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Hehe, well if those in the red hoodies are bad guys, maybe this store clerk plays the game and makes judgments therein ^_~. Unlikely though. Other than asking the clerk though, no telling why hoodies set him off.

@Kits - *struggles against confines* rofl hehehe...j/k j/k! Ok as long as I remember I will do that razz

Yea, ours weren't caged, gave it a nice open feel. Yup, 5'5 - tall in elementary school, pretty mid-range in college. That was the first time I've ever been carded for a DVD, it was weird. I was carded at a rated R movie when I was 16 (4 days before my birthday ok!!!), however none of my friends had ID cards (actually, though 16 and one of the youngest of my friends, I was one of the few with a license and therefore an ID. If you don't drive most ppl don't bother with IDs until 18 in my area). One of the cashiers knew one of my friends though, and knew she was 17, so we all got in anyhow. And then I've been carded at bars and buying alcohol, but merchandise? That's just random. I do think it depends on cashier, but I mean, if it's not a policy nobody would do it. So it kind of reveals that this is a policy (even if rarely observed).

Yea, I think rotting away is gross too. Plus, since in this guild we have to tip our hats to the zombies at all times ^_~, I'm going to have to say, that just in case all corpses are set to rise up and desire brains in the future (again, not the way I'd see that going down, but just for arguments sake), I don't want to be part of it.

Ok I was being generous, fine, 85%...maybe 87% ^_~.
I still haven't finished Huck, I'm in the middle and I just dislike it. I've always liked the character Huck more than Tom, but as far as books go, Tom Sawyer was such a better book. And the thing with Huck is, he's uneducated and therefore limited in imagination, so it's not exactly as much fun reading something from his perspective. Tom may be a selfish irritating brat, but it's just much nicer being inside his head. I'll finish Huck though, I will. After I finish the Pern book I'm on, the only other Pern book I have left in the series (save for one I'm possibly refusing to read), FMA 19 - 21 and Anima. And maybe Howls, The Penelopiad...haha ok I'll try to not put too many things ahead of the book I'm in the middle of.

@Morgey's responses to me - Hahaha...don't be sorry. Anyhow that post took 5-10 minutes, and I never did my apps so obviously that can hardly be the excuse.

Hahahahaha...EXACTLY! Hence me calling it a loop, even though it isn't one, I watch it like one. And aww I love the end with Ryou waving, so cute. Makes me think of Shut Up Woman Get on My Horse. The video is ridiculous, creepy, weird...and yet addictive. And it's only 30 - 40 seconds, but watch it 3 times and it'll be stuck in your head forever!!! However it's pretty awesome that I can get together with random friends, sit down and sign the first line, and have them finish the song with me. If you don't know what I'm talking about/want to risk full on insanity: http://shutupwomangetonmyhorse.com/

I haven't looked for the Thomas thing yet, my computer's been kinda sketchy lately... sweatdrop

Definitely warn your sister, you want to turn her into a light sleeper. Then, when the zombies break in, she'll be able to scream before they get her. Thus you will be forewarned and can quickly make your own escape. I mean...something less cruel and callous xp .

Umm...yea if I'm remembering correctly the Simpsons parody was pretty accurate, so that does count.

@Morgey's responses to Kits - hahahaha...I love that, well not really on topic, 85% swiftly makes it's way to 89%...hmm...what was the topic supposed to be again? Oh right...TAS...^_^

Well streakers/flashers wear trench coats, shady salesmen hide their wares inside trench coats, and generally a lot of depictions of trench coats put child molesters and other assorted criminals and/or crazies in them. Such a bad rap the trench gets...and I love mine so! Granted mine is black and a thick wool, and usually most of the pervs are put into a brown coloring/thinner material. Just like on shows, burglars often are wearing hoodies. You never see a guy walk in in his My Little Ponies T-shirt to rob a place. It's really all the medias fault.

GCSE?! I've never heard of that...the only exams I had to take in HS were the SAT, SAT II (that might be a CA thing though, not sure) and the HSEE (High School Exit Exam) - which was first instituted my freshmen year. I took it and passed it as a freshmen, but over half the class failed so it was bumped to sophomore year. Really, that makes no sense to me though, I mean why take an exam to see if you are ready to exit HS in the beginning of HS? It's ludicrious. Oh yea, my point, is the GCSE similar to the HSEE?! Just a generic smattering of subject matter, though easier than the SAT and not as harshly graded?

@Kits - Every game/series/etc etc has at least one fan who makes the rest look bad. Twilight has a billion of them ^_~.

I actually didn't particularly care to go see that movie, it's just what "we" were seeing. It was American Wedding, we had just watched the first 2 on DVD at home...it was a marathon thing.

It is legitimately like you are in an uneducated kid's head, I do give him credit there, it's very authentic. However, it is also what bores me, after awhile, that lack of literacy starts to cause me pain. Also, I'm still only where they are drifting down river, but apparently Twain stopped writing Huck in the middle, and my friend says there are serious seam-line issues that you can decipher. I am not there yet so I can't vouch for that, but it didn't persuade me to want to get back to the book in a hurry. I guess there is also the disappointment for me, I do like Huck, but it's easier to like him in Tom Sawyer, he's more of a pitiable character in his own story. I would definitely recommend Tom Sawyer though, I think in general it's the more favorably known classic for a reason.

And ahh yes, can't forget the schoolyard crime element of the trench coat as well (not just the perv on the other side of the elementary playground gate). I don't think we had a ban on any sort of coats. You were hassled depending if you wore blue or red in excess (the colors for the two main rival gangs in the area) and as of my sophomore year hats were banned (this year they were just finally allowed back at my HS, new principal). Apparently hats are WAY too thug like *eye roll*.

You have the flasher coat eh...not hanging around school playgrounds are you? ^_~ j/k j/k!! Hahahaha, he would definitely be insane, and I WOULD be more terrified of him. However he would also be an anomaly, you can't make judgments based on an unlikely scenario.

We have the PSAT (practice SAT) as well. AIMS sounds like our HSEE (it was taken fresh/sophomore year but you just had to pass by grad), except no real scholarship options. There were scholarship options for STAR testing, except there wasn't really any repercussion for not taking them, any requirement to do so, nor any penalty for failing them. They were more state assessment. The SAT II was only if you wanted to apply to a UC school. In CA there are private colleges, CSU - california state unviersities and UC - University of CA. Other than some of the IVY league private schools, UC is the highest federally funded system, schools like UCLA and UC Berkeley being the top of that top. I had to take SAT IIs because I applied to and then went to a UC school (UC Davis). If you only wanted to go to a community college or a CSU then there was no reason to take the extra test.

We also had the ACT (and PACT)...it's like the SAT with a more liberal focus. You could use those scores instead of the SAT, or in addition to the SAT if your scores were low but you were perhaps applying into the liberal arts, and thus wanted to justify that it's just math and science dragging you down.

@JK: I didn't notice any particular seam-line issues myself, but I had never heard that before, so wasn't exactly looking for them. Either way though, I'll add Sawyer to my fail list. ^^
We don't really have excessive gangs in my area (there's still the occasional graffiti and all, but none that are so dominating that we know their gang colors or their hangouts or anything), so there were no specific colors or anything that the school banned. Some teachers didn't let us wear hats in the classroom, but other than that, we just had the trench coat thing, and then obvious sexual clothing rules as well.
Oh, now that I think about it, I think we first took AIMS in sophomore year, then had junior and senior year to keep trying to pass it. I retook the writing portion in junior year; I had passed, but didn't exceed standards, which I needed to get that scholarship. Managed to the second time though. The scholarship thing was actually something Arizona did to encourage people to work harder on the AIMs; if you exceeded standards on all portions of it, had a certain grade point average, and were in the top ten percent of your class, then you got a tuition waiver. They started it two years before I graduated and ended it right after I got to college, when the recession hit. So I was one of three years that got to get it; so lucky! X_x I wouldn't be able to afford college without it.
Arizona colleges are pretty um... not strict. Like I took the SATs, but my high school didn't have my scores for some reason, even though I took it there, so I sent them a copy of the scores I got in the mail, jumped through all these hoops to get them sent to my college, and they still never got there. So according to my college record I didn't take the SATs, but they were just to place you in an English class anyway, and I had already gotten all my required English credit in high school. Oh, and we also had the ACTs as a second option, though I think the only difference was that they had science along with the reading, writing, and math that the SATs had. I didn't really care which one I took, and SATs were being taken at my school, so I just went for those.

@Morgey: GCSEs sound way cooler than SATs. I would've loved to take an art test instead. D:
I bet Hot Topic has My Little Pony shirts already.
Oh snap, curse those people for locking us up!
Awww, I bet it wasn't bad, your art. XP
We actually don't do too much written work. Like of course I do a lot of written work for core classes, but for actual art classes, the most we usually have to do is a couple pages of research on a particular artist and such. Most of our work is in the form of actual projects (drawings, paintings, sculptures, etc.), which take up most of our time outside of class to finish within the usual two weeks that we have to do it. Art classes are also three hours long instead of an hour and fifteen minutes, so that takes up even more time. XP

Ok that was a fortuitous time for me to decide and go. That post had just barely submitted before my computer froze, then spazzed out and then shut all my programs/windows down. Ah I don't want to have to buy a new computer yet!! Silly Kaiba, you are supposed to last me until August!!!

Oh no, they aren't important at all, they are ridiculous. They are standardized generic tests on English and Math, you do have to submit the scores to get into a 4 year college (rather than a community college, not sure if you have anything like that. The programs are 2 years roughly, and you get an Associates Degree rather than a Bachelor's which can be put towards transferring into a university and earning a BA/BS), however except with certain top schools, your scores aren't going to be the most important factor. GPA/Grades are going to count more heavily. However yes, on TV they are always made out to be a big deal. I mean I got an 1150 out of 1600 (back then they were out of 1600, I am old...now I believe they are out of 2400), fell asleep during them. I mean doing well on them can be a good thing, but they aren't going to hold you back, they aren't a make or break type thing unless you REALLY want to go to that Ivy league break your bank account school.

Hahaha...ok...I'll be there soon!!!

Haha...YES!!!!!!!!!! AND he has to watch you drive around in it.

It is...^_^...well this one is, my desktop (which is currently in dead mode) is named Adonis (guess it works, he's still pretty...now useless ~_~). I think Kits told me her computer was named Kisara when I first mentioned in here that I named my laptop Kaiba. Weird coincidences, haha. It was a toss between Kaiba and Kyouya (from Host Club) when I got it, but in the end my favorite CEO won ^_^.

Anytime.

Umm...hehehe...maybe? redface I had finished the section we were on and you aren't to move on until the proctor tells you so I just zoned out a wee bit, my friend prodded me a section or two later. Whatever, I got where I later discovered I wanted to be, so obviously it didn't matter. Hooray breakdowns! I've never had one that's test induced, and luckily I'm pretty good at really keeping them in my head, things could have gotten awkward razz .

Yea, I can't think of too many shows that are actually indicative of real life. Because those shows would be boring. But yea, there are plenty of show personalities that just piss me off. Especially the irksome sibling who almost literally gets away with murder, it's just irresponsible!

NOOOOOOOO, *huggles my daywalker* I LOVE HIM!!! I do love watching Cartman torture him though *burns in Hell* ~_~.

Haha, actually I think Host Club is one of my favorite animes, and thus far, it's the only series where I like the anime more than the manga. Granted the manga is still in progress, so that could change, but the anime stays light and I like how it wraps up. I have thus far not liked the direction the manga went into. Seto and Kyouya are similar characters though, both are rich, both are smart, both are cold. Kyouya is a bit more open minded and insightful though, he sees everything, whereas Kaiba refuses to even try and understand things he does not accept. I think I still like Seto better though. And Seto has prettier eyes smile

Your poor nameless computer, it's about time ^_~.

It was sort of, I mean I wasn't deeply out, and it wasn't for that long.

No. My little brother was cute, adorable, well mannered and delightful. It was SICKENING!!! Of course now I miss it, now that he's angry, moody and doesn't want to talk to me more than he has to *sigh*. It's just on principal those kind of things really irk me, I get that it's supposed to be adorable because their children. But no, being rude and pulling awful cruel pranks and just getting away with it bothers me.

Luckily they b***h-fight a lot ^_~.

Well, when it's not a sibling it's either really amusing or umm...sometimes arousing *Burns some more*. For me it depends on the kind of torture, and the motivations behind it.

How sad, hahaha, you should watch more. However I wouldn't know what to recommend, I don't think I'm really into too many animes that are a similar genre to YGO, it stands alone for me...and so I wouldn't know what to toss out from elsewhere. Other than Yu Yu Hakusho maybe. YGO is what first got me into anime (though I watched YYH first, back then it really didn't really register as something other than a cartoon for me) as it's own genre.

THEY ARE SO BEAUTIFUL!!! I hadn't watched in awhile and then so a TAS episode that had a nice focus on Kaiba's eyes and I wondered how I even forgot for a moment why he's so beautiful! THE EYES!!!

Transparent, serene and untroubled. Though the word itself makes me think limp and impotent, so of course tons of immature shits and giggles there.

Well, as people, we name children and pets right? And computers are WAY better than any of those things, hahahaha j/k j/k (umm...sorta *shifty eyes*). I name pretty much everything though, I mean not everything. That would be confusing. But all my electronics: camera, phone, ipod, blue tooth, gps, etc. My car and my flute. The important things are the car (Julian) and the computers though. I've also named all four of my usb drives. Ridiculous I know, but I like to name things. It's probably my favorite thing about the Gaia aquarium feature.