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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I would probably give up my seat for a pregnant elderly lady if she were carrying packages or something.

better not. if you'd been drinking you could trip into her when you get up. you could hurt the baby.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I would probably give up my seat for a pregnant elderly lady if she were carrying packages or something.

Actually, I've been on quite the subway manners tear lately, but mostly on the "blocking the door" thing. If you're leaning your lazy ass on the door (as I know I like to do), then it is your obligation make fucking room for people to get on & off, even if it means stepping outside at stations. Almost no door-leaners do this. I suppose the inherent selfishness of taking the good door-leaning spot for yourself means most such people are generally ill-mannered selfish assholes, but it still makes me irrationally irate. Do not get me started on people who park their suitcases/bicycles right in front of the door.

And I've been on a bit of a "lawyers are rude and suck ass" tear as well. The heads of one of the non-legal staff departments left after a decade a while ago, and I was the only lawyer who showed up at his goodbye party. Which was sucky enough, but when I mentioned to one of the partners that at X:00 I would be going to M's goodbye party, he said "who? Is he in litigation?" and I realized that it would never occur to him to think of a secretary or mail-room guy or any other non-lawyer as a "co-worker." Multiply that by 300 lawyers at my firm. I.e.: lawyers suck ass.

[nononono]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Does offering the ladies (incl. the preggos) the option of sitting on one's lap count?

Only if you let them wiggle around a bit.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Hank, you twit, I was not saying he cut and paste or copied. I am a big fan of Sebastian and that is the last thing I think he would do.

eta: sorry, I realize "you twit" is gratuitous. I apologize for it. I have a lot of aggression today because of the fuckwits that I work with and I'm taking it out on you.

Thank you. But like I said, I wish I had done that. It kind of freaks me out that I'm recycling. My brain is broken.

[nononono]

I like protein bars and such, and I like Kashi Go Lean cereal (crunch version), but the Kashi Go Lean bars are just nasty. This "peanut butter and chocolate" bar tastes like "carpet fiber and residual goo in the car door hinge."

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
I had sort of generally heard about the Hold Steady, but in a sort of background, yeah there's buzz about this band but I haven't gotten around to paying attention to it, sort of way.

Live they have a totally different vibe than their albums. Much more bouncy and upbeat, in a good way. I mean, as bouncy as you can be while singing about drug addiction, alcoholism, depression and Catholicism.

You may also wish to consider The Constantines and The Weakerthans (who are mellower).

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Thank you. But like I said, I wish I had done that. It kind of freaks me out that I'm recycling. My brain is broken.

I was sticking up for you.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I was sticking up for you.

Your new avatar is it supposed to be Mr. T or Kim Jong Il?

Re: Kashi Go Lean Bars

Zone bars are much better as are Luna Bars.

Re: Bad Rich Chic's post

I take the train with a senior partner at my firm that gives me cab rides all the time he's very sweet. however, staff is okay with being treated like furniture it is what it is, dude.

Re: TM's Subway Post

I give my seat up for pregnant women. I feel bad for them. Children and families wishing to sit together not so much. There is just a flood of them in NYC this time of year you'd never sit.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Not Bob
I am Not Perfect, clearly. Reading this gives me that delightful schadenfreude thingy.

That makes perfect sense. People shouldn't be rude to other people and joke about them without their fully-informed consent. But, people who are being made part of a joke should have the right to bash the face in of whoever is making the joke. Maybe you're not saying they should have the right. Maybe you're just saying it makes you feel good inside when it happens.

Got it.

TM

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
Your new avatar is it supposed to be Mr. T or Kim Jong Il?

Re: Kashi Go Lean Bars

Zone bars are much better as are Luna Bars. Not a huge fan of Luna Bars but Zone bars rock.

I commend your attempt to combine thoughts to reduce raw post numbers.

But I wonder were the penultimate sentence and the last sentence are based upon thoughts separated by a few hours? Did you perhaps conceive the thought that Luna bars are great, then have one and realize that you are no longer a fan?

if so, in the future when a new thought makes an earlier one no longer valid, you may want to redact the now renounced thought from the final post.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by nononono
It's called being polite. I'd throw the elderly above pregnant women in BRC's hierarchy, and I'd retain the offering of seaties to the ladies, all other things being equal.

Other than the elderly, disabled and pregnant, the whole hierarchy thing is ridiculous. There are too many people riding the train to get up whenever someone else who falls under a protected seat class gets on. And depending on what you went through that day, you may be the one who needs the seat the most. That's why you get what you get.

TM

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Fucking quit with the motherfucking "feeling" crap. I am not in the mood.

I feel you.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
That makes perfect sense. People shouldn't be rude to other people and joke about them without their fully-informed consent. But, people who are being made part of a joke should have the right to bash the face in of whoever is making the joke. Maybe you're not saying they should have the right. Maybe you're just saying it makes you feel good inside when it happens.

What, we didn't bore people enough with this on Friday? Two points, and then you can (if you choose) have the last word.

1. Battery is battery. No, I don't think that the butt of the joke has a right to bash in SBC's face.

2. If he was hurt seriously, or required any sort of medical attention, then I would not would not have said what I said. Or felt what I felt. That being said, if you act like an asshole in public and confront someone with an offer to buy their clothes to masturbate with, you run the risk that they will hit you, and you can't really argue that the social compact was violated.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Not Bob
What, we didn't bore people enough with this on Friday? Two points, and then you can (if you choose) have the last word.

1. Battery is battery. No, I don't think that the butt of the joke has a right to bash in SBC's face.

2. If he was hurt seriously, or required any sort of medical attention, then I would not would not have said what I said. Or felt what I felt. That being said, if you act like an asshole in public and confront someone with an offer to buy their clothes to masturbate with, you run the risk that they will hit you, and you can't really argue that the social compact was violated.

Nah. No last word. I agree with you on all points. I just wanted you to concede that at least he's earning some of that money now.

TM

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Split tongues?

All lawyers have those. Ours are invisible, though.