Oh, Matt Damon

[thenammagazine]

Oh, Matt Damon?

My guess is that the OP likely took the journalist's side but has since changed their opinion.

 

[DarthNeil]

Blackthornone, why are you ashamed?... Why are you scared?... You avoid the question. Enlighten us.

What's your noble calling?... No window dressing, no bon mot... What's your career?

 

[Nuka Cola Kidd]

My guess is that the OP likely took the journalist's side but has since changed their opinion.

Defiantly not. I just find it funny when celebrities get heated.

 

[thenammagazine]

Defiantly not. I just find it funny when celebrities get heated.

Why word it that way though? He didn't seem heated in the interview, just matter-o-fact.

 

[Nuka Cola Kidd]

Seems it to me. You can't say that when she said he works for job security he wasn't peeved by it. You can see him saying WTF with his eyes.

 

[Nuka Cola Kidd]

That and I've always wondered why celebrities opinions on issues like this (political, etc) matter, when no one else's do.

 

[Blackthornone]

Why word it that way though? He didn't seem heated in the interview, just matter-o-fact.

Listen to him again. Matt Damon responded in a nonchalant insult kind of way. He meant to take him down a peg, but wanted to appear objective and fair while doing it. It was similar to a back handed compliment.

 

[thenammagazine]

Seems it to me. You can't say that when she said he works for job security he wasn't peeved by it. You can see him saying WTF with his eyes.

I think it was more shock from the blatant absurdity of calling his work "job security" (considering he'll never need it) with the word that idiot reporter couldn't remember to say, "tenure."

 

[DarthNeil]

It's a red herring, but I am an auto detailer, and I do art on the side. I make enough for my basic needs and my $400 a month Sideshow habit.

Well then that's really a shame. As you profess to be an artist you fail to recognize that at its true core teaching is itself an art form. To equate what I do to a service like collecting garbage or cleaning a pool demonstrates that you are completely in your own world, and I feel sorry for you. I'm done attempting to have any type of meaningful dialogue because to be quite frank I have absolutely no respect for your opinion. You're entitled to it. I just have no desire to look through your warped mirror any more.

Seems it to me. You can't say that when she said he works for job security he wasn't peeved by it. You can see him saying WTF with his eyes.

That and I've always wondered why celebrities opinions on issues like this (political, etc) matter, when no one else's do.

You do realize that he was invited there to speak to a group of teachers who are being vilified by media and politicians who are calling them overpaid and gluttonous? The same media and politicians who gave/supported taxpayers' money to Wall Street to bail them out-- and they in turn gave their CEO's bonuses. You do realize that Matt Damon's mother is a teacher and he's had to listen to people attack her selfless and noble calling?

He has a right to an opinion and he's got a right to be ticked off at stupidity-- it seems that there's an ample supply of that being aimed at teachers. It's nice to hear/see at least one strong voice that's going to fire back.

 

[hoodonit00]

It's a red herring, but I am an auto detailer, and I do art on the side. I make enough for my basic needs and my $400 a month Sideshow habit.

So you make a living prettying up the automobiles the Left says are partly responsible for ruining the same environment that you say you won't destroy? Not to mention supporting a nation through your hobby that is the number one polluter in the worlk.

 

[Nuka Cola Kidd]

You do realize that he was invited there to speak to a group of teachers who are being vilified by media and politicians who are calling them overpaid and gluttonous? The same media and politicians who gave/supported taxpayers' money to Wall Street to bail them out-- and they in turn gave their CEO's bonuses. You do realize that Matt Damon's mother is a teacher and he's had to listen to people attack her selfless and noble calling?

He has a right to an opinion and he's got a right to be ticked off at stupidity-- it seems that there's an ample supply of that being aimed at teachers. It's nice to hear/see at least one strong voice that's going to fire back.

Actually, yes I do realize because I watched his entire speech.

 

[Blackthornone]

So you make a living prettying up the automobiles the Left says are partly responsible for ruining the same environment that you say you won't destroy? Not to mention supporting a nation through your hobby that is the number one polluter in the worlk.

Actually the military is a worse polluter. They will dump entire loads of jet fuel into the ocean before landing a jet on an aircraft carrier because it is too heavy to stop with a full fuel load. That is just one example.

As far as prettying up the automobiles, yes. The automobile is an expensive investment that should be preserved in order to maintain it's value. If something is worth having at all, it is worth taking care of. If a car isn't worth taking care of to you, don't own one. Just walk everywhere instead. I don't work on engines, just the exterior. I just maintain the finish, and by maintaining the finish, I prevent the paint from deteriorating, which means that it won't need repainting. Preventing unnecessary repaints saves the environment. A car could be electric and it wouldn't affect my business. A car could run off an N machine and it wouldn't affect my business. Cars don't need to be powered by the internal combustion engine. Even if they are, they could be fueled by bio diesel. The diesel engine was originally designed to run on hempseed oil, or plant oils, and not petroleum.

Cars don't need to pollute in order to work. Look at the Tesla electric car. 0-60 in 4 seconds and a 250 mile range. The new Tesla sedan is coming out which does 0-60 in about 8 seconds and has a 260 mile range, I think. Couple that with solar battery recharging, and you have a low environmental impact vehicle.
Plus, electric motors need far less maintenance and parts than combustion engines do.
There used to be a lot of electric car companies in the 1920s or so, but because they didn't need parts, the companies only made money on the initial sale. As a result, they weren't as profitable as combustion engines, and so they went out of business. There were around 200 electric car companies I think. Electric cars were too good.

 

[karamazov80]

Just thinking of how many owners of older cars would be upgrading to environmentally friendly newer ones if no one was there to detail and maintain their older ones. . .and the amount of environmental devastation that would be saved. . .

 

[thenammagazine]

Actually the military is a worse polluter. They will dump entire loads of jet fuel into the ocean before landing a jet on an aircraft carrier because it is too heavy to stop with a full fuel load. That is just one example.

As far as prettying up the automobiles, yes. The automobile is an expensive investment that should be preserved in order to maintain it's value. If something is worth having at all, it is worth taking care of. If a car isn't worth taking care of to you, don't own one. Just walk everywhere instead. I don't work on engines, just the exterior. I just maintain the finish, and by maintaining the finish, I prevent the paint from deteriorating, which means that it won't need repainting. Preventing unnecessary repaints saves the environment. A car could be electric and it wouldn't affect my business. A car could run off an N machine and it wouldn't affect my business. Cars don't need to be powered by the internal combustion engine. Even if they are, they could be fueled by bio diesel. The diesel engine was originally designed to run on hempseed oil, or plant oils, and not petroleum.

Cars don't need to pollute in order to work. Look at the Tesla electric car. 0-60 in 4 seconds and a 250 mile range. The new Tesla sedan is coming out which does 0-60 in about 8 seconds and has a 260 mile range, I think. Couple that with solar battery recharging, and you have a low environmental impact vehicle.
Plus, electric motors need far less maintenance and parts than combustion engines do.
There used to be a lot of electric car companies in the 1920s or so, but because they didn't need parts, the companies only made money on the initial sale. As a result, they weren't as profitable as combustion engines, and so they went out of business. There were around 200 electric car companies I think. Electric cars were too good.

So basically, you're a hypocrite. You flap your gums about protecting the environment and spend your day prettying up one of the leasing contributors to air pollution, whose sales support the very foundation passing laws and running the country, etc. I think it's time you changed the filters in your respirator. You're high on fumes.

Just thinking of how many owners of older cars would be upgrading to environmentally friendly newer ones if no one was there to detail and maintain their older ones. . .and the amount of environmental devastation that would be saved. . .

What does the Italian in that pic have to do with anything?

 

[Blackthornone]

Just thinking of how many owners of older cars would be upgrading to environmentally friendly newer ones if no one was there to detail and maintain their older ones. . .and the amount of environmental devastation that would be saved. . .

You can adapt an electric motor set up to any car with enough modifications. There are electric conversion kits for a few car available, ready made.

 

[jonny88]

For starters, I don't support the pesticide industry that makes chemicals that cause cancer in people when they are sprayed on crops the food comes from. I don't drink alcohol because I am smart enough to recognize a good idea when it is in front of my face to not put poison in my body and destroy my brain, liver, kidneys, and my heart.

I eat an all vegan diet that puts the minimum strain on natural resources and causes the least amount of environmental damage. Animal agriculture causes the aquifers to be depleted faster than rainwater can replenish them, which isn't a problem with a plant based diet.
It was the animal based diet that turned the Sahara Forest into the Sahara Desert long ago. Obviously I don't smoke and I don't support the drug industry whether legal or illegal. Those are just some of the things I do that make a concrete difference. If one ignores these issues, all of the talk in the world isn't going to be enough to make the world a better place. Thank you very much for asking.

Something tells me that everyone that disagrees with me drinks alcohol. Recognizing a good idea when it is right in front of you that will improve your quality of life is NOT to drink alcohol. If people can't even recognize THAT good idea which has measurable effects on the their health and the quality of their lives, they are unlikely to recognize any other good idea that can bring them benefit.

If people cannot even realize that it is a bad idea to drink poison , there is not much else they can realize for the benefit of their lives, because when their health is gone, they are dead, and everything they do or believe is for naught. Maybe some of the people who disagree with me ARE wise enough not to drink, though. What do you think? Do you think any of the people who disagree with me strongly are non drinkers or care one bit about their health?

you need to pack up what ever family you have and move deep into the woods somewhere. you act like you are all knowing, but you are not even close.

you say you don't drink because alcohol is poison. when in fact science proves a can of beer or a glass of wine ince a day has health benefits. l don't really drink either so l am not defending drinking, but am disagreeing. just a fact.

poison is sprayed on vegetibles yeah l agree, but it won't really hurt you. you say that's all you eat. so do you have your own big ass garden where you grow your own food.

you are insane and a troll l think. the only thing l agree with you is smoking. yeah that is stupid and putting poison straight into your body.

can you give us your thoughts on UFO conspiracies aswell because i'm sure you have crazy thoughts about that.

 

[thenammagazine]

Painting isn't my business, so I'm not exposed to fumes and thus I don't need to wear a respirator. I merely maintain the condition of the cars finish to preserve the condition of the car. Some of the cars I do are hardly driven at all. I did a guy's car that sat in the garage the whole time under a cover and yet he still wanted it washed once a week.

The body of the car, that is the part of the car I work on, does not pollute the air. If the car has an engine that pollutes and the owner drives it enough, the exhaust from the engine pollutes the air.
The car could be electric.
A lot of people believe that detailing is just about prettying up a car, and that is false. It is about maintaining it's condition. Sometimes I will POLISH a car, and that is just about prettying it up, in addition to making it smoother and thus easier to clean, and so polishing is mainly about prettying, but most people seem to be under the delusion that every car company makes a quality enough product that they don't need to keep it waxed in order to protect it. The clear coat looks shiny for a few years with no protection, but then after a few years of exposure to the sun, the sunlight has destroyed the clear to the point at which it becomes cloudy looking, and later, it flakes off in big patches. This is because since the paint is clear, the entire thickness of the paint is exposed to the light at once, and thus, the damage is done all throughout the entire thickness of the paint. Then these people act surprised when there are these cloudy spots and flaked off clear coat patches, with these big dull patches and wonder how it happened. Had they kept it waxed, it would have prevented that. So now they have to either drive around looking like Lil Abner or get their car repainted.

I guess the above gibberish would be entirely relevant if you only worked on "green cars." I highly doubt this is the case as that wouldn't pay the bills and you know it. So you strive to make the polluters look better however inefficiently you try to reword it or protect yourself. It's essentially the same thing as saying, "I glue papers on the filters of cigarettes. I don't make people smoke them." Which given your soapbox rants, makes you a hypocrite.

 

[ShadowX81]

So basically you are a middle aged man that washes and polishes cars for a living? Boy, you really stuck it to the man. All that lack of hard work in school sure paid off.

 

[Blackthornone]

you need to pack up what ever family you have and move deep into the woods somewhere. you act like you are all knowing, but you are not even close.

you say you don't drink because alcoho is poison. when in fact science proves a can of beer or a glass of wine ince a day has health benefits. l don't really drink either so l am not defending drinking, but am disagreeing. just a fact.

poison is sprayed on vegetibles yeah l agree, but it won't really hurt you. you say that's all you eat. so do you have your own big ass garden where you grow your own food.

you are insane and a troll l think. the only thing l agree with you is smoking. yeah that is stupid and putting poison straight into your body.

can you give us your thoughts on UFO conspiracies aswell because i'm sure you have crazy thoughts about that.

Alcohol is a poison as it kills cells with every drink you take. That is a fact. There have been studies done with low alcohol content RED wine that has been shown to have protective effects on the heart. This is less than 3% alcohol red wine, and it is actually the red pigment in the grapes that exerts the protective effects. The benefits have nothing to do with the alcohol. In fact, you get a lot MORE benefit from drinking red grape juice or even eating red grapes. That nutrient is called resveratrol. That one study that was done in France has had the meaning so distorted that people believe that alcohol in "moderation" can be healthy. It isn't.
I am not familiar with the beer info, but I suspect that the benefit has to do with a nutrient in it that is derived from the hops or the barley.


As far as pesticides not harming you, that is totally wrong. In the book, The Breast Cancer Prevention Program, by Samuel Epstein, M.D., there is a study referred to that found that women with breast cancer had over a 50% greater concentration of pesticide residues in their breast tissue than did women without breast cancer. Pesticides are fat soluble, and the woman's breasts are made up of fatty tissue. Pesticides cause cancer. The only reason why pesticides are so much more effective against insects is because of the amount of the pesticides ingested compared to body weight. Insects are thousands of times smaller than we are, so they will ingest thousands of times higher a dose compared to their body weight, so they die quickly. In places like Mexico where there are fewer regulations concerning how pesticides are used, children walk around barefoot with pesticide tanks on their backs, spraying pesticides on plants without masks or any safety equipment at all. As a result, they often get extremely sick and did fairly soon, and this happens rather often.
I have done quite a bit of research into natural health and so I can assure you that I know what I am talking bout. I have made it a very high priority in my life to know these kinds of things that most people don't know. I am not making any of this health info up off of the top of my head.

 

[pixletwin]

So basically you are a middle aged man that washes and polishes cars for a living? Boy, you really stuck it to the man. All that lack of hard work in school sure paid off.

I disagree with what the dude is saying and even how he is saying it, but your remark makes you sound like an .