I bet they would move if you brought an armored bulldozer. 
It didn’t sound as if she was genuinely moved by the situation. It sounded like manufactured anguish. Bought at Hot Topic, probably :p.
God forbid that a war should stand between an American and his beer. Losing track of the supreme priority of a beer is giving in to the Iraqi terrorists.
You misse the point. War did not stand between an American and his beer; an inattentive server did. Are you saying that a server chatting to her buddies may disregard her customers and neglect her duties if the topic of her chatter is the war?
I think Keith Berry’s leaving out part of the story. C’mon, Keith, tell us about all the times you propositioned her and she turned you down. (And all this time you thought those liberal, hippy, artistic, vegetarian girls were easy . . .)
My suggestion? Find a new bar. And getting laid may help some of your pent-up frustration, as well.
A dingy waitress did…
DAMN STRAIGHT!!
Now if it was wine…
If the rant had only been about a delinquent server, I would not have posted, for obviously a server should serve, but the rant was also against people on the left who want peace, disarmament, and third-world debt forgiveness. I have little patience for that sort of gross generalization and wide sweeping attack made my the OP, thus my hyperbolic and sarcastic response.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the crack against vegetarians. Where the heck did that spiiteful generalization come from?
Is the OP only annoyed about lack of service, or is the OP using the lack of service to lash out a many positions and people?
For gods sake…It’s a RANT.
Why must everyone nitpick when it is obvious that people make these rants just to let off a little steam?
My beliefs are right because I am right. Your beliefs are wrong because you don’t really believe them, they are just a posture. That includes your pacifism, your politics, your dietry habits, your friends, your job, your clothes and your taste in men. All just an affected sham.
And don’t ask me how I know that. I just do. If you didn’t believe all that stuff just for show, then you’d naturally believe exactly what I believe. Because I am right.
Another vote for the OP being an idiot.
For the same reasons?
If everything went right, this is my new sig. Thanks Muffin
Take heart, sir. Give her five years, knocked up and divorced by that INTENSE ART MAJOR WHO WAS MAJORLY CUTE she’ll straighten up and fly right dumping her liberal claptrap which is solely for getting attention.
Sadly, Ms. Barkeep won’t be a trim little filly anymore and will have grown out of being open to bringing her hot little art school friends into the sack with you. Worse, she might become born again.
The OP was annoyed by someone who thought it was acceptable to spend twenty minutes ranting about the war instead of doing her job. It doesn’t matter what her position was. She would have been equally out of line if she’d shared the OP’s views.
If she could show up to work, she could perform her duties. You don’t wave off a paying customer when you’re doing nothing except run your mouth—on any subject.
Exactly right. The issue is her indifference to her customers, not her views on the war. So why did the OP spend so much venom on bashing anti-war people? Just because the topic of her conversation happened to be the war, it does not follow that her unwillingness to work is a prodct of her anti-war beliefs.
I’m torn between the war coverage and the Oscars; the latter, because it promises to become a self-parodying, ultra-lefty train wreck of sanctimonious hand-wringing and haranguing.
News flash, La-La Land: apparently, a large chemical weapons facility was just discovered in Iraq (or, more accurately, its discovery today was just released by the Pentagon to the news media). The interesting thing to me is, this only just became public knowledge in the last hour, an hour when Hollywood was in full pre-show preening-and-display mode, so presumably few of these would-be historians and security analysts haven’t heard about it. Let’s see how many celebs make a cynically dismissive reference to the allies’ stated aims of regime change and disarming Iraq of its WMD. It could probably be a pretty good drinking game, actually…
Um, you do know that they haven’t found any chemical weapons plants yet, just suspected ones?
Am I the only one in this thread who caught the part where the OP described how he was also opposed to the war?
Granted, they hadn’t found any chemical weapons in that facility. (Not that they don’t or didn’t exist, necessarily; they probably still exist and are already distributed to Republican Guard depots.)
That facility sure seems suspicious, though. How many legit chemical plants are: 1) camoflaged, 2) surrounded by electrified fences, 3) run by a general, and 4) guarded by armed soldiers?
There should be lots of more details and leads coming through soon. According to a report I heard, that general is said to be talking to his interrogators…