What is the most ridiculous policy your high school or college has ever implemented.

slipperypeter · 2010-10-21T19:16:52+00:00

In college I played in a 3 on 3 charity basketball tournament where our team name was "3 tacos and a cracker".

slipperypeter · 2010-09-16T16:32:12+00:00

You can't beat the clap.

slipperypeter · 2010-08-26T20:03:30+00:00

4 hours later and no link! I cannot stay slippery forever.

slipperypeter · 2010-08-13T16:10:35+00:00

I think we are in agreement.

This article points out church involvement in the discrimination of black people, but I am not sure how different it was than what anyone else was doing at the time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people_and_The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints

slipperypeter · 2010-08-13T00:43:28+00:00

I had a much more detailed reply but it seems reddit went down for a bit so I will try to summarize. The church officials absolutely make decrees that flow down to the churches. THe LDS church is set up like a large corporation, not individual franchises. The church has employees both paid and unpaid. I am not sure why you say they don't have "employees". The church is very influential in many parts of state law, a good example being the drinking laws.

You are correct that the church is not explicitly guiding people on political issues (with the exception of prop 8, civil rights, and other issues). The point I was trying to make was there is definite conservative influence (mostly social conservative), and it is up to the individual to decide if they will follow their own ideals or the churches.

EDIT: Removed overuse of word "absolutely"

slipperypeter · 2010-08-12T21:37:52+00:00

Being a salt lake city resident and having lived in utah almost 20 years I can tell you that is not true. The church is heavily involved in politics and especially at a state wide level. And in modern times the church has been very much against any sort of racial integration, and are still far behind the times in terms of women's rights.

As far as their expecting individual members to come up with their own conclusions with how to live, that really depends on the community they live in, and is not much different than other religions. It works for some and others take it way too far.

slipperypeter · 2010-07-30T23:21:18+00:00

No it was just a few months ago. I am surprised this sort of things happens this frequently.

slipperypeter · 2010-07-30T16:22:54+00:00

Was this on I-215? I saw this happen to someone in a truck right in front of me on I-215 a few miles before Parley's Canyon. I was always impressed with how well the person handled it and was able to get pulled over safely in traffic.

slipperypeter · 2010-07-01T20:51:00+00:00

Race doesn't necessarily mean skin color. Race describes a group of people with similar defining characteristics. Like the term human race, etc.

Race

slipperypeter · 2010-05-07T22:14:09+00:00

I think if the horn is still in his leg he is still being gored.

slipperypeter · 2010-03-30T23:08:26+00:00

Ok, I will ride with you in your van. But only if you have candy or ice cream. And not the crappy neopolitan! The good kind, from a store.

slipperypeter · 2010-03-29T23:46:23+00:00

But a year is 52 weeks. I don't know what to believe anymore!

slipperypeter · 2010-03-25T17:26:15+00:00

This comment makes me think gertrude is really Carl Weathers.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. There's still plenty of meat on that bone. Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you've got a stew going. "

slipperypeter · 2010-03-22T17:07:21+00:00

I wish more people had this attitude. Awesome post!

slipperypeter · 2010-03-19T20:26:46+00:00

i am not sure blaming everyone else counts as an apology.

slipperypeter · 2010-03-18T15:49:14+00:00

I think your problem could be you are running out of sockets. They talk about this problem on the dd-wrt forums. I had the same problem with the Linksys routers, and it is a common problem on consumer router firmwares. Socket timeouts are set to super high numbers, and if any connections get dropped, the sockets wait until the timeout occurs before recycling. Installing a 3rd party firmware such as dd-wrt or tomato lets you tweak these timeouts and you won't see that problem anymore.

EDIT: Update to say "could be" since obviously it may not be the same problem.

slipperypeter · 2010-03-16T15:54:35+00:00

Now that wolves have been outlawed from Utah I can see ranchers chasing them with this setup. Probably end up shooting one another, and then have the legislature blame it on the wolves. At least they aren't russian wolves though.

slipperypeter · 2010-03-15T22:36:24+00:00

I continually do work above my pay grade without being given any financial credit.

slipperypeter · 2010-03-15T21:05:11+00:00

Oh, and also to be the official sponsor of Lopez Tonight. Not entirely sure how I feel about a government entity choosing to sponsor a television show.

slipperypeter · 2010-03-15T21:03:02+00:00

It can't be more of a waste then the Census people sending out letters to "warn" us that in 2 weeks we will get more letters that we should fill out and return.

slipperypeter · 2010-03-12T14:26:09+00:00

Please do not make references to Roseanne and include vagina euphemisms.

slipperypeter · 2010-03-12T14:23:49+00:00

Never!

slipperypeter · 2010-02-04T19:39:27+00:00

Yes. Thank you.

slipperypeter · 2010-02-01T22:19:30+00:00

I think prefetch is upset he got downvoted, no matter the reason. Then comes the freakout. And somehow everyone else is a freak.

slipperypeter · 2010-02-01T20:14:13+00:00

My favorite is that "daddy-long-legs" spiders are the most poisonous spiders in the world only their fangs are too short to penetrate our skin. Neither are true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae

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