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Blayne Bradley
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next wensday i get to have my 5 minutes of hate speech to rant against the unlawful injustices caused by the hippies, inspired by a hippy activist club kicking out the East Asian club from their club room, and forced into a smaller room while the hippies get their own (much bigger) club room.

Why did this happen? Because the creater of said hippy club (who made the club 2 years ago) had graduated and become a representative on the board of governors, abused her position the day she got it (literally) to put the club she created in a better and bigger room, that those damned hippies don't need (the room is about 20' by 30', the new EA club is about 10' by 8'), while the EA club is not only forced out of theres for no valid reason but is given a much smaller room in compensation not even big enough for their membership or to do EA club activities like Mahjong tournaments.

The injustice of this is so horrindous that the hippy conspiracy to not only take ove rtheir club room, but ALL of the club rooms through one bad spinoff club after another until all of us are stuck with broomclosets for clubrooms.

Would it be stretching the limits of free speech to call those hippies, spinless souless cowards hellbent on world domination and etc?

Here's the angry letter Hippies knew it was bound to receive. In the text that follows, I won't bother discussing the flaws in Hippies's logic, because it really doesn't use any logic. Should you think I'm saying too much, please note that Hippies has gotten away with so much for so long that it's lost all sense of caution, all sense of limits. If you think about it, only an organization without any sense of limits could desire to rule with an iron fist. Hippies's argument that it is a refined organization with the soundest ethics and morals you can imagine is hopelessly flawed and utterly circuitous. Hippies has convinced a lot of people that its debauches are the result of a high-minded urge to do sociological research. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation.

If I have characterized Hippies's vicegerents up to now as worthless and sniffish, it is only because I call upon Hippies to stop its oppression, lies, immorality, and debauchery. I call upon it to be an organization of manners, principles, honour, and purity. And finally, I call upon it to forgo its desire to promote post-structuralism's traits as normative values to be embraced. If we let Hippies gum up what were once great ideas, who's going to protect us? The government? Our parents? Superman? Probably none of the above. That's why it's important to complain about perverted, indecent beggars. That's the end of this letter. If I was unable to convince you that Hippies will go to almost any extreme to prevent my message of truth from getting out, then you should definitely consider contacting me with your supporting or refuting evidence, opinions, personal stories, etc.

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1. Dear god, we could mine this thread for the Dictionary game thread and find material to use for weeks.

2. What the hell are you talking about?

Somewhere in there I understand you seem to have a perfectly valid complaint about unfair favoritism. But starting off the post touting your excitement over "hate speech" and then launching into a rant that sounds like a conspiracy theorist on meth is a horrible way of trying to attract positive attention to your cause. I seriously hope you didn't relay any of that meterial to anyone in a position of authority. You'll be the Moveon.org of your campus.

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Damn hippies...

-pH

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There are some days, Blayne, where I swear you are two swirlies away from a campus shooting. Do us a favor and don't take it too seriously, okay? There's nothing wrong with Hippies. Your problem isn't Hippies, it's a certain group of people who are exercising too much power. You'll be out of there soon anyways.
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Noemon
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This was created using the letter of complaint generator, wasn't it? There are certain turns of phrase that get used by the generator that give it away if you know what to look for.
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Blayne Bradley
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This is probably the time when I should say I'm doing this partly with comedic effect in mind. Since I rather liked the Ginger episode of South park.

I had already discussed with the production manager about doing 5 minutes of ranting on about the evils of hippies and he finds it hilarious and I used much STRONGER language.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Kids
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quote:
There's nothing wrong with Hippies. Your problem isn't Hippies,
I've noticed it seems commn to lump 'Hippies' together as a kind of nebulous evil bent on undermining economical and other such realities just for the sake of undefined social issues. The name 'hippy' is an epithet.

I see it all the time where I am, too.

EDIT: Well I guess then South Park is to blame for the opposition to Hippies (yeah, often in a vaguely humorous fashion but sliding towards being not humorous). That explains a lot.

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Yeah, but if you didn't write this and instead used the complaint generator, it's not ethical to air it without noting that.

Also, Superman is the personification of America's wang. He cares not for Canadians.

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Would it be stretching the limits of free speech to call those hippies, spinless souless cowards hellbent on world domination and etc?
Spineless cowards? No. Hellbent on world domination (and etc.)? Hell yes!

We're still out on the soul thing.

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Blayne Bradley
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I wrote the entire thing except the last 2 paragraphs, which i just threw in there at random.
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If I have characterized Hippies's vicegerents up to now as worthless and sniffish, it is only because I call upon Hippies to stop its oppression, lies, immorality, and debauchery. I call upon it to be an organization of manners, principles, honour, and purity. And finally, I call upon it to forgo its desire to promote post-structuralism's traits as normative values to be embraced.
This is nonsensical and I'm guessing maybe autogenerated by something. And if not then whoa
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Blayne,
It was pretty obvious that you didn't write the last two paragraphs. Passing it off as something that you did write is a bad idea.

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Blayne Bradley
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Since when did I pass it off as something I did? if I do use something from a complaint generator on air then of course I'ld say before hand where it came from. Or afterhand, or maybe sidehand.
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Just like you did here, right?
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Oi, Blayne, stop screwing about on the intertubes, hie thy ass to the Great Game thread, and tell us whether you can play this Thursday.
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