No, but I've been 5 years old on a road trip and pissed my dad off... he pulled that car over in a hurry and opened the door. That was good enough for me.
How awesome would that be in a perfect world? “Well, you know the rules and we told you to stop his crying, so….”
Yeah, everyone kind of gave a nervous laugh because they weren’t sure if he was kidding. One of the flight attendants was like:
A bunch of retired paramedics I used to work with get together every few weeks for dinner. One of them has been a hard core, very vocal "it's all bullshit" kinda guy. To him it was a hoax, "all about control", and he wouldn't get vaccinated. You know what happened already though, don't you. He wasn't there the other night. I'm told he got Covid, and his memory is like Swiss cheese. He called one of the guys on his cell and asked for his cell number. He's also on nasal oxygen 24/7 right now I'm told. I hate to see a friend suffer, but I also don't feel sorry for him. Dude, you played the odds and you lost.
That's almost as bad as the time a friend of mine moved his head in order to look around his bong, so he could text another friend and ask if he'd seen his bong. He didn't have COVID though, he was just high.
I don't look at it that way. He didn't say "there's a low chance I'll get it", dude came out and said "it ain't real". He played the ego card. The ignorance card. The stupid card. "Dude, you ignored smarter people than you, and you found out the hard way."
What gets me is did none of these people attend High School? Were they all home schooled or something, or have they legitimately forgotten what it was like to have the class nerd just crush them in grades class after class, year after year? It's not like intelligent people are exclusively produced by New York City and San Francisco; every town has them. These people had to have watched a kid be able to answer questions that they were utterly baffled by, every single day for years. Did none of that sink in?
I think the urge to rebel against prevailing wisdom has some strong connection to "my life is a shit show, and I refuse to blame myself", and some of these folks legitimately need an excuse as to why they are not billionaires right now. As in, "I was lied to, that's why my life is a dumpster fire, and 'they' continue to lie to me, and thank God for (Q/Fox News/whatever) who have shown me their lies, and I'll never fall for them again". The other part is this phenomenon where half the population is less intelligent than average, but no one believes they are below average. So, the logic is "this stuff protects the average, but I'm not average" or "I'm too special, I don't need saving". Or, "I'll let millions of suckers get the vaccine, assume the risk, suffer the consequences, and I'll get their herd immunity." Are we really surprised that millions of us suck at risk calculation? Fuck around, find out. The reality is our future is bleak, and the issues we have now (climate chance, economy, education, and if you're religious, any of the wedge issues like abortion that seem to be trending in the wrong direction) seem overwhelming. They make a choice to refuse to believe them, because it's easier to recoil against the messenger than reality. It's simpler to explain away the few impacts of this stuff (disasters, higher gas prices, inflation, etc.) that filter all the way down to their day to day life, or blame someone else (Biden stickers on gas pumps) than it is to accept a bleaker future, that they are on the wrong side of history, God didn't choose them, Jesus wasn't white, they were manipulated, Budweiser isn't good beer, hot dogs are gross, etc. If you ask someone: "why are you unhealthy, miserable, a missed paycheck away from being homeless, and generally confronting a precipitous decline?", a sizeable chunk of them will say "liberals", as opposed to the uncomfortable truth of: "me, and the litany of questions I didn't ask, the lies I chose to believe over evidence I was presented with, and the comforts I chose over growth, bolstered by righteous indignation as part of my media diet and the perception that change was a threat to my identity, instead of a rational response to my problems." In other news, South Carolina is going GREAT.
I swear, there is something about your governor's speech pattern that reminds me of Foghorn Leghorn. Every time he's on TV I giggle when he talks.
Most of our politicians sound like Foghorn Leghorn. I have a theory that Nikki Haley won because the volume of "GILF" searches on pornhub increased during her campaign, and because she didn't sound like a cartoon.
Any woman that doesn’t have a peg leg while being attached to an oxygen canister has the potential to be elected in your country. The only thing they need to do to get elected is their hair.
It's radiation rays. Yeah, that's the ticket. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/polit...ng-radiation-rays/FDCP6NEFJUQWWINL2GXI7OKS6E/
"It's only good when it dribbles down your chin" applies to oral sex when a colostomy bag is involved, right? Besides, who isn't turned on by a good wheeze?