>I'm sure everyone has heard of the Salem Witches.
Check your facts, the actual trials and executions were held outside of Salem
>Who lived back then and can say these women that were burned and stoned to death weren't really what is classicly known as a witch.
Check your facts, at the time of the "Salem" witch trials, the punishment for practicing witchcraft was hanging. Maybe a couple of them were, the majority were most likely Christian women who were murdered by people with scores and disputes to settle.
>If you believe in god, who has his clergy and worshippers here on earth, there must also be a darkside that also has clergy and worshipers with their own sick religious rituals and holidays too gruesome to even consider.
Name ONE religion where atrocities have not been committed in the name of "God"!
> I think there were and are REAL witches out there and we'd all be wise to not go looking for them in their creepy haunts of cemetaries and backwoods because we may just be unlucky enough to find one.
This is the type of drivel that lead to the persecution of witches and other non-christians in the middle ages in Europe and more recently here in the US.
If you're creeping around grave yards at night you're likely to run into something far more dangerous and scarry that a witch could ever be. You'd likely run into a sociopath who has some type of wierd fascination with death and places of the dead or some loser with no life like yourself.
The premise was OK. The acting was good. The execution sucked. The ending sucked.
I am a pagan. I am not a wiccan, but I have friends who are. Witches are NOT evil supernatural beings. Witches are usually great people because of what they believe.
If you believed that everything you do will come back to you threefold, how likely would you be to hurt someone?
For those who are ignorant about wicca and witches, I guess that the thought of some solitary witch wreaking havok and spreading chaos through the forests of Maryland can be terrifying, for me it's not.
I think that the irrational fear that they faced along with their stupidity caused Josh to flip his wig and he killed the other two at the end.
They were rich kids, you mean to tell me that they couldn't have afforded a GPS device? And what kind of moron goes out into unknown woods without a firearm of some type? (maybe my perspective on this one is skewed because I'm black and was raised to be wary of rednecks) They should have had at least a machete, what if they had walked into a wall of jagger bushes?(western PA dialect shining through)
Why could they not just follow the stream? In the the eastern US if you follow a stream you're going to hit the Mississippi sooner or later. Granted, starting in Maryland, it would have been later but there would have been a small town within a day or two's walk, even in October.
This movie was not "scarry" it was not "chilling" it was not "haunting". It was about three rich white kids who loose their marbles out in the woods because they were ill prepared.
If there were not so much waste I'd be in support of more military spending. However so much of the military budget is wasted on useless pet projects like "sensitivity training", I say let them tighten the belt before we increase their rations.
x86 is what I'd want. The HD would use so much power that AA batteries will do no good. I'm thinking more along the lines of either 12v DC from an automotive power source or a bunch of D batteries. I'd be able to deal with the extra size & weight of the batteries to make up for the extra music time I'd get.
Tiny machines dx4-100 and up with IDE, VGA, Ethernet and AUDIO. We could all have homebrewed MP3 players. No injunction from RIAA could stop their distribution either. They're just little computers. Not MP3 only devices.
The first, second, fourth, and tenth amendments are all pretty self-explainaroty as well, it doesn't stop people with agendas from trying to re-interpret them for their own benefit.
>So you're saying that you were one of those fucking little pests that nearly got me killed one day by squirting a stream of water in my eye while I was doing 80...
A few points here,
1. You were exceeding the speed limit. If you had been in an accident it would have been just as much your fault.
2. Where I did this was at the top of a hill that was a 1 mile or so drive and approaching a stop sign, if you were doing 80 there water gun or not, you could have easily killed yoursel fwithout my help.
3. It couldn't have been me, because of the side of the car I was on I got the passenger, not the driver.
Kids do stupid things, that's kind of the point of being a kid. You can do all of your fucking up before it's necessary for you to "know better".
>What's the matter, isn't the Mafia already strong enough to suit you? (We tried it before, think "speakeasy", and it didn't work.)
You're taking me too literally. I'm not in favor of prohibition, In fact I like to drink beer, but what I'm saying is that just because something can seem to be a cost saving measure doesn't justify it's being done.
Well, your point about Ruby Ridge is valid, however Clinton took office on Jan 20 1993, He had just under 3 months before the people at Waco were barbecued.
Moreover, Janet Reno participated in the Waco coverup and passing of the buck when it came to who was to blame.
Democrats are most concerned with the 1st and 4th amendments while republicans care about the 2nd and 10th. Different parties, different priorities.
>BUT, if I say you have to wear your seatbelt, it takes you TWO SECONDS to put it on when you get in your car. TWO FRICKING SECONDS will save your life, and save the medical system the cost of piecing together what's left of your ribs when someone makes an unnanounced left turn. Stop spouting hyperbole and think about it for a second.
MRED, I think that you're missing my point. I'm not "anti-seatbelt" I'm just against making it a crime for adults to decide not to buckle up. I don't even drive 1 block without putting my seatbelt on. I just don't think it should be mandatory backed up by the force of law.
If you think so, then you don't get what I'm saying.
>It's all well and good to claim that you can do as you please and it's no burden on society. Except that driving without a seatbelt or using a motorcycle without a helmet has a very real price.
No, you definately don't get it. I'm not saying that nothing that I do effects society in any way, but what I am saying is that we can't allow the fact that the things we do may or may not effect others be the only reason for extra laws and rules.
If I eat Big Macs every day for breakfast, lunch, diner, and a midnight snack. I will be more likely to develop heard disease. If I have a heart attack EMS will have to be dispatched to pick me up. Some nurse's aid will have to wipe my ass because of the brain damage that I suffer. It will be expensive for my medical insurance to pay for my care. That will raise the premiums paid by the other people. Is that fair to them because I HAD to have my Big Macs?
This is a slippery slope. People have already suggested imposing a TAX on unhealthy foods. Smoking is an unhealthy behavior which is taxed to hell and back by the federal and state governments of the US. If you cross the border into Mexico you can buy packs of cigarettes for for less than $1.00 each. And at that price there is a heavy markup by people who know what Americans have to pay for them at home.
People should be encouraged to do things because of education, not because of fear of retribution. Do you know the metaphor of the carrot and the stick?
>You didn't mention the wife, though. Would she have escaped with only minor injuries if she hadn't had a helmet on? Just because it cost a lot doesn't mean that it wouldn't have cost more if they hadn't been wearing helmets.
I do not know. She wore a sling on her arm for a while, but I don't know if she would have been worse off without a helmet. But you seem to be missing the point, I'm not opposed to helmet use. In fact it think it's a great idea to use a helmet, I'm just against rules and laws which are designed to protect us from ourselves.
>It is interesting how liberty enthusiasts always miss obvious points like this. Seatbelts not only save lives, they lower medical costs. Lower medical costs mean lower insurance rates. So you're telling me that I have to spend my hard earned money just so some idiot doesn't have to wear his seatbelt?
It's not an obvious point, it's a moot point. If we had nationwide curfews and (real) prohibition of alcohol we'd save lives and reduce medical costs, does that mean that we should do it? Hell no! If you don't like paying for car insurance, take the bus.
I don't believe that anyone should be compelled to have insurance. It should be your choice to spend the rest of your life owing money to the people that you hurt because you screwed up.
>What happened to my liberties?
Liberty means freedom to make your own choices, liberty does not mean freedom from making bad choices.
>A motorcycle rider not wearing a helmet and getting in an accident has secondary consequences beyond his own health. If he bashes his brains, he gets taken to a hospital and someone has to fit the bill. So one man's stupid deeds do have a cost to society.
By that reasoning, it would be justifiable from a financial perspective to force people to telecommute, because traffic congestion costs society in terms of wasted fuel and additional health care costs from pollution.
Last year two friends of mine were in a motorcycle accident, the husband died, the wife lived with only minor injuries. They were both wearing helmets as per state law. The husband's medical bills were over 30 thousand dollars for less than 24 hours of care. It's expensive to treat the victime of auto accidents (even more so for motorcycle accidents) the financial arguement doesn't fly. I would never ride a bike withtout a helmet, I never drive my car without a seatbelt but I don't think that it should be the law.
I'm sick of being told that I'm being protected from myself.
In my state you have to get a fscking license to buy grain alcohol because some idiots died from drinking too much booze (it's usually vodka that people overdo it with, yet grain gets the blame). So statewide only bars and people with political clout can get the license to buy grain alcohol, and we're tole that this is to protect our college age "kids" from themselves. If some asshole wants to put a 750ml bottle of Ever Clear into a beer bong and fry his brain, I say let him/her do it. There's just more
In many states, like my own, we are required to wear seatbelts in our cars. I was an avid seatbelt wearer before the law was passed anyway, so it didn't alter my behavior in any way. But I think that it's horseshit to make it mandatory for adults to "Buckle Up". If someone doesn't want to use a seatbelt and gets turned into hamburger, fine that was his/her choice. It just causes the nations average IQ to go up.
Motorcycle helmets are also mandatory in my state. I remember a local radio/TV personality (John Cigna sp?) was a rather outspoken opponent of mandatory helmet laws until he went headfirst into a brick wall (a la Gary Busey) and the helmet kept his brain on the proper side of his skull. I don't hear him talk much about how those laws are unfair now. BUT, if he wanted to ride without a helmet he should have been able to. If someone is reckless enough to do 60mph down the freeway without head protection, the world might better off without them.
Now back to the IPO, this is the lamest of the "protecting people from themselves" cases that I have seen in years. In the other examples that I listed above the protection is only against something bad happening to the individual, what I mean is that nothing "good" or "great" can come from buying grain alcohol (except maybe a good game of "get the girls drunk"). This however not only protects inexperienced investors from the potential pitfalls of an IPO, but it barrs people from reaping the potential benefits of the IPO. The IPO gives many people who were influential and hard-working in the open source community the opportunity to gain something for all of their hard work. Other people are making money off of Linux, who not the people who helped make it what it is today?
When I was younger I was bigger than most kids my age so I could pump a super soaker faster than any of them could so I'd fsck people up on water battles.
Back in June a friend of mine had a get together at her house for her son's 14th birthday. The kids were having all kinds of fun with their water guns when I decided to get in on the action. There were two super soaker xp-1000(or something like that) lying on the ground. I picked them up and refilled them and spent a minute or two pumping them up and I walked around like the terminator (Oakleys and not Gargoyles if you're interested) then this 10 year old kid squirted me with some wack ass little water gun, I smiled and unloaded on him with both guns at once. It was about 85 degrees (f) outside and that little dude was wet for the rest of the day. I haven't felt that sensation in years.
Kind of like when I play one of my 30 something or older friends at Q2.
It's good to be the king, and mondo water guns remind us of that.
When I was about 15 or so I was at a youth group retreat. The girls came ot our cabin at about 5 am and woke us up by screaming and throwing confetti. Well, a few nights later we got bakc at them.
'round about 4:30 in the am I had one of the younger guys wake me up. I got about 5 or so of the teenage guys up and we got our water guns ready. I guess I was the Sarge' so I got A water balloon too. We crept to the girls cabin and we concentrated on the back room where the age 13+ girls slept. I slowly opened the window while another group went to chekc the front door.
The frond door was locked so the others came around back too. Just as the window was almost completely open one of those morons come running aound the cabin and says, like we're in a crowded room, DID YOU GET IT OPEN YET? He didn't wake them up. We all got ready. I bit the ends off of my "grenade" and lobbed it in.(the next morning I found out that my I woke up somone by hitting her in the face with that grenade) We opened fire with abut 8 water guns through this open window. For about 30 seconds all I could hear was our laughter and the screams of startled half-asleep chicks on the other side of the window. After we were out of ammo, we told them why and warned them against ever waking us up like that again.
Since the majority of "adults" on this retreat were women and were awakened by our activities we got in trouble while the girls did not, but I refused to accept any punishment as long as the girls went unpunished. (that is another story though)
Also when I was younger than that I got this battery operated water gun that sprayed a continuous stream of water (not like the broken stream of enter-tech type water guns), my best friend and I tood turns hiding in the bushes in front of his house and spraying water into the open windows of any vehicle that drove up the road.
This huge monster truck looking thing came up te road and I was so excited that I started shooting early, the headlights of the truck illuminated the stream from my gun like a silver ribbon that lead straight back to me. The driver of the truck hit his breaks and started to creep back in reverse, I must have army crawled 40 feet in 2 seconds to get the hell out of there.
Anyway, that stuff was extremely fun and I'm just happy that I never got my butt kicked for any of the stuff that I did when I was a youngster. The thing that sucks most about growing up is that I can't do things like that anymore.
Years ago I used to work at a movie theater and you wouldn't believe the shit that some people pulled to get over. For example, one guy claimed to be a member of the British Secret Service and he had an emergency that required all of his family members to leave the theater in the middle of a move and he felt that they deserved a cash refund. Free passes were not good enough, because due to his job they all had to leave the country that week.
This asshole called the district maneger AT HOME and pleaded his case until the theater agreed to refund his money. It worked.
But in any case, scream racism if you want to get something. Imagine someone in the middle of a crowded theater screaming "This is bullshit! If I were not (black, white, hindu, asian, native american, hispanic, whatever), you guys wouldn't be giving me this much hassle!" Stick with that mantra for a few minutes they'll relent. Accusations of racism are BAD for business. Remember Dennys problem?
>But to them it's not "swearing", it's fun and comedy.
Come on, they know that it's swearing. I once heard a Richard Pryor album when I was a kid and I began to repeat what I heard. "N***** you must be crazy!, Bitch, this ain't french toast! Mother Fscker, I said that I wanted milk, not this chocolate Bull****." My parents thought that it was an absolute riot, for about a month, after that no more swearing for Kano.
Incompetent parents are not a good enough excuse for screwing the rest of us over.
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You could do it many other ways, but what I want is x86. I can use standard linux distros, I can use already available apps and RPMs.
LK
>I'm sure everyone has heard of the Salem Witches.
Check your facts, the actual trials and executions were held outside of Salem
>Who lived back then and can say these women that were burned and stoned to death weren't really what is classicly known as a witch.
Check your facts, at the time of the "Salem" witch trials, the punishment for practicing witchcraft was hanging. Maybe a couple of them were, the majority were most likely Christian women who were murdered by people with scores and disputes to settle.
>If you believe in god, who has his clergy and worshippers here on earth, there must also be a darkside that also has clergy and worshipers with their own sick religious rituals and holidays too gruesome to even consider.
Name ONE religion where atrocities have not been committed in the name of "God"!
> I think there were and are REAL witches out there and we'd all be wise to not go looking for them in their creepy haunts of cemetaries and backwoods because we may just be unlucky enough to find one.
This is the type of drivel that lead to the persecution of witches and other non-christians in the middle ages in Europe and more recently here in the US.
If you're creeping around grave yards at night you're likely to run into something far more dangerous and scarry that a witch could ever be. You'd likely run into a sociopath who has some type of wierd fascination with death and places of the dead or some loser with no life like yourself.
LK
The premise was OK. The acting was good. The execution sucked. The ending sucked.
I am a pagan. I am not a wiccan, but I have friends who are. Witches are NOT evil supernatural beings. Witches are usually great people because of what they believe.
If you believed that everything you do will come back to you threefold, how likely would you be to hurt someone?
For those who are ignorant about wicca and witches, I guess that the thought of some solitary witch wreaking havok and spreading chaos through the forests of Maryland can be terrifying, for me it's not.
I think that the irrational fear that they faced along with their stupidity caused Josh to flip his wig and he killed the other two at the end.
They were rich kids, you mean to tell me that they couldn't have afforded a GPS device? And what kind of moron goes out into unknown woods without a firearm of some type? (maybe my perspective on this one is skewed because I'm black and was raised to be wary of rednecks) They should have had at least a machete, what if they had walked into a wall of jagger bushes?(western PA dialect shining through)
Why could they not just follow the stream? In the the eastern US if you follow a stream you're going to hit the Mississippi sooner or later. Granted, starting in Maryland, it would have been later but there would have been a small town within a day or two's walk, even in October.
This movie was not "scarry" it was not "chilling" it was not "haunting". It was about three rich white kids who loose their marbles out in the woods because they were ill prepared.
LK
If there were not so much waste I'd be in support of more military spending. However so much of the military budget is wasted on useless pet projects like "sensitivity training", I say let them tighten the belt before we increase their rations.
LK
x86 is what I'd want. The HD would use so much power that AA batteries will do no good. I'm thinking more along the lines of either 12v DC from an automotive power source or a bunch of D batteries. I'd be able to deal with the extra size & weight of the batteries to make up for the extra music time I'd get.
LK
Tiny machines dx4-100 and up with IDE, VGA, Ethernet and AUDIO. We could all have homebrewed MP3 players. No injunction from RIAA could stop their distribution either. They're just little computers. Not MP3 only devices.
22gb of musical bliss. Ahhhhh.
LK
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The first, second, fourth, and tenth amendments are all pretty self-explainaroty as well, it doesn't stop people with agendas from trying to re-interpret them for their own benefit.
LK
>I just hope it actually goes to something worthy, such as education or the sciences and not to the military.
The military is not worthy? If it weren't for our military you'd either be dead or speaking German.
LK
>So you're saying that you were one of those fucking little pests that nearly got me killed one day by squirting a stream of water in my eye while I was doing 80...
A few points here,
1. You were exceeding the speed limit. If you had been in an accident it would have been just as much your fault.
2. Where I did this was at the top of a hill that was a 1 mile or so drive and approaching a stop sign, if you were doing 80 there water gun or not, you could have easily killed yoursel fwithout my help.
3. It couldn't have been me, because of the side of the car I was on I got the passenger, not the driver.
Kids do stupid things, that's kind of the point of being a kid. You can do all of your fucking up before it's necessary for you to "know better".
LK
>What's the matter, isn't the Mafia already strong enough to suit you? (We tried it before, think "speakeasy", and it didn't work.)
You're taking me too literally. I'm not in favor of prohibition, In fact I like to drink beer, but what I'm saying is that just because something can seem to be a cost saving measure doesn't justify it's being done.
LK
Well, your point about Ruby Ridge is valid, however Clinton took office on Jan 20 1993, He had just under 3 months before the people at Waco were barbecued.
Moreover, Janet Reno participated in the Waco coverup and passing of the buck when it came to who was to blame.
Democrats are most concerned with the 1st and 4th amendments while republicans care about the 2nd and 10th. Different parties, different priorities.
LK
>BUT, if I say you have to wear your seatbelt, it takes you TWO SECONDS to put it on when you get in your car. TWO FRICKING SECONDS will save your life, and save the medical system the cost of piecing together what's left of your ribs when someone makes an unnanounced left turn. Stop spouting hyperbole and think about it for a second.
MRED, I think that you're missing my point. I'm not "anti-seatbelt" I'm just against making it a crime for adults to decide not to buckle up. I don't even drive 1 block without putting my seatbelt on. I just don't think it should be mandatory backed up by the force of law.
LK
>This is shockingly naive.
If you think so, then you don't get what I'm saying.
>It's all well and good to claim that you can do as you please and it's no burden on society. Except that driving without a seatbelt or using a motorcycle without a helmet has a very real price.
No, you definately don't get it. I'm not saying that nothing that I do effects society in any way, but what I am saying is that we can't allow the fact that the things we do may or may not effect others be the only reason for extra laws and rules.
If I eat Big Macs every day for breakfast, lunch, diner, and a midnight snack. I will be more likely to develop heard disease. If I have a heart attack EMS will have to be dispatched to pick me up. Some nurse's aid will have to wipe my ass because of the brain damage that I suffer. It will be expensive for my medical insurance to pay for my care. That will raise the premiums paid by the other people. Is that fair to them because I HAD to have my Big Macs?
This is a slippery slope. People have already suggested imposing a TAX on unhealthy foods. Smoking is an unhealthy behavior which is taxed to hell and back by the federal and state governments of the US. If you cross the border into Mexico you can buy packs of cigarettes for for less than $1.00 each. And at that price there is a heavy markup by people who know what Americans have to pay for them at home.
People should be encouraged to do things because of education, not because of fear of retribution. Do you know the metaphor of the carrot and the stick?
LK
>You didn't mention the wife, though. Would she have escaped with only minor injuries if she hadn't had a helmet on? Just because it cost a lot doesn't mean that it wouldn't have cost more if they hadn't been wearing helmets.
I do not know. She wore a sling on her arm for a while, but I don't know if she would have been worse off without a helmet. But you seem to be missing the point, I'm not opposed to helmet use. In fact it think it's a great idea to use a helmet, I'm just against rules and laws which are designed to protect us from ourselves.
LK
>It is interesting how liberty enthusiasts always miss obvious points like this. Seatbelts not only save lives, they lower medical costs. Lower medical costs mean lower insurance rates. So you're telling me that I have to spend my hard earned money just so some idiot doesn't have to wear his seatbelt?
It's not an obvious point, it's a moot point. If we had nationwide curfews and (real) prohibition of alcohol we'd save lives and reduce medical costs, does that mean that we should do it? Hell no! If you don't like paying for car insurance, take the bus.
I don't believe that anyone should be compelled to have insurance. It should be your choice to spend the rest of your life owing money to the people that you hurt because you screwed up.
>What happened to my liberties?
Liberty means freedom to make your own choices, liberty does not mean freedom from making bad choices.
LK
>A motorcycle rider not wearing a helmet and getting in an accident has secondary consequences beyond his own health. If he bashes his brains, he gets taken to a hospital and someone has to fit the bill. So one man's stupid deeds do have a cost to society.
By that reasoning, it would be justifiable from a financial perspective to force people to telecommute, because traffic congestion costs society in terms of wasted fuel and additional health care costs from pollution.
Last year two friends of mine were in a motorcycle accident, the husband died, the wife lived with only minor injuries. They were both wearing helmets as per state law. The husband's medical bills were over 30 thousand dollars for less than 24 hours of care. It's expensive to treat the victime of auto accidents (even more so for motorcycle accidents) the financial arguement doesn't fly. I would never ride a bike withtout a helmet, I never drive my car without a seatbelt but I don't think that it should be the law.
LK
I'm sick of being told that I'm being protected from myself.
In my state you have to get a fscking license to buy grain alcohol because some idiots died from drinking too much booze (it's usually vodka that people overdo it with, yet grain gets the blame). So statewide only bars and people with political clout can get the license to buy grain alcohol, and we're tole that this is to protect our college age "kids" from themselves. If some asshole wants to put a 750ml bottle of Ever Clear into a beer bong and fry his brain, I say let him/her do it. There's just more
In many states, like my own, we are required to wear seatbelts in our cars. I was an avid seatbelt wearer before the law was passed anyway, so it didn't alter my behavior in any way. But I think that it's horseshit to make it mandatory for adults to "Buckle Up". If someone doesn't want to use a seatbelt and gets turned into hamburger, fine that was his/her choice. It just causes the nations average IQ to go up.
Motorcycle helmets are also mandatory in my state. I remember a local radio/TV personality (John Cigna sp?) was a rather outspoken opponent of mandatory helmet laws until he went headfirst into a brick wall (a la Gary Busey) and the helmet kept his brain on the proper side of his skull. I don't hear him talk much about how those laws are unfair now. BUT, if he wanted to ride without a helmet he should have been able to. If someone is reckless enough to do 60mph down the freeway without head protection, the world might better off without them.
Now back to the IPO, this is the lamest of the "protecting people from themselves" cases that I have seen in years. In the other examples that I listed above the protection is only against something bad happening to the individual, what I mean is that nothing "good" or "great" can come from buying grain alcohol (except maybe a good game of "get the girls drunk"). This however not only protects inexperienced investors from the potential pitfalls of an IPO, but it barrs people from reaping the potential benefits of the IPO. The IPO gives many people who were influential and hard-working in the open source community the opportunity to gain something for all of their hard work. Other people are making money off of Linux, who not the people who helped make it what it is today?
LK
It's also French for "Shower", but I just couldn't resist.
LK
When I was younger I was bigger than most kids my age so I could pump a super soaker faster than any of them could so I'd fsck people up on water battles.
Back in June a friend of mine had a get together at her house for her son's 14th birthday. The kids were having all kinds of fun with their water guns when I decided to get in on the action. There were two super soaker xp-1000(or something like that) lying on the ground. I picked them up and refilled them and spent a minute or two pumping them up and I walked around like the terminator (Oakleys and not Gargoyles if you're interested) then this 10 year old kid squirted me with some wack ass little water gun, I smiled and unloaded on him with both guns at once. It was about 85 degrees (f) outside and that little dude was wet for the rest of the day. I haven't felt that sensation in years.
Kind of like when I play one of my 30 something or older friends at Q2.
It's good to be the king, and mondo water guns remind us of that.
LK
>I douched everybody when we went at it in the summer time.
WHAT?!?!?!?!
LK
When I was about 15 or so I was at a youth group retreat. The girls came ot our cabin at about 5 am and woke us up by screaming and throwing confetti. Well, a few nights later we got bakc at them.
'round about 4:30 in the am I had one of the younger guys wake me up. I got about 5 or so of the teenage guys up and we got our water guns ready. I guess I was the Sarge' so I got A water balloon too. We crept to the girls cabin and we concentrated on the back room where the age 13+ girls slept. I slowly opened the window while another group went to chekc the front door.
The frond door was locked so the others came around back too. Just as the window was almost completely open one of those morons come running aound the cabin and says, like we're in a crowded room, DID YOU GET IT OPEN YET? He didn't wake them up. We all got ready. I bit the ends off of my "grenade" and lobbed it in.(the next morning I found out that my I woke up somone by hitting her in the face with that grenade) We opened fire with abut 8 water guns through this open window. For about 30 seconds all I could hear was our laughter and the screams of startled half-asleep chicks on the other side of the window. After we were out of ammo, we told them why and warned them against ever waking us up like that again.
Since the majority of "adults" on this retreat were women and were awakened by our activities we got in trouble while the girls did not, but I refused to accept any punishment as long as the girls went unpunished. (that is another story though)
Also when I was younger than that I got this battery operated water gun that sprayed a continuous stream of water (not like the broken stream of enter-tech type water guns), my best friend and I tood turns hiding in the bushes in front of his house and spraying water into the open windows of any vehicle that drove up the road.
This huge monster truck looking thing came up te road and I was so excited that I started shooting early, the headlights of the truck illuminated the stream from my gun like a silver ribbon that lead straight back to me. The driver of the truck hit his breaks and started to creep back in reverse, I must have army crawled 40 feet in 2 seconds to get the hell out of there.
Anyway, that stuff was extremely fun and I'm just happy that I never got my butt kicked for any of the stuff that I did when I was a youngster. The thing that sucks most about growing up is that I can't do things like that anymore.
LK
Years ago I used to work at a movie theater and you wouldn't believe the shit that some people pulled to get over. For example, one guy claimed to be a member of the British Secret Service and he had an emergency that required all of his family members to leave the theater in the middle of a move and he felt that they deserved a cash refund. Free passes were not good enough, because due to his job they all had to leave the country that week.
This asshole called the district maneger AT HOME and pleaded his case until the theater agreed to refund his money. It worked.
But in any case, scream racism if you want to get something. Imagine someone in the middle of a crowded theater screaming "This is bullshit! If I were not (black, white, hindu, asian, native american, hispanic, whatever), you guys wouldn't be giving me this much hassle!" Stick with that mantra for a few minutes they'll relent. Accusations of racism are BAD for business. Remember Dennys problem?
LK
>But to them it's not "swearing", it's fun and comedy.
Come on, they know that it's swearing. I once heard a Richard Pryor album when I was a kid and I began to repeat what I heard. "N***** you must be crazy!, Bitch, this ain't french toast! Mother Fscker, I said that I wanted milk, not this chocolate Bull****." My parents thought that it was an absolute riot, for about a month, after that no more swearing for Kano.
Incompetent parents are not a good enough excuse for screwing the rest of us over.
LK
>I don't mean this as a flame, but .... does noone else out there see a certain contrdiction in this statement ?
You see the paradox then.
LK