Get it out. Get it off your chest.

[Locutus of Bored]

So rant about anything? I was down at the precinct trying to clear this up yesterday, so i'm still pretty pissed.

So two weeks ago, a friend of mine calls me. Asks me to meet her in Stockholm (a 30km trip). So I figured why not. I show up at the restaurant and I see her seven year old sister there. Nice gal, so I didnt really think anything of it. Thing is, about 20 minutes after I show up. A Piket team (swedish SWAT) storms the restaurant. Apparently they were after some drug dealer they believed to be inside. Now I'm all for, frankly, shooting every single one sight so I don't blame them for storming the place. Bloody hell...

But I do blame the ****head who scared the shit out of my frineds seven year old sister by pointing an SMG at her. Now what kind of a moron, threatens a seven year old with an mp5? We had to fucking shield her to get the guys attention, and frankly, i don't like being in the line of fire...

We filed a report, but hey who's gonna take my (or her's) word for it when a cop says otherwise. They are virtually untouchable, bloody morons... And people ask me why i have absolutely no faith in the justice system...

You should blame them for storming a crowded restaurant during business hours, putting civilians in the line of fire and creating the potential for a hostage situation where none existed before. That's completely reckless and irresponsible. If they knew the guy was in the building, why not quietly establish a perimeter watch and apprehend him on the way out when there weren't a bunch of extra people to cover or endanger? Pointing a SMG at a child is one of numerous things that were wrong in that scenario.

 

[Subcommander R.]

No, he got that - he's just connecting it to the fact that where you smelled it you were also surrounded with a bunch of Civil War re-enacters, who are up with Trekkies on the scale of nerd-stereotypes for not washing


Pot smell to me is vaseline burning on cardboard.

No, I live in the freaking ghetto. I smell it at least twice a week. I'm saying that the smell is not from a single incident, the characterization is a summation of cumulative experience.

Why is this so hard to explain?

Okay, take a breath.

It isn't hard to explain.

I didn't misunderstood you and I don't think Santa's Camel did either. Since you said you knew the smell from being with Civil War Re-enacters, the joke is there that maybe the BO smell came from the Re-enacters not the pot, that's all.

Again, disconnect here.

The smell is a default. I mentioned it on the bus.

I stated that the smell of horse crap and BO is known from reenacting. Then I said the two were equivalent. I never connected them in the same setting.

Thats why I'm getting annoyed. There is no connection between the exposure to scent.

Also, if anyone showed up with drugs to a reenactment they'd be sent packing. Around that much gunpowder and sharp objects, no way Jose.

 

[ares93]

You should blame them for storming a crowded restaurant during business hours, putting civilians in the line of fire and creating the potential for a hostage situation where none existed before. That's completely reckless and irresponsible. If they knew the guy was in the building, why not quietly establish a perimeter watch and apprehend him on the way out when there weren't a bunch of extra people to cover or endanger? Pointing a SMG at a child is one of numerous things that were wrong in that scenario.

Those guys were a bunch of imbecile, triggerhappy, macho, shitheads who had probably no idea what anything you just said means. Yes, the place was a tactical nightmare. but i didnt care of any hostage situations and shit. my biggest concern was to keep the kid out of danger. you wouldn't believe what these guys (not them per se, but PIKET overall) are capable of.

My neighbor is a filing clerk, and the things he gets to see are just frightening. most of what i hear is second hand information but theres one i can confirm since i saw the file myself.

They stormed a guys house while he was making breakfast. ergo, he had a buttering knife in his hand when they got into the kitchen. they put three in his chest because they felt threatened. and the chief singed off on it as a "righteous kill".

now if thats not criminal, i dont know what is.

 

[Subcommander R.]

They stormed a guys house while he was making breakfast. ergo, he had a buttering knife in his hand when they got into the kitchen. they put three in his chest because they felt threatened. and the chief singed off on it as a "righteous kill".

now if thats not criminal, i dont know what is.

Since you weren't there actually seeing it, you aren't qualified to pass judgement.

Everyone loves to show their opinion on everything nowadays, and I understand that. But everyone is disproportionately swift to condemn law enforcement, even when they don't know what happened.

 

[ares93]

Since you weren't there actually seeing it, you aren't qualified to pass judgement.

Everyone loves to show their opinion on everything nowadays, and I understand that. But everyone is disproportionately swift to condemn law enforcement, even when they don't know what happened.

Yeah, I wasn't there. But i read the file. Their own words of what happened.

 

[KJbushway]

Sorry for the delay, but you're totally connecting two different things. I'm saying that the smell is the way I described it.

So I'm saying:

Pot smell = BO + Horse crap +8 hours + heat

No, he got that - he's just connecting it to the fact that where you smelled it you were also surrounded with a bunch of Civil War re-enacters, who are up with Trekkies on the scale of nerd-stereotypes for not washing


Pot smell to me is vaseline burning on cardboard.

No, I live in the freaking ghetto. I smell it at least twice a week. I'm saying that the smell is not from a single incident, the characterization is a summation of cumulative experience.

Why is this so hard to explain?

I agree with the fact that people need to be nicer and either sit in the way back if they have to absolutely do it or wait till they get home with their sun chips.

 

[KJbushway]

Regarding Hanes' new “Lay Flat Collar” for which I keep seeing commercials and pop-up ads -- it is lie flat, not lay flat. One lays something down, once down, one lies.

Or, to put it another way, “lay” is transitive (takes a direct object); “lie” is intransitive. Reminds me of Dorothy Parker’s quip: “It's a small apartment -- I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends.”

People that want to use taxes and/or regulations to discourage food that has enough fat, sugar or salt to actually taste good.

Hear, hear. It’s not the job of government to protect adults from the consequences of their own free choices. If eating a fast food burger and fries every couple of weeks shortens my lifespan by a year or two (and there’s no proof of that), so be it. What’s the point of having a long life if it means being paranoid about all the alleged poison in your food and living like a goddamn monk?

No, I live in the freaking ghetto. I smell it at least twice a week. I'm saying that the smell is not from a single incident, the characterization is a summation of cumulative experience.

Why is this so hard to explain?

Okay, take a breath.

It isn't hard to explain.

I didn't misunderstood you and I don't think Santa's Camel did either. Since you said you knew the smell from being with Civil War Re-enacters, the joke is there that maybe the BO smell came from the Re-enacters not the pot, that's all.

Yes, I was making a JOKE. A lame-ass joke, but a joke nonetheless.

Oh, and I like the way your holiday username cleverly plays on your regular username. Although I assume you’re aware that “trampled a magi” is ungrammatical. The singular is “magus.”

I think that if the price of un-healthy stuff is so low, which sometimes drives someone to buy it if they are on a budget, then they should raise it and lower the price of healthy foods. If the price goes up, only the people that really want it will still buy it.
Thats fine and as ADULTS you can very well make your own decision. But when there is 7 junk food vending machines in just 1/2 of a school, the kids are in danger, because they can't get past 'OH that looks good!
Control what the children eat, epically when diabetes is on the rise along with Obesity.

 

[scotpens]

I think that if the price of un-healthy stuff is so low, which sometimes drives someone to buy it if they are on a budget, then they should raise it and lower the price of healthy foods. If the price goes up, only the people that really want it will still buy it.

That's called social engineering, which is not a legitimate purpose of taxation. The only justifiable reason for taxes is to provide enough revenue for the government to perform its necessary functions.

Thats fine and as ADULTS you can very well make your own decision. But when there is 7 junk food vending machines in just 1/2 of a school, the kids are in danger, because they can't get past 'OH that looks good!
Control what the children eat, epically when diabetes is on the rise along with Obesity.

I agree. Parents, along with teachers, school administrators and others acting in loco parentis, should control what children eat -- not an intrusive nanny government.

 

[Lookingglassman]

I paid a loser $450 bucks to do some work on my house back in Sept and he never did it and keeps lying about returning the money. Now I have to go to court over it. I would love nothing than to scratch the heck out of his vehicle so he has to pay more than $450 to get it repaired, but I wont do it. I believe in God and God can do worse to him than I could ever do.

 

[KJbushway]

Good luck with the that. ^

 

[KJbushway]

I think that if the price of un-healthy stuff is so low, which sometimes drives someone to buy it if they are on a budget, then they should raise it and lower the price of healthy foods. If the price goes up, only the people that really want it will still buy it.

That's called social engineering, which is not a legitimate purpose of taxation. The only justifiable reason for taxes is to provide enough revenue for the government to perform its necessary functions.

Thats fine and as ADULTS you can very well make your own decision. But when there is 7 junk food vending machines in just 1/2 of a school, the kids are in danger, because they can't get past 'OH that looks good!
Control what the children eat, epically when diabetes is on the rise along with Obesity.

I agree. Parents, along with teachers, school administrators and others acting in loco parentis, should control what children eat -- not an intrusive nanny government.

Fine than the price for both should be low. I believe it should be taxed, not highly, but it would give revenue to the government. Healthy life is a choice, it shouldn't be a bank emptier.

 

[sojourner]

Did you ever think the price on "healthy food" is higher because it might be more expensive to produce?


I hate it when someone comes into a thread and makes a post giving information that has already been mentioned numerous times, or asks for information that has been given numerous times in a thread. And I'm not talking about 100 page threads. I'm talking about 3 and 4 pagers.

 

[siskokid888]

If the area of the country west of the Hudson river, east of the Rockies, and south of Chicago fell into a black hole tomorrow, the world would be an instantly better place.

 

[Subcommander R.]

If the area of the country west of the Hudson river, east of the Rockies, and south of Chicago fell into a black hole tomorrow, the world would be an instantly better place.

Then we'd lose our national agriculture production, which accounts for a sizable area of exports, and we'd also lose all the oil in Texas and the Gulf, and we'd lose priceless areas of culture and history as well as losing most of our military personnel (who disproportionately come from middle america).

 

[B.J.]

If the area of the country west of the Hudson river, east of the Rockies, and south of Chicago fell into a black hole tomorrow, the world would be an instantly better place.

I'd argue the exact opposite.

 

[sojourner]

Surely Newark, New Jersey is the blackhole of the United States?

 

[Subcommander R.]

Surely Newark, New Jersey is the blackhole of the United States?

Believe it or not, from what I've seen I like anywhere in NJ better than Manhattan.

I even suggest we replace Gitmo and waterboarding with six hour waits at Penn Station, that will crack any terrorist.

 

[Kestra]

I get that this thread is about venting, but it's possibly not the nicest thing to insult places that other posters may call home.

 

[Subcommander R.]

I get that this thread is about venting, but it's possibly not the nicest thing to insult places that other posters may call home.

Well, to go on the record:

I live in Lancaster California. Its the Mojave Desert and Gang Wars Episode II: Compton Strikes Back.

Insult it to your heart's content.

 

[Kestra]

Well, to go on the record:

I live in Lancaster California. Its the Mojave Desert and Gang Wars Episode II: Compton Strikes Back.

Insult it to your heart's content.

I didn't mean to just pick on you, by the way. And I don't know the reference so I'm afraid I can't insult you!

I've been trying to think of something to rant about but I'm astonishingly content at the moment. I'm sure that'll change within the next few days.