The Danger of Mardi Gras beads.....

[Tanyor]

There are people in this world for whom it should be illegal to breed.  Unfortunately, those are often the ones who are the two-legged versions of rabbits.

Yeah...I agree. Ever see the movie "Idiocracy"? It's not a great movie, as it gets its point across in the first 15 minutes and then the rest is just fluff......but its point mainly is that stupid people are breeding more and faster then people with a decent IQ.....

Which I just chalk it up to today's "reverse darwinism" as I call it....but thats another topic for a whole nother day...heh.
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A random but scary fact. For a certain culture to sustain its period there is ratio 2.11 per child to sustain. If it falls under 1.9 it is irreversible.

[Riot]

even scarier is America the last I check was at like 1.5..

[Betty Munro]

The world is overpopulated, we can stand a 1.5 birth rate for a few hundred years.

[tiberiusflynn]

Yeah....but if all the smart/people with common sense and deceny only have 1.5 and all the idiots and prols have 2.5 up to 5 kids....then the world really will be idiocracy...(or we'll just blow our selves up....)

That makes me NOT want to have kids seeing how they'd be more frusterated then me about the situation....

[escherblacksmith]

eh, I tend to agree with this take on Idiocracy (although I enjoyed the film)

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But, I am a fan of retroactive birth-control technology research . . .

[LadyElizabeth]

This really is absolutely true... the movie Idiocy is truly coming to pass!!!  Almost every intelligent person I know is waiting to have children OR is unmarried, and even at that will unlikely have more than 2 kids!  Yet the much much less intelligent people are having billions of kids!  Why OH why do these people have so many, they don't have tons of $ and yet they just keep having kids!  Birth Control is NOT that expensive, you can get some for only 10$ a month!!!!  Kids cost way way more that per month!  Common sense AND intelligence both have seemed to have skipped a good portion of the populace! 

[DNA]

I think Idiocracy should be a required viewing for young adults. My generation and the ones to follow need to understand the risks of letting the ill-bred continue to breed!  Even if taking a pill every day isn't their cup of tea, there are implants that don't cost a lot, last 5 to 10 years, and are SUPER effective!
Idiocracy scared me because I see it happening. 

I digress. My whole rant was supposed to be about how Mardi Gras beads can be used as murder weapons. Those things are insanely dangerous. I'm convinced the first Mardi Gras krewes were trying to kill the local peasants, not reward them with shiny baubles.

In related news, Mardi Gras is 2 weeks away. Anyone coming to N.O.?

[Drac]

DNA,

My wife & I spent this past New Year down on Jackson square and that was more than enough for us!!!!  Even though the police and locals said this was the worst crowd they had ever seen I would be scared to think how much worse it would be for Mardi Gras!!!

It was also a bit of a culture shock for the wife.  I'm a sailor (6 years active and 10 years reserves) and in my worldly travels I seen some things.  She grew up in the only city in a county of the North Country of New York.  She was prepared for our first street in the Quarter to be Bourbon St.  It was a bit of a shock.  Add to it the crowds and she was a bit out of her element.

Drac

[Ambrosine]

It's so funny to see that other people have actually watched Idiocracy. I actually watched it when I was on maternity leave and got a HUGE kick out of it. I was one that made a point to my husband when we met what I had time lined for my life, what age I wanted to be married by, what age I wanted to have a child by, how many (one was enough as I do also have a step daughter) and so on..

My husbands ex is definitely one I would point out to be on the idiocracy level. After her second divorce (every husband ends up leaving her...hmm should she take a hint?) she still is out there having unprotected sex and now has a second child when she can't even afford to pay child support for her first!

As for the Mardi Gras beads...Why on earth are we so impressed with getting these junky little beads that are sooo worthless! My step daughter has collected them over the years and I keep having to throw the darn things out b/c they are just laying around her room never touched again once she wore them the day she got them! I do wish faires would do away with them, maybe give the kids little plastic tokens instead on those celebratory days?

[tiberiusflynn]

I'm definitely up for doing away with mardi gras beads....although, I'm now much more on the lookout for pudgy little kids swinging them around....lol!!!

yeah, case in point, the two idiots that live next to me, have two or more kids, he works oil fields but doesn't get any work, so instead of finding a dif. job, he works maybe 4 hours a week and then gets unemployment compensation. She just got fired from her job. They just had their car repo-ed and their stereo system from RAC repo-ed.

I've had to take two cats to the pound from them as they were abusing them. They have a third now thats a little tiny kitten they keep in a box outside their house, forcing it to stay in the box and yelling at it when it meows or tries to climb out, that I just called animal control about.

As arrogant as this may sound, I know I'm at least 5 times or more smarter then them, and even if I wasn't I'm way more humane to animals.....yet, I'm unmarried and have no kids and they have two or more from more then one marriage.....

[Zardoz]

I recommend 'Idiocracy' to people all the time! I think it should be required viewing in highschools!

But on the damn beads, My wife goes crazy at the sight of Mardi Gras beads! We go to a big formal Mardi Gras party every year where they will throw beads every hour or so, whenever they stop the music and say anything about beads she stops whatever she's doing, hands her drink or food etc. to whomever is closest and runs for the floor to whore for beads!

Here's a picture from last year, after the first of several of her bead expiditions.....I don't have a picture, but by the end of the night she had more crap around her neck than Mr.T !

She likes this party better than going to parades because they have "a better class of beads than you get in the street"   She currently has two large Sears shopping bags full of Mardi Gras beads.

[Blue66669]

i've done TERRIBLE things to get beads....

[LordEustace]

i've done TERRIBLE things to get beads....

you should send me an email, and tell me what you've done. HAHA

[Blue66669]

You'd have to pay for the privilage to know LOLOL!

[DNA]

Mardi Gras beads are like the Date Rape drug. They make you lose your clothes and eventually, you wind up completely confused and hungover with a crapload of them bout your neck. 

I, too, have done many a shameful thing for those dumb things. ><