WHY do I ever go in GD??? WHY?????

[davsand]

Next time just tell me to STFU and have another drink or show me a nice kitty picture Please?


Sample of Nice Kitty Pic:




Laura

[graywarrior]

1. In AA, it's called "a slip".

[davsand]

4. I'm gonna have to give my chip back.

I've been here since dirt was young. You'd THINK I'd know better than to go in there without my kevlar panties on and a barf bag in each hand. How MANY freaking elections have we all seen on here over the years? You'd THINK that by now I'd have learned that elections bring out the shit end of every dipstick, but NOOOoooo. I had to venture in.

Gawd. I need another cat pic!


Laura

[graywarrior]

10. lol

Sometimes I post stuff there and am actually SHOCKED when someone gives me shit.

[Taverner]

2. GD is kind of like a Cubs game

You go expecting something fun and lively and end up just frustrated and chewing your baseball glove

[davsand]

3. Hell, at least I can enjoy the friendly confines at Wrigley!

I'll grant you, the Old Style leaves me kinda queasy, but there is NEVER a bad day at the ball park! I wish I could say the same about GD. I'd even take a warm Old Style rather than have to deal with the crap in GD.



Laura

[sarge43]

5. No one remembers DU GD during the 08 primaries?

Speaking of kitties, it was one big bag of insane cats.

[davsand]

6. See? We ALL know it's nuts over there during elections!

It's like a train wreck in progress. It's watching guppies eat their young. It's like being forced to sit thru an entire two hour extended edition of "Honey Boo-Boo Meets the Kardashians--but we still go in. WHY? It's an illness.



Laura

[sarge43]

8. Well, we are Democrats

It's probably in our DNA to go batshit every election cycle. We're the fun party.

[davsand]

11. We must have completely different definitions of "fun party."

I'm thinking convivial, festive, maybe even in extreme cases intoxicated. So far, I'm just not feeling it over in GD. As a Lounge Lizard, I'm good, but the whole GD thing is just not working for me today.




Laura

[sarge43]

15. Fun in the sense of having a certain entertainment value.

In the words of my dear brother, "Don't take that shit seriously; it'll make ya crazy if ya do."

[argiel1234]

7. GD is addictive

yet maddening.

I agree wholeheartedly

I try to read here more often for the good times and giggles

[davsand]

12. Is there ever REALLY a giggle in rectal surgery sans drugs?

I'm not even gonna ask about "good times!"



Laura

[argiel1234]

14. .

[HopeHoops]

9. Looks like my big boy when he was that age. Definitely buddy rub cat.

[davsand]

13. Aww! What a pretty boy!

I just want to blow a big old raspberry on that tummy!






Laura

[HopeHoops]

16. He spent 36 hours curled up to me while I was violently ill.

That's why I wasn't on yesterday. He did relinquish his post a couple of times to raid the kitten chow bowl, but the sheltie took over. It's HIS spot and she doesn't appreciate getting thrown out (which he will) and just crashes at the end of the bed looking dejected.

And yes, my big boy loves raspberries on the tummy...

[DryHump]

17. Kitteh has great taste

in a great Pensylvania beer!!!

[DryHump]

18. Spell check

"Pennsylvania"

[left-of-center2012]

26. Wow

Beautiful cat.

[Festivito]

19. No good deed, no matter how well meaning, goes unpunished.

I suggest hot chocolate with Creme de Menthe. Yummy on a cold night. Warming just to think about.

Extra warm feelings, running your way, down there.

Look, you've already forgotten it for a moment.

Fes

[davsand]

22. Bless your heart! Love hot chocolate, and I love Creame de Menthe!

Love those warm feelings more!





Laura

[Art_from_Ark]

20. Well this is, after all, a web site dedicated to *politics*

And politics can be pretty emotional, since people's lives are being affected. So it's not surprising, and, actually, it is *expected*, that some issues can result in very heated exchanges in General Discussion. But that's one thing that has kept me hanging around DU for nearly 12 years

[davsand]

23. Shrinking violet or fragile flower are two terms that people do not use when my name comes up.

Not gonna tell you which ones they DO use, either!

Nah, the "heated exchanges" over in GD don't really bother me much. I figure that I've been on striking picket lines with some of the most hard core "union thugs" in the midwest. I've faced down a naked guy who pulled a gun on me and I've been called every name in the book (plus a couple that were pretty durn inventive!) and nobody died. Right now, however, GD is a different beastie. Rude as all hell, dumber than an oyster, and prolific to the point of remarkability seems to be the trademark of this particular group of new trolls. Today they annoyed the piss outta me and I came here to ease my soul and find some fun with the DU community that I've loved for almost 12 years.

That community--the folks in here--is another reason to hang around DU for that long.





Laura

[Art_from_Ark]

25. Well, I do have to admit that some of those GD* trolls annoy me, too

and I feel like writing "You $#$%& stupid $%#&!" with uncensored expletives when I read some of their crap.

[irisblue]

28. ...naked guy who pulled a gun on me...

the pre caffeinated visual is disturbing ....

[davsand]

29. I can see how that would maybe throw you for a second there.

I don't think it was conceal and carry if that was your question. (I wish we had those "ah-OOO-ga!" eyes like they used to use in cartoons. Those would have been the perfect smiley here, I swear!)



It was a shotgun and he came strolling out of the other room nekkid with that gun in his hands. He leveled it at me and in not very nice terms suggested I become his overnight guest. I declined his offer and "hilarity ensued." I found out later that he'd done that same thing to other women and had actually beaten one or two of them in the process. Without going TMI, I'll tell you that while it was happening I had been drinking and I was extremely pissed off by it all. My anger may have been what saved me because I walked out of that house without him laying a finger on me. Had I cried rather than raged I think it might have ended differently.

Sorry to confuse you so early in the day!





Laura

[Curtland1015]

21. Agreed.

I check it everyday, but every time I do I end up running afoul of SOME post or another that just sets me off.

Usually it's just the shocking RUDENESS one poster will show another simply for trying to offer an opinion.

Other times it's the total lack of a humor and/or sarcasm detector. So many people over there seem to have lost theirs...

[davsand]

24. Boy howdy! Sometimes I just have to walk away.

Today was one of those days.



Laura

[left-of-center2012]

27. Well ...

This thread explains the responses I received there to a couple posts I put there.
I'm not 'into' coming online for abuse.

[mikeytherat]

30. You feel you're starting to love life too much? Soul not poisoned enough already?

Headache gone from last wall-pounding?

mikey_the_rat

[davsand]

31. Yes, Mikey, I am in danger of backsliding already.

It is a new day and I am feeling much refreshed by the respite here with all my fellow Lounge Lizards. I was starting to get an itchy finger on the mouse--wanting to go into GD--NOT going into GD but looking at LBN instead--hovering over the button for GD then yanking the cursor away from there again.

I am WEAK!!!! But I will not go into GD this hour. I don't NEED to go into GD, I only think I want to. I can do this...



Laura

[mikeytherat]

34. There is no better loathing than GD loathing; a smack to the face with a 2x4 during "I feel pretty."

I feel pretty (whack)
Oh, so pretty (whack)

mikey_the_rat

[spiderpig]

32. I'm so glad you posted this.

There is always someone waiting to piss in your Cheerios. Happened to me recently and I was upset all day. I thought I was presenting a reasoned, compassionate opinion and another DUer danced all over my head. I put this person on "ban" and went to lick my wounds. I'm embarrassed I let it bug me this much, but it did.

This wasn't even a challenge - just an expression of something that was meaningful to me, but member-stick-up-their-butt conducted a completely irrelevant ad homenim attack. Hey - I've marched with progressive causes all over the US and even in London. I'll go to the wall for people's civil rights. But not for self-righteous stick-up-their butts.

John Cleese said it best in a Dick Cavett interview decades ago. He loved America, but remarked there were so many people who said "You can't possibly say that! I might become offended!"

Peace. Looking for kitty photo.

[marzipanni]

33. I tend to get mired reading each reply, and it takes too long to hang out there

But I think I know what you mean about the morbid curiosity... I feel it when I encounter the ugly posts by the right wing coming in aimed at MoveOn, and other progressive's, graphics on Facebook. O_o