Thank God for Surreal…finally a poster with definite opinions which are ALWAYS right, and within those opinions lies an almost caveman like innocence as to why any one else on the planet’s opinion would differ. Why, in our most recent incarnation we learn that there is NO reason to write checks! and in fact debit cards are the only answer. After all, they work every time for Surreal…so why not YOU? His OP so clearly illustrates how EVERY check writer cannot spell, has no memory and is a bumbling idiot. In a world where we stand on the brink of nuclear annihilation…won’t somebody think of the check writers? WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD PEOPLE WRITE CHECKS? AND FOR GROCERIES NO LESS?
Well, perhaps it’s because they have too much credit card debt. I’m not going to lie to you…in this thread we learn some fascinating things. First off, and what I think is most telling…ONLY FAT PEOPLE HAVE UNEXPECTED MEDICAL BILLS. This is something that the AMA and HMOs of the world should definitely look into. Also, only lazy, irresponsible, out of control shopaholics carry credit card debit. SURREAL, once again…has it ALL FIGURED OUT.
This, naturally, makes him a chick magnet, and in addition to wondering if ‘cavemen raped a lot’, he is known to wonder if men can only be as faithful as their options because apparently only ugly, (and let’s not forget FAT) men can be faithful. If you’re a hot guy full of hot lovin, like Surreal, it would be impossible to love someone enough to turn down an offer of anonymous sex. HOW COULD YOU? How could it be done, he asks. Because…and say it with me now…SURREAL HAS IT ALL FIGURED OUT.
Surreal, like my dog Marge, has a lot of thoughts. Margie is a beagle, who sits in the middle of the room whining and howling and making monkey noises THINKING she’s getting some big points across to the masses. Very often I find myself saying “nobody’s listening”
Food for thought.
I’m not going to swear at ya, or tell you to leave or call you a troll or what have you. I’m just going to give you some advice that many people gave me. Step back for a second…and THINK about what you’re posting.
Jarbaby, you are being a drama queen. While I admit that Surreal has been offbase on some thread topics, he is right about checkwriters. It is annoying to have some person write a check at the checkout when he or she could have been writing everything but the amount as he or she waited in line. Or they could just join the rest of us in the 21st century and use debit cards
Have you ever considered writing the scripts for movie trailers?
I am reasonably certain, based on the blithering naivete of his posts that Surreal is one of the following:
1. A recently awakened artificially intelligent being with no a priori knowledge of biological beings.
2. A space alien doing a field study.
3. An immuno-suppressed 14 year old in a bubble who has never been outside of his bedroom.
Based on the tiny probability that it’s Door #2, I’ve been sort of tolerating his posts.
I’d like to see someone dropped in northwest Wisconsin with just a debit card, they would never escape! I was there last month and was amazed at the lack of ATM’s and places that could accept a debit card.
To expand on that gobear, since I was just being snippy…my point is not the check writing thread, but the style of all of Surreal’s threads…which is “Here’s what I do…and why in the world would anyone do anything else”
and by the way, the check writing thread isn’t about ‘people who take a long time to write checks’ but ANYBODY who writes checks and how he KNOWS that they won’t have them pre-written.
Once again, I’m trying to keep this a reasonably mild little complaint…really more ‘advice’ to Surreal than a flaming…I think.
Oh, OK, that makes sense. I apologize for being unduly critical. ant the movie trailer comment was just a riff on your paragraph starting, “In a world…” I think every movie trailer must be mandated by Federal statute to start with those three words.
I thought of you this weekend gobear…when I saw the glorious International Leathermen mingling on halsted with their gorgeous, tanned muscles and bald heads…mmmmm
I stopped reading Surreal’s threads when I noticed that his pattern seems to be to start a thread ostensibly to ask a question, but in reality to put forth his opinion and then refuse to listen to anyone else’s input.
Same here. Every single time I notice a thread that starts with “Why do…” I’d be willing to lay down money that it was started by Surreal.
When I saw the Why Do People Write Checks thread, my first thought was, “Because the stores get rather angry when you walk out without paying.” I even use my debit card for every purchase not made with cash.
I gotta go with jar on this one. I was wondering how long it would take for someone to start a Pit thread about this poster.
Certainly not the worst that we’ve ever had, but damn if surreal doesn’t, as she said, make me nuts.
Chalk me up as a drama queen, I guess, but when I can tell who wrote the OP by the title, and have to read threads entitled
“Why are People Overweight?”
“Why Do People Have Credit card Debt?”
“Why Would Men be Faithful?”
My first thought is
“Because they are. Period.”
My second thought is
“Yawn. Pony needs a brand new trick.”
