History Quotes / GrumpyOldMan

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->''"Go to a game and seemingly half the crowd's birth year is on the wrong side of 1950. Stand up and cheer and the fucking geriatrics will harass you to sit down. They don't stand up, they don't cheer…you could plant some of them in front of their TV at home and they wouldn't even know they're not in the stadium."''
-->--[[http://deadspin.com/why-your-team-sucks-2014-green-bay-packers-1627477893 "Why Your Team Sucks 2014: Green Bay Packers"]]

->''"It doesn't help that today's old-folks were raised at a time when it wasn't considered cool to talk about your problems in any kind of constructive way. You sucked it up and lived with it. If you committed suicide, they would literally [[NoSympathy call you a fag in the obituary]]. Well, if you 'suck it up' for 80 years it eventually just overflows onto [[HatesEveryoneEqually everyone who walks past your house.]]"''

->''"He is a savage scoffer and merciless mocker (though hardly in a league with [[Creator/ChristopherHitchens Hitchens]]). He is a commercial as well as a political success: ''Things That Matter'' briefly topped the ''New York Times'' best-seller list last fall. Facility in framing the conventional wisdom, [[SimpleCountryLawyer however vacuous]], with perfect assurance, indeed with an edge of impatience in one's voice that such truisms need to be explained at all, is a singular gift, and probably the supreme qualification for an op-ed columnist or talk-show guest...And beware the moralizing tyranny of liberal educators. Having replaced soulcraft with hygiene, they are scheming at this very moment to 'teach your kids safe sex, take Alar off their apples, feed them yogurt and broccoli for lunch and, for the ride home, lash them to their safety seats in cars with mandatory air bags.' There is no end to this pernicious liberal nonsense, as witness 'the mania for health foods,' which 'feeds a nutritional fanaticism and fastidiousness that make Islamic and Jewish dietary prohibitions look positively, well, liberal.' Actually, as a practicing vegetarian with an Orthodox friend who observes Jewish dietary laws in their full rigor, I can assure Krauthammer that his concern for us [[YouFool deluded health-food maniacs]] is misplaced."''

->''"He is a savage scoffer and merciless mocker (though hardly in a league with [[Creator/ChristopherHitchens Hitchens]]). He is a commercial as well as a political success: ''Things That Matter'' briefly topped the ''New York Times'' best-seller list last fall. Facility in framing the conventional wisdom, [[KnowNothingKnowItAll however vacuous]], with perfect assurance, indeed with an edge of impatience in one's voice that such truisms need to be explained at all, is a singular gift, and probably the supreme qualification for an op-ed columnist or talk-show guest...And beware the moralizing tyranny of liberal educators. Having replaced soulcraft with hygiene, they are scheming at this very moment to 'teach your kids safe sex, take Alar off their apples, feed them yogurt and broccoli for lunch and, for the ride home, lash them to their safety seats in cars with mandatory air bags.' There is no end to this pernicious liberal nonsense, as witness 'the mania for health foods,' which 'feeds a nutritional fanaticism and fastidiousness that make Islamic and Jewish dietary prohibitions look positively, well, liberal.' Actually, as a practicing vegetarian with an Orthodox friend who observes Jewish dietary laws in their full rigor, I can assure Krauthammer that his concern for us [[YouFool deluded health-food maniacs]] is misplaced."''

->''"...I suppose there are other ways of dealing with pleasant news. You could, for example, be notified that someone, perhaps a relative, was graduating. This is generally a happy occasion, a celebration of being completed with a long phase of your life, moving on to a next phase that's full of potential and possibility that hasn't been ground down to misery by the horrors of life yet. That's how I look at it, anyway.\\\
If, however, you're [[ComicStrip/{{Crankshaft}} Ed Crankshaft]], you could look at it as being legally ordered to bitterly hand over your money to someone. This dude makes Ebeneezer Scrooge at the beginning of the book look like Ebeneezer Scrooge at the end of the book."''
-->-- ''[=ComicsAlliance=]'', ''[[http://comicsalliance.com/funkywatch-mays-most-depressing-funky-winkerbean-and-crankshaft-strips/?trackback=tsmclip Funkywatch]]''

->''"It doesn't help that today's old-folks were raised at a time when it wasn't considered cool to talk about your problems in any kind of constructive way. You sucked it up and lived with it. If you committed suicide, they would literally call you a fag in the obituary. Well, if you "suck it up" for 80 years it eventually just overflows onto everyone who walks past your house."''

->''"It starts with a seemingly innocuous detail -- that the Monoids have [[ScooterRidingMod Beatles haircuts.]] The Beatles, of course, are the icon of youth culture. It's very, very difficult to come up with a reading of the decision to make the irredeemable savages have Beatles haircuts as anything other than a savage condemnation of youth culture...Or, for that matter, the decision to replace Vicki, our Scouse revolutionary, with the bumbling and naive idiocy of Dodo -- a jaw-droppingly harsh reconsideration of how to portray youth culture. Much is made of the fact that Dodo is a (poor) attempt to add a contemporary London girl to the cast, but not nearly as much is made of the fact that she's played as [[TheLoad stupid comic relief]]...And all put together, it's very difficult -- for me, at least, impossible, to get away from the message. [[HobbesWasRight Revolution is bad]]. [[ChildHater Youth are stupid]]. [[RacistGrandma Dark-skinned people are savages who cannot be redeemed]]. And if you, like the Doctor, side with those people and help them, you will cause untold death and destruction.\\\
For all his skill in making a good program, the fact of the matter is, the 24 episodes produced by John Wiles are mean-spirited, reactionary, and, frankly, in the final analysis, racist. They're well-made. But ten again, '[[Creator/RudyardKipling The White Man's Burden]]' is a well-written poem [[SoWasX about being a racist imperialist]]."''
-->--'''Phil Sandifer''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', ([[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS3E6TheArk}} "The Ark"]]

->''"'The Last Night of a Jockey' is an old ''TwilightZone'' episode about a jockey who gets suspended from riding horses, then wishes he was bigger. The wish, obviously, backfires, because The ''Twilight Zone'' was basically one giant PSA about the dangers of [[JerkassGenie evil genies]]. As far as episodes go, it's nothing special -- until you hear the commentary of Mickey Rooney (who stars as the jockey) and one incredibly brave interviewer...Toward the end, the interviewer makes the mistake of insisting that ''The Twilight Zone'' was an important show. It is then that we finally get a glimpse into the mind of Mickey Rooney. And find that it contains only [[NewMediaAreEvil misplaced rage at Internet pornography.]]"''
-->--'''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20769_5-hilariously-awkward-meltdowns-hidden-dvd-commentaries_p2.html "5 Hilariously Awkward Meltdowns Hidden on DVD Commentaries"]]

->''"He is a savage scoffer and merciless mocker (though hardly in a league with [[Creator/ChristopherHitchens Hitchens]]). He is a commercial as well as a political success: ''Things That Matter'' briefly topped the ''New York Times'' best-seller list last fall. Facility in framing the conventional wisdom, [[KnowNothingKnowItAll however vacuous]], with perfect assurance, indeed with an edge of impatience in one's voice that such truisms need to be explained at all, is a singular gift, and probably the supreme qualification for an op-ed columnist or talk-show guest...Sometimes it unhinges him. One column tells of a [=60s=] radical, part of a bank robbery in which a policeman was killed. She escaped, became a chef, lived undetected for 23 years, and finally turned herself in. The moral of the story, according to Krauthammer: 'It starts with people power. [[HitlerAteSugar It ends in polenta]]. A fitting finish to the radical [[UsefulNotes/TheSixties '60s.]]"''

->''"He is a savage scoffer and merciless mocker (though hardly in a league with [[Creator/ChristopherHitchens Hitchens]]). He is a commercial as well as a political success: ''Things That Matter'' briefly topped the ''New York Times'' best-seller list last fall. Facility in framing the conventional wisdom, [[KnowNothingKnowItAll however vacuous]], with perfect assurance, indeed with an edge of impatience in one's voice that such truisms need to be explained at all, is a singular gift, and probably the supreme qualification for an op-ed columnist or talk-show guest...Sometimes it unhinges him. One column tells of a [=60s=] radical, part of a bank robbery in which a policeman was killed. She escaped, became a chef, lived undetected for 23 years, and finally turned herself in. The moral of the story, according to Krauthammer: 'It starts with people power. [[HitlerAteSugar It ends in polenta]]. A fitting finish to the radical [[UsefulNotes/TheSixties '60s.]]" "''

->''"He is a savage scoffer and merciless mocker (though hardly in a league with [[Creator/ChristopherHitchens Hitchens]]). He is a commercial as well as a political success: ''Things That Matter'' briefly topped the ''New York Times'' best-seller list last fall. Facility in framing the conventional wisdom, [[KnowNothingKnowItAll however vacuous]], with perfect assurance, indeed with an edge of impatience in one's voice that such truisms need to be explained at all, is a singular gift, and probably the supreme qualification for an op-ed columnist or talk-show guest...Sometimes [[InsaneTrollLogic it unhinges him]]. One column tells of a [=60s=] radical, part of a bank robbery in which a policeman was killed. She escaped, became a chef, lived undetected for 23 years, and finally turned herself in. The moral of the story, according to Krauthammer: 'It starts with people power. [[HitlerAteSugar It ends in polenta]]. A fitting finish to the radical [[UsefulNotes/TheSixties '60s.]]" "''

->''"He is a savage scoffer and merciless mocker (though hardly in a league with [[Creator/ChristopherHitchens Hitchens]]). He is a commercial as well as a political success: ''Things That Matter'' briefly topped the ''New York Times'' best-seller list last fall. Facility in framing the conventional wisdom, [[KnowNothingKnowItAll however vacuous]], with perfect assurance, indeed with an edge of impatience in one's voice that such truisms need to be explained at all, is a singular gift, and probably the supreme qualification for an op-ed columnist or talk-show guest."''

->''My kids say, "He said to me, [[ValleyGirl and I'm like and he's like and she's like]]"\\
"It's all, he's all, she's all"\\

I can't get behind a student driver''

-->--'''{{Plato}}''', on the invention of ''writing''.

->''"At the time, I had no idea that [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan the Great Communicator]] had cut his teeth on campus protests during [[TheSixties the 1960s]], using long-haired Berkeley students as perfect foils. Reagan assailed the Free Speech and antiwar movements, promising the taxpayers that if elected, he’d get college kids off picket lines and back in class. With comments like, 'They are spoiled and don’t deserve the education they are getting' and that the state 'should not subsidize intellectual curiosity,' he won in a landslide. Fourteen years later, Reagan was elected president, running against a host of mythical foes from 'welfare queens' to an omnipotent '[[RedScare Evil Empire]],' but he and his administration never shed their antipathy toward 'elitist' campuses and the young people who dared question the system."''\\
--'''[[http://www.salon.com/2014/07/05/ronald_reagan_stuck_it_to_millennials_a_college_debt_history_lesson_no_one_tells/ Peter Lunefeld]]''', ''Salon''

-->--'''Creator/LewisBlack'''

For all his skill in making a good program, the fact of the matter is, the 24 episodes produced by John Wiles are mean-spirited, reactionary, and, frankly, in the final analysis, racist. They're well-made. But then again, '[[Creator/RudyardKipling The White Man's Burden]]' is a well-written poem [[SoWasX about being a racist imperialist]]."''

For all his skill in making a good program, the fact of the matter is, the 24 episodes produced by John Wiles are mean-spirited, reactionary, and, frankly, in the final analysis, racist. They're well-made. But ten again, '[[Creator/RudyardKipling The White Man's Burden]]' is a well-written poem [[SoWasX about being a racist imperialist]]."''

->''"It starts with a seemingly innocuous detail -- that the Monoids have [[ScooterRidingMod Beatles haircuts.]] The Beatles, of course, are the icon of youth culture. It's very, very difficult to come up with a reading of the decision to make the irredeemable savages have Beatles haircuts as anything other than a savage condemnation of youth culture...Or, for that matter, the decision to replace Vicki, our Scouse revolutionary, with the bumbling and naive idiocy of Dodo -- a jaw-droppingly harsh reconsideration of how to portray youth culture. Much is made of the fact that Dodo is a (poor) attempt to add a contemporary London girl to the cast, but not nearly as much is made of the fact that she's played as [[TheLoad stupid comic relief]]...And all put together, it's very difficult -- for me, at least, impossible, to get away from the message. Revolution is bad. Youth are stupid. Dark-skinned people are savages who cannot be redeemed. And if you, like the Doctor, side with those people and help them, you will cause untold death and destruction.\\\

If, however, you're [[ComicStrip/{{Crankshaft}} Ed Crankshaft]], you could look at it as being legally ordered [[TheEeyore to bitterly hand over your money to someone]]. This dude makes Ebeneezer Scrooge at the beginning of the book look like Ebeneezer Scrooge at the end of the book."''

->''If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom, but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows.''

->''"It starts with a seemingly innocuous detail -- that the Monoids have [[ScooterRidingMod Beatles haircuts.]] The Beatles, of course, are the icon of youth culture. It's very, very difficult to come up with a reading of the decision to make the irredeemable savages have Beatles haircuts as anything other than a savage condemnation of youth culture...Or, for that matter, the decision to replace Vicki, our Scouse revolutionary, with the bumbling and naive idiocy of Dodo -- a jaw-droppingly harsh reconsideration of how to portray youth culture. Much is made of the fact that Dodo is a (poor) attempt to add a contemporary London girl to the cast, but not nearly as much is made of the fact that she's played as [[TheLoad stupid comic relief]]. She's not an icon of youth culture like Vicki. She's a vicious condemnation of contemporary youth. She's an explicit comment that they're stupid, ignorant, and worthless...For all his skill in making a good program, the fact of the matter is, the 24 episodes produced by John Wiles are mean-spirited, reactionary, and, frankly, in the final analysis, racist. They're well-made. But ten again, '[[Creator/RudyardKipling The White Man's Burden]]' is a well-written poem [[SoWasX about being a racist imperialist]]."''