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kegtapr

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  1. That video was a serious news report? The commentary was kind of silly to take it seriously.
  2. Way to miss the point. Lost cause....have a nice day.
  3. Yeah, it sucks balls
  4. So that means he deserves it. I know that driving down the road at 2am I'm much more likely to get hit by a drunk driver and I could have minimized my risk by not being out that late. But does that mean I would deserve it?
  5. Deserves it? Yeah, it's a silly expectation for people to not enter your home.
  6. I'm actually suprised this doesn't happen more often. Criminals know when these guys are away.
  7. Somebody needs to teach Mr. Henson that a missed comma can change the whole meaning of a sentence.
  8. Sanchez is a player. Jets are looking gooooood, minus a few kinks. Provides hope for finally knocking the Pats off their perch, but bad news for the Bills being the ones to do it.
  9. His first action as president that I agree with.
  10. These are all over, but that's one of the best ones yet.
  11. He asphyxiated himself in a pile of cow dung. It was tragic.
  12. If he repeats this performance for the next couple games, Jackson deserves to be the #1 back when Lynch comes back.
  13. I agree, it was a perfect form tackle and shouldn't have been called. However, after all the gifts NE has received over the years, I'm not complaining about calls going our way for once.
  14. !@#$ cancer. Very little breaks my heart, but the St. Jude's "infomercial" does it every time. Good post. Stay strong.
  15. No system is perfect. What other one out there has been better and without flaw?
  16. I thought it was for the sand.....how else will we rebuild our beaches?
  17. I hate the Yankees, but that's pretty damn impressive.
  18. Wikipedia...awesome.
  19. And when your dogs arrive dead, will the drive have sounded so bad? Seriously, your dogs can handle the drive a lot better then being shipped. Stop being selfish. Plan pet friendly hotels ahead of time and enjoy the ride.
  20. Now THAT is good natured humor. Learn it, love it......
  21. From my experience, he probably has a block. There are two main types of stutterers, those who block and those who repeat sounds. What he's doing is a coping mechanism. He knows the next word he is going to say isn't going to come out and he can't find a replacement. By repeating the first two words, he's trying to transition into the third. You basically have three options when you block. Try to force the word out which isn't likely to happen without starting over. You can replace the word with another one you know will come out, which is the preferred method for most people who block. Or, you can try to transition into the word as he did. A valid argument can be made that the transition he was trying sounds worse then the actual stutter, but people don't understand that once you start blocking on a word, it may be the only way to get it out.
  22. Waaaaay too much in this post to address, so I'll just go with this. BTW, there is a big difference between teasing between friends and complete ridiculing by people you don't even know. If that's not understood, nothing will change your mind on that. How do you know he hasn't tried to improve his speech? Speech Therapy works great for some, not at all for others. Techniques such as gentle onset, slowed speech, relaxed breathing.....can, in the opinion of the stutterer, make you sound worse then the actual stutter. Even if he did improve his speech through therapy, it can creep back up on you at any moment. Bad days are common, stuttering is never cured, only managed. The problem with stuttering is it's not fully understood and enough research hasn't been put into it. 100 years ago, you were just considered dumb. 50 years ago it was looked at as a psychological problem. The current school of thought is it is a neurological issue where there is a breakdown between the formation of words in the brain and the vocal chords, or there is an excess of certain chemicals in the brain. People often say slow down, relax....doesn't work that way. People also relate it only to stressful situations and nerves...that's not the cause, it just compounds the underlying issue. Do you think Lankster choose to have that press conference? I doubt it. The media wanted to speak with him after a good game and a rookie isn't going to say no to the team when being put in that situation. If the media doesn't want to deal with it, they'll stop interviewing him. I'm not sure how any of us "have to endure (anything) to accommodate a disabled person" in this case, as you put it. How are you accommodating him by listening to an internet posting, that was posted as a form of mockery with little understanding of why he was speaking like that. This is hardly good natured ribbing between friends.
  23. Google Elder Scrolls walkthrough. Sounds like you're going to need it.
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