Originally Posted By patrickegan How come you guy’s blow all the good threads while I’m at work? I look forward to coming home and reading all of the insult’s and wanton conjecture thrown my way. The worst part is it’s a real butt burner not be able to write up one of my much loved mega responses to all that “Rabid Left†inanity. Sheesh,
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF >>The worst part is it’s a real butt burner not be able to write up one of my much loved mega responses to all that “Rabid Left†inanity.<< Thank goodness for small favors.
Originally Posted By patrickegan In answer to you Brokeback question <<In an earlier post, you mentioned all the rainbow paraphernalia you see in CA. When you do encounter this, what goes through your mind? Do you simply disregard it and go on your merry way or do you feel a touch of hostility? Can you live and let live?>> I all honesty I don’t have a problem with gay people. I have many customers that are gay and I treat them the same as anyone else. Unfortunitly I don’t think they think so.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF >>I don’t have a problem with gay people.<< You don't have a problem, as long as you don't have to be reminded as such? >>Unfortunitly I don’t think they think so.<< If you don't mind my asking, what's happened that would lead you to think that? I'm just curious, not wanting to start a fight here.
Originally Posted By patrickegan My main business is remodel contracting with a focus on mainly pre-World War II homes. So with that said with extras and everything else at the end of the job a lot of people feel like they got raked over the coal’s. Minority’s and new citizens (doesn’t matter where they are from) have a chip and tend to lean towards the “I got screwed because I’m from ??? or I’m (insert group here). In my business dealings I like to employ the golden rule regardless of your race color or creed. As far as people and their lives are concerned I live with them on their turf and after two weeks the masks come off. Though hard to deal with I have gained a pretty good insight into human nature and have a theory about the common human traits and sub-traits. I have to go to work and if this thread isn’t shut down by this afternoon I will elaborate on my nonscientific findings.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF So what you are actually saying, in essence, is that you're making assumptions about the attitudes these clients cop with you? Could it be that you're projecting? I'm not trying to start a fight or argument here. I am really trying to understand how this works. I would consider myself as having a pretty good intuition with folks (which seems to be what you're saying about yourself), but it is by no means 100% foolproof. It is very easy to draw conclusions and misinterpret.
Originally Posted By cmpaley >> In my business dealings I like to employ the golden rule regardless of your race color or creed.<< For a right-winger, the golden rule means, "I have the gold, so I make the rules."
Originally Posted By TomSawyer I think it will be interesting to hear what he has to say. He deals with people during a very stressful time. Remodeling projects are expensive, and there are times that it looks like your house - your biggest asset and a representation of who you are - is being destroyed. Then there's the skepticism that is born from the expense of the project and the lack of knowledge about all of the details that someone like Patrick has to keep in mind. It's easy to feel like you're getting taken if you don't really understand all of the intricacies of code requirements and such. I think it will be interesting to hear what Patrick's experiences are from dealing with people during such a stressful and vulnerable time.
Originally Posted By Kylesmom >>For a right-winger, the golden rule means, "I have the gold, so I make the rules."<< I'm a "right-winger" and I don't have much money and I don't make the rules. In the town I come from, most of the money is from our liberal population, who are pretty good at make the rules. I find your generalization untrue and insulting.
Originally Posted By Beaumandy Does anyone notice that these boards are starting to die out? Once they started getting super PC and made it a practice to close all threads that got interesting, errr, told the truth, people have stopped posting. Reason number 1204 why liberal views and policies suck. As long as nobody is breaking any community standards, and pointing out the other side of being gay certainly should not break these standards, people should be able to say what they want. Otherwise you get... this...
Originally Posted By gadzuux The 'brokeback' thread had - after 200 posts - exhausted the grist of the actual topic (the movie itself) and had degenerated into the usual suspects sniping from their respective corners. I'm fine with it being closed - it's not like we'll never discuss gay issues again.
Originally Posted By Beaumandy I don't know Gadzuux, I thought we were starting to cover some new ground when BOOM, all communication is once again shut off. I kept referencing cowboys to keep the thread on topic. The pattern is that you can say good things about being gay and the thread will stay open forever regardless of how far off topic it goes. But start to ask the hard questions and post some statistics that are not considered gay friendly... BOOM.. thread is shut down.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF >>But start to ask the hard questions and post some statistics that are not considered gay friendly... BOOM.. thread is shut down.<< Darlin', for every set of statistics you want to put forth, someone else can post a set that will discount it. I mean, look at the Bush performance polls. You're all gung-ho and "Take that, LIBS!" when they're on the upswing, but when they're not, you downplay them. You've asked your "hard questions" over and over and over again, and we've given you answers over and over again, but because since you don't like the answers, and you're not willing to step outside of your own mindset, it is and will continue to be an exercise in futility.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer >>As long as nobody is breaking any community standards, and pointing out the other side of being gay certainly should not break these standards, people should be able to say what they want.<< I think the threads were closed because of the Community Standards, Beau. Why do you think the threads were closed because of your politics rather than because there were community standard violations?
Originally Posted By cmpaley Interesting...very interesting. Apparently, one of the key things "conservatives" demand is the right to be as rude as possible by the most intentionally offensive and nasty way of saying something. Anyone who insists that they act with some manner of decorum and take other people into consideration is called "PC."
