Black couple held at gun point by neighbors arrested by PD

[Jumping Frog]

I noticed the "racism" talk has doubled (at least) since you joined. Thanks for admitting it.

Thanks for admitting what? Since I joined what? The forum or this thread? I've noticed that you seem to be a fly-by one-liner wunderkind, so can you please at least try to put two full sentences together and explain what you're talking about? All you do is randomly jump thread-to-thread and throw cheesy one-liners out. Focus.

I noticed both of you guys are relatively new to these forums.

This kind of bickering is simply out of place here. It isn't the kind of tone that you see around here.

[matriculated]

I noticed the "racism" talk has doubled (at least) since you joined. Thanks for admitting it.

Thanks for admitting what? Since I joined what? The forum or this thread? I've noticed that you seem to be a fly-by one-liner wunderkind, so can you please at least try to put two full sentences together and explain what you're talking about? All you do is randomly jump thread-to-thread and throw cheesy one-liners out. Focus.

I noticed both of you guys are relatively new to these forums.

This kind of bickering is simply out of place here. It isn't the kind of tone that you see around here.

Expending too much energy on worries over "tone" can have the negative side effect of making every mirror one looks in produce a fuddy-duddy looking back. My doctor said.

[G26ster]

I noticed the "racism" talk has doubled (at least) since you joined. Thanks for admitting it.

Thanks for admitting what? Since I joined what? The forum or this thread? I've noticed that you seem to be a fly-by one-liner wunderkind, so can you please at least try to put two full sentences together and explain what you're talking about? All you do is randomly jump thread-to-thread and throw cheesy one-liners out. Focus.

I noticed both of you guys are relatively new to these forums.

This kind of bickering is simply out of place here. It isn't the kind of tone that you see around here.

Expending too much energy on worries over "tone" can have the negative side effect of making every mirror one looks in produce a fuddy-duddy looking back. My doctor said.

Tone IS important. This forum is one of the few on the web that is "respectful" of each member , and Moderators are always willing to step in to ensure it stays that way. That is NOT the norm on web forums. One of the reasons I visit here daily is because of the decency of the members. If I want confrontation, there's no end of forums I could frequent.

[matriculated]

I noticed the "racism" talk has doubled (at least) since you joined. Thanks for admitting it.

Thanks for admitting what? Since I joined what? The forum or this thread? I've noticed that you seem to be a fly-by one-liner wunderkind, so can you please at least try to put two full sentences together and explain what you're talking about? All you do is randomly jump thread-to-thread and throw cheesy one-liners out. Focus.

I noticed both of you guys are relatively new to these forums.

This kind of bickering is simply out of place here. It isn't the kind of tone that you see around here.

Expending too much energy on worries over "tone" can have the negative side effect of making every mirror one looks in produce a fuddy-duddy looking back. My doctor said.

Tone IS important. This forum is one of the few on the web that is "respectful" of each member , and Moderators are always willing to step in to ensure it stays that way. That is NOT the norm on web forums. One of the reasons I visit here daily is because of the decency of the members. If I want confrontation, there's no end of forums I could frequent.

I didn't say that tone isn't important, I just said that expending too much energy on worries over it isn't really productive. Discussions of controversial topics wil invariably result in somebody's sensibilities being offended, but seeing as how we're all grownups here, we should be able to handle some adversity without the long arm of the moderators meddling. That's assuming people are being civil, of course. Smoothoperator didn't make any sense to me, so I was just trying to get to the bottom of what he was saying. Unfortunately, the one-liner style of posting doesn't lend itself to serious discussion.

[g31357]

that's messed up, at least the neighbor didn't shoot them.

[matriculated]

An article on the topic of profiling:

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/in-d ... -profiling" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[MOA]

If two men robbed a bank and sped away in a Ford pickup truck, the TSA would stop teen girls in a Honda Civic.

[philip964]

If two men robbed a bank and sped away in a Ford pickup truck, the TSA would stop teen girls in a Honda Civic.

pretty good, I'm laughing right now.

[Dave2]

If two men robbed a bank and sped away in a Ford pickup truck, the TSA would stop teen girls in a Honda Civic.

[recaffeination]

How true. They need to avoid profiling or they might catch a bad guy.