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mainly they dont get caught in the first placeThat's a pretty big loophole. Have they thought about putting more cops on the street?

I dont know what they are doing about it. There are more cops on the street at night but one time we called the cops when these chavs came and started kicking the shit into everyone and like everyone legged it ans only one guy was lefed and they were beating on him with a dog leash and fucked up his head. And thats when i came down and everyone was like wa they are beating people up. So i was like call the nfucking police then. So we did then they all started running as the police came. I chased after them and cornered 3 of them by the river but the guy they were beating on was too scared to tell the police what happened because the people took his picture on his phone and said if he told the cops they would get the ebf to kill him. So basicaly I put my ass on the line chasing them down for nothing. I could still get comeback about that whole thing now. Because I am not exacly not very recognisable since not many people have a blue mohawk. The law means nothing when people are to scared to speak out. To tell the true people areound here are cowards, as soon as trouble breaks out they run off and abandon their so called friends. I would never leave my friends especialy in a situation like that when they would need me most.

Thank you! That was really interesting, but I already knew I was a nerd.

Er, SteveA, strictly speaking, a hyphen is not the same thing as an en-dash. A hyphen is character number 45, and an en-dash character number 150, in the ANSI set. (An em-dash is character number 151.) An en-dash is usually represented as longer and thinner than a hyphen. A hyphen is used to combine words into a compound (as in "en-dash"), while the en-dash is used, for example, to represent "to" in expressions like "pages 34-50", or "the London-Paris train". (Here, however, I have been forced to use hyphens for en-dashes, as sticking a true en-dash in doesn't work properly with all browsers.)

OK, strike em-dash and en-dash in my explanation. There is also a difference between a dash and a hyphen. In the old days, on the typewriter keyboard, there was a single dash (or was that a hyphen? Width should be equal to 1/2 the point size of the type), and you'd make a double dash by typing two dashes in succession.Technically, ASCII is a 7-bit character set, so nothing exists above 127 (the 8th bit is sometimes used as a parity (i.e., check) bit). ISO Latin 1 of the ISO 8859 family may be what you're thinking about (unless you're thinking about UTF-8 Unicode):In reply to:In ISO 8859-1, code positions 128 - 159 are explicitly reserved for control purposes; they "correspond to bit combinations that do not represent graphic characters". The so-called Windows character set (WinLatin1, or Windows code page 1252, to be exact) uses some of those positions for printable characters. Thus, the Windows character set is not identical with ISO 8859-1.The space that the New York Times uses on both sides of the m-dash is actually a micro-space (i.e., a fraction of a full space).For some good bedtime reading on the subject:==> The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters)==> A Tutorial on Character Code Issues (ASCII section)_______________________________But this is all kind of besides the point for common grammatical usage, if you're not a typesetter. Basically, a hyphen is used to join compound things; an en dash is used to hyphenate a range of things, to replace the word "to", or to hyphenate compounds of compounds. But the minus sign is a separate entity; an em-dash:In reply to:is used to indicate a sudden break in thought (“I was thinking about writing a—what time did you say the movie started?”), a parenthetical statement that deserves more attention than parentheses indicate, or instead of a colon or semicolon to link clauses. It is also used to indicate an open range, such as from a given date with no end yet (as in “Peter Sheerin [1969—] authored this document.”), or vague dates (as a stand-in for the last two digits of a four-digit year).For everyday use, this is massive overkill. You need to know how to use the hyphen (and sometimes its usage is a matter of taste, depending on whether you're anal retentive or anal-retentive) and the m-dash.

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id rather live in europe

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What's stopping you?

I'm sure there are a lot of people who will help you with you're moving expenses.
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It's not that easy to emigrate to Europe if you need to work. If people would like to support him, he might be able to make a go of it. He needs to find an older woman with money, and become a kept man.

True... But I still think we should put his ass on a boat and see where he ends up. I'm sure they could use a real pot smoking conasuir overthere....

yeah and a visa

yea you are doing somthing wrong your smoking way to much weed at one time! ive been smoking for years and ive never got sick off just weed. save your money dont smoke so much.

In reply to:I had a nit to pick (over an error of omission) in their FAQ on the use of "lay" versus "lie". I sent the dictionary folks in Oxford an e-mail on the matter.No, I wasn't kidding. I just got a reply from the (or a) senior editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. This may trump the written reply I received from the international editor of the Economist a while back, when I critiqued their style guide.In reply to:From: Steve AxxxxxxxSent: 30 June 2005 04:23To: OED3Subject: Inquiry: lay versus lie on "Ask the Experts'" FAQ (transitive-ness)The explanation of the usage of "lay" versus "lie" is generally good,but it would be helpful if you would point out that the verb "lay" istransitive, and the verb "lie" is not. One does not lay down (unless oneis colloquially having sex with fine, soft, fluffy feathers); one goesto lie down when one is tired.In reply to:Subject: RE: Inquiry: lay versus lie on "Ask the Experts'" FAQ (transitive-ness)Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 11:12:24 +0100From: "OED3" To: "Steve Axxxxxxx" Dear Mr Axxxxxxx,Thank you for your email of 30 June.I am sorry we have not been able to reply sooner.It is indeed important to note the distinction between 'lay' and 'lie' in terms of their transitivity. In fact the OED has always tried to do this, but because of its style policy, this was perhaps not as clear as it might have been.In the first and second editions of the full OED, the style for verb entries was to label the transitivity status of the first sense, and then to assume that this status applied to each subsequent sense until the status was labelled ashaving changed. In the third, online, edition, this is beingchanged so that each sense and subsense will have its owntransitivity status label. This should make it a lot easier tosee, especially in long entries.Yours sincerely, Juliet E. A. Field (Mrs)(Senior Editor, Oxford English Dictionary)

In reply to: id rather live in europe I live in the UK but hopefully I'll be moving to the USA permanently in about 6-7 years when I finish up all my studying. I've already been (virtually) guaranteed a job over there once I get my PhD. I love America and I love Americans (although like any sane person, I can't stand George Bush)!

Y dint u do ur pee ache dee in the US, were we speek reel gud english?

Weed should be used because you think its cool and other are doing it.the only time it should be used is for medical reasons like if your in pain.Smoking it daily can mess up your life.Also certain strains can make you lazy and withdraw from life/social life even drop out of school/college or whatever.when people take weed they never do any research in to it.1 strain of it doesnt have the aove effects on you and you can still carry on with your day to day life.

You'd be surprised how much research some people around here have done on the subject.Is there any middle ground between using marijuana for medical purposes only, and smoking ten bowls a day? How about a few bong hits a month, or an occasional marijuana or hashish brownie?

just gonna stick in my 2 cents here. i dont see a problem with smoking it occasionally like with a mate of whatever as i have done in the past but really dont over do it. my friend did and now she is totally fucked up with all these weird arse mental problems. anyway, ive just found that weed makes you feel more relaxed and thats it. no sickness unless taken with huge amounts of booze in which case youre fucked. lol. if it feels good, do it but make sure you limit your intake. if it doesnt feel good then i wouldnt bother. personally, i dont get it. ive smoked it a few times and i just dont get it. not worth the money imo.

There were ppl at my school that said they smoked that stuff, and i have a feeling they had nothing better to do or nothing else to spend their money on.

I'll bet there were a lot of people who smoked weed, and didn't tell you about it, so you had no idea. Not everyone who smokes marijuana is a Cheech & Chong burnout.

All of my friends were stoners from age 13 - 20 (the present). But I wasn't always. In fact, I didn't even start until age 18. I didn't smoke to fit in, or why would I have waited so long? I'm sure I was under more peer pressure than anyone on this forum, but that pressure urged me in the opposite direction. Like most people, I'm not just some propaganda cliche.When I finally smoked marijuana, the choice to do so was my own. It was an act of rebellion. It was a step away from the system. It was an act of free will.I consider myself fairly experienced as marijuana has been a part of my life since I was born. I have no doubt that it was involved in my conception. Because of this, I don't need to smoke ten bowls a day.I can be stoned for an entire day on one bowl alone, but most of the time I take just a hit or two later at night. I just breath in the air and hold it there, long, long, long, before blowing it out. Diego Rivera said it right, paraphrasing here: "Look at a painting after smoking marijuana, and you will hear it as well as see it."I don't have any more mental problems now than I did before smoking. It's possible that I am an exception (I know I am exceptional). no1sexpotinusa, try to make tomfoolery of me for smoking marijuana, and the situation will be uprooted and blasphemered. Just because I smoke a little recreational marijuana does not make me a fucking idiot.I'd also bet, propaganda aside, that marijuana is just as safe - if not safer - than alcohol. Think about this: No one has ever died from smoking marijuana. Ever. Never ever. Anyone ever heard of a little thing called alcohol poisoning?Alcohol kills people. Marijuana doesn't.

Who said i thought it was cool and cus others were doing it? I did it cus i felt like it, if I gave a fuck about being cool I would dress like a fagg and play high school football. And who said I didnt research it? You assume too much.