Rhett Miller
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Re: Best Sign or Banner @ Pro Choice march
April 27, 2004 at 07:38 PM UTC
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Litterbugs should all die. Be they on the left, on the right, or politically apathetic.
I thought it was funny when my wife chased down a girl who had thrown her Kentucky Fried Chicken box on the ground in Adams-Morgan, and told her, "Here, I think you dropped something."
Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
In all fairness, though, this is something people of all political persuasion do. The anti-choicers littered my neighborhood with signs, too, at their annual anti-Roe v. Wade marchy-poo.
Originally posted by My Balls Can DJ:
I went running on the Mall at lunch, and there were thousands of signs, littered everywhere.
I wish the slobs who left their signs would have taken them with them and saved them for the next rally, so a whole 'nuther round of trees won't have to be cut down.
bags
Joined: October 30, 2001 at 06:01 AM UTC
Posts: 8545
Re: Best Sign or Banner @ Pro Choice march
April 27, 2004 at 07:42 PM UTC
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Originally posted by My Balls Can DJ:
I thought it was funny when my wife chased down a girl who had thrown her Kentucky Fried Chicken box on the ground in Adams-Morgan, and told her, "Here, I think you dropped something."
I did that from my car a few weeks ago – at a red light on U street a woman opened her door and just dropped a Burger King bag on the street. I honked, flashed my lights. When she didn't react, I got out, ran up & picked it up, handed it to her through her window and said, "Ma'am, I think you dropped this." She was STUNNED and didn't say a word to me.
Rhett Miller
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Re: Best Sign or Banner @ Pro Choice march
April 27, 2004 at 07:44 PM UTC
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Way to go!
It's just sad that people do shit like that, for no apparent reason than to just be assholes.
Originally posted by Bags:
Originally posted by My Balls Can DJ:
I thought it was funny when my wife chased down a girl who had thrown her Kentucky Fried Chicken box on the ground in Adams-Morgan, and told her, "Here, I think you dropped something."
I did that from my car a few weeks ago – at a red light on U street a woman opened her door and just dropped a Burger King bag on the street. I honked, flashed my lights. When she didn't react, I got out, ran up & picked it up, handed it to her through her window and said, "Ma'am, I think you dropped this." She was STUNNED and didn't say a word to me.
vansmack
Joined: October 04, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: Best Sign or Banner @ Pro Choice march
April 27, 2004 at 07:45 PM UTC
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Originally posted by My Balls Can DJ:
I thought it was funny when my wife chased down a girl who had thrown her Kentucky Fried Chicken box on the ground in Adams-Morgan, and told her, "Here, I think you dropped something."
I nearly got the crap kicked out of me when I did that on the BART in Berkeley a few months back. This guy in a suit was reading some 10 page print out of a web page and when he got to his stop he left it on his seat. I was getting off so I grabbed it and hurriedly ran up to him to let him know that he left it on the train (faking concern on my face). He told me that he left it there on purpose! So I said "Actually, I know, that's why I'm giving it back. Nobody asked you to leave it there for them." Everybody on the escalator laughed at him, so he said "I'll see you at the top funny guy."
Thankfully when I got there, everybody else on the escalator was standing there looking at him like "what are you going to do, jackass?" and he relented.
bags
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Re: Best Sign or Banner @ Pro Choice march
April 27, 2004 at 07:46 PM UTC
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Yeah, Smack, I thought of that later. In 2004, that's the way people get shot. Still, at the time, it was an uncontrollable impulse to embarrass and confront.
vansmack
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Re: Best Sign or Banner @ Pro Choice march
April 27, 2004 at 07:51 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Bags:
Yeah, Smack, I thought of that later. In 2004, that's the way people get shot. Still, at the time, it was an uncontrollable impulse to embarrass and confront.
Oh, it didn't stop me. I did it again this weekend when a guy who was less than 3 feet from a trash can (and illegally double parked) threw a balled up piece of paper out of his window. So I grabbed it, got his attention and leaned over to the trash can and yelled "Now was that so fucking hard?" in a crowd of people.
He promptly rolled his window up, drove around the block and picked the person he was waiting for up on the next time around. We were still there laughing about it and he gave me the bird and drove off. Gee, sorry to embarrass you but you really did it yourself.
Rhett Miller
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Re: Best Sign or Banner @ Pro Choice march
April 27, 2004 at 07:52 PM UTC
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That's why my wife picked someone who was a foot shorter than her. Still, there were two of them and only one of her…well there was me, but I'm not the most intimidating guy in the world.
jkeisenh
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Re: Best Sign or Banner @ Pro Choice march
April 27, 2004 at 08:20 PM UTC
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I did that once by my old place in Adams Morgan– some guy threw a soda bottle out his open window at a red light. I walked over and handed it back to him through the window, "I think you dropped this." He threw it back at me. I handed it back to him. He got out of his car. I used my usual, "what are you going to do, hit a girl? dude, I *live* here. go litter in your own neighborhood." woah, was i glad the light changed at that point.
bags
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Re: Best Sign or Banner @ Pro Choice march
April 27, 2004 at 08:23 PM UTC
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chimbly, were you in the W. Post recently? Or is that a forum gag I fell for….
Re: Best Sign or Banner @ Pro Choice march
April 27, 2004 at 09:21 PM UTC
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vansmack: The Bernard Goetz of San Fran!
mankie
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Re: Best Sign or Banner @ Pro Choice march
April 28, 2004 at 02:07 PM UTC
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I wish there was some way to pick up those nasty loogies that disgusting pigs hack out the car at lights, and then throw them back in their faces…I must see that happen at least once per commute.
The biggest culprits??? Black women!!
Rhett Miller
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Re: Best Sign or Banner @ Pro Choice march
April 28, 2004 at 02:10 PM UTC
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Are loogies the same thing as snotballs?
Celeste
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Re: Best Sign or Banner @ Pro Choice march
April 28, 2004 at 02:11 PM UTC
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I think public spitting in the city is absolutely disgusting. I've seen goons blow snot out of their noses while walking down the street, covering one nostril and blowing out the other. Makes me wretch!
MaLo
Joined: July 29, 2002 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: Best Sign or Banner @ Pro Choice march
April 28, 2004 at 03:51 PM UTC
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there is someone in my neighborhood who must have an eating disorder or something. On occasion, while i'm out running, i'll come across a pile of puke in the middle of sidewalk. Right now its just every once and a while…but last summer all the way through to the holidays there was a new pile of puke every day. In the summer, it stank and then crusted onto the sidewalk..in the winter it iced over and i slipped on it once. Totally gross!!!
