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Because I've been extra bitchy, you mean?
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Uncharacteristically so. Everyone knows I'm the bitch around here.

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Originally posted by Xanfor:
Blimey! Where'd you find that?

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I think they should pass a law that electronics should be produced in one of two colours: black and silver. Everything else is henceforth BANISHED!

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Originally posted by bend_her:

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Originally posted by Xanfor:
Blimey! Where'd you find that?

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Amazon.com. Ah, that show is so much fun

I think they should pass a law that electronics should be produced in one of two colours: black and silver. Everything else is henceforth BANISHED!

Oh, and the standard solder-mask green is permitted too

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MY kind of washing machine....

I don't understand it... what's the point speeding and carrying on like that? You're only paying their wages with the fines. What are you trying to prove?

They do serve a much needed purpose. However, their job is to arrest people and give out citations. I think citations are a mostly ignorant form of punishment which is actually just a secret manipulative way for the government to rake in more cash. On top of all that, I've run into quite a few cops, and I've had my fair share of people in the police force using their discretion in an incorrect manner.

Again, I might be assuming too much into this.... the cop that issued me a citation may have been trying to help me out, he/she may have been having a bad day that day (one could hardly blame them; police don't get much respect), or he/she could just be acting on orders from a higher authority. The thing is, my first point still stands. The police are out to get us, albeit when we mess up, but they are out to get us. I don't trust things with much power, especially the large amount of power police could potentially currently wield easily over me. So I won't blame police for all my problems, since I know they're people too. I treat them with courteousy and respect as best I can even though they scare the life out of me. Besides... part of that blame from the cops totally rests on an inefficient perversion of justice known as the legal system, as also with the politicians who continuously create laws each day without even realizing themselves what those laws are that they pass. Seriously, if the lawmaker doesn't remember/know what the law is, how in the world is an every day citizen supposed to know?

But there's no call to be defending cops. They're scum. Fuckers busted me for not having a provisional plate on a service vehicle when I was transporting intellectually disabled clients, one of whom had OCD and removed the plates for his own amusement. Cop didn't care.

And then they took three hours to get to my Grandmother's place when a drug addict smashed his way inside and started ripping shit off while she was there.

Fuck them. Don't defend them - there's a reason they're called FILTH.

They've badgered me constantly, even for tiny things, so I don't care anymore - I know they'll get me for something anyway, so I don't even bother trying to obey the rules. There's no point. Cops in this town have set on me. They 'randomly' search me in the street in front of everyone, and each time they pull me over for a 'random' breath test they spend five minutes looking for something on my car to defect me on.

So why do I have an attitude?

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Originally posted by Zoidberg227:
Do not ever call a person who will put his life on the line ... for the protection of the general public scum, ever.

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If I ever see a cop do that, then I'll re-evaluate my position.
But I really think you're getting the bastards confused with firefighters.

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Blah blah, all praise the authorities

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I simply do not care.

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Originally posted by seattlejohn01:
will face down an armed intruder in your house without hesitating.

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They seemed rather disinclined to help my Grandmother in that situation.

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Originally posted by bend_her:

(My story: got left stranded on the interstate when they took my friend to jail because their breathalyzer didn't work and I didn't have a drivers' license. When the blood test turned out negative, they fined him $200 anyway, for "not coming to a *complete* stop at a right turn". Clear case of DWB. Oh, and just for extra fun, I had a gun drawn on me because I dared to ask them for directions.) but I don't go around provoking them.

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Was it a Colorado State Trooper, Fort Collins Police or Larimer County Deputy who did this to you?

We have so few people in Colorado with dark skin (other than the illegal Mexicans on their way to ConAgra in Greeley) that I think the cops actually take turns screwing with them.

The first night I drove my Corvette I was driving on Lincoln Ave. The car was unknown, it had paper tags and I got pulled twice that night; once by a Larimer County Deputy and once by Fort Collins Police. Both times they told me that I crossed the yellow line. That was a complete lie, they were checking to see who the driver of an unknown Corvette (granted a mid-90's model) was. I didn't get a ticket either time because I did the "I just got this car, I'm still getting use to how it rides," story.

I bet it absolutely fucked their nights up when they saw I was white.

Edit: I guess that Coldy isn't a fan of COPS (the TV show).

When I was on the wrestling circuit and travelling in South Carolina and Georgia, I sped all the time. When I got pulled, I'd do a little chat with the cop (letting them know I was wrestling that night) and always had a $20 bill paperclipped to the back of my driver's license (Ric Flair taught me that trick). I'd always would get my license back (without the $20 bill) with a stern warning to slow down. I tried that trick once in Sarasota, Florida and the State Trooper arrested me for attempted bribery - handcuffs and everything (Kevin Sullivan had to bail me out to make the matches that night). A lawyer got it taken care of by paying a fine of $500.00. I never tried that again in Florida.

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Originally posted by Ninaka:
OH yeah you really got him there - you still have to fork out $230.

I don't understand it... what's the point speeding and carrying on like that? You're only paying their wages with the fines. What are you trying to prove?

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Wow, my concern worked!
All he did was get mad that I wasn't showing empathy. Pfft. Men and their girliness.
I mean, nothing, I didn't say anything. Nice puppy.

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Originally posted by coldangel_1:
Meh. I drive the way I drive. I drive to the conditions at a given time. Scary and illegal though I may be (when I'm on my own in a vehicle on an empty road), I've never had an accident, not even close.

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Originally posted by Ralph Snart:
Was it a Colorado State Trooper, Fort Collins Police or Larimer County Deputy who did this to you?

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FC police are nondiscriminatory - they're assholes to everybody - skin color means nothing to them.

There's on young cop who patrols Timberline and he seems to have a hardon for me. If I'm driving either the Mustang or Corvette, he will turn around in the middle of the road and stay on my ass until I stop somewhere or leave the city limits. He's already ticketed me once for driving 50 in 45 zone.

It's all about stocking things cleverly. Taking what I have as an example (and bearing in mind I have only two fish in an 80 gallon tank due to a huge outbreak of whitespot) everything is in there to do a specific job which saves you a lot of time and effort.

1 Boxing shrimp (Rocky) - eats bristleworms which can kill other invertebrates.
2 Cleaner shrimp - removes parasites and dead skin before they become a problem.
1 Cleaner wrasse (Gordon) - ditto.
1 Clownfish (Nemo) - hardy as hell, very difficult to kill while you're still learning about additives and stuff.
1 Sea slug (Herbert) - eats big bits of macroalgae.
2 Mithrax crabs (Awesome 1 & 2) - eat hair and bubble algae.
15 turbo snails - ditto.
15 blue leg hermit crabs - ditto.
1 clam (2 deceased this week ) removes nitrates from the water.
1 green starfish (Patrick) - eats rotting flesh.
1 sand sifting starfish - eats the shit that settles in the sand.
5 sifter snails - ditto.
2 peppermint shrimps - eat pest anemones.
2 porcelain anemone crabs (Peter and Lois) - filter rubbish out of the water with their fronds and eat it.
1 pencil urchin (Bomb) - eats algae on the rocks.
1 spiny urchin (Spike) - ditto, and the glass too.

The filter, sump and skimmer do the rest - for an 80 gallon tank it's an incredibly low maintenance job. Stocking a 34 gallon nano like this would result in only a few minutes tinkering time - the vast majority of creatures that clean up take more out of the tank in terms of waste than they put in. Actual fish are really the only creatures that add more - and you can choose those to serve a purpose too - I had a pyjama wrasse to eat parasitic snails, a powder blue tang and lawnmower blenny to help with the algae.
As long as you do research first it's really rewarding for very little hassle in the long run. It's only when you get whitespot or similar that you have to be really proactive (in very general terms).