Oh, no. It's pretty quiet since none of the new members knows it exists and the old members are gone.

Still. Nostalgia

I kind of just stopped going to that section once I realized that no one was willing to admit being wrong about anything, myself included.
Mostly bickering, rarely a debate.

Though you and I both participated in our fair share of epic debates against each other.
I'm not going to look for them, because I'm sure we'd be horribly embarrassed reading it now.

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Why? Should I?

...are real debates held in there? If so, since when?

http://forums.stickpage.com/showthread.php?49685-Debate-Section-is-OPT-IN-How-to-get-in-there
Real debates CAN be held there. Generally anybody who bullshits around in the debate section will get an infraction, a serious one if it's done on purpose.
Basically, there's no harm in it because you'll never expect people like Vexor or Cruel to hang around there.

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This made me remember my actual first post so I went back to find it. You'll never guess what I apparently did a few years ago.

I saved all the motherfucking SkyBlaze101 quotes is what I apparently did a few years ago. You're welcome. (The links are all broken but the quotes stand on their own.)

(Also, if you're looking through my old posts, don't forget I was a cunt when I first got here and I was trying to sound smarter than I actually was)

I'll be honest, reading through this thread makes me wish I was here during the golden era.

I always hate reading anything I wrote more than a few months ago. It feels like reading a thread and seeing a different person posting from your account. And you know it's now going to be there forever for anyone to see.

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I'll be honest, reading through this thread makes me wish I was here during the golden era.

I hate to say this, but this is the golden era.

SPP was just really hardcore is all.

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I always hate reading anything I wrote more than a few months ago. It feels like reading a thread and seeing a different person posting from your account. And you know it's now going to be there forever for anyone to see.

Those mutual feels bro.

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Now that I think about it that's almost how I always greet new members, huh.

Zed and Hewitt, I remember their first posts and greeting them.
Hey! Welcome to stickpage, man. What's up?

I always get filled with hope that the new members could be as great of newbies as Zed and Hewitt where.

In that case, I'll try my hardest to live up to your expectations, dear elder of SP.

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There's nothing wrong with getting a fast-food job at your age. A lot of students don't even have jobs when they're in college. Also, don't think if you're applying for a fast-food job now you'll be keeping that job for the rest of your life. It's a temporary thing I assume so you don't need to worry about it.

I'll take that into account when job-hunting. Thanks, mate. :3

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My best friend works at a local Wendies*fast food joint* and he has a few co-workers that are still in highschool.
But the adult/veteran workers fucking hate the highschoolers and think the company should hire someone else who might be worth a shit.

Is this about maturity, or is this a mere age thing. If the first, I act very mature for my age, as you can tell.
By the way, just by skimming over a few dozen pages of the chat, I see to an extent how this website works: you all have deep bonds with everyone, often joking around. The newbies are treated with respect, and first impressions along with how you act dictates how you are treated. There is a time and place for acting silly, but overall,being serious when it is required gets you respect. Pretty much spot on? I'm liking this forum so far. You all seem cool.

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I hate to say this, but this is the golden era.

I've never heard this point of view to be honest.

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I've never heard this point of view to be honest.

Clearly Raptor, you were never high enough to see the world that way.

Haha, I am pretty high right now.

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Haha, I am pretty high right now.

I'm pretty much under the assumption now that you're constantly high and only when you take a whiff of weed do you feel any sense of normality.

By the way jutsu, do you use the same greeting with everyone? Or just with the three of us. Because getting the same unique greeting that two of the highly respected members received could be a major case of foreshadowing.

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Not divorcing/remarriage, starting up small businesses, self-employment, promotions, and child labor can easily remedy that. She has options, and only by repressing businesses can the lack of welfare damn anyone important.

To be honest, they DID bring it upon themselves for not responsibly researching their degree, so survival of the fittest. Self-employment can fix unemployment, high school diplomas can grant you a lot of different non-minimum wage jobs, and minimalism can cut expenses in half to compromise any money not gained in comparison to others.

The world needs more renaissance men. Specialization is for insects, and he devoted his talents to one specialty. That's not pitiful, that's natural selection.

The above examples have summarized it: the "unfortunate" average Joe HAD their chance to prepare for such scenarios and neglected it, be it by not divorcing, choosing the right major(s), or developing talents to fall back on. In the Roaring 20's, every average Joe in America bought on margin and maxed out their credits, then the stock market crashed and everyone got buried by their own idiotic decisions during the Great Depression. It happened then, and the same thing happens every day on a personal level. No matter how decent the unfortunate may appear to be, they screwed up one way or another.
If you wish for the successful to pull their weight for them, then you will only succeed in dragging the wealthy down to their level. Poverty is a bottomless pit- no matter how much money you throw at it, it shall remain- be it by the recipient entering an impulsive spending high, punishing success through high taxes which destroys the incentive to jump off the poverty line, or destroying businesses which decreases their ability to produce which in turn by the laws of Supply and Demand causes all that remains to become unreasonably unaffordable. The only viable solution is to bury your climbing pick in the walls and climb out before you're lost forever. If the successful want to help out, then they can devote their time running soup kitchens, hiring them, or providing housing for the poor.

I never said that I was for or against the mining sector not having to pay for their fuel. To be honest, I was injecting both sides for the sake of reflection. The fact of the matter is that they are using a product, and so said product's taxes should apply to them- I am a firm believer in tax equality among economic entit

Or any less, considering how exorbitant the operations can be. Besides, with all the money they can easily expand to other mines so they can create more jobs. Not only that, but with all that surplus they could probably start giving their existing employees a raise. To top it off, increased production will decrease the prices of goods thanks to the laws of Supply and Demand, hence making things more affordable to the poor. Has macroeconomics taught you anything? The money will circulate back into the market either way, benefiting not just the poor, but everyone.

Comparing one radical source to a handful of others does nothing more than move the goalposts.

did you actually just fucking suggest child labour? what the fuck is wrong with you? other problems i have here include:
>assuming that everyone has the skills and experience needed to credibly run a small business
>assuming that running a small business will automatically fix all of anybody's monetary problems
>assuming that there are enough minimum-wage jobs

no, that's the cut and dry bullshit of the business world. which, for the record, is abhorrent. university education USED to be free, you know. people now have to pay ridiculous amounts of money for one, and not everyone can reasonably afford to get more than one degree. note that uncapping university fees is only going to make this problem worse.

this is the kind of self-righteous bullshit that is wrong with the world today. there's this thing called 'misfortune'. you may be lucky enough that you don't have to deal with it, but not everyone is. some are successful, and that's great, good for them. the problem is when the successful start believing that they are inherently better than the unsuccessful. obviously they are successful because they did something right, and the unsuccessful are unsuccessful because they did something wrong! no. that's fucking bullshit. you can't assume to know what people have been through, and you can't assume that you weren't just one lucky fucking bastard. learn some goddamn modesty and for fuck's sake have some compassion. this attitude is what leads to war. the day our general populus values success over compassion will literally be beginning of the end for humanity.

you're forgetting to account for the damage the mining industry does. similar to above, the day we value money over the environment will literally be the beginning of the end of the world (note that this has basically already happened; we're all FUCKED because of people with your mentality). the budget and the economy is absurdly unimportant compared to what's being sacrificed.

people like you are everything that is wrong with our country and i no longer have any respect for you. an imaginary budget crisis should never come before the welfare of the people, much less the vulnerable that can't even do anything to help themselves. fuck you, fuck all his supporters, fuck abbot, and fuck liberal.

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By the way, just by skimming over a few dozen pages of the chat, I see to an extent how this website works: you all have deep bonds with everyone, often joking around. The newbies are treated with respect, and first impressions along with how you act dictates how you are treated. There is a time and place for acting silly, but overall,being serious when it is required gets you respect. Pretty much spot on? I'm liking this forum so far. You all seem cool.

I think it's accurate, but I think you're missing a few elements. I'm sure you'll figure it out, you're a welcome addition to our community in my opinion.

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By the way jutsu, do you use the same greeting with everyone? Or just with the three of us. Because getting the same unique greeting that two of the highly respected members received could be a major case of foreshadowing.

Well I don't use the same greeting but the point is usually the same.

I feel like new members deserve a nice greeting and a clean slate unless they prove themselves to be annoying, idiotic or harmful to the forum in some way.
Because I didn't get a very nice greeting, I didn't get a very nice greeting at all.

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I'm pretty much under the assumption now that you're constantly high and only when you take a whiff of weed do you feel any sense of normality.

What can I say? I really enjoy smoking weed.

I'm not really high all that much and I don't smoke as much as I used to.

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wall-o-text

Another incredible post in the books for scarebro.

Just drops in the bucket at this point.


P.S. Miracle, this is Scarecrow. You may look, but don't touch.

P.S.S if you turn out to be a multi account old school member, then please log onto your old account.

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(#rekt)

All the snark in the world can't save you now, WWhite.

Also, about current events: Is it me or is the world (in terms of major events) getting -slightly- worse everyday? I know there are those doing their best efforts but there are always these developments that are making headlines everywhere. From what Scarecrow said to something I overheard in the news last night.

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Not divorcing/remarriage, starting up small businesses, self-employment, promotions, and child labor can easily remedy that. She has options, and only by repressing businesses can the lack of welfare damn anyone important.

This, this more than anything else you're spewing blows my mind... Someone should stay in a marriage because of economic reasons? Are you kidding me? Did you really just turn a blind eye to all of the legitimate reasons why someone would want out of a relationship in favour of making "economic sense"?! Someone should remarry as quick as they can in make sure that they don't fall into poverty? Some how think someone can just up and start a business and make it successful when the Government is jamming their cock down that persons throat and while they have a family to support? Self employment is the same as starting a business... Promotions? What are you talking about? CHILD FUCKING LABOR? I'm sorry, when did Australia turn into a 3rd world country?

You seem to have a very skewed an blatantly wrong view of the people on welfare and that rely handouts. These people are not playing the system, they are just average families that need this money to support themselves and give their children the opportunities that ALL Australians should have.

To be honest, they DID bring it upon themselves for not responsibly researching their degree, so survival of the fittest. Self-employment can fix unemployment, high school diplomas can grant you a lot of different non-minimum wage jobs, and minimalism can cut expenses in half to compromise any money not gained in comparison to others.

The world needs more renaissance men. Specialization is for insects, and he devoted his talents to one specialty. That's not pitiful, that's natural selection.

So you are totally alright with a system that encourages a mountain of young people to follow their dreams, to enroll in that psychology degree, to then only accept 20% of them to go on to higher learning which is required to get the job they want? You're cool with this kids being slapped in the face with reality and a pretty large dept, because he, they should have known better, so fuck them? No, again, this is Australia we are not in such hard times to justify fucking them the way we are.

So a car manufacturer who just got let off because Toyota, Ford, and Holden are pissing off is at fault because they made the rookie mistake of going straight into the work force (something that you seem to think is a great idea for struggling families to do) instead of learning a variety of skills? That is natural selection? Watch out mate, your true character is starting to show.

The above examples have summarized it: the "unfortunate" average Joe HAD their chance to prepare for such scenarios and neglected it, be it by not divorcing, choosing the right major(s), or developing talents to fall back on. In the Roaring 20's, every average Joe in America bought on margin and maxed out their credits, then the stock market crashed and everyone got buried by their own idiotic decisions during the Great Depression. It happened then, and the same thing happens every day on a personal level. No matter how decent the unfortunate may appear to be, they screwed up one way or another.
If you wish for the successful to pull their weight for them, then you will only succeed in dragging the wealthy down to their level. Poverty is a bottomless pit- no matter how much money you throw at it, it shall remain- be it by the recipient entering an impulsive spending high, punishing success through high taxes which destroys the incentive to jump off the poverty line, or destroying businesses which decreases their ability to produce which in turn by the laws of Supply and Demand causes all that remains to become unreasonably unaffordable. The only viable solution is to bury your climbing pick in the walls and climb out before you're lost forever. If the successful want to help out, then they can devote their time running soup kitchens, hiring them, or providing housing for the poor.

You are deluding yourself if you think hard work and clever decisions equals guaranteed wealthy. Either way your attitude disgusts me, you disgust me.

I never said that I was for or against the mining sector not having to pay for their fuel. To be honest, I was injecting both sides for the sake of reflection. The fact of the matter is that they are using a product, and so said product's taxes should apply to them- I am a firm believer in tax equality among economic entit

So we should tax the mining companies? But didn't you just say that would drag them down and destroy intensive to get off the poverty line? Watch out mate, you're getting lost in your own bullshit.

Or any less, considering how exorbitant the operations can be. Besides, with all the money they can easily expand to other mines so they can create more jobs. Not only that, but with all that surplus they could probably start giving their existing employees a raise. To top it off, increased production will decrease the prices of goods thanks to the laws of Supply and Demand, hence making things more affordable to the poor. Has macroeconomics taught you anything? The money will circulate back into the market either way, benefiting not just the poor, but everyone.

Did you really just hide a link in a see of blue colored text? You really think large mining companies would suffer from not starting new projects if their fuel tax was increased despite the $100 million they just got for mineral exploration? Really? Really?

Comparing one radical source to a handful of others does nothing more than move the goalposts.

You're a twat, you're attitude is un-Australian, you disgust me, and if I ever met you I would probably glass you without a second thought.