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Just out of curiousity, what do you and Melona do together?

Next semester, I'll be studying in Brighton, England, woohoo!
I'll be studying my last English course there. Then I only have one more term before I finally become a teacher. It's about time!

Of course, I don't have a place to live yet, so if there are any ags'ers out there with an extra room in Brighton, let me know! I'm a very good flat/house/room-mate, having lived collectively practically ever since I moved out of my parents house. I'm well-mannered, I don't smoke, I can converse about anything and I can play the guitar on your tea-parties.

I also expect all brits to at one time or another come and visit me, to make me feel less lonely in the misty land of bacon breakfasts.

On a related note, we also need someone to replace me in Göteborg while I'm gone. I share a big and nice appartment with a very handsome (not single though, unfortunately) blond gentleman who's always in a good mood and throws parties when you least expect it.
We will be trying to find someone among our acquaintances, but if that fails, we will simply need anyone to split the rent with, so if you've always wanted to experience the west-coast of Sweden, this is your chance!

I can come back with photos of both of us and our appartment, and our parties and friends

Jesus, Haddas, it's space, not a discotheque

You're actually in a TV studio in Gothenburg. This whole AGS thing has been an elaborate hoax.

So...this means....you're not actually my lover? You're just...sob...an actor?

That sucks, Squinky, I hope it stops.

Also, I really really think people should stop writing about themselves, since it will make the wiki feature members in a rather disproportionate fashion.

If I can come up with two simple requests regarding the addition of personal articles:
* Don't let it become some sort of I-scratch-your-back-you'll-scratch-mine favour service. Add articles if you think there is a sincere need for them, not after some sort of deal or arrangement.
* Quit adding yourselves, and quit changing your own articles if people make pertinent and sincere updates. If you can't take any sort of criticism, refer to your own homepage or whatever

Thank you.

Please don't dig up old threads!

And... where's Andail???

I sort of agree. Where am I?

Hey Nik. Take it easy mate

CJ said death penalty is wrong, and hence all who believe differently will be chased out of the forums by the ags-mob!!!

From a logical standpoint, say you're a rational criminal and you are going to rob a liquor store. Would you pick a store where you know everyone inside has a gun and knows how to use one? Probably not.

Just for your information, that isn't a logical proof. That is some sort of socio-psychological theory you have.

Also, it's far too simply to be applicable in a large system. People commit crimes for many reasons, which is why people commit crimes in America, even though practically everyone is armed to their teeth.

This is due to the concept of active deterrence. The risks far outweigh the benefits from any illegal act (No one will try to hold up a liquor store when everyone in there is armed). It's similar to the way a "beware of dog" sign discourages housebreakers.

If you want to start somewhere, prove that.
To me it sounds very vague and loose, and "active deterrence" sounds like something you found on the agenda of some rifle association. I simply don't believe that if you hand out guns to everybody, crime will drop. I think the opposite.

I don't know if I can come up with a "proof" that will fit your rather tight criteria (since you haven't displayed any yourself, it's hard to know what you like, sort of), but I just see before me the wild west, or, for that matter, today's america. Do you think removing all guns would make crimes increase?

Care to explain this? You can't refute an argument by simple stating the negatory. Sometimes it's helpful if you can cite a source or maybe use a little logic (but only in moderation, too much logic might give some of the people here headaches).

Care to explain why I have to give you proofs, when you don't give me?
Do you think that mentioning Switzerland's low crimerate is any sort of proof? In that case, isn't it proof enough for you that america has a very high crime-rate, when their gunlaws are also very liberal?

You should review your own techinique of debating through the past few posts, it has been very peculiar.
Even more interesting is that when Helm actually shows you clear statistical sources, you choose to disregard them, as they don't fit your personal notion of proofs. Still, you haven't brought anything to the table yourself.

Also note that I merely expressed my own personal reactions while watching executions on TV, nothing else.

Big Brother, while you wrote that post, did you bear in mind that Switzerland is a nation of extremely high social standards, practically without segregation or unemployment? Perhaps most people there aren't motivated enough to hold up their local liquor store.

The phenomenon of everybody having a gun doesn't reduce crime in any way. Capital punishment doesn't reduce crime in any way. It's a bit more complicated, I guess.

The whole thing with death penalty just disgusts me. There is something dirty, perverted about it.

If you're involved with the killing of another person, I think you'll become reduced as a human being, I think a part of you will be lost with the life you took.

I see trials and executions on the news, from China or Texas or whatever, and the sermonizing voice of the judge, the DA or the military officer, and the curious audience stretching to see the spectacle, and the victim clad in orange or whatever, with shackles so tight he can't walk, and he gets strapped like a spread eagle to some operation-room bunk, and more preaching, more sermons, and outside people cheer and laugh with big banners and signs insulting the culprit and praising their legal system for its efficiency, and eventually someone is put to death by people who lack the powers to bring him back.

How people can avoid getting sick of all that amazes me. It's perverted.

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ok, ok, enough one-lined silliness now.

Add something serious or just let it die, thank you.

Nikolas, I think most people get those letters on daily basis. If you have been spared so far, you have just been lucky

Can we know the correct answer, please? I'm getting a bit curious

I didn't know that Kong died. I didn't even know he was called Kong, I thought he was actually called King Kong.

I think a comic strip like the one above only exists because there are plenty of people out there who have no idea of how the movie ends, even though it should be fairly obivous.

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