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MiniMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-25-09 09:24 AM
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53. Watch that, President Obama is left-handed
Oh no, that means...
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  -Can we please start banning people for repeated ableist behavior? lightningandsnow  Oct-25-09 07:19 AM   #0 
  - Better yet, let's ban anyone who posts anything that offends anybody.  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 07:20 AM   #1 
  - Man from the Ginger Liberation Army wants to speak with you  notesdev   Oct-25-09 08:19 AM   #33 
     - Ginger? I did know a Ginger in Atlanta -- or was it Mobile -- back in  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 11:27 AM   #91 
  - And goddammit, let's ban people with freckles as well.  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 07:22 AM   #2 
  - lol!  Vinnie From Indy   Oct-25-09 07:35 AM   #10 
  - and what about left handers? Clearly satanic followers.  ChairmanAgnostic   Oct-25-09 07:42 AM   #12 
     - 'Had a female cousin who was left-handed and who had freckles.  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 07:43 AM   #15 
     - and like all weak women, she probably bled once a month!  ChairmanAgnostic   Oct-25-09 07:47 AM   #18 
        - What few shrinks did treat her found they just couldn't reason with a  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 07:50 AM   #20 
        - IMO that is offensive!  WillieW   Oct-25-09 09:40 AM   #57 
     - Watch that, President Obama is left-handed  MiniMe   Oct-25-09 09:24 AM   #53 
        - yup. he's a muslin.  ChairmanAgnostic   Oct-25-09 09:35 AM   #54 
  - Freckleist.  trof   Oct-25-09 08:16 AM   #30 
  - LOL  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 08:18 AM   #31 
  - Hey, freckles are cute on some women.  RC   Oct-25-09 08:21 AM   #34 
  - But the spirit of arbitrary censorship must be upheld. The OP wants  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 08:22 AM   #36 
  - I likes the freckles on women.  cliffordu   Oct-25-09 11:00 AM   #77 
  - oops... I'm out! nt  JerseygirlCT   Oct-25-09 10:08 AM   #63 
  - But there is dignity in exile, JerseygirlCT! Chin up! Angel bands are  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 11:13 AM   #83 
     - Saltpoint, you always make me smile!  JerseygirlCT   Oct-25-09 12:43 PM   #100 
  - No freckles, but I do have some moles...should I burn them off?  pipi_k   Oct-25-09 10:15 AM   #67 
     - DU should set up a site for anyone with any sort of skin markings whatsoever.  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 12:13 PM   #94 
  - I say we ban people who expose their pretensiousness by using obsure words in a sentence.  notadmblnd   Oct-25-09 07:24 AM   #3 
  - Ableism: discrimination against people with disabilities.  lightningandsnow   Oct-25-09 07:28 AM   #5 
  - I didn't say I didn't know what it meant. I said it was obscure.  notadmblnd   Oct-25-09 07:29 AM   #6 
     - what an insane word. Only crazy people would try to create such a  ChairmanAgnostic   Oct-25-09 07:45 AM   #16 
  - Better than people trying to use obsure words without a sentence.  RC   Oct-25-09 08:24 AM   #39 
  - Palin is dangerous because she's one of those folks who does not know  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 08:27 AM   # 
  - Ableism should not be an obscure word.  tekisui   Oct-25-09 09:54 AM   #60 
     - Following its construction, the playing of the cello would then be 'cellism.'  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 11:15 AM   #85 
        - No, discriminating against other instruments as inferior would be cellism.  tekisui   Oct-25-09 11:17 AM   #86 
           - Look again. A person who plays the cello is a cellist.  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 11:21 AM   #90 
  - I feel horrible when I see Democrats using those terms to describe  joeycola   Oct-25-09 07:28 AM   #4 
  - Um...I daresay Katherine Bachmann does have a few chemical imbalances.  YOY   Oct-25-09 07:30 AM   #7 
  - She is clearly delusional! What concerns me even more are people that vote her and similar in...n/t  RKP5637   Oct-25-09 07:41 AM   #11 
  - Katherine?? Do you mean Michelle?  SoCalDem   Oct-25-09 08:01 AM   #26 
  - Does bipolar disorder disproportionately affect people with blue or green eyes?  imdjh   Oct-25-09 08:24 AM   # 
  - huh?  SoCalDem   Oct-25-09 08:28 AM   #42 
  - Yes, My bad. Sunday morning slight hangover.  YOY   Oct-25-09 08:34 AM   #46 
     - She does look & sound a lot like Katherine Harris  SoCalDem   Oct-25-09 08:36 AM   #48 
  - Uh-oh. That photo . . .it's not edited, is it?  Pool Hall Ace   Oct-25-09 10:15 AM   #66 
  - "Banning"? No. Correcting? Definitely. nt  Smarmie Doofus   Oct-25-09 07:32 AM   #8 
  - Let's also ban people who promote sugary products like sugared cereal  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 07:33 AM   #9 
  - Seems like you, good sir, are suffering from a serious case of butthurt.  lightningandsnow   Oct-25-09 07:42 AM   #13 
  - Which would be an Axis III issue, but no credentialed clinician has  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 07:48 AM   #19 
  - 'Theeeey're great!'  chrisa   Oct-25-09 10:12 AM   #65 
     - LOL! Tony Tiger is the most perfidious sugarist there is.  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 11:14 AM   #84 
  - Or you could spend the money, open your own board and do the banning there  MadHound   Oct-25-09 07:43 AM   #14 
  - "Most of the week"?  lightningandsnow   Oct-25-09 07:46 AM   #17 
  - My bad, my apologies  MadHound   Oct-25-09 07:53 AM   #22 
  - So it is still ok to call people like Bachmann "insane"?  MH1   Oct-25-09 09:01 AM   #51 
     - I'd go with "batshit crazy." Anyway, it works for me.  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 09:03 AM   #52 
        - I call her a Republican Leader  Bluenorthwest   Oct-25-09 09:58 AM   #61 
           - Wrong. Most republican LEADERS know they are full of shit.  WonderGrunion   Oct-25-09 10:11 AM   #64 
           - You haven't been watching the same news shows I have, because Michele  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 11:09 AM   #80 
  - Nope, they don't bother me either...  pipi_k   Oct-25-09 10:20 AM   #69 
  - If we ban ableists then people who offend on other topics will be  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 07:53 AM   #21 
  - Why are you still posting in this thread?  lightningandsnow   Oct-25-09 07:57 AM   #23 
     - You know, it's the damndest thing about a discussion board -- people  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 07:58 AM   #24 
        - You actually have to log in and type?  pipi_k   Oct-25-09 10:25 AM   #70 
           - LOL! Hey. I gotta get some of that software.  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 11:19 AM   #88 
  - I think that's taking it a bit far.  Danger Mouse   Oct-25-09 08:00 AM   #25 
  - Point taken.  lightningandsnow   Oct-25-09 08:02 AM   #27 
     - Throwing something like that out there can lead to interesting dicussions.  Danger Mouse   Oct-25-09 08:21 AM   #35 
     - Meh, I've been better, but it's all good.  lightningandsnow   Oct-25-09 08:24 AM   #38 
        - Your use of the word crazy there kinda creates some dissonance with your OP  Morning Dew   Oct-25-09 10:40 AM   #75 
           - Insider/outsider, no dissonance.  EFerrari   Oct-25-09 12:41 PM   #98 
              - Well, except on a message board  JerseygirlCT   Oct-25-09 12:47 PM   #103 
                 - That's right. But slamming the OP is not a way to find out, is it?  EFerrari   Oct-25-09 12:50 PM   #105 
                    - Good person, hello.  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 12:53 PM   #106 
                    - Well, I haven't slammed the OP  JerseygirlCT   Oct-25-09 12:56 PM   #108 
     - Um, I don't mean to be a shit or anything, but...  pipi_k   Oct-25-09 10:28 AM   #71 
     - The instant defensive reaction is a little embarrassing.  EFerrari   Oct-25-09 12:43 PM   #99 
  - lightningandsnow: Please desist with the rectalist insults...  Junkdrawer   Oct-25-09 08:02 AM   #28 
  - And my hemorrhoids are pretty pissed off too! n/t  pipi_k   Oct-25-09 10:30 AM   #73 
  - We should put weights on athletic people just to make it fair  slackmaster   Oct-25-09 08:15 AM   #29 
  - Wait, what?  lightningandsnow   Oct-25-09 08:18 AM   #32 
  - I'm extrapolating the possible long-term effects of your neologism  slackmaster   Oct-25-09 08:24 AM   #37 
     - I didn't invent it.....  lightningandsnow   Oct-25-09 08:25 AM   #40 
        - Funny you have to "go beyond words" to define this invention.  Lance_Boyle   Oct-25-09 08:27 AM   #41 
        - The term itself is yucky. It doesn't, you know, click.  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 08:29 AM   #43 
        - Deleted message  Name removed   Oct-25-09 08:30 AM   #44 
           - - - -  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 08:31 AM   #45 
        - Egad, thanks for the link, but unrestrained ismism sicktitates me  slackmaster   Oct-25-09 08:50 AM   #50 
  - HAHAHAAH Great Bergeron Harrison ref!!!  Taverner   Oct-25-09 01:29 PM   # 
  - I think we should ban people who have cute puppies.  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 08:35 AM   #47 
  - I battle puppyism...  rucky   Oct-25-09 09:38 AM   #56 
  - And god damn you for it, rucky.  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 11:10 AM   #81 
  - Mine aren't puppies any longer.  TicketyBoo   Oct-25-09 11:02 AM   #79 
  - LOL! Good question. We'll have to let the mods decide.  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 11:11 AM   #82 
  - But maybe they are just trying to combat kittenism.  The Velveteen Ocelot   Oct-25-09 12:24 PM   #96 
     - True. I hadn't considered that. Those kittenists have pervaded the  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 12:56 PM   #109 
  - "You're A RABID anti-Dentite Jerry"  Vinnie From Indy   Oct-25-09 08:40 AM   #49 
  - If you ban folks for being assholes there will be a whole lot less people here  proud2BlibKansan   Oct-25-09 09:36 AM   #55 
  - DU doesn't ban anyone for being sexist or homophobic. It does ban  Lorien   Oct-25-09 09:40 AM   #58 
  - Right after we get people banned who use "fat" "white" and "suburban" as insults. NT  dmallind   Oct-25-09 09:45 AM   #59 
  - Hey. I'm mentally ill. I should know one when I see one.  pipi_k   Oct-25-09 10:04 AM   #62 
  - Your last sentence...  JerseygirlCT   Oct-25-09 12:48 PM   #104 
  - Ummm Some Of Our Political Opponents ARE Mentally Ill. Furthermore, There Is Nothing Wrong With  OPERATIONMINDCRIME   Oct-25-09 10:16 AM   #68 
  - NO ban those for repeated betaist behavior  whistler162   Oct-25-09 10:29 AM   #72 
  - Proudly unrec'd.  L0oniX   Oct-25-09 10:34 AM   #74 
  - In this thread we see DU at its best as posters congratulate themselves for being clever.  elocs   Oct-25-09 10:57 AM   #76 
  - This thread is retarded.....  rd_kent   Oct-25-09 11:00 AM   #78 
  - I think we should arrest people who stand in water.  Iggo   Oct-25-09 11:19 AM   #87 
  - With a frayed plugged in electrical cord.  lonestarnot   Oct-25-09 11:21 AM   #89 
  - Is a person who is a scientist discriminatory toward people who do not  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 11:43 AM   #92 
  - DUZY. OMG, I about fell out of my chair.  lildreamer316   Oct-25-09 01:47 PM   #126 
  - I think we should demand that the descendants of Patsy Cline apologize at  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 12:00 PM   #93 
  - Fuck that noise  mitchum   Oct-25-09 12:15 PM   #95 
  - Problem is, that could severely limit the adjectives used for people like Glenn Beck.  Buns_of_Fire   Oct-25-09 12:35 PM   #97 
  - Glenn Beck? Look at this thread.  EFerrari   Oct-25-09 12:45 PM   #101 
  - Serious question for you: do you really think that would accomplish  JerseygirlCT   Oct-25-09 12:45 PM   #102 
  - There are jerks everywhere including this board  liberal_at_heart   Oct-25-09 12:54 PM   #107 
  - Wow, all the unrec'ers in this thread need a punch in the face.  Odin2005   Oct-25-09 12:56 PM   #110 
  - It might be a revealing debate to decide whether assholes, whether  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 01:01 PM   #111 
  - A truly impressive  ismnotwasm   Oct-25-09 01:02 PM   #112 
  - I heard that Elvis is still alive. My sources are reliable. Reportedly he  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 01:07 PM   #113 
  - You's trollin'!  lightningandsnow   Oct-25-09 01:20 PM   #114 
  - There's that language goblin yet again. What demographic group  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 01:28 PM   #118 
  - Ah!  ismnotwasm   Oct-25-09 01:42 PM   #124 
  - Yeah. This.  lightningandsnow   Oct-25-09 01:21 PM   #115 
  - And how many Closet Nannies are there out there, who want to control everything that is said?  Taverner   Oct-25-09 01:24 PM   #117 
     - I like saying "Hells Bells" sometimes.  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 01:29 PM   #120 
     - That statement is offensive to Satanists and carillonneurs!  Taverner   Oct-25-09 01:31 PM   #121 
     - O Christ. I KNEW it. I'd use the getaway car and go on the lam but I  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 01:33 PM   #122 
     - I say motherfucker all the time  ismnotwasm   Oct-25-09 01:45 PM   #125 
        - So do I, and I say crazy  Taverner   Oct-25-09 01:54 PM   #130 
     - There are nanny-control freaks on the right and the left.  proteus_lives   Oct-25-09 01:48 PM   #128 
  - Grow up, or is that an abelist statement offending folks with developmental delays?  Taverner   Oct-25-09 01:23 PM   #116 
  - Fact is that a good many Republicans and media "personalities" present with mental illness  depakid   Oct-25-09 01:29 PM   #119 
  - Agree. Rick Santorum definitely comes to mind almost immediately.  saltpoint   Oct-25-09 01:34 PM   #123 
     - Michele Bachmann's repeated behaviors is quite representative of delusional disorder  depakid   Oct-25-09 02:19 PM   #133 
  - I am not allowed to say anything  WillFranklin   Oct-25-09 01:47 PM   #127 
  - I've heard of an "enabler"  Wounded Bear   Oct-25-09 01:54 PM   #129 
  - Wow, this is the most hijacked thread I have ever seen.  ZombieHorde   Oct-25-09 01:58 PM   #131 
  - If so many on here didn't have a problem with freedom of speech  liberal_at_heart   Oct-25-09 02:04 PM   #132 
  - That Comparison Is Beyond Retarded. For Real.  OPERATIONMINDCRIME   Oct-25-09 02:25 PM   #134 
  - Locking.  pinto   Oct-25-09 02:32 PM   #135 
 

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