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I also, would like to punch Ann R. in the face. But not really.

Posted by Jovian (aka Jovian) Aug 31 '12, 08:51

and yes, because she is annoying as fuck.

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I don't begrudge them their advantages and wealth but don't pretend that you've ever struggled like some of us. - Mel Profit Aug 31, 08:56 29
- You should see Jon Stewart's bio "that they stole" from the convention. -- nm - Spawn Aug 31, 09:11 2
  - it was great. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 31, 09:22 1
    - I love that I changed over from Romney's speech to that. -- nm - Spawn Aug 31, 09:26
- I also liked the "No one told me a storybook marriage would involve having five boys stuck inside on rainy days" - Roger More Aug 31, 09:07
- Exactly. And I'm not speaking for me either. But I'm not going to pretend that the advantages I've had were not advantages. -- nm - pmb Aug 31, 09:03
- it's weird, I don't begrudge them their advantages and wealth either. Something else about her annoys me and I'm not sure I can articulate it. -- nm - loosilu Aug 31, 09:01 13
  - she's either aware of the advantages she's always had and lying or... - Mel Profit Aug 31, 09:05 12
    - I'm going with the latter. I know people like this. Here's the thing, often people think that because they worked hard to achieve what they did, - pmb Aug 31, 09:18 3
      - I think it's human nature for people to credit themselves for their success, and other factors for their failures. - Roger More Aug 31, 09:28 2
        
        "So, if your dry cleaning business failed, it was because of Obama but if it succeeded it was all because you built it!" -- nm - paraphrase" Aug 31, 09:30
        
        Obviously I'm not choosing to buy lottery tickets at the exact time that the correct ones are being generated. -- nm - zork Aug 31, 09:29
    - I honestly think for her, it is the later and for him it is the former. -- nm - Spawn Aug 31, 09:14 7
      - Yup. But to be fair he's trying to get elected. Coming out and saying "I grew up rich, I'm out of touch with average people and you all should just - pmb Aug 31, 09:23 4
        
        Oh, he says whatever he has to say. He may have moved away, but he really is just a car salesman. -- nm - Spawn Aug 31, 09:33
        
        but saying she can relate to people because she does gorcery shopping is wrong. Buying is *not* the same as shopping. She does not need to worry how - zork Aug 31, 09:26 2
        
        See also Common People by Pulp -- nm - Spawn Aug 31, 09:34
        
        I agree. It's just part of the personal rationalization she does. It's essentially from being so out of touch with that reality that she doesn't get - pmb Aug 31, 09:28
      - Correct. -- nm - Don Homer Aug 31, 09:20
      - I tend to think this as well... -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 31, 09:15
- I got a kick out of the time she said they had to sell stock to pay for college. - Reagen Aug 31, 09:01 9
  - ~all by his self~ -- nm - Leonard Nimoy Aug 31, 09:14
  - it's like my first year in college when I turned in soda cans to buy food. She's just like me. -- nm - Diva Aug 31, 09:14 6
    - stocks ... soda cans...it's all the same really. - Mel Profit Aug 31, 09:23 2
      - ishz okay. i got the degree and I obviously am never hungry anymore. :) -- nm - Diva Aug 31, 09:24 1
        
        You and Ann...totally sisters in Life. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 31, 09:25
    - Yup. Like me selling plasma to buy my books. -- nm - Spawn Aug 31, 09:15 2
      - I wanted to do this but I was too weak from hunger to find the plasma donation place. - Diva Aug 31, 09:17 1
        
        Freshman year I learned form my roommate to work in a restaurant that did not mind employee grazing. -- nm - Spawn Aug 31, 09:23
  - Desperate times call for desperate measures. -- nm - Spawn Aug 31, 09:12
You get the mind today? -- nm - Spawn Aug 31, 08:52

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