Unrelatedly, I think I'm going to have a very hard time when candidates for higher office (Senate, President, Governor) start being younger than me. Both in a "OMG why are they a Senator and I'm not?" and in a "Dude. I AM BARELY AN ADULT, how do you think you can RUN THIS COUNTRY?!" way.
Oh, I get it. You just don't like who did the rescuing, that's all. Wishin' I was your boyfriend what's-his-height. Oh wait, he's run off.
Spike ,'Potential'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
meara - Nov 06, 2012 9:09:11 am PST #29009 of 30001
Typo Boy - Nov 06, 2012 9:09:16 am PST #29010 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
never attributing to malice what can be adequately explained by ignorance.
Yeah, I always thought that dictum was at the least overstated and probably dead wrong. If someone kicks me in the balls I'm gonna attribute that to malice.
le nubian - Nov 06, 2012 9:10:16 am PST #29011 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I believe in malicious ignorance.
Consuela - Nov 06, 2012 9:10:35 am PST #29012 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
If someone kicks me in the balls I'm gonna attribute that to malice.
The circumstances in which that could be adequately explained by ignorance are going to be rare, Typo. Which is the point.
tommyrot - Nov 06, 2012 9:11:18 am PST #29013 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I believe in malicious ignorance.
I believe in ignorant maliciosity.
megan walker - Nov 06, 2012 9:11:47 am PST #29014 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Unrelatedly, I think I'm going to have a very hard time when candidates for higher office (Senate, President, Governor) start being younger than me. Both in a "OMG why are they a Senator and I'm not?" and in a "Dude. I AM BARELY AN ADULT, how do you think you can RUN THIS COUNTRY?!" way.
If it helps, my friend (and fellow Hoya) the Congressman thinks he is the least successful of his college roommates.
Zenkitty - Nov 06, 2012 9:12:48 am PST #29015 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I think a single mom (or dad) working two jobs and going home to three kids might disagree with you.
They might disagree with me. They might be wrong, too. Do they work with any non-white or non-Christian or non-heterotypical people on those jobs? Do they see any when they go shopping or take their kids to daycare? Being busy and tired is not a reason to not notice or care that the other people in your world are in fact people.
Steph L. - Nov 06, 2012 9:15:16 am PST #29016 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Both in a "OMG why are they a Senator and I'm not?" and in a "Dude. I AM BARELY AN ADULT, how do you think you can RUN THIS COUNTRY?!" way.
Paul Goddamn Ryan graduated from my university ONE YEAR ahead of me. Granted, that isn't *younger,* but it's close enough to be weird as hell.
And one of our more reprehensible candidates for Senate is 35 years old (and looks like he's 17). Even if he wasn't the shiftiest, sketchiest person to ever hold the job of state treasurer (though he IS), he's too young, man! That's weird!
Amy - Nov 06, 2012 9:15:41 am PST #29017 of 30001
Because books.
My Christian grade school taught me homosexuality was evil. It took my best friend coming out to me in college to change that.
Even for those of us who weren't actively taught that way, gay was definitely made *other* because no one ever talked about it.
I grew up with two men living together on our block. Their house was lovely, and they were, too, according to people who met them, but even my parents (who are of the Presbyterian God-loves-everyone! persuasion) never told me outright that they were a loving couple in a relationship. This was also the era when Jody was coming out on Soap and I remember seeing a commercial and asking my babysitter what the big deal with *gay* was since all I knew was it meant happy.
Amy - Nov 06, 2012 9:18:21 am PST #29018 of 30001
Because books.
Do they work with any non-white or non-Christian or non-heterotypical people on those jobs? Do they see any when they go shopping or take their kids to daycare?
Are you kidding? In most blue-collar jobs or neighborhoods or day cares?
They probably do see all kinds of people in their daily lives. What they might not be educated about is how laws affect them. I'm not saying it's right, but I am saying that not everyone realizes there are issues greater than who's going to lower taxes to BE educated about.