Dumb and Stupid Quotes Thread: Idiotic Source and Context are Key.

[Timsup2nothin]

Maybe he is acknowledging that Chinese are like everyone else...in the absence of any control doing whatever you want is really the only remaining choice.

 

[jackelgull]

Actually, I mistook the context. It wasn't in response to the Hong Kong protests, which he did oppose by the way. No here's the full story in context.

Chan, 55, whose latest movie, Shinjuku incident, was banned in China, was asked about censorship and restriction on the mainland. He expanded his comments to discuss Chinese society in general.
"I'm not sure if it is good to have freedom or not," he said. "I'm really confused now. If you are too free, you are like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic. Taiwan is also chaotic."
He added: "I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we are not being controlled, we'll just do what we want."

So basically he disapproves of most democracies in general.

 

[Thedrin]

I disapprove of anarchy, so I don't see anything especially disagreeable in the originally quoted statement.

 

[Cutlass]

"So up there in Alaska, across the way Russia. You know, there is a name for this taking advantage of America. There is a Russian name for that. And it is called 'fortushka.' And that means Obama's window of opportunity. So as Obama leads from behind the skirt of his right-hand man, Valerie Jarrett, then it's up to Congress to close that window. He may propose. You dispose, Congress. You gotta be in it to win it, because we want peace. With unapologetic red, white, and blue, we'll have peace."
—

Sarah Palin on the Iran treaty

 

[Lohrenswald]

Sarah Palin is like constantly high, no?

Siv Jensen talks about Carl I. Hagen

context

Alright english whatever:

Spoiler :

-He is popular in many circles, and that's why I have been amongst those who have asked him to run. He is a strong symbol for a lot of that which is wrong in Norway - one is not expended when one has passed 66 years, Jensen assured.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Song about Jose's visual acuity, "exciting tune to listen to"...song about frustrating knavish tricks, "can't get excited about it"...opinion discarded.
"There’s almost too many reasons not to like “God Save the Queen.” Partly it’s because, as [with] all anthems, there are things that are so everyday that you hear so much that they can become over-familiar. It’s not like “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which has a massive range—it’s quite an exciting tune to listen to. “God Save the Queen” is so simple. And it just plods along, you know—[sings]. When you hear it, you can’t get excited about it."
-Alex Marshall, "What Makes a Great National Anthem?", The Atlantic

 

[jackelgull]

"Or just stay the (BEEP) out of trouble. If you (BEEP) up, you shouldn't even get a defense."

Youtube internet commentator on the topic of public defendants. Just because famous people are over represented in this thread. Give the common man his time to shine.

 

[Cutlass]

"I think the thing [liberals] really love about gay marriage is how they get to ram it down the throats of the Christians."
—

Rush Limbaugh

 

[Kyriakos]

Cool best-selling paper

 

[Arakhor]

"I think the thing [liberals] really love about gay marriage is how they get to ram it down the throats of the Christians."

Well, I'm sure there are people who like to do that, but of course all Christians are American conservative Evangelicals.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Cool best-selling paper

Ah, good old Bild
As Volker Pispers said:
That filthy rag that is so disgusting, that it would be insulting to dead fish if you wrap it in it.

Btw, it says:
The Russian or the Greek ? Who is more dangerous to us ?

 

[Kyriakos]

Many germans want Bild taken out of circulation. There is hope

(tbh, trolling in such a manner is not a good idea, and it has spawned counter-trolling trolling from local papers).

 

[Arakhor]

If we started posting reactionary headlines from the Express or the Daily Fail, we'd be here forever.

 

[Cutlass]

"The same people who gave us Obama gave us this pope...He is a wolf in pope's clothing...A danger to the world."
-- radio host Michael Savage

"He wants to be a modern pope. All he needs is dreadlocks and a dog with a bandana and he could be on Occupy Wall Street."
-- Fox News' Greg Gutfeld

"Part of the globalist plan to destroy the world and usher in a one-world government."
-- radio host Alex Jones

 

[Lohrenswald]

Alex Jones says that about everybody, though.

 

[Rashiminos]

Give the common man his time to shine.

Fair enough...

"Every 60 seconds Africa, a minute passes. We can do something about this.. Please copypasterino."

-Any large Twitch chat not in sub mode.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Ah, so erudite and educated people, preferably spending their teenagehood in private schools are the only ones entitled to "shine"? Is that it?

 

[Cutlass]

"We will be submitting a bill to the next legislative session asking that a website be created containing the names, addresses, length of time on assistance and the benefits being collected by every individual on the dole...I hope this makes people think twice about applying for welfare...Some people are going to get harmed, but if it's for the good of everybody, that's the way it is."
—

Robert MacDonald, mayor of Lewiston, Maine

 

[Arakhor]

Wow. That's disgusting.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Cool, a list of the details of prominent US politicians and business leaders.