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At what point would you be ok with stepping in and finishing this?
grue replied to Anvilbrother's topic in Speakers Corner
We've given enough weapons and training to Israel, Egypt, and Saudi for them to go solve the problem. We do not need to be involved. Historically speaking, has any established nation in the last 200 years ever actually invaded an area, fought an enemy that doesn't fight conventionally, and won? I know we haven't. The French haven't. The Russians haven't. The British may have, but I don't think so. So, uh, why not learn from history? cavete terrae. -
Had sinuses dump in freefall once when I was jumping with a cold. Sunflower-yellow snot all over my goggles and in my hair. Horrifying. That, however, is not my embarrassing jump story. That one goes to when I was at Eloy in 2005 and doing my first Skyvan jump. While walking up to the edge and leaning out to check the spot (I was first out), I lost my footing and fell out of the damned plane. cavete terrae.
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Pretty big words coming from a guy who would take a wet, stinking shit on the Constitution himself if he were given half a second to do so. cavete terrae.
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Yup. Used to live in the midwest, too, but that's a phase of my life that won't reoccur either Good thing you weren't aborted though. That would have had an impact. I'd never have known. cavete terrae.
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Chivalry died at the handsof militant feminism. I hold open doors for strangers all the time because it's a nice thing to do if can, and had some halfwit go "I don't need you to hold a door open for me because I'm a woman!" recently, it was pretty sad. Should have retorted "you don't need me to hold the door open for you because you're a bitch" then run! Reminds me of a buddy back in high school. We were in a bar and he was eyeing up the girl across the room. She decided to walk over and ask him what he was looking at. His response: Now that you are this close, I am wondering the same thing. cavete terrae.
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Chivalry died at the handsof militant feminism. I hold open doors for strangers all the time because it's a nice thing to do if can, and had some halfwit go "I don't need you to hold a door open for me because I'm a woman!" recently, it was pretty sad. Should have retorted "you don't need me to hold the door open for you because you're a bitch" then run! I'm not superstitious generally but I have a feeling I'd have tripped, fallen, and broken my face cavete terrae.
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That's very odd. Unless it's a whacked-out judge, there has to more to the story that we don't know about. There could be, I can't claim to know everything. I was in the car when it happened though, he clearly had no idea it was expired until the cop came back and told us both to get out of the car, and that he was under arrest. Totally complied, absolutely no problem during the arrest (he even said "I'm not doubting you, can I just see my license though?", and sure enough it was expired). I asked the other cop that showed up if I could drive the car back, he went to the cruiser and chatted with my buddy, came back with the key and I took it to his house for him and told his parents what happened. That's the last part where I was personally a witness to proceedings, but the next day he shows up to class in the afternoon and said "Can you believe they charged $2,900 for bail?" ,and I couldn't so he showed me the receipt. My mind was blown. cavete terrae.
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Not enough… cavete terrae.
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My whole hockey team got thrown out of a hotel in north dakota when we were jumping off balconies into snow a couple floors down cavete terrae.
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Most laypeople have difficulty wrapping their heads around the fact that the lawful function of pre-trial bail is to secure appearance at trial, not to impose punishment prior to trial and conviction. and rightly so. Insanely high bail is one of those things that just makes me go "really?" when the person isn't a flight risk. Really? A friend of mine had to post something like $2900 bail after being arrested for driving with a week-expired license. No criminal history, and they wouldn't release on recognizance even though he was from a family with longstanding ties to the community, in a town of 85,000 people in the middle of nowhere. That was bordering on an 8th amendment violation in my mind. cavete terrae.
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Chivalry died at the handsof militant feminism. I hold open doors for strangers all the time because it's a nice thing to do if can, and had some halfwit go "I don't need you to hold a door open for me because I'm a woman!" recently, it was pretty sad. The idea that I wasn't holding the door open because she didn't have a Y chromosome, but because I had just opened it and the effort to hold it open would be vastly lower than the amount of effort for her to reopen it a moment later simply never occurred. Plus if I was going to hold open a door based on me being a guy and wanting to score points, she'd have needed to be FAR more attractive to get that treatment cavete terrae.
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Most laypeople have difficulty wrapping their heads around the fact that the lawful function of pre-trial bail is to secure appearance at trial, not to impose punishment prior to trial and conviction. and rightly so. Insanely high bail is one of those things that just makes me go "really?" when the person isn't a flight risk. cavete terrae.
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Yup. Used to live in the midwest, too, but that's a phase of my life that won't reoccur either cavete terrae.
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Really? You didn't really bother to read & digest my post, did you? I did, and I disagree with a bunch of it. Yes, it sucks that people have to work more if you choose to have kids now, I'm with you on that. But it's still a choice. cavete terrae.
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Really? Unborn children meet the classic definition of the word, yes. Really? An organism that feeds off of the nutrients of a living host. How does that NOT describe an unborn baby? People get all emotional and try and pretend that children are little miracles that should be worshipped. Making offspring is literally one of the easiest things humans can do. Raising them well? That's harder, I'll admit, but so is maintaining an exotic car so it's something you should be aware of before you get one, because it's not all fun and games. cavete terrae.
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Physical violence was not the right solution there, either. That said, if you're not invited up there, you shouldn't be on stage, certainly not actually crowding the person that people are paying to see perform. cavete terrae.
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Really? Unborn children meet the classic definition of the word, yes. cavete terrae.
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My career would suffer if I chose to take a bunch of time off to go skydiving, travel europe, play video games, or otherwise not do my job. Growing a parasite and dropping it out of a vagina isn't like being struck down with cancer where you didn't have a choice in the matter and to take time to get treatment. It's something people choose to do, and choices have consequences. cavete terrae.
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I think I could. That's a tremendous amount of surface area no matter how she's presented to the relative wind. I'd probably wear my older suit, though, the new one that fits me right has a bit too much drag. cavete terrae.
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One of the scariest hypothetical scenarios I can think of is a situation where I have to truly defend myself against a female who's attempting to do me serious harm (not just a "fuck you" punch or slap) because of how it could turn out later. Let's say that for whatever reason (hell, let's keep it on topic and say I cheated on her) my girlfriend snapped and tried to really hurt me. She's about 5'9 or 5'10, a personal trainer, and in good shape. But that said, I've still got 5-6 inches and close to a hundred pounds on her. If I ever threw a full-strength punch and connected, there's a non-trivial chance that it could actually kill her or otherwise do a tremendous amount of damage. How's that going to look when the cops show up? Big dude with a couple of bruises on him and a comparatively small woman with a shattered face. Doesn't matter what the story is, they're going to give her the benefit of the doubt in all likelihood. cavete terrae.
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I don't care if he was fucking her sister in her favorite chair and saying her mom is getting dicked next. Anyone who physically attacks someone because they're offended about something is a piece of shit. He wasn't impinging on her health, freedom or property, she had no reason to be doing so to him. She could have taken the high ground and broke up with him and even shamed him publicly, but instead she decided to be no better than the idiots out there fighting over religion and attacked him. It's a good thing he didn't defend himself because then he'd be the one in trouble in this ridiculous system of ours, I'm sure. cavete terrae.
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Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach. cavete terrae.
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THat's a super-solved problem. If I get the snip and my girlfriend still manages to get pregnant, it's still probably less than an 18 year sentence to just kill her and avoid child support that way. Right? RIGHT?! I sure as hell hope that was meant tongue in cheek, because that wasn't funny at all. BUT, your post suggests that "problem" is not "super-solved". You say "If I get the snip". Just a side humorous note: If you think the "sentence" is over in 18 years…... I think he meant he'd be paying child support for another man's child, so just off the cheating whore. At least that's how I read it. But in all seriousness there is a good solution for accidental pregnancies, even though it makes the religious folks go all crazy. It really is a solved problem once you take emotion out of it. cavete terrae.
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THat's a super-solved problem. If I get the snip and my girlfriend still manages to get pregnant, it's still probably less than an 18 year sentence to just kill her and avoid child support that way. Right? RIGHT?! cavete terrae.
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Ya know - if you can't afford a kid .. . don't have any. Seems pretty simple. That's crazy talk, don't you know? cavete terrae.