The "I WANT TO ARGUE!" thread - JOKE THREAD!

[JimMIA]

No, I understand them quite well. I don't understand people who EAT them....

This is the problem with the anti-olive extremist fringe. No matter what you say about olives, they always come back negative.

I'm not taking it any more. Tomorrow, I'm having a protest breakfast. I'm making a Spanish omelette with Queen OLIVES!

 

[easyas123]

Black Olives Forever!

 

[Lilsia]

This is the problem with the anti-olive extremist fringe. No matter what you say about olives, they always come back negative.

I'm not taking it any more. Tomorrow, I'm having a protest breakfast. I'm making a Spanish omelette with Queen OLIVES!

I like olives except for black olives. They taste rotten to me. The best one is the Cerignola olive.

 

[tvguy]

I answer phones in a TV newsroom. I don't want to argue with anyone. I WOULD like to connect the people who call with opposing views to each other and sit back and listen to THEM argue.
Likely topics:
Face coverings in a pandemic.
Are deaths from the pandemic being over or under reported?
Is there a pandemic.?
Politics.
What is an essential job?
Schools resuming.

 

[Carol_]

This guy used to love Grape Nuts too
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Then the crunchy bland evil little jaw breakers did their work.

Lithen here you yummy food hater, If you can’t take the heat, get out of my grape nut-eatin kithen!

 

[Carol_]

I answer phones in a TV newsroom. I don't want to argue with anyone. I WOULD like to connect the people who call with opposing views to each other and sit back and listen to THEM argue.
Likely topics:
Face coverings in a pandemic.
Are deaths from the pandemic being over or under reported?
Is there a pandemic.?
Politics.
What is an essential job?
Schools resuming.

Face coverings in a pandemic.
Whatever keeps the crazies from attacking me.
Are deaths from the pandemic being over or under reported?
Yes
Is there a pandemic.?
Yes but while still horrific, it’s not as horrific as it was imagined to be.
Politics.
What’s politics? This is disboards. 1st rule of dis boards is I don’t tell you and you don’t tell me about politics.
What is an essential job?
1.Water and Sewer Authority,
2. The Electric Company,
3.Mommies
4. 911 and everyone who keeps it working to include IT.
5. The Charmin factory
6. Farmers
Ok maybe farmers can move up if it’s truly Armageddon
7. The Real Housewives
Schools resuming.
1. If they don’t resume there’s no point to anything anymore.

 

[tvguy]

What is an essential job?

Can I connect you to the people who say nail salons and hair color are essential?

 

[theluckyrabbit]

LIke a dessert pizza? Because i agree thats wrong otherwise.

No, it was an entree pizza. The guy who ordered it was sitting at the next table so I could see and smell his pizza -- definitely memorable.

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

Face coverings in a pandemic.
Whatever keeps the crazies from attacking me.
Sadly, that doesn't stop them.

Are deaths from the pandemic being over or under reported?
Yes
Both

Is there a pandemic.?
Yes but while still horrific, it’s not as horrific as it was imagined to be.
It's horrific for those on the far end of the pandemic (i.e. the dead, their families, the super sick). Everyone else is 'meh'.

Politics.
What’s politics? This is disboards. 1st rule of dis boards is I don’t tell you and you don’t tell me about politics.
OOOH!! Y'all used a bad word. I'M TELLING!!!!! Y'all are gonna get points. Moderator!!!Moderator!!!

What is an essential job?
1.Water and Sewer Authority,
2. The Electric Company,
3.Mommies
4. 911 and everyone who keeps it working to include IT.
5. The Charmin factory
6. Farmers
Ok maybe farmers can move up if it’s truly Armageddon
7. The Real Housewives
1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 yes. 6, I don't think ever stopped working. 7, no; let them pass away quietly. Add in firemen, paramedics, and anyone associated with my husband's company, so they can keep those paychecks (and a decent Christmas bonus) rolling this way.

Chippendales/Thunder Down Under...THOSE are essential jobs.


Schools resuming.
1. If they don’t resume there’s no point to anything anymore.
My kid (now a high school junior, wth?) needs to go for socialization. I don't want him spending anymore time away from people. But....scary virus (for DH, as a transplant patient).

 

[JimMIA]

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Lithen here you yummy food hater, If you can’t take the heat, get out of my grape nut-eatin kithen!

It's interesting you mention the kitchen. Did you know they make a great knife sharpener in a pinch? But don't wear your wedding ring. They're the only food known that can scratch diamonds.

 

[Nox]

Face coverings in a pandemic.

Privilege.

It's great for those of you who are privileged enough to:

*Have decently functional lungs where breathing through a mask isn't difficult or risky for you (I have a friend whose father was hospitalized - not for COVID, but because he has COPD and wearing a mask significantly reduced his oxygen levels, because it is a direct impediment to being able to breathe, which is already hard enough for him)
*Be neurotypical and not have sensory sensitivities (friend of mine who is autistic had a meltdown from the sensory overload of having a mask on his face)
*Not have children who are neurodiverse or who have sensory sensitivities (another friend's son won't be returning to school in fall after he scratched up his own face over a mask)
*Have good hearing (I am HoH. People's voices are now even harder to hear because they are muffled, I can't lipread for visual cues to help me figure out what's being said, and I can't lean closer to hear)
*Usually be in the company of others who also have good hearing

This is exposing that a lot of people do not know how good they have it, that they are completely oblivious to the everyday struggles of those around them, and that like everyone else, they only care about themselves in the end, no matter how much they screech about others being selfish to deflect it.

Yep, I said it. Don't give me some bull about "but vulnerable people could get sick and die!" Vulnerable people can get sick and die during flu season, and you don't care then. You care now because someone told you that you could die. You know that as a person of average health, you most likely will not die from the flu, so you walk around with no mask and don't care that others do the same. But now that they are blasting news reports of "TOTALLY HEALTHY PERSON DIES FROM COVID!!!!" you think everyone should be required to wear a mask, to protect you. Stop acting like forcing everyone to wear masks is coming from a place of caring about others. No one else's struggles matter because you could get sick. You're as selfish and self-serving as everyone else.

 

[chickapin parterre]

I like olives except for black olives. They taste rotten to me. The best one is the Cerignola olive.

HUh......no.....the best one is Matt Groening's Olive, the Reindeer....that is the best Olive.

 

[disneychrista]

Can I connect you to the people who say nail salons and hair color are essential?

Getting your nails done and your hair colored aren't essential. But the people who work there are.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Privilege.

It's great for those of you who are privileged enough to:

*Have decently functional lungs where breathing through a mask isn't difficult or risky for you (I have a friend whose father was hospitalized - not for COVID, but because he has COPD and wearing a mask significantly reduced his oxygen levels, because it is a direct impediment to being able to breathe, which is already hard enough for him)
*Be neurotypical and not have sensory sensitivities (friend of mine who is autistic had a meltdown from the sensory overload of having a mask on his face)
*Not have children who are neurodiverse or who have sensory sensitivities (another friend's son won't be returning to school in fall after he scratched up his own face over a mask)
*Have good hearing (I am HoH. People's voices are now even harder to hear because they are muffled, I can't lipread for visual cues to help me figure out what's being said, and I can't lean closer to hear)
*Usually be in the company of others who also have good hearing

This is exposing that a lot of people do not know how good they have it, that they are completely oblivious to the everyday struggles of those around them, and that like everyone else, they only care about themselves in the end, no matter how much they screech about others being selfish to deflect it.

Yep, I said it. Don't give me some bull about "but vulnerable people could get sick and die!" Vulnerable people can get sick and die during flu season, and you don't care then. You care now because someone told you that you could die. You know that as a person of average health, you most likely will not die from the flu, so you walk around with no mask and don't care that others do the same. But now that they are blasting news reports of "TOTALLY HEALTHY PERSON DIES FROM COVID!!!!" you think everyone should be required to wear a mask, to protect you. Stop acting like forcing everyone to wear masks is coming from a place of caring about others. No one else's struggles matter because you could get sick. You're as selfish and self-serving as everyone else.

Maybe a few not wearing masks have trouble, but it isn't all of them. It isn't even most of them. Further, the flu isn't even close to as deadly as this. So get off your high horse because what is really selfish and self serving is those that try and use the 5% that can't wear a mask as an excuse for the 95% that can, but don't.

What are the chances that any of these people weren't wearing masks due to serious lung problems? It's a two horse race between slim and none and none has a 30 length lead entering the stretch.

 

[Tallis]

Sick and tired of hearing about the 2020 seniors. They have gotten more attention than any graduating class in history, AND most of them are getting their ceremonies anyway. Quit encouraging a generation of whiners and attention h**s.

I don't care if people wear masks or not, I just stay away from public indoor places. Groceries can be delivered in most places - not where I live, but most places - however, there is such a things as pick up order everywhere there is a Walmart. Both myself and my husband are in very high risk groups for the virus, so don't even bother me with your attempted health related guilt trips.

Quit posting filtered pictures of yourself on facebook. Lots of people know you in person and are aware that you look nothing like that.

Don't ask for advice if you really don't want it.

Okay, I think that's about it.

 

[JimMIA]

LMAO.

I hope all y'all fierce warriors realize this entire thread is a joke!

 

[tvguy]

Privilege.

It's great for those of you who are privileged enough to:

*Have decently functional lungs where breathing through a mask isn't difficult or risky for you (I have a friend whose father was hospitalized - not for COVID, but because he has COPD and wearing a mask significantly reduced his oxygen levels, because it is a direct impediment to being able to breathe, which is already hard enough for him)
*Be neurotypical and not have sensory sensitivities (friend of mine who is autistic had a meltdown from the sensory overload of having a mask on his face)
*Not have children who are neurodiverse or who have sensory sensitivities (another friend's son won't be returning to school in fall after he scratched up his own face over a mask)
*Have good hearing (I am HoH. People's voices are now even harder to hear because they are muffled, I can't lipread for visual cues to help me figure out what's being said, and I can't lean closer to hear)
*Usually be in the company of others who also have good hearing

This is exposing that a lot of people do not know how good they have it, that they are completely oblivious to the everyday struggles of those around them, and that like everyone else, they only care about themselves in the end, no matter how much they screech about others being selfish to deflect it.

Yep, I said it. Don't give me some bull about "but vulnerable people could get sick and die!" Vulnerable people can get sick and die during flu season, and you don't care then. You care now because someone told you that you could die. You know that as a person of average health, you most likely will not die from the flu, so you walk around with no mask and don't care that others do the same. But now that they are blasting news reports of "TOTALLY HEALTHY PERSON DIES FROM COVID!!!!" you think everyone should be required to wear a mask, to protect you. Stop acting like forcing everyone to wear masks is coming from a place of caring about others. No one else's struggles matter because you could get sick. You're as selfish and self-serving as everyone else.

Let me put you on the phone with someone with a different view and experience. You kids can work it out, keep me out of it.

 

[JimMIA]

Guess not, lol!

 

[tvguy]

Getting your nails done and your hair colored aren't essential. But the people who work there are.

Again, let me put you on the phone and let you haggle it out. I will add that I was amazed at how many people have called upset that they or a loved one is in job that is listed as essential, when they feel the job is not. And no offense to nail salons, but I think most of us would think these jobs are several times more essential.