Please take your Ritalin before coming to class, OK, GoldenFool?

Today's topic is the TAM A320 that crashed on landing in the rain at São Paulo's Congonhas airport. Possible areas of discussion include runway length/condition, approach conditions, the A320, Brazilian ATC, the possibility of mechanical failure compounded by crew error, airports in crowded urban environments, etc.

Please stick to today's topic, and no shouting out. Any more disruptive behavior and you'll be copying the dictionary onto the blackboard.

The topic at hand is an airliner crashing in wet weather on a relatively short runway due to as yet undetermined additional factors. The topic of potential terrorists skulking about on airplanes is entirely different, is for the most part a red herring, and is a problem that, even if it were real wouldn't be addressed by harassing Muslims.

Ask the Pilot has addressed the issue in depth and likely will again, so again I say: please try to pay attention to the topic at hand, Golden Troll.

You are correct in saying that I'm an advocate of population control; the implication that I might thus be in favor of plane crashes is rather twisted to say the least. In any case I don't think that I have ever mentioned population control in a letter to Ask the Pilot, so I would guess you went to the trouble to check out some of my other letters. I would say I'm flattered, but again you clearly aren't paying attention: I'm a guy, a detail easily uncovered. If you're going to be a stalker troll, attention to detail is mandatory. Perhaps you should check out the discussion on whether to allow Anonymous letters for some helpful hints.

are their own independent actors. You don't own or control them except in the strictly legal sense. They have their own relationship with your housemate, you need not mediate it. Let go, and consider it a test of your getting over your OCD. Maybe they like being bounced, maybe they don't mind, maybe they just tolerate it. I seriously doubt that their little cat brains are being damaged. If it's any consolation, the housemate's behavior does sound a bit annoying; baby-obsessed individuals often are.

By the way, did you remember to lock the door?

Are you sure?

I don't think it would be acceptable if the housemate left out poisonous plants, or left the door open, or left thread & needles lying around or fed them bad things, but what you're describing sounds pretty innocent. Are the cats OK with it? There's your answer. Remember that cats do some serious head-butting as a form of greeting. Do yours? Have you convinced them to stop?

The solution to an annoying housemate is to adapt, or get rid of the housemate. Having them change their annoying behavior is likely to be less sucessful, it'll just be something else next time. Is it just this one thing? Do you rewash her dishes, or disinfect the bathroom after she's been in there? Maybe she can't help but bounce, maybe your OCD has met its match...

If this is it, consider letting go, like NOT rechecking if the door is locked or whatever. If not, consider whether her issues are compatible with yours.

Summary -Annoying, yes....Dangerous, no....Manifestation of OCD, yes.

I suppose you could ask her to quit being a spaz, but asking her to quit brain-damaging the cats is indeed unreasonable.

And be sure to laugh at your OCD. I tell people that fixing mine would be like firing the maid.

but I seem to recall that Australian troops serving in Vietnam had to change their diets (i.e. less mutton) because the VC could smell them coming. (I mean, approaching...)

How can you tell when Joe Lieberman is lying?

then urinate.

Duh.

What about the whole 'men are pigs' thing? How about things like dog, worm, toad, even lizard and gnat. Pigfucker is another good one. All of them insults I would think of mostly for use on men. I guess pigfucker is neutral, but not how I use it.

Also, 'Capitalist running dog' always amused me.

http://tinyurl.com/ysol9j

he seems to be doing a good job of (not) aging gracefully.

Sheesh. Actors.

Anyway, the hair problem is a relatively mild lesson in mortality.

He'll get over it. Until then, some exercise and a makeover will help.

A search for Nicholas Cage as Asswipe Johnson:

http://tinyurl.com/yu8una

No video, unfortunately, just transcripts.

was (intended as) the WORST insult my evil, BPD afflicted ex-girlfriend could come up with; she had quite a supply. Rather odd, considering that she went to a progressive women's college (or as she would insist, WOMYN's). Retard was another favorite. If I talked back or got mad, I was being abusive. Of course it works much better with some sweet talk and flattery to keep the victim off balance.

In BPD & NPD support groups they call the result of this assortment of insults, lies and manipulation FOG - Fear, Obfuscation, and Guilt. Sometimes it works for years on a susceptible victim. In any case, whichever way the bile is flowing it certainly deserves further study.