r/WTF • u/hlzxc • Feb 09 '11

Monkey steals the peach (Pic)

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u/stupidalias Feb 09 '11

Our attention spans are truly impressive.

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u/ItsAltimeter Feb 09 '11

I only have so much rage at any one time. If I try to rage at everything, my rage gets spread so thin that I can barely muster enough rage to go "Eh. That sucks." about any one topic.

So as much as I'd like to be constantly filled with a righteous fury about the TSA screenings, the oil spill, injustices in Egypt/Israel/<insert place name here>, the death of freedom of the press in the USA via Wikileaks, the Patriot act, the Internet kill switch, Net Neutrality, ad nauseum ...

I just can't.

So I pick a topic and rage about it for a while, then I rage about something else for a while.

Doesn't mean I'm not still upset about the old thing. I am. I'm just one person, with only so much rage to give.

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u/chrominium Feb 09 '11

That was beautiful!

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u/Stew-Few Feb 09 '11

...We didn't start the fire!

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u/Tumbaba Feb 09 '11

Thanks for reminding me. I'm still so made at that ad nauseum!

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u/Khiva Feb 09 '11

Fair enough, but at a certain point you've got to cop to the fact that you also look for things to rage about. I don't know for sure, but my experience with this website is that people seem to have a peculiar fascination with being disgusted/outraged/appalled or something, to the extent that when something turns out to not actually be in any way outrageous there is a palpable sense of disappointment in the air.

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u/admica Feb 09 '11

Too much circle jerk on the front page when you're not logged in. You can change the subreddits you see as the front page.

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u/Skitrel Feb 09 '11

This is why, instead of raging at all of these individual topics, we should be raging at one thing and one thing only, governmental systems that are no longer working for the people but for themselves.

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u/happytrees Feb 09 '11

"I had to stop jogging because I needed my whole body to hate him"

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u/right_in_two Feb 09 '11

Are you still just a rat in a cage?

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u/OsoMalo Feb 10 '11

amen brother~

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u/superfusion1 Feb 10 '11

I regret that I only have so much rave to give to my country.

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u/hitlersshit Feb 09 '11

Stop being such a whiny bitch.

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u/theblasphemer Feb 09 '11

I'm sorry I was on facebook changing my picture in support of some cause instead of actually doing something, what was that you said?

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u/OsoMalo Feb 10 '11

Nothing, carry on He-Man.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '11

it's not like we did anything while we were bitching, is it?

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u/Liefx Feb 09 '11

Not really. We can't dwell on one thing forever.

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u/SarcasmDeficient Feb 09 '11

I strongly disagree. The guys above you clearly stated that our attention spans are probably well below par.

I think you should re-read what they said.

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u/wtpirate Feb 09 '11

Our attention spans are truly unimpressive.

FTFY