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Or worse, who steps in the way and makes the target wait while opening the door.

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Also, families with lots of little kids. Etc.

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Never having been an unaccompanied woman, I cannot say for sure, but I cannot ever remember finding one standing thus.

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A girl was mean to me one time too.

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And quacking.

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Isn't a false flag operation more effective if the True Patriots grab it and start waving it?

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Among other things, Dobson is factually challenged (surprise, surprise). The US divorce rate ranged between 2.0 and 2.5 per thousand people from 1940 to 1965 (when it was 2.5). In 1970, it was 3.5. Now, 40% is a sharp increase, but it falls somewhat short of my view of "going through the roof".

Anyhow, the rate continued to rise, averaging 5.0 per thousand during 1981-1988 (that would be "Reagan's America"), and then tapering off to around 3.5 now. As an aside, I wonder what James Dobson thinks of the fact thar Ron-bo was the only President since WWII to have been divorced.

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And platform shoes.

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Is it his fault that Dobson was taught that you open a gate with one hand on the gate handle and the other on a woman's breast?

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Hell, I'm a guy w/ no kids, and I"D happily stay home "If I could afford it".

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Gotta be careful when you're swimming in snark infested waters...

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But it is a decision that gets made <em>with</em> a vacuum, amirite?

(Sorry. I get one cheap sexist comment a year, I figured I might as well use it now.)

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I'm guessing he thinks IOKIYAR.

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Don't forget the food-stamp teenager w/ a better phone than yours because Obamaphones.

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You know, it's just a funny thing about doors. When more than one person arrives at one at the same time, <i>somebody</i> has to open the fucking thing. Very often, it's the first person to get there. I don't recall ever seeing an instance (involving me or not) where somebody got upset because somebody else held the door for them. And I've been opening doors for at least 55 years.

Of course, there is a sort of gracious way to get the door, and then there is an ostentatious "where's-my-thanks?" way.

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Nah, that's LAZY MILLENIALS + WELFARE.

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