I've had enough.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:19 pm

For the last, oh I don't know, six years or so, I've done a whole lot of complaining about the United States, the country I've lived in all my life. I've bitched and moaned about everything from the insane, incompetant media to the ridiculous usage of the legal system, to the actions of the current administration. I've watched as the freedoms that used to adequately wash away the bad taste the facts of history left in my mouth were altered, amended, bastardized, and, often, discarded completely. I have seen ordinary people demonized for loving the wrong people by the same government that has committed unquestionable war crimes themselves. I have seen, and had, enough. I'm leaving. I'm leaving the United States. My passport's being processed, my visa is pending, my apartment is ready, and my plane leaves on October 21st.

I've never felt so good about a decision in my entire life.

Free at last! Free at last! Hail Satan, I'm free at last!

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:28 pm

1) Where are you going to? Just so we can arrange to be elsewhere.

2) If I see one more person spell "ridiculous" with an e, I'm getting a new custom title.

sidestreaker · Post by **sidestreaker** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:30 pm

rediculous

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:43 pm

Lacks a context, doesn't count. [/retcon]

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:53 pm

No, seroiusly though......Where are you moving to, Ben?

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:15 pm

Who's Ben?

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:25 pm

Dont let the door hit ya on your way out. Remember, the grass is always greener on the other side.

Leatherneck · Post by **Leatherneck** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:15 pm

qft@OPR

Post by **Kaylee** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:37 pm

Travel light, travel safe.

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:50 pm

Where is there to go? The rest of the free world is going through the same s***. I can't think of anywhere that doesn't have the same/similar issues to get up your nose.

You'll only be angry in another country!

Stand and fight. For evil it triumph, all it takes is for good men (and women) to do nothing (or however the quote goes!

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Post by **Kaylee** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:52 pm

Scraplet wrote: Stand and fight. For evil it triumph, all it takes is for good men to do nothing

Is that the world's first example of a Grimlock-ism?

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:42 am

FINALLY! Enough whining, and more action!

I applaud thee, and please move to Sweden, your expertise is needed, and it will give me an opportunity to convert you to a Crowley.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:43 pm

Or, an opportunity to go Thorite hunting.

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:39 am

Holy ****, Rebis, did you just make a 2099 reference?

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:24 pm

So do we know where he's going yet?

*starts checking the atlas to work out possible escape routes*

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 3:55 pm

No, he's not telling. But knowing Smooth, I'd say the Vatican. Or Amsterdam.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:14 pm

Shanti418 wrote: the Vatican

Pope Smooth 1st?

Now, that'd be something!

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:47 pm

Legion wrote:
Shanti418 wrote: the Vatican
Pope Smooth 1st?

Now, that'd be something!

It would be, wouldn't it? I've enjoyed hunting for different prefixes to my name over the past few years. "Mr." never really did it for me. "Reverend" was fun for awhile, but it's lost its charm. The last few years I've been working towards actually having becoming a real "professor," but that's not a legal title. I really thought I'd stop trying to upgrade once I traded "Reverend" for "Doctor," but "Pope," THAT would be amusing.

Pope Richard Kevin Smooth the 1st? Has a nice ring to it.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:01 pm

Ooh, ooh! Bagsy I be one of the Conclave that votes Smooth in!

sprunkner wrote:Holy ****, Rebis, did you just make a 2099 reference?

Pretty apt, I thought.

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:37 pm

Punisher 2099?

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:18 am

Nicely obscure, even within a comic book fan community.

Post by **Best First** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:15 am

isn't it obscure for a reson?

in that it wasn't much cop?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:50 pm

I thought it was quite a good observation of the tampon's unwanted neighbour.

Post by **Best First** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:57 am

Intersetingly in all countries outside the USA if you start a topic saying "i'm leaving" and then don't say where you are going to they break your legs before calling the ambulance.

the ambulance driver will then kick you in the nuts and drive off.

This happens in all countries outside America. And rightly so.

but, by way of Devil's advocate the grass is also sometimes greener. getting hung up on where your parents happend to have you seems kind of a waste of time.

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:20 am

Besides, British food sucks.

And Spider-Man 2099 was fabulous. Great art, great writing. Everything else was shockin' cack.

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:31 pm

Best First wrote:Intersetingly in all countries outside the USA if you start a topic saying "i'm leaving" and then don't say where you are going to they break your legs before calling the ambulance.

the ambulance driver will then kick you in the nuts and drive off.

This happens in all countries outside America. And rightly so.

but, by way of Devil's advocate the grass is also sometimes greener. getting hung up on where your parents happend to have you seems kind of a waste of time.

Oh I didnt say it wasnt. It was just a nicer way of saying "Im going to laugh my ass off when you start bitching about wherever you wind up and realize that maybe you didnt have it so bad here."

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:33 pm

At least your petrol's cheaper. And you have more space.

I'd like more space.

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:38 pm

spiderfrommars wrote:At least your petrol's cheaper. And you have more space.

I'd like more space.

NO! THERE IS NOTHING GOOD HERE! ITS ALL EVIL AND BAD!

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:36 pm

My main reasons as far as I can tell for not leaving Texas myself when given the first chance is:

1. I can only speak English and a bit of Spanish.

2. Mexican Food.

That's the great thing about where I live, LROP can back me up on this, we're Texans first and Americans second.

Of course there ARE the cons....

1. Hot. Like it's hot more so than where you're at right now. Which actually brings me to a different point......

Northeners ALWAYS look down on us during the winter, when we some ice on the streets, and we act like it's a natural disaster and shut down everything. Well, you know what? We're not prepared for that type of stuff. We don't have millions of dollars of infrastructure for such events. We don't know how to drive on ice. We don't know how to deal with accumulating falling snow. When these things happen, it's a vacation for us, and we all stand around in awe and do stupid things like try and drive on the ice instead of walk.
But oh ho, Northeners...now the shoe is on the other foot, no? All of a sudden it's HOT up there, and YOU don't have the infrastructure to deal with it, and you think you're living in some sort of Hell on Earth just because the temperature has been above 90 F for a month or so. No air conditioning in the London Underground? Now that must be hot. Here, blowing massive amount of electricity on air conditioning, wearing white shirts and swimming, always swimming. It's what we do.

2. The majority of the women here are either A, extremely religious, B, boring in bed, or C, a little of both.

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:32 pm

I feel that way a little bit myself, given that I'm a Californian. Of course, the majority of the women there are, well, let's just say I wish they all could be California girls.

Aroobedoop.

My major reasons for moving to another country would be: 1) to take advantage of some socialized health care system. I have had the hardest time through college getting and keeping any kind of health insurance. The last time I got really sick, I had to go home from the doctor's office and collect my W-2s and pay stubs just to prove that I should get some kind of financial assistance. In the long run, I ended up having to pay the full, uninsured bill anyway. I'm not saying socilaized health care doesn't have it's drawbacks, but at least I wouldn't have to worry about it. 2) to NOT be a citizen of the country most likely to be nuked off the face of the planet. I am tired of my government playing world watchdog to a bunch of unstable fanatics and expecting no reparations. Of course when Madrid and London aren't safe either, I don't have a lot of options.

But America has good stuff. We have an overabundance of food. All my friends are here. And it's a culture that evolves quickly, no matter what Bush says about immigration. I have applied for jobs in other countries, but I plan to come back for grad school on the West Coast, and never go more than two miles inland.[/i]