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Tordak | It all depends on the ages. From my 11 month old, I love the big smiles - his entire body is involved in that smile, from the curling toes to the big blue eyes. My daughter is just three, so bringing "girl power" to the house is so much fun. My oldest is almost 6 and I can't get over just what a little friend he is. He has become a helper and an amazing kid.
TL;DR: my three kids make me smile all the time | It all depends on the ages. From my 11 month old, I love the big smiles - his entire body is involved in that smile, from the curling toes to the big blue eyes. My daughter is just three, so bringing "girl power" to the house is so much fun. My oldest is almost 6 and I can't get over just what a little friend he is. He has become a helper and an amazing kid.
TL;DR: my three kids make me smile all the time
| self | t5_2qh96 | c0u5g5f | It all depends on the ages. From my 11 month old, I love the big smiles - his entire body is involved in that smile, from the curling toes to the big blue eyes. My daughter is just three, so bringing "girl power" to the house is so much fun. My oldest is almost 6 and I can't get over just what a little friend he is. He has become a helper and an amazing kid. | my three kids make me smile all the time |
apocalyptic | There's no shame in spending time reading and more importantly understanding what you read. Being a keyboard jockey (KJ) while you figure this stuff out may not necessarily be a bad thing; the reason why people condemn keyboard jockeying is because they only stay in theory mode.
I spent a year as a KJ to understand the differences in styles of the different systems, find the similarities and then figure out how that works into my identity and personality. Granted, I could wear a funny hat, spew cocky funny lines, or just insult girls without understanding the concept of negging until I finally got it right but it seemed dumb to me to do something without understanding.
Think of it as learning to drive. You need to learn the rules of the road, how to read the signs, how to operate the car, then get in the car and actually learn to drive it.
In PUA context, the Mystery Method Model or M3 system as some people refer to uses 3 main stages to guide a pickup.
1. Attraction
2. Comfort
3. Seduction
This model is used almost universally, and makes a very good framework. The "HOW TO" for each stage may differ from teacher to teacher, system to system, but they all revolve around a few key concepts from what I have understood. e.g. Showing value is one of the main ways to build attraction used in many systems.
tldr: Reading and understanding different systems is not a bad thing, as long as you get out there and eventually practice. | There's no shame in spending time reading and more importantly understanding what you read. Being a keyboard jockey (KJ) while you figure this stuff out may not necessarily be a bad thing; the reason why people condemn keyboard jockeying is because they only stay in theory mode.
I spent a year as a KJ to understand the differences in styles of the different systems, find the similarities and then figure out how that works into my identity and personality. Granted, I could wear a funny hat, spew cocky funny lines, or just insult girls without understanding the concept of negging until I finally got it right but it seemed dumb to me to do something without understanding.
Think of it as learning to drive. You need to learn the rules of the road, how to read the signs, how to operate the car, then get in the car and actually learn to drive it.
In PUA context, the Mystery Method Model or M3 system as some people refer to uses 3 main stages to guide a pickup.
Attraction
Comfort
Seduction
This model is used almost universally, and makes a very good framework. The "HOW TO" for each stage may differ from teacher to teacher, system to system, but they all revolve around a few key concepts from what I have understood. e.g. Showing value is one of the main ways to build attraction used in many systems.
tldr: Reading and understanding different systems is not a bad thing, as long as you get out there and eventually practice.
| seduction | t5_2qhrv | c0uasqm | There's no shame in spending time reading and more importantly understanding what you read. Being a keyboard jockey (KJ) while you figure this stuff out may not necessarily be a bad thing; the reason why people condemn keyboard jockeying is because they only stay in theory mode.
I spent a year as a KJ to understand the differences in styles of the different systems, find the similarities and then figure out how that works into my identity and personality. Granted, I could wear a funny hat, spew cocky funny lines, or just insult girls without understanding the concept of negging until I finally got it right but it seemed dumb to me to do something without understanding.
Think of it as learning to drive. You need to learn the rules of the road, how to read the signs, how to operate the car, then get in the car and actually learn to drive it.
In PUA context, the Mystery Method Model or M3 system as some people refer to uses 3 main stages to guide a pickup.
Attraction
Comfort
Seduction
This model is used almost universally, and makes a very good framework. The "HOW TO" for each stage may differ from teacher to teacher, system to system, but they all revolve around a few key concepts from what I have understood. e.g. Showing value is one of the main ways to build attraction used in many systems. | Reading and understanding different systems is not a bad thing, as long as you get out there and eventually practice. |
HunterGreen12 | As full as I might be, as long as I drink 3/4 to a full liter of water before go to bed, I have no remnants of a hangover the next day. No headaches or upset stomach (sing: yay, Pepto Bismol).
This might be difficult after a night of drinking (especially beer), but make sure you do it if you want to avoid waking up feeling like a sack of crap.
tl;dr Liter-o-water. | As full as I might be, as long as I drink 3/4 to a full liter of water before go to bed, I have no remnants of a hangover the next day. No headaches or upset stomach (sing: yay, Pepto Bismol).
This might be difficult after a night of drinking (especially beer), but make sure you do it if you want to avoid waking up feeling like a sack of crap.
tl;dr Liter-o-water.
| beer | t5_2qhg1 | c0udd5s | As full as I might be, as long as I drink 3/4 to a full liter of water before go to bed, I have no remnants of a hangover the next day. No headaches or upset stomach (sing: yay, Pepto Bismol).
This might be difficult after a night of drinking (especially beer), but make sure you do it if you want to avoid waking up feeling like a sack of crap. | Liter-o-water. |
terminusest | I worked with a cable company. That's basically a side effect of their 'non-pay disconnect' status. If your bill is paid and fine, SOMETHING is saving a bad 'address' for those sites. ISPs use a 'DNS cache poisoning' style technique to do those redirect pages - and it sometimes gets stuck someplace.
Routers cache DNS routing data, as will various software systems on the PC. Powering down the router, then running various flushes on the PC, usually worked for my customers. In worse case scenarios I would have them use a different DNS temporarily, but it didn't always fix things depending on where the bad DNS info was cached.
Usually, a combination of IPconfig and Netsh commands would resolve this kind of thing. Steps below are Win XP, Win Vista/7 require 'admin' command prompt run these commands.
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns
If failed:
ipconfig /flushdns
netsh int ip reset (logfilename)
netsh winsock reset (can't hurt)
reboot PC
If still failing:
Hard-code new DNS (Google, OpenDNS, or alternate DNS servers from a diff region rather than DHCP assigned) followed with:
disable network card, enable network card,
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns
TL;DR: Pages you visited at some point while you were possibly in 'soft' disconnect (Non-pay status, or new modem status) on your cable were redirecting to their activation page because this route was saved. Some PCs save the routes past reboots. Various flushes will fix, OR expiration of the DNS routing info, which has a timespan life to it. This problem *can* just disappear, without an actual fix placed. | I worked with a cable company. That's basically a side effect of their 'non-pay disconnect' status. If your bill is paid and fine, SOMETHING is saving a bad 'address' for those sites. ISPs use a 'DNS cache poisoning' style technique to do those redirect pages - and it sometimes gets stuck someplace.
Routers cache DNS routing data, as will various software systems on the PC. Powering down the router, then running various flushes on the PC, usually worked for my customers. In worse case scenarios I would have them use a different DNS temporarily, but it didn't always fix things depending on where the bad DNS info was cached.
Usually, a combination of IPconfig and Netsh commands would resolve this kind of thing. Steps below are Win XP, Win Vista/7 require 'admin' command prompt run these commands.
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns
If failed:
ipconfig /flushdns
netsh int ip reset (logfilename)
netsh winsock reset (can't hurt)
reboot PC
If still failing:
Hard-code new DNS (Google, OpenDNS, or alternate DNS servers from a diff region rather than DHCP assigned) followed with:
disable network card, enable network card,
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns
TL;DR: Pages you visited at some point while you were possibly in 'soft' disconnect (Non-pay status, or new modem status) on your cable were redirecting to their activation page because this route was saved. Some PCs save the routes past reboots. Various flushes will fix, OR expiration of the DNS routing info, which has a timespan life to it. This problem can just disappear, without an actual fix placed.
| techsupport | t5_2qioo | c0udgka | I worked with a cable company. That's basically a side effect of their 'non-pay disconnect' status. If your bill is paid and fine, SOMETHING is saving a bad 'address' for those sites. ISPs use a 'DNS cache poisoning' style technique to do those redirect pages - and it sometimes gets stuck someplace.
Routers cache DNS routing data, as will various software systems on the PC. Powering down the router, then running various flushes on the PC, usually worked for my customers. In worse case scenarios I would have them use a different DNS temporarily, but it didn't always fix things depending on where the bad DNS info was cached.
Usually, a combination of IPconfig and Netsh commands would resolve this kind of thing. Steps below are Win XP, Win Vista/7 require 'admin' command prompt run these commands.
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns
If failed:
ipconfig /flushdns
netsh int ip reset (logfilename)
netsh winsock reset (can't hurt)
reboot PC
If still failing:
Hard-code new DNS (Google, OpenDNS, or alternate DNS servers from a diff region rather than DHCP assigned) followed with:
disable network card, enable network card,
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns | Pages you visited at some point while you were possibly in 'soft' disconnect (Non-pay status, or new modem status) on your cable were redirecting to their activation page because this route was saved. Some PCs save the routes past reboots. Various flushes will fix, OR expiration of the DNS routing info, which has a timespan life to it. This problem can just disappear, without an actual fix placed. |
_shift | Yep, see, finally... Finally I have proof that 99% of the nice things people say about the world is actually just bullshit. I bet the whole world sucks ass. If you are able to make this shitty town (I live over by Waterford) sound that nice, the entire world must actually just be this shitty.
Here is Orlando:
Hellish heat every day followed by thunderstorms and then tripled humidity.
Hellish traffic and tons of tolls.
One of the largest Universities in the nation, and all the asshole kids that go there.
Tourists who act like traffic laws/any laws don't pertain to them, since they are on vacation
Overpacked shopping areas (Winter Park Village and Waterford are disgustingly overcrowded, and you are insane if you go see a new release movie on a weekend night)
Overpacked tourist traps. Come to Aquatica! Ride the waterslide next to the dolphins! oh we forgot youre gonna stand in line for an hour to get a flash of light which is a 'dolphin' equivelant.
TL;DR this town blows oh god why did I buy a house here | Yep, see, finally... Finally I have proof that 99% of the nice things people say about the world is actually just bullshit. I bet the whole world sucks ass. If you are able to make this shitty town (I live over by Waterford) sound that nice, the entire world must actually just be this shitty.
Here is Orlando:
Hellish heat every day followed by thunderstorms and then tripled humidity.
Hellish traffic and tons of tolls.
One of the largest Universities in the nation, and all the asshole kids that go there.
Tourists who act like traffic laws/any laws don't pertain to them, since they are on vacation
Overpacked shopping areas (Winter Park Village and Waterford are disgustingly overcrowded, and you are insane if you go see a new release movie on a weekend night)
Overpacked tourist traps. Come to Aquatica! Ride the waterslide next to the dolphins! oh we forgot youre gonna stand in line for an hour to get a flash of light which is a 'dolphin' equivelant.
TL;DR this town blows oh god why did I buy a house here
| pics | t5_2qh0u | c0uipr0 | Yep, see, finally... Finally I have proof that 99% of the nice things people say about the world is actually just bullshit. I bet the whole world sucks ass. If you are able to make this shitty town (I live over by Waterford) sound that nice, the entire world must actually just be this shitty.
Here is Orlando:
Hellish heat every day followed by thunderstorms and then tripled humidity.
Hellish traffic and tons of tolls.
One of the largest Universities in the nation, and all the asshole kids that go there.
Tourists who act like traffic laws/any laws don't pertain to them, since they are on vacation
Overpacked shopping areas (Winter Park Village and Waterford are disgustingly overcrowded, and you are insane if you go see a new release movie on a weekend night)
Overpacked tourist traps. Come to Aquatica! Ride the waterslide next to the dolphins! oh we forgot youre gonna stand in line for an hour to get a flash of light which is a 'dolphin' equivelant. | this town blows oh god why did I buy a house here |
RoaldFre | The jpeg artefacts really give it that extra something. The faint, seemingly random permutations of the blank canvas emphasise the temporal nature of the subject in question.
The blur of the anti-aliasing on the letters tells a story of vagueness, of uncertainty and doubt -- beautifully accentuating the repeated use of the word 'Maybe'.
The fascinating use of color on the upwards pointing arrow draws the eye to this symbol of appreciation. Is it orange? Is it red? Is this linked to the point count on the right?
5 hours ago. This element majestically combines the above two notions and truly personifies the temporal vagueness. Was it five or five and a half hours ago? What does this say about the explicitly present -- Maybe *I* -- artist, his mindset? This way of capturing the moment is truly unprecedented. Five hours, simple as that. A lifetime for some, a mere blink of an eye for others. Though it is forever past us, inaccessible, 'ago'.
Lastly, the uneven cropping of whitespace -- more on the top than on the bottom -- shows that this exiting novel art form is not afraid to break with -- almost make fun of -- established rules.
These are exciting times folks. Exciting times!
**TL;DR:** Everytime you use jpeg for something like this, God kills a kitten. | The jpeg artefacts really give it that extra something. The faint, seemingly random permutations of the blank canvas emphasise the temporal nature of the subject in question.
The blur of the anti-aliasing on the letters tells a story of vagueness, of uncertainty and doubt -- beautifully accentuating the repeated use of the word 'Maybe'.
The fascinating use of color on the upwards pointing arrow draws the eye to this symbol of appreciation. Is it orange? Is it red? Is this linked to the point count on the right?
5 hours ago. This element majestically combines the above two notions and truly personifies the temporal vagueness. Was it five or five and a half hours ago? What does this say about the explicitly present -- Maybe I -- artist, his mindset? This way of capturing the moment is truly unprecedented. Five hours, simple as that. A lifetime for some, a mere blink of an eye for others. Though it is forever past us, inaccessible, 'ago'.
Lastly, the uneven cropping of whitespace -- more on the top than on the bottom -- shows that this exiting novel art form is not afraid to break with -- almost make fun of -- established rules.
These are exciting times folks. Exciting times!
TL;DR: Everytime you use jpeg for something like this, God kills a kitten.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | c0uke51 | The jpeg artefacts really give it that extra something. The faint, seemingly random permutations of the blank canvas emphasise the temporal nature of the subject in question.
The blur of the anti-aliasing on the letters tells a story of vagueness, of uncertainty and doubt -- beautifully accentuating the repeated use of the word 'Maybe'.
The fascinating use of color on the upwards pointing arrow draws the eye to this symbol of appreciation. Is it orange? Is it red? Is this linked to the point count on the right?
5 hours ago. This element majestically combines the above two notions and truly personifies the temporal vagueness. Was it five or five and a half hours ago? What does this say about the explicitly present -- Maybe I -- artist, his mindset? This way of capturing the moment is truly unprecedented. Five hours, simple as that. A lifetime for some, a mere blink of an eye for others. Though it is forever past us, inaccessible, 'ago'.
Lastly, the uneven cropping of whitespace -- more on the top than on the bottom -- shows that this exiting novel art form is not afraid to break with -- almost make fun of -- established rules.
These are exciting times folks. Exciting times! | Everytime you use jpeg for something like this, God kills a kitten. |
pseudo310 | Again, you're saying that electronic games and tabletop games are exclusive. They're not.
You can't act like I'm making baseless assertions when as far as I can tell you're doing the same damn thing. Show me some kind of statistics on industry marketing and that fact that it's slowed down or stopped. Show me some kind of statistics demonstrating that electronic games are crowding out tabletop games. The success of one does not equal the failure of the other, or, to turn your own twatty phrase around, did you not comprehend that? Otherwise you're tl;dr Nuh-huh! | Again, you're saying that electronic games and tabletop games are exclusive. They're not.
You can't act like I'm making baseless assertions when as far as I can tell you're doing the same damn thing. Show me some kind of statistics on industry marketing and that fact that it's slowed down or stopped. Show me some kind of statistics demonstrating that electronic games are crowding out tabletop games. The success of one does not equal the failure of the other, or, to turn your own twatty phrase around, did you not comprehend that? Otherwise you're tl;dr Nuh-huh!
| rpg | t5_2qh2s | c0urjut | Again, you're saying that electronic games and tabletop games are exclusive. They're not.
You can't act like I'm making baseless assertions when as far as I can tell you're doing the same damn thing. Show me some kind of statistics on industry marketing and that fact that it's slowed down or stopped. Show me some kind of statistics demonstrating that electronic games are crowding out tabletop games. The success of one does not equal the failure of the other, or, to turn your own twatty phrase around, did you not comprehend that? Otherwise you're | Nuh-huh! |
bigz2k | I realize this comment will garner a lot of hate from literati, but I really don't understand the great concern about "protecting" classics from things like this, or even necessarily lauding them over other works. If people want to read a good book (operating under what I consider to be a falsehood in the case of Wuthering Heights, but that's me) for a stupid reason, let them. Just so there's no confusion, I am also not a fan of the books, movies, or messages of Stephanie Meyer.
The crux of the matter to me is I have a hard time accepting the appeal to tradition that most classics-worship seems to fall into. A ton of books are given just a bit too much attention for the same reason that a lot of stupid laws are still on the books, a lot of meaningless quotes are spouted, etc. They've received attention for one thing or another in the past, have stuck around because people have heard of them, and end up overshadowing a large quantity of other more deserving works.
**tl;dr:** Twilight sucks, classics of many sorts have too much attention placed on them for stupid reasons, but this is nothing but the market at work. Deal. | I realize this comment will garner a lot of hate from literati, but I really don't understand the great concern about "protecting" classics from things like this, or even necessarily lauding them over other works. If people want to read a good book (operating under what I consider to be a falsehood in the case of Wuthering Heights, but that's me) for a stupid reason, let them. Just so there's no confusion, I am also not a fan of the books, movies, or messages of Stephanie Meyer.
The crux of the matter to me is I have a hard time accepting the appeal to tradition that most classics-worship seems to fall into. A ton of books are given just a bit too much attention for the same reason that a lot of stupid laws are still on the books, a lot of meaningless quotes are spouted, etc. They've received attention for one thing or another in the past, have stuck around because people have heard of them, and end up overshadowing a large quantity of other more deserving works.
tl;dr: Twilight sucks, classics of many sorts have too much attention placed on them for stupid reasons, but this is nothing but the market at work. Deal.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | c0uy4w3 | I realize this comment will garner a lot of hate from literati, but I really don't understand the great concern about "protecting" classics from things like this, or even necessarily lauding them over other works. If people want to read a good book (operating under what I consider to be a falsehood in the case of Wuthering Heights, but that's me) for a stupid reason, let them. Just so there's no confusion, I am also not a fan of the books, movies, or messages of Stephanie Meyer.
The crux of the matter to me is I have a hard time accepting the appeal to tradition that most classics-worship seems to fall into. A ton of books are given just a bit too much attention for the same reason that a lot of stupid laws are still on the books, a lot of meaningless quotes are spouted, etc. They've received attention for one thing or another in the past, have stuck around because people have heard of them, and end up overshadowing a large quantity of other more deserving works. | Twilight sucks, classics of many sorts have too much attention placed on them for stupid reasons, but this is nothing but the market at work. Deal. |
intellos | I'm not buying it because I'm broke as fuck. Actually, I'm broker than fuck. Every paycheck goes to bills that are already overdue, meanwhile I'm running out of food, and there are more bills and late fees piling on top of bills and late fees.
tl;dr: no money =( | I'm not buying it because I'm broke as fuck. Actually, I'm broker than fuck. Every paycheck goes to bills that are already overdue, meanwhile I'm running out of food, and there are more bills and late fees piling on top of bills and late fees.
tl;dr: no money =(
| gaming | t5_2qh03 | c0v19r2 | I'm not buying it because I'm broke as fuck. Actually, I'm broker than fuck. Every paycheck goes to bills that are already overdue, meanwhile I'm running out of food, and there are more bills and late fees piling on top of bills and late fees. | no money =( |
ms2guy | When Mol and Cobb are in Limbo the first time, Cobb placed the top in her safe; that was **the** inception he performed on her. The top represents the idea that the behavior of an object you alone know well can tell you whether or not you are someone else's dream or your own (it was never, contrary to popular belief, meant to distinguish the dream state vs reality). **This is a falsehood created by Cobb to get his wife to leave Limbo with him.**
When Mol discovers the top she is finally able to understand that she is in Limbo, not reality. I assume this is because Limbo is "unconstructed dream space" and does the top would not behave as she knew it to in reality.
The first interpretation mentioned in the article, which seems to be the most obvious, is false. Totems were an idea created by Cobb to save Mol from Limbo. They may be useful in determining whether you are in your own dream or someone else's, but they have no ability to differentiate between a dream and reality.
tl,dr: Totems tell nothing about dream states vs reality | When Mol and Cobb are in Limbo the first time, Cobb placed the top in her safe; that was the inception he performed on her. The top represents the idea that the behavior of an object you alone know well can tell you whether or not you are someone else's dream or your own (it was never, contrary to popular belief, meant to distinguish the dream state vs reality). This is a falsehood created by Cobb to get his wife to leave Limbo with him.
When Mol discovers the top she is finally able to understand that she is in Limbo, not reality. I assume this is because Limbo is "unconstructed dream space" and does the top would not behave as she knew it to in reality.
The first interpretation mentioned in the article, which seems to be the most obvious, is false. Totems were an idea created by Cobb to save Mol from Limbo. They may be useful in determining whether you are in your own dream or someone else's, but they have no ability to differentiate between a dream and reality.
tl,dr: Totems tell nothing about dream states vs reality
| entertainment | t5_2qh0f | c0v4r8u | When Mol and Cobb are in Limbo the first time, Cobb placed the top in her safe; that was the inception he performed on her. The top represents the idea that the behavior of an object you alone know well can tell you whether or not you are someone else's dream or your own (it was never, contrary to popular belief, meant to distinguish the dream state vs reality). This is a falsehood created by Cobb to get his wife to leave Limbo with him.
When Mol discovers the top she is finally able to understand that she is in Limbo, not reality. I assume this is because Limbo is "unconstructed dream space" and does the top would not behave as she knew it to in reality.
The first interpretation mentioned in the article, which seems to be the most obvious, is false. Totems were an idea created by Cobb to save Mol from Limbo. They may be useful in determining whether you are in your own dream or someone else's, but they have no ability to differentiate between a dream and reality. | Totems tell nothing about dream states vs reality |
would_you_kindly | Sex is fun.
Having sex with someone who has this approach makes for great sex.
Alternatively, having sex with someone that is hung-up on body issues or whether or not they will perform well leads to an unfulfilling sexual experience.
TL;DR Have fun fucking! | Sex is fun.
Having sex with someone who has this approach makes for great sex.
Alternatively, having sex with someone that is hung-up on body issues or whether or not they will perform well leads to an unfulfilling sexual experience.
TL;DR Have fun fucking!
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0v5y9h | Sex is fun.
Having sex with someone who has this approach makes for great sex.
Alternatively, having sex with someone that is hung-up on body issues or whether or not they will perform well leads to an unfulfilling sexual experience. | Have fun fucking! |
schizocat | I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Texas. My husband (then boyfriend) was driving down the service road of the interstate in a low spot where the interstate is up on bridges and the deer cross there regularly since they don't have to fight traffic. The service road we were on however is not raised. Out of the corner of my eye I see a herd of deer running straight at the service road. Not pondering homonyms at the time i say "Deer."
He looks at me, "Yeah?"
There was only a split second of confusion because then they were in front of us. We were ok, but they smashed in the whole front end of the mazda b2200 that we were in. The fan was in the radiator. We call my dad to bring the jeep and tow us back to the house. While we're waiting on him to make the ten minute drive to where we are, a cop rolls past us, stops and parks on the side of the road twenty or thirty feet up. He walks back and asks us what happened so we told him. His first question?
"Did you kill any?"
We were more interested in the damage to the truck and making sure we were ok. The snarky nineteen year-old i was and being slightly freaked out at the time, my immediate response was "Do you see any?"
It got better after that and after confirming someone was on their way, he left. Sad part is, when we were hooking the vehicles together we realized he'd walked right past a dead deer on his way to question us.
So i think obvious and/or unnecessary is part of serving. It's like after dinner mints with no dinner.
TLDR: A cop asked us if we killed any deer in a wreck after walking past one without seeing it. So i think obvious and/or unnecessary is part of serving. It's like after dinner mints with no dinner. | I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Texas. My husband (then boyfriend) was driving down the service road of the interstate in a low spot where the interstate is up on bridges and the deer cross there regularly since they don't have to fight traffic. The service road we were on however is not raised. Out of the corner of my eye I see a herd of deer running straight at the service road. Not pondering homonyms at the time i say "Deer."
He looks at me, "Yeah?"
There was only a split second of confusion because then they were in front of us. We were ok, but they smashed in the whole front end of the mazda b2200 that we were in. The fan was in the radiator. We call my dad to bring the jeep and tow us back to the house. While we're waiting on him to make the ten minute drive to where we are, a cop rolls past us, stops and parks on the side of the road twenty or thirty feet up. He walks back and asks us what happened so we told him. His first question?
"Did you kill any?"
We were more interested in the damage to the truck and making sure we were ok. The snarky nineteen year-old i was and being slightly freaked out at the time, my immediate response was "Do you see any?"
It got better after that and after confirming someone was on their way, he left. Sad part is, when we were hooking the vehicles together we realized he'd walked right past a dead deer on his way to question us.
So i think obvious and/or unnecessary is part of serving. It's like after dinner mints with no dinner.
TLDR: A cop asked us if we killed any deer in a wreck after walking past one without seeing it. So i think obvious and/or unnecessary is part of serving. It's like after dinner mints with no dinner.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0vckeb | I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Texas. My husband (then boyfriend) was driving down the service road of the interstate in a low spot where the interstate is up on bridges and the deer cross there regularly since they don't have to fight traffic. The service road we were on however is not raised. Out of the corner of my eye I see a herd of deer running straight at the service road. Not pondering homonyms at the time i say "Deer."
He looks at me, "Yeah?"
There was only a split second of confusion because then they were in front of us. We were ok, but they smashed in the whole front end of the mazda b2200 that we were in. The fan was in the radiator. We call my dad to bring the jeep and tow us back to the house. While we're waiting on him to make the ten minute drive to where we are, a cop rolls past us, stops and parks on the side of the road twenty or thirty feet up. He walks back and asks us what happened so we told him. His first question?
"Did you kill any?"
We were more interested in the damage to the truck and making sure we were ok. The snarky nineteen year-old i was and being slightly freaked out at the time, my immediate response was "Do you see any?"
It got better after that and after confirming someone was on their way, he left. Sad part is, when we were hooking the vehicles together we realized he'd walked right past a dead deer on his way to question us.
So i think obvious and/or unnecessary is part of serving. It's like after dinner mints with no dinner. | A cop asked us if we killed any deer in a wreck after walking past one without seeing it. So i think obvious and/or unnecessary is part of serving. It's like after dinner mints with no dinner. |
VWSpeedRacer | The system is actually a huge improvement. An engine generating power can be super-tuned to a single operating speed to generate the power. You see similar performance from the reefer units on tractor trailers (typically 3-cylinder diesel units) - they run at a single RPM to chill the trailer, but the efficiency is massive because they don't have to cater to a wide power range. This is the road to a 0-emission high-efficiency diesel platform. Once the use of electric drive motors becomes commonplace, the power plant becomes secondary and it'll be easy to offer options, in the same car with the same performance specs, as to whether you want gasoline power, diesel power, hydrogen, or whatever comes next.
That said, the packaging is a total loss.
TL;DR - Critical drive system advancements, rubbish styling. | The system is actually a huge improvement. An engine generating power can be super-tuned to a single operating speed to generate the power. You see similar performance from the reefer units on tractor trailers (typically 3-cylinder diesel units) - they run at a single RPM to chill the trailer, but the efficiency is massive because they don't have to cater to a wide power range. This is the road to a 0-emission high-efficiency diesel platform. Once the use of electric drive motors becomes commonplace, the power plant becomes secondary and it'll be easy to offer options, in the same car with the same performance specs, as to whether you want gasoline power, diesel power, hydrogen, or whatever comes next.
That said, the packaging is a total loss.
TL;DR - Critical drive system advancements, rubbish styling.
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c0vd2j6 | The system is actually a huge improvement. An engine generating power can be super-tuned to a single operating speed to generate the power. You see similar performance from the reefer units on tractor trailers (typically 3-cylinder diesel units) - they run at a single RPM to chill the trailer, but the efficiency is massive because they don't have to cater to a wide power range. This is the road to a 0-emission high-efficiency diesel platform. Once the use of electric drive motors becomes commonplace, the power plant becomes secondary and it'll be easy to offer options, in the same car with the same performance specs, as to whether you want gasoline power, diesel power, hydrogen, or whatever comes next.
That said, the packaging is a total loss. | Critical drive system advancements, rubbish styling. |
maximinus-thrax | A few years ago I read a fascinating book* written by a soldier in the U.K. army, who served in Iraq for 2-3 years during and after the invasion. He was actually a territorial (part-time) soldier and his real job at home was working for some big bank in the city of London.
When the British took control of Basra in the south, he was asked to take care of the finances for running the government. With the removal of the Sadam regime there was no one to pay anyone who ran the infrastructure- roads, sewage, police, that kind of thing. This soon became a very important job since the soldiers had to win the hearts and minds of the local population.
The writer also had another problem: the Americans had automatically fired anyone who had links with the Baath party and told them to go home; big mistake, as he found out that for some jobs (teachers was the first example) you HAD to be a party member, and all the Americans had managed to do was fire all the university educated level staff - so the first task was to get them back again.
The next task was to pay them - and on time. For the first few months this meant repeated requests to the U.S. command (due to his new job, the soldier now reported direct to the military in Baghdad) for actual money to pay everybody (and, actually finding out what that pay was because the locals all tried to get him to pay out more than he should).
But now to the crux of our story. One day, a large shipping container arrived at his office, and he was asked to sign for the contents. Having done so, the container was opened and found to reveal - millions of bundled U.S. dollars. Since money from the Americans always required a metric ton of paperwork, the author was a mite confused as to why an unrequested whole-fucking-shipping-container of cash should just show up. A quick phone call, and the answer from U.S. high command:
"The money sent to you is Iraqi money frozen in U.S. banks in the 90's. Since this money is Iraqi money, and you are giving it to Iraqi people, the U.S. army only needs to make sure it arrived, and not to check how it is spent."
The author was not happy with the situation - but it may account for a good chunk of that $8.7B
tl;dr - It wasn't U.S. money, so they didn't care.
*EDIT: The book: | A few years ago I read a fascinating book* written by a soldier in the U.K. army, who served in Iraq for 2-3 years during and after the invasion. He was actually a territorial (part-time) soldier and his real job at home was working for some big bank in the city of London.
When the British took control of Basra in the south, he was asked to take care of the finances for running the government. With the removal of the Sadam regime there was no one to pay anyone who ran the infrastructure- roads, sewage, police, that kind of thing. This soon became a very important job since the soldiers had to win the hearts and minds of the local population.
The writer also had another problem: the Americans had automatically fired anyone who had links with the Baath party and told them to go home; big mistake, as he found out that for some jobs (teachers was the first example) you HAD to be a party member, and all the Americans had managed to do was fire all the university educated level staff - so the first task was to get them back again.
The next task was to pay them - and on time. For the first few months this meant repeated requests to the U.S. command (due to his new job, the soldier now reported direct to the military in Baghdad) for actual money to pay everybody (and, actually finding out what that pay was because the locals all tried to get him to pay out more than he should).
But now to the crux of our story. One day, a large shipping container arrived at his office, and he was asked to sign for the contents. Having done so, the container was opened and found to reveal - millions of bundled U.S. dollars. Since money from the Americans always required a metric ton of paperwork, the author was a mite confused as to why an unrequested whole-fucking-shipping-container of cash should just show up. A quick phone call, and the answer from U.S. high command:
"The money sent to you is Iraqi money frozen in U.S. banks in the 90's. Since this money is Iraqi money, and you are giving it to Iraqi people, the U.S. army only needs to make sure it arrived, and not to check how it is spent."
The author was not happy with the situation - but it may account for a good chunk of that $8.7B
tl;dr - It wasn't U.S. money, so they didn't care.
*EDIT: The book:
| worldnews | t5_2qh13 | c0ve0gj | A few years ago I read a fascinating book* written by a soldier in the U.K. army, who served in Iraq for 2-3 years during and after the invasion. He was actually a territorial (part-time) soldier and his real job at home was working for some big bank in the city of London.
When the British took control of Basra in the south, he was asked to take care of the finances for running the government. With the removal of the Sadam regime there was no one to pay anyone who ran the infrastructure- roads, sewage, police, that kind of thing. This soon became a very important job since the soldiers had to win the hearts and minds of the local population.
The writer also had another problem: the Americans had automatically fired anyone who had links with the Baath party and told them to go home; big mistake, as he found out that for some jobs (teachers was the first example) you HAD to be a party member, and all the Americans had managed to do was fire all the university educated level staff - so the first task was to get them back again.
The next task was to pay them - and on time. For the first few months this meant repeated requests to the U.S. command (due to his new job, the soldier now reported direct to the military in Baghdad) for actual money to pay everybody (and, actually finding out what that pay was because the locals all tried to get him to pay out more than he should).
But now to the crux of our story. One day, a large shipping container arrived at his office, and he was asked to sign for the contents. Having done so, the container was opened and found to reveal - millions of bundled U.S. dollars. Since money from the Americans always required a metric ton of paperwork, the author was a mite confused as to why an unrequested whole-fucking-shipping-container of cash should just show up. A quick phone call, and the answer from U.S. high command:
"The money sent to you is Iraqi money frozen in U.S. banks in the 90's. Since this money is Iraqi money, and you are giving it to Iraqi people, the U.S. army only needs to make sure it arrived, and not to check how it is spent."
The author was not happy with the situation - but it may account for a good chunk of that $8.7B | It wasn't U.S. money, so they didn't care.
*EDIT: The book: |
heinusmcfarkul | I've done:
I dropped the pipe (carpet, luckily, but it still spilled its goodness).
Also, I've spilled red wine on white carpet.
Also, I've broken christmas ornaments/figurines. Not sure what they were or how important, as I was drunk.
I borrowed my friend's car one night with out asking. His girlfriend was in it at the time. It seems I borrowed her too.
Last weekend I dropped an entire 20oz frozen mudslide in my lap. Not really a foul since it was on the back deck, but everyone got a good laugh. Still waiting for my balls to drop back down.
I've Seen:
My ex locked herself in the bathroom for an hour while puking at my party. We only had one bathroom in that apartment and lived in a second-floor condo. Hope nobody pissed off the balcony.
An acquaintance walked into a friend's house and said, 'Wow, you must have a lot of money' (not even a 300k house, but whatever. Dick.)
I woke up one morning to find that someone had shit in the trashcan the previous evening. I still can't eat taco bell. Thankfully it was one of those 55 gallon round ones.
I was 16 and borrowed the parental units' car on night. My friend drank too much boxwine and made a pukespray on the passenger side by puking out the window while it was moving.
My friend (who is never allowed to drink 151 again because of this) picked up a 300lb buddy and windmilled him, then through him into a lawn chair. Politely, somehow. Then he groped a married chick friend of ours. Then we went to the bar where he got kicked out for puking. Two years later we tried to get kicked out by throwing billiard balls around and generally being assholes. Then we woke up my girlfriend by toasting beer bottles so hard they busted (on purpose). Damn that 151.
tl;dr Fairly tame stuff, but damned good times.
| I've done:
I dropped the pipe (carpet, luckily, but it still spilled its goodness).
Also, I've spilled red wine on white carpet.
Also, I've broken christmas ornaments/figurines. Not sure what they were or how important, as I was drunk.
I borrowed my friend's car one night with out asking. His girlfriend was in it at the time. It seems I borrowed her too.
Last weekend I dropped an entire 20oz frozen mudslide in my lap. Not really a foul since it was on the back deck, but everyone got a good laugh. Still waiting for my balls to drop back down.
I've Seen:
My ex locked herself in the bathroom for an hour while puking at my party. We only had one bathroom in that apartment and lived in a second-floor condo. Hope nobody pissed off the balcony.
An acquaintance walked into a friend's house and said, 'Wow, you must have a lot of money' (not even a 300k house, but whatever. Dick.)
I woke up one morning to find that someone had shit in the trashcan the previous evening. I still can't eat taco bell. Thankfully it was one of those 55 gallon round ones.
I was 16 and borrowed the parental units' car on night. My friend drank too much boxwine and made a pukespray on the passenger side by puking out the window while it was moving.
My friend (who is never allowed to drink 151 again because of this) picked up a 300lb buddy and windmilled him, then through him into a lawn chair. Politely, somehow. Then he groped a married chick friend of ours. Then we went to the bar where he got kicked out for puking. Two years later we tried to get kicked out by throwing billiard balls around and generally being assholes. Then we woke up my girlfriend by toasting beer bottles so hard they busted (on purpose). Damn that 151.
tl;dr Fairly tame stuff, but damned good times.
| trees | t5_2r9vp | c0vgqjr | I've done:
I dropped the pipe (carpet, luckily, but it still spilled its goodness).
Also, I've spilled red wine on white carpet.
Also, I've broken christmas ornaments/figurines. Not sure what they were or how important, as I was drunk.
I borrowed my friend's car one night with out asking. His girlfriend was in it at the time. It seems I borrowed her too.
Last weekend I dropped an entire 20oz frozen mudslide in my lap. Not really a foul since it was on the back deck, but everyone got a good laugh. Still waiting for my balls to drop back down.
I've Seen:
My ex locked herself in the bathroom for an hour while puking at my party. We only had one bathroom in that apartment and lived in a second-floor condo. Hope nobody pissed off the balcony.
An acquaintance walked into a friend's house and said, 'Wow, you must have a lot of money' (not even a 300k house, but whatever. Dick.)
I woke up one morning to find that someone had shit in the trashcan the previous evening. I still can't eat taco bell. Thankfully it was one of those 55 gallon round ones.
I was 16 and borrowed the parental units' car on night. My friend drank too much boxwine and made a pukespray on the passenger side by puking out the window while it was moving.
My friend (who is never allowed to drink 151 again because of this) picked up a 300lb buddy and windmilled him, then through him into a lawn chair. Politely, somehow. Then he groped a married chick friend of ours. Then we went to the bar where he got kicked out for puking. Two years later we tried to get kicked out by throwing billiard balls around and generally being assholes. Then we woke up my girlfriend by toasting beer bottles so hard they busted (on purpose). Damn that 151. | Fairly tame stuff, but damned good times. |
dinnercoat | >Where did the money come from?
[Clintons disclose wealth](
tl;dr - Writing and speaking engagements.
| >Where did the money come from?
[Clintons disclose wealth](
tl;dr - Writing and speaking engagements.
| politics | t5_2cneq | c0vrxlv | Where did the money come from?
[Clintons disclose wealth]( | Writing and speaking engagements. |
crawsome | The flashback and the [HPPD]( that set in after it. Nobody diagnosed me right but I'm no hypochondriac, I know symptoms when I see them.
A few months later I was in school, minding my own business when all of a sudden a terrible feeling came over me. It was a flashback and I didn't know how to handle it so I had a panic attack too. I was unable to concentrate, I was sitting on the floor, sweating, my mind was in a million of the wrong places at once.
This feeling continued through the weekend and I tried smoking some pot to calm it down but it only aggravated it, the coming weeks I was going to psychiatric counselors with minor hallucinations as described in the link above.
I'm a one in a million person who happened to have a permanent trip. It did straighten me out and let me know my priorities in life, I stopped taking almost all drugs altogether and I grew up a lot through the suffering.
Everything became new and scary to me for about 2 years. I was afraid that anything could change my perception, Tylenol, over the counters, and I know it was silly, but I was under the impression I was inside a new brain that all new weaknesses. There was a period of time I carried around a note in case I died.
Anyway, I'm glad it happened because I'm straightened out, but when I close my eyes, I don't have that "reassuring feeling" that I'm actually in this room. I just feel nothing.
TL;DR... Bad flashback made my perception change forever. | The flashback and the [HPPD]( that set in after it. Nobody diagnosed me right but I'm no hypochondriac, I know symptoms when I see them.
A few months later I was in school, minding my own business when all of a sudden a terrible feeling came over me. It was a flashback and I didn't know how to handle it so I had a panic attack too. I was unable to concentrate, I was sitting on the floor, sweating, my mind was in a million of the wrong places at once.
This feeling continued through the weekend and I tried smoking some pot to calm it down but it only aggravated it, the coming weeks I was going to psychiatric counselors with minor hallucinations as described in the link above.
I'm a one in a million person who happened to have a permanent trip. It did straighten me out and let me know my priorities in life, I stopped taking almost all drugs altogether and I grew up a lot through the suffering.
Everything became new and scary to me for about 2 years. I was afraid that anything could change my perception, Tylenol, over the counters, and I know it was silly, but I was under the impression I was inside a new brain that all new weaknesses. There was a period of time I carried around a note in case I died.
Anyway, I'm glad it happened because I'm straightened out, but when I close my eyes, I don't have that "reassuring feeling" that I'm actually in this room. I just feel nothing.
TL;DR... Bad flashback made my perception change forever.
| IAmA | t5_2qzb6 | c0w1khc | The flashback and the [HPPD]( that set in after it. Nobody diagnosed me right but I'm no hypochondriac, I know symptoms when I see them.
A few months later I was in school, minding my own business when all of a sudden a terrible feeling came over me. It was a flashback and I didn't know how to handle it so I had a panic attack too. I was unable to concentrate, I was sitting on the floor, sweating, my mind was in a million of the wrong places at once.
This feeling continued through the weekend and I tried smoking some pot to calm it down but it only aggravated it, the coming weeks I was going to psychiatric counselors with minor hallucinations as described in the link above.
I'm a one in a million person who happened to have a permanent trip. It did straighten me out and let me know my priorities in life, I stopped taking almost all drugs altogether and I grew up a lot through the suffering.
Everything became new and scary to me for about 2 years. I was afraid that anything could change my perception, Tylenol, over the counters, and I know it was silly, but I was under the impression I was inside a new brain that all new weaknesses. There was a period of time I carried around a note in case I died.
Anyway, I'm glad it happened because I'm straightened out, but when I close my eyes, I don't have that "reassuring feeling" that I'm actually in this room. I just feel nothing. | Bad flashback made my perception change forever. |
RagingErectus | Writing from a Linux desktop right now, next to my dual boot laptop with OSX and Win7 on it. I say this so you know I'm 100% OS-Agnostic. I don't really prefer one over the other.
I've managed IT departments in large environments before with lots of macs, lots of PC's, and lots of linux and mac servers. About 200 users overall.
Your comment was basically true, but not relevant to the OP's current problem.
OSX requires slightly more "upkeep" than a Windows 7 box, but in reality it depends on usage and how many "Free buddy icons" the user installs.
Preferences files are more likely to get corrupted than the registry. OSX will hose a resource fork on a font (mysteriously corrupting it) more often than Windows. Extensions are slightly more likely to go wacky for no reason or conflict as compared to drivers (which usually only get hosed when you install something bad.)
The difference is maybe 5-10%, but after managing a 200+ mac/pc mixed environment, it's definitely there.
OSX is much easier to reload than windows when the time finally comes, because all the drivers are generally on the disc. On any system, that time is usually because the user (mostly designers) loaded 500 "free" programs they "need" from versiontracker and the system is bogged down and unusable. This is not Mac or PC specific, it's something users will do until the end of time.
The OP's problem is because he installed something he shouldn't have. Guaranteed. I'm not saying it's impossible, but a Windows system (particularly 7) seldom has these kinds of problems unless you're getting malware or installing stuff you shouldn't. OSX is less likely to be affected by malware because there's less of it, but more likely to simply decide you don't really need that preferences file and corrupt it.
This is just my anecdotal experience, but it's anecdotal experience having been responsible for thousands of systems over a long career.
If someone's going to ask me which system to get, it's basically going to come down to: "What do you like more: Drop shadows, or money?"
tldr; My experience is that the difference in "upkeep" between OSX and Win is that the difference is negligible and should not really be a consideration in the purchasing decision. | Writing from a Linux desktop right now, next to my dual boot laptop with OSX and Win7 on it. I say this so you know I'm 100% OS-Agnostic. I don't really prefer one over the other.
I've managed IT departments in large environments before with lots of macs, lots of PC's, and lots of linux and mac servers. About 200 users overall.
Your comment was basically true, but not relevant to the OP's current problem.
OSX requires slightly more "upkeep" than a Windows 7 box, but in reality it depends on usage and how many "Free buddy icons" the user installs.
Preferences files are more likely to get corrupted than the registry. OSX will hose a resource fork on a font (mysteriously corrupting it) more often than Windows. Extensions are slightly more likely to go wacky for no reason or conflict as compared to drivers (which usually only get hosed when you install something bad.)
The difference is maybe 5-10%, but after managing a 200+ mac/pc mixed environment, it's definitely there.
OSX is much easier to reload than windows when the time finally comes, because all the drivers are generally on the disc. On any system, that time is usually because the user (mostly designers) loaded 500 "free" programs they "need" from versiontracker and the system is bogged down and unusable. This is not Mac or PC specific, it's something users will do until the end of time.
The OP's problem is because he installed something he shouldn't have. Guaranteed. I'm not saying it's impossible, but a Windows system (particularly 7) seldom has these kinds of problems unless you're getting malware or installing stuff you shouldn't. OSX is less likely to be affected by malware because there's less of it, but more likely to simply decide you don't really need that preferences file and corrupt it.
This is just my anecdotal experience, but it's anecdotal experience having been responsible for thousands of systems over a long career.
If someone's going to ask me which system to get, it's basically going to come down to: "What do you like more: Drop shadows, or money?"
tldr; My experience is that the difference in "upkeep" between OSX and Win is that the difference is negligible and should not really be a consideration in the purchasing decision.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0w1n26 | Writing from a Linux desktop right now, next to my dual boot laptop with OSX and Win7 on it. I say this so you know I'm 100% OS-Agnostic. I don't really prefer one over the other.
I've managed IT departments in large environments before with lots of macs, lots of PC's, and lots of linux and mac servers. About 200 users overall.
Your comment was basically true, but not relevant to the OP's current problem.
OSX requires slightly more "upkeep" than a Windows 7 box, but in reality it depends on usage and how many "Free buddy icons" the user installs.
Preferences files are more likely to get corrupted than the registry. OSX will hose a resource fork on a font (mysteriously corrupting it) more often than Windows. Extensions are slightly more likely to go wacky for no reason or conflict as compared to drivers (which usually only get hosed when you install something bad.)
The difference is maybe 5-10%, but after managing a 200+ mac/pc mixed environment, it's definitely there.
OSX is much easier to reload than windows when the time finally comes, because all the drivers are generally on the disc. On any system, that time is usually because the user (mostly designers) loaded 500 "free" programs they "need" from versiontracker and the system is bogged down and unusable. This is not Mac or PC specific, it's something users will do until the end of time.
The OP's problem is because he installed something he shouldn't have. Guaranteed. I'm not saying it's impossible, but a Windows system (particularly 7) seldom has these kinds of problems unless you're getting malware or installing stuff you shouldn't. OSX is less likely to be affected by malware because there's less of it, but more likely to simply decide you don't really need that preferences file and corrupt it.
This is just my anecdotal experience, but it's anecdotal experience having been responsible for thousands of systems over a long career.
If someone's going to ask me which system to get, it's basically going to come down to: "What do you like more: Drop shadows, or money?" | My experience is that the difference in "upkeep" between OSX and Win is that the difference is negligible and should not really be a consideration in the purchasing decision. |
The3rdWorld | ironic because i was raised in a liberal family where hedonism is key, being ashamed of my total ability to control any urges to the extent i don't really even have any urges is what i've always considered to be the source/major factor of my severe depression. It's like i'm not a real boy :/
tl;dr - all existence is suffering. | ironic because i was raised in a liberal family where hedonism is key, being ashamed of my total ability to control any urges to the extent i don't really even have any urges is what i've always considered to be the source/major factor of my severe depression. It's like i'm not a real boy :/
tl;dr - all existence is suffering.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0w4kmc | ironic because i was raised in a liberal family where hedonism is key, being ashamed of my total ability to control any urges to the extent i don't really even have any urges is what i've always considered to be the source/major factor of my severe depression. It's like i'm not a real boy :/ | all existence is suffering. |
hottubjerk | When I was in high school I got in the habit of masturbating in random places... for shits and gigz, ya know.
One night we were all at my friend's lakehouse. About 5 of us were just hanging out in the hot tub, chatting with the host's mother who was sitting on the side of the hot tub. I wasn't really engaged in the conversation, so I jacked off in the hot tub while staring at her 60-or-so year old mom.
tl;dr - covertly jacked off in a hot tub full of people while staring at a 60 year old lady | When I was in high school I got in the habit of masturbating in random places... for shits and gigz, ya know.
One night we were all at my friend's lakehouse. About 5 of us were just hanging out in the hot tub, chatting with the host's mother who was sitting on the side of the hot tub. I wasn't really engaged in the conversation, so I jacked off in the hot tub while staring at her 60-or-so year old mom.
tl;dr - covertly jacked off in a hot tub full of people while staring at a 60 year old lady
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0w0eon | When I was in high school I got in the habit of masturbating in random places... for shits and gigz, ya know.
One night we were all at my friend's lakehouse. About 5 of us were just hanging out in the hot tub, chatting with the host's mother who was sitting on the side of the hot tub. I wasn't really engaged in the conversation, so I jacked off in the hot tub while staring at her 60-or-so year old mom. | covertly jacked off in a hot tub full of people while staring at a 60 year old lady |
bathroomstall | NSFW
When I was in 2nd grade I became friends with this girl, we'll name her Alyssa. It was expected for us to go to the bathroom with a partner, so she told me to come with her one day. She convinced me to go into the restricted bathroom for 1st graders only and we went along our way there. Most of it is a blur, but she convinced me to actually lick her vagina and that area. We started doing that much more often to each other and eventually we made a third friend, we'll name her Olivia. Alyssa convinced me to convince Olivia to do the same thing with us. A couple of months ago I found Alyssa on facebook. It's been more than 10 years and I still remember this, but I never brought it up with Alyssa again. In fact we don't even talk, but that's probably one of the most perverted/creepiest things I have ever done.
TLDR:2nd grade; girl convinced me to perform cunnilingus on her(same grade) and convinced me to get a third girl to do the same to me. | NSFW
When I was in 2nd grade I became friends with this girl, we'll name her Alyssa. It was expected for us to go to the bathroom with a partner, so she told me to come with her one day. She convinced me to go into the restricted bathroom for 1st graders only and we went along our way there. Most of it is a blur, but she convinced me to actually lick her vagina and that area. We started doing that much more often to each other and eventually we made a third friend, we'll name her Olivia. Alyssa convinced me to convince Olivia to do the same thing with us. A couple of months ago I found Alyssa on facebook. It's been more than 10 years and I still remember this, but I never brought it up with Alyssa again. In fact we don't even talk, but that's probably one of the most perverted/creepiest things I have ever done.
TLDR:2nd grade; girl convinced me to perform cunnilingus on her(same grade) and convinced me to get a third girl to do the same to me.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0w0ltl | NSFW
When I was in 2nd grade I became friends with this girl, we'll name her Alyssa. It was expected for us to go to the bathroom with a partner, so she told me to come with her one day. She convinced me to go into the restricted bathroom for 1st graders only and we went along our way there. Most of it is a blur, but she convinced me to actually lick her vagina and that area. We started doing that much more often to each other and eventually we made a third friend, we'll name her Olivia. Alyssa convinced me to convince Olivia to do the same thing with us. A couple of months ago I found Alyssa on facebook. It's been more than 10 years and I still remember this, but I never brought it up with Alyssa again. In fact we don't even talk, but that's probably one of the most perverted/creepiest things I have ever done. | 2nd grade; girl convinced me to perform cunnilingus on her(same grade) and convinced me to get a third girl to do the same to me. |
McSexTime | I can top this. I've had sex on the counter at McDonald's. Many times. My high school girlfriend and I used to open the store alone all summer. I'd pick her up for work, we'd start the coffee and the kitchen equipment, have sex, and then start making Egg McFuckingMuffins. Sometimes we would go in the Playland and do it in there, but there was something exciting about the counter since there were windows everywhere. I like to think that someone driving through our little town at 4 AM (this was before 24-hour McDonald's stores) must have seen us banging away. But no one ever called the GM, we were never fired.
tl;dr - Don't eat directly off the counters at McDonald's. Also the Playland area may not be, um "hygienic."
One and done to protect McIdentity. | I can top this. I've had sex on the counter at McDonald's. Many times. My high school girlfriend and I used to open the store alone all summer. I'd pick her up for work, we'd start the coffee and the kitchen equipment, have sex, and then start making Egg McFuckingMuffins. Sometimes we would go in the Playland and do it in there, but there was something exciting about the counter since there were windows everywhere. I like to think that someone driving through our little town at 4 AM (this was before 24-hour McDonald's stores) must have seen us banging away. But no one ever called the GM, we were never fired.
tl;dr - Don't eat directly off the counters at McDonald's. Also the Playland area may not be, um "hygienic."
One and done to protect McIdentity.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0w0n6b | I can top this. I've had sex on the counter at McDonald's. Many times. My high school girlfriend and I used to open the store alone all summer. I'd pick her up for work, we'd start the coffee and the kitchen equipment, have sex, and then start making Egg McFuckingMuffins. Sometimes we would go in the Playland and do it in there, but there was something exciting about the counter since there were windows everywhere. I like to think that someone driving through our little town at 4 AM (this was before 24-hour McDonald's stores) must have seen us banging away. But no one ever called the GM, we were never fired. | Don't eat directly off the counters at McDonald's. Also the Playland area may not be, um "hygienic."
One and done to protect McIdentity. |
milehighwut | I too had an autoerotic experience under an airline blanket. WORST. FLIGHT. EVAR.
Backstory: 3 weeks of complete sexual abstinence - no sex, no fapping. Why? Shitting myself about uni exams and for some reason thinking that cracking one off wouldn't help. Then going on a 12 day tour with a group from uni, staying in youth hostels with 5 or 6 to a room. Also, I had an injury which meant I was in agony a lot of the time so my mind was elsewhere.
Anyway, returning home I was asleep under a blanket on an overnight flight, having a great dream. I don't remember too many details, but there were boobs and pussy. Check. Suddenly I woke up to find my hand gripping a raging boner through my trousers and I could tell I was at the point of no return. Time slowed to a crawl as my elation turned to horror and I bore witness to an orgasm I didn't want to have, coupled with a load befitting 3 weeks of prior abstinence. Holding, the blanket to cover my boner, I dashed to the toilet in an attempt to save the trousers from displaying visible ooze. Whipped off my boxers, and without thinking shoved them into the springloaded flappy lidded paper towel bin. Cleaned up, luckily the outside of the trousers was uncompromised. Sat down again, going commando, and cried myself back to sleep.
**TL;DR:** 3 weeks of abstinence before overnight plane journey=involuntary sleepfapping+massive jizz in my pants with no change of clothes available | I too had an autoerotic experience under an airline blanket. WORST. FLIGHT. EVAR.
Backstory: 3 weeks of complete sexual abstinence - no sex, no fapping. Why? Shitting myself about uni exams and for some reason thinking that cracking one off wouldn't help. Then going on a 12 day tour with a group from uni, staying in youth hostels with 5 or 6 to a room. Also, I had an injury which meant I was in agony a lot of the time so my mind was elsewhere.
Anyway, returning home I was asleep under a blanket on an overnight flight, having a great dream. I don't remember too many details, but there were boobs and pussy. Check. Suddenly I woke up to find my hand gripping a raging boner through my trousers and I could tell I was at the point of no return. Time slowed to a crawl as my elation turned to horror and I bore witness to an orgasm I didn't want to have, coupled with a load befitting 3 weeks of prior abstinence. Holding, the blanket to cover my boner, I dashed to the toilet in an attempt to save the trousers from displaying visible ooze. Whipped off my boxers, and without thinking shoved them into the springloaded flappy lidded paper towel bin. Cleaned up, luckily the outside of the trousers was uncompromised. Sat down again, going commando, and cried myself back to sleep.
TL;DR: 3 weeks of abstinence before overnight plane journey=involuntary sleepfapping+massive jizz in my pants with no change of clothes available
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0w0seo | I too had an autoerotic experience under an airline blanket. WORST. FLIGHT. EVAR.
Backstory: 3 weeks of complete sexual abstinence - no sex, no fapping. Why? Shitting myself about uni exams and for some reason thinking that cracking one off wouldn't help. Then going on a 12 day tour with a group from uni, staying in youth hostels with 5 or 6 to a room. Also, I had an injury which meant I was in agony a lot of the time so my mind was elsewhere.
Anyway, returning home I was asleep under a blanket on an overnight flight, having a great dream. I don't remember too many details, but there were boobs and pussy. Check. Suddenly I woke up to find my hand gripping a raging boner through my trousers and I could tell I was at the point of no return. Time slowed to a crawl as my elation turned to horror and I bore witness to an orgasm I didn't want to have, coupled with a load befitting 3 weeks of prior abstinence. Holding, the blanket to cover my boner, I dashed to the toilet in an attempt to save the trousers from displaying visible ooze. Whipped off my boxers, and without thinking shoved them into the springloaded flappy lidded paper towel bin. Cleaned up, luckily the outside of the trousers was uncompromised. Sat down again, going commando, and cried myself back to sleep. | 3 weeks of abstinence before overnight plane journey=involuntary sleepfapping+massive jizz in my pants with no change of clothes available |
prostitots | I was raised in a really conservative christian family completely sheltered from sexual influences of any kind. (Like, not even allowed to watch movies with girls in bikinis in them until I was ten or so.) Somehow I ended up as a total pervert until recently.
* When I was really little (five or so) my friend and I would sneak off (we're both guys) go play gay doctor
* Eight or nine and I started playing doctor with girls. I would get totally turned on by seeing little girls running around the beach without shirts on and stuff, and I even fingered a girl to an orgasm when we were both eight
* banned from a friends house at age seven for getting naked with his sister (age 5) in the closet
* First boner at age ten, I had no idea what it was and it freaked me the fuck out that my dick would get kind of hard
* Age ten I had two friends that I would stay the night with constantly and pretty much just take showers the whole time playing with eachothers tiny peckers. attempted anal and failed miserably due to tiny peckers.
* Age twelve got in trouble for taking a shower naked with three ten year old girls. I would visit my friend all the time and sneak off with his nine year old sister. Started doing anal stuff with an eleven year old girl.
* Age thirteen I tutored two girls in an instrument, and I would mess around with them constantly. Not only did I make $40/hour for the lessons, but I spent the whole time pretty much dry-humping other 'innocent' christian kids. One time I came. That was my first orgasm and I had no fucking idea what it was. Yeah, seriously. I was so sheltered I still didn't know what sex was. I honestly thought I had pissed snot.
* Age thirteen I had sex. I was pretty good at manipulating girls at this point, and had access to alcohol, so ages 13 - 16 was pretty much constant sex. Like, an unhealthy addiction. The second I had sex with one girl I was already after the next. The worst part is I went after christian virgin types, always one year younger than me. I knew exactly what to say to get that type of girl into bed. I would go to youth groups and christian music festivals and clean house. I wasn't anything special, I just knew what to say and how to act.
* Age sixteen I met a girl I really like, and have managed to stick with her
I have a totally normal sex life now, with no weird fetishes, no pedophilia, and am able to get by with weekly sex if I'm lucky. I'm fairly certain that I'm not gay as well, going by my inability to get turned on by gay porn and my love of boobs.
Despite me coming out of things okay, I realize I am a horrible person. I corrupted a lot of people at a vulnerable age. Two of the guys I used to fool around with are gay now, probably because of me, and I manipulated far too many girls at far too young of an age into doing stuff that will impact them very greatly.
On the plus side, I rock at sex.
TL;DR don't try to shelter your kids from sex. They'll figure things out on their own and then things gets ugly.
Edit: on the turning kids gay thing. No idea how this works, I assume me manipulating pre-pubescent kids into doing stuff with me had an effect on their sexual orientation. | I was raised in a really conservative christian family completely sheltered from sexual influences of any kind. (Like, not even allowed to watch movies with girls in bikinis in them until I was ten or so.) Somehow I ended up as a total pervert until recently.
When I was really little (five or so) my friend and I would sneak off (we're both guys) go play gay doctor
Eight or nine and I started playing doctor with girls. I would get totally turned on by seeing little girls running around the beach without shirts on and stuff, and I even fingered a girl to an orgasm when we were both eight
banned from a friends house at age seven for getting naked with his sister (age 5) in the closet
First boner at age ten, I had no idea what it was and it freaked me the fuck out that my dick would get kind of hard
Age ten I had two friends that I would stay the night with constantly and pretty much just take showers the whole time playing with eachothers tiny peckers. attempted anal and failed miserably due to tiny peckers.
Age twelve got in trouble for taking a shower naked with three ten year old girls. I would visit my friend all the time and sneak off with his nine year old sister. Started doing anal stuff with an eleven year old girl.
Age thirteen I tutored two girls in an instrument, and I would mess around with them constantly. Not only did I make $40/hour for the lessons, but I spent the whole time pretty much dry-humping other 'innocent' christian kids. One time I came. That was my first orgasm and I had no fucking idea what it was. Yeah, seriously. I was so sheltered I still didn't know what sex was. I honestly thought I had pissed snot.
Age thirteen I had sex. I was pretty good at manipulating girls at this point, and had access to alcohol, so ages 13 - 16 was pretty much constant sex. Like, an unhealthy addiction. The second I had sex with one girl I was already after the next. The worst part is I went after christian virgin types, always one year younger than me. I knew exactly what to say to get that type of girl into bed. I would go to youth groups and christian music festivals and clean house. I wasn't anything special, I just knew what to say and how to act.
Age sixteen I met a girl I really like, and have managed to stick with her
I have a totally normal sex life now, with no weird fetishes, no pedophilia, and am able to get by with weekly sex if I'm lucky. I'm fairly certain that I'm not gay as well, going by my inability to get turned on by gay porn and my love of boobs.
Despite me coming out of things okay, I realize I am a horrible person. I corrupted a lot of people at a vulnerable age. Two of the guys I used to fool around with are gay now, probably because of me, and I manipulated far too many girls at far too young of an age into doing stuff that will impact them very greatly.
On the plus side, I rock at sex.
TL;DR don't try to shelter your kids from sex. They'll figure things out on their own and then things gets ugly.
Edit: on the turning kids gay thing. No idea how this works, I assume me manipulating pre-pubescent kids into doing stuff with me had an effect on their sexual orientation.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0w0uft | I was raised in a really conservative christian family completely sheltered from sexual influences of any kind. (Like, not even allowed to watch movies with girls in bikinis in them until I was ten or so.) Somehow I ended up as a total pervert until recently.
When I was really little (five or so) my friend and I would sneak off (we're both guys) go play gay doctor
Eight or nine and I started playing doctor with girls. I would get totally turned on by seeing little girls running around the beach without shirts on and stuff, and I even fingered a girl to an orgasm when we were both eight
banned from a friends house at age seven for getting naked with his sister (age 5) in the closet
First boner at age ten, I had no idea what it was and it freaked me the fuck out that my dick would get kind of hard
Age ten I had two friends that I would stay the night with constantly and pretty much just take showers the whole time playing with eachothers tiny peckers. attempted anal and failed miserably due to tiny peckers.
Age twelve got in trouble for taking a shower naked with three ten year old girls. I would visit my friend all the time and sneak off with his nine year old sister. Started doing anal stuff with an eleven year old girl.
Age thirteen I tutored two girls in an instrument, and I would mess around with them constantly. Not only did I make $40/hour for the lessons, but I spent the whole time pretty much dry-humping other 'innocent' christian kids. One time I came. That was my first orgasm and I had no fucking idea what it was. Yeah, seriously. I was so sheltered I still didn't know what sex was. I honestly thought I had pissed snot.
Age thirteen I had sex. I was pretty good at manipulating girls at this point, and had access to alcohol, so ages 13 - 16 was pretty much constant sex. Like, an unhealthy addiction. The second I had sex with one girl I was already after the next. The worst part is I went after christian virgin types, always one year younger than me. I knew exactly what to say to get that type of girl into bed. I would go to youth groups and christian music festivals and clean house. I wasn't anything special, I just knew what to say and how to act.
Age sixteen I met a girl I really like, and have managed to stick with her
I have a totally normal sex life now, with no weird fetishes, no pedophilia, and am able to get by with weekly sex if I'm lucky. I'm fairly certain that I'm not gay as well, going by my inability to get turned on by gay porn and my love of boobs.
Despite me coming out of things okay, I realize I am a horrible person. I corrupted a lot of people at a vulnerable age. Two of the guys I used to fool around with are gay now, probably because of me, and I manipulated far too many girls at far too young of an age into doing stuff that will impact them very greatly.
On the plus side, I rock at sex. | don't try to shelter your kids from sex. They'll figure things out on their own and then things gets ugly.
Edit: on the turning kids gay thing. No idea how this works, I assume me manipulating pre-pubescent kids into doing stuff with me had an effect on their sexual orientation. |
youngandhorny | I started being curious about sex at the age of 11, and perhaps a huge part of it was my body, which was MUCH more developed than girls my age at that time. My tits were huge at 12, and I started getting turned on with the attention I was getting. I had one particular classmate (this was in 6th grade) who would make suggestive comments about me, all kid stuff, but my attraction for him was enormous. So one day we got into a daring-each-other kind of conversation that ended with us making out at a secluded part of our school (an abandoned wing that time). He started touching my tits and I begged him to lick and suck them, which he was all too willing to do. Then I got on my knees and pulled out his cock so I could rub it across and between my tits. He came almost immediately and I rubbed it all over my chest. Afterwards I masturbated while he watched me, as he was jerking off himself. We remained friends until high school, and I think I would have surrendered my V card to him if he didn't move away when we were 15.
It wasn't until years later that I heard the term 'tittyfuck', and it brought back that memory with such force that got me completely wet and ready to jump on his cock should I see him again.
TL;DR: Gave my first tittyfuck at 12 years old | I started being curious about sex at the age of 11, and perhaps a huge part of it was my body, which was MUCH more developed than girls my age at that time. My tits were huge at 12, and I started getting turned on with the attention I was getting. I had one particular classmate (this was in 6th grade) who would make suggestive comments about me, all kid stuff, but my attraction for him was enormous. So one day we got into a daring-each-other kind of conversation that ended with us making out at a secluded part of our school (an abandoned wing that time). He started touching my tits and I begged him to lick and suck them, which he was all too willing to do. Then I got on my knees and pulled out his cock so I could rub it across and between my tits. He came almost immediately and I rubbed it all over my chest. Afterwards I masturbated while he watched me, as he was jerking off himself. We remained friends until high school, and I think I would have surrendered my V card to him if he didn't move away when we were 15.
It wasn't until years later that I heard the term 'tittyfuck', and it brought back that memory with such force that got me completely wet and ready to jump on his cock should I see him again.
TL;DR: Gave my first tittyfuck at 12 years old
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0w1pof | I started being curious about sex at the age of 11, and perhaps a huge part of it was my body, which was MUCH more developed than girls my age at that time. My tits were huge at 12, and I started getting turned on with the attention I was getting. I had one particular classmate (this was in 6th grade) who would make suggestive comments about me, all kid stuff, but my attraction for him was enormous. So one day we got into a daring-each-other kind of conversation that ended with us making out at a secluded part of our school (an abandoned wing that time). He started touching my tits and I begged him to lick and suck them, which he was all too willing to do. Then I got on my knees and pulled out his cock so I could rub it across and between my tits. He came almost immediately and I rubbed it all over my chest. Afterwards I masturbated while he watched me, as he was jerking off himself. We remained friends until high school, and I think I would have surrendered my V card to him if he didn't move away when we were 15.
It wasn't until years later that I heard the term 'tittyfuck', and it brought back that memory with such force that got me completely wet and ready to jump on his cock should I see him again. | Gave my first tittyfuck at 12 years old |
Tyrshand | So, this isn't really me being creepy. But I've never told anyone about this. I'm 16, and there's this girl who lives in the neighborhood behind me that's been in atleast one of my classes every year since we were in seventh grade (my sophmore year just ended) she's Always been really weird, and a lot of people make fun of her and whatever. But me being me, I've always been nice to her. I don't mean to be a douche or sound like I have an ego, but I've always been fairly popular, I'm quite muscular and athletic for my age, and if it wasn't for my love for food I'd have some ab action going on. But anyway, I just found out this year from one of her friends that she knew where I live, and she appearently goes in my backyard all the time, but I figured it wasn't true or whatever and just carried on. But one day, I was taking a shower, and I left the blinds and curtains open just because I don't really think much of people checking me out while I'm in the shower. But I get out, and there she is in my front yard looking directly at me, and holding her phone in my direction. I have huge windows in my bathroom. I damn near shit my pants that I wasn't wearing. We met eyes, and she took off. Still to this day I think about how she may or may not have pictures of me naked on her phone.
TL;DR
some weird girl saw my dong. | So, this isn't really me being creepy. But I've never told anyone about this. I'm 16, and there's this girl who lives in the neighborhood behind me that's been in atleast one of my classes every year since we were in seventh grade (my sophmore year just ended) she's Always been really weird, and a lot of people make fun of her and whatever. But me being me, I've always been nice to her. I don't mean to be a douche or sound like I have an ego, but I've always been fairly popular, I'm quite muscular and athletic for my age, and if it wasn't for my love for food I'd have some ab action going on. But anyway, I just found out this year from one of her friends that she knew where I live, and she appearently goes in my backyard all the time, but I figured it wasn't true or whatever and just carried on. But one day, I was taking a shower, and I left the blinds and curtains open just because I don't really think much of people checking me out while I'm in the shower. But I get out, and there she is in my front yard looking directly at me, and holding her phone in my direction. I have huge windows in my bathroom. I damn near shit my pants that I wasn't wearing. We met eyes, and she took off. Still to this day I think about how she may or may not have pictures of me naked on her phone.
TL;DR
some weird girl saw my dong.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0w2m5q | So, this isn't really me being creepy. But I've never told anyone about this. I'm 16, and there's this girl who lives in the neighborhood behind me that's been in atleast one of my classes every year since we were in seventh grade (my sophmore year just ended) she's Always been really weird, and a lot of people make fun of her and whatever. But me being me, I've always been nice to her. I don't mean to be a douche or sound like I have an ego, but I've always been fairly popular, I'm quite muscular and athletic for my age, and if it wasn't for my love for food I'd have some ab action going on. But anyway, I just found out this year from one of her friends that she knew where I live, and she appearently goes in my backyard all the time, but I figured it wasn't true or whatever and just carried on. But one day, I was taking a shower, and I left the blinds and curtains open just because I don't really think much of people checking me out while I'm in the shower. But I get out, and there she is in my front yard looking directly at me, and holding her phone in my direction. I have huge windows in my bathroom. I damn near shit my pants that I wasn't wearing. We met eyes, and she took off. Still to this day I think about how she may or may not have pictures of me naked on her phone. | some weird girl saw my dong. |
Non-prophet | Unixxx described two groups. Most girls, whom unixxx tentatively asserted would either find it unsexy or claim to find it unsexy dishonestly (thus, actually two groups in itself) and vivalareina, who found it sexy.
Not only did unixxx only claim to describe "most girls" (perhaps 51% of girls) plus one (vivalereina), the asserted characteristic of the majority of girls- claiming it wasn't hot- was attributed to two different causes, only one of which was dishonesty. Moreover, the assertion began with "I think", a truism typically used to indicate a higher than usual level of self-acknowledged fallibility in one's observation.
You yourself even appended your judgement with a "presumably", as though aware of how much content and context you had ignored in order to make a stronger accusation.
**TL;DR: You should try to jerk your knees less.** | Unixxx described two groups. Most girls, whom unixxx tentatively asserted would either find it unsexy or claim to find it unsexy dishonestly (thus, actually two groups in itself) and vivalareina, who found it sexy.
Not only did unixxx only claim to describe "most girls" (perhaps 51% of girls) plus one (vivalereina), the asserted characteristic of the majority of girls- claiming it wasn't hot- was attributed to two different causes, only one of which was dishonesty. Moreover, the assertion began with "I think", a truism typically used to indicate a higher than usual level of self-acknowledged fallibility in one's observation.
You yourself even appended your judgement with a "presumably", as though aware of how much content and context you had ignored in order to make a stronger accusation.
TL;DR: You should try to jerk your knees less.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0w72n5 | Unixxx described two groups. Most girls, whom unixxx tentatively asserted would either find it unsexy or claim to find it unsexy dishonestly (thus, actually two groups in itself) and vivalareina, who found it sexy.
Not only did unixxx only claim to describe "most girls" (perhaps 51% of girls) plus one (vivalereina), the asserted characteristic of the majority of girls- claiming it wasn't hot- was attributed to two different causes, only one of which was dishonesty. Moreover, the assertion began with "I think", a truism typically used to indicate a higher than usual level of self-acknowledged fallibility in one's observation.
You yourself even appended your judgement with a "presumably", as though aware of how much content and context you had ignored in order to make a stronger accusation. | You should try to jerk your knees less. |
turtal46 | You could read my post above, or I can go ahead and repost it for you here.
>Most, if not all, primates, of which we are, show incest avoidance. I completely agree it goes against natural selection, but as intelligent primates, we have embraced this with science. Knowing that incestrial sex might produce offspring to be physically deficient. But since we KNOW this, we have made it not only taboo, but completely immoral. Not because society shuns it, but because our genetics do.
Making an argument about how incest shouldn't be or isn't immoral? Please, seek counseling. Unless you are trolling...Fool me once...shame....shame on you. Fool me twice....O.O.....you already fooled me, you can't get fooled again!
TLDR: Incest is wrong because it's programmed into our genetics, not our culture. | You could read my post above, or I can go ahead and repost it for you here.
>Most, if not all, primates, of which we are, show incest avoidance. I completely agree it goes against natural selection, but as intelligent primates, we have embraced this with science. Knowing that incestrial sex might produce offspring to be physically deficient. But since we KNOW this, we have made it not only taboo, but completely immoral. Not because society shuns it, but because our genetics do.
Making an argument about how incest shouldn't be or isn't immoral? Please, seek counseling. Unless you are trolling...Fool me once...shame....shame on you. Fool me twice....O.O.....you already fooled me, you can't get fooled again!
TLDR: Incest is wrong because it's programmed into our genetics, not our culture.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0w1ntp | You could read my post above, or I can go ahead and repost it for you here.
>Most, if not all, primates, of which we are, show incest avoidance. I completely agree it goes against natural selection, but as intelligent primates, we have embraced this with science. Knowing that incestrial sex might produce offspring to be physically deficient. But since we KNOW this, we have made it not only taboo, but completely immoral. Not because society shuns it, but because our genetics do.
Making an argument about how incest shouldn't be or isn't immoral? Please, seek counseling. Unless you are trolling...Fool me once...shame....shame on you. Fool me twice....O.O.....you already fooled me, you can't get fooled again! | Incest is wrong because it's programmed into our genetics, not our culture. |
Tangurena | Hating on different social groups is a dysfunction that appears to develop in middle school in the US. While Paul Graham's essay is written explicitly about the difference between popular kids and nerds, it applies to the difference between popular kids and everyone else. People who were near the top of the popularity scale don't recognize any part of what Paul's long essay describes. People who were in the bottom half of the popularity scale in school recognize what Paul writes about (in that essay) even if they can't describe it themselves.
> *Around the age of eleven, though, kids seem to start treating their family as a day job. They create a new world among themselves, and standing in this world is what matters, not standing in their family. Indeed, being in trouble in their family can win them points in the world they care about.*
> *The problem is, the world these kids create for themselves is at first a very crude one. If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the Flies. Like a lot of American kids, I read this book in school. Presumably it was not a coincidence. Presumably someone wanted to point out to us that we were savages, and that we had made ourselves a cruel and stupid world. This was too subtle for me. While the book seemed entirely believable, I didn't get the additional message. I wish they had just told us outright that we were savages and our world was stupid.*
> *Nerds would find their unpopularity more bearable if it merely caused them to be ignored. Unfortunately, to be unpopular in school is to be actively persecuted.*
> *Why? Once again, anyone currently in school might think this a strange question to ask. How could things be any other way? But they could be. Adults don't normally persecute nerds. Why do teenage kids do it?*
> *Partly because teenagers are still half children, and many children are just intrinsically cruel. Some torture nerds for the same reason they pull the legs off spiders. Before you develop a conscience, torture is amusing.*
> *Another reason kids persecute nerds is to make themselves feel better. When you tread water, you lift yourself up by pushing water down. Likewise, in any social hierarchy, people unsure of their own position will try to emphasize it by maltreating those they think rank below. I've read that this is why poor whites in the United States are the group most hostile to blacks.*
> *But I think the main reason other kids persecute nerds is that it's part of the mechanism of popularity. Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness. It's much more about alliances. To become more popular, you need to be constantly doing things that bring you close to other popular people, and nothing brings people closer than a common enemy.*
> *Like a politician who wants to distract voters from bad times at home, you can create an enemy if there isn't a real one. By singling out and persecuting a nerd, a group of kids from higher in the hierarchy create bonds between themselves. Attacking an outsider makes them all insiders. This is why the worst cases of bullying happen with groups. Ask any nerd: you get much worse treatment from a group of kids than from any individual bully, however sadistic.*
> *If it's any consolation to the nerds, it's nothing personal. The group of kids who band together to pick on you are doing the same thing, and for the same reason, as a bunch of guys who get together to go hunting. They don't actually hate you. They just need something to chase.*
> *Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe target for the entire school. If I remember correctly, the most popular kids don't persecute nerds; they don't need to stoop to such things. Most of the persecution comes from kids lower down, the nervous middle classes.*
{snip}
> *There was a brief sensation that year when one of our teachers overheard a group of girls waiting for the school bus, and was so shocked that the next day she devoted the whole class to an eloquent plea not to be so cruel to one another.*
> *It didn't have any noticeable effect. What struck me at the time was that she was surprised. You mean she doesn't know the kind of things they say to one another? You mean this isn't normal?*
> *It's important to realize that, no, the adults don't know what the kids are doing to one another. They know, in the abstract, that kids are monstrously cruel to one another, just as we know in the abstract that people get tortured in poorer countries. But, like us, they don't like to dwell on this depressing fact, and they don't see evidence of specific abuses unless they go looking for it.*
> *Public school teachers are in much the same position as prison wardens. Wardens' main concern is to keep the prisoners on the premises. They also need to keep them fed, and as far as possible prevent them from killing one another. Beyond that, they want to have as little to do with the prisoners as possible, so they leave them to create whatever social organization they want. From what I've read, the society that the prisoners create is warped, savage, and pervasive, and it is no fun to be at the bottom of it.*
> *In outline, it was the same at the schools I went to. The most important thing was to stay on the premises. While there, the authorities fed you, prevented overt violence, and made some effort to teach you something. But beyond that they didn't want to have too much to do with the kids. Like prison wardens, the teachers mostly left us to ourselves. And, like prisoners, the culture we created was barbaric.*
{snip}
> *Like many nerds, probably, it was years after high school before I could bring myself to read anything we'd been assigned then. And I lost more than books. I mistrusted words like "character" and "integrity" because they had been so debased by adults. As they were used then, these words all seemed to mean the same thing: obedience. The kids who got praised for these qualities tended to be at best dull-witted prize bulls, and at worst facile schmoozers. If that was what character and integrity were, I wanted no part of them.*
> *The word I most misunderstood was "tact." As used by adults, it seemed to mean keeping your mouth shut. I assumed it was derived from the same root as "tacit" and "taciturn," and that it literally meant being quiet. I vowed that I would never be tactful; they were never going to shut me up. In fact, it's derived from the same root as "tactile," and what it means is to have a deft touch. Tactful is the opposite of clumsy. I don't think I learned this until college.*
TL;DR - kids are cruel. To get and stay popular usually means pushing someone else down. | Hating on different social groups is a dysfunction that appears to develop in middle school in the US. While Paul Graham's essay is written explicitly about the difference between popular kids and nerds, it applies to the difference between popular kids and everyone else. People who were near the top of the popularity scale don't recognize any part of what Paul's long essay describes. People who were in the bottom half of the popularity scale in school recognize what Paul writes about (in that essay) even if they can't describe it themselves.
> Around the age of eleven, though, kids seem to start treating their family as a day job. They create a new world among themselves, and standing in this world is what matters, not standing in their family. Indeed, being in trouble in their family can win them points in the world they care about.
> The problem is, the world these kids create for themselves is at first a very crude one. If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the Flies. Like a lot of American kids, I read this book in school. Presumably it was not a coincidence. Presumably someone wanted to point out to us that we were savages, and that we had made ourselves a cruel and stupid world. This was too subtle for me. While the book seemed entirely believable, I didn't get the additional message. I wish they had just told us outright that we were savages and our world was stupid.
> Nerds would find their unpopularity more bearable if it merely caused them to be ignored. Unfortunately, to be unpopular in school is to be actively persecuted.
> Why? Once again, anyone currently in school might think this a strange question to ask. How could things be any other way? But they could be. Adults don't normally persecute nerds. Why do teenage kids do it?
> Partly because teenagers are still half children, and many children are just intrinsically cruel. Some torture nerds for the same reason they pull the legs off spiders. Before you develop a conscience, torture is amusing.
> Another reason kids persecute nerds is to make themselves feel better. When you tread water, you lift yourself up by pushing water down. Likewise, in any social hierarchy, people unsure of their own position will try to emphasize it by maltreating those they think rank below. I've read that this is why poor whites in the United States are the group most hostile to blacks.
> But I think the main reason other kids persecute nerds is that it's part of the mechanism of popularity. Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness. It's much more about alliances. To become more popular, you need to be constantly doing things that bring you close to other popular people, and nothing brings people closer than a common enemy.
> Like a politician who wants to distract voters from bad times at home, you can create an enemy if there isn't a real one. By singling out and persecuting a nerd, a group of kids from higher in the hierarchy create bonds between themselves. Attacking an outsider makes them all insiders. This is why the worst cases of bullying happen with groups. Ask any nerd: you get much worse treatment from a group of kids than from any individual bully, however sadistic.
> If it's any consolation to the nerds, it's nothing personal. The group of kids who band together to pick on you are doing the same thing, and for the same reason, as a bunch of guys who get together to go hunting. They don't actually hate you. They just need something to chase.
> Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe target for the entire school. If I remember correctly, the most popular kids don't persecute nerds; they don't need to stoop to such things. Most of the persecution comes from kids lower down, the nervous middle classes.
{snip}
> There was a brief sensation that year when one of our teachers overheard a group of girls waiting for the school bus, and was so shocked that the next day she devoted the whole class to an eloquent plea not to be so cruel to one another.
> It didn't have any noticeable effect. What struck me at the time was that she was surprised. You mean she doesn't know the kind of things they say to one another? You mean this isn't normal?
> It's important to realize that, no, the adults don't know what the kids are doing to one another. They know, in the abstract, that kids are monstrously cruel to one another, just as we know in the abstract that people get tortured in poorer countries. But, like us, they don't like to dwell on this depressing fact, and they don't see evidence of specific abuses unless they go looking for it.
> Public school teachers are in much the same position as prison wardens. Wardens' main concern is to keep the prisoners on the premises. They also need to keep them fed, and as far as possible prevent them from killing one another. Beyond that, they want to have as little to do with the prisoners as possible, so they leave them to create whatever social organization they want. From what I've read, the society that the prisoners create is warped, savage, and pervasive, and it is no fun to be at the bottom of it.
> In outline, it was the same at the schools I went to. The most important thing was to stay on the premises. While there, the authorities fed you, prevented overt violence, and made some effort to teach you something. But beyond that they didn't want to have too much to do with the kids. Like prison wardens, the teachers mostly left us to ourselves. And, like prisoners, the culture we created was barbaric.
{snip}
> Like many nerds, probably, it was years after high school before I could bring myself to read anything we'd been assigned then. And I lost more than books. I mistrusted words like "character" and "integrity" because they had been so debased by adults. As they were used then, these words all seemed to mean the same thing: obedience. The kids who got praised for these qualities tended to be at best dull-witted prize bulls, and at worst facile schmoozers. If that was what character and integrity were, I wanted no part of them.
> The word I most misunderstood was "tact." As used by adults, it seemed to mean keeping your mouth shut. I assumed it was derived from the same root as "tacit" and "taciturn," and that it literally meant being quiet. I vowed that I would never be tactful; they were never going to shut me up. In fact, it's derived from the same root as "tactile," and what it means is to have a deft touch. Tactful is the opposite of clumsy. I don't think I learned this until college.
TL;DR - kids are cruel. To get and stay popular usually means pushing someone else down.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0woq8s | Hating on different social groups is a dysfunction that appears to develop in middle school in the US. While Paul Graham's essay is written explicitly about the difference between popular kids and nerds, it applies to the difference between popular kids and everyone else. People who were near the top of the popularity scale don't recognize any part of what Paul's long essay describes. People who were in the bottom half of the popularity scale in school recognize what Paul writes about (in that essay) even if they can't describe it themselves.
> Around the age of eleven, though, kids seem to start treating their family as a day job. They create a new world among themselves, and standing in this world is what matters, not standing in their family. Indeed, being in trouble in their family can win them points in the world they care about.
> The problem is, the world these kids create for themselves is at first a very crude one. If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the Flies. Like a lot of American kids, I read this book in school. Presumably it was not a coincidence. Presumably someone wanted to point out to us that we were savages, and that we had made ourselves a cruel and stupid world. This was too subtle for me. While the book seemed entirely believable, I didn't get the additional message. I wish they had just told us outright that we were savages and our world was stupid.
> Nerds would find their unpopularity more bearable if it merely caused them to be ignored. Unfortunately, to be unpopular in school is to be actively persecuted.
> Why? Once again, anyone currently in school might think this a strange question to ask. How could things be any other way? But they could be. Adults don't normally persecute nerds. Why do teenage kids do it?
> Partly because teenagers are still half children, and many children are just intrinsically cruel. Some torture nerds for the same reason they pull the legs off spiders. Before you develop a conscience, torture is amusing.
> Another reason kids persecute nerds is to make themselves feel better. When you tread water, you lift yourself up by pushing water down. Likewise, in any social hierarchy, people unsure of their own position will try to emphasize it by maltreating those they think rank below. I've read that this is why poor whites in the United States are the group most hostile to blacks.
> But I think the main reason other kids persecute nerds is that it's part of the mechanism of popularity. Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness. It's much more about alliances. To become more popular, you need to be constantly doing things that bring you close to other popular people, and nothing brings people closer than a common enemy.
> Like a politician who wants to distract voters from bad times at home, you can create an enemy if there isn't a real one. By singling out and persecuting a nerd, a group of kids from higher in the hierarchy create bonds between themselves. Attacking an outsider makes them all insiders. This is why the worst cases of bullying happen with groups. Ask any nerd: you get much worse treatment from a group of kids than from any individual bully, however sadistic.
> If it's any consolation to the nerds, it's nothing personal. The group of kids who band together to pick on you are doing the same thing, and for the same reason, as a bunch of guys who get together to go hunting. They don't actually hate you. They just need something to chase.
> Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe target for the entire school. If I remember correctly, the most popular kids don't persecute nerds; they don't need to stoop to such things. Most of the persecution comes from kids lower down, the nervous middle classes.
{snip}
> There was a brief sensation that year when one of our teachers overheard a group of girls waiting for the school bus, and was so shocked that the next day she devoted the whole class to an eloquent plea not to be so cruel to one another.
> It didn't have any noticeable effect. What struck me at the time was that she was surprised. You mean she doesn't know the kind of things they say to one another? You mean this isn't normal?
> It's important to realize that, no, the adults don't know what the kids are doing to one another. They know, in the abstract, that kids are monstrously cruel to one another, just as we know in the abstract that people get tortured in poorer countries. But, like us, they don't like to dwell on this depressing fact, and they don't see evidence of specific abuses unless they go looking for it.
> Public school teachers are in much the same position as prison wardens. Wardens' main concern is to keep the prisoners on the premises. They also need to keep them fed, and as far as possible prevent them from killing one another. Beyond that, they want to have as little to do with the prisoners as possible, so they leave them to create whatever social organization they want. From what I've read, the society that the prisoners create is warped, savage, and pervasive, and it is no fun to be at the bottom of it.
> In outline, it was the same at the schools I went to. The most important thing was to stay on the premises. While there, the authorities fed you, prevented overt violence, and made some effort to teach you something. But beyond that they didn't want to have too much to do with the kids. Like prison wardens, the teachers mostly left us to ourselves. And, like prisoners, the culture we created was barbaric.
{snip}
> Like many nerds, probably, it was years after high school before I could bring myself to read anything we'd been assigned then. And I lost more than books. I mistrusted words like "character" and "integrity" because they had been so debased by adults. As they were used then, these words all seemed to mean the same thing: obedience. The kids who got praised for these qualities tended to be at best dull-witted prize bulls, and at worst facile schmoozers. If that was what character and integrity were, I wanted no part of them.
> The word I most misunderstood was "tact." As used by adults, it seemed to mean keeping your mouth shut. I assumed it was derived from the same root as "tacit" and "taciturn," and that it literally meant being quiet. I vowed that I would never be tactful; they were never going to shut me up. In fact, it's derived from the same root as "tactile," and what it means is to have a deft touch. Tactful is the opposite of clumsy. I don't think I learned this until college. | kids are cruel. To get and stay popular usually means pushing someone else down. |
boffle | From a personal standpoint and one that's been iterated to me by my coaches and friends who were more intense than I, I will say that running on an elliptical (Which is what tryasyoumight has linked to on Wikipedia) or even a treadmill is not as beneficial to you as running traditionally.
The short, hand-wavy answer is that your body compensates when using the machine. I'll use the treadmill as an example because it's easier for me to visualize. So lets say you're sprinting out at the end of a workout; you bump the speed on the treadmill to 10mph! What ends up happening is that you're not pushing yourself, instead you're just keeping up with the treadmill speed. Your strides become impossibly big compared to when you're actually running. In essence, running on a treadmill doesn't work you harder than traditional running even if the "miles" are the same.
A slightly different argument can be made for normal pace running on a treadmill. When you're traditionally running, the only thing propelling you is you. All of the force you put into the ground via your legs is translated into moving you forward. When you're on a treadmill, the thing is constantly moving and once again you're just trying to keep up with the machine. Your muscles don't work as hard when on a treadmill because the floor moves regardless of your input; it will require less input on your part to keep up with the moving floor than actually propelling yourself.
How does this apply to ellipticals? I'm pretty sure they don't go by themselves. But I would like to think that the overall muscle groups that are worked are slightly different than running- you're not completely striding out and the resistance on those things can be tampered with. Another thing, I believe that your momentum is carried forward the faster you go (so like if you start going really fast and step off, the pedals keep turning for a little bit) and this means that you don't work as hard because it requires less energy to propel you. (The argument against this is that you can bump up the resistance, but I still stand my ground that the muscles being worked aren't EXACTLY proportional to traditional running)
tl;dr No, running on any machine is not exactly the same as traditional running because it doesn't emulate running perfectly. | From a personal standpoint and one that's been iterated to me by my coaches and friends who were more intense than I, I will say that running on an elliptical (Which is what tryasyoumight has linked to on Wikipedia) or even a treadmill is not as beneficial to you as running traditionally.
The short, hand-wavy answer is that your body compensates when using the machine. I'll use the treadmill as an example because it's easier for me to visualize. So lets say you're sprinting out at the end of a workout; you bump the speed on the treadmill to 10mph! What ends up happening is that you're not pushing yourself, instead you're just keeping up with the treadmill speed. Your strides become impossibly big compared to when you're actually running. In essence, running on a treadmill doesn't work you harder than traditional running even if the "miles" are the same.
A slightly different argument can be made for normal pace running on a treadmill. When you're traditionally running, the only thing propelling you is you. All of the force you put into the ground via your legs is translated into moving you forward. When you're on a treadmill, the thing is constantly moving and once again you're just trying to keep up with the machine. Your muscles don't work as hard when on a treadmill because the floor moves regardless of your input; it will require less input on your part to keep up with the moving floor than actually propelling yourself.
How does this apply to ellipticals? I'm pretty sure they don't go by themselves. But I would like to think that the overall muscle groups that are worked are slightly different than running- you're not completely striding out and the resistance on those things can be tampered with. Another thing, I believe that your momentum is carried forward the faster you go (so like if you start going really fast and step off, the pedals keep turning for a little bit) and this means that you don't work as hard because it requires less energy to propel you. (The argument against this is that you can bump up the resistance, but I still stand my ground that the muscles being worked aren't EXACTLY proportional to traditional running)
tl;dr No, running on any machine is not exactly the same as traditional running because it doesn't emulate running perfectly.
| 90daysgoal | t5_2s0sd | c0wqqik | From a personal standpoint and one that's been iterated to me by my coaches and friends who were more intense than I, I will say that running on an elliptical (Which is what tryasyoumight has linked to on Wikipedia) or even a treadmill is not as beneficial to you as running traditionally.
The short, hand-wavy answer is that your body compensates when using the machine. I'll use the treadmill as an example because it's easier for me to visualize. So lets say you're sprinting out at the end of a workout; you bump the speed on the treadmill to 10mph! What ends up happening is that you're not pushing yourself, instead you're just keeping up with the treadmill speed. Your strides become impossibly big compared to when you're actually running. In essence, running on a treadmill doesn't work you harder than traditional running even if the "miles" are the same.
A slightly different argument can be made for normal pace running on a treadmill. When you're traditionally running, the only thing propelling you is you. All of the force you put into the ground via your legs is translated into moving you forward. When you're on a treadmill, the thing is constantly moving and once again you're just trying to keep up with the machine. Your muscles don't work as hard when on a treadmill because the floor moves regardless of your input; it will require less input on your part to keep up with the moving floor than actually propelling yourself.
How does this apply to ellipticals? I'm pretty sure they don't go by themselves. But I would like to think that the overall muscle groups that are worked are slightly different than running- you're not completely striding out and the resistance on those things can be tampered with. Another thing, I believe that your momentum is carried forward the faster you go (so like if you start going really fast and step off, the pedals keep turning for a little bit) and this means that you don't work as hard because it requires less energy to propel you. (The argument against this is that you can bump up the resistance, but I still stand my ground that the muscles being worked aren't EXACTLY proportional to traditional running) | No, running on any machine is not exactly the same as traditional running because it doesn't emulate running perfectly. |
Juan_Solo | >it's all of 3 miles from where I live and where I work
Bike.
It'll take 30 mins, and you can come and go as you please, not on the MBTA's "schedule." Biking to and from work is refreshing, exhilarating, and wakes you up way more than a cup of coffee. Save time, money & your desire to scream. And get some damn exercise every day (huge benefits physically and mentally). I know I sound like a spokesperson, but I genuinely believe biking to work is tragically underrated.
You'll love it.
tldr: Bike. You love it. | >it's all of 3 miles from where I live and where I work
Bike.
It'll take 30 mins, and you can come and go as you please, not on the MBTA's "schedule." Biking to and from work is refreshing, exhilarating, and wakes you up way more than a cup of coffee. Save time, money & your desire to scream. And get some damn exercise every day (huge benefits physically and mentally). I know I sound like a spokesperson, but I genuinely believe biking to work is tragically underrated.
You'll love it.
tldr: Bike. You love it.
| boston | t5_2qh3r | c0wq2g1 | it's all of 3 miles from where I live and where I work
Bike.
It'll take 30 mins, and you can come and go as you please, not on the MBTA's "schedule." Biking to and from work is refreshing, exhilarating, and wakes you up way more than a cup of coffee. Save time, money & your desire to scream. And get some damn exercise every day (huge benefits physically and mentally). I know I sound like a spokesperson, but I genuinely believe biking to work is tragically underrated.
You'll love it. | Bike. You love it. |
zirconium | Read the 2nd and 3rd replies to ANTI-Hivemind as well though, as well as his replies to them if you dare.
That there are differences between introverts and extroverts is proven. That Myers-Briggs is a tool that can reveal that difference in a statistically significant way is also proven, and I understand that it also may do so for two other categories in M.B.
I have no sympathy for people who treat Myers Briggs as a clinical diagnostic tool. It's a severely flawed tool, that shouldn't be used in anything approaching a professional setting. ANTI-Hivemind's criticism of it's Jungian roots is largely spot on. But to jump from the fact that people use it as pop science to the idea that it therefore is entirely pop science—as ANTI-Hivemind apparently did—is something that needs a healthy dose of skepticism.
I'd be pleased if you would write a response if you continue to disagree.
**TL;DR**
Introversion and extroversion are real, and there are questions you can ask people which reveal those tendencies. Myers Briggs asks some of those questions, therefore it is not entirely pseudoscience, despite how people may use it. | Read the 2nd and 3rd replies to ANTI-Hivemind as well though, as well as his replies to them if you dare.
That there are differences between introverts and extroverts is proven. That Myers-Briggs is a tool that can reveal that difference in a statistically significant way is also proven, and I understand that it also may do so for two other categories in M.B.
I have no sympathy for people who treat Myers Briggs as a clinical diagnostic tool. It's a severely flawed tool, that shouldn't be used in anything approaching a professional setting. ANTI-Hivemind's criticism of it's Jungian roots is largely spot on. But to jump from the fact that people use it as pop science to the idea that it therefore is entirely pop science—as ANTI-Hivemind apparently did—is something that needs a healthy dose of skepticism.
I'd be pleased if you would write a response if you continue to disagree.
TL;DR
Introversion and extroversion are real, and there are questions you can ask people which reveal those tendencies. Myers Briggs asks some of those questions, therefore it is not entirely pseudoscience, despite how people may use it.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0y5owa | Read the 2nd and 3rd replies to ANTI-Hivemind as well though, as well as his replies to them if you dare.
That there are differences between introverts and extroverts is proven. That Myers-Briggs is a tool that can reveal that difference in a statistically significant way is also proven, and I understand that it also may do so for two other categories in M.B.
I have no sympathy for people who treat Myers Briggs as a clinical diagnostic tool. It's a severely flawed tool, that shouldn't be used in anything approaching a professional setting. ANTI-Hivemind's criticism of it's Jungian roots is largely spot on. But to jump from the fact that people use it as pop science to the idea that it therefore is entirely pop science—as ANTI-Hivemind apparently did—is something that needs a healthy dose of skepticism.
I'd be pleased if you would write a response if you continue to disagree. | Introversion and extroversion are real, and there are questions you can ask people which reveal those tendencies. Myers Briggs asks some of those questions, therefore it is not entirely pseudoscience, despite how people may use it. |
wgnjig | I held this type of attitude about sports for a long time. I can remember a conversation I had very similar to what is taking place here with a friend a few years ago complaining about the social scene and sports too.
For various reasons, I have my changed my attitude on this matter and have become a sports fan which has helped me out in more than a few awkward social situations. One of things I was heavily into back then was politics which I considered very important and was really into and well informed about. This didn't make for very pleasant or rewarding conversations and in certain situations (company function) it was wise to just keep one's mouth shut period. I suspect it even made me somewhat socially repulsive for the people who I did chat with it about.
I'll use another example since Reddit has a strong gaming community. Let's say I am an avid gamer and spend a lot of time on one or two or three games that I'm pretty passionate about. Now I can get on reddit and say talk about the upcoming release of Civilization and find tons of people who share my enthusiasm and really feel connected with this group of people. The problem is that this just doesn't translate well to the real world. It might not even translate well to other gamers who may be interested in a completely different style of game then me. A lot of people out there aren't even going to know what you are talking about. Some may just want to keep their mouths shut because they don't even want family or casual acquaintances or coworkers knowing that they game.
Sports really solves this problem of narrow interests and diversification. This is especially relevant in real-space since the people you are work with and meet in real life pretty much occupy a region monopolized by one team. So I think a lot of the appeal of the online world over the real world for a lot of people is that it is easy to follow one's narrow self-interest and meet others who share the same passion. In the real world, especially in group settings, one has to negotiate to a common topic and common topics and interests are getting harder to find these days with technology allowing everyone to specialize in whatever they want.
tl;dr - sports is a good topic for large numbers of people to find common ground when getting together that they normally wouldn't have because technology and media diversification allow people to pursue very narrow, non-shared interests.
| I held this type of attitude about sports for a long time. I can remember a conversation I had very similar to what is taking place here with a friend a few years ago complaining about the social scene and sports too.
For various reasons, I have my changed my attitude on this matter and have become a sports fan which has helped me out in more than a few awkward social situations. One of things I was heavily into back then was politics which I considered very important and was really into and well informed about. This didn't make for very pleasant or rewarding conversations and in certain situations (company function) it was wise to just keep one's mouth shut period. I suspect it even made me somewhat socially repulsive for the people who I did chat with it about.
I'll use another example since Reddit has a strong gaming community. Let's say I am an avid gamer and spend a lot of time on one or two or three games that I'm pretty passionate about. Now I can get on reddit and say talk about the upcoming release of Civilization and find tons of people who share my enthusiasm and really feel connected with this group of people. The problem is that this just doesn't translate well to the real world. It might not even translate well to other gamers who may be interested in a completely different style of game then me. A lot of people out there aren't even going to know what you are talking about. Some may just want to keep their mouths shut because they don't even want family or casual acquaintances or coworkers knowing that they game.
Sports really solves this problem of narrow interests and diversification. This is especially relevant in real-space since the people you are work with and meet in real life pretty much occupy a region monopolized by one team. So I think a lot of the appeal of the online world over the real world for a lot of people is that it is easy to follow one's narrow self-interest and meet others who share the same passion. In the real world, especially in group settings, one has to negotiate to a common topic and common topics and interests are getting harder to find these days with technology allowing everyone to specialize in whatever they want.
tl;dr - sports is a good topic for large numbers of people to find common ground when getting together that they normally wouldn't have because technology and media diversification allow people to pursue very narrow, non-shared interests.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0x0oqp | I held this type of attitude about sports for a long time. I can remember a conversation I had very similar to what is taking place here with a friend a few years ago complaining about the social scene and sports too.
For various reasons, I have my changed my attitude on this matter and have become a sports fan which has helped me out in more than a few awkward social situations. One of things I was heavily into back then was politics which I considered very important and was really into and well informed about. This didn't make for very pleasant or rewarding conversations and in certain situations (company function) it was wise to just keep one's mouth shut period. I suspect it even made me somewhat socially repulsive for the people who I did chat with it about.
I'll use another example since Reddit has a strong gaming community. Let's say I am an avid gamer and spend a lot of time on one or two or three games that I'm pretty passionate about. Now I can get on reddit and say talk about the upcoming release of Civilization and find tons of people who share my enthusiasm and really feel connected with this group of people. The problem is that this just doesn't translate well to the real world. It might not even translate well to other gamers who may be interested in a completely different style of game then me. A lot of people out there aren't even going to know what you are talking about. Some may just want to keep their mouths shut because they don't even want family or casual acquaintances or coworkers knowing that they game.
Sports really solves this problem of narrow interests and diversification. This is especially relevant in real-space since the people you are work with and meet in real life pretty much occupy a region monopolized by one team. So I think a lot of the appeal of the online world over the real world for a lot of people is that it is easy to follow one's narrow self-interest and meet others who share the same passion. In the real world, especially in group settings, one has to negotiate to a common topic and common topics and interests are getting harder to find these days with technology allowing everyone to specialize in whatever they want. | sports is a good topic for large numbers of people to find common ground when getting together that they normally wouldn't have because technology and media diversification allow people to pursue very narrow, non-shared interests. |
jcanci | My dad is a geologist who heads a fairly major corp in Baton Rouge focused on coastline restoration. My uncle is a higher up for Exxon in Baton Rouge. Right now, according to my dad and uncle, the majority of the problem is not with the oil in the gulf, its with the way the media and executives handled the problem. The oil is rapidly diminishing, but because of the irrational fear and ineffective response, the problem is being made far worse than it should have been.
BP cut corners, and always has, but the problem will resolve itself. Thousands of gallons of oil naturally leak into the gulf daily(that is why there are, and have always been, so many tar-balls) and this NATURALLY occurring act has been perpetuating for eons.
This oil will naturally disperse and despite common thought, oil encourages microbe growth and can therefore help the swamp in many aspects.
There are several pumps working full time in the atchafalaya basin which are pushing the mississippi river delta out toward the gulf at a faster rate than normal. The real damage to the fisheries and wildlife is caused not by crude oil, but by fresh water being pumped into salt water reefs and habitat.
TL:DR ; Most of the stuff you hear from the media is bullshit, the coast is fine and will be fine. | My dad is a geologist who heads a fairly major corp in Baton Rouge focused on coastline restoration. My uncle is a higher up for Exxon in Baton Rouge. Right now, according to my dad and uncle, the majority of the problem is not with the oil in the gulf, its with the way the media and executives handled the problem. The oil is rapidly diminishing, but because of the irrational fear and ineffective response, the problem is being made far worse than it should have been.
BP cut corners, and always has, but the problem will resolve itself. Thousands of gallons of oil naturally leak into the gulf daily(that is why there are, and have always been, so many tar-balls) and this NATURALLY occurring act has been perpetuating for eons.
This oil will naturally disperse and despite common thought, oil encourages microbe growth and can therefore help the swamp in many aspects.
There are several pumps working full time in the atchafalaya basin which are pushing the mississippi river delta out toward the gulf at a faster rate than normal. The real damage to the fisheries and wildlife is caused not by crude oil, but by fresh water being pumped into salt water reefs and habitat.
TL:DR ; Most of the stuff you hear from the media is bullshit, the coast is fine and will be fine.
| science | t5_mouw | c0x94l7 | My dad is a geologist who heads a fairly major corp in Baton Rouge focused on coastline restoration. My uncle is a higher up for Exxon in Baton Rouge. Right now, according to my dad and uncle, the majority of the problem is not with the oil in the gulf, its with the way the media and executives handled the problem. The oil is rapidly diminishing, but because of the irrational fear and ineffective response, the problem is being made far worse than it should have been.
BP cut corners, and always has, but the problem will resolve itself. Thousands of gallons of oil naturally leak into the gulf daily(that is why there are, and have always been, so many tar-balls) and this NATURALLY occurring act has been perpetuating for eons.
This oil will naturally disperse and despite common thought, oil encourages microbe growth and can therefore help the swamp in many aspects.
There are several pumps working full time in the atchafalaya basin which are pushing the mississippi river delta out toward the gulf at a faster rate than normal. The real damage to the fisheries and wildlife is caused not by crude oil, but by fresh water being pumped into salt water reefs and habitat. | Most of the stuff you hear from the media is bullshit, the coast is fine and will be fine. |
patientpolyamorist | I don't think you need to cleverly word it. I think kids can handle so much more than most adults can - none of those concepts are loaded with moralistic judgements. I'd explain matter of factly that timmybanana has a different daddy. Is your dad out of the picture significantly, so that the kid sister doesn't see you call anyone daddy?
I've got a kid, my primary girlfriend has two kids, another girlfriend has three kids, another girlfriend has two kids. It is good that children are resilliant and can accept very diverse circumstances as 'normal' for themselves.
TLDR; Never too early to start respecting people enough to expect mature reactions when they're dealt with as real people.
| I don't think you need to cleverly word it. I think kids can handle so much more than most adults can - none of those concepts are loaded with moralistic judgements. I'd explain matter of factly that timmybanana has a different daddy. Is your dad out of the picture significantly, so that the kid sister doesn't see you call anyone daddy?
I've got a kid, my primary girlfriend has two kids, another girlfriend has three kids, another girlfriend has two kids. It is good that children are resilliant and can accept very diverse circumstances as 'normal' for themselves.
TLDR; Never too early to start respecting people enough to expect mature reactions when they're dealt with as real people.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0xa9g2 | I don't think you need to cleverly word it. I think kids can handle so much more than most adults can - none of those concepts are loaded with moralistic judgements. I'd explain matter of factly that timmybanana has a different daddy. Is your dad out of the picture significantly, so that the kid sister doesn't see you call anyone daddy?
I've got a kid, my primary girlfriend has two kids, another girlfriend has three kids, another girlfriend has two kids. It is good that children are resilliant and can accept very diverse circumstances as 'normal' for themselves. | Never too early to start respecting people enough to expect mature reactions when they're dealt with as real people. |
moojuece | What is even more fucked up is after it took me a couple of years to get more than an hour every other week for visitation and until he was 7 to get a full weekend my ex's new ex wants to get joint physical custody of my son. She still has him sit my son instead of offer to let me spend the time with him when she wants to go out. Oddly enough now that she is newly single she seems to let me have my boy as much as I want.
TL DR: People are fucked up, honesty with children helps them not be fucked up. | What is even more fucked up is after it took me a couple of years to get more than an hour every other week for visitation and until he was 7 to get a full weekend my ex's new ex wants to get joint physical custody of my son. She still has him sit my son instead of offer to let me spend the time with him when she wants to go out. Oddly enough now that she is newly single she seems to let me have my boy as much as I want.
TL DR: People are fucked up, honesty with children helps them not be fucked up.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0xbxli | What is even more fucked up is after it took me a couple of years to get more than an hour every other week for visitation and until he was 7 to get a full weekend my ex's new ex wants to get joint physical custody of my son. She still has him sit my son instead of offer to let me spend the time with him when she wants to go out. Oddly enough now that she is newly single she seems to let me have my boy as much as I want. | People are fucked up, honesty with children helps them not be fucked up. |
halike | I never thought I'd see a Mitch Hedberg quote in this subreddit that would apply so well to this game.
The best part is that I think it's the best strategy: build a house and start anew. Make sure to keep a chest with a few useful items (some wood, some torches, some coal, maybe a few stone tools, ...).
Even if you die soon after and can't find the house anymore, it's still there and you might very well stumble upon it one day.
TLDR; RIP Mitch. | I never thought I'd see a Mitch Hedberg quote in this subreddit that would apply so well to this game.
The best part is that I think it's the best strategy: build a house and start anew. Make sure to keep a chest with a few useful items (some wood, some torches, some coal, maybe a few stone tools, ...).
Even if you die soon after and can't find the house anymore, it's still there and you might very well stumble upon it one day.
TLDR; RIP Mitch.
| Minecraft | t5_2r05i | c0xjyfs | I never thought I'd see a Mitch Hedberg quote in this subreddit that would apply so well to this game.
The best part is that I think it's the best strategy: build a house and start anew. Make sure to keep a chest with a few useful items (some wood, some torches, some coal, maybe a few stone tools, ...).
Even if you die soon after and can't find the house anymore, it's still there and you might very well stumble upon it one day. | RIP Mitch. |
and_on | I hate when people do that. :[ Two lines deserve a TL;DR? Seriously? | I hate when people do that. :[ Two lines deserve a TL;DR? Seriously?
| self | t5_2qh96 | c0xks0a | I hate when people do that. :[ Two lines deserve a | Seriously? |
Artmageddon | >If you are older, then you are likely to have more back/neck pain and quite possibly a bit of overweightness creeping in too.
I posted below about my two hour commute(each way) which I started when I was 23(I'm 28 now). Prior to it I was walking all over my university campus and had the metabolism of a hummingbird(6'2 and perhaps 160lbs). About two years later, I gained a good 30lbs within that time. I'd be exhausted after each day and would NOT want to do anything, especially work out, when I got home. I finally decided upon seeing the scale hit 195lbs that I couldn't keep going like that did some pretty crazy shit to get back down to normal levels(I'm probably 173 now but haven't been working out in the past few weeks, I could get it even lower).
tl;dr It hits you fast.
Edit: I should mention that I was being completely irresponsible with my diet at that time and trying to stay social, which meant going out for beers around twice a week. | >If you are older, then you are likely to have more back/neck pain and quite possibly a bit of overweightness creeping in too.
I posted below about my two hour commute(each way) which I started when I was 23(I'm 28 now). Prior to it I was walking all over my university campus and had the metabolism of a hummingbird(6'2 and perhaps 160lbs). About two years later, I gained a good 30lbs within that time. I'd be exhausted after each day and would NOT want to do anything, especially work out, when I got home. I finally decided upon seeing the scale hit 195lbs that I couldn't keep going like that did some pretty crazy shit to get back down to normal levels(I'm probably 173 now but haven't been working out in the past few weeks, I could get it even lower).
tl;dr It hits you fast.
Edit: I should mention that I was being completely irresponsible with my diet at that time and trying to stay social, which meant going out for beers around twice a week.
| business | t5_2qgzg | c0xnqr5 | If you are older, then you are likely to have more back/neck pain and quite possibly a bit of overweightness creeping in too.
I posted below about my two hour commute(each way) which I started when I was 23(I'm 28 now). Prior to it I was walking all over my university campus and had the metabolism of a hummingbird(6'2 and perhaps 160lbs). About two years later, I gained a good 30lbs within that time. I'd be exhausted after each day and would NOT want to do anything, especially work out, when I got home. I finally decided upon seeing the scale hit 195lbs that I couldn't keep going like that did some pretty crazy shit to get back down to normal levels(I'm probably 173 now but haven't been working out in the past few weeks, I could get it even lower). | It hits you fast.
Edit: I should mention that I was being completely irresponsible with my diet at that time and trying to stay social, which meant going out for beers around twice a week. |
hodrige | My commute is about 8 miles / 20-25 minutes in traffic. I live just outside a large metro city. On most days I wish my commute was longer though. I know that most people hate traffic, but that never bother me unless I have an appointment / meeting where I always allow for traffic. My work days, which I never take home with me, are very long, fast pace and stressful (not to mention sometimes just plain horrible). I prefer to be riding in my car by myself for 60 minutes or so, listening to my music, NPR, CSPAN or a nice audio book that i enjoy before I get home to wife, kids, cats...
tl;dr: long commute if you don't mind traffic, like music/ radio / audio books or just listening to your thoughts = decompress from long hard, high stress / pressure day (also keeps family happy) | My commute is about 8 miles / 20-25 minutes in traffic. I live just outside a large metro city. On most days I wish my commute was longer though. I know that most people hate traffic, but that never bother me unless I have an appointment / meeting where I always allow for traffic. My work days, which I never take home with me, are very long, fast pace and stressful (not to mention sometimes just plain horrible). I prefer to be riding in my car by myself for 60 minutes or so, listening to my music, NPR, CSPAN or a nice audio book that i enjoy before I get home to wife, kids, cats...
tl;dr: long commute if you don't mind traffic, like music/ radio / audio books or just listening to your thoughts = decompress from long hard, high stress / pressure day (also keeps family happy)
| business | t5_2qgzg | c0xnwss | My commute is about 8 miles / 20-25 minutes in traffic. I live just outside a large metro city. On most days I wish my commute was longer though. I know that most people hate traffic, but that never bother me unless I have an appointment / meeting where I always allow for traffic. My work days, which I never take home with me, are very long, fast pace and stressful (not to mention sometimes just plain horrible). I prefer to be riding in my car by myself for 60 minutes or so, listening to my music, NPR, CSPAN or a nice audio book that i enjoy before I get home to wife, kids, cats... | long commute if you don't mind traffic, like music/ radio / audio books or just listening to your thoughts = decompress from long hard, high stress / pressure day (also keeps family happy) |
spammishking | >such as the time I sped up to try to let an officer (who was pinned behind me in traffic) pass me and he gave me a ticket as my reward.
So you broke the law and it's the cops fault for enforcing the law?
>the time I was pulled over for having too nice a car in too lousy a neighborhood... then given a field sobriety test (passed), then had my car illegally searched without permission (they found nothing because there was nothing to find), then was given a breathalyzer (blew 0.00), then given a fake ticket to cover it.
2 sides to every story.. and this sounds like crap. If they broke the law did you report them?
>Others have been useless, such as the fact that when my apartment was robbed they didn't even bother pulling prints.
Pulling prints is not magic, they would need a good surface and a reasonable suspicion that there are clean prints left by the burglar.
>Or the fact that when my in-laws were robbed, they didn't investigate at all... instead just telling them to maybe call a few of the pawn shops in a certain neighborhood.
Because they lack the man power, and don't have any reasonable leads. The police aren't funded well enough to spend large amounts of time on non-violent cases.
>once of the cops didn't show up to the trial so I took a day off work just to watch the fucker go free because a cop was lazy.
Again they lack the man power.
>But mostly it's the fact that in every possible way, cops seem to think they're just better people, and that's absurd.
I know a few cops and they don't think they are any better than anyone else; I'm not sure where you get your data from.
tl;dr Cops need to be held accountable for their actions, but you didn't provide very good examples. Instead of looking at it as an US vs THEM, think of them as real people with real lives. People who work at a job where every day some one is bitching at them and complaining while they are working a 10+ hour day.
| >such as the time I sped up to try to let an officer (who was pinned behind me in traffic) pass me and he gave me a ticket as my reward.
So you broke the law and it's the cops fault for enforcing the law?
>the time I was pulled over for having too nice a car in too lousy a neighborhood... then given a field sobriety test (passed), then had my car illegally searched without permission (they found nothing because there was nothing to find), then was given a breathalyzer (blew 0.00), then given a fake ticket to cover it.
2 sides to every story.. and this sounds like crap. If they broke the law did you report them?
>Others have been useless, such as the fact that when my apartment was robbed they didn't even bother pulling prints.
Pulling prints is not magic, they would need a good surface and a reasonable suspicion that there are clean prints left by the burglar.
>Or the fact that when my in-laws were robbed, they didn't investigate at all... instead just telling them to maybe call a few of the pawn shops in a certain neighborhood.
Because they lack the man power, and don't have any reasonable leads. The police aren't funded well enough to spend large amounts of time on non-violent cases.
>once of the cops didn't show up to the trial so I took a day off work just to watch the fucker go free because a cop was lazy.
Again they lack the man power.
>But mostly it's the fact that in every possible way, cops seem to think they're just better people, and that's absurd.
I know a few cops and they don't think they are any better than anyone else; I'm not sure where you get your data from.
tl;dr Cops need to be held accountable for their actions, but you didn't provide very good examples. Instead of looking at it as an US vs THEM, think of them as real people with real lives. People who work at a job where every day some one is bitching at them and complaining while they are working a 10+ hour day.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0xnbua | such as the time I sped up to try to let an officer (who was pinned behind me in traffic) pass me and he gave me a ticket as my reward.
So you broke the law and it's the cops fault for enforcing the law?
>the time I was pulled over for having too nice a car in too lousy a neighborhood... then given a field sobriety test (passed), then had my car illegally searched without permission (they found nothing because there was nothing to find), then was given a breathalyzer (blew 0.00), then given a fake ticket to cover it.
2 sides to every story.. and this sounds like crap. If they broke the law did you report them?
>Others have been useless, such as the fact that when my apartment was robbed they didn't even bother pulling prints.
Pulling prints is not magic, they would need a good surface and a reasonable suspicion that there are clean prints left by the burglar.
>Or the fact that when my in-laws were robbed, they didn't investigate at all... instead just telling them to maybe call a few of the pawn shops in a certain neighborhood.
Because they lack the man power, and don't have any reasonable leads. The police aren't funded well enough to spend large amounts of time on non-violent cases.
>once of the cops didn't show up to the trial so I took a day off work just to watch the fucker go free because a cop was lazy.
Again they lack the man power.
>But mostly it's the fact that in every possible way, cops seem to think they're just better people, and that's absurd.
I know a few cops and they don't think they are any better than anyone else; I'm not sure where you get your data from. | Cops need to be held accountable for their actions, but you didn't provide very good examples. Instead of looking at it as an US vs THEM, think of them as real people with real lives. People who work at a job where every day some one is bitching at them and complaining while they are working a 10+ hour day. |
kojef | I grew up in a fairly wealthy US suburb and had nothing but good experiences with cops while living there. They really seemed to be there to help the community, and everyone that I knew had a good relationship with them. The few times I was busted for silly things (breaking into a locked mausoleum as a teenager, surprised by cops with flashlights peering into my car window while ineptly making out with someone), they always were kind, somewhat bemused, just friendly on the whole.
I went to school in Oklahoma though, and once there had nothing but awful experiences with the cops. It was such a shock to give a friendly greeting to the police and be treated with outright suspicion and hostility. Had some bad times there, including a brief detention and questioning for some silly stuff that the cops wouldn't have batted an eyelid at back where I grew up.
I also had some bad experiences with police in the Czech Republic back in the mid-90's - just corruption essentially, making us foreign teenagers pay them off with all the cash in our pockets, threatening to throw us in jail for nonsensical stuff.
Oh - was recently in Cambodia, and the level of police corruption in Phnom Penh is so high that it's kind of humorous. It's so blatant that I don't even know if it qualifies as corruption anymore, it's just crazy stuff. Police stand on corners with a hand outstretched and as people pass by on their motorcycles they literally hand money to the cops as they pass them - it's that blatant. If you don't give them money, they pull you over and ticket you for some nonsensical offense. In some ways that's obviously terrible, but as a foreigner with a lot of money (relatively speaking), it's kind of a nice feeling to be somewhere where you know you can solve any problem, no matter how bad, with some cash given to the right person. Actually, it's probably the same feeling as being incredibly wealthy somewhere else. Have the right amount of cash, you can always make problems disappear.
**tl;dr**; Wealthier areas have better cops, at least in my experience. | I grew up in a fairly wealthy US suburb and had nothing but good experiences with cops while living there. They really seemed to be there to help the community, and everyone that I knew had a good relationship with them. The few times I was busted for silly things (breaking into a locked mausoleum as a teenager, surprised by cops with flashlights peering into my car window while ineptly making out with someone), they always were kind, somewhat bemused, just friendly on the whole.
I went to school in Oklahoma though, and once there had nothing but awful experiences with the cops. It was such a shock to give a friendly greeting to the police and be treated with outright suspicion and hostility. Had some bad times there, including a brief detention and questioning for some silly stuff that the cops wouldn't have batted an eyelid at back where I grew up.
I also had some bad experiences with police in the Czech Republic back in the mid-90's - just corruption essentially, making us foreign teenagers pay them off with all the cash in our pockets, threatening to throw us in jail for nonsensical stuff.
Oh - was recently in Cambodia, and the level of police corruption in Phnom Penh is so high that it's kind of humorous. It's so blatant that I don't even know if it qualifies as corruption anymore, it's just crazy stuff. Police stand on corners with a hand outstretched and as people pass by on their motorcycles they literally hand money to the cops as they pass them - it's that blatant. If you don't give them money, they pull you over and ticket you for some nonsensical offense. In some ways that's obviously terrible, but as a foreigner with a lot of money (relatively speaking), it's kind of a nice feeling to be somewhere where you know you can solve any problem, no matter how bad, with some cash given to the right person. Actually, it's probably the same feeling as being incredibly wealthy somewhere else. Have the right amount of cash, you can always make problems disappear.
tl;dr ; Wealthier areas have better cops, at least in my experience.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0xnis9 | I grew up in a fairly wealthy US suburb and had nothing but good experiences with cops while living there. They really seemed to be there to help the community, and everyone that I knew had a good relationship with them. The few times I was busted for silly things (breaking into a locked mausoleum as a teenager, surprised by cops with flashlights peering into my car window while ineptly making out with someone), they always were kind, somewhat bemused, just friendly on the whole.
I went to school in Oklahoma though, and once there had nothing but awful experiences with the cops. It was such a shock to give a friendly greeting to the police and be treated with outright suspicion and hostility. Had some bad times there, including a brief detention and questioning for some silly stuff that the cops wouldn't have batted an eyelid at back where I grew up.
I also had some bad experiences with police in the Czech Republic back in the mid-90's - just corruption essentially, making us foreign teenagers pay them off with all the cash in our pockets, threatening to throw us in jail for nonsensical stuff.
Oh - was recently in Cambodia, and the level of police corruption in Phnom Penh is so high that it's kind of humorous. It's so blatant that I don't even know if it qualifies as corruption anymore, it's just crazy stuff. Police stand on corners with a hand outstretched and as people pass by on their motorcycles they literally hand money to the cops as they pass them - it's that blatant. If you don't give them money, they pull you over and ticket you for some nonsensical offense. In some ways that's obviously terrible, but as a foreigner with a lot of money (relatively speaking), it's kind of a nice feeling to be somewhere where you know you can solve any problem, no matter how bad, with some cash given to the right person. Actually, it's probably the same feeling as being incredibly wealthy somewhere else. Have the right amount of cash, you can always make problems disappear. | Wealthier areas have better cops, at least in my experience. |
pupeno | Story time!
I was driving, turning right and there were people wanting to cross the street. I stopped. In Argentina nobody does that, respect the law and allow people to cross the street is the crazy behavior you are taught in school and that people follow in other countries that just by chance also have much better quality of life; but I disgres.
The car behind mine bumped into mine. I look thought the mirror and I do an open-hands-sign like, "What's going on?". It was really minor, I didn't care for a fight or the scratch on my car. I continue driving and about half a block the car overtakes me very fast, crosses in front of mine and stops. It was like a movie, really.
The guy steps out and totally freaks, shouting me to step outside the car. No way I'm doing that. When he saw that it wasn't going to be easy to get me into a fight he decided to punch me right through the (open) window of my car. He didn't expect me to have a pepper-spray, which I used on his face.
He was totally blind but still fighting. I put the car in reverse to try to flee the crazy bastard when I see two guys running towards me. They were cops, that were on guard on front of a police station. The whole thing happened in front of a police station. My thought was "How lucky I am, all this was witnessed by law enforcement so I don't have to convince anybody I was attacked, they know it, and they are now bringing order and I don't have to pull a crazy flee or more fight".
On that day, after trusting the police for 19 years, I've lost my faith. The one time I needed them and were present (not like the previous three time I was robbed before) they turned against me. I was questioned and held on a cell for the night. I was lied. Honestly, it wasn't bad, I wasn't beat, I wasn't humiliated excessively or anything; mainly because I kept my cool and was friendly towards the police.
I was friendly when they've told me the guy filed a complaint because I attacked him. I was friendly when they've told me that my car was to be impounded unless they've found a parking spot for it (which thankfully, we've found), I was friendly when they've told me that I couldn't fill a complaint back to the guy which was a lie[1], I was friendly when they've picked my possessions, including my wallet and found out I was carrying a ton of money because I was going to buy computer parts, I was friendly when they took my shoe laces, I was friendly when the other guy, the crazy bastard just went home almost like if nothing happened[2], I was friendly when they've told me I couldn't see my parents when they've came to pick me up, I was friendly when they've told me that all was clear and I could go home once the medic cleared me up, and the medic took 8 hours to show up.
**tl;dr;**: someone attacked me in front of a police station and the the police jailed me for the night and let the other guy go. I lost my faith in police.
[1] That's the first thing my lawyer did because it's the standard procedure en law in Argentina; you don't defend yourself, you attack your attacker (at least in these cases). And according to my lawyer the whole reason this happened to me is because the other guy filled a complaint before I and the police had to act on it. There seems to be no downside on filling a complaint so the standard procedure whenever something happens to you should be filling a complaint, at least in Argentina.
[2] He went home crying like a baby though. Thank you pepper spray. | Story time!
I was driving, turning right and there were people wanting to cross the street. I stopped. In Argentina nobody does that, respect the law and allow people to cross the street is the crazy behavior you are taught in school and that people follow in other countries that just by chance also have much better quality of life; but I disgres.
The car behind mine bumped into mine. I look thought the mirror and I do an open-hands-sign like, "What's going on?". It was really minor, I didn't care for a fight or the scratch on my car. I continue driving and about half a block the car overtakes me very fast, crosses in front of mine and stops. It was like a movie, really.
The guy steps out and totally freaks, shouting me to step outside the car. No way I'm doing that. When he saw that it wasn't going to be easy to get me into a fight he decided to punch me right through the (open) window of my car. He didn't expect me to have a pepper-spray, which I used on his face.
He was totally blind but still fighting. I put the car in reverse to try to flee the crazy bastard when I see two guys running towards me. They were cops, that were on guard on front of a police station. The whole thing happened in front of a police station. My thought was "How lucky I am, all this was witnessed by law enforcement so I don't have to convince anybody I was attacked, they know it, and they are now bringing order and I don't have to pull a crazy flee or more fight".
On that day, after trusting the police for 19 years, I've lost my faith. The one time I needed them and were present (not like the previous three time I was robbed before) they turned against me. I was questioned and held on a cell for the night. I was lied. Honestly, it wasn't bad, I wasn't beat, I wasn't humiliated excessively or anything; mainly because I kept my cool and was friendly towards the police.
I was friendly when they've told me the guy filed a complaint because I attacked him. I was friendly when they've told me that my car was to be impounded unless they've found a parking spot for it (which thankfully, we've found), I was friendly when they've told me that I couldn't fill a complaint back to the guy which was a lie[1], I was friendly when they've picked my possessions, including my wallet and found out I was carrying a ton of money because I was going to buy computer parts, I was friendly when they took my shoe laces, I was friendly when the other guy, the crazy bastard just went home almost like if nothing happened[2], I was friendly when they've told me I couldn't see my parents when they've came to pick me up, I was friendly when they've told me that all was clear and I could go home once the medic cleared me up, and the medic took 8 hours to show up.
tl;dr; : someone attacked me in front of a police station and the the police jailed me for the night and let the other guy go. I lost my faith in police.
[1] That's the first thing my lawyer did because it's the standard procedure en law in Argentina; you don't defend yourself, you attack your attacker (at least in these cases). And according to my lawyer the whole reason this happened to me is because the other guy filled a complaint before I and the police had to act on it. There seems to be no downside on filling a complaint so the standard procedure whenever something happens to you should be filling a complaint, at least in Argentina.
[2] He went home crying like a baby though. Thank you pepper spray.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0xnk2x | Story time!
I was driving, turning right and there were people wanting to cross the street. I stopped. In Argentina nobody does that, respect the law and allow people to cross the street is the crazy behavior you are taught in school and that people follow in other countries that just by chance also have much better quality of life; but I disgres.
The car behind mine bumped into mine. I look thought the mirror and I do an open-hands-sign like, "What's going on?". It was really minor, I didn't care for a fight or the scratch on my car. I continue driving and about half a block the car overtakes me very fast, crosses in front of mine and stops. It was like a movie, really.
The guy steps out and totally freaks, shouting me to step outside the car. No way I'm doing that. When he saw that it wasn't going to be easy to get me into a fight he decided to punch me right through the (open) window of my car. He didn't expect me to have a pepper-spray, which I used on his face.
He was totally blind but still fighting. I put the car in reverse to try to flee the crazy bastard when I see two guys running towards me. They were cops, that were on guard on front of a police station. The whole thing happened in front of a police station. My thought was "How lucky I am, all this was witnessed by law enforcement so I don't have to convince anybody I was attacked, they know it, and they are now bringing order and I don't have to pull a crazy flee or more fight".
On that day, after trusting the police for 19 years, I've lost my faith. The one time I needed them and were present (not like the previous three time I was robbed before) they turned against me. I was questioned and held on a cell for the night. I was lied. Honestly, it wasn't bad, I wasn't beat, I wasn't humiliated excessively or anything; mainly because I kept my cool and was friendly towards the police.
I was friendly when they've told me the guy filed a complaint because I attacked him. I was friendly when they've told me that my car was to be impounded unless they've found a parking spot for it (which thankfully, we've found), I was friendly when they've told me that I couldn't fill a complaint back to the guy which was a lie[1], I was friendly when they've picked my possessions, including my wallet and found out I was carrying a ton of money because I was going to buy computer parts, I was friendly when they took my shoe laces, I was friendly when the other guy, the crazy bastard just went home almost like if nothing happened[2], I was friendly when they've told me I couldn't see my parents when they've came to pick me up, I was friendly when they've told me that all was clear and I could go home once the medic cleared me up, and the medic took 8 hours to show up. | someone attacked me in front of a police station and the the police jailed me for the night and let the other guy go. I lost my faith in police.
[1] That's the first thing my lawyer did because it's the standard procedure en law in Argentina; you don't defend yourself, you attack your attacker (at least in these cases). And according to my lawyer the whole reason this happened to me is because the other guy filled a complaint before I and the police had to act on it. There seems to be no downside on filling a complaint so the standard procedure whenever something happens to you should be filling a complaint, at least in Argentina.
[2] He went home crying like a baby though. Thank you pepper spray. |
motorcycledog | OK, I know this is late but let me try to figure this out. I am not LEO, I have no dog in this hunt but let's go step by step.
>such as the time I sped up to try to let an officer (who was pinned behind me in traffic) pass me and he gave me a ticket as my reward.
Was he code 3? If he was just "pinned " in traffic, your speeding away was...speeding. No way would he stop responding to a "real" call to write you a ticket just to piss you off.
Good car/bad hood...Ever watch COPS? Have a little common sense. That's the #1 way to pick up rich white guys buying drugs. Illegally searched, false ticket? So you whine to us but don't bother to actually do anything about losing your constitutional rights? Heard of a lawyer? they can help you.
Apartment robbed and no prints taken? No shit, this is the real world, not CSI. That's routine. Even if they took prints to make you feel better, odds are that it would have done nothing to get your stuff back. Calling pawn shops is actually the first thing you should have done. Again, common sense.
Cop didn't show up for trial because he was just too fucking lazy? Did you have a copy of his schedule that day? Pics or it didn't happen.
Police unions are run by cops and I agree they protect the bad more than help the good. It's a union, what do you expect? It's unfortunate but true. and agreed that many cops do have the better than us attitude. I don't know why and sure wish it weren't so. It wasn't that way years ago.
So there really are two sides to every story, sorry if I stepped on yours.
TL;DR like Fox news, we hear one side of the story. | OK, I know this is late but let me try to figure this out. I am not LEO, I have no dog in this hunt but let's go step by step.
>such as the time I sped up to try to let an officer (who was pinned behind me in traffic) pass me and he gave me a ticket as my reward.
Was he code 3? If he was just "pinned " in traffic, your speeding away was...speeding. No way would he stop responding to a "real" call to write you a ticket just to piss you off.
Good car/bad hood...Ever watch COPS? Have a little common sense. That's the #1 way to pick up rich white guys buying drugs. Illegally searched, false ticket? So you whine to us but don't bother to actually do anything about losing your constitutional rights? Heard of a lawyer? they can help you.
Apartment robbed and no prints taken? No shit, this is the real world, not CSI. That's routine. Even if they took prints to make you feel better, odds are that it would have done nothing to get your stuff back. Calling pawn shops is actually the first thing you should have done. Again, common sense.
Cop didn't show up for trial because he was just too fucking lazy? Did you have a copy of his schedule that day? Pics or it didn't happen.
Police unions are run by cops and I agree they protect the bad more than help the good. It's a union, what do you expect? It's unfortunate but true. and agreed that many cops do have the better than us attitude. I don't know why and sure wish it weren't so. It wasn't that way years ago.
So there really are two sides to every story, sorry if I stepped on yours.
TL;DR like Fox news, we hear one side of the story.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0xnpf4 | OK, I know this is late but let me try to figure this out. I am not LEO, I have no dog in this hunt but let's go step by step.
>such as the time I sped up to try to let an officer (who was pinned behind me in traffic) pass me and he gave me a ticket as my reward.
Was he code 3? If he was just "pinned " in traffic, your speeding away was...speeding. No way would he stop responding to a "real" call to write you a ticket just to piss you off.
Good car/bad hood...Ever watch COPS? Have a little common sense. That's the #1 way to pick up rich white guys buying drugs. Illegally searched, false ticket? So you whine to us but don't bother to actually do anything about losing your constitutional rights? Heard of a lawyer? they can help you.
Apartment robbed and no prints taken? No shit, this is the real world, not CSI. That's routine. Even if they took prints to make you feel better, odds are that it would have done nothing to get your stuff back. Calling pawn shops is actually the first thing you should have done. Again, common sense.
Cop didn't show up for trial because he was just too fucking lazy? Did you have a copy of his schedule that day? Pics or it didn't happen.
Police unions are run by cops and I agree they protect the bad more than help the good. It's a union, what do you expect? It's unfortunate but true. and agreed that many cops do have the better than us attitude. I don't know why and sure wish it weren't so. It wasn't that way years ago.
So there really are two sides to every story, sorry if I stepped on yours. | like Fox news, we hear one side of the story. |
johngault | My worst experience, but not the only:
In my bed with my GF, my son (12) was playing video games in the Front Den. It was summer time, and he had the front door open, screen door was shut and locked. It was about 10:30 , and I was not going to bed, just watching TV with her in bed. (Only other tv in the house) I hear my son yell Dad, dad, dad, dad over and over. Instinctively I scurried from the bedroom to be met by 2 cops coming down the hallway. (I really hate to think what would have happened if I grabbed my pistol first)
My son is totally terrified. I ask them what the F()[k they are doing? They ask me where my son is. I tell them he is right behind them. One officer turns and walks down the hallway, as my GF comes out of the bedroom. He ask again where is her son. She says Johns son is right behind you. He said OK where is Marty. I then get pissed off, and ask how they came in, The said the door was open and they walked in. The light goes on in my mind, I tell them Marty does not live here, now get the f()[k out. I tell them GTFO or I will shoot both of you. Bad move, I wind up being pushed against the wall. with my arm pushed up behind me. My GF starts really freaking out, and starts talking to them.
She explains that Marty is my step son and moved out 2 years earlier when I got divorced. Meanwhile They refuse to leave and the other one start looking around (through my kitchen, dining room, bedrooms). When the partner returned, the officer then released his grip on me. They asked the usual follow up question like where is he now etc... I interfered with her answering and asked why they needed to find him, They said "We got a call from a girls mother, she does not want her hanging out with him" WTF? Now I am really pissed off, and ask when they became babysitters? I then asked how old was the girl? They said they did not know but probably 17. Marty would have been 17 or 18 at the time. So I told them I have no idea, and again told them to leave. (albeit not very nicely) As they were leaving I notice the screen door catch is broken and the door is not latched, And I went off on that. They laughed and said it must have been that way. Calls and visits to the chief/DA/ Mayor yielded nothing, no apology, no investigation. nothing. My Gf said if she was not there, she would never believe my story and that I was an ass and/or suicidal telling a cop I was going to shoot them.
TLDR; Babysitter cops illegally entered my house, broke my door, scared my son and GF roughed me up for being belligerent and left. GF and son now join my hatred of cops. | My worst experience, but not the only:
In my bed with my GF, my son (12) was playing video games in the Front Den. It was summer time, and he had the front door open, screen door was shut and locked. It was about 10:30 , and I was not going to bed, just watching TV with her in bed. (Only other tv in the house) I hear my son yell Dad, dad, dad, dad over and over. Instinctively I scurried from the bedroom to be met by 2 cops coming down the hallway. (I really hate to think what would have happened if I grabbed my pistol first)
My son is totally terrified. I ask them what the F()[k they are doing? They ask me where my son is. I tell them he is right behind them. One officer turns and walks down the hallway, as my GF comes out of the bedroom. He ask again where is her son. She says Johns son is right behind you. He said OK where is Marty. I then get pissed off, and ask how they came in, The said the door was open and they walked in. The light goes on in my mind, I tell them Marty does not live here, now get the f()[k out. I tell them GTFO or I will shoot both of you. Bad move, I wind up being pushed against the wall. with my arm pushed up behind me. My GF starts really freaking out, and starts talking to them.
She explains that Marty is my step son and moved out 2 years earlier when I got divorced. Meanwhile They refuse to leave and the other one start looking around (through my kitchen, dining room, bedrooms). When the partner returned, the officer then released his grip on me. They asked the usual follow up question like where is he now etc... I interfered with her answering and asked why they needed to find him, They said "We got a call from a girls mother, she does not want her hanging out with him" WTF? Now I am really pissed off, and ask when they became babysitters? I then asked how old was the girl? They said they did not know but probably 17. Marty would have been 17 or 18 at the time. So I told them I have no idea, and again told them to leave. (albeit not very nicely) As they were leaving I notice the screen door catch is broken and the door is not latched, And I went off on that. They laughed and said it must have been that way. Calls and visits to the chief/DA/ Mayor yielded nothing, no apology, no investigation. nothing. My Gf said if she was not there, she would never believe my story and that I was an ass and/or suicidal telling a cop I was going to shoot them.
TLDR; Babysitter cops illegally entered my house, broke my door, scared my son and GF roughed me up for being belligerent and left. GF and son now join my hatred of cops.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0xnuk1 | My worst experience, but not the only:
In my bed with my GF, my son (12) was playing video games in the Front Den. It was summer time, and he had the front door open, screen door was shut and locked. It was about 10:30 , and I was not going to bed, just watching TV with her in bed. (Only other tv in the house) I hear my son yell Dad, dad, dad, dad over and over. Instinctively I scurried from the bedroom to be met by 2 cops coming down the hallway. (I really hate to think what would have happened if I grabbed my pistol first)
My son is totally terrified. I ask them what the F()[k they are doing? They ask me where my son is. I tell them he is right behind them. One officer turns and walks down the hallway, as my GF comes out of the bedroom. He ask again where is her son. She says Johns son is right behind you. He said OK where is Marty. I then get pissed off, and ask how they came in, The said the door was open and they walked in. The light goes on in my mind, I tell them Marty does not live here, now get the f()[k out. I tell them GTFO or I will shoot both of you. Bad move, I wind up being pushed against the wall. with my arm pushed up behind me. My GF starts really freaking out, and starts talking to them.
She explains that Marty is my step son and moved out 2 years earlier when I got divorced. Meanwhile They refuse to leave and the other one start looking around (through my kitchen, dining room, bedrooms). When the partner returned, the officer then released his grip on me. They asked the usual follow up question like where is he now etc... I interfered with her answering and asked why they needed to find him, They said "We got a call from a girls mother, she does not want her hanging out with him" WTF? Now I am really pissed off, and ask when they became babysitters? I then asked how old was the girl? They said they did not know but probably 17. Marty would have been 17 or 18 at the time. So I told them I have no idea, and again told them to leave. (albeit not very nicely) As they were leaving I notice the screen door catch is broken and the door is not latched, And I went off on that. They laughed and said it must have been that way. Calls and visits to the chief/DA/ Mayor yielded nothing, no apology, no investigation. nothing. My Gf said if she was not there, she would never believe my story and that I was an ass and/or suicidal telling a cop I was going to shoot them. | Babysitter cops illegally entered my house, broke my door, scared my son and GF roughed me up for being belligerent and left. GF and son now join my hatred of cops. |
Stumblin_McBumblin | I just want to get this one out there. I live in a mid-sized city in NYS. I was at a going-away party for a friend this past weekend in a part of the city that is a mix of 20 somethings and families. There were around 40 people in attendance, with some on the front porch and many in the house. We had music at a fairly high level inside the house and had the front door open with the screen door closed. It was 11:30. Everyone at this function was over the drinking age. A noise complaint was called in from a neighbor a few houses away.
Four cop cars pull up in front of the house. They exit their vehicles and the lead officer blows into the house without permission demanding that everyone exit the house now and have their ID's ready. They ID every single person and then announce that this party is over and everyone is leaving now. The officers then begin harassing people that are milling about wondering how the fuck this is actually going down and they yelled at them to get into their vehicles and leave. Most people comply. I stayed because I was aware that this was bullshit, but of course was not about to call these pumped up officers on their shit and make it worse for me (not my house). It was announced to us that their was a "zero tolerance policy" on this particular street because they had problems with a few houses around there (which may explain why they responded to a noise complaint with four cops and a shut-this-shit-down attitude). They also issued the owner of the house (my friend who's moving to South Carolina) a noise violation ticket, as a little cherry on top. So I've had a few negative interactions with officers of the law but this one was recent and of a particularly ridiculous nature.
tl;dr Cops will violate your rights and they don't give a fuck about it. | I just want to get this one out there. I live in a mid-sized city in NYS. I was at a going-away party for a friend this past weekend in a part of the city that is a mix of 20 somethings and families. There were around 40 people in attendance, with some on the front porch and many in the house. We had music at a fairly high level inside the house and had the front door open with the screen door closed. It was 11:30. Everyone at this function was over the drinking age. A noise complaint was called in from a neighbor a few houses away.
Four cop cars pull up in front of the house. They exit their vehicles and the lead officer blows into the house without permission demanding that everyone exit the house now and have their ID's ready. They ID every single person and then announce that this party is over and everyone is leaving now. The officers then begin harassing people that are milling about wondering how the fuck this is actually going down and they yelled at them to get into their vehicles and leave. Most people comply. I stayed because I was aware that this was bullshit, but of course was not about to call these pumped up officers on their shit and make it worse for me (not my house). It was announced to us that their was a "zero tolerance policy" on this particular street because they had problems with a few houses around there (which may explain why they responded to a noise complaint with four cops and a shut-this-shit-down attitude). They also issued the owner of the house (my friend who's moving to South Carolina) a noise violation ticket, as a little cherry on top. So I've had a few negative interactions with officers of the law but this one was recent and of a particularly ridiculous nature.
tl;dr Cops will violate your rights and they don't give a fuck about it.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0xnyg2 | I just want to get this one out there. I live in a mid-sized city in NYS. I was at a going-away party for a friend this past weekend in a part of the city that is a mix of 20 somethings and families. There were around 40 people in attendance, with some on the front porch and many in the house. We had music at a fairly high level inside the house and had the front door open with the screen door closed. It was 11:30. Everyone at this function was over the drinking age. A noise complaint was called in from a neighbor a few houses away.
Four cop cars pull up in front of the house. They exit their vehicles and the lead officer blows into the house without permission demanding that everyone exit the house now and have their ID's ready. They ID every single person and then announce that this party is over and everyone is leaving now. The officers then begin harassing people that are milling about wondering how the fuck this is actually going down and they yelled at them to get into their vehicles and leave. Most people comply. I stayed because I was aware that this was bullshit, but of course was not about to call these pumped up officers on their shit and make it worse for me (not my house). It was announced to us that their was a "zero tolerance policy" on this particular street because they had problems with a few houses around there (which may explain why they responded to a noise complaint with four cops and a shut-this-shit-down attitude). They also issued the owner of the house (my friend who's moving to South Carolina) a noise violation ticket, as a little cherry on top. So I've had a few negative interactions with officers of the law but this one was recent and of a particularly ridiculous nature. | Cops will violate your rights and they don't give a fuck about it. |
brufleth | I went to court over a speeding ticket. You actually have to go twice since the first time is BS. A clerk and a cop from the force the ticketing officer is from (not the actual officer) look at the ticket, go "looks reasonable to me," and you pay a court fee to appeal and have your real court hearing.
I had been pulled over on a road with many stoplights, during afternoon rush hour, without being clocked, without being caught on radar, by a cop who was in an adjacent lane that happened to be going slower.
Zero evidence of speeding. Officer claims I was doing 55 in a 30. Judge states they don't believe the officer since going that fast through that area seems pretty hard to do to the judge (actually happened right out in front of the court house). Judge closes with, "I don't think you were going 55 but you were probably still speeding." Ticket is reduced to min ($100 but I care more about insurance going up) and I had to miss two days of work.
TLDR: My (limited) experience: Even with zero evidence a judge will side with the cop and you just wasted your time. | I went to court over a speeding ticket. You actually have to go twice since the first time is BS. A clerk and a cop from the force the ticketing officer is from (not the actual officer) look at the ticket, go "looks reasonable to me," and you pay a court fee to appeal and have your real court hearing.
I had been pulled over on a road with many stoplights, during afternoon rush hour, without being clocked, without being caught on radar, by a cop who was in an adjacent lane that happened to be going slower.
Zero evidence of speeding. Officer claims I was doing 55 in a 30. Judge states they don't believe the officer since going that fast through that area seems pretty hard to do to the judge (actually happened right out in front of the court house). Judge closes with, "I don't think you were going 55 but you were probably still speeding." Ticket is reduced to min ($100 but I care more about insurance going up) and I had to miss two days of work.
TLDR: My (limited) experience: Even with zero evidence a judge will side with the cop and you just wasted your time.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0xnyne | I went to court over a speeding ticket. You actually have to go twice since the first time is BS. A clerk and a cop from the force the ticketing officer is from (not the actual officer) look at the ticket, go "looks reasonable to me," and you pay a court fee to appeal and have your real court hearing.
I had been pulled over on a road with many stoplights, during afternoon rush hour, without being clocked, without being caught on radar, by a cop who was in an adjacent lane that happened to be going slower.
Zero evidence of speeding. Officer claims I was doing 55 in a 30. Judge states they don't believe the officer since going that fast through that area seems pretty hard to do to the judge (actually happened right out in front of the court house). Judge closes with, "I don't think you were going 55 but you were probably still speeding." Ticket is reduced to min ($100 but I care more about insurance going up) and I had to miss two days of work. | My (limited) experience: Even with zero evidence a judge will side with the cop and you just wasted your time. |
andrew1718 | Wow, I've never hear of a park ranger behaving that way. In my experience they're the most laid back and stoney law enforcement there is. BTW, pushing back until they call "backup" is a great go to move (IMHO). This happened once to me after I forced my friend to pull over so we could pee. Cop then pulls up and is immediately up in our grill. I'm completely wasted (hence the demand for a pee break), but my friend driving is fine. They could have had me on an "indecent exposure" charge but instead they had to call back up. So then, Grizzly McBeenacopforyears pulls up, asses the situation, gives my friend a half-assed sobriety test (which he passes, of course) tells cop 1 to fuck-off and we go on our marry.
TL,DR; Old grey haired cops are usually pretty cool. If young Mr. Beetupinhighschoolanditspaybacktime wants to call for backup, consider yourself lucky. | Wow, I've never hear of a park ranger behaving that way. In my experience they're the most laid back and stoney law enforcement there is. BTW, pushing back until they call "backup" is a great go to move (IMHO). This happened once to me after I forced my friend to pull over so we could pee. Cop then pulls up and is immediately up in our grill. I'm completely wasted (hence the demand for a pee break), but my friend driving is fine. They could have had me on an "indecent exposure" charge but instead they had to call back up. So then, Grizzly McBeenacopforyears pulls up, asses the situation, gives my friend a half-assed sobriety test (which he passes, of course) tells cop 1 to fuck-off and we go on our marry.
TL,DR; Old grey haired cops are usually pretty cool. If young Mr. Beetupinhighschoolanditspaybacktime wants to call for backup, consider yourself lucky.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0xnzq1 | Wow, I've never hear of a park ranger behaving that way. In my experience they're the most laid back and stoney law enforcement there is. BTW, pushing back until they call "backup" is a great go to move (IMHO). This happened once to me after I forced my friend to pull over so we could pee. Cop then pulls up and is immediately up in our grill. I'm completely wasted (hence the demand for a pee break), but my friend driving is fine. They could have had me on an "indecent exposure" charge but instead they had to call back up. So then, Grizzly McBeenacopforyears pulls up, asses the situation, gives my friend a half-assed sobriety test (which he passes, of course) tells cop 1 to fuck-off and we go on our marry. | Old grey haired cops are usually pretty cool. If young Mr. Beetupinhighschoolanditspaybacktime wants to call for backup, consider yourself lucky. |
MercyFlush | Im from the UK, and I totally agree with the above. I left town one night after a night out, was a little tipsy so walked most of the way because I wanted to sober up before getting home. A police van pulled in beside me, 4 guys got out, shoved me against the wall and strapped some cuff's on me. I shrugged them off, turned around and in the nicest plain voice asked "What am I getting arrested for?" Im 5'11, big build. They stood around me against the wall and just answered "suspected criminal damage" they rounded me up and shoved me into a regular police car that just turned up, doing a good job of attempting to break my wrist. Now, I had sobered up pretty good by now. A policemen marched me through the station, deemed me too drunk to take questions and shoved me into a cell for the night. The next day I was told to 'confess' and just get a slapped wrist and a warning, oh, and asked if I want a solicitor (lawyer). I blatantly said no, I have nothing to hide and haven't done anything wrong. I denied all charges and asked why it was me who was brutally arrested for no apparent reason... the answer? I wore a white shirt, dark blue jeans and had dark hair... and within 45 mins of the scene of the crime. 45 mins! it takes that long to cross the length of town, it could have been anybody. So, I was picked as a scapegoat. I wasn't identified but it scared the hell out of me, thinking I may get pinned for a crime I had not committed, potentially ruining future prospects.
I later found out the crime was a small patio window had been kicked in, would have cost the owner £40 to fix? I'd probably have just paid that so there wasn't any more stress from the ordeal, I was only in my teens at the time.
I had to get a solicitor involved during the image capture (ID parade) they sent me a letter to let me know the charges had been dropped as I wasn't identified. I was worried sick at the time, and didn't even get a phone call from them to let me know what had happened. This whole process took months.
The pickup by the parents the next day was heartbreaking, they presumed I had done wrong but soon changed their tone when I explained.
wrists ached for a good 3 weeks after that, typing was a bit of a nightmare and I was currently on a university course applying for educational based jobs.
TLDR; got arrested for looking like everyone else does on a night on the town. Spent a night at her majesties pleasure | Im from the UK, and I totally agree with the above. I left town one night after a night out, was a little tipsy so walked most of the way because I wanted to sober up before getting home. A police van pulled in beside me, 4 guys got out, shoved me against the wall and strapped some cuff's on me. I shrugged them off, turned around and in the nicest plain voice asked "What am I getting arrested for?" Im 5'11, big build. They stood around me against the wall and just answered "suspected criminal damage" they rounded me up and shoved me into a regular police car that just turned up, doing a good job of attempting to break my wrist. Now, I had sobered up pretty good by now. A policemen marched me through the station, deemed me too drunk to take questions and shoved me into a cell for the night. The next day I was told to 'confess' and just get a slapped wrist and a warning, oh, and asked if I want a solicitor (lawyer). I blatantly said no, I have nothing to hide and haven't done anything wrong. I denied all charges and asked why it was me who was brutally arrested for no apparent reason... the answer? I wore a white shirt, dark blue jeans and had dark hair... and within 45 mins of the scene of the crime. 45 mins! it takes that long to cross the length of town, it could have been anybody. So, I was picked as a scapegoat. I wasn't identified but it scared the hell out of me, thinking I may get pinned for a crime I had not committed, potentially ruining future prospects.
I later found out the crime was a small patio window had been kicked in, would have cost the owner £40 to fix? I'd probably have just paid that so there wasn't any more stress from the ordeal, I was only in my teens at the time.
I had to get a solicitor involved during the image capture (ID parade) they sent me a letter to let me know the charges had been dropped as I wasn't identified. I was worried sick at the time, and didn't even get a phone call from them to let me know what had happened. This whole process took months.
The pickup by the parents the next day was heartbreaking, they presumed I had done wrong but soon changed their tone when I explained.
wrists ached for a good 3 weeks after that, typing was a bit of a nightmare and I was currently on a university course applying for educational based jobs.
TLDR; got arrested for looking like everyone else does on a night on the town. Spent a night at her majesties pleasure
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0xo2eq | Im from the UK, and I totally agree with the above. I left town one night after a night out, was a little tipsy so walked most of the way because I wanted to sober up before getting home. A police van pulled in beside me, 4 guys got out, shoved me against the wall and strapped some cuff's on me. I shrugged them off, turned around and in the nicest plain voice asked "What am I getting arrested for?" Im 5'11, big build. They stood around me against the wall and just answered "suspected criminal damage" they rounded me up and shoved me into a regular police car that just turned up, doing a good job of attempting to break my wrist. Now, I had sobered up pretty good by now. A policemen marched me through the station, deemed me too drunk to take questions and shoved me into a cell for the night. The next day I was told to 'confess' and just get a slapped wrist and a warning, oh, and asked if I want a solicitor (lawyer). I blatantly said no, I have nothing to hide and haven't done anything wrong. I denied all charges and asked why it was me who was brutally arrested for no apparent reason... the answer? I wore a white shirt, dark blue jeans and had dark hair... and within 45 mins of the scene of the crime. 45 mins! it takes that long to cross the length of town, it could have been anybody. So, I was picked as a scapegoat. I wasn't identified but it scared the hell out of me, thinking I may get pinned for a crime I had not committed, potentially ruining future prospects.
I later found out the crime was a small patio window had been kicked in, would have cost the owner £40 to fix? I'd probably have just paid that so there wasn't any more stress from the ordeal, I was only in my teens at the time.
I had to get a solicitor involved during the image capture (ID parade) they sent me a letter to let me know the charges had been dropped as I wasn't identified. I was worried sick at the time, and didn't even get a phone call from them to let me know what had happened. This whole process took months.
The pickup by the parents the next day was heartbreaking, they presumed I had done wrong but soon changed their tone when I explained.
wrists ached for a good 3 weeks after that, typing was a bit of a nightmare and I was currently on a university course applying for educational based jobs. | got arrested for looking like everyone else does on a night on the town. Spent a night at her majesties pleasure |
luckytopher | You only hear the bad stories. I was trying to prove that the other side exists. And for the ridiculously high number of interactions with people that police have every minute of every hour of every day, the number provided here or from any other stories are small relative.
Yes, there are bad people in every job everywhere. But I have seen in person, and seen through stories where the truth comes out later (from the original or through proven source such as video/etc) that oftentimes, "bad police" are usually caused by "bad people"...
TL;DR: The "plethora" of police abuse is small compared to the "plethora" of unreported police good-doing and accuracy. | You only hear the bad stories. I was trying to prove that the other side exists. And for the ridiculously high number of interactions with people that police have every minute of every hour of every day, the number provided here or from any other stories are small relative.
Yes, there are bad people in every job everywhere. But I have seen in person, and seen through stories where the truth comes out later (from the original or through proven source such as video/etc) that oftentimes, "bad police" are usually caused by "bad people"...
TL;DR: The "plethora" of police abuse is small compared to the "plethora" of unreported police good-doing and accuracy.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0xo7ft | You only hear the bad stories. I was trying to prove that the other side exists. And for the ridiculously high number of interactions with people that police have every minute of every hour of every day, the number provided here or from any other stories are small relative.
Yes, there are bad people in every job everywhere. But I have seen in person, and seen through stories where the truth comes out later (from the original or through proven source such as video/etc) that oftentimes, "bad police" are usually caused by "bad people"... | The "plethora" of police abuse is small compared to the "plethora" of unreported police good-doing and accuracy. |
kingnothing1 | It seems everyone's experience is relative.
I was walking home one day, very drunk after a party at a friends house. I live in a rough neighborhood by the University of Cincinnati, and I saw a police officer who had pulled someone over. Mind you this is at 230 in the morning, so trying to feel safe I cross the street to over where the officer was. I was carrying an [Arnold Palmer]( which really looks like a tallboy (a 24 oz beer). The officer sees me, and calls me over. Suddenly I panic, thinking he thinks I'm drunk and that I'm going to be cited for jaywalking and public intoxication. He asks me what I have in my hand and I quickly rabble off "Arizona iced tea arnold palmer!", which in hindsight is a very drunken slur sentence. The officer shines is flashlight (torch in your parts) on the can and laughs, says he thought it was a beer and asks me how it is. I say great, and he simply walks away. I was over come with gratitude, he didn't harass me as I thought he was going to, and he was very courteous and professional. Now I know this isn't everyone's experience, but sometimes the police can be really nice.
Although, it seems cops really, really hate skaters. As I skate, sometimes the police roll up and immediately tell us to leave even if we aren't grinding on anything or damaging property.
Come to think of it, there was another experience at a fraternity party, where the police showed up (not campus pd, but cincinnati police), and broke the party up. I was waiting for my friends and I was watching a cop talk to some guy. A drunken frat boy walks up to the kid and belligerently says "I'M A CRIMINAL JUSTICE MAJOR, DON'T TALK TO THE PIGS". The cop turns around and says "sir, you need to step off before I cite you for public intoxication". A warning. The kid got a fucking warning after he insulted him so openly.
TL:DR, talked to a cop completely drunk and walked away no problem, and so did some drunken frat boy. | It seems everyone's experience is relative.
I was walking home one day, very drunk after a party at a friends house. I live in a rough neighborhood by the University of Cincinnati, and I saw a police officer who had pulled someone over. Mind you this is at 230 in the morning, so trying to feel safe I cross the street to over where the officer was. I was carrying an Arnold Palmer . The officer sees me, and calls me over. Suddenly I panic, thinking he thinks I'm drunk and that I'm going to be cited for jaywalking and public intoxication. He asks me what I have in my hand and I quickly rabble off "Arizona iced tea arnold palmer!", which in hindsight is a very drunken slur sentence. The officer shines is flashlight (torch in your parts) on the can and laughs, says he thought it was a beer and asks me how it is. I say great, and he simply walks away. I was over come with gratitude, he didn't harass me as I thought he was going to, and he was very courteous and professional. Now I know this isn't everyone's experience, but sometimes the police can be really nice.
Although, it seems cops really, really hate skaters. As I skate, sometimes the police roll up and immediately tell us to leave even if we aren't grinding on anything or damaging property.
Come to think of it, there was another experience at a fraternity party, where the police showed up (not campus pd, but cincinnati police), and broke the party up. I was waiting for my friends and I was watching a cop talk to some guy. A drunken frat boy walks up to the kid and belligerently says "I'M A CRIMINAL JUSTICE MAJOR, DON'T TALK TO THE PIGS". The cop turns around and says "sir, you need to step off before I cite you for public intoxication". A warning. The kid got a fucking warning after he insulted him so openly.
TL:DR, talked to a cop completely drunk and walked away no problem, and so did some drunken frat boy.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0xocb8 | It seems everyone's experience is relative.
I was walking home one day, very drunk after a party at a friends house. I live in a rough neighborhood by the University of Cincinnati, and I saw a police officer who had pulled someone over. Mind you this is at 230 in the morning, so trying to feel safe I cross the street to over where the officer was. I was carrying an Arnold Palmer . The officer sees me, and calls me over. Suddenly I panic, thinking he thinks I'm drunk and that I'm going to be cited for jaywalking and public intoxication. He asks me what I have in my hand and I quickly rabble off "Arizona iced tea arnold palmer!", which in hindsight is a very drunken slur sentence. The officer shines is flashlight (torch in your parts) on the can and laughs, says he thought it was a beer and asks me how it is. I say great, and he simply walks away. I was over come with gratitude, he didn't harass me as I thought he was going to, and he was very courteous and professional. Now I know this isn't everyone's experience, but sometimes the police can be really nice.
Although, it seems cops really, really hate skaters. As I skate, sometimes the police roll up and immediately tell us to leave even if we aren't grinding on anything or damaging property.
Come to think of it, there was another experience at a fraternity party, where the police showed up (not campus pd, but cincinnati police), and broke the party up. I was waiting for my friends and I was watching a cop talk to some guy. A drunken frat boy walks up to the kid and belligerently says "I'M A CRIMINAL JUSTICE MAJOR, DON'T TALK TO THE PIGS". The cop turns around and says "sir, you need to step off before I cite you for public intoxication". A warning. The kid got a fucking warning after he insulted him so openly. | talked to a cop completely drunk and walked away no problem, and so did some drunken frat boy. |
subheight640 | I believe it's a mistake to think that American cops are completely homogeneous in culture and attitude. Each state has its own laws and customs on how to run the police force. Then, each city has its own police organization run with varying effectiveness.
Undoubtedly you will get varying quality of officers across the nation. From where I live in Austin, almost nobody has any problems with cops. All my friends that have been arrested fucking *deserved it because they were clearly and blatantly disregarding the law*. It's either public intoxication, where they're so fucking drunk they're puking everywhere (but even in those situations arrests are extremely unlikely; on my friends 21st b-day he was drunk and puking all over me; the cops found him and decided to call an ambulance for him, no charges) or they were driving while intoxicated, which in that case they should be arrested.
All of my interactions with cops in Austin have been fair. Minor traffic infringements. Rarely cops will go around busting parties but they're always too lazy to arrest anyone. Lately they just walk about and make sure the party's not getting out of hand.
The latest incident with police was at a critical mass event where this fucking asshole driver hits a cyclist *on purpose*. The angry cycling mob of course then begins to start beating the shit out of the guy's car using their u-locks. The driver pulls out a gun I guess to threaten the cyclists, but luckily a cop soon comes and arrests him.
From my limited knowledge of local government, it is we the citizens who control the police department; their corruption is a result of our own idleness and laziness to solve local governing problems. I'm glad I live in a well maintained and governed city that has responsible law enforcement.
TLDR: Austin cops are great IMO. | I believe it's a mistake to think that American cops are completely homogeneous in culture and attitude. Each state has its own laws and customs on how to run the police force. Then, each city has its own police organization run with varying effectiveness.
Undoubtedly you will get varying quality of officers across the nation. From where I live in Austin, almost nobody has any problems with cops. All my friends that have been arrested fucking deserved it because they were clearly and blatantly disregarding the law . It's either public intoxication, where they're so fucking drunk they're puking everywhere (but even in those situations arrests are extremely unlikely; on my friends 21st b-day he was drunk and puking all over me; the cops found him and decided to call an ambulance for him, no charges) or they were driving while intoxicated, which in that case they should be arrested.
All of my interactions with cops in Austin have been fair. Minor traffic infringements. Rarely cops will go around busting parties but they're always too lazy to arrest anyone. Lately they just walk about and make sure the party's not getting out of hand.
The latest incident with police was at a critical mass event where this fucking asshole driver hits a cyclist on purpose . The angry cycling mob of course then begins to start beating the shit out of the guy's car using their u-locks. The driver pulls out a gun I guess to threaten the cyclists, but luckily a cop soon comes and arrests him.
From my limited knowledge of local government, it is we the citizens who control the police department; their corruption is a result of our own idleness and laziness to solve local governing problems. I'm glad I live in a well maintained and governed city that has responsible law enforcement.
TLDR: Austin cops are great IMO.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0xomo4 | I believe it's a mistake to think that American cops are completely homogeneous in culture and attitude. Each state has its own laws and customs on how to run the police force. Then, each city has its own police organization run with varying effectiveness.
Undoubtedly you will get varying quality of officers across the nation. From where I live in Austin, almost nobody has any problems with cops. All my friends that have been arrested fucking deserved it because they were clearly and blatantly disregarding the law . It's either public intoxication, where they're so fucking drunk they're puking everywhere (but even in those situations arrests are extremely unlikely; on my friends 21st b-day he was drunk and puking all over me; the cops found him and decided to call an ambulance for him, no charges) or they were driving while intoxicated, which in that case they should be arrested.
All of my interactions with cops in Austin have been fair. Minor traffic infringements. Rarely cops will go around busting parties but they're always too lazy to arrest anyone. Lately they just walk about and make sure the party's not getting out of hand.
The latest incident with police was at a critical mass event where this fucking asshole driver hits a cyclist on purpose . The angry cycling mob of course then begins to start beating the shit out of the guy's car using their u-locks. The driver pulls out a gun I guess to threaten the cyclists, but luckily a cop soon comes and arrests him.
From my limited knowledge of local government, it is we the citizens who control the police department; their corruption is a result of our own idleness and laziness to solve local governing problems. I'm glad I live in a well maintained and governed city that has responsible law enforcement. | Austin cops are great IMO. |
shakesnow | My neighbors called animal control because my dogs got out. They have gotten out before and I explained that if they can't get in touch with me to call and get them picked up. i don't want them to scare people or get hit by a car. However, animal control was busy and a police officer was dispatched.
When the officer arrived my black dog was sleeping on the porch, ran into the yard and barked at the cop car. The officer waited a few minutes and Vegas went back to the porch and laid down. The officer got out of his car and walked across my front yard (do do what?). Vegas got up again and ran into the yard barking. The officer drew his weapon and fired one shot. It hit her on the left side of the chest and exited out her left shoulder. She then ran back to the porch and bled for approximately 15 minutes until animal control arrived and put her in the vehicle. I arrived 5 minutes after that to find 4 cop cars out front.
On officer calmly explained what happened and that he believed my dog was fine. Gave me a case number and a CLAIM NUMBER because the ricochet bullet blew out my glass door in front of my house...
I asked if i was free to take her to the vet and he said yes. I walked over to the truck, pulled out my dog and carried her to my truck and placed her in the cab and left for the 24 hour vet. The vet thought she would be fine but needed to clean her, take some x-rays and stich her up. Apparently the bullet hit her scapula and that's how it ricocheted.
$1200 and 20 hours later she was at home and fine. After 2 months she didn't even have a limp.
TL;DR the cops shot my dog. | My neighbors called animal control because my dogs got out. They have gotten out before and I explained that if they can't get in touch with me to call and get them picked up. i don't want them to scare people or get hit by a car. However, animal control was busy and a police officer was dispatched.
When the officer arrived my black dog was sleeping on the porch, ran into the yard and barked at the cop car. The officer waited a few minutes and Vegas went back to the porch and laid down. The officer got out of his car and walked across my front yard (do do what?). Vegas got up again and ran into the yard barking. The officer drew his weapon and fired one shot. It hit her on the left side of the chest and exited out her left shoulder. She then ran back to the porch and bled for approximately 15 minutes until animal control arrived and put her in the vehicle. I arrived 5 minutes after that to find 4 cop cars out front.
On officer calmly explained what happened and that he believed my dog was fine. Gave me a case number and a CLAIM NUMBER because the ricochet bullet blew out my glass door in front of my house...
I asked if i was free to take her to the vet and he said yes. I walked over to the truck, pulled out my dog and carried her to my truck and placed her in the cab and left for the 24 hour vet. The vet thought she would be fine but needed to clean her, take some x-rays and stich her up. Apparently the bullet hit her scapula and that's how it ricocheted.
$1200 and 20 hours later she was at home and fine. After 2 months she didn't even have a limp.
TL;DR the cops shot my dog.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0xoo8h | My neighbors called animal control because my dogs got out. They have gotten out before and I explained that if they can't get in touch with me to call and get them picked up. i don't want them to scare people or get hit by a car. However, animal control was busy and a police officer was dispatched.
When the officer arrived my black dog was sleeping on the porch, ran into the yard and barked at the cop car. The officer waited a few minutes and Vegas went back to the porch and laid down. The officer got out of his car and walked across my front yard (do do what?). Vegas got up again and ran into the yard barking. The officer drew his weapon and fired one shot. It hit her on the left side of the chest and exited out her left shoulder. She then ran back to the porch and bled for approximately 15 minutes until animal control arrived and put her in the vehicle. I arrived 5 minutes after that to find 4 cop cars out front.
On officer calmly explained what happened and that he believed my dog was fine. Gave me a case number and a CLAIM NUMBER because the ricochet bullet blew out my glass door in front of my house...
I asked if i was free to take her to the vet and he said yes. I walked over to the truck, pulled out my dog and carried her to my truck and placed her in the cab and left for the 24 hour vet. The vet thought she would be fine but needed to clean her, take some x-rays and stich her up. Apparently the bullet hit her scapula and that's how it ricocheted.
$1200 and 20 hours later she was at home and fine. After 2 months she didn't even have a limp. | the cops shot my dog. |
poo-poo | I agree, in this case, TL;DR read it, it's interesting. | I agree, in this case, TL;DR read it, it's interesting.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0xs0m2 | I agree, in this case, | read it, it's interesting. |
tazmanic | I used to look up to cops and even defended them at one point in my life. I thought all this cop hate was a bunch of people just pissed off for getting caught. Sure, I heard some stories of racist cops, but I felt that Toronto cops were an honourable force. Until one day I watched my innocent friend getting pinned to the ground, taking blows from at least 3 officers to his body and the side of his head. I tried running up to help him and explain the situation but they pushed me away pretty much telling me it's too late, he's arrested. I watched him getting pulverized without any explanation even though he wasn't resisting at all. I waited until dawn for him to come out and he still wasn't out. The next morning, he had bruises all over his face and the cops took a couple gut shots before putting him in his cell.
What happened was my friend was standing on the side of the road beside the curb as the sidewalk was too crowded after club hours. We were talking about what a great night it was and then suddenly, a police officer on a bike happens to nudge him and falls on his bike. The next thing I see is 3 officers pin him down and gets charged with assault. I felt so helpless, I really wish it occurred me to record the incident. This situation has really affected my friend's social life and it really sucks that he doesn't want to hang out as much anymore because he was the type of guy that would be the life of a party and really took the time to get to know everyone. I still remember in HS freshmen year he introduced himself out of the blue on the first day assembly and we just hit it off. He's trying to fight the charge but it doesn't look too good for him. I know that the story isn't as bad as countless other things police have done but it's because of this, I feel as though I can never trust a cop again. Until the police are willing to take initiative action for such internal corruption, I will never ever trust an officer again. It doesn't matter if you're a good cop, do the honourable thing and report corruption. If you turn the other eye, you're just as corrupt in my opinion
**[TL;DR - FUCK THE POLICE]( | I used to look up to cops and even defended them at one point in my life. I thought all this cop hate was a bunch of people just pissed off for getting caught. Sure, I heard some stories of racist cops, but I felt that Toronto cops were an honourable force. Until one day I watched my innocent friend getting pinned to the ground, taking blows from at least 3 officers to his body and the side of his head. I tried running up to help him and explain the situation but they pushed me away pretty much telling me it's too late, he's arrested. I watched him getting pulverized without any explanation even though he wasn't resisting at all. I waited until dawn for him to come out and he still wasn't out. The next morning, he had bruises all over his face and the cops took a couple gut shots before putting him in his cell.
What happened was my friend was standing on the side of the road beside the curb as the sidewalk was too crowded after club hours. We were talking about what a great night it was and then suddenly, a police officer on a bike happens to nudge him and falls on his bike. The next thing I see is 3 officers pin him down and gets charged with assault. I felt so helpless, I really wish it occurred me to record the incident. This situation has really affected my friend's social life and it really sucks that he doesn't want to hang out as much anymore because he was the type of guy that would be the life of a party and really took the time to get to know everyone. I still remember in HS freshmen year he introduced himself out of the blue on the first day assembly and we just hit it off. He's trying to fight the charge but it doesn't look too good for him. I know that the story isn't as bad as countless other things police have done but it's because of this, I feel as though I can never trust a cop again. Until the police are willing to take initiative action for such internal corruption, I will never ever trust an officer again. It doesn't matter if you're a good cop, do the honourable thing and report corruption. If you turn the other eye, you're just as corrupt in my opinion
**[TL;DR - FUCK THE POLICE](
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0xni3t | I used to look up to cops and even defended them at one point in my life. I thought all this cop hate was a bunch of people just pissed off for getting caught. Sure, I heard some stories of racist cops, but I felt that Toronto cops were an honourable force. Until one day I watched my innocent friend getting pinned to the ground, taking blows from at least 3 officers to his body and the side of his head. I tried running up to help him and explain the situation but they pushed me away pretty much telling me it's too late, he's arrested. I watched him getting pulverized without any explanation even though he wasn't resisting at all. I waited until dawn for him to come out and he still wasn't out. The next morning, he had bruises all over his face and the cops took a couple gut shots before putting him in his cell.
What happened was my friend was standing on the side of the road beside the curb as the sidewalk was too crowded after club hours. We were talking about what a great night it was and then suddenly, a police officer on a bike happens to nudge him and falls on his bike. The next thing I see is 3 officers pin him down and gets charged with assault. I felt so helpless, I really wish it occurred me to record the incident. This situation has really affected my friend's social life and it really sucks that he doesn't want to hang out as much anymore because he was the type of guy that would be the life of a party and really took the time to get to know everyone. I still remember in HS freshmen year he introduced himself out of the blue on the first day assembly and we just hit it off. He's trying to fight the charge but it doesn't look too good for him. I know that the story isn't as bad as countless other things police have done but it's because of this, I feel as though I can never trust a cop again. Until the police are willing to take initiative action for such internal corruption, I will never ever trust an officer again. It doesn't matter if you're a good cop, do the honourable thing and report corruption. If you turn the other eye, you're just as corrupt in my opinion
**[ | FUCK THE POLICE]( |
kojef | Interestingly, there is some research that seems to link childhood exposure to lead with an increased adult tendency to commit violent crime.
There seems to be strong correlation between the enaction of environmental laws to limit childrens exposure to lead and a drop in violent crime (including murder) 15 to 20 years later.
Variations have even been seen on local and regional levels - from increased instances of violence committed by those who grew up close to high-traffic highways in the 1960s (continuous exposure to exhaust from leaded gasoline), to a sharp drop in NYC violent crime 20 years after mandating a change in windows that sharply decreased children's exposure to lead.
From what I've read, the statistics show a sharp correlation on local, regional and national levels.
Anyway, I agree with you on the whole - solving crimes, helping the community, these are all things that police (at least the ones that I've mostly been fortunate to deal with) do, and at least sometimes do very well. I'm not convinced that police have much to do with the falling murder rate though. That said, I'd love to be convinced otherwise if you have some good arguments for it!
Hmm, and I'm not sure where I read all of the stuff about lead. Here's a [washington post article that goes over some of the basic info](
**tl;dr**: Cops don't decrease murder, environmental laws do. | Interestingly, there is some research that seems to link childhood exposure to lead with an increased adult tendency to commit violent crime.
There seems to be strong correlation between the enaction of environmental laws to limit childrens exposure to lead and a drop in violent crime (including murder) 15 to 20 years later.
Variations have even been seen on local and regional levels - from increased instances of violence committed by those who grew up close to high-traffic highways in the 1960s (continuous exposure to exhaust from leaded gasoline), to a sharp drop in NYC violent crime 20 years after mandating a change in windows that sharply decreased children's exposure to lead.
From what I've read, the statistics show a sharp correlation on local, regional and national levels.
Anyway, I agree with you on the whole - solving crimes, helping the community, these are all things that police (at least the ones that I've mostly been fortunate to deal with) do, and at least sometimes do very well. I'm not convinced that police have much to do with the falling murder rate though. That said, I'd love to be convinced otherwise if you have some good arguments for it!
Hmm, and I'm not sure where I read all of the stuff about lead. Here's a [washington post article that goes over some of the basic info](
tl;dr : Cops don't decrease murder, environmental laws do.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0xni5f | Interestingly, there is some research that seems to link childhood exposure to lead with an increased adult tendency to commit violent crime.
There seems to be strong correlation between the enaction of environmental laws to limit childrens exposure to lead and a drop in violent crime (including murder) 15 to 20 years later.
Variations have even been seen on local and regional levels - from increased instances of violence committed by those who grew up close to high-traffic highways in the 1960s (continuous exposure to exhaust from leaded gasoline), to a sharp drop in NYC violent crime 20 years after mandating a change in windows that sharply decreased children's exposure to lead.
From what I've read, the statistics show a sharp correlation on local, regional and national levels.
Anyway, I agree with you on the whole - solving crimes, helping the community, these are all things that police (at least the ones that I've mostly been fortunate to deal with) do, and at least sometimes do very well. I'm not convinced that police have much to do with the falling murder rate though. That said, I'd love to be convinced otherwise if you have some good arguments for it!
Hmm, and I'm not sure where I read all of the stuff about lead. Here's a [washington post article that goes over some of the basic info]( | Cops don't decrease murder, environmental laws do. |
h6x6n | 4 tables clumped together in the middle.
**tl;dr** we're here | 4 tables clumped together in the middle.
tl;dr we're here
| tampa | t5_2r7ih | c0yknjj | 4 tables clumped together in the middle. | we're here |
FishToaster | I dunno if you've noticed, but major historical events can lend new meanings and connotations to things. Further, people have this funny habit of using language to be understood. If I say "Roman salute," few people will know what I'm talking about. If I say "Nazi salute," they will.
TLDR: Language changes. Get over it. | I dunno if you've noticed, but major historical events can lend new meanings and connotations to things. Further, people have this funny habit of using language to be understood. If I say "Roman salute," few people will know what I'm talking about. If I say "Nazi salute," they will.
TLDR: Language changes. Get over it.
| reddit.com | t5_6 | c0xyc4d | I dunno if you've noticed, but major historical events can lend new meanings and connotations to things. Further, people have this funny habit of using language to be understood. If I say "Roman salute," few people will know what I'm talking about. If I say "Nazi salute," they will. | Language changes. Get over it. |
Spoungebob | > Fact- No one gets incarcerated for possession of under and ounce with the current laws unless they are stupid enough to carry multiple bags or a scale in which case they will face possession with intent to sell, and that's their fault for once again being an idiot
About people just getting misdemeanors for possession, thats true. A lot of people will never even go to a court for simple possession. But is their record tainted no less? What about the cost to process these possession offenders or simple concept of government spending on combating marijuana in our state of CA. Its estimated we spend between 280-370 Million dollars a year in CA to "combat" marijuana in our state with 215-300 million of that money on offenders over the age of 21. Thats a shit ton of money. Now I'm not backtracking on my prison argument I still think it will defiantly open up some cells for some rapists or pedos out there. But the amount of money spent to fight marijuana is just ridiculous and IF legalized imagine where else this money could be spent, schools, hospitals what not. Even if it was 10% of that money it would make our state a better place in other areas.
something thats closer to me. A friend of mine was pulled over, his car "smelled" like weed so they searched his car and found 2 ounces worth of dank. Now my friend is also a Prop 215 patient with papers and a legit reason. He got to spend a night in Jail (who paid for that?) got his car impounded, lost his job because he couldn't go to work. He **went to court** and the judge threw out the case because he had a legit medical card and reason to have it. They ordered the sheriffs department to return his repossessed weed. While this story might seem to have a happy ending it really doesn't. My friend lost his job, had to pay money to get his car out of impound and his reputation tainted for being a patient. If legalizing it helps prevent instances like this its worth it.
As for this "oakland mafia" and big business wanting to profit off of marijuana, theres no way around it. No matter how you legalize it. the only way to prevent/ not support big business would be to grow your own. 5x5 is plenty of space to grow what I call the perpetual harvest, 10 plants vegging, 10 plants flowering, and 10 plants to harvest every month. Thats a lot of weed
**TLDR** Many people wont go to prison for simple possession. The point is our government spends too much money trying to stop us from smoking pot. Grow your own weed. | > Fact- No one gets incarcerated for possession of under and ounce with the current laws unless they are stupid enough to carry multiple bags or a scale in which case they will face possession with intent to sell, and that's their fault for once again being an idiot
About people just getting misdemeanors for possession, thats true. A lot of people will never even go to a court for simple possession. But is their record tainted no less? What about the cost to process these possession offenders or simple concept of government spending on combating marijuana in our state of CA. Its estimated we spend between 280-370 Million dollars a year in CA to "combat" marijuana in our state with 215-300 million of that money on offenders over the age of 21. Thats a shit ton of money. Now I'm not backtracking on my prison argument I still think it will defiantly open up some cells for some rapists or pedos out there. But the amount of money spent to fight marijuana is just ridiculous and IF legalized imagine where else this money could be spent, schools, hospitals what not. Even if it was 10% of that money it would make our state a better place in other areas.
something thats closer to me. A friend of mine was pulled over, his car "smelled" like weed so they searched his car and found 2 ounces worth of dank. Now my friend is also a Prop 215 patient with papers and a legit reason. He got to spend a night in Jail (who paid for that?) got his car impounded, lost his job because he couldn't go to work. He went to court and the judge threw out the case because he had a legit medical card and reason to have it. They ordered the sheriffs department to return his repossessed weed. While this story might seem to have a happy ending it really doesn't. My friend lost his job, had to pay money to get his car out of impound and his reputation tainted for being a patient. If legalizing it helps prevent instances like this its worth it.
As for this "oakland mafia" and big business wanting to profit off of marijuana, theres no way around it. No matter how you legalize it. the only way to prevent/ not support big business would be to grow your own. 5x5 is plenty of space to grow what I call the perpetual harvest, 10 plants vegging, 10 plants flowering, and 10 plants to harvest every month. Thats a lot of weed
TLDR Many people wont go to prison for simple possession. The point is our government spends too much money trying to stop us from smoking pot. Grow your own weed.
| Marijuana | t5_2qhhn | c0y87b8 | Fact- No one gets incarcerated for possession of under and ounce with the current laws unless they are stupid enough to carry multiple bags or a scale in which case they will face possession with intent to sell, and that's their fault for once again being an idiot
About people just getting misdemeanors for possession, thats true. A lot of people will never even go to a court for simple possession. But is their record tainted no less? What about the cost to process these possession offenders or simple concept of government spending on combating marijuana in our state of CA. Its estimated we spend between 280-370 Million dollars a year in CA to "combat" marijuana in our state with 215-300 million of that money on offenders over the age of 21. Thats a shit ton of money. Now I'm not backtracking on my prison argument I still think it will defiantly open up some cells for some rapists or pedos out there. But the amount of money spent to fight marijuana is just ridiculous and IF legalized imagine where else this money could be spent, schools, hospitals what not. Even if it was 10% of that money it would make our state a better place in other areas.
something thats closer to me. A friend of mine was pulled over, his car "smelled" like weed so they searched his car and found 2 ounces worth of dank. Now my friend is also a Prop 215 patient with papers and a legit reason. He got to spend a night in Jail (who paid for that?) got his car impounded, lost his job because he couldn't go to work. He went to court and the judge threw out the case because he had a legit medical card and reason to have it. They ordered the sheriffs department to return his repossessed weed. While this story might seem to have a happy ending it really doesn't. My friend lost his job, had to pay money to get his car out of impound and his reputation tainted for being a patient. If legalizing it helps prevent instances like this its worth it.
As for this "oakland mafia" and big business wanting to profit off of marijuana, theres no way around it. No matter how you legalize it. the only way to prevent/ not support big business would be to grow your own. 5x5 is plenty of space to grow what I call the perpetual harvest, 10 plants vegging, 10 plants flowering, and 10 plants to harvest every month. Thats a lot of weed | Many people wont go to prison for simple possession. The point is our government spends too much money trying to stop us from smoking pot. Grow your own weed. |
JERKFACE9000 | I've tried getting trees to grow all the way to the surface and can't seem to do it. The ceiling of my underground farming chamber is 7 blocks high and normal sized trees grow just fine. When they do eventually grow, they may get to 15 or so blocks from the floor of the floor of the chamber. Could this be because my grow chamber is too deep?
tl;dr How do I grew tall tree? | I've tried getting trees to grow all the way to the surface and can't seem to do it. The ceiling of my underground farming chamber is 7 blocks high and normal sized trees grow just fine. When they do eventually grow, they may get to 15 or so blocks from the floor of the floor of the chamber. Could this be because my grow chamber is too deep?
tl;dr How do I grew tall tree?
| Minecraft | t5_2r05i | c0y1vw4 | I've tried getting trees to grow all the way to the surface and can't seem to do it. The ceiling of my underground farming chamber is 7 blocks high and normal sized trees grow just fine. When they do eventually grow, they may get to 15 or so blocks from the floor of the floor of the chamber. Could this be because my grow chamber is too deep? | How do I grew tall tree? |
nyxerebos | > it was an alternative to being a feminist.
I'm aware that the term 'feminism' means many different things to different people. In the context of people I encounter in my community who call themselves feminists there is an obvious contrast.
The groups in my town which work towards what I consider humanist goals are trade unions, political parties, church groups and NGOs. Since women have a particularly hard time hereabouts moves towards equality, economic empowerment and the provision of services benefit women disproportionately, but the focus is not only on them.
With feminism the focus is solely on "women's issues", and those issues won't be 'where will women in this town get TB shots', but more likely outrage and misandry over some attractive person wearing a bikini in a beer commercial. I realize that not all feminists everywhere are like this, but I hope you can understand why I don't want the label.
edit: TL;DR - In my experience humanism and feminism do not always have common and complimentary goals. | > it was an alternative to being a feminist.
I'm aware that the term 'feminism' means many different things to different people. In the context of people I encounter in my community who call themselves feminists there is an obvious contrast.
The groups in my town which work towards what I consider humanist goals are trade unions, political parties, church groups and NGOs. Since women have a particularly hard time hereabouts moves towards equality, economic empowerment and the provision of services benefit women disproportionately, but the focus is not only on them.
With feminism the focus is solely on "women's issues", and those issues won't be 'where will women in this town get TB shots', but more likely outrage and misandry over some attractive person wearing a bikini in a beer commercial. I realize that not all feminists everywhere are like this, but I hope you can understand why I don't want the label.
edit: TL;DR - In my experience humanism and feminism do not always have common and complimentary goals.
| feminisms | t5_2qhba | c0ycutm | it was an alternative to being a feminist.
I'm aware that the term 'feminism' means many different things to different people. In the context of people I encounter in my community who call themselves feminists there is an obvious contrast.
The groups in my town which work towards what I consider humanist goals are trade unions, political parties, church groups and NGOs. Since women have a particularly hard time hereabouts moves towards equality, economic empowerment and the provision of services benefit women disproportionately, but the focus is not only on them.
With feminism the focus is solely on "women's issues", and those issues won't be 'where will women in this town get TB shots', but more likely outrage and misandry over some attractive person wearing a bikini in a beer commercial. I realize that not all feminists everywhere are like this, but I hope you can understand why I don't want the label.
edit: | In my experience humanism and feminism do not always have common and complimentary goals. |
insomniak03 | Congrats, you made me laugh out loud, which rarely happens. Have an upvote! (For clarification, I've never done this, or heard of anyone doing this first hand, but that's some dedicated shit right there if you can pull it off.)
tl;dr If you shove "tobacco" up your anus, you better hope there's no drug dog. | Congrats, you made me laugh out loud, which rarely happens. Have an upvote! (For clarification, I've never done this, or heard of anyone doing this first hand, but that's some dedicated shit right there if you can pull it off.)
tl;dr If you shove "tobacco" up your anus, you better hope there's no drug dog.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | c0ybklu | Congrats, you made me laugh out loud, which rarely happens. Have an upvote! (For clarification, I've never done this, or heard of anyone doing this first hand, but that's some dedicated shit right there if you can pull it off.) | If you shove "tobacco" up your anus, you better hope there's no drug dog. |
Nwsamurai | **HACKING**
But it has to be movie style **Hacking**. I don't want to waste a lot of time sitting in front of a computer coding or cracking anything, I just want to be able to make it rain twenties from the ATM with my cell phone, and then ride away on my dirt bike that I **Hacked** from ebay. The two FBI agents hot on my trail will always get there just after I leave, and are all, "He's like a ghost!" and "I'm getting too old for this shit."
Later, I will be back at my awesome loft that I **Hacked** (so that no one can ever trace any property records and find me) and I will be watching unreleased movies that I **Hacked** from the Internet on a 70 inch tv I **Hacked** from Best Buy, and suddenly the phone will ring and it will be this super hot chick. I'll be all "How did you get this number?" and she'll be all "I **Hacked** it." and I'll be all "WHAAAAAA?". And then I'll ask her if she had the opportunity to download ONE expert-level mastery to her brain (Matrix-style) and choose **Hacking**?
And she'll be all, "No, I chose to become an expert in Matrix-style brain-skill downloading, and then I just downloaded everything everybody else did because I knew how!"
And I'll be all, "That sounds like you were not playing in the spirit of the game, you just found a way around the rules for the express purpose of making everyone else look dumb for NOT choosing it, thereby putting an end to any fun that might have been had."
And she'll be all, "Oh yeah, you know what else I down loaded and became a master of?"
And I'll be all, "No, what?"
And she'll be all "Murder!"
And all be all, like, "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
**tl;dr - I already forgot what I typed.** | HACKING
But it has to be movie style Hacking . I don't want to waste a lot of time sitting in front of a computer coding or cracking anything, I just want to be able to make it rain twenties from the ATM with my cell phone, and then ride away on my dirt bike that I Hacked from ebay. The two FBI agents hot on my trail will always get there just after I leave, and are all, "He's like a ghost!" and "I'm getting too old for this shit."
Later, I will be back at my awesome loft that I Hacked (so that no one can ever trace any property records and find me) and I will be watching unreleased movies that I Hacked from the Internet on a 70 inch tv I Hacked from Best Buy, and suddenly the phone will ring and it will be this super hot chick. I'll be all "How did you get this number?" and she'll be all "I Hacked it." and I'll be all "WHAAAAAA?". And then I'll ask her if she had the opportunity to download ONE expert-level mastery to her brain (Matrix-style) and choose Hacking ?
And she'll be all, "No, I chose to become an expert in Matrix-style brain-skill downloading, and then I just downloaded everything everybody else did because I knew how!"
And I'll be all, "That sounds like you were not playing in the spirit of the game, you just found a way around the rules for the express purpose of making everyone else look dumb for NOT choosing it, thereby putting an end to any fun that might have been had."
And she'll be all, "Oh yeah, you know what else I down loaded and became a master of?"
And I'll be all, "No, what?"
And she'll be all "Murder!"
And all be all, like, "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
tl;dr - I already forgot what I typed.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0ygwn5 | HACKING
But it has to be movie style Hacking . I don't want to waste a lot of time sitting in front of a computer coding or cracking anything, I just want to be able to make it rain twenties from the ATM with my cell phone, and then ride away on my dirt bike that I Hacked from ebay. The two FBI agents hot on my trail will always get there just after I leave, and are all, "He's like a ghost!" and "I'm getting too old for this shit."
Later, I will be back at my awesome loft that I Hacked (so that no one can ever trace any property records and find me) and I will be watching unreleased movies that I Hacked from the Internet on a 70 inch tv I Hacked from Best Buy, and suddenly the phone will ring and it will be this super hot chick. I'll be all "How did you get this number?" and she'll be all "I Hacked it." and I'll be all "WHAAAAAA?". And then I'll ask her if she had the opportunity to download ONE expert-level mastery to her brain (Matrix-style) and choose Hacking ?
And she'll be all, "No, I chose to become an expert in Matrix-style brain-skill downloading, and then I just downloaded everything everybody else did because I knew how!"
And I'll be all, "That sounds like you were not playing in the spirit of the game, you just found a way around the rules for the express purpose of making everyone else look dumb for NOT choosing it, thereby putting an end to any fun that might have been had."
And she'll be all, "Oh yeah, you know what else I down loaded and became a master of?"
And I'll be all, "No, what?"
And she'll be all "Murder!"
And all be all, like, "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" | I already forgot what I typed. |
bsdfree | No offense, but your dad is wrong. In Hindi, Gujarathi, and most of the other North-Indian languages, there are two different characters that can be approximated to the English 'g'. One is ग, which sounds the same as the 'hard' G in English, such as in the word "get". The other is घ, which doesn't have a direct equivalent in English but linguists will tell you it's an aspirated version of ग, which basically means you breathe out heavily when you say it.
ग and घ are two completely different consonants in Indian languages, and replacing one with the other can change the meaning of many words. When transliterating them to English, ग is represented as 'g' and घ is represented as 'gh', because of the extra aspiration. It just doesn't make sense to have it the other way around.
On the other hand, the reason it's "dhi" rather than "di" is because the last syllable in the name is ध, which is an aspirated version of a soft 'd', which doesnt exist in English but sounds closest to the way a native Spanish speaker would pronounce 'de' (the Spanish word). In any case, the 'd' is aspirated and so we make it 'dh' in English.
In short, the 'g' should not be aspirated and the 'd' should be, hence why we have "Gandhi" and not "Ghandi". In fact, the latter would be offensive to many Indians because it suggests a pronunciation with an aspirated g, and "Ghan" means "unclean" in several Indian languages comprising of millions of speakers, in effect insulting someone who is revered throughout India.
tl;dr I'm really good at wasting time - but "Gandhi" is the only correct way to spell it in English, and there's good reason for that. | No offense, but your dad is wrong. In Hindi, Gujarathi, and most of the other North-Indian languages, there are two different characters that can be approximated to the English 'g'. One is ग, which sounds the same as the 'hard' G in English, such as in the word "get". The other is घ, which doesn't have a direct equivalent in English but linguists will tell you it's an aspirated version of ग, which basically means you breathe out heavily when you say it.
ग and घ are two completely different consonants in Indian languages, and replacing one with the other can change the meaning of many words. When transliterating them to English, ग is represented as 'g' and घ is represented as 'gh', because of the extra aspiration. It just doesn't make sense to have it the other way around.
On the other hand, the reason it's "dhi" rather than "di" is because the last syllable in the name is ध, which is an aspirated version of a soft 'd', which doesnt exist in English but sounds closest to the way a native Spanish speaker would pronounce 'de' (the Spanish word). In any case, the 'd' is aspirated and so we make it 'dh' in English.
In short, the 'g' should not be aspirated and the 'd' should be, hence why we have "Gandhi" and not "Ghandi". In fact, the latter would be offensive to many Indians because it suggests a pronunciation with an aspirated g, and "Ghan" means "unclean" in several Indian languages comprising of millions of speakers, in effect insulting someone who is revered throughout India.
tl;dr I'm really good at wasting time - but "Gandhi" is the only correct way to spell it in English, and there's good reason for that.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0ygy9u | No offense, but your dad is wrong. In Hindi, Gujarathi, and most of the other North-Indian languages, there are two different characters that can be approximated to the English 'g'. One is ग, which sounds the same as the 'hard' G in English, such as in the word "get". The other is घ, which doesn't have a direct equivalent in English but linguists will tell you it's an aspirated version of ग, which basically means you breathe out heavily when you say it.
ग and घ are two completely different consonants in Indian languages, and replacing one with the other can change the meaning of many words. When transliterating them to English, ग is represented as 'g' and घ is represented as 'gh', because of the extra aspiration. It just doesn't make sense to have it the other way around.
On the other hand, the reason it's "dhi" rather than "di" is because the last syllable in the name is ध, which is an aspirated version of a soft 'd', which doesnt exist in English but sounds closest to the way a native Spanish speaker would pronounce 'de' (the Spanish word). In any case, the 'd' is aspirated and so we make it 'dh' in English.
In short, the 'g' should not be aspirated and the 'd' should be, hence why we have "Gandhi" and not "Ghandi". In fact, the latter would be offensive to many Indians because it suggests a pronunciation with an aspirated g, and "Ghan" means "unclean" in several Indian languages comprising of millions of speakers, in effect insulting someone who is revered throughout India. | I'm really good at wasting time - but "Gandhi" is the only correct way to spell it in English, and there's good reason for that. |
counterplex | ...
And I'll be all...
And she'll be all...
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tl;dr - we'll be all "omg hax0r" | ...
And I'll be all...
And she'll be all...
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tl;dr - we'll be all "omg hax0r"
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c0yj4ve | And I'll be all...
And she'll be all...
... | we'll be all "omg hax0r" |
jambles | Sounds like a case of too much of a good thing. I don't know if it would be easier to undo all the work you did or pay the HVAC guys to do it for you. The HVAC guys I've talked to say [this]( is an expensive solution to a well intentioned but misguided regulation. In other words your paying a shitload of money for an automatic window opener.
Some of the new homes I've worked on the builder will drill numerous air holes through the outside envelope before the siding is installed.
tl;dr: Get some airflow and save your money
. | Sounds like a case of too much of a good thing. I don't know if it would be easier to undo all the work you did or pay the HVAC guys to do it for you. The HVAC guys I've talked to say [this]( is an expensive solution to a well intentioned but misguided regulation. In other words your paying a shitload of money for an automatic window opener.
Some of the new homes I've worked on the builder will drill numerous air holes through the outside envelope before the siding is installed.
tl;dr: Get some airflow and save your money
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| DIY | t5_2qh7d | c0yhwrq | Sounds like a case of too much of a good thing. I don't know if it would be easier to undo all the work you did or pay the HVAC guys to do it for you. The HVAC guys I've talked to say [this]( is an expensive solution to a well intentioned but misguided regulation. In other words your paying a shitload of money for an automatic window opener.
Some of the new homes I've worked on the builder will drill numerous air holes through the outside envelope before the siding is installed. | Get some airflow and save your money
. |
f4nt | Ugh, this is tough. We have a lot of holes throughout our team. As of late our defense has been a biggest issue though. We did fairly well about keeping LA in check this past weekend, but there were a *lot* of shaky moments. Thank God Donovan still seems gassed from the World Cup run. Our central defenders don't have a lot of pace, and when Pause isn't perched out in front of them, they tend to get abused.
As much as I hate to say it, I think it might be time to sit C.J. Brown, let him come on as a sub, and start Dasean Robinson. Brown and Conde are great, but neither of them are quick. That seems like it's been an issue at times as of late. Then again, I worry if you sit Brown that we'll just be a disorganized clusterfuck along the back line. Conde sure as shit has an awesome habit for making absurd mistakes. Overall though, we suck at defending set plays, and as a bonus we give up a LOT of them. LA had what, 3 or 4 corners in a row before netting that goal?
So yeah, the defense is a bit of a mess, but there are bright spots. Sean Johnson has been nothing short of amazing lately. Getting Segares back is nice, but he's a lot better when he's not being shown a red card (I still can't find a good replay of that foul, I call LA conspiracy on that shit). Kinney has also produced fairly well for a rookie. I'd love to see us develop some more talent though. CJ is old, we won't have him for much longer.
The midfield is a bit of a disaster at times as well, which I think leads to some of our defensive issues. A lot of this has been injury issues though. We've been without Thorrington most of the season, Nyarko went down shortly after we sent Mapp packing to Philly. Pause has been a beast as always. Ljungberg has obviously been a nice addition, and I was glad to see that we weren't completely lost Saturday without him. Castillo is starting to show flashes of brilliance, and fitness. Husidic has also been nice to see this year. One worry I have is that we tend to play 4-5-1 or 4-4-1-1, so that we can whip in crosses to McBride. That's not going to work next year, and I don't have a lot of faith in Carr or John getting up to put headers in. Overall, the midfield is getting better, but it's still sloppy currently.
So, if your defense sucks, you might as well be able to score goals, right? Not so much. McBride's old, but plays as a decent target man despite his age. Collins John fills his void fairly well, except for in the header department, that and his fitness seems to always be suspect. Carr, if healthy, is always a threat. I feel like we tend to have issues connecting with passes in the final third though, but Freddie should help curb that issue to some degree.
Anyways, this went on a whole lot longer than I expected so....
TL;DR: Defense: D, Midfield: B, Forward: C | Ugh, this is tough. We have a lot of holes throughout our team. As of late our defense has been a biggest issue though. We did fairly well about keeping LA in check this past weekend, but there were a lot of shaky moments. Thank God Donovan still seems gassed from the World Cup run. Our central defenders don't have a lot of pace, and when Pause isn't perched out in front of them, they tend to get abused.
As much as I hate to say it, I think it might be time to sit C.J. Brown, let him come on as a sub, and start Dasean Robinson. Brown and Conde are great, but neither of them are quick. That seems like it's been an issue at times as of late. Then again, I worry if you sit Brown that we'll just be a disorganized clusterfuck along the back line. Conde sure as shit has an awesome habit for making absurd mistakes. Overall though, we suck at defending set plays, and as a bonus we give up a LOT of them. LA had what, 3 or 4 corners in a row before netting that goal?
So yeah, the defense is a bit of a mess, but there are bright spots. Sean Johnson has been nothing short of amazing lately. Getting Segares back is nice, but he's a lot better when he's not being shown a red card (I still can't find a good replay of that foul, I call LA conspiracy on that shit). Kinney has also produced fairly well for a rookie. I'd love to see us develop some more talent though. CJ is old, we won't have him for much longer.
The midfield is a bit of a disaster at times as well, which I think leads to some of our defensive issues. A lot of this has been injury issues though. We've been without Thorrington most of the season, Nyarko went down shortly after we sent Mapp packing to Philly. Pause has been a beast as always. Ljungberg has obviously been a nice addition, and I was glad to see that we weren't completely lost Saturday without him. Castillo is starting to show flashes of brilliance, and fitness. Husidic has also been nice to see this year. One worry I have is that we tend to play 4-5-1 or 4-4-1-1, so that we can whip in crosses to McBride. That's not going to work next year, and I don't have a lot of faith in Carr or John getting up to put headers in. Overall, the midfield is getting better, but it's still sloppy currently.
So, if your defense sucks, you might as well be able to score goals, right? Not so much. McBride's old, but plays as a decent target man despite his age. Collins John fills his void fairly well, except for in the header department, that and his fitness seems to always be suspect. Carr, if healthy, is always a threat. I feel like we tend to have issues connecting with passes in the final third though, but Freddie should help curb that issue to some degree.
Anyways, this went on a whole lot longer than I expected so....
TL;DR: Defense: D, Midfield: B, Forward: C
| MLS | t5_2rbnb | c0yoy0w | Ugh, this is tough. We have a lot of holes throughout our team. As of late our defense has been a biggest issue though. We did fairly well about keeping LA in check this past weekend, but there were a lot of shaky moments. Thank God Donovan still seems gassed from the World Cup run. Our central defenders don't have a lot of pace, and when Pause isn't perched out in front of them, they tend to get abused.
As much as I hate to say it, I think it might be time to sit C.J. Brown, let him come on as a sub, and start Dasean Robinson. Brown and Conde are great, but neither of them are quick. That seems like it's been an issue at times as of late. Then again, I worry if you sit Brown that we'll just be a disorganized clusterfuck along the back line. Conde sure as shit has an awesome habit for making absurd mistakes. Overall though, we suck at defending set plays, and as a bonus we give up a LOT of them. LA had what, 3 or 4 corners in a row before netting that goal?
So yeah, the defense is a bit of a mess, but there are bright spots. Sean Johnson has been nothing short of amazing lately. Getting Segares back is nice, but he's a lot better when he's not being shown a red card (I still can't find a good replay of that foul, I call LA conspiracy on that shit). Kinney has also produced fairly well for a rookie. I'd love to see us develop some more talent though. CJ is old, we won't have him for much longer.
The midfield is a bit of a disaster at times as well, which I think leads to some of our defensive issues. A lot of this has been injury issues though. We've been without Thorrington most of the season, Nyarko went down shortly after we sent Mapp packing to Philly. Pause has been a beast as always. Ljungberg has obviously been a nice addition, and I was glad to see that we weren't completely lost Saturday without him. Castillo is starting to show flashes of brilliance, and fitness. Husidic has also been nice to see this year. One worry I have is that we tend to play 4-5-1 or 4-4-1-1, so that we can whip in crosses to McBride. That's not going to work next year, and I don't have a lot of faith in Carr or John getting up to put headers in. Overall, the midfield is getting better, but it's still sloppy currently.
So, if your defense sucks, you might as well be able to score goals, right? Not so much. McBride's old, but plays as a decent target man despite his age. Collins John fills his void fairly well, except for in the header department, that and his fitness seems to always be suspect. Carr, if healthy, is always a threat. I feel like we tend to have issues connecting with passes in the final third though, but Freddie should help curb that issue to some degree.
Anyways, this went on a whole lot longer than I expected so.... | Defense: D, Midfield: B, Forward: C |
bpaustin3 | I was going to condemn your use of caps, but then I read your name.
TL;DR: I was like ಠ_ಠ and then like :o | I was going to condemn your use of caps, but then I read your name.
TL;DR: I was like ಠ_ಠ and then like :o
| WTF | t5_2qh61 | c0yw6o4 | I was going to condemn your use of caps, but then I read your name. | I was like ಠ_ಠ and then like :o |
snowball666 | Fluoride in our water!
Water AKA Dihydrogen Monoxide is going to mix with that fluoride pretty quick we will have Hydrogen fluoride. You know what HF is? Acid!
tl;dr Govmnt trying to kill us all! | Fluoride in our water!
Water AKA Dihydrogen Monoxide is going to mix with that fluoride pretty quick we will have Hydrogen fluoride. You know what HF is? Acid!
tl;dr Govmnt trying to kill us all!
| pics | t5_2qh0u | c0yw6uf | Fluoride in our water!
Water AKA Dihydrogen Monoxide is going to mix with that fluoride pretty quick we will have Hydrogen fluoride. You know what HF is? Acid! | Govmnt trying to kill us all! |
snicker7 | Let me say first off that *I personally* do not support bottled water. I use filters and my own stainless steel bottles. All I am saying is that *most* bottled water is significantly better than the tap water in certain locations.
The article you cited from the LV Sun states that LV has the 3rd worst quality in the nation, and the water district here is defending their stance. Of course they will! I know engineers that work for LVVWD... and they won't drink from the tap here. There are certain minerals that occur naturally in the ground that result in trace amounts of substances that make the water taste like shit, arsenic being one of the most prominent here. A simple charcoal filter is all that is required to improve the water quality to beyond that of drinking water (Brita, PUR, whatever) and a reverse osmosis system will get you the cleanest water you've ever had.
The problem is that the water district is NOT going to pay for that when the majority of the water here is used for purposes *other* than drinking. They treat it to the standards required by the EPA and nothing more. Like I said above, water in other places is *naturally* better, and may have NO arsenic (or other) in it whatsoever to begin with, so even the trace amounts that are present in LV are more than in other locations.
TL;DR: Las Vegas tap water tastes like shit. | Let me say first off that I personally do not support bottled water. I use filters and my own stainless steel bottles. All I am saying is that most bottled water is significantly better than the tap water in certain locations.
The article you cited from the LV Sun states that LV has the 3rd worst quality in the nation, and the water district here is defending their stance. Of course they will! I know engineers that work for LVVWD... and they won't drink from the tap here. There are certain minerals that occur naturally in the ground that result in trace amounts of substances that make the water taste like shit, arsenic being one of the most prominent here. A simple charcoal filter is all that is required to improve the water quality to beyond that of drinking water (Brita, PUR, whatever) and a reverse osmosis system will get you the cleanest water you've ever had.
The problem is that the water district is NOT going to pay for that when the majority of the water here is used for purposes other than drinking. They treat it to the standards required by the EPA and nothing more. Like I said above, water in other places is naturally better, and may have NO arsenic (or other) in it whatsoever to begin with, so even the trace amounts that are present in LV are more than in other locations.
TL;DR: Las Vegas tap water tastes like shit.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | c0ywyw8 | Let me say first off that I personally do not support bottled water. I use filters and my own stainless steel bottles. All I am saying is that most bottled water is significantly better than the tap water in certain locations.
The article you cited from the LV Sun states that LV has the 3rd worst quality in the nation, and the water district here is defending their stance. Of course they will! I know engineers that work for LVVWD... and they won't drink from the tap here. There are certain minerals that occur naturally in the ground that result in trace amounts of substances that make the water taste like shit, arsenic being one of the most prominent here. A simple charcoal filter is all that is required to improve the water quality to beyond that of drinking water (Brita, PUR, whatever) and a reverse osmosis system will get you the cleanest water you've ever had.
The problem is that the water district is NOT going to pay for that when the majority of the water here is used for purposes other than drinking. They treat it to the standards required by the EPA and nothing more. Like I said above, water in other places is naturally better, and may have NO arsenic (or other) in it whatsoever to begin with, so even the trace amounts that are present in LV are more than in other locations. | Las Vegas tap water tastes like shit. |
SC2MASTER | Don't feel bad.. Took me like 2 months to figure out what TL;DR means | Don't feel bad.. Took me like 2 months to figure out what TL;DR means
| starcraft | t5_2qpp6 | c0z0tkb | Don't feel bad.. Took me like 2 months to figure out what | means |
evesaakela | First I will have to provide you with a little back-story. Luckily we aren't to far along in this campaign, we are only level 2's so it shouldn't take long. (I know what you are thinking, I killed him at level two, prick move.... Anyway...)
Our campaign takes place in a country called "Deep Wells." Merely 100 years ago a great war took place, nearly obliterating the the land. The most destructive of all weapons was indeed, magic. Once the war was over, a society that goes by the name of "The Arc" stepped in and basically outlawed the use of magic. In order to cast, you must have a contract given to you by the Arc; still these contracts are hard to come by and don't allow much practical use at all. In addition, towns must not exceed their given quota.
When my character (Gideon) was young, he grew up in a fairly wealthy family of alchemists; quite talented ones at that. Gideon was never without a tutor or his books, and that's exactly the way he liked it. When he came of age, his parents let him in on a deadly secret; they were practicing Wizards. It was their belief that not only was magic a useful and beneficial tool, it was a right. They despised the Arc for what they had done to such an ancient art, and because of this they decided to keep the tradition alive through Gideon.
Unfortunately, only a few years after he had begun his training, a horrible event took place. Their small town of Crown-Shire had been sacked by a large group of marauders. Not many escaped, and the ones who were less fortunate were either killed or enslaved. Gideon was taken from his family and put on a wagon traveling somewhere to the south. This is where the Paladin comes in. On that long ride, Gideon made a close friend, Regdar (yes, very unoriginal but this friend of mine isn't very fond of thinking up names.) Regdar became an outlet for Gideon, someone he could confide in.
A few weeks in, while the caravans were stopped for the night, something explosive happened. The caravans were attacked, breaking the locks. When Gideon and Regdar began to flee, they noticed these weren't just any attackers, they were the Paladins of the Arc. When Regdar stepped out of the wagon, his ankle had twisted allowing him to go no further. Gideon was forced to go on without him, never to see his friend for years to come. Gideon traveled by foot to the nearest city where he made a living for himself by the craft his parents had taught him, with hopes and dreams of someday reuniting with his parents, and his friend.
Fast forward a couple of years, and he received a letter in the mail, from the Arc. You see, since Deep Wells is simply too large for the Arc to patrol, the citizens are required to fulfill a randomly selected "Anti-Magical Duty." Kinda like our equivalent to jury duty. This is how our adventuring party met. You see, a small town along the western border by the name of "Haroway" (hair-oh-way) had been consistently going above and beyond their magic quota. This was due to a certain holiday the town holds once a year "Fright Night." Fright Night is when Bards from all across the land get together to celebrate the ghosts and spirits that roam this area. The cause of this is said to be a small mountain cave which acts as a portal to "the Harrowing;" basically the ancient dwarven myth passed down from generation to generation similar to the afterlife. The Arc had commanded our party to cast a spell, sealing this portal doing away with the ghosts once and for all.
Now of course, Fright Night brings in a great deal of tourism each year, and the last thing the mayor and merchants want done is the sealing of this gate. So he offered us an illusion scroll that when casted would make the portal appear to be shut. This way when the Arc officials come to inspect, they will believe the job was done. Now a majority of us in this group were magic casters anyway, and had pretty close bond with the Arcane. Except one. Regdar the Paladin. He had been indoctrinated by the Arc. When we finally reached the cave, and overcame it's obstacles, we were in the room with the portal. A high perception check made by myself had reveled Regdar had been in the corner casting the Arc's scroll all along. Luckily we jumped into action and brought him to the ground. Gideon demanded Regdar to hand over the scroll immediately, but he refused. This time, Gideon pulled out his cross-bow and pointed it to the downed Paladins head. He told him "you have gone against the best interests of the party, hand over the scroll NOW or I will be forced to kill you." Regdar began to speak "this is an obligation I hold with my God, and the Arc. I will not hand it over." Gideon felt a tear roll down his face, "you were such a free spirit when you were young, now look at you, taking orders from the Arc! If that is your obligation... Then this is mine..." And Gideon let the bolt fly, killing his childhood friend.
Basically it resulted in conflicting ideas. I didn't believe that such an ancient and potentially important gate should be sealed, even if that resulted in the death of my best friend. Needless to say it was a pretty intense night. And sorry, that went a whole lot longer than I imagined at first.
TL;DR: Conflicting ideals on whether or not a magical gate should be sealed for the magic police resulted in the death of a dear friend. | First I will have to provide you with a little back-story. Luckily we aren't to far along in this campaign, we are only level 2's so it shouldn't take long. (I know what you are thinking, I killed him at level two, prick move.... Anyway...)
Our campaign takes place in a country called "Deep Wells." Merely 100 years ago a great war took place, nearly obliterating the the land. The most destructive of all weapons was indeed, magic. Once the war was over, a society that goes by the name of "The Arc" stepped in and basically outlawed the use of magic. In order to cast, you must have a contract given to you by the Arc; still these contracts are hard to come by and don't allow much practical use at all. In addition, towns must not exceed their given quota.
When my character (Gideon) was young, he grew up in a fairly wealthy family of alchemists; quite talented ones at that. Gideon was never without a tutor or his books, and that's exactly the way he liked it. When he came of age, his parents let him in on a deadly secret; they were practicing Wizards. It was their belief that not only was magic a useful and beneficial tool, it was a right. They despised the Arc for what they had done to such an ancient art, and because of this they decided to keep the tradition alive through Gideon.
Unfortunately, only a few years after he had begun his training, a horrible event took place. Their small town of Crown-Shire had been sacked by a large group of marauders. Not many escaped, and the ones who were less fortunate were either killed or enslaved. Gideon was taken from his family and put on a wagon traveling somewhere to the south. This is where the Paladin comes in. On that long ride, Gideon made a close friend, Regdar (yes, very unoriginal but this friend of mine isn't very fond of thinking up names.) Regdar became an outlet for Gideon, someone he could confide in.
A few weeks in, while the caravans were stopped for the night, something explosive happened. The caravans were attacked, breaking the locks. When Gideon and Regdar began to flee, they noticed these weren't just any attackers, they were the Paladins of the Arc. When Regdar stepped out of the wagon, his ankle had twisted allowing him to go no further. Gideon was forced to go on without him, never to see his friend for years to come. Gideon traveled by foot to the nearest city where he made a living for himself by the craft his parents had taught him, with hopes and dreams of someday reuniting with his parents, and his friend.
Fast forward a couple of years, and he received a letter in the mail, from the Arc. You see, since Deep Wells is simply too large for the Arc to patrol, the citizens are required to fulfill a randomly selected "Anti-Magical Duty." Kinda like our equivalent to jury duty. This is how our adventuring party met. You see, a small town along the western border by the name of "Haroway" (hair-oh-way) had been consistently going above and beyond their magic quota. This was due to a certain holiday the town holds once a year "Fright Night." Fright Night is when Bards from all across the land get together to celebrate the ghosts and spirits that roam this area. The cause of this is said to be a small mountain cave which acts as a portal to "the Harrowing;" basically the ancient dwarven myth passed down from generation to generation similar to the afterlife. The Arc had commanded our party to cast a spell, sealing this portal doing away with the ghosts once and for all.
Now of course, Fright Night brings in a great deal of tourism each year, and the last thing the mayor and merchants want done is the sealing of this gate. So he offered us an illusion scroll that when casted would make the portal appear to be shut. This way when the Arc officials come to inspect, they will believe the job was done. Now a majority of us in this group were magic casters anyway, and had pretty close bond with the Arcane. Except one. Regdar the Paladin. He had been indoctrinated by the Arc. When we finally reached the cave, and overcame it's obstacles, we were in the room with the portal. A high perception check made by myself had reveled Regdar had been in the corner casting the Arc's scroll all along. Luckily we jumped into action and brought him to the ground. Gideon demanded Regdar to hand over the scroll immediately, but he refused. This time, Gideon pulled out his cross-bow and pointed it to the downed Paladins head. He told him "you have gone against the best interests of the party, hand over the scroll NOW or I will be forced to kill you." Regdar began to speak "this is an obligation I hold with my God, and the Arc. I will not hand it over." Gideon felt a tear roll down his face, "you were such a free spirit when you were young, now look at you, taking orders from the Arc! If that is your obligation... Then this is mine..." And Gideon let the bolt fly, killing his childhood friend.
Basically it resulted in conflicting ideas. I didn't believe that such an ancient and potentially important gate should be sealed, even if that resulted in the death of my best friend. Needless to say it was a pretty intense night. And sorry, that went a whole lot longer than I imagined at first.
TL;DR: Conflicting ideals on whether or not a magical gate should be sealed for the magic police resulted in the death of a dear friend.
| rpg | t5_2qh2s | c0zhnaa | First I will have to provide you with a little back-story. Luckily we aren't to far along in this campaign, we are only level 2's so it shouldn't take long. (I know what you are thinking, I killed him at level two, prick move.... Anyway...)
Our campaign takes place in a country called "Deep Wells." Merely 100 years ago a great war took place, nearly obliterating the the land. The most destructive of all weapons was indeed, magic. Once the war was over, a society that goes by the name of "The Arc" stepped in and basically outlawed the use of magic. In order to cast, you must have a contract given to you by the Arc; still these contracts are hard to come by and don't allow much practical use at all. In addition, towns must not exceed their given quota.
When my character (Gideon) was young, he grew up in a fairly wealthy family of alchemists; quite talented ones at that. Gideon was never without a tutor or his books, and that's exactly the way he liked it. When he came of age, his parents let him in on a deadly secret; they were practicing Wizards. It was their belief that not only was magic a useful and beneficial tool, it was a right. They despised the Arc for what they had done to such an ancient art, and because of this they decided to keep the tradition alive through Gideon.
Unfortunately, only a few years after he had begun his training, a horrible event took place. Their small town of Crown-Shire had been sacked by a large group of marauders. Not many escaped, and the ones who were less fortunate were either killed or enslaved. Gideon was taken from his family and put on a wagon traveling somewhere to the south. This is where the Paladin comes in. On that long ride, Gideon made a close friend, Regdar (yes, very unoriginal but this friend of mine isn't very fond of thinking up names.) Regdar became an outlet for Gideon, someone he could confide in.
A few weeks in, while the caravans were stopped for the night, something explosive happened. The caravans were attacked, breaking the locks. When Gideon and Regdar began to flee, they noticed these weren't just any attackers, they were the Paladins of the Arc. When Regdar stepped out of the wagon, his ankle had twisted allowing him to go no further. Gideon was forced to go on without him, never to see his friend for years to come. Gideon traveled by foot to the nearest city where he made a living for himself by the craft his parents had taught him, with hopes and dreams of someday reuniting with his parents, and his friend.
Fast forward a couple of years, and he received a letter in the mail, from the Arc. You see, since Deep Wells is simply too large for the Arc to patrol, the citizens are required to fulfill a randomly selected "Anti-Magical Duty." Kinda like our equivalent to jury duty. This is how our adventuring party met. You see, a small town along the western border by the name of "Haroway" (hair-oh-way) had been consistently going above and beyond their magic quota. This was due to a certain holiday the town holds once a year "Fright Night." Fright Night is when Bards from all across the land get together to celebrate the ghosts and spirits that roam this area. The cause of this is said to be a small mountain cave which acts as a portal to "the Harrowing;" basically the ancient dwarven myth passed down from generation to generation similar to the afterlife. The Arc had commanded our party to cast a spell, sealing this portal doing away with the ghosts once and for all.
Now of course, Fright Night brings in a great deal of tourism each year, and the last thing the mayor and merchants want done is the sealing of this gate. So he offered us an illusion scroll that when casted would make the portal appear to be shut. This way when the Arc officials come to inspect, they will believe the job was done. Now a majority of us in this group were magic casters anyway, and had pretty close bond with the Arcane. Except one. Regdar the Paladin. He had been indoctrinated by the Arc. When we finally reached the cave, and overcame it's obstacles, we were in the room with the portal. A high perception check made by myself had reveled Regdar had been in the corner casting the Arc's scroll all along. Luckily we jumped into action and brought him to the ground. Gideon demanded Regdar to hand over the scroll immediately, but he refused. This time, Gideon pulled out his cross-bow and pointed it to the downed Paladins head. He told him "you have gone against the best interests of the party, hand over the scroll NOW or I will be forced to kill you." Regdar began to speak "this is an obligation I hold with my God, and the Arc. I will not hand it over." Gideon felt a tear roll down his face, "you were such a free spirit when you were young, now look at you, taking orders from the Arc! If that is your obligation... Then this is mine..." And Gideon let the bolt fly, killing his childhood friend.
Basically it resulted in conflicting ideas. I didn't believe that such an ancient and potentially important gate should be sealed, even if that resulted in the death of my best friend. Needless to say it was a pretty intense night. And sorry, that went a whole lot longer than I imagined at first. | Conflicting ideals on whether or not a magical gate should be sealed for the magic police resulted in the death of a dear friend. |
tabassman | Soda. Diet soda is bad for you because of the following: obviously still bad for your teeth and your body will think it is getting sugar and will crave similar carbs (this means you will typically eat more). The jury is out concerning cancer claims and other health effects of the different sweeteners. That said, I drink a metric shit ton of diet soda because I love it. My tip is to drink water afterward so you protect your teeth and don't have a sweet taste in your mouth for an extended period.
Body weight exercises. I've stopped going to the gym as well, and I would recommend doing something that also gets your heart rate up. Google HIIT or Tabata. Do body weight squats, pull ups, push ups, inverted rows, and burpees. Add weight via a backpack full of books if you need more weight.
**TL;DR: Protect your teeth and break a sweat.** | Soda. Diet soda is bad for you because of the following: obviously still bad for your teeth and your body will think it is getting sugar and will crave similar carbs (this means you will typically eat more). The jury is out concerning cancer claims and other health effects of the different sweeteners. That said, I drink a metric shit ton of diet soda because I love it. My tip is to drink water afterward so you protect your teeth and don't have a sweet taste in your mouth for an extended period.
Body weight exercises. I've stopped going to the gym as well, and I would recommend doing something that also gets your heart rate up. Google HIIT or Tabata. Do body weight squats, pull ups, push ups, inverted rows, and burpees. Add weight via a backpack full of books if you need more weight.
TL;DR: Protect your teeth and break a sweat.
| Fitness | t5_2qhx4 | c0zn3nm | Soda. Diet soda is bad for you because of the following: obviously still bad for your teeth and your body will think it is getting sugar and will crave similar carbs (this means you will typically eat more). The jury is out concerning cancer claims and other health effects of the different sweeteners. That said, I drink a metric shit ton of diet soda because I love it. My tip is to drink water afterward so you protect your teeth and don't have a sweet taste in your mouth for an extended period.
Body weight exercises. I've stopped going to the gym as well, and I would recommend doing something that also gets your heart rate up. Google HIIT or Tabata. Do body weight squats, pull ups, push ups, inverted rows, and burpees. Add weight via a backpack full of books if you need more weight. | Protect your teeth and break a sweat. |
ErroneousBee | >It would only be a trademark violation if someone was using the name to advertise a related, similar, or competing product. The use of the name at all under any circumstances is not protected. Target has a trademark on the name Target and the target logo, but people are still allowed to talk about targets and sell dart boards without fear of legal action.
tl;dr: The legal notice is overly broad. | >It would only be a trademark violation if someone was using the name to advertise a related, similar, or competing product. The use of the name at all under any circumstances is not protected. Target has a trademark on the name Target and the target logo, but people are still allowed to talk about targets and sell dart boards without fear of legal action.
tl;dr: The legal notice is overly broad.
| technology | t5_2qh16 | c1070gq | It would only be a trademark violation if someone was using the name to advertise a related, similar, or competing product. The use of the name at all under any circumstances is not protected. Target has a trademark on the name Target and the target logo, but people are still allowed to talk about targets and sell dart boards without fear of legal action. | The legal notice is overly broad. |
IrrelevantTLDR | If you read the cease and desist letter:
>Accordingly, Nutrilab and Dr. Allen demand that you immediately cease and desist from any further use of any of these marks. Continued, unauthorized use of any of these marks will result in legal action to protect said marks. Legal counsel has been copied on this letter. If you have any questions, please contact the undersigned. **Your anticipated cooperation is anticipated.**
Are you kidding me? You would think if they were going to these extreme lengths to protect Dr. Ann de Wees Allen's name that Dr. Ann de Wees Allen would probably want to proofread her own legal letter.
Also, obligatory:
Dr. Ann de Wees Allen
Dr. Ann de Wees Allen
Dr. Ann de Wees Allen
Dr. Ann de Wees Allen
...etc
TL;DR - A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes.
| If you read the cease and desist letter:
>Accordingly, Nutrilab and Dr. Allen demand that you immediately cease and desist from any further use of any of these marks. Continued, unauthorized use of any of these marks will result in legal action to protect said marks. Legal counsel has been copied on this letter. If you have any questions, please contact the undersigned. Your anticipated cooperation is anticipated.
Are you kidding me? You would think if they were going to these extreme lengths to protect Dr. Ann de Wees Allen's name that Dr. Ann de Wees Allen would probably want to proofread her own legal letter.
Also, obligatory:
Dr. Ann de Wees Allen
Dr. Ann de Wees Allen
Dr. Ann de Wees Allen
Dr. Ann de Wees Allen
...etc
TL;DR - A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes.
| technology | t5_2qh16 | c1011n8 | If you read the cease and desist letter:
>Accordingly, Nutrilab and Dr. Allen demand that you immediately cease and desist from any further use of any of these marks. Continued, unauthorized use of any of these marks will result in legal action to protect said marks. Legal counsel has been copied on this letter. If you have any questions, please contact the undersigned. Your anticipated cooperation is anticipated.
Are you kidding me? You would think if they were going to these extreme lengths to protect Dr. Ann de Wees Allen's name that Dr. Ann de Wees Allen would probably want to proofread her own legal letter.
Also, obligatory:
Dr. Ann de Wees Allen
Dr. Ann de Wees Allen
Dr. Ann de Wees Allen
Dr. Ann de Wees Allen
...etc | A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes. |
drivebyjustin | You want to dump her so you can bang other chicks and when you're done banging other chicks you want her to still be there so you can get back together. You also want to remain "great friends" so she doesn't get over you and hence does not start banging other dudes. I'm also going to go out on a limb and guess that you will have sex with her occasionally when you're in the inevitable sexual drought you're about to hit.
tl;dr: No, you can't do this. Be together or cut contact. | You want to dump her so you can bang other chicks and when you're done banging other chicks you want her to still be there so you can get back together. You also want to remain "great friends" so she doesn't get over you and hence does not start banging other dudes. I'm also going to go out on a limb and guess that you will have sex with her occasionally when you're in the inevitable sexual drought you're about to hit.
tl;dr: No, you can't do this. Be together or cut contact.
| relationship_advice | t5_2r0cn | c103kh1 | You want to dump her so you can bang other chicks and when you're done banging other chicks you want her to still be there so you can get back together. You also want to remain "great friends" so she doesn't get over you and hence does not start banging other dudes. I'm also going to go out on a limb and guess that you will have sex with her occasionally when you're in the inevitable sexual drought you're about to hit. | No, you can't do this. Be together or cut contact. |
veritechcyclone | > how many drives do you need?
Still figuring that out. I could *get by* with one big HDD. But I really want to have a backup (mirror?) copy of all the work I'm doing for clients. And I've heard that it's best for Photoshop/Illustrator/maybe other apps to use a scratch disk that's different from the OS disk. And, I wonder if some kind of RAID setup would be useful--not only for the aforementioned backup idea but also for faster editing of videos in Premiere and After Effects. I don't get a lot of call for video work but it's my understanding some RAID configurations make working with a non-linear editor somewhat faster. Please don't get me wrong. I'm not fishing for a tutorial on RAID setups. Already have so much to think about.
**tl;dr ** Not sure yet : )
> How much ram do you honestly need?
That's the thing--I guess there's no real way to know until enough sticks (or bigger sticks) are installed that I'm not constantly waiting for the machine to catch up with me. But I get your drift. No need for me to buy a mobo that accepts 200 GB of RAM.
> ...is designed de facto with future processor upgrades in mind
Wow, something else I never realized until now. Thanks! | > how many drives do you need?
Still figuring that out. I could get by with one big HDD. But I really want to have a backup (mirror?) copy of all the work I'm doing for clients. And I've heard that it's best for Photoshop/Illustrator/maybe other apps to use a scratch disk that's different from the OS disk. And, I wonder if some kind of RAID setup would be useful--not only for the aforementioned backup idea but also for faster editing of videos in Premiere and After Effects. I don't get a lot of call for video work but it's my understanding some RAID configurations make working with a non-linear editor somewhat faster. Please don't get me wrong. I'm not fishing for a tutorial on RAID setups. Already have so much to think about.
tl;dr Not sure yet : )
> How much ram do you honestly need?
That's the thing--I guess there's no real way to know until enough sticks (or bigger sticks) are installed that I'm not constantly waiting for the machine to catch up with me. But I get your drift. No need for me to buy a mobo that accepts 200 GB of RAM.
> ...is designed de facto with future processor upgrades in mind
Wow, something else I never realized until now. Thanks!
| hardware | t5_2qh18 | c107340 | how many drives do you need?
Still figuring that out. I could get by with one big HDD. But I really want to have a backup (mirror?) copy of all the work I'm doing for clients. And I've heard that it's best for Photoshop/Illustrator/maybe other apps to use a scratch disk that's different from the OS disk. And, I wonder if some kind of RAID setup would be useful--not only for the aforementioned backup idea but also for faster editing of videos in Premiere and After Effects. I don't get a lot of call for video work but it's my understanding some RAID configurations make working with a non-linear editor somewhat faster. Please don't get me wrong. I'm not fishing for a tutorial on RAID setups. Already have so much to think about. | Not sure yet : )
> How much ram do you honestly need?
That's the thing--I guess there's no real way to know until enough sticks (or bigger sticks) are installed that I'm not constantly waiting for the machine to catch up with me. But I get your drift. No need for me to buy a mobo that accepts 200 GB of RAM.
> ...is designed de facto with future processor upgrades in mind
Wow, something else I never realized until now. Thanks! |
coopdude | You may want to take a look into getting updated proper because the beta has several holes that can lead to automatic execution of arbitrary code without prompting the user.
tl;dr is that attackers can install something without asking if you visit the wrong page on that version of flash. | You may want to take a look into getting updated proper because the beta has several holes that can lead to automatic execution of arbitrary code without prompting the user.
tl;dr is that attackers can install something without asking if you visit the wrong page on that version of flash.
| techsupport | t5_2qioo | c10833l | You may want to take a look into getting updated proper because the beta has several holes that can lead to automatic execution of arbitrary code without prompting the user. | is that attackers can install something without asking if you visit the wrong page on that version of flash. |
fall_ark |
I did this when I was seven or eight. Newspapers, parcels, envelopes, torn pages from books and magazines, etc.. Sometimes I put a lot of paper in the sink and burnt them altogether. To this day I still feel the hot air tickles as an evil smile slowly forms on my face. I gathered the ashes from the sink afterwards and wiped the ceramic sink clean before anyone noticed.
One time though, I saw my parents returning home early through the window and tried to hide the still-burning flames by opening the tap. A loud crack emitted from the sink, but I didn't know better, and simply scooped the half-burnt waste to the dustbin and put on an innocent face. It was excruciating to admit to my raging parents that the broken sink was actually my doing and I had been burning papers for a long time.
tl;dr : Once I burnt things in a ceramic sink and turned the tap on to put out the fire. Fuck thermal expansion rules.
| I did this when I was seven or eight. Newspapers, parcels, envelopes, torn pages from books and magazines, etc.. Sometimes I put a lot of paper in the sink and burnt them altogether. To this day I still feel the hot air tickles as an evil smile slowly forms on my face. I gathered the ashes from the sink afterwards and wiped the ceramic sink clean before anyone noticed.
One time though, I saw my parents returning home early through the window and tried to hide the still-burning flames by opening the tap. A loud crack emitted from the sink, but I didn't know better, and simply scooped the half-burnt waste to the dustbin and put on an innocent face. It was excruciating to admit to my raging parents that the broken sink was actually my doing and I had been burning papers for a long time.
tl;dr : Once I burnt things in a ceramic sink and turned the tap on to put out the fire. Fuck thermal expansion rules.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | c107ksm | I did this when I was seven or eight. Newspapers, parcels, envelopes, torn pages from books and magazines, etc.. Sometimes I put a lot of paper in the sink and burnt them altogether. To this day I still feel the hot air tickles as an evil smile slowly forms on my face. I gathered the ashes from the sink afterwards and wiped the ceramic sink clean before anyone noticed.
One time though, I saw my parents returning home early through the window and tried to hide the still-burning flames by opening the tap. A loud crack emitted from the sink, but I didn't know better, and simply scooped the half-burnt waste to the dustbin and put on an innocent face. It was excruciating to admit to my raging parents that the broken sink was actually my doing and I had been burning papers for a long time. | Once I burnt things in a ceramic sink and turned the tap on to put out the fire. Fuck thermal expansion rules. |
USSConstitution | You do know your recent threat to sue is a baseless SLAPP, in the U.S., right? Why mention Canada? You do know the U.S. caselaw is against you, right? See the on-going legal-bully failure of someone in your situation at www.hotrodders.com.
TLDR: Individual posters are NOT responsible for the content of others. This goes for individual bloggers...as well as their hosts (IE good luck suing Conde Naste too!). Worthless redditor above is worthless. Don't waste your breath.
| You do know your recent threat to sue is a baseless SLAPP, in the U.S., right? Why mention Canada? You do know the U.S. caselaw is against you, right? See the on-going legal-bully failure of someone in your situation at www.hotrodders.com.
TLDR: Individual posters are NOT responsible for the content of others. This goes for individual bloggers...as well as their hosts (IE good luck suing Conde Naste too!). Worthless redditor above is worthless. Don't waste your breath.
| geek | t5_2qh17 | c10j34l | You do know your recent threat to sue is a baseless SLAPP, in the U.S., right? Why mention Canada? You do know the U.S. caselaw is against you, right? See the on-going legal-bully failure of someone in your situation at www.hotrodders.com. | Individual posters are NOT responsible for the content of others. This goes for individual bloggers...as well as their hosts (IE good luck suing Conde Naste too!). Worthless redditor above is worthless. Don't waste your breath. |
Wifflepig | Jason Gudmundson information:
[He has a Facebook page, in which he calls his other company "LTS Web Hosting Services"](
Note, this is a web-hosting "company" with no real website - at all. Curious.
Well, their address for their "corporate office" is found [here]( and that address is:
1035 12 St S
Lethbridge, AB T1K 1R1, Canada
Which is interesting, because Google Maps points that to a [residential street and house](
If you look up the registration information for CompuFirm.net, it points you to
740 4th Avenue S, Lethbridge, AB
Interesting tidbit - the email used to register that domain is also handling six other domains. But sigh, not LTS Web Hosting, though - that's a bummer.
On their website, Jason uses Google's videos from Youtube, they use Microsoft's slideshows from its demo suit site, they have plagiarized text from all over (their blurb about certification was lifted from Wikipedia). I haven't even gotten started about the usage of copyright and rights-restricted material on their website yet. Time to start pulling apart the code and see just how much is besides that first stock photo I found.
tldr: there's nothing original about their website, it's set up shady, and most all of it is borrowed (without credit) from other places on the internet to make it appear more professional.
In short - the website is the extension of Jason (aka Steve).
**edit/followup:**
Without much effort spent, two of the images used on his front page are rights-restricted, copyright (aka, pay to use it) stock images. While that might be overlooked for the amateurs of us in our regular blogs, a for-profit business can get into some seriously deep legal trouble for copyright theft, unlicensed usage. I am curious to see if there are any copyright infringements for CompuFirm, or if they did pay for those two media. We will see - I've notified both copyright interested parties of the possible copyright infringement with direct links to the images on CompuFirm's website. | Jason Gudmundson information:
[He has a Facebook page, in which he calls his other company "LTS Web Hosting Services"](
Note, this is a web-hosting "company" with no real website - at all. Curious.
Well, their address for their "corporate office" is found [here]( and that address is:
1035 12 St S
Lethbridge, AB T1K 1R1, Canada
Which is interesting, because Google Maps points that to a [residential street and house](
If you look up the registration information for CompuFirm.net, it points you to
740 4th Avenue S, Lethbridge, AB
Interesting tidbit - the email used to register that domain is also handling six other domains. But sigh, not LTS Web Hosting, though - that's a bummer.
On their website, Jason uses Google's videos from Youtube, they use Microsoft's slideshows from its demo suit site, they have plagiarized text from all over (their blurb about certification was lifted from Wikipedia). I haven't even gotten started about the usage of copyright and rights-restricted material on their website yet. Time to start pulling apart the code and see just how much is besides that first stock photo I found.
tldr: there's nothing original about their website, it's set up shady, and most all of it is borrowed (without credit) from other places on the internet to make it appear more professional.
In short - the website is the extension of Jason (aka Steve).
edit/followup:
Without much effort spent, two of the images used on his front page are rights-restricted, copyright (aka, pay to use it) stock images. While that might be overlooked for the amateurs of us in our regular blogs, a for-profit business can get into some seriously deep legal trouble for copyright theft, unlicensed usage. I am curious to see if there are any copyright infringements for CompuFirm, or if they did pay for those two media. We will see - I've notified both copyright interested parties of the possible copyright infringement with direct links to the images on CompuFirm's website.
| geek | t5_2qh17 | c10j6bo | Jason Gudmundson information:
[He has a Facebook page, in which he calls his other company "LTS Web Hosting Services"](
Note, this is a web-hosting "company" with no real website - at all. Curious.
Well, their address for their "corporate office" is found [here]( and that address is:
1035 12 St S
Lethbridge, AB T1K 1R1, Canada
Which is interesting, because Google Maps points that to a [residential street and house](
If you look up the registration information for CompuFirm.net, it points you to
740 4th Avenue S, Lethbridge, AB
Interesting tidbit - the email used to register that domain is also handling six other domains. But sigh, not LTS Web Hosting, though - that's a bummer.
On their website, Jason uses Google's videos from Youtube, they use Microsoft's slideshows from its demo suit site, they have plagiarized text from all over (their blurb about certification was lifted from Wikipedia). I haven't even gotten started about the usage of copyright and rights-restricted material on their website yet. Time to start pulling apart the code and see just how much is besides that first stock photo I found. | there's nothing original about their website, it's set up shady, and most all of it is borrowed (without credit) from other places on the internet to make it appear more professional.
In short - the website is the extension of Jason (aka Steve).
edit/followup:
Without much effort spent, two of the images used on his front page are rights-restricted, copyright (aka, pay to use it) stock images. While that might be overlooked for the amateurs of us in our regular blogs, a for-profit business can get into some seriously deep legal trouble for copyright theft, unlicensed usage. I am curious to see if there are any copyright infringements for CompuFirm, or if they did pay for those two media. We will see - I've notified both copyright interested parties of the possible copyright infringement with direct links to the images on CompuFirm's website. |
MynameisKen | This is very true, I'll admit I am biased. I never really knew a lot about Bullies until my wife and started looking for one. We did all of our research and made the leap, lol. While my initial response was admittedly a little brash, the OP's points might have been made much more accurate by the term, "usually". There are exceptions in every case, but I would think that the number of naturally breeding Bullies is likely not very significant.
Without any sources, and I wont use Wikibullshitea, Bullies were designed to fight bulls for sport, I believe. They were bred to be able to bite into a bull on a more or less flat area. This is the cause of much of the respiratory problems they are known for. Not exactly sure where some of the other problems come from, whether just an unintentional byproduct of getting the most desired traits or not. While not completely avoidable, one could miss most of the common problems by doing as good deal of investigating before they buy a pup. Get to know the people who have the pup and look at the mom and dad at least twice before committing. I know this is not possible in all cases, but get pictures and have someone who knows the breed look at them. While this may not show all of the possible problems, you'd be surprised how much you can tell by a picture. Check with the pups vet about any problems with the litter, etc.
Like I said, I'm a little biased. I never would have imagined I would fall in love with a breed of dog, but all it took was the love and undying devotion of one of these amazing dogs to get me hooked!!!
TL;DR - I like Bullies, I'm biased, OP was fairly accurate if he/she would have used the word "usually". I upvoted for a meaningful discussion on the amazing breed of English Bulldogs!! | This is very true, I'll admit I am biased. I never really knew a lot about Bullies until my wife and started looking for one. We did all of our research and made the leap, lol. While my initial response was admittedly a little brash, the OP's points might have been made much more accurate by the term, "usually". There are exceptions in every case, but I would think that the number of naturally breeding Bullies is likely not very significant.
Without any sources, and I wont use Wikibullshitea, Bullies were designed to fight bulls for sport, I believe. They were bred to be able to bite into a bull on a more or less flat area. This is the cause of much of the respiratory problems they are known for. Not exactly sure where some of the other problems come from, whether just an unintentional byproduct of getting the most desired traits or not. While not completely avoidable, one could miss most of the common problems by doing as good deal of investigating before they buy a pup. Get to know the people who have the pup and look at the mom and dad at least twice before committing. I know this is not possible in all cases, but get pictures and have someone who knows the breed look at them. While this may not show all of the possible problems, you'd be surprised how much you can tell by a picture. Check with the pups vet about any problems with the litter, etc.
Like I said, I'm a little biased. I never would have imagined I would fall in love with a breed of dog, but all it took was the love and undying devotion of one of these amazing dogs to get me hooked!!!
TL;DR - I like Bullies, I'm biased, OP was fairly accurate if he/she would have used the word "usually". I upvoted for a meaningful discussion on the amazing breed of English Bulldogs!!
| pics | t5_2qh0u | c10tz95 | This is very true, I'll admit I am biased. I never really knew a lot about Bullies until my wife and started looking for one. We did all of our research and made the leap, lol. While my initial response was admittedly a little brash, the OP's points might have been made much more accurate by the term, "usually". There are exceptions in every case, but I would think that the number of naturally breeding Bullies is likely not very significant.
Without any sources, and I wont use Wikibullshitea, Bullies were designed to fight bulls for sport, I believe. They were bred to be able to bite into a bull on a more or less flat area. This is the cause of much of the respiratory problems they are known for. Not exactly sure where some of the other problems come from, whether just an unintentional byproduct of getting the most desired traits or not. While not completely avoidable, one could miss most of the common problems by doing as good deal of investigating before they buy a pup. Get to know the people who have the pup and look at the mom and dad at least twice before committing. I know this is not possible in all cases, but get pictures and have someone who knows the breed look at them. While this may not show all of the possible problems, you'd be surprised how much you can tell by a picture. Check with the pups vet about any problems with the litter, etc.
Like I said, I'm a little biased. I never would have imagined I would fall in love with a breed of dog, but all it took was the love and undying devotion of one of these amazing dogs to get me hooked!!! | I like Bullies, I'm biased, OP was fairly accurate if he/she would have used the word "usually". I upvoted for a meaningful discussion on the amazing breed of English Bulldogs!! |
guthmund | I like the book for the most part, but he seems to have taken lessons from Stephen King on nonsensical rambling as filler and Brandon Sanderson's propensity for trying to wrap everything up in a couple of pages at the end.
First part was pretty solid. Good solid characters, decent dialogue, interesting plot...like I said, he had me empathizing with a pedophile...that's some solid storytelling, in my opinion.
The second part, so far, at least, is just a sharp right turn that is so completely different that there are times when I'm not sure I'm reading the same book. I don't really like any of the characters, I'm not entirely sure what's going on and I would like for the narrative to get off its ass and out of this survivalist, post-apocalyptic commune and run far away from the fantasy genre-esque nomenclature crap.
He gave me a character to give a crap about in the first half and then abandoned her for a while so that he could talk about pairing customs, orders of family, musings on the technological/industrial footprints of a post-apocalyptic world with a bunch of characters I can't keep empathize with...truth be told, I'm having a hard time just keeping them separate and the relationships straight in my head.
I'm looking forward to it getting better. At the very least, Amy seems to be back...so, that's a plus.
EDIT: Seems I rambled on a bit there...side effects of an undergrad heavily rooted in things literature....
tl;dr = good book with some problems. hoping it picks up shortly. | I like the book for the most part, but he seems to have taken lessons from Stephen King on nonsensical rambling as filler and Brandon Sanderson's propensity for trying to wrap everything up in a couple of pages at the end.
First part was pretty solid. Good solid characters, decent dialogue, interesting plot...like I said, he had me empathizing with a pedophile...that's some solid storytelling, in my opinion.
The second part, so far, at least, is just a sharp right turn that is so completely different that there are times when I'm not sure I'm reading the same book. I don't really like any of the characters, I'm not entirely sure what's going on and I would like for the narrative to get off its ass and out of this survivalist, post-apocalyptic commune and run far away from the fantasy genre-esque nomenclature crap.
He gave me a character to give a crap about in the first half and then abandoned her for a while so that he could talk about pairing customs, orders of family, musings on the technological/industrial footprints of a post-apocalyptic world with a bunch of characters I can't keep empathize with...truth be told, I'm having a hard time just keeping them separate and the relationships straight in my head.
I'm looking forward to it getting better. At the very least, Amy seems to be back...so, that's a plus.
EDIT: Seems I rambled on a bit there...side effects of an undergrad heavily rooted in things literature....
tl;dr = good book with some problems. hoping it picks up shortly.
| books | t5_2qh4i | c10vgaf | I like the book for the most part, but he seems to have taken lessons from Stephen King on nonsensical rambling as filler and Brandon Sanderson's propensity for trying to wrap everything up in a couple of pages at the end.
First part was pretty solid. Good solid characters, decent dialogue, interesting plot...like I said, he had me empathizing with a pedophile...that's some solid storytelling, in my opinion.
The second part, so far, at least, is just a sharp right turn that is so completely different that there are times when I'm not sure I'm reading the same book. I don't really like any of the characters, I'm not entirely sure what's going on and I would like for the narrative to get off its ass and out of this survivalist, post-apocalyptic commune and run far away from the fantasy genre-esque nomenclature crap.
He gave me a character to give a crap about in the first half and then abandoned her for a while so that he could talk about pairing customs, orders of family, musings on the technological/industrial footprints of a post-apocalyptic world with a bunch of characters I can't keep empathize with...truth be told, I'm having a hard time just keeping them separate and the relationships straight in my head.
I'm looking forward to it getting better. At the very least, Amy seems to be back...so, that's a plus.
EDIT: Seems I rambled on a bit there...side effects of an undergrad heavily rooted in things literature.... | good book with some problems. hoping it picks up shortly. |
Atheizt | As someone whos been the victim of such a momentary panic, I love this idea. The difference was my shower water came out red because new water lines had just been run and somehow some of the red dirt ended up in there so it only lasted for a few seconds.
Still, the mix of red dirt/mud, shampoo and water = opening eyes and going omfg?!?
TL;DR: I got unintentionally trolled. | As someone whos been the victim of such a momentary panic, I love this idea. The difference was my shower water came out red because new water lines had just been run and somehow some of the red dirt ended up in there so it only lasted for a few seconds.
Still, the mix of red dirt/mud, shampoo and water = opening eyes and going omfg?!?
TL;DR: I got unintentionally trolled.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c1125gw | As someone whos been the victim of such a momentary panic, I love this idea. The difference was my shower water came out red because new water lines had just been run and somehow some of the red dirt ended up in there so it only lasted for a few seconds.
Still, the mix of red dirt/mud, shampoo and water = opening eyes and going omfg?!? | I got unintentionally trolled. |
sd2001 | Chill the fuck out. If you actually read what I wrote, it said "when I was a teenager." As in, I'm not a teenager anymore and haven't been since the freakin' 90s so it's not like I'm still running around doing this as I'm in my 30s now.
Plus, even if some kids did it to you now it wouldn't be SO bad since filing a report would at least give you something to do since you're standing behind the counter with your finger up your butt anyway.
TL;DR: Stop being melodramatic and go mop aisle 2.
| Chill the fuck out. If you actually read what I wrote, it said "when I was a teenager." As in, I'm not a teenager anymore and haven't been since the freakin' 90s so it's not like I'm still running around doing this as I'm in my 30s now.
Plus, even if some kids did it to you now it wouldn't be SO bad since filing a report would at least give you something to do since you're standing behind the counter with your finger up your butt anyway.
TL;DR: Stop being melodramatic and go mop aisle 2.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c10xnn9 | Chill the fuck out. If you actually read what I wrote, it said "when I was a teenager." As in, I'm not a teenager anymore and haven't been since the freakin' 90s so it's not like I'm still running around doing this as I'm in my 30s now.
Plus, even if some kids did it to you now it wouldn't be SO bad since filing a report would at least give you something to do since you're standing behind the counter with your finger up your butt anyway. | Stop being melodramatic and go mop aisle 2. |
NIXONSspectre | my grandpa did a variation of this in the 40's right before he went to boot camp (didn't make it into combat). He told my future grandmother that he could kiss her without her feeling it or he'd give her a nickel. It worked. now they've been together for more than 50 years, argue like children and have a metric shit ton of kids and grandkids and great grandkids.
TL;DR My grandmother was ignorant. my grandfather was a moose. | my grandpa did a variation of this in the 40's right before he went to boot camp (didn't make it into combat). He told my future grandmother that he could kiss her without her feeling it or he'd give her a nickel. It worked. now they've been together for more than 50 years, argue like children and have a metric shit ton of kids and grandkids and great grandkids.
TL;DR My grandmother was ignorant. my grandfather was a moose.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c10xot6 | my grandpa did a variation of this in the 40's right before he went to boot camp (didn't make it into combat). He told my future grandmother that he could kiss her without her feeling it or he'd give her a nickel. It worked. now they've been together for more than 50 years, argue like children and have a metric shit ton of kids and grandkids and great grandkids. | My grandmother was ignorant. my grandfather was a moose. |
SwellJoe | This is not "unofficial" policy. It is the official policy of many, but not all, Walmarts. You can call, or walk in, and ask the store manager whether overnight parking is allowed, or if they have patrolling security, you can ask them. The answer is usually "yes". You don't have to be secretive about it, though they do often have rules about where you should park and how long you can stay. They usually ask that you park at the outer edges of the lot, and under lights that remain on throughout the night. I've been told by security at a couple of Walmarts that the "park under lights" rule is for the safety of the folks parking overnight: they can see if anyone is messing with the vehicle and deal with it.
And, I'm deeply appreciative of it. I live in a motorhome, and travel full-time. When I'm driving, I don't like the hassle of finding an RV park, paying a possibly very large sum, just to park for 10 hours, and then drive out in the morning. I don't even hookup when I'm going from point A to point B.
Walmart is *perfect* for that situation. They're near the highway, I don't have to stop to register, I can buy groceries or parts for my motorhome, there's room to get out and walk the dog (usually with grass and sidewalks), and it's free. I know it's safe, because Walmart generally has 24 hour security, even if the store isn't open all night, and there are usually one or two other RVs in the lot (sometimes many more).
I used to dislike Walmart, but since moving into the motorhome ten months ago, my whole perspective has changed. I *love* Walmart these days, and I've spent a couple thousand dollars there this year. It's my goto store for pretty much everything.
Also, the folks at Walmart are *universally* nice to RVers. I had a Walmart employee in Bozeman, MT go well out of his way to try to help me with a battery mounting problem I has just yesterday. He went into the bike shop in back to see if he could dig up some bigger washers than what were out on the shelves.
They do like for folks to move on after 24 hours, though they have never kicked me out for staying an extra night or two (I've been at this Walmart for four days, on account of a couple of issues with my motorhome that occurred while I was driving down from Alaska, and once I started the repairs I couldn't drive until they were fixed...we leave first thing in the morning). Since I've been shopping every day since I've been here, I don't feel too guilty about it.
tl;dr: I live in Walmart parking lots. It's awesome. | This is not "unofficial" policy. It is the official policy of many, but not all, Walmarts. You can call, or walk in, and ask the store manager whether overnight parking is allowed, or if they have patrolling security, you can ask them. The answer is usually "yes". You don't have to be secretive about it, though they do often have rules about where you should park and how long you can stay. They usually ask that you park at the outer edges of the lot, and under lights that remain on throughout the night. I've been told by security at a couple of Walmarts that the "park under lights" rule is for the safety of the folks parking overnight: they can see if anyone is messing with the vehicle and deal with it.
And, I'm deeply appreciative of it. I live in a motorhome, and travel full-time. When I'm driving, I don't like the hassle of finding an RV park, paying a possibly very large sum, just to park for 10 hours, and then drive out in the morning. I don't even hookup when I'm going from point A to point B.
Walmart is perfect for that situation. They're near the highway, I don't have to stop to register, I can buy groceries or parts for my motorhome, there's room to get out and walk the dog (usually with grass and sidewalks), and it's free. I know it's safe, because Walmart generally has 24 hour security, even if the store isn't open all night, and there are usually one or two other RVs in the lot (sometimes many more).
I used to dislike Walmart, but since moving into the motorhome ten months ago, my whole perspective has changed. I love Walmart these days, and I've spent a couple thousand dollars there this year. It's my goto store for pretty much everything.
Also, the folks at Walmart are universally nice to RVers. I had a Walmart employee in Bozeman, MT go well out of his way to try to help me with a battery mounting problem I has just yesterday. He went into the bike shop in back to see if he could dig up some bigger washers than what were out on the shelves.
They do like for folks to move on after 24 hours, though they have never kicked me out for staying an extra night or two (I've been at this Walmart for four days, on account of a couple of issues with my motorhome that occurred while I was driving down from Alaska, and once I started the repairs I couldn't drive until they were fixed...we leave first thing in the morning). Since I've been shopping every day since I've been here, I don't feel too guilty about it.
tl;dr: I live in Walmart parking lots. It's awesome.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c10xxac | This is not "unofficial" policy. It is the official policy of many, but not all, Walmarts. You can call, or walk in, and ask the store manager whether overnight parking is allowed, or if they have patrolling security, you can ask them. The answer is usually "yes". You don't have to be secretive about it, though they do often have rules about where you should park and how long you can stay. They usually ask that you park at the outer edges of the lot, and under lights that remain on throughout the night. I've been told by security at a couple of Walmarts that the "park under lights" rule is for the safety of the folks parking overnight: they can see if anyone is messing with the vehicle and deal with it.
And, I'm deeply appreciative of it. I live in a motorhome, and travel full-time. When I'm driving, I don't like the hassle of finding an RV park, paying a possibly very large sum, just to park for 10 hours, and then drive out in the morning. I don't even hookup when I'm going from point A to point B.
Walmart is perfect for that situation. They're near the highway, I don't have to stop to register, I can buy groceries or parts for my motorhome, there's room to get out and walk the dog (usually with grass and sidewalks), and it's free. I know it's safe, because Walmart generally has 24 hour security, even if the store isn't open all night, and there are usually one or two other RVs in the lot (sometimes many more).
I used to dislike Walmart, but since moving into the motorhome ten months ago, my whole perspective has changed. I love Walmart these days, and I've spent a couple thousand dollars there this year. It's my goto store for pretty much everything.
Also, the folks at Walmart are universally nice to RVers. I had a Walmart employee in Bozeman, MT go well out of his way to try to help me with a battery mounting problem I has just yesterday. He went into the bike shop in back to see if he could dig up some bigger washers than what were out on the shelves.
They do like for folks to move on after 24 hours, though they have never kicked me out for staying an extra night or two (I've been at this Walmart for four days, on account of a couple of issues with my motorhome that occurred while I was driving down from Alaska, and once I started the repairs I couldn't drive until they were fixed...we leave first thing in the morning). Since I've been shopping every day since I've been here, I don't feel too guilty about it. | I live in Walmart parking lots. It's awesome. |
koprofile | I work part time in retail. Store managers and regional managers (and who knows who else) will purchase a TV then return it a few months later in exchange for a later model. They can do this idefinitely. The salespeople are then tasked with selling a second hand TV as a "display model".
tl;dr: think twice before buying the "display model" of anything.
| I work part time in retail. Store managers and regional managers (and who knows who else) will purchase a TV then return it a few months later in exchange for a later model. They can do this idefinitely. The salespeople are then tasked with selling a second hand TV as a "display model".
tl;dr: think twice before buying the "display model" of anything.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c10ycxc | I work part time in retail. Store managers and regional managers (and who knows who else) will purchase a TV then return it a few months later in exchange for a later model. They can do this idefinitely. The salespeople are then tasked with selling a second hand TV as a "display model". | think twice before buying the "display model" of anything. |
ExperienceArchitect | I have a problem with that theory, because if Hare Krishnas give me something and refuse to take it back, I walk away with it and have zero guilt. Maybe I am a sociopath, but it seems more likely that I don't give a fuck.
My friends and I used to plan our grocery store visits around "sample day" so we could get free shit too. People hand out stuff on the street all the time (bottle of Powerade, etc.) and I will cross the street to get one with no intention of ever actually buying one in the future. I think my last purchased bottle of Powerade was a decade ago, but I have had at least two freebies in the meantime.
**TL;DR** - I will take your favour, and say thank you, but I don't owe you shit. | I have a problem with that theory, because if Hare Krishnas give me something and refuse to take it back, I walk away with it and have zero guilt. Maybe I am a sociopath, but it seems more likely that I don't give a fuck.
My friends and I used to plan our grocery store visits around "sample day" so we could get free shit too. People hand out stuff on the street all the time (bottle of Powerade, etc.) and I will cross the street to get one with no intention of ever actually buying one in the future. I think my last purchased bottle of Powerade was a decade ago, but I have had at least two freebies in the meantime.
TL;DR - I will take your favour, and say thank you, but I don't owe you shit.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c10yg0p | I have a problem with that theory, because if Hare Krishnas give me something and refuse to take it back, I walk away with it and have zero guilt. Maybe I am a sociopath, but it seems more likely that I don't give a fuck.
My friends and I used to plan our grocery store visits around "sample day" so we could get free shit too. People hand out stuff on the street all the time (bottle of Powerade, etc.) and I will cross the street to get one with no intention of ever actually buying one in the future. I think my last purchased bottle of Powerade was a decade ago, but I have had at least two freebies in the meantime. | I will take your favour, and say thank you, but I don't owe you shit. |
stylushappenstance | On a recent international flight, my wife and I had ordered vegetarian meals, but they only had one, so I had to choose one of the regular ones. On the way home, someone saw our meals, tried to get one, but the attendant said that they have to be preordered.
tl;dr This won't work on USAir. | On a recent international flight, my wife and I had ordered vegetarian meals, but they only had one, so I had to choose one of the regular ones. On the way home, someone saw our meals, tried to get one, but the attendant said that they have to be preordered.
tl;dr This won't work on USAir.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c10ylpq | On a recent international flight, my wife and I had ordered vegetarian meals, but they only had one, so I had to choose one of the regular ones. On the way home, someone saw our meals, tried to get one, but the attendant said that they have to be preordered. | This won't work on USAir. |
kevinroseblowsgoats | I bought a copy of Rainbow Six Vegas 2 for Xbox 360 when it first came out from a Meijer in Michigan. It was in the locked glass case, so an associate got it out for me, and I paid for it. I opened it up when I got home (it was shrink wrapped and everything), and there was a burned CD on the inside that was labeled 'Santana' with a Sharpie.
I was eventually able to get in touch with the store manager and plead my case... even though I felt like an idiot, they ended up giving me a copy of the game. Now I open all of my games before I leave the store, even though this will probably never happen to me again. Plus, even though I never really cared for Santana, I hate him now via proxy.
tl;dr - I ended up getting a shitty music CD instead of an Xbox 360 game which was meticulously wrapped to look legit. And Santana sucks ass. | I bought a copy of Rainbow Six Vegas 2 for Xbox 360 when it first came out from a Meijer in Michigan. It was in the locked glass case, so an associate got it out for me, and I paid for it. I opened it up when I got home (it was shrink wrapped and everything), and there was a burned CD on the inside that was labeled 'Santana' with a Sharpie.
I was eventually able to get in touch with the store manager and plead my case... even though I felt like an idiot, they ended up giving me a copy of the game. Now I open all of my games before I leave the store, even though this will probably never happen to me again. Plus, even though I never really cared for Santana, I hate him now via proxy.
tl;dr - I ended up getting a shitty music CD instead of an Xbox 360 game which was meticulously wrapped to look legit. And Santana sucks ass.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c10ymmw | I bought a copy of Rainbow Six Vegas 2 for Xbox 360 when it first came out from a Meijer in Michigan. It was in the locked glass case, so an associate got it out for me, and I paid for it. I opened it up when I got home (it was shrink wrapped and everything), and there was a burned CD on the inside that was labeled 'Santana' with a Sharpie.
I was eventually able to get in touch with the store manager and plead my case... even though I felt like an idiot, they ended up giving me a copy of the game. Now I open all of my games before I leave the store, even though this will probably never happen to me again. Plus, even though I never really cared for Santana, I hate him now via proxy. | I ended up getting a shitty music CD instead of an Xbox 360 game which was meticulously wrapped to look legit. And Santana sucks ass. |
MuseofRose | Some similar bullshit happened to me (and I'm terrible at disengaging from situations in general). I ended up taking her to the 7/11 and luckily some pimp-like dude she knew was there, and I sat there and chilled until I figured the optimum time to disengage that situation and I would power walk the hell away. I did though, bu the guy tried to get me to stay and make me feel guilty (cuz she was in a wheelchair) but the power-walk and almost getting hit by a vehicle kinda took me out of the moment.
Also, I almost got robbed (or possibly killed) because I offered a guy some ride.
TL;DR I'm a chump. You're a chump. We're too nice. | Some similar bullshit happened to me (and I'm terrible at disengaging from situations in general). I ended up taking her to the 7/11 and luckily some pimp-like dude she knew was there, and I sat there and chilled until I figured the optimum time to disengage that situation and I would power walk the hell away. I did though, bu the guy tried to get me to stay and make me feel guilty (cuz she was in a wheelchair) but the power-walk and almost getting hit by a vehicle kinda took me out of the moment.
Also, I almost got robbed (or possibly killed) because I offered a guy some ride.
TL;DR I'm a chump. You're a chump. We're too nice.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c10yozv | Some similar bullshit happened to me (and I'm terrible at disengaging from situations in general). I ended up taking her to the 7/11 and luckily some pimp-like dude she knew was there, and I sat there and chilled until I figured the optimum time to disengage that situation and I would power walk the hell away. I did though, bu the guy tried to get me to stay and make me feel guilty (cuz she was in a wheelchair) but the power-walk and almost getting hit by a vehicle kinda took me out of the moment.
Also, I almost got robbed (or possibly killed) because I offered a guy some ride. | I'm a chump. You're a chump. We're too nice. |
Kayge | This isn't exactly a trick, but I may try reusing it for my own purposes one day.
On the streetcar home, a lady in her 20s/30s who looks to be strung out is asking for change for food. All the people on their way home from work are giving her the cold shoulder.
She finally gets to a guy who looks pretty disheveled himself (and standing right next to me.)
**Her:** Can you spare any change for some food?
**Him:** What? **NO!** If you wanted food, you can get it for free at the mission on Church, Salvation Army on Jarvis, or that place on Front. *You want money for **DRUGS** don't you!?* Stop bothering these people, they've had a hard day at work! Now GET OFF THE STREETCAR, and go bother some other people.
It was awesome, everyone was stunned. He kept staring at her - she got off at the next stop. He turned to a lady next to me an apologized for the outburst.
**TL;DR:** A hobo panhandling for drug money got cursed out by another, crazier hobo. | This isn't exactly a trick, but I may try reusing it for my own purposes one day.
On the streetcar home, a lady in her 20s/30s who looks to be strung out is asking for change for food. All the people on their way home from work are giving her the cold shoulder.
She finally gets to a guy who looks pretty disheveled himself (and standing right next to me.)
Her: Can you spare any change for some food?
Him: What? NO! If you wanted food, you can get it for free at the mission on Church, Salvation Army on Jarvis, or that place on Front. You want money for DRUGS don't you!? Stop bothering these people, they've had a hard day at work! Now GET OFF THE STREETCAR, and go bother some other people.
It was awesome, everyone was stunned. He kept staring at her - she got off at the next stop. He turned to a lady next to me an apologized for the outburst.
TL;DR: A hobo panhandling for drug money got cursed out by another, crazier hobo.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c10yrz4 | This isn't exactly a trick, but I may try reusing it for my own purposes one day.
On the streetcar home, a lady in her 20s/30s who looks to be strung out is asking for change for food. All the people on their way home from work are giving her the cold shoulder.
She finally gets to a guy who looks pretty disheveled himself (and standing right next to me.)
Her: Can you spare any change for some food?
Him: What? NO! If you wanted food, you can get it for free at the mission on Church, Salvation Army on Jarvis, or that place on Front. You want money for DRUGS don't you!? Stop bothering these people, they've had a hard day at work! Now GET OFF THE STREETCAR, and go bother some other people.
It was awesome, everyone was stunned. He kept staring at her - she got off at the next stop. He turned to a lady next to me an apologized for the outburst. | A hobo panhandling for drug money got cursed out by another, crazier hobo. |
ShinyRatFace | Usually it is a case where my rolling kit is sitting somewhere else and people are snagging my cigarettes behind my back. I don't smoke in my house but I have all my cigarette rolling stuff set up in a drawer in my kitchen. When I have a group of people over that is mostly smokers we usually just hang out on the porch so we don't have to keep coming in and out to smoke.
Someone asks me for a cigarette and I say, "Sure, go roll yourself one". I then notice a few hours later that they took that as an invitation to chain smoke as many of my cigarettes as they wanted without asking. A few of my friends seem to be making a habit of this behavior. I don't mind bumming friends cigarettes once in a while but I am not the fucking cigarette fairy.
I have recently gotten fed up and started lying to everyone. I tell them I can bum them one cigarette but no more because the tobacco they see in the drawer is all I have left. I keep the one pound bag that I refill from hidden in the back of a cabinet. That has pretty much nixed the problem.
TLDR- I do say no. It just irritates me that people are so selfish and rude that I have to specifically tell them that it isn't okay to smoke all of my tobacco. | Usually it is a case where my rolling kit is sitting somewhere else and people are snagging my cigarettes behind my back. I don't smoke in my house but I have all my cigarette rolling stuff set up in a drawer in my kitchen. When I have a group of people over that is mostly smokers we usually just hang out on the porch so we don't have to keep coming in and out to smoke.
Someone asks me for a cigarette and I say, "Sure, go roll yourself one". I then notice a few hours later that they took that as an invitation to chain smoke as many of my cigarettes as they wanted without asking. A few of my friends seem to be making a habit of this behavior. I don't mind bumming friends cigarettes once in a while but I am not the fucking cigarette fairy.
I have recently gotten fed up and started lying to everyone. I tell them I can bum them one cigarette but no more because the tobacco they see in the drawer is all I have left. I keep the one pound bag that I refill from hidden in the back of a cabinet. That has pretty much nixed the problem.
TLDR- I do say no. It just irritates me that people are so selfish and rude that I have to specifically tell them that it isn't okay to smoke all of my tobacco.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c10z7wb | Usually it is a case where my rolling kit is sitting somewhere else and people are snagging my cigarettes behind my back. I don't smoke in my house but I have all my cigarette rolling stuff set up in a drawer in my kitchen. When I have a group of people over that is mostly smokers we usually just hang out on the porch so we don't have to keep coming in and out to smoke.
Someone asks me for a cigarette and I say, "Sure, go roll yourself one". I then notice a few hours later that they took that as an invitation to chain smoke as many of my cigarettes as they wanted without asking. A few of my friends seem to be making a habit of this behavior. I don't mind bumming friends cigarettes once in a while but I am not the fucking cigarette fairy.
I have recently gotten fed up and started lying to everyone. I tell them I can bum them one cigarette but no more because the tobacco they see in the drawer is all I have left. I keep the one pound bag that I refill from hidden in the back of a cabinet. That has pretty much nixed the problem. | I do say no. It just irritates me that people are so selfish and rude that I have to specifically tell them that it isn't okay to smoke all of my tobacco. |
DoctorBeerPope | How bout This post: Guy posts awesome stories that are worth reading because TLDR's are for lazy assholes. | How bout This post: Guy posts awesome stories that are worth reading because TLDR's are for lazy assholes.
| IAmA | t5_2qzb6 | c1103vv | How bout This post: Guy posts awesome stories that are worth reading because | s are for lazy assholes. |
puskunk | Most women are at least a little asymmetrical when it comes to the boobage. Not a single man will care. By the time a woman is getting naked for me, she could have had a masectomy on one of them and it would barely slow me down. Yours look young and healthy.
tl;dr: boobs are fuckin' awesome. | Most women are at least a little asymmetrical when it comes to the boobage. Not a single man will care. By the time a woman is getting naked for me, she could have had a masectomy on one of them and it would barely slow me down. Yours look young and healthy.
tl;dr: boobs are fuckin' awesome.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c11266j | Most women are at least a little asymmetrical when it comes to the boobage. Not a single man will care. By the time a woman is getting naked for me, she could have had a masectomy on one of them and it would barely slow me down. Yours look young and healthy. | boobs are fuckin' awesome. |
Shaper_pmp | PROTIP: Practically *no* woman's boobs are both exactly the same size, shape and height.
Immature teenage guys might take the piss out of it because they've only ever seen tits in porn ([here's some *real* context for measuring yourself against]( but for anyone who's actually *had* any experience with real boobs, unless they're radically different cup-sizes or something it's not even something we really notice.
I'm a guy and I've seen my fair share - trust me.
TL;DR: All pairs of tits are different sizes and shapes, and these are *well* within the bounds of normal, unremarkable variation. Plus, there are relatively few situations where a guy's likely to see yours, and at that point - I *promise* you - his brain's not going to be comparing them and judging you; it's going to be going "OMGBOOOOBIESBOOBIESBOOBIESBOOBIES!". | PROTIP: Practically no woman's boobs are both exactly the same size, shape and height.
Immature teenage guys might take the piss out of it because they've only ever seen tits in porn ([here's some real context for measuring yourself against]( but for anyone who's actually had any experience with real boobs, unless they're radically different cup-sizes or something it's not even something we really notice.
I'm a guy and I've seen my fair share - trust me.
TL;DR: All pairs of tits are different sizes and shapes, and these are well within the bounds of normal, unremarkable variation. Plus, there are relatively few situations where a guy's likely to see yours, and at that point - I promise you - his brain's not going to be comparing them and judging you; it's going to be going "OMGBOOOOBIESBOOBIESBOOBIESBOOBIES!".
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c112tfa | PROTIP: Practically no woman's boobs are both exactly the same size, shape and height.
Immature teenage guys might take the piss out of it because they've only ever seen tits in porn ([here's some real context for measuring yourself against]( but for anyone who's actually had any experience with real boobs, unless they're radically different cup-sizes or something it's not even something we really notice.
I'm a guy and I've seen my fair share - trust me. | All pairs of tits are different sizes and shapes, and these are well within the bounds of normal, unremarkable variation. Plus, there are relatively few situations where a guy's likely to see yours, and at that point - I promise you - his brain's not going to be comparing them and judging you; it's going to be going "OMGBOOOOBIESBOOBIESBOOBIESBOOBIES!". |
OtherKevin | > Is it so wrong that I have a fantasy
That could have been the TL:DR, and the answer is no. | > Is it so wrong that I have a fantasy
That could have been the TL:DR, and the answer is no.
| gonewild | t5_2qq5c | c118udm | Is it so wrong that I have a fantasy
That could have been the | and the answer is no. |
Beetle559 | I'm a control room operator at a power plant and love it. The pay is great (100k) and people have a lot more freedom to pursue their interests, I'm the "logic/computer guy" which means I get to specialize in that area and am free of some of the less desirable roles (to me) that need filling. No one workds too hard as when the plant is running well operator's are just glorified babysitters, when things go wrong you may earn 1, 3, 6, or even 12 months salary in the space of five minutes.
TL;DR: I get to spend most of my time bullshitting, surfing the net, reading, watching movies and getting paid a lot of money to do it. | I'm a control room operator at a power plant and love it. The pay is great (100k) and people have a lot more freedom to pursue their interests, I'm the "logic/computer guy" which means I get to specialize in that area and am free of some of the less desirable roles (to me) that need filling. No one workds too hard as when the plant is running well operator's are just glorified babysitters, when things go wrong you may earn 1, 3, 6, or even 12 months salary in the space of five minutes.
TL;DR: I get to spend most of my time bullshitting, surfing the net, reading, watching movies and getting paid a lot of money to do it.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | c11exbw | I'm a control room operator at a power plant and love it. The pay is great (100k) and people have a lot more freedom to pursue their interests, I'm the "logic/computer guy" which means I get to specialize in that area and am free of some of the less desirable roles (to me) that need filling. No one workds too hard as when the plant is running well operator's are just glorified babysitters, when things go wrong you may earn 1, 3, 6, or even 12 months salary in the space of five minutes. | I get to spend most of my time bullshitting, surfing the net, reading, watching movies and getting paid a lot of money to do it. |
robborrobot | Actually no, But we cannot look past the implications of his power+political alignment, and obviously as outlined in this article, his Corporation no longer feels the need to maintain a politically unbiased news station. Before Reagan, his ability to do this and own multiple news media outlets in the same markets would be unlawful. Surely it was never in my interest for all of this deregulation. So why did it happen? How can the #1 cable news network be so blatantly slanted and still make claims of true, unbiased journalism. For that, I consider him to be a criminal, and always hope that some day we will go back to a point of realistic sanity. The times where people acknowledged the influence media has in our society. A democracy relies on the people being informed. If they are not informed, or falsely informed, how do you expect them to make accurate choices that align with real morals and true justice? Rupert Murdoch is successfully tearing this idea from the fabric of our constitution.
edit: Here's a good breakdown of the deregulation that took place. (
tl;dr Rupert Murdoch is a criminal. He's a bad bad man. | Actually no, But we cannot look past the implications of his power+political alignment, and obviously as outlined in this article, his Corporation no longer feels the need to maintain a politically unbiased news station. Before Reagan, his ability to do this and own multiple news media outlets in the same markets would be unlawful. Surely it was never in my interest for all of this deregulation. So why did it happen? How can the #1 cable news network be so blatantly slanted and still make claims of true, unbiased journalism. For that, I consider him to be a criminal, and always hope that some day we will go back to a point of realistic sanity. The times where people acknowledged the influence media has in our society. A democracy relies on the people being informed. If they are not informed, or falsely informed, how do you expect them to make accurate choices that align with real morals and true justice? Rupert Murdoch is successfully tearing this idea from the fabric of our constitution.
edit: Here's a good breakdown of the deregulation that took place. (
tl;dr Rupert Murdoch is a criminal. He's a bad bad man.
| politics | t5_2cneq | c11cjxh | Actually no, But we cannot look past the implications of his power+political alignment, and obviously as outlined in this article, his Corporation no longer feels the need to maintain a politically unbiased news station. Before Reagan, his ability to do this and own multiple news media outlets in the same markets would be unlawful. Surely it was never in my interest for all of this deregulation. So why did it happen? How can the #1 cable news network be so blatantly slanted and still make claims of true, unbiased journalism. For that, I consider him to be a criminal, and always hope that some day we will go back to a point of realistic sanity. The times where people acknowledged the influence media has in our society. A democracy relies on the people being informed. If they are not informed, or falsely informed, how do you expect them to make accurate choices that align with real morals and true justice? Rupert Murdoch is successfully tearing this idea from the fabric of our constitution.
edit: Here's a good breakdown of the deregulation that took place. ( | Rupert Murdoch is a criminal. He's a bad bad man. |
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