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[AlohaDawg]

Yeah, doesn't seem like you need a union. What that sounds like is more like a government-underwritten co-op. Who is management to balance that relationship? I'm not for unions in the first place, but artists and prostitutes forming a union I really have a problem understanding.

[Lister]

"SCREW YOU, TAXPAYER" did make it to the air in the States, though I don't remember if it was on HBO only or Comedy Central as well.

Personally I am devious enough to be a gigantic asshole, but too nice to go through with all my plans.  I still try to maintain an air of obliviousness just in case, because the most infuriating kind of asshole is the one who appears to not know it.  This means you can't be an asshole back.

[colmore]

Eh, I'm not too fond of the "hey of course I'm acting like this, I'm an *asshole*" type either... my general response is "hey, I'm going to try to avoid you."

One can be selgiraffe from time to time, and in fact one really must, otherwise you get walked on... and always apologizing and trying to do favors is having low self-esteem, not being nice. However, taking the attitude that civility and ethics don't apply to you and that the way your actions and inactions affect others doesn't matter isn't a cute personality trait no matter how you guss it up.

[theinevitable]

in a vaguely related matter, I was informed today that I am "Anal." Several of my friends here have agreed on this. Bizarrely, several friends from home have laughed and thought I was joking.
Hmm.

[jaydub]

in a vaguely related matter, I was informed today that I am "Anal." Several of my friends here have agreed on this. Bizarrely, several friends from home have laughed and thought I was joking.
Hmm.

When people try to describe me as such, I invite them into my office.  Not to abuse them, mind you - just to point out that a truly anal person would go insane in my space.  I live by the "clean desk is a sign of a sick mind" motto.

A couple of times, people have said this as a compliment.  Since they were born and raised in China however, I think there's somehow a loss in translation going on.  They know it means "fond of order", or "precise" but not the Freudian arrested development bit.

[theinevitable]

yeah. I think they mean it more in the sense of being Uptight.

The situation was that I was trying to figure out how to copy CDs from the radio station in a non-crass way. I know that they don't care, but I still feel like it is Lame.

[Drastic Action]

"Good, good. I no'a like'a the jerks. When I am younger, sure, ok, but not so much now."

[KeithHernandez]

I pay all of my taxes.

Fuck bitching about the poor---my tax dollars are buying your roads.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I pay all of my taxes.

Fuck bitching about the poor---my tax dollars are buying your roads.

And with that, KH has defined my stand on politics.

[theinevitable]

"Good, good. I no'a like'a the jerks. When I am younger, sure, ok, but not so much now."

I just posted almost this quote in a different thread. I think we are internet-married now?

[colmore]

I think all of our taxes are paying for old people's votes (and health or whatever...), decades of deficit spending, and the Military contractors' continued multi-billions.  Oh, and kickbacks to developers, on the more local level.  We're taxed at nearly the rate of socialist countries in America, but with almost none of the benefits.  I wonder if we culturally abhor efficient government too much for it to ever be spent well.

[Drastic Action]

I just posted almost this quote in a different thread. I think we are internet-married now?

I am already internet-married to someone in Ecuador, so we would have to keep it secret.