OK, I am glad you all liked my Retrosexual post. Now a new one for you...



How many of you know what SHEEPLE are? How should we deal with them?



My brother and I had a long discussion about this phenomenon last night.

sheeple

(SHEE.pul) n. People who are meek, easily persuaded, and tend to follow the crowd (sheep + people).

Example Citation:

Speaker Finneran informed his sheeple, I mean people, of their impending "voluntary" pay cuts at a caucus Wednesday afternoon.
�Howie Carr, "These are unhappy times for Hackerama denizens," The Boston Herald, March 1, 2002


Earliest Citation:

This is the home of Barbara Anderson and the headquarters of her American Opinion Bookstore. The store, in a dusty room behind dusty curtains near her front door, stocks about 500 right-wing tracts ("The Church Deceived," "None Dare Call Conspiracy"). Mrs. Anderson begins every book sale with a lecture, and in this instance she derides taxpayers in general as submissive "sheep people" � or "sheeple" for short.
�Bob Davis, "In New Hampshire, 'Live Free or Die' Is More Than a Motto," The Wall Street Journal, February 27, 1984

I refuse to be domesticated!

Things certainly have changed (or seem to have changed) in my 49 years. I don't remember this sort of behavior from people when I was young. Seems to me that everyone I knew wanted to be their own person, didn't like being told what to do, generally had a low opinion of somebody who would tell them what to do and really despised somebody who waffled or spoke out both sides of their mouth. Liar was about the worst insult you could use. I used to have a much better impression of most people than I do now. I don't know if this is the natural progression of life where one becomes more cynical as one matures or if I'm just a mean old son-of-a-gun.

It seems to me that MOST people now are sheeple. They just go along with whatever, to do whatever, 'cause they do or don't believe in whatever.

I just became a grandfather and I am really upset with some of the politicians but even more so with some people I know who are more than willing to go along with whatever these pols want to improve, short term, their situation (and are constantly amazed that their situation is never improved). I'd hate to think that my grandson is going to have to deal with these morons. Yet, I do realize that we've all had to deal with them and it will always be so.

Have to agree with NitroX here - sheeple are the inhabitants of Australia , created by humans inserting human genes into sheep . Scientists do this in the laboratory , aussies do this in the bedroom. NitroX is a specialist on the subject , it seems to be his preferred topic of conversation ...

But in reality it is the aim of all governments to dumb down the population so they dont question or resist , that piece of electronic junk called a television is the main medium for acheiving this result , and we are all to scared to resist . Its just another step along the way to total control resting in the hands of a very few who presume to know whats best for us . Well - F**K OFF out of my life , I'm not playing that game..

Muzza

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to insult your girlfriends. I'm sure some of them have actually quite nice personalities if you take the time to get to know them. No please don't tell me about your bedroom activities. I'm a firm believer that what happens in the privacy of your paddock stays in your paddock.


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Sheeple Test


Get three people to stand in a row looking like a queue. See how long it takes for a "sheeple" to join the line.

In London this will work with only two persons and not even looking like a queue. Standing on a street more than once my wife and I had someone join us and eventually ask "Is this a queue for the shop?" My look of disdain I think answered her quite adequately. I think just standing still there must encourage queuing instincts.


Surveys are another way of estimating sheeple infiltration.

The surveyor leads the question, or asks it in a particular way. See how the sheeple will answer in completely different ways. Instead of using their own somewhat dulled brains.

BASTARD

What a Baaaaaaa-aad joke!

Urdubob

Are you an ex Rhodie??

The sheeple test:

Go to a busy city pedestrian scramble crossing (not controlled by lights) where people are just strolling across the road at random.

Walk briskly up to the kerb and stop dead standing erect. Within a few minutes, everyone will stop and stand with you.
Do a 180 degree turn and walk off away from the road, glancing over your shoulder to see how long it takes for someone to break and cross the road.

Those that remain standing there are sheeple!

Won't work in Adelaide. People will stand all day waiting for the crossing lights to change to green even when the road is empty of cars. And they GLARE at you for crossing the empty road and not standing around with the rest of the flock.



Muzza meant

"BaaaaaSTARD"

No , actually I meant your parents only knew each other for the time it took to exchange money and genetic material - the result being your good self , hence the word BASTARD.....

Muzza

Did you know your mother from the smell of her fleece or by sight? After all, all sheep look alike.

Except of course to another sheep, or the shepherd (Dad!).

(Hey that's a quote from Lord of the Rings! And the rings weren't those used to lessen the shepherd's (Dad's!) competition by making wethers! )

Mate , being a cow farmer ( well , until next Monday anyway ) I can asure you that you know way more about sheep than I , and you prove it continuously here.

And there ya go quoting from a movie that I havent even seen , so you have the upper hand again ....

I have no hope in the information-about-sheep stakes when up against a stud master as skilled as yourself. I submit , you are the sheepmaster of all time - all the rest of the world will hold your shepherding skills in awe , the yardstick by which to measure all other ovine acheivements etc etc etc . Course you are old and come from South Australia so it is to be expected....

Who is calling who old?

Actually we used to have some cows too, and still have some sheep. Planning to eat some of them as soon as possible as rent for all the grass they eat.

Now mainly have deer and those stags are damned possessive.

Like Montana:

Where the men are men

and the sheep are nervous?