Madmanpur3

If you do tell anyone, just make sure it's clear that it's not really something you can help and that you'll still be the same you personality wise. Maybe tell them you feel like you have a weight on your chest that you just want to tell someone so it can be lifted at least a little bit and that it's not like you want to have an in depth discussion about it but are willing to answer some questions if they want to ask. My cousin/best friend recently came out of the closet to me and I had pretty much known/suspected it for quite a while, but he just never told me for fear of me distancing myself from him because I have joked about being a homophobe in the past. So while your friends might think it's some gross thing or whatnot, they won't (shouldn't if they're friends worth having) distance themselves from you if you tell them because once it's "closer to home" they'll change their perspective on it.

cause thats obviously going to work Well think about it, if two girls were fighting over you and decided to just ask you for a 3 way, would you accept? :P It's not as impossible as it sounds young grasshopper.

Not necessarily. If there was a girl I had strong feelings for and my best friend went out with her, I'd be happy because I know that she's with a good guy and that he's with a good girl, otherwise I wouldn't be best friends with the guy and wouldn't have feelings for the girl. I'd say just let it play out and see how things go, probably best to not tell her how you feel about her at this point (at least not if it's in an attempt to win her over, if it's for closure reasons as Goddess suggests then yeah that's fine)

"I may have lost my virginity due to a game of beer pong that was played with vodka." "Maybe, but no one's found my confession \ " What if...he's referring to his virginity when he says "no one's found my confession"...meaning he doesn't know who he may or may not have lost it to...and we have to find that girl (we hope for his sake it was a girl) that he may or may not have lost it to! Man I should become a detective or something. Or how about that's my secret...yeah, I'll go with that. Secret - I'm a detective in real life.

For those of you outside the US, I used camtasia to record it off hulu and added the video to youtube. I included the entire headlines section since it has some pretty funny ones in it, but the story about me is at 2:40.

Try the Fight Club method - initiate a verbal/physical fight and purposely lose it. :thumbup: If you'd rather try something a little less out there, focus on adjusting your mindset. Think about all the times you can remember where you got particularly mad, then focus on the bigger picture surrounding all of those incidents. My roommate came stumbling in drunk the other night, waking me from the wonderful sleep I was enjoying, and proceeded to pee all over our floor/my area rug. I was pretty frustrated, but at the same time it helped me make a decision that I know will be better for me in the future. I have been contemplating transferring school's for some time now but never really made the decision because I know the college I was considering transferring to isn't that great of a college, well after this incident I realized that neither is the one I'm at, and since it doesn't come down to the quality of the college I'd rather be with my friends. I kind of went on a little tangent but yeah, just focus on the positives that come from any situation and if you ever fell yourself getting angry ask yourself "is this even something that will affect me longterm?" because if it doesn't, don't worry about it. Also realize that a difference in opinions is no reason to argue. Another thing is, I'm sure there are certain things (topics, issues, personalities, etc) that get you angry. You may not even realize it, but unless it's a psychological disorder triggering it (in which case you'd need help) or you just get angry at everything (in which case you'd need help), it's there. So what you should do is pinpoint these specific "things" that trigger your anger and try to focus on a different one each day and tell yourself throughout that day that you won't get angry about anything related to it. The thing about emotions is that often times they develop subconciously and build up to the point where they take over, so if you maintain a conciousness about yourself and your emotions it's possible to control them.

No, because then he would've arrested me for attempting to bribe an officer. I've come to the conclusion that cops decide they don't like me upon first glance...hell last summer I was pulled over for speeding and the officer went on to practically accuse me of being a statutory rapist. :wall:

No, I wedged the shoe into the accelerator after the sandwiches were already in my shoes and all the heat gone from them. When I drive, I rarely look at how fast I'm going. I just go at a pace that I feel comfortable driving, regardless of what the sign tells me to go. I fail to see how knowing how fast you're going improves your safety while driving, unless you are a master physicist with impecable depth perception and your idea of fun is timing when you slam on your breaks to see how close you can come to a stationary object in front of you. As for making it harder to stop - yes, it does make it harder to stop, and more dangerous in situations where I'd need to stop, but I was on an open interstate in fine condition (aka no need to stop). The only thing I would've had to slam on the breaks for would be deer on the road or a person on the road (why a person would be walking across the interstate tho would be beyond me), and I was willing to play the odds of not seeing either.

Eh, 23 for, 11 against, and 13 abstained...23 is the bigger of those 3 numbers.

Eh, it's not like I was endangering anyone in doing that (I was staying on the road, in my lane, paying attention to cars around me) - and the whole point of speed limits is to make sure the roads stay safe. Honestly, I feel comfortable driving 100+ on the interstate here in South Dakota because it's fairly light traffic, 2 lanes, and 1 way...so if there is an accident, it's not going to be caused by someone speeding, it's going to be caused by someone being a bad driver.

I'd say the better part of 75% of my close friends have considered/attempted suicide, and let me assure you that suicide is rarely the best solution. I say rarely because there are cases where an individual has nobody that cares about them, and has little hope for an improved future due to circumstances, but you don't fall under this category. One thing that I started doing a while back, and has helped me maintain a positive outlook on life regardless of what's going on in my life, is I will remind myself on a daily basis that no matter how bad my life may get there is always a case where somebody has it worse and that any bad thing is just as much a part of life as all the good. So tell yourself that you're never going to kill yourself, because it's one of the most selfish things one can do, and that you'll wait for an opportunity to arise that'll allow you to get out of the slump you're in. Also like Zierro said, focus on all the good in life that you've experienced or want to experience, and focus on what makes you happy and strive to achieve that. It could take weeks, it could take months, it could even take years...but in the end it will most definitely be worth it.

Championship game is gonna be Louisville vs Villanova and sadly for all you Nova fans, the Cards are gonna win it. :

Hooray for our messed up legal system! :thumbup:

They weren't really "big" upsets.

Mod can delete this post, was having connection problems that day.

From the sounds of it though, the only thing you can do is just wait until the circumstances allow for you and her to be in a relationship...which if she's moving to Australia, that could potentially be years. Also, while you say you wouldn't want to be in a relationship with any other girl, does she feel the same - not wanting to be in a relationship with any other guy? If not, don't be surprised if she ends up 'falling in love' with someone while she's in Australia. Hell, even if she doesn't want to be in a relationship with another guy I still wouldn't be surprised if she ends up 'falling in love' with someone else while she's in Australia.

The rest of what you said was pretty pointless, but this is a good point. There are countries where they teach 11 year olds and even younger all about killing then have them put that into action, and these kids know full well the consequences of their actions (granted they don't have much of a choice). So you can't just say he should be tried as a juvenile for the sole fact that he's 11. Hell, I know 11 year olds that are probably more mature and/or more intelligent than some 18+ year olds that don't have a mental disability. To answer the question of why we even have a juvenile court system, it's for those kids who are juveniles and ACT like it.

You've got the whole legal system backwards, you are innocent until proven guilty. The burden of proof is on the prosecution to prove that he should be tried as an adult. Edit - I found this article interesting http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0303-04.htm So you're saying if they can prove that he knew he was killing them, he can be tried as an adult? Yeah, that whole shotgun to the back of the head seems like proof. Edit - They could surely prove he knew he was killing the lady, but the unborn child would be a little tougher. So maybe drop it down to one charge instead of two.

And even then, it would be more enjoyable to just drink cream and sugar without the coffee. ;)

Coffee is disgusting though. :?

I say prove he didn't know the consequences of his actions (that the lady and her unborn child would die), then they can try him as a juvenile.

I don't really get it either. People claim it isn't a life for abortion cases, but do when it comes to murder. There needs to be a whole new area of the law for fetuses. Find me one person who claims it isn't a life after 9 months. -.- You DO realize that abortions aren't performed when the woman is 9 months pregnant right?

You don't need to know elgebra or abstract thinking to know that when you shoot someone with a shotgun point blank, they die. He knew he was getting rid of her, which was his intent. The only thing he didn't know when looking at this whole situation, was how much trouble he'd get into as a result of his actions. So if he gets off the hook since he isn't educated enough about it, why don't people who are just plain stupid get off the hook?

Personally I don't think it was a stupid thing to do. My feet were cold, and the sandwiches warmed them, so it worked. Turned out better than letting my feet get frost bitten.

I hate coffee. And besides, the rest of my body wasn't too terrible cold, just my feet.