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nimblebookworm 59F
1543 posts
6/4/2017 8:27 pm

Why is it the harder you try not to say something, the more often it comes spilling out? I have the same problem with cursing around my family. I swear, some Thanksgiving I'm just gonna walk in wearing a ball gag and really give em something to talk about.
Sounds like you had fun...as best you remember.


jaykay48 75M
11442 posts
6/5/2017 7:00 am

I have experienced the ultimate exercise in restraint (in holding back that old tourettes urge to say to an old friend, who was a different person when I first met him,) "but what about these facts..."

He's my main running buddy, who I've know for 29 years. We once shared some common political opinions about the world before his marriage soured and he got angry at the aforementioned world.)

I have learned to keep the tourettes INSIDE for most of our conversations. However, recently (after the second London bombing) he began spouting the Fox News meme supporting DT's recent disrespectful and horribly opportunistic, serf-serving and inappropriate tirade about how we NOW have to support his muslim ban.

I kept most of the obvious counter arguments in my head but I asked one simple question, which was, "if this ban is really supposed to be imposed to protect Americans, how come Saudi Arabia, the country that has a history of supporting terrorism and where Fifteen of the 19 were citizens of Saudi Arabia, and where there their legal system is based on Sharia Law?"

(The answer, of course is that both the oil lobby and the gun lobby wants to keep the Saudis happy since they want to buy oil from them and sell them guns.)

My friend's response was that we don't have to ban the Saudis because now vetting was so much better, (which of course would have led to the question, "then why do we need a ban at all?")

Fortunately for him he is faster(and 5 years younger) than me, so after he gave me that lame answer (while I was framing a response) he took off, upping the pace so that quickly left me in the dust. When I shouted the beginning of my response to him he shouted back, "can't hear you!" before disappearing over a rise leaving me running the rest of the hilly 7-mile route by myself, which was best for both of us.


drmgirl622 68F  
25884 posts
6/5/2017 12:05 pm

Oh, Mistress Kimm, I just love your sense of humor......the reference to Deliverance almost made me pee my pants


xextrax 56M
123 posts
6/5/2017 12:28 pm

i have to say: screw it.

So what if you are passionate - i say have fun ...

If talking politics means you find out the guy is, for example, a Trump supporter, then isn't it better to find out then, and ruin the night, rather than to find out later and ruin your every dream?


alt5250 61M
1283 posts
6/6/2017 7:20 am

Well I too have come to appreciate MistressKim's sense of humour & flair. However there always seems to be someone around who wants to cross post there politics which is ok...just do it on your own board...sigh

But wishing someone a victim of a terrorist attack.... a bit excessive ....don't you think?


jaykay48 75M
11442 posts
6/6/2017 9:13 am

    Quoting  :

Recent article based on two surveys, one being the Republican-leaning Wall Street Journal:

"A new survey of American voters shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources.

Yet another study has been released proving that watching Fox News is detrimental to your intelligence. World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, conducted a survey of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. What’s more, the study shows that greater exposure to Fox News increases misinformation.

So the more you watch, the less you know. Or to be precise, the more you think you know that is actually false. This study corroborates a previous PIPA study that focused on the Iraq war with similar results. And there was an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll that demonstrated the break with reality on the part of Fox viewers with regard to health care. The body of evidence that Fox News is nothing but a propaganda machine dedicated to lies is growing by the day.


You are very brave to come on here and serve as a prime example that illustrates the validity of those surveys. Keep up the good work.



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