo NWO thinks that vision tests to get a license are discrimination against men? Do men have worse vision than women? Or is it not discrimination against women because women shouldn’t be allowed to drive at all and we’re lucky to even have the chance to take a test, whereas men have the god-given right to do whatever they want, regardless of their proficiency or the harm they might cause?
Oh, right.
Clearly NWO is a kind and virtuous man, and we’re being so unfair to him when we say he’s a creepy asshole. That or he’s just a creepy asshole. Yeah, the second one.
Having a Beavis and Butthead style Boing! moment there, owly? How surprising.
“If I drive without a license they take away my right to drive.”
It isn’t a right, it’s a privilege — which is the answer to all your driving related questions btw.
…and apparently you think everyone finds it oh so oppressive to not break laws left and right, wow, that is impressive (oppressive and impressive share the same root, I’ll give you cookies if you can explain that [sorry Pecunium, you can’t play, because I’m sure you can explain it])
“Or is it you’re so used to casually insulting
menfools you didn’t even realize you were doing it?”FTFY, except no, I was quite intentionally implying to live in your own little universe.
“Ain’t I divine?”
“Whaddya say to a bikini-wearing 8-year-olds?
Got any younger sisters! Zing!!!”
Not even remotely…
Word to the weird: Jokes tend to be more successful when your audience has no reason to believe you’re not joking.
@Argenti Aertheri
“It isn’t a right, it’s a privilege”
Really? Why? Say the government just up and disappeared tommorow. Could I still drive without my State given privilege? If I drive without a license I will infringe on no ones life, freedom or property. Since I infringe on no ones rights, how can I be breaking any law.
“Or is it you’re so used to casually insulting men fools”
Eleven words in this time, you’re getting better.
@Karalora
“Word to the weird: Jokes tend to be more successful when your audience has no reason to believe you’re not joking.”
Four words in before insulting me, Argenti Aertheri must really like me. Talk about a hostile audience.
How about this…
Why do doctors slap babies’ butts right after they’re born?
To knock the penises off the smart ones!
What do you call a handcuffed man?
Trustworthy!
Why do men have a hole in their penis?
So oxygen can get to their brains!
Mah fellah Texuns…
I once had a colleague who was from New Jersey. She always said that the worst thing about it was always having to say “…and it’s not that bad!”
Now I understand. I’m from Texas, and we’re not all stupid and crazy and uneducated.
Ahm from Texus, and wur nawt all stuoopid and crazy and unedumicatedcated and damn proud uv it.
Really. We’re not.
Really.
Not all of us.
If your car isn’t worth much, just get liability insurance instead of comprehensive coverage. That way you can still have insurance for medical bills and lawsuits from accidents, but you won’t get money for replacing the car if it’s totaled. I agree it’s a waste to pay a lot of money insuring a clunker. If you have a lot of money, you can also show proof of your income to the DMV as another type of proof of financial responsibility, rather than purchasing an insurance plan. Each state is different in what forms they’d make you fill out, and I don’t know how other countries do these rules.
@Freitag,
I understand how you feel. I’m in Missouri, and sometimes I feel embarrassed by the reputation the state is getting because of turds like John Ashcroft, Roy Blunt, or Billy Long. Please don’t judge all of us by them. I am against puppy mills and meth labs, and I am in favor of school lunch programs.
Freitag, it’s not the worst place in the word, not by a long shot. The aggressive ignorance in some quarters was what you might call a culture shock, though.
Actually, you only need a license to drive on public roads. Private roads are fair game. How about it, Slavey? You don’t have to bow to Big Daddy’s oppression! Just stay off of Big Daddy’s roads. Unless you’re some kind of parasitic, dependent welfare bum who can’t fend for himself.
This is just one more indication that all of our regular trolls should get together and form their own mini-state. Think of it, Slavey – no Big Daddy! Just you, Meller, Meller’s dolls, Steele, and a few other MRAs! No women taunting you by wearing capri pants! What are you waiting for?
“Really? Why? Say the government just up and disappeared tommorow. Could I still drive without my State given privilege? If I drive without a license I will infringe on no ones life, freedom or property. Since I infringe on no ones rights, how can I be breaking any law.”
Well someone apparently doesn’t think the risk of bad drivers killing people is infridging on anyone’s rights…hint dude, things like this are why I don’t think anarchism could work — people would still need licenses for things like driving, electric repair, medicine, etc.
Or should that read “well some fool…”? Wouldn’t want you thinking I like you after all. (Fool is literally the least bad thing I can think of to call you, you really need to chill.)
Here’s an insult for you NWO — you have as many brain cells as an amoeba.
owlslave, what is your theory of what law is that makes this statement make sense.
i’ve been reading dworkin all evening (ronald, not andrea), and i could use the laugh.
@NWO
Those jokes suck. Do you know any good puns?
he doesnt know any puns, but he knows some good blonde jokes. for instance:
q: what do you call a blonde who dyes her hair?
a: a stupid bitch who should be beaten for taunting men by walking around with her head uncovered.