Shooting at Virginia Tech

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

I don't think you have any stories. I think you exhibit this false internet bravado to bolster your self-esteem, which, in itself, is sick.

Back to throwing insults, again, and you call me sick?
I could make-up as many stories as I have time for and you would take that as proof?
I worked on a ranch and defended myself against poachers and animals and was an armed bouncer and security for three years. What you believe means nothing to the world.

[Shawnee123]

Anyone with a decent education knows you can make stats say anything you want.

4 out of 5 dentists surveyed recommend this toothpaste. They don't tell you the dentists polled have no teeth, or are dead, or if it's just that they recommend ANY toothpaste, and the toothpaste being touted is, of course, A toothpaste.

I'm just not bowled by spouting stats. It's like a goddam Spout Circus.

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

I'm just not bowled by spouting stats. It's like a goddam Spout Circus.

[TheMercenary]

The purple part resembles the mouth, therefore this researcher failed to list the weaknesses of his statistical mode, therefore the study is invalid and no evidence exists that blips may or may not be eaten by this round yellow-purple thingy.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

The purple part resembles the mouth, therefore this researcher failed to list the weaknesses of his statistical mode, therefore the study is invalid and no evidence exists that blips may or may not be eaten by this round yellow-purple thingy.

You don't play much Pac-Man, do you?

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by BigV

You don't play much Pac-Man, do you?

Probably not, since it's a long way from 1983.

Any chance I get to use this quote from Baseketball, I will:

Denslow: Now wait a minute, hear me out! Now you kids with your loud music and your Dan Fogelberg, your Zima, hula hoops and Pac-Man video games, don't you see? People today have attention spans that can only be measured in nanoseconds.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by BigV

You don't play much Pac-Man, do you?

Use to. When it first came out, when I was a teen and college student. Wasn't that before you were born?

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

And if you're not "protecting" yourself or a loved one, is it worth killing for?

What it always comes down to, Spexx, in all these threads, is that you wouldn't kill someone who is just trying to steal your stuff. You value the criminal's life slightly less than yours or your family's, but always more than everything else.*

You need to accept that lots of people don't have that particular hangup.


*I can't recall if you've weighed in on whether your wife getting raped would count as life-threatening or something not worth killing over.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

What it always comes down to, Spexx, in all these threads, is that you wouldn't kill someone who is just trying to steal your stuff. You value the criminal's life slightly less than yours or your family's, but always more than everything else.*

You need to accept that lots of people don't have that particular hangup.


*I can't recall if you've weighed in on whether your wife getting raped would count as life-threatening or something not worth killing over.

So what posession is worth killing for? A TV? A pack of gum? Certainly there's a continuum - where do you killers draw the line?

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

So what posession is worth killing for? A TV? A pack of gum? Certainly there's a continuum - where do you killers draw the line?

[Urbane Guerrilla]

The mischief is compounded by the unfortunate fact that I don't know any women from Upper Bulgaria.

[Quel fromage.] {to rhyme with dommage}

[Shawnee123]

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[Shawnee123]

Cop-out alert.

[Shawnee123]

Who, me? I remember my friend's Junior High aged brother telling us (high school girls) about this amazing game you could play at the grocery store. Back then, it was fascinating!

I forgot you were in my age range.

I'm an old bat...42 (though am told I look early 30's, clean living and all) Graduated HS in '83 and college in '87!

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Who, me? I remember my friend's Junior High aged brother telling us (high school girls) about this amazing game you could play at the grocery store. Back then, it was fascinating!

I'm an old bat...42 (though am told I look early 30's, clean living and all) Graduated HS in '83 and college in '87!

That was the only place we could play it back then, I use to play it at the 7/11. That and Donkey Kong, and a bunch of other Atari games, I can't even remember them all. We use to play those at the Pizza place just off campus. Back then we could drink beer at the age of 18 (3.2), you just had to drink twice as much.