Busted

[fishinwrench]

Foxworthy also said, "Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks".

Translation:.  Just because you're smarter doesn't mean you're right.  

[SpoonDog]

1 hour ago, fishinwrench said:

It blows my mind that all these people claiming to be mentally ill have no problem at all operating their mobile devices and mastering every X-box game in existence, and they seem to have no problem recognizing which expensive in-style shoes to buy.  But for some odd reason they can't be trusted to make a grilled cheese sandwich without burning the house down. And how dare you expect them to operate a lawn mower or even a rake.

Crap like that infuriates me.  Kick them in the butt and stop buying into their bullshit.

 

It's not some uniform mass of grey goop, Wrench.  Different parts of the brain govern different activities so yeah, a kid may be great at video games AND a social basketcase not because he's faking it or because it's bullshit, but  because the "spatial processing" region of his brain is functioning properly and the "picking up on social cues" region isn't.  What you're arguing is analogous to telling a customer the fuel pump can't be broken because the cowling isn't cracked. 

 

It just ain't so. 

[Deadstream]

Going Trout fishing for the summer in Michigan tomorrow. The smallmouth and pike, etc. will get a chance.   Most young men up in that neck of the woods do one of two things. Work and be productive or go to the Dr. and get proclaimed mentally ill and draw disability.  I tell them that they can no longer own weapons etc., they don't care they want a free ride on the crazy train.  Sad.  But they will work for cash when it is convenient for them.  Nobody really knows what is going on in somebody's head, if you believe that you are a fool. 

[joeD]

A fictional character from a misanthrope author (Willy Wonka, image from a movie) and a comedian, Jeff Foxworthy, are being used as a backbone to prove a point?

Awesome! God Bless America! What's next, Donald Trump as President?

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, joeD said:

A fictional character from a misanthrope author (Willy Wonka, image from a movie) and a comedian, Jeff Foxworthy, are being used as a backbone to prove a point?

Awesome! God Bless America! What's next, Donald Trump as President?

This is where y'all get me wrong all the time.  I never attempt to prove I'm right, I just explain why I feel the way I do and question why everyone else thinks I'm ignorant for thinking that way.  

The only thing I ever trained extensively for was outboard engines, everything else I profess to be wise about is strictly from personal observation.  I do pay attention to what goes on around me.  I watch and listen to all kinds of people and secretly study their "moves".     Kinda like fishing you pick up on patterns of behavior and can usually predict what they'll do/say next.  It's fun.

You guys are like patterning house flys.  Open the door on a calm day and the kitchen fills within minutes. Pick up a flyswatter and although you know they are still in the room you can't find but a couple.

[joeD]

Good grief wrench. You sound like a generic pro basketball star who tells an interviewer, " ...everybody doubted me and my team..."  When nobody did nothing of the sort.

Aww. c'mon., are we that obvious? 

Let's smoke a peace pipe and talk about it. What say?

[LarrySTL]

Two sort of random comments.   First is on the bathroom thing.  The first time I went to Germany I was told there were "attendants" in the bathrooms.   OK, whatever.  It turns out they didnt mean just the bathrooms in the big fancy hotels and such, but most of the bathrooms.   None of the germans bothered to tell me ( maybe because it wasnt remarkable to them, or maybe it was "mess with the American guy" day, or whatever),   What I didnt know until I was in the large mens bathroom in a big train station was that the attendants were women.   Every one of them.  In both the men's and the women's bathroom.   After a couple days it didnt seem remarkable.

The other thing is about those weak willed medical defectives who need to live near a pharmacy.  I'm one of them.  I have an underactive thyroid and every day since about age 14    I take a little tan thyroid supplement pill.  I have been consistently told by doctors that if I stopped taking it for a couple months some very bad things, possibly including death, could happen.  I'll go line up over to the side with all the other defective folks, including those with epilepsy, mental health problems, high blood pressure, and yes I am also one of those weak willed medication seeking cancer survivors. Maybe we can harness our collective will power and control those pesky neurotransmitters and our weak-willed cells that allowed their various cancerous mutations to occur.

 

 

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, joeD said:

Good grief wrench. You sound like a generic pro basketball star who tells an interviewer, " ...everybody doubted me and my team..."  When nobody did nothing of the sort.

Aww. c'mon., are we that obvious? 

Let's smoke a peace pipe and talk about it. What say?

Dangit man, up until I learned that you had watched enough basketball player interviews to pattern them I would have gladly passed you the bowl.   But now, you'd be lucky to get a hit of the screen. 

[fishinwrench]

53 minutes ago, LarrySTL said:

Two sort of random comments.   First is on the bathroom thing.  The first time I went to Germany I was told there were "attendants" in the bathrooms.   OK, whatever.  It turns out they didnt mean just the bathrooms in the big fancy hotels and such, but most of the bathrooms.   None of the germans bothered to tell me ( maybe because it wasnt remarkable to them, or maybe it was "mess with the American guy" day, or whatever),   What I didnt know until I was in the large mens bathroom in a big train station was that the attendants were women.   Every one of them.  In both the men's and the women's bathroom.   After a couple days it didnt seem remarkable.

The other thing is about those weak willed medical defectives who need to live near a pharmacy.  I'm one of them.  I have an underactive thyroid and every day since about age 14    I take a little tan thyroid supplement pill.  I have been consistently told by doctors that if I stopped taking it for a couple months some very bad things, possibly including death, could happen.  I'll go line up over to the side with all the other defective folks, including those with epilepsy, mental health problems, high blood pressure, and yes I am also one of those weak willed medication seeking cancer survivors. Maybe we can harness our collective will power and control those pesky neurotransmitters and our weak-willed cells that allowed their various cancerous mutations to occur.

 

 

Well you just got placed in the group of cohorts that jump at the opportunity to be offended.   If you'll look over my posts you'll see that I wholeheartedly acknowledge that some folks truly do NEED meds.  My argument is that a very large and growing number of those that have been told that they need meds, truly don't.   And when the day comes that MOST people "need" meds, then we as a species have a serious problem.  

I consider myself both lucky and smart.  I have taken to the mindset that I do not require commercial chemicals in order to survive in the world that I was born in.  And so far, in spite of numerous "professional" recommendations, I've been right.   

 

 

 

[joeD]

Oooof! Harsh, brother! 

Yet I am not above scrubbing for that last hit.