Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Today, we were talking about a colleagues recent experience of working in the US, and of course, as senior execs in the National Health, we spoke of the health reform bill and debated the pros and cons of Obama talking about his speech on the approach to airport security. Anyway, they were asking why he seems so serious lately. I then talked about some of the slamming he was taking from the left and right. Anyway, as I was explaining, I was talking about the teabaggers, to which all my colleagues burst out laughing. Bear in mind I work in HIV at the mo, so my team are experts in sexual health. Anyway, it turns out teabagging is slang in the London Gay community for a certain oral act. I wonder what these right wing Christians would make of that???!!!! It did make me laugh.
Originally Posted By mele It's slang for that here, too, which is why we love calling those idiots "teabaggers". LOL
Originally Posted By ecdc ^^^Exactly. I will forever call them teabaggers and not tea partiers. I think it was Bill Maher who said something like "Leave it to these people to take this particular act and make it disgusting."
Originally Posted By Mr X The funniest part is the right wingers actually picked up on it when the liberals coined it (as an insult), and proudly used it themselves for a short time before realizing what they were saying and (without commentary, trying to keep it on the downlow) quietly switched to "tea party patriots".
Originally Posted By dshyates <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi9hgqZr6fs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...hgqZr6fs</a>
Originally Posted By dshyates I'm not a HUGE John Waters fan, but I do like some of his stuff. Namely the original "Hairspray" with Ricki Lake, "Pecker", "Serial Mom", and the classic "Polyester" in Smell-O-Vision.
Originally Posted By u k fan I just saw this on Facebook. I can't believe you hadn't heard of this before!!!
Originally Posted By mawnck Now now kids. Look at this: >>disjointed populist armies are starting to organize in the so-called tea-party movement. It's a movement dominated for the moment by mistrust of big government and big government health-care plans. But it's also animated by mistrust of big institutions in general, and a tendency to see those institutions secretly working in tandem to the detriment of the little guy. So it's a short leap from anger at Washington's spending of taxpayer dollars to anger at Wall Street executives saved by those same taxpayer dollars -- and then taking home big bonus checks. Judson Phillips, a Tennessee attorney and organizer of the (national Tea Party) convention (in February), says the tea-party movement, disparate as it is, includes many people "who believe that Congress pays far too much attention to Wall Street and not enough attention to Main Street." Tea-party rallies, he says, draw a lot of small businessmen and women frustrated at their own inability to get capital while big banks prosper, and thus inclined to think the deck is stacked against them.<< <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126324071300124959.html" target="_blank">http://online.wsj.com/article/...959.html</a> Could the Tea Party movement turn on their corporate backers? We can only hope.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox They should begin by shunning Sarah Palin. Did you hear about the convention being held in Tennessee next month? It will cost one attendee $549 to attend! That's insane! Sarah is main speaker, of course. The organizer of this convention has openly admitted that he was planning to make a profit from this, and had no reservations in trying to pull a profit. Unbelievable. Tea party followers need to run away from the profiteers and opportunists like these, as fast as they can.
Originally Posted By DAR <<includes many people "who believe that Congress pays far too much attention to Wall Street and not enough attention to Main Street." Tea-party rallies, he says, draw a lot of small businessmen and women frustrated at their own inability to get capital while big banks prosper, and thus inclined to think the deck is stacked against them.<< I gotta admit there is a good point in there. It usually is the small business owner that winds up taking it in the keyster.
