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Ryan Perry wrote: He was the wrong guy and he got shot and killed anyway. There's fault on both sides. I think more so on the county.

Fault on both sides? I'm having trouble seeing how the guy answering his door with a gun when confronted with a group of unidentified people in the middle of the night constitutes fault.

Equality 7-2521 wrote: ^ Ryan Perry wrote: He was the wrong guy and he got shot and killed anyway. There's fault on both sides. I think more so on the county. Fault on both sides? I'm having trouble seeing how the guy answering his door with a gun when confronted with a group of unidentified people in the middle of the night constitutes fault.

Going to have to agree with you Pat.  If someone comes to my door at 1:30 in the morning and don't announce that they are law enforcement officers, I'm going to automatically assume someone has come to rape, rob or murder me.  Otherwise, you'd announce your intentions, or better yet, come to my door during the daylight.  The cops should have announced themselves.  They didn't.  All the fault lies with them. 

^ That's absolutely nuts.  Incompetence on a grand scale.

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2012/07/23/120723taco_talk_kolbert


Edited by Slartibartfast - July 17 2012 at 19:38

thellama73 wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2012/07/23/120723taco_talk_kolbert Of all the things I have to worry about, I am relieved that corn sex is not one of them.

You know you wanna...

Keep an eye out for drones...


Edited by Slartibartfast - July 17 2012 at 19:39

It's interesting that I never knew corn had such a difficult sex life before. 

Anyway, famine isn't a laughing matter.


Edited by Slartibartfast - July 17 2012 at 19:42

Oh the moment they start regulating my sodium-full stove-cooked popcorn I'm taking it to the streets and I'll do a bloody revolution by myself.

11 Examples of Consumers Not Understanding Math

Equality 7-2521 wrote: 11 Examples of Consumers Not Understanding Math

My favorite tactic is on every infomercial:

"But wait!  Order now, and we'll double your order!  Just pay separate processing and handling."

Bullsh*t.  You're just making us buy two of the damn thing.

One grocery store here will have buy one get one free specials, but the price of one will be twice the cost of the same item at Walmart across the street.

I don't know how well the strategy is working for them, but I know that JCPenney has said that it was no longer going to have all of their 50% and greater off sales, but instead that they would be like Wal-Mart and have every day low prices.  Which apparently meant that they were lowering all of their listed prices to whatever those sales prices would end up being.  I've not shopped there since they made this change, so I don't really know if prices have really gone down or not. Especially since they still have drop dead lowest price deals on certain Fridays. 

I think BOGOF should be banned full stop in supermarkets.  We live in a society where so much goes to waste and these kind of offers on anything that goes off just encourages waste.  Just put the bloody price down for F S !