Sensuallips, from a girl, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Relax, vote Kerry, and pass those cookies.
And you’re saying that most Republicans are this? If I want Bush re-elected that I must be the things you said?
Swell, works for me. Denigrating your opponents is usually a sign of fright or weakness. Take your pick. Hope it works out for you.
The free chocolate bill would never get tied up in committee. It’d pass lightning-quick (well, lightning-quick for that sort of thing). And the President would say something like, “Maybe if you called once in a while, you would know how I felt.”
All in fun. Right?
Where did I mention a republican in that quote?
What, specifically, is untrue here?
Well I am the defender of ignorance right? :rolleyes:
Thank you 
Chocolate chip?
Sensualips, have you reconsidered your plan to “humiliate” your neighbors, whom you don’t know but despise for their opinions?
I’d just like to say that is one of my all-time favorite quotes.
And Sensualips, can you honestly say that you’ve spent 10 months on this board and didn’t realize that posting such an intolerant, ignorant, prejudiced post would get you nothing but a thread full ‘o whoop ass? Comon’.
Now, I’ll admit that I’ve heard myself mumble “figures!” a few times after being cut off by someone with a Bush/Cheney bumpersticker on their car. Thing is, I usually immediately realize how idiotic my comment was. I don’t brag about it on a public message board.
Giraffe, may I adopt this as a sig? It’s classic. Although I think it may be longer than rules allow…
Also, I forgot to mention in my last post, The King of Soup, that was truly a wonderful post. I’d like to cut and paste it into an email to a few people who I believe could benefit from your eloquent words, if you’d allow me to.
Sensualips committed a number of cardinal errors:
- She tried too hard to get “in” with the hip crowd.
- She’s a relative newbie who hasn’t built up sufficient cred.
- She put something in the Pit that offered smart, witty, knowledgeable posters only two options: a) agree b) pile on.
- She didn’t realise that 3b) is much more fun and provides many more chances for strutting and display, and marking out territory by alpha males.
- She backed down rather than getting right back at 'em.
There we are, Sensualips. That should be enough to get the pack off you. They have another target now!
Had I thought anyone might ask to quote me I’d ha’ paid better attention to grammar and spelling and suchlike.
Yes, lezlers, you or anyone may use anything I posted in this thread with or without attribution. In my opinion, though, when it comes to persuasion, sincerity always trumps eloquence, and your own words are likely to be much more effective than mine.
Thank YOU!!!
The attitude you describe above has had me seeing for nearly this entire campaign. My very own MOM did this, and I gently set her straight each and every time.
The other side has a different OPINION and is interested in other issues than you are, it does NOT make them stupid, foolish, bad, evil or whatever.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Now THAT is humor…damn you, I have a cold, my throat hurts and you made me giggle.
Obviously because instead of one war, you think a new one every 28 days would be a good thing? PMS isn’t conducive to diplomatic talks. Ask any guy.
And some of us hate bush, and are voting for him anyway, NOT because we support the “nuking of towelheads (sheesh, could we be more insulting ?)”, but in a resigned “lesser of two evils” way, and/or because of some of the issues we support are ones that republicans are more likely to get passed than are the democrats (such as ANWR, get Kerry in there and it’ll stay closed forever).
And FTR I’m non partisan, I’ve voted for just as many democrats as republicans, I just don’t like the direction they seem to be going this time around.
My take on the answer to this would be human nature/psychology. If a couple have rotten spoiled kids, and then they decide to crack down on those kids and get very strict and curtain their “bad kid activities” so to speak, with taking away privileges, grounding them, keeping an eye on them, all that sort of stuff…
Well those kids don’t start toeing the line at the outset of the new regime in the household…OH Nooooo, they become uncontrollable terrors, they up the ante, being even worse, it takes time before they realize that It IS SERIOUS this time.
IMHO and based on human relations and psycnology, NOT military strategy, of which I know very little, this is what is happening in Iraq. Lots of escalation, the “getting worse before it gets better”.
Once the new gov’t has been in place and is stable and the iraqis are solidly running their own country, it’s my belief that the escalation that we’ve seen in terrorism will gradually subside.
I don’t hate my neighbors. I never did. I said so in my OP. I even told you I knew they had the right to their opinion and I should not do the things I had the “urge” to do.
I am taking names on whose opinion I feel is worth listening to,
those whose posts are based on fighting ignorance
and those whose posts are based on self gratification.
At first I took it personally. Then I remembered another post I read that will forever stick in my memory “Do you realize you might be arguing with a 12 year old?”. So I let you all rant. Then this morning I saw that my post actually stirred up 95 posts!!! Hey, not for nothing, at least you all had something to do! This is a much better place for all you testosterone overloaded, self righteous, anger repressed fools to vent than at home with your SO and children.
There were some very kind people on here that I will remember actually had something constructive, intelligent, and understanding comments. To those I say thank you. I am putting a vote for Kerry sign on my lawn facing his today (And the next time he holds a party with all the drunks spilling onto my front lawn I am calling the police…not baking cookies for him).
I can’t guarantee I won’t make this mistake again. Or some fabulously idiotic new ones. But I can guarantee you it will never be out of malice.
See? We all learned a little something here.
Sensualips isn’t quite the monster some of you made her out to be, and she learned a little bit about how others react to intolerence.
Sounds nice.
Reminds me of this, from 1996:
“the United States sees the Taliban, with its Islamic
conservatism, as the best, and perhaps the only, chance that Afghanistan
will halt the poppy growing and opium production that have made
Afghanistan, with an estimated 2,500 tons of raw opium a year, the
world’s biggest single-country source of the narcotic. A similar argument
is made on the issue of the network of international terrorists, many of
them Arabs, who have set up bases inside Afghanistan.”
Yep. As soon as that Taliban group gets in power, everything will settle down.
Funny you should mention psychology, that’s what I’m studying at the moment. As far encouraging bad behavior, one of the absolute worst things you can do is be tough 95% of the time and then give in 5% of the time. Hmmmmm, sort of how they’re treating that Al Sadr guy. Say, isn’t he still walking aroud free these days?
Worked well in Vietnam, I’m sure it will have the same result in Iraq.
No, it’s getting worse before it gets worse. You think elections are going to fix everything?
Riiiiiight. I’m sure the Kurds will be down with the new Gov. I’m sure half the population won’t even recognize the “US installed” gov. Finally the fucking dudes that blew us up (AQ not iraqis) were never in Iraq, nor did they receive logistical or monetary support from Iraq. I fail to see how the threat to this country has been affected one way or another.
Getting along with your neighbors, and looking out for each other (regardless of political background) is a far better asset than waging (win or lose) a sign war. You two will still vote the same, but at least you will be more able to respect each other and not foster a growing animosity towards each other. That can (and usually does) be worse than anything that is going on now between you and your neighbor.