The Watercooler – 26 October 2008

The Watercooler

Do you know what time it is? It’s time for The Watercooler again. This happens every day at the same time, so you shouldn’t really be surprised. This is the best thing you will see on the Internet today, mainly because it is the best thing I saw on the Internet yesterday. Eventually, I will run out of different ways to say the same thing every day, but clearly that day is not today. Wait a minute… that’s exactly what I said yesterday!

Today’s Watercooler is surprisingly political again, this time dealing with John McCain and his brother. This may seem like it’s showing my political affiliation since yesterday’s Watercooler was about Sarah Palin, but I’m one of those people who refuse to take part in a broken system irresponsible dicks that don’t vote.

This video is something that I had overheard people talking about today, but I thought it was a joke.  I looked it up and, unfortunately for some rich old whiteys, it is not a joke.  John McCain’s brother was recorded on a 911 tape complaining about traffic.  That’s right, he called 911 to complain about traffic.  The operator seemed surprised and asked if he was really calling 911 to complain about traffic, to which Joe responded “Fuck you”.  Classy.

Check it.

Seriously, does McCain even have a chance any more?  What an embarrassment… I think I may vote for him just to cheer him up. And I’ll send him a card with 20 bucks in it like my mom does for my birthday. Everyone likes money, right?

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  • John Kershaw

    If you don’t want to vote for any candidate, just spoil your vote. That way your counted, but counted as not wanting to vote.

    Not voting basically voids any weight behind nearly all opinions you have regarding anything remotely political. Sorry to say.

  • Dan Landis

    I completely disagree, but I guess there is no weight behind that opinion since I didn’t vote. I think not voting perfectly shows that I don’t think the voting system works, while voting, even if it’s not for a real candidate, shows that I at least believe in the system, which I don’t.

    Saying that my opinion on political matters carries no weight because I didn’t vote is ridiculous. Am I not allowed to say the people on American Idol suck if I don’t vote there either?

  • John Kershaw

    If you go into a restaurant and say you don’t care about what’s on the menu, is it then fair to complain about what you are served?

  • Dan Landis

    Okay, using that analogy, you think I should care enough to order something random from the menu, and then that would justify not liking it?

    If I simply say “I don’t care” because nothing interests me on the menu, of course I can still voice my opinion that what I am served isn’t tasty. I need to eat no matter what, but if my choices are only things I don’t want to eat, I can simply eat whatever is given to me and not like it. Regardless of whether or not I actually ordered it, bad food is bad food.

  • Chelsea Thompson

    Solid Snake looks like he doesn’t want to vote either.

  • Dan Landis

    That’s because even though he didn’t vote for cupcakes with pink frosting, he still has to eat it and isn’t allowed to complain.