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Where's the Tribe?

I didn't really play much with LEGOs but I did assemble and paint--very poorly, I might add--model cars and airplanes as a kid.

I like drinking by myself sometimes. I usually just listen to music and smoke cigarettes.

He wouldn't get like that from K2. And especially not from one hit either, or five for that matter. Smoking K2 or any of that synthetic crap is nothing like smoking cannabis and certainly does not produce hallucinogenic side effects.

90's nostalgia <3:

Do you guys get the humidity that causes the heat index though? We were sitting at 70-80% humidity in WI for about four days straight with 95F temps. It was truly the air you could wear.

What a horrible oversimplification and base generalization.

I mean obviously if they had a month fling type deal I wouldn't have a problem with it, but if it was at all serious, I just couldn't do it. I can't really explain why but that relationship just doesn't sit right with me.

I understand statistics can be flawed, but misuse of welfare funds does not seem to be as ambiguous as divisions of ethnicity are.

The first 3-4 seasons of House were really good and interesting, past that it has sucked. I still watch it anyways though so I have something to watch while training boring skills on RS.

Oooh a Scrubs hate-fest. I love it! I've been saving this one for awhile. Summary of every scrubs episode: Juvenile joke about doctors, cheesy note from a bass guitar, JD makes this face. Repeat.

In my experience, people who have never experienced anything close to poverty, being poor, or whatever you want to call it, typically have the least amount of sympathy for and almost no understanding of it. I'm seeing a lot of that here. This couldn't be put any better.

Personally, I would never date a girl one of my best friends dated. It just seems wrong.

And now we have nearly a page of pizza discussion. :lol:

Hot pizza>room temp pizza>cold pizza

I would be interested in a fantasy American football league come fall :thumbup:

Pizza sauce that has the temperature of lava is never worth it. Never.

To be honest, I wasn't all that impressed with the premiere. It was good, but I wasn't on the edge of my seat or anything. I thought it could have been much more suspenseful if Walter wasn't yammering away the entire scene.

I started reading On the Road today. It's alright so far, but I don't like his extreme disliking of Hemingway.

While that is true, we aren't talking about the rest of the world's poverty issues and I think every one of us here is aware that there are billions of people in this world that experience a type of poverty that we will never be able to relate to. We have to keep in mind the context of America. What is the cost of living? What are our cultural values? What are our societal values? What is the value of our currency? While comparing incomes and living conditions across the globe can provide some staggering results, I don't exactly think that it's fair to demonize the American poor. It is immensely difficult to go against the cultural goal of this country, and that is lavish prosperity. Like magekillr said, television sets can be purchased at ridiculously low prices; the same goes for personal computers as well. Now I don't think that a family that is going hungry but has cable television is doing the right thing, but say their cable/internet bill is around $70/mo. Those of us who are buying groceries on a regular basis know that $70/mo is not very much for, say, groceries--especially for an entire family. Like I said, not smart, but not let's not demonize these people. I'm not demonizing. But I find it hard to have pity on people who use the government for necessities while spending on luxuries. Basic appliances are not luxuries - but multiple televisions, cable, internet, gaming consoles - those are luxuries. Hell, I'm not even poor (though not exactly rich) and we don't have cable, or gaming consoles, or multiple televisions just because there is a better, more practical use for the money than that. No, no, no I wasn't saying you were demonizing. I'm just saying in general because I have a feeling that's what this thread will turn into.

While that is true, we aren't talking about the rest of the world's poverty issues and I think every one of us here is aware that there are billions of people in this world that experience a type of poverty that we will never be able to relate to. We have to keep in mind the context of America. What is the cost of living? What are our cultural values? What are our societal values? What is the value of our currency? While comparing incomes and living conditions across the globe can provide some staggering results, I don't exactly think that it's fair to demonize the American poor. It is immensely difficult to go against the cultural goal of this country, and that is lavish prosperity. Like magekillr said, television sets can be purchased at ridiculously low prices; the same goes for personal computers as well. Now I don't think that a family that is going hungry but has cable television is doing the right thing, but say their cable/internet bill is around $70/mo. Those of us who are buying groceries on a regular basis know that $70/mo is not very much for, say, groceries--especially for an entire family. Like I said, not smart, but not let's not demonize these people.

Someone call Alex Jones!

Isn't it illegal to have any open containers in the vehicle, regardless of age? My friend has relatives that live in Norway and he said (don't quote me on this) when they visited last he found out that if you get an OWI there, you lose your license forever, but everyone else in the car can be drunk and have open containers.

Girls that dye their hair blonde or light colored and have dark eyebrows or vise versa. It makes them look really stupid.

And why Jeff shouldn't have gone green. Uppity bugger and his post editing abilities. For the record I don't want to taste anyone on TIF. Post editing abilities? Dunno what you're talking. :mellow: Oh the last laugh shall be sweetest ;-)