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Physical pain doesn't bother me that much. When I think about physically painful events in the past, they don't conjure any kind of feeling for me. The kind of pain I hate is stuff like that feeling you get when you feel like you're about to throw up or some kind of other pervasive feeling when you're sick.
 
the most pain I've ever been to was messing up the ligaments in my left ankle. This happened while playing basketball, my foot swelled up to twice it's size, that was almost as painful as sex with a rhino who turns out to not love you anymore.
 
What was the most evilly funny thing you ever did?

Mine was when a girl broke up with me. After I spent $80 on her for her birthday and a date. Stupid her, she didn't wait till I got her back to her place. We were in the middle of the country, 5 miles from the town we had dinner at, and 7 from her parents' house. She did it cold and heartless, so I stopped the car and told her to get out.
 
Yes to both questions. This was in the latter 96, long before cell phones were toted around by everyone. I don't know if she walked all the way home. She may have stopped at one of the farms and called home, but she was furious enough to do it. We never spoke again (the college was big enough to avoid most contact more than at a distance.) I found out later that she had still been seeing her boyfriend even though she told me they had broken up, so I felt much better about it.
 
mean can be funny, if they deserve it. I saw an article about it last week. Guys find it pleasing to see a "bad guy" get something bad happen to them, but girls still empathize with them. I did feel bad about it for a while. Then the commercial ended and I forgot about feeling bad.
 
I seriously can't think of anything off the top of my head. Heck i cannot even think of anything after a fwew solid minutes of thought. I guess my evil never turned out funny. That makes me sad.
 
Question:

Where have you been that you felt the most alien?

Mine was France. I'm 6'3" tall, and when I was in Paris, I could see over the heads of almost everyone there. I didn't speak a lick of French (except body language), and I like my food cooked. Some of the people were very nice (like the women), but most of the guys were rude and had a chip on their shoulder (not just to me, but to everyone). The girls even pulled us a way from watching a few of the Frogs fight because they were sure that we would get jumped if a brawl broke out.
 
How about the most trouble you've ever been in?

I got caught speeding when I was 16. Unfortunately, a friend of mine decided to transport his giant stop sign with him in my back seat. They had every cop in Cramerton, NC parked out there laughing and saying how they were going to have to take us downtown and have our parents bail us out, and charge us with a felony. Then a county cop showed up and sent them all away, let us hang the sign back up, and go home. That didn't get me off the hook, but my uncle went to the police academy with the head D.A. of Gaston county. We went into his office and he made it all go away. Then my dad killed me. Twice.
 
Got suspended illegally one time from school for not standing up and reciting the pledge of allegiance. The school suddenly got real patriotic after 9/11. I had never in my life felt comfortable or really recited the pledge ever in my life. Never drew any attention to myself over the ordeal to stand out or anything; it's just a philosophical line I made when I was beginning to think for myself some time in High School. I was willing to go the distance with it but it was my senior year and I just wanted to graduate and get out of there.
 
I understand not saying it. If you have much integrity at all you should have difficulty saying something you don't mean. I do, however, understand why you should get in trouble for not standing up. It's a respect thing. It's for the same reason people stand when the national anthem plays or is sung. Even other countries respect that (watch the olympics, if you think I'm wrong). It is a touchy subject in today's society, but I think a good one.
 
hmm. It is an interesting issue. On one hand, you are at school to learn the subjects and go hom. On the other, you are learning to be a citizen, adult, and generally a human. From one perspective it is not necessary to punish those that do not follow a rule based on respect since that has nothing to do with base curriculum. On the other, the kids need to learn a few of the rules of honor or society or respect or whatever you want to call it. Their parents aren't teaching them squat. What about punishing parents for bad student behavior? (of course that has problems itself)
 
On the scale of punishing students for showing disrespect, I think not standing up for the pledge would rate pretty low when you consider everything else that goe son in a typical high school. Sure, suspend a kid for not standing for the pledge but not for harassing the fat, ugly, slow, whatever students.

But why punish a student for lack of respect in school if we're not doing that in society as a whole?
 
haha, I think the generation that raised the current and rising generation of disrespectful, self-serving, self-righteous, permissive, gray-area-living jackasses will regret the way they showed their kids how to act. I know I'm apart of that generation, but I still hold that many of my peers and younger Americans fit the description listed.
 
What is the most pain you have ever been in?
Well, I was little than, i ran trought closed doors (It was dark in house, in the middle of the night) . You don't want to know what hapend to the door...
 
Respect of the individual comes way before respect of some collective body in my worldview. Each man or woman approaches differently the symbolic act of pledging allegiance to something such as a country. Some people don't like it because it mentions us as being one nation under God. Others don't participate because it is against their religious/ethical/philosophical values to pledge allegiance to anything. I'm more of the latter. When I said it as a kid and until now, there was nothing in my being that responded positively to the act. If there is no inherent truth there, then it's not for me. Respect people.

I don't know about anyone else, but the concept of living in a country, in a place known as the USA, has hardly any weight behind it in my everyday life. All I know is that I live on a planet we call Earth. I do what I have to do, do what I want to do, have things done to me, and continue. I feel bad about people who live in nations that they don't want to live in because it doesn't allow them to be who or what they want. I generally just feel bad that the Earth is divided into nations with conflicting interests and methods of governing.
 
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