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- Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:10 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Batman Begins.
- Replies: 66
- Views: 1371
- Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:03 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Sperm & Egg Donations
- Replies: 35
- Views: 837
- Thu Aug 26, 2004 12:22 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: 30+ Iraqi Insurgents Versus a Laser-Guided Bomb
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1686
- Thu Aug 26, 2004 12:22 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: 30+ Iraqi Insurgents Versus a Laser-Guided Bomb
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1686
Like DV8 said, the technology is certainly very shiny and attractive... but seeing 30 people get blown to bits is not really amusing to me. Just like seeing the WTC go down in a pile was not really amusing to me. As Deev said, this is reality. The differance is that these terrorists were on thier w...
- Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:27 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Assault Weapons Ban & the Future?
- Replies: 122
- Views: 2544
If Joe Citizen can scrape together the cash to buy a tank, he is not going to be very effective if he doesn't have a bunch of friends around to help him use it. Not that it's a huge deal, but if a guy has enough money to buy a tank, he would probably have the money to hire people to operate it for ...
- Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:27 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Assault Weapons Ban & the Future?
- Replies: 122
- Views: 2544
If Joe Citizen can scrape together the cash to buy a tank, he is not going to be very effective if he doesn't have a bunch of friends around to help him use it. Not that it's a huge deal, but if a guy has enough money to buy a tank, he would probably have the money to hire people to operate it for ...
- Sat Apr 24, 2004 11:15 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Show Thong, Go To Jail
- Replies: 26
- Views: 485
I don't wear baggy jeans, and I usually wear a belt, but hey, sometimes your boxers poke out above the waist of your jeans. It's not on purpose, it's just something that happens. And I could go to jail for 6 months for not periodically checking the height of my underwear? I also don't see this law b...
- Tue Feb 10, 2004 2:44 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Falling Along the Line
- Replies: 22
- Views: 422
- Tue Feb 10, 2004 2:37 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Insane pet peeves
- Replies: 183
- Views: 3531
- Sun Feb 08, 2004 4:20 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Insane pet peeves
- Replies: 183
- Views: 3531
1. Rich kids that act like they're from the ghetto. If you wore that huge 3,000 dollar necklace, and 200 dollar shiny denim suit thing to Bed-Sty, in about 15 minutes you would be walking around in your boxers and your chain is going to be around some thugs neck. 2. Office types who act like religio...
- Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:41 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Caz 2.0
- Replies: 15
- Views: 270
Caz 2.0
Saw this today in the paper and thought of Caz and Thorn. Just a thought for the name.
http://www.nydailynews.com/02-02-2004/n ... 0838c.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/02-02-2004/n ... 0838c.html
- Fri Dec 19, 2003 5:15 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Broken finger
- Replies: 6
- Views: 231
Broken finger
So yeah, I broke my finger tonight, or at least I think I did. We were on the firetruck, with a guy in a Santa suit, handing out candy canes and stuff, and I was standing on this little walkway we have in the middle of the truck that goes from the passenger side to the drivers side. My hand was on t...
- Mon Dec 15, 2003 4:43 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Saddam Captured (Apparently)
- Replies: 93
- Views: 1579
I don't think America should be in there. I think the troops should be withdrawn, ASAP, and I don't think it was ever right for America to go in there. The Iraqi's were in trouble before, but there are many other ways of dealing with this BEFORE going in and invading, if we're going to address huma...
- Sat Dec 13, 2003 4:50 am
- Forum: Words Without End
- Topic: Question for Writers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 212
- Sat Dec 13, 2003 4:26 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Why the FUCK was this guy released from prison?
- Replies: 91
- Views: 1643
Very true. Not only that, but there is also the funding issue. Currently, we are facing a big problem in the near future of not having enough money for the projected Prison Budget - and this is based on current projections. To simply raise the sentencing guidelines for certain crimes is not enough....
- Fri Dec 12, 2003 8:13 pm
- Forum: Words Without End
- Topic: Question for Writers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 212
Question for Writers
I've been wondering, when you write for a sourcebook, how does that work? Do they tell you the jist of what they want to happen, and then you flesh it out? Or do you come up with your own story, or background for a gang or corp or whatever, and they approve it? I know a couple of you have been publi...
- Fri Dec 12, 2003 8:01 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The Exclusionary Rule
- Replies: 54
- Views: 1025
I can understand the fear of an innocents personal rights being violated, and I understand that legislation dealing with this issue is a slipper slope, but it just doesn't sit right with me that someone who is obviously guilty could walk free because of a search done by an officer that is wider than...
- Fri Dec 12, 2003 5:15 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Is it OK if the meat /wants/ to be eaten?
- Replies: 97
- Views: 1496
The other day, I drove around behind a rural elementary schoolbus for about 35 minutes, and I was thinking that it'd be awful easy to learn its route, and somewhere on a remote leg of it, toward the beginning, go out one day, flag down a car, kill the driver, leave the car in the middle of the road...
- Fri Dec 12, 2003 4:23 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The Exclusionary Rule
- Replies: 54
- Views: 1025
- Thu Dec 11, 2003 6:19 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Why the FUCK was this guy released from prison?
- Replies: 91
- Views: 1643
If an offender is 95% rehabilitated You can't be 95% rehabilitated. Your either rehabilitated or your not. Or am I missing something? And we reach stalemate. Incarcerating someone for crimes they MIGHT commit is unacceptable to me. That seems like an unfair statement to me. I guess it's true in a w...
- Wed Dec 10, 2003 9:43 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Why the FUCK was this guy released from prison?
- Replies: 91
- Views: 1643
- Wed Dec 10, 2003 6:31 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The Exclusionary Rule
- Replies: 54
- Views: 1025
I have no problems with a cop 'illegaly' stopping and searching me. I don't carry drugs, or illegal weapons, or anything that could get me in trouble so why should I care? It seems to me that the only people who would have to worry about something like this are people who break the law, and once the...
- Tue Dec 09, 2003 3:31 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Most Memorable Break-Up Reasons
- Replies: 60
- Views: 956
This guy at the firehouse was telling a story about this guy he knew who just got divorced. See, the couple had just gotten married, and were on a cruise for thier honeymoon, and had both gotten completely wasted at the bar. They came back to thier room to have sex, with her on top, when her inebria...
- Tue Dec 09, 2003 3:23 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The Da Vinci Code
- Replies: 28
- Views: 492
I don't know, I think the reason it pisses me off is because Clancy and friends are to books what N'sync, brittany spears, J-lo, etc is to music - Brain dead uncreative steaming piles of shit that lack even the most rudimentary sense of intelligence, all mass marketed for morons. I understand your ...
- Tue Dec 09, 2003 1:25 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The Da Vinci Code
- Replies: 28
- Views: 492
It seems that everyone is pissed off that these guys made the best seller lists. I don't understand, isn't reading supposed to be entertaining? Sure, I like to read something that's going to challenge me, but sometimes I just want to be entertained. Apparently so do a lot of other people. The best s...
- Sat Dec 06, 2003 7:05 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: What Would You Do With $200,000,000?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1000
- Fri Dec 05, 2003 3:30 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Is it me or people are erasing their past?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 473
- Wed Dec 03, 2003 4:14 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: What does Cain do?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1105
I was wondering, Cain, because bulldrek's been around for awhile now, and compared to other members, some of whom I've known for less than a year, I know next to nothng about you . And apparently, neither does anybody else. This thread seems to point at nobody actually having met you, and despite t...
- Mon Dec 01, 2003 11:57 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Shadowrun and DV8.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 639
- Tue Nov 25, 2003 1:07 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: A Perfect Murder
- Replies: 26
- Views: 519
- Tue Nov 25, 2003 1:01 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The greater good
- Replies: 10
- Views: 222
- Thu Nov 20, 2003 10:54 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: [Iraq] Al Qaeda Links, et al...
- Replies: 56
- Views: 851
PMWrestler wrote: It's possible but really, really unlikely. I'd put money on the fact that they don't have a hostage rescue team over there, and if they do, it's not all that well funded or trained. Certainly not well funded enough to pay for an aircraft, or even part of one. Hell, Delta Force, th...
- Thu Nov 20, 2003 9:05 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: VCD Burning
- Replies: 6
- Views: 200
- Thu Nov 20, 2003 3:58 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Children
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1121
- Wed Nov 19, 2003 4:32 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: [Iraq] Al Qaeda Links, et al...
- Replies: 56
- Views: 851
- Tue Nov 18, 2003 5:06 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Age and relationships
- Replies: 37
- Views: 675
How many times has she awoken next to someone in the morning, in an apartment not her own, and wondered what to do while the other person took a shower? How many times has she had to decide between ramen and rent, or between grad school and a boyfriend? How far has she driven or flown across countr...
- Tue Nov 18, 2003 4:56 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Children
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1121
I would not be disappointed, because he will be who he will be, and whatever that might entail - he's still my son. I would encourage and support him (or her) in as much as I knew how, and let them know that individuality is a good thing. Hard as some may believe it to be or say that it is, I think...
- Tue Nov 18, 2003 4:49 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Proposals
- Replies: 67
- Views: 1566
I better not get proposed to. I'm a fireman and I've been picturing proposing through a high rise office window from the top of an aerial ladder since I was little. If she proposed I would say no just so I could come back the next day and propose to her. ;) Is it in bad taste to ask thier friend if ...
- Tue Nov 18, 2003 12:07 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Would you vote for Bush in the next election?
- Replies: 219
- Views: 3730
- Mon Nov 17, 2003 4:34 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Would you vote for Bush in the next election?
- Replies: 219
- Views: 3730
He (Bush) is a simple puppet and there is someone else with there hand far up his a**e, it is anybodies guess who the puppet master is, could very well be the dynamic duo of Rove and Rumsfeldt or perhaps even a trio or an entire orchestra. Which ever it is it looks like George is completely stuffed...
- Mon Nov 17, 2003 5:21 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Children
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1121
It's called Unconditional Love. I'm not saying you would stop loving it exactly, I was just wondering what people's expectations are for thier children, and how they would feel if they didn't meet those expectations. Sorry if my question was/is unclear. It's term paper time, and I've been writing w...
- Mon Nov 17, 2003 4:08 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Children
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1121
- Sun Nov 16, 2003 4:59 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Children
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1121
I'd love to have kids...but I'd need a wife who I knew was going to be a great mom. That way she could do most of the important developmental stuff, and I could play with the kid and thier kool toys. Serious though she would need to be really good with kids. I'm deathly afraid that when I have kids ...
- Fri Nov 14, 2003 1:01 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Things I don't get.
- Replies: 66
- Views: 1171
You said that these people pump alot of money into the economy, I guarantee you that alot of people CANT AFFORD THEIR PHONE, both my aunts and uncles have had problems with my cousins getting phones with $30 a month plans and then without realising it running up $300 phone bills, on a monthly basis...
- Tue Nov 04, 2003 6:00 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: 9/11 Petition
- Replies: 5
- Views: 188
I know, the Uniformed Firemens Association made one up, and put it in it's newspaper, with instructions to photocopy it, get as many as possible filled up, and then send them back in to the paper so they can be sent in as one huge petition. I have a ton of those floating around, I just figured it ca...
- Tue Nov 04, 2003 5:50 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: 9/11 Petition
- Replies: 5
- Views: 188
9/11 Petition
Look, I'm sure a lot of you are going to be against this. I'm not going to get into a debate over it, that's not why I'm creating this thread. But I lost a cousin who was a fireman and a ton of guys that I grew up idolizing who were also firemen, and I want them to be properly remembered. The curren...
- Tue Nov 04, 2003 5:43 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Your all time top 5 jobs if time and space were no issue.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 338
- Wed Oct 29, 2003 3:08 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Science can make anything fun.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 180
While we're on the topic of the scientifics of drinking I thougt I'd bring up something my friend said the other night while drunk. He was talking to this Jewish kid who goes to his college, and they were trying to figure out why my friend, who's Irish, but skinny, can drink more than the heavier Je...
- Sun Oct 26, 2003 3:30 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: National Football League getting serious on drug tests?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 131
I say if they're going to take the steroids out of the NFL, they should create a new league where steroids are mandatory.This new league would find out the dosage of steroids that would kill a player, and then back off the mandatory requirement to play just a little bit. I think that would be fun to...
- Fri Jun 13, 2003 2:29 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: another one bites the dust
- Replies: 26
- Views: 344
Announced Live during RAW. Really sucked. Saw him live at the Philly RAW, and he didn't seem that bad off. Did anyone see the video montage they put together for him? They've been playing to to promote his book. The very last clip has him walking through double doors into a bright light. Does anyon...