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says the man posting in a Online Forum thread thats pretty much the same thing (Forums are social media, as you need to have lots of people to keep them going)

This place is also less "admire the coffee I just ******** I took/dumb thought I just had" than facebook. And it's still a circlejerk.

Which are clearly much more interesting subjects, there's also slightly more to ZAM than the bored druid thread.

LinkedIn isn't really like Facebook though. Your profile is essentially your resume (and it's increasingly common that you can submit your LinkedIn to a company in place of a traditional job application).

You don't go there for fun, you go there for networking.

Not much though. I should know, I'm the Uncle Traveling Matt of Zam.

Facebook is messed up.

Some kid at school got smacked upside down by a kid from a neighboring school (the less nice part of town) because of something a third kid wrote on Facebook. They're 12 years old, man, and they're beating each other up over stupid comments on Facebook.

Kids these days grow up without learning how to handle the online forums. We know the difference between anonymity (YouTube) and not (Facebook). They don't. Simply being behind a screen empowers them to do things they normally wouldn't do out of fear of reprisals, but they ignore the fact that writing something on Facebook doesn't make it any less real, nor does it protect them from reprisals any more than saying it to someone's face. The entire point of Facebook is that you're not anonymous - you're the opposite. Anything you say has your name tagged on it, and then it's blasted out over the internet for everyone (unless you fixed your personal settings) to read.

That's why I only get into ***** fights on YouTube. And only with people from other continents. At least then I know they'd have to spend a lot of time, effort and money to come beat me up. I know, right? I'm, like, super smart...

Edit: Also, my key chain is shaped so that it can be used as impromptu (spiked) knuckles if I'm confronted on the streets. And I sleep with a baseball bat and a knife within reach. I live in the not so nice part of town.

Edited, Jun 27th 2013 6:01pm by Mazra

I should totally get a switchblade. I'd have to get one shaped like a lighter or something, though, because they're illegal and the police tends to do searches on the street. Not that I look like someone who would carry a blade, but still, I'd rather not get a sentence.

They're a bit crazy with carrying blades here. Some kid brought a box cutter home from work (he worked at a grocery store) and was arrested for carrying a "blade weapon". He'd have gone to jail for a month if the judge hadn't intervened and ruled that particular law nonsensical. Not entirely sure why he did that, but it might have been related to two other incidents that happened while the box cutter kid was pending sentence:

A mentally challenged person found a knife on the street and, upon spotting two nearby police officers, rolled up in his wheelchair and asked them if it was the illegal kind of knife, because then he'd like to turn it in. They then arrested him for carrying a blade weapon.

A man had been on a fishing trip in the Netherlands or something, but was stopped at the border upon returning here. The border police found a fishing box with a knife in it. The knife was too long, so he was slammed with the "blade weapon" sentence as well.

Yeah, they don't like knives here. Too many stabbings at the nightclubs. I mean, nothing like in New York, or any other town in the US, but we're a relatively small country, so something like a stabbing is front page news for a good week or two.

Edit: It wasn't the CCW law; it was another one that basically allowed the police officers to deem a bladed tool illegal (weapon) or not on the spot. Like, if someone was stopped at a nightclub with a box cutter - or a screwdriver for that matter - they would consider it a weapon. If someone was stopped on his way home from work with similar items, they wouldn't. The problem with that law was that everyone working late could be arrested if they were carrying anything that might be used to harm someone else. I believe a carpenter was arrested for carrying a screwdriver while on his way home. Unfortunately, his path home took him past the nightclub area, so the police considered it a weapon.

Silly laws.

Edited, Jun 27th 2013 6:18pm by Mazra

"I use protection while having sex. A .45 to the temple is a lot of incentive for her to not get pregnant." I was 4 the last time the Mets won a World Series.

Edited, Jun 27th 2013 12:23pm by lolgaxe

For Protein. I saw this on reddit.

hmmm. So you're four years older than my daughter then.

Basically, our weapons law states that the only knives you're allowed to carry in public are folding knives with a blade no longer than 7 cm (2.8 inches). In addition, these folding knives cannot have lockable blades, and the folding mechanism must require two hands to operate.

Leatherman created a model for the Danish market that doesn't have the thumb grip on the blade. As such, you need two hands to unfold it, which makes it legal.

Hunters, fishers, craftsmen, etc. are allowed to carry daggers/knives that can't be folded, but nothing with a blade longer than 12 cm (4.7 inches). They also have to leave the knife at work, or drive directly home and dump it before going anywhere else with it. The car does not count as private property if it's parked in a public area.

1986, yes. My sister was born that September, who I blame my team's lack of success on.

They also live in the US and you don't know what they look like. Have you scared away all the girls in Denmark?