Politics Predictor

[Sbee]

Im moderately ok with some dogs, but theyre not my favorite. the only breeds i would want to own (big working dogs) i'll probably never have the lifestyle to be able to properly support.


i despise tiny, yappy dogs with the fire of a thousand suns.

my son is allergic to dog saliva so i'll most likely never have one, not a huge loss but i'm an animal person (hence liberal). i couldn't understand how people in Chicago would all have dogs and then have to walk them outside multiple times a day, hire walkers during the day, take them to day care, etc, it seemed like it was as much work as having a kid. cats made sense to me, good pets, minimal responsibility.

 

[Thumb]

my son is allergic to dog saliva so i'll most likely never have one, not a huge loss but i'm an animal person (hence liberal). i couldn't understand how people in Chicago would all have dogs and then have to walk them outside multiple times a day, hire walkers during the day, take them to day care, etc, it seemed like it was as much work as having a kid. cats made sense to me, good pets, minimal responsibility.

I'm as liberal as they come, and I'm not an animal person at all. My problem growing up was we always had a shitload of pets....dogs, cats by the dozens, parakeets, chameleons, hamsters, snakes, rabbits, horses, a goat, chinchillas, hermit crabs, turtles, aquariums full of fish, and probably more I'm forgetting....they all nearly drove me insane. I'm a neat person, and one thing I hate is pet hair on my clothes. even now I go to my mom's and get covered in Cocker Spaniel hair and it makes me want to leave as soon as I get there. And the parakeets were the worst.....they would never SHUT THE FUCK UP. Not to mention dealing with dog shit, or cats that like to mark by doors and windows so on a nice spring day you don't get a breath of fresh air, but a whiff of cat piss...

Seriously, I want to say I don't hate animals...but I don't even know if that's true or not.

 

[Michchamp]

I'm as liberal as they come, and I'm not an animal person at all. My problem growing up was we always had a shitload of pets....dogs, cats by the dozens, parakeets, chameleons, hamsters, snakes, rabbits, horses, a goat, chinchillas, hermit crabs, turtles, aquariums full of fish, and probably more I'm forgetting....they all nearly drove me insane. I'm a neat person, and one thing I hate is pet hair on my clothes. even now I go to my mom's and get covered in Cocker Spaniel hair and it makes me want to leave as soon as I get there. And the parakeets were the worst.....they would never SHUT THE FUCK UP. Not to mention dealing with dog shit, or cats that like to mark by doors and windows so on a nice spring day you don't get a breath of fresh air, but a whiff of cat piss...

Seriously, I want to say I don't hate animals...but I don't even know if that's true or not.

eh... hating animals would mean you want to kill them on site; sounds like you just don't like being around them.

I'm kinda the same way, but I think the benefits of having a dog are outweighed by the mess... though I would never get a breed that sheds heavily (or preferably at all). going to get another schnauzer for that reason. no shedding.

 

[Gulo Blue]

I'm as liberal as they come, and I'm not an animal person at all. My problem growing up was we always had a shitload of pets....dogs, cats by the dozens, parakeets, chameleons, hamsters, snakes, rabbits, horses, a goat, chinchillas, hermit crabs, turtles, aquariums full of fish, and probably more I'm forgetting....they all nearly drove me insane. I'm a neat person, and one thing I hate is pet hair on my clothes. even now I go to my mom's and get covered in Cocker Spaniel hair and it makes me want to leave as soon as I get there. And the parakeets were the worst.....they would never SHUT THE FUCK UP. Not to mention dealing with dog shit, or cats that like to mark by doors and windows so on a nice spring day you don't get a breath of fresh air, but a whiff of cat piss...

Seriously, I want to say I don't hate animals...but I don't even know if that's true or not.

Then what's with the avatar?

 

[Michchamp]

my son is allergic to dog saliva so i'll most likely never have one, not a huge loss but i'm an animal person (hence liberal). i couldn't understand how people in Chicago would all have dogs and then have to walk them outside multiple times a day, hire walkers during the day, take them to day care, etc, it seemed like it was as much work as having a kid. cats made sense to me, good pets, minimal responsibility.

I always thought the same thing. I'm gone all day, usually for 10 hours, often 11-12... I'd have to get a dog walker ($10+/day) or board him ($40-50+/day) which adds up to a lot.

but... for a lot of high-income single people in the city, I could see wanting a dog and being willing to pay the $3000-$13000 on dog care. still kinda nuts, but you can't put a price on companionship.

what I thought was more nuts were the people that had big dogs in small apartments, or worse... violent/aggressive breeds in neighborhoods that did not justify it. I always wanted to slap the people walking around with pitbulls on a chain, gnawing at the bit (but I didn't want to get bitten by their dogs).

 

[Thumb]

Then what's with the avatar?

Long story...but it has nothing to do with my like or dislike of animals. It's more about the body language of said puppy in the avatar than the actual species itself.

 

[Sbee]

Long story...but it has nothing to do with my like or dislike of animals. It's more about the body language of said puppy in the avatar than the actual species itself.

maybe you should be a dog catcher

"but i don't even like dogs"

"that's the beauty of it"

 

[Sbee]

I always thought the same thing. I'm gone all day, usually for 10 hours, often 11-12... I'd have to get a dog walker ($10+/day) or board him ($40-50+/day) which adds up to a lot.

but... for a lot of high-income single people in the city, I could see wanting a dog and being willing to pay the $3000-$13000 on dog care. still kinda nuts, but you can't put a price on companionship.

what I thought was more nuts were the people that had big dogs in small apartments, or worse... violent/aggressive breeds in neighborhoods that did not justify it. I always wanted to slap the people walking around with pitbulls on a chain, gnawing at the bit (but I didn't want to get bitten by their dogs).

I used to live right off of Madison in the west loop, moved there in 2002, left in 2010. I was a bit early on the yuppification of the area but in that 8 years, I can't even count the dog specialty boutiques and boarding places that popped up.

 

[Michchamp]

I used to live right off of Madison in the west loop, moved there in 2002, left in 2010. I was a bit early on the yuppification of the area but in that 8 years, I can't even count the dog specialty boutiques and boarding places that popped up.

oh to be able to go back to '02 and buy a condo in a lot of neighborhoods that saw prices go through the roof 5 years later.

 

[Gulo Blue]

oh to be able to go back to '02 and buy a condo in a lot of neighborhoods that saw prices go through the roof 5 years later.

http://detroitsportsforum.com/showpost.php?p=403831&postcount=26

 

[Michchamp]

sorry. I don't think that should be directed at me though.

 

[Sbee]

oh to be able to go back to '02 and buy a condo in a lot of neighborhoods that saw prices go through the roof 5 years later.

i actually bought two, moved out of the first one and rented it out, bought again in 2004, lost on the 2004, gained on the 2002 buy. in the end it was about even on the sell price but the principal the tenant paid and tax advantages were nice.

buying in bloomfield hills in 2010 was really, really nice

 

[Gulo Blue]

sorry. I don't think that should be directed at me though.

It doesn't bother me. I know I'm one of the worst offenders.

 

[spockmaster]

derailing threads is fun.

 

[tigermud]

82% conservative or so it says, somewhat disagree

In other news some dumbass Iranian news agency says the U.S. is secretly run by Nazi space aliens. Really.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-is-secretly-run-by-nazi-space-aliens-really/

Actually that really wouldn't surprise me too much

 

[food4thought]

82% conservative or so it says, somewhat disagree

In other news some dumbass Iranian news agency says the U.S. is secretly run by Nazi space aliens. Really.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-is-secretly-run-by-nazi-space-aliens-really/

Actually that really wouldn't surprise me too much

I am not surprised that some crazy Iranian propaganda machine would publish this , but I am pleasantly surprised that a respected US newspaper would have enough of a sense of humor to run with it as a story.

I am Libertarian on some issues, conservative on most issues, and liberal on a few. Yet the test tells me I'm 57% liberal.