Comments on: Wonderful to relate

By: Barry

Barry — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:53:22 +0000

Henry, can we just poke him with a sharp stick, through the bars of his cage?

By: Katherine

Katherine — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:54:33 +0000

Well, I wasn’t trying to make fun of him – I thought he might actually have missed what she was saying. Since the entire tea-party movement seems to have missed the tea-bagging joke entirely, that was just possible. But apologies for feeding (invisible) troll.

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:49:59 +0000

In all fairness, since I have banned Thomas from responding for a week, people shouldn’t be making fun of him in his enforced absence. Don’t feed the trolls! Even when they have been turned invisible!

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:40:56 +0000

that Thomas is unaware of the Right’s unintentionally funny “teabag” thing is as unlikely as that his offence was genuine.

But that it requires homosexual interaction is his own embarrassing invention, making the homophobia charge that much funnier.

Thomas! You may teabag the partner of your choice!

By: Mrs Tilton

Mrs Tilton — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:13:58 +0000

Katherine @18,

that Thomas is unaware of the Right’s unintentionally funny “teabag” thing is as unlikely as that his offence was genuine.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:07:41 +0000

Is it just possible that Thomas missed the reference to the tea parties and the amusing right wing habit of referring to teabagging in his taking of offence at Mrs Tilton’s comment?

By: Uncle Kvetch

Uncle Kvetch — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:05:40 +0000

Actually – forget it. Don’t consider yourself warned. Consider yourself banned for a week.

Perfectly understandable, but I need to point out that the “homophobia” charge was such a bravura display of trollery that I was hoping Thomas would stick around and entertain us some more.

By: john b

john b — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:22:35 +0000

@glnelson: see also the working conditions and hours prevalent in the US and UK investment banking industries in the 2000s, and their net impact on the greater good.

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:12:53 +0000

Thanks, Henry – when somebody makes it clear from their first post that they’re trolling, forebearance becomes a sin. And I say that having been slammed myself.

By: glnelson

glnelson — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:01:43 +0000

Don’t know about you, Thomas, but for my own safety in the workplace (a coal mine or a busy factory warehouse, say)I’d want me and all my coworkers to be functioning at our best. So, let’s assume, just for a moment, that ergonomic design has something to do with “minimizing fatigue and discomfort”. Is a fatigued worker likely to react as quickly, think as clearly in an emergency? Who’s more likely to provide peak performance, the rested and comfortable worker or the tired, stressed one?
Hint: Don’t base your responses on what Jack Bauer can accomplish without sleep or food over a 24 hour period.

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:55:23 +0000

Actually – forget it. Don’t consider yourself warned. Consider yourself banned for a week.

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:53:23 +0000

Thomas – I am not going to get into a serious argument with you, because I don’t think you are at all interested in a serious argument. As a lawyer who deals with employment issues, you know quite well that OSHA’s primary responsibility involves safety in the workplace. Ergo: trying to come up with rules which prevent people being killed in unsafe workplaces, having limbs sliced off in meatpacking plants and all of that. Trying to turn this into a conversation about ergonomics is, quite simply, trolling. Consider yourself warned.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:52:15 +0000

Tilton, really, you should be ashamed, and yet you’re back showing your face. The least you could do is apologize for the teabagging crack, yet now you have the gall to accuse me of the very thing you were guilty of today on this thread. What a joke.

Barry, wtf are you talking about?

By: Mrs Tilton

Mrs Tilton — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:46:10 +0000

Thomas @8,

Tilton, wonderful to see that in addition to politicized science the left is now also adopting homophobia

Though one understands why people like you find politicized science and homophobia wonderful, I assure you that, normal people having at long last driven the anticonstitutionalist Right from power, they are really not going to continue your beloved projects for you.

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:45:10 +0000

Thomas, Rovian big lie techniques are so last year. Then again, right-wing junk science must pay better than real science, and provides a living for those who find out that reality has a liberal bias.