Meme Thread... no politics

Steve_Jones said:

This one is better 

berkeleying funny as berkeley if I post anything anti left in thie website that's so against politics and the left E36 M3 gets locked. But these memes are okay to post.

In reply to Subscriber-unavailabile :

TBH I think the Trump meme at the top crosses the political line.  The rest are meme's of teasonist domestic terrorist.  But I'm a leftist socialist bastard so take that as you will.

Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) said:

This is a frequent point of discussion among veterinarians. Once someone that meets us at random finds out our profession, chances are that we are going to have to be in a sort of Groundhog Day of conversation.

I work in aerospace, but deal with interior products.  Those include seats.  Telling people you work on Aircraft seats will stop the conversation dead in its tracks.  Sometimes they might say "you should give them more legroom!", but that's about it.  Any further and I run away because I've started a conversation with a psychopath. 

So I guess what I am saying is:  tell people you design commercial aircraft seats.

ShawnG said:

In reply to Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) :

Just use the Jon Cusack "I'm a hired killer" bit.

Being a mechanic is the same, you either get "help me diagnose random problem that I think my mechanic is lying to me about" or "Omg, I had this Mustang once and if I had kept it, it would be worth SO much" only to find out it was straight six powered Ghia.

On the upside, it's fun asking the person to describe the noise the car is making, perferrably more than once. Even more so if people are watching.

 

Uh, they taught us to do that in vet school. "How's that cough sound again?" 
 

It's a funny idea, but I never really got into it. 
 

RevRico said:

I'm a product of my parents' hippy period. That IS me.

Stampie (FS) said:

In reply to Subscriber-unavailabile :

TBH I think the Trump meme at the top crosses the political line.  The rest are meme's of teasonist domestic terrorist.  But I'm a leftist socialist bastard so take that as you will.

It's the standard operating procedure of this forum.  It's okay if it's about #45, but I was darn near ran out on a rail for using a common disparaging nick name in reference to #44 in a rant about how one of his planed EO's was going to negatively impact my job.

In reply to bigdaddylee82 :

The political views of our hosts on this private-property forum are very clear and very well known.

You either get past that or you don't.

I got past it.

Hypocrisy, in any form, is always repulsive.

In reply to Indy "Nub" Guy :

If you are tolerating things that align with your opinions, and not tolerating things that don't, is that really hypocrisy?  Assuming you have a presence on Facebook, are you hypocritical for deleting or hiding the posts that you don't like?

This forum is private property.

Is Mother Jones hypocritical for having a decidedly leftist slant?  Is The National Review hypocritical for having a rightist slant?

GRM is not a news magazine but it is 100% owned and operated by the Suddard family, who by all outward appearances are card-carrying, dyed-in-the-wool, party-line Democrats.  If they use the platform they've created to allow or support causes, information, and even humor they believe in, why is it hypocritical to prevent its use in ways they don't support?

While it may make excellent business sense to avoid having their politics affect what is and isn't tolerated by their editorial staff, the Suddards are under no obligation to do so.

We are also under no obligation to tolerate it... unless we choose to use their forum.

It seriously pissed me off when they asked for money to support the forum and then almost immediately donated money to the Southern Poverty Law Center.  That was their decision and that bordered on hypocrisy, although I understand their reasons for doing so.  It's also the reason that while I am a magazine subscriber, you will never see a Forum Supporter tag after my name.  I will still take from and contribute to the members of this forum with information and social interaction, and in agreeing to do so I agree to accept the way the Suddards run their forum.  But I will not give our hosts my money here.  They make their decisions; I make mine.

In reply to Duke :

While I agree 100% with what you're saying, I'm here for memes, not feelings.

GRM is one of the few websites I can still browse at work (that I have any interest in browsing). If you see me posting, there is a solid 99% chance or better that I'm getting paid while doing it.

Duke said:

In reply to Indy "Nub" Guy :

If you are tolerating things that align with your opinions, and not tolerating things that don't, is that really hypocrisy?  Assuming you have a presence on Facebook, are you hypocritical for deleting or hiding the posts that you don't like?

This forum is private property.

It is when the rule is no politics. And while I agree that the forum is private property, if you're paying into it that somewhat changes the relationship.

We are otherwise on the same page.

Ranger50 said:

In reply to Duke :

After that, I only re-subscribed ($9) for the free T-shirt.

In reply to Peabody :

Which is why I refuse to pay into the forum.

I don't like the inconsistent rule enforcement, but putting up with it gets me access to the rest of this forum.

When it bothers me I leave this thread.

When it bothers me too much, I will leave this forum. It's not at that point yet, for me.