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[Trainman 2000]

Oh my...

Well, Indeed, Immigrants taking jobs IS indeed a problem.

It's so hard to imagine Emergo as a female, for the 1st 10 months of my stay at the rctspace hotel, I always thought emergo was male.

[Sambo]

Well, Indeed, Immigrants taking jobs IS indeed a problem.

But a minuscule problem when compared with the jobs being exported to countries with labor rates of pennies a day, unreasonable working conditions, no controls for toxins (like in the imported foodstuffs) that are banned for use in our country, all the while reducing our manufacturing base (which is vital to national security) to near zero and making us dependant on other countries to supply us with dirt-cheap goods at our local Wal-Marts. We sell our future and leave our kids a wasteland just to get more plastic ge-gaws that we don't really need but have to have. Regardless of how much it will cost future generations.



Immigants taking our jobs indeed - What's on your i-Pod?

[Terrapin]

My Peeve:

-People on the road who don't know where they're going and cut other people off and make a three-lane change to make the exit ramp. If you're not familiar with the area, stay close to the exit lane. Yeesh.

-Also, the idiot drivers that think theyre cool trying to race trhough traffic. You don't get anywhere doing that.

-Celebrity gossip. Ugh. The only people that should care about their lives are them, their friends, and the people they work with. (And the fact that most get off really easy cough* community service *cough).

Terrapin

Edited by Terrapin, 25 May 2007 - 10:02 AM.

[Eh!Steve!]

I bet this has happened before...

The thing I hate most is when some politician uses a tragic event such as the Virginia Tech or Columbine shootings to their advantage. For instance, they would say, "With this guy, you would have another massacre. With me, there would be no more shootings." I began to think that may have happened after my school had a really big threat. There were three messages throughout the state of Illinois. Two said that 44 would die on May 15. The third didn't say a specific date. All said that it would be at Troy, Illinois High School. I'm just afraid someone will get Illinois to vote for her by using those threats to her advantage.

Edited by Eh!Steve!, 25 May 2007 - 04:16 PM.

[Emergo]

It's so hard to imagine Emergo as a female, for the 1st 10 months of my stay at the rctspace hotel, I always thought emergo was male.

^ LooooL!
This used to be one of my pet peeves during a long time (bit silly and really unimportant compared to world-problems, but still......): the fact that everyone - but especially males...- automatically think that you are a male also, as long as they don't see you or hear your voice.
Here in Holland, and as I know still in many countries in the world, it is fairly common use that you add anything to your name/signature/position to "tell" that you are not a male, like "ms. so and so......"
I always refused to do that, because I thought it so silly that readers of my reports, researches, scientifical work etc. automatically would think I was a male if I did not explicitly state that I was a female. So everyone who did not know me always replied to me as if I was a male "Dear mr. so-and-and-so, I read your...etc.
What did give them the right to automatically assume that I was a male also, while still 54% (the majority!!) of adult persons in this world are female........? Why should I have to add something to my name under a letter to signal that I am a woman, (as if I belong to the minority in this world and not they...?), instead of they being "obliged" to signal me that they were male and thus not belonging to the majority of this world?, and why cannot men automatically have the politeness to address me with "dear mr. or ms. so-and-and so" as long as they don't know which gender I am.......Male chauvinism of course........

Don't worry Trainmen, I know very well how this all developed in history, and can perfectly understand why in this RCT-world with so few women involved (2% or so?) you never before those 10 months thought of the possibility that I could be female.....most members here as well as on other sites where very surprised when they finally learned that after a long time ....hope you'll get used to it, LoL!

Eh! Steve!: The thing I hate most is when some politician uses a tragic event such as the Virginia Tech or Columbine shootings to their advantage.

^ Yep, I hate that too.
Our politicians here in Holland are doing that also: trying to frighten the people by the (mis-)use of such tragic events, and promising that it won't happen again if we choose them, and if it happens that they have been chosen, (thanks to the fear they pumped into many innocent voters) they cannot do any better than restrict a lot of freedom for all people, without solving or being able to forecome the line of next "accidents".

Emergo

[**cjman**]

Oh, forgot to mention another one...



...spring...


*achoo*

Edited by **cjman**, 25 May 2007 - 06:44 PM.

[Trainman 2000]

LOL Emergo, It's just that a majority of the people here are male, i guess.

EDIT: LOL, Did you just call me Trainmen? LOOOOL!

Edited by Trainman 2000, 25 May 2007 - 09:37 PM.

[ZeRoSkIlL]

^
Thanks for the clear explanation of the flip-flops, Zero!., I recognise them really well, they were the things that my parents did not allow me to wear when I was a little girl, because "this plastic rubbish is a murderer to the feet". Lol, when I went to Uni and was living on my own I took revenge by wearing them day and night,(until more fashionable as well as comfortable things took over )

.

^ Might be my English....but....eh...I don't think "we" agree - 100%.
I never said nor thought that "citizens" (who are they then, as I take it that also in your country many immigrants are "citizens" by now, just like here, and where you and me are citizens, and where many new immigrants also are citizens...) are fed up with "all the people are taking their jobs" (which people and why so...?), and I never tried to express that "they" (whom?) are fed up by "them" (who?) not making any effort to communicate.....who then is "we" and who then don't try to communicate...

Wow, much too complicated sentences, think I need Wagi to help me explain this

But anyhow, what I mean is that I don't believe in "we" and "they", just let's try all we can on making this world a great place/space to live in together, and with each other, and realise that to achieve it everyone, including me and you, is as much responsible for that as anyone else.......and that it is by far not fair (imo) to just think that "we" did everything, and that "they" are just not doing what you want/expect from "them"........

Emergo

Yikes! You're a girl! I would never have guessed, I feel extremely embarassed! Studying Spanish, (and this I've incorporated into English), 98% of the words that end in "o", such as Emergo, are masculine. I'm not sure if it's the same for dutch, but that would be a name for a male in Spanish-speaking countries. So, I was under the opinion that you were a guy! >.<

I wear flip-flops day and night, too, I hate wearing shoes in the heat. Makes my toes and feet really sweaty and hot... yuck! Downside is, a lot of the "trendy" kids at my school call me gay (as in liking men) solely on the fact that I wear flip-flops. *Sighs*

EDIT: You know what? Screw my terrible attempt at trying to look professional. The whole thing about migrant workers...and all that "citizens are tired" garbage, just forget about it. Okay?

Oh, forgot to mention another one...
...spring...
*achoo*

Amen! I've had a sore throat, a vicious, mucus-spraying cough, and the constant sneeze. D**** you, pollen molecules of doom!

EDIT: I need to proof-read more...

Edited by ZeRoSkIlL, 25 May 2007 - 11:15 PM.

[Trainman 2000]

People think I'm gay just because i take ballet, listen to classical music and don't paly any sports except for tennis and badminton (and DDR in norway, since it's a sport there)

[dcornel]

People think I'm gay just because i take ballet, listen to classical music and don't paly any sports except for tennis and badminton (and DDR in norway, since it's a sport there)

Right there is one of my biggest peeves. People are so afraid of anything that is different than what pop-culture tells them so. Dude, I respect what you do if it makes you happy. Besides, I do believe that ballet takes a heck of a lot more strength than does most any sport. As for Tennis and Badminton- tell Bjorg or Macenroe (can't think of newer players for some reason- too many hockey player names on my mind).