LOL, does anyone else find those three animated rabbits at the beginning absolutely hilarious? If anyone else drew them it would be considered "racist". But because the Japanese drew them it's fine...

PS: I'm usually a cat lover, but in this instance all I can think is "poor dog". He's just trying to give the cat some lovin' and the cat retaliates by knocking the poor bastard out. Awww

Well i'd never admit to something i didn't do. Never. Couldn't do it.

And this whole "sometimes things happen and that's a bad thing" is something that a lot of people need to come to terms with and i hope FAST. Because the effects of blame culture are dispicable and far reaching to society. And soon you end up with people afraid to do anything further than exactly what is required of them in case going any further makes them liable.

It's already going that way in britain. A country that was once known for it's polite helpful togetherness is becoming a blind ignorant machine. Giving fines to parents whose babies drop some chocolate out of their mouths, fining the parents for littering EVEN THOUGH they pick it up. The people issuing the fines don't dare to make an exception in case they come to blame for it. We just pass any risk on down the line, pass it on to the next poor bastard. Not my problem, i don't want to get in any trouble. I'll robotically do what i'm told i should do regardless of any mitigation, because that way the rules are to blame, not me. Fucking pathetic, i don't want to live in that world.

And we do it to ourselves. (/radiohead)

Poor bastards! That's America giving you the middle finger!

1/4 are events were I actually felt sorry for the poor bastard(s). Some of those accidents was not due to stupidity.

1/2 are events done by stupid, or at the very least, no-common sense individuals. Its just nice to know, I'm smarter then the average bear.

1/4 Stuff I had to watch a second or third time. Like the lady who is flung from the swing, but something catchs on her hair and yanks her back at the last possible moment.

I feel truly sorry for those poor bastards having to read that entire bill aloud. If Republicans are trying to win me over by dragging their feet in every way possible here, they are failing miserably.

Holy shit, the camera is moving. Some poor bastard stood there and had to record the whole thing.

Thanks, asshole, for setting the bar so astronomically high for the next poor bastard that wants to propose.

LADIES, DON'T WATCH THIS VIDEO!

Whew, until he said transcripts of the show I was worried some poor bastard had to actually watch every episode of the Glenn Beck show.

Thanks for the promote!

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*promote

Isnt the politics of fear and misinformation the tools of the Republican Party these days? If the racism and fear were removed from the GOP's message, fully 90% of their talking points on the Health Care issue (or any other issue for that matter), would be nulled out. This person who stood up, displayed both ignorance of reality, and disably to follow instructions. Rather then take responsibility (another trait missing from modern day Republicans) and be patient until his turn to speak (another thing missing...be patient).

So the question? The man did not even mention his question. He states he came well prepared, and 'informed' to have a question on Health Care. He rants for a minute in Mr. Spectre's face, by bring in the fear of being afraid, fear of the unknown, and religion. And after all this, they guy walks away without asking his question.

This is the problem (one of many, I can assure you), of the typical low level member of the Republican party. Alot of anger, alot of fear, alot of hate, and no ability to be adult enough to express it, nor explain it rationally. Doesn't help to have conservative talk radio, and idiots like Beck, Hannity, and O'Reilly, egg these poor bastards on. Nor to have Mrs Palin, Steele, or Mr. Paul spreading simply lies and half truths (Mr. Paul is intelligent enough to know this, while Mr. Steele and Mrs Palin have shown they are not as educated or intelligent on the matter). This raw anger, rage, and fear, is simply growing in this country. And when it explodes, there will be alot of dead Americans on the deck. And all these republican leaders will try to blend back in to the woodwork, to avoid having to be held accountable for their actions.

For those poor bastards that have proper office jobs, I'm pretty sure the flagrant use of sensitive language would make this *nsfw

Some poor bastard on the stage crew is getting an ass full now. Thank God for union protection.

I'd hate to be the poor bastard in the fishing boat that one day when they'll be in the wrong place and the wrong time...

That's all we need to know pims, all we need to know

Issy, my god I think we're on the umm... fourth episode of season 3 and it's AMAZING! Lost is just surpassing itself in every way too, woohoo bout frickin time.

Ok i'll start you off then if I must.

This was one of the weirdest things to happen. I was young and reckless and completely rebellious and decided one day to jump the train with my friend to London. She knew some fellas up there who would put us up and I briefly knew who they were and had met them so wasn't particularly concerned. We spent the hour and a half there wedged in the loos smoking out of the window and drinking a bottle each of white cider, bleeeech. By the time we got there I was pretty wasted already, and it was a hot day etc. Wandering through London taking buses to get to this mobile phone shop they all worked in together. Eventually they finished up for the day and we went home to her friends place, by this point I had been given a few spliffs on top of the cider and was really not myself at all. Anyway, when we walked into this apartment there was this guy who was all dressed up in overalls painting the place.

Kelly's friend introduced him just as Steve and that he was doin him a favour decorating his place out for him as he'd not long moved there. He was a total hottie and I was drunk and stoned so had clearly lost any inhibitions and was flirting outrageously. As the evening went on he finished up and came in and sat down to eat with us and get drunk. Of course I was being a total slapper, and he seemingly didn't mind at all. Basically we got a bit frisky and all that jazz but when it came down to it (literally) there was no way I was going there his penis was abnormal and by that I mean gigantic! Scared the living shit out of me. Luckily he wasn't a bad guy and just laughed and we fell asleep all being well.

Next day I got made a complete twat of. Somehow the staff at the home I was living in had gotten hold of Kelly's number and rang her Mum who had done a 1471 when Kel phoned her the night before and gave the number to my social worker. So the next morning this guy who's flat we're in gets a very shitty phone call telling him that he had two underage girls who have run away, one in local authority care and that if he didn't take us to a police station so we could get home they would ring the cops and get them arrested. So yeah that was horrible, especially seeing as i'd lied about my age haha. Fucking embarrassing, but I was glad to get out of there after that. We had to wait in the police station until they could get a taxi driver who was willing to drive all the way to London from Bournemouth and then back again. Some stupid red tape funding issues stopped us just getting a taxi from London as it was going to be Social Services paying it, not us outright. Eventually some guy got there, and we fell asleep in the back of the car.

Woke up to find ourselves off road somewhere in the New Forest!! We absolutely shit ourselves, neither of us had a phone. All the lights were off and the driver was passed out in his seat, it was about 2am. We demanded he wake up not trusting him or the situation, it all felt very weird. He tried to tell us he was just needing a nap or he couldn't drive but we both started crying and panicking, so the poor bastard was left with little choice. Finally got home, acted like the little twat I was when they started questioning me about where I had been and what i'd been doing, as if they had no right to worry about me, god I was such a prick sometimes haha.

So I got lumped with paying that whole bill off, took me nearly a year to finish. As far as I was concerned though, it had been a little adventure and something in me when I was young craved independence so much I didn't think twice about doing stupuid stuff. The end of this story was the weirdest part...

This Steve had through his friend told Kelly a few times he wanted to meet up with me again and blah blah. I was never interested, mostly cos unless I was drunk the male species pretty much perplexed me even up until I was about 17! Turned out it was a good job I never went there. About 6 months later I get a phone call from Kelly telling me to turn the fucking tv on NOW. The Cook Report was on, some investigative journo Roger Cook used to go around doing exposes on stuff, he was one of the first people to do a show such as that. And there he was, this Steve. Turned out he wasn't a painter and decorator, he was the owner of a chain of phone shops and he had fraudulently made hundreds and thousands of pounds in stolen and contract phones. Jesus Christ

I'm not sure what the moral of this story is, but I can safely say I've never been as reckless since!

I thought BillO left.

anyway. highdileeho, you are just a man. you did what you had to do.

you hit the nail on the head: selifish attitudes overriding any desire to help poor bastards.