Reveal Your Uncool Conservative Beliefs Here

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nb that you don't actually need an apocalypse for those skills to be valuable

Mordy, Thursday, 18 August 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link

but they could end up being much less valuable than accounting or law skills if you really do trade off one for the other

veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 August 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link

i always cringed at chuck d's cameo in that sonic youth song.

a most unKOOL conservative belief.

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 18 August 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link

GMOs are good

Neanderthal, Thursday, 18 August 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link

there is definitely nothing wrong with eating genetically modified food, billions of servings eaten to date, it's the anti-vax of food to be suspicious of gmos

ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 18 August 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link

the technology for making GMOs can be used for good and bad things

veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 August 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link

I'm generally fine with GMOs and don't think there's any reason to fear them, but I don't agree with the anti-vax analogy at all.

socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 18 August 2016 18:15 (eight years ago) link

I mean vaccines are a long-used, proven thing with pretty much no purpose other than to benefit humanity and stop disease. GMOs I believe are generally safe, but it's still unclear that they'll be used in any widespread way to do anything other than make agribusiness more profitable.

socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 18 August 2016 18:25 (eight years ago) link

being able to effectively lead a ragtag band of competent farmers, mechanics, masons and electrical engineers is way more useful than knowing how to do stuff

El Tomboto, Thursday, 18 August 2016 18:29 (eight years ago) link

i always cringed at chuck d's cameo in that sonic youth song.

a most unKOOL conservative belief.

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, August 18, 2016

tell it like it is

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 August 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link

lol

how's life, Thursday, 18 August 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link

i think the liberal tendency to harangue someone publicly and relentlessly every time they step outside the bounds of PC speech often just martyrs them rather than shames them and plays into the hands of folks who share even more virulent un-PC beliefs. sometimes (not always) it's probably best to kill them with kindness and prove them wrong that way or something. i don't know if that's a conservative belief or more of a strategic disagreement though.

nomar, Thursday, 18 August 2016 18:54 (eight years ago) link

I'm not unilaterally against public shaming, but I'm hoping that we'll soon see the end of it's period of overuse.

how's life, Thursday, 18 August 2016 18:57 (eight years ago) link

xp mechanics, electric, construction, farming, etc obv we can't predict the future but all seem more valuable than accounting or law

― Mordy, Thursday, August 18, 2016 9:33 AM (2 hours ago)

the underlying concepts of accounting and law are very useful in this scenario though

sarahell, Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link

I believe ideas have consequences

El Tomboto, Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link

being able to effectively lead a ragtag band of competent farmers, mechanics, masons and electrical engineers is way more useful than knowing how to do stuff

― El Tomboto, Thursday, August 18, 2016 11:29 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

first, pvmic. second, I think you meant 'electricians' there.

veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:03 (eight years ago) link

I don't really foresee a prolonged period of time in which there is no "society." I think some form of society tends to congeal relatively quickly. I figure I'll probably just die in the initial deluge but if I manage to survive I'll find a way to make myself useful.

socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:06 (eight years ago) link

most useful skill is to learn to play to conch shell. so they keep you around for the announcement of speeches, meal times, and public executions.

veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:12 (eight years ago) link

iirc the conch system's the first to go in the breakdown

le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:13 (eight years ago) link

poor piggy

le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:13 (eight years ago) link

"I've got the conch"

"Oh yeah, well I've got the saxophone"

*plays hot licks*

the enigma of dagmar krause (wins), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:16 (eight years ago) link

*plays baker street*

socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:17 (eight years ago) link

you have to be a nimble, boulder dodging conch player

veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:18 (eight years ago) link

but you still have to play the conch

veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:18 (eight years ago) link

It's a political shell game is what it is

the enigma of dagmar krause (wins), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link

it's all Bologna is what it is (abalone)

veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:23 (eight years ago) link

most meetings are a waste of time and resources

sarahell, Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:25 (eight years ago) link

hey keep it down we're riffing in here

the enigma of dagmar krause (wins), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:25 (eight years ago) link

Reagan was a damn good public speaker.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:28 (eight years ago) link

i sometimes fantasize about what we could learn if we threw all scientific ethics out the window

flopson, Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link

I think you meant 'electricians' there.

"makers"

El Tomboto, Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link

i sometimes fantasize about what we could learn if we threw all scientific ethics out the window

surely Prometheus offers a chilling enough warning to discourage this

Tom Watson in a fedora (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:35 (eight years ago) link

i dislike most music

F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:35 (eight years ago) link

so does half of ILM

Tom Watson in a fedora (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:38 (eight years ago) link

you could never listen to even half of all the music. so you'd have to listen to a representative sample of all music, and then predict that you dislike most music

veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:41 (eight years ago) link

always interpreted that as they just enjoy arguing but okay

xp

F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:41 (eight years ago) link

you could never listen to even half of all the music. so you'd have to listen to a representative sample of all music, and then predict that you dislike most music

― veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, August 18, 2016 8:41 PM (13 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there is a thread for you: http://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=48

F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:42 (eight years ago) link

looks like it'd be a thread about me and for others, but ok

veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:48 (eight years ago) link

call it ilx's desire to include all types

F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:52 (eight years ago) link

ilx's desire to make Big Bang Theory jokes

veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:56 (eight years ago) link

some ilxors like to affect a lack of understanding of rhetoric for comic effect. some ilxors maybe don't actually understand rhetoric.

Tom Watson in a fedora (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 18 August 2016 19:58 (eight years ago) link

some songs I like. some songs maybe I don't like. it is only appropriate to be conservative about language and the exact numbers itt.

veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:09 (eight years ago) link

first two sentences sound pretty vague tbh

F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:14 (eight years ago) link

first two sentences' physical strength and stamina are extraordinary

veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:17 (eight years ago) link

he understands rhetoric ladies and gentlemen

F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:20 (eight years ago) link

"I've got the conch"

"Oh yeah, well I've got the saxophone"

*plays hot licks*

Roland Kirk has both,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqXYAcVPDD4

Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:21 (eight years ago) link

these guys can really play to conch

veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link

I was gonna post a Steve Swell vid. If Steve Swell survives the apocalypse, I don't think I'm gonna get the conch gig.

socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:29 (eight years ago) link

"no no stop stop!"
"not my conch tempo"
"again! 5,6,7,8"

veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link

all of my conservative beliefs are the cool ones

goole, Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link


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