tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post5174690623676786461..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: The CrazyBardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-69858430805088167522011-05-04T23:00:14.944-07:002011-05-04T23:00:14.944-07:00Now I want to find the car repair shop where custo...Now I want to find the car repair shop where customers discuss Locke and Hume in the waiting room. I want to live in that town. <br /><br />Though, actually, I think I've been looking for that town since I was 12. Hell, I dated my second boyfriend *solely* because he was the first guy I had ever met in my useless town who had a vocabulary to match my own and had read (nearly) as many books as I had. (Well, okay, he also had a motorcycle and kissed very hotly.)<br /><br />I kind of expected the university to be that town. Sadly, it is not. At least mine is not. People talk about shoes and assessment, not Hume and Locke.delagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18197857250240640822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-16236659448677999242011-05-03T18:26:22.931-07:002011-05-03T18:26:22.931-07:00i have a little crush on peter. of the long-dista...i have a little crush on peter. of the long-distance sort, because he made me laugh really hard.a. noony mousenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-85251861441587920942011-05-03T18:13:25.270-07:002011-05-03T18:13:25.270-07:00Ouch! bad drafting. Sorry, I didn't mean to i...Ouch! bad drafting. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that God commands Republicans to terrorism. Should've revised before posting. Regrets.Peternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-90793043004192610882011-05-03T18:11:06.073-07:002011-05-03T18:11:06.073-07:00Part of me agrees with all the above...except...lo...Part of me agrees with all the above...except...lots of my colleagues, who seem clever and rational will begin conversation, and suddenly I feel I'm in that funky Vertigo/Twilight Zone vortex where I'm tumbling around against a green screen with black and white spirals projected behind me as I flail my arms and kick my legs. <br /><br />It starts at astrology and ends with miracle cancer cures the government wants to keep from us. And these aren't odd strangers in car repair shops who may vote but people hired by a college and put in charge of teaching statistics (I know, right? Validity and reliability and confidence intervals and all that?) or biology (yes! science of the non-creationist variety!) or advanced composition(logic! logical fallacies!). <br /><br />So, while my instant reaction is that, yes, wacky people are more visible (or audible), they're just the crust on the tip of an immense iceberg. And that may help explain why a huge percentage of Republicans believe Obama wasn't born in the US and disbelieve evolution. Or, for that matter, believe that God commands them to fly jetliners into occupied buildings.Peternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-60816326957275925362011-05-03T16:01:13.847-07:002011-05-03T16:01:13.847-07:00this happens, especially if you go to smaller busi...this happens, especially if you go to smaller businesses that don't donate to idjits of the powerful sort. mechanically speaking, you just might have found a good shop.<br /><br />i live near berkeley, and i don't actually hear a lot of woo-woo beliefs in my daily life. on those odd occasions when someone obviously raised on another planet has something to say, it's handy to switch into another mode, where one grunts something non-committal and needs to go do something.kathy a.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14479337952651746193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-43566667163600917712011-05-03T15:59:58.586-07:002011-05-03T15:59:58.586-07:00Yup, sounds about right. The interesting people a...Yup, sounds about right. The interesting people are usually in possession of basic social filters, which stop them from performing monologues in the mechanic's waiting area. <br /><br />Also, bringing up more interesting topics often leads to unpleasant reactions, so many of us have sadly learned to keep our mouths shut. I'd love to discuss the scientific method or language acquisition or whatever, but over the years I've learned to choose the time and place and partners for those conversations with care. I think I'd be even less able to tolerate proselytizing and being damned to hell for mentioning "science" than I would the alternative healing lecture.Sachinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-82770087494735573622011-05-03T15:51:51.576-07:002011-05-03T15:51:51.576-07:00Also, part of the crazy seems to be a sense that o...Also, part of the crazy seems to be a sense that one is on a MISSION and must spread the word to anyone and everyone in sight.sophylounoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-17147026094404805692011-05-03T15:41:12.851-07:002011-05-03T15:41:12.851-07:00The crazy people tell you about their crazy becaus...The crazy people tell you about their crazy because they're solipsists who don't really care what you like or don't like.<br /><br />The people who can tell you interesting things, like you, don't start a lecture at the auto dealership, because you long ago realized that 98 out of 100 random auto-shop neighbors will be annoyed if you just start telling them cool stuff about The Winter's Tale. The interesting people have to be drawn out.<br /><br />I think that's it.Doctor Clevelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07326408523926507003noreply@blogger.com