I just read this thread and all I can say is that Mr. Helgeson has a hair-trigger temper. As you folks may recall, a new member to the forums created a thread to say "hi folks" and Mr. Helgeson, in a paranoid fit, accused the newcomer of being his arch-nemesis: none other than D-Lite himself! Insanity.
When Mr. Helgeson himself first joined these board, he insulted the entire board when he attacked opponents with racial / ethnic slurs.
Mike, I'm not trying to fight with you, but seriously, don't take everything so personally and certainly don't attack folks with such venom. I'm sure you're still going to hate a lot of things and a lot of people, but I suggest you find a creative way to do it (I suggest you print out the avatars of the folks you dislike and burn their effigies in a bonfire).
Peace, love and harmony.
Steve,going back over my first 100 post,I found nothing about racial/ethnic slurs. Just because I come from Arkansas doesn't mean I'm a member of the Klan. I don't even think the Klan still exist outside of a few narrow minded fools in deep country somewhere. I wasn't raised to be like that,nor do I approve of it. I mean,the only thing I can slightly think your confused with is how I commented on people coming from South America and Puerto Rico,share holders,to Wal-Marts convention to buy shit they don't need or can't really use,only buying the stuff because it was "cheap".
This statement,while mean spirited,was based upon fact. Share holders WERE coming from these areas and spending money on items they wouldn't need,and yes,their english was broken badly. This was stated in fact,I did not make this up. This is from 4 years experience in witnessing the shareholders conventions Wal-mart holds in Fayetteville. It was getting so bad that heads up and Wal-Mart were toying with the idea of tossing the spanish speaking employees up to the front of the store to translate questions being asked so the cashiers would know what was being said. When I refer to people from South America and Puerto Rico, I believe last I checked South America and Puerto Rico were not a race. Last I checked people from many different ethnic backgrounds live in these areas,and as in the case of Puerto Rico,I am thinking spanish is the major spoken language but there are people from many different racial backgrounds living there.
This is like saying someone who trashes France for "supposedly" having snooty citizens is a racist.
This happens all the time in tv and movies and people seem fine with it even though its a huge lame stereo type. Its not racist,its just stupid.
I believe all this was in response to Nodtveidt saying Puerto Rico wasn't a poor area or something and that Wal-Mart cared about people or some nonsense... I mean,its a pretty well known fact, Puerto Rico is U.S. territory with Commonwealth status. It is a very poor area.
Puerto Ricans had a per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimate of $17,700 for 2004, which demonstrates a growth over the $14,412 level measured in the 2002 Current Population Survey by the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. In that survey, Puerto Ricans have a 48.2% poverty rate. By comparison, the poorest State of the Union, Mississippi, had a median level of $21,587, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey, 2002 to 2004 Annual Social and Economic Supplements. Since 1952, the gap between Puerto Rico's per capita income and U.S. national levels has essentially remained unchanged — one third the U.S. national average and roughly half that of the poorest state. Nevertheless Puerto Rico remains the most developed nation in Latin America based on data of the CIA Worldfact book.
On May 1, 2006, the Puerto Rican government faced significant shortages in cash flows, which forced the closure of the local Department of Education and 42 other government agencies. All 1,536 public schools closed, and 95,762 people were furloughed in the first-ever partial shutdown of the government in the island's history. On May 10, 2006, the budget crisis was resolved with a new tax reform agreement, with plans to apply a temporary 1% tax input so that all government employees could return to work. On November 15, 2006 a 5.5% sales tax was implemented. Municipalities have the option of applying a municipal sales tax of 1.5% bringing the total sales tax to 7%.
This is why I came to Nodtveidts defense when Gutts didnt believe that PS3s could still be sitting on the store shelves there. People there are going to be more worried about food,rent,utilities then PS3.
My understanding was that tourism was the main economy in Puerto Rico,and while this might be a overstatement,I am going to assume if you take this away this island would be crushed economically . Not unless they have cocaine fields hidden about everywhere like in Colombia and crack cocaine gets legalized somehow....
What I stated,was fact,and has a solid foundation. Stating facts doesn't mean I made racist comments. Stating Puerto Rico is like a third world country ,while being over exaggerated, isn't even considered racial / ethnic slurs because it IS a poor area.
I mean,I've seen Gutts use the term spic once or twice,but for the most part I think the threads are void of any real racism,esp from me. Yes I can be very blunt,crass,some times a$$hole'ish,but never racist.
Also, the a paranoid fit your referring to,was sarcasm and intended as a jibe to the missing in action member. Possibly a new concept to you,but it was pretty obvious from the Robocop references in the post and what not. At the time I made that post Keranu and I were talking about what possibly happened to cause Dean to fall of the face of the earth. I think some threads were found of Dean whining about his woes or something. Between that,I had heard he was doing other things with peoples money and wasn't sending them their items. Anyway I'm not going into all the details of it,its all pretty pointless.
Plus more often then not,yea I do say whats on my mind,and I do not hold back,and I can be crushingly mean,rude,nit picky ect ect. But you know what,I'm a individual,and if nothing else when at all possible I'd rather challenge the masses then conform, because just because the mass majority can all agree on something doesn't make them all right every time.
Plus I'm not the only a$$hole here,I believe Ive been outranked by Gutts on the a$$hole meter countless times I've been informed by others. But hey,I think more often then not,hes just saying what he thinks,and he has a right to do so,just like anyone else,a$$hole or not. I like that because it easily shows he was of the "Sega Generation" as was I.
