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Something small like coffee or ice cream and something active like just running around a park are my favorite first dates. Now, lately I haven't gotten PAST a first date, but hey, cross that bridge when I come to it... Something like that is nice for me though, because I swore to myself that I wouldn't be an AFC and try to buy women's love, but a two dollar cup of coffee is fine, really. I have to change my rules since I'm in high school. In Lubbock. Both crappy situations. Whenever I hang out with my brother and his friends, I dress pretty nice. Me and my brother went out to the mall and some other places this weekend, and we both dressed pretty good. Got a lot better reactions than the guys in jeans and a t-shirt, because people expect it there. Here, if you wear more than jeans and a t-shirt you're actually outcasted. Really [developmentally delayed]ed. But what are your dating strategies?

High school students just follow what their friends do, or what they think is cool. I'm just as guilty of it as the next guy, but I'm trying my damnedest to be one of those three kids that everybody secretly aspires to be. Because you know who they end up being? So hard. But, yeah. It wears off quick in college. Me and my brother were having a deep conversation about it. It started with all those kids who drank and smoked weed all the time, and how they were considered "cool" in high school, but in college, if you smoke weed occasionally, you're just a normal guy, and if you drink, hell, everyone does. Not really sure about the "real world". But, hey, I won't be affected by it for a while, so I'll stick to my high-school high-horse.

Yeah, because two timing is always a good idea -.- Grow up. Haha, maybe you should? Dating more than one person isn't some sort of TURRIBLE TURRIBLE SIN that requires holy water and an exorcism. As long as he isn't all dodgy about it or anything, and if there's sex involved it's safe, it's a totally accepted thing (off of internet forums, I guess). I wouldn't recommend it for a student, though, because nobody involved will be mature enough to sustain it. But, seriously, it isn't two-timing. It's not like the second you ask a girl to get some coffee, you should rush and change your facebook status to "I LOVE HER SO MUCH". Just choose one, Boris. Who gives a [cabbage]. I personally flip a dime. Much more difficult to catch if you throw it high, and if you drop it you have to throw it again. Can lead to hours of enjoyment if you have bad hand-eye coordination. Or, you'll shoot your eye out.

Because asking a girl out doesn't mean you have to marry her. And by the way, I've found more good-looking people to lead more interesting lives. Look at Bear Grylls, James Dean, Natalie Portman ... Would you say they have bad personalities? I would say I don't know, because I DON'T KNOW THEM PERSONALLY HAHA GOT YOU. But seriously, good-looking people are more easily accepted and thus can be swept up into more exciting things more easily. And if you bring up a high school example, that's because there will be three people in any given high school with an actual personality. And it isn't the person that everyone hates and hates everyone because they aren't accepted. It's the person most people will agree are a cool dude, although some people will feel threatened by him. BECAUSE [bleep] YOU, HIGH SCHOOL. MORE LIKE HIGH S-NOT SO-COOL

Had a great weekend with my family. Boats are awesome. Now I want to play some videogames, haha. I've been behind on my gaming lately, and I only just realized how many awesome-looking games are coming out this fall. There are like 6 I really want, but I'm pre-ordering Modern Warfare 2 because I know I'll play it a ton, and also considering Badlands - looks fun. I'm applying too a grocery store here this week, too, even though I can only work like 15 hours a week MAX.

Hey, car advice! We had an RX 300, I think 2001, since 2005, and it never had a single thing wrong with it. It rarely required maintenance, the worst thing was the brakes, which just needed a little tuning occasionally. Now we have an LX, but make sure you get a good one - ours was a crappy sale, because the last person took horrible care of it. Just interior crap though, we've had it for more than a year and nothing remotely wrong with it. My brother has an IS, and he absolutely loves it as well. Make sure you get good tires, though, he bought new ones that weren't very good. Too low profile. If you have to take a lot of people around places, get an RX. Otherwise, get an IS, because you will love it :thumbup:

Someone tried this a looooong time ago and it got locked. I have no idea why, I think this is a great idea.

Hehe, pretty much the only famous person I really look up to is Quentin Tarantino, and he dropped out of school as a freshman. Looks like I'm starting late.

We only have like one tv for every 5 rooms, so I doubt we'll be watching it. God, I hope not. At least I don't have history that day, so it isn't like in Chemistry we'll be discussing why Obama is so good at basketball or whatever. A 30+ is very good.

I don't get the big deal with energy drinks. I had green Monster and it didn't do anything to me. THAT TOO! But I don't drink a lot of caffeine and water. I live off of milk, water, and occasionally a Dr. Pepper. I feel sorry for the kids I see drinking a few coffees a day, maybe a couple Monsters. They're gonna have a lot of heart stress, and at best a horrifying caffeine addiction.

Sounds more to me like TWO KIDS BEAT UP TWO OTHER KIDS. It happens on the playground every day, these kids just fought dirty and took money. Now, other things point at the fact that these kids aren't your average scrappy lads, and probably won't end up great, but come on. Judging by the article, no you wouldn't.

I have a feeling those two kids could kick your [wagon], and that's if I blindfolded them and tied two hands behind their backs. Anyways, why should we care? There are 13 year olds that do it, too. And 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, etc. -year olds that beat kids up all the time. I don't understand the big deal. The kids lived. This isn't gonna cause an uproar where people - do what, exactly? Cut off the fists of everyone until they're judged nice enough to have them? What the [bleep], are you eight?

I should try and give you a hand, because your situation will be 10x harder than mine. I'm just gonna try and ignore the fact that her friends hate me for some reason, because it probably won't have that much of an effect. For you, I recommend just hanging out with her friends. Forcing friendship onto them. Try one more time, and that's it. If it doesn't work, I recommend moving on, because you'll never get anywhere - and I doubt you're so selfish that you would make her lose all support from her friends and family just for you. Romeo and Juliet were major [wagon]. A whole lot of folks got killed just because they were horny, hormonal teenagers.

Yeah, too bad plenty of desegregation only occured when your parents were still in school. [racist term] has absolutely nothing to do with slavery, if that was it than it would have been over and done with in 1920. It's because there was segregation, likely in the times of your parents.

I don't get the big deal with weed. Doesn't do a whole lot for me. Then again, I generally get really boring heavily under the influence of, well, anything, so I try to keep it liiiiight.

I don't think anyone at my school will care. I certainly don't. I'm gonna regret the rest of my post, though. You know, they might be freaking out about it, but it says just as much about you that you have to point out that they're freaking out. There are idiots all over the world, every color, every ideal. This speech is as good an idea as any other speech. I doubt 30% of students will willingly watch it, and even if more do, how many will care and change their ways? I don't see how it's any kind of development, it's just a speech. Our educational systems aren't terrible, but the exact thing you'd like to do is what's wrong with it. We're stuffed full of facts and figures that never add up anyway, and never even get to ask a "Why?" It's simply "Because it is." Even in history in English, we're just being fed what other people think. The thoughts of so many are judged by the thoughts of a few selected by the Board of Education. Tests don't help this. Sure, I can pick A B C or D, but can I decipher the culture of the Achaeans of Iliad fame? Tests that choose whether someone has to be a menial labor person or a brilliant mind would create jagged divide between two social classes, and it might as well be a caste system. If someone's parents failed the tests, and both worked as miners or construction workers, do you think the child has much of a chance to go to college? Not quite as bad of a chance as someone in Europe in the 1400s, say, but still very bad. Not saying it's really any better now, but today's world can show you you don't need reform, you need to burn down the current system and rebuild it with beads instead of brick. Or try building it underwater this time. Or upside down. Complete overhaul, not minute changes. By the way, a lot of the US schools are similar, and the South does just fine on test scores. The only real difference between a Mississippi school and a Massachusetts one? The average Massachusetts family pulls in around $50,000 a year, whereas the average family in Mississippi will pull in something like a "piss-poor" $29,000. Japanese and Korean schools were clearly built and populated by alien life forms, so that is redundant.

[cabbage]. I'm gonna HAVE to ask out that freshman girl in journalism tomorrow. She's in color guard, along with several girls that, for some reason or another, absolutely hate me (I've talked to them about twice in my life, although that may be the reason - I make an effort to talk to everyone I have class with), and I'm going to assume they're becoming friends. Today we had a pep rally, and the color guard girls were all right in front of me (I got in late and had to stand on the floor, which was all good since I just talked to the cheerleaders and all). I noticed the freshman girl was in color guard (I don't know why it didn't click then, [cabbage]), and she kept looking at me and smiling, so I started talking to her, kinda flirting, you know. Then, I turned around to talk to some friends that were nudging me, and when I looked back, the two main girls that hate me were talking to the freshman girl and it did not look so good. I saw a lot of eyes rolling. DAMN IT. I'm sure I could still work something up, but DAMN IT I hate when people hate you for no reason.

I heard Morgan Freeman say it.

Yeah, just chillax man. Everybody worries about what other people think of themselves, the best you can really do is worry less and make it seem like you worry even less. It's tough to be confident fo rizzle, but you can hit it if you wake up in the morning smelling some hot [cabbage]. AND GUESS WHAT - IT'S YOU!

It'll be good to get over it, just keep on truckin'. The next girl you date, though, you can probably be a bit more forward with. Girls shouldn't take all the heavy lifting for a relationship. But, hey, she's the first girl you've ever dated. I doubt you did bad at all. All you need to do is start taking control more and be less worried.

Does NCIS count? Because nowadays, it, Scrubs, and Futurama are the only shows I watch. Thankfully they have ridiculous schedules like me, so I can watch while I eat or try to sleep. Real good.

Hm. Well, did you feel really comfortable with her? Or were you kind of worried you might have been doing something wrong? And what exactly did you guys do while you were hanging out?

I just wanted to say this made me feel good and I am a beast. And I wonder where kranked went, too. Fancy school, by the way Rocco. Should set you up for a wealthy life, I'm sure. Abc, [bleep] GO FIND A MIRROR AND LOOK AT YOURSELF NAKED. Imagine how many people would pay for those pictures. I'd say 14 million. Once that's out of the way, GO FORCE PEOPLE TO BE YOUR FRIEND. PUNCH THEM (metaphorically) WITH FRIENDSHIP DAMMIIIIIIIIIIIT. Do you think rock and roll had friends when it went to high school? No, swing music and jazz were all like "Sirrah thy keye is offeth!" but rock and roll gave them the middle finger and KEPT ON ROCKING. You know what you are? YOU ARE ROCK AND ROLL. You wanna grow some moss? You can do that when you're dead. You keep on rolling, keep on rocking. You think Eric Clapton's horrifyingly bad heroin addiction stopped him? Only for two years! And that was in the eighties! Everything back then took at least two years longer. Tomorrow during school, sit next to someone. Or in front of them. And just talk. Open your mouth and vomit awesome. Take a breath mint or some gum beforehand though, that always helps no matter what. Also, looking at your real-life picture, you would look cool as [cabbage] if you got a really short haircut. I'm just saying, you'd look like a Marine or something. Really cool.

Sounds to me like you were trying to hold the relationship with text messaging. Person-person contact is far, FAAAAAAAAAAR more important for a relationship. Plus, you were "together" for a week and a half. How many times did you actually hang out? I personally wouldn't even have called her my girlfriend, but to each his own. Anyways, don't obsess. Pimpin' ain't easy, after all.

Choose someone that looks pretty open and just rush into the seat next to them. Start of smiling with a "How's your day goin bro?" or something like that. A lot of high-schoolers aren't used to that. Seem semi-serious.