Now, now.
Only one person is allowed to bully Icky at a time.
I pick me!
Now, now.
Only one person is allowed to bully Icky at a time.
I pick me!
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
I'm honestly not bullying, I just don't want him to revert back into Mr HydeOriginally Posted by littlelolligagged
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
He's trying very hard, but some backsliding is to be expected.I'm honestly not bullying, I just don't want him to revert back into Mr Hyde
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
On a positive note, at least it's in a megathread in GC!
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
That's right!
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...piracy-shh/?hpCould bicycling around the city for fun and transport have a more insidious purpose? Could it be that all these networked bike lanes, spreading across the nation’s cities like falling dominoes, are actually part of a vast conspiracy by the United Nations to take over America’s urban spaces, and in the process, take away our “freedom”?
The notion of such a nefarious bike plot, floated by one Republican running for governor of Colorado, has drawn puzzled reactions from cyclists in New York and beyond...
“These aren’t just warm, fuzzy ideas from the mayor,” Mr. Maes said. “These are very specific strategies that are dictated to us by this United Nations program that mayors have signed on to,” he said, referring to Denver’s membership in the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives.
Hope is the denial of reality
What a kook.
Though I find bike lanes frustrating. Half the time bikers aren't even using them; they still ride on the street. Why the fuck are we spending millions of dollars to make paths no one uses?!?!
"No one" uses them because they are not maintained, are built shitty and because the local culture says that people interested in personal fitness have to be 20-something-females or fags. Go ride a bike in that weather :/
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
The other problem are the Lance Armstrong wannabes that complain that they have to share bike lanes with recreational riders. No one is ever satisfied.
Also alot of our "bike lanes" aren't anywhere convienent, so they are basically just for pleasure and not transportation.
With hundreds of its members facing
layoffs, the Milwaukee teachers union is taking an unusual stand: fighting to get their taxpayer-funded Viagra back.
The Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association has asked a judge to order the district to again include Pfizer Inc.'s erectile
dysfunction drug and similar pills in its health insurance plans.
The union claims the policy of excluding them discriminates against male employees.
The school board says the drugs were cut out of the plans in
2005 to save money, and there is no discrimination because they are used primarily for recreational sex and not medical treatment.
The dispute comes after the district gave layoff notices to 482
teachers in June, and then recalled 89 of them last month.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Viagra is a medicine for a disease and as such is available on the NHS. I can see the logic for giving it under insurance.
Sauna is a sport to the death!
Really? I mean WTF! I'd be steamed if it weren't for the fact there is no judging involved.
Faith is Hope (see Loki's sig for details)
If hindsight is 20-20, why is it so often ignored?
Natural selection my good man...
Such is Life...
Welcome to Finland, mate
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Judge Rules Tribe Doesn't Have to Repay $50 Million Casino Debt
Apparently some district court decided that, since the original agreement violated federal Indian casino law by not being review by the National Indian Gaming Commission, the casino doesn't have to pay back the loan.
IMO, if the agreement was invalid/illegal, then they shouldn't have gotten the money in the first place and they should still have to pay it back. Perhaps without interest, and in a plan approved or set up by the NIGC, but otherwise it seems a lot like stealing.
No Elanya, if you give money in an illegal loan you have no recourse to get it back. Otherwise there'd be nothing stopping the worst forms of loan sharks and charlatans.
Hold off from hugging an Indian, don't be alarmed if the French are rude and never mistake a Canadian for an American.
Britain's national tourism agency issued guidelines Wednesday on the etiquette of dealing with the hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors who will be coming to London for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Seeking to help the country's sometimes snarky citizens offer a warmer welcome, VisitBritain has updated its advice for anyone likely to work with travelers arriving from overseas - from hotel staff to taxi drivers.
Other tips: Don't go around asking Brazilians personal questions and never be bossy with visitors from the Middle East.
"Giving our foreign visitors a friendly welcome is absolutely vital to our economy," said Sandie Dawe, chief executive officer of the agency. "With hundreds of thousands of people thinking of coming to Britain in the run-up to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012, this new advice is just one of the ways that VisitBritain is helping the tourism industry care for their customers."
About 30 million people visit Britain each year, spending about 16.6 billion pounds ($26 billion). The 2012 Olympics is likely to bring in an additional 2.1 billion ($3.3 billion) in tourism revenue, according to a government estimate, and about 320,000 extra visitors from overseas during the games in July and August 2012.
VisitBritain said research it had conducted found tourists believe Britons are honest and efficient - but not the most pleasant. Britain is ranked 14th out of 50 in the Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index on the quality of welcome offered to visitors, the tourism agency said.
The frank etiquette tips were written by agency staff about their own native countries.
Polish tourists are likely to be hurt by stereotypes that imply they drink excessively, while the French are notoriously picky in restaurants, the guidelines claim.
U.K. workers are told to brush off common Argentine jokes about a person's clothing or weight. Belgians take offense at people snapping their fingers while Australians are fond of coarse language. Japanese people consider prolonged eye contact impolite and smile to express a range of emotions - not simply to show happiness.
Tourism workers are advised to show extra patience when dealing with guests from India or the United Arab Emirates.
"Indians are in general, an impatient lot, and like to be quickly attended to," the guidelines claim. "The more affluent they are, the more demanding and brusque they tend to be."
Indians also don't like being touched by strangers and may be suspicious about the quality of British food, the guide said, without noting the latter might be a common concern.
Travelers from the Middle East are likely to be demanding with staff and "are not used to being told what they can't do," the guide warns.
Guests from China and Hong Kong may find winking or pointing with an index finger rude, while "mentioning failure, poverty or death risks offense," the advice claims. Chinese visitors may be unimpressed by landmarks just a few hundred years old, tourism staff are told.
Workers are advised against discussing poverty, immigration, earthquakes or the Mexican-American war with visitors from Mexico - who prefer to chat about history and art.
Canadian tourists are likely to be quite annoyed about being mistaken for Americans, the guide suggests - urging workers to keep an eye out for maple leaf pins or badges on tourists' clothing.
And Americans? They can appear "informal to the point of being very direct or even rude" and won't ever hesitate about complaining, the guide says.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
The picture of a baby with a bong that sparked worldwide outrage has led to the mom's arrest.
It didn't take long for picture posted on Facebook to spark worldwide outrage with reports on London's Sky News to news outlets across America.
Now, we've learned who investigators say is behind the photo and what charge the person faces.
Rachel Stieringer, 19, was arrested and charged with one count of possession of drug paraphernalia, a first-degree misdemeanor.
Assistant state attorney Lara Mattina says the more serious charge of child abuse would only apply when the child is exposed to drugs. She says DCF gave the infant a drug test and it came back negative so that charge doesn't apply in this case.
Documents obtained by First Coast News detail the investigation, revealing a DCF investigator visited the home and said the baby had no injuries.
The investigator got a copy of the infamous baby bong photo, but also noted a picture of a cartoon character holding a bong.
Stieringer declined comment, but we were able to talk to the her mom on the phone. Sharalyn Harris says the picture got blown out of proportion, but admits this is a wakeup call for her daughter.
Harris says her daughter is going through drug counseling and parenting classes and says the grandparents are now caring for the baby.
And changes are already in effect for Stieringer's Facebook page. It's now ultra private, not even a profile picture on her homepage after her baby son's picture spread like wildfire.
Stieringer's arraignment is August 26.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Gotta love bad parenting. And morons that don't have their Facebook profile on private.
DCF ruins just about as many families as it saves. They are some seriously jaded crusaders. She now has to deal with them, for likely years, all because her kid was chewing on an empty bong? The kid was clean and injury free. That sounds like a pretty freaking safe house to me. Even Scarletts got a few knocks and bruises.
Think the biggest crime here was not locking down her facebook account. Its bullshit that owning something like this is a crime, could they honestly not find any drugs in the house?
Well what kind of fucking moron lets her kid chew on it, takes the picture, and thinks its a bright idea to post on the net?
Not saying she needs to be charged, but she is a damn moron. They have to investigate; what if there was pot in there? You'd be in just as much trouble for posting a pic of your kid with a cigarette or drinking a bottle of Jack Daniels.
What you smoke/drink is your own business but for lands' sakes don't expose your kid to that shit.
You can see from the picture that there isn't.
Wonder when we will start going after the parents who takes pictures of their kids handling beer bottles and cans, or guns, or knives....
It'd still be moronic to let babies handle that stuff, OG. Taking a picture and posting it on the web just confirms it to the world.....
I knew you would go there, OG. I think people who do any of that are morons and put their kids at unnecessary risk. And are morons if they post it, leaving themselves open to being investigated.
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possibly moronic? Sure.
possibly a hilarious staged photo-op? Sure.
Neither deserve government involvement and interference. Is a baby chewing on an empty glass sculpture, problem is that people don't understand what they are seeing. Which is why "I went there."
Yes, a baby chewing on glass is nothing to be concerned about at all.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
A friend and I have been scouring the landscape for "scrap" metal in order to bring in extra cash this summer. Until today, that is. She has decided that I'm not serious enough about it. This decision came about because I first refused to go onto private property without permission at 9:00 p.m. in order to retrieve a huge chunk of tin that I was not sure would even fit on our small trailer. Then, the following day, when I agreed to at least go look at it in the light (again, without permission to be on the property), I said that it must weigh at least 2.5-3 tons, which is more than our trailer could haul, even if we did manage to get it on. She is now barely speaking to me, and behaving like a snotty child. We both make okay money, this was just a little something extra, and now I'm wondering WTF is up with people anymore. When did being realistic become a lack of desire?
The worst job in the world is better than being broke and homeless
These things aren't made to be brittle, easily matches the quality of a drinking glass. No idea how old the baby in the picture is, but Scarlett is almost 10 months old, and she hasn't been able to chew through a drinking glass yet.
Pretty certain that at 10 months my brother had no access to glass and was using plastic cups, if not a plastic tippy cup.
From the picture it is clear that the baby has seen the bong being used to the point of trying to copy the behavior the first chance it got. I don't hide my habit from my kids, I don't like lying to them. But I would never have smoked in front of them at this age.
The worst job in the world is better than being broke and homeless
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