mrpez

Are we talking about the same game here? Because I could have sworn I saw the US win against Argentina earlier today... same game, different broadcasting times.

are you talking about the same relay usa dropped the baton? i didnt watch it, but i read about it on yahoo!

wow. half-time and usa's lead dropped to 9. 49-40. getting sloppy.

If they're going outta business then that is certainly not for charity, my friend. :o actually i just saw the commercial a few minutes ago while watching the olympics. if you take in used jeans they give you $5 off a new pair and they donate yours to the Salvation Army. its actually a very good idea if they are going out of business. they get to sell many of their jeans that might have just sat on the shelves for months, and they also get a tax write-off for donating the used jeans to charity. the $5 markup they lose on new jeans is worth it.

watching the men's basketball game usa vs. argentina. end of the 1st quarter and the usa leads 30-9. its too bad manu ginobili got hurt and might not play for the rest of the game. he would have made it interesting.

myrvens(sp?) is having huge sales now that they are going partially out of business. they already have 40% off all their items and if you get a myrvens card you get an additional 30% off. i think they are having a some kind of program where if you donate your used jeans they give you store credit or something. its for charity. you can find levi's there for cheap.

when im next to someone im attracted to, i feel the material their clothes are made of. *cough*seinfeld*cough*

my biggest rush? cocaine.

im a little ocd. i usually have to do things in sets of 4, or else it just doesnt seem right. if something is crooked and i dont fix it immediately it will bother me until i fix it. there are a myriad of other little quirks, but i bet i dont even notice half of them.

red alert 2. its a great game and wont get old. ive heard a new one is coming out soon.

im glad baseball and softball are being removed. baseball has to be the most boring sport on earth to watch, rivaled only by golf. baseball/softball is only an outlet pushed in by america to allow them to win ~20 golds in just one sport. some accounts on the story maintain that removing baseball was a way for the european members of the IOC to stick it to america. one report on yahoo! went as far as saying baseball was removed as payback for bush and iraq, which isnt very far-fetched. ive been busy and havent updated the total medals link, but ill do that now. here is a story about baseball/softball being removed from the olympics after 2008: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics ... pped_x.htm

has anyone worn sevens, true religion, rockin republic, etc.? im thinking it might just be orange county's high poser population that worships these $400 jeans. these are basically levi's that have been acid-washed and torn up. im thinking of starting my own jean company. i will hire about, 500 people to begin with. then i will buy them all levi's and remove the tags. for about a month my employees will wear their jeans nonstop and never wash them. once they are dirty, faded, and torn i will slap a brandname on it and pawn it off to kids in orange county for $300 a pair.

i pull the race card. every time.

^ i have to agree with this one

so this is how the world ends

dont call the cops on family unless its very important. from experience i can tell you that it [bleep]s your family up bad. a backhand would have done the trick

the only use i can see for the sword is to attack the ball carrier easily given the long lunging range. what id give for a sniper during griffball...

yeah, Shawn Johnson deserved the gold. someone asked me to put a link to the medal count on the first post, which is a good idea. I'll add it now and update it daily. also, here is an interesting article about the biased judging in favor of chinese athletes. it explains the huge gap in gold medals between america and china, and shows the medal count of sports with no judges. this is the medal count link (which will now be found in the first post): http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/medals this is the article link (read this! it is pretty interesting): http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijin ... oly,101537

Input/opinion from people who live in Britain would be appreciated. link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/[garden tool] ... 98972.html [hide=The story]Fattest children to be taken away from their parents By Nigel Morris, Home Affairs Correspondent Saturday, 16 August 2008 Dangerously overweight children will have to be taken from their parents and put into care because of Britain's worsening "obesity epidemic", council leaders have warned. One million children will be clinically obese within four years on current trends, storing up future problems from heart disease, strokes, high blood pressure and diabetes. The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents 400 councils in England and Wales, predicted social services teams would have to take drastic action to improve the health of seriously overweight children. Social workers have only become involved very rarely in such cases, considering the issue is best tackled by parents. But the LGA warned that social services might have to treat very fat children as victims of "parental neglect" just as malnourished children are. It predicted that social services would have to intervene "more and more" with obese children. It added that councils would have to take action against parents who put their children's health at risk, with the ultimate sanction of taking the fattest boys and girls into care. The LGA said Britain was fast becoming the "obesity capital of the world" and the increasing weight of the average citizen was pushing up council tax bills. The costs come from the need for bigger furniture in classrooms, canteens and gymnasiums to cope with larger pupils. Crematoria furnaces are being widened at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds for heavier corpses. Ambulances are being re-equipped with extra-wide and strengthened stretchers and winches. Fire services are called in to winch obese people out of dangerous buildings. Local authority homes are being adapted for the overweight. Social services costs are rising due to caring for house-bound people suffering from conditions caused by obesity such as arthritis, heart disease and diabetes. David Rogers, the LGA spokesman on public health, said: "Councils are increasingly having to consider taking action where parents are putting children's health in real danger. Councils would step in to deal with an undernourished or neglected child, so should a case with a morbidly obese child be different? If parents place children at risk through bad diet and lack of exercise is it right for a council to keep the child's health under review? "It is vital that councils, primary care trusts and the NHS work with parents to ensure children don't end up dangerously overweight in the first place. There needs to be a national debate about the extent to which it is acceptable for local authorities to take action in cases where the children's welfare is in jeopardy." The Government faced criticism this month after it announced plans to warn parents if their child had a weight problem, but banned the use of the word "obese". The Department of Health is instructing primary care trusts to inform all parents automatically about their child's height and weight as part of a national measuring programme. But ministers do not want the word "obese" to be used in the letters after research showed people find it "highly offensive". A public health expert, David Hunter, of Durham University, this week warned that rising obesity levels posed as a grave a threat to Britain as terrorism and urged "bold action" by ministers. A weighty issue 21 per cent Proportion of boys aged six to 10 who will be obese in 2025. In 2004 the figure was just 10 per cent 14 per cent Proportion of girls in the same age group who will be obese in 2025. In 2004 this figure was also just 10 per cent.[/hide]

you also have a sword during griffball, but its useless.

i had a few hundred apple/pear trees covering my town which i picked for money. apples and pears were the rare fruit in my town. i eventually got enough money to fully upgrade my house and had 15-20 bags of 90k (was this the max? i dont remember what it was, but the bags were the biggest they could get) lying around my house.

basically. i dropped science because i finished ap physics B with an A both semesters, and taking ap physics C would be pointless as it covers much of the same subjects with less tests and more labs. my classes are math, english, history, spanish, and weightlifting. it will be the same next semester except swimming instead of weightlifting. many kids at my school have this kind of schedule. i do have a part-time job working 20 hours a week, but even if i didnt i would have the same schedule.

sit around wondering who will ask me to submit my luggage to another random screening

lionheart i believe the term you are looking for is 'american democracy'.

i live in orange county in southern california (you know...the OC. hate that show.) i am a senior in high school but this is how my schedule was last year as well, except an afternoon class from about 1:00-2:40 twice a week replaced the zero period. what do you mean by a co-op?