IF YOU’RE SO POOR
IF YOU’RE SO POOR, HOW COME YOU HAVE A CELL PHONE?
(Michelle Obama)
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Oh dear.
D’oh!
Can you smell the smoke?
The smoke of burning straw men, and flame wars to come on how fat and lazy our poor are? -Sigh-
It’s kind of sad that we can’t get over this, really.
i don’t think it’ll be about fat and lazy. it’ll be the same damned arguments the last time this exact same photo made it to the homepage. about how what qualifies as poor includes TVs and cell phones and new shoes every 6 months, etc.
in any case, i’ve just been to sams club and have stocked up on campfire foods for just this sort of situation.
Yay! Let’s have hot dogs!
Mmmmmm, followed by s’mores. Really, what else does one roast over a fire, anyway?
An entire pig! I just saw it done on No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain! It was in Indonesia, and it looked DELICIOUS! They basted it continually with coconut milk…
*drools*
coconut milk on a roasted pig?! never would have thought of that but now i’m going to marinate my next round of pork chops in coconut milk. that sounds really yummy.
and jane, pie iron foods, dutch oven foods, kebabs, anything you can stick on a spit (corn, chicken, veggies)…
Do you think you could go back to Sam’s Club and get a whole pig and some coconut milk? Pretty please?
to get a whole pig i’ve gotta go to west side market… and that’s the opposite direction from sams club. i’m gonna need you all to throw in some gas money.
Gas money? Hell, I can barely afford gas for Frankencar.
well, you didn’t ask for me to drive all over the city for cookout stuff. so for now you’re off the hook… for now.
Wait, we’re putting people on hooks for this BBQ? Mmmm delicious.
SOYLENT BBQ IS PEOPLE!!!
Baste them with coconut milk!
We had weird coconut Jell-o in Hawai’i. It was.. weird.
Don’t worry. Sears has you covered.
Okay check it out! This is the segment!
{http://lechonsabroso.multiply.com/video/item/2}
Joan of Arc???
Excellent point, as always.
Why thank you, Jane… would you like some tea dear?
Resistance is feudal . . .
You’re a saint for pointing that out, pitty.
Hmm, I sense a sarcastic beatitude, there, Jane.
Don’t be giving me your medieval looks!
I’d love some, thank you!
And now I know how Joan of Arc felt,
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt…
As the flames rose, to her Roman nose
And her walkman started to melt…
Didn’t it have an almost identical caption too? Or was it just the discussion that was identical to the caption?
*curses having such a bad memory*
Maybe he gets the phone through the government too. I hear commercials on the radio for them “if you get food stamps or collect welfare, you’re probably eligible for a FREE phone!” You know, for emergencies.
as explained below… the phones they get are stripped of everything except the ability to make and receive calls. no cameras, no videos, no mp3s. nothing. just a phone.
Do you know who it’s through? AT&T or T-Mobile? If it has a sim card, he could have just switched it. Although, that looks like a Blackberry, and I don’t think that would work with that. But it also kind of looks like a Treo, which it would work with. But now I’m just ramblin, sing my song. Gonna work my way all around the world. do-n-do-do-n-do
it’s not through a cell provider. the cell companies collect the old phones and give them to the government. if you listened to the commercial it’s a government program that is providing the phones (safelink i think is what it’s called). as such, the government program is who cleans the phones and makes them hardly functioning bricks.
and it’s been discussed a million and one times previously (here and everywhere else on the internet)… it’s a blackberry.
I just looked it up. It’s through Trakfone which does use sim cards. And it’s a government sponsored program, they don’t run it. You know the phone itself is only half what makes your service work, right? Or did you think the government owns cell towers all over the country?
:roll eyes:
Don’t imply that Shortright is stupid if you only JUST found out they use sim cards yourself. The cell phone provider may make the phone connected to the rest of the universe, but it’s not what decides the phone’s capabilities.
Damnit… What was it on the old smilies, again? ::roll eyes::
::roll:: Hrmm… I wonder…
::rolls eyes::
If it uses a sim card, you call pull it out of your basic (feature disabled) phone and put it in one you got from somewhere else. I only looked up who the program was through. I found out it was Tracfone, which I know uses sim cards. I also know how sim cards work. This is why I said, if the phone uses a sim card, that may not be the original phone he was given, so it could have a camera. Pay attention, we move fast here.
And by the way, at least I look stuff up when I don’t know the answer instead of talking out my arse.
I understand fine how sim cards work, thanks. However, it’s obnoxious that you acted like Shortright was stupid for not knowing when you said “I just looked it up. It’s through Trakfone”
If you had to look it up, don’t act like she’s dumb. I know it could well have a camera, but thanks for assuming I wouldn’t look something up if I didn’t know what it was and that I’m too stupid to understand the conversations here, buddy. Of course, seeing as how you think I’m talking out of my ass and don’t know what I’m talking about, you must have some psychic powers, so you already know that.
I never said you don’t know how they work. I was explaining that the only part I had to look up was who’s service the Safelink phones were through. shortright said the phones were not through anybody. Either She pulled it out her arse or got it from somebody else in these boards who did. I was referring to that (which is why I put it separate from my reply to you). In any case, the fact is the phone in through Trakphone which uses sim cards so it may not be the original.
…ooo eee ooo aah-aah, ting-tang walla-walla/bing-bang…
well, seeing as how i’ve donated my verizon (no sim card) phones to the program i’m gonna have to go out on a limb here and say that not all of their phones have sim cards.
*sneaks sim cards into all of shortright’s donated phones*
Hee hee hee.
Did it ever occur to anyone here that because of the economic downturn, some of these people might be newly homeless? That they might still have just enough for a cell phone bill (so they can continue to look for work), but they don’t have enough for a place to live yet because they might have been foreclosed on? It happens far more than you think. And those who ARE poor but not homeless often have “nice” things because they got them at garage sales or thrift stores, because that’s what they can afford. Disabled people often work their whole lives before ending up on disability, but still get “funny looks” from people because they have a nice digital camera (that they were given as a gift, or bought at a garage sale, etc.).
I guess for far too many people, being disabled means that even if you worked hard your whole life, living with pain, weakness and frustration isn’t enough punishment. You also have to be a second-class citizen. FOREVER.
ya bitter troll was homeless for a while still had a car and 1500 dollar video camera and a few grand in paranormal investgation equipment
I don’t understand why you replied to me to say this.
Don’t you know…po’ folk ain’t allowed no fun stuff.
I don’t understand why he replied to you either Charro. I’m also confused as to why he had to repeat what’s been said about a bazillion times already.
Maybe we should call him Redundant Troll?
So the phone is stripped of everything? “no cameras, no videos, no mp3s. nothing. just a phone.” Yet, there he is taking a picture with it…
You’re assuming this man is the recipient of a phone from the government and that he is, in fact, poor. It is just as likely that he heard Michelle Obama was in the neighborhood and hurried over to get a shot.
Due to your phrasing, the Secret Service would like a word with you, Jane.
Oh noes!!!
Someone call the secret service? Sorry, I was taking a nap. DWN need protecting? What? He’s not here anymore? How long was I asleep?
That’s quite an amazing beard Rando…
Gee, thanks. Now I have tea all over my laptop.
Better than pee, I always say.
And 9 out of 10 doctor’s agree Charro… although, the 10th was a doctor the same way Doctor Phil is a doctor..
*looks up at previous comment and apathetically murders his superfluous apostrophe*
Ahem…
Your coldblooded apostrophe execution sent chills down my back.
Was he Tyler Dirden? He did say that urine is sterile and can be drank. Or is that drunk? Er.. Fook. Drinked.
Dr Pepper does not count as a doctor!
What about Dr. Dre? He says slower is better.. To trust him.. He’s a Doctor.
Dr. Doom, the fantastic 4 villian, was taken out of college because he was so badly burned due to the cursed richards…RICHARDS…
if he never finished college..how is he a doctor?
Denis Leary is a Dcotor…
He’s also a Doctor.
“Hello, 911?” I’M FU(KING HOMELESS!!!”
ok, i laughed… someone make sure to save me a seat in hell.
I’ve seen the devil about that. Don’t worry, Lucifer says we get our own special circle, and that it’s all pre-arranged.
Families can come too, if they end up down there with us.
I loved what Kinison used to say about hell: I was married FOR TWO EFFING YEARS!!! HELL WOULD BE LIKE CLUB MED!!!
I do enjoy his schpeel about what happens to your penis when you’re married….
“Honey… the guys and I are going out tonight… can I get my dick out of the fridge and take it with me?”
*Clears off seat*
Over here, Shortie!!! This is where all the fun is!!!!
sweet. right by the lake of fire! this is awesome.
You know what they say…when life hands out eternity next to the lake of fire in hell, make s’mores!
Don’t forget the asbestos underwear and SPF 100000 !!!
my asbestos underwear is itchy…
That’s why you put the sunscreen on FIRST, silly… it has aloe and lanolin…
damn, why didn’t you tell me that first? now i’ve got sunscreen on the outside of my asbestos undies. and you know that doesn’t come out easily in the wash.
Easy solution there, Just turn them inside out, now the spf 100000 is on the inside.
You know, I’d tell you to go to hell, but I work there and I don’t want to see you people every day.
That’s like the line a friend of mine used: I’d tell you to go to Hell, but you already told me you didn’t like your mother’s cooking all that much…
You know, if you had just told the woman you were coming she would have baked a cat. This is all your fault. I blame you.
It’s not the baking that’s the hard part, froo. It’s shaving the damn thing… makes me sneeze!!
You Americans don’t have kitchen appliances for de-furring the cats? Weirdos.
Try Sears. They have human cooking grills there [click link]. I know I keep saying that, but it’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
I pre ordered three for the holidays.
Wait, what? Oh, nevermind, I was thinking midgets.
Ahaha. Must’ve been someone who’d just got told they’re laid off who wrote that ad. ;p
imagine if tygor, eric, diss, jane, myself, pitty, eddie, mg and a few others just showed up at your office. you would never work again.
*cuts eyes left, then right* I don’t work now, how would that change anything?
On a side note, I think work would be so much more fun if you guys did show up! We’d have cake!
But, i was told the cake is a lie!!
Tres Leches cake is never a lie!!
True that!
Fu(kin A!
i hardly work now too… but occasionally i’ll sit in a meeting or type up something or answer an RFP. i mean, these menial tasks are getting in the way of my fcuking around online.
can i have applesauce instead of cake? my tummy is not happy
I’m the good kind of lazy, though, so I guess that’s alright. I’ll get all of my stuff done early, then screw around for the rest of the night. It’s boring after you guys go home to your lives and families, but every once in a while there is a good troll to flame.
I’m on summer vacay. I can’t sub until I go to this stupid sub meeting on thursday. I mean, I subbed for this corporation last year, I don’t think anything has changed so drastically that I need to sit there for two freaking hours! Plus, I actually have a degree to teach and almost have a masters, I don’t think they’re going to say anything I don’t know.
because i’m east coast (time zone) and have to be at work at 8:30 i’m usually on before the rest of you guys are even up. it’s pretty boring until just about 11/12.
S’ok Froo, you’ll have me here until around midnight eastern time!
I had lunch at Panera, a large chocolate bar, and a caramel macchiato, all in short succession. My tummy is not happy with me either.
i didn’t eat anything for 2 days besides chicken broth because i was feeling flu-ish… and then today all of a sudden i got SUPER hungry so i had wendys. greasy fast food on a completely and totally empty tummy, bad news.
The caramel macchiato is enough to make my tummy unhappy.
Caramel macchiatos are delicious, and also, they are the debil.
Don’t worry froo, Just remember this date October 5…. You’ll see me very soon
Mwuahha… Muwhahahaha… MWUAHAHAHAHAHA
Why did I suddenly get a cold chill up my spine?
I have that effect on…. everyone.
I call road trip! We’ll meet at the Pizza Hut over by froo’s work, m’kay?
I got shotgun!
i’ve got the shotgun!
But Eds, how are you gonna drive across the ocean?!
CLearly, he’s going to drive over on the bridge built by the genie after Eds asked him to either build a bridge to America, or explain the female brain.
I have the female brain figured out, there’s two rules:
1) The woman is always right.
2) In the event the woman is wrong, refer to rule #1.
You’re a smart man, Eds.
I just bought a magic carpet and has room for eight!
And cupholders! Sweet ride!
Plus a navman, DVD, and a 100 CD stacker.. we’ll be flyin’, they’ll be hatin’..
I’m not moving to Texas. I’ve visited. That’s enough for me. I messed with Texas once. I’m not allowed back.
You peed on the Alamo, didn’t you?
In the basement no less..
With the lead pipe!
I don’t need a lead pipe to pee.
Owners of cell phones must be fat and lazy? Do tell us more!
Oh brother.
Um. Wow. 171 comments already. Uh, yeah, I’ve gotta go get the oil changed, and then I gotta give the kids baths after school, and I’ve got Cardinals tickets tonight, so I may very well be out on this one, guys. Good luck, we’re all counting on you.
Tell me about it! I go to bed for a few hours with nothing happening around here. Wake up and BAM! I’m overwhelmed by the number of comments. It’s not fair that I’m ahead/behind (take you’re pick) of the times.
you went to bed… that was your problem.
*sigh* at least I wasn’t alone!
i… um, i had my puppy curled up with me? that count? she’s super cute and cuddly.
…and is far less creepy when she licks your face than a guy.
Rando… you should attend Jane and I torture seminars… You learn the precious art of “Seductive Facial Bathing”
*my*
*glares at Eddie*
Thank…. you… mother.
Sorry, Eds, I’m in the habit of purposefully using I and My wrong in conjunctions just to irritate my mother. She stopped correcting me once she learned the joy I got from watching her cringe when I actually made a grammatical mistake.
You’re welcome son.. but next time you get a taste of the torture chamber, got it?
Ohoho no! Not… the COMFY CHAIR!
*still patiently waiting for acceptance letter*
Yeah, me too.. slackers..
Well, we have the same address, so hopefully the arrive at the same time.
Acceptance letters? I forgot to mention the hoverdroids will be abduc- Ahem… retrieving you all for the sessions soon.
Woohoo! I can hardly wait.
I do so love to entertain. The Fortress of Doom is so roomy that it’s just made for parties.
*puts on best french mermaid outfit*
- is wearing a angus young Ac/Dc school boy suit- someone say party?
I just realized I already pictured the bitter troll in an Angus Young AC/DC school boy suit…
Eerie.
At least it’s not an Anus Young.
charro not know who angus young is? -shocked-
I’d show as Rod Stewart but I’m not dying my hair blonde.. Oh, Keith Richard.. yeah, that’s the ticket!
*sigh* Nevermind.
Oh deer.
Does the deer have a little doe?
Yeah, two bucks!
Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
*facepalm*
Oh geez.. *head desk*
I stole that one straight from their majesties The Three Stooges.
Bad photoshop/10.
except it’s not.
go to google images and put in “michelle obama, soup kitchen, cell phone”. the first 3 pages are a LOT of different sources all showing this same photo. i’d link them here but PK would eat them and doing a tiny bit of googling to educate yourself is good for you.
Also, it might convince you to say this is a bad photoshop times 10, not 1/10th of a bad photoshop.
Basic math, FTW!
I always wondered that when I worked in the homeless shelter. Those women would bitch about having to come up with 35 cents for a bus transfer, but they all sure had cell phones! I guess when they want something they can find the money, but they expect the rest of us to pay their damn rent and feed their baby daddies’ (always more than one of both — kids AND daddies) kids.
We’ve got our instigator here.
Rae, please, the argument isn’t necessary.
rae -
i’m tending to agree with tygor that you’re just an instigator… but in any case i’ll bite just this once. they have phones because they don’t have home phone lines. many cell plans are cheaper than having a home phone. if you expect them to get jobs and become a contributing part of society they have to have a way of being contacted. no one is going to hire someone who doesn’t have a phone number… it’s kinda hard to call them in for the interview.
Thanks Shortie!! I work with kids in an Independent Living Program… one of the first things we do is get them to buy cheap cell phones with minute cards so that when they apply for jobs, they aren’t stigmatized if the business owner calls here and we answer the phone “This is _______ Program, how can we help you.”
anytime MG. i know there was a time when i was in college when i stormed the verizon store and demanded they give me a new phone. the one i had was randomly dropping calls while in full service. i was on a phone interview and the call was dropped 4 times. i obviously didn’t get the job. having a non reliable phone is almost as bad as not having one…
The other part of this picture that maybe people aren’t thinking about…. If I’m doing something close to a homeless shelter, and someone says “Hey, Michelle Obama is over there serving lunch!” I might try to get in and snap a photo or two on my phone… maybe that’s what this guy did???!!!
i think that’s what it was in the end. but remember, why base things in fact when it’s so much more fun to speculate and get your panties in a twist!?
Isn’t that how Fox News operates?
Only when they need their ratings to go up, MG.
And when does that happen, seeing as how they lead the cable news ratings?
I think Anderson Cooper should set himself on fire so he doesn’t keep getting his little heinie spanked in the ratings.
I’ve been getting a kick switching between MSNBC and Fox News recently for the “Punditry” going on in the evenings… it’s like seeing both sides of the penduluum… I wish there was a responsible news network out there that was just “News” and didn’t lean so far one way or the other.
I tend to get my news from the morning show on HLN. Robin Mead isn’t allowed to be a pundit that early in the morning because I’m sure it would cause some heads to asplode. So I get news there, and entertainment when my liberal bestie sends me clips at work from the Rachel Maddow show
I watch them as I’m scrolling through Rush’s site. It’s quite entertaining!
Hell would freeze over first.
*cou-NPR-gh*
There is goose, it’s called the BBC
My favorite is how Keith Olbermann tends to go on and on every time his ratings beat out Bill O. The sad part is that apparently it doesn’t happen that often. :-\
If this is true, shouldn’t Michelle be trying to get people like him out then? Isn’t he (since he’s not there to eat) getting in the way of people who are hungry. You know the people Michelle went there to help? Or are you saying it was just a photo op?
I’m not sure that anyone can control the number of people that would want to see meet the first lady in any given area of a U.S city.. :/
Right, because putting somebody (or 2) at the door to keep gawkers out would be impossible.
and you would identify the gawkers how? ask them to show their cell phones? ask them when they last ate? make them show you their wallet to see if they have any money?
yeah, that’s a bad idea. there are some homeless in cleveland who look just as well kept as my coworkers (not sure if that’s good for the homeless or bad for my coworkers)… they’d probably be pretty pissed if you dismissed them as a gawker when they were coming to get dinner.
plus, what the hell has our country come to when you’ve got to have bouncers at the food kitchen!?
Good point. It would be hard to weed them out.
In fact, now that I think about it. I’d be surprised if they didn’t have secret service at the door. But the only thing they could do is say “only people who are here to eat are allowed to come in,” but that only weeds out the honest ones. Which would also explain why there aren’t more people there trying to get pictures. It also looks like the service line is still in order (unless it’s become a line to take a picture of the first lady).
Just ask everyone to show you their ID. If it has an address on it, they aren’t homeless.
unless their homes burned down, or they got evicted..or forclosed on…or under a bridge dont count as a address
Right. And how would you decide who’s a gawker and who is homeless and there to get food?
Have someone at the door with a stethoscope listening for growling stomachs, and a sign posted over the door that reads “no growl, no gruel”
See now that’s thinkin!
Yes. Michelle Obama should be out there, asking for ID and physically removing everyone who isn’t homeless from the premises. Volunteers? You’re outta here! Staff? I’m afraid it’s scientific experiments for the lot of ya.
The snopes link that Ceefax posted on the bottom provides a lot of reasonable information about this topic, perhaps you’d be interested in reading it and/or simmering down.
“Staff? I’m afraid it’s scientific experiments for the lot of ya.”
Is that what happened to you?
No, that’s what happened in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life! You can pick it up at any video store. Hey, you could make two stops and buy yourself a sense of humor!
“Hey, you could make two stops and buy yourself a sense of humor!”
I’ll have you know I’m the high bidder for one on ebay, thank you.
Yay!
I saw that snopes link. But that doesn’t disqualify my question since my question already assumed the (accurate) premise that this guy wasn’t there to eat. Why are they letting in people that weren’t there to eat? I conceded that point above. But why do they let people who are only there to take pictures stay? Because it’s a photo op.
Isn’t every step any of the candidates (+ families) take during the election process a photo op?
Unless you’re on vaca in Martha’s Vineyard, then there are no cameras allowed.
Good for them.
What the link does mention is that there are other people who are legitimately on the premises besides those who are there to eat. And yes, of course it’s a photo op, I think that’s the whole idea, right? To “spotlight local organizations, connect with the city and help those in need amid the economic crisis”?
Right, but that’s a phone with a camera. My phone does not have a camera, and I paid for it myself.
One needs a phone. One does not need a camera phone.
mg never said her kids got camera phones and the ones provided by the government program are stripped of all the extra goodies. and if you’d passed your “read all the comments before you say something asinine” test you’d see that this guy actually wasn’t homeless in real life and just stopped by to get a snapshot of michelle.
Even if they are poor and have their own cell phone, camera phones very often are free phones when you sign up for service. Camera phones are a dime a dozen.
And he could also have stopped in just to take a picture of Michelle Obama, and could easily not be poor. Wouldn’t you want to meet the First Lady in person? Being in a soup kitchen doesn’t mean you can’t pay for a cell phone.
I wasn’t saying that. I KNOW he wasn’t homeless. But the_original_shortright and mothergoose said, respectively, “if you expect them to get jobs and become a contributing part of society they have to have a way of being contacted” and ” work with kids in an Independent Living Program… one of the first things we do is get them to buy cheap cell phones” and my point was phones with cameras a not cheap phones. That was my entire point.
But if you know he’s not homeless… Why would you take his camera phone as an example?
Er, I was trying to join the discussion. I wasn’t agreeing with Rae, I was just pointing out an inconsistency in what the_original_shortright and mothergoose were saying. That is how discussion works.
And I know the_original_shortright says below that the cameras are inactivated on the phones given out for free, which again makes his comment pointless, because clearly if the camera works (and I assume that’s why the guy is holding up the phone) then he is paying for it.
I wasn’t agreeing with Rae, but that doesn’t mean I have to agree with the_original_shortright or anyone else.
Rae was talking about women at the homeless shelters having phones. Shortright was explaining where they may have received said phones. The guy in the picture is not poor and has his own camera phone. No where did Shortright say that his phone was provided by the government. I really fail to see where you think Shortright was “wrong” in her statements.
You can buy a Trac phone for under $20, with many varieties of cameras and features. Heck, it’s getting hard to find a phone that isn’t touch screen, much less with a camera.
Yeah I was about to ask “Where the hell can you get a phone WITHOUT a camera?”
Mainly cause I’m really tired of my phone’s memory being filled up with pictures of the inside of my pocket.
Keep a pocket pussy in there, you’ll stop having that problem.
And something to look at on those cold lonely nights.
But… how am I to keep Jane in my pocket?
Yeah, I have asthma, I need to breath something besides pocket lint.
*hands Jane oxygen mask* Here you go. Good luck!
Well Jane, you have to look at all the possibilities. One would be the fact that there’s a snorkle handy..
*snorts*
Thanks Eddie… my joke was very weak.. but you my friend, you made it much much stronger.
I’m relieved to know that I’m not the only person that at one time had a gallery of lint collection on a cell phone. My new phone though doesn’t have that problem because it has the button lock and is made of awesome. (LG Voyager)
I’ll bet you didn’t know this, but I’m so old I actually gave God the recipe for lint. You can blame me, I don’t know what I was thinking with that one!
Damn you Eddie!! Lol, So who’s idea was dirt?
Man, I have no idea.. dirt was already there when I did the lint.
Yeah, I had a lot of pic of the seatbelt of my van with one of my old phones. My G1 doesn’t have that problem. It also allows you to use common SD cards, that thankfully are relatively cheap now. Unlike the Sony that requires you buy one from them at roughly 3 times the same cost as an SD card.
Your phone doesn’t have a camera?
Is it a rotary dial?
Do you live in a cave?
Two dixie cups and some string, SB… that’s all you need…
Mine doesn’t. Last time I bought a new one (a couple of months ago) I deliberately chose a phone with only the functionality I want – less things that can break.
Most of the phones you can get “free” from Verizon (with a 2 year contract) have cameras; so I’m not sure how “phone with a camera” is some kind of huge luxury.
Actually, it’s challenging to find a new phone without all that stuff. When my mom’s cell carrier finally forced her to upgrade from her 90’s-era analog phone, our conversation went something like this:
Me: Ok, here’s the phones your carrier will give you if you renew your agreement with them.
Her: I just want a phone that makes and receives calls. I don’t need any of that fancy stuff.
Me: Ok, well, this one’s pretty straightforward….
Her: It’s got a camera. And web access. And games. I don’t want any of that stuff, it’s too confusing!
Me: You don’t have to use it. Most of us have stuff on our phones we don’t use. It’s just there if you want to use it.
Her: But I don’t want to take pictures with my phone. I just want to be able to call AAA if my car breaks down!
Me: So don’t use the camera! Look, how about this one?
Her: What’s Enhanced Text Messaging? I don’t want that.
Me: *head explodes*
I finally found her one without a camera and she agreed to compromise by just ignoring the web and text-messaging capabilities. She never turns it on, anyway…
my grandmother still has her analog one from the 90s. everytime my grandfather goes in to renew her contract they try to make him turn it in because keeping stuff in the store to fix it and all is a pain for them. she has used it, i think, 3 times since she got it when it was new…
I hope her carrier doesn’t finally go “Look, after date X you will no longer be able to make analog calls on our network” like my mother’s carrier did, or you guys will be having the same conversation.
i think they’re gearing up to do that. and i don’t think we’ll have any conversations about it at all. she’s now in week 22 that she’s been in the hospital and we’re not anticipating her coming home… so her need for a cell phone would be really really reduced. but of course, the phone is pretty far down the priority list right now.
Sorry. I missed that somehow.
it’s ok! i haven’t made a big deal out of it… the first 4-6 weeks were the worst. she’s actually making progress now but has been “out” for so long that she won’t come home, it’ll have to be skilled care. she hasn’t swallowed anything without aspirating it in over 10 weeks… unless she can eat, safely, she can’t come home.
Sorry, shortie…
*sending good thoughts and prayers your way*
thanks MG.
*hugs* shortie.. we went through that with my wife’s gran. I know what you’re going through.
*hugs for shortright*
*hugs* Sorry shorthright. My thoughts are for you and your family.
Sorry to hear that shortie
thanks everyone… really.
You are most welcome, sweet cheeks.
Sorry to hear about your hard times. I will be praying for you and your Mother, and family.
One word, Diss. Jitterbug. And it has big keys for the seeing impared
OMG!! We’ve got a TV ad that runs here all the time!! The Jitterbug has become like the new “Clapper” or “Life Alert”…
*brain storm* Combine the three, and get the JitterClapAlert phone! One button access to notify your partners you have the clap!
Think of the commercials we could come up with for that product!!!! Jeezis!!! The revenue we could generate on Hookers alone!! We’ve got the market cornered!!!
Now, if we could just figure out how to get the “clap on, clap off” to work on venereal disease….
we need zombie billy mayes. no one else could sell this product.
His yell is/was so loud that he’d scare the clap right off you.
Um.. sounds like an old people STD.
ewww old people STD’s
LOL! *wipes morning coffee off monitor*
I thought about it…but it’s kinda overpriced for what it is. And besides, it’s not like she can’t work a normal phone; she’s just ornery about it! Oh, and since she’s had cataract surgery (on the first eye), she now has better vision than I do. Or any of my kids.
I’m on a plan with my parents that I pay my portion for because it’s cheaper than being by myself. We only upgraded to camera phones last year and when we came home with our new phones Charlie was heartbroken that his phone didn’t get upgraded. We tried to explain to him that his phone was still under contract (because he had, for some unknown reason, had it in the pocket of his swim trunks and lost it in the ocean) and tmobile wouldn’t let us upgrade without buying an expensive phone but he was still upset. Now that my brother is moving to Canada he was going to give Charlie his camera phone. I predict he is going to get thoroughly over excited, like he did when he learned to text, and we’re all going to get a lot of pictures that we can’t tell what they are just because he wants to use his new toy.
ya clairissa explain it all!
Melissa Joan Hart…bow-chicka-bow-wow!!
Dork Crush FTW!
You’re kidding right? You actually think welfare leaches don’t have jobs because they don’t have PHONES??
Maybe if any of you pathetic stupid liberals ever bothered to go and see how these drains on the world live in their FREE everything, you’d finally GET IT. They don’t work because they are too damn A: STUPID, B: LAZY C: UNCIVILIZED and D: you do gooder liberal ‘heroes’ PAY THEM NOT TO!
“Poor” people are “poor” because they’re stupid, not the other way around and this country is on the verge of bankruptcy because we PAY THEM TO REPRODUCE!
When a stupid uncivilized lazy dirt bag has a bastard kid, guess what the kid ends up being?
We already have “free insurance”…every piece of shit on welfare gets it, how’s that working out?
Oh look, a cussing eleven year old. How enticing his argument is.
If you’re not going to cite any facts, you bleeding moron, stay the f*ck out of the conversation. You shouldn’t be calling ANYONE uncivilized, by the way you act here- calling every liberal “pathetic stupid liberals” and calling the homeless “welfare leaches” don’t exactly imply intelligence or reasoning skills beyond that of a common enraged Homo Neanderthalsis.
By the way, please take your idiocy back to youtube, you useless shell of a human being.
no YOUR a homo-erectus!
*strokes bitter’s homo-erectus*
-twitches-
*licks bitter’s homo-erectus*
I’m sitting in my room, when my mom and my dad came in. they pulled up a chair and they sat down. They go “NO_MO_BAMA, we need to talk to you.” And I go “ok, whats the matter?” They go “me and your mom, we’ve noticed that lately you’ve been having a lot of problems, and you’ve been going off for no reason, and we’re afraid you’re going to hurt somebody, and we’re afraid you’re going to hurt yourself. So we decided that it would be in you’re best interest if we put you somewhere where you could get the help that you need.” And I go “wait, what are you talking about, WE decided? MY best interests? How do you know what MY best interest is? How can you say what MY best interest is? What are you trying to say? I’M crazy? When I went to YOUR schools, I went to YOUR churches, I went to YOUR institutional learning facilities. So how can you say I’M crazy?”
INSTITUTIONALIZED!!!
You’ll like it at Shady Acres Home for Assholes, NMB.
All I wanted was a Pepsi. AND SHE WOULDN’T GIVE IT TO ME!!!!
Human compassion shouldn’t be a “liberal”-thing, nor should it be a “conservative”-thing; it should be a “human”-thing… unfortunately, NMB, I don’t know if you qualify…
Thank you! Very well said.
Well said!
hi, my name is shortright… you’ve been around here enough to know that i’m not a liberal. if you’re going to be a raging foaming at the mouth jackass at least base it on truth. as for the other shit you’re saying… i’m going to let those with a bit more time on their hands (since i am actually at work and no longer on lunch) deal with you.
Also not a liberal… and while I have some choice thoughts on welfare reform, I’d be the first to admit that if we have any hope that people will be able to get off welfare, having a phone is probably an essential step; cell service is frequently less expensive than a landline and will also stay with you if you’re having to live between rooms-for-rent and the occasional relative’s couch.
Also, I don’t think anyone’s noted yet that very often a lot of people in “soup kitchens”, food pantries, etc., aren’t homeless or on welfare, but working poor people who have run out of money at the end of the pay period and need something to eat. (Don’t know about DC, but it’s true where I live.)
NMB i’m not convinced you’ve ever actually seen the “drains of the world” as you put it. I know I’ve seen a family with dirt floors, and unable to afford food, they had chickens and goats in their tiny backyard in order to eat, those old enough to work had jobs at the grocery store and they took the rotten veggies to feed the animals. that’s how they survived, they didn’t have sh!t. I’ve seen the poor and homeless unable to get work because debilitating injuries, and listened to them tell stories of what sort of trains to jump, or how to get hired by the circus.
Sure it’s anecdotal, but it proves not everyone is a lying cheat, and as stated before, human compassion shouldn’t be a philosophical idea, it should be part of being human, once you’ve seen someone suffer you should wish to help.
But tell me, when did you visit these “drains of society” i’m willing to bet you haven’t seen anything more than a slightly low end suburb.
Also, was I the only one that thought of swift after the “pay them to reproduce line”?
Free insurance pays for jack shit, asshole. I know, I have to pay for 99% of my medical bills, and I have free insurance. My mother has to pay more because she has even less benefits, due to be over the age of 21.
The economy is being flushed down the toilet, even successful companies are going bankrupt, and you think those who can’t pay for themselves are stupid? How many of those homeless people do you think lost their jobs from the recession? How many of those homeless people do you think tried applying for jobs, only to get turned down because the company was going out of business? It’s not stupidity that makes people homeless. If it was, we’d be seeing you signing up food boxes on a daily basis, you dipshit.
Well…it was stupidity, just the stupid jerks responsible had golden umbrellas…that washed golden showers onto the rest of us.
That metaphor wins you 1.2 internets!
I love America.
In no other first world country can you walk among whole neighbourhoods of trash living on the street.
Even if you’re only middle class you can still feel like a prince knowing that you aren’t one of the four million in the gutter.
And you can be douche nozzle of the highest order any day of the week. Congratulations, Douchey McDoucherson.
The USA has nearly 4 million homeless people and over 2 million in prison.
That’s 5% of the population. One in twenty people.
Thankfully they don’t count toward the unemployment figures (or the USA couldn’t pretend to do better there than europe),
and they are either unable (in the case of prisoners) or unlikely (in the case of the homeless) to vote.
How nice of you to take this country and degrade it in such a way. How nice of you to distort information to be a troll.
Oh really? Care to dispute those figures?
The USA has an incarceration rate 10x that of europe and the rest of the developed world. The UK is criticised for it’s ‘high’ prison numbers and yet those are a 7th per head of population of the USA’s.
The rates for homeless are more difficult to compare as most european figures count people living in government rented accomodation not up to a certain standard as being homeless (i.e. with shared facilities) whereas the US for the most part does not. You can place it at anywhere from 8x more homeless in the USA on a best case basis, to 40x on the worst.
I never said the figures were wrong, I said you were distorting them to be a troll.
Everyone distorts figures, pretty much.
US evangelists like to use PPP figures for GDP for example when they aren’t at all appropriate for a developed economy.
SO it’s ok for you to distort figures to try and make a point because everyone does it? Cute. And still wrong.
I care to dispute those figures.
6 million out of over 300 million is not 5%, it’s 2%.
Beyond that, you’re not even making a cogent argument. I have no idea what your point is beyond good old fashioned trolling.
Holy shit I didn’t realise we’d hit the 300 million mark.
But I agree with your math.
math is hard…
Meth is much better.
Nice job proving s_b’s point, Douchey.
When Sears ships me my human cooking grill, I’m throwing you on there first. Alive. And I’m gonna cook you slow, so you get to feel the pain, and smell how good you’re probably gonna taste to everyone who gets a bite. You are one of the slimiest trolls we’ve had here, and you make me hate humanity.
…”Le Nouveau Colosse” est malade…Je comprends…
…escalation time…
It’s never too early in the year for fruitcake. Who wants to celebrate with me?
Pass, I hate fruitcake.. But I’ll have a Bailey’s with you..
Even better! I had a mint chocolate flavored Bailey’s on St. Pat’s this year and I recently saw a caramel one, I wonder what that tastes like.
it tastes like yummy. my brother, SIL and myself killed a whole bottle of it on xmas eve last year while playing uno and drinking irish coffee.
Oh man, either sounds good!!!!
Ether sounds good to me.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers… Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into locked a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.
we cant stop here…..this is bat country..
Fear and Loathing.. FTW! You ever done ether, s_b?
suddenly i was surrounded by lizards…
..and someone was feeding booze to the god damn things
No, ether is on my “do not try” list. You?
Well, I had a friend who worked in the chem lab at the UofA who once stole a bottle of ether.. Yes. I have. Interesting evening.
Now you have to tell the whole story!
*props head on hands and waits*
Oh man now I have to make up something interesting.. Crap. Well, we ended up in my friend’s walk in closet all night huffing ether and talking about the ether bunny. All in all.. with the alcohol and weed involved.. I remember very little. But, in the middle of the night, he went back to the UofA to steal some more ether and my friend Chris ended up passed out in the ether closet.
The Ether Bunny
Easter will never be the same.
Sounds consistent with my impression of ether! I don’t think I would dig that very much…anyway it’s not like it’s handy
Why do I so often forget to put this on my list of “great Johnny Depp films”? I mean it’s clearly right up there…
can we launch it with a trebuchet?
Or maybe a mangonel?
Unbelievable.. I’m so gobsmacked I can’t even think of a decent reply.
in troll kingdom, we eat poor. going to soup kitchen really bad thing for them
Oh Noes, soylent soup is poooor peeeples!!!
They make a really tasty broth, though.
Hai gaiz.. Amongst NO_MO_BAMA’s steaming pile of shit, there is a gold nugget of truth.
There ARE a bunch of stupid people on welfare breeding! We need to stop this drain on society.. By enforcing sterilisation!! Then, we need to have a bunch of “red tape bureaucracy” involved to get a breeding license! This would solve TWO problems, one, the stupid people in welfare breeing (within a generation, no less!) and two, the right wingnut myth that only stupid lazy shiftless slobs are on welfare! Join me and NO_MO_BAMA in our crusade to rid the world of stupid people! Thanks, NO_MO_BAMA for shining the light!
but bitter troll dont want his nuts chopped off
Sweetheart we won’t chop them off, just enforce vasectomies and tube tyings.
Forgive the typos in my post, I’m just excited about this new plan, thanks to NO_MO_BAMA!
Can we force abortions on them as well? After all, those are only going to be future lazy welfare recipients, might as well nip them in the bud now.
What a marvelous idea Janie! I love it! Forced abortions for everyone on welfare! Let’s start anew!
oooh and perhaps a culling of the hoomans?
chops them up and make meat pies for rich and trolls
We can ferment the blood for absinthe.
Because absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
Liquor in the front, poker in the rear!
Ive found B+ makes a lovely Merlot.
I enjoy merlot with my Soylent Steaks.
B+? What a slacker. I’m an A+.
You make a lovely chiraz.
You’re right, charro! And guess what, it’s started by him hiring John Holdren (sp?) in his administration! A man who clearly wants nothing more than to put sterilizers in the water supply, and rip the uteruses out of each and every able bodied woman by hand! Yay, we’re on the right track!
I don’t want my uterus ripped out.. Just removed carefully with lots of opioids involved.
if we are the do gooder liberals ( atleast some of us
others are do gooder Conservites or independants)) what does that make him? a do badder? IM A RAT BASTARD AND I KNOW IT BLA BLA BLA…must make his mama proud for her to know he hates to do good
You are not a human being. I think you are pathetic, and if you really believe all this horse shit then I’d rather give every penny I have to help these “drains on the world” than buy you so much as a candy bar if you were starving to death. You are worthless, and it makes me sick to think that there are good people in the world suffering in poverty while a rotting fly-infested sack of donkey shit sitting in the sun like you can sit at your computer and judge people you’ve never met. I hope you can experience it from the other side someday, and if you do, I’ll be there to laugh at you and call you stupid, lazy, and uncivilized.
The fact that NO_MO_BAMA exists proves that karma is a lie, just like the cake.
I ain’t going through the whole thread to see if someone already said this. But it’s leech, not leach.
he’s got a cell because of the safelink phones… you know the ones where if you get food stamps you can get a gov’t paid cell phone…
except that program deactivates all cameras and additional portions on the phones. the phones that the homeless (or otherwise really badly off) get through that program are only phones.
Yeah. The last thing we need is homeless people snapping pics of their junk and texting them all over the place. And my junk I mean naughty bits.
Homeless junk? Soon to be stuck in a trunk.
Gah, that was WORSE than a dead baby joke…
what’s the difference between a truck load of bowling balls and a truck load of dead babies?
Oh boy.
What?
One cannot unload the bowling balls with a pitchfork.
<rimshot />
*rimjob*
You can’t use a pitchfork to clean up the bowling balls…
n8 and mg got to it before me. i’m so glad you both share my sense of humor.
How do you make a dead baby float?
ok, i know i’m late… but what’s the answer max. i wanna know this one. i need more dead baby jokes.
I totally missed this one.
Two answers:
1) Take your foot off it’s head.
2) 2 scoops of vanilla, 1 scoop of dead baby.
i’ve heard answer #1 as the answer to “how do you stop a black man from drowning?”
(yes, i know it’s all kinds of racist and wrong… but we’re in the midst of a string of dead baby jokes. all classiness is OUT the window.)
What is red and creeps up your leg?
A homesick abortion.
How do you know when a baby is a dead baby?
The dog plays with it more.
What goes plop, plop, fizz, fizz?
Twins in an acid bath
How many babies fit in a blender?
Depends on how powerful the blender is.
What’s the difference between a dead baby and a trampoline?
You take your boots off to jump on a trampoline.
Two scoops of ice cream and one scoop of dead baby?
You got one of them
Please. The correct answer is “You can’t roll a strike with a dead baby.” Duh.
oooh, i’m gonna use that one too in the future.
So hard to get a dead baby to “hook” just right on those lanes!!
I don’t have a truckload of bowling balls in my garage?
Okay. Dead baby jokes. I’m out. Nice knowing you guys. Please fvck yourselves.
Oh, man. Sorry Eric, that was super thoughtless.
Whatever. Like I said, I’m done. Fvck it.
shit… sorry eric. i didn’t mean to start this… sorry!
Er.. Wow this is embarrassing. How thoughtless and tactless. I am very sorry Rando.
Heh. We had a homeless guy busted for showing his junk in one of the parks near my office. He told the cops he was “just giving it some air.”
Speaking of showing your junk, I was listening to the radio last night and they were talking about the National Topless Day (or whatever) that they had in New York to protest, even though going topless is actually legal in New York. I also heard that there are something like four states where it’s legal, Texas included. Well, I says to myself, “Self, we need to look this up”, so I did, and what I found said that the penal code (heh heh heh) in Texas specifically mentions genitals and anus, but not boobies. And that makes it legal to go topless in Texas.
I said all that to say this. Diss, is it twue?????
If so, topless party at my house!
I’ll be there!!!!
*flashes boobies for all to see*
Well, this seems to be a fairly exhaustive reference to the laws regarding states of undress in Texas and Austin in particular. *Warning* may be just a little bit NSFW due to photos of guys riding bikes in nothing but jockstraps. Nothing’s really…showing, though. But don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Oh, and yes, apparently it’s technically legal although probably not what we’d call “advisable” in legal circles.
Woo! *takes off shirt*
-pulls off his shirt- GIMME BEADS
*hangs beads off all six nipples*
oooh it tickles!
on a completely and totally “ignoring the caption” note… why on earth is the soup kitchen serving mushroom risotto?! shouldn’t they be focusing on the basics, like lean protein, veggies, grain, and fruit before going all gourmet?
since a risoot is basically rive with minced veggies and a bit of cream or butter it is a high calorie, low cost “gourmet” food. High calorie is bad when you are an obese spoiled american teenager, but good when you don’t know where your next meal is coming from.
thanks for ’splaining! i always see risotto on iron chef and at nicer restaurants and stuff so i figured it was a bit more gourmet than that.
the high calorie with veggies and other stuff is a good concept though.
Ah, yes. When I grew up “risotto” was just another word for “leftovers from when we had a meal with rice yesterday”. I’ve always boggled at the insistence of having it as a standard meal on Hell’s Kitchen and the like.
Then again, I suppose it’s vital that those chefs know at least how to make a basic dish like that.
i like your definition better. sounds like the sort of stuff i make a lot of.
I thought it was funny at first too, before i realized gourmet food is just nicer looking and higher priced. they had gourmet PB&J on Hell’s kitchen once >.>
I am quite certain the Hell’s Kitchen version of risotto also has a far better taste than the swill we were served.
what on earth is IN gourmet pb&j? is this like brioche with cashew butter and freshly jarred strawberries? i think i’ll stick with my smuckers and jif…
yep, same here. I have an “unrefined pallet” and i am happy to live with it. Anyway i can’t remember what was in it. I know the burger had blue cheese though…
moldy cheese… blech.
DON’T TALK LIKE THAT ABOUT CHEESE!
*sobs*
i like cheese. just bleu/blue cheese is gross.
*covers blue cheese’s ears*
Don’t listen, cheese. I still love you.
Me too!
I’ll be happy to keep the cheese in my stomach so that it cannot hear the blasphemy.
I don’t know about HK’s idea of gourmet PB&J is, but our old family recipe for PBFT is about as gourmet as you can get with PB and bread.
Start with cinnamon bread, extra points if it’s big honkin’ thick slices like texas toast.
Take your fave PB and slather a thick layer between two slices of the cinnamon bread.
Dip the sandwich into eggwash, then fry to golden brown on both sides. Done properly, the PB should be oozing out the edges.
Serve with powdered sugar and maple syrup and you have peanut butter french toast.
It’s only about three bazillion calories, and a month’s worth of sugar, but it’s worth every bit.
Sweet mother of mercy.
i’m drooling thinking about that. add in some slices of banana and it’d be even better. it’d be like fat elvis’ favorite food.
I’m guessing cause they got a rice donation – regular, not arborio – and someone decided to use some older vegetables to make vegetable stock, and add instant or canned mushroom soup for the mushroom flavor?
I am sure it is not arborio rice, fresh mushrooms or dried porcini, dried white whine, gourmet risotto. More like “risotto”.
Also, some places like this get leftovers from caterers, restaurants, etc.
I of course meant risotto, not risoot.
Is risoot anything like Piscetti??? (cue Eddie)
i love pscetti. i love eddie too. but the two are mutually exclusive.
eddie may be exclusive, but I don’t think he’s against mutual foreplay.
eddie’s older than my dad. skeevy!
Bite your tongue shortie! He’s the distinguished, sexy type and don’t you forget it.
eddie is george clooney!?!?
Hell, I can be anyone you like! *throws open the closet to show off the disguises*
*peeks in there*
Audrey Hepburn… NOW!
*lurks with digital camera that has straight upload to PK*
*Jumps out – ta-da*.. sorry about the hair, I didn’t have time to do it right.
*click-flash* Woohoo!
*jumps back in and comes out as Marlon Brando – the early years*
Sexy Eds! *click-flash click-flash* Woo, turn that way! *click flash* You own it! *click-flash*
*returns his normal old self*
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I want copies!
*emails pics to Eds* Very sexy.
bitter troll wants pics emailed to him!….wait thems pics of eddie…nevermind….oh wait bitter troll can fotoshop..ya send!
Oh dear.. Eds.. I think I emailed YOU the naughty pics of myself and bitter troll the pics of you.. My bads..
No worries Charro.. I have a blog that is running 7 bazillion hits, I’ll just post them there.
*blushes furiously* I was young! And on drugs!
How young? I don’t want to be going to no jail!!
awww charro still yong and butiful and on drugs
Oh I was 18 and barely legal. No jail for you Eds.
Thanks bitter troll!!
RachelRisoot is what I call the wife! But thanks for thinking of us. Sometimes even the kids don’t call!!
When people do not have a home, they do not have a phone. There is no way for them to be contacted by employers so that they can be NOT homeless anymore. There is a wealth of cheap cell phones on which minutes can be purchased and charity programs to give them out so that those who want to get off the streets have a lifeline to the world and can find a job. Not only is the poster of this ignorant, bigoted and stupid, but Pundit Kitchen should be ashamed for giving this fool publicity.
You realize the captions are *voted* on, right?
Though I don’t agree with them, the poster can say what they want. Pundit Kitchen not giving this guy the same opportunity for displaying his opinion as everyone else wouldn’t be fair. Although, they don’t have to be fair…
I suppose that it’s completely out of the realm of possibility that this person isn’t homeless and going there for food but heard that Michelle Obama was going to be there and hurried over to get a picture?
That’s not what I said at all, Jane. What I was trying to say is that the poster can say whatever they want, and there isn’t really a point for Byrd to get upset. :/
I know, I was adding to, not disagreeing with your comment.
Sometimes you can’t reason with a teen.
and you can never drug them and touch them….trust the bitter troll
Er.. *hides syringe and silk rope* Thanks for the warning, bitter.
ya, but chris Hanson is real nice guy, he let bitter troll have a seat and drink some teea
You mean the Hanson brothers?
Bitter Troll loved mmmBop.
*jigs* mmmmBop ooh wah wah ohh mmmBop doodly doo doo mmmBop
yes taylor hanson very pretty girl
Uh, Quagmire, Taylor Hanson is a guy.
Cite.
“and you can never drug them and touch them”
Hey, 16 is fair game in several states.
*charro casts come-hither glance to tygor from across state line*
My feelings for Tygor are completely platonic and appropriate.
It was partially my fault. That was going through my head when I was reading the comments and Tygor’s post was the last I read, so I stuck it there when it wasn’t really relevant to Byrd’s comment and Tygor’s response. Ah well.
It’s ok Janie.
i think that’s what ended up being the “story” when a reporter looked into it because of all the publicity this got in the media. however it’s way more fun to get your panties in a twist about the homeless and blah blah blah……….
last i checked, most blackberries weren’t cheap and most charity programs weren’t giving out phones with their camera/video capabilities still activated.
but as tygor pointed out. these are voted on. take your self righteous indignation elsewhere. we don’t need anymore fcuking care trolls around here.
ya bitter troll is enoff!
Thank You Byrd –
That was my first thought as well.
– homeless folks can use a cell phone to follow-up on job leads and to conduct the social networking necessary to get out of a crappy situation.
This pot-shot got 1 short-sighted little Lincoln from MaMaQ.
BTW – Pundit Kitchen serves what folks cook up. Don’t like it? Vote on it. They ain’t no shame in votin’ honey.
Unless you vote democrat… then apparently, you’re destroying America.
Wait.. does that mean I can’t help destroy America? I’m not a Democrat.
Well…are you a Liberal? *narrows eyes* Did you vote for Kerry in 2004? *sniffs for patchouli* You smell like seaweed and troll sex…aw shucks, I guess you’ll do. Here’s your communist manifesto, please join the line on the far, far left under the sign that says “Destroying America Begins with You.”
I didn’t vote in 2004.. I was too drunk and on welfare.
Woohoo! I’m a Commie!! *swims towards line on far far left*
She’ll do fine.
Aw shucks, s_b, you’re too kind.
-lifts up bitter sign that reads-
Billy goats killed family, please help
Need money for food and new bridge.
Darling, come stay with me.
but bitter troll cant breath in aquaman land
Hrmm.. Oh dear.
Those billy goats can be gruff.
I’ve eaten arugula, can I join?
Yes, step right up, step right up, here’s your Public Broadcasting license plate frame and the keys to your Prius. It’s parked in lot E – Elitist. Your job in the fight to Destroy America will be to drive around drinking lattes and being generally unbearable.
Shouldn’t that be.. Step left up?
Ah…left you are
I can do that! *jumps in brand new Prius and drives to Starbucks*
Did it occur to anyone that perhaps the man taking the photo is another volunteer, not someone coming in for a meal?
Look at the rest of the comments before you ask the question. Your question is answered at least 6 times above.
Don’t be an idiot.
Or at least be a CREATIVE idiot.
huff huff huff!
moi! moi! moi!
Yes, but I prefer my own delusions.. any other questions?
THANK YOU!
I guess people would rather ignore that possibility in favor of bickering about poor people and who should be allowed into soup kitchens. ~eyeroll~
Snopes did a pretty good write up on this photo (Click my name)
Good stuff Ceefax, thanks for posting it.
What the hell? How else is he supposed to get a job without a cheap cell phone? This isn’t 1982. They’re ubiquitous and cheap.
Way to screw up a classy moment by our first lady. I can’t believe this got voted up, much less made the front page. Stupid racist crackers voting for any fool thing that makes the Obamas look venal
racist…….
right……..
If you have to say that you’re not a racist, it’s because you are.
A statement on par with “If you are not with us, you are against us.”
considering how often it’s shouted around, particularly on the internet, particularly about the obamas…well sometimes those people need to be told to shut up.
I remember after the election someone called me “racist against white people” after i mentioned off hand how it was nice to see some change in leadership from old white guys….and I am the whitest person i know >.>
I’m not racist. I hate everyone equally.
FaileV, you pretty fly for a white guy
girl…I’m a girl :<
That makes you even MORE fly for a white guy.
prove it to bitter troll! lets see boobies!
<.< hmm
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“This cell phone? Oh, it’s left over from a few months ago, before the foreclosure and outsourcing. You know, when I had a house, a car, a job, and still some hope left that people wouldn’t judge my entire life based on a single glance. Silly me.”
FTW, What…. FTW.
Actually, you should do that as a caption for this picture!
except it wouldn’t fit, i don’t think…
But, yeah!
Double epic win. That post throws it right in the face of all the discussions of this picture. Almost makes me miss the thumbs up option. LOL
Indeed. Only, maybe don’t say that so loud or they might hear you and come back (and boy are they gonna be pissed when they see what Max and I did to their statue).
Jane! I just finished polishing that! It was my community service!
Community service was served, you’re free… Lets make a cheese statue next time, so if we have to get rid of it… we can eat it.
I like cheese. Can we make one of chocolate too?
You have to make a manger from chocolate and the baby from cheese, so we’ll have chocolate and Cheesus.
Nice one, froo. All hail Cheesus!
Chocolate Cheesus? That’s no way to refer to our President young lady!
I like Swiss Cheesus, but that might be in poor taste.
bitter troll rather have head cheesus
Chessus is best when he’s being Gouda .
*snickers*
*sighs* Cheesus… I meant Cheesus.
what would cheesus fondu?
HA HA HA! That genuinely made me do a big lol! nice work
I read that as what would jesus fondle, but either way if funny.
I know! How dare you hang on to the shreds of your tattered life when the economy came crashing down about your ears!!
sometimes clinging to shreds is all peoples have
It was sarcasm dear.
sometimes clinging to sarcasm is all bitter troll has
But.. you have my tail to cling to.
mmmm slippery when wet
Like this white tshirt I have clinging to my mermaid breasts.
-twitch-
*rubs breasts suggestively, and a little nipple pinch*
*wink*
-POUNCES CHARRO- RAWR
*rolls around with bitter troll* You’re so much fun when you’re all riled up!
-inserts grunts moans thrusts crashing sounds, the sound of a cat screaming, two paniced midgets and the sound of a shop vac-
Don’t forget the jumper cables! *pants and squeals*
*flips the page of his book and readjusts his earplugs*
Best fricking 35 cents I ever spent…
-out of the darkness of his bitter cave under the bitterest of bridges, the sound of a rubber coated jackhammer echos out-
waitaminnit… this is a PHOTO OP. The whole point is that the viewer is supposed to “judge (an) entire life based on a single glance”. You can’t winge about it when the stage-management of the photo op goes wrong and sends the “wrong” message.
No.
The whole point of photo ops is not for the viewer to judge an entire life based on a single glance. That is what Paris Hilton is for.
OK… what’s a photo-op for then? Rational analysis? Come ON.
There was a news article in the local paper a coupla months ago, about how a (relatively) large portion of my state’s homeless have little cheapo TracFones or Go-Phones that they buy prepaid minutes for, largely for the purpose of letting their family and friends know they’re still alive, or calling the police or EMTs in the event of an emergency.
For most of these people, a twenty dollar card gets stretched out over weeks, if not months.
I’m kinda both ways on the subject. It does get annoying to see someone who’se homeless with high class brand named shoes and cellphones. BUT it is possible that he could have gotten that phone from one of the cell programs, which is fine and dandy…
But in all seriousness…
This did make me lol.
She’s just happy because she thought it was a banana.
wow…anniee…thats pretty raceist
Not to mention despicable…
Here, hold on to this banana for me. I’ve got caught up on something here.. Feel free to shove it up Anniee’s ass though.
>_> uhm…not interested…
equally messed up…
*kicks dirt* Aw.. Shucks.
^^; Sorry, but even a troll like her deserves /some/ respect, IMO.
*shrugs and goes back to lurking*
I respect your opinion.
^ω^ Thanks.
You’re welcome.
-ponders how charro kicked some dirt-
You forgot to uncast the leg making spell.
but charro has such nice legs!
I agree. I like this beautiful lotus flower that resides between them, and the magic little button. *shivers*
But, that’s how I kicked the dirt. Still have legs.
bitter troll casts splash version of spell, in water you got fishy parts, on land nice gams!
Woo! I like your spell casting abilities, my love.
-snuggles his cheery charro-
Don’t forget to play with my lotus flower dear.
so pretty!-dives down and plays, nom nomnomnom-
*squeals with pleasure* Oooh! You know what a mermaid loves.
bitter troll presses magic button like its video game! -press press press press-
*arches back and screams* Don’t stop now.. I’m.. *pant pant* Ohmigodiloveitosmuch
-whistles super mario bro. theme while he plays-
It feels better if you hum it.
HmmmmHmmmHmmmm hmhmhm Hmmmmm
Haaaaa… Ohmygod… *pant pant* Now bite a little…
-opens massive mouth filled with razor sharp teeth- nomnomnom
*flips another page of his book* Oh man… ignorance is bliss.
*squeal* Bring the pain!
Oh.. Hey what’s Max reading?
Very well Kelto, I respect Anniee’s ability to never have anything constructive to say and to “WARGLLGLARGL” all over the cushions of the couch.
Damn, that was a brand new couch too. Sad.
sorry charro…bitter troll didnt mean to break it, and shred it, and get all those stains on it
Better put away the black light…no one needs to see that.
HAH S_B bitter troll not hooman, his love stains glow neon green, sometimes they spark too
Looks…glooey…
hows it taste?
Hey Anniee.. Want to play “Hide the banana”? Just close your eyes and turn that way. Don’t worry, it’ll only hurt for a minute.
i mean ok you dont like the woman because of her husband…did you really have to make yourself so ugly because of it?
What?
was talking to anniee and her nasty comment
Oh ok. Want to help me hide the banana in Anniee’s ass?
no bitter troll wants nothing to do with any of her holes…you on the other hand-grins-
*giggles* Keep your tongue out of there for two seconds so I can get this banana all the way up Anniee’s ass!!!
*squeal* Ok.. Maybe the banana can wait.. Keep doing that with your tongue…
new meaning for banana split?
And Anniee once again doesnt disappoint in the “Saying nothing of value, or wit, or humor” category.
Aw damn. And I had 11:00 am in the racist comment by Anniee pool.
some homeless people have phones. prepaid ones you can get at wal-mart are 25 dollars in some areas, not even in most. and there’s 1 cent minute plans.
still funny though, and the phone looks pretty dang expensive for a prepaid one x3
This is depressing. I have friends and family who have become homeless for different reasons, and none of them are stupid, lazy or uncivilized. Getting a hand-me-down cell phone with a camera is easy, being able to afford rent and good food is a little tougher.
Sorry, didn’t mean to reply here.
-prepairs to be flamed-
how come no one entertains the idea he stole it from a old rich white woman?
I knew that camera looked familiar! Give that back to Barbara!!
Because we’re not badly damaged husks of human beings?
speak for yourself! i’m barely human and mostly husk.
an empty shell of a fly, really. very tragic.
UH OH I JUST LOST JOB
CAN I HAZ U BUY AN OLD CEL PHONE PLZ?
NOES?
OK I KEEPZ IT
*reads through the four-hundred-plus posts*
Shux. I miss all the fun. *kicks dirt, pouts*
I’m not poor; I was just waiting in line to take a picture of you working in a soup kitchem Mrs Obama.
The give them away for free in Florida.
Hell, they give ‘em away free at Verizon… with the service, and since quite honestly the phone won’t do you much good without the service, why not?
give what away, the phones or the homeless people?
I can get a free homeless person in Florida? *thinks* Can I make them be my butler?
I bought my cell phone with leftover Change.
And a little Hope.
But I’m still paying a tax on my phone that was levied to pay for the goddamn Spanish-American War.
strange photo, even without the caption…nothing like publicity any way the obamas can get it, no matter where it comes from.
yep, that’s the obamas, camera whores and socialites. i mean, i can’t believe someone would be in the paper every day, who do they think they are, the president and first lady? he’s not even american!
(sigh)
i need a beer. you make me drink. i hope you’re happy.
come sit over here by me & i’ll share my scotch. gotta use something more numbing than beer to eradicate any contagious stupidity before it infects us too.
…scotch…for the person who is to smart for this world…
…well… maybe in the next…
…maybe in the next things will be better…
Well the caption does make a good point.
ummm, no it doesn’t — if you would have bothered to read all the comments you would have learned that people from all walks of life and income levels can have cell phones, some of which are given to them by shelters, various agencies, or maybe even relatives; furthermore you might have even grasped the concept that this person could have been there as a worker or came from next door for the opportunity to snap her pic & being seen and being part of society is part of the job of being first lady
He’s not poor, he just wants a handout.
since i am european this sounds very odd to me. the US government actually provides the poor with cell phones? you gotta be kidding me. how about providing them with a future instead? or did i misunderstand something and fall for sarcasm?
This one gives new meaning to “Soup Nazi”