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babylonsister

(171,066 posts) Thu Oct 3, 2013, 01:21 PM Oct 2013

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"If you're being disrespected, it's because of that attitude you've got."

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/government-shutdown-explained-in-one-quote.html

Yesterday at 10:49 PM

The Government Shutdown Explained in One Candid Quote

By Adam Martin

"We’re not going to be disrespected .... We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is." — Rep. Marlin Stutzman, a conservative Republican from Indiana, explains to the Washington Examiner why the House GOP won't just send a "clean" spending bill to the Senate.

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"If you're being disrespected, it's because of that attitude you've got." (Original Post) babylonsister Oct 2013 OP

When i hear someone complaining of being disrespected, all I can think of is a gangbanger! hedgehog Oct 2013 #1

Or cop Downtown Hound Oct 2013 #2

Can't get no respect AceWheeler Oct 2013 #3

"I just drove my car into a ditch, and now I have to figure out a way to make it look like it was a Warren DeMontague Oct 2013 #4

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)

1. When i hear someone complaining of being disrespected, all I can think of is a gangbanger!

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Thu Oct 3, 2013, 01:24 PM

Oct 2013

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)

2. Or cop

Reply to hedgehog (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 3, 2013, 01:26 PM

Oct 2013

Cops are really big on the "respect" thing.

AceWheeler

(55 posts)

3. Can't get no respect

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Thu Oct 3, 2013, 07:00 PM

Oct 2013

http://www.reality-check-online.org/respect.htm

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

4. "I just drove my car into a ditch, and now I have to figure out a way to make it look like it was a

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Thu Oct 3, 2013, 07:12 PM

Oct 2013

good idea"

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