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re: Mississippi and Hurricane Katrina: the forgotten Landmass

Posted by RichardPikchures on 8/25/15 at 1:40 pm to Hammertime

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Um...some people had no means to leave. Some people didn't want to leave pets. Some tried, but turned back because the traffic was so bad. There were plenty reasons people couldn't leave

Never said anything to the contrary. Just stated that we are acting as if the city "treated it's citizens a certain way". There's always been the belief that no one cared about those people and we were okay with them dying in the storm. I'm just saying that it's not exactly fair to say that the government didn't step up and basically undertake a rescue of the most massive scale probably ever seen. Should have been more prepared, no doubt. But I also don't think it's fair to treat them like murderers either.

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re: Mississippi and Hurricane Katrina: the forgotten Landmass

Posted by RichardPikchures on 8/25/15 at 12:37 pm to MightyYat

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Except we're not hearing stories of the shite heads shooting at helicopters and looting TVs from Walmart. The stories in the news the past few weeks are genuinely uplifting stories of people that fought back and rebuilt parts of their lives. The images of death will always be there for those of us that went through it so I don't mind seeing constant reminders of the good things people did every time the anniversary rolls around.

I honestly haven't watched much as I don't live in LA anymore and rarely watch the news. But I'm not trying to take away from the fact that a lot of people did a lot of good things. Merely pointing out that NOLA gets the attention, because of all the very crappy situations that piled on top of each other. If it were just people displaced and rebuilding homes and businesses, it would be the same story as Mississippi. But New Orleans had a larger cross to bear during that storm as far as it's citizens.

And also I think I take offense to the "how we treated other Americans" a little. I know people who took their personal boats to go search for people. There are a lot of good stories like that.

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re: Mississippi and Hurricane Katrina: the forgotten Landmass

Posted by RichardPikchures on 8/25/15 at 12:06 pm to Gaston

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I watched some footage, of NOLA, last night that I'd never seen, mainly because I was trying to put my life back together at the time, and I literally couldn't believe...I guess that Americans were treated that way. IDK, that story needs to be told over and over in the hopes that it never happens again.

I don't quite understand what you mean by "Americans were treated that way". I certainly think the evacuation was terribly executed and that so much could have been avoided. But at what point is it the government's responsibility to get you out of town and then rebuild your house? I'm all for assistance, but what if everyone decided they were going to stick around until it was too late. At what point can we no longer expect the government to rescue all people and house them in shelters. And then how do you expect people to work those shelters when they have their own families to worry about while having to deal with. That's not even mentioning the atrocities taking place in the shelters by some of the inhabitants.

Katrina was an absolute cluster f*** and things could have possibly been done to get out in front of some of the issues. But ultimately the reason New Orleans gets the stories, is because the drama that was surrounding that demographic of people that tend to have drama surround them (not black or white, but government moochers compared to people who got out on their own and had insurance). The stories aren't about the middle class family that lost everything and fought with insurance (although that's likely who most of the posters here who remember it dealt with). The stories are about the sh**holes of the city that got exposed at a national level in the worst of ways.

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re: How old is too old to still be living at home?

Posted by RichardPikchures on 8/25/15 at 11:19 am to yellowfin

I know someone who was probably 27 before he moved out. Had a fishing camp and an offshore boat, but still lived with his parents :lol:. They were loaded and had a separate wing of the house for the master suite and spent all their time there. He had the entire upstairs to himself (which was massive). Was pretty funny for him to have 300k worth of toys while still living at home. Granted they pretty much paid for his toys too.

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re: How often do you and your SO hook up each week?

Posted by RichardPikchures on 8/25/15 at 8:58 am to LSUvegasbombed

Like with other people? I've never thought of being with my girlfriend/fiancé/wife as "hooking up".

In any case, it's negative infinity.

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re: Woman Uses Sperm from Oral Sex to Get Pregnant; Wins Child Support in Court Case

Posted by RichardPikchures on 8/25/15 at 8:57 am to meaux5

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Bitches be crazy man

I mean, I guess "giving" a woman your seed in any form can be argued in court and won (obviously it has). It's pretty screwed up for sure.

But if she can argue that, he should be able to argue that she is certifiably in-f**king-sane to do something like that and needs to be held for observation. That's just crazy at a level above the typical "women are crazy".

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re: For those who divorced before the age of 30

Posted by RichardPikchures on 8/24/15 at 2:43 pm to Paul Allen

I got married at 26. Had been with my wife for a long time. We had lived together for a little over a year right after college. Then we lived together again for a while before getting married. We knew what we were getting into. If we haven't gotten divorced, I don't know how anyone can get divorced :lol:. We both have tempers and can really get into it. But at the same time, we make up and get over it. It's not like we sit back and are like "man I really don't know this person and I don't think this is going to work". I don't get how people can get married and realize they don't want to spend the rest of their lives with someone so quickly. I fully understand after years of marriage people may change or "fall out of love". But I for the life of me don't see how that happens over a few years.

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re: Do you get along with your in laws? If not; why?

Posted by RichardPikchures on 8/24/15 at 12:27 pm to RedRifle

I don't not get along with my in laws. But I'm also not busting at the seams with excitement when I get to visit.

I'm also heading straight to a divorce attorney if my wife turns into my MIL. I think my wife knows that already though.

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re: What's your opinion of people who are underwater on their mortgages?

Posted by RichardPikchures on 6/16/15 at 1:38 pm to kilo1234

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You pay so much in mortgage interest . Not to mention property taxes, homeowners insurance, maintenance, etc.

You pay all of this when you rent as well. It's not like your landlord is doing it to give you a break and he just eats these costs. He prices his rent to cover everything you just mentioned. Except most of it is higher because it's not considered his primary residence. Add to that the profit he is looking to make and you are in the hole more for rent than buying every time.

Now, I'm not saying renting is always the wrong option. Depending on your requirement to move quickly, high quantity of other debt, or other circumstances like that, then it may be smarter to rent. But from a purely financial standpoint, you cannot say that renting is cheaper because you don't have to pay for x,y,&z as a tenant.

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re: What % of the population are stupid?

Posted by RichardPikchures on 6/16/15 at 11:28 am to Broke

I'm seeing that the world population is estimated to be 7.2 billion. So I would represent (1/7,200,000,000)*100 percent of the world population or ~1.38 e-8 %. The rest of the world population is then 99.9999999861111111111.....% of the population. Therefore 99.999999986111111111......% of the population is stupid.

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re: Standing on the soapbox - Racism and media coverage

Posted by RichardPikchures on 6/16/15 at 10:12 am to bigpetedatiga

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I mostly agree with Strong Safety when it comes to blacks calling other blacks white because of the way that they act.

I think you only see that line of thought coming from the most ignorant of blacks, and who cares what they think

The issue with this is that there are a lot of ignorant blacks. There are a lot of ignorant white people as well, so that's not something special to blacks. Difference is that it's much more damaging to black culture because of the state that it is in (whatever caused that state is a different issue). There should be no issue whatsoever with "acting white". I don't personally think of it as "acting white". When an Asian guy or a Hispanic guy speaks with proper grammar and dresses in slacks and a button down, I don't think "man that guy dresses white". I don't think of it as racial, but as just the American culture of how things are done.

So to me when a black person (however small a percentage it might be) makes a negative comment about someone "acting white", it sends a message that the person is against assimilating into the rest of the country's social norms. So how does one expect equality, if they are not willing to partake in those social norms?

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