Posted on 06/30/2005 8:31:27 AM PDT by stlnative
yes i was pleasantly surprised about them making the person remove the antiBush avatar, and i can respect that they allow diversity of viewpoint etc. They made reference to 3,000 people reading the Board, so maybe with so many few posters/members they have a tighter rein over their posters and a shorter fuse. The mods here would have to be banning people CONSTANTLY if they used the same standards!
i have to say, crap like that fascinates me. i was here in the olden days of FR when we had QUIDAM who spoke in riddles about the impeachment stuff. i ate it up with a spoon : ) don't necessarily believe it, but it is fun.
what constitutes a PROaruban sentiment though? bashing the family? thinking the guys are innocent? what are they saying down there?
Well I guess what surprised me about getting banned was I didn't even use a curse word. If I had know I was going to get banned I would have just gone ahead and cut loose. There are people cursing all over the place over there. But, respond to a thread about someone's "assumptions regarding teenagers' behavior" in plain language and your outta there.
My SM observation: The average intellectual level over there is pretty low. A few of their posters are insightful and use proper grammar. The rest are idiots.
Well the total of insightful posters is less by one as of now.
Mt. Rushmore really was very impressive. We've tried to talk the friend into taking his family to see it. No luck yet.
Happy to hear I wasn't the only one who noticed. SM reminds me of a preschool classroom.
That isn't how we behaved on our flights or train trip and we had students ranging in age from 15-18.
Yes to all...I reckon.
oh i know, someone said that you could not convict someone in the US with circumstantial evidence! they are beyond dim there. the only reason to read is hoping for some breaking news from aruba, not for the commentary between the posters. i only registered to be able to read there.
We've no way of knowing if
there was a date drug involved.
It is a possibility she did
have too much to drink, which
would have the same affect on
a young girl. [I would imagine.
B/c she isn't an experienced
drinker.]
It doesn't always take an added
drug to make one vulnerable.
That may be, but the poster was responding to posts that suggested that Jug as well as the students on the trip needed to be questioned. That's how it started. If teenage kids are "loud and carefree" then that's in the opinion of the "observer". I would not find it strange at all if teenagers were "loud" compared to me. I'm older and less "carefree". Besides, the thing that I never understood about the posters' claim is that this flight was on June 3. I thought the return flight was on May 31st. Either way, it just kept going on and on and ON.
Natalee was reported to be a very responsible young lady. Even in her drinking. The meds would just prove her moderation. This IS important somehow.
I don't think it is so much about sex and hedonism as it is power over the touristes--power over America, on whom 40,000 jobs depend. You can see it in Jurines eyes.
I am surprised that his demeanor is still one of defiance instead of contrition. I suspect he is a sociopath, at least when it comes to foreigners.
Glad you did as I never venture into the Smokey Backroom
She was 18 she probably took something for cramps.
Would you please close, lock this thread. Thank you.
What was it?
Did she take it freely?
We'll never know.
I hate to think it, let alone say it, but... I'm sure she's not alive by now.
Even if her body's found, it won't reveal anything. It's too badly decomposed to find drugs. Traces would be gone by now.
A DNA test to see if it's Natalee is about the best forensics could do. [Laci Peterson.]
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