What Would You Say if I Reported That This Had Happened in Turkey?
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
June 2, 2011 at 3:49am
I'm ashamed that this happened in America:
This is wrong. We do not do this. Those memorials belong to us. We have a First Amendment. We don't make ordnances against dancing in celebration of the Founders. We don't arrest people for doing normal, happy things in public. What is this?
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Dec '10
Re: What Would You Say if I Reported That This Had Happened in Turkey?
Ed Gorz
I still think it's a sweeping generalization even if it is your experience. · Jun 3 at 1:48pm
No, you're right, it was overly general. I should have said "In my experience", 'cause that's what I was talking about.
On this front, however, any other source is pretty much useless. Popular urban culture (TV, Movies, Etc) is very anti-cop, and all you ever see in the news is the bad stuff that happens. If those things are all you have to form your opinion of the police, you'd surely come away with a more sour taste than even I have.
I know some good cops, the new Sheriff of the county where my shop is located is a good guy, and a real go-getter when it comes to rooting out the meth cookers. He must be leaving a mark, 'cause someone burned down his house night before last.
The problem around here is that I can count the good cops on the fingers of one hand, but it would take a page of legal paper to write out all the crummy ones. Most of those are the lazy/indifferent kind of crummy. I only know of just a few of the hostile/violent kind, but we've got them too.
It's probably because we're out here in BFE, and the pay ain't great. The Highway Patrol is much better, I've only ever ran into one crummy HiPo. But there again, they pay a lot better and you don't have to live out here in the sticks if you don't want to.
Edited on June 4, 2011 at 8:59amMay '10
Re: What Would You Say if I Reported That This Had Happened in Turkey?
CoolHand
Mark Wilson
Not at all, but that random guy sure learned to respect that cop's authratah! · Jun 2 at 8:29pm
Edited on Jun 02 at 08:33 pm
How on earth were you able to get a 632 word response in under the 200 word limit?!
Dec '10
Re: What Would You Say if I Reported That This Had Happened in Turkey?
FeliciaB
How on earth were you able to get a 632 word response in under the 200 word limit?! · Jun 5 at 1:44pm
HA! I can't believe that you counted.
It's very simple, my NerdFu is very strong . . . and there's a glitch in the site that lets it happen under specific circumstances (it's mostly just the glitch).
Don't want to divulge the circumstances, for fear that BSA will find and fix it.
I will, however, refrain from making such long posts in the future (I was really on a roll there).
Jul '10
Re: What Would You Say if I Reported That This Had Happened in Turkey?
CoolHand
FeliciaB
How on earth were you able to get a 632 word response in under the 200 word limit?! · Jun 5 at 1:44pm
HA! I can't believe that you counted.
Nice catch Felicia.
C'mon, CoolHand, no one's looking.
May '10
Re: What Would You Say if I Reported That This Had Happened in Turkey?
CoolHand
FeliciaB
How on earth were you able to get a 632 word response in under the 200 word limit?! · Jun 5 at 1:44pm
HA! I can't believe that you counted.
Hmmm... I'm tempted to let you think I actually counted every word... I didn't. However, unlike you, CoolHand, I will share my tricky-trick with the world. When you quote something, it says how many words you're already starting out with.
Alas, I'm a tad bit of a nerd too!
Dec '10
Re: What Would You Say if I Reported That This Had Happened in Turkey?
It's no big secret, I'm just putting you on.
When you edit a post, the word count doesn't actually do anything anymore, because it also counts all those random little formatting tags as a word.
If it did limit the length on edit, every post that got edited would have to be reduced in length by 30-50 words just to be able to repost it because of the addition of the format tags.
The way I see it, it's no more irritating to read one long post versus a string of three or four shorter posts, and adding the rest on edit prevents someone else's response from splitting up the parts (making them impossible to read and make proper sense of).