Kid Gleason

I'm going to try and go to one of the games. I love that park for one thing, I also love Milwaukee, so there are perks everywhere.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Jan 14, 2005 -> 10:10 AM) I saw the words Jesse Jackson and I stopped reading. That guy plays the race card so often for his own personal gain it's sickening. LOL! I did the same thing. That name shows up, and I move on. Atleast when Farrakhan was doing stuff, he was entertaining in a scary way. Jackson is just an ass.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jan 14, 2005 -> 02:26 AM) Why just her and not the other millions upon millions that have had had legal abortions? Legal does not equal morally correct. Maybe not, but this is still f***ed up.

Gee, you guys act like you've never looked for love on the internet. Quirks and bowling, come on!!!

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jan 13, 2005 -> 06:38 PM) I am so paranoid about people breaking in and s*** like that. I always make sure every door in my entire house is locked before I can possibly sleep. Also if I am up late and I hear a weird noise, I s*** my pants, well not really, but it scares the hell outta me. I can't sleep without a TV on. I can't sleep on Sunday nights. Like even if I get in bed at 11, I can't sleep till like 2. I always tap my foot on the floor constantly. You know what I mean? Like up, down, up down. I can't sit still. EDIT-I also, can't for the life of me sleep with socks on. Wow, every single one of those I also do. Let's go bowling...

I'm compulsive, paranoid, and a boarder line hypochondriac. I could be here all dang day listing stuff. Clock is a half hour fast, and yes I know this, but I still fool myself all the time. I have to do the ol' "knock on wood". I check all of the doors numerous time before going to bed, and once in bed, if I happen to think about it, or hear a strange noise, I am off to check the doors again, no matter what time it is. Walking by the stove means I have to check to make sure it is all turned off. Exact same ritual every morning before walking out the door. I try to keep my CD's, book, and DVD's in alphabetical order, but with kids it doesn't work, and it kills me. But they are also broken down into genre's and even directors, actors and such when able. Also size or release dates. Everything makes sense. My Horror DVD's for a long time were broken down by styles and subgenres also. Zombie films were with zombie films, then by alphabetical, unless something mad eme decide they needed to be by release date. I have many, many, many little quirks, but none of them are over noticable unless you pay attention to me. My friends and family all know what they are, and just let them go by since they are all so subtle, aside from the paranoia. I'm also a terrible pessimist, but I blame that on the paranoia. Oh and food. I'm terrible with food. If something looks like it MIGHT be going bad, or has touched the experation date, forget it, I won't go near it.

Trains rule man. It amazes me when you hear about terrible train accidents, and then they come back with a "4 people were treated and released, no other injuries reported". You would think we as a race would see how safe that form of transportation is, and actually use it more than what we do. It is also the existence of trains that makes me say "phooey" to the whole plabnes being the safest form of travel. Yeah...right.

QUOTE(EvilJester99 @ Jan 12, 2005 -> 11:43 AM) Hell my GI Joes don't give a crap about foreign policy or politics... all they care about is blowing things up!! hehehe ...Good Lord...that avatar... ....ummm...what was I talking about...oh yeah...blowing things up...ummmm...Godzilla does that also...all is cool then.... ...that avatar...

QUOTE(mreye @ Jan 12, 2005 -> 11:21 AM) There's a lot of questions that need to be answered. The validity of our intelligence. Why Saddam would go to the brink of war, and ultimately war for a weapons system the he "never" had. It's a big mess that I don't think we'll ever get all the answers to. But Saddam always said he never had them. He just wouldn't buckle under the "let us in to look around" type of BS, probably for reasons of...ummm...I don't know, hating us and not believing in the UN. The UN doesn't exist if you don't want it to exist, is how he sees it I am sure. I for one am really shocked that there were no WMD and that Bush lied to us about it.

QUOTE(mreye @ Jan 12, 2005 -> 10:36 AM) Can I come over and play? Sure, but my daughter gets to be Mothra and my son will take over the '98 Tri-Star Godzilla. That one roars, so he likes it the most. You will probably get one of the stinker toys though, since you would be the newbie. GI Joe is welcome, as long as he keeps his crappy foriegn policies to himself.

I got it wrong. I'm so stupid. QUOTE(Soxnbears01 @ Jan 12, 2005 -> 10:21 AM) my guess is action figures. Ummm, something wrong with toys? I collect Godzilla toys. Heh, even attend the conventions every year. Somebody loan me a life...

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jan 11, 2005 -> 10:06 PM) Ppssst!... here, chalk... Don't tell the other guy. Yeah, my vote for the best yet!

Maurice and Tony thought they were on to something, but unfortunatley for them, their ticket to fame was ruined when everybody else also brought their pool sticks to the American Idol try-outs in Boise, Idaho last week. "I thought it would make a great mic stand," Maurice was quoted as to saying "I do it all the time at home, and LuAnn, my wife, always tells me I should try out for that Idol show, she loves it."

O.K., a bit of a combo: "If that damn Simon Cowell tells me one more time that my rendition of All Out Of Love was "bloody awful", then this stick is going right up his Thames River!!!"

Oops, sorry Rodney! Maybe I should change it incase he happens to wander by this site. He looks pissed, and he looks like he could kick my butt.

Congrats to the new ruler!!! Hope you can make life hell as well as the best of mods!

QUOTE(winodj @ Jan 11, 2005 -> 08:53 PM) From everything Tex has said in this post, it couldn't be anything but a scout camp. Hair lengths shouldn't matter here, this isn't international commerce, this is about teaching kids how not to drown in the lake and how to make towers out of logs. Yeah, but long hair could get stuck inbetween the logs in the towers and you could get hurt. Self preservation...ya know? Plus, if you want long hair, join the Girl Scouts ya friggin' sissies!!!

QUOTE(valponick @ Jan 11, 2005 -> 08:40 PM) Need to think of a funny caption to this picture, just wondering if anyone had any good ones! By drawing the short stick, Jose (foreground) was stuck with the job of killing his idol, Simon Cowell (background). sorry...it sucks...I know...

Are we talking about a Boy Scout camp here Tex? I can't comment too much on that on the pure basis that I was never a Scout and have no idea on any of the principals and teaching of the Scouts. Wino, I agree with you overall, and I agree with anybody who believes that long hair is a good thing, but I do also understand that if you are going to choose to express yourself in the way of your appearance, you had better be prepared to pay the consequences. Granted, the world is a MUCH different place than it was when I started growing my hair back in 1985. I was told by McDonalds that I couldn't get a job because they wanted to keep the "All American Boy" image. Jewel told me the same thing. Now these same places hire kids that look WAY more extreme than I ever did. But there are still places that will always be about 20 years behind the rest of the world, and in all honesty, I expect it out of an organization such as the Boy Scouts. Isn't the Boy Scouts a bit of a military thing, in a small way? Don't get me wrong here kids, I agree with all of you that everybody should stand an equal chance, and I believe that longhairs of all sorts should be allowed to instantly rule the world. It would have made life MUCH easier for my buds and I. But I also just try to understand other people also. As GBH said: "It's easier to hate than to understand".

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 11, 2005 -> 02:13 PM) And it doesn't go past the color when dry. It's so curly as soon as it dries it's well above the collar. But you said he has "long hair", and that hasn't been considered "long hair" since The Beatles first came on the scene. QUOTE(Iwritecode @ Jan 11, 2005 -> 02:11 PM) Dressing in "out there" clothes, wearing earings and makeup and dying your hair is completely different. The original post was about hair length only. My point is that it's possible to look professional and business-like even with long hair. To discriminate against somebody solely because their hair goes past their collar is wrong. My stance is that your looks are your looks. To have hair to the middle of your back, LONG, is NOT acceptable to some people. I only got into the area of my looks there due to the "Please" in that post. I took it as to your saying I didn't know what I was talking about. Trust me though, when in a work place, I have always been presentable. My hair is always clean. I freak out if I don't shower every day. But that is beside the point, some people cannot accept long hair on guys, and it is fully accpetable to hire a person based on that. Looks that CAN be changed, I believe, are fully open to discrimination. If you go to work someplace that has a uniform, you agree to go along with the "uniform". Some companies don't have an actual uniform, other than a suit, and if the owner of the company doesn't want his uniform (suit) to be attached to long hair, then you can cut it if you wish to work for the company. Hair can be changed. But collar length hair being called "long" is a little silly.

You wouldn't know the sales are slipping by lookng into my beer fridge or beer cellar! I didn't read the article, but does it mention the malternatives being part of the blame. My wife loves those Smirnoff Twisteds, and buys those instead of the wussy beers now.

QUOTE(Iwritecode @ Jan 11, 2005 -> 11:51 AM) Please. I've had long hair since I was a junior in high school. Right now it goes just past the middle of my back. It's always clean and kept back in a neat ponytail. Looking at me from the front you wouldn't even know I have long hair. No job I've ever worked at (retail or professional) has ever had a problem with it... Please. Do you want me to post pictures of myself? As I said, I just cut my hair, I am 34. It started growing when I was a Sophomore in High School. Mine was NEVER in a pony tail. I have always worn more jewelry than any female I know, I used to wear make-up (mainly eyeliner) and my clothes have always been "out there". I have been refused work, I have been asked if I (excuse me) "suck or swallow", I have had a gun pulled on me by a redneck, I have had guys yell things to me from other cars, until I looked at them and they saw I was a guy. My point? We all will have a different experience. If you had long hair, and wore it nicely tied back, and dressed normal, chances are you have had better experiences than I, for the obvious reason I will post in a picture if you would like. My job I had while I had the purple hair didn't care if it was purple, but it had to be in a hat. I am a Land Surveyor, my job takes me to peoples houses. It made sense to look presentable. As for if this was a Boy Scout camp, I'm not sure how to answer that one. Is it? I would have to say then you have a different argument on your hands to some degree. But if you chose to look in a way that is NOT normal to what society wants, you have to expect some form of discrimination. If a person can't get a job for looking Jewish, or of some race, why would it be any different for the person that chooses to have 50 piecings, long hair, and tats? I know many, many, many, many people like this (basically EVERYBODY I hang with and talk to), and we all have the same experiences, and we have the same understandings. It's the path we chose.

QUOTE(Cali @ Jan 11, 2005 -> 10:55 AM) I'll never understand those kind of rules. What does having long hair or tattoos or piercings have anything to do with how you perform your job or task? Whatever. It has nothing to do with how you perform your job, and everything to do with public perception. Look at it like this, if an 80 year old lady walks into your business for whatever reason, do you think she will approach the clean-cut, well dressed person, or the guy who looks like he fell out of Jim Rose's sideshow? If you are dropping your kids off for a camp of some sort, do you want your kids going to camp with a clean cut person, or a guy who looks like he will someday be a part of the Hells Angels? No matter what happens in the world, long hairs will always be associated with drugs, sex, and rock and roll. People have always been shocked when they find out I never did drugs. I didn't even drink for years, and have never "slept around", and have a much more tame existence than most everybody I know, but my looks turned me into a "bad guy". It's all perception, and first impressions rule over all.

Speaking from a lifetime of experience. Well, considering that up until April my hair was down to my ass, and numerous times it was eggplant purple, and has been so for the past 20 years, I would be a little upset. But honestly, I never understood people who looked the way I did (and in similar styles) and got upset when peope would look at us weird, or discriminate against us. Seriously, I made myself look the way I did, and I knew I stood out like a sore thumb, and with the choice to look my own way, I knew I had to accept certain reactions, consequences, and situations. I have been in fights for my looks, I have been ridiculed for my looks and I have been turned down jobs for my looks. I, unlike people of certain races and creeds, could always do something to change the way the world percieved me, just by buying new clothes and by getting a haircut. But I wanted to walk a certain path, and people in this world want a certain look for their company, and I always understood that, and never fought it. My hair is now REALLY short, due to God thinking I would look better with A LOT of flesh exposed on top of my head. But I still don't always dress conservative, basically look like I fell out of a 50's "rebel teen flick". But now I have a pretty good job, but still don't question people who look at me a little weird. It's all cool.