What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Luke]

No, I don't think I go to the same school as Megas.

[SamuraiMegas]

Oh my god I heard about that. I don't go to the same school, but maybe the same district. Prepare to be PM'd Forlorn.

[AppleQueso]

Man that's gonna be fuckin weird if it turns out that we've had a pair of racketfolk living near each other without knowing it this whole time.

[KitKatCara]

It could just be a rumor with no truth behind it, but assuming it's not, it's only a problem if he acts on it. If he never acts on it and keeps it to himself, why should it matter? These people need psychiatric help, but if they're afraid to tell anyone for fear of being locked up, even if they have no intention of doing harm to anyone (which, let's face it, is a very real possibility), then they won't get the help they need. This needs to change, but sadly, I doubt it ever will.

I can understand this, but I actually don't agree with it. This is from the point of view of a mother with a small female child, so keep that in mind. If someone has rumors hanging around them of this nature, I will not allow that person around my daughter and I until it is proven to be false with evidence that I am comfortable with. They might be completely innocent, but to me it's guilty until proven otherwise. Now, this isn't to say I will treat them like they are criminals, but until they can prove to me that they aren't sick they have no place in my life or my child's life. I'm not taking the chance of giving them the benefit of the doubt and then having it proved to me that they really are sick. I will not put my child in danger like that.

I know that is not fair at all, but if they have the thoughts in their head and I am aware of them (and no, I have no way of knowing if they do or not) I'm not going to give them the opportunity to act on them.


I also wouldn't have a portrait in my house drawn by someone that made me uncomfortable for any reason. I wouldn't want that feeling every time I looked at it.


Forlorn, google "Hyperbole and a half". I don't wanna jump on the whole depression bandwagon, but that website has the most accurate description that I have ever seen. I don't know you well enough to say that you are or aren't depressed, but it might be worth a look at. I didn't think I was depressed in high school, but after I got to the point to where I had to get help (which wasn't until I was 19, two years out of school) my therapist told me that with my history, depression is something that probably started in my childhood. I'm pretty open about it now and can even joke about it, but it took me getting past the worst part to realize that it's okay to feel that way.

[SamuraiMegas]

Man that's gonna be fuckin weird if it turns out that we've had a pair of racketfolk living near each other without knowing it this whole time.

We do not, just talked in PMs.

[fastbilly1]

Man that's gonna be fuckin weird if it turns out that we've had a pair of racketfolk living near each other without knowing it this whole time.

It turned out that one of the older members who no longer comes to the site, lived literally around the corner from my parents before he moved. We were both members of the site at that time and discovered this afterwards.

[AppleQueso]

I know that is not fair at all, but if they have the thoughts in their head and I am aware of them (and no, I have no way of knowing if they do or not) I'm not going to give them the opportunity to act on them.

Retrodude (and myself) would like to see these people feel they can get the help they need without fear of being put in jail or something over it. That way they're far less likely to actually act on those urges and cause harm. That doesn't really have to contradict your own view in any way.

Man that's gonna be fuckin weird if it turns out that we've had a pair of racketfolk living near each other without knowing it this whole time.

It turned out that one of the older members who no longer comes to the site, lived literally around the corner from my parents before he moved. We were both members of the site at that time and discovered this afterwards.

Well if anything I'm pretty certain that nobody on Racketboy lives within 100 miles of me.

[Forlorn Drifter]

Forlorn, google "Hyperbole and a half". I don't wanna jump on the whole depression bandwagon, but that website has the most accurate description that I have ever seen. I don't know you well enough to say that you are or aren't depressed, but it might be worth a look at. I didn't think I was depressed in high school, but after I got to the point to where I had to get help (which wasn't until I was 19, two years out of school) my therapist told me that with my history, depression is something that probably started in my childhood. I'm pretty open about it now and can even joke about it, but it took me getting past the worst part to realize that it's okay to feel that way.

I've been suggested that website before, and I'm not like that. I'm not depressed, I'm just a generally negative person, its my personality. My family never questions it because they are used to it, and expect it. They think its weird when I'm overly happy.

[Ack]

Well if anything I'm pretty certain that nobody on Racketboy lives within 100 miles of me.

Truth is, we often park the Racketboy blimp directly over your house and party while making sure to not invite you.

[Luke]

I also wouldn't have a portrait in my house drawn by someone that made me uncomfortable for any reason. I wouldn't want that feeling every time I looked at it.

That is exactly what it boils down to. Well, that and paying a possible perv nearly 1K.

In any situation requiring thought, you need to think.

If I was fired, as a teacher, for inappropriate conduct with a minor and was innocent (and had a rich and well known family) I would fight that case tooth and nail to clear my name. Instead he left the school and his parents bought him an art studio.

That doesn't add up, nor does it make sense.