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Also, the stat about his finding three terrorists crossing the border everyday...well, I call bullshit.
I've read 1984 three or four times - can't say that about many books. It never fails to shock and reveal new insights to the modern age. It's been several years. Might be time for another read.
The old saying "don't fight city hall" comes to mind.Granted, there was ass-holiness on both sides but crusader boy could have avoided getting himself into a world of shit by just saying "yes sir" and "no sir". When you're locked in a room where the only witnesses are hostile discretion is definitely the better part of valor. Just go along with the program, walk out the door, shake hands with your "interviewer" and maybe you've seen the last discourteous treatment at the border. Maybe they remember you and next time you cross they just wave you through. As it is this guy is gonna have to probably bend over and grab his ankles every time he wants to go shopping from now on.Not the brightest way to deal with the Border Patrol. I am fully aware that I am gonna catch some flack but this is, after all, the real world.
Quote from: LotsaBadKarma on July 14, 2016, 06:15:23 PMThe old saying "don't fight city hall" comes to mind.Granted, there was ass-holiness on both sides but crusader boy could have avoided getting himself into a world of shit by just saying "yes sir" and "no sir". When you're locked in a room where the only witnesses are hostile discretion is definitely the better part of valor. Just go along with the program, walk out the door, shake hands with your "interviewer" and maybe you've seen the last discourteous treatment at the border. Maybe they remember you and next time you cross they just wave you through. As it is this guy is gonna have to probably bend over and grab his ankles every time he wants to go shopping from now on.Not the brightest way to deal with the Border Patrol. I am fully aware that I am gonna catch some flack but this is, after all, the real world.You're not wrong. Hell, you're not even an asshole. And you're giving good practical advice to would-be border crossers.But the guy was respectful and responsive to a reasonable point. The cop, on the other hand, was determined to ask enough an overabundance of innocuous questions and eventually reveal him for the terrorist bastard that he so clearly was not. This was escalation for, at best, the mere point of escalation and, at worst, a fascist dick-measuring contest. It incensed me to hear that everyone is required to adhere to an officer's instructions simply because, well, he's an officer. At the risk of agreeing with the continually wrong BLM movement: fuck that.
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