Please vote. Choose more than one if you want.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

This.

And there are at least 10 good answers.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

WTF, only 3 options? What kind of Communism is this?

Voted for myself. Racist.

gun nuts. no question

though cross-fitters aren't far behind...

Apple fan boys....even if every Apple product was the best....its still weird that you get excited and actually cant do anything when such events as "Todays Unveil" happened...or You admit to ENJOYING standing in line for the new product talking to everyone about it.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

CHUY voters.

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Those dopes with the Apple logo stickers on their vehicles are the worst. You bought a phone, you aren't part of some revolutionary social movement.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

I have three write in votes.

-Adulterers
-Raging alcoholics
-FOX News viewers

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

It would be improper to list FOX without listing MSNBC.

And then anyone voting for either should be shot in the face for being so insipid.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Does that mean CNBC too?

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

CSFMB posters.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Sure .... they're all part of the same shit soup.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Yeah all those CEO's, business owners, economists, traders, analysts dont know shit!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Probably your smartest post ever.

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Anti-Vaxxers, Cardinals & Wisconsinites.

Chiropractors.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Need to add Bill Cosby supporters.

That narrows it down to Damon Wayans, and Mrs. Cosby.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Pretty much.

without a doubt it's the apple fanboys. remember when steve jobs died and people were going to their local mall to leave roses outside of the doors of the apple store? seriously what the fuck is up with that?



while wozniak was the one who actually put in the work to make the actual product, jobs was always there to mug for the camera and attempt to brand himself as the FOTC (face of the company) because i don't know about you, but when i go to buy a computer i think long and hard about THE PEOPLE AT THE TOP OF THE COMPANY WHO MAKE THE COMPUTER because really, a computer is just a soulless machine that exists to essentially automate our lives that much more. while i had my own personal preferences as to brands, it was for reasons that actually had something to do with the end-user experience, not because i wanted to identify myself as DOWN with THE COOL KIDS who idolize this post-hippie schmuck who, JUST LIKE YOU, is too newschool radical to be caught up in the formality and hub-bub of it all... he's not an empty soulless suit walking around the monolithic hallways of IBM like "the other guys" are *makes finger cross in their general direction * ---- oh no, steve jobs is just like you, that is if you were a sterling example of the best that humanity had to offer like mr. jobs is because he sought out to try and make computers something more personal, somthing more indicative of who or what you are as a person.... he tried to brand a certain image/mentality/lifestyle and sell it to you in admittedly-great-industrially-designed-products that cost way too fucking much and simply don't offer the same kind of interchangeable ubiquity that computers had when they were in the process of migrating from dry office settings to a desk in evryone's house.

and what, pray tell, is that certain image/mentality/lifestyle that steve jobs wanted to sell you on?



now i'm not trying to necessarily be a bible-bouncer here all EVIL!!! SATAN!!!!! but seriously, their company logo is ORIGINAL FUCKING SIN!!!!. that's right, there had to be some early days apple business meeting (prolly in a suburban california garage because you know, just like jennifer lawrence ages after them, THEY'RE JUST LIKE ONE OF US!) and they're getting around to the idea of what they can use for a logo.... so they kick it around go back and forth and reminisce over their currfent logo...



you know, the formal story is that apple computer was named for isaac newton, who as legend has it was sitting under an apple tree when an apple fell and hit him in the head, and that konk compelled him to come up with the universal law of gravitation, so ostensibly their company was named for that apple, perhaps an agent of either randomness or causality that goes to show how even some of the greatest minds in human history sometimes need external factors to get the most out of them.... you know, if isaac newton wasn't putting himself out there in nature's gentle grasp where the agents of variance could affect his inherent isaac-newtonness, well maybe he doesnt come up with the law of gravitation? or maybe he discovers it later but because of the domino effect relative to the timing of it the whole course of humkan history is changed? so that apple signifies prhaps the indeterminable spark of life, that spark of pure randomness/coincidence/synchronicity? that goes to show just how odd and goofy life can be, and how whimsical and fun and awesome and yeah. that's what they purportedly started with, even tho they might have had another ulterior definition/meaning/representation/symbolism-for the apple because when you look at their first ever product....



hmmm, that's an intersting price they've got there. so yeah back to the early/ish corporate meeting, they want a new and more dynamic logo that's liekly way simpler and definitely less involved than the original homage to newton, so given that they seemed to bite their thumb at "the establishment" because they're the REBELS! THE OUTSIDERS! THE VISIGOTHS OUTSIDE THE GATES OF CORPORATE CONFORMITY WHO BELIEVE THAT THEY HAVE SOMETHING NEW TO ADD TO THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE/CONDITION THAT CAN COMPEL US TO MOVE FORWARD INTO A BRAVE NEW WORLD ONE FOOT AHEAD OF THE OTHER LIKE VONNEGUT TAUGHT US! so they needed a poignant symbol, one that shows their daring rebel status as warriors steadfast in their resolve to CHANGE THE WORLD, MAN! they need a simple/easiy-identifiable logo that hearkens some of the deepest and most hardwired notions centrfugal to the core of the human experience.... something that grabs you and says "THE OLD DAYS ARE GONE AND WITH THEM THE OLD WAYS! WE NOW STAND AT THE PRECIPICE OF ALL THAT WAS AND ALL THAT WILL BE.... AND DO WE CONTINUE THE FOLLY OF OUR ELDERS AND SIMPLY REPEAT HISTORY.... OR DO WE DARE TO MAKE HISTORY BY INTRODUCING A BOLD NEW WAY FOR HUMANS TO LOOK AT THIS CRAZY THING WE CALL LIFE?!?! AND THEN IT HIT THEM, PERHAPS THE ULTIMATE FOLKLORE IN TERMS OF THE CORE CONCEPTS OF REBELLION.... CHANGE..... ReVolution! THEY HAD THE ONE LOGO THAT WAS PERHAPS EVEN MORE EPIC THAN THE VERY WORD "EPIC" ITSELF.... THEY HAD THEIR DEVIOUSLY SIMPLE WAY OF SHOWING HUMANITY WHAT KIND OF ReVolution THEY COULD OFFER THE HUMAN CONDITION, AND NOW THEY WERE READY TO TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL.....

(or i suppose jobs and woz were sitting around smoking a big ol joint and jobs started snickering like HEY STEVE, HAS ANYONE USED ORIGINAL SIN AS A LOGO YET? --- no i don't think so steve --- "FUCKING BRILLIANT! WE CAN SHOW THEM HOW HIP AND EDGY WE ARE BY USING ORIGINAL SIN AS OUR LOGO!!!!! * takes another majestic puff off of the joint *

-----END OF STUPID BOMBAST-----

so yeah, basically apple decided to roll with original sin as a logo when they startd to try and get into the mainstream. i believe in the parlance of our times people on tumblr/4chan would call them "edgelords" because you know, holy shit guys, this isn't just a new type of "personal computer" from a brash little upstart company trying to stand up against THE MAN (IBM( and start a ReVolution that would ultimately put these "personal computers" in everybody's home in due time! computers weren't just for stuffy businesses and businessmen anymore! no more restrictioons saying that only computer scientists and other nerd/type folk were meant to use thsse wonderful machines..... no, this must have been nam because all of a sudden THERE WERE NO RULES HERE, and what batter way to showcase yourself as the pre-eminent agents of change than saddling up with original sin as a fucking logo?

and hell while you're at it make that apple a rainbow-colord apple since apple's target demographic is special snowflakes, well, when you break it down to SPECIAL, SNOW(coke), and FLAKES who emobides those three words more than homosxuals? apple was always keen to foster an "us vs them" mentality with their special snowflak userbase, so what better way to signifiy the beginning of ReVolution than hearkening ORIGINAL FUCKING SIN ITSELF?!?!!

.....sigh. fucking edgelords, amirite?. =D

anyways from there once apple because ubiquitous (because they wisely targeted the schools with special deals thinking if they could permeate the malleable minds of young impressionable children by having many/most of their very first personal computer based interactions happen on an apple computer, well then, that kind of market penetration is bloody brilliant so you subsidiz the hell out of these machines and practically give them away to the schools because this is the ReVolution that Steve Jobs signed you up for! this is the beginning of the end of the "old ways" because, duh, consult the logo--- rules were made to be broken! just because some supposedly-omnipotent creator-of-reality-guy said "hey do whatever you want but dont eat those apples because this isn't nam, there ARE rules here..... well that's where logos being an important part of branding comes in and you are compelled to "think different" and thus change the world!

of course then once you tout yourself as the most visionary/revolutionary/important product EVER and you amass enough true believers to gain a solid niche-foothold in the industry, that's when you begin to take the ReVolution to the next level and begin to decide the shape of things to come from your lofty position AS the establishmnt. and of course, it helps to promote yourself to the level of VISIONARY!!!!

indeed, from the comments of an article entitled "Steve Jobs 'played no role at all' in designing the Apple I or Apple II computers, Woz says" one of steve's jobsian followers chimed in with this...



that's right.... you see, like any transcendental CEO steve jobs wasn't out there to sell you shit to make a fuckton of money.... oh no, he was in charge of bringing dreams to reality! he was in charge of getting people to follow him! seriously look at this picture here:



this wonderfully symbolic picture tells you a lot, seeing as there's no way stuff like this was left to chance/randomlss/circumstance. see, that portly loveable wozzzzaz can't even be arsed by the lens of society stopping by to take notice of his magnanimous presence.... oh no, look at him and see that he's fixated on the technology. he's 100% engaged in thinking about what he can do to maximize those materials in order to make a better product, and it's consumed his whole world (well either that or he's nodding off of some great dope. i'm not 100% sure here =)

the yang to woz's yin, of course, is steve jobs. look into his penetrating glare and start to see what "the visionary" has in mind fior not just you, but for the endless hordes of masses just like you who need to get a taste of His ReVolution! steve jobs might as well be fucking you with that stare he's giving you because that is the look of a man who looks at something and doesn't merely see an object.... he sees the unlimited potential of that object and perhaps not just what the object is at this juncture in time and space, oh no, most importantly he sees what that object can eventually become..... he sees the infinite possibility of the future to be great or terrible, but since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both. he doesn't "see" like a human being.... he "sees" like a God, a deity, or perhaps most simply/humbly a Creator. in fact like many Creators-with-a-capital-C out there. he often gets dreams and reality mixed up, so therefore he takes on the Lord's work, he dares to make those dreams a reality.... and he knows exactly what you need to do in order to make His dreams, no sorry, Our dreams become reality. all you need to do is listen and believe.... and then do exactly what he says.

...and it might be a bit intimidating at first. you don't want to let Him down, for his cult of personality is so overwhelming that when his attention is fixed on you for that fleeting moment in time and space, when you start to feel the hairs on your arms raise up because you know that He is beholding you and starting to dream of possible impossibilities in his head, thats when your heart starts to race because you know that THIS IS THE MOMENT YOU'VE BEEN TRAINING FOR ALL OF YOUR LIFE..... this is the moment when Greatness has taken notice of you and is now charged to give you a task to help it manifest Itself in such a way that the human condition can't help but evolve because it too knows that this is the Hemingwayesque "Moment of Truth" and a bold visionary like Mr. Jobs is far too important to wait for you to catch up to Him, because for every moment he wastes waiting for you to get on his level / catch up to his pace, well those wasted moments eventually add up to a frightening tally that could perhaps suggest that the human species has been set back hundreds of years in just that one instant because you brandished the boundless audacity to slow The Creator down, and if you've ever met a Truly Important Person before then you know that Visionary might only take notice of you for a few fleeting moments of your life..... so what are you going to do now that you're in the Spotlight of the Divine? Are you going to tell The Visionary that what he dares to dream is impossible given the current limits of human capacity/productivity? Are you going to shoulder the blame for singlehandedly setting humanity back hundreds of years? Are you going to cop out with some platitude about giving your best? A man far wiser than myself once said "Losers always whine about their best..... Winners go home and fuck the prom queen!"

No! At that moment of truth you are not going to let inconsequential hangs up like reality get in the way of supplying The Visionary with what he Needs to further our collective cause, you are going to tell Him that his will on earth shall be done, in Cupertino as it is in Manhattan. You are going to tell him that no requst is unrealistic, the word impossible is not in your vocabulary, and if necessary you will bend or distort the very nature of "Reality" Itself in order to give Thw Visionary what He wants, no, what He NEEDS because this isn't merely important work with the ultimate fate of humanity hanging in the balance..... this is the most inspirational selfless wonderful and quite honestly modern man of our times coming to you and extending his proverbial hand (cuz dude, seriously, you're not supposed to touch the peasants) and daring you to take His hand and join him as he shows you the ethereal majesty of what's truly possible for humanity if we were to put aside our petty differences, if only for a moment, and THINK DIFFERENT.

when you THINK DIFFERENT you think that anything is possible when you're with Him because it's like you've been walking down the beachfront with Jobs for your whole life, and when you looked back at those tumultuous times of need you noticed only one set of footprints in the sand and that makes you say "Steve! Where were you when I needed you the most?" as you stare into the infinity of his dreamy eyes and feel every iota of unworthiness and doubt creep into your undoubtedly-inferior self, trying your hardest to avoid more eye contact because you beLIEve that He looks at you like the inconsequential pissant that you are in the wake of his magnanimous visions of the future.

but then he smiles.... and he holds something up as he says "It was during those times when you suffered the most that I carried you." --- and that's when tears of joy run down your face because for that one fleeting perfect juncture in time and space you MATTERED and you made a difference, which brings you instantaneous relief and joy and uplifting validation as you can now stare into his eyes and see what he has in store for you NeXT.....



and now you are a complete wo/man because you realized that He gave you the greatest gift of all: "The Power to Be Your Best"

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yeah, holy fuck i've been moved to tears writing all of that bullshit so don't mind me as i go over to old orchard and leave soem roses outside of the apple store because think about it guys..... if not for Steve Jobs and His indelible will to compel humanity to reach its ultimate potential, i never would have written that transcendentally TLDR pirce.....He doesn't even have to be alive and formally with us to inspire us to reach unfathomable heights of human achievement.... that's why tupac was famously misquoted back in the day when he really said "Only Jobs can judge me"

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TLDR = yeah, macfags are the worst.

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I thought we were friends.

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You know me like that.

That has to be a record.

Congratulations.

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You know me like that.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

so, sini is passionate.

You know I don't read your posts for obvious reasons, but this one was a masterpiece.

I can't even read it all in one sitting, probably because the only book I've read in the past 10 years is The Hobbit, and this post was longer than that.

Well done sini.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Mac's ALS

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agreed

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Disney worshippers

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.