This. A million times this. Unfortunately, you can't ever *really* know a person. Some girls are victims of douches that should have been more obvious than a showdown between Summer's Eve and Massengill. Mrs. John Wayne Gacey had a rather different surprise in store.
I absolutely see your point, but it almost sounds like you'd be OK with letting the other 92% off with no consequences, just in case. (Not saying you said that at all, just that it could be inferred.) I have very mixed feelings about laws and false convictions, because it's *very* hard to know where to draw the line. Obviously, I'm against false convictions, but the debate arises at some point because we can't accept that every offense can't be absolutely factually verified, so we can't be sure what does and doesn't merit ruining the accused's life... but we also can't just decide that any offense that could be falsified gets a free pass. There's no one all-purpose, ironclad answer.
Unless the photos in question have been uploaded to a site specifically and explicitly existing for the purpose of revenge-shaming your ex. There are plenty of cases that would be very hard to nail down, but there are also a fair amount where it would be pretty hard to wiggle out of admitting that you were doing exactly what the URL says.
my understanding is in the US you pay for incoming on cellphone plans. In europe you don't generally pay for incoming but calls from landlines to mobiles and from some mobile plans to mobiles on other networks are considerablly more expensive than calls to landlines.
Yes, incoming as well as outgoing calls count against our minutes here. They do the same with SMS. While most carriers have a plan under which it's cheap or free to call that network (and therefore more expensive to call another network), because of the way the phone numbers are set up, there's usually no difference in cost between calling a landline or mobile.
Here in the uk calling a payphone costs no more than any other landline and you don't have to pay for incoming on them. Is the situation the same in the USA? I can't speak for the entire US, but in my region (at the time, New Jersey) they started phasing out pay phones that accepted incoming calls in the 1990s. There were two reasons behind this. The first reason is misguided half-valid paranoia. After doctors, the next people to carry beepers/pagers were drug dealers. Bob pages Bill with a pay phone number, Bill calls Bob back, then bad drug things happen! The second (and probably real) reason, of course, is money. When I was a teenager it was fairly common to place a collect call from a pay phone, then have the person decline and call back. (Getting the number from the "You have a collect call from _________" recording or Caller ID.) As long as it was a local call it didn't cost anything, which obviously the phone companies found unamusing.
So now Bob and Bill are still dealing drugs, but on mobile phones, and the phone companies get paid twice each time they call each other. Progress indeed!
I agree with both- to an extent. Pocketful clothing becoming hip is dumb. Decorative pockets hurt my brain. Seeing a girl who's never used a tool in her life (except maybe a nail file) with a hammer loop on her pants just makes me laugh. Oddly enough, carpenter pants on a carpenter doesn't seem so silly. If you want the pants with the pockets so you can put stuff in them, that's a beautiful thing! When pockets stopped being "cute" on girls I gladly bought men's jeans for work for the extra pocket space. (Also men's clothing sizes make sense.) I've kept my phone in that side pocket since I got a phone. When I went to buy more work pants, I found out they even started calling it a cell phone pocket. Utility > Fashion, mostly.
I think I remember a teacher saying it can all be broken down to addition; because subtraction is just reverse addition, multiplication is just shorthand addition, and division is shorthand subtraction. There may have been more to the explanation but that was 10 years ago.
I just realized how odd it is that I never made that connection since I've been watching that movie for as long as I can remember! But yeah, the comic was more or less that picture with the above-mentioned caption. Though I feel like comic was black & white, and the plane was facing the other way. It's probably been 15 or 20 years since I saw it, so I'm not going to try too hard to remember.
I actually remember seeing a comic when I was little, of an airplane bent into a pretzel knot in midair. I don't remember the caption exactly but it involved a stewardess(back then), or maybe the pilot, somehow upsetting Uri Geller.
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I wasn't trying to troll, I was genuinely amused by "cosmonaut" for "confidante." Once upon a time, people would have laughed with me :/
Your heart is true, you're a pal and a cosmonaut.
That's the most beautiful interpretation of that song I've ever seen.
This. A million times this. Unfortunately, you can't ever *really* know a person. Some girls are victims of douches that should have been more obvious than a showdown between Summer's Eve and Massengill. Mrs. John Wayne Gacey had a rather different surprise in store.
I absolutely see your point, but it almost sounds like you'd be OK with letting the other 92% off with no consequences, just in case. (Not saying you said that at all, just that it could be inferred.) I have very mixed feelings about laws and false convictions, because it's *very* hard to know where to draw the line. Obviously, I'm against false convictions, but the debate arises at some point because we can't accept that every offense can't be absolutely factually verified, so we can't be sure what does and doesn't merit ruining the accused's life... but we also can't just decide that any offense that could be falsified gets a free pass. There's no one all-purpose, ironclad answer.
Unless the photos in question have been uploaded to a site specifically and explicitly existing for the purpose of revenge-shaming your ex. There are plenty of cases that would be very hard to nail down, but there are also a fair amount where it would be pretty hard to wiggle out of admitting that you were doing exactly what the URL says.
Either you have extraordinarily boring pillow talk, or an extraordinarily... close... relationship with your mother.
hmmm,well,what does seal taste like?
Ask Heidi Klum.
So... Iraq is an iceberg? You'd think it would be little cooler....
Yes, incoming as well as outgoing calls count against our minutes here. They do the same with SMS. While most carriers have a plan under which it's cheap or free to call that network (and therefore more expensive to call another network), because of the way the phone numbers are set up, there's usually no difference in cost between calling a landline or mobile. Here in the uk calling a payphone costs no more than any other landline and you don't have to pay for incoming on them. Is the situation the same in the USA?
I can't speak for the entire US, but in my region (at the time, New Jersey) they started phasing out pay phones that accepted incoming calls in the 1990s. There were two reasons behind this. The first reason is misguided half-valid paranoia. After doctors, the next people to carry beepers/pagers were drug dealers. Bob pages Bill with a pay phone number, Bill calls Bob back, then bad drug things happen! The second (and probably real) reason, of course, is money. When I was a teenager it was fairly common to place a collect call from a pay phone, then have the person decline and call back. (Getting the number from the "You have a collect call from _________" recording or Caller ID.) As long as it was a local call it didn't cost anything, which obviously the phone companies found unamusing.
So now Bob and Bill are still dealing drugs, but on mobile phones, and the phone companies get paid twice each time they call each other. Progress indeed!
Ooh, he's cute! Kind of looks like the love child of Leonard Nimoy and Tom Cruise. Interesting.
I'm sure my mom would be proud if I told her that I'm lost on the math, but I read that in one pass with no problem. *sigh*
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Bad day to have no mod points. Bravo!
Actually I think it's King 'Sut. Wasn't she the one who had herself crowned Pharoah?
That's why I keep all my gear in my fanny pack!
I agree with both- to an extent. Pocketful clothing becoming hip is dumb. Decorative pockets hurt my brain. Seeing a girl who's never used a tool in her life (except maybe a nail file) with a hammer loop on her pants just makes me laugh. Oddly enough, carpenter pants on a carpenter doesn't seem so silly. If you want the pants with the pockets so you can put stuff in them, that's a beautiful thing! When pockets stopped being "cute" on girls I gladly bought men's jeans for work for the extra pocket space. (Also men's clothing sizes make sense.) I've kept my phone in that side pocket since I got a phone. When I went to buy more work pants, I found out they even started calling it a cell phone pocket. Utility > Fashion, mostly.
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I'll bet you're one of those mouth breathers who thinks it's "for all intensive purposes"...
I should of thought of that.
(Before you reply, I was being ironic!)
Perhaps Hoi Polloi was referring to the act of people being killed, not the people themselves, as creepy.
I think I remember a teacher saying it can all be broken down to addition; because subtraction is just reverse addition, multiplication is just shorthand addition, and division is shorthand subtraction. There may have been more to the explanation but that was 10 years ago.
When I clicked on the link to this, I just naturally assumed "shocking" was going to be another terrible electricity pun.
I just realized how odd it is that I never made that connection since I've been watching that movie for as long as I can remember! But yeah, the comic was more or less that picture with the above-mentioned caption. Though I feel like comic was black & white, and the plane was facing the other way. It's probably been 15 or 20 years since I saw it, so I'm not going to try too hard to remember.
I actually remember seeing a comic when I was little, of an airplane bent into a pretzel knot in midair. I don't remember the caption exactly but it involved a stewardess(back then), or maybe the pilot, somehow upsetting Uri Geller.