peacefuljeffrey

You're presupposing a lot for the guy who had just been woken up. Even not in a slumber, a lot of people move very slowly in a crisis. They are not the ones you want bringing out a firearm to try to save someone else. As I said, non zero chance. Without being there, I can only state the obvious that it didn't happen. Bringing her into the house and locking the door would have been a much more useful first step, one with a much greater probability of saving the woman. At that point the home shotgun would be invaluable. All I'm saying is, he got downstairs. I don't think it's unfair to suggest that if he could wake from bed, and get himself out of the bedroom and down to the front door knowing that the reason he's doing so is because he just heard a woman screaming for help, that he might grab his defensive handgun as well. Is it so hard to imagine that a person who has deliberately prepared himself by owning that handgun would have the presence of mind to not go out to investigate a frantic call for help with it in hand? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That's how confident I am! Actually, that's how I differentiate between files on my computer when I take a full-sized digital pic and resize it for posting. The program appends to the name of the original file. But yeah, I don't have to worry about "small" being associated with my penis. Size is not a problem for me. (Besides, I prefer giving oral in the first place, so...) -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Are you kidding? That monster (posted in the dick thread several times, by the way, and even in another of my knotted paracord creations!) is what caused the finger injury in the first place! It's impervious, I tells ya! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Oooh, with a Power Tool and everything! Cool! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Freak masturbation accident, dude! You woulda hardly believed it even if you saw it! I was goin' at it sooo haaaard...! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I'm not a "fan" of Natalie Merchant, and it took me a while to appreciate her "breathy" kind of voice, but there are some songs that I really like a lot. In fact, I guess they're all on "Tigerlily" because I don't have any other albums by her. My favorites are Carnival, River, Wonder, and My Beloved Wife. River is about the death of River Phoenix. I guess they may have been friends. In the song, she chastises the press: "Your vultures' candor, your casual slander, you murder his memory... He's gone... We know... It's nothing but a tragedy." My Beloved Wife, somehow, is on a CD mix that they play over the intercom speakers at Skydive Sebastian. It is one of the most phenomenally SAD songs I have ever heard in my life. It's about a man whose wife got sick and died, and how he wants to go into death with her and renounce the joy in his life because he's so sad she is not with him. I love songs that touch me emotionally. Remember "One Tin Soldier"?

Feet and hands are so similar, of course, so naturally the thread has drifted that way (though I hope the feet pics still keep coming). Here is my hand, with some rings I made out of colored 550 cord. The knots are called "Turk's Heads".

Ev, feel better soon!

Are those feet, or shovels?? Cute. Looks like you were having fun. Got any shots that show your toes?

Nope. Closest I've come to that is an ex-fiance. Which is sort of why this girl and I ran into trouble the first time. She got majorly wiggy and posessive when I went back home in April for the birth of my son. And it just went downhill from there. And I tried to break it off, but good god this woman couldn't take a hint. At one point she said "I think you care more about skydiving than me!" I looked her square in the eye and told her "I do." and she still didn't get the hint. -Blind Well, if you feel that way about her, don't respect her, and acknowledge that you are essentially using her, and don't mind stringing her along hoping that she's going to get what she wants from you (god knows what that is), then I think it makes you insensitive, self-centered, a bit boorish, and certainly it is not a respectable thing to be doing. I don't know you at all and won't say you're an "asshole," but if you have to ask if this behavior is wrong, then that is your first clue that you should not be engaged in it. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

VanillaSkyGirl She's exotic, she's friendly, she's sweet, she's great-looking... and I can't help but imagine that she tastes like vanilla, too!

Throw 'em in a freezer truck and drive 'er over to Maine to find out! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I've seen that happen before, too.. the bruise you get afterwards is pretty fugly and it seems like it never wants to go away... did hers change colors, too? They "infiltrated" my veins more than once, too. One time, I had a bruise on my forearm that was about 3" x 8" and raised. There was so much blood under the skin that when I pressed my fingers flat on the forearm, the scab from the needle site popped off and coagulated blood the consistency of pus from a zit came squoozing out. It was really gross. The bruise took a long time to go away, and it looked purple, then green, then yellow for a while. Uck. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Yeah, those US blood techs only think one thing ("ewe those Brits are infected with all sorts of germies.... yuk!") LOL!! Did you ever see the episode of The Simpsons where Lisa gets braces? The dentist/orthodontist in that episode used a scare tactic: The Big Book of British Teeth! It was a great episode. Homer became head of the power plant workers union. Actually, possibly the bets episode ever. Lisa had a "Yellow Submarine" trip on nitrous oxide... Mr. Burns did a moment as the Grinch as he watched the strikers... Homer explained how he got various scars on his head ("I got this one sneaking under the door of a pay toilet!") -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

WHAT? I worked for the Long Island Blood Centers for 6 months back in 1994. I had been a long-time donor, and needed a part-time job, so I telemarketed for them. They put us through two weeks of training about calling, and about the technical aspects of blood donation. Unless things have changed, they took out LESS than a pint of platelets at each donation; one could not donate anything more than one unit; and the period between donations was half that of the normal 56 days for whole blood donations -- 28 days. Where on earth were you donating that they let you give so much so often? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I'd like to know whether your line of comment here is meant to indicate that you think we should make prison pleasant for all who are there, just in case some innocents are caught up in the system and they are in prison but do not belong there, as you did not. If that is the case, I disagree. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

After that rant, i'd like to see how you actually adjust there. My point was not that it SHOULD be a dayspa, but rather arguing that it is not (someone else was pretty much stating it was). They are being punished, that's why they don't get to walk the streets, doing as they please, spending time playing sports with their kids, etc. Get over it. If you haven't been there, stop complaining that it is too nice. I've spent my entire life visiting prisons and associating with people in them, so I think I know a tad more than you do about the conditions there... and, like I said, they are not day spas. Later. Angela. Well, this comes as a surprise to me, from having met you. I can't even guess why you might have had such encounters with the prison system, and if you want share, fine, but I'd understand if you kept private about it. That's not to say I'm not curious. Anyway, I think the point some are trying to make here (and if not, at least it is my point) is that apart from making sure that prisoners have the necessities, there is NO POINT in seeing to it that they have anything beyond that -- NOTHING to make life "bearable," "pleasant," "enjoyable." Television and radio and music? FUCK no. It's PRISON. You don't wanna be stuck without your Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, don't do the crime. But what is the point of sending someone to prison, which we all acknowledge is "punishment," and then giving prisoners things that are supposed to mitigate how much prison life sucks?! If we really wanted life to not suck for them, we'd fuckin' let them OUT! Life sucking is the whole POINT of putting them in prison. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Hey, pretty good...Can I start posting my papers for school so you guys can edit them for me? It would save me tons of work. Tonto seems to think that he can make fun of someone's grammar as a means of making fun of ME and yet somehow not be acting in a juvenile manner. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I very rarely wear shoes at all.

No, actually I let 99% of it slide. In fact, it is very rare for me to make an issue of someone's spelling errors or grammatical errors on these forums unless it is done to me first, or as a sarcastic crack (I did this the other night, in fact) or here because it was brought up. I make a living being right about grammar, punctuation, spelling, and accurate typography. I think I do an admirable job of not picking on it here. These forums are such a target-rich environment, it'd be rather pointless. I don't make a habit of doing it "to take someone down." I stand by what I say about it being relatively easy, barring disorders like dyslexia, to get things right. I see no reason to capitulate to those who claim that getting things wrong all the time is "no big deal, 'cause you knew what I meant." See the grammar thread for details. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Absolutely false. There are many aspects of the one overall "theme" of GRAMMAR that were touched on. If you can't understand this notion, I am certainly not going to be able to (nor am I interested to) teach it to you here. Would you care to elucidate which "rules of grammar" I modified in order to make my post? If I had been writing this to you on a sheet of paper, I would have formatted it the exact same way. There were no rules of "grammar" adapted or modified or broken. You don't see them in business letter format, either. I guess no business letters are grammatically correct. "Thrust, meet Parry." My lack of indents (and yours) has far more to do with the fact that this program is not set up to accept a tap of the Tab key in order to accomplish it. But as I said earlier, paragraph indents are one of the least essential trappings of good grammar. It satisfies the purpose to simply place a line space between paragraphs. Do you see where you should have used a period in this sentence rather than a comma? Were your failures to capitalize here intentional? The "internet convention" where I capitalized extra stuff is not, to me, a "grammatical mistake" akin to screwing up subject-verb agreement, verb tenses (brung, drug instead of dragged, snuck instead of sneaked, "Who you IS?" instead of "Who are you?") and others. There is no comparison. this sentence is missing a comma, one word needs to be plural and one word need to be removed to be technically correct, It is not missing a period. It is a continual thought, written in the manner I tend to speak, (I like long sentences and can complete them without sounding ‘breathless’ as you imply, if you cant I can suggest a good running program to help. You are again incorrect. Even in your explanation, you failed to punctuate correctly. First of all, here is a correction of your original quote: "Paragraph structure is a good example: without knowing the exact conditions, resolutions, etc that your message will be displayed on following standard block paragraph structure can cause less understanding, not more..." All I did was substitute a colon. The first phrase points to the next ones in that sentence, requiring a colon, not a comma. From your defense of the first runon sentence is this runon sentence: "this sentence is missing a comma, one word needs to be plural and one word need to be removed to be technically correct, It is not missing a period." Corrected: "This sentence is missing a comma; one word needs to be plural; and one word need to be removed to be technically correct. It is not missing a period." I separated long items in a list with semicolons, and I placed a period where it belonged after "correct." owever you clearly understood the meaning even if you disagreed with its structure. Over the net, elements of grammar and punctuation are used to express subtle meanings and express personality. Slavishly attempting to apply arbitrary rules misses the point. there is little wrong with following ‘perfectly’ correct grammar and spelling. however dismissing an argument, focusing on the means of delivery or perceived errors instead of the subject under discussion, again, completely. misses. the point. Are you accepting that we won't use the term "media" as the plural form of "medium" anymore? And your next sentence contains no predicate. (i.e. it's just a sentence fragment) Apostrophes change the meanings of words from one thing to another. Discard the apostrophe, and you risk discarding the difference between one word's meaning and another. I just typed WORD'S. I didn't type WORDS. "WORDS" is the plural of "word" while "WORD'S" is the possessive of "word." You see no reason to use that apostrophe? That is itself a strawman, since MANY here FREQUENTLY "bother with a point-to-point debate" with me. By the way, you should have had hyphens in "point-to-point." -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That's absurd. You're saying that proper spellings of even things like proper names don't matter? How about if the DMV spelled your name wrong on your license? Or the hospital spelled your kid's name wrong on a birth certificate? What if your mail got sent to 125 Smyth St. instead of your house at 125 Smith St.? The simple fact is, THERE IS ONE CORRECT NAME AND INFINITE INCORRECT NAMES for all of these things! IT IS NOT HARD TO JUST LEARN THE RIGHT SPELLING OF THE NAME AND USE THAT! What could possibly be the argument for it being okay to spell "Iraqi" as "Iraki," "Iraqui," or "Iracqui"??! Is it EASIER?! All you're doing is making excuses for not learning something. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That's where you will find me, Senor! Ironically, that's where you find a lot of people who end up dead in office buildings and schools when a crazy person with a gun goes on a rampage among disarmed prey. They duck under tables hoping that they don't get found and murdered, because they have abdicated their right to have and carry the means to fight back. the quote that comes to mind is "it is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees..." I could not help but be struck by the similarity of the posters' statements and the actions of the very real people who have found themselves in a very real situation like what they described. Unarmed victims scrambling for the best HIDING spots are just people waiting to be slaughtered, hoping for the LUCK that they will not be found before someone CAPABLE of dealing with the threat arrives. (Or the threat blows his own brains out.) It's the argument of the damned. And what's sick is that they force themselves to be damned, by not preparing. And if they survive, they argue that getting rid of guns is still the solution! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Apart from arresting criminals so that they cannot commit more crimes -- which the police do only after A crime has been committed - if a police officer were to prevent crimes, he would have be be on-the-spot to step between aggressor and defender. I postulate that this almost never happens. What else could you mean by "prevent crimes"? Bill, come on, WTF do you mean by "I often see..." this? Numbers? Names? If you "often see" people abandoning the common sense of "don't go into bad areas you have no need to go into," then surely you can name some people you know who do it. Of all the gun owners I know, NOT ONE has allowed his gun ownership turn him into a "badass" who thinks his gun makes him invincible and able to go anywhere, any time, and stand up to any one. I think you're blowing smoke with this b.s. claim that "you often see" gun owners taking risks because they own guns. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

LOL ... that's twice this week where I proclaim that ... Kelly wins ... How many gun owners have their gun on them 24/7 ready to defend themselves in the very instant that it may be needed? Someone worried about her EX/SO would. But a homeowner at night, probably not. I think the chances these peoplpe could have saved her is low, though at least non zero. So you think that if this homeowner kept a gun in his nightstand, he would be likely to rush downstairs to pleas of "HELP ME!" but leave the gun in the nightstand? Why does that strike you as how it would be likely to go? -Jeffrey Read the story. They heard the pleas, then went to the door, the woman was there, the woman got dragged away, the woman came rushingback to the door, the man approached and shot her in the back once, he proceeded to close the distance, stood over her and shot several more times. The homeowner, if he had brought a gun kept in the home for self defense, would (in my estimation) likely have sought to bring the gun to the door if he were going to investigate cries of "HELP ME!" Upon all the rest that transpired, I rather think that he could easily have been mulling a shoot/don't shoot decision for an adequate amount of time. Surely after the first time she was dragged away, he might have even cocked the weapon, and after she came running back and was shot once, he might have fired at the attacker before he reached her and pumped more bullets into her. Call me crazy, but I think he might have been able to save her. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"