What the fuck is wrong with people?

[Shockeye]

Ok, wtf is wrong with these people?

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Next summer, it will be legal to plunge into some Missouri rivers and grab catfish by hand - a type of fishing that is not for the faint of heart.

Known variously as noodling or hogging, handfishing has long been a misdemeanor punishable by fines, because state officials fear it depletes breeding-age catfish. It can also be dangerous: Noodlers hold their breath for long periods under water and sometimes come up with fistfuls of agitated snakes or snapping turtles instead of fish.

That does not discourage enthusiasts, who insist there is great sportsmanship in fishing with your bare hands.

It gets better. A little google-fu brought me to this gem.

Noodling is an ancient fishing method in which the fisherman wiggles his or her hand underwater near a bed of fish in hopes that a catfish will bite or, even better, swallow his hand. The fisherman then pulls the catch, which can weigh up to 250 pounds, out of the water.

Make sure you check out the picture. The look on the younger guy's face is priceless. I have visions of his father abusing him as a child with catfish.

WTF is wrong with these people?

[Abagadro]

You forgot the caption:

"I dun got me a great big fish, Pa."

"That's some good eatin Cletus."

[ClydeJr]

Somebody actually made a movie out of noodling. I'll have to Netflix that thing...

[Boogaleeboo]

God forbid they not get their food from the supermarket like the rest of you overfed cows.

[Shockeye]

God forbid they not get their food from the supermarket like the rest of you overfed cows.

God forbid everyone in the world get P.O. Boxes and you have nowhere left to deliver.

[Boogaleeboo]

Please, I'm union. I'd still be making 20 an hour with a hundred other guys waiting on that 1 letter a 97 year old woman sends to her great-grandkids. Selling out to the government is ALWAYS worth it.

The guys that fish with dynamite, now that's fucked up.

[Abagadro]

Your affinity for the inbred is touching.

[Boogaleeboo]

It's a skill, and one that puts food on the table. You are a lawyer. If there was anyone that should have learned not to take potshots at people for what they do to put food on the table, I'd imagine it'd be you.

Sadly, people too stupid to learn from experience. Of course that's pretty much the entire basis of your profession.

[Abagadro]

Insulting the profession that I just left is so 3 months ago.  Nice try though.

Seeing as how I've done it (killed for my dinner that is) and I image that you have not as you are typically full of shit, feel free to continue spew your incesant babble. It's your raison d'etre after all.

[Boogaleeboo]

As you've just copped to doing the exact same thing, I'm really not sure what more I have to say. As for leaving the profession? There's that joke about bridgebuilders and cocksuckers, if you don't know it now is as good a time to learn as any.

[Abagadro]

I love your content free posts.  Very, um, spacial.

Frankly, I have a hard time keeping your affectations straight these days between the hard core Hobbesian and champion of the toothless.  Maybe you do too.

[Boogaleeboo]

? It's a fairly old joke, and variations of it are told everywhere.

Man walks into a bar and orders a drink. He sits down, drinks his drink and orders another.

He tells the bartender "I've painted thousands of portraits in my life, but do they call me Maurice the Painter?"

He drinks his drink and orders another.

"I've built hundreds of bridges in my life, but do they call me Maurice the Bridge Builder?"

He drinks his drink and orders another.

"Suck one cock."

I found it fitting considering your previous occupation.

Frankly, I have a hard time keeping your affectations straight these days between the hard core Hobbesian and champion of the toothless. Maybe you do too.

And I truly am sorry the labels you had create for me didn't fit. God forbid I not live up to your preconceived notion of who I am and what I should do.

People have this funny idea that because I don't like them I don't like anyone.

I don't think humanity is filled with assholes, just you.

[Abagadro]

Hmmm, considering that nothing I said inferred you 'hated humanity', I  declare that post:

Content Free! [/size]

I probably ascribed something to you that is far more complex than reality. I now realize that your general framework, at least the one you put on airs for, is acutully simple moral bankruptcy and intellectual laziness. For misinterpreting you, I apologize.

[Boogaleeboo]

Unless you were talking about Calvin and fucking Hobbes, you implied a certain amount of callousness to the general state of humanity when you used the term "Hobbesian". And I didn't say you implied I "hated humanity", I said you implied I thought it was filled with assholes. I don't hate you. I don't think of you that much at all. I just said you're an asshole. Because that's pretty much what people mean when they call someone Hobbesian. It's just a way to pretty it up. The so called "Hobbesian Theory" is a nation of assholes that only stop fucking each other over long enough to listen to one big, central asshole.

Excuse me for just cutting out the middle man and getting straight to insulting you. In the future I will make sure to color my personal opinion in meaningless political or philosophical rhetoric to make it more acceptable.....

.....nah, I'll probably just stick to saying you are a dick.

[Abagadro]

See, was that so hard?  You didn't even have to couch it in completely disengenuous sympathy for the poor folk catching fish with their hands about whom you don't really give a rat's ass.  I knew you could get there.  Now you can just have a canned post that says "well you're a dick" and we can avoid these long circuitous chats.  It is my heart's desire to get to the real you.

[Boogaleeboo]

completely disengenuous sympathy

There's the problem. And the reason I talked. I don't think it's something they need sympathy for. It's a man catching fish. What the fuck is your massive problem with it? Did a fisherman rape you as a child?

You've had this long, rambling series of posts where you defend yourself for being a dick. Or did you assume you had a noble position of strength with your goober joke against some guy for fishing?

[Abagadro]

I don't recall defending myself for being a dick. I was a dick (to whom I'm still not sure, but I'm sure someone out in the hills who got their squirrel powered ISP up and running is truly devastated).

I was taking umbrage at your false umbrage.  As all of your posts are simply couched ways of saying "well your a dick" or "well aren't you a dick" or "well you are just a dick,"   I'd really just wish you'd come out and say it instead of boring us with the artiface.

[Boogaleeboo]

I'm not exactly posting this from the Department of Linguistics at Stanford chief, I can't remember I time I didn't just say "You're a dick, fuck you, die" in fairly direct language.

To sum up. I called you a dick, you said you were being a dick....and you are still posting why? Because you don't like being called a dick? You are tired of me calling people dicks? You just like to argue?

Calling people a dick is what I do. It's the thing that gets me going, when I see people with absolutely no positive life features feeling the need to take the piss out of someone else I just have to call them on it. I've never defended or excused in any way my behavior. Act like a douchebag, to whomever it may be, and I'll probably call you on it if bored.

Now your thing is.....what exactly?

Because I haven't exactly noticed a point in the last 5.

[Abagadro]

Forgive the youknowwhating:

I can't remember I time I didn't just say "You're a dick, fuck you, die" in fairly direct language.

Took you around 6 posts and piling through the typical affectations of bullshit that are becoming quite tiring. Just trying to cut to the chase.

Calling people a dick is what I do.

Your parents must be so proud.

if bored.

Pretty much why I'm in this thread. Just good ol' fashioned fun.  Having a 3 month old leaves you with lots of time in the twilight hours with not much to do.  Those yokels aren't the only ones who know how to fish.

/aaaaaaand scene.

[Boogaleeboo]

Generally they manage to pay attention to their kids rather than stroking themselves on a message board though, so they have you there.

Took you around 6 posts

The first thing I said is that all of you bitching were overfed cows making fun of people with an actual life skill. I'm sorry, that was indirect?

Your parents must be so proud.

Calling people a dick when they act like one is sorta what they do, if behind their back and without profanity in the case of my mother. Yes. You went to law school and are reduced to having this conversation with me to pass the time, I'm not exactly guessing this is going on the Christmas card for your kin.

[plangent]

Well, at least it's better than Geld and DV.

[Abagadro]

So your point seems to be that I am debasing myself by having these conversations with you. Finally, we agree on something.

[Boogaleeboo]

How exactly isn't that an insult against you?

Sure, I'm an idiot. You are the idiot still talking to me.

[Abagadro]

It's more of a self-failing of mine than an insult. Just can't help wallowing every once in a while. Sort of like going to a monster truck rally (which I also enjoy from time to time).

At least we all know where we stand.

EDIT: Ah well, was fun. See y'll Monday.

[schild]

Just because I don't have net access for a week doesn't mean anyone can fall off their common sense rocker. Ab, have fun on your trip. Boog, stop baiting people.

[Boogaleeboo]

As odd as it may be to contemplate, occasional I have thoughts and feelings that don't relate to baiting people into an argument. This was one of them.

[geldonyetich]

Well, at least it's better than Geld and DV.

Maybe because it's relatively new, but were this as regular of an occurance.

Here I thought Boog and Abagadro were really more prone t chosing a side in an existing argument, thereby having a numerical advantage.   That they're going at this solo - well, I'm proud of them.   This thread gets the Geldonyetich plaque of general disapproval.

[Boogaleeboo]

Hey, it's been about 2 minutes. Care to share another off-putting and overly personal detail about you fucking up your personal life again?

See schild, that's baiting.

What I did before was stating a personal opinion and someone not being able to drop it.

Here I thought Boog and Abagadro were really more prone t chosing a side in an existing argument, thereby having a numerical advantage.

.....and like pretty much every single other opinion you've had in your life not related to video games, based on nothing but the fantasyland in your head.

[geldonyetich]

Your natural trolling tendency transcends levels even you yourself may be aware of, Boog.  

based on nothing but the fantasyland in your head.

I suppose I could say something here to refute your belief that I'm living in a land of visionary ideals, instead one of easy conservatism...

...but it's much more interesting for me to say that we all have to suffice for the shadows on the cave wall rather than what reality really is.   The fantasyland in my head is likely no more fantastic than the one you've constructed.

If this makes me look like a crazy fuck before the closed minded (ironically the ones who are most likely to fall prey to fantasy over reality) well, such is life's burdens.

I've never particularly cared for popularity, it seems.

[Boogaleeboo]

1. It's not trolling if you aren't aware of it. "Trolling" is a fishing term. It's when you trail a baited line looking for fish to bite. You see why they apply it assholes on message boards?

And 2.

I suppose I could say something here to refute your belief that I'm living in a land of visionary ideals, instead one of easy conservatism...

See, the point of contention in this case is that I say "Fantasyland" and you then extrapulate on that one word and go into entire realms of detail I never mentioned anywhere ever. Because you have this entire system of word associations in your head that have no relation to what everyone else is dealing with.

And not caring for popularity is only a statement of any worth when you actual have a chance to be popular.

[Calantus]

Can I interrupt the Boog show long enough to ask what the fuck is wrong with a fishing pole? Last I heard there were a variety of ways to get food other than the supermarket and having fish eat your digits.

EDIT: The above (minus the Boog show comment) is not directed at Boog, he just supplied the supermarket reference.

[geldonyetich]

Because you have this entire system of word associations in your head that have no relation to what everyone else is dealing with.

Well, that would explain why some of you are excellent at missing my point.    Yet, when it comes to misinterpretation, fault does not always belong on the shoulders of the writer.

Your earlier statement expressed disapproval over my interpretation of reality, though perhaps you may not have been aware exactly what you were saying at the time.   Don't plead ignorance just because you don't like how that turned out.

Knowing you, you will now again completely forget what you are saying and attempt to make an entirely different point.   If you're caught at it, you will accuse the finder of misinterpretation.   It's become your style of message-board martial artistry.   Float like an ungrounded idea, sting like kick to the groin during a chess match.

And not caring for popularity is only a statement of any worth when you actual have a chance to be popular.

An interesting statement that breaks down a bit under further scrutiny.

Regardless, I've indicated I don't particularly care one way or the other.   I have no ambitions to be top monkey, whether or not I had a chance in the first place.

[Boogaleeboo]

Can I interrupt the Boog show long enough to ask what the fuck is wrong with a fishing pole?

Excuse me for what seems like a pun, which I acknowledge as the lowest form of humor, but it's less hands on. Some people just don't like sitting for long periods of time for the chance to pull back a stick and turn a wheel. Which isn't to say that fishing is easy, but it's not quite the same as getting in a steam and picking the things up with your bare hands. Or spear fishing, something else people still do. All of which are better than the real hicks with throw TNT into a lake and kill a three hundred fish in 2 seconds while seriously fucking up the local ecosystem.

Well, that would explain why some of you are excellent at missing my point. Yet, when it comes to misinterpretation, fault does not always belong on the shoulders of the writer....

......

Knowing you, you will now again completely forget what you are saying and attempt to make an entirely different point. If you're caught at it, you will accuse the finder of misinterpretation. It's become your style of message-board martial artistry. Float like an ungrounded idea, sting like kick to the groin during a chess match.

See, the point of contention in this case is that I say "Fantasyland" and you then extrapulate on that one word and go into entire realms of detail I never mentioned anywhere ever.

Not only aren't I going on to some new point, you've done nothing with that last bit but reinforce my earlier statement.

An interesting statement that breaks down a bit under further scrutiny.

No, not really. I can say I never really cared about being Miss Alabama, and as I'm not a woman nor a resident of the 'Bama all the statement will do is ensure I get odd looks from those around me. This doesn't mean it's untrue, I really have never cared about being Miss Alabama, it just means the statement isn't particularly meaningful.

You've never had the chance to be popular, what does it really matter that you don't care about being popular?

[Hanzii]

Let's see, this thread started with the truly fucked up crime of killing somebody and stealing their unborn child, then somewhere along the line Shoceye expected us to show the same kind of revulsion towards hicks who like to catch giant mutant fishies in a somewhat weird way...
I'm sorry, but I fail to see what the two are doing in the same thread.

Ordinary fishing is one of the most godawful boring hobbies known to man. It only beats stamp collecting because it at least let you get some fresh air. These guys at least adds some excitement to the mix, and their choice of hobby isn't more fucked up than people jumping off cliffs or planes in perfect working condition.
The only kind of fishing I'd seriously consider would nbe spearfishing, which can also be somewhat risky, if you do it in tropical waters (sharks are attracted to the blood).