No, but I’d be willing to bet that this fence could withstand some abuse on the order of a ding in a car. I’d buy a car that stopped running if I totaled it, and I’d consider that the equivalent of driving into this fence hard enough to break it. Again, you could drive into a normal gate and break it, too. Not buying…

Wow - you must be! I only had to see “867,” and I’ll now have that song in my head all day.

That’s an odd argument. It’s like not wanting to get a car because it could get a dent, or not wanting a pet because it could die. Traditional gates are also susceptible to damage. “Buy this because it looks cool” is exactly what they’re going for. People with gates like this have cash to spend, and if I could afford…

I wouldn’t say that’s pedantic, it’s pointing out that your math class has failed you. A formula is used to solve for something, given parameters. ‘3 is not equal to 4' has no parameters, and no solution, because it’s not a formula. Don’t be misled by the =.

The Christian right is conservative, yes. The Christian right is only a subset of Christianity. Any reasonable liberal understands that.

There’s just no way to twist this the way you’re trying to. The inclusion of “in another generation” makes it exceptionally clear. There’s no guessing. There’s no implication of violence.

“I said, ‘This movie is going to be coming out on the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, the 50th anniversary of paying tribute to Gene Roddenberry, the man whose vision it was carried us through half a century. Honor him and create a new character. I urged them. He left me feeling that that was going to happen,” Takei…

Pfff... that’s how I get to work everyday. And I take the stairs, not the ramp. Ramps are for wimps.

Interesting that someone that defends the casual use of an offensive term with the argument of “fuck you, you’re not the boss of me” is concerned with making the world a more just and caring place to exist.

Not a substitute, a part of.

At no point did I suggest you’re using the word against women. You claim to be using the word in a very different way than most people do, then expecting insulation because you don’t mean it in the usual offensive way.

Words actually have commonly accepted meanings. Choosing to assign your own meaning does not absolve you of any trouble you run into. That must lead to a great deal of confusion in your life. I’m picturing you sending your dish back at a restaurant, because they brought you chicken when you asked for chicken, without…

So the problem is with your ability to cope with simple requests from society, versus the ability of others to manage more than one issue at a time. Got it.

I also have an autistic cousin, approaching 85 years old. In all those years, no one has been able to convince him that it’s impolite to walk up to strangers and inform them that they’re fat.

Asking you to refrain from calling people “retarded” does not impact my ability to work on other problems.

No, it’s because people use the names for these conditions as a substitute for bad. There’s nothing offensive about your user name. But if we all decided to start saying things like “Man, that guy was a total DJ Dozier” to mean something bad, it would be using it in an offensive way, and eventually you’d probably want…

Simply because strong, direct, or cold women have been mislabeled ‘bitches’ does not negate the existence of actual bitches.

I get your point, but I don’t think there were too many knights with lead shot. ;-)

Huh, I’m in my late thirties and I loved that book as a kid. But come to think of it, I may have only received it (among other Dahl books) from my uncle in England.

Being a basic right does not mean it’s free. I spend a lot more on food and water each month than I do on internet access.