Yahoo Answers fun

On Yahoo Answers, I occasionally see questions that are rants ans/or slams against people instead of honest questions. This one for example. The person was asking how many states are there in America. This question has been asked about a dozen times and seems to be a slam against President Obama who after a jet-lagged slip of the tongue is being painted as an idiot. 


I even understand the 58 states comment and how it came about. He was trying to describe the fact that he had been to 48 states and had 2 to go. However being tired the brain seems to have fixated on the truthful statement that there are 50 states. One tired brain and you get a combination of the two...the aforementioned 58 states. God only knows that I've made several amusing gaffs. So have many members of my family. 


One such gaff was a very tired step-son of mine whom in the middle of a card game (Munchkin Bites...fun game and highly recommended) was given a card "Imitate Bela Lugosi - Go up a level". Not knowing Bela Lugosi, he did his best and upon prodding by us on the simple line of "I vant to suck your blood" (the card's rule said that it didn't have to be a good impression) said in the stereotypical Gothic Dracula sort of cheap Euro-trash accent. What came out however was a Freudian slip of epic proportions and he uttered instead "I vant to fuck your blood".


So verbal gaffs are quite possible. Obama and his 58 states comment being blown out of proportion is nothing more than the media outlets creaming their collective jeans over the slightest anything that they can use to painting the President in a negative light. Hell look at what they did to Gerald Ford and his one (1, uno, ein un, одно) slip getting off of an aircraft. 


So I posted the following answer.

There are 50 states. 

Obama's comment was likely due to the fact that he was jet-lagged like a son of a @#$%^.

Being tired can do that to a person.

This "58 states" crap is very similar to how we perceived Gerald Ford as a clumsy buffoon simply because of one (1) singular misstep coming off of an aircraft. They really didn't like Ford, so that slip up became the brunt of a thousand jokes. Obama's little sleep-deprived slip of the tongue is the same. People don't like him so they look for any excuse to call him an idiot and a fool.

Grow up people. If you REALLY don't like him THEN GET OF YOUR ASSES AND VOTE IN 2012 FOR THE OTHER PERSON.

Yeah I know, that last bit was a little ranty on my part, but then again I'm sick to freaking death of all the "Birther" crap, how he's a Muslim Extremist in disguise or any number of the ways that people are bad mouthing the President. He is the President, he was elected by the will of the people filtered through the Electoral College, he is the man in charge until at least 2012 when he's up for reelection... assuming he wants to run again and frankly I don't blame him if he doesn't want to.


So I get the following in my e-mail from another user.

From:  (Y!A ID changed to cover my arse)

Subject: hey jagoff

Message: i don't care how freakin tired, drunk, high or stoned a person is, i've been stoned, drunk or so freaking tired i couldn't see at all let alone see straight and i would never ever say anything other than 50 states in the uinion. then again, i'm actaully a citizen having learned this little tidbit in first or second grade, and wouldn't spend $2 million hiding my records which prove it either.

But if you were drunk and/or stoned, how would you know what you said? I've seen drunk people trying some of the stupidest shit that anyone with a little common sense would know is a very bad idea. I've seen drunk friends try to jump over a moving car coming right at them. I've seen stoned people have to have a tattoo removed from their face because they thought that having a penis inked next to their mouth would be funny. Drunk or otherwise intoxicated people say and do the damnedest shit. Don't believe me? Turn your TV to the TruTV channel and watch "The Smoking Gun Presents: The World's Dumbest..."


Trust me, after 15 minutes you'll start wondering if they should just let these fuckers die so the gene pool would self-chlorinate.

making excuses for this lame schmuck is all you people have left, time to grow up and face facts, he is a snake oil salesman, and you made a bad decision.

First of all, in a private election how do you know who I voted for? I could have voted Libertarian for all you know. I could have voted for McCain. I could have done a write-in vote for Bill the Cat. So saying that I made the wrong choice is a matter of opinion on your part and nothing more. Secondly he is a politician. That means that right off the bat he LIES. He's no different from "W", Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Tricky Dick Nixon, etcetera and so on.


There is the old joke. "How do you tell if a politician is lying? His lips are moving."


So yelling at me and railing that he is a snake oil salesman is pointless since they all try to blow sunshine up our asses and tell us that the world is filled with cute bunny rabbits masturbating in the meadows and ejaculating rainbows. Tell us something that we don't already know.

he will be out next election simply becasue many state will require the info he has been hiding before he is allowed on their ballots. he is out regardless of what he has said anbd once we understand that he wasn't eligible in the first place, everything he has signed will be revoked as illegal and he may even go to jail &/or be deported. good ridance to the little f^ck.

And here we see that you are one of the many people who think that he shouldn't have been president. Sorry, he was born on American soil (Hawaii being made a state just shy of two years prior to his birth), he was elected by the popular vote which told the Electoral College how to vote and so he is the president. You may not like him but the simple fact remains that he IS the president and I seriously doubt that he will be arrested and everything he has done will be thrown out as illegal.


And he'll likely be out next election because he simply not run again. All this Birther crap is nothing more than a way for Racist Americans to say in a politically correct fashion "Oh my GAWD! Who let that [racial slur for African-Americans] become president?" He knows it and he is bone tired of all of it.


I tried to reply to him, but he has me blocked to prevent me from messaging him back. A cowardly way to attack someone, but that's the blessing and the curse of the internet. People can rant and rail at people in ways that they would never do in real life for fear of what the person might do to them. And yes I do this as well by doing my blog. I can say what is on my mind without fear of reprisal. The difference between him and me is that I will allow people to speak their minds here even if that is a rant against me. I'm thick skinned and I can take a few insults. You don't grow up as a nerdy outcast in the public school system without learning how to cope. 


And should fa91338 should make it to my blog and post, don't try and attack my being a nerdy outcast. What I was in school is not what I am today and attacking that would be like me attacking you because you at some point in your life wore diapers and quite likely at some point in your life pissed your bed.


So I have replied (in red) to his points here on this blog since I can't really do it elsewhere. However I amended my answer to include a little stab at him.

Oh and fa91338? The next time you want to send me an email calling me a jagoff and other vile things, don't block my ability to reply privately. It only makes it seem as if you are afraid of my rebuttal. You might not be, but that's how it comes across.

Just saying.

To which I got this lovely and gramatically incorrect reply. The spelling errors and the grammar leads me to believe that I am yet again dealing with a childish mentality. Not saying that he is a child, but damn if he doesn't come across as a 10-year-old with a serious chip on his shoulders. My replies in red as usual.

From: fa91338

Subject: too freakin bad sport

Ooh! Insults right off the bat. This is going to be a nice conversation.

Message: the fact that you break the rules to which you agreed in order to use y/a whne you 'answer' (rant) only shows that you dont' really have anything sensible to offer.

And you and your comment of "according to obama, 58" (and yes he seems to not be really big on capitalization.) is something sensible to offer? What makes your insult to our President any less sensible than mine?

i block you becuase i doubt you have anythign else to say you haven't, which is futile at the onset.

Your grammar is making my head hurt. My friend who was a Fifth-Grade English teacher would have to take steps to keep her brain from exploding at your unwillingness and/or inability to speak as if you were properly educated.

if you dont' like the way people email you, block them, breaking the rules/vioating in an answer will only getour suspended and i am not anywhere close to afraid of you or your kind.

Why should I take the cowards way out? Why should I hide behind a fence like a little yippy-skippy dog and bark at the Pit Bulls walking past? And speaking of violating the rules, there is the interesting rule in the Terms of Service that states that being abusive to other users through the message system is also a violation. Pot calling the kettle black there don't you think?

ht eproblem is now that if i ublkock you i cannot re-instate it later, so too bad, deal like an adult and move on. otherwise i am sure you will end up suspended in the long run. it is obviousyou'r childlike mind will eventually end up w/ 1 of these 2 results, you will learn or you will get suspended.

Me? Childlike? that's laughable. Seriously, are you really that uneducated that you can't type correctly? Or did my comment inflame you to the point of being so blind with rage that you are only able to bang at the keys and hope for the best? In either case it is very amusing to me. 


Oh and saying that I'll get suspended? Have you even read what goes on in Yahoo Answers? Racial slurs, insults to people of religion (or against those who do not ascribe to it at all), slams against popular celebrities? And all of these very thinly veiled as legitimate questions from people who do this at least three times a night and have accounts that have been active for several years. You think that I'm going to get suspended? Again I am amused.

as top your idiotic comment in the answer, like the other assh0le mentioned that what you and he think was meant by the 58 states comment never had any such reasoning when bush was president so why should anyone cut this idiot any slack?

Because he is a human and thus subject to making human mistakes. Something that the world at large has forgotten. That our celebrities are not Gods and are as subject to the same personal demons as the rest of us are. Because at some point we are are going to make a mistake and we're going to hope like all hell that someone will be forgiving towards us in a way that you do not seem to be towards others. Because some of us believe in not being douche bags.

oh yeah, the 2 faces of the libs, thats why. the other guy also mentioned having vistited another country and was confused. it was during campaign mode in the US, he hadn't been in another country. this is the kind if idiottic rhetoric which makes you kids so useless on y/a...

FYI: I am not a kid. I have a wife, a job and three step-children and am in my late 30's. You want to talk about useless? Why not kvetch at all the "What is my boyfriend thinking?" questions? Or all the shock-value questions of "I just stuck my cat in the microwave and turned it on. How do I revive fluffy so my parents won't be mad at me?" questions? Why not consider the "Spiritually Speaking" questions that have nothing to do with religion or spirituality in any way, shape or form? There is far more that is useless than anything I can put forth.


So now I'm going to post the link to this blog entry and see if this chap is willing to take this further. I welcome it in fact. There is nothing he can say that'll raise my blood pressure the slightest notch. And who knows. he may be amusing.