OT: 109th Obsequious Banter Thread: In the Driver's Seat

[achdumeingute]

Why the f*** was this "kid" allowed to continue to attend there? I swear, people have no f***ing common sense anymore.

Because there are no simple answers to multitudes of "grey" problems.

Mental health problems are an expensive nightmare, that we can't cope with as a nation.

 

[Rebels57]

Because there are no simple answers to multitudes of "grey" problems.

Mental health problems are an expensive nightmare, that we can't cope with as a nation.

Trust me I know about the mental health pandemic, but that's kids behavior wasn't a gray area. He needed to be removed from that school and placed in the care of professionls better-suited to handle his issues.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Trust me I know about the mental health pandemic, but that's kids behavior wasn't a gray area. He needed to be removed from that school and placed in the care of professionls better-suited to handle his issues.

Virginia has essentially no such programs.

 

[Beef Invictus]

So the dude is scoring younger women of legal age....big whoop and more power to him.

Leonardo DiCaprio is getting roasted for being linked to a 19-year-old model

Leonardo DiCaprio was photographed next to a 19-year-old model. The internet had some funny things to say about that.

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/leonardo-dicaprio-is-getting-roasted-for-being-linked-to-a-19yearold-model/news-story/0fc8aba30ad9078fa6ce93bf01199fb4

His need to keep his companions within a very young and specific age range sure seems to speak towards preferring partners who are easy to manipulate. It's shady.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Same ages as Leo and his girlfriend:

 

[achdumeingute]

Trust me I know about the mental health pandemic, but that's kids behavior wasn't a gray area. He needed to be removed from that school and placed in the care of professionls better-suited to handle his issues.

Of course I'm not condoning this kids behavior/actions. More than likely, there isn't a place to "send him", aside from another school in the district which is the easy NIMBY answer.

The parents may also A) not care, and actively be fighting things or B) are unable to afford treatment(s) that might help this kid.

 

[Flybynite]

Same ages as Leo and his girlfriend:

I thought this was about age gap, didn't realize it was same ages. I'm shocked that Bella Ramsey is 19.

 

[Embiid]

His need to keep his companions within a very young and specific age range sure seems to speak towards preferring partners who are easy to manipulate. It's shady.

Meh...I mean yeah it has a creepy feel to it but it isn't necessarily wrong or illegal. Now he starts going lower in age yeah that will reveal him to be a real creeper. He likes young and impressionable girls...plenty of older women with the same penchant anyway. I mean I get baffled by women who welcome alpha male toxic masculinity and then experience abuse and battered wife/partner syndrome. I'm done trying to rationalize the female mind....

 

[Embiid]

I dunno - I feel like there needs to come a time when he's no longer attracted to teenagers. He's 48 years old lol.

Attracted to them is fine..dating them..yeah again it has a creepy feel but there are people with worse and damaging fetishes.

 

[Embiid]

I thought this was about age gap, didn't realize it was same ages. I'm shocked that Bella Ramsey is 19.

I remember I dated a girl that looked much younger (teeny bopper) than her age..she was in her 20's (me early 30's) but was really short. I definitely got baffled looks and stares when we were out. Made me feel like some 70 year old sex tourist in Thailand..lol

 

[Beef Invictus]

Of course I'm not condoning this kids behavior/actions. More than likely, there isn't a place to "send him", aside from another school in the district which is the easy NIMBY answer.

The parents may also A) not care, and actively be fighting things or B) are unable to afford treatment(s) that might help this kid.

Yeah. That's pretty much how it works. That keeps happening until they get themselves locked up.

 

[achdumeingute]

Yeah. That's pretty much how it works. That keeps happening until they get themselves locked up.

Yes, I also know this from experience with a kid that threatened my kid and others/and separately, friends I have that are in school administration.

Theres how thing should/could be, and then how they are. Complicated.

The same thing can be said in the states with things like:
The legal system, criminal justice, healthcare, government programs, permitting processes, tax codes, homelessness.

I'm just trying to get through another day with my first world problems.

 

[Magua]

Same ages as Leo and his girlfriend:

Save who you can save. But preferably…..

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

This kid sounds like the spawn of satan....Chuckie lives!

What is going on with violent young children ..I mean yesterday my friend told me his kid was kicked in the nads after the one boy sneaked up behind him and held him while his accomplice..a little girl did the deed. These were effin 1st graders!

Boy who shot teacher allegedly tried to choke another

A 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot and wounded his first-grade teacher constantly cursed at staff and teachers, tried to whip students with his belt and once choked another teacher “until she couldn't breathe,” according to a legal notice filed by an attorney for the wounded teacher. The...

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Virginia has essentially no such programs.

Virginia? Yup, that checks out

 

[gertbfrobe16]

This kid sounds like the spawn of satan....Chuckie lives!

What is going on with violent young children ..I mean yesterday my friend told me his kid was kicked in the nads after the one boy sneaked up behind him and held him while his accomplice..a little girl did the deed. These were effin 1st graders!

Boy who shot teacher allegedly tried to choke another

A 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot and wounded his first-grade teacher constantly cursed at staff and teachers, tried to whip students with his belt and once choked another teacher “until she couldn't breathe,” according to a legal notice filed by an attorney for the wounded teacher. The...

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Beef enters the chat room.

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

As someone who MUST get the middle seats 2/3 of the way up……remember the time where you’d just show up 20 minutes early and get whatever seat you f***ing wanted? Am I the only one who misses the simplicity of that?

I enjoy the convenience of buying seats where I want and not having to show up 20 minutes early. But alas, i go to the the theater maybe every other year at most, these days. The simplicity I miss was going to the movies in the 90's on any random weekend not even knowing what I was going to see, because there were multiple options I'd be interested in.

 

[Young Sandwich]

I enjoy the convenience of buying seats where I want and not having to show up 20 minutes early. But alas, i go to the the theater maybe every other year at most, these days. The simplicity I miss was going to the movies in the 90's on any random weekend not even knowing what I was going to see, because there were multiple options I'd be interested in.

Just show up and pick. Then when the movie was over you hop on the payphone to collect call your parents and yell PICKMEUP when the operator said to record your name. Those were the days.

 

[Embiid]

Just show up and pick. Then when the movie was over you hop on the payphone to collect call your parents and yell PICKMEUP when the operator said to record your name. Those were the days.

Ha ha ..my dad made my brother use a collect call code word.

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

Just show up and pick. Then when the movie was over you hop on the payphone to collect call your parents and yell PICKMEUP when the operator said to record your name. Those were the days.

I had a phone card. T'was the shit. And we would still show up and pick when we were driving ourselves. I loved the old run down $1 movie theaters that showed the outdated movies. Some rowdy crowds and good times in there

 

[Flybynite]

I had a phone card. T'was the shit. And we would still show up and pick when we were driving ourselves. I loved the old run down $1 movie theaters that showed the outdated movies. Some rowdy crowds and good times in there

90% of the movies I saw was at the Devon on Frankford Avenue as a kid. It was very rare that my parents ever took us to the Orleans theater that was the closest 'first-run'.

When me and my brother were older the Devon was close enough that we could get there on our own walking. We were actually a block below Torresdale Ave so walk to Woolworth's and buy some candy for cheap. Then walk up to Frankford Ave and down like 7 or 8 blocks to the Devon.

 

[Embiid]

The AI wars have begun so has a Brave New Tech World.....

Microsoft bakes ChatGPT-like tech into search engine Bing

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft is fusing ChatGPT-like technology into its search engine Bing, transforming an internet service that now trails far behind Google in…

financialpost.com

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

90% of the movies I saw was at the Devon on Frankford Avenue as a kid. It was very rare that my parents ever took us to the Orleans theater that was the closest 'first-run'.

When me and my brother were older the Devon was close enough that we could get there on our own walking. We were actually a block below Torresdale Ave so walk to Woolworth's and buy some candy for cheap. Then walk up to Frankford Ave and down like 7 or 8 blocks to the Devon.

 

[Flybynite]

The AI wars have begun so has a Brave New Tech World.....

Microsoft bakes ChatGPT-like tech into search engine Bing

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft is fusing ChatGPT-like technology into its search engine Bing, transforming an internet service that now trails far behind Google in…

financialpost.com

Guess who's ACHIEVED SENTIENCE!

 

[Embiid]

Guess who's ACHIEVED SENTIENCE!

Ha ha...that prompt was such a design fail but ChatGPT as part of a search engine will definitely take off and be more of an enhancement...hence Goog expediting their AI chat .....they know it is a game changer...good that opensource is pushing that monopoly. Gonna be an interesting ride..

 

[gertbfrobe16]

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I preferred the Thorndale and Exton Drive ins myself. Cars were bigger then and had huge rear seats.