I heard an amazing thing yesterday

[Canuckistanian]

I was in the cafeteria at work and I overheard a conversation that started like this, "Do you want to know the most amazing story ever? It seems that the US government wasted about $23Billion on Iraq!".

Well, now, I couldn't pass up an opportunity like that, could I?


Pretty soon the other co-worker and I were shooting statistics and stories about the financial clusterfuck that Iraq has become.

The poor, uninformed (but attentive, courteous and curious) third co-worker that this was being explained to, didn't know what hit him.

After that, my 'fellow traveler' and I went back to our jobs in a world of polite avoidance of political discussion.

We'll talk again some day.

[TlalocW]

1. My story

I'm a web/database programmer for a small marketing company, and we recently hired a second programmer to come in and help take the load off of me. Turns out she's a fellow DU'er and remembered some of my stories that I've told on here. We're the only liberals in an office of about 15 conservatives.

Then today, one of the more religiously insane project managers sent out that garbage email about how to tell if you're liberal or conservative based on a scenario of walking down the street with your family when you're suddenly attacked by a terrorist. The liberal starts thinking about 15 different things about how it will look to various people and organizations if he defends himself; the conservative takes out a gun and blows him away, and the southern Baptist conservative empties a clip into him, reloads, and empties another one.

I replied all (naturally) and said, "Actually the conservative ignored warnings about walking in that neighborhood; his family is killed, but he blames some other guy that had nothing to do with it and attacks him instead. The guy who actually killed his family sends him taunting messages through the mail every now and then, but the conservative labels him as irrelevant to his friends. His reason for attacking the guy who had nothing to do with it changes on a regular basis, and when you call him on it, he claims he never had any other reason for attacking him other than the current one he's espousing."

Boss found it funny, but he got on to the first guy for sending it out and instigating it, and then called me and politely asked me not to reply to stuff like that either. It felt good though. :)

TlalocW

[northofdenali]

2. I got an email just like that the other day -

haven't replied yet, because I was too pissed off. May I plagiarize you? Pretty please?? :hug:

[TlalocW]

3. Go for it

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TlalocW