Lighted isn't a wordI think the word you're looking for is "lit." Basic literacy skills!
Also, YES WE KNOW SHE RECOGNIZED SHE USED A TERRIBLY PREJUDICED STEREOTYPE but she didn't apologize for offending anyone. She said "I know I will offend some people" but she didn't actually say "I'm sorry for offending you" or anything of the sort, and she really should, especially since she has friends from those areas (Monda being from Kentucky and Justin being from rural Indiana).
Let's try this thread again in a few hoursPeople are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully
People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully
So were different colours
And were different creeds
And different people
Have different needs
Its obvious you hate me
Though Ive done nothing wrong
Ive never even met you
So what could I have done
I cant understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully
Help me understand
Help me understand
Now youre punching
And youre kicking
And youre shouting at me
And Im relying on your common decency
So far it hasnt surfaced
But Im sure it exists
It just takes a while to travel
From your head to your fist (head to your fists)
I cant understand what makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully
I cant understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
I cant understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
I cant understand (people are people)
What makes a man (why should it be)
Hate another man
Help me understand...
I'm not afraid to be anywhere.
I grew up in the country. Woods might have dangerous animals but chances are they're going to leave you alone. You can walk at night down a road and never see another person. If you do see someone they're more likely to not stop the car or even take the time to say hello if they're on foot.
Never once in my life have I felt scared in the city though I haven't been to many in America. I've wandered St Louis Missouri alone and didn't like it but I wasn't scared. Rome, Paris, Amsterdam or Frankfurt? I've walked up and down these streets all days and nights and never had anything to worry about except to laugh at some of the crazies. I've slept in train stations in Germany without any problems. Monday night I slept in the streets of Paris and nothing happened. I slept in a park in Amsterdam and gotten so lost in Rome I wandered for hours until I figured out how to get back.
The only reason you people are scared is because of the impressions you give yourself about these places.
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I don't think being afraid of high crime areas in the middle of the night is unreasonable.Originally Posted by theundeadhero
I like Kung-Fu.
Adventure time, come on grab your friends
We'll go to very distant lands
MILF the dog and Rye the human
The fun will never end
It's adventure time
there was a picture here
My parents used to run a sort of drug rehabilitation thing out in the country. Small time, just one guest at a time who was accommodated in the guest house and they got compensated by some organization.
Anyway, this one guest had a little trouble adapting, he had lived in the city his whole life, and as such he had always had the city light in his life. So when the night came and it got dark, no lampposts within a mile's distance, he freaked out. He couldn't stand it. So the first night, he took their car and went back towards Stockholm, which is a 300 mile drive. The police found the car by the roadside with a dead engine a way south from Stockholm.
Seriously.I don't think being afraid of high crime areas in the middle of the night is unreasonable.
I'm not afraid of places because of IMPRESSIONS I have of those places, I'm scared because of the realities of those places. I was walking around the USC campus in Los Angeles the other night, just a few days following the attack and rape of two girls. Two girls on two separate nights who had been walking along the same street I was walking and were attacked by two different men. You can bet your ass I was scared and clutching at my little pocket knife. My family and I have lived and worked in Los Angeles all our lives. And my Dad has been held at gun point, my mom has been mugged TWICE, multiple cars have been vandalized, and countless (seriously, I've lost count) home robberies of friends and family. Fear is not unreasonable. Fear was what made carry around and ultimately use a bottle of pepper spray during my Sophomore year in college.
Maybe it's different for guys than it is for girls. Or it's just different for people who haven't trained as a soldier.
I really doubt that most woman can do what you did and spend nights sleeping in a park or a train station or out on the streets, alone, without getting into some real trouble.
All I know is that I've been accosted in LA, and I've been chased after by some random stranger in a small town hotel in the Midwest. There are freaks and crazies all over the place. I can see myself being really scared being out alone in some deserted rural area. But that's just cause I wouldn't want to be alone and out in the dark anywhere. I used to carry around this key on my keychain that wasn't useful for opening any doors but it was really really sharp. And I keep my keychain in my hands whenever I'm out at night alone. Just in case, you know? I used to have pepper spray. Now I have a small pocket knife that I carry around. Rye, if you really do get paranoid often, try getting yourself one of those little bottles of pepper spray and keep it on your keychain (unless that's illegal in your state?) It might make you feel less vulnerable.
Unagi, my friends. Unagi.
I'm not offended. =O
My house is surrounded by woods on three sides, and there are no street lights on my road, so just taking my doggies outside to pee at night is too scary for me. It doesn't help that someone was killed and left down the road this week and human remains were found in the woods behind my house last year.
The first time you go out at night in a new place, it's always scary, but once you do it a few times you realize you're not as likely to be a statistic and it's not scary.
I was scared the first night I decided to walk down my dark country road, but I don't think anything of it now.
The first time is what is the hardest and the scariest, it's just these kinda of situations are such that you might get so scared and the situation is so improbable that you never give it a second try.
I think you're just trying to stir up drama. If you're offended by that, then you need to GTFO of the internets imo. Damn.
I've been waiting for ages to use this one..
And everyone knows how I feel about stereotypes, or at least should.
Not so Funfact: Everytime someone is caught, a rapist, a child murderer, etc. The people who knew him always say: "He seemed so normal."
It's not the stereotype you have to look out for, the real sickos blend in quite well.
I mean, look at Paul.
Oh, good grief.
Also, Rye doesn't state her stereotype as fact. She just has a silly little stereotype, which is pretty what she's saying in the post. Or I'm horribly wrong, and she does think her stereotype is fact, in which case who cares? xD
Also also, I love the dark, me. My meercat senses start a-tingling, and it's brilliant.
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I swear we're soulmates.
Don't you just love it when you can hear everything, without all the annoying human noises in the way?
Where I live, "human noises" usually means sex sounds coming from various nearby hedges. I'm not even kidding. Eurgh.
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