Andy9o8

Please have compassion for the elderly.

This.

No, I was referring to your video.

Cliff Notes version, please?

I think it's fair to distinguish between food fraud and portion shrinkage. Shrinkage ain't fraud - outside the bedroom . Bogus labeling of fish is fraud. Horsemeat I'm guessing is possibly leaner and heart-healthier than beef; but ok, that's fraud. Now those smaller cans of tuna these days. Not really enough to make 2 full sized sandwiches anymore. Bastards.

Bullshit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/guns/procon/guns.html http://gunvictimsaction.org/fact-sheet/fact-sheet-illegal-gun-trafficking-arms-criminals-and-youth/ http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/15635712-418/illinois-and-indiana-big-source-of-guns-used-in-chicago-crimes-police-find.html Requiring tracking of all sales would at the very least reduce straw sales, cross-state-border sales, gun show loopholes, etc. You would be able to track back to the last 'legal sale' and work from there. Will I buy a gun for a friend for $50? Sure I will because when he uses it for a crime, they will not be able to trace the gun to me. Will I buy a gun for a friend when I know that the sale is recorded and I might face 10 years in prison? Much less likely. You don't have to worry about prosecution. If the police come for you, just throw yourself in the Ocean.

Cloning? Eugenics? Hybrid species? Androids?

Did he give you a biscuit on your way out?

What he said. Except for the part about logging. I really don't see the average kid under 15-16ish having sufficient developmental maturity, life experience and judgment to realistically assesss and appreciate the risk of death associated with all parachute jumping. (I feel strongly about this regardless of what country it's in. Has nothing to do w/legal issues.)

An episode of This American Life recently looked into the (unsubstantiated) possibility that deep fried calamari was somehow, somewhere, being replaced with... ...well, it wasn't calamari. Yeh but it was deep fried. Hell, it was cooked.

no i got 2 kids & ain't from TX.

Oooh! Sounds just like Hitler.

Yep. French-Canadians are WAY less formal than the French and I do have the occasional slip-up where I default to "tu" (informal) to say "you" and it irks (or even offends) the other person because I'm "clearly" not on their level and/or I don't know them well enough... Either way, I should have used the more formal "vous." Hmmm... Here's an analog to that in English, which has no informal/formal form of "you". I find this to be impolite: I'll make a business call - sometimes in a professional capacity, sometimes just as a customer/consumer to a store or company, and after having identified myself by full name, the person on the other end of the line will presume to address me by my first name, rather than "Mr." (and/or just plain "Sir"). Vaguely disrespectful, or at least presumptuous, IMO, if for no other reason than because I'm a total stranger. Now, this depends on the context. If I was calling, say, a DZ I'd never been to before as a prospective jumper/customer, and was speaking to the manifest clerk, that's a collegial environment, so we all address each other by first name. But in most other types of business contexts, if you don't know the person, show them some protocol.

Actually.... .... In the US, in federal criminal cases, as well as in state court in many states, criminal cases, especially felonies, begin with a preliminary hearing at which a judge determines whether there is or is not sufficient probable cause to proceed to a full trial at some later date. (Not all 50 states do this.) Long story made very short, they're much like mini-trials, and they usually occur within a couple weeks, sometimes just a few days, of the arrest. Yeah, you can prep for them in very little time; it's just an acquired skill.

Wow. Good thing he didn't insult your mom.

+1 That was a great ice-breaker for hitting on the hot whuffo chick watching from the sidelines!

I want round canopies to come back. That way I can get a girl in a tube-top and really short cut-off jeans to hold tension while I pack. Oh, and FWIW, she won't wear sox w/her Adidas. .

And don't mention the war. *Apparently* it's also not on to call your German colleague "the Nazi." So I am told... Is "Kraut" still OK? Only if you're a Frankfurter.

Only if you also wear white sox with dress shoes.

Not yet (I am trying); but I see that she's a regular commentator on Fox"News". Good to see she's kept her moral compass through the years.

People seem to ignore that "Hagel" rhymes with "bagel". Fools. They just don't see the clues.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/mississippi-officially-abolishes-slavery-ratifies-13th-amendment/ Well, now, that's a load off our minds. Never let anyone call them a cultural backwater.

Absofuckinglutely.

See Massachussets. Costs went down btw. But that was Romneycare, so that's different

'least his tadpoles were still swimmin'. .