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Post by atownbeaver on Sept 14, 2020 13:52:06 GMT -8
You have Asperger's, don't you? When in doubt, mock the autistic. What is the opposite of Post of Year, because congratulations! You won it. My God have mercy on your soul. While we are on the subject of not so appropriate things, Asperger's is not the preferred term as well, and all Autistic, regardless of functioning, should just be considered autistic and on the autism spectrum. Long story short, Hans Asperger, the name sake of the "disorder" was a widely know eugenicist and his work more or less was around identifying those with Autism that could still be of use to society. Which is why for years Asperger's was considered a different condition than Autism and being diagnosed with Asperger's does not carry the same social stigma as Autism does. Most people of the Boomer/Gen X generation consider Asperger's to be "a bit of a weirdo" type thing, while Autism is apparently so scary people would rather have their kids die from measles then maybe get it. (sarcasm, don't make me explain how vaccines don't cause Autism for the love of God. Please, just don't be stupid...) However, as we now do it, Autism is generally taken to mean Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, and it is knows to cover a range of dysfunction, from low to high. and while "High" and "Low" functioning destinations are also difficult and come with stigma, it is moving away from a more blatant attempt to categorize humans by their worth to society. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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Post by beaver55to7 on Sept 14, 2020 15:30:43 GMT -8
You have Asperger's, don't you? When in doubt, mock the autistic. What is the opposite of Post of Year, because congratulations! You won it. My God have mercy on your soul. Maybe not mocking? I legit stopped responding to jdogge because I legit suspected he was ASD. Seemed weird to be getting into arguments with someone I thought might be ASD.
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Post by jdogge on Sept 14, 2020 16:21:14 GMT -8
When in doubt, mock the autistic. What is the opposite of Post of Year, because congratulations! You won it. My God have mercy on your soul. Maybe not mocking? I legit stopped responding to jdogge because I legit suspected he was ASD. Seemed weird to be getting into arguments with someone I thought might be ASD. You stopped responding because you could never back up your "facts" with sources as per my requests.
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Post by jdogge on Sept 14, 2020 16:26:59 GMT -8
You have Asperger's, don't you? When in doubt, mock the autistic. What is the opposite of Post of Year, because congratulations! You won it. My God have mercy on your soul. Certainly not mocking. I have a grandson with ASD [sorry, ATown, in KS they still call it Asperger's]. Diagnosing. You have the tendency to go down the rabbit hole with your responses, providing too much information, thus exhibiting the obsessive traits found among "Aspys." Additionally, you seem to have difficulty playing well with others, frequently missing social cues. You are also brighter than a lot of posters on this board [no, I won't name any]. So my asking you was legit.
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Post by spudbeaver on Sept 14, 2020 18:53:20 GMT -8
You have Asperger's, don't you? When in doubt, mock the autistic. What is the opposite of Post of Year, because congratulations! You won it. My God have mercy on your soul. I for one am shocked at the no response to this point. Dog styler most likely has a case of Dipenis Cranium!
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Post by seastape on Sept 14, 2020 23:16:09 GMT -8
Wow...43 million people in a state and you have decided that they all think the same and you can't seem to find any good ones. That's very broad-minded of you. Straw man's argument. You are putting words into my mouth and then defeating the statement that you are asserting that I am making. I know a lot of great Californians. You being one of them, seastape . I work with several, both inside and outside my firm. The problem is quantity. There are too many Californians: Democrats, Republicans, Independents. Too many. There are several exceptions, so this is an over-generalization, but it has been my experience that Californians are typically very California-centric in their thinking. (Actually, from my experience, NorCal is hella NorCal-centric and SoCal is very SoCal-centric. A lot of NorCal rips on SoCal, and a lot of SoCal doesn't even know that there is a NorCal). From my experience, the nice parts of SoCal tend to be very overly preoccupied with looks and zip codes: where you are from, how you look, what (or often who) you are wearing, where you are wearing it, when you are wearing it, etc. At my last firm, my boss was a gorgeous woman from SoCal. She was very smart and very fit, but you could not have a conversation with her for any length of time without having her talking about losing even more weight and getting a new round of botox injections. While in California, I had to help check in one of the students at Pepperdine into rehab, so we get her to stop starving herself to death. She was a model on the side. Again. Gorgeous and smart. (Harvard undergrad.) But she was getting crushed by California, the people. I found the whole thing toxically-decadent, self-absorbed and depressing. (But I may have just spent too much time in Calabasas, Malibu and the OC.) Fun story, though, to help illustrate my point. I once was at a party in Arizona, where there was a Californian, who was droning on and on about living in the OC and how great it was to everyone around her. (The OC is great, by the way. Huntington and Newport are both great.) But her droning on was getting to be too much. Finally, I got sick of it and asked here, "Wait, where are you from again?" And she said Corona. And I felt compelled to laugh in her face, because, as we all know, Corona is Inland Empire, not the OC. And I felt bad for her, and for me, because it shouldn't matter. But it's SoCal, and it matters. That woman is SoCal in my mind. The smarmy pretentiousness of it all. (Both her and me for knowing it.) Too many of those people. You get wrapped up in it, and it infects you. Others love it. Different strokes, I suppose. Apologies if I went over top. Twice you said that the problem with California is that it has too many Californians and it felt like you were painting with a very broad brush. I used to enjoy getting crud for being a Californian; it seems everyone outside of California hates it. But lately I've gotten a bit annoyed with it. Your story about the woman who thought the OC was great but was actually from the IE was not surprising...I was kind of waiting for it or not surprised when you said it. I live in north San Diego County where I found the people to be far more down to earth than others in SoCal. But I have a friend from Orange County and, after living down here for a year or so I told him that I had heard so many SoCal's were plastic and fake...I was going to finish that people were a lot more down to earth than I thought but before I could he said, "It's Orange County, dude, all Orange County." Got a laugh out of that. Some Californians are over the top about how great California is, but I would say that it is nowhere near as bad as New Yorkers (the city) and Texans. I find that everywhere I go there are great people and tons of people who take a particular pride in their area of living. And I've had a lot of people be extremely rude to me because I'm from California. So lately I've taken to defending the great state of my birth (central California, by the way; what people from LA would say is NoCal and people from Redding would disdainfully say is NOT NoCal). So, if I went over the top, my apologies.
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Post by lebaneaver on Sept 15, 2020 8:09:23 GMT -8
Straw man's argument. You are putting words into my mouth and then defeating the statement that you are asserting that I am making. I know a lot of great Californians. You being one of them, seastape . I work with several, both inside and outside my firm. The problem is quantity. There are too many Californians: Democrats, Republicans, Independents. Too many. There are several exceptions, so this is an over-generalization, but it has been my experience that Californians are typically very California-centric in their thinking. (Actually, from my experience, NorCal is hella NorCal-centric and SoCal is very SoCal-centric. A lot of NorCal rips on SoCal, and a lot of SoCal doesn't even know that there is a NorCal). From my experience, the nice parts of SoCal tend to be very overly preoccupied with looks and zip codes: where you are from, how you look, what (or often who) you are wearing, where you are wearing it, when you are wearing it, etc. At my last firm, my boss was a gorgeous woman from SoCal. She was very smart and very fit, but you could not have a conversation with her for any length of time without having her talking about losing even more weight and getting a new round of botox injections. While in California, I had to help check in one of the students at Pepperdine into rehab, so we get her to stop starving herself to death. She was a model on the side. Again. Gorgeous and smart. (Harvard undergrad.) But she was getting crushed by California, the people. I found the whole thing toxically-decadent, self-absorbed and depressing. (But I may have just spent too much time in Calabasas, Malibu and the OC.) Fun story, though, to help illustrate my point. I once was at a party in Arizona, where there was a Californian, who was droning on and on about living in the OC and how great it was to everyone around her. (The OC is great, by the way. Huntington and Newport are both great.) But her droning on was getting to be too much. Finally, I got sick of it and asked here, "Wait, where are you from again?" And she said Corona. And I felt compelled to laugh in her face, because, as we all know, Corona is Inland Empire, not the OC. And I felt bad for her, and for me, because it shouldn't matter. But it's SoCal, and it matters. That woman is SoCal in my mind. The smarmy pretentiousness of it all. (Both her and me for knowing it.) Too many of those people. You get wrapped up in it, and it infects you. Others love it. Different strokes, I suppose. Apologies if I went over top. Twice you said that the problem with California is that it has too many Californians and it felt like you were painting with a very broad brush. I used to enjoy getting crud for being a Californian; it seems everyone outside of California hates it. But lately I've gotten a bit annoyed with it. Your story about the woman who thought the OC was great but was actually from the IE was not surprising...I was kind of waiting for it or not surprised when you said it. I live in north San Diego County where I found the people to be far more down to earth than others in SoCal. But I have a friend from Orange County and, after living down here for a year or so I told him that I had heard so many SoCal's were plastic and fake...I was going to finish that people were a lot more down to earth than I thought but before I could he said, "It's Orange County, dude, all Orange County." Got a laugh out of that. Some Californians are over the top about how great California is, but I would say that it is nowhere near as bad as New Yorkers (the city) and Texans. I find that everywhere I go there are great people and tons of people who take a particular pride in their area of living. And I've had a lot of people be extremely rude to me because I'm from California. So lately I've taken to defending the great state of my birth (central California, by the way; what people from LA would say is NoCal and people from Redding would disdainfully say is NOT NoCal). So, if I went over the top, my apologies. Grossmont Hospital.....1958......LaMesa/SanDiego boy, here. Moved to Oregon, when I was 12....... 1970.
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Post by mbabeav on Sept 15, 2020 11:05:00 GMT -8
Can't get involved in this pro/con discussion - as a native Oregonian there is always the temptation to ask them California truckers "Hey fellers, where'd you get all that beer?", but if my wife (Manhattan Beach, CA) hear's me slammin the big C, I get slammed......
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Post by TheGlove on Sept 15, 2020 11:21:05 GMT -8
My kingdom for some Beaver sports...
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Sept 15, 2020 11:49:50 GMT -8
Straw man's argument. You are putting words into my mouth and then defeating the statement that you are asserting that I am making. I know a lot of great Californians. You being one of them, seastape . I work with several, both inside and outside my firm. The problem is quantity. There are too many Californians: Democrats, Republicans, Independents. Too many. There are several exceptions, so this is an over-generalization, but it has been my experience that Californians are typically very California-centric in their thinking. (Actually, from my experience, NorCal is hella NorCal-centric and SoCal is very SoCal-centric. A lot of NorCal rips on SoCal, and a lot of SoCal doesn't even know that there is a NorCal). From my experience, the nice parts of SoCal tend to be very overly preoccupied with looks and zip codes: where you are from, how you look, what (or often who) you are wearing, where you are wearing it, when you are wearing it, etc. At my last firm, my boss was a gorgeous woman from SoCal. She was very smart and very fit, but you could not have a conversation with her for any length of time without having her talking about losing even more weight and getting a new round of botox injections. While in California, I had to help check in one of the students at Pepperdine into rehab, so we get her to stop starving herself to death. She was a model on the side. Again. Gorgeous and smart. (Harvard undergrad.) But she was getting crushed by California, the people. I found the whole thing toxically-decadent, self-absorbed and depressing. (But I may have just spent too much time in Calabasas, Malibu and the OC.) Fun story, though, to help illustrate my point. I once was at a party in Arizona, where there was a Californian, who was droning on and on about living in the OC and how great it was to everyone around her. (The OC is great, by the way. Huntington and Newport are both great.) But her droning on was getting to be too much. Finally, I got sick of it and asked here, "Wait, where are you from again?" And she said Corona. And I felt compelled to laugh in her face, because, as we all know, Corona is Inland Empire, not the OC. And I felt bad for her, and for me, because it shouldn't matter. But it's SoCal, and it matters. That woman is SoCal in my mind. The smarmy pretentiousness of it all. (Both her and me for knowing it.) Too many of those people. You get wrapped up in it, and it infects you. Others love it. Different strokes, I suppose. Apologies if I went over top. Twice you said that the problem with California is that it has too many Californians and it felt like you were painting with a very broad brush. I used to enjoy getting crud for being a Californian; it seems everyone outside of California hates it. But lately I've gotten a bit annoyed with it. Your story about the woman who thought the OC was great but was actually from the IE was not surprising...I was kind of waiting for it or not surprised when you said it. I live in north San Diego County where I found the people to be far more down to earth than others in SoCal. But I have a friend from Orange County and, after living down here for a year or so I told him that I had heard so many SoCal's were plastic and fake...I was going to finish that people were a lot more down to earth than I thought but before I could he said, "It's Orange County, dude, all Orange County." Got a laugh out of that. Some Californians are over the top about how great California is, but I would say that it is nowhere near as bad as New Yorkers (the city) and Texans. I find that everywhere I go there are great people and tons of people who take a particular pride in their area of living. And I've had a lot of people be extremely rude to me because I'm from California. So lately I've taken to defending the great state of my birth (central California, by the way; what people from LA would say is NoCal and people from Redding would disdainfully say is NOT NoCal). So, if I went over the top, my apologies. Lol. Good story. The OC is really its own thing. I am typically in San Diego every other year or so on vacation or work (or both). I really enjoy the San Diego Bay, Mission Bay, La Jolla, Torrey Pines, and Del Mar areas. I really like the UCSD campus. The architecture there is really something to see. My last trip there, I actually took a stroll from UCSD to Torrey Pines to just get a feel for the area. I also enjoy the sights, architecture and history of the Panama-California Exposition area. Fun story, I roomed with a guy from San Diego for most of a year at Oregon State. The dude showed up to Oregon State in a sling. My natural first question is, "Why are you in a sling?" I am expecting a tale about how he broke his arm doing something stupid. Instead, his response is, "Oh, I was stabbed." I asked him why, and he said that he dated the wrong girl. Turns out that he got into a fight with another of the girl's boyfriends and wound up with a stab wound. Entertaining guy. I am not a huge fan of the area around Petco, and I hear that there are some really shady parts. I have been fortunate to avoid them so far. San Diego is a different animal than what I would typically term SoCal: Los Angeles County, the OC and the IE. Almost everyone that I run into seems much more down to Earth in San Diego than the rest of SoCal. But I am generally a big fan of San Diego. I was roommates with a Texan for two years and another Texan for another year, and I 100% agree with you. I have had fun in Houston and San Antonio, but the Dallas area is a hole in my opinion. And someone lifted my wallet in West Texas on the drive back from the Alamo Bowl in 2012, which sort of colors the whole state for me at this point. I know a lot of New Yorkers, most of whom no longer live there, and only one or two of them have anything to say good about the City or Long Island. They will drone on about how nice Upstate New York is, though. The ones that still live there seem to have an unhealthy preoccupation with not getting mixed up in other people's business, in order to avoid trouble.
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