Honey, when you post about your life and your choices for all the world to see, then they have a right to have an opinion on them. I didn't violate his privacy one damned bit. He comes here posting about his life ad nauseam and we're all supposed to just nod and agree? Screw that. If he wants his "personal choices" to be personal, then he can shut the fuck up about them. It was his "personal choice" to make the facts of his life known to virtual strangers. To excoriate someone for discussing their opinions of his public statements is unreasonable and childish and unfair. This isn't a tea party. Grow up.
You know that I have respect for you, but if you think that I was "excoriating" you for pointing out that you can't put someone in a nutshell because you think you know his whole life from the series of posts he's apparently forced you to read, then we're really not having the same discussion. And since I don't have respect for fun-time shredding people, I'd rather not continue not having the same discussion when you're clearly in the mood to do so.
NSSP: I Live in the Greatest Country on Earth! 
- 09/09/2010 06:12:06 PM
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- 09/09/2010 06:12:06 PM
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17 fillings? Do you ever go to the dentist? *NM*
- 09/09/2010 06:26:05 PM
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seriously. that's an insane number of fillings to have been putting off.
- 09/09/2010 06:28:09 PM
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This is the first time in my life I've had dental insurance.
- 09/09/2010 06:29:44 PM
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So in other words it's your own damn fault.
- 09/09/2010 07:34:43 PM
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"Not that expensive" is a big phrase.
- 10/09/2010 05:42:55 AM
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have you tried going to a dental school?
- 09/09/2010 07:36:15 PM
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Congratulations: You made the first constructive suggestion in the thread. 
- 10/09/2010 05:37:51 AM
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- 10/09/2010 05:37:51 AM
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well, I bet it wouldn't have cost you near so much if you hadn't kept putting it off.
- 09/09/2010 06:29:50 PM
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Yes, I was able to figure that out on my own.
- 09/09/2010 06:34:58 PM
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17? Wow... do you use cola as mouthwash? *NM*
- 09/09/2010 06:46:28 PM
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Dr. Pepper
- 09/09/2010 06:47:32 PM
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Re: Dr. Pepper
- 10/09/2010 07:05:06 PM
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A reasonable response; amazing how it doesn't make me foam at the mouth.... 
- 11/09/2010 04:02:10 PM
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would it save you money if they just ripped them all out and put in dentures instead? *NM*
- 09/09/2010 09:32:41 PM
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I feel so sorry for people who have to live in uncivilised countries.
- 10/09/2010 12:18:11 AM
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yes he will be moving to the land known for great dental care *NM*
- 10/09/2010 01:01:37 AM
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*NM*
- 10/09/2010 01:01:37 AM
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I think I must have been channeling a drunken poet when I wrote that insult 
- 10/09/2010 01:23:45 AM
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- 10/09/2010 01:23:45 AM
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LOL A British person lecturing us about anything involving dental care.
- 10/09/2010 02:02:33 AM
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I love how I'm not the only one to remember very old Simpson episodes!
- 10/09/2010 03:58:41 AM
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When I posted regularly and prolifically that was kinda my thing.
- 10/09/2010 06:17:03 AM
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- 10/09/2010 06:17:03 AM
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Where does that stereotype come from?
- 11/09/2010 04:52:41 PM
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Yeah, about that...
- 11/09/2010 09:31:11 PM
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America is fine. You just suck at it. *NM*
- 10/09/2010 12:29:48 AM
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Sorry for the national debt nearly as large as our GDP, falling standard of living and Iraq War.
- 10/09/2010 05:57:34 AM
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~shrugs~
- 10/09/2010 01:48:24 AM
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In this case I did without so I could get to work every day, and put my arm back in its socket.
- 10/09/2010 06:19:11 AM
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Your travel money would certainly have paid for a lot of dentistry. *NM*
- 10/09/2010 02:00:09 AM
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LITERATEDOG!!
- 10/09/2010 02:02:57 AM
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I was trying to go the Facebook route, but no one wants to debate anything there. *NM*
- 10/09/2010 02:04:48 AM
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*NM*
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The only people that reply to you on Facebook are people who already like you and agree with you. *NM*
- 10/09/2010 03:07:22 AM
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*NM*
- 10/09/2010 03:07:22 AM
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Not really.
- 10/09/2010 06:21:55 AM
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Oh, honey, I don't blame you for the Norway travel.
- 10/09/2010 06:35:10 AM
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Funny thing is I once would've agreed.
- 10/09/2010 08:47:34 AM
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Boohoo. You made your choices. You prioritized luxuries before dental care. Live with it.
- 10/09/2010 04:40:05 PM
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Joel opened himself up to this
- 10/09/2010 05:22:45 PM
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But it's all about his personal choices.
- 10/09/2010 05:33:42 PM
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A rather tangential point, but since you keep talking about what "you as a nation" pay for...
- 10/09/2010 06:07:10 PM
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I couldn't care less what his actual income is.
- 10/09/2010 06:16:41 PM
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IIRC, you think there's a huge pile of misspent money that should be returned to its owners.
- 11/09/2010 04:12:57 PM
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Yes.
- 10/09/2010 06:33:22 PM
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Whatever. Completely ignore my points because you want to hide behind the label "personal choice".
- 10/09/2010 11:13:02 PM
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But, you know, even then, put the political part of it aside.
- 10/09/2010 11:29:36 PM
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Excoriate?
- 11/09/2010 07:21:03 AM
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"if you really work as much as you claim, then you must piss money away at an astounding rate" eh?
- 11/09/2010 03:49:58 PM
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And your comparison of a celebratory party to the basic right to marry itself is ludicrous.
- 10/09/2010 06:55:18 AM
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That's an unfortunate situation...
- 10/09/2010 05:10:01 PM
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*hugs* I'm glad you got it taken care of though, and glad to hear from you; been a little worried.
- 11/09/2010 04:34:31 PM
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