White Knight

Actually thats wrong too. The more you "excercise" that muscle the bigger it gets. But, from my experience, only in the real game. Practice doesn't count.

Yes! You are on the hook for that. If you let the cable guy work while you went to the other room and took the card out, yes its your butte...Just like if he'd yoinked your girlfriends diamond earings. You signed a document, admissible in court, that said you would be responsible for that box and return it in full working condition. Yes! Exactly. The other lesson here, is if something stops workin, especially after one of their people work on it...call and complain ASAP. Covers your butte. If you had called after the guy had left, and said "Hey I've ordered movies before, but now I can't, whats the deal" and they have records of you purchasing movies in the past, you prolly wouldn't be in this perdicament. They guy who yoinked your card would be screwed. Thats normal in disputing charges, but it won't help you man. You signed a document acknowledging responsibility for that box. Its broke, you owe. Sorry dude. Only if they have wrongfully charged you. I'm not tryin to be a tool here (in the Poly forum yes, not here), I'm tryin to be honest and help out dude. You know you my boy.

Well, I've got good news and bad news. First the good: You can get out of paying that, you simply have to spend the time talking to the right people (in person, not via phone). I'd go down to the cable company and talk to a manager. I'm sure hes more interested in keeping a customer than getting $165 (btw, 4 times what the darn card costs). Explain to him the situation...you didn't even know what the card was, etc. Hopefully he will decide that a happy customer is better than a tinkled off one minus a few bucks. Bad news: You're responsible for the card. Sorry to say it, but when you recieved the box and signed the paperwork, you took responsibility for the darn thing. If push comes to shove, you owe them the "value" that they place on that card. There's nothing you can do if they attempt to make you. However, if they make you pay the money, I would seriously consider dropping your cable company completely. Get sattellite cable or do without. Get DSL, its atleast as good as a cable modem. For future reference though...don't EVER let someone you don't know have access to your stuff without being under your supervision. And also, when returning the property like the cable box that you have on loan, return it yourself in person, rather than trusting someone else with it. If your office drops it and breaks it, its your responsibility, not theirs. Tough lesson bro, hope you learn it. Good luck.

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Just keep it up man! A little pain goes a long way. The more you work at it, the better you will get.

Congrats man! Ya gotta start somewhere and there you have it! Starting is always the hardest part. Just keep at it and make sure that you don't over do it. Yes some of them do, but they aren't exactly healthy. You are better off doing it the old fashion way. If you want to gain muscle, you need to work out 6 times a week, alternating muscle systems. So pecs, bicepes, back one day, triceps, legs, abs the next. You don't have to work out a ton to gain muscle (just 3 times a week really), but the important factor is to commit to it for a period of time. Working out with weights for 9 months WILL glean you results.

My favorite video game ever was Sega Genesis. Warsong. Made 7 of them in Japan, only 1 made it here...sigh...

Playa man, if ya tryin to lose weight...those jumbo jacks are a REALLY bad idea (though very yummy). Good luck though, and if you need any encouragement... http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/.../2004_swimsuit/

Thats great! I'm gonna haveta remember that for all my soft drink chuggin friends. I wonder how many glasses of water you get for a jack and coke...

I'm 100% sure that Jesus existed. I'm fairly sure that its a documentable historical fact as well. Now all the other stuff in the bible...well, thats up for grabs...especially since what we presently call the new testament was put together in 300AD (IIRC) from over 200 books. There are actually countries in africa today that use Christian Manuscripts that are NOT in the bible (Book of Tim, Book of Mary). What that means for the Christian religion is up to the individual...and out of the context of this discussion.

Ruka = Bomb digity in da hizzle for my shizzle. That is all.

I got a friend that sounds just like Goot's friend... ...and believe me, he knows hes annoying... ...but that doesn't stop him. He apologizes like heck the next day and says he wont do it again, but does. He almost got us killed at the BET Soundstage once because he was drunk and started claiming to be "black" (hes VERY white).

Good luck Goot. Why don't you see if he'll be designated driver?

Just a reminder...if you're trying to get in shape...CUT OUT THE SOFT DRINKS!!!! They are horrible for you. Btw, Bandit...nice advice, thanks for fillin in the holes I forgot.

I got this one for yall (sorry, very in shape guy whose entire family is fat). First Playaa...a recent study said that atleast 30 minutes of brisk walking a day can help even overweight people maintain their weight and even lose to a certain point. Here's the kicker...it doesn't even have to be 30 minutes straight. So from now on, when you walk somewhere, do it brisky...take the stairs...all that jazz. I've often heard from people "I'd love to get in shape but I don't have time", and I always say the same thing "If you want to be in shape you have to make the time". Cut back a little from a few different places...little bit less video game time...little bit less tv time...little bit less Mr Happy time...pretty soon you have an hour to work out. But in general, you have to do two things to get in shape, and 1 more thing to become ripped (guy in picture). 1. Diet - Don't do the "Adkins" or the "South Beach" do the "Balanced diet with vitamins". Drink a glass of milk every morning and have a multi vitamin. Put the bigmacs down and eat salads. You don't have to turn into a bunny...but just be careful. I try and balance it out...one of my favorite lunches is this Fried Chicken Tender Salad thing at Bennigans. Its got something I love (fried chicken tenders) and good stuff for ya. You also need to limit and remove softdrinks, chips, and snacks. Those three are really bad for you...and bags of them have a habbit of disappearing. I'm not saying don't eat sweets, but moderation is the key, and those bad boys "You can't just eat one". So ok, once you get your diet under control, you will feel better, more alert, and feel better. 2. Now you have to excercise...first rule is don't overdo it to start. If you do, you will quit. Start with walking, and then find a sport you enjoy. I play Basketball 3 times a week for 2 hours with some friends. Its fun and I get a workout. A lot of people sugguest running, but I think its boring and it can be really hard on your body ESPECIALLY if you are carrying extra weight. Martial Arts are also popular with the geek crowd (admit it, we all are). You just have to find SOMETHING that involves more than button pushing that you enjoy to do. That will get you started. Ok, you do both of those, and you will slowly (remember slow is healthy) lose weight. Now you want to look cut? 3. Lifting weights...this is both the most dangerous and the best thing you can do for your body. If you do not do it correct you can badly injure yourself, so I sugguest that you join a gymn and work with their trainer on staff. They are the professional. It takes probably 6 months before you start to notice a big difference...but once you do man oh man...the results are great. You get noticed by women EVERYWHERE and many of them don't even hide their lust...its great. You want an ego boost Playaa...go lift weights for 6 months. I lifted weights for my first year here (in FL), and went home (to Texas) where nobody recognized me (some girls from my high school even hit on my that woulda never given me the time). The great thing about 2 & 3 is that once you get going with them, its really hard to stop. You body starts desiring the excercise. You feel better, more alert, sleep better, look better. In the work place better looking people have an edge of not so great (its a sad truth, but its a truth). And of course, your love life definately improves (if that is your drive). Of course, you will also have less health problems and live longer...but who cares about that when it will help you get laid.

Interesting. Thanks Conga!

Right, and Pilot specifically washed his hands of his death.... Btw, since its in Aramaic...pretend its an opera! You can't understand what they are saying in those either, and they are AWESOME.

Btw Sanders...those artists performing live...they were all lipsinking. If ya taped it, watch it again and carefully pay attention to the music and their lips moving.

I'm also looking forward to seeing the movie. I think that all the controversy is just that...gripings from people who haven't seen much of anything on the movie that just want press time. I think all this controversy is akin to what surrounded Dogma a few years ago. People who don't know jack about the movie makin stuff up for publicity. The only valid complaint I have heard was from a jewish rabbi who said that he was worried that the movie would portray the jews as Christs murderer instead of the Romans...but unless my memory escapes me...weren't the jews the ones who murdered Christ? I am confident that Mel will do a historically accurate portrayal of what happened.

Thanks!

Gen, no hard feelings = no parting shots. Your boys cheat, they need to fess up and promise not to do it again. We still haven't seen that. That's all I need to know to participate in this discussion. Your clanmate, who because of his tag, also represents you, admitted to cheating 10% of the time, but did not say that he wouldn't do it again. Looks like this has been taken care of offline but its in poor taste to take shots at other people that are offended by the actions of your boys. Dweez, I'd appreciate it if you didn't apologize "for me" again. I'm a big boy and can apologize for myself if I feel its warranted. Here I don't think it is. And for future reference...

I think it will be Carolina 29, Patriots 32, with a last second Field Goal.

Best 5: 5. The Budweiser Dog commercial was the bomb diggity. 4. Million Dollar Dunk, 7up. 3. Charmin Commercial (butte grabbing QB) 2. Phillip Morris telling people not to use their products...but still getting advertisment in (who said no publicity is bad publicity?) 1. Naked man...selling nakedness... Worst 5. 5. Budweiser Donkey 4. LL Cool Jay in some lame commercial that's been on TV for months, but someone still payed the $2M to have it in the super bowl. 3. The Viagra knockoff that kept having people throw footballs through tires...talk about subliminal messages... 2. Half Time Commercial for Washed up artists. 1. All the Stupid Cadillac Commercials destroying Led Zepplin songs (must be produced by the same guy who did the Celine Dion Cadillac commercial last year and ended up dead last in viewer response...all of them are LAME!!!!!).

I didn't think half time shows could get worse than last years lipsink by shenia. I was wrong...whose stupid idea was it to have not just one, but 2 washed up "artists" (using the term losely). You have Jenet starting with her song that was big...3 years ago, then you have Kid Lame with his two hits off his awesome...five year old album, followed up by a Janet song thats like 15 years old. How dumb was that? Whose stupid idea was this? Btw, along the same lines...did anybody else notice an unusually large percent of the comercials were NBC's...could it be that there wasn't enough companies willing to spend $10,000,000,000,000,000.99 (exageration) per 30 seconds? Hmm...I thought it was interesting...of course I (and the 20 other people at the party I went to) REALLY got tired of the repeated Survivor Commercials...not to be topped by the continuing horrid Cadilac Commercials. Se la vi! It was an awesome foozeball game though. Had a great time.

You're right about one thing man, you run your clan however you'd like. But for the record, ghosting = cheating with a much lower chance of getting caught, so as even more pathetic than actually cheating. You can call me ignorant, or whatever you'd like, but it doesn't change the fact that your boys have a problem. I think its only that much more pitiful because all of your clan that I've played with are talented...i.e. don't need to lamely cheat to win. You can point fingers and call me "off base", but still doesn't alter the facts. You MwR peeps need to stand up and apologize for doin it. You've already admitted that you do, but I haven't seen a "my bad, won't happen again". Until then you're the people that are "off base".