Yes, absolutely, let's punish success.

[LC EFA]

To the primitives, and liberals in general, "success" is defined by anyone who has a job and/or in any way is self-sufficient in that they don't need the gov't to oversee their lives.  Their idea of equality is having everyone dependent upon some governing body to dictate to them every waking moment of their lives (and if they can figure out a way for the gov't to tell you what to dream when your asleep, they'd do that, too).  Naturally, anyone who doesn't fit that mould is way too rich and successful.

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I simplify this as "success" being anyone with more or better stuff than them.

[kenth]

I simplify this as "success" being anyone with more or better stuff than them.

Yep. If you have something they don't, you're rich, greedy, lucky, etc., and should have the government step on you for daring to be better.

[BEG]

Doesn't Mr. Pelosi own 51% of Del Monte?? Thats a good boycott target.

I like Del Monte green beans. 

[Lord Undies]

I like Del Monte green beans. 

Snob.

[BEG]

Snob.

Yeah my Dad bought us Del Monte green beans on his really great paying truck driving job when I was a kid so I refuse to eat any other green beans (except for fresh).  I'm such a snob.   

[NHSparky]

Snob.

No, I'm a snob because the only canned peas I can tolerate are those Le Sueur early peas.  Those are great.  Everything else tastes like pasty mush.

[Chris]

Del Monte has decent canned peas, but their fruit sucks.

[Lord Undies]

We were poor.  We had to make due with government green beans. 

[BEG]

No, I'm a snob because the only canned peas I can tolerate are those Le Sueur early peas.  Those are great.  Everything else tastes like pasty mush.

I only like frozen peas.

[BEG]

Del Monte has decent canned peas, but their fruit sucks.

I like their peaches. 

[BEG]

We were poor.  We had to make due with government green beans. 

You should be a DU'er. 

[Lord Undies]

I only like frozen peas.

Me too,'cept for pea salad.  Then I want canned. 

[Lord Undies]

You should be a DU'er. 

Really.  We so poor now all we can afford is yellow beans.

[Chris]

Everyone should be forced to try the British delicacy "mashed peas".

Horrible, nasty stuff.

[BEG]

Me too,'cept for pea salad.  Then I want canned. 

Sometimes for lunch I make some frozen peas in the microwave, put a bunch of butter and pepper on them and eat them for lunch.  

[BEG]

Really.  We so poor now all we can afford is yellow beans.

My dear Undies, I'll send you a case of del monte green beans.

[Lord Undies]

Sometimes for lunch I make some frozen peas in the microwave, put a bunch of butter and pepper on them and eat them for lunch.  

I do that too.  Sea salt, fresh cracked black pepper, and (real) butter.  One round green lunch.  

[Lord Undies]

My dear Undies, I'll send you a case of del monte green beans.

Thanks, but we can't afford a can opener. 

[NHSparky]

I only like frozen peas.

Have you tried the Le Sueur peas?  If not, you really should.  Frozen peas are good for stuff like beef stew or casseroles, but damned if the Le Sueur ones aren't as good (almost) as fresh peas.

[BEG]

Have you tried the Le Sueur peas?  If not, you really should.  Frozen peas are good for stuff like beef stew or casseroles, but damned if the Le Sueur ones aren't as good (almost) as fresh peas.

Yeah my husband's Mom makes them frequently.  I'll eat them but they aren't as good as frozen.

[TheSarge]

I simplify this as "success" being anyone with more or better stuff than them.

Which is just about everyone.

[dandi]

**** you.  **** you.  **** all you POS haters.

Rich?  Hardly.  Success means emulating the work ethic installed in me from the time I was a child--first by my father, who busted his ass 12, 14, 16 hours a day, sometimes 7 days a week, working in weather and conditions which would scare the shit out of you ****ing worthless basement-dwellers.  Then it meant putting that kind of effort in myself in the military, putting in the kind of hours at sea AND in port that would make you howl and whine like a dog that just got its nuts cut off without anesthesia.

And what did that work get me?  A relatively good-paying job with relatively decent job security, but one in which I must prove myself every day.  No "**** up, move up" for me--I do something stupid, unsafe, create a hostile work environment, I'm GONE.  And it's not some cush 9-5 job with a corner office.  It's 50, 60, even 70 hours a week, PLUS commute. 

For all that, I get the "privilege" of paying more in taxes in one year than most of you Cheeto-munchers have put into the system in your entire worthless window-licking, mouth-breathing, short-bus riding lives.  I'm up to my eyeballs in debt from an ex-wife who declared bankruptcy rather than pay her credit cards, so I get to pay them.  I'm putting money in my mother's pocket because she can barely afford where she is on SSI disability, and they take EVERY DIME she gets from SSI.  I'm then paying MY bills.  I get to take a long weekend somewhere MAYBE once every two years.  The rest of the time I'm busting my ass.  I'm not waiting for "da gubmint" to pay my mortgage, fund my lifestyle, or take care of the debts I have incurred or am paying.  But you seem to think that it's perfectly okay for me to fork over more than 40 percent of my paycheck to fund your lifestyle, then have the balls to come up and tell me I'm not paying ENOUGH????

And you wonder why the Tea Party folks are pissed.  Memo to the next person who tells me I'm not paying enough--hope your medical insurance is up to date.

Bravo, sir, well said.

[Karin]

Gaaah!  I log onto CC and what do I see on page 3 of this thread?  A discussion of peas!  Peas are evil, spawn of the devil. 

NHSparky, I feel the same way you do in your post quoted above.  This thread, plus the "tax them till their eyes bleed," thread, plus the gazebo painting thread, have combined to set my teeth on edge and fray my very last nerve.  I feel like punching somebody, because I can't seem to stop dwelling on the laziness, the freeloading, the sense of entitlement off of other peoples' backs that those despicable DUmb****s exhibit.  I flew into a little private rage toward Naturyl just getting ready this morning.  If he can paint and scrape and operate a computer, then he can work.  Instead he lives off of us and relatives-in-law. 

Yes indeed.  **** you.  **** you.  **** all of you worthless communists. 

[littlelamb]

Why do these morons think they deserve what they don't earn

[Lord Undies]

Why do these morons think they deserve what they don't earn

It stems from their vacant relationship with God.  They have no talent or life skills in order to make themselves happy in this lifetime, and they have no hope of experiencing greater things to come, so they have to insist they be wrapped in a veneer of happiness by a decent society of folks who are too evolved to be dragged down to their pitiful and useless level.