Things you know are dumb but do anyway.

In My Humble Opinion
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There’s this right wing message board I lurk at but never ever post to. These guys are beyond Limbaugh, beyond Coulter, beyond Fox News, right into the lunatic fringe. They are about as far as you can go without declaring yourself a neo-nazi (and I have my doubts about one or two of them). We’re talking wishing deaths on every muslim man, woman, and child for 9/11 without the irony. We’re talking advocating a new civil war between the North and the South while calling Lincoln a “douchebag.” We’re talking about how “darkies” in Louisiana brought refugee status upon themselves. The owner of the board actually said this. We’re talking real lost souls here.

I’ve never posted to this board. I felt that no good could come of it, and it’s wrong to stir up hornets’ nests, and nothing’s going to help these people anyway. I lurk because watching genuinely disturbed people interests me for some reason. Also because when I’m feeling down about myself, a half hour on this board is enough to convince me that I’m at least somewhat worthy. Why screw that up and get banned or worse? So I’ve never posted.

Until tonight.

Tonight, the owner is going off about how illegal aliens should be shot on sight and how all cops are assholes for not doing so. I have relatives who are cops, and I must have been in some sort of weird mood, because the next thing I know, I’ve engaged him in a debate, and suddenly, I’ve posted exactly what I think about him and his silly, fucked-up message board. I’m not going to reiterate it here, because it’s better suited to the pit, but suffice to say, I didn’t offer to buy girlscout cookies from him.

So I’m just sitting here thinking about how this is not the first board I’ve ever done this in, and how one of these days some real crank is going to track me down over the net and cancel my check. It occured to me to go ahead and share this with people I actually like and respect–even though I get exasperated sometimes–and ask for things that you do that are potentially very, very bad for your health.

Oh, I overeat, too. So pissing off right wingnuts and Weimar Republicans and overeating. If anything’s going to kill me in the next couple of years, that’ll probably be it.

No, I’m not going to give out the name of the board, so don’t even ask. I don’t want to start a board war, and these scummy little cretin brains are so not worth it.

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Weimar Republicans…heh heh. I like that. May I steal it?

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It’s yours! :smiley:

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Pissing off Weimar Republicans, overeating, and giving away my hard-earned intellectual property, that’s three things I know are dumb but do anyway. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I always sleep in until, say, 6:30 pm, when I know I have to go to bed early that night to get up at 7 am the next day.

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My girlfriend.

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snort

Well done.

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Try a pumice stone. It works pretty well for me, though it takes a little elbow grease.

Dumb things I do:
Smoke
Attempt to teach English to the heathens that apparently didn’t get shot crossing the Rio Grande

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I brew beer, bottle beer and drink beer.

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It wouldn’t be a certain board where they refer to their ambushing of polls as “freeping”, would it?

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Reason with the unreasonable.

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Nope. Different one. These guys are, if anything, worse than freepers.

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Biting my fingernails down to the quick. Even when I KNOW it’s going to bleed. And hurt for days.

(No, I’m not a masochist. Really, I’m not. Honest.)

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Are you my (asshole) brother?

On topic: I engage in debate with people who are logic-impaired (like my brother). I don’t know why I keep doing it. No good ever comes of it. I guess it’s a sort of compulsion. I just can’t seem to let another’s stupid or illogical statement pass without comment.

To my credit I, occasionally, get in a zinger that seems to force someone to actually think–but far too often the people I argue with leave imagining that they won.

I guess I need to hone my ignorance-fighting skills.

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I stick my hand in the garbage disposal if something gets stuck. No, I do not cut the power at the box first. My partner gets so angry at me for doing that. I know it’s dumb. Very dumb. So far I’m still intact.

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Aside: Where did the Rubystreak quote come from? I don’t see it in this thread or I would have said a hearty “me too”.

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  • Put off my divorce
  • That thing with the garbage disposal
  • I change light switches & wall outlets without cutting the power first. Sometimes I get bit.
  • Drink a LOT after not drinking at all for a long time.
  • Post from work
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  • Chew my nails.
  • Entertain my popcorn addiction, blood sugar be damned. I’ll just do some extra reps and spend more time on the treadmill to work it down.
  • Waste time at work.
  • Fall in lust with every attractive waitress serving me. If that little Beth from the Italian place on the corner is reading this: “How YOU doin’?”
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Forgot some…

  • Using the fibreglas antenna mast from the TLQ-17a log periodic antenna as a fruitball bat in the Mojave.
  • Drink LOTS of coffee
  • Put on my pants, fasten my belt, put on my shirt, unfasten my belt, unfasten my pants, tuck my shirt in, fasten my pants, fasten my belt. And tell myself I’m a moron for doing it in this order even as I’m pulling up my pants.
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I used to post to a message board where one of the more-respected posters put forth the idea that a thermonuclear response was appropriate for any nation connected to 9/11. I asked him if this was true for the nation that trained the pilots. He said yes, and I asked if there were any posters from Florida that still thought he was making sense…

I play Powerball. $50-100 a year as my investment in hope.