I'm sorry. I'm in a very bad mood this morning and I figure that if my country has a horrible image as a bunch of arrogant, violent, reflexively nasty bastards, I might as well put it to good use against the people who hurt and scared my friends. I know it sounds vile but those who know me are almost certainly aware that my real response is more a matter of finding somebody who needs a bit of support, providing that, being as reasonably sane and friendly as I can while the zooey chaos is going on, and then wandering off to have a breakdown when it seems like other people can handle the rest of the mess.
The whole thing stems to a certain degree from a Penny Arcade cartoon in which one of the characters cleared out a line at the store by shouting, "I play violent video games! I could snap any second!". Scores of people ran for it, wailing, "Killer kids! Just like on the TV!", even though the guy who shouted showed no other sign of being dangerous. I once vaguely entertained the idea of shouting, "I'm an American! I play violent video games! I could snap any second!" in order to get to the head of the line at the Royal Ontario Museum, but I never did.
As for the new and innovative places, I was sort of thinking elbows and kneecaps.
*sigh*
I'll feel horribly guilty about having said this fairly soon, I'm quite sure. Esp. given my status as a supporter of Amnesty International, the Red Cross, and Doctors Without Borders. But dammit, even a decent humanitarian liberal gets horrible impulses sometimes.
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Date: 2005-07-07 01:56 pm (UTC)The whole thing stems to a certain degree from a Penny Arcade cartoon in which one of the characters cleared out a line at the store by shouting, "I play violent video games! I could snap any second!". Scores of people ran for it, wailing, "Killer kids! Just like on the TV!", even though the guy who shouted showed no other sign of being dangerous. I once vaguely entertained the idea of shouting, "I'm an American! I play violent video games! I could snap any second!" in order to get to the head of the line at the Royal Ontario Museum, but I never did.
As for the new and innovative places, I was sort of thinking elbows and kneecaps.
*sigh*
I'll feel horribly guilty about having said this fairly soon, I'm quite sure. Esp. given my status as a supporter of Amnesty International, the Red Cross, and Doctors Without Borders. But dammit, even a decent humanitarian liberal gets horrible impulses sometimes.