Letters to the Editor
Geenius at Wrok
Published Letters: 104 Editor's Choice: 9
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embrace your singleness
[Read the article: Lonely single guy tired of being lonely and single seeks person ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]look, all those happy couples around you are of course happy around you. You don't get to see what happens when you're not around.
I've been single since... oh about 1994. dated here and there, had a few short-term relationships. then I realized that I'm pretty selfish and really don't want to be attached to some guy and his baggage (I'm gay) which every. goddam. one. has dragged into my life. "Hi! it's me and all my neuroses and creepy friends and bad habits which you now must respect and never criticize." "oooo-kay, get out." Ugh.
I got a cat. that's about as much of a relationship as I'm gonna handle. yes it gets lonely at times but I turn that into somewhat useful activity rather than mope, and I have coupled friends who I get along fine with and they don't treat me like a third leg. besides many coupled people feel lonely. it's not limited to singles.
it sounds like you need to get over thinking of being single like it's a bad thing. for some people it's far better than being coupled.
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seat-belt tards
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As much as I travel by air the I have yet to figure out the insane crush and hysteria to get off the plane, as if everyone on it has five minutes to make a connection to the last flight home of the night. It's become comical. Tards who get up and start pulling out their shit while taxiing are even more so. And oh how we laughs when the driver slams on the brakes to avoid a hoon racing a bag cart and said tards go toppling over and bash their heads into an armrest, or the FA has to threaten them with arrest after the fifth warning to sit the hell down.
Fine, tards, you crush yerselves ass-to-crotch in a tight little queue with your nose in someone else's hair and someone else's luggage jammed up your ass. Go ahead. I'll just sit here and read a little longer, unless I really do have five minutes to make a connection to the last flight home of the night.
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Goose butt
[Read the article: Burqas vs. lips like "a goose anus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]maybe Marjane Satrapi got a look at Amanda Lepore?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bravo/1833651/
(eugh)
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crunchette
[Read the article: Apple reports a Mac sales record]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Nice assertion, but totally false. The minimum requirements for Vista Home Basic are:"
[oogity boogity!]
disingenuous bullshit.
what are the min. reqs for the other 17 versions of Vista? Nobody and I mean nobody is buying Home Basic. there's no point. it's a stupid, loss-leader product. it doesn't do anything better than XP Home and arguably does things worse. it exists so MS can point to it and say "we have a low-end version".
Vista Biz edition is slow enough on the modern dual/quad-core Dell boxes we get (with Vista pre-installed no less). I can't imagine trying to run it on a ca. 2002 shitbox.
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wait for it
[Read the article: The Ron Paul phenomenon]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Now you've trigged the Paul screed-bots...
I did a lot of volunteer work for Dean, including road trips to Des Moines, and yeah the campaign was completely disorganized, obviously pissing money away, and seemed run by cooler-than-thou 20-somethings who had a thinly-disguised contempt for ordinary citizen volunteers, maybe because they were being paid, maybe because they were just dicks, who knows. a Paul campaign would probably attract a similar crew, make lots of noise, then fizzle out.
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They're both ugly. Get over it.
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The 747 and A380 (and C-17, AN124, etc) all demonstrate that it's quite difficult to design a huge aircraft and maintain any sense of style. Sorry Patrick, but the 747 is just as clumsy-looking as the A380, what with that enormous sloping snout and ever-grimy round ass. The A380 would have the same droopy huge shnozz if they'd set the office up high too. Set it low and you get the giant shiny forehead; the Airbus Beluga is a great example of that.
In my book the most graceful, stylish airliner flying these days (since the Convair 880/990 and no I'm not THAT old, I've just seen pictures) is the A340-500. I'm not particularly partisan about Boeing vs. Airbus, and I don't really care what the things look like on the outside. It's what the airlines do to the inside that's of prime concern for passengers, unless you're Patrick smith I guess. What was your point again?
I'll never have the excess income to buy passage in SIA's A380 first-class stateroom, but I'm looking forward to riding in an A380 someday, just as I look forward to a 747 ride, at least til the reality of the cramped quarters, bad food, pinch-butt seat, and sharing the emissions of 400 others sets in, as it will on the 380.
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simple answer
[Read the article: Our best friends are scarily, heedlessly in debt]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]LW: wait for them to come to you for advice. they're probably well aware of your situation and may even admire it. at some point they'll realize they're probably on the road to a lifetime of debt and you're the first one they'll most likely approach, since their parents don't seem to be good models.
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oh enough already
[Read the article: Ron Paul is a baby elephant]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you frigtards and gold-nuts who think the Fed magically farts out pallets of Benjamins have no idea how money is created. as tempting as it is to assume that Ben calls Hank and tells him to fire up the presses, that's not how it works.
short lesson here: http://market-ticker.denninger.net/2007/12/moneycredit-cycle.html
I am by most standards a libertarian-leaning democrat, and I want nothing to do with St Paul of Texas. gold standard? laughable. abolish the Fed? well, one more rate cut and I'd be OK with that. abolishing the rest of the things he wants to eliminate? ridiculous and anarchic. his Jesus-addled stands on social issues are NOT libertarian no matter much how he puts a states-rights constitutionalist gloss on them viz: abortion and same-sex marriage amongst others. his association with white-supremacy groups is just odious.
the ONE thing I can agree upon with him is the war. that's not enough.
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meh
[Read the article: Let the voting begin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]like I give a shit about what TV actors think?