Perennial WaccoBB Topics: A List

["Mad" Miles]

Zup Fellow Wacoons?

A couple of days ago I wrote somewhere that someone should start a list of the eternal, and interminable, topics of discussion and dispute here. To substantiate my proposed slogan: "Waccobb.net where arguments last for years and any zombie thread can be resuscitated!"

Or something thereabouts. No one took me up on the offer. As I'm never one to leave an important job undone, nor a chance for me to blather on here unwritten (Sic. You have no idea, believe it or not, sometimes, arguably often, I restrain myself here, but nobody gets credit for what they didn't do!) here goes...

Issues That Never Go Away

In Life and on Waccobb.net

(Is there a difference?)


Animals, As opposed to Humans: Pets? Companions? Family Members? Enlightened Autonomous Beings deserving of Respect, Worship and/or our Obedience? aka "How dare you sell that puppy!? You're an abuser!!!" or "To kill, or not to kill an ant. That is the question. Whether tis nobler to bear the slings and arrows of vermin, or..." aka "To Kill A Mockingbird, or at least get it to shut the hell up while I'm trying to sleep goddamnit!"


Truth: Can we know it? I know it, you don't! There is no truth, only intention... My thoughts, feelings, desires and fears create the reality (if we can even call it that) that surrounds me. Get your own universe! One popular position is: My Truth Matters, Yours Sucks!


Politics: We are all being led down the flower and crystal strewn path to destruction by - The Democrats, The Republicans, The Greens, The Libertarians, The Liberals, The Conservatives, Our Secret Reptilian Overlords, Bush (see previous choice), Obama, Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, Ralph Nader, Pick your own poison! Now go out and vote!


Sebastopol (aka "town", as in, "I want to live in town, can I park my trailer on your lawn and use your bathroom at will? Access to a heavy duty outlet would be nice too...")

But the real question is: Why is Sebastopol the known center of the enlightened universe?

And how can we expand the power of our collective consciousness to the entire world so that all the problems we discuss here can be solved and a new era of human and non-human life enlightenment bloom and make this world the utopia it is destined to become if only we ran it the way we know it should be and only we can? I mean, duh?, isn't anyone paying attention?


Real Estate (see Sebastopol)


Immigration: They tuk ur jaawbs! Mine the borders! Pile that wall higher! They're all welfare sucking criminals. They keep our food cheap. They work harder than us! Stolen land! Broken laws! You suck! No You Suck!! (And... breath....)


Dating / Romance: Why is everyone in Sonoma County?.... ugly, crazy, stuck up, too old, too young, too poor, too elitist, not spiritual, too spiritual, boring, fat, skinny, a man, a woman, gay, straight, a perve, a slut (Men, that means you too! Mykil, you're the poster boy for that one.), a prude, but most important of all - Why are they not brilliant/hot/beautiful and AVAILABLE TO ME!!!!????

Be with MEEEEE??!! BE WITH MEEEEE???!!!!
(The latter phrase from the comments log on Slate.com today in discussing a case of sibling rivalry on Prudie's advice column.)


Religion: Just how evil is it? Can we attribute every known human problem to it? If not, why not you demented brainwashed tool of oppressive tradition! (Edward/VO, Buddy, This ones for you!)


Meta-Discussion Also known as, Talking about talking: How to slyly insult, disparage and get the goat of, anyone you're debating with. While maintaining a semblance of reason, concern, civility and "conscious, progressive" cultural community values. Or... just post it in "Censored & Non-Censored" Asshole!


Restaurants: I had this bad experience, see, so that place is a hell hole and everyone should boycott it!


Seminars: Come learn where the key to the universe is hidden, in five easy weekend retreats, or one forty-eight hour sweat lodge intensive. Just for the price of a well running late model used car (not to worry, once you complete our life transforming course, you'll be able to go on the board and "manifest" one, by "focusing your intention") or your life savings whichever seems right to you. Trust us, we're cool, we use lots of interesting words strung together that sound like we have tapped into the esoteric knowledge of the ancients yet also have discovered never before known secrets from the realm of the unseen and unknowable! Payment on delivery.


Health & Medicine: The AMA is an evil cabal of sad, old men out to enslave our minds and bodies and enrich and pleasure themselves on a bed of human suffering. They get their marching orders from Big-Pharma, which is what really controls our bodies and our minds. They're drugging the water!?

On the other hand any practice taken from a pre-scientific animist tribal culture is guaranteed to cure what ails you. I know because I've been initiated into the secrets of non-traditional healing by a shaman who is from a long line of anointed healers that goes back to long before the beginning of life in the universe! Honest! Get'cher tinctures and charms right here! Bulk discounts available. All major credit cards accepted.


Ecology & The Environment: There are too many of you! Quit eating! Quit driving! Die why don't you! Aaahhhh!!!!

Fuhged'aboud' it. We're all doomed. It's over. Where's the party?


Traffic & Driving: There's killers on the road, minds squirming like a toad... Everybody but me drives like an idiot and they're gonna kill someone. Why don't the cops do something? Why are the cops such inflexible, controlling fascist pigs? Drunks, Drunks Everywhere, They've had too many drops to drink! Run away, run away, we're all gonna die! First though, lock those boozers up!


Drugs: What could go wrong? I mean, really, think about it. They're made of chemicals, we're made of chemicals. It's a marriage made in....? What was I saying? Trust me, I've taken plenty in my time, there's nothing wrong with me! Take a look!! (Cue Tars latest avatar)


Stuff: Where can I get some stuff? Buy my stuff! I need stuff! Give me your stuff! Take my stuff, I don't want it and I'm dumping it if you don't take it soon! Do you have boxes I can put my stuff in? I need to move my stuff, got a truck? Quit dumping your stuff on the side of the road!!! Why do we have so much stuff?? Get Stuffed! Stuff this.

(George Carlin, RIP)


Technology: Invisible particle/wave band rays are discoloring my aura, giving you cancer and harshing our mellow, Stop it!

But I have to be "connected" to my social network 24/7 and must use my cell all the time!

Who cares how other people feel or what they think, I must remain linked to the hive mind. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. All hail the BORG Nation!!!!

One of us, one of us, one of us!!


(And, scene....)


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Well, that's it for now, off the top of my head. My biases are pretty blatant here. Anybody seeking an apology will first have to make at least five contributions to this thread, before I'll even consider it!

So, please feel free to contribute to the free flow of ideas, or this discussion... You can't do both. That's a logical and practical impossibility.

Wacoons Rule!

Barry is God, Father, Mother and Paraclete of The Messiah!!
Just to mention a few of his basic roles.

[pbrinton]

Brilliant, Miles! You seem to have pretty much covered the field, though when I stop laughing may be able to come up with a couple more. This post should be the first thing every new member sees! Perfect orientation, or should it be occidentation? Actually, now I come to think about it, some more subject headings are coming to mind, so I may have to sleep on this and see what percolates to the surface.

Patrick Brinton

[wbreitman]

Great post, Miles. You forgot one category:

THE MIDDLE EAST. Does Israel have the right to exist? Should its populous go back where they came from? The poor suffering Palestinians. The murderous, bloodthirsty Palestinians. The horrible Islamists. The wonderful Islamists. The issues will never be solved. The issues will only be solved by "A" or "B" ... mutually exclusive.
Anti-semite ... racist ... Nazi ... etc., etc.

W

[Tars]

Maybe add this one:

Cellphone Radiation

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["Mad" Miles]

Hey Wacoons,

I just wanted to pull this up to the top of the pile. Why? Because I'm an egotistical brat seeking attention? Perhaps, but I've tweaked it many times since first posting it.

If you read it in the first few days after I put it here, there are additional categories at the end of the list that you've missed. I've repeatedly tightened up the language and added a couple of personal references to other waccoppeeps.

Also I want to say, "Thanks for your Gratitude, You're Welcome!" to all who have hit that little Thank You button. By far the best response to any post I've done over the years.

We do like to laugh. Even at ourselves if it is delivered without too much bile. That was my goal here. I seem to have hit that mark, if I say so myself!

Been thinking of doing a list of "Lies About Undocumented Immigration". Haven't started it, all I can promise is that it won't be this funny...

[alanora]

I can't believe I never thought of Wacoons, silly yet friendly...ya had me laughing at the get go! Would vaccines, herd immunity vs. the immunity of your own herd, fit the list? Thimerisol, mercury, autism. asbergers seems like there's a song in there somewhere...... How about circumcision, to snip or not to snip, may be to sacred for this discussion-health giving or taking away? A covenent with G-d or mutilation complete with mental and emotional trauma.
And then there are the remedies for ants.

Hey Wacoons,

I just wanted to pull this up to the top of the pile. Why? Because I'm an egotistical brat seeking attention? Perhaps, but I've tweaked it many times since first posting it.

If you read it in the first few days after I put it here, there are additional categories at the end of the list that you've missed. I've repeatedly tightened up the language and added a couple of personal references to other waccoppeeps.

Also I want to say, "Thanks for your Gratitude, You're Welcome!" to all who have hit that little Thank You button. By far the best response to any post I've done over the years.

We do like to laugh. Even at ourselves if it is delivered without too much bile. That was my goal here. I seem to have hit that mark, if I say so myself!

Been thinking of doing a list of "Lies About Undocumented Immigration". Haven't started it, all I can promise is that it won't be this funny...

[Sylph]

.And then there are the remedies for ants.
And remedies for poison oak, fleas, feral cats, biting dogs, mocking birds, skunk smell, frizzy hair, cigarette odor, heavy metals, emotional blockages and arthritis.

[Barry]

Hey Wacoons,

I just wanted to pull this up to the top of the pile. Why? Because I'm an egotistical brat seeking attention? Perhaps, but I've tweaked it many times since first posting it.

...

Also I want to say, "Thanks for your Gratitude, You're Welcome!" to all who have hit that little Thank You button. By far the best response to any post I've done over the years.


In addition to gratitude for a given post, you can rate the thread as whole. Here's my vote:


https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/ImagesforMembers/2010-07-09_2320.png

[jitterbug]

I keep wondering if the Graton Fire Siren will make the list too.


And remedies for poison oak, fleas, feral cats, biting dogs, mocking birds, skunk smell, frizzy hair, cigarette odor, heavy metals, emotional blockages and arthritis.

["Mad" Miles]

I finally got around to sharing this with my sister from Sacramento. I didn't ask her permission to post her comment. But it's not like I'm telling you her name or anything.

I introduced it with:

Here it is. Enjoy...

Here's what she wrote:

I did enjoy. Funny how much of it could apply to any community BB. And folks in every community think their's is so unique! Later,

So disappointing, we're not as "special" as we'd like to think! Course, I learned that lesson in my mid-twenties.

On the other hand, it means we're not alone! There's some comfort in that.

Thanks for the contributions. Since they're on the thread, consider them added to the list.

I had to email this to my sister because in spite of directions to all my writing here printed in my email signature, and me talking about it pretty often, it takes that extra effort to get family and friends to read my stuff.

A prophet is never recognized, let alone respected, in his own land. (Sic.)

Bwaaahaaahaaahaa!

And you didn't think I couldn't find another way to bring this to the top of the queue!

Oh' Grasshopper, when will you learn?

(Snrrk..)

[DebD]

Leaf blowers. I don't think I saw that on the list.

[Artaloha]

This is too funny! This is wonderful ...
Thank you again, Miles!
I only have one question, well actually - being as I have no idea where the term WaccoBB came from , I only have two questions -- what are wacoons? (I have this sneaking feeling you're going to tell me they're "weally weally cute animals") and where does the term "WaccoBB" come from? :hmmm:
Artaloha

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["Mad" Miles]

... Thank you again, Miles! ... I only have two questions -- what are wacoons? ... and where does the term "WaccoBB" come from? :hmmm:

Artaloha

De Rien!

Wacoon is a recent contribution, from another ... "wacoon" ..., (Sorry coiner of waccoon, I forget your name and am too lazy to search for it. Confess! Or don't, as you like.) that I like and have adopted.

I believe they meant it to be pronounced, wah koh awn (accent on the second syllable), but I think of it as, wak ewn.

And I'm painfully aware that some sensitive person might think it is a reference to a racist term for Black people, used by Southern "Crackers" (Hah!).

But that's not what I mean by it. And I resent this! In the name of those who I prefer it being a reference to, I protest on behalf of them against this slander of furry woodland creatures with bandit eye markings and a vicious bite if cornered, everywhere!!!


The story of waccobb is in the FAQ's for this website.

Here's the link (https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb-net-faq/25584-where-did-name-waccobb-come.html).

And thanks for asking!


I'm thinking of combining some of the recent contributions to this list/thread into a category called:

Neighbors: They're noisy, smelly, ugly and evil. I think they're up to something and are probably criminals. Their yardworking machines (leafblowers, weedwackers, woodchippers, chainsaws and all other power tools. Oh wait, and hammers, saws, axes, hachets, mauls, sledges, anything used by hand too!!!) and toys (gocarts, unmuffled vintage truck engines, Harleys, Sound Systems, Teen Garage Bands and Industrial Strength Vibrators!!!) are driving me insane! Why won't they just go away and leave me alone!!! You kids get off my lawn!!!! I've got a .410 packed with Kosher Salt*, and I'm not afraid to use it!!!

See; Ecology & The Environment - for additional information.

* Before anyone claims my reference to Kosher Salt here is anti-semitic, just think about it. A .410 shotgun packed with rock salt? Overkill. Yet not enough of a spread pattern. Kosher Salt is the approprate grain size for such a small barrel. Just cause you don't know shit about guns, doesn't mean I don't.

Jeeze, you guys are soooo thin-skinned! Be glad it isn't rock salt.


Hah!

I have so much fun spouting off here... It's criminal.

Somebody pay me!

Either to stop, or to continue.

For enough money, I'll do either one...

Bids entertained today!

[kpage9]

happily taking credit for "waccoon"--just came to me as i was addressing a note to "dear wacco ones" and the second space evaporated for a moment...a gift. to the degree that i have a vote, it is pronounced just like the weally weally cute animals.
kathy