Tattoos

[Mathius]

I get the feeling we could have this conversation over a beer and at the end we'd both be smiling

Yes, I think we'd probably have a great time.

and I'd probably pat you on the back of the shoulder and say something stupid like, good luck changing the world, but in the mean time keep your tattoos under the collar.

There is where I have a mental disconnect with this entire thread. I'm not trying to change anything. I don't have the energy for such a futile endeavor. I'm not heated, I'm not upset, etc. Over the last couple of days the few times I've popped in here I've been more annoyed at not being able to get my microtorch lit for a project I'm working on than anything that's going on in this thread. I don't know these people personally, so why would I waste the energy? I don't know where people are getting the perception that I'm upset just because I'm persistent in my viewpoint? Again, maybe some of the supposed "buzz words". I dunno. I am agitated with the particular moderators who seem to consistently enter my threads and deliberately try to provoke me, but that is an ongoing issue.

When I say I think people should be able to present themselves however they want and not be judged by it (assuming they are clean, etc.) and the other viewpoint says people should adhere to an unwritten dress code accepted by society, I can't for the life of me understand how I'm the close minded one? My viewpoint allows you to continue to wear a suit and tie if that's what you feel, while theirs restricts you to that attire.

I think there are several people in this thread who don't pay attention to words that make up comparisons and analogy's. If I use an analogy about racism, that doesn't mean I'm calling you a racist. I could be wrong, but I don't think I've called anyone any names in this thread at any point.

And 8 hour job interviews and flying someone across the country for an interview process? I mean these are just not things that happen to normal working class americans. Why do I use the word "normal" ? Because we make up the majority of the country. We don't come home from work and work out/exercise because we're already beat from the touch physical day we had. Most of us don't sit behind a desk all day, and for the most part we don't care about politics because we know that we don't have enough money for the politicians to give a damn about our opinion and it doesn't matter anyways, because no matter what the politicians and government do, we have to survive anyhow. This is where we live and where we'll stay and we deal with what comes. And we sure as hell don't look down upon people who work at McDonalds. I've never worked fast food, but it's a job like anything else. And yeah, maybe the guy behind the counter is not as smart as me or some other people or maybe he just made poor career choices, or maybe god forbid, he's happy where he works! But the bottom line is, he's a person, just like me. I guess I should have expected this though and it was naive on my part. When someone has an extra $50k-100k to throw down on a car for a hobby even if its over a period of years, you can't really expect them to be properly grounded I don't think.



What do I know.

Mathius