Questions for our American friends - Page 53

**palo5** · September 7th, 2011, 05:23 PM

Question to Americans:

What does "my bad" mean?

Does it mean "I goofed" ?

**blueballsdc** · September 7th, 2011, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by palo5

Question to Americans:

What does "my bad" mean?

Does it mean "I goofed" ?

Yes. It means that you have erred and that you are admitting to the mistake.

**tygrkhat40** · September 7th, 2011, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by palo5

Question to Americans:

What does "my bad" mean?

Does it mean "I goofed" ?

One of my favorite examples of this expression is from the movie "Barbershop." A woman scorned beats the shit out of a very expensive car with a baseball bat and the owner runs out of the shop to ask her why she's destroying his car. She says isn't this so and so's car? When told it's not, she drops the bat and says, "My bad."

**mizlaplan** · October 18th, 2011, 05:54 PM

I was wondering what the average American chap thought of the anti-capitalism protests on/in Wall Street?
Small, isolated and irrelevant?
Or something bigger?
Cheers,
Miz.

**ubu_roi** · October 18th, 2011, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by mizlaplan

I was wondering what the average American chap thought of the anti-capitalism protests on/in Wall Street?

I, for one, think that most of the protesters would go home if the marijuana supply dried up. They have no clear-cut plan for a solution, as far as I can tell. They just want to get high, get laid, and say that Wall Street/capitalism is crooked and the world is unfair. Well, duh.

Howard Stern sent his guys Sal and Richard out to interview protesters in New York; the results were abysmal. This mirrors the local protesters that I've had the misfortune to speak with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsJPKMvWDmY

They are a part of something bigger - but personally I feel they're a terribly insignificant part.

**blueballsdc** · October 18th, 2011, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by mizlaplan

I was wondering what the average American chap thought of the anti-capitalism protests on/in Wall Street?
Small, isolated and irrelevant?
Or something bigger?
Cheers,
Miz.

Living in DC, I have had to opportunity to speak with quite a few of them. Most have been very intelligent and well spoken and were not the dirty unemployed hippies or bored college students that Rush, Hannity, and Fox News have tried to make them out to be. Most of them were very determined to try and make a difference. At least 10% of the ones I talked to were from Virginia, were conservative, and supported the original Tea Party ideals also. Not the Michelle Bachmann/Herman Cain Tea Party people but the ones who first started the protesting (anti-TARP, anti-bailout).

Not that there aren't troublemakers out there. The ones who were pepper sprayed and arrested at the Air & Space Museum were an offshot and not part of the "regular" protestors.

On an interesting side note, I haven't seen any of the "anarchists" coming out yet. At least not here in DC.

**ubu_roi** · October 18th, 2011, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by blueballsdc

Living in DC, I have had to opportunity to speak with quite a few of them. Most have been very intelligent and well spoken....

I am sure that there are numerous intelligent, well-spoken and determined individuals in the movement....but in my neck of the woods, I haven't seen them yet.

The ones around here that I've spoken with have been, well....stoned, mostly. Maybe it's just our group.

**keefriff** · October 18th, 2011, 06:58 PM

I'm a little bit between both ubu and dc on this one. I don't live in the financial/media capitol like ubu or the political capitol like dc so I can only judge by what I see here in the 612. The protestors here have set up in front of the downtown Government Center and have held peaceful protests inside various financial institutions that are located near there. I think the message is being heard and agreed with by many people but the majority of the people look at the protestors as young, idealistic, naive and ineffectual. I am not saying that is the way it is but looking at the situation here, it appears that way to me. I think the message being spread is welcomed and agreed with in many places but they just wish the people delivering it were perhaps a little bit more "mainstream" to use an overused term. Ubu is right about one thing. The scene looks like a Grateful Dead concert with people tenting and sleeping all over a city park and panhandling has reached a new high. And I agree with dc about one thing. Most of the interviews and personal interaction I have had with them has been positive. They believe in what they are doing and I will give them credit for that. The police have generally let them be and has protected them throughout the protests. The public here has left them be and their prescence has just become another part of the day. It is clearly not as big an issue here as in DC or in particular NYC and IMO once the weather gets cold and the numbers start to dwindle this will be forgotten soon enough. I am not saying that is good or bad but that is what it is headed for.

**blueballsdc** · October 18th, 2011, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by ubu_roi

I am sure that there are numerous intelligent, well-spoken and determined individuals in the movement....but in my neck of the woods, I haven't seen them yet.

The ones around here that I've spoken with have been, well....stoned, mostly. Maybe it's just our group.

Yours are probably the Soros funded union members.

awboy33 · October 18th, 2011, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by mizlaplan

I was wondering what the average American chap thought of the anti-capitalism protests on/in Wall Street?
Small, isolated and irrelevant?
Or something bigger?
Cheers,
Miz.

Even though I do not agree with many of the people who have been interviewed at the Occupy Wall Street protests, I think it is wonderful because it is the US system at work. I find it amusing that many of the protesters say they are against the banks and corporations, but those same corporations make the computers, cell phones, and tents they are using, and the banks are funding many of their educations. Several people who have been interviewed say they do not have a job and they do not want a job because they would be working for "The Man." They would rather work for themselves. That is wonderful, but they may eventually need a bank to either hold the money they make or provide them a loan to operate. The banks also probably funded the construction of the home or apartment they currently live in. My personal opinion is that many of those involved may be intelligent but are disconnected from the real world.

October 18th, 2011, 06:58 PM	#528
keefriff Torn and Frayed Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: The 612 Posts: 7,025 Thanks: 79,624 Thanked 131,668 Times in 5,993 Posts	I'm a little bit between both ubu and dc on this one. I don't live in the financial/media capitol like ubu or the political capitol like dc so I can only judge by what I see here in the 612. The protestors here have set up in front of the downtown Government Center and have held peaceful protests inside various financial institutions that are located near there. I think the message is being heard and agreed with by many people but the majority of the people look at the protestors as young, idealistic, naive and ineffectual. I am not saying that is the way it is but looking at the situation here, it appears that way to me. I think the message being spread is welcomed and agreed with in many places but they just wish the people delivering it were perhaps a little bit more "mainstream" to use an overused term. Ubu is right about one thing. The scene looks like a Grateful Dead concert with people tenting and sleeping all over a city park and panhandling has reached a new high. And I agree with dc about one thing. Most of the interviews and personal interaction I have had with them has been positive. They believe in what they are doing and I will give them credit for that. The police have generally let them be and has protected them throughout the protests. The public here has left them be and their prescence has just become another part of the day. It is clearly not as big an issue here as in DC or in particular NYC and IMO once the weather gets cold and the numbers start to dwindle this will be forgotten soon enough. I am not saying that is good or bad but that is what it is headed for. __________________ You Can't Always Get What You Want But If You Follow To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. You Just Might Find You Get What You Need To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

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palo5 Former Staff Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 16,579 Thanks: 452,836 Thanked 222,658 Times in 16,567 Posts	Question to Americans: What does "my bad" mean? Does it mean "I goofed" ?

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mizlaplan Good show! Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: The Marches Posts: 2,526 Thanks: 102,981 Thanked 31,900 Times in 2,528 Posts	I was wondering what the average American chap thought of the anti-capitalism protests on/in Wall Street? Small, isolated and irrelevant? Or something bigger? Cheers, Miz.