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SmileyRose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:23 PM Original message |
The chicken jokes are hurting my feelings. |
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Book Lover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:26 PM Response to Original message |
1. Thank you for writing your post (nm) |
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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:27 PM Response to Original message |
2. There's nothing wrong with bartering. There are circumstances where it works. |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:29 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. +1 |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:29 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Yea, barter is fine if the items are of equal value. |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
3. It is not the concept of bartering that is being ridiculed. It is that moran |
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MrMickeysMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
4. Hey SmileyRose, I got an idea... |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
5. We're not laughing at this-or-that guy working out what he can on his own... |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
8. What a wonderful way to end the day, finding a kindred spirit. I also come from such a family with |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
9. The fact is, bartering was useful and served a great purpose for years. |
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SmileyRose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:52 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. I've heard that about prep schools |
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abelenkpe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:33 PM Response to Original message |
10. Bartering is cool. |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:35 PM Response to Original message |
11. The APA code of ethics even allows barter for psychological services. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
23. I thought it was nuts you had to barter for psych services? n/t |
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Mira (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
12. I'm glad you wrote this, and I'm glad you fully see why the woman is considered |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
13. I love chickens. |
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TheOther95Percent (202 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
14. I spent a fair amount of my misspent youth in Ithaca, NY |
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AnArmyVeteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:53 PM Response to Original message |
16. Thanks for your well written and sincere post... (well done) |
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SmileyRose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:56 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. If I tuned up your car |
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SPedigrees (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:19 PM Response to Reply #19 |
26. ROTFL nt |
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AnArmyVeteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 07:18 PM Response to Reply #19 |
40. LOLOLOLOL |
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Naturalist111 (362 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:54 PM Response to Original message |
17. Everything is a barter. Time for money. This for that. The humor |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
18. EVERYONE "barters".. |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
20. I barter with my friends, too |
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vixengrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:59 PM Response to Original message |
21. People in my family have worked for food. |
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WorseBeforeBetter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:59 PM Response to Original message |
22. C'mon, no one is holding up the system of bartering as a joke. |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
24. don't take it personally. my husband is a computer tech. he will work on peoples computers |
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Froward69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:11 PM Response to Original message |
25. Trading Chickens with a Doc is fine... IF |
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nolabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
27. Barter is wonderful. Money is just symbolic barter, after all. |
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SPedigrees (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
28. Back in the 60s, bartering was popular amongst us hippies. |
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Merlot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
29. I don't think bartering is what the joke is about |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:35 PM Response to Original message |
30. How many chickens are required for a 250 thousand dollar medical bill? |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
31. It isn't Bartering being held up as a joke. It's idiot Republicans who want us all on survival level |
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underseasurveyor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:46 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. And there it is |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:38 PM Response to Original message |
32. "Of course the woman who said "trade chickens for medical care" is a fucking idiot." |
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iris27 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 11:06 PM Response to Original message |
34. Barter is fantastic in situations where it's practical. |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 11:10 PM Response to Original message |
35. Oh for God's sake. Someone WOULD have to take offense, or it wouldn't be DU. |
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99 Percent Sure (355 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
36. . . . and then there's the fact that there's nothing better |
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enki23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
37. oh, for chrissake... |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 11:56 PM Response to Original message |
38. Cool story, bro. n/t |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 01:24 AM Response to Original message |
39. I'd say that this country is fast heading for a bartering system-who the hell has any money? |
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