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A famous photo that speaks volumes now. (Original Post) crazytown Sep 2019 OP
Huh ? virgogal Sep 2019 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author crazytown Sep 2019 #3
It's a well-deserved poke at the people who would have welcomed any tragedy, any disaster, Aristus Sep 2019 #4
I can't read the word "concerned" any more crazytown Sep 2019 #5
People who express their "concern" drive me crazy. When I was working... EarnestPutz Sep 2019 #10
One Is Not Allowed RobinA Sep 2019 #13
Different situation. Project mangers describing ongoing efforts.... EarnestPutz Sep 2019 #15
When Sen. Susan Collins expresses "concern", she means that she is concerned that she can't... EarnestPutz Sep 2019 #12
Aristus, did you ever study law? crazytown Sep 2019 #6
No. Medicine. Aristus Sep 2019 #7
My parents were medicos, who pushed me into law. crazytown Sep 2019 #8
"Shit is shit". Aristus Sep 2019 #9
Ha! Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2019 #2
Some folks vote for climate change deniers, then complain when their house is under water. CaptainTruth Sep 2019 #11
Mendacious True Blue American Sep 2019 #14
I love it BlueMississippi Sep 2019 #16

Response to virgogal (Reply #1)

Aristus

(66,293 posts)
4. It's a well-deserved poke at the people who would have welcomed any tragedy, any disaster,
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 11:14 AM
Sep 2019

rather than vote for Hillary Clinton.

Not even the spit-spraying hate-monsters.

Just the ones who claimed to be "concerned" about her e-mails and the server she used to send them.

crazytown

(7,277 posts)
5. I can't read the word "concerned" any more
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 11:19 AM
Sep 2019

without thinking of 'concerned' trolls. I've cut that word out of my vocabulary

EarnestPutz

(2,116 posts)
10. People who express their "concern" drive me crazy. When I was working...
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 12:07 PM
Sep 2019

....in the corporate world and sat in weekly staff meetings, there was always naysayers who would cast doubt on projects and plans by saying "I've got some real concerns about this" without ever offering any solutions. When I confronted them by asking for their suggestions, they usually stumbled badly and backpedaled on their critique.

RobinA

(9,886 posts)
13. One Is Not Allowed
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 12:29 PM
Sep 2019

to have concerns if one doesn't have viable solutions? The two strike me as quite different. When I was in the corporate world, meetings were hot beds of hare-brained ideas. Most of which should never have been attempted in the first place, let along required alternative solutions.

Although I do agree about never hearing about concern again. It has been turned from something that might mean you're looking a little deeper at a situation to some kind of slur meaning I'm not sure what. I was called a concern troll about a week before the 2016 election for being concerned (I didn't use the word) that Trump might win the election (I was not alone) based on some stuff I was seeing that was admittedly anecdotal, but had me...concerned. So I'm not sure what horrible thing I and others had done that warranted being called what was a slur. All I know is that when I hear about concern trolls I alternate between wanting to drive a sharp sticks into my ear and

EarnestPutz

(2,116 posts)
15. Different situation. Project mangers describing ongoing efforts....
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 02:44 PM
Sep 2019

....and naysayers still trying to make points with upper management.

EarnestPutz

(2,116 posts)
12. When Sen. Susan Collins expresses "concern", she means that she is concerned that she can't...
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 12:09 PM
Sep 2019

...have it both ways with the voters and her idiot party line.

Aristus

(66,293 posts)
7. No. Medicine.
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 11:43 AM
Sep 2019

I have a great deal of respect for the study of law, but I never had any interest in pursuing it as a career.

crazytown

(7,277 posts)
8. My parents were medicos, who pushed me into law.
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 11:48 AM
Sep 2019

My Dad used to rage against the 'malignant incompetence' of hospital administrators, and thought black letter law could bring them to heel. He was wrong of course. By the time Dad reached 90, I had come to terms with my fluffy fantasies of actually helping people. We didn't talk about it much, just agreed to agree that shit is shit.

Aristus

(66,293 posts)
9. "Shit is shit".
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 11:50 AM
Sep 2019

Someone once said that "95% of everything is crap."

I believe that's true.

But as long as people are striving for that 5%, the human race has a chance...

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