SteveJWatson Member

I'm suggesting it does, yes. If not, you could suggest another reason why violent crime is higher in the USA. Disnenfranchised underclass, maybe? :tongue:

In so stating, you have managed to gloss over that the US has a much higher rate of violent crime than comparable countries (I believe Switzerland was mentioned). If there is no culture of fear - why do you suppose this is?

The point is; that by saying that *you* dont fall into the category of being either part of the underclass or scared, you infer that the whole argument is invalid. It isn't - you have created (in this case made yourself into) a strawman to whom the trend does not apply. One person does not a trend make. For what its worth,…

That really isn't the point. Nice strawman.

There is a 'class system' everywhere - the only difference is that in the US you really don't have the vestiges of the feudal upper classes like you do in the UK. But, as long as you have those who own the means of production and those who don't, then you will have a class system (when the state owns the means of…

Domestic assaults don't make it better, but I would wager one is far less likely to use a firearm in those situations, unless you wander round the house with your gun to hand. Knowing your rapist means, again that you are far less likely to be in a position to use a gun. My point was, that the ability to carry a gun does…

I'm surprised anybody bothered to address the initial statistics anyway. Assault victims - this is the easiest to attempt to draw some link with carrying firearms, but at best it is shaky. What about domestic assaults for example? Rape victims: the majority of rapes are carried out by people that knew the attacker - this…

Has anyone brushed on the fact that if someone was intent on attacking you whilst you were jogging/had your earbuds in etc, you wouldn't have time to get your gun anyway - even if you *could* draw it in however many seconds, that is seconds *after* you knew you had to. People who give you time to react are probably…

As others have said, they are just a different shaped dumbell really. I find them nice to use for goblet squats, not a big fan of swinging things either...just seems to lack control.

As far as I am aware it used to be used to clean ones teeth. I think that about sums up its cleansing properties.

Great - now we have solved this one, can we slash the tax on beer please? Its my favourite vice and its just to damn expensive to get properly drunk these days. Yours, A lush.

Razors are expensive, yaknno. :tongue:

Surely not! Shouldn't they be busy trying to steal off richer people or something?

Firstly, you can meet someone you like whatever else is going on in your life. Who knows, it could be the girl that works in the Job Centre. Secondly - You can't spend 100% of your time looking for work if you are out of work, you'd go crazy. Jobs aint that easy to come by at the moment and to put your life on hold because…

None. I have a feeling that my wife would have slight issues if I did. :bigsmile: However, I have been on actual dates with actual people, you know, prior to getting married and you can't put the entire of one gender into a "wants this out of life" box.

Poor generalisation is poor - again.

I was more talking about the insight into your definitions of "what is important to women (especially those mid-twenties and up)". If I had met any women like that (who "weren't" gold-diggers), I would have never had any dates. Luckily, your generalisation is a pretty poor one.

Thanks for the insight. Good job I'm already married, eh?

I wonder if there is a website for that? Sounds kinda niche.

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"Gentleman" may not have the same set of arbitary standards dreamed up by random misogynists on the internet as "lady". Personally, for me it is all about the moustache, pipe and smoking jacket.

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Only page three and it's gone all "inter-species" already. :noway:

Erik no longer thinks you are a 'lady'....where did I put my sadface?

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Shh - your post contains too much reason. You are making wholly valid points not concurrent with his way of thinking. Please try and use shorter sentences.