That wasn’t a dangerous rock. This is a dangerous rock:
(Once you know what to look for you can see it detach in the first few seconds.)
They taped themselves. Stupid is as stupid does.
Surely one could think of a better but equally damning insult? Inglorious imbeciles? Shameful shitheads?
I mean, show some class! The title is beyond shallow and, well, pretty plain.
Correction: shameless not shameful.
Great idea! They should be made to wear fake beards and carry rocks around in the desert.
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Actually, I’ve always been way more nurture over nature. I didn’t bring up eugenics, you assumed. I digress though. My real point is that you should feel free to joke about whatever you want. I do.
But… but… They were asking for it!
Please add “Jokes about rape” to your list.
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I am not sure what is more annoying; tasteless jokes or scoldings about tasteless jokes.
Oh wait, I do know.
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Mindless destruction of something justified by a lie. Sound familiar? Bush in Iraq.
The final twist is that the Goblin Toppler has a pending disability lawsuit.
http://www.4utah.com/story/goblin-toppler-cites-debilitating-injuries-prior-to-viral-video/d/story/YKY2b3A52UydGV_Dne9fOg
I called someone an ‘unlettered hooligan’ earlier. Better?
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Me too, but I’m not telling.
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Look at all those rocks about to tip over! thousands of kids could be killed! Push them all over, better yet, pave the place. 
Maybe some people had a better impression of the Boy Scouts than I did. When I was in the Scouts, it seemed to me that the general attitude towards the natural world was that it existed only to be subordinated to human will, and the Scout leaders I recall were mostly of the pave-the-planet persuasion, or of the belief that natural environments existed for the sake of duck hunting. The official literature had a few comments along the lines of “tread lightly” and “leave a place better than you found it” – however, the former seemed to amount to, “no littering”, and the latter was entirely compatible with pave-the-planet or duck hunting, or knocking over “dangerous” rocks.
As I recall from reading a biography of Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts in the UK, he started the organization because his experience as an officer in the Boer War in South Africa convinced him that the British Empire suffered from a shortage of well-prepared military officers, so he started the Scouts as a para-military organization meant to feed into the British Army. The BSA was founded as an imitation of this, with an explicit intent of drawing the US and UK closer together on the eve of World War I, in the mode of Kipling’s “White Man’s Burden”. It’s been a long time, and one might expect the BSA to have evolved away from those roots, but it doesn’t seem to have changed nearly as much as one might expect.
The rock was gay and the scout leaders had to “fix” it?
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That’s just plain silly or dumb. Have you ever been there?
The entire park was created solely to protect those formations. They do not take them down because they are easily toppled, many are in that state. Many of them are even more precariously balanced, and have been in such a state for several hundred years that we know of without falling or experiencing additional erosion.
I’ve been to that park dozens of times, it is absolutely beautiful, and none of the formations are roped off. It is a wilderness park for christ’s sake. They don’t de-fang all the rattle snakes, remove the venom from the scorpions, put pillows at the bottoms of all the cliffs. People who visit and hike in these parks usually have enough common sense to not need their entire worlds bubble wrapped and safety capped.
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Yeah, these guys are dumb. But, I really just wish a tiny, fucking fraction of this angst (and actions) directed towards these guys was put towards Wall Street banksters other enemies slithering around within our homeland destroying lives and treasure.
But, yeah… grrr… anger… ಠ_ಠ
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It’s a metaphor for all that (but mostly a diversion from that).
