As I walk through the Halifax Shopping Center, funds not liquid enough to enjoy the frenzy….i hear people talking about…, ” what should I get him??? I’ve not seen him in a year..” Babe, if you haven’t seen anyone in a year, the hell I’d be dishing out my cold hard cash at a time like this just to look good in front of my peer group. People spend January’s money for people they don’t know in December. —Forget about it!!
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OB, you are a fucking idiot. There are many reasons not to see someone in a year. They could be in the military or other government position and posted far away. They could be working for a company somewhere far away. Hell they could be in jail. Since you don’t know the circumstances, go fuck yourself.
Not much I can add to what Tim said except to reiterate – THEY spend THEIR money on people that THEY care about.
It’s got feckall to do with you, Sistah.
NOT LOOKING GOOD
“Babe, if you haven’t seen anyone in a year, the hell I’d be dishing out my cold hard cash at a time like this just to look good in front of my peer group.” Forget about it
Do you realize, if you don’t dish out your cold hard cash at a time like this, that you will not be looking good in front of your peer group? Do you realize that?
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Montrealman seems to have left the pontification for reiteration of late. Is this a philisophical exercise?
Ivan – does this mean that as I haven’t seen Khadr for over a year I done got to git him sumting?
Way ahead of ya, Bazzer. An autographed copy of Malala Yusufzai’s auto-bio is winging it’s way to Gitmo -North as we speak.
op, would you have objected to it if, as you said, you DID have the funds to enjoy it? kinda pulls the teeth from your bitch.
I object to the whole gifting mania and do not take part, but I don’t give a hoot what anyone else does.
RSVP
: Spurious Giles (12/14, 10:11AM)
You ask whether my leaving pontification for reiteration of late constitutes a “philosophical exercise”. Presupposed in your question, of course, is just what does – and just what does not – constitute a philosophical exercise.
I think we would have to say that any communication beyond conveying information in an absolutely minimal sense – one thinks of something like the assertion, “It is raining” – would constitute a philosophical exercise. There are, of course, varying degrees of complexity involved in any philosophical exercise which, after all is said and done, embodies a quest for meaning. It embodies a search for understanding.
How, then, are we to understand the bitcher’s comment to the effect that he would not be dishing out his cold hard cash just to look good in front of his peer group? My direct iteration of the bitcher’s comment was simply to draw attention to its content. What did he mean? What were his motives in saying something like that? Was he taking some sort of moral position – perhaps claiming autonomy from the opinion of his peer group – or was he simply asserting his habitual parsimony? These are not easy questions. Any attempt to answer them that would satisfy the criteria as embodied in the quest for meaning and understanding would necessarily entail an imaginative projection into the bitcher’s mind.
However, the bitcher’s bitch does not reveal the presence of a mind in any developed or philosophical sense. In other words, what you see is what you get. It was simply a statement of bald, unadorned fact, a superficial one-dimensional assertion and so my iteration engaged that assertion at that level, one of bald, unadorned fact. I wanted to draw his attention to the fact that if he did not want to dish out his cold hard cash at a time like this then he would not look good in front of his peer group.
I trust that this clears up any confusion you might have been experiencing.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
I haven’t seen my closest cousin since her wedding in 2011, because she lives far away but you can bet your arse I still send a Hanukkah gift to her and her husband.
So suck it, ob, with your idiotic, narrow mind.
Hey, PK, the OB maybe overheard the hooker-stripper friend of mine asking what she could get me for Xmas 😀