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Nick you realize he was just using Riku's ridiculous example of why alcohol should be banned against drivers licenses, right? No. #-o But it isn't the first time I've heard it, so it wasn't all in vain. :wall: Haha, I remember when they first came out with DARE at our school. Didn't know what the hell a drug was. :lol: You're basing this on people you have seen, not everyone who gets intoxicated is the same. Are you basing this perhaps on a wedding that you've went to? Acting foolish while intoxicated warrants that the age limit be raised? It's a joke. A damn good one too since its true. The age limit is 21 to stop people acting like idiots. But they still do. :lol:

A theory I thought myself too. Wouldn't surprise me neither if it were true, though.

Hell yes. At least to the British Empire. (is it still considered as that now?) I was watching the history channel for a brief moment months back, and they were talking about the White House. They said something about having a special show/event/spectacle when they have international guests. It's about our struggle in the American Revolution. The only country they don't show it to, is to the British for "disrespect." I was laughing my [wagon] off when I heard that. :lol: No offense to you current Brits. But if any of you had ancestors in the government back in 1776, screw them! \

Obviously you're a [developmentally delayed]ed minded guy. Fix'd. Don't repeat what daddy says, think to yourself about things once in a while. Bush spent more on his Iraqi Freedom than on us, like roads or medical care.

Perhaps not 95%, but MY family has been screwed up by my dad drinking. He's not like hit any of us, but he's done very very stupid things and his drinking sometimes really hurts our family. So don't say that it doesn't do anything at all. I'm not saying nobody is going to suffer from it. In fact, probably hundred of thousands of families get messed up due to alcohol. But compared to the 7billion+ people we got on this earth, its quite small percentage wise. Which is I support harsher punishments on drunkies. Its everybody's choice to cause damage, because you drank first. What's wrong with driving at 16? Some people don't want their parents to drive them to and from school activities. Also what about jobs? If store couldn't hire 16 and 17 year olds then some places will be under staffed. Research has shown that the decision making part of the brain[1] has not fully developed by the age of 16. Hence why there are more teenager accidents than in any other age group. At 18, your brain has developed more and it is safer to be in a car. Though 18 is the peak when the brain has developed enough, you are too independent to not have a car by 18 (atleast most people are). That's [cabbage]. At 13,14,15, and 16 I well knew my decisions had consequences. Creating excuses for people's mistakes and calling it "scientific research", my [wagon]. It's the person's fault not brain chemistry or whatever. If we allow these excuses, pretty soon saying chemical properties inside somebody's brain forced them to murder is going to be a real argument in court.

It is. :thumbsup:

Oh god, yeah. :lol: As for Invader Zim, I thought it was very disgusting (guts and crap everywhere) but some parts were enjoyable to watch. So its a so-so show for me.

I don't personally know the price of xbox live, but usually console stuff isn't cheap. Besides, adding ads onto a system whose sole purpose is to enterain, is hypocrital and annoying. I don't see anybody having fun watching at ads. Ads are getting everywhere, and quite frankly, its pissing me [bleep]ing off.

And you actually accept that? I don't want a stupid society where drama is the driving force of life. Cartoons before didn't do that. Cartoons were made to entertain you, not to influence you to get a new boyfriend to get popular. The problem is this Popular Trait Objective. The cartoons/shows's primary goal is to make kids think the shows are cool by giving them a [cabbage]load of unnessesary drama, working together to get through pointless, stupid [cabbage] (like Stacy asking Kevin to the dance, OMG he was mine), and over-used storylines that get boring after the first three shows you watched with the same episode. And the watchers are eating this [cabbage] like hotcakes. And the other side of the coin: shows that are based on an anti-popular character; geek, nerd, etc. The morals of the show is to be unique, be yourself, basically be against the main crowd. Again, that just creates ANOTHER crowd that you're gonna be a part of. COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE! We need our shows to strike motivation and influence. Our shows, movies, and other media. Not to push the glorified popular life all over the place. -- My last rant, but a very good one: Machinima is a popular form of cheap-film making. And it makes me laugh so hard to see that these guys who make machinima, don't get paid a penny, yet, can conjure up a story a hundred times better than the multi-million executives owning these cartoon stations. It's really pityful for CN. :|

We were that son whom the mother completely ignores. We tried to grab your attention but you were too busy with Scotty, Wally, and Ishy. :( So had to take action. :twisted:

Are people so ignorant? 95% aren't responsible? It ruins your life? Christ, I don't see ANY of my family or friends and their families and their friends hurting themselves or others while drinking. I'm sure that is true for most of the world, so saying 95% really makes you look stupid. If people are going to look the number of deaths related to drinking we also MUST look at the numbers of responsible drinkers. How many people drink a couple glasses and are safe as well as everybody around them? A [cabbage]load more than those not I can guantee that. That alone should be the primary cause of not banning alcohol period. And to lower it to 18 is only logical. We can go out and kill people with a M16 but not drink a glass of wine? Who thought of that up? We get all the rights we could possibly have, but not one drop of alcohol? Seriously, what the hell. It depends on the person, not thier age. But ulitmately the problem is our society is trying so hard to not let teenagers try drinking but at the same time we WANT our people to drink. What the hell. If people had more balls and give their kids a drink once in a while, they'll know its not that great as society glorifies it. I know in Italy it's normal for a five year old drink some wine with his dinner. First-world country and no servere damaging effects by it. There's always going to be drunkards and injury/death to alcohol. But this "above the influence" [cabbage] isn't working. If America wants to improve their teenage-drinking problem, make their parents grow a pair, give their kids beer once in a while, and don't be a [bleep] about them drinking. Teenagers love rebelling, and if their parents don't want them drinking, it only makes them do it more for the "lulz". My parents have never been strict about drinking, they actually let me drink some once in a while. I'm not looking foward to my 21th birthday to drink beer, maybe only to buy it legally. But to drink it, I could care less. I can already do it. It's not something special, I dont' need it to have a good time, but it gives me a wider range of my opitions. I'm not gonna say "No" to a group of friends offering me a glass at a party because "beer will ruin my life." No that's stupid, and these fundamentalists thinknig beer is the anti-christ's blood are stupider still.

The first piece is the best. It makes buying sliced bread something to look forward to. :cry:

I say again, they are a company. You make it sound like going for more money is evil. When they go overboard. If the service costs too much and they put up ads, its usually going overboard in getting money.

Fantastic rant! =D> Have a Pepsi. : I agreed with everything you said minus the parts about randomness. Sometimes randomness is very funny when used properly. Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Super Jail live off of it and I feel they did a very good job with the comedic insanity. I can't say the same for Xavier, but, like someone already mentioned, it's a mind [bleep]. And, lol @ Verma. I laughed so hard I don't know why. I must of missed that. I'm not against randomness, like you said, it's brilliant when used properly. But most writers and directors can't seem to do that nowadays. They try to add something so off-topic in hopes that the sudden change of pace will "suprise" the audience and make them laugh. A easy, good type of randomness is a reference to something that happened in the past of the episode. But they can't even do that sometimes.

Take it. But on the assurance that if she ever wants to play it, she's more than welcomed. If her parents bought their daughter without talking with the other, they don't have a money problem. ;)

Not all, but certainly more than there should have been. But part of the fun is seeing the jokes in their correct context, which trailers cannot effectively do. Unless trailers are four, five minutes long. In which most modern ones, are.

I think its due to a lack of "uniqueness". Producers seem to think reality TV is the next big thing. So they make reality TV shows: directly or not. Directly are the ones that are obvious, such as Brainrush. The indirect ones are like 6teen. While its not actual people, we see them do ordinary things that ordinary people do. People don't want to see their lives redirected onto a screen, they want to explore and see unusual worlds. Repeating pop culture ideals onto shows like popularity or getting a date (chnages to getting laid on more "mature" shows). Scooby Doo wasn't based on a high school. Shaggy (?) wasn't trying to get popular nor was Verma shopping for the party nor was Fred a jock worrying about his image. We were concentrated on following the mystery; piecing the clues together and finding a culrupt. Now we look forward to seeing who will Ashley take to the homecoming dance. :| Which isn't a bad thing nesessarily, but usually with the current scriptwriters its gonna suck. Some shows did really show some good light, like Ned's Declassified. While it was watching at kids live out their every-day lives, at the same time it wasn't. The envioment and aura the director gave us made the school feel friendly and welcoming... Whereas the producers did another great thing few do nowadays. They didn't [bleep]ing milk it. Ned finished middle school, END IT THERE. They didn't do a "Ned's Survial Guide to High School" sequel show. That would of been awful since the entire show would of changed. But then we got some other producers, like the guy(s) who run Total Drama Island. Show ended, great. But no, now they gotta make Total Drama Action. z0mg. #-o Kim Possible another horrid. I used to watch it a few years back, something to pass the time. But now I can't stand it. "Like, oh my gosh, really?!" Yes really go back and kick her [wagon]. She worries more about getting a date to the dance than a blue-skinned man destorying the world. Who thinks of this stuff up? Way to show kid's their priorities. "Mommy I can't go to dad's funural." WHY?! "The new Backstreet boys CD is coming out today at the mall and Ashley's gonna be there. Bow chika bow wow." -- In a nutshell, don't do something that was JUST made. Bob makes a romance movie about a English girl and Irish man. Alex saw that movie, liked it, noticed others liked it, and decided to make a romance movie about a German guy and a French girl. I mean WTF we just SAW something similar to that last month. Same thing now. "Oh, looka that. Teenagers trying to impress one another for Prom. Billy, lets make our own show. It'll be about four teenagers trying to... trying to... uhhh...get popular and get dates. Score! How original will that be? ... Dates does not equal Prom by the way, Billy; don't flame me like that..." Last but not least...RANDOMNESS. God damnit it digusts me sometimes...especally in Adult Swim (one of the great downhills of Family Guy). The show is going on, whatever. Then somebody falls down but, in the slight chance of a million, ten toxic posions pours down his eyes, knives stab through his heart, and he combustes into fire. In the name of comedy... Burping, falling down, getting hit by doors, violence, loooooooong useless repeats of words (Peter Griffon's hurt knee. God that was pointless for THAT LONG.), overuse of the word "Motha-[bleep]a!", over glorizing popularity traits, over glorizing the anti-popular kids (CANT YOU BE IN THE MIDDLE FOR CHRIST' SAKE), repeating lame phrases in hopes of making it funny, using the same characters but different names, and ultamately to the writers and directors+producers who let this thing pass: DO YOU KNOW WHATS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A ROUGH DRAFT AND A FINAL DRAFT?! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO USE THE LATTER.

Gold farming is happening in several countries. China is just mentioned first because it has the most. Though I don't think this will cause any change. As I said before, China isn't the only nation to have gold farmers. Gold will still sell. Though, why would China have any reason to bad gold farming?

These predictions always happened AFTER said event. I was watching some sort of 9/11 video (I think it was a de-bunk on the 9-11 conspiracies, on the History channel I believe?) and this guy (whom I forget the name of, but he's some sort of celebrety.) basically said all those predictors of 9-11 should be presecuted for treason. Since if they knew what was going to happen and they didn't alert anybody, they must be in favour of it correct? But alas, its because these predictions are too vague or come AFTER said event.

Did anybody retaliate against America when they invaded Iraq? Neither will they when we bomb North Korea. And Iraq wasn't in many countries' "Hate List". :lol:

Unless if a park member pushed you in, then you're on no basis to. The girl didn't choose to be picked on by the other girl. Sometimes the means justifies the ends, but not this time. This isn't the cops having done a multi-year investigation on a mafia-leader but not having legal clearance to get him. I would shoot the bastard. But this school case, all the school had is a lead from a bad-behaved girl to a good one. That immediately should raise a flag. But what should of stopped this whole thing was that it was after Ibuprofen. Some people don't seem to grasp this. It isn't nuclear weapons, it isn't a weapons cache, it isn't even a knife. But painkillers for Christ sake. While it is unfair for her to go thru college for free and many others not, that isn't her fault but the anti-socialist feeling of this country. Education should be free.

Well I've been thinking about this a little bit recently, and I've noticed that the American government must tie off all connections to business. I'm not talking about laissez-faire, but unlike George W. Bush who had ties/worked for/something with oil companies. I don't think politicans should be connected to comapnies and corporations in any way: CEO, co-CEO, family ties to the company, Secretary, etc. The idea behind it is that in real-world capitalism the middle and lower classes make up the majority. In democracy, the government is supposed to be formed by the majority. But if we allow our politics to be tied within business that would mean the minority (upper class) rule the majority. Which isn't democracy. Anyone thought of this?

I think we should put up a warning to all new-comers to Tip.It saying "All Rejoce of the Old RuneScape Will Result in Flames." It's not a personal deal, Olissil. But you must understand that this topic has been beat to death throughout Tip.It's history. And some people are very grouchy when they see another identical thread all over again. I agree that RS was better back then, but that topic has been over-used. Sorry mate.

Are you kidding? Ibuprofen is a minor painkiller usually used for headaches. "STRIP THE ADDICT! MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF HER! BWAHAHAHAHA!" Seems like a proper administrative response, right? It's sick that people could do this to a kid in the first place, but even worse because it was over something for headaches and body aches. You're over reacting as well. You're acting like the VP ripped off her clothes and felt her up when in reality she wasn't even touched. There's no possible way to be traumatized from this and she's just looking for college money from something that happened 6 years ago.. It's not the fact that she wasn't phyiscally abused, but she her humanity was abused. What the administration had was a lead from a trouble-causing student onto a good-behaved one. Who the hell believes that? They had suspicision, fine. But at the same time they can't go far by doing a complete strip search of her for Ibuprofen. The No-Tolerance Policy is a good system, but reduce the rules of drugs. Marijuana or Meth would be more reasonable to search her, but for some painkillers? Christ, at that rate you might as well search folks for pencils. A well-sharpened pencil thrusted right up somebody's mouth into their throats would surely cause serious damage like a weapon. Painkillers can get you high...but it doesn't mean that is their only perpose and the goal of this girl. Good for her, she got college money. The school however, got [bleep]ed and I laugh at them.

Money is the best response to authority. A severe lack of it will cause them to think before they do another strip search...especially for a small drug like this.