Funny, that pretty much sums up how you come across.
FTR, I’d say it to you in person - in fact, I’d call you a stupid cunt right to your stupid cunt face, all while fucking your mother. But then, I’m immature.
…and lets face it: Dudley’s posts don’t usually make for an exciting and well crafted ‘read’.
I always wondered what happened to those colonists, but 80% population decimation as well as cutting and running once the ruling faction’s policies ran the entire colony into the ground was evidently what Virginians of the day called ‘fiscally responsible government’.
Good thing those apples fell far from the tree. 
Uh, calling him a nerd might not be such a good idea.
I don’t live in a trailer. I’m untouchable!
Boy, I hope that’s not true. The part about the milk, I mean. I’m very lactose intolerant, and I hate to think that my posts have provided any entertainment to those lousy, stinking milk drinkers.
It’s true. I am awesome.
Actually, it’s called “simple logic,” and it’s not as rare as all that, although it’s clearly a concept you’ve not previously run across. See, there’s about 7,000,000 posts on this board, which has been in operation for seven years or so, not counting the AOL days. That breaks down to about 2700 new posts a day. Probably a lot more, if the post tally on the front page doesn’t include archived threads. To ride herd on that, we’ve got, what? Fifteen volunteers, who balance their moderating duty with their real jobs and private lives? Doesn’t take a psychic to figure out that they’re not going to get total coverage of all board activities.
Plus, there’s the fact that the mods have repeatedly said that they don’t read every single post, and encourage users to use the “Report this Post” button to help them police the boards. So, I guess I’ve got eight senses going for me: the normal five, basic logic as the sixth sense, reading comprehension as the seventh (or “Miller,” as you’ve so appropriately deemed it) and the ability to retain knowledge. Damn, I’m a regular Uri Gellar, aren’t I?
It’s definition number 1, although it’s been a year since I last worked a mill professionally.
Also, “smart little buddy” doesn’t require a hyphen.
Okay, wait a second; this UK resident is confused*. Are we sure this bridge was a conservative? After all, it is recently deceased; it seems somewhat distasteful to rush to ascribe divisive political motives to something whose main purpose was, after all, to bring people together. Can’t we just celebrate the bridge’s many achievements before rushing into partisan sniping?
- bridges over here are traditionally considered non-political, and are required to renounce all party affiliations immediately prior to the capping ceremony.
I guess I’ll be the whiney liberal.
Tim Pawlenty (The guy’s a weenie, I used to work with him) vetoed a $.05 cent a gallon gasoline tax that was to be used exclusively for road and bridge repair.
Not that this collapse would have been prevented had it been approved, or that other governors ignored the looming issue. It’s just TP, with the most recent veto, is left looking like he who smelt it and dealt it.
Damn, I was going with number 2. :smack:
'Cause if you were a moth with computer hacking skills, that would be awesome!
The Dope only wants posters who have great skills.
CMC fnord!
DudleyGarrett You’re fired for being ugly!
I bet Miller is fun to hang out with in person. I just get that vibe. You’re just mad that his baseless insults are funnier than yours.
This post just. makes. me. 
Thanks.
Not really, because you stink.
Maybe I’m just feeling contrary, but I’ma hafta take a bit of issue with the OP, despite the yawningly unanimous “hear, hear!” of the rest of the thread.
IMHO, the historicity of an event is not determined simply by the body count. By that sole criterion, the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and JFK were less than non-events. To the extent that this event is, indeed, historic, it’s to the extent that suddenly it throws the safety of all state-maintained structures into question. The other bridge collapses that come to mind all had massive external causes, like earthquakes or hurricanes.* This one simply fell out from underneath people who were using it “according to directions,” under utterly unexceptional circumstances. Suddenly every bridge in Minnesota–at least–has acquired a certain ominousness.
Now, that’s not the most historical event I can think of, but viewed in that light, I see Pawlenty’s rhetoric as an understandable exaggeration, but not irrational hyperbole.
*I’m sure someone will correct me here.
Well, there’s the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which I’m sure you’ve heard of. True, the proximate cause of its collapse was wind, however, the underlying root cause was a fundamental design flaw–the failure to take into account structural resonances which can be excited by particular wind speeds.
It has since been rebuilt and it (and all other bridges built since) was designed with wind in mind and is safe from that particular problem.
I guess that’s my cue.
I tend to think of most bridge collapses as having been to a gradual build up of everyday stresses, not the sort of acute causes you’ve mentioned.
Of course part of that is that the two bridge collapses that were most immediately affecting to me happened for those reasons. Looking at this Wikipedia list, it appears that rather more failures are from those acute causes after all. Amazing what a local perspective can do for one’s view of things.
Anyone wishing to conduct a survey of bridge collapse causes could do worse than to study this rather good database. An extremely unscientific skim of their entries for 2005’s collapses reveals that 3 of 15 were classified as collapses of “in service” bridges due to “deterioration”, which is a far-from-insignificant proportion. It’s certainly true, though, that the large majority of collapses seem to occur during construction due to design flaws, or while in service due to catastrophic external events. Nonetheless, deterioration shouldn’t be considered a surprising cause by any means, and may well have been a contributing factor in any number of the collapses whose primary cause is listed as external. It could also be that there was such an external event in this case, but that it’s not apparent at present, or occurred some time before the actual collapse.
Whenever I hear “Miller” I think of beer.
. . . says the Network Engineer whose interests include “[r]eading law books & true crime novels.”
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Or something similar. Coors Brewing puts out a product with many similarities to beer, being wet, yellow and foamy. But then, so is pee.
Also, he cut the Department of Transportation staff (including bridge inspectors) during his administration. So much that this bridge, which was supposed to be inspected every 6 months according the the University of Minnesota report of 2001, has not been inspected for the last 14 months.
(I once served with him on a Legislative Commission, and I’d echo NurseCarmen’s description of him. Except I would use even stronger terms.)
It’s only a massive deal because there is nothing else going on at the moment. If ten seconds from now there’s a terrorist attack, the bridge incident will be like the one someone quoted upthread that fell on Sept 15, 2001 that no one heard about.
Also, cause its a slow news week, the news can milk this for weeks by interviewing survivors, helpers, witnesses, etc. If ten workers died under the weight of a collapsed arena they were building with no witnesses or survivors or people who tried to assist, it would be less media worthy. Why do we need Greta Von Sustern, she with the face for radio, interviewing people on what it sounded like or how much smoke billowed up?. Report the facts, save all the other bullshit.
I dislike you now.
scrubs brain