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Clearly, this post is directed solely at ECH. I mean, everyone else who ever used this forum is a rational human being. ECH, on the other hand, is ECH.

Okay, who the hell is this retard, Roger? Is it Glittersnatch in disguise? MAybe that spag Coyote? Squid? I know this person can't be serious, right? 

He's a kook who's been around for about 7 years.

Don't be too hard on the guy, he's not playing with a full deck.

Oh, I see.   

Okay, who the hell is this retard, Roger? Is it Glittersnatch in disguise? MAybe that spag Coyote? Squid? I know this person can't be serious, right? 

Is really wonderful how interpol hasn't crashed your punk asses for being lame..



The interpol of cool that is

Right because the internally inconsistent ramblings of a wanna-be pulp hero are cool, right? 

 

Thread delivers. 

No duh!
He knows things about the present!

I know things about the present.

I'M FROM THE FUTURE! 

Also, the United States has broken into five or six regions, and is engaged in a civil war. 

It's amazing how the whole John Titor thing still has believers.  It's like how the Seventh Day Adventists keep declaring the world is definitely, totally going to end this time, it fails, and then they get a whole new crop of supporters because their prophecy failed.

I like to think that tells us a lot about human nature.

Yes, we're a bunch of myopic retarted monkeys
But not you, you're better than that! O
Please!

Wait, what? 

I'm suddenly reminded of that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where they find a guy with a time machine who claimed to be from the future but was actually from the past. 

Mostly, I was just explaining why I'm always the guy who says "FUCK THAT SHIT" when one of these threads pops up. It took me a while to understand the reasoning myself, and to understand the distinction between these discussions at PD and how it plays out in meatspace.

Yeah, I totally get that. There is such a thing as taking PC too far, and more often than not, that's exactly what happens.

Oh, I know. That's why I specifically made the exception. When PD does something like this, it's because someone's thought it through and come to a reasonable position supportable by logic. That's so rare in the real world as to be a statistical non-entity.

Can't agree with you more, ECH.

Hmmm.

I would describe teenagers as young, inexperienced, and headstrong.

I feel like there are a couple of different portrayals of teenagers in the media that seems to be the most common: emotional, rebellious, and usually dumb; perfect, idealistic, pretty, smart, and pure; and the "All-American" teenager, which seems to fall somewhere in the middle, though usually preoccupied with sex and has little in the way of adult interaction.

I do not feel that any of those are accurate depictions of teenagers, but more like over-generalizations and stereotypes.

My impressions of teenagers are that they pretty much run the gamut of human possibility, though some of the stereotypes do seem to be based in fact, I don't think that saying teenagers are all hormonal whirlwinds, rebellious punks, or wrong simply because they lack life experience is anywhere close to the truth.

I can't really say that my impressions of teenagers are all accurate, because I try to give each person a fair chance to make their own impression, but I do find myself sliding into stereotyping from time to time.

As much as I'd like to believe that the media doesn't influence my impressions, I'm sure that it does, and fairly certain that it influences most people to a greater or lesser degree as well.

And I'm happy to help you out.

You know, I'm not personally comfortable with either assburger or ass-pie as insults, because it kind of reminds of things like "ghey". Seems a lot like rationalizing by saying "But see, I didn't MEAN Asperger/aspie/gay, it's a completely different thing. If you took offense, that's your problem." I dunno.

How about "Rogerites"?  Because they are my people.

Rogerites? 

That I can get behind.

That. IS not what I was expecting. But I highly approve.

You know, I'm not personally comfortable with either assburger or ass-pie as insults, because it kind of reminds of things like "ghey". Seems a lot like rationalizing by saying "But see, I didn't MEAN Asperger/aspie/gay, it's a completely different thing. If you took offense, that's your problem." I dunno.

That's a good point, Nigel. I don't know how shit's connected down there.

Phox, the water heaters are separate, but who knows how or where the grounds are connected.

Righto. All the more reason to enlist your neighbor's cooperation. (besides more angry letters and phone calls being made, of course)

This is all excellent advice, I'm sure, but the mad scientist in me wants to wait until I can get my hands on a clamp meter so I can find out how much current is flowing through that pipe.

Whatever is wrong has been that way since we moved in a year ago. The only change is the dryer, which I am keeping shut off at the breaker when not in use, and we both know not to start the dryer while someone is in the shower.

Are there separate water heaters? If so, you might want to ask your neighbor if you (or they) can see if theirs has the same problem. Either way, you should at least make them aware of the situation.