i'm pretty sure chris benoit was heavily influenced by a diamond ad with the phrase "to die for"
― and what, Sunday, 20 July 2008 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
but you'd never learn that if you just focused on the so-called "investigation"
― and what, Sunday, 20 July 2008 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
supposedly (and allegedly)
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 20 July 2008 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Someone once said to never buy an autobiography written by someone who is still alive
― stevie, Monday, 21 July 2008 10:08 (fifteen years ago) link
those Shakespeare memoirs were a hoot!
― latebloomer, Monday, 21 July 2008 10:42 (fifteen years ago) link
John Edwards is a liar and lost my repect
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=29806768427&ref=mf
― elan, Saturday, 9 August 2008 02:08 (fifteen years ago) link
This song triggers some really hard realizations for me, In a lot of ways I see myself as that "Desperado".
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 9 August 2008 08:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice way to change America.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 9 August 2008 08:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Marc L (Old Dominion) wrote12 hours ago What's your story? Mine is below.
I am disappointed. I am fucking diappointed. I am disappointed with them all. All my fucking life, there have only been two men I've tried to mold myself into - Bill Clinton and John Edwards. If you didn't already hear, Edwards admitted to having an extramarital affair - all the while his wife was battling cancer. So, I guess all that tender and loving crap that he showed were just for show. I guess Edwards is just like others. To think - I looked up to both Edwards and Clinton - Edwards ESPECIALLY! I lost my respect for Edwards today.
You think Clinton was bad. He had a reputation for straying ...but at least he didn't fuck anyone when his wife was battling cancer. At least with Clinton, you EXPECT that he cheats.
I am getting to the point where I am molding my own political paths, without having to look up to any of these people. Do you remember that feeling of when you were a kid and realizing your parents aren't perfect or that your hero isn't a hero at all. Yeah, that's my feeling with Edwards now.
Perhaps it's the naivity in me, but I believe you can fuck whomever you want when you're not committing yourself to anyone. But if you have committed yourself, stick with it. Especially when your wife is battling cancer.
In the end, I am not America's Next Bill Clinton or John Edwards. I am going to be better than they were.
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 9 August 2008 08:41 (fifteen years ago) link
your hero isn't an hero at all
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 9 August 2008 08:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Perhaps it's the naivity in me
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 9 August 2008 08:44 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, perhaps!
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 9 August 2008 08:47 (fifteen years ago) link
-- J0rdan S., Saturday, 9 August 2008 09:41 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link
http://profeministmale.blogspot.com/
There's Marc Loi's creative nature at work for you.I don't know what to make of this book …but, if you feel like discussing it, the copy I currently have is yours. Drop by the house any time and pick it up. Posted by America's Next Bill Clinton at 6:01 AM
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Saturday, 9 August 2008 13:42 (fifteen years ago) link
the national enquirer cover he chose has nothing to do with john edwards
― s1ocki, Saturday, 9 August 2008 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Oooh, the Toronto Livejournal community has a Marc Loi as well, except his name is Joe
― Finefinemusic, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice way to change Canada.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
linx
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 16:03 (fifteen years ago) link
In Book of the Dead, Marino's not so secret crush on Scarpetta comes to a head. He reacts badly to news of Scarpetta's engagement to Benton Wesley, and after getting drunk and under the influence of a testosterone drug, he attacks Kay and almost rapes her. His actions lead to a confrontation with Lucy and her almost shooting him, after which Marino disappears. It is unknown if he has killed himself or just runs away as the book ends.
Ah, almost rape!
― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Monday, 6 October 2008 04:51 (fifteen years ago) link
inappropriate google ads on his blog are mildly lulzy - "Dating for Wealthy Men & Gorgeous Women. Seen on CH4, Richard & Judy" etc.
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Monday, 6 October 2008 11:18 (fifteen years ago) link
xxp linx http://community.livejournal.com/toronto/3367953.html missed that request
― mineminefusic (Finefinemusic), Monday, 6 October 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
http://odufife.blogspot.com/2008/11/this-is-what-feminist-looks-like_06.html
― velko, Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.parents-teens/browse_thread/thread/15e90b7dc4df7759
― and what, Thursday, 8 January 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I checked out the site, and it's pretty disturbing.
― roxymuzak, Thursday, 8 January 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I checked out the site for about three hours, and it's pretty disturbing.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 8 January 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Marc said...
Thanks, Jackie, for contributing. Double thanks to Brook for the nicely written article. Most of the time, I am introduced as "the guy who, when he becomes a politician, is going to ruin America." :)
― my lovely hoos running through the......fields (omar little), Thursday, 8 January 2009 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link
As for the difference in culture - why marry someone with whom you have nothing in common? Perhaps it's just me, but I wouldn't want to marry someone who doesn't even speak my own language. Marriage is about sharing the same dreams and desires, and if you can't so much as communicate, it becomes kind of hard, huh? Marriage is about an exchange of many things, to include culture, and it becomes a one-way power play when the women of third-world nations are forced to learn our culture and ways of doing things, while at the same time, have to almost abadone their own cultures to fit in. Unless you're blind, you cannot deny how ethnocentric spouse support groups are on any military base.
Mix marriages? Again, don't read into things. I've never said anything about that.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 8 January 2009 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Sex assault plan fails troops
The military, it appears, is slow-learning when it comes to preventing sexual assaults.
In a world where 1 out of 4 women will be sexually assaulted by someone she knows, it is mind-boggling that the military still insists on putting the responsibility of preventing sexual assaults on the potential victims.
In front of the post exchange here [at Camp Victory, Iraq], a big sign reads, "Where is your battle buddy? Prevent Sexual Assaults, Always Have a Buddy" — as if "buddies" cannot sexually assault one another.
Apparently, the military views rape as an act that only happens at night, committed by strangers lurking in the dark. Statistics, however, indicate that just like their civilian counterparts, soldiers will be assaulted in dorms and barracks or on dates, often by someone they know.
Rather than telling women not go out at night by themselves, thereby limiting their access to the public spheres, perhaps it would do the military well to teach men not to rape, and that "no" means "no."
As well, it seems the military’s message of consent is one that’s muddled in good old-fashioned misogyny and distrust of women. Instead of telling soldiers to get consent "in case she claims rape to save her military career," perhaps the military ought to start talking about the plights of rape victims and that no human being should ever face the horrors of rape.
Getting consent, after all, isn’t about preventing oneself from getting in legal troubles, but rather, respecting the wishes of a potential partner and fellow human being.
If military leaders truly wish to stop sexual assaults, they need to revamp the current prevention of sexual assaults program; it miserably fails soldiers. Although they make strange bedfellows, the military could learn a lesson or two about rape prevention from feminism.
Sgt. Marc LoiCamp Victory, Iraq
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=125&article=61697
― velko, Saturday, 18 April 2009 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.websophist.com/military_salute_smileyM.gif
― velko, Saturday, 18 April 2009 03:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Was not expecting that.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 18 April 2009 04:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Loi Jagger
― ambience chaser (S-), Saturday, 18 April 2009 05:03 (fifteen years ago) link
"All my fucking life, there have only been two men I've tried to mold myself into - Bill Clinton and John Edwards."
Weird goals.
― Alex in SF, Saturday, 18 April 2009 05:13 (fifteen years ago) link
we should teach men not to rape though, he has a point there.
― Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Saturday, 18 April 2009 05:22 (fifteen years ago) link
ok now THIS is a good twist
― macarooni (omar little), Saturday, 18 April 2009 05:40 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah did not see this coming
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 18 April 2009 05:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Banks, historically, would not give loans to people with bad credit, minimum-wage jobs and a spotty financial history, and the neighborhoods these folks lived in were marked. This was called redlining. People often thought that redlining was racially motivated; however, it actually had everything to do with income and financial history.
loooooool
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 18 April 2009 05:48 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a lot of women in Iraq he can prevent other men from raping.
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Saturday, 18 April 2009 05:50 (fifteen years ago) link
What's the twist? I thought it was established that he was in the military above.
― Alex in SF, Saturday, 18 April 2009 05:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Camp Victory contains two dining facilities; the "Sports Oasis DFAC", the larger of the two, and the "Coalition Cafe". There are also several chain restaurants, located near the PX, including a Pizza Hut, a Subway, and a Green Beans coffeeshop.
― velko, Saturday, 18 April 2009 07:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Has Loi ever pontificated on the furry fandom? That wd truly be as lulzy as can be.
― mroo (Pashmina), Saturday, 18 April 2009 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Waiting for the Loi Takes On the Taliban chapter. Ought to be a good one.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 18 April 2009 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
^ Twist will be of course, him endorsing burquas because it's their only defense from rapists.
The women wearing the burquas, not the Taliban. Those guys can go get raped all they want.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 18 April 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
http://community.feministing.com/2009/05/how-men-can-be-better-feminist.html
― Swat Valley High (goole), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 03:59 (fifteen years ago) link
in fairness that could be all otm, did not read
Twelve: Feminism is not a dating service - if you think women should fall all over you just because you're feminist, you're in the wrong movement. If, in the course of doing feminism, you happen to meet someone and you both want to date, then fine. But if you think feminism is a dating service, it doesn't need you, and you don't need it - you need to learn social skills as to not have to use feminism to get closer to women.
Kinda falls into the "not that I'd ever want to see you nude because I respect you as a person" category.
But hey, dude's probably 95% walking the walk and defending Iraq to boot, so what do I care?
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 04:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Loi-brand feminism has a perverse fascination with dudes being boneheaded neanderthal anti-feminists by nature. It's like listening to one of those evangelical preachers who focuses on sin & the Fall of Man etc. Of course my clowning him on this thread would probably just further confirm whatever beliefs he has that contributes to his distrust of males but I'm in it for the lols man
― Pvt. Gonorrhea's dishonorable discharge (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 04:33 (fifteen years ago) link
it seems like some ppl run into a particular explanation for the way the world is when they're young and stick with it, for some it's 'anti-semitism' or 'the matrix' so this doubtless a net plus for the ppl in marc loi's life
― Swat Valley High (goole), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 05:01 (fifteen years ago) link
If, in the course of doing feminism,
― ice cr?m, Friday, 15 May 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Loi-brand feminism has a perverse fascination with dudes being boneheaded neanderthal anti-feminists by nature. It's like listening to one of those evangelical preachers who focuses on sin & the Fall of Man etc.
This is really, really on the money. He does appear to define himself as against what HE THINKS other people think like! Quite a bit part of what makes his spiel so annoying.
― tzzt (Pashmina), Friday, 15 May 2009 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I think you mean "makes his spiel so lol-rrific"
― Skip "Ex" Spence (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 May 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link