Posted on 08/21/2005 2:45:32 PM PDT by dukeman
Fair and balanced: I must say I have come across a handful of DUers who claim a new respect for the 2nd Amendment. Of course, these are the same ones who think they're living in 1930's Germany.....
"...logging in off and on all day long"
Could this mean we actually have jobs and lives outside the internet?
Mebbe because we act civilized and don't load our posts and replies with f-bombs and s-bombs. You know, something you don't mind the kids reading.
PeterPuck (13 posts) Sun Aug-21-05 06:14 PM
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85. as someone visiting FR daily
I knew about FR years before DU.
I go to FR to see some of the off the wall comments. It is like watching an episode of Jerry Springer but the scary thing is you know they are serious.
Although I consider myself conservative on most issues. I find the posters here are more caring and more intelligent.
I do find FR is a little quicker when it comes to breaking news. But you have to weed through a lot of crap to get to the informative posts
There's one DUer about to be tombstoned.
They have such small brains.
That's the one thing you can be sure never to read at the DU: "Sorry guys, going offline now, gotta get up early for work in the morning".
You prove your love and humanity by calling for the assination of the President and the Pope or anyone else who disagrees with you?
Yeah, Ghandi has nothing on you folk.
I can't figure out if it's more humorous or just the absolute shear stupidity of their rants which make them so extraneously out of touch with everyone.
They are so irrelevant, paint drying has more chance of gaining interest than these complete numbskulls do. All the hate and vile these whiners spew is unbeleivable considering the position they've created for themselves.
I'm willing to start a fund raiser to buy airtime for these digressives so they can regurgitate their Anti-Americam, Anti-War, Anti-Bush, Anti-Right Anti-Common Sense, Anti-Religious, Anti-Anything Good agenda!!
Aw... you're just giving Gary Larson reasons to start up "The Far Side" cartoons again...
Good point, the more facetime they get, the more the average American will realize what a hateful bunch the left is.
Has obviously never seen the crevo threads, watched paleocons and neocons go at it, never seen the objectivists fight with the Christians, etc...
It's just another form of abortion, it's called a:Poster Abortion, LMAO!
Poster Abortion... LOL
Digit (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-21-05 01:43 AM I just lost ANOTHER job
At first, it was great, like a honeymoon. My boss had warned me that when he became stressed...he became "bossy". Well, I would not classify it as "bossy". I tried to give him a message, and as I handed it to him, he RIPPED it out of my hand. It was so abrupt, it startled me.
He was downright scary at times, and I told him so today as he let me go. He said he had warned me in the interview, but he did not give his moody times real representation. He scared the **** out of me at times.
I let him know I had already applied for two other jobs as well.
My co-worker today was making snarky remarks about gays, asking who was the "man" in a lesbian relationship regarding our customers. I did not join in the conversation, but my boss did. I was only quietly getting pissed off. I am not gay, nor even bi-sexual, but the fact that people were being judged was ticking me off.
Anyway, I was let go today, early, and paid through the end of the month.
**** you very much.
classicfilmfan (1000+ posts)
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3. How do people w/poor anger mgmt like that get to be supes?
If it's any consolation Digit, I was asked not to come back last night from a position I hadn't had for two days. I was working as a secretary/personal assistant for a consultant. Yesterday she screamed at me in front of a client for "breaking her printer." After the client had left, I told her that I was an adult and wanted to be treated as such (what I didn't say is that she needs to quit buying cheap ass equipment, but I wanted to). So after a very LOOOONG discussion that went nowhere, she told me that she was the way she was and she couldn't change. I told her that she was the only one she COULD change. She sent me home early and then called around 7 last night to tell me not to come back, since it wasn't a good thing we had a "personality clash" so early in our association (yeah, like I'm just supposed to sit back and take her tantrums).
I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.
sfexpat2000 (1000+ posts)
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5. You know, the best revenge is living well.
And when you get a job with a good boss and don't have to deal with the daily stress of out of control authority, you win.
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I hear John Bolton may be hiring over at the U.N.
I think the Avg American realizes this already. The only reason Bush hasn't totally demolished the left is because unfortunately, the avg American thinks it's wise to have some kind of balance within gov't from both parties.
If there were no MSM, the dem party as we know it today would cease to exist.
Incredible. I have yet to hear a DUmmy offer *one* counter-point to the anti-war rants on DU, even as opposition research.
"Digit (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-21-05 01:43 AM I just lost ANOTHER job "
"classicfilmfan (1000+ posts)I was asked not to come back last night from a position I hadn't had for two days."
No wonder they can be on DU all the time. Can't keep a job.
Somehow I have trouble feeling any sympathy. In fact, HAHAHAHA.
My first big surprise when I began lurking around DU on election night was that they truly believe the MSM is totally in the tank for Bush! It's true. To them, it's so obvious that Bush is just trying to take over the world and enrich his buddies that the only explanation for the MSM's failure to expose this is that they're in cahoots with him. Their proof is that media outlets are owned by corporations and, as we all know, all corporations are eeeeevil! It's rather simple, really.
Der Blaue Engel (1000+ posts) Tue Jul-05-05 09:10 PM
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Does this place depress the hell out of anybody else?
I mean DU.
I feel like I have an addiction to an abusive spouse or something sometimes. I can't stop coming here, but something, every day, makes me feel like ****, whether it's an individual person's nasty post, or an administrative decision that doesn't make sense, or just the general state of the world that I'm confronted with by staying informed.
Is it just me having a downward spiral? Is DU particularly dysfunctional or is it just the way of all things?
I hate it when my safe haven makes me cry.
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