# Can I get a fucking break? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 28, 2004, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914 "2004-03-28T14:21:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/21 "2004-03-29T15:28:03Z")
Well the way I look at it, is _both_ Bush and Clinton are lying assholes. The difference is Bush is endangering our lives a hell of a lot more then Clinton did. When I say this to people they call me all sorts of names and think I’m being blinded by partisan loyalty. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/22 "2004-03-29T16:08:56Z")
Another thing that’s pissing me off. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,115444,00.html](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,115444,00.html) > [@](#): > > Rice said, “the war on terrorism is well served by the victory in Iraq.” > > Told there have been more terrorist attacks since Sept. 11 than before it, she replied: “I think that’s the wrong way to look at it.” How the fuck else should _we look at it_ you stupid bitch?!?!? > [@](#): > > While the terrorists will sometimes succeed, she said, in the end, “they are going to be defeated.” With what, vague rhetorical comments? ---
**Author:** ![county](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@county](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/county)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/23 "2004-03-29T17:08:51Z")
“Some conservatives just can’t seem to get over Clinton’s blowjob. They keep imagining it and imagining it, until it almost seems to them that they are right there, giving or getting said blowjob.” 😃😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/24 "2004-03-29T17:56:45Z")
Euty, you want your own copy of the bumper sticker that says “Nobody died when Clinton lied”? They’re out. > [@](#): > > I’ll leave it to history to decide which has the greatest effect on world events. You know the answer to that without even having to think about it. That was a pretty pathetic attempt to avoid facing your own warped sense of values that could even let you imply that blowjob \> war. Fuckin’ weasel. > [@nametag](#): > > Y’know, a fucking break would have to be longer than a coffee break or a cigarette break. Wouldn’t it? Hmm, a cup of coffee or a cigarette takes, what 5 minutes maybe? Sounds like this could be a race on a new Fox special: The coffee drinker vs. the cigarette smoker vs. the fucker. Unless the coffee drinker chugs it, I think the fucker could win. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/25 "2004-03-29T18:16:09Z")
[Throws](http://www.etherzone.com/body.html) [meat](http://www.senate.gov/~rpc/releases/1998/perjury-lo.htm) [to the Wolves](http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/crime2.html) [then runs](http://www.salon.com/news/1998/08/05news.html) [like hell.](http://www.nv.cc.va.us/home/dashkenas/presidentialsex.htm) ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/26 "2004-03-29T18:32:17Z")
> [@](#): > > You know the answer to that without even having to think about it. That was a pretty pathetic attempt to avoid facing your own warped sense of values that could even let you imply that blowjob \> war. Fuckin’ weasel. Elvis, you’re a fukcin’ idiot. If you’d unblinder yourself for just a couple goddamn minutes, you’d see that Euty never even came close to saying what you imply. You might also see his first post in this thread for what it is - sarcasm. Just because everyone doesn’t take every chance possible, including creating opportunities outta thin air where none exist, to lambaste Bush like you do, doesn’t mean their values are in question. Goddamnit man, you are on of the **most** ignorant, reactionary sumbitches I’ve ever seen; it’s fucking infuriating. And I’ll bet you ain’t got the balls to own up to this blantant mistake exactly as you’ve avoided responsibility for all others you’ve made here. **That** might be more infuriating than your other “qualities.” ---
**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:** [March 29, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/27 "2004-03-29T20:07:19Z")
Well, I just happen to have a Kit-Kat here… ::D&R:: ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/28 "2004-03-29T20:13:22Z")
Have a cookie and a nice warm bottle with your blankie, Unc. Then look at Euty’s second post in which he (more reasonably) defends his position in such a way that no \*sober \* person could think he was being sarcastic. But that leaves you out, doesn’t it? If he didn’t mean what he said, no doubt he’ll be by soon enough to explain himself. You don’t know and don’t have the right to claim you do. Now, if you actually have anything of substance to say on the subject, feel free to say it. But that leaves you out too. Someone with nothing to say except to spew invective has little right to complain about anyone posting facts and reasoning - but that doesn’t stop you one bit, ever. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/29 "2004-03-29T20:21:24Z")
Oh I get it…Uncle BEER…that’s why the sober joke. Awesome. Let me write it down. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/30 "2004-03-29T20:57:47Z")
Ah, the life of the sarcastic liberal. Oh, well … so it goes. But it does make me feel a bit like Mark Twain when he said “I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt or a truth that anyone would believe.” ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/31 "2004-03-29T21:02:12Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > If he didn’t mean what he said, no doubt he’ll be by soon enough to explain himself. You don’t know and don’t have the right to claim you do. And BTW, **UncleBeer** _does_ know me well enough to know that I was being sarcastic. You, I’ve never heard of so it seems that it’s _you_ who doesn’t have the right to claim that you know what I meant. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/32 "2004-03-29T22:27:12Z")
> [@](#): > > If he didn’t mean what he said, no doubt he’ll be by soon enough to explain himself. You don’t know and don’t have the right to claim you do. Oh, I see. Since I cannot know what Euty meant (despite having been his colleague on these very boards for more than three years), I’m unqualified to comment or make an assumption on as to the sarcastic nature of the remarks of someone I believe I know pretty well - far, far more well than you do apparently. Yet somehow this “right,” which you tell me I do not hold, however accrues in some manner to yourself? You, after all did exactly the same thing you’re giving me hell for; assuming some unspoken meaning behind Euty’s words. You really are a fucking idiot, Elvis. Now dance, little monkey, dance. ---
**Author:** ![county](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@county](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/county)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/33 "2004-03-29T22:29:21Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > And BTW, **UncleBeer** _does_ know me well enough to know that I was being sarcastic. You, I’ve never heard of so it seems that it’s _you_ who doesn’t have the right to claim that you know what I meant. Well, what you said has been uttered with perfect sincerity by many. So, without posting something to indicate sarcasm and repeating what you said, well it is reasonable to assume that you mean’t it. Perhaps you only want to be understood by folks who “know you well enough to know” and that’s ok but you don’t have to be a giant fucking pissant about it, now do you? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/34 "2004-03-29T22:40:53Z")
Giant fucking pissant? Wow, that’s a rather harsh retort for simply getting whooshed. I don’t see anything from Euty that could remotely be characterized like that. I also seriously doubt that I’m the only one who was able to correctly identify the remarks in question as sarcastic. It should be quite obvious to even the most casual observer—provided he ain’t got his liberal blinders on. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/35 "2004-03-29T22:43:00Z")
I got that **Euty** was being sarcastic. How could anyone possibly think a blowjob is a more heinous crime than going to war? Oh, wait - I forgot we were talking about some knee-jerk arrogant conservatives. Never mind. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/36 "2004-03-29T22:45:50Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > Some conservatives just can’t seem to get over Clinton’s blowjob. I still maintain the theory that some conservatives are just jealous that the first President who _could_ entice an intern into foolin’ around happened to be a Democrat. 😃 I mean, could you imagine some nubile young lady wanting to fool around with a fossil like Reagan, Nixon, or Bush Sr.? And Carter was too Puritanical to even think of foolin’ around, which is probably why he left his lustin’ in his heart… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/37 "2004-03-30T00:21:26Z")
When I was 18, I went down to register to vote. The lady handed me the card. I looked at the card, filled it out. When I came to the party section, I said to myself, “Now, do I want to be a Democrat or a Republican? Hmm. The Democrats get laid. The Republicans bitch about other people getting laid.” My choice was clear. And that’s the True Story Of How I Became A Democrat. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/38 "2004-03-30T01:11:03Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > Because Clinton lying about it was a FELONY! A FELONY, damn you! > > Bush’s misstatement was just an unfortunate failure of the intelligence community. > > I’ll leave it to history to decide which has the greatest effect on world events. Actually, there may be more than one felony involved with the Bush Admin’s mistatements of intelligence and the subsequent attempts to hide these mistatements and possible felonies. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/39 "2004-03-30T01:18:32Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Hmm, a cup of coffee or a cigarette takes, what 5 minutes maybe? Sounds like this could be a race on a new Fox special: The coffee drinker vs. the cigarette smoker vs. the fucker. Unless the coffee drinker chugs it, I think the fucker could win. I always petitioned for cigar breaks. I now realize that I set the bar way too low. ---
**Author:** ![county](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@county](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/county)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914/40 "2004-03-30T02:31:28Z")
> [@UncleBeer](#): > > Giant fucking pissant? Wow, that’s a rather harsh retort for simply getting whooshed. I don’t see anything from Euty that could remotely be characterized like that. I also seriously doubt that I’m the only one who was able to correctly identify the remarks in question as sarcastic. It should be quite obvious to even the most casual observer—provided he ain’t got his liberal blinders on. Well, I didn’t realize we were suppose to know other posters personalities, me I have just kinda been going by what people actually say. In any event, I retract the part about “giant.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-a-fucking-break/236914.md?page=3)