Anya
Extreme Fanatic   Posts: 656 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 27/8/2003 at 07:42 AM |
Alright, no offense to people who live in California, but what the fuck' is
the use of outlawing rubber cement for those under 18 years old? In my
area, they've pretty much done that - even though it is part of the school
supplies most of the time. Yes there's been cases of people sniffing it
and glue, but my gawd. I guess only people 18 and over are allowed to
sniff it. 
Note: My mom reacted to the situation basically by yelling, "I'm over 18
and I promise that I'll go home and sniff it right away!!" She was
kidding, of course, but I thought that it was funny, heh.
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Ironboots
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 893 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 5/9/2003 at 07:34 PM |
I wonder... would Freddy Cougar and Edward Scissorhands be banned just
because they have scary-looking hand implements?
Another reason chucks are probably banned is that they are embarrasing in
the hands of idiots. I mean, if you had all these people wavin' around
sticks and knocking themselves in the heads, you'd:
1. Lower the image of California as a smart state.
2. Cause a dramatic increase in the number of emergency room visits,
costing hospitals millions.
As for the sword thing, I would have thought those things were banned in
public... I'm certainly not going to go out and wave a sword in the park...
Eh, I don't care... I'll take a sword to chucks any day (partly because I
am one of those aformentioned idiots) ____________________
Piggy's got the Conch!
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Xaoswolf
Fanatic   Posts: 463 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 5/9/2003 at 07:28 AM |
It's simple squiddo my boy, chucks are scary, swords aren't.
That's why butterfly knives are most automatic knives are also illegal.
They scare people.
That's the same reason that the assualt weapons ban disallows weapons that
look like military rifels. They are scary.... ____________________
Sometimes I dream about dinosaurs shopping for cargo shorts at the Gap.
Does that make me a bad person?
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Domkitten
Fanatic  Posts: 470 Registered: 23/9/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 5/9/2003 at 05:28 AM |
| Arthegarn please tell me there is a law out there somewhere that makes it
illegal for people to hit you with a car? please? ____________________
It's like kegel exercises for your throat.~Monolycus
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IamSquid
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 658 Registered: 27/5/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 5/9/2003 at 12:20 AM |
here's one of my favorites:
While living in San Francisco I noticed that people would practice Tai Chi
everywhere; in the park, on the street corner, at a bus stop; and many of
these times they would practice using swords (which is fairly common to do,
I had just never seen it done in public quite that way).
At one point the police confiscated 2 pairs of my chucks. Why? Because in
the state of california it's a fucking FELONY to even own a pair of chuck
even if they never leave yor home!
So, quick recap: Waving around a sword indiscriminatly in public = OK ...
2 sticks connected by a chain = FELONY! ____________________
i wanted to die, and then it progressed into wanting everyone else to
die so i could watch, and then me die.
-ickgirl
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Anya
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 656 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 28/8/2003 at 07:36 PM |
It isn't completely a bad deal, I guess. Just kind of sucks for I was able
to drive in my previous homestate and now I'm underaged, lol.
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Merry_Widow
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posted on 28/8/2003 at 05:48 PM |
Yes, actually, minors have been incredibly irresponsible. For a fun evening
at home, look up accidents due to illegal drag racing. Then take a gander
at the deaths due to those accidents. It's not cool, a young lady I should
have graduated with was killed a month before graduation because of two
other idiots doing over 100mph down a road.
While you can get your license in CA at 16, there are several restrictions
based on time behind the wheel. The accident rate in underaged drivers has
been going up. If you want proof, go drive through a highschool when
classes let out.
It really isn't that big of a deal to wait until after your 18. I did.
Frankly, I don't think I could have handled it if I had started driving at
a younger age. ____________________
Okay, dazzle me.
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Anya
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 656 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 28/8/2003 at 02:53 PM |
Oh fuck@the lawsuit issue.
There's so many insane lawsuits out there that it isn't funny. That's even
worse than the lady sueing McDonald's for spilling their coffee on her lap.
Common sense seems to have little place in the United States anymore. I'm
sorry to hear about your friend Nicolas. I hope that he makes it through
the ridiculous case.
I also find it unfortunate that I cannot get a job until I'm 18 and that
I'll not be having a driver's license for California due to the fact that
I'm not 18 yet. Are minors being that irresponsible (dropping out of
school due to having a car, etc)? Geez. That means me spending another
year relying on my parents. In Kansas, I'd be able to keep my license and
get a job to start living on my own - I know a lot of you guys don't like
that place, but at least there's not as many 'legal issues' to deal with
there, hehe. >.< I'm really not sure where they're going with the 18 age
thing.
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Psychopixi
Fanatic  Posts: 376 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 28/8/2003 at 02:22 PM |
| Ditto on the lighters / lighter fluid thing here. My ex bought a zippo,
wicks and flints from a store in the market, but they wouldn't sell him the
zippo fuel because he wasn't eighteen! You can smoke at sixteen, so
apparently it's fine for you to kill yourself with cancer, just not by
zippo fuel. Arses. ____________________
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 28/8/2003 at 12:39 PM |
| If you wanna see a good "huffing" movie (there are several other main
issues/threads throughout the film like the pro-choice/pro-life movement)
go rent "Citizen Ruth". It's fucking hillarious. ____________________
Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
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Nicholas
Member   Posts: 74 Registered: 17/3/2003 Status: Offline
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posted on 28/8/2003 at 11:59 AM |
I have a legal issue (red light begings ammiting from eyes)
my friend is going to be SUED because he was RAN OVER BY A CAR!
We were biking home from blockbuster with Silent Hill 3... which we were
going to play all night and get scared shitless. Anyway, we're at the top
of the hill, waiting for the light, Ian starts to cross, and out of nowhere
this red car zooms by and nails him. He goes flying over the hood (he was
at least 6 feet of the ground), flips several times, and lands on the roof.
The lady stops, police, ambulance come, etc.
Ian manages to walk away with only a bruised tailbone (we have no clue how
the fuck he got away with only that, but I guess it's not his time yet).
The woman wants him to pay for body repairs and to replace the window that
he shattered WHEN SHE RAN HIM OVER WHILE SPEEDING TO MAKE IT THROUGH THE
YELLOW LIGHT. AND SHE MIGHT WIN. While I'm very happy that my best friend
isn't dead, I think it's ridicolous that he's being fined FOR LIVING. ____________________
"Be neither a master nor a slave to pudding, for there is a time to gather,
and a time to cast pudding away"
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MystryssRavynDarque
Extreme Fanatic  Posts: 648 Registered: 24/9/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 28/8/2003 at 09:21 AM |
Hehehehe! Reminds me of a time my dad was on a trip for work, and he had
another guy from work with him. They were driving up to Tallahasse (I
think), and they had to stop at a motel for the night. My dad went to the
bathroom, came back out, and there sits the guy with silver spray paint all
over his nose.
I say if people want to fuck themselves up with spray paint, it's no skin
off my nose, just off theirs! DARWIN! ____________________
"People always say what we are looking for is a meaning for life…I don't
think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is the
experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell
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Shade
Fanatic  Posts: 289 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 28/8/2003 at 06:31 AM |
"Then she sneezed blue"
Holy shit. That is too funny. I remember this guy I worked with actually
got arrested because he was enough of an idiot to be huffing spray paint
out of a sock (Make ball with sock, spray paint, snort paint) at work. I'm
still not entirely sure what they arrested him for since stupidity isn't
quite illegal yet, but it was another one of those circumstances that would
have been funny if it hadn't been hilarious. They startled him mid huff and
he sneezed or something, but when he looked up to ask what was wrong his
nose was painted rustoleum red. ____________________
It is only through the lack of sex that humanity derives the need for an
all encompassing blind love. And in that moment of extreme horniness with
no relief in sight, in that moment can be found the birth of religion.
-Me
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Merry_Widow
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posted on 27/8/2003 at 10:10 PM |
| I remember having this conversation with a girl once, she sat there
swearing up and down that she wasn't a huffer, never had been. Then she
sneezed blue. It would have been funny if it weren't so freaking hilarious. ____________________
Okay, dazzle me.
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chameleon
Member  Posts: 83 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 27/8/2003 at 07:51 PM |
| And don't you just love the stories you hear about people who huffed and
killed themselves? At my school some girl did that, and she was a known
stoner, and yet, she was regaled as a role model and icon of the school's
excellence at her funeral... I swear... I don't think there's any law in GA
about buying that stuff if you're under 18 though. Note to all huffers ont
eh site: you mgiht be able to get some stuff without any hassle int he
South. ____________________
The perfect mind is like a mirror. It grasps nothing. It expects nothing.
It reflects but does not hold. Therefore, the perfect man can act without
effort.
~Chuang Tsu
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Ironboots
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 893 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 27/8/2003 at 07:25 PM |
Yeah, spray paint isn't allowed to kids because some jackasses can't seem
to tell the difference between a canvas and a person's private property. If
you've ever been to an urban area, you know what I'm talking about... I
mean, in LA the tagging's VERY bad in parts, with taggers running out of
room and having to tag over the graffiti.
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Merry_Widow
Fanatic Posts: 598 Registered: 24/8/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 27/8/2003 at 02:22 PM |
!8 to join the military, if you have parental consent, you can go younger.
21 to legally own a firearm, and you have to go through a series of classes
first.
Pellet guns are under new scrutiny, ever since a bunch of idiot rich kids
almost beat some elderly immigrant workers to death, after chasing them
around with the BB guns.
Kids under 18 can buy lighters and such if they have an adult with them. My
brother is 16, and I went with him when he bought his last zippo, and I go
when he needs fuel or flints or whatnot.
Spray paint is also unvailable to the kiddies. I remember we had a problem
with that in highschool drama when we ran out of the stuff. A couple of
kids ran out to get some so we could finish up a set, and they couldn't buy
it, being under 18. ____________________
Okay, dazzle me.
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Tvileren
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posted on 27/8/2003 at 01:34 PM |
I think they can join the military right after high school, so problaby
around 16? I think it's a free for all when it comes to BB guns too.
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Arthegarn
Member  Posts: 79 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 27/8/2003 at 12:39 PM |
Ah, I love you, people. Just out of curiosity: I see your government does
it best to prevent you from killing yourselves until you're 18... can you
kill others? Since when can you own a gun?
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bettie_x
Extreme Fanatic Posts: 1570 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 27/8/2003 at 10:29 AM |
You can all thank your less responsible counterparts (ie: the general idiot
teenage population) for that. In my state you can buy refillable lighters
at any age, you just can't buy lighter fluid until you're 18. I'm not sure
about the glue bit, and yes it's stupid, but I think they're trying to
prevent future huffers, but are going to fail miserably because there are a
zillion things out there that people can sniff to fry their brains.
I do remember making sets for a play in highschool in the theater and our
drama teacher was kind of a moron, and we were using big cans of rubber
cement which he left open, yet did not leave the doors open nor bring fans,
and after about an hour he got up for a break and fell right off the stage.
Right about then someone walked into the auditorium and was like "jeezus
you guys huffing that shit open a door!"
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