Faitality

In my opinion, it's no skin off my nose to avoid the word "[racist term]" in reference to a person who's black, or even as a general insult. It has deeply disturbing connotations, quite obviously dating all the way back to when they were enslaved and therefore is easily seen as a sign of dehumanizing them all over again. I'm not outraged at the fact that they can justify saying it when they'd murder any caucasian with the gall to. Also, Gabe, is this a Jew asking what the big deal regarding verbal harassment directed at a specific race might be? Yeah, why are they so touchy about it? [hide=yeah, i have no idea..][/hide]

I wasn't aware that a harmless quip at yourself could cause such an uproar, I also had no idea some people analyzed so intensely. :shock:

I have a really weird paranoia involving being assaulted in any place where I could be alone with someone (IE: The elevator, doctor's waiting room, etc) which is kinda funny because I generally find perfect strangers very trustworthy and enjoyable until I'm alone with them. When I go into a public restroom with the impression that there's nobody else in there, I push the bathroom door all the way back till it hits the wall so that I'm sure nobody's hiding behind it. I then peek behind the door and proceed to walk the length of the stalls to insure there's nobody in them before picking the one farthest away from the bathroom door. I will marry the person who has any quirk remotely comparable to this.

It's my personal opinion that the worst possible *REALISTIC* way to die would be having your neck stepped on, your esophagus damaged so you're laying there, chest heaving, snorting, hyperventilating and making beastly noises trying to catch your breath until your body simply gives up. What a horrible state of panic you'd be in.

They fixed it. Mother of Shiva, when did this come about? I was away from the computer for a week.

Before the bots, I would have had an awesome time sharing my convos with you. Now it seems that maybe 1/20 people on Omegle are actual humans, and 1/50 of them AREN'T looking for cybersex.

I'm not sure why but I always seem to do it, I guess it just seems healthy to me to be able to poke a little harmless fun at yourself every blue moon. Half the time I don't even expect people to notice my posts. Anyhow yeah, then you can show off your wickedy-awesome face and gee-tarrr at the same time. (H)

Don't be so hard on yourself, you look fine. Although I'm aware 92% of the time people say things like that to get reactions just like this from people... 92% of the time I'm in the minority; I know I look fine. :) Haven't seen a new picture of you in a while.

I actually took this picture by mistake with my phone, funnily enough I was only testing out its sepia option my examining myself from the front of my phone but thought it was a decent face-forward shot of me. Ridiculous contrast was the result of my own feeble attempt to balance it all out; somehow my face ended up looking WAY darker than my body and I just looked silly. :P [hide=WHAT EDIT?][/hide] Index, please?

Um, is your intro perhaps a reference to this gem?

Blub blub... EDIT: Yes, the contrast is high, but my cameraphone's white balance is messed up. :thumbdown:

This is called contradancing. Yes, yes, I know it does look boring; it's folk dancing tied in with french court moves. The real joy of it is the no-pressure situation when it comes to dance partners, since you're going to end up holding hands or do-si-doeing with pretty much everyone else on the dance floor. >.> You learn the moves while you're on the floor, they walk you through the set once or twice and just call out the steps from there. There's no romantic implications, you simply walk out on to the floor and ask someone if they'd like to dance. Some people get really festive and wear pretty, long, skirts that look gorgeous when you twirl. There's a few gentlemen at my local contradance that actually wear kilts. :thumbsup: For the record, to do this dance, it is required that you are easygoing and not scared of dancing with a stranger, or else it is a recipe for disaster. That's... about all the dancing I do. *blink* Wikipedia says this about the music that you dance to: "The most common contra dance repertoire is rooted in the Anglo-Celtic tradition as it developed in North America. Irish, Scottish, French Canadian, and Old-time tunes are common, and Klezmer tunes have also been used. The old-time repertoire includes very few of the jigs common in the others."

My best advice to you is to let the kid do whatever he wants, however, it wouldn't hurt to invite him to do things requiring a little physical effort, such as laser tag, line dancing, bowling, etc. Slowly build your way up to to more intense outings as opposed to "fun" ones, perhaps go hiking or skateboarding/rollerblading at a local park? I'm no expert at this kind of thing, fair warning. Apparently, in the long run, I've hit the metabolic jackpot and I can eat anything I want and still maintain a very slender weight while doing little to nothing for it. I'm not sedentary, no, I do a lot of walking usually. :thumbsup: And maybe some cardio while I'm watching tv, that's about it. Best of luck to him in the long run; I hope he decides what he wants.

I'm rather apathetic about food; I stepped on the scale just yesterday only to find I've actually lost 5 pounds without trying. o.0 And that's saying a lot, considering I'm within the lower range of a "healthy" BMI, and therefore it should not be this easy to lose weight. I eat when I'm hungry; it often becomes a hassle to me to eat.

Is this another of your social experiments, or are we meant to take you seriously this time?