Bullied Kid Got Suspended for Fighting Back

~~[MERIT]~~ · 03-29-2011, 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by The Virgin

what do you exactly mean by that? someone who'se poor or financially unstable enough to not afford a gun? that's just selfish.

Don't be a f*cking idiot. What I said has absolutely nothing to do with income or destitution. Gun laws are blind to race, creed, religion, and social status. By "Average Joe", I am referring to a common civilian member of the population.

~~The Virgin~~ · 03-29-2011, 05:15 AM

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Originally Posted by oojay

Don't be a f*cking idiot. What I said has absolutely nothing to do with income or destitution. Gun laws are blind to race, creed, religion, and social status. By "Average Joe", I am referring to a common civilian member of the population.

and you're not a common civilian member of the population?

s_k · 03-29-2011, 05:22 AM

Well he just did a posting in proper English with good interpunction. Hell he even used quotation marks. Overhere, that alone shows that your level is above average

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~~The Virgin~~ · 03-29-2011, 05:53 AM

i'm not just fond of people giving typecast to other people as inferior/superior. i just find it, sellfish.

Lisnaholic · 03-29-2011, 10:50 AM

I`ve never read anything about inferiority/superiority into the expression "the average Joe". I think it`s just an expression to say "a perfectly ordinary person, who could equally be you, me or somebody else".
In Britain we talk about "the man on the Clapham omnibus" and here`s what Wikipedia says about him :

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The man on the Clapham omnibus is a reasonable person, a hypothetical person against whom a defendant's conduct might be judged in English law.

The phrase was first put to legal use in a judgment by Sir Richard Henn Collins MR in a 1903 English Court of Appeal case. It is possibly derived from the phrase "Public opinion ... is the opinion of the bald-headed man at the back of the omnibus,"[3] coined by the 19th century journalist Walter Bagehot to describe the normal man of London. Clapham in south London at the time was a nondescript commuter suburb seen to represent "ordinary" London.

In Australia, the expression has inspired the equivalents, "the man on the Bondi tram" and "the man on the Bourke Street tram". In Hong Kong, the equivalent expression is "the man on the Shaukiwan Tram."

I`ve often been on a Clapham omnibus, and, yeah, you can feel pretty ordinary while doing so.

~~[MERIT]~~ · 03-29-2011, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by The Virgin

and you're not a common civilian member of the population?

Yes, I am. I never claimed to be otherwise. I clearly included myself in the pool of people who should have acces to a firearm if they should ever need one. I in no way included any parameters to differentiate who should have access to one (excluding felons of course, who are banned by law). Stop trying to start sh*t at every turn.

djchameleon · 03-29-2011, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by mojopinuk

But what IS sound, if there is nobody to hear it?

Sound still exists even if it doesn't reach the ear canal of someone in reach to hear it.

The most silliest philosophical question

s_k · 03-29-2011, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by The Virgin

i'm not just fond of people giving typecast to other people as inferior/superior. i just find it, sellfish.

Well I can assure you that a lot of people are more stupid than I am.
I'm sorry, but they are. Not saying I'm all that smart, but that doesn't mean I can't tell that some people are rather stupid.
That doesn't mean I automatically treat them like an inferior.

Howard the Duck · 03-29-2011, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

I`ve never read anything about inferiority/superiority into the expression "the average Joe". I think it`s just an expression to say "a perfectly ordinary person, who could equally be you, me or somebody else".
In Britain we talk about "the man on the Clapham omnibus" and here`s what Wikipedia says about him :

I`ve often been on a Clapham omnibus, and, yeah, you can feel pretty ordinary while doing so.

that case was one of the first cases I read

and no I don't know what's a "Clapham" omnibus - I've only been on a lot of red buses in Cardiff and London, and they make me feel like a tourist, not a "regular Joe".

~~The Virgin~~ · 06-26-2011, 12:09 PM

i honestly forgot what we've discussed here.

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