UO Thursday

KellersPrag · October 2013

Let's hear them.

redneckmomma25 · October 2013

If you hide/delete people on FB until your newsfeed is empty...FB might not be for you....

Nita2603 · October 2013

If you put yourself out there and post your opinions on Facebook/the bump/ any other public place, you have to deal with people potentially handing your ass to you. If you want don't want to hear other's opinions, then keep your own to yourself as well.

Nita2603 · October 2013

Being born in East Germany and growing up there until the wall came down, I have to laugh whenever I hear that Obamacare would make the US a socialist country. I have lived in one. Universal healthcare is NOT what makes a country socialist.

And no, it's also not a first step to becoming a socialist country.

Insanity.

Nita2603 · October 2013

Also,
While I hate mooches and leeches as much as the next gal, recipients of social assistance (whatever those may be called in the single cases, food stamps, WIC, whatever else) do not fall into that category.

Sure, there are always people taking advantage of the system, but that is not indicative of the whole group.

The fact that there are 'too many people receiving assistance' just means that there is something wrong with job markets, col, housing - the economy in general.

Nobody gets rich on social assistance, nobody dines on lobster every night while receiving food stamps.

People who think that others should not get help to feed, clothe, clean and shelter themselves are simply bad humans. Assholes. Nothing more, nothing less.

misscheapandchic · October 2013

I'm embarrassed for people who complain about "obamacare" but can't even give a brief, coherent explanation of it.

Nita2603 · October 2013

People need to learn to mind their own damn business and be considerate. Live and let live is a really good motto to live by.

Nita2603 · October 2013

Am I talking to myself? Cool.

People who update their status on Facebook basically with hashtags are #annoyingasfuck, #attentionwhores and #idiots.
If you are one of them, #youaredoingitwrong.

Nita2603 · October 2013

Oh yeah, Facebook: you are running AND you are using some app to motivate you? Great. I use one too. For walking the dog. And don't share my walks, ever. Because nobody gives a flying fuck.

BillyMollyEmmy · October 2013

Nita2603 said:

Being born in East Germany and growing up there until the wall came down, I have to laugh whenever I hear that Obamacare would make the US a socialist country. I have lived in one. Universal healthcare is NOT what makes a country socialist. And no, it's also not a first step to becoming a socialist country. Insanity.

High frigging five.

Nita2603 · October 2013

Oh yeah, @tab&bob2008. Game requests? Infuriating.

Holly_1007 · October 2013

@Nita2603 Someone Is Fiesty This Morning! although I hope that most of those opinions arent unpopular.

weird, my phone just capitalized every first letter in that first sentence. I think its possessed.

Holly_1007 · October 2013

doctors offices should have seperate areas for children who are only there for well child checkups, and arent sick. Including designated exam rooms that don't see sick children.

redneckmomma25 · October 2013

Can't game requests be blocked? I get all sorts of requests. They hang out neartly in this little game request section which I chose not to open. I can't fathom them bothering someone who doesn't play games. Unless you don't change your settings.

BarefootContessa · October 2013

Nita2603 said:

People need to learn to mind their own damn business and be considerate. Live and let live is a really good motto to live by.

I love that motto. And to each their own.

BarefootContessa · October 2013

Holly_1007 said:

doctors offices should have seperate areas for children who are only there for well child checkups, and arent sick. Including designated exam rooms that don't see sick children.

100% agree. I'm that freaky mom who doesn't let her kid down to wander or play with the toys in the waiting room. I'm sure they sanitize them, but with the amount of hacking and coughing and then touching that goes on while I"m standing there-- I'm not risking it.

Nita2603 · October 2013

Holly_1007 said:
doctors offices should have seperate areas for children who are only there for well child checkups, and arent sick. Including designated exam rooms that don't see sick children.

Agreed.

Nita2603 · October 2013

LoisLayn23 said:
As long as I'm playing CCS, I will send you all the requests.

And they'll all be ignored.

jbBeans · October 2013

Not Unpopular Opinion: I super love @Nita2603.

Nita2603 · October 2013

Holly_1007 said:
@Nita2603 Someone Is Fiesty This Morning! although I hope that most of those opinions arent unpopular.

weird, my phone just capitalized every first letter in that first sentence. I think its possessed.

According to the news, throes opinions are pretty unpopular though.

Not feisty.
More bored. We've been up since 4.

Nita2603 · October 2013

jbBeans said:
Not Unpopular Opinion: I super love @Nita2603.

Awwww. I love you too.

jbBeans · October 2013

Potentially UO related to political-type debate: I have come to realize that I can argue my ass off and do it damn well, but I will still never change the minds of some people, because our disagreement represents a difference in underlying world view. And honestly, that's ok. In fact, our country (well, the US... my former country) was founded on a balance of that difference of worldview and it works. It's tricky, but it works.

People talk like there are insurmountable differences between the left and the right in America, and that shit will be messed up until everyone agrees. That's just wrong. We don't have to agree. We're not Supposed to agree! We just have to talk, listen, reflect, and make an effort to find a compromise that everyone can live with.

Holly_1007 · October 2013

LoisLayn23 said:

Holly_1007 said:

doctors offices should have seperate areas for children who are only there for well child checkups, and arent sick. Including designated exam rooms that don't see sick children.

Ours has that! Separate entrances, separate rooms, separate play areas.

I'm so jealous! colby's all congested after our well child visit yesterday

Holly_1007 · October 2013

I think people traveling with children should be allowed to board (planes, trains, boats etc) first, or right after handicapped. I'm very surprised so many airlines are doing away with this. Makes me not want to travel.
eta. typo. cell phone keyboard yo

MrsKipper · October 2013

My Facebook is so cluttered. I open the app and 5 minutes later I'm over it. Why can't we just go back to simple statuses and pictures? There's way too much going on! I mainly get on to keep up with the groups I'm in.

jbBeans · October 2013

Another one: I think US education on a the political system needs to get more into the working government rather than just going over and over the history and the structure of the system.

For example, I can't remember which NPR show it is--On Point, maybe?--but they include a snippet of the debates of the Supreme Court justices when they're hearing a case. These debates are FASCINATING. They are not legal mumbo-jumbo. They are pretty high-level conversations that get to underlying philosophies and interpretations of the Constitution, but they are nevertheless in very accessible, normal language. It's like sitting in on a political philosophy class. Honestly, before actually hearing these transcripts, I NEVER had any idea of the way in which the justices really debate with one another. I never really thought about it. You hear the ruling, you read the majority and minority opinions maybe, which are kind of legally mumbo-jumbo. But their debates are really, really interesting and you learn a lot about how to the Constitution is applied in a much more practical sense than if you're just memorizing what it says.

AlinnJo · October 2013

I think people traveling with children should be allowed to board (planes, trains, boats etc) first, or right after handicapped. I'm very surprised so many airlines are doing away with this. Makes me not want to travel. eta. typo. cell phone keyboard yo

Especially now that we have a mobile toddler, we will ALWAYS be boarding last. I have no desire to be on that plane any longer than I have to.

mrsbhk22 · October 2013

Holly_1007 said:

I think people traveling with children should be allowed to board (planes, trains, boats etc) first, or right after handicapped. I'm very surprised so many airlines are doing away with this. Makes me not want to travel. eta. typo. cell phone keyboard yo

I fly with my children often and I never take advantage of the preboarding. Why would I want to sit on the plane for an extra 30 minutes with 3 kids? I don't board until the "last call." It only take 1-2 minutes it install a car seat. Genuine questions: Why else do you need extra time?

MRoxy0628 · October 2013

misscheapandchic said:

I'm embarrassed for people who complain about "obamacare" but can't even give a brief, coherent explanation of it.

Maybe you already saw this, but I watched it this morning and was LOL. Jimmy Kimmel had someone ask people, which they preferred "Obamacare" or the Affordable Care Act.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx2scvIFGjE

mrsbhk22 · October 2013

My UO: if you get your political information from people like Bill O'Riley or Rachel Maddow, you aren't getting the whole story. It's like only listening to my 6yr old when he's fighting with his brother. There are two sides it every story. The truth is likely in the middle.

Holly_1007 · October 2013

LoisLayn23 said:

Holly_1007 said:

Holly_1007 said:

doctors offices should have seperate areas for children who are only there for well child checkups, and arent sick. Including designated exam rooms that don't see sick children.
Ours has that! Separate entrances, separate rooms, separate play areas.

I'm so jealous! colby's all congested after our well child visit yesterday :(Did he have shots?

yes. but nothing that the side effects would be congestion. Hep A and a booster of something he has already received. (MOTY, can't remember which off the top of my head) no flu shot and no MMR yet.

mrsbhk22 · October 2013

Oh...I have another. I'm irrationally annoyed by the phase "obamacare." It's the affordable care act, not obamacare. No one calls social security "FDR-care."

MarisaKathleen · October 2013

I'm sure it won't be UO around these parts, but I think it's stupid when people have their kids do their out going message on their voicemails. It just bugs me and seems unprofessional.

I agree with Nita on most things, think hash tags are also stupid and had no idea that all doctors offices didn't have separate areas for sick kids. I stopped going to a pediatrician when I was around 6 and Nancy's doc is the same as Lois's in terms of separating them, so I was just totally clueless. Yet another way TB has educated me. :-)

Stasi · October 2013

mrsbhk22 said:

Holly_1007 said:

I think people traveling with children should be allowed to board (planes, trains, boats etc) first, or right after handicapped. I'm very surprised so many airlines are doing away with this. Makes me not want to travel. eta. typo. cell phone keyboard yo

I fly with my children often and I never take advantage of the preboarding. Why would I want to sit on the plane for an extra 30 minutes with 3 kids? I don't board until the "last call." It only take 1-2 minutes it install a car seat. Genuine questions: Why else do you need extra time?

For airlines that don't have assigned seating, it's to ensure you get seats all together.

MarisaKathleen · October 2013

Also, I thought the Jimmy Kimmel interviews were completely hysterical.

Holly_1007 · October 2013

mrsbhk22 said:

Holly_1007 said:

I think people traveling with children should be allowed to board (planes, trains, boats etc) first, or right after handicapped. I'm very surprised so many airlines are doing away with this. Makes me not want to travel.
eta. typo. cell phone keyboard yo

I fly with my children often and I never take advantage of the preboarding. Why would I want to sit on the plane for an extra 30 minutes with 3 kids? I don't board until the "last call." It only take 1-2 minutes it install a car seat. Genuine questions: Why else do you need extra time?

I should have been more specific sorry, I just don't like that the option has been taken away. When traveling with my husband or another family member we send everyone on with the carryons carseats etc and hold the kids off until the last second. when flying by myself? I need the extra time and space to get situated. Once the plane is full and I'm carrying both my kids, a diaper bag, carryon and a carseat(s) that blows. especially once the overhead bins are full and my bag ends up on the other side of the plane with all the kids toys and snacks.

mrsbhk22 · October 2013

Stasi said:

mrsbhk22 said:

Holly_1007 said:

I think people traveling with children should be allowed to board (planes, trains, boats etc) first, or right after handicapped. I'm very surprised so many airlines are doing away with this. Makes me not want to travel. eta. typo. cell phone keyboard yo

I fly with my children often and I never take advantage of the preboarding. Why would I want to sit on the plane for an extra 30 minutes with 3 kids? I don't board until the "last call." It only take 1-2 minutes it install a car seat. Genuine questions: Why else do you need extra time?

For airlines that don't have assigned seating, it's to ensure you get seats all together.

If someone else wants to sit next to my whiney 4 yr old, have at it! J/K! The only major airline I know that does unassigned seating is southwest and they allow you to board between groups A and B (so still plenty of seats together). I can see it then, but not when you have assigned seats.

thetwinkies&Vivi · October 2013

LoisLayn23 said:

misscheapandchic said:

I'm embarrassed for people who complain about "obamacare" but can't even give a brief, coherent explanation of it.

I actually laughed out loud the last couple days at people's lack of knowledge but having ALL the opinions.

Obamacare or ACA??!!
ETA: slow internet making me look.behind this morning. Gahh

thebanich · October 2013

I also detest the idea of early boarding but I did take advantage of it this summer. I was not about to try and get both the kids and our stuff on a plane that was already full of people. If DH had been there I would have waited.

Stasi · October 2013

I guess my UO is that I like early boarding - I'll echo what Holly said. If I have someone else with me, then I'll send them ahead, but if I'm alone, then I'm going early. I hate the super long wait and trying to scramble to get your bags as everyone is getting off the plane...being in the first few rows helped us out with this a lot last December!

Hyaline · October 2013

jbBeans said:

Potentially UO related to political-type debate: I have come to realize that I can argue my ass off and do it damn well, but I will still never change the minds of some people, because our disagreement represents a difference in underlying world view. And honestly, that's ok. In fact, our country (well, the US... my former country) was founded on a balance of that difference of worldview and it works. It's tricky, but it works.

People talk like there are insurmountable differences between the left and the right in America, and that shit will be messed up until everyone agrees. That's just wrong. We don't have to agree. We're not Supposed to agree! We just have to talk, listen, reflect, and make an effort to find a compromise that everyone can live with.

Bingo. Yes. I think that once we can understand WHY we don't agree, we can come to compromises that actually work. In my opinion, the differences between the left and right are becoming insurmountable because no one's listening or interested in compromise. Well, not no one. Just too few people.

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