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speedsix wrote:

seamusTX wrote:... asses are two or more donkeys.

...or two or more politicians...

To quote Mark Twain, "But I repeat myself."

- Jim

Keith B wrote:Yeah, I need a grammar checker on these.

I hate to say it, but Microsoft Office is getting pretty good. Sometimes it can figure out enough of the context to know if you are misusing words like right and write or its and it's.

Maybe there are third-party grammar checkers like that. I haven't looked. If I start screwing up that kind of thing, I need to get a different job.

- Jim

The word asses is spelled correctly.

The problem with spelling checkers (as I am not the first to point out) is that the bigger the dictionary, the greater the likelihood that misspelled words will not be flagged.

- Jim

Keith B wrote:There is a difference in prison and professional tats. This guy maybe has a mixture, but none of what I would call high quality even for those that may be from a shop....

If someone with a large amount of very good quality tats approaches me, I will be much less on alert than if a person with gang/prison tats confronts me.

Hair, clothing, and body art are what the person wants them to be—or wanted at some point in his life, in the case of tattoos.

For some people it's a personal idiosyncrasy. For others it's a warning or advertisement that says, "Don't hire me."

Either way, tats or not, I will always look at the demeanor of the person who is approaching me and what their body language is, if I have time, to asses the possible threat ...

Keith, asses are two or more donkeys. It is a good idea to assess the behavior of others.

And plenty of neatly dressed people with good hair have turned out to be rapists and murderers. They are probably the scariest, because they can glide in under your radar.

- Jim

Keith B wrote:He's no youth any longer. He's 39.

I was referring sarcastically to the way that defense attorneys sometimes talk about their clients. It seems like anyone under 40 is "youthful" and might lack mature judgment.

This guy already has multiple felony convictions. He is a walking billboard for a three strikes law. I don't know if Michigan has one, but in every state aggravated assault carries enough of a sentence to put someone behind bars for decades. And according to the news story, the mope admitted to targeting the elderly couple because he thought they would be easy victims. Usually the age of the victim is a factor in "enhanced" sentencing.

- Jim

Here's a photo of the misguided yute:


- Jim