In what areas of life are you "conservative"?

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: In what areas of life are you "conservative"?

I'll start out with mine, but I'll be around for the editing hour and will be more than happy to take down any non-vote-getters in favor of suggestions from the floor. I will add "fundamentalist anything," which doesn't apply to me unless you count "layabout," but I suspect that that will be a non-vote-getter, too.

I would be inclined to put "sex" on there (which hopefully wouldn't make this a sex thread) but it's sickening at best even to consider kowtowing to the fundamentalists' fiction that only political conservatives are, for example, faithful in marriage.

I guess for sociological purposes and due to the firestorms in GD over the last weeks, I ought to put on "homophobic" as well, but it's just so depressing. If anybody wants to see that on the poll, though, just holler and I'll put it on.

Edit: Added suggestions from replies as well as sex and homophobia. Given the landslie of replies, I suspect it's going straight to the archives, though.:)

[bif]

1. Drug use

Hey, don't get me wrong. In my youth, just about everything went into my mouth. But these days, I'm pretty conservative as far as drug use goes.

[Bossy Monkey]

2. I put it on, but it's kind of analogous to "sex"

ie, implying that all liberals are drug users. Not saying that that was what you were saying, mind you. Anyway, I put it on.

[TheMightyFavog]

3. Poker.

I play very conservativley, only going in when I have good pocket cards, very rarley bluffing, and letting the other competitors knock each other out.

With that said, I royally suck at heads-up.

[Bossy Monkey]

4. I think that would be more cautious than conservative, but I'll put it on

If you were "conservative" (in quotes since actual Republican voters on average are probably huge into it), presumably you'd be at least ostensibly anti-gambling.

[jus_the_facts]

5. I roll pinners....

....fatties are a waste. :smoke: :D

[petronius]

6. 'Englis' is a good choice - I get a bit testy when people mess with

with a perfectly functional language. As far as political positions go, I suppose my most stereotypically conservative position is that I feel strongly in favor of the 2nd Amendment.

Oh yeah - I also oppose gay marriage, despise the death tax, want to overturn the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Air Act, think Global Warming is a hoax, believe we should unilaterally bomb countries that don't agree with us, and think affirmative action discriminates against white men - can you add those to the poll, too?

(I'm joking, of course - paragraph 2 is not true!) :)

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. Parenting...Most people in and out of our family think we are too

strict on our kids. They are happy and well adjusted and seem to like us just fine. We don't beat our children, we just present the fact that there are always consequences... and we see through our 'threats'.

[youthere]

28. That's us too...

we are constantly criticised by family members for being "too strict". Funny thing is, the ones who are criticising have the kind of buck-wild kids you'd rather take a beating than have them in your home. We have certain expectations of their behavior and they all three understand that every "choice" they make bears consequences..both good and bad. I'm with you on the follow-through too..my kids will be the first to tell you that they are never threatened...they are warned. So good on ya' MrsGrumpy!
:toast:

[TheMightyFavog]

8. Well, I am very pro-hunting.

Back home, I know some very good people who'd be out of buisness and out of a job if it wasnt for all of the deer hunters coming up in late November.

Not to mention, with a lack of natural preadators, it's the most effective way to manage the deer population.

[LSK]

9. baseball? huh?

:shrug:

[Bossy Monkey]

13. In my case, anti-DH. For more suggestions, see BOSSHOG's reply at #10 n/t

[BOSSHOG]

10. I voted BASEBALL, here's my reasoning

I'm a flaming liberal on social issues but I don't appreciate the "advances" of baseball over the past 40 years.

Let's do away with:

- the designated hitter
- artificial turf
- domed stadiums
- playoffs (league champ versus league champ = good old days.)
- interleague play

So I guess relative to baseball advances, I'm conservative.

[Bossy Monkey]

15. I'm with you on the DH and turf.

I like convertible stadiums (ie with roofs that can be open or closed), as opposed to playing in snow and sleet. However, I'd prefer they bring back day games and double-headers in order to shorten the season so they wouldn't be necessary.

I don't approve of interleague play either but given 30 teams the number of playoffs seems appropriate to me. On the other hand, I want them to re-raise the pitcher's mound, so I guess I'm really a baseball reactionary. Pitchers' duels every game, babee!

[BOSSHOG]

18. Yeah, lots more businessmen's afternoon specials

I would propose one weekend of interleague play:

- All games on the same weekend
- common rivalries (Mets-Yanks), (Phils-Orioles), (Cards-Royals)
- Stars can't get out of the weekend
- Games don't count towards won loss records
- All proceeds go to a charity of the home team
- Each team hosts every other year
- Maybe scheduled around the 4th of July
- Tailgate partying in the parking lots with players signing autographs
- Baseball fest all over America

I guess I'm naive but I think it sounds like a good old All America Idea.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. I would add

•Baseball dictates policy (i.e. start times) to the teevee fucks, not the other way around.

•All players must pull up their goddam pants and show at least 10 inches of stirrup, the way Alexander Cartwright intended.

[swimboy]

29. well your statement has me a bit distracted

must be the 10 inches

:hide:

[Oeditpus Rex]

33. Of *stirrup,* dude

Not fungo bat. :eyes:



:rofl:

[MrCoffee]

39. I'm voting Bosshog for Commissioner of Baseball.

[BOSSHOG]

54. And free Starbucks after the 8th Inning of Night Games

[IronLionZion]

11. I support corporal punishment

and still can't understand why Caucasian liberals won't beat their kids. Spare the rod and spoil the child. Corporal punishment would be a good way to deter crime as opposed to just prison time. Tom Delay and Bob Ney should get paddled every day.

I got beaten all the time and turned out OK :eyes: :silly:

[JitterbugPerfume]

12. the environment,

historic landmarks, our food supply

I want to protect(conserve) all of these things

[Bossy Monkey]

16. Would that that were what "conservatives" were trying to conserve...

rather than just their money.

[anarch]

14. laundry-doing

Thanks to my total avoidance of that unless and until it is absolutely necessary, I conserve water, electricity, and laundry detergent.

And this jacket is "dry-clean only", which means...it's dirty.

[JitterbugPerfume]

19. The words "conservative " and "liberal"

have been corrupted to the point of losing their origional meaning.

In its true sense I am very conservative, as well as very liberal

Contrary to what the politicians would have us believe, they are NOT polar oposites

[wildhorses]

20. I like my baseball, sex and drugs the old fashioned way--

but, I voted for sex:shrug:

[Sugar Smack]

21. Butter. I don't use much butter.

;-)

[tjwmason]

22. I'm a rabid homophobe

Everytime I see a damned gay I have to punch him...which means I keep breaking mirrors. :eyes:

[swimboy]

30. I know what you mean

especially when they won't pull up their goddam pants and show at least 10 inches of stirrup

(unbelievable context-dependent quote from post 17 above)

:P

[tjwmason]

32. You're just trying to see my stirrup aren't you.

:P

:evilgrin:

[swimboy]

38. Who me???

It's entirely possible.

[Irreverend IX]

23. The Bill of Rights

Every amendment in the Bill of Rights is vital to a free society, and I don't appreciate how "liberal" the Republicans have been in their interpretation of the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th and 10th Amendments. These and other freedoms have been steadily eroded in service of the drug war and the bogus "war on terrorism." And if Bush continues down his current path, I suspect that the oft-forgotten 3rd Amendment will take on new importance as FEMA and military forces co-opt civilian property for their own uses. The small minority of Democrats who vigorously attack the 1st and 2nd Amendments are likewise frustrating, but nowhere near as dangerous as the neocons.

[HughBeaumont]

24. Two things -

The death penalty when it's beyond a shadow of a doubt that the perp committed the crime and it's malicious enough to be beyond the pale, like execution-style murder or rape (i.e. Alton Coleman, Jeffery Lundgren, etc). If there's any doubt whatsoever and the perps were given the death penalty due to chicanery and dubious evidence and testimony by the prosecutor (Joe D'Ambrosio, Anthony Apantovich), then those cases should be reviewed and re-tried.

Cigarettes. Just all of it. I don't get their initial appeal, I don't get why otherwise smart people who know better would take up this incredibly stupid, costly, health-endangering and pointless habit in the first place, I find it ridiculous that pot isn't legalized (responsible for not ONE user death), yet this population-killing vice isn't even under near as much scrutiny, I find it appalling that no one cares they not-so-subtly market their product to kids and teenagers and I find it disgustingly appalling that there are those who still believe that cigarettes aren't as bad for you as studies say they are. This stupid habit killed my grandmother and future mother-in-law, both before they turned 50.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

25. None of the above

[LoZoccolo]

26. I choose other: personal responsibility.

I give a person the benefit of the doubt if I don't know their situation. If I do know their situation, and they are not taking responsibility for themselves, I have a huge problem with that. They've not only abused their responsibility, but the trust I give to them when I handed out the benefit of the doubt. This applies to myself as well.

It is also much more helpful in getting what you want if you assume that you can't rely on someone else to give it to you.

Naturally, I get very irked when people will spend hours here whining about things that they do nothing about, and will say that on average, Republicans are much better at realizing these principles than we generally are.

[Dukkha]

27. fiscal responsibility

NOT turning a surplus into a massive deficit and plundering society into foreign wars without international support.

[swimboy]

31. In the area of faith

I will happily skewer hypocrisy and may snipe at some forms of worship, but I generally will not mock the object of that worship.

[cobalt1999]

34. a few...

Drugs (although I'd just make everything legal and tax it - banning plants doesn't make much sense nor does it work)
Fiscal Responsibility (amazing this was once called a Republican domain - HA)
2nd Amendment (why do many liberals, who are supposed to be concerned about our rights, always want to throw this one away?)
Death Penalty

that's about it. Environment, gay marriage, separation of church/state, abortion, controls on businesses, defense spending, I'm about as left as you can get.

[KamaAina]

35. Baseball

I am fed up to here with the parks changing names every few weeks.

In Houston, for instance, they can call it "Minute Maid Park" or whatever, but it'll always be Enron Field to me!

[Bossy Monkey]

37. Go here

and see the 2d one-liner (or third "paragraph") from the bottom: http://home.earthlink.net/~pudntane/id1.html

I guess one of these days I should update these (ie my Earthlink pages)

[Nye Bevan]

36. Baseball

Hate the DH. Hate inter-league play.

[CatholicEdHead]

48. Only becuase the AL crushed the NL in interleague play

[Burma Jones]

40. Crime

Violent Crime particularly. If you do premeditated violence, or are violent in the commission of a felony, I don't think we should bother rehabilitating you, you should just be separated from the rest of us until you are incapable of such violence due to age or infirmity.

People that sexually assault and/or murder prepubescent Children should be Euthanized.

If you commit property crime, there's a lot of different ways to go about restitution and/or punishment.

White Collar Crime and Corruption should be punished harshly if, as is often the case, it is committed by people of privilege.

Stupid Crime, such as drunk driving, should be punished proportionately to the impact.

I don't believe there should be hate crime laws, it smacks of thought crime. If you assault someone because they're Gay or a different race, then you should be punished as I suggested in my first point.

Drugs should be legal and regulated

[Alleycat]

I am very conservative with Money

I am a saver not a spender. I am always worried that if something were to happen I would be screwed.

[Alleycat]

41. I am very conservative with Money

I am a saver not a spender. I am always worried that if something were to happen I would be screwed.

[ScreamingMeemie]

42. But apparently not with posting...

:rofl: :P :hi: :hug: :toast:

[Alleycat]

52. Ha HA

I thought the same thing when I saw it come out twice!!! I was just too lazy... er conservative with my time to fix it. :)

[Jamastiene]

45. I should probably amend my other post.

I'm a tight ass out of necessity, but sometimes just because I worry about that rainy day. According to my family, when I walk, my ass squeaks.

[Jamastiene]

43. Probably guns.

I don't own one, but I want to own about 50 of them (all different kinds) one day along with a full length mirror, so I can pretend to be Calleigh Dusquene from CSI: Miami. :loveya:

That's about it.

[Mojambo]

44. Thrill seeking and extreme sports

I just don't get that stuff at all.

Bungie Jumping? Come on!

Skydiving? Fuck that!

White Water Rafting? Please!

I hate these people who think that you're not really living unless you're almost dying.

[Nikia]

46. I am extremely judgemental

This doesn't mean that I don't think that people should have the right to do things that I think are wrong or not in their best interest. That doesn't mean that I am close minded. That doesn't mean that I preach at everyone. That doesn't mean that I am not nice to someone or even friends with someone who does something that I disapprove of. It does mean that I do have an opinion on most subjects and situations though and distinguish right/wrong, goo/bad, useful/destructive, and other such either or thinking. I was brought up this way.
This thinking extends to myself of course and I frequently feel bad because I am not living up to my standards, which I sometimes get hard on myself about because it is destructive. The irony.

[IntravenousDemilo]

47. I am linguistically conservative to the extent that

I don't believe children should be allowed near computers until they've proven that they can express themselves correctly, with proper spelling, grammar, and syntax. If people can't produce correct sentences, set them up logically into paragraphs, and assemble the paragraphs into something worth reading, then I don't really feel like being subjected to the sloppy thought processes that are invariably married to their sloppy word skills.

[martymar64]

49. I support the 2nd Amendment

We'll need our guns when they declare martial law.

[DireStrike]

50. Dating and relationships

I've never really started dating, so I haven't been able to break my weird preconceptions about how it's supposed to work out, as defined by books, movies, and every story ever in the mainstream.

Meet through chance, become friends or even hate each other, a bunch of quirky stuff happens that leads inevitably to the conclusion that you belong together and live happily ever after.

Yeah, it doesn't work like that. I still feel like it should though. It would be easier.

[ghostsofgiants]

51. Homicide.

I don't murder nearly as many people as one might think I would. :P

[Left Is Write]

53. I can be a bit of a stick-in-the-mud when it comes to language.

[NewWaveChick1981]

55. I think the only area I'm actually at least a little conservative is

money. Because my former profession (and hopefully near-future one again!) involved budgeting large amounts of money and staying within budget, I learned to be diligent in those areas. In my personal money matters, I'm not quite as conservative, but I'm very careful. :)