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Post by Flitzerbiest on Jun 6, 2014 18:38:35 GMT -6
Yeah, and perhaps you should just take it for granted that if I really wanted to be snarky, I could have done a hell of a lot better than "Let's look at the math." This is a better closing post than the one that followed. Jim Maybe it's nonconstructive to rate them.
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Post by Jim on Jun 6, 2014 18:39:01 GMT -6
I do have a point regarding your style and I imagine you know it. This is not, from my side anyway, a case where we are teetering on some sort of brink like we were a while back. Hell, Biesty - that is exactly what I said a few hours ago! This thread got nowhere near the personal hurt we laid down a few weeks ago. This was Defcon 0.01 - moderate chain yanking at best. I think you're a damn fine human being. Have a great weekend, play some tunes and enjoy the spring/summer weather (that you are hopefully blessed with). Jim
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Post by Jim on Jun 6, 2014 18:40:24 GMT -6
This is a better closing post than the one that followed. Jim Maybe it's nonconstructive to rate them. Perhaps... " I might expect this sort of truncated thinking from others, but not you. Generally, you have your rhetorical shit substantially more together. " <wink>
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Post by Flitzerbiest on Jun 6, 2014 18:41:05 GMT -6
This is not, from my side anyway, a case where we are teetering on some sort of brink like we were a while back. Hell, Biesty - that is exactly what I said a few hours ago! This thread got nowhere near the personal hurt we laid down a few weeks ago. This was Defcon 0.01 - moderate chain yanking at best. I think you're a damn fine human being. Have a great weekend, play some tunes and enjoy the spring/summer weather (that you are hopefully blessed with). Jim 72 with low humidity--just like it always is inside the hospital. Weekends...what days are those again?
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Post by Jim on Jun 6, 2014 18:44:21 GMT -6
Hell, Biesty - that is exactly what I said a few hours ago! This thread got nowhere near the personal hurt we laid down a few weeks ago. This was Defcon 0.01 - moderate chain yanking at best. I think you're a damn fine human being. Have a great weekend, play some tunes and enjoy the spring/summer weather (that you are hopefully blessed with). Jim 72 with low humidity--just like it always is inside the hospital. Weekends...what days are those again? You get a couple of weekdays off then, I hope? That's not a bad trade. Keeps the crowds down in the nicer parks and forests I suppose?
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Post by stevec on Jun 7, 2014 8:04:32 GMT -6
72 with low humidity--just like it always is inside the hospital. Weekends...what days are those again? You get a couple of weekdays off then, I hope? That's not a bad trade. Keeps the crowds down in the nicer parks and forests I suppose? That's the great part about retirement, everyday is a weekend, and 5 out of 7 days are crowdless. I wish my wife could still take the rigors of camper life, I'd be posting from such exotic place like Boise, Idaho or Butte, Montana. I remember passing through 3 towns in the course of about an hour, only god knows where, where the posted sign population was 49 for each.
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Post by Flitzerbiest on Jun 7, 2014 8:18:27 GMT -6
You get a couple of weekdays off then, I hope? That's not a bad trade. Keeps the crowds down in the nicer parks and forests I suppose? That's the great part about retirement, everyday is a weekend, and 5 out of 7 days are crowdless. I wish my wife could still take the rigors of camper life, I'd be posting from such exotic place like Boise, Idaho or Butte, Montana. I remember passing through 3 towns in the course of about an hour, only god knows where, where the posted sign population was 49 for each. When my kids weren't in school, when i still golfed and when my best friend was a pastor, it was great. As the kids got into school, being away on the weekends started to become a pain, but it's not like i thought something different would happen . Nights, weekends and holidays are what ER doctors do.
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Post by stevec on Jun 7, 2014 11:17:24 GMT -6
That's the great part about retirement, everyday is a weekend, and 5 out of 7 days are crowdless. I wish my wife could still take the rigors of camper life, I'd be posting from such exotic place like Boise, Idaho or Butte, Montana. I remember passing through 3 towns in the course of about an hour, only god knows where, where the posted sign population was 49 for each. When my kids weren't in school, when i still golfed and when my best friend was a pastor, it was great. As the kids got into school, being away on the weekends started to become a pain, but it's not like i thought something different would happen . Nights, weekends and holidays are what ER doctors do. I can see that being good times - pastor best friend & a nighttime schedule. A couple of guys could get into a lot of trouble in those circumstances, but being in high profile social positions certainly limited your freedom. The glamor of international travel wore off very quickly on my wife. She still regrets having been away from the kids so often. I even lost track of where she was at times, her schedule was so hectic, but the worse was when she called me one night and couldn't recall the S. American country she was in.
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Post by showmedot on Jun 7, 2014 15:42:10 GMT -6
Makes me wonder if any such tendency has more to do with the level of interest in what's going on politically that may be fostered by advanced education.
Frankly, I find such speculative pieces suspect. A great deal of this "tendency" may result from more intellectual or highly educated people also being more willing to participate in surveys and exit polls.
What might be interesting would be to investigate whether people with some college or college degrees are more likely to express their opinions in such than those with only a high school or less education.
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Post by Jim on Jun 9, 2014 9:41:04 GMT -6
A great deal of this "tendency" may result from more intellectual or highly educated people also being more willing to participate in surveys and exit polls. Do you all participate in polls? I almost never do. It bugs me when Gallup, Neilson or whomever calls at home. I'm not sure why we even have a land line home telephone anymore. The only people who call it are charities and pollsters. (CO's no-call list seems to have effectively curbed the commercial solicitation calls for us.)
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Post by showmedot on Jun 9, 2014 10:47:40 GMT -6
That's why I said "may." Just a WAG.
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Post by Jim on Jun 9, 2014 11:06:50 GMT -6
That's why I said "may." Just a WAG. Hi Dot: I'm not challenging your guess! - It seems likely to me that you are right. I'm just tossing out the factoid that I personally avoid pollsters. Jim
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Post by showmedot on Jun 9, 2014 11:36:39 GMT -6
Oh, I didn't think you were, Jim. Just wanted to make clear that I've no idea really but guess that that might be a reason for the topic tendency. That we avoid exit polls and phone surveys like the plague might actually be more characteristic of the highly educated aware of how such results can be misused. Which is why I think a comparison in level of participation in surveys/polls might be interesting, except how would you do that except by a survey? Ya know what I'm saying?
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Post by stevec on Jun 10, 2014 14:25:39 GMT -6
A great deal of this "tendency" may result from more intellectual or highly educated people also being more willing to participate in surveys and exit polls. Do you all participate in polls? I almost never do. It bugs me when Gallup, Neilson or whomever calls at home. I'm not sure why we even have a land line home telephone anymore. The only people who call it are charities and pollsters. (CO's no-call list seems to have effectively curbed the commercial solicitation calls for us.) I may have participated once. All I need to hear is someone slaughtering my name, even "Stephen"(Stefen), and I know it's no one I need to talk to - click. We've had land line in RI for 6 years, and I don't even know what the # is. It's used only for the security system. Everybody I care to talk to calls my cell(RAT-BAS-TARD).
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Post by Flitzerbiest on Jun 10, 2014 16:04:30 GMT -6
I'm not sure why we even have a land line home telephone anymore. The only people who call it are charities and pollsters. (CO's no-call list seems to have effectively curbed the commercial solicitation calls for us.) We got rid of ours 4 years ago. I lobbied to lose it about 8 or 9. Finally I just did it. The family complained for about a day.
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