PICK YOUR BATTLES!

[redqueen]

Which battles would you pick?

The fight not to be discriminated against based on the color of your skin?

The fight not to pay taxes yet have no representative in the government taxing you?

The fight to not have to show your receipt on the way out of a store?

CHOOSE!

or...

MAKE UP YOUR OWN!

[Debi]

1. Uh....you know your in the Lounge, right?

The battles here should be chocolate or vanilla, on top or on bottom, skirts or shorts, flats or heels, Corn Flakes or ....

well, anyway :hug:

[redqueen]

9. Yeah, that's why come the mockery.

:P

[HEyHEY]

2. I pick not to be asked if I want my combo "upsized"

That makes me SOOO furious

[Debi]

13. refuse to answer!

That'll show em!

[Dr. Strange]

3. You can pick your battles...

and you can pick your nose.
But you can't battle your nose...or something like that.

No, this is the next Rosa Parks we're lookin at!

I'm still laughing at that!

[LynneSin]

7. This one got me....

"This is *EXACTLY* an example of why we can't get people
to oppose Bush and the rest of the fascist agenda. We
can't even muster a plurality of DUers to oppose this
guy's blatantly illegal arrest."

[LaraMN]

4. I choose THE BUTTER BATTLE!

[MissB]

5. Olive Garden or Red Lobster!

[ohiosmith]

6. The fight to have incoherency recognized as an art form.

:crazy:

[redqueen]

11. OOOOH sign me up for that one!

I'm real good at being incoherent!

[The Straight Story]

8. Fight for my right to Paaaaarty!

:)

[ThomCat]

10. That's an artificial choice.

In the real world, we should be fighting against any violation of civil rights, including unreasonable searches and arresting people for not producing identification.

[redqueen]

12. ...

:hug:

just playin, ThomCat

[ThomCat]

15. Right back at you.

:hug:

[billyskank]

14. I want to fight for my right to urinate in the fountain in cheap indian restaurants!

[redqueen]

18. ....

:rofl:

:wtf:

[DS1]

27. I take it this is something you've witnessed?

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. I choose

the one I'm prepared to fight at the time it arises.

[Boojatta]

17. I haven't heard many cases of people being discriminated

against because they had a suntan that they could not have gotten locally. Perhaps the skin color that you have in mind is a proxy for ancestry. In many cases, ancestry is thought of in terms of geographical location, but that can get controversial in cases where some members of more than one religio-ethnic group claim entitlement to the same territory. For example, who exactly are the "true native people" of Kashmir?
:shrug:

Both India and Pakistan have nuclear weapons, so that territorial dispute could get ugly. Recall the notion of nuclear winter. Will it save us from global warming? That is probably not something to count on.
:scared:
:nuke:

Note: I think that a very brief OP such as the one for this thread is appropriate for the Lounge. Of course, I can't guarantee that my participation in this thread won't provoke results that will get this thread kicked from the civil Lounge down into the GD flame-war dungeon.
;)

[redqueen]

19. Uh oh... are brief OPs not suitable for the flame-pit that is GD?

Cause my "Iraq Oil Law" thread is... well, it's mostly being ignored.

Nevermind. :P

[northzax]

20. well, when you put it that way I choose to fight for my right

TO PAAAARTAAY!

[Rising Phoenix]

22. lol

[Starbucks Anarchist]

21. Why do you hate Rosa Parks?

:P

[trof]

23. OK, I pick Battles Wharf:

http://markwysner.prudentialcooper.com/Websites/PrudentialCooper/MarkWysner/Default.asp?PN=PropertyListingDetails&DivisionID=&DepartmentID=&SubDepartmentID=&MLSNumber=161114

[skygazer]

24. Battleship!

I love that game. :)

[Brigid]

25. I choose the pizza battle.

Brooklyn or Philly? I say Brooklyn! :evilgrin:

[Vilis Veritas]

26. Growing up in the '60's we had a next door neighbor named...

Mr. Battles. Scary old guy. One day, I got up the nerve to say hi. He called his wife outside. She brought out tea and cookies. We sat on their porch and chatted a while and then said our goodbyes, before I left he gave me a silver dollar.

He never failed to say hi after that and his wife made the best sugar cookies. I pick Mr. and Mrs. Battles.

Peace.

[Pithlet]

28. The right not to be held against my will without probable cause.

I may not choose to pick a fight with a store over a stupid policy, but I'm not going to defend a store who detains someone else when they choose that battle. Just because it seems ridiculous to you doesn't matter one whit. The principle that fight is based on is a big deal for many people. Just because they don't see things the way you do doesn't make them foolish. If stores don't have the legal authority to hold people against their will without evidence of a crime, then when they do it anyway they should be held accountable.