Bumper stickers announced support for Trump, for Infowars, for minding your own business.
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Imagine you are a cricket, hanging out on a log, minding your own business.
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You're going about your work day, minding your own business, and maybe even enjoying yourself.
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Imagine being a teen, being home alone, minding your own business, fooling around on Musical.
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Just keeping to yourself, minding your own business, popping on a bit of eyebrow gel.
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You're minding your own business, happily clicking away and scrolling when a video starts randomly blaring away.
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Minding your own business, blissfully unaware of the void left by the Canadian pop star's sudden absence?
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It's like that sick sinking feeling you get when you're walking down the street minding your own business.
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Secrets are revealed through gossip, but before you go snooping around, make sure you're minding your own business.
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Sometimes you'll just be minding your own business, and the colours will come together and you'll just be wowed.
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You know that feeling when you're sitting on the Tube minding your own business and you suddenly spot a celebrity?
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We've all been there: You're minding your own business, scrolling through your Instagram feed, when you get a direct message.
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You're minding your own business at work when suddenly, you notice an eerie calm amongst your otherwise notification-filled computer screen.
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The piece starts with an analogy: imagine you're walking by a lake, minding your own business, when you see a child drowning.
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Imagine walking along a shore just minding your own business when you notice a peculiar bottle floating on water in the distance.
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Most of the time, when you're minding your own business and feeling relatively inconspicuous, you're being watched much more than you realize.
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You gotta see this Imagine minding your own business on the streets of Paris and seeing a guy ZIP LINING OFF THE EIFFEL TOWER.
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Have you ever been minding your own business when a man suddenly starts telling you a bunch of things you did not request to hear?
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You're standing at the bus stop minding your own business when you notice a couple sucking face—and they're going at it, practically dry humping.
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You'd be innocently playing Colossal Cave Adventure, minding your own business, throwing axes at dwarfs, and someone on the network would flood your screen with ASCII.
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But if you were on your way to work and minding your own business, you may have been at risk of being hit up by police.
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Let us paint a picture for you: You're in the shower, minding your own business, when, all of the sudden, the bottom of your shower starts to flood with sudsy, used water.
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I can see you now, minding your own business in the kitchen, mashing kale into polenta—or whatever it is people will eat in the future—the radio burbling away on the windowsill.
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Photo: Getty ImagesIt's happened to everyone: You're walking home, minding your own business, when no random devices suddenly screaming at you about how the police are coming if you happen to bump into them.
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One minute, you're just minding your own business, trying to take a photo of your new bumper sticker or whatever, and the next you're in a life or death battle with a rabid bobcat.
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"It should not be easier to get kicked off the rolls as an honest citizen minding your own business than it is to get your water turned off," he recently told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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When I would walk there at night, I felt the edge of a hairy neighborhood, where minding your own business becomes a priority and you'd rather take the long way home than chance a shortcut through the alley.
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If you're walking down the street minding your own business—we're living in a perfect world in my example—and a police officer says "hey, can I talk to you?" you're free to say "hell no!" and keep walking.
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That's a problem: nocturnal animals shy away from light and you can imagine what happens if you're casually grazing along, minding your own business when suddenly a 10,000-pound inferno of sound, wind and scary starts following you around.
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It's when you're minding your own business, shit talking someone on Twitter (which is exactly what that godforsaken website was made for, by the way), AND THEN SOMEONE RUINS YOUR FUN BY TAGGING THE SUBJECT IN THE FUCKING THREAD.
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Scenario: You're sitting in front of the television minding your own business and your grandaunt plops herself down next to you and talks your ear off about how youngsters these days no longer have any respect for their elders.
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She also lamented the sexist attitudes behind the treatment of women that his comments and conduct represent, and the day-to-day ways women are degraded, saying: It's like that sick, sinking feeling you get when you're walking down the street minding your own business.
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And, the thing is, if you are sitting there minding your own business and you get a call from a journalist where you want to be helpful because you should be helpful because it's part of the ecosystem and that's the way that, that world works.
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If you're walking along Madison Avenue and suddenly feel undone by the stress of minding your own business, you can duck into the glass-enclosed atrium of the old I.B.M. Building, at Fifty-sixth Street, and take a seat at one of the many bamboo-shaded café tables.
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Sometimes you're just minding your own business, basking in the ocean or trying to take a really good photo for Instagram or whatever, and then some hungry beast from the great depths reminds you that your puny status as a social media influencer doesn't mean much against a shark's razor-sharp teeth.
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Don't you hate it when you're at your psychedelic office, just minding your own business at the water cooler, and your computers start sucking everyone through the screens and regurgitating them through the floors, and then the copier disassembles itself, and then everything shatters and implodes into the mouth of an omnipotent purple being?
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Socrates says this can't be right because Homer (whose authority they both accept on this point) says that modesty is not good for all people, but it is agreed that sophrosyne is (160e). Charmides proposes that temperance is minding your own business. Socrates finds this particularly offensive, and tells Charmides that he must have heard this from some fool (162b). Socrates can tell from the uneasy look on Critias face that this was his idea, and they exchange some words.
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The only newspaper columnist Burroughs admired was Westbrook Pegler, a right-wing opinion shaper for the William Randolph Hearst newspaper chain. re-published Burroughs believed in frontier individualism, which he championed as "our glorious frontier heritage on minding your own business." Burroughs came to equate liberalism with bureaucratic tyranny, viewing government authority as a collective of meddlesome forces legislating the curtailment of personal freedom. According to his biographer Ted Morgan, his philosophy for living one's life was to adhere to a laissez-faire path, one without encumbrances – in essence a credo shared with the capitalist business world.
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