11-26-2007, 11:22 AM
asteele2 Wrote:Pausing here, I feel like certain people here often like to accuse me of not having thought through the obvious. See Chris' effective "didn't you think about this shit before?", "didn't you think about having medical care?" etc. And now I'm catching flak for reevaluating my risky activity on the people that care about me. The "Andrew is dumb, so start at the lowest denominator" attitude, if fun to joke about, is obnoxious in conversation.
It's not clear from your statements that you had thought through the obvious. In fact, from your statement below, it seems quite the contrary. Mike said exactly the same thing and admitted that he was stopping because he hadn't thought it through the first time.
Quote:Had I thought of my mom having to take care of me before? No, she brought that up when I told her about the accident and I hate to admit it, but she's got a point.
You have this perception that everyone discounts you and never listens to anything you have to say when in fact I was basing that off your own words. No one called you dumb, just questioned your thought process... and I'll say it again... from your own words.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth