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I hope this is the correct spot for this. I've been lurking Fratching for years and finally got some good material to put up.
The customer being referred to is in this CS post:
http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...73#post1174373
He walked into my (National Park) hotel lobby days before the shutdown and spouted off a bunch of nonsense that still has me angry.
The short version of the points he made in his random, random ramblings (with my ramblier responses in parentheses below each point) is as follows:
1.) Soon the US will erupt in civil war, and 2/3rds of the population will be dead.
(Actually, this one seems vaguely likely to me, but that's probably due to my perspective as someone whose income is suddenly gone due to the shutdown, and as someone who's living among a lot of angry, angry laid-off workers. I do forsee a lot of rioting and looting locally, but...probably only locally. I think the American people are too complacent to actually take up arms, by and large. I think it's far more likely that the rest of the world will [continue to] point and laugh at our government, and eventually someone might invade, depending on how long the shutdown lasts.)
2.) Wolves are bad and we should kill them, and he plans to hunt them for the bounty Cabela's is allegedly offering for their pelts. They are bad because, according to him, not only do they kill livestock, they kill and eat humans on a regular basis, and this is becoming a huge problem in Idaho and Montana.
(As someone with a tattoo of a mated pair of wolves who were ruthlessly hunted down and killed by a bounty hunter in the 1890s, I took considerable umbrage to this. Yeah, maybe reintroduction wasn't fully thought out, but it's pretty asinine to stand there saying "they killed off all the elk, now they're killing the livestock!" like it personally offends you. WELL DUH. What the hell ELSE are they going to eat? And I'm soooo sorry that you can't eat your precious elk meat (he told me several times how much he liked eating elk) because apparently elk are now endangered or something. And wolves occasionally attack people, but eat them? Maybe if they were starving. I mean, he made it sound like there were daily wolf attacks on humans in Idaho and Montana, and the ranchers were getting eaten on a regular basis.)
3.) He used to have high security clearance and Knows Stuff About War, therefore, the US should take his advice and nuke the Middle East. Like, all of the Middle East. Just send a submarine over there with a nuke. In 45 minutes, it would "solve all of our problems".
Um...that is incredibly ignorant and racist and so damn stupid I just don't friggin' know where to start. So I won't. I know all y'all will have intelligent things to say about this last point.
I swear to the gods, I was standing there going "Did this guy used to be called Uncle Vick?....Nah, he's gotta be trolling me...He is trolling, right?..."
The customer being referred to is in this CS post:
http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...73#post1174373
He walked into my (National Park) hotel lobby days before the shutdown and spouted off a bunch of nonsense that still has me angry.
The short version of the points he made in his random, random ramblings (with my ramblier responses in parentheses below each point) is as follows:
1.) Soon the US will erupt in civil war, and 2/3rds of the population will be dead.
(Actually, this one seems vaguely likely to me, but that's probably due to my perspective as someone whose income is suddenly gone due to the shutdown, and as someone who's living among a lot of angry, angry laid-off workers. I do forsee a lot of rioting and looting locally, but...probably only locally. I think the American people are too complacent to actually take up arms, by and large. I think it's far more likely that the rest of the world will [continue to] point and laugh at our government, and eventually someone might invade, depending on how long the shutdown lasts.)
2.) Wolves are bad and we should kill them, and he plans to hunt them for the bounty Cabela's is allegedly offering for their pelts. They are bad because, according to him, not only do they kill livestock, they kill and eat humans on a regular basis, and this is becoming a huge problem in Idaho and Montana.
(As someone with a tattoo of a mated pair of wolves who were ruthlessly hunted down and killed by a bounty hunter in the 1890s, I took considerable umbrage to this. Yeah, maybe reintroduction wasn't fully thought out, but it's pretty asinine to stand there saying "they killed off all the elk, now they're killing the livestock!" like it personally offends you. WELL DUH. What the hell ELSE are they going to eat? And I'm soooo sorry that you can't eat your precious elk meat (he told me several times how much he liked eating elk) because apparently elk are now endangered or something. And wolves occasionally attack people, but eat them? Maybe if they were starving. I mean, he made it sound like there were daily wolf attacks on humans in Idaho and Montana, and the ranchers were getting eaten on a regular basis.)
3.) He used to have high security clearance and Knows Stuff About War, therefore, the US should take his advice and nuke the Middle East. Like, all of the Middle East. Just send a submarine over there with a nuke. In 45 minutes, it would "solve all of our problems".
Um...that is incredibly ignorant and racist and so damn stupid I just don't friggin' know where to start. So I won't. I know all y'all will have intelligent things to say about this last point.
I swear to the gods, I was standing there going "Did this guy used to be called Uncle Vick?....Nah, he's gotta be trolling me...He is trolling, right?..."
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