I hate people

[GRLMGC]

Well, many of them anyway (present company excluded). So what's new with all of you?

[TayTay]

1. I adore people

One of my favorite activities in life is to just people watch. But you have to pick your venues. One of my fav places to people-watch is Salem, Ma in October. It's hysterical. There are a lot of people in the world who think Salem is Halloween Central and a full-time spookey place. I always wonder what they think when they show up (in droves) in October and see that it's so ordinary. (I mean the local marching band sets up tables and sells hot dogs and drinks to support the band. How American average can you get.)

I love people. They can surprise you at the least expected moments.

[GRLMGC]

2. I'm more of a misanthrope

if you haven't noticed. I'm surprised I'm a liberal, haha

[TayTay]

4. And I'm surprised I'm not religious

Cuz I got way too much faith. (I'm probably a UU now. That would be a good fit.)

[elshiva]

3. I LOVE Women. Watching women is the best!

[TayTay]

5. I agree (for maybe different reasons LOL!)

But then again, I like watching people. I used to watch these little snippets of peoples lives and sort of make up stories in my head as to why they were there and what their circumstances were. It was an amusing way to pass the time on the subway.

[elshiva]

8. Well, yeah I'm bisexual, but I dig women more than

men. I love watching lovely women when they aren't looking at me.

[TayTay]

9. You are a true people-watcher.

Your reason is the same one that most people have. LOL! Heck, I'm straight and I love watching women. They can be so funny. Strong and strident women, insecure and less-than-assertive women. Women looking at shoes in store windows, women exasperated by their children and so forth. Yeah, women make for wonderful people-watching. (Then again, I get off on trying to pry into people's minds and see little bits of their souls, so I am a tad intrusive in my voyeurism. I will endeavor to keep the practice to a minimum.)

[elshiva]

15. I dig women's curves and the way they walk.

I like how they smell. Love women playing with their hair and nails.

[JI7]

6. i feel the same way you do many times

[GRLMGC]

11. I get pissed off too easily

I'm quite violent though I don't take it out on people. I just feel too strongly. It's a bad weakness.

[TayTay]

12. Really? How do you cope

with all that raging emotion? It would give me a headache. And make me feel terribly out-of-control. My sister has a variable temper. I am almost never get that out-of-sorts. (I think it's just a by-product of being wonky, as opposed to any special skill on my part.) I have never been given to extremes on either side. I am usually pretty even tempered. (Though I have my moments. A friend of mine once told me that I have the longest fuse on my temper that she's ever seen. And a fierce temper when the lit fuse finally detonantes it.)

Edit: On the other hand, my sister's raging emotions did get her a liner note on one of her old boyfriends blues records. "To XXX, a red hot mama with a real bad temper." That made me laugh. So true!

[GRLMGC]

14. Unhealthily

Maybe i'll be able to cope better when I'm older but I tend to hold things in and have a crying breakdown once a month, hahaha.

[Firespirit]

7. You mean, what are we doing?

Listening to an album that WEL harassed me into downloading, while doing boring formalizations of software documentation. (I've already designed it; I'm just putting it into "official" format. Ugh. :-()

BTW I don't think I like 50% of people either.

[GRLMGC]

10. yep yep

I wrote two pages of my 8 page research paper and have done nothing. I also just called some neocon ignorant. I don't really care how he responds. How is WEL, anyway?

[Firespirit]

13. I don't know.

Busy, apparently. I haven't talked with her since Thursday night. Hope she can definitively answer that question some time tonight.

This is really dry work, so I'm breaking it up with online time-wasting. Just took an online IQ test that was supposedly reasonably legit, in that your scores on it tended to correlate well with actual IQ scores, as documented by several sites. Considering that it gave me a 153, I'm suddenly highly curious about my actual IQ.

I don't feel like dealing with neocons or lefty freepers this evening. I'm really a bit dull this evening... (not sure if I should own up to this on this forum!) kind of annoyed with JK's staff for taking so long. A few long-distance calls are likely to be in order next week if things don't change.....

[GRLMGC]

16. Have you been in contact w/ them?

I had not heard this.

[TayTay]

17. They haven't gotten back to you

on the election software yet? I wonder why. Have they been supportive and attentive to what you have to say?

[Firespirit]

18. I've spoken with them a couple of times.

By phone and e-mail. I never felt brushed off or anything; they were quite nice and seemed interested. I'm just in need of a motivation to finish this silly formalization work, when the full design is already in an informal (but complete) form. Having Kerry's people telling me to bust my ass and get it finished would definitely be a good one.

[TayTay]

19. Well then woman

get to it. If it benefits them, then it benefits the country. If it benefits the country, then it benefits me. So, hop to it by all means.

(I really am a crappy motivator. Sigh! But I did try.)

Oh, and was WEL working tonight?

Edit: Oh and by the way, I posted someting for you upon the completion of The Waves on another thread. It is more info of a rather personal nature. But it might be informative. And yes, I am being vague.

[Firespirit]

20. It benefits TayTay... excellent!

It could benefit Firespirit too, but I don't want to jinx it by thinking of reaping financial reward from GOP election fraud.

WEL may very well be working late. I don't recall exactly what her schedule is, but I know she does a late shift some nights.

Edit to respond to YOUR edit. I'm heading over there. How hypocritical of you to urge me to hop to it, then distract me. Tsk, tsk. ;)

[sandnsea]

21. Looking for DB Cooper clues

Bet ya' didn't expect that answer!

Yes I just watched that goofy paddle movie. I used to live right in the area of WA state where he was supposed to have jumped and didn't even know it. That was after St Helens though and I think if there was anything to find, it's probably buried now.

(I hate people too. It's always some damned thing, talk to me, go here, go there, change the channel, let me borrow this or that, have any coffee... geesh)

[GRLMGC]

22. There's a music store called D.B. Cooper's in Burbank,CA

My stupid drama teacher sent me there one time to get a crappy sound effect and I got lost (Burbank is easy to get lost in). He gave me fifty bucks and I spent it all just to spite him

[sandnsea]

23. lol

My daughter and I get lost every time we go to Eugene. She swears she never gets lost unless I'm with her. We're supposed to go see her OB on Monday, I might have to remind her of the curse.

Somebody sends me shopping with fifty bucks, I'm spending it all too. Whether I get lost or not!

[GRLMGC]

24. J-Ho is awful

And my roommates are going to watch her on tv all weekend long :cry:

[TayTay]

25. I really love people, but they take time

to get to know. I am always mindful that peopole have bad days, I am not always catching someone on their best day. But I have generally found that most people are worth the time and patience.

I think it comes down to trusting your people instincts. We all have inborn bullshit detectors. If you use this asset effectively, you can detect the people who aren't worth the while in advance.

[CBHagman]

26. I am reminded of the immortal words of Tom Lehrer.

"Some people do not love their fellow man, and I HATE people like that."

Today might be a good day to listen to "National Brotherhood Week" again. :-)

[Hans Delbrook]

27. I've spent a lot of time contemplating the dichotomy that exits in people

That is - how good and selfless some people can be and how horrible and selfish others can be. That's what struck me about an event like the sinking of the Titanic - the stories are incredible. It showed the best and worst of mankind all in a single instance.

There were people that did anything to save themselves, abandoned loved ones, locked the poor in steerage; then there were others that worked to save people at the expense of themselves, the band that really did play until they couldn't anymore, the staff that bravely kept their posts until they were released...

I hear those stories and I wonder - could any of us be both that brave and that cowardly? Or would some of us make the same (good or bad) choices every time? And I can't help but wonder what choice I would make in a situation like that. Some indications are that I would do the right thing but I can't help but wonder.