Cell phones for kids, Olive Garden, rice cookers, washed cast iron pots, Lady Gaga....

[jobycom]

List other things you can't enjoy without someone in the Lounge lecturing you about it. :)

[Kali]

1. smoking, breast feeding, pit bulls

[Kali]

2. being fat (or skinny)

circumcising your male children, using term douche or douchebag...

[NYC_SKP]

115. Breast-feeding pit bulls who smoke.

While texting in their Japanese cars on the way to Olive Garden.

[BlueJazz]

124. LOL !!

[taterguy]

3. Driving a car

You'll get an earful from some sanctimonious prick who rides a bike everywhere.

[hobbit709]

42. Or driving a non American car, especially a Japanese one.

[TZ]

65. Driving a Toyota...

Even if it is years older than the recalled ones...

[BlooInBloo]

4. If you eat meat you're destroying the world.

[flvegan]

5. If you're a vegetarian/vegan you're a prosletizing asshole that needs to be told about bacon.

Then along come the woo-woos and their fears of soy making men grow boobs.

Toss in PETA.

Stir.

Serves 25.

[jobycom]

8. How'd the veggie burger wars end?

I was in danger of losing my nice guy persona over that one, so I left for a while.

[Mojambo]

9. Well done. n/t

[flvegan]

10. End? Just archived for now.

The Battle of Bocajima is I'm sure still to come someday.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

16. Well, I do have to say....

You're probably the least annoying vegan I've ever met....
:hi:

[flvegan]

18. There should be a trophy for that!

No seriously, I know that some can be...difficult.

[femmocrat]

6. Purebred dogs.

Sorry, but I have three of them. We show them, but I don't breed them!

[baldguy]

14. Pit bulls

Even this pretty little girl.

[Withywindle]

34. aww, what a sweetpea.

I grew up with dogs. We always took in strays, because we lived out in the country where wastes of human skin took it upon themselves to DUMP dogs. We knew the dogs in question were so much better than the people who did that, and we couldn't resist their eyes. I was technically an only child, as my parents only produced one human baby, but I always had a yard full of siblings, who were treated as such.

Later in life after I moved out my parents got more picky and got really into adopting from a Bull Mastiff rescue, for personality reasons--but their latest pup was such a terror she needed a friend to help keep her in line. Enter Archie, a mid-size dog with a LOT of will who's a total mutt, but largely pit bull.

Giant snuggle bunny. My mom even whispers on the phone when talking to me late at night, because he's cuddled up against her in bed and she doesn't want to wake him. She puts the phone up against his nose so I can hear him snoring.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

95. It was a joke, people, a joke!

Honestly, I don't really think purebred dogs are soulless, I swear!

[Mojambo]

7. Cannibalism. n/t

[fishwax]

11. complaining ... and television

[edhopper]

12. Why do expect anything less?

[jobycom]

13. Probably don't expect anything else. Maybe even that's why we're here.

:)

[pscot]

66. I kvetch, therefore I am

:P

[kayakjohnny]

15. I want to be able to make fun of the downtrodden, the infirm, and ethnic people

... as well as regional stereotypes and gender issues, without someone jumping down my throat every time.



















(Kidding... I don't really want to do that):evilgrin:

[Ptah]

17. Arizona

[MiddleFingerMom]

19. Arizona? No way!!! This is from the front page of DU today.

.
Some Republican state senator the other day wanted to
DISPUTE the idea that Arizona continues to be a political
laughingstock across the nation by saying something along
the lines of, "As opposed to a laughingstock, we're getting
calls of support from all over the country."
.
This video pretty much answers THAT lame defense.
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJN8X14rU3g
.

[Ptah]

21. laughingstock?

is too.
   is not.

    is too.


       is not.

        is too.
           is not.
           is not.
           is not.

            is too.
               is not.

                is too.
                   is not.

                    is too.
                       is not.

                        is too.
                           is not.

[unpossibles]

20. You wash your cast iron pots!?!?!

OMG!

:D

porn?

[jobycom]

26. I rarely wash any of my dishes.

You do NOT want to eat in my kitchen. (that's not a euphamism).

[Mopar151]

22. Nascar, Domestic cars

Monster trucks, drag racing, professional wrestling. Shopping at Wal-Mart for ANYTHING.

[Chan790]

23. Call me a skeptic, but...

I am calling BS on people enjoying washing their cast iron cookware.

Do they wash it? Yes. :( (They really really shouldn't but some people are dumb. Wipe out with a damp rag as soon as it can be handled, then pour some kosher salt in to act as a desiccant and return to heat for about 2 minutes.)

But do they enjoy it? I have never heard anybody say "Aw geez, I'm bored...I think I'm gonna go wash my skillet." and not meant it as a euphemism for masturbation.

[jobycom]

25. But IF they wanted to

then they'd be criticized for it. :P

[hippywife]

119. I've always washed my cast iron skillets.

They are nice and clean and I have no problem using them again. :shrug:

[LibDemAlways]

24. Wanting a nice quiet meal in a restaurant without having to

listen to the child at the next table scream and cry unabated.

There are DUers who insist that child's parents have every right to subject everyone within earshot to the meltdown.

[Chan790]

27. See that's why I never go out to dinner...

without my taser.

I can't imagine going to Chuck E. Cheese without it ever again.

[LibDemAlways]

30. Chuck E Cheese is a play zone for kids, so wild behavior is to be

expected. I'm confident you know that's not what I'm referring to!

[Chan790]

73. I knew what you meant...

I just can't ever pass up a quip.

I hate when I'm at dinner and some child is running underfoot and screaming, meanwhile the parents are either laughing, grinning like Cheshire cats or not paying any attention at all. Drives me nuts...if you cannot control your child in public, stay home. If you think your child acting out is amusing, well...you're an idiot.

[jobycom]

28. I doubt anyone has ever complained about someone wanting a nice, quiet meal.

[LibDemAlways]

29. Yes they have. I once started a thread detailing a horrific restaurant experience

in which I had my meal rudely interrupted by a cranky child who screamed and threw food and plates for a good 20 minutes while the parents ignored the tantrum. Fellow DUers told me I had no right to enjoy my meal and that I shouldn't go out if I didn't want to put up with that kind of behavior. Sorry, but there are DUers who feel others have no right to enjoy themselves in a restaurant.

[Lucian]

31. The smokers use that same logic.

They say that if you don't like people smoking in a bar, then do go there.

But us nonsmokers have as much right to go out to a bar and enjoy it without the smelly, cancerous smoke polluting the air.

It's annoying. Really. :eyes:

[jobycom]

32. You'll have to provide a link of someone telling you you had no right to enjoy your meal.

:shrug:

I don't believe that.

[Withywindle]

33. Southern-raised smoker who likes Lynyrd Skynyrd, black metal, and porn checking in...

oh, and I'm a woman who is skinny because my parents are, it's inherited. I eat all the bacon I want (which is a lot) and still weigh 120.

Oh, and I shave my legs but NOT my crotch. Ever again. EW. My preference is that my partners, of either gender, don't either. (Did you miss that flame war? - it was EPIC.) But I don't judge people who shave or wax, per se, as long as they don't expect me to, er, go down there. Cause, well, EW. Personal squick. Even being half Brazilian, I find it a turnoff.

But I've known many adorable pit bulls. I love 'em. I love all animals. More than many people. (Another great flame war: yes, if my cat and my rapist were dying in a freezing river, I would save my cat first. If someone ELSE's cat and someone ELSE's rapist were dying in a freezing river, I would still save the cat first. I'm not a human-supremacist.) Big flame war there too.

[Dammit Ann]

35. Wow

You are the first lounger that I have seen who I actually may have ANYTHING in common with. Amazing.

[Withywindle]

36. Hee.

There's others around, I promise.

[Shell Beau]

105. That is amazing.

[jobycom]

41. There are people who don't like Lynyrd Skynyrd?

They can stay over on the other side of the room, then. :)

[Mopar151]

72. With ya on that!

:smoke: They transcended cliches http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWBoeY0AAec
Knew their blues, too:toast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nX_ZJy0FIs&feature=related

[Shell Beau]

106. You pretty much summed it up!!

[TreasonousBastard]

37. Anything from KFC or McDonald's. And I repeat...

I LIKE the Double Down.

(I'm rather partial to the mushroom&swiss Angus, too.)

[BlueIris]

38. Buying foreign cars. Refusing to be an organ donor. Giving your child an uncommon name.

Liking Tori Amos.

Yes, these are all things I've been slimed by Loungers for.

[Rosie1223]

39. Shopping at Walmart, using a gas grill

Sorry, my nearest Costco is 117 miles away and I'm not driving that far for charcoal.

:hi:

[HopeHoops]

40. NARWHALS! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!1

[TZ]

43. What? No cheese sandwiches?

[HopeHoops]

44. I figured I would leave that to someone else. Thanks!

:hi:

[redqueen]

47. What's wrong with cheese sandwiches?

[TZ]

49. There was a thread in GD about school lunches for poor kids

being cheese sandwiches, which apparantly is a classist insult by the white elite...:crazy:

[redqueen]

52. Well I like them.

That's my lunch nearly every day... but then I don't use that fake non-cheese cheese which IMO shouldn't even be called cheese. I wonder if those were actual cheese sandwiches or 'cheese food product' sandwiches. That might explain the uproar. (probably not, though)

[one_voice]

76. ....

I like cheese sammies..with bread a butter pickles and mustard. I ate them every morning for breakfast when I was pregnant with my son. And I still eat them.

[TZ]

45. Talking about my politically incorrect football team. n/t

[jobycom]

46. You know what cracks me up?

People went insane over Michael Vick. They hate him, they hate any team that signs him, they hate everyone who doesn't absolutely hate him. I can get that, pretty much.

But where's the anger at Rothlesburger? Dude's a serial rapist, yet hardly a peep about him. Most it costs him is six games and whatever hush money he's paying, and you don't see the pure hate threads towards him. I'm not big on hating anyone, but the different standard bothers me. :(

[TZ]

48. There's been a few.

Mostly in the sports forum....I have seen one or two in GD. But yeah, it seems like as long as someone's good, it doesn't matter how they treat women, because you know the women are only after his money..:sarcasm:.
It'll be like Kobe..let some time pass and he'll be a hero again...:banghead:

[jobycom]

51. Dogs are man's best friend.

Women seem to be more for recreation, especially for celebrities. You know, he was rich and famous, she had to be willing, and it's her fault for looking hot and stuff anyway. All three of them. And the ones who are just rumored...

[Rosie1223]

54. I thought you *didn't* read the GD discussions on Big Ben

but you just summarized them pretty well.

[jobycom]

55. No, but I know this grapevine.

[Mopar151]

57. It's like this

If you can consistently place a 95 MPH fastball, and have some other viable pitches, George Stienbrenner will personally drive to harlem and score crack for you.

[jobycom]

60. Crack I can live with.

If someone is dumb enough to do that to their body and they can still perform, more power to them.

Getting a woman drunk, having your bodyguard confine her in a bathroom, then forcing her to have sex with you while she's saying "No, this is not cool, this is not okay," while your bodyguard blocks her friend from getting to you... That's a whole different type and level of criminality.

[TZ]

63. Don't forget walking around with his wang hanging out.

For most people that would be arrest material right there! You know what pissed me off with the story was the cop who took a picture with Rothlesburger after taking his statement. Oh and calling the accuser a "whore". You know, is it any wonder after the Kobe Bryant affair that we don't hear more complaints from women? Who wants to go through that crap? Grr.

[Mopar151]

71. Yup.

Babe Ruth liked hookers and gin, but apparently had enough class to manage them well. There is a vast difference in carachter between being a dissolute playboy and a boorish mauler.

[CBR]

50. Very true!!!!! nt

[redqueen]

53. Lettuce and tomatoes on burritos... cornflake-crusted chicken.

There are lots of food-related ones, aren't there?

[jobycom]

56. Yeah, there are. There are people upset about lettuce and tomatoes on burritos?

Oh man, it's good I missed that one! :rofl:

[redqueen]

58. You would think I had suggested stabbing puppies.

Seriously. :P

[TZ]

64. Here enjoy!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9338920
There is some really good snark in it! Be sure not to miss the sparkling repartee from redqueen in that thread..:rofl:

[jobycom]

70. I heart redqueen!

:rofl: I'm glad I was caught up on that thread.

[Kali]

77. because it is just

WRONG!


:spank: :rofl:

[redqueen]

87. Oh yeah?

Well I got a menu to pre-order my lunch for a business trip to Cali this week and guess what they put on their burritos?

(we need a nyah-nyah smiley :P)

[tblue]

80. So you're the one!

Lol! I remember that lettuce-burrito discussion. Hope you weren't mad. I thought it was funny!

[redqueen]

88. Hahahah no...

Symarip is the one who gets mad. He can't control himself. Stuff he reads online gets him so worked up his eyes bleed.

[TZ]

91. His triggers are so easy too...

Rush, Ipads (Apple), Friends/Jennifer Aniston....I never knew pushing buttons was so fun till I met him! :rofl:

[BlueIris]

59. I can't believe no one's mentioned circumcision yet.

The--and I mean the--nastiest flamewars ever have been fought over that topic here. Circumcision now ranks high in my list of 10 Toxic Things You Should Never Discuss Online, right up there with organ donation, the fertility industry, prescription drug safety, vaccines, and autism.

[Kali]

78. ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=9345001&mesg_id=9345048

[BlueIris]

82. Oh, okay.

Now I'm relieved. I couldn't believe that topic appeared to have gone undiscussed in the thread.

[gmoney]

61. an iPad or Apple products in general

[jobycom]

62. That one goes both ways.

Start a thread on any problem with anything computer related, and within three posts you'll get at least one "Buy an Apple" response. And within six you'll get someone pushing Ubuntu. :rofl:

[Rosie1223]

67. Having a large family (ie The Duggars)

How many kids before you are just a 'breeder'?

[Common Sense Party]

68. Organized Religion

Actually, that's ANYWHERE on DU.

[lost-in-nj]

69. Laura Branigan....

lost

[Orrex]

74. The Lord of the Rings movies

Also, just about anything involving Stephen Spielberg, Ron Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, or Tom Hanks.

[jobycom]

81. Come on. There's like this one loser who always gripes about LOTR, but everyone else loves them.

If that loser would just shut up...

[Orrex]

84. But he's such a loud-mouth.

Almost as bad as that guy who hates Tim Burton.

[redqueen]

89. Don't forget Avatar!

[Orrex]

108. Too late!

Already forgotten!

[TZ]

109. You just reminded me: James Cameron and Tim Burton!

:P. The remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was better!!!!!!

[Orrex]

110. I'm SOOOOO going to sic Mickey Mouse on your ass

I know a guy who has a connection, you see...

[SoCalDem]

75. Corn flakes, fried chicken n/t

[NaturalHigh]

79. At least it's not general discussion.

Some people over there think you're a traitor to the cause if you're not pissed off about something all the time. Somebody even got pissed off about Boobquake today. How could anyone not like Boobquake?

[redqueen]

90. Because there's no cockquake to go with it?

Come on guys... join in! Start some natural disasters of your own!

[NaturalHigh]

99. Uh...wow, for once I'm speechless.

I've never seen anything like that.

[redqueen]

101. Yep. It is awesome. (nt)

[Skittles]

83. being in Texas and making fun of any other state

[spinbaby]

85. I think it's okay to make fun of Arizona

They brought that on themselves.

[Ptah]

104. .

:thumbsdown:

[guitar man]

86. A Harley Davidson

:hide:

[SoxFan]

117. Yep, you suck

It's getting close to Laconia Bike Week, which means I start to get cranky about the straight pipes! :evilgrin:

[Bucky]

92. Every time I ask about the president's so-called birth certificate, folks just go psycho on me

I keed, I keed

[Gidney N Cloyd]

93. Watching Morning Joe (or anything else on MSNBC besides Keith and Rachel)

That'll get you lectured on any forum on DU.

"Why do you watch that if there's something on it that's going to upset you?!!"
Because I get claustrophobic when I stick my head in the sand?

"Don't contribute to their ratings!!"
I don't. No cable box, no people meter, no data exchange.

"I refuse to watch that show!"
Yet you don't refuse to click on threads about it.

[auntAgonist]

94. weightloss and diets and surgery n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

96. Flavored coffee, sweetened tea.

Apparently, there are people who get very angry with the notion that hot beverages can have their flavor enhanced. Who knew?

[TZ]

97. Oh yeah.

I think it was about this time last year that I commented that I tried sweet tea for the first time and really liked it and set off the great sweet tea wars in the lounge...:rofl:

[redqueen]

98. Sweet tea? Really?

That's odd.

Flavored coffee I don't like... but if someone else wants to ruin their coffee that's up to them. :P

[lost-in-nj]

100. seems like you can't talk about going to Disney

now either.....

:P


lost

[geardaddy]

102. Don't forget these:

non-SoCal burritos
non-Texas chili

[geardaddy]

103. And anything with HFCS in it.

[Texasgal]

107. Golf, sports in general

And oh.. the USC vs Texas championship game thread. GRRRR.

[SoxFan]

111. Rush

The Canadian power trio, not the bloated bloviator.

[Dr. Strange]

120. +2112

[Kali]

112. VOLKSWAGEN COMMERCIALS!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8232902#8234060

[TK421]

113. I'm not sure, but I'm certain there is absolutely nothing wrong with Toyota n/t

[mochajava666]

114. Disposable diapers

I lost friends over that one.

[woo me with science]

116. ridiculing homeopathy. nt

[SoxFan]

118. Oasis

Yeah, I like catchy if somewhat derivative BritPop. Sue me!

[mitchum]

121. Wondering who was crazier; Jesus or his mother?

I win

[Jade Fox]

122. Thinking pets are a huge waste of money and resources.....

:hide:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

123. southern trailer trash

[rug]

125. A fucking cigarette.