Omnislash42

I'm probably gonna go to the University of Kansas. I woulda liked to have looked at other schools, but the parents are trying to force me into this crazy California college. It's ultra conservative, fundamentalist catholic and doesn't even offer class choices, and I'm not up for spending four years in a forced curriculum with a bunch of crazies. KU will give me some money, and so it's my way out. And it's pretty cool anyways. I kinda wanted to look at University of Virginia, UNC, and Washington U in St. Louis, but so much for that. I can't pay for any of those.

Uh, that wouldn't fix anything. Weed is illegal, yet it's still VERY easy to get (okay, this is a high schooler's perspective. I go to a semi nice public high school in semi nice suburbs, just to give you the environment). I don't smoke pot, but at school, I could probably get at least 5 names of people to buy from in 15 minutes. Prohibition being reinstated would only aggrivate the problem. Alcohol would still be obtainable, you'd just have to know where to look. And there will ALWAYS be people who know where to look, no matter what legal or illegal drug you're looking for. This would probably just cause more dangerous drinking habits, and wouldnt help, and might even increase, binge drinking. Okay peeps, so theres something that's gotta be said about today's society and drug education, i.e. health class. For better or for worse, they're there to INDOCTRINATE you. Your classroom is the arm of the government telling you not to do something that they've dubbed illegal. Of course they're going to paint drug use in the worst light possible! Now, even though I sound like it, I'm not some anti government communist or something, I'm just stating that you've gotta make the connection between WHO is telling you WHAT to believe, and WHY. Yeah, I'm in high school, and I've drank before. Is it smart? Not really. Is it illegal? Yeah. Is there a lotta trouble you can get into drinking underage (or even legally)? Sure. I don't really think that people drink to 'be cool' or 'fit in' that much. I've been at parties, and it's not like they'll pressure you to drink. People are people, generally they'll respect your opinions even if they don't agree. There isn't really that infamous 'peer pressure' your D.A.R.E. class or whatever they call the police-administered drug ed around where you are. I think most people drink to relax and to get away from their problems. I'll talk about myself. When I did drink, it was escapism. That's completely unhealthy and dangerous, but it's a way out, and sometimes you take whatever door out you can. I've got problems. I've got a pretty bad home life, and don't get along with the parents too well. It's a side story, but that's mostly because the things that are important to me don't matter to them, and the things they want to force into being important to me aren't. Anyways, alcohol was an escape. It was a way to forget, for just a night, and have some fun without the worry. I quit and haven't drank in about 6 months (Okay, I sound like I'm in freaking alcoholics anonymous), but that's why I drank. Everyone has problems, and sometimes they just need a way out.

Kinda cool how many mentions ZF is getting... Malicious Intent? Jeez, too bad nobody reminded me of how much me, Orb, and Foswald made fun of your name until most of the way through this topic. Fun times. Malicious Incest for the win :wink:

I heart the old school oompa loompas... they were totally sweet. I'll have to see this sometime...

Correctamundo. Sorry if i didn't make myself clear on that one - i did mean deleteing the problem posts in a thread, would be a better solution than locking the thread altogether. Ahh. Thats not a bad idea then... I dunno, leaves a big opportunity for whiners, but yeah, it could work. Mad4u, as a former tip.it mod, has leet mod hax :wink:

naw, deletion of threads doesnt work out well. Then you get people REALLY complaining about censorship. I used to do some reading on the Epiphone Guitars forums, their mods started turning into COMPLETE nazis who would delete posts if they seemed to be supporting another brand, or anything, basically just whatever the company didnt like. That really got people yelling and screaming... as a mod of ZFL forums, I'd say its really just the mod's discretion... generally, the people who get to be a mod of a popular forum for a significant period of time know what theyre doing, to an extent. Occaisionally you get a couple of idiots. I remember there used to be a mod on here i REALLY disliked, but i forgot who he was :P Youve just gotta make sure that when topics are closed because theyre 'dumb' that its the community's interest being protected, not just one mod's opinion. Generally, I think that topics should be left open until they start causing problems. I suppose the mod team here believes the same thing, but I think we have differing opinions on what 'causing problems' means. No preemtive strikes for me :wink: censorship can be a problem. I think that both the mods and the community in general need to keep it in mind, but not get too paranoid.

The drummer's a drum machine actually, we dont have a decent way to record actual drums. Thanks man :)

Well, I'm a guitarist, and although the technology i have available for recording sucks, I still do it occaisionally. Anyways, i figured the people on here would be able to give me a good amount of feedback, and different from what I get on my guitar forums. So anyways, our site is at http://www.soundclick.com/crazypinballmachine Only the top 2 songs (untitled but good and untitled number 2) are really worth listening to currently, the other ones were recorded a while ago, and we've improved them quite a bit but havent rerecorded. I think you have to make an account to download the mp3's, but you should be able to stream the media without one. Its free anyways. If you record stuff, take a look at this site too. They'll beat you down if you try to give them stuff copyrighted by someone else. Anyways, musically, its kinda a hard rock with a little bit of metal influence. I cant compare it well to anyone else. Thanks in advance for any feedback, whether you like it or not.

I found it somewhat amusing, but i like ACDC so im gonna be more receptive to stuff like this :D

I got Mother Theresa and schindlers list.

Tennis balls are yellow :P Youve gotta realize, most popular pro courts are grass and popular recreation courts are hardcourt, and it has to stick out. Therefore yellow.