Excaliber wrote:Liberty wrote:Abraham wrote:Some of you must lead charmed lives...
When nature demands your immediate attention (which on occasion everyone experiences, even the "charmed ones") there's no choice - whatever accommodation available is what you must take advantage of and be grateful for it's use.
Some of our dainty extollers of horror at using public restrooms make me wonder how they make it through life.
Having to touch things others have touched, ew....
See here good man: I can't touch that door knob, why it has germs, germs on it. Egad! Grocery store shopping cart hand holds - FAHGEDDABOUTIT!!! Wherever is my ultra-strong hand sanitizer! I simply can't find it, whatever shall I do? Sniff!
Except for Saturday Night Live skits, can you even remotely imagine a prissy special forces guy or a survivalist? Or, fill in the blank.
Prissy doesn't cut it for men.
Seems as though in this new Obamanation people are scared of almost everything. I don't remember the folks panicing as much over Polio or meningitis epidemics as they have over this mild piggy flu. I was for the first time in my life I was embarrassed to be an American when I saw the frightened people stampeding, because they saw a jet flying 1000 ft in the air. I have traveled a little bit over seas, People over there all had various opinions about Americans, but one thing they all believed univerally was that we were a couragous people. That video of the stampeding sheep got lots of air play throughout the world. The Moslem terrorist must have been laughing hysterically.
In fairness to New Yorkers, the last time the saw a large jetliner flying at 1000 feet it crashed - fortunately, into the Hudson River. The 2 times before that, they also crashed - into the World Trade Center. Having lived there, I can tell you that it is a very bad sign to see an aircraft of that type flying at that altitude, and waiting around to see what happens next didn't work out well for the folks in the WTC who chose that option. New Yorkers have that reality seared into their minds, and many of the folks who went through that experience now react much differently than they did the last time.
If I was in a high rise building there and saw the same thing today, I'd be leading the charge to safer underground quarters. Call me what you want - at least I'd still be around to be offended.
with Excaliber. Once bitten, twice shy, but they have had a couple of incidents. No notification was a big mistake. I could understand if the city/city emergency services knew about the photo shoot and failed to alert the general populace, but to not notify anyone that a large jet is going to flying around your metro area after they had one of the most horrific disasters of all times is just plain stupid on the part of the government.