BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jul-22-10 10:59 AM
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My incident with a tea-bagger this morning (at Publix-Grocery store)
I'll try to make this short..
So I'm in line at checkout with several items...Cashier is having trouble with his register...no big deal.
Woman behind me says: "These prices are getting higher and higher..ect"....Those Liberals are going to break us all"
I turn around and she has Flags and crap all over her blouse Plus a Tea emblem. (I think to myself..oh brother..Hold your temper,
Bluejazz...don't start some nasty scene.)
But I thought I would, at least, let her know that I'm a Liberal....so I says "Well, I listen to The Daily Show and Colbert Reports".
To my surprise, she says "Oh, I watch that Colbert guy all the time...He's a true Patriot and A Real American" !!....and she goes
on and on and on about what he says is SO true. (I'm standing there thinking....W.T.F ????)
And then it finally dawns on me...."Dear God...this idiot has NO idea that his show is Satire...She thinks he REALLY feels that way about our Country"
I didn't say much more.
So this is what we have to overcome...Total, Complete, ****ing Ignorance of even the most simplest human interaction.
As I left the store, I was thinking....and this person Votes...Sigh..
rfranklin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jul-22-10 11:01 AM
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1. What's that syndrome where people are too stupid to know they are stupid? Updated at 10:44 AM
She could be the poster child for whatever its called.
fishbulb703 (330 posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jul-22-10 11:22 AM
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18. It's not a syndrome, its a statistical trend, if I know what you're getting at.
Stupid people (tend to) rate themselves more competent than they are and smart people (tend to) rate themselves less competent than they are.
So, stupid people will tend to believe they are not stupid.
is that what you were thinking?
TalkingDog (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jul-22-10 11:20 AM
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17. Commies! I wonder if she knew she was shopping at a communally held business?
Ha! That always makes me laugh....
wryter2000 DU Moderator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jul-22-10 11:08 AM
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8. It ought to be a crime
Voting while stupid.
ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jul-22-10 11:09 AM
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9. Freepers don't do subtle nuance in the least
their brains simply are not developed to the point where irony, satire and parody register.
Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jul-22-10 11:11 AM
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13. It's people like this that really truly deserve the right wing government they long for.
I just wish they could all go somewhere and have it.
LiberalAndProud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jul-22-10 11:11 AM
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14. Teabaggers don't realize that Cobert is satire.
Because he's not. He simply reflects the true mindset of the far right. Thinking people recognize the absurdity. Those he mocks don't get the joke. They just sit back and say "right on."
Remind me again what was Al Franken's credentials with these tools.
BlueJazz
My incident with a tea-bagger this morning (at Publix-Grocery store)
I'll try to make this short..
So I'm in line at checkout with several items...
wryter2000
Thu Jul-22-10 11:08 AM
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8. It ought to be a crime
Voting while stupid.
It's always at the grocery store, like people really talk politics while on line, everyone is in a freaking rush to get out of the store. Oh, and I live in a heavily Republican County, how come I never hear people talking politics around here when they go to the store?
SunnySong (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jul-22-10 11:04 AM
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3. I had the simular experince at a Publix a few days ago...
She then payed with an EBT card (food stamps)
Talk about holding your tongue...
I live in a heavily Republican county too....and I've never heard discussions like this. Most people are just intent on getting their stuff out of the cart, dreading how much it's going to cost, paying for it, and getting out of the parking lot without getting hit by some little old lady who's hanging onto the steering wheel for dear life and a handicap sticker hanging from the rear view mirror. ::)
Someone had to take the bounce a bit higher.
Is Sunny a mole?
And then it finally dawns on me...."Dear God...this idiot has NO idea that his show is Satire...She thinks he REALLY feels that way about our Country"
I didn't say much more.
Good possibility.
And I think trying for a spot in the 2010 Top Ten, indeed a gutsy move. His thread on 2 million dead ( posted here) (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8769505) did a great job of flushing out a bunch of hate filled sleepers over there while solidifying his position as an over the top anti American loon.
That's why I think it's a good possibility the sunshine primitive is a mole; the modus operendi is just too good, too slick, too nuanced, for an authentic primitive to think of, much less attempt.
Sometimes moles tend to overdo things, being a tad bit too perfect. Of course, the primitives, with lesser-developed cerebral capacities, eat it up, but decent and civilized people know what's going on.
Caution, however; this is just speculation on my part, that the sunshine primitive is a mole. franksolich has been wrong before. Only time will tell, as time inevitably does.
SidDithers (1000+ posts) Fri Jul-23-10 10:42 AM
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107. Stay classy, Sonny...
PICTURE OF THE TOMBSTONE
Sid
pinto (1000+ posts) Fri Jul-23-10 10:43 AM
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108. Member is no longer with us.
Locking.
SunnySong (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-22-10 09:08 PM
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56. For too many people in upsatate NY it is a depression. nt
Look, BSS and Carl,
He's our neighbor.
I read the thread. I honestly don't see what he did to get the stone. They were just bickering about Chelsea's wedding.
He told the truth?
It's against DU policy if it reflects badly on the administration or the Dems. Aren't most of the NY politicos, Democrat?
Aren't most of the NY politicos, Democrat?
TalkingDog (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Jul-22-10 11:20 AM
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17. Commies! I wonder if she knew she was shopping at a communally held business?
Ha! That always makes me laugh....
Talkingdog, like my actual dog, is an idiot (I know, that condition is considered part of being a DUmmie). Publix is not a communally held business and never has been. It was started by a single man who saw a niche in the market and put everything he had into a business to fill that niche. Even today, you don't get to sit on the board of directors for that company unless your related to him. Publix is an example of what the entrepeneurial spirit can do, given enough freedom. BTW, I'd like to thank the OP for shopping at Publix, I'll enjoy spending their money when I get my dividend check.
Talkingdog, like my actual dog, is an idiot (I know, that condition is considered part of being a DUmmie). Publix is not a communally held business and never has been. It was started by a single man who saw a niche in the market and put everything he had into a business to fill that niche. Even today, you don't get to sit on the board of directors for that company unless your related to him. Publix is an example of what the entrepeneurial spirit can do, given enough freedom. BTW, I'd like to thank the OP for shopping at Publix, I'll enjoy spending their money when I get my dividend check.
Your actual dog deserves better . . . than to be compared equally with a DUmb****.
Your actual dog deserves better . . . than to be compared equally with a DUmb****.
I've yet to see a mumbling, drooling dog scared of it's own shadow....
Although 1 of mine is scared of the vacuum cleaner, he IS housebroken....
Remind me again what was Al Franken's credentials with these tools.
Uh oh..... our spotlight on the Sunny one may have boosted the primitive's confidence a tad too high.....Buddha-Boom!!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8797761
Ah Sunny.... we hardly knew ye.
I've yet to see a mumbling, drooling dog scared of it's own shadow....I've yet to see a mumbling, drooling dog in a furry suit either.
BakedAtAMileHigh (677 posts) Fri Jul-23-10 10:34 AM
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100. I love it when folks use the term "classy"! It's so revealing.
Your language reveals much more about you than your subject. You should know that you can indeed buy "class": as a matter of fact, money is the basis for the entire f**king idea. You can't buy TASTE or STYLE, which is something that people who use the word "classy" to describe these types of offensively over-the-top events on the part of the moneyed elite do not seem to understand.
Haven't we had enough idiotic hero-worship in this brain-dead country?
Not only is Publix publicly traded on the evile Wall St, it's also expensive to shop at. There's 2 strikes.
PLUS they believe in treating and paying their employees fairly, with NO union prodding. This ones a wash. BUT up till a few years ago they closed on Sunday, *GASP* because the Fundy management wanted to allow the employees and customers to attend church. OMG they believe in GOD!!111!!111!oneoneone!!
Strike 3 and the DUmmie OP is shown to be a hypocrite. No good democrat would ever be seen in a place that has stock, doesn't practically give away food and believes in God. No way, no how.
The 1980s brought considerable change to Publix. One of the first changes was automatic teller machines, which Publix began installing before many banks did. The firm was also the first supermarket chain to install bar-code scanners in every store. Jenkins had always refused to open his stores on Sunday, but in 1982, losing market share to stores that did, he relented.
I was 6, so I didn't notice which stores were open on Sunday. lol
...Ronald Reagan was more classy than Ted Kennedy was. I’m more classy than Ted Kennedy was. Fungus is more classy than Ted Kennedy was...
Ted Kennedy as a worm feast is more classy that Ted Kennedy was....
What on earth is wrong about Ted Kennedy.?Good God you are pathetic.
Lots of fellas come from a family where their father is rich, and a former ambassador.
Check him out guys, both his brothers were assassinated at an early age, had a sister lobotomised as she was in love with a married man.
He had to watch as his older brothers became world famous and had sex with the same movie star. His sister married a movie movie star with connections to the MOB.
Fun family life after he spun a strange story about the passenger in his car who drowned and had to find a way to keep his wife from getting half the family fortune.
His sister-in -law at a young age remarried a bald headed old fart that was in love with another woman.
He was now the head of the family and his Nieces and Nephews were driving him nuts, One stole his 90 year old mother's pain medication and later died from a drug over dose. Another one was convicted of murdering a 15 year old girl. One went on trial for raping a young woman on his front lawn.
Somewhere in there his Wife began to drink big time.
Sad, so sad, his only relief was to run stark necked on the beach at night and he had to give that up.
The day his niece was to be married his favorite nephew crashed his plane into the water killing himself, Bimbo wife and sister-in law.
This is just a small fraction of the life of Teddy, in a little over 35 years or so this man had to face the Devil
But he WON won darn it, found a wife that supported him, bought a couple of dogs and became on his own a very influential Senator and perhaps found peace at last.
For me, he was one of the most interesting people to come out of Camelot.
What on earth is wrong about Ted Kennedy.?
Lots of fellas come from a family where their father is rich, and a former ambassador.
Check him out guys, both his brothers were assassinated at an early age, had a sister lobotomised as she was in love with a married man.
He had to watch as his older brothers became world famous and had sex with the same movie star. His sister married a movie movie star with connections to the MOB.
Fun family life after he spun a strange story about the passenger in his car who drowned and had to find a way to keep his wife from getting half the family fortune.
His sister-in -law at a young age remarried a bald headed old fart that was in love with another woman.
He was now the head of the family and his Nieces and Nephews were driving him nuts, One stole his 90 year old mother's pain medication and later died from a drug over dose. Another one was convicted of murdering a 15 year old girl. One went on trial for raping a young woman on his front lawn.
Somewhere in there his Wife began to drink big time.
Sad, so sad, his only relief was to run stark necked on the beach at night and he had to give that up.
The day his niece was to be married his favorite nephew crashed his plane into the water killing himself, Bimbo wife and sister-in law.
This is just a small fraction of the life of Teddy, in a little over 35 years or so this man had to face the Devil
But he WON won darn it, found a wife that supported him, bought a couple of dogs and became on his own a very influential Senator and perhaps found peace at last.
For me, he was one of the most interesting people to come out of Camelot.
You do know that Camelot doesn't now, nor has it ever, existed, right.
Ya know this is a perfect example of how many women vote ( they are th "he's so dreamy,has great hair, just get all tingly voters"). And they say men do most of their thinking with their little head. :thatsright:
Camelot, wasn't that the district in Illinois where the dead rose up to vote for JFK in the 1960 election?