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We’ve replaced Joe Lieberman the Democrat with Joe Lieberman the Republican. Let’s see if anyone notices.
(Joe Lieberman)
There is a word for that, you know.
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Remember when Rush used to call him “Liberal-Man” back around ‘00?
How crazy would that nickname sound today?
Lol! Yeah, crazy to us, but I bet Rush still considers him to be an ultra-liberal. Hell, anyone left of Rush is an America-hating Commie. Hilarious rhetoric!
Anyone notice that Rush is ALWAYS pissed off about EVERYTHING?
That much anger can’t be good for his health.
Just saying…
So let’s piss him off some more!
When Rush had the “Heart Problem”, two things struck me: First; who knew Rush HAD a heart?! And Second; wouldn’t it be ironic if his insurance company drops him because he’s a “high risk”?!
No, no. See, he paid cash — that’s proof that our health care system works: that you can pay cash and get health care.
And being able to pay cash and get the legislation you want is proof that our political system works!
(Disclaimer: This comment not targeted at any particular politician, lobbyist, or legislation….some restrictions apply. Serious side effects may include blindness, cynicism, and frequent urination. If you experience the complete loss of vision and hearing, call your doctor immediately once you grope your way to the phone.
if you lost hearing how will you navigate the customer service style “press 2 to…” phone puzzle
*thud* Oh, dear. FaileV just died…death by phone menu.
“…if you have completely lost your hearing, please scream incoherently into the phone until somebody shows up at your house to help. To repeat this menu, press #9.”
Oh, and just because.
I discovered, quite by ‘accident,’ that screaming obscenities into the phone while listening to the voice menu of a certain cell phone company will get you a live person without further ado.
Yes, they figure if you’re that mad they’re about to lose you as a customer and want to do everything they can to keep you.
Yes, I’ve done that on a number of occasions, mabsba.
Well, geez, my bill said that there wasn’t enough money in my account to cover auto payment of a $40 phone bill…but there was enough for my mortgage, my utilities, my kid’s tuition — all of which are just a weeeeee bit more.
Turned out they had revised their auto pay system, and ALL the bank drafts failed. I wonder how many people just paid the $35 fee and never went through the hassle of bitching.
mabsba, that’s called a buisness plan.
er, business plan
when in doubt, dial zero. Sure some systems have gotten wise to that, but it’s worth a shot.
Whenever an Independent sides with Democrats, he’s called a democrat, and vice versa. People need to realize that Independents aren’t out to choose sides – they just support whatever individual issue they agree on. In my opinion, what this country needs is a strong, organized Independent party. The Dems and the Republicans are too busy throwing stones at each other lately. It’s almost embarrassing.
Almost?
K, scratch the almost. It IS embarrassing.
Go Libertarians!
*hi-fives The Steve*
Libertarinas FTW
If I ever went into politics, I think I’d be a Libertarian. Who else can take money from big business while taking money from the unions at the same time? It’s brilliant really.
Actually, if politicians weren’t all corrupt, I’d agree with you. Unfortunately, politicians can’t be trusted or counted on. They do what’s best for themselves, not what’s best for the people. I don’t care what party they belong to or, in this case, what party they don’t belong to.
LIBERTARIANS SMELL LIKE POO! BLECH
if you look at their donor list and the amounts received, the only difference is the amount of $$ they give a certain side each election year… kind of scary they way big business hedges their politicans by buying both sides
Can we enact some laws preventing big business from giving money to politicians?
Yeah! Go Librarians!
Thick glasses turn me on.
Awww yeah baby, show me some of dat alphanumerical filing system. *makes porn music on an 80’s synthie*
*says in sexy voice* Dewey Decimal system. Card Catalog. Reference Desk. Inter-library loan…
“I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.”
Oh Mr. Giles…..
“Foolish human race! Organizing your knowledge by category just made it easier to absorb. Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands!”
Futurama FTW!
Tom Sawyer! You tricked me! Whitewashing this wall is not as exciting as previously indicated!
How far right have we gone when Libertarian are considered the center????
I can respect the Libertarian point of view but we need to bring back some real liberals as well
I don’t think they’re saying Libertarians are the center; I think they’re saying they’re an alternative. I personally like the definition I heard of Libertarians: Republicans who want to legally smoke pot and use hookers. (Sorry, don’t remember the person who said it.)
and don’t forget democrats who have big guns!
Big guns, eh?
Probably just wishful thinking….
Thom Hartmann is the name you are looking for!
Yes! Thank you, PM.
I agree with libertarians on a lot of levels. Some of the best debates I’ve ever had with someone with opposing political viewpoints have been with libertarians. And the best thing about it is when it’s all said and done my own anecdotal experience seems to show that a Libertarian will still call you a friend. A lot of ‘tow-the-line’ republicans are more apt to write me off entirely as a sociofascicommiegodless bastard and never speak to me again.
I’m not sure if “strong, organized” and “independent” fit together…
Joe used to consider himself a Democrat, but left the party when he lost the primary to a progressive democrat. He ran as an independent and won by receiving a huge percentage of the Republican vote. Now, he caucuses with the Democrats, but votes against party leadership on every meaningful progressive issue… One thing I’ll say for Republicans, you guys have some unity going on! Any Republican politician even *thinks* about voting in favor of reproductive rights, or cutting the military budget, and they get whipped into line pronto. I’d sure like to see Democratic party leaders inspire that kind of unity!
Rach, the difference with Joe is that every indication suggests he should be a Democrat. Consider:
1. He ran as a liberal democratic presidential, then vice-presidential candidate.
2. He only ran as an independant when he lost the Democratic nomination,
3. He still caucuses with the Dems (even if he doesn’t vote with them)
4. He still holds a comittee chairmanship based, at least in part, on his status within the Dem caucus.
What has the left pretty peeved about him is that he appears to not only be voting against the Democrat party line, but that he seems to actively be trying to derail most of the major Democratic initiatives and even the Democratic presidential candidate.
It’s not a problem for an Independant to vote against one party or another. It’s not a problem for a politician to switch parties. It is an issue when someone takes a vary active stance against a party while still trying to carry that party’s brand. If he wants to keep it up, by all means, but pull out of the caucus.
Not only that, but a few months ago he supported expanding medicaire to cover younger people. He recently voted against that amendment, and said publicly a few days later that he now opposed it because the liberal wing of the democratic party was in favor of it. Opposition merely for the sake of opposition makes me question his Democratic bona fides.
Opposition for the sake of opposition makes me question his ethical bona fides.
I don’t want any representative from ANY party to ever change their vote as some sort of retaliation or statement againts other representatives. It’s the congressional equivalent of picking a candidate because they’re pretty (Not that the voting public has ever done that ::cough::Palin::cough::).
And that’s the main reason I haven’t been able to support the Republican party lately. They seem to have abandoned their values and ideals, and have just become the “anti-democrat” party. There’s so much fear-mongering and negativity, rather than trying to find a way to turn their ideals into reality.
Umm. Joe who?
I’ll assume you’re not from the US, or that you’re lost and meant to click on the LOLcats or FailBlog.
He’s a Senator, although 3 seconds on Google would have told you that. So…you’re just intentionally displaying ignorance…or…what?
I don’t get it.
She’s Australian, I think. If I’m remembering correctly.
Australians don’t have google?
Nope. Kevin Rudd thinks it has too huge of a carbon footprint.
Also it violates the internet filtering the government is trying to put in place..
poor Australians. they can’t even play the gorey videogames cause the government thinks they’re all ten…
Or 100 — have you seen Paul Hogan lately?
Political commentary aside- is it just me, or does his head look freakishly large for his body in this picture?
He does have a huge melon…
I always assumed he had a normal sized head and a freakishly small body.
The Republicans hate him because he ran as a Democrat in 2000.
The Democrats hate him because he endorsed the Republicans in 2008 and is a pain in the ass on the health care bill.
I hate him because of he’s a little pussy on the subject of violent video games. There’s a reason “Liebermode” is in Postal 2.
Just curious, do you think violent video games should be banned? And what defines ‘violent’? (I don’t know Postal 2.)
Lierberman was for the banning of violent video games. I personally hate him for that fact alone.
Video games fall under the first amendment. There is a rating system, and the games are regulated. M means MATURE, if your 12 year old is playing Grand Theft Auto it’s because YOU ARE A FAILURE AS A PARENT.
Video games are not toys for children, they are entertainment media the same as movies and books. They should only be viewed by the appropriate audiences.
Ban video games and you may as well start banning books. Lieberman is a douche of the highest caliber.
I did not know that about him (or maybe it was buried under all the other stupid things he’s done). I am assuming that you are meaning the impersonal ‘you’ in your comment.
BTW, you should check out {notalwaysright.com} for stories of people buying games like GTA for their ELEMENTARY school age kids. I am always amazed that you need a license to have a dog, but to have a kid….
When I have kids, I’m going to give them every violent and sex-filled game known to man, before they reach puberty.
That way, when they do, they’ll be so inured and jaded to it that the whole thing will be completely “Meh” when they get old enough to kill people and screw whores in real life.
Not commenting on your parenting plans, but are you aware that being ‘inured to violence’ is a trait of most psychopaths?
Are you suggesting there’s something wrong with being a psychopath?
Being one might not be so bad; being around one is usually pretty unhealthy.
But, but — it’s National Hug a Psychopath (Carefully) Week!
But…but…I don’t want to hug Cgray!
Yeah. I talked to a guy working at a game store and when I bought a few M-Rated games mentioning that they were for my little brother for Christmas he warned me about the rating.
I politely told him that my ‘little brother’ is 22 years old, and he mentioned that his current record was selling GTA to a woman with a 5 year old. He said he tried to convince her it wasn’t a good selection, but the kid insisted and the mother bought it.
That pisses me off. I buy M-rated games so I don’t have to put up with stupid 5 year olds when I play online!
Tell me about it. I hate dealing with kids when I play online…especially when they’re better than me.
reminds me of a L4D online game I played. We were playing versus where one team plays zombies and the other tries to make it to the end of the map.
Our team had the most annoying trash talking little 9 year old, we ended up letting the zombies have their way with him…
Normally I’m against teamkilling. Nothing in the rules about not helping bad teammates, though.
What drives me nuts is when I’m the best player on a team of idiots, and they want me to join their party afterward. Sure, I’d love to have some teammates bring us down so we can lose miserably. Thanks for offering!
Normally I’ll try to save my teammates ass. However I have little sympathy for those that run halfway across the map alone, then whine because they died even though they were told to slow down, and it isn’t physically possible to reach them in time…
Lol i get those kinds of requests. granted I suppose I also friend those that are a higher skill level than I am, but I try…and make a good meat shield…
It’s happened to my girlfriend numerous times at the various stores she’s worked at (including sales to parents of five-year-olds). Disturbing.
Been there. Done that. I’ve actually stabbed a couple kids in the back (figuratively speaking) by informing parents of just what they’re buying their kids. Other parents have been like “oh, I know” and bought the game anyway. My 10 year old nephew has played GTA, Resident Evil, etc. I can’t stand it. I’m okay with mild amounts of violence in games for my kids to play (like Star Wars games), but if they’re going to watch or play a violent game, I want it unrealistic and very clear good vs. bad. For example, a game where the good guys kill bad guy aliens (Halo works).
Lego anything. Those games rock.
Some of my favorite games are the Lego games. My son, daughter, and I have played all the Lego Star Wars, Lego Batman, and Lego Indiana Jones together. Fun times for all.
I want Lego Indiana Jones 2.
I love Lego Star Wars!
Know what else is fun? Katamari Damacy.
That game rocks! It makes no sense and is still completely awesome! “Hey! You! Go roll a bunch of stuff into a giant ball!”
If you get it big enough you can roll up islands and clouds!
Santa gave it to me for the DS…..I’m addicted.
I’ve had that very conversation with my husband. He can play violent video games all he wants, and if he chooses to allow his 8 year old son to play with him, that’s his choice. But OUR son will NOT play that type of game when he gets to that age, because I don’t want him exposed to realistic violence. Now, killing aliens or machines, I’m down with that as long as there isn’t much (if any) cursing.
See my above comment.
I concur. Lego is the shizz
Yeah. Realistic violence is out. Also, anything scary is out. I bought Doom 3 for my Xbox a couple years ago, but hardly played it as I didn’t want my son seeing a single screen of it. Same with Gears of War. Far too gory and disgusting for him to watch. Halo is pretty tame in comparison, really. Campy sci fi alien killing.
Enjoy your upcoming divorce.
Yes, if she was dumb or unfortunate enough to marry someone so shallow that they would divorce her because she won’t let an 8 year old play a video game with a Teen or Mature rating, she would definitely deserve that divorce. Luckily she didn’t marry you, so I don’t think she’ll be needing that divorce.
He and I have an understanding about his kids. If they do something that requires me to discipline either of them (such as one hitting the other), he backs me up completely. However, decisions on how to raise them or what to expose them to are between him and his ex wife. They aren’t my kids, after all.
OUR two kids, on the other hand, he and I discuss as far as the way they are to be raised, because I actually do have a say in that. And I DO NOT want either of them exposed to that much violence before they are mentally ready for it. He agrees with me, and is ok with the decision made, as he left it up to me to decide how much violence is too much.
You need to grow up and realize that adults actually communicate with one another about the needs of the relationship they are in, and the children that said relationship might produce. If you can’t be honest and open with your partner, why are you there? Great sex can only carry you so far down life’s road.
Don’t come to Australia then. I can’t remember the name of the latest game to come out (it had something to do with killing zombies), but the government wouldn’t give it a rating which means it can’t be sold here. I don’t play games like that, but in my mind if an adult wants to, they should be able to.
Oh, FFS, that’s just stupid. You decide you want a video game that Australia thinks you’re all too immature for, let me know. I’ll buy it and mail it to you. Do they come over to your house and tell you when to go to bed, too?
It’s getting there.. and don’t even get me started on the internet filtering they are trying to put in place. If it goes through, you may never hear from me again as I would bet dollars to donuts that this site (and probably FB as well) will probably get blocked.
Are you quite sure you aren’t living in China? (Sad note — a friend of ours who was from China was over here on a visa, which expired, and he had to return after some years living and working here. He can’t even keep in touch with everyone on Facebook, as that’s blocked there.)
You would think so, right? What’s wrong with filtering being the responsibility of the parent? When my kids were under age, you can believe that not only did I do filtering, but I also monitored what websites they went to. But here, the government doesn’t trust parents to be parents and are trying to take over the role.
What, parents being parents? What a concept. I don’t play most of the games my son likes so I remember when he wanted Halo and I had no idea what it was except that it was rated M. So he started listing all the kids he knew that had it. Thing was, he only listed those kids whose parents I liked. Dang kid is too smart.
Yeah, I remember the first time my son asked if he could have an M rated game. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I looked into it and found out they’d changed the rating to M because there was some “secret” mode on it where you could play with the female characters topless. I bought it for him….I told him “Look, I don’t know if you WANT to play it with boobies, but if you do, that’s up to you. Boobies never hurt anyone.”
This year I started letting him get M games in general as he’s 16 and fairly levelheaded. He can handle Half Life 2.
I always wondered why that was rated M. It’s a great game though. I think it’s about five years old and I still play it.
Halo is only rated M because of some splattered alien blood, which is silly because it’s purple and alien. The multiplayer with killing other “Spartan” super soldiers is no more violent than a number of rated T games. I think the makers of Halo were trying to force a rated T game into the Mature category to make it seem cooler. I won’t let my son play the game, but he got a few of the Halo toys for Christmas.
When I worked for Gamestop I was told it was rated M because it was one of the Xbox’s first games and the company wanted to make the system seem more adult oriented than nintendo and playstation.
Can’t you get the internet on your phone, or can they block that too?
That would probably be blocked as well since the filtering would be done at a higher level.
That’s just sick.
Are you freaking serious? Alarmist much?
Right now they’re talking about blocking child porn, maybe some regular porn too. I doubt they’ll be blocking sites about funny pictures and Facebook right off the bat.
I’m not a huge fan of Cleanfeed, but really. REALLY.
I’m against blocking child porn. If you know it’s there you should hunt down the bastards who put it up and let a giant hedgehog on steroids rape whoever is responsible. Blocking regular porn I’m decidedly against. I don’t look at porn much at all, but I respect someone right to look at what turns them on. What gives the government the right to decide what types of porn you can and can’t look at?
Maybe not right off the bat, but give them time. Once it’s in place they can pretty much do what they want.
Oh, you’re just a silly alarmist conservative, Eddie!
Seriously, I think Franklin was right: Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
But then I’m one of those crazy liberals who believes in the First Amendment and has not just the button but also the shirt for “Banned Books Week.”
Oooh, there’s a “Banned Books Week” shirt? *wants*
I wonder how many schools ban that shirt?
Would religious fundamentalists set you on fire if you were wearing that shirt?
I’m sorry I don’t remember where I got it. Probably the American Library Association or some other such subversive group. (I believe they started Banned Books Week.)
My son thinks that the Banned Books List is a recommended reading list.
I was right: {http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2697} Mine is an older, different one.
The embarrassment of living in NM: calling my sister, bil answers.
BIL “Isn’t Alamogordo in NM?”
Me *sigh* “Yes.”
BIL “Are they really burning Harry Potter books?”
Me *deeper sigh* “Yes.”
I spent a week in Alamagordo one day.. it was the most miserable hour of my entire life!
It’s not?
Even the name is awful: Alamogordo = Fat Cottonwood.
DU, I can’t imagine where he got that idea. *whistles innocently*
I actually got mad when I saw a book on that list that I vehemently dislike. It simply wasn’t good enough to be on the list!
That’s what my son said about a couple of books — they didn’t deserve to be on the same list as Twain and the other notables on there.
Won’t somebody think about the CHILDREN!?!?!?!
I think it was L4D2.
There is a gore function in the game, so if you decapitate something with a machete you get blood on the screen. If you hit one point blank with a rifle the chest cavity is then visible. It is gorey yes, but I wouldn’t say it’s much worse than the rest of the game…It’s an adult game, adults should be able to handle it. It isn’t like they removed all the other parts like language, messages on the wall about military gunning people down, or the fact that theirs still crazy zombies about to eat your face.
Left 4 Dead 2.
I own that game. The US version, with the gore, guts, dismemberment, blood, and entrails.
It’s fvcking awesome. God bless America.
Can I get that for PS3? I like killing zombies. I need to practice for the upcoming Zombie Apocalypse, you know.
Apparently, (if you look at the games I play) I’m preparing for some sort of farming competition…oh, and bowling. Should there ever be a bowling war, I would kick @ss!
If we’re ever invaded by religious zealot aliens, I’m good to go. I just need my cybernetic enhancement and my super solider suit.
I’m learning to play Tennis…
Wait, scratch that…
I’m learning to serve really hard…
Guess I could do some damage if I hit a zombie with a wii remote/tennis racket…
Just don’t use the wrist strap on the remote. It’ll fly out of your hand and smash their skull in.
Sounds like a plan…
The only practice I get is in my (many) Zombie apocalypse dreams. I have learned that zombies won’t respect you if you attempt to kill them with a fork.
BTW, following our latest annoyance with Again over on ROFLrazzi (you were there. I was there. We were there), I e-mailed the admins. Again is gone for good. We win!!!!!
Really!!???
YAyyyyyyyyyy!
*Hugs Rando*
Thank you
Yeah. He went from merely annoying to truly offensive, and I had enough of him. He wasn’t even fun to rip on anymore. If you go to that Xena LOL, he’s totally erased. Hopefully he takes the hint and doesn’t try to come back under a new e-mail or something. He was far nastier on ROFL than he ever was here on PK. And hugs are always appreciated.
I don’t look at Roflrazzi much, but I saw that thread and Again’s comments were just mind-bogglingly awful. Well done, old bean! (Fist-bumps Rando in totally awkward way, trying to follow American etiquette)
I missed the comments…what happened? *looks lost and confused*
Again was just being beastly to everyone: the debate was a bit heated anyway because it was the old ‘ we need more strong healthy women in movies’ thing. But he was totaly misogynist, and then turned compeltetly misanthropic and was cussing everyone. He lacked charm, in other words.
*hugs*
Yay for the mighty Again-slayer!
Hater.
Yes, Again is quite the hater.
*snerk*
PC or Xbox 360 I believe.
I was always amused when some politician would bring up video games and scream “think of the children” at the general public. I’ve been an avid reader almost all my life as well as a video game player. When I was a teenager a few years ago my game library was zelda, old atari stuff, so on. However my bookshelf Dante’s inferno, crime and punishment, Frankenstein, and a number of Sherlocke Holmes novels…I’m surprised I’m as well adjusted as I am too be honest
Of course you have to be able to READ…
/sarcasm
Yeah, a good imagination and a book will out-gore any video game!
S’true. After all, all the fantastic horror movies and such left the gore mostly up to imagination. The human imagination is a dark and terrible place…especially if one has a decent understanding of physics and anatomy.
I read the book ‘Jaws’, and nearly yorked on the first victim-eating. Decided after that, that I really did NOT need to see the movie!
Horror is not my favorite genre, although apparently now Lovecraft is horror.
I did read the Exorcist in college in a Popular American Lit class. The prof told me he didn’t understand why people read horror as he had been on Iwo Jima and already had enough pictures in his head that he wanted to get rid of. Wow.
I had a Shakespeare teacher in HS who had served in the Navy, Atlantic theater during WWII. He shared a few things which still give me chills. When I found that a friend had survived 9/11 from the 90-something floor of one of the towers, I referred the friend to him, because I knew that the teacher could give him some help with perspective. I don’t want to be able to give that kind of help!
Holy crap. Yeah, I can imagine that would give you some issues.
I love that movie. Still have to keep my feet on the couch while I watch it……carpet sharks, don’t you know!
This I did not know about Lieberman. Now I have a new reason to hate that jackass. What a tool. Thanks, The Steve.
I don’t like him because asks for something, gets it, and attacks it. He suggested a number of ideas for a health reform bill, they were included, and then he refused to sign because they were included. He’s playing politics, not effective policy.
Jeez. I just don’t like him because he’s a LYING DIRTBAG.
Ahem.
I just had to let that out; I’m from Connecticut.
Slan, I think the world may end tomorrow. I agree with you.
*divides by zero*
*creates a black hole*
*disappears into a puff of logic*
I think hatred of Lieberman is pretty much universal. To paraphrase Red Vs. Blue:
“Joe, I don’t think anyone likes you.”
“I like me.”
Thanks for that picture. I’m going to be sick now.
Um…I have OCD when it comes to blue text? I have to click? Yeah…that’s it.
Understood, I have that myself… but should I post a warning next time that says “Default User, don’t click this link for your own sanity” or would that just make the compulsion worse?
Probably make it worse. I actually have a friend who was ‘forced’ to watch the dreaded two girls one cup video when a friend told him to watch the reaction videos and gave him dire warnings not to watch the video they were reacting to. Obviously, he had no choice. He had to watch it to see what was so bad.
Oh look, Warner Bros. is making Droopy cartoons again!
I love it when Jon Stewart impersonates him as Droopy… I get tears =P
Joe Lieberman looks like a ventriloquist dummy.
And really, he probably is.
Health insurance lobbyists have been seen leaving his office with brown hands, you know.
ewww, i hope you have brain bleach to share now – that’s not an image i want in my head…..ever…
Sorry ’bout that… I make it my life’s mission to prove the point that one never has to utter a single “four-letter” word to fit the true meaning of “obscene”.
I also think “retail,” “upsell,” et al make far better obscenities than the current official ones, but that’s another story.
No! Not the U word! No! Must…resist….programing….*becomes suddenly cheerful and perky, and not the good perky* Hello, thank you for calling Borders San Diego where you can purchase your copy of Sarah Palin’s new book “Going Rogue”. Default User speaking how can I help you?….You’re looking for a diet book? Well can I recommend ‘The Piano Teacher’? It’s a great work of historical fiction set in post world war 2 Hong Kong. Everyone in the company is very excited about it….No, I haven’t actually read it…no, I have no intention of ever reading it. But you should definitely buy it! No? What about Sting’s holiday CD? I’ve listened to it! No, I wouldn’t buy it myself, I thought it was terrible, but you should buy it….
*breaks free from retail trance* Ari! If I see you use the U word one more time I swear to Thor I will kick your ass!
When I worked in a retail pharmacy we used to be told to pick out an item to put next to the pharmacy cash register to be our “suggestive sale” item, as in “it’s right there PLUS you suggest purchasing it to the customers.” It was usually something stupid like advil or hand sanitizer, etc…..I always thought it would be fun to make our suggestive sale item something like Astroglide, or Nix. “Your total is $14.37, would you like to get some lube today? It’s on SALE!” or “Now, how about some head lice treatment? Always good to have around the house, just in case! And it’s on SALE!”
Nice. Astroglide for those with kids in tow, and Nix for the people out on a date? Or is that the other way around… (^_~)
My favorite part? When some waste-of-oxygen executive gets it in their heads that an utterly worthless product, like gift cards out of season, overstock books no one wanted, drinks that cost 1/20th of what they’re sold for, etc, would be a great way to make money. Of course it’s a great way to make money! Trouble is, customers realize that too – except from their point of view, it’s wasting money. But said WOOE only sees imaginary profits flooding in the door, so everyone has to repeat some stupid rote spiel that pisses off both clerks and customers. What? It didn’t work? Obviously the clerks were just being lazy, so next time we’ll add quotas!
F@#$ers.
Yeah, we have quotas. Every two months they give us a ‘make’ and a ‘key’ item. We have to sell x number of each and if we don’t there’s hell to pay. We are actually supposed to offer these items to each and every customer we talk to. I refuse. If someone is looking for a kids books with pictures of birds I’m not going to recommend the fscking Piano Teacher. I can understand Upselling when it makes sense, like night before last someone was looking for a book of pictures of fairies and I showed him a calendar of fairies we had, because I thought it was something he would actually want! But if he’s looking for pictures of fairies then recommending Stings Christmas CD really isn’t going to go over to well! /rant
DU’s performance review: “uncooperative attitude” “silly fixation with finding items customers actually want”
Phblttt.
Nobody cares what you think.
As obvious as John 1 referring to contemporaries of his, not to a politician who lives some 2_000 years later than the author, you mean?
I know I won’t get an answer to this, but at this point I’m genuinely curious — do you actually READ any of the comments on here or do you just duck in and post your unrelated mini-rant and take off?
Because, ya know, if you actually READ what people post here you might actually be aware that a pretty darn fair percentage of the regulars on here aren’t liberal; so ….what’s the deal?
Jesus thinks you’re an a$$hole and so do we.
LMAO @ “dictatorship of moral relativism”
(Sure, all of us should live by the beliefs of a pastoral, tribal people that lived more than 2000 years ago, or possibly by the beliefs of a slightly less ignorant group of people some 1600 to 1800 years ago. Otherwise, we’re causing a dictatorship!)
Wait, our President’s middle name is Hussein? Why has no one ever mentioned this before‽‽‽
Everytime someone brings that up my first thought is “a rose by any other name still has thorns…”
Seriously it’s not the name that makes the dictator, it is the person and circumstances. This conversation never happened.
“I think I want to name him edward”
“oh you shouldn’t do that, he’ll end up like ed gein”
“oh your right that is the same name, george then”
Personally, I’m going to stick to ‘Hussein means handsome, and if you insist on pointing out his middle name incessantly, I’m just going to assume you have a huge crush on him.’
Slow down Ioannes, we’re running out of straw for your straw man arguments. That and our BS shovels are starting to wear thin.
Look, you want to be funny, we’ll take it. You want to make a valid political point, we’ll take it. If you want to spout endlessly the taglines and baseless accusations of any party, Republic, Democrat or otherwise, we reserve the right to brutally mock you.
Your accusations only support Limbaugh because they are practically extracted directly from his show. There’s no evidence there, no stats, no figures, no historical precedent, no political analysis, nada. Just buzzwords (Obamalech is a new one to me, I’ll admit) and snippets from hyped up news tickers.
Republic == Republican
My apologies to those on the right
“Somebody has to point out the truth no matter how much you detest and fear it and want to attack me… you guys – being liberals – don’t want to repent… extolling the virtues of Obamolech… He is your “Christ” and as such one of the little anti-Christs about whom St. John so eloquently wrote in his first Epistle.”
Do you ever listen to yourself and realize you’re describing yourself in those whose minds you purport to read? You claim you’re being detested and feared and attacked for your religious beliefs… and in the same breath, make up imaginary religious beliefs for those who dare to disagree with you, and promptly give those imaginary religious beliefs a big dose of “detest and fear and attack”.
If you’re a concern troll trying to make people disgusted with true Christianity by pretending God is created in your image – i.e. hateful, unforgiving, Pharisaic, and hypocritica… then you’re doing a good job. But if you honestly believe any of what you just spewed out resembles “Love thy neighbor as thyself” or “If anyone claims that he loves God, whom he has not seen, but hates his neighbor, whom he has seen, he is a liar”… that’s just sad.
“If anyone claims that he loves God, whom he has not seen, but hates his neighbor, whom he has seen, he is a liar”
Wow, missed that line in Catholic school. I’ll keep that in my quick quotes list. I like it better than the ‘love thy neighbor’ and ‘turn the other cheek’ phraseology.
1 John 4:20, if you’re interested. Seriously, 4:20.
I like this one: Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
That was the quote for my middle brother’s water bottle this xmas. (We etched water bottles for everyone this year.)
My favorite passage is from the Book of Armaments 2:9-21
Yes, but that’s just too long to put on a water bottle.
But maybe it could go on the water cooler in the breakroom!
He drives a truck. I don’t think there’s room for that big of a water cooler.
You remind me of the guy who came to my college campus to tout his ultra-conservative brand of Pentecostalism years ago. You come here openly admitting that we’re going to attack you (which we didn’t, we mostly just laughed). You call us names which are incorrect, as many of us aren’t liberals and even fewer are so radicalized that we care about your opinions of things. You take an accusative tone as if somehow shouting us down will make us think your way is the better one.
I’ll say to you what I said to him. You aren’t here to change minds or speak truth. You’re here because you want us to attack you. You want us to lash out and show you how irrational WE are. You want us to do that because it validates your assumptions and strengthens your resolve against your perceived enemy. You may even think you’re a better warrior for Christ and what is right when we attack you because you are some brand of modern martyr for your beleifs.
I got news for you, you aren’t. Martyrs didn’t look for adversity, it found them all on its own. They preached their message in a way that was meant to reach people, not offend them. They met their fates as defenders of their beliefs, not attackers of others’.
Clearly from your site, you’ve read the works of the apostles and Catholic saints. Do yourself a favor and re-read them. And this time try to understand their methods as well as their words. You’ll find little of your methods in their works.
I’m pretty sure he doesn’t actually belong to any party.
Ach du Liebermann!
Either way, he’s Lieberman the Douchebag.