NEWS: A Heart-Warming Tale: (I'm Not Being Sarcastic)

Kinda funny but the truth is if she didn't report him he'll probably do it again and that time the little old lady/man... might not be so lucky.

This article is really uplifting and well written....But, it could have easily gone south quickly. If someone's taking the risk to hold her up, then he's not much farther away from really pulling the trigger because she pist him off during her refusal.

Eh...organized religion hasn't caused shit in the world. People cause wars and use religion to drum up the masses. The Crusades were about land. The Inquisition was about control of the populace through fear. All of the famous wars would have happened anyway. If you didn't have religion you'd just have to come up with something else to get the people behind you, like...I don't know...terrorism or something.

That's probably because there are significantly more 17-25 year old drivers than 75 year old drivers, and they tend to drive recklessly because of their young age (due to a lesser developed pre-frontal cortex and amygdala - neither of which complete development until about age 25).

And they're all drunk.

And getting blow jobs while driving with 12 friends in the car, two of whom are climbing out the sunroof.

Or maybe I'm generalizing.

That's the problem with statistics...they pretty much don't mean shit without all the encompassing data surrounding them.

Yeah I was just going to say... Young kids don't get cenile...

And it's not a matter of responsibility. Wouldn't being older, wiser, and more experienced make them more responsible and reliable?

It's a matter of motor skills. And mental health.

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We can stop being idiots, take a step back, and realize that someone made a funny crack about driving at 92, and didn't personally attack every old lady in the world.

And as much as you can drone on and on about facts...

Fact of life...

Common knowledge...

Common sense...

Logic dictates...

At 92, you aren't spry.

And I'll Thunderdome the fuck out of any old geezer you toss at me to show you so...

Oh snap!

But still, I lose respect for those who are so engulfed in Jesus that they preach it.

Sure, "finding God" is benefitial for a lot of people. Some people can use it. Some need it. It's turned a lot of lives around, sure...

But I'd put faith into my dog before I put faith into some imaginary friend that was started as a ploy to easier gain control over the masses...

Thank you, ZeitGeist and Michael Parenti and Quantum Physics.

I really don't understand the lack of self-respect and self-love one must have before they go "You know what, fuck it, I'm not in charge, I'm not responsible for anything that happens. God is. Yeah, you can't see him. Me neither. But he's there. Don't be a pussy. I'm serious. Oh, by the way... We kind of need to borrow twenty bucks..."

How the FUCK can someone waste their entire life by giving all their faith to something... Anything other than themselves?!

It just fucking perplexes me...

San Franciscans weighing in on a beloved waterhole in:

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Alright, fine... you guys suck. I'm taking my statistics and going home. It's just not worth it to continue the argument.

Pauline, though, is awesome. I generally get annoyed by the Jeebus noise, but I can respect anyone who is willing to stand his/her ground in this situation. I'd just give the fucker the money and hope I didn't get shot - because I'm a pussy, like that.

Thanks, SleepyLady, for writing a story that I find positive. You rock.

I assume you're being sarcastic, right? Because terrorism is all about religion.

Funny thing is, she was referring to her air freshener.



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Statistics work best in debates as a tool, not the entire argument. You presented them, others refuted them. I stand by what I say, for the same reasons others have mentioned. A 92 year old person can be in fine mental and physical health, but are you going to tell me that they have the same reaction time and physical strength as someone of the age of 30,40 or even 50 or 60? How about you go and look up statistics on physical, mental, and cognitive degeneration associated with age, and get back to us.

It's also pretty funny that you accuse me of being prejudiced and insensitive, and then you refer to her faith, to which I'm willing to bet she's devoted a crapload of those 92 years following, as "Jeebus Noise".

Nobody gets cenile, that I'm aware of. Senility tends to be a problem for elderly folks though
Yeah, I know, it was pretty lame... but it is after 3am.

The terrorists I'm assuming you're stereotyping are the Islamic hyper-fundamentalists who find young people who live in an extremely underprivileged portion of world, with little to no employment opportunities, little or no educational opportunities and huge amounts of anger resulting from a lifetime of nearly constant internal and external strife, poverty and barely being able to survive in a harsh environment...and use their religion to convince them to blow themselves up in the name of Islam. And yet the people doing the convincing never seem to blow themselves up and manage to maintain tribal control of huge portions of the country...often by stirring up visions of Islam and convincing others to blow themselves up.

Hmmm...sound familiar yet?

Or were you being sarcastic? I can never tell anymore.

Wow another person swayed by god and guilt... I mean good for her for using her scary religion to get her outta a sticky/ deadly situation. I would say almost anything to get a crazy fuck out of my car. I can't imagine being that old sitting in my own shit (because that's what I would do if that happened to me, that much I do know, I would shit.) thinking how do I get this dude outta my car so I can get home a soak my dentures.