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  1. #1561
    Ok, lots of things have been making me go WTF recently. Steven and I broke up. Turns out he was looking for a friends with benefits deal (I was not). Now, I have four people interested in me, two of them being my supposedly straight roommates who I've fooled around with (don't judge me, please). The other two are the ones I'm actually interested in, but neither are very accessible.

    Sorry, I just needed to say (type) that somewhere. Hopefully this weekend's vacation will make me feel better.

    Edit: Make that five guys. The person I was going to have lunch with tomorrow just told me he made up an imaginary boyfriend in an attempt to make me jealous for the past few weeks. It didn't work, so I guess he hopes that we're going to have some sort of connection over lunch now that he's "single". WTF! No, that's just weird and something that a crazy person would do. This is going to be an awkward lunch... :/

    Edit 2: Is this TMI? I feel like it might be. Sorry guys!
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    As long as you're not planning to run for political office, it's fine.
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  3. #1563
    Quote Originally Posted by Illusions View Post
    Well because most people are wise enough that when they hear a police siren outside, a knock at their door, and then "Police, open up!" to not then arm themselves with an AR-15, and go to confront said police in a dark hallway.
    You mean most people who were asleep at the time after working 3rd shift, who hear a siren for all of 8 seconds before having their door being beaten in?

    Of course, it's his fault that no drugs were found in the residence, and that the deputies who were serving the warrant weren't competent enough to keep their fingers out of the trigger before they were ready to shoot. That they let him bleed out over the course of an hour after blindly spraying fire into his, and his neighbors houses, before allowing the paramedics in is just icing on the cake.

    That bastard.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dattu View Post
    Ok, lots of things have been making me go WTF recently. Steven and I broke up. Turns out he was looking for a friends with benefits deal (I was not). Now, I have four people interested in me, two of them being my supposedly straight roommates who I've fooled around with (don't judge me, please). The other two are the ones I'm actually interested in, but neither are very accessible.

    Sorry, I just needed to say (type) that somewhere. Hopefully this weekend's vacation will make me feel better.

    Edit: Make that five guys. The person I was going to have lunch with tomorrow just told me he made up an imaginary boyfriend in an attempt to make me jealous for the past few weeks. It didn't work, so I guess he hopes that we're going to have some sort of connection over lunch now that he's "single". WTF! No, that's just weird and something that a crazy person would do. This is going to be an awkward lunch... :/

    Edit 2: Is this TMI? I feel like it might be. Sorry guys!
    You're gay?

    (Sorry, missed that piece of info...)

    Well, good luck, I'd say avoid the roomies, as they appear to be fickle and it sounds like you are looking for more. (Unless you want to engage Slut Mode for a while as you are just coming off a disappointing relationship)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Veldan Rath View Post
    You're gay?

    (Sorry, missed that piece of info...)

    Well, good luck, I'd say avoid the roomies, as they appear to be fickle and it sounds like you are looking for more. (Unless you want to engage Slut Mode for a while as you are just coming off a disappointing relationship)
    As a three dollar bill. And I think I replaced Slut Mode with Sad Mode this time around, but I'm past it now.

    Imaginary Boyfriend canceled the lunch date and went to Houston instead, for some reason, but I'm not complaining. Roommate tried to come into my room last night, but I pretended to be asleep. I really need to talk about it with him. I had lunch with him, so I hope he doesn't think it was like a date. :/ I just wanted the Thai food that I'd been looking forward to all week.

    I shouldn't even be worrying. I decided who I want to pursue things with, so I'll just place my attention there. My beach vacation starts tomorrow, too!
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  6. #1566
    WTF I was the first forumite to know Dattu was gay?

    But I'll second Veldan's recommendation....avoid the roommates. Probably easier to find people worth pursuing than changing semester living arrangements.

  7. #1567
    According to a new federal report, most men arrested in Atlanta test positive for illegal drugs at the time of their arrests.
    Nearly two-thirds (62 percent), of the city’s male arrestees in 2010 tested positive for at least one drug, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Annual Report. The arrest charges ranged from misdemeanors to felonies.
    “These findings illustrate why we must approach our nation’s drug problem as a public health and safety problem,” said National Drug Control Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske. “Drug addiction is too often the root of crime in our communities.”
    Kerlikowske said efforts to help criminals and ex-convicts get off drugs undermine the overall drug problem.
    “Supporting innovative initiatives that divert non-violent offenders into treatment instead of jail and expand treatment access for incarcerated individuals can help break the vicious cycle of drug use and crime, reduce recidivism, and make our communities healthier and safer,” Kerlikowske said.
    We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.

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    One of my sisters friends (crazy socialist girl) came back from a trip in Germany and I over heard them talking the other day, her friend said something along the lines of "Can you believe that in Germany the government literally pays postgraduate students to study, they cover all their expenses! Where as here in Australia, the government only gives them $16000 for the year!" Not so much "WTF" but more so me trying not to 'literally' lough out loud.

  9. #1569
    I think I'd hire a German post doc over an Ostraelliioooorr one, but I'm biased
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    Don't worry me too

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    I had to read this twice to make sure I hadn't mis-read it the first time.. and I thought those Islamic states/courts were crazy..
    Dog sentenced to death by stoning
    Rabbinical court rules spirit of secular lawyer who insulted judges 20 years ago transferred into wandering dog's body

    A Jerusalem rabbinical court recently sentenced a wandering dog to death by stoning. The cruel sentence stemmed from the suspicion that the hound was the reincarnation of a famous secular lawyer, who insulted the court's judges 20 years ago.
    Full article here: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...082843,00.html

    I think this best describes 'wtf'

  12. #1572
    WTF is up with all the coverage of the Casey trial? WTF is up with the court room bystanders running and fighting one another to sit in the courtroom?

  13. #1573
    People like a good freak show. I'd equate it to the Coliseum days...they'd probably want to sit in on her execution too if that was an option.

  14. #1574
    Quote Originally Posted by GGT View Post
    WTF is up with all the coverage of the Casey trial? WTF is up with the court room bystanders running and fighting one another to sit in the courtroom?
    Obviously, people are interested in it! Fortunately for me, I have other channels to watch! I am flat out sick of the bullshit! Mom changes her story, Casey sits there crying crocodile tears, and the lawyers are just confused!

    Quote Originally Posted by Catgrrl View Post
    People like a good freak show. I'd equate it to the Coliseum days...they'd probably want to sit in on her execution too if that was an option.
    You are probably right! Frankly, I wish they would either get done with the damned trial, or quit assuming all of America gives a rat's ass!
    I don't have a problem with authority....I just don't like being told what to do!Remember, the toes you step on today may be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!RIP Fluffy! 01-07-09 I'm so sorry Fluffster! People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life! My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely!The nice part about living in a small town: When you don't know what you're doing, someone else always does!
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  15. #1575
    You guys/girls are getting off lucky...
    "In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."

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    Weber said the two were traveling June 18 from northwest Florida to Michigan, so her mother could move in with relatives before eventually going to an assisted living facility.


    "My mother is very ill, she has a form of leukemia," Weber said. "She had a blood transfusion the week before, just to bolster up her strength for this travel."


    While going through security, the 95-year-old was taken by a TSA officer into a glassed-in area, where a pat-down was performed, Weber said. An agent told Weber "they felt something suspicious on (her mother's) leg and they couldn't determine what it was" -- leading them to take her into a private, closed room.


    Soon after, Weber said, a TSA agent came out and told her that her mother's Depend undergarment was "wet and it was firm, and they couldn't check it thoroughly." The mother and daughter left to find a bathroom, at the TSA officer's request, to take off the adult diaper.


    Weber said she burst into tears during the ordeal, forcing her own pat-down and other measures in accordance with TSA protocol. But she said her mother, a nurse for 65 years, "was very calm" despite being bothered by the fact that she had to go through the airport without underwear.
    Seriously WTF! http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/26/flo...tml?&hpt=hp_c1


  17. #1577
    Hope is the denial of reality

  18. #1578
    If not the Darwin awards then certainly the Irony awards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
    But if the accident had happened with him wearing a helmet, the great state of New York would be paying for medical care for a vegetable for how ever many years he lived after the wreck. See, this way it's over and done with instead of the rider becoming another statistic of misguided legislation about helmets saving lives!
    I don't have a problem with authority....I just don't like being told what to do!Remember, the toes you step on today may be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!RIP Fluffy! 01-07-09 I'm so sorry Fluffster! People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life! My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely!The nice part about living in a small town: When you don't know what you're doing, someone else always does!
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  20. #1580
    If he wore a helmet, chances are he'd avoid serious injuries.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GGT View Post
    WTF is up with all the coverage of the Casey trial? WTF is up with the court room bystanders running and fighting one another to sit in the courtroom?
    Not guilty of murder. Didn't see that one coming...
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    WHAT!? *goes to read CNN*

  23. #1583
    I just found a pickle in my backyard. The kids behind me throw the weirdest shit over the fence....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
    If he wore a helmet, chances are he'd avoid serious injuries.
    Or be a vegetable for the rest of his life. Having one's brains scrambled inside a helmet is not a very good thing!
    I don't have a problem with authority....I just don't like being told what to do!Remember, the toes you step on today may be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!RIP Fluffy! 01-07-09 I'm so sorry Fluffster! People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life! My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely!The nice part about living in a small town: When you don't know what you're doing, someone else always does!
    Atari bullshit refugee!!

  25. #1585
    His brain wouldn't be scrambled to start with. Are you reflexively against any policy that promotes safety?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
    His brain wouldn't be scrambled to start with. Are you reflexively against any policy that promotes safety?
    No I'm not against promoting safety. I am against a police state that requires one to use safety features that should be optional...seatbelts, helmets, airbags, etc.

    Let's see, head injuries happen in car accidents too. Maybe everyone riding in a car should be required to wear a helmet. Oh, can't see to the sides? Tough shit, safety first! Can't hear other vehicles? Tough shit, safety first! Limited head mobility? Tough shit, safety first!

    Oh yeah, if you think there aren't serious head injuries when wearing helmets, you are wrong. IMO, the helmet is just one more thing to jostle your brains around, making for a serious head injury, possibly even vegetable like existence.

    Yes, I know my opinion isn't popular, but oh well. I have to believe that safety mandated laws are just not well thought out many times. Besides that, I think all drivers should be allowed to make the choice of wearing a seat belt, or riders should get the choice of wearing a helmet.
    I don't have a problem with authority....I just don't like being told what to do!Remember, the toes you step on today may be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!RIP Fluffy! 01-07-09 I'm so sorry Fluffster! People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life! My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely!The nice part about living in a small town: When you don't know what you're doing, someone else always does!
    Atari bullshit refugee!!

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    Can I take it your opinion is based on looking at relevant scientific evidence?
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    Quote Originally Posted by oldmunchkin View Post
    Let's see, head injuries happen in car accidents too. Maybe everyone riding in a car should be required to wear a helmet. Oh, can't see to the sides? Tough shit, safety first! Can't hear other vehicles? Tough shit, safety first! Limited head mobility? Tough shit, safety first!
    Inside a car, you don't brake with your head!

    You wear seat belts in a car, because then you are "fixed" to this car. Which means that if the car brakes, you will decelerate at the same rate. With the crumple zone available (about 1 meter) this means that the deceleration just was reduced to a mere 30g (@~90Km/h) - while that will break bones, you also will survive that.
    If you don't wear a seat belt, you will be catapulted out of your seat and usually through the windshield. Which obviously is a bit more problematic to your health.

    It's the same principle with a helmet - I can calculate the g-forces you're subjected to with and without a helmet. You'll see that even a mere few centimeters will make a difference between "bashed-in brain" and "evil headache".

    This is physics.
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    Okay, some small calculations to bring my point across.
    Let's take a car travelling at 90 Km/h, that's 25 m/s. Let's have that car have a crumple zone of 1 meter or an equivalent thereof. Which means that you go from 90 Km/h to 0 Km/h over the length of 1 meter.

    For that, I'll need two formulas: v = a * t and s = a/2 * t^2
    v = velocity (90 Km/h or 25 m/s), s = length (1 m), t = time (unknown), a = deceleration (unknown).

    Rearranging them yields:
    s = a/2 * (v/a)^2 <=> a = 0.5 * v^2/s

    Using the values listed above, we arrive at a deceleration of a = 312.5 m/s^2 which is about 32 times the gravitational acceleration or 32 "gees". That is indeed survivable. Broken bones, surely, but survivable.

    Let's assume now that you did not wear your seat belt, thus being catapulted out of it, resulting in a deceleration a the windshield. For shits'n'giggles, let's also assume that the windshield is unbreakable. You now have a deceleration length of mere centimeters, i.e. your skin. Let's be generous and make that 3 centimeters total.

    This results in: a = 10416 m/s^2. Which is about 1061 g. Okay, that would be rather deadly. Thankfully, the windshield is not unbreakable.
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    Same stuff for riding a bike. Let's assume you managed to brake somewhat and were hurled over. Thus arriving with your head on the street at, say, 20 Km/h.
    With your helmet, you have a deceleration equivalent length of, say, 6 centimeters.
    This gives us: a = 252m/s^2 or 26 g

    Without a helmet, we use the 3 centimeters again and arrive at a whoppin' 52 gees.

    And I'm pretty sure that those 3 centimeters are very generous.
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