[dsrtsage]

” I challenge you to go volunteer at a homeless shelter or a food bank (if you haven’t) and see what sorts of people you encounter.”

I have (have had to do community service), and while there are truly people who really are legitimately in need of those kinds of services, I would estimate that the vast majority are not, and coincidentally the people in the latter group tended to be the rudest people I have ever encountered (and I travel for a living-extensively). The thing I find most amazing these days is there are youtube videos on how to do anything, including how to make almost any dish. I have used them to learn the “proper” or the easy technique to make more advanced things. The first time in the history of the world that all human knowledge is accesible to just about everybody, and most people use it to look at porn or pictures of cats.

[leaning conservative]

I plead guilty to being a lover of the Dodo site for animal vids & photos.
Animal porn? ; )

[neefer]

"I have (have had to do community service), and while there are truly people who really are legitimately in need of those kinds of services, I would estimate that the vast majority are not, and coincidentally the people in the latter group tended to be the rudest people I have ever encountered."

I thought it would be nice to do something in my community when I was unemployed so I volunteered at the Salvation Army Food Pantry. What a mistake. People would tear food out my hands before I could set it on the table. Most had much nicer phones than I had. One lady told me I was "privileged" because we owned a truck. It took everything in me not to scream at her "It's 14 years old and rustng away. We busted our asses to pay it off. Now my husband comes home after working a 40 hour week to wrench on it in the driveway because a new one is too expensive."