posted on March 6, 2003 06:05:05 PM
I'm surprised no one has posted this yet. Perhaps you aren't Dr. Laura fans. And who could blame you, after all? It's quite a stretch to imagine that a woman whose nude porno shots are splashed all over the Internet is qualified to advise anyone on moral issues.
Anyway, a woman called in to say that she sells on eBay to supplement her income. She happened to be chatting with her best friend and let slip the name of the vendor where she gets her merch.
You see what's coming, right?
Sure enough, best girlfriend trots off to the vendor and buys up the merch before the caller has a chance. Then she goes into direct competition with the caller on eBay.
On further probing from drlaura, the caller admits that she got the name of the vendor from her brother, who also sells on eBay, and her brother has been kicking himself ever since.
Funny. I don't think we need worry too much about casual sellers if they're this stoopid.
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"I find myself having to apologize for being an American." --Belinda Carlisle, ex-Go-Go
posted on March 6, 2003 06:21:12 PM
So what was her question? Dr. Laura please tell me how stupid I am? I actually used to listen to Dr. Laura all the time in the car (I pretty much drive for a living), but she's not on the radio by us anymore - we have Glenn Beck instead.
posted on March 6, 2003 08:19:01 PM
I don't think they ever actually got to her question. Caller was explaining how her feelings were hurt and how she told girlfriend she shouldn't have done that and how girlfriend came back with, "I need to earn some extra money, too, and you said this works."
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"I find myself having to apologize for being an American." --Belinda Carlisle, ex-Go-Go
posted on March 6, 2003 08:33:46 PM
Ihula thank goodness she is not on the radio anymore. I hated it when she wouldn't listen to a moral issue and then try and give advice.
posted on March 6, 2003 08:35:43 PM
Fluffy I understand why you listen to her because if you list that many auctions you need some diversion. As stated before I have a problem listing 30 I can't imagine doing 600.
posted on March 6, 2003 09:22:35 PM
i list between 300-400 and I don't listen to dr laura..my only form of entertainment (aka time wasting) is reading postings here..AND THEY ARE GETTING BORING now that the biggest fraud has been exposed (or whatever he was) and the carrots have shriveled and rotted and love goddess stories have disappeared...(i think taking a peek at her picture gallery quieted EVERYBODY on that topic).....i might actually get some work done!
posted on March 7, 2003 09:12:35 AM
Libra63: I used to listen to drlaura a lot for precisely the reason you describe: diversion.
She lost me, though, on one call.
A woman called in about her husband's sexually-transmitted disease. The caller was clean because she had been separated from her husband for the last two years (i.e. he picked it up banging somebody else). drlaura told her that not only did she have to take her husband back (for the sake of the CHILDREN, you know), but the caller must have sex with her husband whenever he wanted it, with no protection.
drlaura is evil. I am finally convinced. I don't care if she's basically an OK person who tries to shove her Old Testament rules on other people (which is what I used to believe) even when those rules are wildly inappropriate. To tell someone they are morally obligated to expose themselves to a disease that can't be cured is simply evil. There's no other word for it.
I listen to her occasionally now, but nothing I have heard has changed my opinion.
I'm waiting for the day that drlaura decides to sell her hideously overpriced handmade jewelry on eBay. It's coming, I'm sure.
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"I find myself having to apologize for being an American." --Belinda Carlisle, ex-Go-Go
posted on March 7, 2003 09:30:10 AM
Oh yes, good old DrLaura, she had to go to the straight and narrow when she stopped looking good enough in a bikini that she could attract any more 'sugar daddies'. And just what mail order house did she get her 'Dr' title from............
And for being so straight and narrow, didn't she lean on a TV network to build her a custom TV studio close to her home so she could do her short lived TV show without being too far away from her boy (Bet he never figured the umbilical cord would stay on that long ~14 years) AND then populate her studio audience with her own staff when she couldn't draw anywhere near a half full crowd???
posted on March 7, 2003 10:00:15 AM
I am not going to get into a Dr. Laura debate on an Ebay forum but I will say this much. She made mistakes in her young life and repented of them. Now she works to encourage people to make moral decisions. What is the problem with that? So an ex druggie ministers to people giving advice not to get into drugs. No difference. We could all learn a few things from reading the morals of the OLD TESTAMENT. They still apply for today. God didn't have the New Testament written and that made the OLD one no good anymore.
To believe Dr. Laura is evil, you sure know a lot about her and what goes on on her shows.
Like most of us,
Dr. Laura is far from perfection,(however she does try to live a moral life) but if I had to listen to some of those idiot callers every day, I might get a little snippy too.
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MEOW pft pft
posted on March 7, 2003 10:09:11 PM
Dr. Laura is still on the air. Her show is syndicated. That means that some radio stations in certain cities pay the fee to broadcast it, and some don't. I live in Michigan and I don't know if any metro Detroit stations air the show, but the major station from Windsor, Ontario, in Canada does. CKLW 800AM
I perfer Dr. Joy Browne. On TWICE a day in the Michigan market.
posted on March 8, 2003 07:22:49 AM
"A child NEEDS a mommy and a daddy!" Yeah, but the daddy is an alchoholic who beats the mommy and will rape the child as soon as she hits puberty...
"Doesn't matter, a child needs a mommy and a daddy"
I have a real problem with her, and her one-size-fits all solution to everything. I have an even bigger problem with the people who call her- thinking a biology degree has the answers to complex human problems? One step closer to Jerry Springer.
Here's the best thing she ever did for me; I do some of my work in a machine shop, and the guys there listen to all that stuff- her and Rush and the whole crew. In order to drown out the sound of all that twaddle, I have to keep the grinder going- it makes me real productive!
"And All Shall be Well, and All Shall be Well, and All Manner of Things Shall be Well"
posted on March 8, 2003 07:25:19 AM
Not that I necessarily want to defend Dr. Laura, but I do remember her saying divorce is ok if it involves any of the 3 A's. I know addiction and adultery were 2 of them, but I can't remember what the 3rd one was - probably abuse.
posted on March 8, 2003 12:10:47 PM
"her one-size-fits all solution to everything"
Yes, that's it exactly. Dragonmom, you have put your finger on it.
I wish someone would put her up against the wall on several issues.
For one, "shacking up" as drlaura derisively calls it. For adults who cannot bear children, there's no reason why they should not live together. Their doing so does not violate any law or convention or hurt any innocent. Many seniors now co-habit without marriage because it is cheaper for them to do so. It's also quite likely it prolongs their lives. There is no societal disapproval because they are doing nothing wrong.
For another, being childfree is more than a perfectly valid choice, it benefits the planet as well. Yet any female of childbearing age who calls drlaura is harangued endlessly if she mentions she doesn't want kids "right now". I understand that you-must-reproduce is a directive given to Jews., but drlaura doesn't seem to understand that most of her listeners aren't Jewish.
I can't think of a way to bring this back to eBay, so perhaps I should stop this thread now.
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"I find myself having to apologize for being an American." --Belinda Carlisle, ex-Go-Go
posted on March 11, 2003 02:15:35 PM
As for needing a Mommy and Daddy, Dr. Laura apparently doesn't need hers. Dr. Laura's mom lay dead in her apartment for several weeks before a worried neighbor finally called the cops. She was a homicide victim. Dr. Laura then wouldn't claim the body for another 10 days. Nice daughter!
