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Originally Posted by analog
Yeah, I don't buy that. You may adjust, after a period of time, to a state of indifference with regard to certain stimuli (like certain types of people, etc), but that does not mean that the things people find annoying are "chosen", or "decided upon".
There's a huge difference between "just talking nonstop" and "repeating the same sentence over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...
for ten minutes or more." A huge difference.
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I don't care if you buy it, i'm not really expecting a large return. It's not that important.
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And for someone who is getting up on the high horse about others' dislike of children, you're certainly quick to point out that you have an odd dislike for the handicapped... which I frankly find bizarre as all hell. You basically call us whiny for our pet peeve of annoying children, but your pet peeve is handicapped people? I don't care how old a person is, they've got some growing up to do if someone in a wheelchair weirds them out.
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Well, to be honest with you, i don't really have a problem with the handicapped, it was more an embellishment for the sake of argument, i.e. if we treated handicapped people the way some of you want to treat children simply because they might make some of us uncomfortable then there'd be a fucking public outcry. This is because people are expected to overlook violations of social norms in the context of interacting with handicapped people. I certainly don't advocate banning people from otherwise public places simply because their presence makes me uncomfortable or annoyed.