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Forum: EDF 11-30-2007, 03:24 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 1,100
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: Child Raising - Discipline issues

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My friends are floored. They cannot believe my parents raised me this way and disagree with it very strongly.

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Clearly none of your friends are immigrants or...
Forum: EDF 11-30-2007, 03:02 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 1,100
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: Child Raising - Discipline issues

My mom slapped me once or twice for doing something really dangerous and I think it was just instinct/fear on her part that I was doing something dumb enough to get really hurt. Never from pop. ...
Forum: EDF 11-30-2007, 12:59 PM
Replies: 74
Views: 1,539
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: PDT 2/2 : Why has tipping increased?

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20% - Figure out 10%, double it
15% - Figure out 10%, add half

I fail to see how it's much easier

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x + .1x + (.1x)/2
Forum: EDF 11-29-2007, 11:55 AM
Replies: 181
Views: 2,859
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: Man kills 2 People While 911 Is Telling Him Not To

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Quite frankly, I think this legislative scheme gets it right. Property rights matter. This guy did the right thing by calling the police. It's certainly much more controversial, but I...
Forum: EDF 11-28-2007, 08:52 PM
Replies: 181
Views: 2,859
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: Man kills 2 People While 911 Is Telling Him Not To

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They made the choice to go into someones house. They made the choice to steal from someones house. They made the choice to run away despite someone yelling to stop running...
Forum: EDF 11-28-2007, 06:50 PM
Replies: 181
Views: 2,859
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: Man kills 2 People While 911 Is Telling Him Not To

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Boris, which parts of 'Wanna make a bet? I'm gonna kill 'em' and 'Bang you're dead' makes you think he wasn't intending to kill these guys?

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I think he was responding to a...
Forum: EDF 11-28-2007, 05:18 PM
Replies: 181
Views: 2,859
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: Man kills 2 People While 911 Is Telling Him Not To

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ohead - How do you know the man wasn't threatened in some manner by the criminals? You seem kind of prejudiced.

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uhm he went out there with the intention to...
Forum: EDF 11-28-2007, 04:14 PM
Replies: 181
Views: 2,859
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: Man kills 2 People While 911 Is Telling Him Not To

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CT,

"If he was watching his neighbor getting raped, voluntarily "entering a potentially life-threatening situation" would have been perfectly justified."

Of course, I don't see why...
Forum: EDF 11-28-2007, 04:05 PM
Replies: 181
Views: 2,859
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: Man kills 2 People While 911 Is Telling Him Not To

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I'm confused... Were the robbers armed?

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Robbers by definition are armed. Otherwise they are burglars.

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But newspapers often use the terms...
Forum: EDF 11-28-2007, 03:57 PM
Replies: 181
Views: 2,859
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: Man kills 2 People While 911 Is Telling Him Not To

I don't understand some of you guys at all, except from an emotional "Violence is always bad" perspective. I especially don't get the gun control angle. Shotguns are legal everywhere. I live in...
Forum: EDF 11-28-2007, 02:46 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 345
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: How birth order effects your life

The did a thing about this with small children and how they get attention. 1st borns were more likely to display affection in order to get attention, 2nds were more likely to raise hell.
Forum: EDF 11-26-2007, 01:57 PM
Replies: 81
Views: 1,883
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Forum: EDF 11-19-2007, 01:34 AM
Replies: 47
Views: 359
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: Timothy Ferriss and the Four Hour Work Week

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Everyone,

You guys pride yourself on being logical thinkers, right?

1) Hire personal assistants to make your job easier.
2) Convince your boss to let you stay...
Forum: EDF 11-18-2007, 08:46 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 359
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: Timothy Ferriss and the Four Hour Work Week

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Everyone,

You guys pride yourself on being logical thinkers, right?

1) Hire personal assistants to make your job easier.
2) Convince your boss to let you stay home from work...
Forum: EDF 11-16-2007, 04:45 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 359
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: Timothy Ferriss and the Four Hour Work Week

Good book, Degen, before he closed his blog, was a fan and had pretty much modeled his activities around it.

It addresses a pretty good fallacy, IMO. The idea that as you add more and more...
Forum: Other Other Topics 11-14-2007, 04:25 PM
Replies: 135
Views: 867
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: Heroes - 11-12 - Background Episode

This is mainly entertaining because it's become so unwatchable. Peter is seeming incapable of actually using powers.

Peter and Adam are being pursued by the electric chick and the Haitian. Peter...
Forum: EDF 10-23-2007, 11:42 AM
Replies: 345
Views: 3,422
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: The Ultimate Fighter / UFC thread

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Quick question for folks more in the know but how rigged is the ultimate fighter series, not the fights but in the fighters likely to move on from the series into UFC.

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It's...
Forum: EDF 10-14-2007, 11:58 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 700
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: EDF Wet Shaving Thread

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Ok advice on a cheap solution to get my boyfriend to regularly shave his face. He complains about the razor burn and doesn't like using creams or aftershaves.... and he doesn't want to...
Forum: EDF 10-11-2007, 05:52 PM
Replies: 46
Views: 331
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: Things in news stories that bug you

This will be general, but I can't help it. Every news story I've ever been a part of or had first hand knowledge of had fairly major factual inaccuracies that were easily knowable. Not always...
Forum: EDF 10-09-2007, 04:46 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 700
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: EDF Wet Shaving Thread

I've had similar success with wet shaving. I was using a Mach 3 turbo before, with pre-shave oil and various off-the-shelf foams and gels.

I bought a higher-end badger silver-tip brush, Taylor of...
Forum: EDF 09-28-2007, 05:23 PM
Replies: 345
Views: 3,422
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: First Ultimate Fighter 6 Episode

Joey is a biggity bitch.
Forum: Student Life 09-25-2007, 03:17 PM
Replies: 116
Views: 829
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: My roommates girlfriend is a piece of [censored]

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dude you guys. tell me the magic words to get this guy to tajke control of his bitch.

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LOL, time to reevaluate the apartment pecking order:

Smut > Roommate > You.

Your...
Forum: Health and Fitness 09-19-2007, 05:48 PM
Replies: 116
Views: 1,476
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: Crossfit Discussion

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CT,

Could you give a brief summary of your main issues with it?

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It is desgined as a one-size fits everything (literally) program. Training for a decathalon? Do CF. Fat...
Forum: EDF 09-17-2007, 05:32 PM
Replies: 42
Views: 226
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: Fathers, Watch Your Daughters

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As a birth control method and STD preventative, abstinence is 100% effective. I don't know what an abstinence only sex education is.

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One that only teaches abstinence, and...
Forum: Health and Fitness 09-14-2007, 04:43 PM
Replies: 116
Views: 1,476
Posted By ChicagoTroy
Re: Crossfit Discussion

CF is unbelievably stupid outside of being used as a general fitness program. And the founder is a (fat) chronic liar which, while funny, doesn't do much for their credibility.
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