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You can be nice without forcing small-talk. I have never felt that the people at chipotle were rude or not nice. They put my lettuce on there with a smile, and happily ask me what kind of salsa I want (the hot one btw). They don't need to ask me about the details of my life in order to be nice. They aren't there to counsel lonely people, they are there to prepare mexican food. But also, what DJ said. The reason they don't back off when you don't engage them I think is because they are being watched and don't want to be reprimanded for not being nice enough.It's like they won't have eno

You stick the animals, you. The point is that I much prefer to be left alone with my internal thoughts, and that's really why I go to eat lunch alone. I'm not particularly shy. I don't dislike social interactions. I dislike fake social interactions. I don't know this person. They are not talking to me because they are interested in my day, they are talking to me because someone told to, because they thought I would like that. I don't. It gets worse, too. While you are sitting down eating your burrito, engrossed in the internet on your phone, some guy comes by and interrupts you. "H

You obviously don't know what it's like to be an introvert.

There is this burrito place near where I work that makes pretty good food. It's kind of recent chain; they've been based in santa barbara for a long time but recently expanded all over so cal.However, there is a major problem with this place that might limit how often I can go there: apparently they have trained up the staff to be super friendly and to make small talk with you while they make their burrito.Unlike Chipotle, where the workers hand the burrito off as it goes down the line, at this place one person walks with you all the way down the line adding what you want to the burrito. T

You guys just need to plan ahead a little. Like, "hmm, think I will want to read the sick thread in about seven minutes". <click>

Which is what distinguishes them from slaves. Haha. That was a good post.

Not sure what you think slavery is if the slaves are free to work or not as they please.

If they are signing up by choice, then its not slavery.

Ok, fine, you get both.

Cannot decide between facepalm and spit-take.

Does appear that longer threads are loading more slowly though.

Yeah, you could get your ass kicked for bleaching your hair back then, so no one did it. Also, didn't romney supposedly sodomize the guy too?

There's a good chance the slowness is still because of the post rebuilding script. You can tell it's not done yet because the older posts still have quotes showing up improperly. If that's the case, it's temporary.

Why does that matter?

prove it!

Among moderates and independents about half oppose gay marriage. Definitely a political risk.

enjoy. it's completely true.

I don't recall ever teasing anyone (at least not to make them feel badly, I tease my friends all the time, that's different of course). Part of the reason was probably that I was at the bottom of the social chain. There weren't too many people below me to pick on even if I were inclined to do so. Don't really know why the notion that I wasn't a jerk in school is so hard for you to swallow. Only religious people can be nice I guess? As for the bolded, the key difference between a scientific point of view and a religious one is that we entertain uncertainty where religious people value conv

I started that line of questioning because you expressed having trouble understanding the people who are against gay marriage. It's not baseless. It has a deep history in evolution that goes back farther than humanity; its a nearly universal phenomenon among mammals. Many people trust these kinds of intuitions, and there's good reason to: the wisdom of the biosphere is built into them. Nature doesn't make baseless decisions. Your conscious, cognitive mind is not necessarily always the smartest part of you. Yeah, sometimes we need to override these intuitions because they are out of date an

I don't have a party. It's US Census data.

Well of course, they have the most spouses.

The thing is, before this I thought Mormons were super nice. He's like the only dickhead Mormon.

Then be SHOCKED. Never picked on any other kids, ever. I was a victim of it plenty of times, saved a few kids from it, but never did it. I don't think all kids are monsters. Just MITT ROMNEY.

I wasn't. I feel like that means something about me, so I don't think this incident doesn't mean anything about Romney.

That's not true any more. Less than half of married couples have children. 48% of american households have married couples, but only 20% of households have married couples with kids. http://www.nytimes.c...us/26marry.htmlIt's too effing expensive to have kids nowadays.