Crazy Lady Peppersprayed People at Walmart on Black Friday

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Chillax wrote on 2011-11-29 03:59

Quote from Yoorah;674702:
Perhaps, perhaps not. I really wouldn't know, and neither would you. As stated in the original post, it was only a remark targeted at those gross people, with hope that they'd learn to save, rather than spend literally billions on stupid crap. It was not meant to be taken as some sort of macroeconomic analysis. :v

Well, if you make a claim that can't be supported, might as well not say it all. Could have stuck with just "What a bunch of savages".

Quote from Yoorah;674702:
I exaggerated when I said that, for the lulz. The actual point behind it still stands; people wouldn't bother to do that stuff had there been no major shake-up, despite being on a collision course either way.

Bad and pointless exaggeration then.

Quote from Yoorah;674702:
I find it amusing that you actually went and looked that up. Unfortunately for your cause, I didn't actually care about what Cynic said because I knew he did not mean for it to be taken seriously. I only posted my response the way I did because I thought it would be cute.

No, I just remembered what you said before, so the search only took a few seconds. May you forever stay emotionless towards anything written in an Internet forum.

Quote from Yoorah;674702:
Even if he did somehow manage to offend me with that comment, I wouldn't whine over it like some people have here. xD Learn to control your pride and prioritize.

It's not really a matter of wounded pride so much as it is correcting someone. I'll just remember to take anything not computer-related from you with a grain of salt.

Quote from Yoorah;674702:
I agree. But when you've got too many bad apples, you can't really blame people for doing so, no matter how unjust you may think it is.

Well, it's mainly a matter of the US being the 3rd largest nation in the world while being the only first-world country of the top 7 largest nations (population-wise) in the world. The media is so prevalent in the US, so anything crazy gets reported within minutes, while there's probably a bunch of stuff that doesn't make the news in the other 6 nations. The proportion of crazy stuff that occurs in the US could be similar to the proportion of incidences you'd find in other first-world countries, but people base their opinions on the absolute number of those incidences.
Yoorah wrote on 2011-11-30 23:32

Quote from Lilith;674789:
Black Friday in general, is ridiculous, but I went shopping on it. There was S.W.A.T at the Walmart I went to, who did absolutely NOTHING when a lady was being purposely trampled. I'm pretty sure had my sister not stepped in to help the lady, she would have died. The police at these things do nothing from my experience. Instead of helping the people, they make threats of shutting down the store when people won't get away from the boxes.

Boxes are clearly more important than human lives on Black Friday. That was said with pure sarcasm, by the way.

+1 to list of incidents where Americans* turn into savages (or rather, show their true colours)?
Bolded part made me LOL, though. The threat of having the store shut down is probably more effective discipline than any other method they can come up with. xD

*Disclaimer: Only some Americans, not all!

Quote from Chillax;674868:
Well, if you make a claim that can't be supported, might as well not say it all. Could have stuck with just "What a bunch of savages".

Re-read the original post. It was just meant to show my disgust with those people. Stop over-thinking things to make them fit your QQ-ing needs.

Quote from Chillax;674868:
Bad and pointless exaggeration then.

I disagree! I say it's good style, and partly true. :3

Quote from Chillax;674868:
No, I just remembered what you said before, so the search only took a few seconds. May you forever stay emotionless towards anything written in an Internet forum.

ROFL @ emotionless comment. The last time someone called me that was when my ex turned crazy and started raging at me, trying to get me to rage as well. Didn't work.
It's called having some EQ, knowing what to get attached to and involved in, what to ignore, what's justified to get upset about, what the intentions of people are in the way they act, and the like. It's good for you.
I have a heart, thanks. :<

Quote from Chillax;674868:
It's not really a matter of wounded pride so much as it is correcting someone. I'll just remember to take anything not computer-related from you with a grain of salt.

Were you honestly expecting deep and meaningful discussion out of a thread about some ghetto woman who pepper sprayed other ghetto people because they all wanted to buy cheap junk?* xD

*Disclaimer: This is a rhetorical question.

Quote from Chillax;674868:
Well, it's mainly a matter of the US being the 3rd largest nation in the world while being the only first-world country of the top 7 largest nations (population-wise) in the world. The media is so prevalent in the US, so anything crazy gets reported within minutes, while there's probably a bunch of stuff that doesn't make the news in the other 6 nations. The proportion of crazy stuff that occurs in the US could be similar to the proportion of incidences you'd find in other first-world countries, but people base their opinions on the absolute number of those incidences.

News media is just as active in other parts of the world. Culture and attitude in general is undeniably different, however. You're right that people base their opinions on the absolute number of incidents, but a lot of this stuff gets reported in local news only, so that evens out the playing field. The big stations don't cover every single ghetto shopping incident.
Ithiliel wrote on 2011-12-01 03:07

Quote from Yoorah;676982:
+1 to list of incidents where Americans* turn into savages (or rather, show their true colours)?
Bolded part made me LOL, though. The threat of having the store shut down is probably more effective discipline than any other method they can come up with. xD

*Disclaimer: Only some Americans, not all!

It actually wasn't effective at all, if anything it made them get closer to the merchandise. All in all, it's ridiculous why have police there if they won't protect the ones who need it? The boxes will be fine if they're trampled on, humans not so much.
Chillax wrote on 2011-12-01 11:36

Quote from Yoorah;676982:
*Disclaimer: Only some Americans, not all!

There you go.

Quote from Yoorah;676982:
Re-read the original post. It was just meant to show my disgust with those people. Stop over-thinking things to make them fit your QQ-ing needs.

Yes, I've read your post several times already. Maybe you should, too. When I first opened the thread, I was just cursorily browsing through the comments, then I get to your post, and my reaction:

[Image: http://troll.me/images/jackie-chan-whut/jackie-chan-whut.jpg]

It's a completely bigoted statement. Maybe you don't see it that way because you wrote that post, but how you try to justify it is similar to how the chained man in the allegory of the cave believes the shadows on the wall are truly reality.

Quote from Yoorah;676982:
ROFL @ emotionless comment. The last time someone called me that was when my ex turned crazy and started raging at me, trying to get me to rage as well. Didn't work.
It's called having some EQ, knowing what to get attached to and involved in, what to ignore, what's justified to get upset about, what the intentions of people are in the way they act, and the like. It's good for you.
I have a heart, thanks. :<

Well, after you preach about how pride and intellect are inversely related and champion yourself as a person with less pride than the rest of us because you refuse to "whine" about posts, no matter how wrong you believe them to be and/or how offended you are, one would wonder if you show much emotion at all. I would hope you don't get taken advantage of in the workplace.

You should follow your own advice. Completely failing to see what's wrong with your post and how people that aren't you feel about it, even if the connotations conveyed were unintentional, is a sign of low EQ. You should show your first post in this thread to someone that doesn't know you very well and ask his/her reaction. He/she would probably feel the same way as the picture I posted above if he/she doesn't explicitly hate the US, since there is absolutely no qualifying statement in that comment.

Quote from Yoorah;676982:
Were you honestly expecting deep and meaningful discussion out of a thread about some ghetto woman who pepper sprayed other ghetto people because they all wanted to buy cheap junk?* xD

*Disclaimer: This is a rhetorical question.

I don't expect anything when I open a thread, but if a discussion starts, I'm up to participate in it.

Quote from Yoorah;676982:
News media is just as active in other parts of the world. Culture and attitude in general is undeniably different, however. You're right that people base their opinions on the absolute number of incidents, but a lot of this stuff gets reported in local news only, so that evens out the playing field. The big stations don't cover every single ghetto shopping incident.

Not sure if they're just as active, but I don't think many countries broadcast as much of their internal affairs, including the bad stuff, to other countries as much as the US does.

Local news might balance out unreported incidences for each country. Still, basing opinions of a country on the absolute number of incidences is just taking on another form of ignorance, which is ironic when people declaim the US of being ignorant.

Well, I'm going to stop here since my post strays almost completely from the thread subject. If you'd like to continue in a PM, I'm cool with that.
Chillax wrote on 2011-12-01 11:38

Quote from Yoorah;676982:
*Disclaimer: Only some Americans, not all!

There you go.

Quote from Yoorah;676982:
Re-read the original post. It was just meant to show my disgust with those people. Stop over-thinking things to make them fit your QQ-ing needs.

Yes, I've read your post several times already. Maybe you should, too. When I first opened the thread, I was just cursorily browsing through the comments, then I get to your post, and my reaction:

[Image: http://troll.me/images/jackie-chan-whut/jackie-chan-whut.jpg]

It's a completely bigoted statement. Maybe you don't see it that way because you wrote that post, but how you try to justify it is similar to how the chained man in the allegory of the cave believes the shadows on the wall are truly reality.

Quote from Yoorah;676982:
ROFL @ emotionless comment. The last time someone called me that was when my ex turned crazy and started raging at me, trying to get me to rage as well. Didn't work.
It's called having some EQ, knowing what to get attached to and involved in, what to ignore, what's justified to get upset about, what the intentions of people are in the way they act, and the like. It's good for you.
I have a heart, thanks. :<

Well, after you preach about how pride and intellect are inversely related and champion yourself as a person with less pride than the rest of us because you refuse to "whine" about posts, no matter how wrong you believe them to be and/or how offended you are, one would wonder if you show much emotion at all. I would hope you don't get taken advantage of in the workplace.

You should follow your own advice. Completely failing to see what's wrong with your post and how people that aren't you feel about it, even if the connotations conveyed were unintentional, is a sign of low EQ. You should show your first post in this thread to someone that doesn't know you very well and ask his/her reaction. He/she would probably feel the same way as the picture I posted above if he/she doesn't explicitly hate the US, since there is absolutely no qualifying statement in that comment.

Quote from Yoorah;676982:
Were you honestly expecting deep and meaningful discussion out of a thread about some ghetto woman who pepper sprayed other ghetto people because they all wanted to buy cheap junk?* xD

*Disclaimer: This is a rhetorical question.

I don't expect anything when I open a thread, but if a discussion starts, I'm up to participate in it.

Quote from Yoorah;676982:
News media is just as active in other parts of the world. Culture and attitude in general is undeniably different, however. You're right that people base their opinions on the absolute number of incidents, but a lot of this stuff gets reported in local news only, so that evens out the playing field. The big stations don't cover every single ghetto shopping incident.

Not sure if they're just as active, but I don't think many countries broadcast as much of their internal affairs, including the bad stuff, to other countries as much as the US does.

Local news might balance out unreported incidences for each country. Still, basing opinions of a country on the absolute number of incidences is just taking on another form of ignorance, which is ironic when people declaim the US of being ignorant.

Well, I'm going to stop here since my post strays almost completely from the thread subject. If you'd like to continue in a PM, I'm cool with that.

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