We were arguing about protesting and I stated the fact that women would not be able to vote if it hadn’t been for suffragettes.
She said, “That’s okay, I don’t vote anyway.”
WHAT A F*CKING IDIOT! <— In my humble opinion.
The word is suffragette.
I have always voted and never really thought about it until I watched one of those “Millennium” shows that had people who were 100 years old talking about what life was like when they were younger.
It was hard to believe that those women had to fight so hard for a fundamental right like voting. And now so many women take it for granted and don’t even consider voting.
On the other hand, if she really is an idiot maybe it is better if she doesn’t vote. She probably would vote for Al Gore. 
It’s really quite simple - if you don’t vote, don’t complain…you’ve given up your right to bitch.
my cow-orker is a dip as well. I have heard her ask for a calculator (we have NT 4.0 desktops with excel and calculator.exe), she has had long drawn out arguments on the phone with her ex-roommate, one day she asked what CO2 was (in regard to people breathing), I went to a vietnamese restaurant once, and she asked the owner about them making korean food, because she liked korean food so much (I never saw such a gracious and polite man explain the hideously obvious); this morning she claimed that a laptop docking station did not have a mouse port, and when it was pointed out that it was on the back, with all of the other ports, near the pictograph of the mouse, she claimed it had no video port- I pointed out the big blue one and ran back to my 'cube. It has taken her over a week to configure the software on a laptop, when it should take about 4 hours. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGHH!
-waiting for a rogue asteroid.
They had a skit on The Man Show where they started a petition to end women’s suffrage and sat at a booth in the mall asking for signatures. About 99% of the women they asked signed it, thinking suffrage meant suffering. Funny and interesting at the same time.
I have heard it argued that the suffragettes did get a lot of publicity but that they did not win the vote for women. The argument goes along the lines of:
These women are totally mad throwing themselves under horses, chaining themselves to railings - what more proof could you need that they aren’t suited to vote?
Followed by the corresponding fact that women were starting to do “men’s jobs” as a result of various european wars and less men being around, proving that they could compete on an equal footing with men which was what actually got the vote.
Personally, I can’t help thinking that without the suffragettes, it may never have crossed any politician’s mind that people that were doing the same sort of job as men (& other women by extension) might be interested in voting.
What do you think?
Well, one of our secretaries sure wasn’t too bright (she is no longer with us).
One time at lunch we heard someone run down our hall and say “Call 911, a guy just jumped off the parking structure!” Of course except for the one who called, we all bolt to the windows. Sure enough, the poor bastard is lying on the pavement, with some people around (some of whom looked like they knew what they were doing, thankfully). Anyway, we’re all feeling sick to our stomachs over this, and to cheer us up the secretary throws a ray of hope out there:
“You know, he’s wearing a down jacket, so maybe that, like, cushioned his fall.”
The parking structure is EIGHT STORIES UP.
My favorite wasn’t uttered by a co-worker, but in response to my co-worker and best buddy.
We used to duck out of work and go to a dive called the Starlyn Diner for lunch+. We heard the building the diner was in was going to be torn down, and one afternoon, wishing to hear it from the horse’s mouth, George asked the hostess, “Is it true they’re going to raze the building?”
She answered, I swear to God, “No. They’re tearing it down.”
I love you George.
10/30/45-11/22/95
RIP
from xizor:
You have to remember that it’s a tv show, so the filmed segment was edited. They just included the funniest clips, and it’s a good bet that relatively few women actually signed. However, the fact that any woman would sign it is still funny.
Flashback to the 1980s: I remember seeing the scene in “Back to the Future” where the bully (Biff) raps his knuckles on the forehead of McFly senior and yells “Hello? Anybody in there, McFly?” That used to be my expression to point out idiocy.
I think this would have been a perfect occasion to revive that practice.
Um, yeah.
And the plural is suffragettes.
Your point?
Thanks for pointing that out. I was wondering myself…
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Gee, this could be in the thread about stuff that other people do that bugs me…people who correct me WHEN I’M RIGHT.[/hijack]