Stop skating!

Read the thread!

lol

:mad:

When I reference mob mentality, I am not just talking about this thread. Don't be daft. It's more than mere disagreement on a point of view. You know that.

I fully expect people not to like my opinions at times. However, as I mentioned, the same group of people finds some way to make absurd, unnecessary comments in response to mine that really are not just intelligent disagreements.

As for the comment about someone not being worth the effort... as usual you have misread my statements. My point about someone not being worth the effort is in response to information about the fact that people directed their sigs at me. Behavior like that ISN'T worth ANY kind of effort because it's stupid. Some members on here accuse ME of not being able to handle a simple disagreement in opinion, but yet they disagree with me about something and change their sigs JUST to make jabs? So yes, apparently someone IS taking something THAT seriously. Based on that it doesn't seem like I'M the one with the problem.

It's really hard to shrink social services again once an "entitlement" has been created. (An entitlement is one of those things that always seems to be in the eye of the beholder.)

But my take on real estate sometimes approaches what you've said here. Yeah, it will suck to owe more on my moderate mortgage than my house my be worth when the market can't absorb the foreclosures without dropping prices. And yet, the idea of subsidizing mortgages for the people who got loans they couldn't afford so they can avoid foreclosure kind of make me fell like a sucker. Why are the folks who bought homes they could afford paying either way?

I suppose I should just be glad that my husband and I are employed and can pay.

As I said...

It is the same people over and over.

So what if someone disagrees with me about something in my first thread? Be an adult and GET OVER IT. I have the ability to disagree with someone in one thread about something and then express agreement with them over another issue in a different thread.

If I get snarky, it is because someone else initiated the snarkiness and I respond in kind. Don't even try to act like people don't get snarky with me first. :rolleyes: People around here seem to pride themselves on snarkiness and if someone complains about it they tell them to get over it. Those same people should take their own advice.

As far as misunderstandings, the fact is these people you speak of don't know how to accept it when they are wrong. Instead of simply admitting that they misread something I wrote, they continuously work to make it seem as if what I said wasn't clear. I can think of maybe one instance where my statement could have been interpreted in more than one way. All other times what I said was crystal clear.

I know that I've often been the jerk in threads and I've engaged in many arguments not worth having, but I have to say I'm amazed at the amount of attention that you all are willing to give to Deepimpact2.

While I think DS will get fired up and irrational at times (to the point when I wonder if it's simply alcohol inspired lack of inhibition), he also brings levity and sincerity to threads, not to mention posting the topics to a ton of threads.

But I haven't been able to tell what Deepimpact brings and yet people always engage.

And how did you come to that conclusion?
:D

I ended with LMAO because what you said was amusing to me.

If ending something with LMAO nose-dives credibility, then a majority of the people around here have none.

Oh. My. God.

I give up.

Whoa I never noticed that I'm a sister-in-law at all, actually. To be an Alpha Gam sister-in-law is pretty neat.

I guess I should mention that my brother met his wife while visiting me at school. And that she and I lived in the house together, then lived off campus with my sister-mother.

Oh and that she was my big sister for the honors program, LOL.

And what exactly do YOU bring? Besides ridiculous comments insinuating alcoholic stupor?:rolleyes:

I peeped that too.

Don't give up until this mysterious "mob" of "certain people" is named.

I'm kind of lost for words at this point. I would just note that perhaps I'm not the one being "daft" about all of this.

ETA: I don't know why my post has that little "thumbs down" signal.

Oh nittanyalum the purple four wheeler reference was a personal anecdote about my brother stimulating the economy.

That sounds gross, too.

Hey...not a drinker!!!

Not til Friday anyways!

Here lies the issue. You expect me to do self-reflection, but you refuse to consider doing the same.

I think we all enjoy a good debate. Goodness knows I like the fact that unlike a certain other board I'm a member of :rolleyes:, we can actually discuss politics here. But I would appreciate you giving my opinions the same respect you want me to give yours. When you do that, I think everything will be quite cool.:)

I would also like to add that watching certain people get snarky on here is funny to me. I think quite a few of those individuals wouldn't have the balls to pop off like that in person.

Part of the issue with a lot of what happens here is ALL OF US get caught up trying to outsnark each other that we don't give a shit anymore about trying to be rational, even in situations when it's not called for.

ALL OF US CAN point a finger of blame to ourselves and think....when XYZ posts...."hmm what can I say that will piss them off" and hijacks begin

That's why A LOT OF US don't talk and CAN't TALK and WON'T TALK to each other because we are more busy trying to prepare the next drive by snarking before we even begin to think, let's talk about this openly and honestly.


I will take my finger now....anyone else care to follow?

I don't hijack for snark. I hijack just because it's what I do. Most of the time I do it to keep things light (and maybe if I post enough the pictures of bleach cream will be a few pages behind us).

And seriously, who doesn't want to talk about purple four wheelers? I know I do. My lumberjack brother and his wife are particularly interesting things for me to talk about. If other people don't think it's interesting, they can stay on topic. :p

I think you're confusing me with him - your problems are with me, not with him.

Nope.

If anyone is seriously thinking "What can I say that will piss them off" then that's crazy.

My thought process is: "This person is being stupid."

Then I say: "You're being stupid."

This is how it works with me in real life.

This will probably surprise a ton of people, but I don't care too much about teaching evolution or creation in schools. I figure that's a pretty personal belief that people will teach their kids regardless of what's being taught in the schools. I remember in my HS biology classes, there were a group of 3-4 fundamentalist Christians who challenged the science texts. Most people come in with their ideas on this topic, and you can't really change their minds too much.

The states with the most military bases are Florida, California, and North Carolina--and they all break just about even with the tax thing. The whole thing seems to have less to do with population or even military involvement, and the general economic picture of the state. For example, the same states that always show up at the bottom of the lists for quality of life--Alabama, Mississippi, West Virginia, and New Mexico--also take a ton more than they give to the government.

LOL



Sorry, that's gonna stay for awhile...no matter how many pages you post.

Shock value.

Yeah, this.

You're right. I want to know who these people are. Although I'm sure she won't say. She seems to pick and choose which posts she will respond to.

Here’s a usual convo with deepimpact

deepimpact: “Blah blah blah blah blah”
mobster: “Yea, but that doesn’t make sense, because blah blah blah”
deepimpact: “Well maybe if you actually read what I said, you would know that I meant blah blah blah”

When in fact, all you have to do is say, “I’m sorry, what I meant to say was blah blah blah.”

Just like you, people react to things that are said. When EVERYONE who reads your posts interpret them the same way, then you might have misspoke. Because honestly, what do you think.. that everyone is PMing each other saying, “Hey, let’s pretend like we didn’t understand what deepimpact said, and let’s get snarky with her over a perfectly normal statement she made.”

Just that. It's sometimes enough.

So, you are saying that you are innocent?

You are saying that you never called anyone on this board out of their name with malicious intent?

Mmmmmkay.....

I would think about that before I would answer.

That whole thing last night went far too far, and I think you know it. I'm not saying you're *completely* to blame but I think I made it really clear what issues I was having with what people were saying.

After trying to read this thread,

http://icanhascheezburger.files.word...rain-today.jpg

I know I took it too far, you know I know it.

I take my blame and I have ABSOLUTELY no problems doing that.

To KSU...

some of this has stretched over to real life.

THAT is part of the issue.

That last bitch-made remark is exactly why I don't **** with you.

This is not me trying to outsnark you.

This is not me being irrational.

This is me thinking "DS is being stupid."

This is me saying "DS, you're being stupid."

The same as I would in real life. This does not prove your point.

So is everything here hunky dory or does anyone really want to step forward and address some underlying issues on this board?

If we are all cool or cooled out....let's just KIM.

Well we were back on topic at some point today. Apparently these issues are just more interesting for people to talk about.

I think I've discovered a way to hijack the song name game thread. But, just like Chuck Norris, I don't sleep, I wait.

You feel better now that you got that off of your chest, don't you?

Try to talk to some of you here and be PEACEFUL and I'M stupid...

Try to be forward and upfront so we can get past some of the ignorance here BUT you want to call me stupid.

Heh...yeah...ok...I will be the stupid idiot today.

That's another problem some of you are too busy with blinders on you can't see straight.

I don't care much about the evolution-intelligent design-creationism stuff either. I think it's important kids get a good foundation in actual science and that's what should drive the state curriculum, but I think a certain fundamentalist segment oversells how much aggressive Godlessness is required for this. I grew up with a traditional evolution based curriculum, I guess, but we didn't get into the who or why; just the general overview of how. It wasn't incompatible with my belief in God.

I just think it's interesting who politically can get away with holding certain views and advocating them in office and who can't. Palin got painted with a pretty broad brush for advocating things there's little evidence she used her offices to press for. Jindal doesn't and it intrigues me. What accounts for that? Jindal projecting higher IQ generally? Maybe.

As far as revenue, and I still haven't looked at the links I confess, it would make sense that if you didn't have an economy that generated much money, you'd contribute less in taxes. Any money that you then took in from the federal government would look disproportionate.

But you'd also have a pretty low bar for keeping your generally crappy economy going so maybe you could claim you didn't need as much stimulus funding.

But I think it's more about positioning with the GOP than really exercising good fiscal judgment.

On the other hand, I have the impression, having not read the bill I can't say for sure, that it contains a ridiculous amount of funding for projects unrelated to present economic health. So one probably could turn down some of the pork.

The pork is my biggest issue with many of the laws coming out of DC, but I think that's a pretty widely held sentiment among Americans who care enough to look at the stuff.

It's still a general "you." It can be applied across the board.

:rolleyes:

On either side of the spectrum people are vilified for their beliefs on creationism v. evolution.

I think the issue with Palin was that for a while that was the bulk of what many people knew policywise about her. That and the Bridge to Nowhere talk. Perhaps with Jindal we just know more about his other policies?