BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Feb 09 - 02:58 PM

(well...we 'may' have global catastrophes anyway, but since pdq is wired to produce....uhhh...what you said, I'm not sure we can officially blame him.)

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Feb 09 - 02:48 PM

nawww...VT, not a chance!

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 13 Feb 09 - 01:11 PM

I am seriously afraid that PDQ will get a clue.
That he will stop posting silly wanking shit, thereby producing a butterfly effect making Mudcat and the wider virtual world go all silent, in a collective breath hold, waiting for the other shoe to drop precipitating the inevitable catastrophic system shutdown of global proportions.

What? It could happen.


Sorry! I got a hangover from the Salma Hayek thread.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Joe_F
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 10:21 PM

I may well live too long.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: olddude
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 07:23 PM

JELLO

it is the tool of the DEVIL

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 07:18 PM

Someone mentioned that the gun turrets on the Bismark weren't "bolted down". Well, no gun turret is bolted down, exactly, because if it was it couldn't rotate! ;-) But I know what they meant. The Bismark's main gun turrets were held in place simply by the force of gravity. They were seated in circular receptacles, and rotating on massive ball bearings. There was no way those extremely heavy armoured turrets were coming out of their seated positions unless the ship capsized, in which case it was a moot point, because if the ship capsizes then you have lost not only the turrets but the entire ship.

This was done on some other capital ships too, not just on the Bismark. If the ship did capsize, then the turrets would fall freely out of their barbettes and sink separately to the bottom.

There is really no practical reason why a battleship-sized gun turret needs to be fastened down to its barbette (the cylindrical column on which the turret rests and rotates). Its own weight is quite sufficient to keep it in place as long as the ship doesn't capsize and sink.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 06:41 PM

somehow, I figgered YOU'D like that idea, Doug.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: DougR
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 06:31 PM

Clone the Gipper? Excellent idea!

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 06:23 PM

"...clone Ronald Reagan"

Oh goody! Then we can have an endless string of nice, friendly, senile old guys who deregulate and trickle down and allow rampant abuse by those holy 'businessmen' who created most of this mess.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 05:02 PM

Some mad geneticist will figure out a way to clone Ronald Reagan!

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 03:27 PM

Repeating past trauma is a good definition of PTSD, Amos.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Amos
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 03:01 PM

"Rational fear" is an emotion that is actually appropraite to the present circumstances. It is felt even by the bravest of individuals facing extreme danger; the most able sublimate it into fast tactical analysis and response, but the emotion is present, and it is not irrational when the danger is actual and present. FEar of possibilities, fear or reprating past trauma, and the undifferentiated anxiety of past fear stirred up, are not rational, but they are pretty common anyway.


A

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: DougR
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 02:56 PM

That Obama and his merry band of Democrat confederates in the Congress will put the U.S. economy further in the tank.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 02:39 PM

Being shot by an irate husband/father.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 08:07 AM

Are you married to Lorena Bobbitt?

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 08:00 AM

Castration & Righteousness

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 07:56 AM

Jim,
I watched a truck do exactly that without managing to kill anybody. he was driving too fast and took the corner too sharply.

My uncle was killed by a truck driver who did the same thing. Minimal settlement because nmy uncle was dying of cancer. Apparently it is OK to knock off someone on their way out.

My rational fear - that I will have to replace my car. LOL Got the word yesterday.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: kendall
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 07:42 AM

The driver of that truck has to shoulder some of the blame. He must have turned in too sharp a turn and tipped it off the bed.

Did you know that the huge guns on the the German battleship, Bismarck were not bolted to the decks? They were held in place by their own weight.That rig would be hell on wheels, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: GUEST,jts
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 02:44 AM

That Bob Dylan will not retire.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 11:12 PM

My biggest fear is getting sucked into another endless and useless forum argument over some minutiae with Ron Davies, and getting carpal tunnel syndrome as a result of it.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: GUEST,Slag
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 09:55 PM

Hmmm? RATIONAL fear; oxymoron. Fear is an non-rational response to an immediate condition which is perceived as having the potential to cause harm to one's self or their company. Better terms for long ranged fear are: dread, anxiety, angst, worry, fret, and so on. If we were to make this distinction, fear and fright would only represent an animal response to a given situation. Psychology would be left to question the validity of whether one's longer ranged prospects were of a rational nature.

My biggest dread is that of getting buttonholed by some incredible bore who goes on endlessly about hairsplitting definitions of words and such. Brrrr! ;-) [thanks for the emotie LH!]

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 03:42 PM

Several years ago, here in St. Paul, MN, there was a flatbed truck hauling a piece of heavy construction equipment—something like a bulldozer, I suppose; I have forgotten exactly what it was. It was held down by a chain. The truck turned a corner, the chain broke, and the equipment toppled off the truck and landed on a car that was stopped at the same intersection, crushing it and killing the driver.

I didn't see this. I only read about it in the newspaper, but it made a big impression on me. It made me wonder: Do truck drivers or construction workers (whoever loads the truck) really have any idea how big a chain you need to tie down a bulldozer? It seems to me, you'd need to be an engineer to make that kind of calculation. And even then, you'd have to make assumptions about whether the ground was level, how fast the truck would be moving, how tight a turn he would try to make, etc.

I think about this every time I see a truck loaded with anything heavy—construction equipment, bricks, steel girders, pipes....

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 03:08 PM

LH...I moved to DC in 77 from Kansas and thought it was bad....it is a LOT worse now. In certain areas and at rush hour it is...well, we OFFICIALLY have the 2nd worse traffic in the US. Various reasons...geography, growth..etc. A few things have been improved...like the I-95/I-495 interchange and the bridge over the river. And Metro keeps a lot of people off the road.

One simply does NOT trust that the rules for yellow/red lights will be observed....and it's best not to assume that if YOU slow for yellow, that those behind you will.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 02:36 PM

Bill, I was once nearly killed by some car full of young people who ran a red light in Washington D.C....and that was back in the 70s. The traffic was terrible there then, I hate to think what it's like now.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 02:16 PM

That when I pass away, I won't be met by or be able to find my daughter.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: heric
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 01:19 PM

Gravity!

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: kendall
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 01:14 PM

That I will lose my voice completely.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Stu
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 01:10 PM

The Conservative Party.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 01:08 PM

I have a VERY rational fear of people running red lights. This has gotten worse for 30 years as traffic in the Greater Wash. DC area gets worse. I have seen as many as 9 cars (in 2 lanes) run the light in left turn bays - and this is 100 yards from the police station.
I have twice seen a yellow light, slowed because I couldn't make it...and had some idiot pull around me and PASS me in order to run the red light!
I once was 1st in line at a red light...it changed to green...I began to move, but out of the corner of my eye I saw that this kid coming from my left was not GOING to stop. If I had not looked, I might be dead now.
I have watched huge trucks, city busses, police cars, taxis, bicycles and motorcycles run lights.....


I am looking for a sign for MY rear window that says "Caution - I brake for red lights."

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 01:06 PM

Never finding a job...

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 12:47 PM

I have a rational fear of hurricanes, but it's more a fear of property loss than loss of life. At least a hurricane gives you enough warning that you can get in the car and move your body someplace else while it topples trees onto your house. If I didn't live where I do, I'd probably be living someplace where I'd have a rational fear of earthquakes, tornados, mudslides, or avalanches, none of which give you much in the way of warning.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: GUEST,hg or haggard or whatever!
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 09:05 AM

Sometimes I think I'm afraid of my own shadow!

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 04:03 AM

I have so many rational fears that I am afraid to even start listing them....

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: GUEST,the wood pecker
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 03:23 AM

I agrre with Bee Dubya. Irrational people are what frighten me. When they tell me things like "I'm in touch with your dead father, and he says you need to..." it scares me, and I don't know how to tell them to fuck off. Inside I feel that, if they're crazy enough to say something like that, they could do anything.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Pied Piper
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 11:38 AM

Bee dubya ell I couldn't agree more.

PP

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: *Laura*
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 11:24 AM

cancer

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 11:59 PM

Face to face is the only way to find out.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 11:17 PM

I REALLY like you GUEST!!!

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 11:12 PM

October

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 11:02 PM

They are coming to take me away....
Ha Ha .... Ho Ho
To the Funny Farm
Where life is happy all the time
And........................

Sincerely,
NAPOLITON Gargoyle.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 10:04 PM

Rationality.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Peace
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 10:00 PM

That Bush and the crew will stage an attack, sieze control of America and use detention facilities on the population. Just over two years, IMO.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 09:57 PM

I like that, Amos- the Bush title of A-Holiness should please everyone.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: kendall
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 08:34 PM

That the republicans will hold onto congress in '08, and that Tom DeLay will not be kicked out.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Amos
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 08:03 PM

That Bush's fanatic followers will start a civil war, or invade Syria, or that his Assholeness will decide to tell the N. Koreans to "bring them on" in his inimitable, half-witted and egotistic diplomatic style.

That Bush well continue to degrade conditions in this country until it becomes little better than a banana republic.

A

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: DougR
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 07:46 PM

That Amos will keep his thread (POOTBA)alive long after Bush has retired to his ranch in Crawford.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 07:01 PM

Alzheimers. My maternal grandmother was a sufferer.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 06:58 PM

that Brazil will succeed in burning ALL their rainforest, thus changing major climate patterns all over the world.....that another Chernobyl will happen....that people will continue to breed irresponsibly until famines, riots and pestilence are common in countries we see everyday, instead of Sudan and Ethiopia .....that the Republicans will ok drilling, fishing, logging, mining and construction anywhere and anytime that some big company thinks they can make a quick buck - until the land & sea are depleted beyond reasonable repair.

enough?

what, me?, negative and morbid? naaawwwwww....just able to do arithmetic.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: Mickey191
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 06:08 PM

Ending my days in a nursing home-attended by nurse Rachet. The thought gives me shivers.

Subject: RE: BS: What is your RATIONAL fear?
From: sixtieschick
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 05:59 PM

I fear people driving big ol' SUVs at 80+ MPH on the freeway while talking on their cell phones. I actually fear almost anyone driving any kind of car anywhere while talking on a cell phone. I've had too many close calls with folks of their ilk.

Miriam