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[CortJstr]

This is all I got: http://touamb.com/index.php?topic=881.0

[Arachno-capitalist]

It just seemed like a completely innocuous, normal, routine thing to think I could walk into my library and search their catalog, but instead this lady is just throwing noise at me about documents and fees and forms.

Ok, so look. I submitted a form online to request a new library card. Today, a week later, I got a letter from the library telling me that they have on record that I, in fact, have a library card. They will not send me a new one. They go on to say that if I want a new library card, I have to go in and pay the replacement fee. Hand signed - Tammy

srsly?

[wombat]

A-Cap, they have obviously decided that you are too dangerous a person to be allowed access to the library and are doing everything possible to discourage you.

[Doc]

They noticed all the Ayn Rand books on your card, they're afraid you're going to try bring the place down from the inside.

[jay-ell]

They noticed all the Ayn Rand books on your card, they're afraid you're going to try bring the place down from the inside.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to can you, Doc.  That's all there is to it. 

[Arachno-capitalist]

They noticed all the Ayn Rand books on your card, they're afraid you're going to try bring the place down from the inside.

Today I made dinner reservations for my girlfriend's birthday. "Party of two, name John Galt, we'll be having the guacamole appetizer"

[littlefallsmets]

I'm never gonna understand the cult of certain kinds of cars.

Does it get me the places I need to go with a minimum of gas and a maximum of safety?

Is the A/C strong and the stereo adequate?

If yes, I'm good.

[Doc]

Yeah but there's a difference between buying a car or similar for it's functionality compared to buying it for what it is. It's the same reason people buy art, the possession of something beautiful.

[littlefallsmets]

I dunno... I guess I just can't look at cars in that sense?

Let alone when you're talking about not even "car as beautiful" but "car's beauty as conspicuous consumption".

Which is not to say that I am immune to the idea of having the best just to have the best... if I were a wealthy man, I'd certainly be of that opinion in regards to having the very best food and the very best media/computer equipment and a room devoted to pinball machines but... cars, I can't see that way. Cars are conveyance/convenience to a dude.

It is hard to imagine viewing cars like that.

[Doc]

Different strokes y'know?

and I say this as someone who does not, in fact, own a car. But this has more to do with good public transport than any inherent dislike for them.

[wombat]

I got out of my car and yelled at the driver: "YOU fuck*ng IDIOT. DO YOU SEE HOW CLOSE I CAME TO YOU SPENDING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS? YOU'RE A FUCK. YOU DON'T DESERVE A BENTLEY." He stayed there, stopped, to listen to me yell at him. He was completely scared of me. I think I went overboard maybe.

This is the funniest thing I have heard since I got out of bed five minutes ago. The way this month has been going, it has set an unreasonably high standard for the rest of the day, I fear.

I don't really understand car love on the one hand. On the other hand, I drive a little green Beetle because I hate cars and it makes me feel better to be driving a car that's so cute that it's almost a little animal. So it is unclear which side I'm on.

[Doc]

I don't really understand car love on the one hand. On the other hand, I drive a little green Beetle because I hate cars and it makes me feel better to be driving a car that's so cute that it's almost a little animal. So it is unclear which side I'm on.

New twee hipster beetle or old made-by-the-nazis beetle?

[CortJstr]

I dunno... I guess I just can't look at cars in that sense?

Let alone when you're talking about not even "car as beautiful" but "car's beauty as conspicuous consumption".

Which is not to say that I am immune to the idea of having the best just to have the best... if I were a wealthy man, I'd certainly be of that opinion in regards to having the very best food and the very best media/computer equipment and a room devoted to pinball machines but... cars, I can't see that way. Cars are conveyance/convenience to a dude.

It is hard to imagine viewing cars like that.

I don't get cars either, but I can understand that some people just want them. I mean I own lots of books, most of which I could have easily gotten at the library. So that's just conspicuous consumption on my part. Ditto the computer I generally leave on 24/7, Tivo, &c, &c.

[wombat]

New Beetle. The old ones aren't really that cute. Also, one of the reasons I don't like cars is because I am afraid of them. I wouldn't even ride in an old Beetle, they are basically a death trap.

[Golfhaus]

Back in Hampton Roads, there was literally one person who drove a Bentley around town - Allen Iverson. He would park it wherever he felt like, and when he got a parking ticket, he would take it off the windshield, drop it on the ground without looking at it, and drive off. My ex worked for the police force, and said they had a bulletin board full of his outstanding tickets. But they couldn't go after him, because he was the Pride of Hampton or some shit, and more importantly, if they did, there would have been race riots in the streets.