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Does it fit easily in the hand?

Um, antidepressants generally take about two weeks to start having antidepressant effects. If this kid had a depressive condition already such that he needed to begin treatment and then consumed quantities of alcohol (a known depressant), I would consider the alcohol the more contributive factor in his death. Yes, that may be a major factor. But, additionally, new research suggests that suicidal ideation does NOT correlate nearly as closely as previously believed with suicide attempts. That is, a great, great many people think of it and never act on it, and others, who generally don't think on it, especially obsessively, may commit the act impulsively.

Is it metal?

Well, thank goodness. Really? Padding to make a boy's member look bigger at that age? Shame on Speedo. j/k

Why, yes! Yes, it is! They have $4 growler Thursdays. I can't believe you don't know about this place yet. It's the bestest. And they have mustard on pretzels. It's good with a pint. Oh, they have mead, too, as their name suggests.

I think you are not understanding what I'm saying. Obama and Hitler can have that in common without Obama becoming Hitler in all the ways that are evoked when people call Obama, "Hitler." Health care reform and economic reform do NOT equal future plans of genocide.

On the plus side, I will log 61 hours at work next week. On the very minus side, that means I will be too tired to attend Gogol Bordello. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! That's the suckses.

So you are saying that you think Obama campaigned on a message of hate and that he plans on the genocide of the "white race" to further his secret desire that African Americans one day rule the world? He wrote "The Audacity of Hope," not "Mein Kampf." Look, a man can be a vegetarian, favor strong central government, have a Jew in their family tree, have excellent fashion sense, be a failed painter, be elected to a position of power, want his country to prosper, and not be Hitler. If you have a disagreement with an idea, argue against the idea. Don't throw around names and labels willy-nilly and claim to have argued the point.

No, I think you misunderstand the fallacy of ad hominem. Calling anyone "Hitler" is emotionally evocative in a way that precludes intelligent discourse.

I don't think it's right in either case. If I'm not mistaken, the Hitler analogy came up in response to the health care reform, even as proposed during election. The only true analogy to Hitler, in my book, is to Hitler. Far too often, far, FAR too often, I hear rhetoric about this thing being fascist, that thing being socialist, all of it intending to evoke the worst case scenario, the hyperbolic extremes (e.g. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao) without anyone really considering what the terms themselves mean or taking the time to define them, but, worst of all, NEVER EVEN DEBATING THE ISSUES. It all makes me sick. I told my mother to keep her anti-Bush rhetoric to herself on many occasion, my friend Robert, the same. Not because I liked George W. Bush, but because this emotionally driven drivel gets us nowhere but crazy FAST; I'm tired of it.

What if he's not into felching? Anyway, wishing you a happy birthday, good luck on the court thing, and a plethora of beers.

I seriously didn't mean to insult you. I meant to wish you good luck in your endeavor only in spite of our differences of opinion elsewhere. Because it was not received as intended, you have my apology. I am deleting that post.

Well... 1) I know the idiots who bought tombstone statuary from a crackhead who lifted it out of Cemetery One in New Orleans in 1998. I also know where they hid it temporarily before they decided it was too hot to sell and broke it up and buried it when the FBI got involved. (Total morons, really.) 2) I met a woman who (fatwa on her head and I think she deserves it) tore a page out of the illustrated Koran in the Hagia Sophia. (She was a friend of the morons who bought the hot statuary.) 3) I have taken illicit substances illicitly. 4) I very nearly had sex with a 14 year old before I discovered she was only 14. 5) I didn't have sex with a 14 year old before I discovered she was only 14. j/k

I am 34 and my fiance is 33. We live at our mothers' homes where the rent is cheap and the food delicious. We obey their rules. Which means that even though we are 1) engaged, 2) undoubtedly adult, 3) previously "corrupted," and 4) have lived on our own previously, we still a) sleep in separate rooms when visiting each other, b) do chores both at our homes and the homes we visit, and c) pay money when asked. It doesn't change. Mom's rules rule.

Yeah, I don't care who does it in what party, but fighting dirty is wrong for two reasons: 1) it's fighting where logical discourse should prevail, 2) it's dirty, and not in the fun way. I don't agree with the Tea Party whose major aim seems to be just being disagreeable and disgruntled about everything without coming to consensus on any alternative that doesn't include dismantling functioning government. To me, it appears to be anarchism in new clothes. If ever a more solid and directed voice assembles in the party, I will debate it or join it depending on the strength or validity of the argument offered. Since I haven't felt compelled by any such yet, I leave well enough alone. I am sorry, Gaf, that others can't do the same. Maybe they feel particularly pricked by some of the barbs the Tea Party's constituents have been throwing. I guess rudeness begets rudeness. Yet, it is too bad that so few have learned to turn the other cheek. Where your party does encounter more adult behavior, please give it its due.

Oh sweetie, if you only knew, you wouldn't encourage him so.

I'm a little low today. It was the second memorial of my good friend Sean Fitzgerald who died in a car wreck November of 2008 yesterday. And my "Uncle" Dick passed away yesterday too. And I have a sinus infection, I think. I need a good cry, a lot of sleep, and some antibiotics.

Okay, how about posting more actual deaths (or amazing near misses) please? There was another thread once somewhere on how you would like to die, but I want something more morbidly fascinating than your personal hypothetical. Thanks. Yes. I know I'm a snot. You can kill me for it and post it here; it will give me some satisfaction if there happens to be an afterlife. Deadly lawnmower tractor accident--death to bystander

Oh, you mean something light and fluffy such as won't land you in jail. Bummer.

*hugs* *more hugs* *and just one more hug because I like your hugs* However it works out, know that people love you, sweetie.

No way, dude! But you would look totally tubular falling down the stairs!

A stooper? And not a stupor? Please no. I humbly ask that you reconsider imbibing alcohol in large quantities for such a duration that you neglect and/or inhibit your intake of vitamins and minerals thus grossly accelerating bone loss resulting in early onset osteoporosis. Stand tall, dear one. Better things are on the horizon.

"If I could choose the way I was to die I would go falling through the hot summer sky Ribbons and bows tied to my hands and my feet..." http://www.youtube.c...h?v=fJq-hCWCxPM

And when it's not, it's not: Man survives lightning strike.

I understand your indignation at your situation, but it sounds like your mom is trying to make a compromise between her comfort level and your need to have romantic relationships while you are under her roof. Ultimately, as long as the house is in HER name as opposed to yours, her decisions as to who can stay trump your desires. She probably understands, though, that as an adult you have certain needs that require you a) to continue living with her, and b) have a boyfriend. Consequently, she is giving you an option that Offsets her expenses in having someone else in the house (those kilowatt hours and cubic meters of water add up, as does the food expense if your bf eats there), Compensates her somewhat for the intrusion on her privacy that a regular guest, who is not even HER guest, brings with it, Costs you and your bf less than renting a hotel room for the same 48 hour period, and Provides you an incentive to get your own place in the near future. It's doubtlessly not what you had hoped for, however it seems a fair compromise between what is her preference (that you lived on your own and your boyfriend didn't spend the night at her place) and yours. If this is STILL not working for you, I recommend that you discuss it with her reasonably and respectfully. Perhaps you can do (maybe even with your bf) some work around the house instead of paying $20, but you would have to be consistent in following through. Or, perhaps she intends on saving up this money to give back to you when you move out. Find out, but try to see things her way first.