FOX is just hilarious to watch any more. They used the same "Fox and Friends" mold for this "newsteam" that they have always used... a too bitchy and angry, yet dumb, blonde female with that ever-present inflection in her delivery that is somehow both conspiratorial and self-assured, yet incredulous at every bit of copy that scrolls in front of that thousand-yard stare, a blondish "open-minded" Steve Doucy guy as her left frame, and a quick-tempered "brown-haired guy who isn't Steve Doucy" as the right. The bit opens as a "FOX News Alert" while ominous bassline hints of dread and foreboding. It reminds me of E1M2 of Doom. And, of course, the crawler. "ALERT" scrolls and flashes the whole time, as if this were NOT a test of the Emergency Broadcast System, but a real, dangerous and imminent threat. FOX certainly knows how to entertain.

>> ^jmd:

The guy might have been a total ass, but whats with the faggot police men swarming him after he peacefully exited the car and was hand cuffed? Jumping over the car and running around as if he might get away... everyone in this video should be shot for being to stupid to live. Ok I'm tired and I am being bitchy, but seriouse, its 20 against one.. and hes hand cuffed.. GTFO and raid the local dunken donuts.


Were we watching the same video? Even when his car was trapped, he seemed VERY obstinate and not at all willing to give up. That guy was clinging to anything to keep from surrendering. Even when we saw the epic fro disappear, my assumption was that he was attempting to crawl under the other car (like that would help, HA!).

Let's see you try to handle that much adrenaline and not act that stupid.

>> ^jmd:
The guy might have been a total ass, but whats with the faggot police men swarming him after he peacefully exited the car and was hand cuffed? Jumping over the car and running around as if he might get away... everyone in this video should be shot for being to stupid to live. Ok I'm tired and I am being bitchy, but seriouse, its 20 against one.. and hes hand cuffed.. GTFO and raid the local dunken donuts.


Sorry, but with this guy I'll give the cops the benefit of the doubt. It looked to me as though he was beginning to resist arrest after they pulled him out, and frankly, who knows what he was doing based on the footage. It's too far away and too undetailed. They didn't seem to do anything inappropriate, just maybe a bit excessive in number. If you're a police office and you've just been through all that, you're probably inclined to take every precaution, and I would think no one could fault you for that.

The guy might have been a total ass, but whats with the faggot police men swarming him after he peacefully exited the car and was hand cuffed? Jumping over the car and running around as if he might get away... everyone in this video should be shot for being to stupid to live. Ok I'm tired and I am being bitchy, but seriouse, its 20 against one.. and hes hand cuffed.. GTFO and raid the local dunken donuts.

HEY EVERYONE I CONSISTENTLY MISSPELLED A WORD!!!

What a joke. Instead of talking about the subject at hand -where the deficit started and what is driving it- you pull out your dikshunarie of those big talkie werds and try to use my consistent misspell as an attack.

I notice you've been really bitchy around here lately (at DFT and youdijoe, etc) so I'm assuming there's a bigger problem than this post.

and btw: Why shouldn't us yanks try to get a real understanding of our current fiscal disaster? The logic behind your statement of only fixing the problem but not looking at the direct cause, is mind numbingly weird. That's the way the US's health system operates - treating the sickness while ignoring the cause.

hey dude, i know you like controversy, I can't remember if you are in the USA or no, but you should join me at firedoglake.com Its a progressive site but libertarians are more than welcome


for instance I can make bitchy comments like this:
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/53635#comment-204845

and get thoughtful answers.

look at my shit over there->
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/author/marinara

Upvote for bitchy gay robot =)

>> ^conan:

nsfw
that is, if you and your colleagues speak german :-) but we're not so bitchy about swearing as US americans, so i guess it doesn't matter


I got it for you. *NSFW

*nsfw
that is, if you and your colleagues speak german :-) but we're not so bitchy about swearing as US americans, so i guess it doesn't matter

yeah easy enough to get the embed code for "terror of tiny town"
As a bitchy and presumptuous web coder I advise you- choggie not to even ask about that embed code.

writing parsing code is prone to errors and... anyhow

Start begging that site to support HTML5 embeds (like the video tag). I bet we could convice VS admins to support that.

Is my sandwich ready?>> ^peggedbea:
there is no feminist conspiracy, i promise. and its not a matter of "getting off on it" it's a matter of broad generalizations about the way people are enculturated and things that are social occurrences. they just are.
and if you ask, you offer to pay. it's the same rule when i ask my female friends out to lunch; i ask, i offer to pay.
i have a really good friend, we met like 9 years ago and dated briefly. he even did the "open the car door thing" and i thought it was way over the top and he was trying way too hard, but something about it seemed oddly sincere so i didn't bust his balls for it right away. but 9 years later and all romantic interest crushed dead, he still opens my car doors and usually pays when go out, even for my kids, except for the times he's been unemployed and i paid for everything, or in cases where i get to the check first (which i try to do a lot). no one is getting off on it, no one is trying to get laid, it's just the way he shows respect and appreciation and love. i'm glad i never called him out for what i thought was a douchebag move, because he wasn't saying "i want to manipulate you into fucking me" he was actually saying "i respect and appreciate you" (but yeah, in most cases if you go so far as too open my car door, i might think you're trying too hard and be annoyed by it)
the point is these things are cultural symbols. they exist. opening a door for someone doesn't have to mean "i want to fuck you" or "you're a pitiful weak female and can't do this for yourself". it's just body language and it usually means "i acknowledge you're going through this door next and respect you enough as human to not let it slam in your face" and if you're so socially detached and cynical that you don't understand that, then no, i probably don't want to date you. but all things become subjective, of course. i usually like shy nerds, and i am usually friends with them first, and then i usually just tell them. but it's not like i've never been asked out first, and i pay attention to body language and signals and social cues. because they exist and say a lot about a person. and maybe it's because i was raised by men, or raised in the south, but courtesy and respect and general politeness are important. and our culture says these things show respect and courtesy. we don't go along telling people we respect them verbally, we open doors and want to share meals and help our neighbors.
and as far as blankfist's encounter with these bitches, some people are shameful and rude. some women are pampered spoiled bitches who think its okay to let his presence on the sidewalk go ignored. and that's wrong.

>> ^imstellar28:
What else can "getting out of a ladies way" be if not chivalry? Chivalry was killed in the mainstream when feminists started complaining about it. It still exists in small circles where and when it can be used as a tool for sexual conquest (as it always was)..i.e. when a guy is after a girl who gets off on "a guy who opens doors for me or picks up the check or has good manners"
The problem in this situation is these women think all men want to court them at all times...hence the pompous sense of entitlement and selfish attitude they project towards men. I'd put them in the same group as the feminists who complain about guys opening doors for them - the "people I don't want to date" group.
>> ^peggedbea:
chivalry:
what remains of it, for the most part, is part of the courting ritual.
...
i'm sorry you have bitchy, attractive, spoiled neighbors. but chivalry and feminism aren't the issue.

there is no feminist conspiracy, i promise. and its not a matter of "getting off on it" it's a matter of broad generalizations about the way people are enculturated and things that are social occurrences. they just are.

and if you ask, you offer to pay. it's the same rule when i ask my female friends out to lunch; i ask, i offer to pay.

i have a really good friend, we met like 9 years ago and dated briefly. he even did the "open the car door thing" and i thought it was way over the top and he was trying way too hard, but something about it seemed oddly sincere so i didn't bust his balls for it right away. but 9 years later and all romantic interest crushed dead, he still opens my car doors and usually pays when go out, even for my kids, except for the times he's been unemployed and i paid for everything, or in cases where i get to the check first (which i try to do a lot). no one is getting off on it, no one is trying to get laid, it's just the way he shows respect and appreciation and love. i'm glad i never called him out for what i thought was a douchebag move, because he wasn't saying "i want to manipulate you into fucking me" he was actually saying "i respect and appreciate you" (but yeah, in most cases if you go so far as too open my car door, i might think you're trying too hard and be annoyed by it)

the point is these things are cultural symbols. they exist. opening a door for someone doesn't have to mean "i want to fuck you" or "you're a pitiful weak female and can't do this for yourself". it's just body language and it usually means "i acknowledge you're going through this door next and respect you enough as human to not let it slam in your face" and if you're so socially detached and cynical that you don't understand that, then no, i probably don't want to date you. but all things become subjective, of course. i usually like shy nerds, and i am usually friends with them first, and then i usually just tell them. but it's not like i've never been asked out first, and i pay attention to body language and signals and social cues. because they exist and say a lot about a person. and maybe it's because i was raised by men, or raised in the south, but courtesy and respect and general politeness are important. and our culture says these things show respect and courtesy. we don't go along telling people we respect them verbally, we open doors and want to share meals and help our neighbors.

and as far as blankfist's encounter with these bitches, some people are shameful and rude. some women are pampered spoiled bitches who think its okay to let his presence on the sidewalk go ignored. and that's wrong.


>> ^imstellar28:
What else can "getting out of a ladies way" be if not chivalry? Chivalry was killed in the mainstream when feminists started complaining about it. It still exists in small circles where and when it can be used as a tool for sexual conquest (as it always was)..i.e. when a guy is after a girl who gets off on "a guy who opens doors for me or picks up the check or has good manners"
The problem in this situation is these women think all men want to court them at all times...hence the pompous sense of entitlement and selfish attitude they project towards men. I'd put them in the same group as the feminists who complain about guys opening doors for them - the "people I don't want to date" group.
>> ^peggedbea:
chivalry:
what remains of it, for the most part, is part of the courting ritual.
...
i'm sorry you have bitchy, attractive, spoiled neighbors. but chivalry and feminism aren't the issue.

Not all women are like those fem-jerks (falsly entitled, stuck-up, bitchy, lame, snotty etc). It's pretty much just West LA... maybe all of Southern CA, where they're like this. One thing I find hard to tolerate is rudeness and bad manners, male OR female. I'd say just trip them next time and run away!

What else can "getting out of a ladies way" be if not chivalry? Chivalry was killed in the mainstream when feminists started complaining about it. It still exists in small circles where and when it can be used as a tool for sexual conquest (as it always was)..i.e. when a guy is after a girl who gets off on "a guy who opens doors for me or picks up the check or has good manners"

The problem in this situation is these women think all men want to court them at all times...hence the pompous sense of entitlement and selfish attitude they project towards men. I'd put them in the same group as the feminists who complain about guys opening doors for them - the "people I don't want to date" group.

>> ^peggedbea:
chivalry:
what remains of it, for the most part, is part of the courting ritual.

...

i'm sorry you have bitchy, attractive, spoiled neighbors. but chivalry and feminism aren't the issue.

equality:
you don't deserve to make more money than me for the same job and the same quality of work just because you have a penis. i can do more with my life than pop out babies and clean up your shit. my thoughts, ideas, opinions, feelings are just as valid as yours, as yours are as valid as mine. and blah blah blah blah you know all that

chivalry:
what remains of it, for the most part, is part of the courting ritual. if we're on our first date and you make no attempt to open doors for me or pick up the check or have good manners, that's our last date. i'm not sure why that's how it is. i am perfectly capable of doing those things for myself, but courting rituals are important and that's part of it. on the same coin, i'm expected to reciprocate by pretending you're fascinating and funny, not being opinionated, smiling politely, wearing make up, smelling nice, looking presentable, making polite conversation and being more conventionally feminine than i normally am. it's just part of the deal. i also used to feel bad having someone else pay for my shit, but apparently if i try to pay for my own stuff on a first date that's a signal that i just want to be "friends". these are cultural rules and they exist and most people abide by them. it's cool.
after a relationship is established the rules get more lax, i can pick up checks, i can open some of the doors, i can get more opinionated, you can act like more of a pig. as far as household chores go, if both people work to pay the bills then the chores should be split and how a couple chooses to split them is up to that couple. but i'd guess you're better at moving heavy objects and opening jars than i am. and i'm probably happier to scrub the toilet and fold the laundry. and you're still responsible to make each other feel special sometimes, and sometimes that means the traditional gender role courting game comes back into play.

common decency:
everyone should make way for everyone else and hold doors open if you get there first. regardless of gender. it's just being decent. it's like saying "i acknowledge your existence and i respect you", anything less is sheer rudeness. if i make it to the door first, i open the door. if an elderly person is slowly edging ahead of me to the door, i pick up my step and open it. if anyone is carrying something heavy or cumbersome to the door ahead of me, i step up and get the door. it doesn't matter what their gender is. out in public men do end up going out of their way more often to open doors for me, it's not necessary, but i do smile and say thanks and acknowledge it. and i do think it's polite. but i certainly don't just stand there and wait for some strange man to move his ass and get out of my way or open this silly door. i'm teaching both of my kids to open doors for other people and help other people with things in public, but i do emphasize "opening doors for ladies" more with my son. because gentlemen are appreciated (or should be). but my daughter is getting heavily schooled in respect and courtesy as well.

i'm sorry you have bitchy, attractive, spoiled neighbors. but chivalry and feminism aren't the issue.