# Anti-abortion nimwits and associated jerks at UM commencement **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 30, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225 "2007-04-30T22:38:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/21 "2007-05-01T16:55:23Z")
[QUOTE=Great Dave] So a bunch of tactless rubes decided to try and ruin everyone’s day by standing outside the stadium gates with giant, graphic posters of aborted feti. They also had a plane fly over during the procession with a banner that read “Congratulations Graduates! Defend the unborn!” It went away, much to my relief, only to return reading “Choose life- not Hillary and abortion!” (Bill was the commencement speaker- good message, not as eloquent as I’d hoped). [/QUOTE] The way to deal with these creeps is to fight them back on their own terms. That is to say, without any class or dignity, but with much energy and conviction. When they scream, scream back louder. When they tell you you’re going to Hell, tell them the truth twice as loud: their false God is an evil abomination and all who serve him are damned. Follow them into the churches and fight them there! ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/22 "2007-05-01T17:10:17Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] The way to deal with these creeps is to fight them back on their own terms. That is to say, without any class or dignity, but with much energy and conviction. When they scream, scream back louder. When they tell you you’re going to Hell, tell them the truth twice as loud: their false God is an evil abomination and all who serve him are damned. Follow them into the churches and fight them there! [/QUOTE] Yes, because escalation works so well in other situations, why not apply it here? I mean, look how great it works in the Middle East! ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/23 "2007-05-01T17:17:26Z")
I wish the hell people would settle this issue so we can move on to more interesting discussions about whether a woman has a right to sell her fetus. And whether the father should get a residual. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/24 "2007-05-01T18:39:46Z")
I agree totally that protests such as this at a commencement address are just about the ultimate in bad taste. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/25 "2007-05-01T19:22:28Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] May I suggest “condoms” as a more effective alternative to fetuses? [/QUOTE] Doctors are killing condoms? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/26 "2007-05-01T19:51:11Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] “Foetus” is fourth declension? Well, I’ll be… (The question had never really arisen before.) [/QUOTE] So how would I write, “Romans go home!”? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/27 "2007-05-01T20:17:52Z")
As Andy Rooney put it: I don’t know if I’m pro-choice or pro-life. But I do know I like pro-choice people better than pro-life people. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/28 "2007-05-01T20:21:10Z")
> [@Maus Magill](#): > > So how would I write, “Romans go home!”? Um, “Romani cedite”? Somehow it seems like it ought to have more scatology in it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/29 "2007-05-01T21:06:32Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Moto] I agree totally that protests such as this at a commencement address are just about the ultimate in bad taste. [/QUOTE] It’s especially tasteful to display bloody, gory pictures at an event where children will be present. What these fucktards don’t realize, is that the more they shit in public places like this, the more we retreat into indoor shopping malls and gated communities where we don’t have to deal with this kind of crap. And whether they believe it or not, a nation of isolated, disengaged pod people is unlikely to help them to change society in the manner in which they wish. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/30 "2007-05-01T21:10:20Z")
**Annie-Xmas** Or as George Carlin said “Ever notice the pro-life people probably weren’t going to reproduce anyway?” ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/31 "2007-05-01T21:27:46Z")
So, if you have more than one variety of Greek feta cheese, what’s the plural of feta? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/32 "2007-05-01T22:00:00Z")
[QUOTE=wolf\_meister] **Annie-Xmas** Or as George Carlin said “Ever notice the pro-life people probably weren’t going to reproduce anyway?” [/QUOTE] Actually he asked, “Why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn’t want to fuck in the first place?” ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/33 "2007-05-01T22:03:28Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] So, if you have more than one variety of Greek feta cheese, what’s the plural of feta? 😉 [/QUOTE] Fatal cheese? Back in my restaurant days we used to say that a Greek Salad was not ready until the cheese was was tossed in, which would, of course, make it _feta complete._ ---
**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/34 "2007-05-01T22:46:22Z")
Dam. You guys have got some nutters in America. I’m just glad our crazy people are too busy licking baloons and hunting foxes _(Foxi ?)_ to organise anything that annoying. Oh, I was refering to the OP, not to the Grammer Nazis (Oh come on, that should be Natzi. Lets get latin) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/35 "2007-05-01T22:57:18Z")
[QUOTE=essell] I’m just glad our crazy people are too busy licking baloons . . . [/QUOTE] 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/36 "2007-05-01T23:20:32Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu] What drives me crazy is that the anonymous neologizer decided to replace the (pseudo-) Latin prefix “bi” in “bikini” with the **Greek** prefix “mono”! Aaagh! Obviously, the garment in question **ought** to be called a “ **uni** kini”!) [/QUOTE] I’ll bet you hate _bureaucrats_ more than most people. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/37 "2007-05-02T00:35:49Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] Fatal cheese? Back in my restaurant days we used to say that a Greek Salad was not ready until the cheese was was tossed in, which would, of course, make it _feta complete._ [/QUOTE] Don’t anybody tell my husband, but I think I just fell in love with you **Contrapuntal**. _Feta complete_… I may have to consider changing my username 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ambushed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@ambushed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ambushed)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/38 "2007-05-02T01:48:28Z")
[QUOTE=essell] Dam. You guys have got some nutters in America. I’m just glad our crazy people are too busy licking baloons and hunting foxes _(Foxi ?)_ to organise anything that annoying. [/quote] Not just Ugliest America, but in mine and **Great Dave’s** conservative-benighted city, where, after inmates had died (and continue to die) in jail due to an appalling absence of medical care, we had _weeks_ of fine, upstanding conservative letters to the _“G-Raps” Press_ shouting that inmates don’t _deserve_ medical care. Ah, “pro-lifers”. How moral they are! ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/39 "2007-05-02T05:40:40Z")
**Lord Ashtar** I appreciate your correction concerning the George Carlin quote. (and it makes it a Hell of a lot funnier too) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225/40 "2007-05-02T13:25:04Z")
[QUOTE=ambushed] Not just Ugliest America, but in mine and **Great Dave’s** conservative-benighted city, where, after inmates had died (and continue to die) in jail due to an appalling absence of medical care, we had _weeks_ of fine, upstanding conservative letters to the _“G-Raps” Press_ shouting that inmates don’t _deserve_ medical care. Ah, “pro-lifers”. How moral they are! [/QUOTE] Yeah, that letters section is something, aint it? That and the comics were the only reason I got the _Press_. I finally gave up on it a few months ago, and don’t miss it a bit. But let’s not give this board the wrong impression about Grand Rapids. I think most of the kooks live in the sub- and ex-urbs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-abortion-nimwits-and-associated-jerks-at-um-commencement/402225.md?page=3)