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Title: pushing buttons
Post by: McGiver on May 13, 2007, 05:18:49 PM
like a crosswalk button.

i told my daughter to not push the button going the way we just came from.
i said that we didn't need to go that way, and it may make the light change faster and cost some people a part of their day, if they barely miss the light, because of her action.


the point is, just because there is a button you don't need to push it just because it's there.  what might it cost someone else.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: Calandale on May 13, 2007, 05:21:16 PM
On the other hand, if a button is there,
it is meant to be used, and if you can't
imagine what use it might have, it is
best to simply try one.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: El on May 13, 2007, 06:11:33 PM
Also, if you're like me and can perfectly imitate the noise a crosswalk signal makes, make sure there aren't any blind people around before imitating that noise when there is no signal.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: Calandale on May 13, 2007, 06:19:05 PM
Also, if you're like me and can perfectly imitate the noise a crosswalk signal makes, make sure there aren't any blind people around before imitating that noise when there is no signal.

Unless you're like me, and like a good joke now and then.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: Scrapheap on May 13, 2007, 06:36:32 PM
Also, if you're like me and can perfectly imitate the noise a crosswalk signal makes, make sure there aren't any blind people around before imitating that noise when there is no signal.

Unless you're like me, and like a good joke now and then.

Kersplat!!!  :laugh:
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: purposefulinsanity on May 14, 2007, 04:30:27 AM
like a crosswalk button.

i told my daughter to not push the button going the way we just came from.
i said that we didn't need to go that way, and it may make the light change faster and cost some people a part of their day, if they barely miss the light, because of her action.


the point is, just because there is a button you don't need to push it just because it's there.  what might it cost someone else.


Why do I get the feeling this topic has nothing to do with crosswalk buttons but everything to do with karma?
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: duncvis on May 14, 2007, 04:36:09 AM
like a crosswalk button.

i told my daughter to not push the button going the way we just came from.
i said that we didn't need to go that way, and it may make the light change faster and cost some people a part of their day, if they barely miss the light, because of her action.


the point is, just because there is a button you don't need to push it just because it's there.  what might it cost someone else.


Why do I get the feeling this topic has nothing to do with crosswalk buttons but everything to do with karma?

Who's being emo about a number again?
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: McGiver on May 14, 2007, 06:01:05 AM
like a crosswalk button.

i told my daughter to not push the button going the way we just came from.
i said that we didn't need to go that way, and it may make the light change faster and cost some people a part of their day, if they barely miss the light, because of her action.


the point is, just because there is a button you don't need to push it just because it's there.  what might it cost someone else.


Why do I get the feeling this topic has nothing to do with crosswalk buttons but everything to do with karma?

actually, it has more to do with the lock/unlock button.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: purposefulinsanity on May 14, 2007, 07:35:44 AM
Are people still pissing around with that?   ::)


I assumed karma because the having a button to push was something Calandale had said about Karma a couple of times.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: McGiver on May 14, 2007, 12:59:26 PM
Are people still pissing around with that?   ::)


I assumed karma because the having a button to push was something Calandale had said about Karma a couple of times.
not that i know of.

i just wanted to make up a parable.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: Calandale on May 14, 2007, 07:21:10 PM
Are people still pissing around with that?   ::)


I assumed karma because the having a button to push was something Calandale had said about Karma a couple of times.

Yeah, and I figured so, because, well, it's all about me, after all.

Actually, I  thought that he was dinging both Richard and myself.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: McGiver on May 14, 2007, 08:24:54 PM
a bird and a burd
two birds with one stone.  imagine.

a parable is supposed to mean different things to different people, or is that an allegory.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: Calandale on May 14, 2007, 08:26:01 PM
I don't know, but I always seem to take parables wrong.

Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: McGiver on May 14, 2007, 08:27:38 PM
even the prodigal son?
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: Calandale on May 14, 2007, 08:28:27 PM
even the prodigal son?

Yeah. It means that I can always come back
and ask for more.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: McGiver on May 14, 2007, 08:29:59 PM
even the prodigal son?

Yeah. It means that I can always come back
and ask for more.
yes son.

the benefits of entitlement.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: Calandale on May 14, 2007, 08:36:07 PM
I SAID I don't get them.

There's one about farmers and grain that
I take the wrong idea from too.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: Scrapheap on May 15, 2007, 10:46:24 PM
I SAID I don't get them.

There's one about farmers and grain that
I take the wrong idea from too.

I don't get it...... I think you're just pushing my buttons.  :P :laugh:
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: McGiver on May 16, 2007, 06:01:02 AM
I SAID I don't get them.

There's one about farmers and grain that
I take the wrong idea from too.

I don't get it...... I think you're just pushing my buttons.  :P :laugh:
yeah.  no shite.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: Calandale on May 16, 2007, 09:11:46 AM
Back to the original, I notice that I push crosswalk
buttons too. I don't really use them - but hit them
anyhow - and then cross against traffic.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: Callaway on May 16, 2007, 10:38:23 AM
like a crosswalk button.

i told my daughter to not push the button going the way we just came from.
i said that we didn't need to go that way, and it may make the light change faster and cost some people a part of their day, if they barely miss the light, because of her action.


the point is, just because there is a button you don't need to push it just because it's there.  what might it cost someone else.

Where I live, pushing the crosswalk button does not make the light change any faster.  It just gives the walk signal the next time the light changes.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: Calandale on May 16, 2007, 10:43:50 AM
Where I am, it extends the length of time that
drivers have to sit idling. Some places, it does
nothing at all.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: McGiver on May 16, 2007, 12:33:13 PM
like a crosswalk button.

i told my daughter to not push the button going the way we just came from.
i said that we didn't need to go that way, and it may make the light change faster and cost some people a part of their day, if they barely miss the light, because of her action.


the point is, just because there is a button you don't need to push it just because it's there.  what might it cost someone else.

Where I live, pushing the crosswalk button does not make the light change any faster.  It just gives the walk signal the next time the light changes.
do you expect that i will change my argument because of something as trivial as facts?
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: purposefulinsanity on May 16, 2007, 01:23:59 PM
like a crosswalk button.

i told my daughter to not push the button going the way we just came from.
i said that we didn't need to go that way, and it may make the light change faster and cost some people a part of their day, if they barely miss the light, because of her action.


the point is, just because there is a button you don't need to push it just because it's there.  what might it cost someone else.

Where I live, pushing the crosswalk button does not make the light change any faster.  It just gives the walk signal the next time the light changes.
do you expect that i will change my argument because of something as trivial as facts?

You never have before. :laugh:
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: McGiver on May 16, 2007, 01:29:30 PM
like a crosswalk button.

i told my daughter to not push the button going the way we just came from.
i said that we didn't need to go that way, and it may make the light change faster and cost some people a part of their day, if they barely miss the light, because of her action.


the point is, just because there is a button you don't need to push it just because it's there.  what might it cost someone else.

Where I live, pushing the crosswalk button does not make the light change any faster.  It just gives the walk signal the next time the light changes.
do you expect that i will change my argument because of something as trivial as facts?

You never have before. :laugh:
facts, schmacks.


what is true is always changing.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: purposefulinsanity on May 16, 2007, 01:30:52 PM
And what importance does truth have when you can make up your own truth?
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: McGiver on May 16, 2007, 01:31:47 PM
And what importance does truth have when you can make up your own truth?
true dat!
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: Calandale on May 16, 2007, 09:22:26 PM
Truth is all relative anyway.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: Scrapheap on May 16, 2007, 10:25:02 PM
Truth is all relative anyway.

A distant relative at that.... like a 4th cousin or something....
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: Calandale on May 16, 2007, 10:26:09 PM
Truth is all relative anyway.

A distant relative at that.... like a 4th cousin or something....

I think that I'm going to disown it.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: McGiver on May 17, 2007, 06:47:50 AM
Truth is all relative anyway.

A distant relative at that.... like a 4th cousin or something....

I think that I'm going to disown it.
you could just marry it.  it's legal you know.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: Calandale on May 17, 2007, 06:52:58 AM
you could just marry it.  it's legal you know.

Marriage to concepts is legal?
And they won't let me marry my sheep?

Wouldn't bigamy come into it?
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: McGiver on May 17, 2007, 06:54:57 AM
you could just marry it.  it's legal you know.

Marriage to concepts is legal?
And they won't let me marry my sheep?

Wouldn't bigamy come into it?
depends.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: Calandale on May 17, 2007, 06:59:36 AM
And let all who come before me be mine flock.
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: McGiver on May 17, 2007, 07:00:45 AM
And let all who come before me be mine flock.
the deceased?
Title: Re: pushing buttons
Post by: Calandale on May 17, 2007, 07:01:55 AM
And the dead shall rise, and serve (or service) me