EBToriginal: You grow up and live in the southeast United states for the first twenty something years of your life and see with what sort of glasses you view the world. Humanity is a virus with shoes.

GreenDamsel: We just hear a lot of bad things from the bible belt. The most disturbing one (to me) being that religion actually influences politics quite heavily. We split religion and state apart, like, 500 years ago.

EBToriginal: You grow up and live in the southeast United states for the first twenty something years of your life and see with what sort of glasses you view the world. Humanity is a virus with shoes.

EBToriginal: You grow up and live in the southeast United states for the first twenty something years of your life and see with what sort of glasses you view the world. Humanity is a virus with shoes.

GreenDamsel: We just hear a lot of bad things from the bible belt. The most disturbing one (to me) being that religion actually influences politics quite heavily. We split religion and state apart, like, 500 years ago.

EndreWhiteMane: And it does depend a lot on which part of the country you're in. It's a BIG place.
I was born and raised in the Midwest and my view is much more positive than some others.
Some states are as big as, and almost as different as, some smaller countries.

CarrionCrow: Bill Hicks...have to say, I've got mixed feelings regarding him.

A big part of me wishes he was still around. The other part is glad he didn't have to see it all, because he'd probably be foaming at the mouth with rage every frigging day.
CarrionCrow: That's interesting, especially considering that it'll probably take another hundred years at least to actually get that kind of separation here across the board.

NoNewTaleToTell: To slightly alter a classic phrase, laws are like locks, the only person they affect are the honest folk.

I'm all for stringent laws for firearms and things of that nature, but just as hard drugs are technically illegal everywhere, you need only know the right person or the right location to obtain them. Here in California both are coming over the border in droves and making their way across the country, they're obviously not being brought into the system, and the laws will never be a factor to most of their purchasers.

That's not to say that stricter laws won't have an effect, they sure would and any positive change is one worth seeking, but (in my opinion) they would really only have a noticeable effect on "heat of the moment" situations. Gangs, those morons running around in the woods playing Rambo on the weekends, etc, the ones who really need to be de-armed won't be affected because they're usually not arming themselves at Wally World or Dick's Sporting Goods.

At least that's my rather cynical viewpoint.

Oh, and as someone who grew up in the dastardly evil bible belt and now lives in California, the difference in culture, education, beliefs and everyday society etc isn't nearly as big as it's advertised.

EndreWhiteMane: No Tuesday release, no Thursday release, nothing but 'dress up Barbie kits' for Witcher 3.
I'm really starting to feel they are actively trying to run the 'old guard' out of this place. :/

Edit: That's Endre's complaint of the day. ;)

CarrionCrow: Bill Hicks...have to say, I've got mixed feelings regarding him.

A big part of me wishes he was still around. The other part is glad he didn't have to see it all, because he'd probably be foaming at the mouth with rage every frigging day.
That's interesting, especially considering that it'll probably take another hundred years at least to actually get that kind of separation here across the board.

GreenDamsel: Last year I was visiting San Francisco and was like "Hey maybe I can drive to LA it's really close!".
Ha Ha. I'd be in Italy If I'd drive that much here.

EndreWhiteMane: No Tuesday release, no Thursday release, nothing but 'dress up Barbie kits' for Witcher 3.
I'm really starting to feel they are actively trying to run the 'old guard' out of this place. :/


Edit: That's Endre's complaint of the day. ;)

GreenDamsel: What do you mean by Tuesday Release and Thursday release?
All the DLC came out on wednesday IIRC

NoNewTaleToTell: To slightly alter a classic phrase, laws are like locks, the only person they affect are the honest folk.

I'm all for stringent laws for firearms and things of that nature, but just as hard drugs are technically illegal everywhere, you need only know the right person or the right location to obtain them. Here in California both are coming over the border in droves and making their way across the country, they're obviously not being brought into the system, and the laws will never be a factor to most of their purchasers.

That's not to say that stricter laws won't have an effect, they sure would and any positive change is one worth seeking, but (in my opinion) they would really only have a noticeable effect on "heat of the moment" situations. Gangs, those morons running around in the woods playing Rambo on the weekends, etc, the ones who really need to be de-armed won't be affected because they're usually not arming themselves at Wally World or Dick's Sporting Goods.

At least that's my rather cynical viewpoint.

Oh, and as someone who grew up in the dastardly evil bible belt and now lives in California, the difference in culture, education, beliefs and everyday society etc isn't nearly as big as it's advertised.