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Nice Planet 2012

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johnnypohlfan said:
It might be "inexact" but its really quite simple. EVERYTHING IN MODERATION. Granted there are cases where that won't work for someone due to genetics or whatever, but 99% of the time, you can live a perfectly healthy life by that credo.
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Of course. And if anyone in NYC fails to live by that credo, that jumped up rich dwarf mayor, will send the cops to their house to make sure they see the error of their ways.
 
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Hammer said:
Zombies don't exist in real life

Now. Where this qualifies for this thread is this: I cannot believe we have to TELL people that a zombie is not going to jump up and get them.
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I saw that yesterday. Then I read another article in the same topic section on Google News. I was shocked at the number of cannibalism stories as of late. And they were all in developed countries. It's just sick. I think the two worst are still the Japanese penis guy and the face eater.
 
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Maybe not zombies in the academic sense, but I'm still freaked out by face eating people.

Bath salts are a helluva drug.
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dxmnkd316 said:
I saw that yesterday. Then I read another article in the same topic section on Google News. I was shocked at the number of cannibalism stories as of late. And they were all in developed countries. It's just sick. I think the two worst are still the Japanese penis guy and the face eater.
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What about the dude in Canada who added necrophelia to his act? It's been reported he consumed some of his victim's flesh. And he wasn't on any mind altering drugs. He's enough to give sick twitch queens a bad name.
 
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73 year old man thrown out of a Barnes and Noble because he was browsing in the children's section alone. He says he was looking for gifts for his grand kids. The store says a woman "complained," and that its policy is designed to protect children and that men are not allowed to shop in the children's section by themselves. No indication he did anything improper, except "shopping while male."

http://www.azcentral.com/community/...20120531scottsdale-barnes-noble-sex-bias.html
 
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Old Pio said:
73 year old man thrown out of a Barnes and Noble because he was browsing in the children's section alone. He says he was looking for gifts for his grand kids. The store says a woman "complained," and that its policy is designed to protect children and that men are not allowed to shop in the children's section by themselves. No indication he did anything improper, except "shopping while male."

http://www.azcentral.com/community/...20120531scottsdale-barnes-noble-sex-bias.html
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I really hope that guy sues. He'll get a huge pay day, which he can use to buy books for his grand kids forever.... on Amazon.
 
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Old Pio said:
73 year old man thrown out of a Barnes and Noble because he was browsing in the children's section alone. He says he was looking for gifts for his grand kids. The store says a woman "complained," and that its policy is designed to protect children and that men are not allowed to shop in the children's section by themselves. No indication he did anything improper, except "shopping while male."
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They may have been a bit over-zealous here, yet I can have some sympathy for the store clerk given the wacky times we live in...several years ago we won a trip to Disney World as a prize, and at the pool by our hotel there was an older male, on his own, watching the young children splash around through the telephoto lens on his camera several times (i.e., every time we brought the kids there). I thought it was really creepy.

A book store, of course, is quite different, and even pedophiles who watch from afar and don't touch are not breaking any laws.
 
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Old Pio said:
73 year old man thrown out of a Barnes and Noble because he was browsing in the children's section alone. He says he was looking for gifts for his grand kids. The store says a woman "complained," and that its policy is designed to protect children and that men are not allowed to shop in the children's section by themselves. No indication he did anything improper, except "shopping while male."

http://www.azcentral.com/community/...20120531scottsdale-barnes-noble-sex-bias.html
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This is part of the reason why I don't want kids. They have been rendered absolutely radioactive to adult males. All it takes is being in the wrong place at the wrong time, one person sees it and overthinks it, and congratulations, your name is chomo.

I read a story a while back about a young boy dying of exposure after getting lost in a park in the middle of winter. A man passed right by the child and saw him freezing, but kept right on walking for fear people would think he was abducting or molesting the child.
 
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FreshFish said:
They may have been a bit over-zealous here, yet I can have some sympathy for the store clerk given the wacky times we live in...several years ago we won a trip to Disney World as a prize, and at the pool by our hotel there was an older male, on his own, watching the young children splash around through the telephoto lens on his camera several times (i.e., every time we brought the kids there). I thought it was really creepy.

A book store, of course, is quite different, and even pedophiles who watch from afar and don't touch are not breaking any laws.
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Sure, an employee's supposed to follow whatever guidelines his boss lays down. In this case, however, there were apparantly no children in the store! Aren't grandfathers allowed to buy gifts for their grandkids anymore? What if he's a widower? Does he have to hire some woman to do the shopping for him for fear some hyper-thyroid b*tch is going to rat him out to the bookstore police?
 
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Old Pio said:
Sure, an employee's supposed to follow whatever guidelines his boss lays down. In this case, however, there were apparantly no children in the store! Aren't grandfathers allowed to buy gifts for their grandkids anymore? What if he's a widower? Does he have to hire some woman to do the shopping for him for fear some hyper-thyroid b*tch is going to rat him out to the bookstore police?
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He should have just abducted a kid and brought them into the store with him. Then he would have been allowed to shop.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
This is part of the reason why I don't want kids. They have been rendered absolutely radioactive to adult males. All it takes is being in the wrong place at the wrong time, one person sees it and overthinks it, and congratulations, your name is chomo.

I read a story a while back about a young boy dying of exposure after getting lost in a park in the middle of winter. A man passed right by the child and saw him freezing, but kept right on walking for fear people would think he was abducting or molesting the child.
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Jeez, I hope that story's not true. Annecdotally we read of teachers concerned about touching students for fear of being reported. And let's face it, kids are ten thousand times more sophisticated about these things than when I was a kid. And many parents are all too willing to believe just about any fairy tale a kid can make up. The day care witch hunt trials of the 90's should prove that point. Remember Ellie Nessler? She murdered the guy who apparantly molested her kid, IN COURT! And many people were willing to excuse her because, you know, he molested her kid. They weren't able to see that establishing a precedent whereby victims' families can murder their victimizers can lead us to a place where we don't want to go.

In the case at hand, if there had been kids present. And if the guy had been paying more attention to them than making his selections, then fine. Run him out of there.
 
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cF[Authentic] said:
He should have just abducted a kid and brought them into the store with him. Then he would have been allowed to shop.
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Provided he stopped somewhere to have "he's my grandson" tattooed on the kid's forehead. And even that might not work. The lady with the overactive imagination comes across to me as someone who hears what nobody else hears and sees what nobody else sees.

Like the punchline to the old joke where the patient has been describing the ink blots as every sort of sexual deviation and debauchery. He says to his shrink: "I've got the sexual hangup? You're the one who's been showing me the dirty pictures."
 
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It really sucks, but a business has the right to refuse service to anyone, as long as it's not discrimination (religious/gender/etc). The guy won't get anywhere in a lawsuit unless he can prove he was harassed/verbally abused.
 
Brenthoven said:
It really sucks, but a business has the right to refuse service to anyone, as long as it's not discrimination (religious/gender/etc). The guy won't get anywhere in a lawsuit unless he can prove he was harassed/verbally abused.
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How is it not gender discrimination? The policy doesn't say adults can't be in there alone, it says MEN can't be in there alone. It's textbook.
 
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