meat0918: Of course, he's not a benefactor or patron, but a ventrue capitalist.

Hmm, that's an interesting typo. I meant venture obviously.

thamike: Kittypie070: ;3

What is this, Peter Griffin having a stroke?

I was wondering the same thing!

Parthenogenetic: [i2.crtcdn1.net image 620x431]

Is that ... is that a gas-station or grocery-store style mounted paper towel machine? And mounted soap dispenser?

Where do they do their laundry, in the Kroger's restroom?

skullkrusher: What is difficult is when people are purposefully obscure and noncommittal in their point to avoid the danger of having to take a stance. Which is what you do and then play games when people ask direct questions for clarification.

I see your projector is fully functional. I'm super stoked to quote this in the future.

By the way, is what Ann Romney meant going to change your vote? Or do you think what she meant here will change anyone elses vote and you clarifying is changing anyones future voting?

skullkrusher: I don't know what Obama's silver spoon comments were

Fair enough. Link

Salt Lick Steady: Is that ... is that a gas-station or grocery-store style mounted paper towel machine? And mounted soap dispenser?

Where do they do their laundry, in the Kroger's restroom?

Hotel.

/just a guess

Purely a photo-op. They haven't washed their own laundry for decades.

/also a guess

Parthenogenetic: Giving money (as opposed to directly handing out food)

actually they use ebt cards that can only be used to purchase food.
no one is handing them cash

cameroncrazy1984 2012-04-24 06:41:20 PM


thamike: Kittypie070: ;3

What is this, Peter Griffin having a stroke?

I was wondering the same thing!

?

Bill_Wick's_Friend: Hotel.

/just a guess

Purely a photo-op. They haven't washed their own laundry for decades.

/also a guess

Definitely a hotel due to the Lilliputian washing machine and industrial / basement chic decor. I'd wager that the majority of Mitt and Ann's wardrobe is dry clean only.

thamike: cameroncrazy1984: skullkrusher: anal bleaching? Nah, it's pretty painless.

Man, I don't know if anal bleaching is something you want to admit in public that you have done.

Trust me he hasn't, the tightwad. His asshole still looks like Karl Rove making a point.

Well that's the last time I let you anywhere near my tightwad

meat0918: meat0918: Of course, he's not a benefactor or patron, but a ventrue capitalist.

Hmm, that's an interesting typo. I meant venture obviously.



/too lazy to photoshop "Bain Capital" into this so use your imagination

Monkeyhouse Zendo: skullkrusher: that it is. I still don't think she meant what her words literally said. Yeah, the Romney camp took Rosen's words literally and out of context but unless you're trying out for a spot on the campaign, what's the point of being blatantly dishonest in reading this quote?

That's the thing, Romney's campaign took Rosen's comment and twisted it to something different from the literal meaning. Ann's comment is literally offensive. All things being equal it's utterly ignorable but with Romney's proposed budget that small quiet voice is reminding me that maybe, just maybe, this was a moment of unguarded truth.

Yeah maybe she actually revels in human suffering and is too stupid to hide it. Or she phrased her sentence badly.

meat0918: Of course, he's not a benefactor or patron, but a ventrue capitalist

A Ventrue capitalist?



That might explain some things.

/o gawd i'm such a geek

skullkrusher: Yeah maybe she actually revels in human suffering and is too stupid to hide it. Or she phrased her sentence badly.

Kinda like when Hilary Rosen phrased her sentence badly, and Ann Romney spent the next two weeks harping on that mix up like a harpy.

So if this statement were turned around on her, and rammed up her ass for the next couple of weeks, it would almost be like quick acting karma, eh?

Bill_Wick's_Friend: Salt Lick Steady: Is that ... is that a gas-station or grocery-store style mounted paper towel machine? And mounted soap dispenser?

Where do they do their laundry, in the Kroger's restroom?

Hotel.

/just a guess

I imagine he had to read the instructions on the underside of the washer.

"Hmmm... 'Do not overfill'. You mean I'm supposed to put the water in there by hand?"

lennavan: skullkrusher: What is difficult is when people are purposefully obscure and noncommittal in their point to avoid the danger of having to take a stance. Which is what you do and then play games when people ask direct questions for clarification.

I see your projector is fully functional. I'm super stoked to quote this in the future.

By the way, is what Ann Romney meant going to change your vote? Or do you think what she meant here will change anyone elses vote and you clarifying is changing anyones future voting?

skullkrusher: I don't know what Obama's silver spoon comments were

Fair enough. Link

Nope not gonna change my vote in the least. I assume she misspoke but even if she meant it word for word (ignoring the last sentence out of convenience of course) I still won't be voting for Mitt in November. Of course I am not demanding she prove or disprove my assumption so the hackneyed and stupid comparison you are trying to draw is hackneyed and stupid. Remind me, was that the thread where you feigned ignorance over how context matters sometimes but not others? That was funny

this is one reason why i am going to vote for obama this time...

thamike: Kittypie070: cameroncrazy1984 2012-04-24 06:41:20 PM


thamike: Kittypie070: ;3

What is this, Peter Griffin having a stroke?

I was wondering the same thing!

?

Oh, was that one of your cat fetish things?

Likely, yes. But it really does look like Peter's ballchin.

thamike 2012-04-24 06:53:12 PM


Kittypie070: cameroncrazy1984: thamike: Kittypie070: ;3

What is this, Peter Griffin having a stroke?

I was wondering the same thing!

?

Oh, was that one of your cat fetish things?

Um, that's a common typeface emoticon for "cat".

If you tease me about my cat schtick I will only turn it up to 19, and you will be inundated in LOLcat imagery.

_{[was unable to work in another reference to bleached starfish]}

skullkrusher: Yeah maybe she actually revels in human suffering and is too stupid to hide it. Or she phrased her sentence badly.

There's a lot of gray area between angelic and diabolical. A whole lot of that gray area is "I don't give a shiat about people who aren't like me or in my social circle and it benefits me if the status quo remains unchanged". If she honestly gave two farks about the poor outside of a ladies who lunch charity circle don't you think she'd say something to her husband about his budget plan?

spongeboob: bugontherug: Ann Romney spent the next two weeks harping on that mix up like a harpy.

You used a harpy like phrase twice.

Well what ELSE do you think harpies would do other than HARP? They're harpies after all.

thamike: skullkrusher: Yeah maybe she actually revels in human suffering and is too stupidwouldn't know how to hide it.


I hate to pull the FTFY stuff, but it's a plausible explanation, for many of them.

The plausible explanation is that she phrased her thought poorly. To think otherwise goes far beyond a wealthy person being out of touch (which she clearly is) and drops right into flat out misanthropic glee in the sorrow of others. Not buying it

i'm flabberbaffled that these milquetoast ineffectual weirdos was the best the country could come up with to represent half of the political landscape.

i mean, i understand how it happened, it's just still flabberbaffling to watch it occurring.

Parthenogenetic: Food stamps = welfare.

But going back and reading "A Terrible Human"'s earlier posts in this thread, it appears I need to calibrate my sarcasm detector.

This is my Regret Face

I always thought welfare was Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program not the food stamp program. Oh well.

Kittypie070: If you tease me about my cat schtick I will only turn it up to 19, and you will be inundated in LOLcat imagery.

Between those and ponies, that's why I have images disabled.

Monkeyhouse Zendo: skullkrusher: Yeah maybe she actually revels in human suffering and is too stupid to hide it. Or she phrased her sentence badly.

There's a lot of gray area between angelic and diabolical. A whole lot of that gray area is "I don't give a shiat about people who aren't like me or in my social circle and it benefits me if the status quo remains unchanged". If she honestly gave two farks about the poor outside of a ladies who lunch charity circle don't you think she'd say something to her husband about his budget plan?

This isn't about whether she actually empathizes with the poor but rather whether she "loves" their struggles

tangential, but...still....

you know why we're talking about romney's wife, what somebody said about romney's wife, whether romney is a cybernetic entity or not, etc - because there are no concrete Romney policy proposals that he himself has not contradicted.

there is no reason to argue romney's policies, he's doing that with himself. all that's left up for discussion is fluff like this shiat.

bugontherug: So if this statement were turned around on her, and rammed up her ass for the next couple of weeks, it would almost be like quick acting karma, eh?

You can't do that. She's gonna die someday. It would be mean.

serial_crusher: bugontherug: skullkrusher: Yeah maybe she actually revels in human suffering and is too stupid to hide it. Or she phrased her sentence badly.

Kinda like when Hilary Rosen phrased her sentence badly, and Ann Romney spent the next two weeks harping on that mix up like a harpy.

So if this statement were turned around on her, and rammed up her ass for the next couple of weeks, it would almost be like quick acting karma, eh?

Both sides are bad, so vote Democrat?

More of a "Republicans are bad so let's copy them."

cameroncrazy1984 2012-04-24 07:04:27 PM

Kittypie070: If you tease me about my cat schtick I will only turn it up to 19, and you will be inundated in LOLcat imagery.

Between those and ponies, that's why I have images disabled.

O_O ALL images!?

Dude.

:(

She has to have got her words mixed up there. No-one would intend to say such a thing. Surely?

skullkrusher:
More of a "Republicans are bad so let's copy them."

politics is politics. you think obama didn't want to suck the words 'spread the wealth around' back into his gullet the moment they flew free?

that isn't democrats copying republicans. that's democrats actually playing the game as set by the rules that have always existed.

Kittypie070: thamike 2012-04-24 06:53:12 PM


Kittypie070: cameroncrazy1984: thamike: Kittypie070: ;3

What is this, Peter Griffin having a stroke?

I was wondering the same thing!

?

Oh, was that one of your cat fetish things?

Um, that's a common typeface emoticon for "cat".
]

i like this one ^..^

Kittypie070: cameroncrazy1984 2012-04-24 07:04:27 PM

Kittypie070: If you tease me about my cat schtick I will only turn it up to 19, and you will be inundated in LOLcat imagery.

Between those and ponies, that's why I have images disabled.

O_O ALL images!?

Dude.

:(

I have disabled all of the images.

skullkrusher: This isn't about whether she actually empathizes with the poor but rather whether she "loves" their struggles

Their struggles give them dignity. I'm pretty sure Mitt was going on about that a few days ago.

I've seen people justify all sorts of hardships others are forced to endure based on some religious or philosophical belief that suffering improved them. Suffering due to poverty seems to be a popular target for this.

A Terrible Human: Parthenogenetic: Food stamps = welfare.

But going back and reading "A Terrible Human"'s earlier posts in this thread, it appears I need to calibrate my sarcasm detector.

This is my Regret Face

I always thought welfare was Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program not the food stamp program. Oh well.

Did you know that when Aid to Families with Dependent Children was reformed into TANF in the 90's, its cost was like $19 billion/year. Even then, that was just a fraction of a fraction of the federal budget.

TANF's budget today, in unadjusted dollars, is something like $12 billion/year. That means in adjusted dollars, TANF spending is even less, probably something like $8 billion.

I love the fact that there are women out there who don't have a choice and they must go to work

Because if there weren't then I wouldn't be so wealthy by contrast.

cameroncrazy1984:
I have disabled all of the images.

people-posted-ponies-SHUT-DOWN-EVERYTHING.jpg goes here.