Is That Chip on Your Shoulder Interfering

[MineralMan]

with your reading? So it often seems these days in GD. If you don't have any use for the chip, you can just drop it on the ground. It's amazing what happens when you can see clearly what people are writing and respond to what they say, instead of what you presume they say. That's especially true with it comes to political writing. Sometimes it seems like I'm reading something completely different from other people in GD. 'Tis a puzzlement.

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. What do you call someone pushed into a wood grinder?

?

[Blue_Tires]

5. Carl Showalter?

"I'M TAKING THAT ****** CAR!"

[MineralMan]

6. And all for a little bit of money...

I'm still looking for that fence where the money got stashed, you know.

[Blue_Tires]

12. I'm looking for that place where I can get pancakes and get

(a little something else)

[MineralMan]

13. You need an unguent?

If you try that "little something else," you might need more than that, I'm thinking. But you've gotta have a breakfast, doncha know...

[Fumesucker]

2. Nah, it's that mote in my brother's eye that interferes with his ability to see things from my POV..

[MineralMan]

4. Well, there is that, too.

Are you trying to hijack my thread? This thread is completely secular, you know. None of your Biblical references if you don't mind.

[Javaman]

3. Oh no, not another thread about Lonnie Anderson...

oh wait.

[SecularMotion]

7. Another installment in the ongoing series

"I must feel superior to other DU members"

Thanks, Preacher MineralMan

[HappyMe]

8. ....

[MineralMan]

10. Nice. Exemplary, I might add.

[hyphenate]

9. The only chip

I've had on my shoulder was the 150 lb (approx) cowchip the pukes left with us for 8 years. It turned awfully rank over those years, and I was very glad to take a shower after it was gone.

[WilliamPitt]

11. This is constructive

(facepalm)

[MineralMan]

14. Another exemplary reply.

Thanks.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

15. we have different perspectives. this shapes what we pay attention to

i think "chips on shoulders" is not really whats going on here

[MineralMan]

16. I think it is much of what is going on here.

We disagree on that point, I'm afraid.

[zipplewrath]

17. Another metaphor

You get slapped 15 times, someone raises a hand, you're probably gonna flinch before you ever get hit.