That’s the sum total of your response? Truly, I was hoping for more.
Yeah, I can see that. Some of his fasting threads give off a *really *strong eating disorder vibe.
Charlie, when you get the urge to point and laugh at things, try to remember that the things you think are funny aren’t as funny to others. For example, when your joke is, in its entirety, wow, look at how ugly this person is. That’s not really considered an entire joke.
I’m reminded of a South Park episode where Cartman bursts into laughter every time he sees a midget (little person). No one else finds it funny, no one else is laughing. But to Cartman, the entire joke is that there is a midget standing there. That’s the *entire *joke. That’s his sense of humor.
It appears to be your sense of humor: “Wow, this lady reminds me of a mule I used to fuck when I was a kid.”
This was back before you decided to steal people’s change for a living.
Look, you’ve apologized repeatedly for your crappy decisions, but if you want to improve, as a person, just recognize that you keep making them.
If you ever get the urge to tell a story and it is meant to be humorous, and the entire punchline is that there once was a woman, and she smelled, that’s not a funny story. If you ever get the urge to tell a story where you saw a person of color, and literally anything about their behavior or appearance amused you in any way, avoid telling that story at all costs. If you ever see a mentally handicapped person or a disabled veteran, and just want to laugh and laugh about it, this would be another example of the wiser course being to not share.
I get that you want to join in on ripping politicians. You see others doing it, so you give it your honest attempt. And very much like a person I know IRL, you want to criticize someone like Obama, and without having a strong understanding of issues or facts, you simply will say something about how he’s stupid looking, to you. Or how his wife is just so ugly, to you.
That’s really the best you’ve got, and I know that. You’re trying to engage in a battle of wits and you’re totally unarmed.
Stay home. Be a civilian. Let your musings be private ones. You won’t get so many gruesome injuries this way.
Pizzaguy, as usual you have hit the nail on the head. I wish I thought he would take your advice.
I’ve found that a lot of disruptive people at school went on to have good people skills. At school I just hanged around my eccentric friends and found mainstream people boring. In the past I have been incredibly stupid (e.g. I’d obey people who told me to do foolish things) In real life I sometimes like to discuss theology with Christians even if it is beginning to bother them… I like discovering things like that. Sometimes I get a really bad reaction (e.g. after commenting negatively about my housemate’s cooking) and then I’d be very wary.
I like to get to the point or bottom of things - I sometimes have a deep curiosity in things which makes me want to know gossip, etc.
I have mental disorders (schizoaffective/bipolar disorder) but I haven’t been diagnosed as having a personality disorder.
Warning to anyone who isn’t JohnClay: no reason to read this post if my posts make your head hurt!
Sorry. I misremembered your schizoaffective disorder as something else. The result is still the same, however. You have trouble processing the emotions of others, a common deficit in schizophrenics.
Actually, I guess a personality disorder would make it worse, since you could have anti-social personality disorder or narcissistic personality disorder. Those people have trouble even caring about others.
But you seem to be a decent guy who is trying to understand others.
Schizoaffective disorder is different to schizophrenia… (though my family in law includes many people with schizophrenia). BTW I’ve never heard any voices, etc, which is what usually happens with people with schizophrenia. When I’ve been unwell I had unusual beliefs but haven’t been unwell for many years.
Thanks BTW I’ve been married for more than 2.5 years and I think that is evidence I’ve got reasonable people skills. Well in real life at least. On the internet I’m less worried about long-term consequences of interactions. In real life I’ve got to keep my relationships and work relationships, etc.
PEI should be a stat… oh we’re calling them provinces now? It should be/remain a province. Anne of Green Gables, and all.
Is there any mechanism under Canada’s constitution for provinces to merge or split, or for a territory to become a province?
You and me both. His participation in threads for The Americans is brutal. There is clearly a learning impairment of some kind going on so for a while now I generally just scroll right past his posts. There’s just soooo many of them, and they’re all so long.
Oh shit, yes. His posts there seem to be particularly egregious. I didn’t know if he was trolling or was just a bit impaired, so I’d just glaze over his posts, though sometimes read them out of morbid curiosity. Besides his over-enthusiasm and childish way of speaking, he continued to egg-on that one guy’s lameass blog on The Americans, in some weird fanboyish way.
Really creepy.
Same here! But then, around ten years ago I got fitted for a hearing aid and now I’m back to hearing voices.
[Sixth Sense] I hear deaf people [/Sixth Sense]
He himself said on Colbert that his kids tease him about his ears.
They does protrude some, but that has nothing to do with his abilities as President. I don’t think.
Prior to the patriation of the Constitution in 1982, Parliament had the power to create new provinces out of federal territories by simple Acts of Parliament: Constitution Act, 1871, s. 2. Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta were all created in this way.
Parliament could also change the boundaries of an existing province, provided the province agreed to the change. I would assume that power could have been used to merge provinces, provided both provinces agreed to the change: Constitution Act, 1871, s. 3.
All of this changed with Patriation. The concern was that the creation of new provinces should not be solely the concern of the federal Parliament, because it affected representation in the Parliament, and also could affect the process for constitutional amendments (creating new provinces effectively reduces the weight of the pre-existing provinces in the constitutional amendment process).
Now, s. 42 of the Constitution Act, 1982 provides that the creation of new provinces can only be done by the general amending formula, set out in s. 38 of the Act, which requires the consent of the Commons, the Senate (suspensive veto), and the Legislative Assemblies of at least 2/3 of the provinces, having at least 50% of the national population.
I would think that merging the Maritimes into one province could be done using this process, but there’s no precedent for it.
Thanks, Northern Piper. So, the feds were free to create/split/combine territories as territory/ies, it seems. The one I recall is Nunavut. So, they have no representation in Parliament?
Territories are different. Parliament can create and split territories unilaterally, and determine their government. They do have representation in Parliament, but don’t have a role in the constitutional amendment process. At the moment each one has one MP and one Senator, but if they were to become a province there may be debates about how much of a Parliamentary delegation they would be entitled to. The smallest province, PEI, gets 4 MOs and 4 Senators. Should a territory which becomes a province get that same amount? Interesting question, and the amending formula means that it is no longer Parliament’s unilateral decision.
Sorry, that should be PEI gets 4 MPs.
The three current territories were all created out of the North-West Territories, which originally covered a huge chunk of Canada. The first separation was the creation of Yukon Territory in 1898, carved out of the NWT because of the gold rush. That was done by Act of Parliament.
Then Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905, and land was also transferred from the NWT to Manitoba, all by Act of Parliament.
From 1905 to 1999, the NWT was bounded on the south by the line of 60 degrees north, and the boundary with Yukon to the west.
In 1999, Parliament created Nunavut, again carving territory off from the NWT, by Act of Parliament. However, there had been extensive negotiations with the people of NWT, both those in the area that would stay NWT and those who would be in the new territory of Nunavut.
For your consideration - Charlie Wayne’s advice to a pregnant woman being menaced by her neighbor:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18864692&postcount=7
Mind you - it might all be much ado about nothing, but still, “be nice and bake him cookies and try and cry a little”.
Personally, I think Charlie Wayne should be the official board advice giver for all posts made by brand-new guests.