Do you read the newspaper? (Poll)

[One_Twisted_Fuck]

my first thread in the seminar.

[Synplicity]

sometimes, but i mainly follow the news on the bbc website.

[One_Twisted_Fuck]

sometimes, buti mainly follow the news on the bbc website
damn son you replyied faster than i finished the poll... you are a pretty eager poster

[Antwerp's Finest]

Sometimes

About once a month

I used to read it every week

But now i just watch the news and surf the net

Fuck newspapers

[Synplicity]

damn son you replyied faster than i finished the poll... you are a pretty eager poster

haha nah i just saw it there and thought where the fuck is the poll?

[One_Twisted_Fuck]

I read them daily.
I buy special sports news to keep me updated and read regular newspaper on the weekend

[One_Twisted_Fuck]

haha nah i just saw it there and thought where the fuck is the poll?haha. yeah man. i was like Is this even my thread? someone has been allready postin here! haha.

[Revenant]

I used to have a subscription for the Sunday paper only, mainly for looking at the ads and other things. But I dont even do that any more. You could find good deals on guns that way.

[Streetie]

I love the LA times. I usually check out the world news or front page

and always the sports

when I was younger it was the comics theat got me in

the newspaper is that nigga

[dj 2way]

when I was in school I used to read it every morning. I dug the funnys and living.

[One_Twisted_Fuck]

man am i the only one that reads them daily? i bet peeps likey talley or catfish hunter read them daily also

[Talleyrand]

The newspaper is for the mediocre.

I used to read the NY Times and realized that I got a completely distorted and simplified view of things. Newspapers are just notoriously bad sources of information.

The irony of the modern era: we live in the "information age" and yet are not any better informed.

[furst]

Sometimes, and only through the internet.

[Barne Yard Animal]

Nearly everyday when I'm on the trains theres always one lying around on one of the carriges.

[unknown]

The newspaper is for the mediocre

HUH...yeah right^^^

i read the papers everyday for 2 reasons..

1. the sport at the back.....

2. to see what bullshit lies the masses are being fed!

[Horus]

I prefer to get fed my lies via the internet and second hand conversations, it's much more reliable than the bullshit being fed to you in print. Christopher Walken said it best in Suicide Kings.. "The word on the street, that's the real truth, that's the word you can trust"

[Mr Unknown]

mostly just check the internet in the morning when i get to work.

[Barne Yard Animal]

HUH...yeah right^^^

i read the papers everyday for 2 reasons..

1. the sport at the back.....

2. to see what bullshit lies the masses are being fed!

Page 3?

[unknown]

I prefer to get fed my lies via the internet and second hand conversations, it's much more reliable than the bullshit being fed to you in print. Christopher Walken said it best in Suicide Kings.. "The word on the street, that's the real truth, that's the word you can trust"

haha....word on the street.......do they talk bout stuff in the middle east...do they talk bout korea blah blah...this is differant man...stop tryna look cool old man....(joke....)

i like to watch bbc news 24 and sky news and then pick at the half truths and bullshit and then form my own opinion.

[unknown]

Page 3?


only if it's keely hazel....yagetme??

[Talleyrand]

HUH...yeah right^^^

i read the papers everyday for 2 reasons..

1. the sport at the back.....

2. to see what bullshit lies the masses are being fed!

Newspapers are for the mediocre.

[runefire]

Yep.. For the cartoons mostly and any major events.. But otherwise it is mostly a giant waste of time, yay for small countries.

[TELone]

i dont that often because NY papers are either too biased liberally or conservatively. my best bet in bbc, msnbc, headline news, or the net

[Talleyrand]

Yeah, I watch BBC almost every night. It is not necessarily better than the shit in the states (although in many ways, it is), but it gives an outsider's view of the U.S. Plus, I love the dark clouds of Ol' England.

[Streetie]

you just love those westernized arab ladys they have talking all serious and wearing slightly suggestive sport coat jackets

[PU$$YCONTIN]

I used to have a subscription for the Sunday paper only, mainly for looking at the ads and other things. But I dont even do that any more. You could find good deals on guns that way.

yea you are correct about the guns

i picked sometimes it depeds but i suually keep a newsspaper next to my tiolet for a nice crap and read. i love reading the newspaper

[Catfish Hunter]

I read the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, USA Today, and sometimes the Wall Street Journal, as well as the SF Weekly and Bay Guardian, every day at work. They are all quite different from one another.

I enjoy the local papers for local news, events, and updates on the Oakland A's and San Francisco 49ers. I enjoy the Arts and Culture, Book Reviews, and so on in the NY Times, although I find it to be quite pretentious and geared towards the type of people I would rather not associate with. USA Today is an excellent lowest common denominator. "McPaper" seems to cater to the sterotypical American that most Europeans hold in such high regard these days. There's also plenty of graphs and charts for those that can't bear to read.

I've been thinking about picking up a new gun lately, I'll have to borrow some of Carpe and Pu$$y's papers.

[unknown]

Newspapers are for the mediocre.


HUH...yeah right^^^

i read the papers everyday for 2 reasons..

1. the sport at the back.....

2. to see what bullshit lies the masses are being fed!

[Talleyrand]

Therefore, you are mediocre.

[unknown]

ha....mediocre....that is such a lame way to try to sound more intelligent than newspaper readers.

mediocre
adjective1. moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average" 2. lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best" [syn: average (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/average)] 3. poor to middling in quality; "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"

so i am below average? Is that compared to an american's intelligence or a europeans intelligence? because as far as europeans go i may be "mediocre" but if it's compared to you lot then i am fucking einstein! (i am pretty sure einstein read the papers just like i do)

[Digital Christ]

Everyday,,,,especialy during football season.

[Talleyrand]

ha....mediocre....that is such a lame way to try to sound more intelligent than newspaper readers.

And please explain how that is lame?

Mediocre is a normal English word that is on a 6th grade reading level. The fact that you are so aghast at the word is because you are just plain stupid.

so i am below average? Is that compared to an american's intelligence or a europeans intelligence? because as far as europeans go i may be "mediocre" but if it's compared to you lot then i am fucking einstein! (i am pretty sure einstein read the papers just like i do)

You are below average for the typical Cro-Magnon, no matter what country you are compared with.

And newspapers are for the mediocre, because they're designed to make the news more palatable to the largest group of readers possible. That's why everything covered in the news, whether it is frivolous or of some moment, is a putrid mix of "information" and "entertainment". Infotainment is for the mediocre, go back to watching Montell.

[unknown]

hahaha.....you always sound like your reading a book! AND WHAT THE FUCK IS MONTEL???

Mediocre is a normal English word that is on a 6th grade reading level. The fact that you are so aghast at the word is because you are just plain stupid.

dont put words into my mouth fool. I find it amusing that you seem to tarnish a lot of people with a really sub-standard description. I was in no way "agahst" at the word more confused as to why you use such a word.

You are below average for the typical Cro-Magnon, no matter what country you are compared with.


i love the fact that you think i am stupid. but i am intrigued as to where you got this impression.

one thing i dont get about you tho is why you use such words in the type of forum we reside in. I mean how many people do you think know the guys in your sig, are you like the dumbest teacher in ya staff room so you go onto a forum of degenerates to prove your inteligence over the "mediocre"????

i quite happily play dumb for this place as i spose al ot of peeps do i just relly dont understand your upper tier stance on this forum.

teacher or not you still come across like a twat!

[Talleyrand]

hahaha.....you always sound like your reading a book! AND WHAT THE FUCK IS MONTEL???

http://web.naesp.org/conv2005/images/M_Williams.jpg

I was in no way "agahst" at the word more confused as to why you use such a word.

exactly

i love the fact that you think i am stupid. but i am intrigued as to where you got this impression.

hahaha

The same place everyone else on here got the impression.

one thing i dont get about you tho is why you use such words in the type of forum we reside in. I mean how many people do you think know the guys in your sig, are you like the dumbest teacher in ya staff room so you go onto a forum of degenerates to prove your inteligence over the "mediocre"????

I use English words.

You speak your own creole with summat, nahmean and over the top punctuation.

That is Henry Kissinger in my sig, former Secretary of State to Richard Nixon. You're trying to tell me you don't know who he is? You dis America's involvement in world affairs, yet do not know Kissinger? He is a celebrity in the U.S.

You see, that is why I think you're stupid.

i quite happily play dumb for this place as i spose al ot of peeps do i just relly dont understand your upper tier stance on this forum.

teacher or not you still come across like a twat!

You don't need to understand anything. If you don't get shit, after I explain things and make points, what else do you want?

What is it with people on here who talk shit and then get upset when you talk shit back?

I'm a teacher in the classroom. When I'm online, I'm free to be a dick. It's fine if you don't like how I come off. All I'm doing is having a discussion.

[unknown]

ohhh montel jordan.........yeah really clever that .......i aint watched tv for about a year or so, i think tv is for the mediocre.
Originally Posted by unknown http://www.bowrd.com/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.bowrd.com/showthread.php?p=105884#post105884)
I was in no way "agahst" at the word more confused as to why you use such a word.
exactly

excactly what!!! i thought and still do think that you used a word that didnt fit the context of what you were explaining.

I use English words.

i didnt ask what language you used talleyrand. If you put your paper marking glasss on you can see i said the "type" of words you use.

That is Henry Kissinger in my sig, former Secretary of State to Richard Nixon. You're trying to tell me you don't know who he is? You dis America's involvement in world affairs, yet do not know Kissinger? He is a celebrity in the U.S

there you go again. Putting words in my page. I wasnt saying i dont know who the people you have in your sig are, i was saying what relevence do they have on this type of forum. Then i went on to say you use em to make up for summat or are trying to impress.

I also "dis" my own country's stance on world affairs too talley and many others.

You see, that is why I think you're stupid

and this is why you are ignorrant.
I find it incredulous that you think that someone not knowing one of the US'S now celebrity ex politician's would mean they were stupid or un-informed on world affairs. There is a whole world out there you know, knowing your very short history is possibly one of the least important you know.

What is it with people on here who talk shit and then get upset when you talk shit back?

this is a typical responce on this forum.^^^ WHO THE FUCK IS UPSET??? We are having a discussion......how could you tell???? get real bro.....

When I'm online, I'm free to be a dick. It's fine if you don't like how I come off

of course you are......and you seem to use that privalige to it's highest degree..........i hate mediocre techers.......wasting the yoof's brains!

[Talleyrand]

excactly what!!! i thought and still do think that you used a word that didnt fit the context of what you were explaining.

The word "mediocre" fits the context perfectly. It applies to the average herd animal.

i didnt ask what language you used talleyrand. If you put your paper marking glasss on you can see i said the "type" of words you use.

Right, and the "type" of words I'm using are English words from a 6th grade reading level.

What "type" do you speak of? You are speaking in generalities and never lay out a concrete point.

there you go again. Putting words in my page. I wasnt saying i dont know who the people you have in your sig are, i was saying what relevence do they have on this type of forum.

What type of forum is it?

It's a forum where people can say whatever they want and have whatever sig they want. What is your point?

Then i went on to say you use em to make up for summat or are trying to impress.

Impress?

Impress implies effort. Making a sig and avatar takes literally 3 minutes. What the fuck are you talking about?

I like history, I make history sigs. People like rap, they make rap sigs and so on and so on. That's the type of forum we have, understand?

No,

I also "dis" my own country's stance on world affairs too talley and many others.

So?

and this is why you are ignorrant.
I find it incredulous that you think that someone not knowing one of the US'S now celebrity ex politician's would mean they were stupid or un-informed on world affairs. There is a whole world out there you know, knowing your very short history is possibly one of the least important you know.

Another reason why you're ignorant is because you totally miss points.

You like to dis the U.S's foreign policy and its historic involvement in other countries. Kissinger is one of the top 5 or 6 people in US history to have been a part of those involvements. The fact that you seem to not know who he is or why you should know him is ridiculous.

There is a whole world out there you know, knowing your very short history is possibly one of the least important you know.

hahahaha

Yeah, the history of the most powerful nation on earth is one of the "least important". I would like to know how you determine "importance".

In my view, all history is important equally no matter what the civilization is. All civilizations have built upon others and have imported ideas from everyehere. We're all connected.

However, since you have bashed America, I would assume that you take American history seriously and would have a grasp on some basics. But now I see that, not only do you not know anything about the country you criticize, but you don't even take it seriously enough to care.

Looks like you're the one with a "high tier" stance. A typical arrogant, well-fed European.

If I were to criticise England's role in the Hundred Years' War or India or South Africa, I would be sure to know what I was talking about. Perhaps I might do some research, get some facts and form an opinion. It's the least I can do. I'm not so arrogant as to criticize things I haven't taken an effort to know about.

of course you are......and you seem to use that privalige to it's highest degree..........i hate mediocre techers.......wasting the yoof's brains!

I expand minds while you make everyone around you dumber. nahmean!!

[RM_3000]

I used to read the LA Times. Then they fired Robert Scheer and hired Jonah Goldberg. Yeah, I know most of you don't know who those two are. But if you did, you'd understand exactly why I immediately cancelled my subscription.

[One_Twisted_Fuck]

hahaha. awsome argument in the seminar
thank you for ruining my thread
merry christmas everyone

[unknown]

Originally Posted by unknown http://www.bowrd.com/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.bowrd.com/showthread.php?p=106250#post106250)
excactly what!!! i thought and still do think that you used a word that didnt fit the context of what you were explaining.
The word "mediocre" fits the context perfectly. It applies to the average herd animal.

wtf...i hope you dont teach english.........mediocre applies to many things...but the average herd animal...hahah. You must know really upper class animal herders!


Quote:
Originally Posted by unknown http://www.bowrd.com/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.bowrd.com/showthread.php?p=106250#post106250)
i didnt ask what language you used talleyrand. If you put your paper marking glasss on you can see i said the "type" of words you use.

Right, and the "type" of words I'm using are English words from a 6th grade reading level.


ohhh...so you teach 6th grade herders!! seen...makes sense now!


Quote:
Originally Posted by unknown http://www.bowrd.com/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.bowrd.com/showthread.php?p=106250#post106250)
No,

I also "dis" my own country's stance on world affairs too talley and many others.

So?

SO!......

are you fool or something or do you have that convenient american short term memory loss.........half your issues with me probably stem from your view that i bash america. Now the point of me saying that was again to prove that my issues arent solely directed at america and especially not americans.

You like to dis the U.S's foreign policy and its historic involvement in other countries. Kissinger is one of the top 5 or 6 people in US history to have been a part of those involvements. The fact that you seem to not know who he is or why you should know him is ridiculous.

are you telling me that everyone has to know who kissinger was to have a view on world affairs. I can tell you that i know who kissinger was but can honestly say i never seen a picture of him. Are you saying that cos i couldnt pick goerring out of a parade of germans that i cant have a view on his contribution to world affairs from the last 60 odd years.

Yeah, the history of the most powerful nation on earth is one of the "least important". I would like to know how you determine "importance".

hahahahah......spoken like a true american!

I expand minds while you make everyone around you dumber.

does that include you?

(fuckin nearly forgot bout this thread during the xmas and new years jollyties!....happy new year talleyrand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!)

[Tha Silent Partner]

I read the Metro go my way to work.

[unknown]

where in LDN you at bro?

[Talleyrand]

wtf...i hope you dont teach english.........mediocre applies to many things...but the average herd animal...hahah. You must know really upper class animal herders!

hahaha

Herd animal as in you, silly. Herd animal as in the common sheep. Did you pick up on that at all?

are you fool or something or do you have that convenient american short term memory loss.........half your issues with meprobably stem from your view that i bash america. Now the point of me saying that was again to prove that my issues arent solely directed at america and especially not americans.

Yeah, and I read such the first 5 times you've posted it as well. We were never talking about your country. The issues we were discussing stemmed from America and its role. We disagreed on America, not Britain. Your views on Britain mean nothing in light of that issue, nor does mine. Stop bringing it up, I'm not labeling you a patriotic asshole, just a regular asshole.

are you telling me that everyone has to know who kissinger was to have a view on world affairs. I can tell you that i know who kissinger was but can honestly say i never seen a picture of him. Are you saying that cos i couldnt pick goerring out of a parade of germans that i cant have a view on his contribution to world affairs from the last 60 odd years.

No, nobody is saying that you have to know what he looks like. But I am saying that you should have a familiarity with who he is and his actions in the past if you are going to make sweeping judgments about American foreign policy in the last 50 years.

hahahahah......spoken like a true american!

Yeah, much like saying that American history isn't important is spoken like a true European.

[unknown]

Herd animal as in you, silly. Herd animal as in the common sheep. Did you pick up on that at all?

oh no...i picked up on your facsinatingly intelligent joke................it still doesnt detract from the fact that your original statement was not the correct use of your literery skills.

Yeah, and I read such the first 5 times you've posted it as well. We were never talking about your country. The issues we were discussing stemmed from America and its role. We disagreed on America, not Britain. Your views on Britain mean nothing in light of that issue, nor does mine. Stop bringing it up, I'm not labeling you a patriotic asshole, just a regular asshole.

good...you understand then cos i mean it is pretty obvoius i aint patriotic.....so you can stop using that stupid term "america bashing" then......which incidently was coined from a newspaper i believe (????)...why cant people have a discussion about there views on americas governments involvement in the middle east without someone stonewalling the discussion by using that term.

You like to dis the U.S's foreign policy and its historic involvement in other countries. Kissinger is one of the top 5 or 6 people in US history to have been a part of those involvements. The fact that you seem to not know who he is or why you should know him is ridiculous.

!!

No, nobody is saying that you have to know what he looks like. But I am saying that you should have a familiarity with who he is and his actions in the past if you are going to make sweeping judgments about American foreign policy in the last 50 years.

so you were presuming!

Yeah, much like saying that American history isn't important is spoken like a true European.

i NEVER said it was not important!



There is a whole world out there you know, knowing your very short history is possibly one of the least important you know

i said this! ^^^

[Revenant]

How did all this come from a question about reading newspapers?

[unknown]

it didnt.....it came from that thread me and you beefed in about the US gov......it has snowballed to here.........apart from his use of bad grammer and his attitude to people who read broadsheets this dont really have to much to do with newspapers....thats what i think anyway....

[Tha Silent Partner]

where in LDN you at bro?

Luton- That's like 20 mins out

[unknown]

HAHAHA....My bad....i thought you were in london........we aint far really....i am in watford.

[Tha Silent Partner]

we aint far really.....

Yeah if I was still living there. LOL

[unknown]

ohhhhh.........so where excactly are you and why???

[Tha Silent Partner]

ohhhhh.........so where excactly are you and why???

check your inbox

[Talleyrand]

oh no...i picked up on your facsinatingly intelligent joke................it still doesnt detract from the fact that your original statement was not the correct use of your literery skills.

huh?

What statement? Herd Animal? Mediocre? I've already explained the use of those terms and why they are correct. Please show me where I misused these terms in the English language, please.

good...you understand then cos i mean it is pretty obvoius i aint patriotic.....so you can stop using that stupid term "america bashing" then......which incidently was coined from a newspaper i believe (????)...why cant people have a discussion about there views on americas governments involvement in the middle east without someone stonewalling the discussion by using that term.

"America bashing" is not a term that needs to be "coined".

And as for "stonewalling discussion", let us take a look at that thread again and this one and describe how I am "stonewalling" anything. I argue my points with facts that speak directly to the point. It is quite the opposite of stonewalling.

What you have done is America bashing, just like it's America bashing when I speak ill of America. My point was never that you are "America bashing" but that you America bashing for the sake of America bashing. In other words, your posts on America are thick and general and whenever I try to get behind them to see your reasoning, there is nothing there.

You like to dis the U.S's foreign policy and its historic involvement in other countries. Kissinger is one of the top 5 or 6 people in US history to have been a part of those involvements. The fact that you seem to not know who he is or why you should know him is ridiculous.

I said you seem to not know who he is, not that you seem to not know what he looks like, as you can see above. That means, I don't think you know his importance or role in American history.

Which brings me to the next excerpt from me that you quoted:

No, nobody is saying that you have to know what he looks like. But I am saying that you should have a familiarity with who he is and his actions in the past if you are going to make sweeping judgments about American foreign policy in the last 50 years.so you were presuming!

No, I said I didn't think you know who Kissinger was (not what he looks like). I still think you do not.

[unknown]

ohhhh man....i just spent bout 4 minutes writing then fuckin refreshed my page.................tomorrow!

[unknown]

here is some home work tho!!!!!!

agan i shall show you this as a hint!

mediocre
adjective1. moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average" 2. lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best" [syn: average (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/average)] 3. poor to middling in quality; "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"

and now i shall show you your ORIGINAL quote!

Newspapers are for the mediocre.

you have till this time tomorrow to find your grammatical error!

[Talleyrand]

hahaha

Mediocre

Newpapers are for the mediocre.

Newpapers are for those of poor to middling qualities.

Vinnie Paz? Oh, he's mediocre

George Bush? Oh, he's mediocre

Newspapers? Oh, they're for the mediocre.

Or, I could have said: newspapers are for mediocre people. However, that would be sloppy English. "Newspapers are for the mediocre" is proper English. Are you hung up on the fact that mediocre is an adjective? lol

How about:

a) Newspapers are for the smart

b) Newspapers are for the many

c) Newspapers are for the tired

d) Newspapers are for the confused

A king says: "My country is for the loyal"

Or

"With silent lips. 'Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!' "

- From The New Colossus by
Emma Lazarus.

That is the poem that is engraved on the base of the Statue of Liberty.

All of these sentences are English sentences. The king does not need to say "My kingdom is for loyal people" when he can smoothly and quickly say "My kingdom is for the loyal". The word acts as a noun and the meaning is implied.

Seriously man, learn to speak English. If you read a book every now and then, not just a newspaper, perhaps you will come across other sentences that seem horribly ingrammatical to you. Then you can move up in the world and take Shakespeare, Byron and Kipling to task over their misuse of English.

You can keep this argument going, but going through pains to point out how the English sentence "Newspapers are for the mediocre" is wrong will just keep reinforcing the point that that sentence makes.

[Revenant]

pohwned.


period.


I'm locking this fucker down, unknown, before you make a bigger fool of yourself.