Personal Questions

[chefzombie]

Did you know anyone who committed suicide?
My cousin Ricky Merchant hung himself in juvie in 1979. My little brother Richie shot himself in the head.
My brother Glenn cut his throat ear to ear after he stabbed a guy in the face 13 times with a screwdriver in a drug store because he was f**king his girlfriend. He lived.  He was put in a nut house. He escaped to San Fran, where he is today.
I tried it once in 1989. I put a 12 gauge shotgun to my head on the floor and pulled the trigger with my toe. The gun jumped. I put a hole in the ceiling of my apartment. Good thing it was on the top floor. Neighbors called the cops. I told them I was cleaning it and it went off. They believed that bulls**t- I was cleaning a shotgun at 2 in the morning? And how does cleaning a gun make it fire? I never tried that again. Scared the fvck outta me. I tried to drink myself to death last year. That didn't work either. I'm never gonna die.  

yes, my aunt beulah.

[ER]

Whom do you find more trustworthy, doctors or lawyers?

I've had good and bad experiences with each but I'd say probably doctors.

[indianasmith]

probably doctors. I've generally had good ones.

[RCMerchant]

f**k lawyers. Pay them enough and they'll say a serial killer is a saint.

[Rev. Powell]

The reason I asked the small house/large house question is because I heard the answers correlated strongly with political leanings, with republicans choosing large houses and democrats favoring small houses.

[ER]

The reason I asked the small house/large house question is because I heard the answers correlated strongly with political leanings, with republicans choosing large houses and democrats favoring small houses.

Interesting. My grandpa bought the house he left me back in 1965 and was a lifelong, albeit conservative, Democrat. All my paternal family are, except me, and I refuse to give blanket allegiance to any parties. Lol

[RCMerchant]

Oh sh!t! I forgot the Good Reverend is a lawyer!
Not you- ahhh, f**k.
Preachers are the worst, for me at least. You can tell me what you believe- but don't try to make me believe what you believe.
Politictians. Used car salesmen. Tell you what you want to hear and turn their backs and snicker like a Scooby Doo villian.

[Alex]

Well, I've had a few doctors mess things up and cause me some pain, but nothing that lasted more than a few days.

I've had some pretty big lawyers bills to pay for very little work though.

I trust journalists and politicians less though.

[Rev. Powell]

It's OK to distrust lawyers more than doctors. Lawyers have both more opportunity and more motive to screw you over. It's not like doctors can steal your health for themselves!

That said, most lawyers take our strict code of ethics seriously, and you should definitely trust yours, if you have done your research. Not being frank with your attorney can cost you your freedom or your money.

I don't practice much. Just occasional wills, contracts and traffic court for friends and family.

[chefzombie]

The reason I asked the small house/large house question is because I heard the answers correlated strongly with political leanings, with republicans choosing large houses and democrats favoring small houses.

 i'd say that was true in my own personal experience, and the big house people tend to have a " i've got mine, you're on your own" attitude to go with it. some of my family members aren't nice people, needless to say.

[Jim H]

Whom do you find more trustworthy, doctors or lawyers?

I've had good and bad experiences with each but I'd say probably doctors.

Good question. 

There's some contextual differences for me personally.  In terms of trusting their professional judgement and behavior, I've actually had better personal experiences with lawyers.  I've had more doctors treat me flippantly, have poor bedside manner, treat me callously when someone had died, half-ass diagnosis stuff and ignore my questions, be rude to me, and so on.  I also have in-laws with weak english skills now, and I've seen doctors not treat them well due to it multiple times, which is really infuriating. 

Lawyers have always been professional every time I've dealt with them, and take their work more seriously, even though it's something I'd consider less important.  So my personal inclination, in terms of the profession and acting how I think they should, I trust lawyers more.

But in a broad personal sense, if I met a lawyer in person and a doctor in person, not doing their job, I'd trust the doctor more.  Maybe there's some unfair prejudice there, or my experiences are unusual, I dunno.

Weird, right?

[Paquita]

The reason I asked the small house/large house question is because I heard the answers correlated strongly with political leanings, with republicans choosing large houses and democrats favoring small houses.

I don’t think that is a fair correlation.   I think the difference between people who want small homes vs large homes and less neighbors would be the difference of the number of people in the family.  It makes sense for a family of 3 or less to be perfectly comfortable in a small home with close neighbors, but once you start getting into a family of 4 or multifamily scenarios (like in-laws, etc.) you’re going to want more space, bedrooms and bathrooms

The neighbor-loving part of the question would also play into the size and age of the family.   I am pretty wary of strangers to begin with and more so now that I have young kids.  I don’t want to be worried about meth houses, creepers, angry old men yelling at my kids to get off their lawn, grouchy neighbors leaving notes that my dogs are barking after 10pm and my grass is too high.

Even before I had an actual litter of children, I always wanted a large home.  I attribute that to growing up where we often had friends and family coming to live with us for extended periods when they fell on hard times.  Our place was small and it wasn’t easy packing so many people there.  I always told myself if I got a house of my own I’d want to have ample space to comfortably accommodate family and friends whenever needed.

For the record, I don’t follow or care for politics of any kind.   

MAYBE there’s a political leaning correlation between people with larger families vs single people/smaller families, but I don’t think home size is it.   

[Rev. Powell]

The reason I asked the small house/large house question is because I heard the answers correlated strongly with political leanings, with republicans choosing large houses and democrats favoring small houses.

I don’t think that is a fair correlation.   I think the difference between people who want small homes vs large homes and less neighbors would be the difference of the number of people in the family.  It makes sense for a family of 3 or less to be perfectly comfortable in a small home with close neighbors, but once you start getting into a family of 4 or multifamily scenarios (like in-laws, etc.) you’re going to want more space, bedrooms and bathrooms

The neighbor-loving part of the question would also play into the size and age of the family.   I am pretty wary of strangers to begin with and more so now that I have young kids.  I don’t want to be worried about meth houses, creepers, angry old men yelling at my kids to get off their lawn, grouchy neighbors leaving notes that my dogs are barking after 10pm and my grass is too high.

Even before I had an actual litter of children, I always wanted a large home.  I attribute that to growing up where we often had friends and family coming to live with us for extended periods when they fell on hard times.  Our place was small and it wasn’t easy packing so many people there.  I always told myself if I got a house of my own I’d want to have ample space to comfortably accommodate family and friends whenever needed.

For the record, I don’t follow or care for politics of any kind.   

MAYBE there’s a political leaning correlation between people with larger families vs single people/smaller families, but I don’t think home size is it.   

It's just what the statistics showed. It's far from absolute. Don't really know the cause. Maybe city dwellers tend to live closer together and be more liberal, country folk further apart and more conservative.

[RCMerchant]

^ I dunno- I'm poor as dirt, live in the boonies in a little house- because, well, I'm poor. And I think I'm pretty liberal.

[Paquita]

Bah!  That’s one of the reasons I can’t stand politics.  They always have studies to twist things into a rich vs poor, lavish vs humble, good vs evil sort of angle and there’s always more to the story.   Some people would say living in a house of any size makes you some kind of high falutin elite.