I was in a karaoke bar last night auditioning a female singer for my new band and I heard the funnyest comment.
I was sitting at a table with people who worked in the place (bartender and waitress) and their significant others. They were all “thirty somethings” that you would categorize as “lower middle class”. Anyway, the boyfriend of the waitress starts going off on Palin being picked strictly to make the stupid lower middle class think she is one of them.
I started to rip him a new one - politely - but backed off. His gf saw what was coming, I saw that she saw, and decided it was not worth it. You could tell she was REALLY uncomfortable with just how much I knew, and I thank Freerepublic for the lions share of that.
It was an interesting moment though.
I encounter that all the time. People want to spew these ill-informed, half-baked cliches to show how hip and in-the-know they are. They literally are stunned when you confront their stupid opinion and ask them to back it up in anyway.
That wasn't part of the bargain! You were supposed to agree and be impressed with their shallow misunderstandings of these important issues.
I swear, there's dudes who watch "The View" - they must be getting their insights from somewhere.