You have been terribly hard done by my friend, the actions of the people in that thread absolutely disgusted me.

Whatever you did, that was not the way to fix it. It is clear there was a break down in communications and the rash and STUPID actions of some STUPID people have resulted in this horrible shit happening.

I had something similar occur to me once. I used to hang out with 2 gay girls, they were very close friends of mine but i never harboured anything further. I am far too much of a gentlemen to ever approach or attempt a move on a person in a relationship.

One night, we all got drunk and one stormed off into a side street to be alone and i had to follow her to make sure she was safe. I was the only sober person present. Whilst talking her back to her home, she told me she wanted to leave the girl and hated her but couldn't get away. So i told her "When you're sober, tell me the same thing again and i will help you, but i think this is the drink talking."

When we got in, i said to her in the hallway "Remember - if you say the same thing tomorrow, we'll do it." - i had to be cryptic as her girlfriend was in the front room and i didn't want everything to come out and cause an argument.

I was asked later what this cryptic comment meant and i said oh forget it, it's irrelevant. It looked odd but i said "You know you can trust me," and she could. Shortly after, i was deleted off facebook from both of them, ignored, friends of friends ignored me and shunned me.

It turns out that the girl had been asked what that cryptic comment meant. She didn't want to tell the ugly truth and had accused me of trying to kiss her and been pushed away, and told "Ask me tomorrow."

This story went round a lot of the people that i knew and hung out with and as a result i was completely ostracised due to this girl's lie. I actually could have completely exposed her for the liar she was early on, but i decided not to because i didn't want to ruin their relationship. I'm a martyr to my morals, and how ironic it is that my morals facilitate someone attempting to make me look immoral

Perhaps only similar in a small way, but i felt like sharing. I think you're alright, that disgusting behaviour hasn't affected my opinion of you at all. It's certainly made me think twice about my opinion of THEM, however.

im going to tell you just one of my many many cop stories.


so, theres a victims assistance cop that comes into my job peridiocally for rape and domestic violence victims. he wanted to date little ole me for some odd reason. i am a snob and would never ever date a cop, but i was horribly curious and had lots of questions. so i told him i would go and he could call it a date if he felt like it, but i was going to call it an interview.... im terribly uninterested in any sort of romantic entanglement with a fucking pig. i flat out told him i didnt date outside my species. in his arrogance he thought this was charming.

so bea gets a babysitter, and gets all cuted up.. cop takes her to a baseball game. because beas LOVE baseball games.

then out for drinks the interview is conducted. i decide just because he is a victims assistance cop doesnt make him any less of an asshole and that he is desensitized (by necessity of course) to extremely horrible things.
my heart hurts for humanity.

he tries to date me again... i tell him im sooo not interested.
...oh but im so cool so he just wants to go have some beers and hear stories of my fascinating adorable life.

so whatever, i am fascinating and adorable and i do like to talk about me. so off we go again. all of that was LIES he just wants to talk about himself somemore (clearly we are incompatible!) and try to get me to go home with him so he can tell all his buddies that he got the feminist dyke hippie chick in CT to let her guard down and fuck his brains out.

the night progresses and its more and more apparent that my vagina makes me stupid and less than him. and that im like some sort of goal. i feel as if he made a bet about where this would go and hes trying hard to win. i also realize hes a fucking idiot.

he seems to have absolutely no clue why any woman wouldnt want to fuck him right then and there. i find this is a sign that he most likely is terrible in bed. so im ready to go, he tries to stick his hand up my shirt.
i say "um fuck no dude" so he pins me to a wall forcefully and squeezes the shit out my tits and one hand is heading south for my lady part. i grab his hand and squeeze, he leans on my tighter and there it is... big mean forceful hand on my puss. i push him off of me with all my strength and wish i had a fucking shank on me.

FUCK NO DUDE.
im about to punch him in the face but remember hes a cop and i would probably go to jail. so i spit on him instead and storm the fuck out of there.

so.... the victims assistance cop is a date rapist. hooray the irony.

oh and a few months later he calls me up for a booty call. wtf?!!??


edit: also, all the cops and paramedics i have ever known regularly drink and drive. hizzah!

my 3 yr old seems quite skeptical of Santa and his magical powers as she questioned how Santa gets into houses with no fireplaces, how he gets all around the world in one night, or how he got into our house when she knows there is a cover at the top of the chimney to protect it from rainwater. While I personally don't want to encourage the Santa lie(myth), the wife see's no problem in it, so I told my daughter those were good questions and asked her questions back to her to answer what she thought. In the end I told her i didn't know but that her reasoning sounded plausible. My wife would say "it's magic"

I try to raise my kid to question things (how they work and why) and be skeptical and inquisitive. I think she'll apply those skills in time to the mythology that we pass onto our kids as truth (Santa, Easter Bunny). Part of my fear is that since kids are so easily indoctrinated and I don't want her buying into the mythology that is religion (I'm hopefully preparing her critical thinking for when her grandparents try to push their belief of their god and magical jesus on her - when I'm not around)

None of this has squelched her creativity or imagination as she plays and talks about unicorns, pegasus's, fairies, monsters, etc... all the while knowing those are all imaginary things. It's kind of like giving her the knowledge that santa isn't real without telling her directly.

In the end every parent deals with it differently and there is no right or wrong way.

I had a mate that was deadly afraid of using his 5cent coints.
He had this draw just FULL of them, showed me one day I about pissed my pants laughing..I needed to rectify the situation, so I told him we need to get 2 large pizzas and pay for em with his poo change.

He flat out denied it, and had this attempt at arguing against doing it, all the while I was counting out 280, 5 cent peices.

Granted, doesnt sound like many, but man, it weighed a fucking ton.

Got to the pizza store and he refused to come in with me...hilarious.

The pizza guys reaction was more stunned and accepting than anything else, didnt question it, just...kinda stood there, staring at the pile of poo coin as he handed me the pizzas.

Good times.

Just fired off an email to him.

Bring back personalised intro/outro music.

The new cookie cutter crap they have you playing at the start / end of your pure awesome videos is enough to make a grown man cry....or so im told >.>.

On behalf of gamers within 1m radius of my chair, we demand a return to relevant, and awesome mood-setting music for your ZP vids.

/fin.

Yeah, I posted it after I was reminded about it from your question.

Your comment about amnesia is very insightful. In fact, if you don't remember it, it didn't happen. I always tell my residents that when I'm training them. Good story......We give a brief dose of IV anesthetic for cardioversion of the heart, when they try to get someone back in a regular heart rhythm. Sometimes we do them in our anesthesia recovery room. One day I was doing a great big guy. I had the resident give him the dose, he quit responding to me, so I told the cardiologist, "shock away". They hit him with the paddles and he sits bolt upright and yells, "shit, you goddamn motherfuckers" at the top of his lungs. All the nurses and patients recovering from anesthesia look down our way wide-eyed. The guy lays right back down, goes back to sleep for 2 or 3 minutes. When he wakes up I say, "you alright?" "Fine" he says. "Did we bother you at all?" I ask. "Don't remember a thing," he says.

So, if you don't remember it, temporary discomfort does one no harm.

The benzos, like versed (midazolam) are potent amnestics. The wild thing about them is, once you give it, the majority of patients appear awake, conversant, cooperative, but later they don't remember a thing. When patients hear that, they worry "what did I say that might have been inappropriate?" It worries them. I've had a few with loosened inhibitions, but not many.

I'd like to share an 8 year old's observation with you.

My son loves history. We started a year ago with ancient history. We use "The Story of the World" by Susan Wise Bauer.

There was chapter on Egyptian myths. It explained why ancient Egyptians told fables to children as a way of explaining why things work they way they do in the natural world. The example given was the fable of Isis' tears over Osiris drowning in the Nile and that was the reason the Nile floods every year.

Not long after we read that story, my son spent some time w/ a Christian grandparent. He asked me later about the Bible. So I told him the "Creation Story", "Adam and Eve" and "Noah and the Ark" story. After thinking about it a moment he said this to me:

"Oh I get it. This is another one of those make believe stories mommies told the kids to explain how things work."

Now if an 8 year old can have insight, then why can't these adults??

A good clip to go with this is the from the same Documentary. Some Fox News reporters tried to bring this to the attention of the public.

Basically Monsanto didn't want this in the news, so they told Fox not to air it, well we already know fox is evil, so they didnt.

http://www.videosift.com/video/FOX-News-and-Monsanto-from-The-Corporation