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El Diablo

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  1. I guess I'm a bad parent, it never crossed my mind to tell my kid that there were shitty violent people in the world. I assumed that he'd learn this from partaking in life at school.

    I grew up in the 60's and we watched the evening news together as a family. I watched the Vietnam war and the associated protests and riots unfold, nightly. The assassinations of that era were very much a real thing, they would have been hard to hide what with the nation grieving the losses of JFK, RFK, MLK (all them K's) etc...

    Dad and one or two of his brothers had fought in WWII. We knew men with missing limbs and scars and we knew they'd gotten that way from the war. I remember being at a high school football game when I was 5 or so, I know I wasn't yet in school myself, and at halftime there was an honor guard and memorial for a local guy who had lost his life in 'Nam. I knew from a very young age that we were at war but I don't recall anyone ever specifically having a conversation with me about any of it. It was just a part of life.

  2. 8 minutes ago, Snacks said:

    damn woman.
    fine damn woman.
    fine woman.
    damn fine woman.

    220/221

    You can't just go around cussin' however you want, there's rules ass dammit!

  3. I could go for a Married With Children reboot if it was twisted. 20+ years later and they're all complete losers. Fat Peggy, bald drunk Al, bald, fat drunk Bud, Kelly with 3 rugrats and a cigarette permanently stuck in her mouth. And in the 1st episode they win the lottery.

  4. yeah, if he's going to cuss he needs to do it right. I've lived in rural North Carolina and improper cussing was rampant, by grown ass men. "She's a fine damn woman!". No motherfucker, it's "She's a damn fine woman!".

    Catch that shit early, don't let 'em grow up ignernt.

  5. 6 minutes ago, HoustonHorn said:

    Interesting to see how the discussion appears to be focused on Google/YouTube's policies for monetization of advertising for user created content. Crazy or not, she has been extremely successful in bringing to light an issue that was relatively unknown to most people. She has become a somewhat sympathetic figure and gun access to a crazy person is not a part of the larger dialogue.

    This is an aside and not necessarily related to this shooting:

    I really think the narrative when shootings happen (especially mass school shootings) should be that it reaffirms the person was a crazy nutjob psycho weird freak and that is why they were a loner. Instead of glorifying the event and getting sidetracked into a discussion on what the definition of AR is and what color/silencer/mag/ mods are allowed and not allowed, make the focus on how fucked up the person was and that's why everyone hated them to begin with.

    It seems to me these individuals have a mindset to "show" everyone they shouldn't have been disrespected/picked on/had no friends/etc. and make them pay for it when instead the fact they are batfuck crazy enough to shoot people is 100% absolute justification for why nobody liked their crazy ass in the first place.

    If you take away the perceived glamor and glorification in the media and address it as simply they proved that everyone who didn't like them in the first place was right, maybe it reduces the motivation somewhat. Maybe not. But there definitely seems to be a "I'll show them" mentality and maybe we can change that thought process in how its reported.

     

     

    Newscasters should hold their hand up to their forehead in the "L" shape while giving the details of the event.

  6. 3 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

    I once ended up in Antigua, Guatemala rather than Antigua in the Leeward islands because of the ex.  It was due to lack of basic geography knowledge rather than poor navigation though.

    Could have booked a trip to Cartagena.

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  7. 6 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

    Of course not. Our weapons are fear, surprise, and the dizzy feeling you get as your blood sugar drops and you can't think what to eat because your synapses don't work any faster than those of a cow.

    The shooter was going to eat the victims. Shit went wrong but that was the plan.

  8. Autophagy talk not going away. It reminds me that years ago it was noted that tuna with elevated levels of mercury were not terribly affected by it unless they were under stress, that when food was scarce and they began to burn fat stores the mercury would be released (it was stored in the fat) and that was when it would poison them.

    I'm pretty sure that the same holds true for humans, that we remove and then store a lot of toxins in our fat cells and it's not until we burn those cells that the toxins are released to cause their harm. What I wonder about is if the rate of release matters. That is to say, if we slowly burn the fat if the body is somehow better able to dispose of the toxins than if we starve ourselves and rapidly deplete fat stores.

    Another question I've pondered is the effects of a high fat diet on the bacterium of the lower GI.

     

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