Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)

[Sarah]

Makes perfect sense.

[Alex_from_the_woods]

About your weaponization comment, however, I agree.  In my pot-smoking youth, a couple of people could share a joint and get lightly high.  Nowadays it seems the goal is to make the lightest of puffs enough to render one paralytic.  I'm just glad I stopped liking marijuana when I was sixteen, so that I didn't have to fret, rage, and mourn over the changes.  I mean, I'm still upset Swiss 'n' Ham crackers were discontinued (in the sixties, I believe); imagine how upset I'd be about the evolution of the mary jane?

I'm intrigued by these Ham 'n Swiss crackers you speak of. Maybe it's the " 'n "? Whenever I read a phrase with " 'n " in it, I hear the sweet faint sound of banjos being played on a front porch somewhere. Did eating one of these things have a similar effect?

[Sarah]

Whoops--my mistake (well, Nabisco's, really):  Swiss n' Ham is the official name.

My father and I loved these when I was little.  Indeed, one Christmas, I got a whole box for myself.  Best present ever.

[Alex_from_the_woods]

They sound delicious. Personally, I'm hooked on the new Nabisco Caviar n' Foie Gras flavored crackers. Yum.

[Sarah]

Just got to one-up me, eh, Alex?  The humble fare of my childhood can't compete with that there fancy snackin'.

[Andy]

Sarah just made me hungry for chicken-in-a-biscuit.

[Sarah]

A pale imitation, but probably the closest you'll get.

[buffcoat]

Isn't it "Biskit"?

[Sarah]

Si.

[yesno]

I saw an office supplies delivery van this morning.  The motto on the back was "We put the 'oh' in office supplies."  On the side of the van, the word "Different" was painted.

Over the weekend, I saw a car with a Virginia license plate that said something like "Mid Lyf."  Around the license plate was a frame--the top read "Parrothead," the bottom, "Key West, Fla."  The car had stickers for three sports teams: Celtics, Pats, Red Sox.

[Sarah]

I hate privilege.

[fonpr]

I hate privilege.

I was just thinking the same thing.

We need a real meritocracy.

We could start by increasing the estate tax.

I keep visualizing an olympic track with a straight starting line rather than a staggered one.

Little more than luck of birth determines who winds up on the inside track and thus wields the power ($) in our country.

This metaphor was inspired partly by our previous president.

[buffcoat]

Hippies.

[Sarah]

Nah, I think my hatred and anger hark back to an earlier kind of fervor. 

[buffcoat]

Populist.  Trade unionist.  Fabian socialist.  Luddite.  Huguenot.  Savonarolist.