Questions and Answers

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[fritterdonut]

As said by other posters, go to the police or his parents.

Assaulting a minor is a whole pork barrel of bad things as far as criminal charges goes. I highly suggest not throwing away your life and your money with jail sentences and/or lawsuits.

What a horrid little monster of a person. Sooner or later he's going to end up with a broken nose or worse when he pisses someone off who isn't as level-headed as Gary.
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[Dogen]

I like the idea of posting his picture. Maybe with the caption "banned for threatening to rape women." Not sure that's entirely legal (probably not) or wise... but the visceral response is to punish him.

I'd call the police for two reasons:
1. I think having the police show up to question him about his rape threats, hopefully in front of his mates or parents, would be pretty embarrassing.
2. In the event he's not joking, or does something awful in the future, there will be a paper trail showing he's done this sort of thing before. That might limit his ability to play off raping someone as a misunderstanding.

That said, this assumes you have enough info for the coppers to find him and it rates high enough for them to even bother taking a statement.
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[Mini J]

Does anyone have a website or resource they especially trust online when it comes to reviews? In this case, specifically reviews of LED TVs. We are looking to buy a new one within the next 2-3 weeks, and it's hard to know how reputable various review sites are.

If anyone has any good sites, or any particular TV they like especially, please let me know. Thanks!
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[Samsally]

I just read reviews on amazon... look for trends, like if something breaks in the same way a lot or gets continually bad reviews over a specific feature, that is a bad sign. You'll want to disregard the crazier reviews, or the ones from people that are blaming the product for obvious user error. It's usually easy to tell which reviewers are competent though and it doesn't hurt to compare to actual review sites (again, lookin' for trends). I just google search 'em, though, I really don't know much about the review sites themselves.
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[Mr Gary]

I'll speak to the police on Boxing Day. It's not my preferred response. But it is the most sensible & safe.

[Dennis J. Squidbunny]

Yeah, look -- if the police come down on him too hard it could snap him in totally the wrong direction. If they come down on him in a way that is embarassing but not public and his parents have the shits with him it will probably get him to take it on board.

I say photo but not public. Spread it around all the local bars/pubs/etc that you have contacts at. Get the fucker 86'd everywhere, as well as a life ban at your pub.

I remember all the fucking drunken tools who got bumrushed and banned out The Phoenix over the ten years I drank there, it was the fastest way to turn the baddest man into the saddest man in the world.

Also, well done you for getting between the douche and Two Pints and not throwing any punches.

[Mr Gary]

We have a thing in the UK called Pubwatch. It's locally run, like a neighbourhood watch thing. Between that and his TOTALLY OPEN FB profile I can do that.

I put a word out about him and found out his Dad is bad bad people which tbh soft as it sounds has been my only deterrent from making it This Time It's Personal. Not that I much fancied the police knocking me up, but there were always ways around that

Thanks Denno, good suggestion/reminder.

[Dogen]

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[Mini J]

Thanks everyone and especially Usagi; I've been doing the trends research too but was wondering if anyone had more suggestions. I have also been discovering that plasma is probably better for what I want; mostly games and movies (though we have cable for now.) Thanks for the comprehensive post Usagi, I am going to take a look at those (I found the same problem with CNet regarding old models.

I definitely want more rather than fewer HDMI ports; I have now... xbox, ps3, and wii U to have hooked up. I have always really liked samsung, so I'm going to explore that direction, see what I find.
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[Celaeno]

Did our message capacity change? I just logged in (for the first time since June, whoops), and saw that my inbox was full (which is I guess what happens when you have years of messages and don't ever delete them). But the thing is, I don't remember it ever being that little, or I have deleted the super inconsequential messages a long time ago.

Also, HI!

[eureka00]

For the new year I think I'm going to start a new blog and abandon livejournal (not that I post in it much anymore anyhow). Thoughts on blog services out there? I've looked at wordpress and blogger. Wordpress has a paid version and a free. Is paid worth it? Or is there a better option out there?
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[Vox Raucus]

What are the best non-fiction books you've read?

I get five months of (paid) parental leave starting the end of January, and one of the things I'm planning to do is read more seriously. I already read a fair amount of fiction, and I like to learn and stuff, so I figured I would focus on the non-fiction.

EDIT - I'm asking in this thread because I'm too lazy to comb through the book thread.
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