It was a ceremony, and in ceremonies there are rules. Complain about it all you like, but it has always been this way, and it always will.

The example above about the 4-hour graduation ceremony, where most parents couldn't hear their kids names because someone else's kid was doing the Robot all up and down the stage, is why they have a policy.

She knew the policy, she broke the policy, she was asked to leave.

That's life, get a helmet.

Take the dirtbag cop off the street so s/he can write a statement or appear in court to prosecute you. If you just send in the fine money, the cops and judges aren't impacted and they just pocket your money for nothing!

Just for the record, cops love traffic court. Gets them overtime, which is big money.

At least I made the legal system work a bit for my money. And everyone else who gets a ticket should fight it, too. Take the dirtbag cop off the street so s/he can write a statement or appear in court to prosecute you. If you just send in the fine money, the cops and judges aren't impacted and they just pocket your money for nothing!


And the flip side to that argument is that while everyone is busy fighting traffic tickets in court, cops are pulled off the streets so they can be in court, the legal system is strained for time and resources, and ultimately everyone suffers from those things far more than anyone benefits from your "pocketed" fine.

When you get a ticket, ask yourself this. Are you guilty of what you're being charged for doing? Yes or no. Did you speed, make an illegal turn, whatever. Yes or no. If you are, don't fight the ticket just because you know a loophole. Pay the damn ticket, consider it a true-up for all the times you were speeding and didn't get a ticket, and move on with your life.

And if you have a real problem with the ticket, again, ask yourself how many other times you got away with it, and whether you think you might owe a hundred bucks for speeding three dozen times in the past year.

I am so glad my public Highschool not only had competent administrators, they had administrators with a sense of humor.

For instance, at the end of highschool last year, my younger brother and his friend were supremely bored. After all, it was the lead up to the final exams, which, in NC, are mostly standardized (And, therefore, almost pathetically easy). So, he and his friend decided to dress up differently each day.

The first day was ninjas. Classic, cliche, but fun.

Later, they went as Greek Gods.

One day, they went as fairys . Yes, fairys, because they thought it would be amusing. They went to some of their female friends and borrowed nylon tutu's and spaghetti straps, and then purchsed some fake fairy wings. They went to school like this.

My principal's response? He pointed out that spaghetti straps violated the dress code, and that, because it had to be enforced fairly, they had to put on shirts with sleeves.

That's it.

Didn't send them home, didn't try to get them arrested for causing a disturbance (Not even this year, when, as the senior prank, he procured 2006 bouncy-balls to be dropped of the balcony and into the cafeteria). Just (somewhat jokingly) pointed out that the dress-code had to be applied fairly, and so they had to put on shirts.

muninsfire: why don't y'all secede?

Because you need us. More than we need you.


/just flaming to protect the honor of Texas

lilplatinum: you guys can take everything we have west of austin or north of Dallas as well, then you can have a monoply on empty land noone wants to set foot on.


Hold it there amigo...I like it out here...no farkin' yankees farking things up!

Maud Dib: You Texas bashers crack me up.

Please come to the TXTFBBQ-2.

YOU will have fun!!!!

Click here and join us

Mr. Anon: Hell Stephen Colber said in an interview that one of the first things he did was lose his southern accent because it was shorthand for stupid.

If you base your life around him you have much bigger problems than this.

Like reading, or in our case, being Southern rubes, sounding out phrases.