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    "Don't Bring A Gun To A Snowball Fight" • Stolen Auschwitz Sign Recovered In Pieces

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    Image of whynotshesaid whynotshesaid
    07:02 AM

    In reply to "Don't Bring A Gun To A Snowball Fight" • Stolen Auschwitz Sign Recovered In Pieces
    I didn't realize there would be so many members of the anti-snowball fight contingent here. That's too bad. The world could use more spontaneous public fun that isn't confined to preapproved venues.
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    02:16 AM

    In reply to "Don't Bring A Gun To A Snowball Fight" • Stolen Auschwitz Sign Recovered In Pieces
    Rev Hughes - Way to miss out on an opportunity to be relevant.

    On what planet are teenage boys "hard to reach" w/r/t advertising cheap, tasty, junk food?

    I'm flying 2/3 across the country on Christmas Eve and THANK GOD that they passed that three hour law. I'm claustraphobic and an anxious mess on a plane without being imprisoned on it. I've read far too many Consumerist articles about plane imprisonment horror stories, I was starting to seriously dread my flight.
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    Image of CherriSpryte CherriSpryte
    12:53 AM

    In reply to "Don't Bring A Gun To A Snowball Fight" • Stolen Auschwitz Sign Recovered In Pieces
    DC AND Poland!? Here is a very long comment you will most likely skip but makes valid points:

    1) I'm really surprised so many commenters are anti-snowball fight. This is the most buttoned-up city EVER. Yes, it was hipster-initiated, but it was also the very definition of harmless fun. DC was completely shut down on Saturday. The fact that you could do anything except "avoid getting hit by a car" at 14th and U in the middle of the day is a testament to that.

    2) One of the articles about the Auschwitz sign trots out the "6 million Jews and other people" line. There were more like 11 million people overall killed by the Holocaust - 6 million Jews (3 million of whom were Polish), nearly 3 million non-Jewish Poles, and several million other people, including hundreds of thousands of Roma, homosexuals, socialists, and anybody in Central Europe caught resisting. I do not, under any circumstances, want to discount the horrific effects of the Holocaust on the global Jewish population - but Poland lost 6 million people as well. I really hate when that gets discounted, as that's my family.

    In conclusion, snowballs = good, Holocaust = bad for Poland, too.
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    Image of Jessysaurusrex Jessysaurusrex
    02:25 AM

    @CherriSpryte: I always get worked up about the death toll from WWII, as even though 6 million Jews were killed, the conservative estimate of Russians lost in the war stands at 22 million. What happened was ultimately terrible, but I hate that the Holocaust is seen as bad for only Jews-- Holocaust = bad for Russians, Poles, and other Central Europeans as well as Jews.
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    Image of CherriSpryte CherriSpryte
    03:03 AM

    @Jessysaurusrex: There's a huge difference between "died in the Holocaust" and "died in WW2," but you're right. I think total worldwide deaths in WW2 is what, 60 million? Its insane.
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    Image of Jessysaurusrex Jessysaurusrex
    04:10 AM

    @CherriSpryte: I get sleepy and merge historical concepts at times, so thank you putting me in line. I am most upset-- I cry during movies featuring WWII scenes (like Atonement) when I think about how absolutely INSANE that one person's ideology can be traced back to the deaths of so many millions, be they victims of his systematic murder machine or casualties of the war against his murder machine.

    And then I have to start playing with my dogs before I cry to the point of implosion.
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    Image of BearDownCBears BearDownCBears
    12/21/09

    In reply to "Don't Bring A Gun To A Snowball Fight" • Stolen Auschwitz Sign Recovered In Pieces
    And then a snowplow came by and scooped up the dumb hipsters and the shithead cop and dumped them all into the Potomac, the end.

    Ha, just kidding! The DC snowplows aren't that effective.
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    Image of ragamufffin ragamufffin
    12/21/09

    @BearDownCBears: from what i saw DC doesn't own a single one. so you're out of luck.
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    Image of Penny Penny
    12/21/09

    @BearDownCBears: Hee! Hipsters and douches are like black matter, sometimes small but always dense.
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    Image of BearDownCBears BearDownCBears
    12/21/09

    @Penny: Oh yeah, here's one more thing: Malcolm X Park is like two feet away. Were these asswipes so fucking stupid that they couldn't read a Google map to get there? I thought a creative writing degree necessitates a base level of literacy. Oh wait, then they couldn't have it in the middle of a major street via the Twitter, and hence be "quirky".
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    Image of Questioning Everything Questioning Everything
    12/21/09

    @BearDownCBears: I think that the Anacostia would be an even better place.
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    Image of lauralauramc lauralauramc
    12/21/09

    @Penny: that's downright profound.
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    Image of Penny Penny
    12/21/09

    @lauralauramc: Physics are my thing.
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    Image of Maritsa Maritsa
    12/21/09

    @ragamufffin: They have one, it plows the area right around the Capitol. Oh wait, that probably belongs to the federal govt. So yeah, you're right, the city definitely doesn't have any. DC is such a joke in the snow.
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    Image of katyarizhaya katyarizhaya
    01:18 AM

    @BearDownCBears: They considered that park, but deliberately decided that they preferred the street: [www.futuremagining.com]

    One commenter's reasoning? "More mayhem = more fun!"
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    Image of BearDownCBears BearDownCBears
    02:08 AM

    @katyarizhaya: This is very important intelligence. Good job, soldier.
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    Image of BuffySummers BuffySummers
    12/21/09

    In reply to "Don't Bring A Gun To A Snowball Fight" • Stolen Auschwitz Sign Recovered In Pieces
    "A British woman was temporarily blinded when her eyes were glued shut during an eye lash tinting treatment at a beauty salon."

    That treatment should not be legal. For reals. The "slight peppery sensation" they advertise (I'm looking at you, Benefit!) feels more like your eyeballs are being seared by hot pokers. Do not recommend.
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    12/21/09

    @BuffySummers: Why should we listen to you? You are clearly influenced by the vampire culture, Ms. Buffy Summers.
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    Image of JennaW JennaW
    12/21/09

    @BuffySummers: But their eyebrow wax and tint is awesome. Only waxing process that's ever worked for me without breaking me out.
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    Image of token_illiterate_commenter token_illiterate_commenter
    12/21/09

    In reply to "Don't Bring A Gun To A Snowball Fight" • Stolen Auschwitz Sign Recovered In Pieces
    Does DC give cops Hummers to drive? If not, it doesn't surprise me that the type of cop who would pull a gun at a snowball fight is the type of jerk-wad that drives a Hummer.
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    12/21/09

    @token_illiterate_commenter: No. A hummer wouldn't even fit down many DC streets.
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    Image of lollapulizer lollapulizer
    12/21/09

    @token_illiterate_commenter: I think the cop was off duty, so that would be his personal car.
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    Image of token_illiterate_commenter token_illiterate_commenter
    12/21/09

    @lollapulizer: @Lymed: Suspicion confirmed.
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    Image of PaintedTrollop PaintedTrollop
    12/21/09

    @lollapulizer: which he can't even seem to drive in the snow. Obviously his manhood was in all kinds of trouble in this situation.
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    Image of token_illiterate_commenter token_illiterate_commenter
    12/21/09

    @PaintedTrollop: It proves that it's not the size of your vehicle but how you drive it.

    And by vehicle I mean penis.
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    12/21/09

    @PaintedTrollop: I am amazed by how many people in large SUVs are getting stuck on the DC streets. We keep seeing people trying to drive out of parking spaces without shoveling the snow away. My husband had to push a neighbors car out of a spot while both of the neighbors sat in the car.
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    Image of whats_in_a_name whats_in_a_name
    12/21/09

    @Lymed: Coming from a family that runs a car dealership I'm not surprised at all. The vast majority of the people that buy large four wheel drive vehicles have no idea of how to drive them which when combined with no knowledge of the physics principle of the conservation of momentum* makes mechanics and body shops a lot of money every winter.

    *(items at rest will tend to stay at rest, and items in motion will tend to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force)
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    Image of PaintedTrollop PaintedTrollop
    12/21/09

    @Lymed: It's because they don't know how to drive in snow - especially a great big SUV. I live in the mountains of northern NH, and I drive a Toyota Corolla - and I never get stuck!
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    Image of PaintedTrollop PaintedTrollop
    12/21/09

    @whats_in_a_name: good point. Whenever there's a big storm up here, it's SUV's and pickups that are off the road. I saw an SUV on the highway once that had launched off the snowbank on the side of the road, and was nestled in the lower branches of a tree.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    12/21/09

    In reply to "Don't Bring A Gun To A Snowball Fight" • Stolen Auschwitz Sign Recovered In Pieces
    I wasn't aware that fast food restaurants were missing out on the teen boy market. Thank god they figured out a terrific solution to the problem.
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    Image of Penny Penny
    12/21/09

    In reply to "Don't Bring A Gun To A Snowball Fight" • Stolen Auschwitz Sign Recovered In Pieces
    Why is it that we give the stupidest fucking people guns?
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    Image of hovy hovy
    12/21/09

    @Penny: In hopes that they shoot themselves?
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    Image of Cairn Cairn
    12/21/09

    @Penny: Except we don't give guns to anyone... everyone has the right to a gun.
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    Image of SarahMC SarahMC
    12/21/09

    @hovy: Guns don't kill people. Cops kill people.
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    Image of Penny Penny
    12/21/09

    @Cairn: Well, that makes me feel better.
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    12/21/09

    @Cairn: Last I looked, the police department gives guns to police officers. I think taxpayers can constitute the "we" that gave this officer the gun.
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    Image of Cairn Cairn
    12/21/09

    @Lymed: Your point is well taken---this person is required to carry a gun by virtue of his job, etc. I read Penny's comment as a lament that only idiots get guns, but everyone can get a gun; most people just choose not to exercise that right.

    On a technical level, some police departments do not provide their officers with a gun, but include a gun stipend in their salary. The officer is then required to supply their own gun, which must be of a make and model listed on the department's preapproved list. I don't know whether NYPD's guns are department-owned or officer-owned.
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    Image of Callipegian Callipegian
    12/21/09

    @Penny: I sincerely hope you're being somewhat jokey. Yes, there are idiots in every profession, and yes, some idiots are cops, which is extra frightening and makes you want really fucking stringent hiring requirements. But that's a pretty broad brush you're painting with: my boyfriend and his fellow police academy grads are some of the smartest, most laid-back and thoughtful people I've ever met. I hope you're more thoughtful about how you categorize entire professions in the future.
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    Image of Penny Penny
    12/21/09

    @Callipegian: What makes you think I'm talking about cops?

    I was, indeed, only half serious, but I was certainly not talking about cops. I have a lot of respect, overall, for the law enforcement community.
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    Image of Dodgergirl Dodgergirl
    12/14/09

    In reply to Michelle Wants To Go Shopping With Jill • Italy Bans Implants For Girls Under 18
    I don't know why that quote from Michelle cracks me up so much. It sounds like she got sucked into a Sex & the City marathon on TBS, momentarily blanked on alternative forms of interactions between female friends, and wanted to suggest shopping and cosmos with Jill before thinking better of it and just sticking with shopping. Personally, I'd prefer drinks with them, because then I could just pick their brains for hours.
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    Image of la.donna.pietra la.donna.pietra
    12/14/09

    In reply to Michelle Wants To Go Shopping With Jill • Italy Bans Implants For Girls Under 18
    My mom tapes newspaper articles on the bathroom mirror, too. For a while, she was cutting them out of the paper and mailing them to me. She has slowly adapted to the notion of emailing URLs to me instead.

    I should send her this link and go full-circle.
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    Image of whats_in_a_name whats_in_a_name
    12/14/09

    @la.donna.pietra: i'd wait till the next time you'll be at your mom's house, print it out and tape it to the mirror.
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    Image of whats_in_a_name whats_in_a_name
    12/14/09

    In reply to Michelle Wants To Go Shopping With Jill • Italy Bans Implants For Girls Under 18
    Michele and Jill look like they are hatching some sort of nefarious plan in that picture.
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    Image of kookoocachaw kookoocachaw
    12/14/09

    In reply to Michelle Wants To Go Shopping With Jill • Italy Bans Implants For Girls Under 18
    I wasn't aware that someone younger than 18 could get implants, period. That just seems really unnecessary.. I mean, my breasts didn't reach their current size until about halfway through college. Then again, a bunch of girls in my high school were getting nose jobs at 16, so... shrugs.
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    12/14/09

    @kookoocachaw: Something about nose jobs at that age bothers me less, whether that's rational or not. Your nose won't change, for one thing, whereas your body and breasts most definitely will. And you definitely have a point about the implants--wouldn't you want to wait until at least 18 anyway?
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    Katxyz promoted this comment BuffySummers was starred BuffySummers was unstarred
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    12/15/09

    @BuffySummers:

    My nose changed shape dramatically between middle and high school and slightly between high school and college. Some of it had to do with my other features changing and me losing weight, but it was a noticeable change if you look at photos of me over time. I think it's just silly to do any major surgery before you're really done growing, and I think 99% of people are still in the process of physically growing/maturing/changing before the 18 of age and a few years after.
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    Image of Scout Scout
    12/14/09

    In reply to Michelle Wants To Go Shopping With Jill • Italy Bans Implants For Girls Under 18
    ugh, I can already imagine all the "illegal" breast augmentations that are going to take place so, nice job ITALY, for making it even MORE unsafe.

    stupid.
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    Image of shantidevi shantidevi
    12/14/09

    @Scout: Less safe? What do you mean?

    Didn't you hear that Mr. Berlusconi has generously offered to sign off on the augmentations of women under 18? Of course, he'll need to personally inspect her breasts first... just to make sure she understands the risks, of course.
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    Scout promoted this comment shantidevi was starred shantidevi was unstarred
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    12/14/09

    @shantidevi: ah, see, now that tidbit of (hilariously false) information makes me see things in a new light!
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    Image of cand86 cand86
    12/09/09

    In reply to Teachers Caught In Intimate Moment • Texting Is "The New Lipstick On The Collar"
    Quite honestly, hearing the words "teacher" and "caught", and "sex", in the same sentence, I can only feel relief on realizing that it's between adults.

    Also, I laughed really hard when I read the first sentence of the steak-throwing. And then I just got sad reading the rest of it.
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    Image of colormeroutine colormeroutine
    12/09/09

    In reply to Teachers Caught In Intimate Moment • Texting Is "The New Lipstick On The Collar"
    I went to that high school, and one of those women was my teacher for two years. This really does not surprise me at all. Nor do I feel that bad for her. She always had some major boundary issues. I'm kind of surprised she didn't get in trouble for something before this
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    Image of Serathen Serathen
    12/09/09

    @colormeroutine: I grew up by that school! (but didn't end up going there). Sort of odd to say Brooklyn Pride for a post about a sex-escandalo but there we have it. Brooklyn pride indeed. It's just rare to read about that part of Brooklyn other than when cricket players get hit by lightning in Marine Park. True story.
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    12/09/09

    @Serathen: Nothing that happens in Marine Park could surprise me. Including someone being smote.
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