I would have invited you if I'd been there for fun... :p

*huggles Heston* Much better, thanks. lol

*tacklehugs* Sorry, was in Vegas at a conference... and then 2 solid weeks closeted with 9 other people in workshops.

How's my doggie?

Aww... poor Patience. :( Elephants are so much like people, just without that higher level of understanding. And she certainly doesn't need to be put down - people just need to stop keeping wild animals in zoos and expecting them to behave like kittens and puppies. Leave them in the wild where they belong!

Heston, the back is better than new... but if you don't stop dropping the C-bomb, I'm gonna whup you senseless. :p

lol... Oh come on, I know you - you'd explode. ;)

You can post all the negative remarks you want, and you can even get away with an expletive or two. Just not 30 of them all strung together. :p

Ooooh, another oldie! *waves*

I'm with braden. I thought it was Canadians that they ripped on most often. lol

Heston - yeesh. Yeah, we're more liberal here. No, you still can't spout a string of expletives like that without some consequence. :p

*blink*

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That was... OMG... such eloquence... I think I'm speechless.

Wow... I wasn't expecting that at all. I talked to him just over a year ago, and we joked around about me moving to AZ... he was a good guy, despite our checkered past (he threatened to hunt me and my entire family down and kill us all, at one point - lol). In later years I really enjoyed trading sarcastic banter with him. I knew he had issues, we had chatted a bit about his leg, but I had no idea it was life-threatening.

Sleep well, my friend. :(

PapaSmurf: Now you have some idea of how disgusting it is for us women when you men pee all over the damned toilet. (P.S. It's just as disgusting when you lift the seat and pee all over the rim as it is when you pee all over the seat - so WIPE IT UP!!!!)

:p

Two of them got me, Marshal... but they couldn't KEEP me. ;)

de1i: You don't have to stay in slums to qualify for a cheap trip to Mexico!

When did the (jewelry industry contrived) rule change? It used to be 3 months' salary for the engagement ring. :p

If you've got a woman who cares about that sort of thing, you're in for a rough ride. lol I'd be happier with a big ol' cubic zirconia and a cheap trip to Mexico. :p

Wait just a minute. Did you just fart in his general direction? Because I think that might be a banning offense (depending on what you had for dinner)...

>:}

Cheque? What cheque??? *shifty eyes*

General rule: Never ever ever EVER sign anything that says 'I received money' until you actually have the said amount in your hot little hand. ;)

I was mostly referring to the whole 'two letter word vs. two word phrase' tangent, which made me actually shake my head and giggle... but sure, the whole thread is pretty goofy. lol

This thread makes me want to poke myself in the eye with a fork. lol

*throws a red flag* Separate corners, you two. Yeesh.

And I dunno about Jer Bu, but I'm way better than I used to be. lol

lol... I love this thread.

Uh... I beg to differ, because I was head of FA at LaF. Not head of FR. :p

I call shenanigans. 'Gainsboro' is not a color. :p

LCN is #11.

*huggles*

I vote we give Kinnin 25 extra bonus points for using the word 'postulate' in a sentence. :D

Ahhh, Edinburgh... my second favorite city. Obviously do the castle and the Royal Mile/Holyrood Palace. Do a formal distillery tour, and DEFINITELY do the walking tour of the Underground City. It's pretty awesome. They also have a Ghosts & Goblins walking tour that's pretty entertaining (you'll see sandwich boards on the street advertising where and at what time to meet, used to cost about 6 quid). The Edinburgh Vaults are also cool, as are any of the museums.

Edinburgh is especially cool because they ran out of room to build out and had to build UP to accommodate the population (thus the Underground City - the poor people were just paved over, and ended up living completely underground). Because of that, there are entire streets under buildings. Take some of the alleyways ('Closes') off the Royal Mile, like Mary King's Close, and have a wander.

Greyfriar's Kirk (church) and Bedlam Theatre are also worth a quick visit.

Never made it to Glasgow, but Hadrian's Wall is worth seeing (don't budget too much time, because it is, after all, just a wall in the middle of nowhere)... and I'd also make a trip to St. Andrew's if you can afford the time. And maybe the Firth of Forth.

I wanna go too. :(

That shouldn't come as a shock to anyone by now. lol

Don't make me spank you. :p

Hey, I don't wants no Earth troublemakers signing me up for all kinds of pr0n newsletters!!! :p

*bans martian*

<--- still a Bu () :p

It completely escapes me how you people can continually fail to grasp the concept that there NEVER WOULD HAVE BEEN A CONFRONTATION if Zimmerman had simply followed the direction not to follow Martin, and to simply wait until the police came. Or if he had simply TALKED to Martin instead of stalking him like some kind of psycopath.

I don't give a rat's ass about whether Martin was an altar boy or a freakin' gangbanger with a backpack full of heroin. He did nothing THAT NIGHT that should have resulted in him even being followed, let alone shot and killed. Zimmerman caused that entire situation, whatever his intentions were - which makes him 100% culpable in the murder of another human being. He had no less than THREE opportunities to prevent it, and he didn't take any of them. He's a murderer, plain and simple, and the only thing that prevented him from being convicted of murder is the assinine laws in place where it happened. Stupidity reigned supreme in this particular case, which is just a sad thing for humanity as a whole.

</rant> I'm done here. There's no reasoning with some of you people. Yeesh.

Oh, I dunno... maybe because some NUTJOB was following him and had refused to speak to him once already when questioned about it??? I wouldn't want to lead the nutjob to MY house, either.

Apparently not. So tell me this - if it's so bad down there and everybody's so afraid of the 'little gangbanging punks', why didn't he just BACK THE EFF OFF and wait for the police??? That's all he had to do. And because he didn't do that simple thing and instead made the decision to escalate the situation more than once, he should have been found guilty of manslaughter at the very least.

Wow. Someone needs a hug.

lmnop.

They're baaaaccckkkkk... :D Happy now.

OMG. Seriously? Zimmerman, by his own account, was following Martin through the complex. At some point he lost him - because Martin, probably feeling threatened after already having tried to find out why this older man was following him and having the window rolled up in his face, had gone around a corner and let Zimmerman pass so he could find out why he was being followed. He, by Zimmerman's account, came out behind him and asked what his problem was. By my count, that was the THIRD opportunity Zimmerman had to simply say 'Hey, I'm part of the neighborhood watch and I didn't recognize you'. Did he do that? No. What he did will only ever be known by Zimmerman - because he's the only one left alive to tell the story. He killed the only other witness.

But he didn't have to. He had THREE opportunities to simply ask what Martin was doing there, or to turn around and let the police handle it. He knew they were on their way. But he didn't wait - he, however it happened, got himself into a confrontation and ended up taking an innocent life.

Yeah, I said innocent. That 'kid' (yes, he was a 17-year-old KID, regardless of what dirt the defense scattered around in a vain attempt to make him look like some kind of gang banger) was doing nothing more than walking home from the store. Suddenly he finds himself being followed. He tries to ask why, and gets the cold shoulder - and the guy CONTINUES to follow him. I'd have been freaked out too.

All Zimmerman had to do to prevent a confrontation was ask a simple question, or back the eff off and wait for the police to sort it out. I hope there's a special place in hell for his overzealous-vigilante bad self, and I hope he rots there for eternity.

But I'm not bitter. :p

No, YOU!

OMG, it really IS 10 years ago! lol NorCal!!!! JER BUUUUUUU!!!! Darrian!!! And Chump and tully, too!!! *claps hands and squeals like a little girl*

Did someone organize a reunion and forget to tell me?

There's another name I haven't heard in ages!

That can't really be NorCal...

But... but... I LIKED them! :( I MISS them! lol

qzjul loves me. He'll fix them. lol

Hahaha... *smack* :p I'm talking about the FORUMS, sillies.

I gots no pictures on my screen anymore... is it just me?

But... but... THE CHEESE IS GREATER THAN THE LETTUCE AND TOMATO COMBINED!!!

Oh - oh... AND IT STANDS ALONE!!!

I too vote for the loony bin. :p

See, that's the problem - you and I seem to have a VERY different view on who the aggressor was in this situation. I say it was Zimmerman, who was clearly stalking the victim (Trayvon) and who got out of his car and approached him. Aggressive.

I fail to see how you view Trayvon as the aggressor, when he was clearly defending himself against a KNOWN threat. He was no threat to Zimmerman until ZIMMERMAN made the aggressive move of getting out of his car.

Thank you, tella and Pang. It boggles the mind that so many people are incapable of recognizing the root cause of this whole event - which is the fact that Zimmerman never should have gotten out of his car. If he had listened to the dispatcher and not followed Trayvon any further once told that the police were on their way, we wouldn't be having this debate. He was wrong, and he should have paid a price for it. Regardless of what happened after - yes, I believe Trayvon laid hands on him, but I believe he did it because *HE* felt threatened by a 28-year-old man who had been stalking him in a vehicle. Doesn't matter. He would not have been able to attack Zimmerman if the guy had simply STAYED IN HIS DAMNED CAR and waited for police.

I believe he got out of the car because he was packing a gun, and it gave him the balls to confront Trayvon. I don't believe he would have ever gotten out of the car if he hadn't had the gun - and Trayvon Martin would still be alive.

It ain't rocket science.

What I find particularly insulting is that Zimmerman is stating that, if he found himself in an identical situation tomorrow, he wouldn't do anything differently. That's the great tragedy here, is that he didn't learn anything after taking a life. And I hope there's a special place in hell for him where he'll finally pay for the mistakes he made.

Oh great. That'll help. NOT. *sigh* It'll be Rodney King all over again. :(