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To: Red Badger

I find this particularly irritating as like so much of liberalism this is diametrically opposed to reality.

Ive told a story here for different reasons that illustrates what I mean.

There was a small amusement park I frequented as a small child and, except for the years when I lived out of country, I have continued to visit since.

Thunderstorms are frequent here in the summer. When they would roll through all the rides shut down. The mostly veteran or farmer white fathers showed no sign of noticing except when one of them would hold their hand in the wrong position and the rain running off them would put out their cigarette. Moms and older girls would take out their little plastic rain bonnets and walk calmly to the nearest awning or nearby building to converse quietly. The boys and younger girls didnt care that the rides shut down as they were too busy stomping and playing in the rapidly rising puddles.

When the 80s arrived so did a larger number of people from farther away from a larger demographic. There was a distinct difference in some peoples behavior when it started to rain especially at the dawn of the age of jheri curl. When it would rain there would be screaming and hysteria. Some people frantically ran around yelling and stampeding and shoving as though they were about to be killed by some great beast and needed to escape.

At first many of the locals just stood their in wonder at what would provoke this extreme behavior but it didnt stay that way for long. Soon nearly everyone, visitor and local alike, was shrieking and fleeing the great rain beast when it would approach and plowing through anyone that stood in their way.

Today, when I bring someone there and it begins to rain, I simply sit on the nearest bench alone, except for whomever Im with, as cowering beady eyes stare out of every nearby building at us in wonder that we would dare to bravely endure what is to happen next.

As far as recent frolicking, they really cant claim to have invented anything they went so far out of their way to destroy.


35 posted on 08/26/2022 11:44:36 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: gnarledmaw

Good story


58 posted on 08/26/2022 12:25:38 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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