My mom has been the secretary at an elementary school for quite a long time, and we were talking about it earlier. We have some close relatives who are a bit gun nutty, and I told her that if the subject comes up at the extended family Christmas next Sunday, I may start beating people about the head with cookie tins.
Some people juggle geese!
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Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
shrift - Dec 16, 2012 7:41:40 pm PST #4778 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Steph L. - Dec 16, 2012 7:41:55 pm PST #4779 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Still, Tim voted for Obama eventually. This conversation can go on?
Yeah, it can. I just get surprised when the people who are close to me don't share the exact same thought patterns that I do. (Which I realize is unreasonable, and yet I'm still surprised when it happens.)
Sheesh. I'd better not ask how he feels about cilantro.
Cass - Dec 16, 2012 7:47:11 pm PST #4780 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Yeah, it can. I just get surprised when the people who are close to me don't share the exact same thought patterns that I do.
I am BOGGLED when my brother and I can share the same jokes and then have massively different policy views.
Don't ever talk about cilantro. It'll end in tears and soap. For one of you.
shrift - Dec 16, 2012 7:54:39 pm PST #4781 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I just get surprised when the people who are close to me don't share the exact same thought patterns that I do.
This is not remotely the same as what you're experiencing, but recently I found out that a guy on my small work team is a Republican and big into Ayn Rand. I simultaneously felt betrayed and that suddenly so many passing comments made sense in retrospect.
Trudy Booth - Dec 16, 2012 8:05:58 pm PST #4782 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I told her that if the subject comes up at the extended family Christmas next Sunday, I may start beating people about the head with cookie tins.
I was at a party last night where we had considerable fear of this conversation (exacerbated by one of the guests not well known family history of gun violence.) We pre-selected several popular topics to blatantly and insistently change the subject to should the need arise.
Scrappy - Dec 16, 2012 8:54:11 pm PST #4783 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Jason and I disagree on the Death Penalty and on Israel, but we've just gotten used to the other person being WRONG.
Jesse - Dec 17, 2012 3:10:48 am PST #4784 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think it's interesting to figure out how someone I like can be so wrong on whatever issues (from my perspective, obviously) but haven't had the experience with someone I was really close to, I don't think. That could be really hard to deal with.
Dana - Dec 17, 2012 3:48:02 am PST #4785 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
There is a terrible windstorm going on outside. Can't sleep and work is delayed until 9:30.
Dana - Dec 17, 2012 3:48:03 am PST #4786 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Jessica - Dec 17, 2012 4:40:24 am PST #4787 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think it's interesting to figure out how someone I like can be so wrong on whatever issues (from my perspective, obviously) but haven't had the experience with someone I was really close to, I don't think. That could be really hard to deal with.
Yeah, me neither. There is the politically insane (i.e. in an actual cult) branch of my family, but I'm not close with them. Everyone in my immediate family (including in-laws) is more or less on the same page.