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Has anyone recently reaffirmed your belief in the integrity and honesty of society, or has the opposite occurred?

Asked by Adirondackwannabe (36713points) May 27th, 2010

I have a couple of friends that were trying to raise funds for a project they were contemplating. It was going to cost them more than they wanted to spend. I came up with a couple of ideas for raising the money, donations, etc. They turned me down because it would involve other people paying for their project. I was very impressed. There are honest people in the world. Or have you witnessed the opposite recently? Humorous examples always welcome.

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TooBlue's avatar

Woah hang on. All women are whores? Proof please. I could call all men sexist bastards. Fortunately I have learned what the word generalise meant when I was a child…

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

@TooBlue The GA was for the sarcastic irreverence, not the whore part.
@Zyx We would also have been raising money for a very good cause, but overall the two of them would have gotten a free ride.

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TooBlue's avatar

Doesn’t sound sarcastic to me.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

@TooBlue I would hope he is being sarcastic. Otherwise he just called his mother and his grandmother a whore.

Silhouette's avatar

@Zyx You sound a little peeved with us women. I take it it costs you a small fortune to get near pussy. Us whores charge on a sliding scale, if you’re not creepy, we practically give it away.

Blackberry's avatar

Hmmmmm, the other day I needed a penny at a register and someone gave me one…..lol.

Trillian's avatar

@Blackberry at his most bitter never went that far, and even though I didn’t always agree with him, he never made me think that he hated us all, just that he had been burned a few times. If this person thinks that all women are whores I can only conclude that he listens to certain types of music and associates with certain types of women who reinforce that attitude.
His automatic assumption that whatever the project was was irrelevant together with his generalizations about politicians and women all work together to convince me to not bother engaging with this person.
On a lighter note, I saw a youth in the AT&T store today who looked kind of scary who went out of his way to move a chair for an older lady with a cane. Hudathunkit?

Bluefreedom's avatar

It’s funny you should ask this question considering what just happened in my workplace. I attended some training for becoming the new IT Custodian in my squadron and following that training yesterday, I went to the cabinet where paperwork, tools, and other items are stored and found out that one of my own squadron members forced the lock mechanism open and stole the brand new 250 gigabyte portable hard drive that we just paid for with the government expenditure credit card. It’s nice to know that I work with such honest military policemen. My belief in the integrity of my fellow military members in my unit is very poor right now to say the least.

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Trillian's avatar

@Blackberry I think that it’s why I am so aware of you to begin with. You and I have had the same difficulty, each experienced from the opposite perspective. I retain my faith in the male population, and hope to restore, or at least, see yours restored, at some point. I hope it’s going very well with your lady.
Have a fine fine navy day!

CMaz's avatar

Motivating people that God will return your donations 10 fold.
Then firing the people you used to collect the money.

gemiwing's avatar

I just found a great new support network (online) for people suffering from chronic illnesses and they are a singularly amazing group of people. They’re kind, understanding and supportive.

Spending as much time as I do on the internet (work, research etc) I had begun to forget that there are people who are human on here as well. Guess it just takes more work to find them.

Zyx's avatar

I don’t even remember exactly what my last comment was but I can tell you my loathing of the human race is only amplified by all the things that you would consider good qualaties. Nowadays politics are more of a responsibility that any set of politicians could handle and I despise the politicians that try for thinking otherwise. As for women, I will change my mind when I meet a woman that knows anything about herself. Also any virgin by choice would be nice.

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