What pisses me off...........

[pickleweed]

maybe we can start a collection to send bluesnot to diversity school?

now moving on to insulting gays....

it will be interesting if i ever run into you.

I like "Diversity". Diversity is good!

If it wasn't for Diversity who would people hate?

People like themselves, LOL.

[erzats]

(puss-itized so to speak)

emasculated is the word you are looking for.

[bluesilver]

(puss-itized so to speak)

emasculated is the word you are looking for.

Thank you, I was trying to mix up the term usage to avoid redundancy.
And the only reason I brought up the gays (clearly with sarcasm, but we are all on different pages with how we interpret this) was to take the edge off my origional points.

carry on

[qball]

People who seem to think other people's lifestyle choices somehow affect them.

[Nash]

June.

[wetchicken]

ready to go, and nowhere to go

sunny day trash or brush pile burners-go to the dump, or at least do it at night so i don't breath in your burning diapers

and

people who think if they're far enough back that its ok to drive behind me with their brights on

if you see my taillights, shut them off damit!

[Dano]

People who seem to think other people's lifestyle choices somehow affect them.

Amen...

except...

When some jackass insists on smoking around me, my wife, and our little kids, their lifestyle choice IS effecting our health (and our right to enjoy life without some nasty cigarette smoke). Man that second hand smoke is so disgusting. Why the fuk would anyone smoke one of those cancer sticks, let alone be so obtuse as to think it's cool to do it around some little kids in a public place? Even worse is when that pathetic nicotene addict smokes on the fricking beach and then tosses his/her butt in the sand/ocean.

Same thing with nudists and "naturists". I don't want to see your flabby white @ss, so cover that sheit up you fuking hippy!

Same thing with dipsheits who speed in parking lots or small neighborhood roads. I don't care if your lifted truck is "sick for rambling bro" or your hoopty import car has a loud muffler and a cool paint job....slow the fuk down when you are driving in the vicinty of pedestrians and kids. Save your adrenaline fix for a road that can handle it, like the autobahn, or at least the freaking freeway (athough dikwads who do 100 on the freeway are no less stupid in my book).

Same thing with wannabe hard guys on harleys (or knock offs) who measure the hardcoreness of their big bad bikes by how loud they are, and who love to rev um up for impact as they flee away before anyone can say a damm thing to them. I don't need to go deaf just because your ego is so hurting for attention that you need to be louder than thunder so everyone looks and sees how tough you look in your leather jacket and shaved head and big tough boots. Oooooh watch out there's a scary biker dude!

Same thing with scrawny pimpled geeks dressed like rap music superstars who spend paycheck after paycheck on subwoofers bigger than a refrigerator to put in their trunks, and wire 27 amps to it and blast music so loudly that you cant hear a damm thing except all the loose parts in their invaribly sheitty car rattling around in the distortion while they sit at a stoplight with their heads on a swivel looking to see who has noticed how loud their stereo is. I get it pal, you like to waste money on the kind of car stereo parts that I used to steal from dorks like you back in highschool. Should I follow you home and knock the rust off my old skills just to shut you the fuk up? I seriously don't need the headace you are giving me, and I can't hear my kid when he's yelling at me asking me why you are such a moron.

Same thing with the braindead holdouts from the acid years who stand in the square below my office and rant on and on and on about how much the world is screwing them. Hey skidmark, how about shut the fuk up and do something about it. I don't want to hear any more of it. You said the same sheit yesterday, and the day before and the day before. It's making my head hurt.

Hmmm..come to think of it, there are actually tons of lifestyle choices that DO effect those around you.

[wetchicken]

you're hilarious dude, thats awesome!!!

[bluesilver]

Someones choice to be a drunk and get behind the wheel.

Whether you like it or not, everyones lifestyle choices will effect you in some way.. unless they are living in a tree in africa or something

[qball]

I see the error of my ways. All of my decisions about my life and my family can only be based on what's best for you.

Or maybe my right to swing my fist ends at your nose. And your right to tell me where to swing my fist ends at your nose.

[Dano]

I see the error of my ways. All of my decisions about my life and my family can only be based on what's best for you.

I never said that.

You said:

People who seem to think other people's lifestyle choices somehow affect them.

pissed you off.

I merely pointed out that there are many lifestyle choices that do indeed have an impact on other people. I said nothing about what you should base your decisions on, but I do think that it takes a pretty self involved person to actually think his choices don't affect others around him/her. Do whatever the fuk you wan't but don't be surprised (or pissed) when people get upset that your choices infringe on their freedoms and rights, and perhaps push back.

As for the fist/nose thing, I will just write that off as the bullsheit macho posturing that it is.

[qball]

climb off your high horse. Yes, we are all a beautiful interconnected web and some of my choices do have ramifications on people around me. But I was thinking particularly of people getting all worked up over gay marriage as if it somehow affected straight people. Sorry I spoke so broadly out of frustration with a puritanical few (religious, environmental, political) trying to dictate decisions by others that don't concern them.

as for the fist/nose thing: Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (macho bastard that he was) said "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins" in a constitutional argument on freedoms. It is very macho to quote Supreme Court Justices.

But for modern times he would have to say "The right for me to discuss the swinging of my fist ends where it inconveniences or discomforts the sensibilities of some people's noses."

[qball]

On a lighter note, I started looking up some other quotes by Holmes.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."

[wawaverider]

Getting spoiled in Costa Rica and now being back on OR and seeing the surf report.

[qball]

Parents "faith healing" their kids