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We're one storm away from anarchy

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We're one storm away from anarchy

Postby jjoyce » Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:55 am

You can already see signs of it. People just stream through red lights, thinking they're excused because if they stop, they'll never get started. Pedestrians, for some reason, just leap out into traffic over snowbanks evidently hoping people will just swerve to avoid them or something.

Neighbors who bust out the snowblowers and clear up to the property line, but not an inch over, return to their homes while others toil, hoping to clear the rubble left behind by the plows. Four-wheel drive vehicles narrowly avoid standard cars as they weave in and out of traffic.

What's next?
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Postby Steve Vokers » Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:58 am

Fights in the stores over the last loaf of bread.

Don't laugh, I saw it happen when I was living in another state where they didn't get snow too often. People were losing it.
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Postby Wet_Pavement » Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:00 am

And like a bad acid trip, it will all evaporate when the snow melts. People will wake up in mid-melt to ask themselves, "What the fuck are we fighting over? Dude, I'm so sorry!"
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Postby Uncle Fester » Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:22 am

"What's next?"

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.
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Re: We're one storm away from anarchy

Postby donges » Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:24 am

jjoyce wrote:Four-wheel drive vehicles narrowly avoid standard cars as they weave in and out of traffic.

Who also think that since there is two lane traffic towards downtown in the morning on Atwood/Willy during decent weather that the same holds true when there is a badly ice-rutted half lane now. So they slide into the main lane, fight back to the right one, narrowly miss a garbage cart sticking into the road and slide over once again.
Actually, the vehicle doesn't matter. Assholes drive most anything with wheels.
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Re: We're one storm away from anarchy

Postby pulsewidth modulation » Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:32 am

jjoyce wrote:What's next?


Why, an "Isthmus" article complaining about neglected socialism of course.

How many left wing desk jockeys and social managers were out shoveling someone else's driveway in the name of socialism this weekend? None I suspect.
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Re: We're one storm away from anarchy

Postby lordofthecockrings » Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:34 am

pulsewidth modulation wrote:
jjoyce wrote:What's next?


Why, an "Isthmus" article complaining about neglected socialism of course.

How many left wing desk jockeys and social managers were out shoveling someone else's driveway in the name of socialism this weekend? None I suspect.


God damn your a tedious bore.
Only you could turn this thread political.
What a fucking joke you are.
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Postby Ducatista » Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:51 am

Steve Vokers wrote:Fights in the stores over the last loaf of bread.

Saturday I asked the Sentry Hilldale butcher for a chuck eye roast. They'd already sold out, he said, "because of the storm that's coming." There was a run on chuck eye roasts?
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Re: We're one storm away from anarchy

Postby Kenneth Burns » Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:17 am

pulsewidth modulation wrote:Why, an "Isthmus" article complaining about neglected socialism of course.

How many left wing desk jockeys and social managers were out shoveling someone else's driveway in the name of socialism this weekend? None I suspect.


Can't speak for my fellow "Isthmus" desk jockeys, but I spent the weekend watching Auntie Mame. In the name of socialism.
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Postby Steve Vokers » Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:23 am

I couldn't tear myself away from reading Das Kapital to shovel my own driveway, much less my neighbor's.
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Postby Kenneth Burns » Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:42 am

Steve Vokers wrote:I couldn't tear myself away from reading Das Kapital to shovel my own driveway, much less my neighbor's.


I hope you stuck to volume one. No one reads volume two.
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Postby Marvell » Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:50 am

Kenneth Burns wrote:
Steve Vokers wrote:I couldn't tear myself away from reading Das Kapital to shovel my own driveway, much less my neighbor's.


I hope you stuck to volume one. No one reads volume two.


They really should.

That's where all the sex scenes are.
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Postby nevermore » Mon Feb 18, 2008 12:04 pm

Marvell wrote:
Kenneth Burns wrote:
Steve Vokers wrote:I couldn't tear myself away from reading Das Kapital to shovel my own driveway, much less my neighbor's.


I hope you stuck to volume one. No one reads volume two.


They really should.

That's where all the sex scenes are.

But there isn't a dry eye in the house at the end of Volume Three - where Friedrich Engels makes peace with his father Lord Vader after rescuing Karl Marx from Jabba the Hut. Too many Ewoks, but a great film nonetheless.
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Postby El Chifa » Mon Feb 18, 2008 12:47 pm

nevermore wrote:
Marvell wrote:
Kenneth Burns wrote:
Steve Vokers wrote:I couldn't tear myself away from reading Das Kapital to shovel my own driveway, much less my neighbor's.


I hope you stuck to volume one. No one reads volume two.


They really should.

That's where all the sex scenes are.

But there isn't a dry eye in the house at the end of Volume Three - where Friedrich Engels makes peace with his father Lord Vader after rescuing Karl Marx from Jabba the Hut. Too many Ewoks, but a great film nonetheless.


Thanks for the spoiler. After I camped out for 12 hours at Barnes and Noble for the midnight sale of Volume Three. Asshole.
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Postby TheBookPolice » Mon Feb 18, 2008 12:50 pm

El Chifa wrote:
nevermore wrote:
Marvell wrote:
Kenneth Burns wrote:
Steve Vokers wrote:I couldn't tear myself away from reading Das Kapital to shovel my own driveway, much less my neighbor's.

I hope you stuck to volume one. No one reads volume two.

They really should.

That's where all the sex scenes are.

But there isn't a dry eye in the house at the end of Volume Three - where Friedrich Engels makes peace with his father Lord Vader after rescuing Karl Marx from Jabba the Hut. Too many Ewoks, but a great film nonetheless.

Thanks for the spoiler. After I camped out for 12 hours at Barnes and Noble for the midnight sale of Volume Three. Asshole.

Don't worry. There's already rumors on the Internet that all three volumes are going to be remastered and updated to include a LEED-certified coal mill and an entire race of overly bureaucratic robber barons.
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