The Off Topic Topic

[Valmy]

IKR? Bunch of bores overthinking everything. 

[lustindarkness]

I hear Lusti keeps a Justin Bieber poster up in his room as well.

I would not even hang that shit in my room. On the tree on the front yard I would.

[derspiess]

Hmm, that is a very strong reaction.  One might say too strong...

[garbon]

Hanging a poster on a tree?

[Eddie Teach]

Have you seen this pop star? If you see him, call (Lusti's phone #).

[The Brain]

Do you wanna' know a pretentious pronouncation?

It's how BBC folks say "negotiations". It's "nego-c-ations" And it is maid painful by the fact that they always seem to have this pause there as they force themselves to pronounce it like that despite better reflexes.

Do you watch Toast of London?

[lustindarkness]

Hanging a poster on a tree?

Depends on the languish poster.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Do you wanna' know a pretentious pronouncation?

It's how BBC folks say "negotiations". It's "nego-c-ations" And it is maid painful by the fact that they always seem to have this pause there as they force themselves to pronounce it like that despite better reflexes.

"It's levi-o-sah!"

[Liep]

We're getting pandas next year! China has deemed us worthy to loan the Copenhagen Zoo 2 pandas from their breeding programme for the small price of 1 million dollar for a 15 year contract.

So now if we ever need to distract the public from our immigration politics we can just dissect a panda and watch the internet explode.

[Jacob]

So now if we ever need to distract the public from our immigration politics we can just dissect a panda and watch the internet explode.

It's rude to look a gift-horse in the mouth, and it's also rude to dissect a borrowed panda.

[alfred russel]

It is just good diplomacy, however, to threaten the Chinese with dissecting their panda if they will not comply with your demands to respect human rights and democracy.

[celedhring]

Goddamn, if I lived in NC I would probably be serving life right now. I always returned my tapes late.

Concord man arrested for not returning VHS rental 14 years later
Updated: Mar 24, 2016 - 1:22 PM

A Concord man was arrested for failing to return a 2002 VHS rental movie, "Freddy Got Fingered."

James Meyers showed Channel 9 the arrest warrant Wednesday. It shows Meyers is charged with failure to return rental property, a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $200.

Meyers said he was driving his daughter to school on Concord Parkway Tuesday morning when a Concord police officer pulled him over for a tail-light that was out.

Meyers said the officer ran his license and approximately 25 minutes later asked him to step out of the vehicle.

"The officer said, 'I don't know how to tell you this but there's a warrant out for your arrest from 2002. Apparently you rented the movie "Freddy Got Fingered" and never returned it.' I thought he was joking," said Meyers.

Meyers said the officers were very polite and professional. They let him take his daughter to school and go to work as long as he promised to turn himself into the police department later that day.

Concord officials said the warrant was active in NCAWARE, which is North Carolina's electronic warrant repository. It was signed on Feb. 28, 2002 by J&J Video and was a vaild Rowan County arrest warrant for failing to return rental property.

Meyers said he thought everything would get straightened out at the department. He was surprised when officers arrested him and then took him to the magistrate's office.

"For the first time I got put in handcuffs," said Meyers.

Officers are required by police to handcuff anyone in custody before entering the secured area inside the magistrate's office, Concord officials told Channel 9.

Meyers said he vaguely remembers renting the particular movie from the family-owned video store in Kannapolis.

The 2001 movie "Freddy Got Fingered" starred comedian Tom Green.

On Wednesday night, Meyers received a call from Green, the writer-director-star of "Freddy" who reached out after Meyers' friend shared the story with him on Twitter, according to The New York Daily News.

Green, who is currently on a stand-up comedy tour in Australia, told the Daily News that he is happy to support fans of his film, which was the subject of terrible reviews and currently has an 11 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

"If it's 200 bucks of course I'll pay it for him, just for the principle of the thing," Green said.

Meyers told Channel 9 he can only hope the charges get dismissed.

He added that he had been pulled over since the warrant was issued in 2002, but had never heard about the lost tape.

"They're not focusing on the crimes I think they should be focusing on," Meyers said. "That hour the cops sat out there with me, the hour and a half I was down in the magistrate's office, could have been spent somewhere else."

[Liep]

It is just good diplomacy, however, to threaten the Chinese with dissecting their panda if they will not comply with your demands to respect human rights and democracy.

Current government more likely to threaten if they don't buy enough mink fur.

[Barrister]

I thought we had a university PC-craziness megathread, but I couldn't find it, so I'll just drop these hears.

Students at Emory University protest at the University President's office at racist and hurtful messages that had been chalked on sidewalks around campus.

"I legitimately feared for my life," Paula Camila Alarcon, a freshman at Emory who identifies as Latino, told The Daily Beast. "I thought we were having a KKK rally on campus."

What were those messages?  "Vote For Trump"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3506491/Emory-president-Students-scared-Trump-2016-chalk-signs.html


Meanwhile, what has been the effect of a year of protests at the University of Missouri?  Why a 25% decline in next year's enrollment.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433171/mizzou-campus-protests-drive-down-enrollment

[Valmy]

Ok at some point people have got to be trolling 

If they are traumatized by Donald Trump I guess they have spent the last year in a cave on Mars with cotton stuck in their ears blindfolded? BS they are 'in pain'. This is just College kids fucking with adults.