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+1 to everyone welcoming alternate views

I for one cherish all forms of negativity, pessimism, dissent, hyperbole, cantankerousness, and irritability - just as I welcome irrational exuberance and positivity, and everything in between. (As long as negativity isn't directed at individuals personally.)  Anything else is just boring. 

I was on a webinar panel at work last week.  All the panelists, including me, agreed about basically everything under the sun.  Super, super boring.  I pitied the poor attendees.

There's that old joke.  An uber-wealthy couple give birth to a beautiful baby boy.  He's perfectly healthy but as he grows, never utters a word.  All experts hired by the parents find no problems with his intelligence.  Then one day, at dinner, he says, "Peas are cold."  The father slumps to his knees to give thanks.  The mother bursts out in tears of joy.  She then asks, "Why haven't you spoken before?"  The boy replies, "Well, up to now, I had nothing to complain about."

Regarding Longwinded:  He cared, immensely.  And he showed up.  I made a post on the other board right before Big Game 2004.  That was an era of Stanford football I wouldn't mind scrubbing from the history books, much like the Stalinist regime erased people from photographs who fell into disfavor.  Heading into that Big Game, with Ted's buddy going up against Tedford at his peak as well as Aaron Rodgers, I had zero - zero - expectations of a Stanford win.  My post said that I was going only to keep my attendance streak intact.  LW replied he was taking his father and going for the same reason.  We could use many more fans like him.

[Embo]

+1 to everyone welcoming alternate views

I for one cherish all forms of negativity, pessimism, dissent, hyperbole, cantankerousness, and irritability - just as I welcome irrational exuberance and positivity, and everything in between. (As long as negativity isn't directed at individuals personally.)  Anything else is just boring. 

I was on a webinar panel at work last week.  All the panelists, including me, agreed about basically everything under the sun.  Super, super boring.  I pitied the poor attendees.

There's that old joke.  An uber-wealthy couple give birth to a beautiful baby boy.  He's perfectly healthy but as he grows, never utters a word.  All experts hired by the parents find no problems with his intelligence.  Then one day, at dinner, he says, "Peas are cold."  The father slumps to his knees to give thanks.  The mother bursts out in tears of joy.  She then asks, "Why haven't you spoken before?"  The boy replies, "Well, up to now, I had nothing to complain about."

Regarding Longwinded:  He cared, immensely.  And he showed up.  I made a post on the other board right before Big Game 2004.  That was an era of Stanford football I wouldn't mind scrubbing from the history books, much like the Stalinist regime erased people from photographs who fell into disfavor.  Heading into that Big Game, with Ted's buddy going up against Tedford at his peak as well as Aaron Rodgers, I had zero - zero - expectations of a Stanford win.  My post said that I was going only to keep my attendance streak intact.  LW replied he was taking his father and going for the same reason.  We could use many more fans like him.