Hey Perp! Sounds like a hoot; a blast of a good time, and I even laughed reading your post!
Thanks for sharing! It renews my faith that maybe Americans will do the right thing come November. On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 11:11 PM, 'Perplexed' via PoliticalForum < [email protected]> wrote: > > So I went on a canoe trip this weekend with about 25 people from two > generations (half were people in their 50s and 60s and half were their kids > (mostly 20s and 30s). A quite varied group when it came to professions, > though most all were college-educated. Two had PhDs, two pharmacists, an > engineer, a teacher, several nurses, and several successful businessmen and > businesswomen. > > After we got off the river, there was a whole lot of drinking going on > Saturday night. At around midnight, there were still about 15-20 of us up; > we were watching several of the younger group playing croquet (under > lights). One from the older generation had been drinking quite a bit of > whiskey. I've known this man for over 3 decades and never once heard him > say much of anything about politics or politicians. In fact, I've known > most of these people for at least 20 years (except some of the kids) and > never heard anyone mention politics or politicians. > > But while we were watching them play croquet, one of the younger girls > mentioned that no females had made it to the final round in the croquet > tournament, and she then said, "It's rigged!" Everyone laughed. Being a > news and politics junkie, of course my first thought was whether she was > referring to hearing this during the campaigns, but I didn't know, so I > didn't say anything. > > But the guy sitting next to me (the one drinking all the whiskey) then > said, "There's no black people in the final round either!" He then yelled, > *"BLACK > CROQUET LIVES MATTER!!!"* I thought I was going to die laughing, lol. And > he proceeded to go into a half-hour tirade of insults heckling the kids > playing croquet with every insult you could imagine (mostly from > news/politics/current events). Everyone there was in stitches. The younger > girls were laughing so hard they had tears streaming down their faces. I > couldn't believe it. It was truly a sight for sore eyes - none of these > safe space, trigger warning loonbats we see and hear FAR too much of in the > news today from the younger generation. Nobody walking on egg shells for > fear of being accused of "hate speech". It was as if ALL of us were sick > and tired of hearing the same idiotic bullshit from the left that we've > been hearing for the past 8 years, and along comes a guy - drunk to the > core - mocking the living shit out of all of it, and bringing the house > down in the process. It was as if this man was saying what all of us wanted > to say but weren't quite drunk enough - *or free enough* - to say. > > Though I've missed a few due to work or kid commitments, I've been going > on this annual canoe trip with this group of people for 30 years (well 30 > years for the older ones, anyway; the kids for the past 5-6 years). And > though we always laugh and have fun, I can't remember the last time I > laughed that hard for that long. My sides and ribs hurt the next morning, > and not just from canoeing! It was just too cool to see that this group of > people were universally entirely fed up with political correctness in > America today. I'm looking forward to next year's trip already. Too. Much. > Fun. :) > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PoliticalForum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
