5 Forum Posts by "Forteblast"
At 6/1/05 12:48 AM, ClownUnit02 wrote: Whatever you do, don't grab her by the ear and throw up in her dog's anus. I did that once and whew did I get bitch-slapped.
If all you got was a bitch-slap, sounds like you got off easy. If I did that to my girlfriend's dog, she'd probably stab me with a blunt butter knife.
At 5/31/05 04:13 PM, eyeknowstuff wrote: I just don't see what's wrong with skin, I mean we show each other our arms and faces all the time. Why can't we show each other the rest of our bodies...
You know, there are lots and lots of people who agree with you. You might want to check into a remarkable little invention by those like-minded people called a "nudist colony". You could also try living in Africa, but if you're not dark-skinned yourself, you might want to bring some sunblock. Aside from obvious modesty reasons, clothes are helpful for protecting you from inclement weather. I can't say I'd want to be naked in a snowstorm, or even a rainstorm.
As for skyrocketing sexual assault rates and all that... that's not true at all. Television in England, for example, has a much more liberal view of nudity and sexuality, and I don't believe their rate of sexual crime is any higher than in America. Conversely, they are much more likely to censor violence, both in the media and in people's own homes - not even police officers carry guns, and shooting someone even in self-defense can get you thrown in jail for a long, long time - and their violent crime rate is actually higher than in America for some types of crime.
Wow... I'm still laughing my ass off at all the "grg w bush is the wrst EVAR@!!!!!" posts. If you think that the U.S. is worse off now than it has EVER been in history, you are sorely mistaken. Why don't you stop listening to your tree-hugging hippie parents for a second, crack a textbook, and formulate an opinion yourself for a change? Are you old enough to even remember having a president other than George W.?
Anyway, you can say bad things about a lot of presidents, but a lot of those things arise from the economic and world events going on at the time, and the president in charge merely received the blame. One could argue that any president - regardless of political party - would have acted in a similar way.
Example: Some have bashed Truman for dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now, put yourself in the president's shoes for a moment. You've been fighting a war for four years now. Hundreds of your troops are being killed, captured, or wounded every day. You've heard of the atrocities that the Japanese troops have committed in the island nations of the Far East. The naval battle has been nearly won, however, your best tacticians and scientists estimate that over a million American troops would die in a land assault on the Japanese isles. Also, you have a weapon which has only seen testing and not actual combat, that millions of dollars (then a large sum) and thousands of man-hours have been spent on. This fearsome weapon has the potential to end the war and spare the lives of possibly hundreds of thousands of Americans, despite a cost of thousands of Japanese lives. What would you do?
Democrat or Republican, the choice is pretty clear here. If it was later found out by the public that you had an atomic bomb that you did not use, and thousands of their friends and relatives were killed and the war prolonged as a result, you'd be lucky not to be assassinated on the spot.
Now obviously many other presidential decisions have been quite as drastic, but you can see my point here. Before you call one president or another "the worst" or just plain bad, consider that the world around him may have left him no choice. Is it that hard to picture Al Gore invading Afghanistan - or even Iraq - when faced with the unmatched public outcry of September 11, 2001? Is it that hard to picture John Kerry faced with a slumping economy and rising gas prices now, even if he had won the election last year?
Think about that before you foolishly call GWB or any other modern president "the worst". Let history decide their true place in it. If you think the war demonstrations were bad now, ask your parents about the ones for the Vietnam war. Nixon and Johnson were two of the most hated presidents at the time, but nowadays you'd have a hard time saying that they were "the worst".
At 5/26/05 07:09 PM, SlipperyMooseCakes wrote: So anyway, most of you if not all are much older then me. Did you guys go through the same thing, or am I just messed up sometimes?
Being a teenager is tough. Just remember that you could be going through REAL life right now, which is worse.
The fact that you realized you were being a prick after you did it is a big leap. I don't think I made that realization until I was 18 or 19. My opinion of my parents nowadays is that 99% of the time, if I'm mad at them, they're actually right, and I'm acting like a jerk.
At 5/26/05 03:15 PM, Elfer wrote: People get fired for cracking jokes at work now?
If it portrays the company in a negative light in a public forum, you bet they do. I nearly got fired from working at a bank for this - but I quit first.
