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Prison Facts "They" Don't Want You To Know About

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    TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    I travelled the states and stayed in boston for a while. After the super easygoing trip through California, where nationalism really didn't stick through, I got to Boston and every thing was just screaming AMERICA

    Yeah...how AMURIKAH America is usuallly depends on where you're vvisiting

    I guess Boston was more "BOSTOOOON" than "AMERICA" though. Arizona was fairly interesting, I was in Tucson which has a pretty strong left counterculture. Some friends were wild pro-Warfare anti-socialists, and some were spending their lives utterly perplexed as to why people thought that way.

    Yeah let's not make people think Boston is the same kind of "AMERICA!" that someplace like, say, Texas is. Boston is more like "You're walking through the history of the birth of our country! Check out these sites of where we fought the redcoats and sewed the seeds of independence!"

    It's not at all the kind of "AMURIKAH!" where they glow with pride over the way they stomp on the non-Christians or own like 50 light machine guns and spout jokes about France or some shit.

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    King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    TankHammer wrote: »
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    I travelled the states and stayed in boston for a while. After the super easygoing trip through California, where nationalism really didn't stick through, I got to Boston and every thing was just screaming AMERICA

    Yeah...how AMURIKAH America is usuallly depends on where you're vvisiting

    I guess Boston was more "BOSTOOOON" than "AMERICA" though. Arizona was fairly interesting, I was in Tucson which has a pretty strong left counterculture. Some friends were wild pro-Warfare anti-socialists, and some were spending their lives utterly perplexed as to why people thought that way.

    Yeah let's not make people think Boston is the same kind of "AMERICA!" that someplace like, say, Texas is. Boston is more like "You're walking through the history of the birth of our country! Check out these sites of where we fought the redcoats and sewed the seeds of independence!"

    It's not at all the kind of "AMURIKAH!" where they glow with pride over the way they stomp on the non-Christians or own like 50 light machine guns and spout jokes about France or some shit.

    As a rule the further south you go things get um more intolerant and the further west you go things get more crazy

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    DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    TankHammer wrote: »
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    I travelled the states and stayed in boston for a while. After the super easygoing trip through California, where nationalism really didn't stick through, I got to Boston and every thing was just screaming AMERICA

    Yeah...how AMURIKAH America is usuallly depends on where you're vvisiting

    I guess Boston was more "BOSTOOOON" than "AMERICA" though. Arizona was fairly interesting, I was in Tucson which has a pretty strong left counterculture. Some friends were wild pro-Warfare anti-socialists, and some were spending their lives utterly perplexed as to why people thought that way.

    Yeah let's not make people think Boston is the same kind of "AMERICA!" that someplace like, say, Texas is. Boston is more like "You're walking through the history of the birth of our country! Check out these sites of where we fought the redcoats and sewed the seeds of independence!"

    It's not at all the kind of "AMURIKAH!" where they glow with pride over the way they stomp on the non-Christians or own like 50 light machine guns and spout jokes about France or some shit.

    As a rule the further south you go things get um more intolerant and the further west you go things get more crazy

    Is that why so many people hate L.A.?

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    Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    California crazy is its own weird beast.

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    Stranger DangerStranger Danger Registered User regular
    In elementary school us Canadian kids learned about some First Nations practices and that we did Terrible Things to them, without much elaboration.

    It took a college class before they actually gave some details.

    90% of the natives in British Columbia died to European diseases. 90%! We (mostly) weren't even trying to kill them off at that point and we still managed it somehow!

    Now I know why people were scared of moon germs when the astronauts came back in the 60s.

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    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    TankHammer wrote: »
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    I travelled the states and stayed in boston for a while. After the super easygoing trip through California, where nationalism really didn't stick through, I got to Boston and every thing was just screaming AMERICA

    Yeah...how AMURIKAH America is usuallly depends on where you're vvisiting

    I guess Boston was more "BOSTOOOON" than "AMERICA" though. Arizona was fairly interesting, I was in Tucson which has a pretty strong left counterculture. Some friends were wild pro-Warfare anti-socialists, and some were spending their lives utterly perplexed as to why people thought that way.

    Yeah let's not make people think Boston is the same kind of "AMERICA!" that someplace like, say, Texas is. Boston is more like "You're walking through the history of the birth of our country! Check out these sites of where we fought the redcoats and sewed the seeds of independence!"

    It's not at all the kind of "AMURIKAH!" where they glow with pride over the way they stomp on the non-Christians or own like 50 light machine guns and spout jokes about France or some shit.

    As a rule the further south you go things get um more intolerant and the further west you go things get more crazy

    Is that why so many people hate L.A.?

    LA is da bes

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    FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    In elementary school us Canadian kids learned about some First Nations practices and that we did Terrible Things to them, without much elaboration.

    It took a college class before they actually gave some details.

    90% of the natives in British Columbia died to European diseases. 90%! We (mostly) weren't even trying to kill them off at that point and we still managed it somehow!

    Now I know why people were scared of moon germs when the astronauts came back in the 60s.

    It's more 90% of natives everywhere. One of the reasons why the east coast was so hospitable to new people (and a whole bunch of place names have brook, field etc in their names) is because the land had already been cultivated and worked, it's just that most of the people who had lived there were gone.

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    DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    In elementary school us Canadian kids learned about some First Nations practices and that we did Terrible Things to them, without much elaboration.

    It took a college class before they actually gave some details.

    90% of the natives in British Columbia died to European diseases. 90%! We (mostly) weren't even trying to kill them off at that point and we still managed it somehow!

    Now I know why people were scared of moon germs when the astronauts came back in the 60s.

    It's more 90% of natives everywhere. One of the reasons why the east coast was so hospitable to new people (and a whole bunch of place names have brook, field etc in their names) is because the land had already been cultivated and worked, it's just that most of the people who had lived there were gone.

    the vast majority of said first nation people died without ever seeing a white person - you know, the origin of the virulent plagues

    turns out they had a sophisticated trade network going on, which allowed the diseases to spread so effectively

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    zllehszllehs Hiding in a box, waiting to strike.Registered User regular
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    TankHammer wrote: »
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    I travelled the states and stayed in boston for a while. After the super easygoing trip through California, where nationalism really didn't stick through, I got to Boston and every thing was just screaming AMERICA

    Yeah...how AMURIKAH America is usuallly depends on where you're vvisiting

    I guess Boston was more "BOSTOOOON" than "AMERICA" though. Arizona was fairly interesting, I was in Tucson which has a pretty strong left counterculture. Some friends were wild pro-Warfare anti-socialists, and some were spending their lives utterly perplexed as to why people thought that way.

    Yeah let's not make people think Boston is the same kind of "AMERICA!" that someplace like, say, Texas is. Boston is more like "You're walking through the history of the birth of our country! Check out these sites of where we fought the redcoats and sewed the seeds of independence!"

    It's not at all the kind of "AMURIKAH!" where they glow with pride over the way they stomp on the non-Christians or own like 50 light machine guns and spout jokes about France or some shit.

    As a rule the further south you go things get um more intolerant and the further west you go things get more crazy

    Is that why so many people hate L.A.?

    I think you are confusing LA for San Fran... Its full of liberals and homosexuals lol
    And yes its very crazy... just in a different way than middle america and the south

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    GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited June 2014
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    California crazy is its own weird beast.

    We had Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor for 8 years.

    Arnold Schwarzenegger.

    Was our governor.

    For multiple terms.

    Goatmon on
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    SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    I heard he was planning to run again

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    Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    California crazy is its own weird beast.

    We had Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor for 8 years.

    Arnold Schwarzenegger.

    Was our governor.

    For multiple terms.

    Minnesota's got you beat.

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    BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    California crazy is its own weird beast.

    We had Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor for 8 years.

    Arnold Schwarzenegger.

    Was our governor.

    For multiple terms.

    Minnesota's got you beat.

    California vs Minnesota

    See it now in The Running Man.

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    MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    California crazy is its own weird beast.

    We had Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor for 8 years.

    Arnold Schwarzenegger.

    Was our governor.

    For multiple terms.

    Minnesota's got you beat.

    I think the predator was the only one from that movie who didn't get a job in politics.

    Kind makes me sad because his "hunt humans for sport" platform is something I could get behind

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    RinderRinder Registered User regular
    Even Sonny Landham, the actor who played Billy, ran for governor of Kentucky. He was so crazy that a body guard followed him around, to protect the rest of the cast from him.

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    TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    California crazy is its own weird beast.

    We had Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor for 8 years.

    Arnold Schwarzenegger.

    Was our governor.

    For multiple terms.

    Minnesota's got you beat.

    I think the predator was the only one from that movie who didn't get a job in politics.

    Kind makes me sad because his "hunt humans for sport" platform is something I could get behind

    Did Carl Weathers ever get in on the politics game?

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    NocrenNocren Lt Futz, Back in Action North CarolinaRegistered User regular
    American Boxing Ambassador.

    His term didn't last very long...

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Did You Know?
    I wouldn't last a fucking day in prison

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    PeenPeen Registered User regular
    Watching Orange is the New Black has me thinking about prison a lot.

    Overall I'm really glad that I've never been but there's almost nothing else going on in our country that makes me madder than the state of the prison system.

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Did You Know?
    I wouldn't last a fucking day in prison
    you probably would

    it's not really like the media portrays it at all

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    PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    basically, ask a guard where the gang zones are so you don't get stabbed, find your ethnic groups zone, introduce yourself and ask the rules, don't break them and don't piss people off

    done, you are now very likely to not get stabbed or raped ever

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    MetalbourneMetalbourne Inside a cluster b personalityRegistered User regular
    edited June 2014
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    basically, ask a guard where the gang zones are so you don't get stabbed, find your ethnic groups zone, introduce yourself and ask the rules, don't break them and don't piss people off

    done, you are now very likely to not get stabbed or raped ever

    I've never been in prison but one night I was in the holding cell right before seeing the judge. This one guy is pretty distraught and flustered about the whole thing. The officer retrieves him to go see the judge and as he gets up this kid says, "hey"

    The guy looks back.

    "Don't drop the soap!"

    Now this kid is one of those shitheads you see all the time. A high self-promoter, backwards hat, expensive clothes. A malicious grin that signifies he's trying to hide a perpetual smile born from his own insecurity.

    This old man looks at him. A thick piece of leather with a shaved head and covered in black, bleeding tattoos. The kid makes eye contact and nods, as if to say, "you know what I'm saying, right?"

    "You think you're funny?" The old man says. The smile on the kids face barely breaks before the old man retorts, "shut the fuck up."

    And the kid did exactly that. With the added perk of staring at the floor for the rest of the night.

    Metalbourne on
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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    History is best when taught about subjects rather than time periods, I think

    That way you don't get the splitting up of the past into discrete chunks which is very inaccurate

    It teaches kids that there is a continuity of history which is closely connected and also gives more useful skills when it comes to actually studying the subject

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    GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Did You Know?
    I wouldn't last a fucking day in prison

    Right?

    My white pillsbury ass would turn into currency in fucking prison.

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    GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited June 2014
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    California crazy is its own weird beast.

    We had Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor for 8 years.

    Arnold Schwarzenegger.

    Was our governor.

    For multiple terms.

    Minnesota's got you beat.

    If we're going to have a ridiculous competition between Arnold and Ventura, I'd say Ventura's got his work cut out for him.

    Arnold nearly had an animated action show, just to throw out an example.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw6J9OGSXpg

    Goatmon on
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    ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    California crazy is its own weird beast.

    We had Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor for 8 years.

    Arnold Schwarzenegger.

    Was our governor.

    For multiple terms.

    Minnesota's got you beat.

    If we're going to have a ridiculous competition between Arnold and Ventura, I'd say Ventura's got his work cut out for him.

    Arnold nearly had an animated action show, just to throw out an example.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw6J9OGSXpg

    What the actual fuck.

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    RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    When I first saw that I thought it would be a Striperella style parody of himself

    But no, they were playing it completely straight

    Um

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    sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    California crazy is its own weird beast.

    We had Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor for 8 years.

    Arnold Schwarzenegger.

    Was our governor.

    For multiple terms.

    Minnesota's got you beat.

    If we're going to have a ridiculous competition between Arnold and Ventura, I'd say Ventura's got his work cut out for him.

    Arnold nearly had an animated action show, just to throw out an example.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw6J9OGSXpg

    This is the craziest thing I have ever seen.

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    TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    Are those eco-friendly compact cars turning into killer robots so the former governor can blow them up?

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    NeoTomaNeoToma Registered User regular
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    California crazy is its own weird beast.

    We had Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor for 8 years.

    Arnold Schwarzenegger.

    Was our governor.

    For multiple terms.

    Minnesota's got you beat.

    If we're going to have a ridiculous competition between Arnold and Ventura, I'd say Ventura's got his work cut out for him.

    Arnold nearly had an animated action show, just to throw out an example.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw6J9OGSXpg

    Without McGruber the Boondocks took a really weird turn

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    Caulk Bite 6Caulk Bite 6 One of the multitude of Dans infesting this place Registered User regular
    For what it's worth, the character designs of his captive, indoctrinated child geniuses are pretty good.

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    JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    I was waiting for his bike to turn into power armor the whole time. I guess they were saving that for episode 2.

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    PeenPeen Registered User regular
    I have never wanted something I never knew existed so much. That would have been the best show.

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