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I was chatting at work last week, and was inwardly surprised that the people I was talking to didn’t seem to know much about anything (didn’t know about softwood lumber tariffs, didn’t know about NAFTA, didn’t know what tariffs were at all, actually, didn’t know how big anyone’s armies are, etc.). I think that really marked me as a Doper. Don’t average people talk about anything? I run into this quite often - the things we take for granted around here, other people haven’t even started learning about.
And the whole making up Pit threads whenever something bad happens. And starting half my sentences with, “The other time, at [del]band camp[/del] the Straight Dope…”
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I mainly hang out with the engineers at work. Two of them would make great dopers as they question everything and both know way to much movie trivia and quotes. The oddest thing is one of them actually has a periodic table hanging in their cube like I do.
I then also have coworkers who complain about not having any money and yet are driving $40,000 gas guzzling SUVs. Their complete lack of logic and sense makes me roll my eyes. They don’t even get the disconnect and are largely clueless of world events.
A lecture you attended on artworks of the Holocaust got hopelessly hijacked to whether or not Chico and the Man was culturally insensitive for Puerto Ricans (with sub hijacks into whether you should roll the rs when saying Puerto Rico or if Freddie Prinze, Jr., can act [and how should you sound the rs], with a Mod finally coming by and physically closing the door to the room where you’re talking after somebody adding non-sequiturly that the old lady who played Mrs. Stephens on Bewitched was Jack ‘the Man’s’ Albertson’s sister in real life led to a third hijack on whether Samantha was psychically circumcized by Darrin).
Every curiosity you have about orthodox Judaism begins at sundown on Friday.
You’ve checked yourself into a rehab for sexual addiction because you can’t spend two hours without going down.
With almost everything that happens in your real life, you start framing it in your mind as a Straightdope thread or post (sort of like what Ghanima said).
[QUOTE=What Exit?]
<snip>I then also have coworkers who complain about not having any money and yet are driving $40,000 gas guzzling SUVs. Their complete lack of logic and sense makes me roll my eyes. They don’t even get the disconnect and are largely clueless of world events.
Jim
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Heh - talking later with the same dude, we got onto the subject of cars, and I mentioned that my Corolla takes about $35 to fill up, and goes 500+ kms on that. He drives an SUV, of course - my putting dollar figures on the Corolla’s fuel efficiency got him thinking, apparently. (That’s how we’ll do it - convert them quietly, one person at a time.)
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You’re sitting in a bar when an attractive woman walks up to you and says, “You know, I anal”
And you look at her and say “Yeah, I’m not a lawyer either.”
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sigh.
The one I liked - and it was in someone’s signature for a while, can’t remember how to spell the guy’s name - explained how you could tell you were a Doper if you came under mortar fire and started a Pit thread about it.
The one I liked - and it was in someone’s signature for a while, can’t remember how to spell the guy’s name - explained how you could tell you were a Doper if you came under mortar fire and started a Pit thread about it.
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That is Steve Wright (not the famous Steve Wright, as he’d hurry to tell you). I can’t find the quote at the moment, though.
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