This thread makes me feel bad about my future. I can’t aspire to multiple colanders (I don’t want a sniff BOWL). I think you’re all cruel for parading your wealth like… a parade. BASTARDS.
Probably because they are idiots?
You should think about broadening your circle of friends and acquaintances, seriously. Because if you’re surrounded by people who react in horror at the thought of someone going to Mauritius of all places, it makes me think you’re living in a cultural ghetto.
Yeah, I mean she’s not classist, some of her best friends are poor!
Well, but she also said in the dating thread:
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Oh I’m sorry, do you routinely visit Somalia? Or other failed states? One of my BFF’s is going to work in a friggin’ AIDS clinic in a few weeks. I think she’s a nutter. YMMV.
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and
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If you regularly vacation to Uganda, bully for you. But if you don’t, shut the fuck up.
This isn’t about nice white parts as you said - most people don’t f’ing vacation in the slums of Bombay, do they? All I was saying is don’t conjure up an image of something most people (rightfully) don’t associate with positive feelings.
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so clearly it’s not just her friends who have issues with Africa.
I’m not sure how quoting and not linking will make me seem less moronic, since people usually want cites on this site, but according to lindsay that’s one more sign of my idiocy. BTW, lindsay, it’s pretty clear that my moronic opinions of you are shared by more than a few people on this board.
I looked at your link and died of fright. True story.
… the salient point, which you still seem to miss, is that public breastfeeding isn’t merely “legal” in most states—it is legal in every state. It is expressly protected in the great majority of states, including (in a limited way) Virginia, which implies that the Elected Powers That Be wished to encourage it. (It appears you were under the bizarre impression that some states had “banned” it, which indicates a level of ignorance on the subject that should preclude talking about it.)
Which is a perfectly apropos thing to bring up. You’re the one swimming against the tide by arguing that we shun public breastfeeding out of existence.
I’m curious what her friends would think about Senegal, where my (saintly) brother-in-law, the father of my nephew, hails. One of the democratic success stories of western Africa—or plague-infested, war-torn slum? YOU DECIDE. I don’t think I’ll be visiting over Christmas this year, I may get The AIDS.
I’m sorry, do you have more than 1 friend working in an AIDS clinic? If so, kudos, but I’d imagine most people don’t even know someone who has ever worked in one. And yes, I thought she was nuts at the time for going to an AIDS clinic. Obviously one worries for their friends when they work in an AIDS clinic.
ETA: lorene, did you ever figure out what irony is?
Wait, where did lorene say that she’s happy that gay marriage is illegal? I don’t see how lorene telling lindseybluth that breastfeeding is legally protected is evidence of lorene’s secret life as part of the Phelps retinue.
This is the second time I’ve seen lindsey accuse lorene of some form of bigotry with no evidence-if we go back to page 1, wasn’t she accusing lorene of being prejudiced against biracial children because lorene mocked her for juxtaposing “this took place in wealthy suburb full of hoity-toity people” against “Medicaid trainwreck?”
I’m just saying that it seems like calling someone a racist in fora outside of BBQ Pit is considered an insult, yet lindsey basically feels comfortable accusing people of bigotry left and right.
I’ve heard that Africans breastfeed their children IN PUBLIC, so you can see where her repugnance of both is rooted.
You sure are quick to take some sort of credit for the impressive things that other people do. Your parents’ financial success, your friends who go on trips to Africa to support AIDS patients, etc. Who the fuck cares what your friends do? What was the last beneficial thing YOU did for anybody?
She’s grasping at straws is all. She also tried to make it sound in the breastfeeding thread that if I’m OK with breastfeeding in Starbuck’s (which I have done!), then I must also be OK with people changing diapers on the table.
While I’ve enjoyed the whole colander/I’m so wealthy snark, I’m trying to be nice here. You seem to be under this impression that you’re wealthier and more educated than the majority of people on this board. I’ve been here 10 years so I know that you with the face has a doctorate in the sciences. Shit, I myself know more than 10 people offhand who’ve done volunteer work in war-torn/poor developing nations, and my only medical connections are through my family. These simply aren’t unique experiences-the vast majority of us who attended colleges know people who do this type of work, or have done it ourselves. You’ve also been almost hilariously rude to China Guy and WordMan, both of whom I know to meet the standards by which you seem to deem people Worthy or Not Worthy.
I would take a moment to consider why you come here for “non social interaction” since you think you’re smarter, more educated and interesting than the vast majority of posters.
I’ve done work in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia, lindsay, and I have friends who have spent months in Mozambique, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, and South Africa, doing everything from HIV surveys to aflatoxin exposure assessments. So clearly, our perspectives on Africa and what makes someone a nutcase is so radically different that you might as well be talking to me in pig latin Chinese right now.
But an AIDS clinic in Mauritius? Bwhahaha! An ER doc at Johns Hopkins probably has more to worry about. You know this right?
You are good at imagining lots of things about other people. Often they are weird things that have absolutely no basis in reality; but let it never be said that you don’t have a great imagination.
For the record: what I said what that you came to my attention as a snarky person when you were so rude in the housekeeping thread. I then happened to notice more and more of your out-of-left field hateful snark after that. I believe you were suspended for just that behavior, so I don’t think I’m alone in that interpretation.
With respect with to the Passover thread: I am more that capable of having civil conversation with someone who I don’t care for. I can enjoy a pleasant conversation with an unpleasant person and not color every interaction with my feelings. It’s called maturity. If couldn’t care less for you to eat shit and die. I just wish you weren’t such a bitchy person.
ETA: My nephew is an infectious disease/pediatric medicine doctor and spends months every year in Africa tending to local people. Two of my cousins (my cousin and her husband, actually) are Doctors without Boarders doctors. Two former students of mine (married) work in rural Latin America as traveling nurses. My niece is a primate researcher who spends a lot of time on expedition in Africa. You’re not the only person who knows people who do remarkable things.
Dammit: Borders not Boarders. :smack:
ETA: with respect to breastfeeding, it’s my experience that more people are uncomfortable with the idea than the reality of public breastfeeding. In reality, often you can sitting next to a woman breastfeeding and not realize because it just looks like cuddling the baby it or then realize it’s not a big deal.
Please don’t delude yourself. You’re not.
Mazeltov?
I like WordMan, I was joking with him upthread with “I have bad news for you”. I don’t have the opinion I’m more educated; this board is quite educated. I’m not sure where the educated thing is coming from at all. It’s no great big secret that academics inhabit the board.
Fair enough, but that doesn’t make either of us right or wrong. It also means you’re looking at a radically different subset of person than most people in the dating thread as well.
250 hours of volunteer work last year, actually. And you? Feel free to lie and say 251, if that makes you feel better.
Okay, I’ll bite . . . yes, I have more than one friend working in an AIDS clinic. Even more than one working in an AIDS clinic in Africa!
IN FACT I ONCE WORKED AT AN AIDS CLINIC IN AFRICA!!
Okay actually it was mostly malaria
Anyways, I find your reaction surprising because through a fairly random twist of fate I ended up spending some time hobnobbing with other Children of Wealth who pretty much went to Ivies or those small Northeastern Liberal Arts equivalents. Anyways, they were always all falling all over themselves to go do stuff in Africa or South America or Asia. It was kind of a contest to see who could do the most good in the most dangerous/isolated parts of the world.
It grew very tiresome, very quickly.
Get out of the thread RIGHT NOW. It’s AIDS or bust. None of this malaria or HIV positive shit.