dept_geek
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« Reply #7710 on: August 22, 2009, 04:11:40 PM » |
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Finally. I understand one of these posts.
My first reaction was "will you just grow a pair?" but MTG's answer is much nicer.
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I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code. When in doubt, add chocolate.
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« Reply #7711 on: August 22, 2009, 04:22:10 PM » |
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"Grow a pair" would be appropriate in this case. So would "See one of the 16,000 previous threads we've already had about that issue."
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mystictechgal
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« Reply #7712 on: August 22, 2009, 04:35:32 PM » |
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"Grow a pair" is exactly what I was thinking. That's why I posted here instead of on the thread. When I opened the reply window there the temptation to write just that was overwhelming, so I withdrew.
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If a pouting pluot ploughman planted pluots in a plot, and the plot were ploughed on Pluto, would his pluot ploy play out?
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voxprincipalis
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« Reply #7713 on: August 22, 2009, 05:09:49 PM » |
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1. Wow, the whole pot/kettle thing there just went right over your head, didn't it?
2. You're right. There are so many other, more compelling reasons. I could list them but not even I am that cruel.
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« Reply #7714 on: August 22, 2009, 07:01:00 PM » |
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Mine is 500 pages long and drags on the ground when I walk.
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I just hate it that I constantly have to like everyone and everything. -- moonstone
O, what a hateful feminist concoction!
Jews, communists, "lesbians", feminists and marihuana addicts --Pyshnov
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« Reply #7715 on: August 22, 2009, 09:41:35 PM » |
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I'm going to pretend that you didn't write that because everyone deserves a free pass for being a blowhard moron once in a while. But, please, now go back to being your normal self so I can read your posts without rolling my eyes and sighing.
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You can never know everything, and part of what you do know will always be wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing this. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.
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galactic_hedgehog
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« Reply #7716 on: August 22, 2009, 11:41:00 PM » |
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I'm going to pretend that you didn't write that because everyone deserves a free pass for being a blowhard moron once in a while. But, please, now go back to being your normal self so I can read your posts without rolling my eyes and sighing.
But, I haven't been around! |
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« Reply #7717 on: August 23, 2009, 12:06:33 AM » |
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I'm going to pretend that you didn't write that because everyone deserves a free pass for being a blowhard moron once in a while. But, please, now go back to being your normal self so I can read your posts without rolling my eyes and sighing.
But, I haven't been around! Yeah, but I could see what you would have written had you been here and I'm chalking that up on your record anyway. |
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You can never know everything, and part of what you do know will always be wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing this. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.
--Robert Jordan
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qrypt
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« Reply #7718 on: August 23, 2009, 02:47:42 AM » |
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I'm going to pretend that you didn't write that because everyone deserves a free pass for being a blowhard moron once in a while. But, please, now go back to being your normal self so I can read your posts without rolling my eyes and sighing.
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"I'm tired of being your love slave!"
"Does that mean I'm not going to get my coffee?"
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« Reply #7719 on: August 23, 2009, 08:08:27 AM » |
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I got PM'd by a spammer!
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« Reply #7720 on: August 23, 2009, 10:30:56 AM » |
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I am so tempted to send this one to my mother and sister. No possible good could result from my doing so, so I won't. Still, I must say it is nice to see the body I've had (and that they've criticized) for years being hailed in the Paper of Record as the latest hip thing. Now, I agree it is unfortunate that women's bellies do not get the respect and honor they deserve. And the truth is, neither do men's bodies, this article notwithstanding. Perhaps in the future we'll learn to hate ourselves (and each other) less. It's worth pointing out, I think, that they could have written the exact same article about the bellies of people, generally, without making it gender specific. Among other things, doing so would have prevented the author from writing idiocies such as this one: Leading with a belly is a male privilege of long standing, of course, a symbol of prosperity in most cultures and of freedom from anxieties about body image that have plagued women since Eve. Yeah, because we all know the female obsession with eliminating body fat is as fundamental to womanhood as menstruation. <rolls eyes> I don't expect everyone to be an historian. Really, I don't. But you don't have to be an historian to notice that until quite recently, nearly all female portraiture in the western canon (not to mention other traditions) positively reveled in women's roundness. |
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If you want to be zen, then stay in the freaking moment.
A lot of the people posting on this thread need to go out and get kohlrabi.
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« Reply #7721 on: August 23, 2009, 05:39:23 PM » |
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TRB: In fashion or not, I'm sorry that you have to endure such comments from family members. That's absolutely awful of them.
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Why is it that you always have to express the opinion that runs contrary to common sense? If I started a thread that said "the sky is blue," you'd probably find a way to argue that "the sky is red."
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mystictechgal
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« Reply #7722 on: August 23, 2009, 05:50:53 PM » |
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Dude, your problem seems to be not the number of your years, but your lack of having managed to obtain any wisdom on your way to attaining them.
My situation is a whole lot worse than yours, but I wouldn't trade it for your general unhappiness with life for anything at all. Good luck to you.
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dept_geek
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« Reply #7723 on: August 23, 2009, 06:18:42 PM » |
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Really? You can't just smile and walk away? You are going to lose the emotion vs I'm smarter than you argument.
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I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code. When in doubt, add chocolate.
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« Reply #7724 on: August 23, 2009, 06:26:01 PM » |
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Horse meet water. Drink, please.
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