A pirate walks into a bar w/ a steering wheel in his pants. The bartender asks, Why do you have a steering wheel in your pants? Says the pirate, Arrrrrrr, it's drivin' me nuts! - Ayşe E.
ok that was so bad it's awesome. my personal favorite is still "a dyslexic walks into a bra" - tiffany
tiffany, I must be in a silly mood tonight, cos yours cracked me up. (Then again, I'm pretty easily amused for a way-too-serious person. Ha.) - Ayşe E.
doctor tells his patient, "sir, you'll have to stop masturbating." the patient asks, "why?" doctor replies, "because i can't check you out while you're doing it." - Faboo Mama
What did the psychiatrist say to his patient wearing cellophane pants? ..."I can clearly see your nuts!" :p - Anna Haro
“Can any McCain supports please respond with why you like McCain? Preferably just about McCain but criticism of Obama is ok if it plays a major role. Please, no one respond to any of these comments (i may delete such comments). This will not become a flame war. Feel free to comment anonymously.”
Sen. McCain has much more documented experience for the position he's running for than does Sen. Obama. Sen. McCain doesn't have any terrorist friends and former co-workers. - Paul W. Swansen
Then Networks and major newspapers are unashamedly Pro Sen. Obama and extremely anti- Sen. McCain. - Paul W. Swansen
Over all I'd say if these are the best two that either party can put forth, we're in a lot more trouble than we realize. - Paul W. Swansen
I thought the same in 2000 Paul, and you know what? I was right. - Shout out 2Jody
JodyC-I get that. What I'm not getting is the personal hate I'm seeing, for both the politicians and their supporters. - Paul W. Swansen
“Your car gets totaled and you can't afford a new one because you have no savings and you're deep in debt. To get to work, there are probably people to carpool with and there is public transportation. What do you do? Take out a loan for a "new" (to you) car?”
(1) If I feel comfortable with the people I'm bumming rides with, carpool; (2) since it's available, public transportation. Since I'm deep in debt, I'd do without the car. - rowlikeagirl
I second rowlikeagirl's choices. though, if possible, I'd try to bike first. If not, they follow-up with carpooling. Public transportation here is horrible. I would never buy a car in that situation. - Squirrel Girl
If it's only an issue for getting to/from work, I'd definitely do public transportation. However, I have family that lives an hour away who I see frequently and there's no public transportation to their area so I need a car to get there. - Rochelle
Happened before. Had to ride public transportation. - Rahsheen™
I think you do whatever makes the most sense for your financial situation, job and location. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble
What if there isn't public transportation available? If that happened to me, I don't think there's a bus stop within a mile from my house (could be further). I've never even seen a public bus around my neighborhoods or subdivision. - Lindsay Donaghe
I am an odd duck.. I've never owned a car (at 30, I know that makes me stand out), but I've always lived in one city or other, and I tend to live as close in as I can afford. - Gina K
Public transportation. For six miserable, long, horrible, terrifying years until I can afford a new car. - Nine (pedestrian wolf)
call mom and dad for help with bike money. then do bike + transit + zip car until i could afford to take out a loan for the cheapest, most reliable car i could swing. i'd also go on a pb&j / canned tuna diet ...EDIT: i lie. i'd call mom and dad for car money help. ... @brian: if you have a clunker, insurance won't give you enough to cover the cost of a new or even new-ish car. my car is 11 years old, worth about $1000 and i don't have collision coverage. - tiffany
My last three months in Atlanta I had no car. I biked 4 blocks to the train station, took the train to Peachtree station and switched lines, took the train as far north as I could, then took the busline as far north as I could. Then, I had to bike the remaining 2 miles on the access road of a 6 lane highway. Took me about 2.5 hours to get to work which was 12 miles away. Had I had the credit to do so, I would have financed a car... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
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take the bus. i was raised that you try to move close to work, and within walking distance of services & a bus stop. that way you're never stranded. - Faboo Mama
@Brian: having insurance doesn't help one when the totaled car is valued by the insurance company as equal to or less than one's deductible. Or, as was my case above the car cracked the head gasket and needed a couple grand in repairs as a result. Insurance didn't come into play. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
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I guess I just keep on doing what I'm doing. I stopped driving 2 years ago. My 2000 Dodge caravan sits in the driveway unregistered and uninsured. I can't really afford either plus the gas. My bus pass is $75 a month. I take the bus or I ride my Bicycle the 8 miles to my office. If I want to drive again I'll have to cough up $115 a month for insurance and another $110 to renew the registration. If I happen to have $225 sitting around I'd rather save it towards getting a 27" or 30" LCD display for my compute - Adam Turetzky
Faboo, unfortunately not all areas have readily available public transportation. There's a bus system where I live but it doesn't go to the part of town where I work. If my car dies and I can't repair/replace it, I have to bike 10 miles along a 4 lane to get there. When I was growing up, we lived 30 miles from where my father worked. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
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If you work in one suburb/exurb and live in another (one with affordable housing), carpools/public transportation may not be a viable option. - Ontario Emperor
Riding a bicycle is also not an option for everyone! I'm thinking of people with medical issues, various disabilities, etc. - Rochelle
I am a huge fan of public transportation. It gives you a lot of time to read too. I read a ton when my commute was two trains and a bus. - Brian Newman
+1 brian. that's why i ride transit 2-5 days per week despite having a car. driving was cutting into my reading time and gas is expensive :-) - tiffany
If PT isn't available, I would get a used scooter.... - Kelly
and that is my point. why would you move to an area where the possibility of being stranded is high. i can understand if you have more than one car, but i chose my current house over one a few blocks over because if my car dies and i need to take the bus, i didn't want to walk up a hill in the rain or heat. i grew up in the suburbs and know it stinks to have to walk/bike aways to get to the bus stop and my bus stops weren't even 1/6th of a mile away. - Faboo Mama
Baltimore City public transit is miserable. I work 30 minutes from home by car. It took me 2 hours to get to work in the morning and sometimes 3 hours to get home. I did it for 6 long years because my car was totalled and insurance only paid off the value of the car. I was also just starting a debt consolidation program so I couldn't get a loan or financing. Worst six years of my working life. I was miserable, tired, depressed, and angry. - Nine (pedestrian wolf)
No one so far has suggested going deeper into debt right away to get a new car. Why can we come up with solutions around this problem without getting further into debt immediately but we can't do the same with this banking fiasco? - d[▪_▪]b ♫
Because we understand how to get around without a car (even if we choose not to do so)...we don't understand (at least not most of us) how to fix the problem on Wall Street. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble
My point was simply that we are willing to struggle through a mess we've created until we can work it out rather than immediately throwing money at it. Debt is the reason we're in this mess. Adding to it isn't helping matters. We can deal with the pain this'll cause without exacerbating it further. - d[▪_▪]b ♫
I think we're willing to struggle through it because most of us don't expect or assume that someone else will fix our mistakes for us. I'm not going to ask a total stranger for money for a new car. Especially if I'm responsible for the breakdown of the old one because of abuse, neglect, or reckless driving. - Nine (pedestrian wolf)
I get a hundred or so spams a day but gmail filters 99.9% of them. What annoys me about spam is the bandwidth and resources it wastes. - d[▪_▪]b ♫
I'm with ya d[oo]p only the ressources created and the 'abandoned web' that lurking place with 1,000 + js codes to fuck your machine under a second. Never search for intitle: with certain topics, it's danger a mile ahead. A run with a JavaScript blocker has led me into some horror movie, I couldn't believe how much blogs were infected from those auto-keywording html pages. - Zu aka ElijahBailey
Hell yes. Comment spammers add hundreds of spam comments at a time which ruins the whole conversational flow. They also have bots to automatically add users to get around requiring commentors to be registered. I now ask each new user if they are human. Few things I hate, but spammers are one. - todd
+1 d[•_•]b ...but spam exists because there are people out there that actually respond to it. your 'wasted bandwidth' is another person's mega-sized pack of viagra, and $1 million check from nigeria. <sigh> - .LAG
Mark:How to filter it to go directly to trash?I have 500+ spams all tha time,I don't know what to do,and Gmail will not delete those obviously spams until 30 days after.I hate to clean my spam box every single day. - Steve
If it gets in my inbox it does. But, thanks to gmail I don't have to worry about that. - Mathew Ballard
Mark:Therefore,you can not make your spam box keep empty either just like me? - Steve
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“Charge for the internets by the bits, like electricity?”
If it were regulated to be reasonable, i'm kinda liking it. I like the idea of paying for what i use. Maybe it should be a fixed fee for a reasonable monthly bandwidth maximum and something really cheap for anything beyond it. Or provide different varying/fix packages. The problem is, like utilities, there's limited providers so they don't care about the customer. - d[▪_▪]b ♫
And not the kind of stupidity a'la Family Robot Hunger Force. - (teh)Kenny
People who intentionally try to piss you off so that they can show off to your friends how bad tempered you are. :P - Mavericks of Troy, NV!
Carnies. Circus folk. Nomads, you know. Smell like cabbage. Small hands. - JA Castillo
Narrow-minded prejudice. Passive-aggressiveness. And pants that show your butt crack. - JillMissesSnuggling
People who misspell words, know they're spelling them wrong, but don't care. Essentially people with the opinion that as long as their message gets across, spelling and grammar don't matter. - Rochelle
I"m offended by people who pass homeless people on the street and then loudly say they won't give them money because they're drug addicts or alcoholics, and people who embarrass someone in the grocery store paying with food stamps trying to feed their children. I've watched more women look over their shoulders so scared when they're trying to buy food for their children. Oh and it offends me when someone says a woman deserves being beaten by her boyfriend/husband. Have I brought the room down enough yet? - Trish R
Righteous Indignation, plus a few already mentioned... - Mark VandenBerg
oooh! makes my blood boil just thinking about it. I'm going to key someone's car in the parking lot at work tomorrow, I just know it. - Nathan Rein
People who write off Star Wars because of Episodes I-III. HIGHLY offensive. Blasphemous, even. - Mona N.
On the Star Wars note. George Lucas only putting out Special Edition versions of the original trilogy on DVD. - Kevin Bondelli
People who think they are better than others, when the truth is they are only one divorce...one medical crisis...one job loss away from being "those" people. - Bonita Garrabrant
On the abuse topic, I'll add abuse of the elderly and people with disabilities. - Rochelle
Illogic thought process given certain social circumstances. I mean in real contextual events, not on the web. In a more visual way. - Zu aka ElijahBailey
Agnosticism. Atheism is a religion of it's own, making it a bit of a conundrum for me. To have faith in the fact that there is no god just makes no sense to me. Agnosticism may be an easy way out, but you can't argue against it. Agnosticism wins. - Squirrel Girl
I need a category between the two. I don't believe any religion's god exists and believe there is significant evidence to back up my claim in the form of massive inconsistencies, absolutely no evidence presented, ever, and most strongly for me, discovering how the human brain seeks explanations for the unknown. But ... - d[▪_▪]b ♫
Though i don't believe in any supreme "god" i can accept our universe as a type of god and accept that it's impossible to ever prove the nonexistence of any. But why will no one believe me that i am their god? I am, but why don't you have faith in me? - d[▪_▪]b ♫
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“Mistyping meme. Like 'the = teh", what do you constantly mistype, knowing you do it and knowing the proper usage?”
for some reason, I frequently type "b" instead of "p" and vice-versa...about 1 in 20 times.... - Sean McGee
whoa...nice robot got new headphones! - Faboo Mama
So...how'd you get that backward "b"? (I keed, I keed) - Sean McGee
Don't do much, or they are really custom, weird striking errors in thinking more than with the typing of the word itself. - Zu aka ElijahBailey
yeah, your for you're as if the thought process doesn't need the remaining keys - Zu aka ElijahBailey
I also do a lot of typos in controlling things with ctrl+left or right +shift for editing, sometimes I go beyond what I'm needed or choose the wrong option like with pg-up, pg-down selecting etc. can that count? - Zu aka ElijahBailey
Weird switching letters like that @Sean I'm thinking if I have such occurences - Zu aka ElijahBailey
Blindly typing (without looking, as I usually do each 1450ms for brief moments to calibrate ;p ) I remark a lot of linking slopiness so I can make easy oio instead of pop and qwird instead of weird. But that's really rare. - Zu aka ElijahBailey
"While political conservatives tend to keep a tidy, organized office, political liberals favor colorful, more stylish but cluttered spaces" - d[▪_▪]b ♫
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I'm not sure i believe this since i'm a moderate liberal and i prefer a tidy, even minimalistic workspace. - d[▪_▪]b ♫
Well, then, how does one classify my stark white walls, plain wooden desk, lack of decoration, and piles upon piles of CRAP everywhere?!? - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
I'm also skeptical. I'm more conservative and while my space is tidy, it's not boring or devoid of character. I have plenty of interesting clutter. - JillMissesSnuggling
Yeah, I call BS. Some people are just more organized than others. - Rochelle
Meh. My work space is (generally) v. tidy, though I do have eclectic arty bits all around. - Ayşe E.
Yeah, I'm tidy... and far from conservative. - Squirrel Girl
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