Post: #26

Do Oregonians also need people to wipe their arses as well?

Post: #27

(01-04-2018 03:52 PM)britchard Wrote:  Do Oregonians also need people to wipe their arses as well?

No, we have these.

Post: #28

^ Don't think I could do the butt wand.

Shittens seem like a pretty good alternative:

Post: #29

You're trying to tell me that none of you have ever hired a butt attendant?

Oh, you haven't lived...

Post: #30

(01-04-2018 04:22 PM)Jetset Wrote:  You're trying to tell me that none of you have ever hired a butt attendant?

Oh, you haven't lived...

Post: #31

I hate it when the service station people try to pump my gas. They always spill it down my paint.

Post: #32

Seems like Americans don't want freedom over there.

Post: #33

(01-04-2018 02:51 PM)Beyond Borders Wrote:  

I have a sneaking suspicion that this guy actually does...not...give...a...fuck.

Regarding the gas pumping thing, it really highlights how humans get caught in the paradigms of their local culture and customs. Easy for us to scoff and laugh and talk about how soft these people have become; on the other hand, you see weird little mental hangups like this in varying areas of life no matter where you go, usually defined by what was "normal" to that particular place as the locals grew up.

This is one of the most powerful things about world travel, especially the type of travel that gets off the tourist track and actually puts you out in new cultures, up close and personal, forcing you to question everything you think you know. It breaks you out of those behavioral ruts and opens your mind to the possibility that you may be quite deluded about a few things. I mean, I'd hope most of us here aren't so soft we'd lose our shit over having to pump our own gas, but regardless, it's a reminder to look hard at what you think you know and blur the lines a little bit to consider what might be unnecessary or self-defeating.

I've seen even the most solid, masculine men I know - some men I respect in many other endeavors - act like little bitches over funny little creature comforts, not realizing that they even were because they were just blindly stuck in the behavioral patterns they'd grown up with. Stepping beyond cultural conditioning takes a certain type of thinking. Manliness, as we generally think of it, doesn't always have much to do with who clings hardest.

It usually has more to do with being proactive about perspective.

The posts above are pretty damn bad and hard to empathize with at all, but I still think there is a lesson in incidents like this for us all.

You can tell quite a lot about a man by how he reacts to change.

Post: #34

(01-04-2018 02:21 PM)LeBaron Wrote:  Great another place in the world where it's legal to do what that dude is doing in my attached picture!

Bitch is so concerned about being blown up that instead of driving away she parks and takes a photo.

Post: #35

The current system is New Jersey is not just inefficient because of paid gas puppets but also the time it takes for one person to do it when it gets busy as hell. Moving to pennsylvania was a relief. Too many incentives to not hire enough people.

If you think the outrage is crazy here wait till someone tries to remove the requirement that you buy a car from a dealer or a beer from a bartender.

Post: #36

Then:





Now:

Post: #37

(01-04-2018 02:48 PM)debeguiled Wrote:  Oregon's true claim to fame is that it is not-California in the same way that Canada's claim to fame is that it is not-U.S.

That's not actually entirely true.

Post: #38

I don't remember voting on this...

At least I don't have to tip gas attendants anymore, but it was nice having someone else do it.

Post: #39

Post: #40

Meanwhile in Portland.

Post: #41

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