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Ilsanman



Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea

PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 8:25 am    Post subject: Of all the selfishness... Reply with quote

this one has got to be the worst!!!

Overtime, I have adapted to stupid people who, for example, walk one step out of an elevator and stop, who walk up stairs swining their arms like a retarted child, and walking with their head down. I have started to walk right into these people, and other things. I am sick of yielding to a stupid idiot.

The new thing bothering me is
a) someone carrying a child on their back
b) pushing a baby stroller
c0 pregnant woman

or something similar to that, being reckless while walking. It's one thing when it's your own body, it's totally another when you risk your child's safety like that.

I like to bodycheck an idiot here and there, but I won't do it to a child. Man, I hate parents like that.
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On the other hand



Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue

PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The new thing bothering me is
a) someone carrying a child on their back
b) pushing a baby stroller
c0 pregnant woman

or something similar to that, being reckless while walking. It's one thing when it's your own body, it's totally another when you risk your child's safety like that.


Let me get this straight. You object to people who carry children on their backs, people who push baby strollers, and pregnant women? Or do you object to pregnant women who push baby strollers while carrying a child on their back?
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panthermodern



Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: Taxronto

PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 8:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I keep it simple ... I object to people.
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Zed



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street

PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 9:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

On the other hand wrote:
Quote:
The new thing bothering me is
a) someone carrying a child on their back
b) pushing a baby stroller
c0 pregnant woman

or something similar to that, being reckless while walking. It's one thing when it's your own body, it's totally another when you risk your child's safety like that.


Let me get this straight. You object to people who carry children on their backs, people who push baby strollers, and pregnant women? Or do you object to pregnant women who push baby strollers while carrying a child on their back?
I believe he objects to pregnant women or women with children who walk around obliviously since they are endangering their children.
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On the other hand



Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue

PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 9:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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On the other hand wrote:
Quote:
The new thing bothering me is
a) someone carrying a child on their back
b) pushing a baby stroller
c0 pregnant woman

or something similar to that, being reckless while walking. It's one thing when it's your own body, it's totally another when you risk your child's safety like that.



Let me get this straight. You object to people who carry children on their backs, people who push baby strollers, and pregnant women? Or do you object to pregnant women who push baby strollers while carrying a child on their back?
I believe he objects to pregnant women or women with children who walk around obliviously since they are endangering their children.


Ah, yes. I see now. Everything from "The new thing'" to "walking" is one big sentence. Thanks.
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panthermodern



Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: Taxronto

PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 9:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I really hope he refrains from body checking pregnant women, it would give hockey a bad name.
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Ilsanman



Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea

PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 9:30 am    Post subject: yes Reply with quote

On the Other Hand, you are an idiot. Why do you continue to post replies full of nothing but stupidity?

Zed, you hit the nail right on the head. Thank you for reading, and not skimming and replying.
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panthermodern



Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: Taxronto

PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What about me ?
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Zed



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street

PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

panthermodern wrote:
What about me ?
Oh oh. He used "me"! Wink
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chinook



Joined: 17 Mar 2004
Location: canada

PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 12:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i tell ya, you guys are keeping me sane at this horribly boring temp job. thanks for the giggle!
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Grotto



Joined: 21 Mar 2004

PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 12:59 pm    Post subject: hehehehe Reply with quote

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I really hope he refrains from body checking pregnant women, it would give hockey a bad name


Hey if a pregnant chick is on the ice, has the puck, she deserves what she gets Wink Laughing Twisted Evil a nice clean hit though...no boarding though Cool
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On the other hand



Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue

PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 11:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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On the Other Hand, you are an idiot. Why do you continue to post replies full of nothing but stupidity?



Ilsanman:

I'm not quite sure what I wrote to warrant that response.

I honestly did not understand your OP, and I was asking for clarification. Sorry if you took my slightly humourous tone in the wrong spirit, but I really wasn't trying to insult you in any serious way. The two possible interpretations that I laid out, absurd though they might have sounded, were really the only ones I could think of, prior to Zed's explanation. And for the record, I did not just "skim and reply", as you seem to think, but did in fact read the post several times before writing my question.

If a momentary lapse in reading skills warrants calling someone an "idiot" in your books, then I really don't know what to say.
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rapier



Joined: 16 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 1:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Carrying your baby on your back seems perfectly natural to me, I grew up in africa where that is the way its always done.

I agree with bargeing people who stop dead immediately in front of you for no apparent reason though. Just stop caring and walk through them. get plenty of bad looks but it feels better than constantly dawdling for the sake of people taking up the entire walkway.

This sort of blocking behavior adds half an hour extra to an average journey.
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saharzie



Joined: 22 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 3:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeh, the subway journeys can be a nightmare due to the assorted dawdlers and idiots. Obviously they cant waut for everyone to exit the subway before they pile on. The kids in the hagwon I used to teach in did the same thing; they would all go into the classroom while the other kids were leaving. You can hardly blame them when they see their parents doing the same thing on the subway. Bodychecking these idiots out of the way as they try and enter the carriage does help relieve my stress though...
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panthermodern



Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: Taxronto

PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 3:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Would a pregnant women count as one or two skaters?
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