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so this doesn't make sense to me... (pg. 2)
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| noikeee |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
Will, are you afraid of being shot? |
bahahahahaha |
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| Krypton |
From Newsweek...paraphrased..
In January, after a few months at Casa Pacifica, Larry decided to dress like a girl. He went to school accessorized to the max, and his already colorful personality got louder. He accused a girl to her face of having breast implants. Another girl told him she didn't like his shoes. "I don't like your necklace," Larry snapped back. Larry called his mom from Casa Pacifica to tell her that he wanted to get a sex-change operation. And he told a teacher that he wanted to be called Leticia, since no one at school knew he was half African-American. The teacher said firmly, "Larry, I'm not calling you Leticia." He dropped the idea without an argument.
The staff at E. O. Green was clearly struggling with the Larry situation—how to balance his right to self-expression while preventing it from disrupting others. Legally, they couldn't stop him from wearing girls' clothes, according to the California Attorney General's Office, because of a state hate-crime law that prevents gender discrimination. Larry, being Larry, pushed his rights as far as he could. During lunch, he'd sidle up to the popular boys' table and say in a high-pitched voice, "Mind if I sit here?" In the locker room, where he was often ridiculed, he got even by telling the boys, "You look hot," while they were changing, according to the mother of a student.
The staff at E. O. Green tried to help as Larry experimented with his identity, but he liked to talk in a roar. One teacher asked him why he taunted the boys in the halls, and Larry replied, "It's fun to watch them squirm." But Brandon McInerney was different. Larry really liked Brandon. One student remembered that Larry would often walk up close to Brandon and stare at him. Larry had studied Brandon so well, he once knew when he had a scratch on his arm—Larry even claimed that he had given it to Brandon by mistake, when the two were together. Larry told one of his close friends that he and Brandon had dated but had broken up. He also said that he'd threatened to tell the entire school about them, if Brandon wasn't nicer to him. Quest, Brandon's defense attorney, says there was no relationship between Larry and Brandon, and one of Larry's teachers says that Larry was probably lying to get attention.
Larry's grades were also dropping—he went from having a 1.71 GPA in November to a 1.0 in February, his father says. But he was too busy reveling in the spotlight to care. "He was like Britney Spears," says one teacher who knew Larry. "Everyone wanted to know what's the next thing he's going to do." Girls would take photos of him on their camera phones and discuss him with their friends. "My class was in a frenzy every day with Larry stories," says a humanities teacher who didn't have Larry as one of her students. He wore a Playboy-bunny necklace, which one of his teachers told him to remove because it was offensive to women. But those brown Target stilettos wobbled on.
The commotion over Larry's appearance finally forced the school office to take formal action. On Jan. 29, every teacher received an e-mail with the subject line STUDENT RIGHTS. It was written by Sue Parsons, the eighth-grade assistant principal. "We have a student on campus who has chosen to express his sexuality by wearing make-up," the e-mail said without mentioning Larry by name. "It is his right to do so. Some kids are finding it amusing, others are bothered by it. As long as it does not cause classroom disruptions he is within his rights. We are asking that you talk to your students about being civil and non-judgmental. They don't have to like it but they need to give him his space. We are also asking you to watch for possible problems. If you wish to talk further about it please see me or Ms. Epstein."
And then there was Valentine's Day. A day or two before the shooting, the school was buzzing with the story about a game Larry was playing with a group of his girlfriends in the outdoor quad. The idea was, you had to go up to your crush and ask them to be your Valentine. Several girls named boys they liked, then marched off to complete the mission. When it was Larry's turn, he named Brandon, who happened to be playing basketball nearby. Larry walked right on to the court in the middle of the game and asked Brandon to be his Valentine. Brandon's friends were there and started joking that he and Larry were going to make "gay babies" together. At the end of lunch, Brandon passed by one of Larry's friends in the hall. She says he told her to say goodbye to Larry, because she would never see him again.
The friend didn't tell Larry about the threat—she thought Brandon was just kidding. There are many rumors of another confrontation between Larry and Brandon, on Feb. 11, the day before the shooting. Several students and teachers said they had heard about a fight between the two but they hadn't actually witnessed it themselves. The next morning a counselor at Casa Pacifica asked Larry what was wrong, and he said, vaguely, "I've had enough." When he got to school, his friends quizzed him about his noticeably unfabulous appearance. He said that he ran out of makeup and hair gel (which wasn't true) and that he had a blister on his ankle (this was true—he'd just bought a new pair of boots). Larry walked alongside Boldrin to the computer class and sat in front of a computer. A few minutes later, a counselor summoned him to her office. She told him that his grades were so low, he was at risk of not graduating from the eighth grade. He went back to his computer. He had written his name on his paper as Leticia King. Most of the campus heard the gunshots. Some described it like a door slammed shut very hard. |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj_alfi
Lol, you're such a dick to anyone that opposes your beliefs :P |
No, I'm a dick to idiots. You just happen to be one. |
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| Lomeli |
| My E-Penis is bigger. |
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| pwnage1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj_alfi
Lol, you're such a dick to anyone that opposes your beliefs :P |
Welcome to the internet. |
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| inconspicuous |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
What ing typical responses. Thank god everyone here has a pretty good handle on just how large of imbeciles the both of you are that no one would possibly take anything you say seriously. |
sadly, I actually agree with them on this one (they magically stumbled upon a valid point). It's mostly the fault of the tort lawyers, but the fact that the system allows it is still aneurysm-worthy. |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by inconspicuous
sadly, I actually agree with them on this one (they magically stumbled upon a valid point). It's mostly the fault of the tort lawyers, but the fact that the system allows it is still aneurysm-worthy. |
Distilling entire nations down to stereotypes is something I'll rarely agree with. I'd love to see the evidence Alfi can provide for "most parents' not taking responsibility for their kids - and I'd absolutely love to see the comparison Brad the Great has deferred to in order to figure out that there are so many more frivelous lawsuits in the U.S. than there are in the rest of the western world (I'm looking at you, Canada).
These two chuds are taking the B.S. the rest of the western world has levied upon the U.S. for years without taking a long, hard look at their own societies (lol, "long, hard"). It reeks of pseudo-intellectualism and bandwagoning.
c0r Summary: I don't think they're right at all, and cannot wait until some other country becomes the worlds whipping boy for such inane drivel.
Let's face it, with the U.S. economy going to , we aren't going to be at the top of the pile for long. I can't wait until some other nation has to deal with such insipid, thoughtless, and nonsensical criticism for decades on end. |
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| inconspicuous |
in general, I agree, but in the case of lawsuit-related absurdities, I think it's impossible to overshoot a reasonable level of criticism.
Rest assured, the moment the topic shifts to anything else involving North America, we'll be right back on the same page. |
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| BTG |
| quote: | Originally posted by inconspicuous
sadly, I actually agree with them on this one (they magically stumbled upon a valid point). |
even a broken clock is right twice a day.
RJT, come on.
http://www.americanlawsuits.com/ |
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| RJT |
:stongue:
Is that really the best you've got?
Sorry champ, going to take more to convince me. Finding anti-American websites on the internet is like shooting fish in a barrel - show me something with legitimate citations where I can at least draw some realistic comparisons, otherwise, I'm just going to continue to believe you're talking out of your ass and just assuming you can back it up later.
:)
Edit: Half of those were either thrown out or overturned. Lol. |
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| inconspicuous |
quit while you're [not losing ground]. ffs. |
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| BTG |
it's the first result on google when you type "american lawsuits".
and if it's the first result in such a broad search, well.. |
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