I am vexed!
Depends where you are.
World of Badass probably applied more during the Medieval and Renaissance eras, though. Constant war and all that.
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Street Writing Man
@OP: I highly doubt it. Considering the way applied violence is viewed by most of the populace. If anything, we live in a World Of Weaksauce.
@Madass: I'd agree.
If I were to write some of the strange things that come under my eyes they would not be believed. ~Cora M. Strayer~
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Drunk: Maybe in the middle-class west. Mind you, the world is a big place.
edited 2nd Jun '11 10:06:33 PM by Zersk
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Street Writing Man
@Zersk: yes, certainly some people live in isolated pockets of badassitude. But as a whole, the world is not very badass and aspiring to be less so. What do you think "civilization" means?
Example: the American West. Definite World of Badass potential there. Then, temperance leaguers and religious types came through. No more unrestricted discharge of firearms! No more saloons! No more whores!
Now look at the American West, folks...one long strip mall.
Civilization takes the "bad" out of "badass"...all that is left is "ass".
If I were to write some of the strange things that come under my eyes they would not be believed. ~Cora M. Strayer~
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Oh, there are still badass people, even here. Yah just have to look.
Like that dude in Vancouver who was waving a sword around in the middle of the city.
Even with civilization. As long as people exist, it will be there.
edited 2nd Jun '11 10:15:45 PM by Zersk
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... is it time for me to gush about Frederick Jackson Turner, and then shoot it down?
I am vexed!
^^ Waving a weapon around scared civilians isn't badass.
edited 2nd Jun '11 10:25:42 PM by MadassAlex
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DUMB
Not actually relevant, but I don't care.
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Madass: Well, it was at the very least amusing.
I guess that wasn't the best example. But I could find something.
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I am vexed!
Jack Churchill was badass. Using a sword and bow in an age of guns and defeating over fifty Nazi soldiers in his career? Holy fucksticks.
edited 2nd Jun '11 10:28:25 PM by MadassAlex
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Street Writing Man
@Madass: He's also been dead for a while.
If I were to write some of the strange things that come under my eyes they would not be believed. ~Cora M. Strayer~
I am vexed!
That's true, but him being alive or dead isn't exactly the point.
The point is that a sword, a bow and enough balls > 50 Nazi soldiers.
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We live in a world of Weaksauce dreaming of being Badass.
Das kann doch nicht sein!
No, we don't live in a "World of Weaksauce". Which is a pity.
People aren't as awful as the internet makes them out to be.
Is that cake frosting?
No, we clearly live in a Layered World with strong Sugar Bowl and World of Chaos undertones.
Badass is relative anyway. When everyone is able to punch mountains in half, the one who can only do that to big hills is a runt.
edited 3rd Jun '11 4:15:05 AM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
Over 10,000 dead.:<
Formerly G.G.
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You know that layered world sounds accurate to me, very of us puny mortals can actually attain badassery but it is all relative.
I am vexed!
"Very few" of us, I expect you mean. Because that's how I'm interpreting it for my response:
I'm a firm believer in nurture over nature. Anyone can be a badass, it just takes practise. And perhaps a few rough experiences to come to terms with reality.
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Faith in the self.
It is practice.
You may continue.
"My life is my own" | If you want to contact me privately, please ask first on the forum.
I am vexed!
Depends on which kind of English you're using.
The way I learned it, "practice" doesn't refer to training but the execution of skill. "Medical practice" is an example. "Practise" refers to the training of a skill for sake of refinement.
This could be wrong, but I am absolutely sure that both spellings are legitimate.
edited 3rd Jun '11 8:19:08 AM by MadassAlex
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It's kind of sad that a world where one reasonably expect not to be shot dead over pathetically small grievances is "weaksauce" to some people.
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
Is that cake frosting?
Why would most people even want to be "badass", anyway? I dunno about you people, but the ability to rip the heart out of a rampaging polar bear would not be all that useful in my daily life.
If it came for free, well, it could be an interesting party trick, at least if rampaging polar bears were more common than they are in the sort of party I frequent; but if I can only learn to do that through twenty years of Training from Hell with an Old Master living in some secluded mountain... well, my time is frankly better spent otherwise.
edited 3rd Jun '11 8:29:23 AM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
Is that cake frosting?
edited 3rd Jun '11 8:38:45 AM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
I know real life cannot be separated into tropes but I wonder do we ina world of badass already? According to that trope, everyone including the dog knows some form fighting and kick ass but this isn't true in the real world or is it?
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