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what a weird combination

I don't think he's that great of a player (if he wasn't from the UK he wouldn't get half as much press, it's just that the UK doesn't really produce any good tennis players anymore, ever) and yeah, he has a huge attitude problem.

It was actually a pretty annoying match. Djokovic was playing badly moreso than Murray was playing well. And just when Djokovic had done all that work to come back he dropped off again. Blah.

I don't have a clue what or who you two are talking about, but I think the Raiders lost last night. I didn't make it through the whole game, but my educated guess is: They Lost.

This is my contribution to the sports PA conversation.

I know. I don't hate you Cammie. I wouldn't hate you even if you meant it.

You know what I don't get?

Tap Dancing.

One of my best friends is a dancer, the naked kind. She dances 4 blocks from my apartment and wanted me to bring her food. I know a lot of people in the scene, Xia knows a bunch of girls in the scene from modeling, so going to see her isnt a big deal.
Anyways I go there and it's her(sedan), Her boyfriend(bret), and me(me). We all sit around, have a couple beers and her Bret and I sit at the rack as she strips and the three of us just keep cracking fart jokes and giving her advise for pole tricks. It was an odd night.
See thing is we used to sleep together, which isnt really an issue, her boyfriend knows and we are friends. But it was still odd sitting next to him as his girlfriend is getting naked in front of us.

See, I reckon tap dancing is probably fun to DO, if you're into it. But watching it is just shit.

Do people still tap dance?

Well, I was watching morning Mum TV and they had some people doing it. Serves me right for watching crap on telly.

PS. Your life is way so cool, Noah.

I always always wanted to know how to tap dance.

I love watching it too.

tap dancing strippers?

Look at this! This is more than awesome, it is completely badass.

I have too much to do too little time.

I just helped with math homework and my eyeballs are gonna fall out.

I know there is a lot of talent involved, but honestly I think they just look silly.

MOVE YOUR ARMS SILLY IRISH!

Ha. You are sort of right about that part!

this was me more than a decade ago. now, i just don't care.

i remember when i was younger and my mom couldn't get all the pop culture references i was making and thought that her life's value was so much less than mine because i can say all the cool phrases and jokes within my circle of friends but now that i'm older, i realize that she didn't give a shit at all. suddenly, everything i thought was such a big deal when i was younger doesn't matter.

all the phrases i see my nephews posting online and the jokes, they don't even make a dent in my list of fucks to give.

i guess on a related note, i see teenagers now as babies trying to be adults and i can't really take most of them seriously.

man, that sounds so condescending but i don't mean it to be. every time i see teenagers or even women younger than 25 getting pregnant, i immediately think "babies having babies!"

On a biological level, that is a very silly thing to think.

It took me all of two weeks to be one hundred percent recovered from childbirth when I was fifteen. Just as much energy and stamina as though my body didn't just push out and eight and a half pound baby at all.

nine years later at 24 it took me two months to even begin to feel normal, let alone physically strong, again.

Non-biologically speaking- most people don't seem to come close resembling a grown up until their lat twenties these days.

for sure. i'm looking at it purely from a socio-economic / cultural perspective.

three centuries ago, you wouldn't think twice about seeing a 12 / 13 year old girl getting married and pregnant when the average life expectancy was hovering around 35 / 40 years old.

humanity's gone a long way and with average life expectancy reaching upwards of 80 years old these days, cultural paradigm shifts and it's rarer than it used to be for very young teenagers to be raising kids of their own.

i think it also has a lot to do with so many young adults staying in this state of seemingly perpetual adolescence, since there's a higher number of young adults still living with their parents due to the economy nowadays.

being unemployed, it reinforces the idea that they are still completely dependent on their parents (even if they are actively looking for a job and just can't land one) and unfortunate as it is, it skews the public's perspective that their sense of adulthood is stunted since they're not facing all the 'adult' problems they should be facing at their age (e.g. career, mortgage, building a foundation to eventually have a family, etc.).

you could go into the gaming culture and see the average age of gamers around 25 - 30 years old . gaming itself is still generally seen as a child's hobby, much as it was viewed during the late 80s and early 90s. today's gamers are those kids who grew up during those decades and the stigma holds.

i'm rambling but this whole thing is really interesting to explore from a sociological standpoint.

So much wrong with all this.

1. Tap dancers mover their arms. If they aren't moving their arms, they are not tap dancing. Stepdancing or clogging maybe, but not tap dancing. That's like confusing NASCAR for Indie.

2. Yes, people still tap dance.

3. Strippers aren't dancers. If they insist that they are, I can run them through a cross-floor that will make them change their silicon-poisoned minds.

lolz @ riverdance
one of my cousins is a champion highland dancer. i don't really get it, but she did get picked to dance in a Tattoo in canada or something.

My eyesight's getting noticably worse. Ugh, I need to get my eyes checked, but I don't want glasses (or contact lenses), so I keep putting it off.

Why can't my eyes heal themselves?!

maybe they´ll get better if you eats tons of carrots ?!

Just feed the carrots directly in to your eyes for optimum effect!

You're a baby.

Raising a teenager makes my face melt off.

I want to call my mom and beg for forgiveness for everything.

That's kind of how I feel about infants trying to be toddlers.

10:30 at night, his friends mom at our door to tell us what she had discovered.

I don't have to say- just pick any of the jackassery things teenagers can get themselves up to.

Two weeks, to the house, no computer, all the chores.

Let the parent that showed up tell him exactly what she thought and get the point across as best she could of the possible consequences that are bigger than he had even thought of.

I'm worried I am being to lenient.

I saw Adrien Brody at the movie theatre last night. Shorter than I had imagined, but very cute. I think he was with his Mum!

I love that mans nose. I have a larger nose but his just takes the cake.

I at first thought Adrian Brody was David Schwimer.

Me too! It seemed less big in person? It really suits his face.

I think Adrian Brody is sexy

I had a court date today for a ticket a cop wrote me about a month ago for littering. It was on a Saturday and Jack, Joe and I were driving to another gym for another basketball game for their tournament. Two weeks before this, we had went to a basketball tournament (which at the time my heirloom tomatoes were in full swing), so all the mothers wanted to try them. Before we left that day I chopped up some of the tomatoes, put them in baggies and put the baggies in an igloo purse cooler. You know, the thermal lined bags that look like a purse. Anyhow, two weeks later, riding in between gyms, Joe sees the cooler/purse and unzips it! The rotted tomatoes reeked of the most obscene smell! Gagging, I spoke before thinking, "throw that out Joe!" he did and a minute later, I see a cop in the rear view pretty far back. Well, I start to panic OfCourse. He catches up quickly and follows behind, then pulls along side of me and then drops back behind. I told the boys we are getting pulled over I'm sure. I told them , I was so grossed out by the smell and wasn't thinking about it right and that we should have waited to get to the gym and put them in the garbage. So, the lights come on and he pulls us over in a construction zone on the expressway. He approaches the car in basketball shorts and tahirt. Clearly off duty. I explain what happened and apologize. He ask for my liscence and registration and walks back to his squad car. Now, I look in the rear view and notice he has his two toddler children in the back seat. Next he brings the ticket back to the car and tells me all the bla, blah, my court date, blah blah.
So today at court the prosecutor was calling people up to the front row and talking to them privately about their case. When he called me up he said I see you were ticked for throwing a cooler out of the window and littering. So I explained the container, so he knew it wasn't an actual big hard cooler. I wanted to make more of a statement to him also to let him know the officer was off duty and left his two toddler children unattended, in a running car on the side of the expressway in a construction zone. Buuuuutttt, as soon as I explained the cooler and what happened, he said "My city is not your trashcan!" Then he said, "I think you should do 5 hours of community service for this and this will get rid of this charge and fine."
Okay, so don't get me wrong, I don't have to pay a $500 fine and it will be taken of of my record, for which I do not have one anyways. I just thought the ticket was kind of bullshit in the first place. He could have slapped me on the hand with a warning and gave a little lecture. For the record, I do not litter ever, this is the first time I've thrown anything out of the car window like that. And hey, there are drug dealers , murderers and all other criminal types out there and you're gonna give me a ticket for the rotten tomatoes. I mean they just arrested a guy a couple months back in that city for leaving his kids in the car while he ran in the 7eleven real quick. But I guess it's okay for the cop to do that though? I know there are good cops out there, my dad was one of them. He's retired now. Oh well, whatever. Just pissed me off that I didn't get to say anything about that. I know I was going to be a tattle tale on the cop, but I thought he was a real douche for writing me the ticket in the first place.
Okay, my rant for the day is over. Sorry for the long PA.

Write a letter to your city about the officer. I am all about a good solid letter, and an email. And send it to the mayor, police cheif and whoever else you can think of. An officer who is off duty with children in the car should not be pulling over someone for littering. I will write the letter even.

I believe in strongly worded letters.

And next time, (if there ever is a next time) you have the right to speak on your own behalf. Your rights were severely violated by that alone.

Really Pepper? Like I should have been allowed to speak out to the prosecutor, or Judge, or both? And Noah I am going to tell somebody, like write letters or something. But, don't you think I should do the community service and have it removed from my record first? Or do you two think I should be complaining now? I was so possed when I left court today. They did not allow me to speak, or ask me if I had a statement to make on my behalf or whatever. I thought about contacting one of the local news channels that has a investigation type thing they do to bring public awareness to wrong doing with businesses, and things that are mishandled. I thought they would love to get ahold of this, since they were the ones that ran the story on the guy being arrested for leaving his kids in the car to run into the store. I don't know, I just want some justice people. I know I want the police out there getting criminals, not using our tax dollars to hand out tickets for throwing rotten tomatoes out of the window.

Complain now. Complain while you are doing the service. Complain after.

Complaining feels good.

I believe in going to the nightly news and making the culprit look tiny and evil and stupid.

See Tuffy, I think your right, but I'm just afraid if I complain before its removed from my record and that I've done my service, they will take back what theyve said and I'll end up with a fine and a record. But I do want to make that cop look bad and I want to get at that prosecutor for talking down to me like he did. He was a real ass and had a god complex to the max and just thought he was all hot shit sitting there looking and speaking down to all of us little people. So, I think I'm going to start the complaining in the morning. Fuck it!! I want to make people feel small!!
So, I'm starting research tonight before bed on who all I need to contact. I think email would be good, since it's instant. Whadda ya thinks?

Just a couple of the times for example:

An empathetically strongly worded letter got me out of trouble for driving unlicensed and uninsured in an unregistered vehicle (and before anyone jumps on me for that, it was to get to a best friends memorial service two hundred miles away otherwise I wouldn't have)

Harshly worded letters have had school administrators kissing my ass begging for forgiveness and praising my writing ability all at the same time after the school knowingly failed to give my child lunch.

(If only I had the guts to go to the news,)

Stand up for yourself and do it now and don't let it go until you are appeased with the result!

I don't know what's going on here anymore. I know there are good mothers, weird dinner combos, cats and dancing. Overall I'm still kinda lost. Been grinding out 20 hour days. Feels good to be productive but not sure how much longer I'll be able to handle this schedule.

Took my entry exam today - translated "tractable", "exactions" and "disenchanting" incorrectly, but the professor said unknown words won't be penalised too much. The Romanian text was meant to check our ability to use reported speech correctly, even in really long sentences, and the English text was an excerpt from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad. I'm particularly proud of my translation to Romanian, and we should find out the grades tonight. Tomorrow we have a short interview for her to determine our level of spoken English, but that's a breeze.

That's AWESOME!! I'm sure you did great. And it's cool that you get your grades tonight. It's nice you don't have to wait forever.

I'm not sure but i think if you signed an agreement, they can't just take it back, especially not for complaining.

Also, where the heck do you live? Seems like a waste of time and resources to dish out 5 hours community service.

Big S, I live in Lanesville, Indiana. Very small town. I'm 20 minutes from downtown Louisville, Kentucky, which is where I got the ticket.

Can anybody explain what Trip-hop and Post Trip-hop are? The internet and its musical definitions are being very confusing today.

Can anybody explain what Trip-hop and Post Trip-hop are? The internet and its musical definitions are being very confusing today.

Big S, I live in Lanesville, Indiana. Very small town. I'm 20 minutes from downtown Louisville, Kentucky, which is where I got the ticket. Also, I signed NOTHING. The Judge just stated that I was to do the five hours by November 16th and they had me grab a paper that was at the podium thing with a list of places where I could do it. That was it. And yes it does seem like a waste of
Resources.
Pepper, I need help on strongly worded letters and I wouldn't mind if you gave me some advice on this to Noah, or any of you for that matter. I want to stick it to the man!

Number One would be to have as respectful of a tone as possible throughout the letter while unequivocally expressing your displeasure and complaint in the situation.

Begin with a statement that sums up the purpose of the letter.

Lay out the facts in emotionless, accurate and chronological order, being as detailed as you feel necessary. Give all dates and times and names as they present themselves in the listing of the facts.

If there is any additional information that is related to the situation but did not occur on the actual day of the incident(s) (such as the reason their were rotten tomatoes in your vehicle in the first place) give this information next, after the listing of the facts. Begin this information with a brief explanation- "In addition I would like to explain why this item was in my vehicle to begin with..." (or something similar)

Round it all out with a calm accepting of your own responsibility's and fault's in the situation, but do not go over board in this area.

End with any questions you have that will put the other parties to shame (such as how is it acceptable for an off duty officer to leave his small children on the side of the freeway in a construction zone, and why the judge or prosecutor felt it appropriate to grossly violate your right to defend yourself) and express what your expectations and/or demands are as well as listing who else you have sent the letter to and what your next step will be if you do not get the desired response (ie; contacting the media or a lawyer et cetera)

make sure you use correct spelling, proper grammar and don't forget your paragraph breaks!!! You want to come across as someone strong and intelligent who is not to be fucked with and treated like dirt. You made a mistake, yes. You littered. That does not give the state the right to make ten mistakes in response and risk the safety of children and violate your constitutional rights!

You want them to worry who they messed with.

Also, pay attention to the language you use and how you use it. the language you use can subconsciously mess with people. Sprinkle the parts of the facts that mention yourself with words that put you in a positive light, save negative wordage for the parts about the cop and the prosecutor. But don't be overt with this, subtly is the key.

OMFG I got a 10! That means I should also get financial aid wheeee!