Ginger_Warrior

And? So long as that's not their whole life, what's wrong with liking WoW instead of sport? I'm sure there's plenty of things to talk about apart from sport or WoW. At least unlike some RPG players, he actually has a job. That involves, like, leaving the house and talking to people.

Damn right! I go to GAME, and whilst staring at Imagine: Babies, Pokémon Diamond, and Brain Training from Dr. Kawashima, I wonder: "Where would the NDS be without all these violent FPS?" :-k

I learned when I was 13, so don't feel bad. (Shoe-lace tying) Just search on the Internet on how to do it. It comes with diagrams and you'll learn in 5 minutes. ;) I was taught with a cardboard cut out of a show with some holes in it, then I had to thread the laces through the holes. Course now I have trainers with Velcro, so what was the bloody point? -.- As for riding a bike... just get someone to push you then let go. If you stop peddling, you'll fall and break your knee. You'll learn to soon enough. ;)

I don't agree with that at all to be honest. I don't believe this country's on the road to being an Islamic state or any of that crap, but if anything, the media is almost always against multiculturalism, not for it. The media knows full well that playing on conservative nationalist feeling will sell more papers than lecturing everyone on how Christmas is 'offensive' to non-Christians. The problems lies in the movement for equality. For some strange, silly reason, some people in that movement seem to think that removing Christmas will reduce the level of offence to Muslims, so promoting equality and restoring social harmony. This is despite the fact most Muslims couldn't care less - they respect this is officially a Christian country and Anglican holidays are national holidays by default. They're just idiots who think they need to protect people who don't need protecting.

Why don't you respond to these posts yourself? :idea: Because the last thing that thread needs is another flame war, like the one that starts here. That wasn't seriously anything to do with political or religious discussion. It was a provocative use of the term "gay" that caused that. Whether or not you accept it as humorous is another matter.

They did have a middle-class and an intelligentsia before the IR, you know. It wasn't all knights and bishops. Why do you think Henry VIII pillaged several Catholic churches across the land? I'll give a hint: it had nothing to do with his marital status. That's the romanticised monarchist version of history they teach you at high school. Are you seriously saying a starving child on the verge of death on the streets of London now is better off than a Protestant civil servant in the Renaissance period?

Ain't teenage life hard? All that agro. I managed to get through that stuff pretty well though. Whenever there was a dispute, I always had the ability to appear friendly to everyone by siding with the underdog while not directly attacking the majority. Anyways, I'm rambling. Just find some new friends. I don't mean ditch them completely, but find some new faces to talk to. Maybe you'll actually find a new group of people more pleasurable. Maintain conversation but at the same time, speak your mind on why her ostracising you from the group affects you so much, and don't attack her personally. It'll just make you look like the bad guy, and cause them to rally around her. Don't tell them this bit, but I think they sound like totally lovestruck lemmings, worhsipping the ground she walks on to their emotional slaughter. When their hormones realise she's not all she's cracked up to be, all will be normal again. deloriagod, I'd leave it for a while. The reason she's not responding is because she's confused and she needs time to figure things out. These little annoyances have a habit of just bubbling under the surface of people until the situation becomes too volatile to handle, when they release all that tension, and not normally in a good way. She needs time to deal with her emotions before sweeping them to one side and pretending like everything's OK. In all honesty, I think you should start seeing her less. Once every other day or something, and only text casually when she actually wants to. It'll give her time to think things through. Sure, maybe she'll decide it's dead in her and you should leave each other at least for a while, but if she does, it's better than her pretending that's not how she feels. That would only cause much more confusion later. Then again, she might realise there's a void in her life without the relationship, and change her mind. Who knows? Either way, she'll realise her feelings, and she'll make the right decision.

I know I said tell her but that does take the [bleep]. Still, it works. How did she take it? Badly, I'm assuming...

Eugh... there's a list here. Someone else can Google Image all that names for a match.

As far as I know police here in the US aren't allowed to strike. Probably not many government workers are, my dad is a USPS worker and he and all the other mailmen had a part in their contract about not striking. That would be why it's not justified. I mean, they obviously made preparations so the country wasn't in anarchy while they were on strike, and it was only limited to a march round Westminster, but they are vital to the country's security. That and they were the ones putting down all the strikes in the 1980s, so sympathy for the police wasn't exactly pouring out from the trade unions anyway. Plus their wage has gone up considerably in the past decade under Labour, and they were striking over one below inflation pay rise... So yeah, it's not the case at all that the trade union threatens action and the government caves in. People are too intelligent for that now. As for the post office, we kind of have a rule like that. You're not allowed to delay the Queen's mail, otherwise technically it's treason, not that anyone would honestly charge someone with that :P . Maybe we should pull that one out on all the donkey car drivers who pull out in front of post office vans... :-k

It slows the site, which can ultimately turn away newcomers, making Facebook lose possible visitors. By your means as well, I could say that Jagex infringes the first amendment because they don't allow curse words. It's the same concept. We don't want to hear your foul mouth, as well as your Viagra ads. Would you honestly stay on Facebook if four out of five messages and comments were from people you didn't know advertising? Likewise, I don't want to get up in the morning, have the mail come at 9, and have two out of three letters trying to sell me credit (like I would at the moment anyway!), especially since most of them get my details from the electoral register, but hey, that's life. I really can't see any difference here. The whole point of Facebook is not so people can post mindless chitty-chatter about their insignificant day, it's to open up pathways to new contacts that would not otherwise be so obvious in 'real life', and these include business partners. I don't see why people can't set up a business 'shop' on Facebook, spam the hell out of whoever they want, but users can opt-out of receiving these emails or refuse to have any contact with anyone trying to make business. Christ knows MySpace made a name out of doing it with music. This punishment is completely unfair, pointless (since as both me and BlueLancer are arguing, he's no way of paying it anyway) and aimed at sensationalism in the media. It won't stop the spammers. They'll just think of better ways of doing it, as always happens.

If RS had a cosplay convention... local sales of Christmas crackers would go through the roof. :-k *Spots enterprising opportunity*

1) How is that creepy? Give an answer without subjective reasoning. 2) How is that spam? It was a confession, and that's exactly what the thread demanded. Welcome to Real Life. Do you suggest we go out on a Saturday night as citizens and help the police by reporting everyone who looks under 18? When I go to university next year, and someone admits to drinking underage when they were 16, should I go down to the Head of Department and report them? There's nothing on that thread at the moment that's that bad. Most people let those things slide... No one's forcing you to read those topics. If you don't feel the conversations get you going, make some threads of your own that attract people who have the same feelings as you. That's the beautiful thing about a forum.

Nah, what it means is that you can interact with the stage and that causes the Electroplankton to make music when the hit the leaves on the flowers. You can't just upload music onto the stage like that. It's be cool if they did put that feature in though.

There's no point in dragging on a relationship that neither of you are enjoying. I would move on to someone else. If you can't get anything out of her now, why would you be able to get much out of her later? [/hide] On one hand, I'm thinking the same as you. Yet on another hand I know relationships hit points where both people have to work to keep things going. The way I see his problem, he's left the "honeymoon phase", as it's put. Really he could go either way, it's up to him. If he leaves her he risks possibly losing her for good this time and running into the same problem again. If he doesn't leave her, he risks possibly ending up with the relationship going completely to hell over time. My grandpa once told me to find someone that I loved but I also just enjoyed being around/could put up with because those amazing little feelings you get in the beginning do fade away over time. This. Simply put, that starry-eyed feeling you get when you start a new relationship has faded, and to be perfectly honest, after three years I'd have hoped so at our age. That doesn't mean the relationship's doomed though. It's just common for teenagers to get insecure when that buzz goes. They seem to mistake happiness for passion. Try to see each other less. If the relationship survives that, then there's something worth chasing for. Try making the time you spend with her a little more personal and intimate, or do something which gets both you hyper (like a music gig or something, if that's your sort of thing). Basically, after you get past that first stage, quality seems to be more than quantity. She said your company does make her happy, just not in the same surprising way you did three years ago. That's perfectly natural, and there's little reason to panic.

Why not? I agree, generalising this by looking for some comparison to 9/11 seems daft, especially since Islamist extremism has been going on in India looong before America started caring about terrorism. The aim of each was still the same though. Both attacks seem to have been conducted by Islamist extremist groups, although it's not clear this latest attack had anything to do with al-Qaeda. Both attacks were on not necessarily Americans, but international businessmen. Both of the attacks would not have required a deep level of training to conduct - it sounds shallow, but there's rumours of there being dozens of gunmen who opened rapid fire in a packed railway station and they only took 130 lives despite laying siege to four or five other targets?

That's like asking whether the dinosaurs dying out was a good or bad thing. The IR wasn't really a man-made product, so it's a bit pointless discussing whether it was beneficial unless you're analysing it group by group. If you were Irish, it certainly wasn't all that beneficial, for starters, having what limited crops you produced taken away to feed people in England's industrial cities, despite suffering from a potato blight. If you ever wanna know why America has such a large Irish population, there's half your answer. If you were a noble in France, it wasn't all that spiffin' either...

The only thing about RickRolling I find funny is that now he's famous, he declares that he's from Warrington, not St. Helens. :lol: Not that any of you would understand that, but still...

Same goes for minimum wage right? But this is for unskilled labour only. You have an option to escape this roof by moving into something considered a "skilled" labour. Get a certificate / diploma / degree / etc. I'd rather not pile everyone into colleges and universities. I know this may be elitist, but universities are not meant for half the population to go to so they can be called "skilled labourers". We should provide the minimum wage and support trade unions to prevent exploitation of unskilled labour, which no matter how developed a country is, is still needed. As far as trade unions go, it's not like they just ask and get what they want. Almost always, what they get follows years and years of difficult campaigning, and any strike action usually has to be justified, especially in the public sector. This was shown during the police trade union strikes here last year. I don't think any of the other trade unions supported it - it was wholly unjustified. I don't really care what wage CEO's get paid. snipersas is right, it's not right by capitalism that you decide what a CEO gets paid. Instead, they should pay more in tax, so we can pay for an expansion in the public sector to pick the workers those CEOs will inevitably let down in the long run up off the ground.

lol? How many people attend the midnight Eucharist, or follow advent without the need for 24 bits of chocolate to help them count? You don't have to be a practising Christian to know that Christmas is a Christian religious festival. Neither do you need to be religious. Come on, get real. The majority of people celebrating Christmas in the UK (perhaps not in America, given it's significantly more Christian) couldn't give a flying [bleep] about Jesus. I respect those who keep to its original meaning, but Christmas for the majority these days is nothing more than a national holiday, with a chance for retailers to rake in the profits.

Well, the law's different in America then because debt is just as much inherited as wealth is. Sure, creditors will deduct material worth from the debt first but the government doesn't just let debts slide, especially not ones that large. If you were a leader of the world's most powerful country, would you turn away that sorta money without some serious threat of political backlash? Imagine the public services that would pay for... You can't just make money disappear. Someone has to pay for it at the end of the day. The point is, why on Earth would a judge make this huge fine in the first place? You have to wonder whether this is an attempt to grab headlines.

She never knew she had a dad, much less that he had re-married. Don't ask. So in a way, she's actually dealing with two shocks at the same time then? Damn, that's heavy. It just underlines the need for her to receive professional help. I'm not saying friends are useless in helping her or anything like that, but she needs someone trained. I live with my uncle, and they don't actually know anything yet... Tell him, or at least an adult close to you. Make sure you're OK first and you have someone to also talk to when it gets stressful. The #1 rule of First Aid is to make sure you're safe from any danger first. It's no different when dealing with someone who's thinking of suicide.

lol what are Crewbies?

lol? How many people attend the midnight Eucharist, or follow advent without the need for 24 bits of chocolate to help them count?

Let's not rant and rave like the little school children we try not to be here. I'm not sure if it works for non-electronic means of communication, but the Information Commissioner usually deals with spam. Whatever the regulator is for junk mail, contact them if you feel they're harassing you. You might find more information at Direct.gov.uk. EDIT: I found this. Sign up for the Mailing Preference Service, and if that doesn't stop the letters, contact the industry ombudsman.