Actually, I meant my original, original point. And, the post he replied to was speculating on how the police were different from gangsters. I only have first hand experience being around cops, not gangsters. However, the few gangsters I have talked to indicated that trust in their gang was only part of it. Fear of getting the shit kicked out of them, or killed, was also a part of why they would go help a member. They didn't use the word "fear", but it was obvious that not wanting to be on the receiving end was a motivating factor. If they wanted to keep their colors, they were expected to perform certain functions. That sounds like a continuous loyalty test to me.
Seriously? Because few people outside the profession really understand what it's like to be a cop, and what it does to an individual. Much like combat units, they come to believe the only one you can trust is the person wearing the same uniform as you. Nobody else can relate to their experiences. (That's why they don't write traffic tickets to other cop's family members. When the shit hits the fan, and you call for help on the radio, you don't want to chance that another officer is still pissed off at you about the ticket you gave his wife.) They really don't want to believe that a member of their group is bad, and they know outsiders don't understand their world.
Police arrested an Icelandic man of Nigerian extraction after the flight he was on made an emergency landing when the man, who's name is not known at this time, attempted to cause the eruption of a small volcano hidden in his underpants. Experts say it is unlikely a thermal feature of this size could have brought down the plane, as the amount of magma would have have been too small to cause much damage.
I was thinking "Gilligan's Island" as well, but with Han as the Skipper, Jar Jar as Gilligan, R2D2 as the Professor, Jaba the Hut as Thurston Howell III, and C3PO as the radio. Not sure how to cast the women.
1) Why would you use your Real Life name on an Internet social forum?
Because part of the idea of that social network is so those people you knew 30 years ago can find you.
Fuck 'em. The people from 30 years ago that I want to maintain contact with I have. I just had my email address blasted to almost 700 people by the idiots that organized a high school reunion, and the number of email messages from people I wanted to renew ties with was precisely zero. On the other hand, the number of spam email shot from none at all to several hundred a week, thanks to those on the list with malware that searched their inbox.
I had a friend in college who worked at Pizza Hut. One day he got distracted after making a pizza with jalapenos, and took a leak without washing his hands. Fortunately, there were few customers in the store at the time, as he was soon straddling the sink washing himself off. To this day, he washes his hands before going to to john, and if anyone asks why he replies, "Because I can remember everywhere my dick's been."
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Oh damn, that's where I went wrong. I thought I was supposed to find a dog and adopt a girlfriend. The latter encounter didn't end well.
Woody Allen, is that you?
And, if you catch their balls in the snare, they make that funny "Flipper" noise...
...and you know it, clap your hands!
Actually, I meant my original, original point. And, the post he replied to was speculating on how the police were different from gangsters. I only have first hand experience being around cops, not gangsters. However, the few gangsters I have talked to indicated that trust in their gang was only part of it. Fear of getting the shit kicked out of them, or killed, was also a part of why they would go help a member. They didn't use the word "fear", but it was obvious that not wanting to be on the receiving end was a motivating factor. If they wanted to keep their colors, they were expected to perform certain functions. That sounds like a continuous loyalty test to me.
Yeah, I didn't make that very clear.
Thanks for proving my original point.
Probably that the default position of the police is to trust, and that of the gangster is to distrust.
Seriously? Because few people outside the profession really understand what it's like to be a cop, and what it does to an individual. Much like combat units, they come to believe the only one you can trust is the person wearing the same uniform as you. Nobody else can relate to their experiences. (That's why they don't write traffic tickets to other cop's family members. When the shit hits the fan, and you call for help on the radio, you don't want to chance that another officer is still pissed off at you about the ticket you gave his wife.) They really don't want to believe that a member of their group is bad, and they know outsiders don't understand their world.
Is this like, one of those Hypothesises that's bound to be true by the laws of physics, but you gotta test it anyways?
Mythbusters influence strikes again.
But what will I do with all the hundreds I have stashed in the mattress?
Well, it got me through college...
No excuse, Sir.
I had great hopes that the psychopathic shitheads running the schools in the '70s were all sterile, but TFA and comments prove otherwise.
All I could think of when I read this was "Twin Sons From Different Mothers"
Well, they're most probably smaller than panda bears.
I didn't know he was going to talk about bears. Maybe we should leave.
Police arrested an Icelandic man of Nigerian extraction after the flight he was on made an emergency landing when the man, who's name is not known at this time, attempted to cause the eruption of a small volcano hidden in his underpants. Experts say it is unlikely a thermal feature of this size could have brought down the plane, as the amount of magma would have have been too small to cause much damage.
Turning now to Hollywood entertainment....
And before anyone says "but wait, they built the roads!"
And the aqueduct...
Yeah, but come on. Who wouldn't like to have "Administered puncture wounds to mice" on their resume?
Haven't you ever noticed before that men tend to wear facial hair designed to resemble a woman's pubic patch...
If her pubic patch looks like my facial hair, she needs to shave her inner thighs.
I was thinking "Gilligan's Island" as well, but with Han as the Skipper, Jar Jar as Gilligan, R2D2 as the Professor, Jaba the Hut as Thurston Howell III, and C3PO as the radio. Not sure how to cast the women.
If you put me in eyelid clamps like in "A Clockwork Orange."
Intel got there first, years ago.
Because part of the idea of that social network is so those people you knew 30 years ago can find you.
Fuck 'em. The people from 30 years ago that I want to maintain contact with I have. I just had my email address blasted to almost 700 people by the idiots that organized a high school reunion, and the number of email messages from people I wanted to renew ties with was precisely zero. On the other hand, the number of spam email shot from none at all to several hundred a week, thanks to those on the list with malware that searched their inbox.
I see no need for Facebook.
I had a friend in college who worked at Pizza Hut. One day he got distracted after making a pizza with jalapenos, and took a leak without washing his hands. Fortunately, there were few customers in the store at the time, as he was soon straddling the sink washing himself off. To this day, he washes his hands before going to to john, and if anyone asks why he replies, "Because I can remember everywhere my dick's been."
Now, write that 100 times, or I'll cut your balls off.