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joan woods's avatar

read your off and on button article . GREAT we seniors would love to see it published in the AARP news paper !!!! keep up the great work!!!

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Brian Jay's avatar

Thanks Joan! Put a bee in their bonnet (as seniors like to say). I would love to have this article seen by AARP subscribers...

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Brian Jay's avatar

Funny, I just saw a Bill Burr comedy clip where he used the above concept, except he replaced the work "pie" with "cake"! He even spoke about someone taking it out of the oven too soon and destroying it. Perhaps he saw this article or maybe he came up with the idea too? I guess I'll never know.

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Jeffrey's avatar

Since you are not a pie, and you don't have a degree in Pie-ology, you don't know whether or not that is a pie and you are incapable of identifying as a pie. You therefore don't know what you are talking about and cannot draw any conclusions about it.

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Brian Jay's avatar

Oh, now that really clears things up. Thank you for the fact-based explanation, Jeffrey. I think I'll take this article down and go apply at a confectionery college. (c:

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Jeffrey's avatar

For an explanation to what that actually is you have to ask someone who is pie-ologically correct. You don't even know what gender pronoun to use on this piece of . . . something . . . that may or may not be a pie. I happen to know a French pie chef who knows the gender and calls it "ze pie". But at first glance for all you know, it could be a weapon in the hands of any one of the three stooges . . . or Lucile Ball for that matter.

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Beverly Young's avatar

Agree to disagree, on every point you just tried to make. But done.

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Jeffrey's avatar

Lol.

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Beverly Young's avatar

Sorry Bry, but someone who has never “baked” and could not possibly ever do so does not have a full understanding of the kitchen and what the process entails. Your lecture on the topic is inappropriate. Love you.

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Brian Jay's avatar

Well, I may not be the best baker, but yes, I have baked and I cook all the time...

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Beverly Young's avatar

Not if you are following your own analogy. You’re not even in the kitchen.

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Brian Jay's avatar

I've also never been a drug addict, but am supremely confident in warning others not to use heroin...

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Beverly Young's avatar

As someone using analogies, you must certainly see what a bad one this is. You could potentially BE a drug addict—it is a circumstance that could apply to your life. You could NEVER be in the other situation. You have literally no standing to opine on the right /wrong of it, because it could never apply to you. I think, like many males, your “supreme confidence “ about the issue is a big part of the problem.

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Brian Jay's avatar

A supremely confident man used to be considered a good thing. I'm surprised you see it as a problem. Anyway, I guess male pro-life prenatal practitioners are to be discredited too, due to their inability to be in certain situations...

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Beverly Young's avatar

A confident person, male or female, IS a good thing when there is a real basis for that confidence. For a man to present his lecture as to the right/wrong of a uniquely female situation, then to assert his “supreme confidence” that he is right, is just ridiculous. There is no aspect of a woman’s feeling on this issue that you are in any position to comment on, let alone assume a tone of moral authority. Stick to what you actually know and can understand. This is not it. But still love you, Bry.

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