Are you my grandfather? Who has a landline? Do you sit by it waiting for calls?
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Might be a tsunami warning. Don’t want to miss those.
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How old are you, sonny?
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It’s that black, snake-like thing coming out of the base and running into the wall. Disonnect that and the unwelcome ringing will come to an end for as long as it is disconnected.
Except the tinnitus, of of course
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45 in a couple of weeks. I haven’t had a landline since I moved interstate in 2006 since we both already had cell phones. “Why does the house need its own phone when we have phones on our person?”
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I have been saying that for years. Has there ever been a president who didn’t carry their home state? Bill Clinton carried Arkansas, a state other redneck states make fun of, twice. Bush v. Gore was a battle of two bland sons of political privilege with not a whole lot to distinguish themselves. If 9/11 didn’t happen, Bush would have been known solely for his hapless efforts to tank the economy.
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That’s what all my panicked neighbors run around asking when earthquakes or hurricanes knock out the power and their cell phones all die.
Which is sometimes weeks or months when I forget to reconnect it.
I expect that some Western Electric engineer did design a mechanical switch that does timed ringer disconnects, I just haven’t found a phone with one on it yet.
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Simple, just set an alarm on your cellphone to remind you to reconnect your landline.
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Bzzt. Sorry. She is an anti-vaxxer in the sense that she spouts the same lines anti-vaxxers do about peoples’ concerns about vaccination. Her remarks on this topic reflect a great deal of ignorance. That ignorance would be forgivable if either she didn’t express a position on the topic, claiming ignorance, or else went and got educated, and then expressed an opinion that reflected that. What she did instead was intellectually lazy, and worse, reinforces the position of the anti-vaxxers.
I’m sure that she intended her answer to sound like it was honoring both sides of a serious debate, but so many debates nowadays aren’t serious debates–they’re Joe Random Opinion versus Jennifer Knowssomething, PhD, and treating both sides of that debate as if they are equal has the effect of supporting the know-nothing idiot, who nobody should have taken seriously in the first place.
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I agree with Hillary on a lot of things. I agree with Trump on almost nothing. So it’s an easy choice for me. If you find them both equally disagreeable, vote for the third party candidate of your choice.
More importantly, get involved with local politics. We obsess about presidential elections, but we’re never going to have a candidate we really agree with about anything in a presidential election. I supported Sanders with way more than $27, and I didn’t agree with him on everything. That’s the way it goes.
Bit if you get involved in local and statewide primaries, you can really make a difference, particularly in gerrymandered states. That’s where your vote really counts–it’s a shame that more people don’t realize this.
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James Polk, Woodrow Wilson and Richard Nixon, apparently (if you’re counting residence).
Lincoln, both Bushes lost their states of birth, along with Polk and Taylor.
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Like my perma senator, Darth Feinstein, who cannot be dislodged?
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She’s old, at least.
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I hear you gnomie
Yes, exactly. God, she pisses me off. Why does she keep winning the primary? She’s coming up for re-election in 2018. If you want her gone, get to work. You have two years, and I’ll bet you’re not alone. I live in Vermont, or I’d be right there with you. Get in touch with Bernie’s orgs and ask them for help. I guarantee you he’s on the side of replacing her.
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Poetic (and accurate) wording.
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Are you a Dunne or Minter supporter? The gov. race seems fairly analogous to the national race at this point.
Many have tried…
They tried and failed?
No. They tried and died.
She’s a sith lord.
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Um, every Republican candidate in living memory has oozed corruption. It’s enshrined in the party platform, FFS.
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