BlueLancer

Or a very sick one :? Not everyone standing on your front porch has bad intentions either... You could kill the mailman if he's attempting to deliver something when you're in a bad mood, and get away with it? And one would think the violent, angry "southern idiot/hillbilly" is just a stereotypized joke like in Borat..

Try to get involved in planning prisons and getting contacts with tattoo makers in case your brother gets in trouble with big money and gets framed for crimes he didn't commit :lol:

You'd cry if you read some american court cases involving a burglar/robber winning against the defendant who was acting in self defense. Please, do not google unless you want to consume your eyes' tear channel. :cry:

I conjecture that growing up in a loving and committed household would have a positive effect on a child psychologically. I know quite a few kids personally, including some of my cousins, who are being raised by parents who love each other & the kid, and are committed to the family. But they're not married, I don't see how that's particularly relevant to a child's psychology. If I get a kid, I'm going to love him/her and the mother, and be committed to the family regardless of what the population register says about my marital status.

I conjecture that growing up in a loving and committed household would have a positive effect on a child psychologically. I know quite a few kids personally, including some of my cousins, who are being raised by parents who love each other & the kid, and are committed to the family. But they're not married, I don't see how that's particularly relevant to a child's psychology. If I get a kid/kids, I'm going to love him/her and be committed to the family and the mother regardless of what the population register says about my marital status. I don't stay faithful/committed/loving towards the family because a minister at a church, mosque, synagogue/temple whatever tells me to... I'd do it because it's the right thing to do, especially for providing my kid a safe, loving and enjoyable childhood.

Edited the grossly flaming post of Omali towards TearGod, but thought to also mention: Not only no Jagex's real world trading/tip.it rules were broken at all by trapical, it speaks volumes of a person's character to try to indict a good-willing person based on bureaucratic rules and articles. Don't consider this an attack/insult; Consider shame on yourself for wanting to do harm on people who are trying to help poor fellow humans who can't even dream of having constant clean drinking water or food, let alone a computer and 24/7 internet access. This has nothing to do with breaking rules. The only winners and beneficiaries here are poor people. Instead of breaking rules and selling those 450m gold (plus more that he has) or trying to get fame by hosting lavish drop parties; He decided to put his digital items to the benefit of real, living human beings who have unreasonable suffering. The $3k may not be much, but it's better than nothing.

Maybe later, I'd have kids with my significant other. Age 30+ or so. I don't know why I should be 'married' to have children though, in most western countries you get child benefits regardless of marital status. And it's not like marriage affects a child biologically :lol: Personally, I think that kids are a general annoyance. Maybe two though, because it suck not having a sibling. Yeah I can't understand how some people can have like 11 kids :shock: Totally no offense to large families, but.. How can the children get the proper attention they need, vital in the early years of mental development, when 10 other kids in the family compete for the parent's attention at the same time? 1 or 2 kids seems like a perfect amount, maybe 3. Over 5+ just seems absurd, but hey, there are a lot of families in the world with 5+ kids, I don't judge them, just wondering how they manage (and more importantly, how their kids manage)

Wow, that's crappy. :( I hope he will be convinced otherwise, and at least participate in directing the movie or it's script/screenplay adaption from book->movie. Good thing a producer usually can say what fits a movie and what doesn't, so he can probably persuade the director to make changes to totally horrible-looking scenes or stuff that just doesn't sync with LOTR. *imagines a 16-year old with a crackling voice and fake beard play Gandalf due to budget reasons*

Up to maybe ~18 years old (with my younger brother being 13), he copied me in almost every way since childhood.. Same interests, same music/film taste etc... It was quite irritating. :lol: Or, when he'd steal clothes from my closet, or buy similar clothes to mine. I'd tell him "why do you want to copy me? Only monkeys copy everything they see", not seriously but just trying to tick him off. Then he'd get all defensive and say "No I'm not!" (While wearing all the same stuff as I do). I guess some brothers are just like that. I know many families where brothers and sisters are totally the opposite and always sneer at each other though.

Maybe later, I'd have kids with my significant other. Age 30+ or so. I don't know why I should be 'married' to have children though, in most western countries you get child benefits regardless of marital status. And it's not like marriage affects a child biologically :lol:

I also see marriage as quite meaningless. It's just a ceremony, with the infamous U.S. divorce statistics, people should see it's nothing more than that. Most people of all religions, ethnicities and ages cheat or get bored and break up soon after 'marriage'. Not to say I'd cheat, I despise cheating, but if you want to be with a significant other, you can do it without a minister making your relationship "official" on paper. Bureaucracy doesn't work with love. But if the significant other wanted a wedding of her choice, yeah, why not? I'd have no problems with a christian, jewish, muslim, hindu or any other type of wedding if it makes her happy. :)

I despise chronic liars and cheaters in real life, but just wanted to say you'll face a really cold reality out of school if you think "cheaters never win" etc. :( The most succesful people in almost any field lied, cheated, stole, frauded, stepped on others, took other people's ideas, did anything immoral to become succesful and rich. Honesty really does not go as far as you'd think as an idealistic kid in form 10. At least for anything else than a 'simple life'. Try achieving anything higher than that, taking positions and riches other people want too, and you're in for one filthy, dirty world.

Haha, I like prank calls even if they can be sometimes immature. 8-) It can also be a mind game, sometimes I slap myself for not realizing I'm being pranked by my friends or someone else. eBaumsworld.com, while not the best quality site otherwise, has a lot of great pranks, especially those made with sound clips taken from TV shows.

Ok, let's assume they're robbers.. The US, I think, is the only western country where you can get away with killing a person who comes on your property. That's quite sick, would I take a human life because of a $1k TV? Heck no, but if he was armed or had a knife, I would probably shoot the offender into the leg/arm, then call an ambulance & police. Keeping that in mind, people have numerous motivations for robbing. For example in Southern America where lots of kidnappings happen: People can be forced to bring in $30,000 to a mobster or have their family die, what is a person like that going to do, let his family die or get the money one way or another? What would you do? Regardless of motives or scenarios, it's wrong to kill a person over items. But wounding him if he does not back down, give the items back and leave? I think that's absolutely allowed, not just legally, but it's also morally feasible. He has no right to take your possessions in the first place. But it's pretty scary, how especially a lot of americans, defend their right to kill a human who even enters their property.

Can't really argue, in most of the world individuality isn't always looked upon kindly, high school/college can be extremely confusing times in your life. I mean... One month, it will be cool to be like everyone else, another month, it's cool to be "unique", one month it will be cool to be good in sports, one month it makes you a 'stud' or 'jerk' to be good in sports... What the heck? :lol: Fortunately, when you grow up, a lot of adults realize how childish/dumb they've been, and often grow more mature/tolerant of different people. I'd say ages 11-16 are hell for being "individual", after that it gets a bit easier.

Yeah; I actually have a hard time remembering someone from high school/college who did not copy homework from others. We even had social networks under the teacher's noses, for exchanging homework (like if I sucked at math but were good in english or biology, we'd do each other's homework occassionally), or paying a geek a few bucks to do our homework & aid him in some other way like picking him for an easy/physically non-demanding task in sports class etc. Most homework is just repeating of what you've already learned, so I don't even see it as cheating. But since it's something you'll need to do to pass classes even if you learn nothing from it, you might just as well get it done one way or another.

According to medical research and reasons of suicide, that's not sound advice. While a lot of people who threaten suicide often fail, it's very often the last cry for help from a person who is very likely to take his/her own life in the near future. Ignoring a suicidal friend and calling him/her an attention b.... will just make the situation worse.

:lol: People on tip.it often miss humor unless it's explicitly written "NOTE: THIS IS A JOKE". You'd need to hear those songs (figuring the names out should be easy) then compare it to the description. Quite funny. (But yes, that's spam)

Ships and boats with guns on them. And if they were so undisciplined, then explain how they ever became as big a threat to commercial shipping as they did. Actually, they still are a threat to commercial shipping. :shock: (There are more recent pirate battles, that's from 2006 but it fits the topic). Pirates still hijack goods and boats/ships on sea worth hundreds of millions every year. What I meant by undisciplined is their historical fighting skills. They had occassional good strategists, but the crews with their miscelanneous equipment were barely a match to organised government fleets most of the time.

As in, what has complete control over your life and your possible/impossible current actions? Hate to admit it... But money. That's the case for most of the world's population as well. I have plenty, but occassionally I'll miss a great opportunity, investment, etc. just because I don't have 10 million to throw around. If I ever get a family, I just couldn't imagine my kid wishing for some quite simple but smart gift, say, he/she talked about getting a pool [billiard] table for christmas, and I'd have to tell him "we just don't have the money". That happened to me quite a few times as a kid, but I'm not angry at my parents or anything, fortunately I'm blessed with a bit better financial situation than they were. That's just a meaningless scenario anyways, since gifts aren't a necessity (given some people live on a few dollars a day and don't even dream of a pool table), but money controls everyone's lives directly or indirectly... It can shatter a family, it can make people marry each other, it can save human lives or buy the death of another... It creates wars, it forms peaces, it gives life and employment while depriving another... Capitalism may be good for the general accumulation of wealth, but it really is the devil of the modern world controlling just about everything.

Duh, if we look at it in a dull, realistic way, of course historic ninjas would crush pirates, who were mostly undisciplined bands of drunk bandits aboard ships and boats. But a pirate's life would sure as heck been more interesting. :) And while piracy was a real career option to some poor medieval peasants/middle class, ninjas were mostly in secret elite societies, or exclusively trained spies with different loyalties for various emperors, warlords, etc... You couldn't really just "become" a ninja back in the day, as you could become a pirate. Waiting on rooftops for weeks while trying to stay unseen, for one single important person to pass by.. No thanks :lol:

I have a handgun 'just in case', but I'd never consider taking it, or even a knife, with me if I go out (except in very rare cases, such as having to go to extremely dangerous and shady areas of my city). How many things are there in the world that warrant putting another person in hospital, permanently disabling him or even killing another human being regardless of his current actions towards you? A gold/silver chain definitely isn't one of them... If it's not something solvable by fists, think again, is it worth running away? In most cases, yes it is. It doesn't make you a coward. It makes you able to live to see another day with both persons unharmed. Judging this kid because he pointed a gun at the robber isn't rational. He made the right choice if the other person was brandishing a knife and had the intention to hurt his friends and take their possessions. If he refuses to back off, and stabs your friend/is very close to stabbing, you would have every legal (and more importantly, moral) right to use a non-lethal gunshot to his arm/leg to stop him, then call an ambulance/police.

Not a big fan of making personality judgements.. But I'll make an exception here since this post was reported With this user's (Wallettheif) posting, & ban/fabricating of absurd facts/lies history, I'd take any stuff like this he says with a big black truck of salt before considering it's truthfulness. You really don't want to see some of the posts deleted from this user, it seems he's motivated to make stuff up/troll just for the 'heck of it'.

I'm devoid of personality, I live as Fonzie from 'Happy days'. The attitude isn't very compatible with real life situations though, and I don't even own a motorbike, but I manage. You can decide to be 'individual' instead of a part of the blank masses. What's stopping you?

American cheating doesn't even go near the levels of cheating in Chinese college/university admission tests or finals etc... I watched a documentary on this, it was almost funny, but quite shocking. Some wealthier students in China will hire a look-a-like to take their ID, study for the test for months and pass all their classes, etc.. While they're out having fun. And they 'graduate' 3 years later, land nice jobs, etc... With just barely having visited the school for an interview once. Generally, cheating is bad for your learning... But if it's a test which is either fail or pass (with fail meaning you have to spend another 1-2 years studying for the next test), wouldn't you be stupid *not* to cheat? Depending on your job, you wont use those exact tidbits of knowledge required in a test/exam, so 'cheating' to 'know' them on a test is barely immoral if you didn't have the time to study for them/forgot/etc.