Keeping it civil instead of returning to our dark ways

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me

Is [kissing] uncommon in your experience, or is it just uncommon in a professional/state setting?

Hello

It's very French.* The bissou (or the two cheek bissou-bissou) greeting is certainly appropriate in a non-professional setting if one is European, or perhaps a member of the East Coast boarding school/legacy Ivy elite, and even in a few professional contexts, if one is European and greeting an old friend one hasn't seen in quite a while.**

I would not greet or introduce a female co-worker, whether above, below or equal to me, with a kiss in any professional setting. Maybe if she were getting some award for charity work or something.

But still, I don't think it's inappropriate as much as just weird.


* I say this in the same way Kerry noted that Cheney's daughter was a lesbian: I don't consider it a bad thing, but if you do, I don't mind.

** By quite a while I mean some time longer than the five minutes ago we saw each other in the hallway.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Its the old age I'm sure. What's the question again?

No, its the lack of a response. You know the question.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I don't know what you're responding. In reply to your request about how to meet women, I explained that in order to get chicks, its probably a good idea to respect them. In reply, you wrote me something about the electorate.

You are dead wrong if you think the electorate supports overturning Roe. Dead. Wrong. Over 60% of the nation supports keeping abortion legal. Go ahead - google it. And don't reply to me with some NR stats to the contrary - Buckley's been fudging his stats on the issue for years. AND, a large % of whatever women the GOP did have this year it will lose if Roe is overturned. The Country does not want that apple cart overturned. You just want to think so because you have this desperate need to feel like the majority. But you're not, and I think you know it.

FWIW, the same exit polls that said we voted values on November 2, 2004 said that the electorate was pro-choice 55%-42%. The "always illegal" people were only 17% of the electorate. The "always legal" people were 25% of the electorate. http://us.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/page.../epolls.0.html

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Can we now agree that the real enemy is headquarted in Paris?

Are they Frenchmen of Algerian ancestry?

eta: I mean, they couldn't be really French. They died fighting.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

[SlaveNoMore]

Shape Shifter
Are they Frenchmen of Algerian ancestry?

eta: I mean, they couldn't be really French. They died fighting.

Touche...er, I mean, "Good one!!!"

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Can't we talk about tax policy or agricultural subsidies or something?

Sorry. I'm testing a theory that most staunch right wing social conservatives are one or a combinctaion of the following: closeted repressed homosexuals in extreme denial, ugly, couldn't get laid if their lives depended on it, short, bald, fat, mean, angry, scared, threatened by women, people who have issues with their mothers, generally unloved, etc...

I've dealt with twerps all week so i feel like riffing on a few. I'm on my fucking soapbox and I feel like making personal attacks on some douchebags today.

Don't mind me - you've never been on my shit list.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
FWIW, the same exit polls that said we voted values on November 2, 2004 said that the electorate was pro-choice 55%-42%. The "always illegal" people were only 17% of the electorate. The "always legal" people were 25% of the electorate. http://us.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/page.../epolls.0.html

I was close. But lets wait for the Hitlerr Youth to give me some stats to the contrary.

And then Club can chime in and say "Yeh!"

[Say_hello_for_me]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
FWIW, the same exit polls that said we voted values on November 2, 2004 said that the electorate was pro-choice 55%-42%. The "always illegal" people were only 17% of the electorate. The "always legal" people were 25% of the electorate. http://us.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/page.../epolls.0.html

Which is to say, 79% of that poll believe abortion should be something like where it was pre-Roe. Mostly legal in any state that wants it to be mostly legal, mostly illegal in any state that wants it to be mostly illegal, and always illegal in any state that wants it to be always illegal. Hard to say where Sebby's snuffleuffegus pro-choice Republican friends are on this poll.


ABORTION SHOULD BE... BUSH KERRY NADER

Always Legal (21%) 25% +0 73% 1%

Mostly Legal (34%) 38% +0 61% 0%

Mostly Illegal (26%) 73% +4 26% 0%

Always Illegal (16%) 77% +3 22% 0%


It should also be noted that there were approximately 5 women in this poll for every 4 men. Harumph.

Hello

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Sorry. I'm testing a theory that most staunch right wing social conservatives are one or a combinctaion of the following: closeted repressed homosexuals in extreme denial, ugly, couldn't get laid if their lives depended on it, short, bald, fat, mean, angry, scared, threatened by women, people who have issues with their mothers, generally unloved, etc...

I've dealt with twerps all week so i feel like riffing on a few. I'm on my fucking soapbox and I feel like making personal attacks on some douchebags today.

It's Friday. If that's your game, play on, but the action was taking a while to develop.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Trust me on this. Chicks love the bow tie.

So you're short?

[Say_hello_for_me]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Sorry. I'm testing a theory that most staunch right wing social conservatives are one or a combinctaion of the following: closeted repressed homosexuals in extreme denial, ugly, couldn't get laid if their lives depended on it, short, bald, fat, mean, angry, scared, threatened by women, people who have issues with their mothers, generally unloved, etc...

Which Crayola is your favorite flavor?

[NotFromHere]

WASHINGTON - Condoleezza Rice, President Bush’s choice to be the next secretary of state, underwent surgery Friday to treat noncancerous growths in the uterus, a White House official said.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I was close. But lets wait for the Hitlerr Youth to give me some stats to the contrary.

And then Club can chime in and say "Yeh!"

Well, it looks like 3% of the electorate doesn't know what the hell they think.

FWIW, I have a personal litmus test, and I won't fuck someone who isn't pro-choice. Sorry, Hello. Club, you've made up your mind yet?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
WASHINGTON - Condoleezza Rice, President Bush’s choice to be the next secretary of state, underwent surgery Friday to treat noncancerous growths in the uterus, a White House official said.

I think I speak for everyone here, libertarian and Hank alike, when I say: TMI.