3 words at a time

[csmiths]

This was on another forum that i frequent, and it has actually turned into a hilarious thread. just post three words, that can be relevant to the post above it. easy enough?










Sammich is a........

[dz N.U.T.Z.]

sorry ass bastard

[SicStang03]

massive thread failure..

but can you PM me the suspension mods you have done to your SI? Thanks

[browningboy7]

prostitute killer extraordinaire.

[Ziptied]

Picture takin' homo

[jhadleyh]

sperm flavored cookiesl

[Ziptied]

played out wheels.

[02SloWrx]

Unlike most libertarians, I don't have an opinion on gay marriage, and I'm not going to have an opinion no matter how much you bait me. However, I had an interesting discussion last night with another libertarian about it, which devolved into an argument about a certain kind of liberal/libertarian argument about gay marriage that I find really unconvincing.

Social conservatives of a more moderate stripe are essentially saying that marriage is an ancient institution, which has been carefully selected for throughout human history. It is a bedrock of our society; if it is destroyed, we will all be much worse off. (See what happened to the inner cities between 1960 and 1990 if you do not believe this.) For some reason, marriage always and everywhere, in every culture we know about, is between a man and a woman; this seems to be an important feature of the institution. We should not go mucking around and changing this extremely important institution, because if we make a bad change, the institution will fall apart.

A very common response to this is essentially to mock this as ridiculous. "Why on earth would it make any difference to me whether gay people are getting married? Why would that change my behavior as a heterosexual"

To which social conservatives reply that institutions have a number of complex ways in which they fulfill their roles, and one of the very important ways in which the institution of marriage perpetuates itself is by creating a romantic vision of oneself in marriage that is intrinsically tied into expressing one's masculinity or femininity in relation to a person of the opposite sex; stepping into an explicitly gendered role. This may not be true of every single marriage, and indeed undoubtedly it is untrue in some cases. But it is true of the culture-wide institution. By changing the explicitly gendered nature of marriage we might be accidentally cutting away something that turns out to be a crucial underpinning.

To which, again, the other side replies "That's ridiculous! I would never change my willingness to get married based on whether or not gay people were getting married!"

Now, economists hear this sort of argument all the time. "That's ridiculous! I would never start working fewer hours because my taxes went up!" This ignores the fact that you may not be the marginal case. The marginal case may be some consultant who just can't justify sacrificing valuable leisure for a new project when he's only making 60 cents on the dollar. The result will nonetheless be the same: less economic activity. Similarly, you--highly educated, firmly socialised, upper middle class you--may not be the marginal marriage candidate; it may be some high school dropout in Tuscaloosa. That doesn't mean that the institution of marriage won't be weakened in America just the same.

This should not be taken as an endorsement of the idea that gay marriage will weaken the current institution. I can tell a plausible story where it does; I can tell a plausible story where it doesn't. I have no idea which one is true. That is why I have no opinion on gay marriage, and am not planning to develop one. Marriage is a big institution; too big for me to feel I have a successful handle on it.

However, I am bothered by this specific argument, which I have heard over and over from the people I know who favor gay marriage laws. I mean, literally over and over; when they get into arguments, they just repeat it, again and again. "I will get married even if marriage is expanded to include gay people; I cannot imagine anyone up and deciding not to get married because gay people are getting married; therefore, the whole idea is ridiculous and bigoted."

They may well be right. Nonetheless, libertarians should know better. The limits of your imagination are not the limits of reality. Every government programme that libertarians have argued against has been defended at its inception with exactly this argument.

Let me take three major legal innovations, one of them general, two specific to marriage.

The first, the general one, is well known to most hard-core libertarians, but let me reprise it anyway. When the income tax was initially being debated, there was a suggestion to put in a mandatory cap; I believe the level was 10 percent.

Don't be ridiculous, the Senator's colleagues told him. Americans would never allow an income tax rate as high as ten percent. They would revolt! It is an outrage to even suggest it!

Many actually fought the cap on the grounds that it would encourage taxes to grow too high, towards the cap. The American people, they asserted, could be well counted on to keep income taxes in the range of a few percentage points.

Oops.

Now, I'm not a tax-crazy libertarian; I don't expect you to be horrified that we have income taxes higher than ten percent, as I'm not. But the point is that the Senators were completely right--at that time. However, the existance of the income tax allowed for a slow creep that eroded the American resistance to income taxation. External changes--from the Great Depression, to the technical ability to manage withholding rather than lump payments, also facilitated the rise, but they could not have without a cultural sea change in feelings about taxation. That "ridiculous" cap would have done a much, much better job holding down tax rates than the culture these Senators erroneously relied upon. Changing the law can, and does, change the culture of the thing regulated.

Another example is welfare. To sketch a brief history of welfare, it emerged in the nineteenth century as "Widows and orphans pensions", which were paid by the state to destitute families whose breadwinner had passed away. They were often not available to blacks; they were never available to unwed mothers. Though public services expanded in the first half of the twentieth century, that mentality was very much the same: public services were about supporting unfortunate families, not unwed mothers. Unwed mothers could not, in most cases, obtain welfare; they were not allowed in public housing (which was supposed to be--and was--a way station for young, struggling families on the way to homeownership, not a permanent abode); they were otherwise discriminated against by social services. The help you could expect from society was a home for wayward girls, in which you would give birth and then put the baby up for adoption.

The description of public housing in the fifties is shocking to anyone who's spent any time in modern public housing. Big item on the agenda at the tenant's meeting: housewives, don't shake your dustcloths out of the windows--other wives don't want your dirt in their apartment! Men, if you wear heavy work boots, please don't walk on the lawns until you can change into lighter shoes, as it damages the grass! (Descriptions taken from the invaluable book, The Inheritance, about the transition of the white working class from Democrat to Republican.) Needless to say, if those same housing projects could today find a majority of tenants who reliably dusted, or worked, they would be thrilled.

Public housing was, in short, a place full of functioning families.

Now, in the late fifties, a debate began over whether to extend benefits to the unmarried. It was unfair to stigmatise unwed mothers. Why shouldn't they be able to avail themselves of the benefits available to other citizens? The brutal societal prejudice against illegitimacy was old fashioned, bigoted, irrational.

But if you give unmarried mothers money, said the critics, you will get more unmarried mothers.

Ridiculous, said the proponents of the change. Being an unmarried mother is a brutal, thankless task. What kind of idiot would have a baby out of wedlock just because the state was willing to give her paltry welfare benefits?

People do all sorts of idiotic things, said the critics. If you pay for something, you usually get more of it.

C'mon said the activists. That's just silly. I just can't imagine anyone deciding to get pregnant out of wedlock simply because there are welfare benefits available.

Oooops.

Of course, change didn't happen overnight. But the marginal cases did have children out of wedlock, which made it more acceptable for the next marginal case to do so. Meanwhile, women who wanted to get married essentially found themselves in competition for young men with women who were willing to have sex, and bear children, without forcing the men to take any responsibility. This is a pretty attractive proposition for most young men. So despite the fact that the sixties brought us the biggest advance in birth control ever, illegitimacy exploded. In the early 1960s, a black illegitimacy rate of roughly 25 percent caused Daniel Patrick Moynihan to write a tract warning of a crisis in "the negro family" (a tract for which he was eviscerated by many of those selfsame activists.)

By 1990, that rate was over 70 percent. This, despite the fact that the inner city, where the illegitimacy problem was biggest, only accounts for a fraction of the black population.

But in that inner city, marriage had been destroyed. It had literally ceased to exist in any meaningful way. Possibly one of the most moving moments in Jason de Parle's absolutely wonderful book, American Dream, which follows three welfare mothers through welfare reform, is when he reveals that none of these three women, all in their late thirties, had ever been to a wedding.

Marriage matters. It is better for the kids; it is better for the adults raising those kids; and it is better for the childless people in the communities where those kids and adults live. Marriage reduces poverty, improves kids outcomes in all measurable ways, makes men live longer and both spouses happier. Marriage, it turns out, is an incredibly important institution. It also turns out to be a lot more fragile than we thought back then. It looked, to those extremely smart and well-meaning welfare reformers, practically unshakeable; the idea that it could be undone by something as simple as enabling women to have children without husbands, seemed ludicrous. Its cultural underpinnings were far too firm. Why would a woman choose such a hard road? It seemed self-evident that the only unwed mothers claiming benefits would be the ones pushed there by terrible circumstance.

This argument is compelling and logical. I would never become an unwed welfare mother, even if benefits were a great deal higher than they are now. It seems crazy to even suggest that one would bear a child out of wedlock for $567 a month. Indeed, to this day, I find the reformist side much more persuasive than the conservative side, except for one thing, which is that the conservatives turned out to be right. In fact, they turned out to be even more right than they suspected; they were predicting upticks in illegitimacy that were much more modest than what actually occurred--they expected marriage rates to suffer, not collapse.

[02SloWrx]

How did people go so badly wrong? Well, to start with, they fell into the basic fallacy that economists are so well acquainted with: they thought about themselves instead of the marginal case. For another, they completely failed to realise that each additional illegitimate birth would, in effect, slightly destigmatise the next one. They assigned men very little agency, failing to predict that women willing to forgo marriage would essentially become unwelcome competition for women who weren't, and that as the numbers changed, that competition might push the marriage market towards unwelcome outcomes. They failed to forsee the confounding effect that the birth control pill would have on sexual mores.

But I think the core problems are two. The first is that they looked only at individuals, and took instititutions as a given. That is, they looked at all the cultural pressure to marry, and assumed that that would be a countervailing force powerful enough to overcome the new financial incentives for out-of-wedlock births. They failed to see the institution as dynamic. It wasn't a simple matter of two forces: cultural pressure to marry, financial freedom not to, arrayed against eachother; those forces had a complex interplay, and when you changed one, you changed the other.

The second is that they didn't assign any cultural reason for, or value to, the stigma on illegitimacy. They saw it as an outmoded vestige of a repressive Victorial values system, based on an unnatural fear of sexuality. But the stigma attached to unwed motherhood has quite logical, and important, foundations: having a child without a husband is bad for children, and bad for mothers, and thus bad for the rest of us. So our culture made it very costly for the mother to do. Lower the cost, and you raise the incidence. As an economist would say, incentives matter.

(Now, I am not arguing in favor of stigmatising unwed mothers the way the Victorians did. I'm just pointing out that the stigma did not exist merely, as many mid-century reformers seem to have believed, because of some dark Freudian excesses on the part of our ancestors.)

But all the reformers saw was the terrible pain--and it was terrible--inflicted on unwed mothers. They saw the terrible unfairness--and it was terribly unfair--of punishing the mother, and not the father. They saw the inherent injustice--and need I add, it was indeed unjust--of treating American citizens differently because of their marital status.

But as G.K. Chesterton points out, people who don't see the use of a social institution are the last people who should be allowed to reform it:


In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

This paradox rests on the most elementary common sense. The gate or fence did not grow there. It was not set up by somnambulists who built it in their sleep. It is highly improbable that it was put there by escaped lunatics who were for some reason loose in the street. Some person had some reason for thinking it would be a good thing for somebody. And until we know what the reason was, we really cannot judge whether the reason was reasonable. It is extremely probable that we have overlooked some whole aspect of the question, if something set up by human beings like ourselves seems to be entirely meaningless and mysterious. There are reformers who get over this difficulty by assuming that all their fathers were fools; but if that be so, we can only say that folly appears to be a hereditary disease. But the truth is that nobody has any business to destroy a social institution until he has really seen it as an historical institution. If he knows how it arose, and what purposes it was supposed to serve, he may really be able to say that they were bad purposes, that they have since become bad purposes, or that they are purposes which are no longer served. But if he simply stares at the thing as a senseless monstrosity that has somehow sprung up in his path, it is he and not the traditionalist who is suffering from an illusion.


Now, of course, this can turn into a sort of precautionary principle that prevents reform from ever happening. That would be bad; all sorts of things need changing all the time, because society and our environment change. But as a matter of principle, it is probably a bad idea to let someone go mucking around with social arrangements, such as the way we treat unwed parenthood, if their idea about that institution is that "it just growed". You don't have to be a rock-ribbed conservative to recognise that there is something of an evolutionary process in society: institutional features are not necessarily the best possible arrangement, but they have been selected for a certain amount of fitness.

It might also be, of course, that the feature is what evolutionary biologists call a spandrel. It's a term taken from architecture; spandrels are the pretty little spaces between vaulted arches. They are not designed for; they are a useless, but pretty, side effect of the physical properties of arches. In evolutionary biology, spandrel is some feature which is not selected for, but appears as a byproduct of other traits that are selected for. Belly buttons are a neat place to put piercings, but they're not there because of that; they're a byproduct of mammalian reproduction.

However, and architect will be happy to tell you that if you try to rip out the spandrel, you might easily bring down the building.

The third example I'll give is of changes to the marriage laws, specifically the radical relaxation of divorce statutes during the twentieth century.

Divorce, in the nineteenth century, was unbelievably hard to get. It took years, was expensive, and required proving that your spouse had abandonned you for an extended period with no financial support; was (if male) not merely discreetly dallying but flagrantly carrying on; or was not just belting you one now and again when you got mouthy, but routinely pummeling you within an inch of your life. After you got divorced, you were a pariah in all but the largest cities. If you were a desperately wronged woman you might change your name, taking your maiden name as your first name and continuing to use your husband's last name to indicate that you expected to continue living as if you were married (i.e. chastely) and expect to have some limited intercourse with your neighbours, though of course you would not be invited to events held in a church, or evening affairs. Financially secure women generally (I am not making this up) moved to Europe; Edith Wharton, who moved to Paris when she got divorced, wrote moving stories about the way divorced women were shunned at home. Men, meanwhile (who were usually the respondants) could expect to see more than half their assets and income settled on their spouse and children.

There were, critics observed, a number of unhappy marriages in which people stuck together. Young people, who shouldn't have gotten married; older people, whose spouses were not physically abusive nor absent, nor flagrantly adulterous, but whose spouse was, for reasons of financial irresponsibility, mental viciousness, or some other major flaw, destroying their life. Why not make divorce easier to get? Rather than requiring people to show that there was an unforgiveable, physically visible, cause that the marriage should be dissolved, why not let people who wanted to get divorced agree to do so?

Because if you make divorce easier, said the critics, you will get much more of it, and divorce is bad for society.

That's ridiculous! said the reformers. (Can we sing it all together now?) People stay married because marriage is a bedrock institution of our society, not because of some law! The only people who get divorced will be people who have terrible problems! A few percentage points at most!

Oops. When the law changed, the institution changed. The marginal divorce made the next one easier. Again, the magnitude of the change swamped the dire predictions of the anti-reformist wing; no one could have imagined, in their wildest dreams, a day when half of all marriages ended in divorce.

There were actually two big changes; the first, when divorce laws were amended in most states to make it easier to get a divorce; and the second, when "no fault" divorce allowed one spouse to unilaterally end the marriage. The second change produced another huge surge in the divorce rate, and a nice decline in the incomes of divorced women; it seems advocates had failed to anticipate that removing the leverage of the financially weaker party to hold out for a good settlement would result in men keeping more of their earnings to themselves.

What's more, easy divorce didn't only change the divorce rate; it made drastic changes to the institution of marriage itself. David Brooks makes an argument I find convincing: that the proliferation of the kind of extravagent weddings that used to only be the province of high society (rented venue, extravagent flowers and food, hundreds of guests, a band with dancing, dresses that cost the same as a good used car) is because the event itself doesn't mean nearly as much as it used to, so we have to turn it into a three-ring circus to feel like we're really doing something.

A couple in 1940 (and even more so in 1910) could go to a minister's parlor, or a justice of the peace, and in five minutes totally change their lives. Unless you are a member of certain highly religious subcultures, this is simply no longer true. That is, of course, partly because of the sexual revolution and the emancipation of women; but it is also because you aren't really making a lifetime committment; you're making a lifetime committment unless you find something better to do. There is no way, psychologically, to make the latter as big an event as the former, and when you lost that committment, you lose, on the margin, some willingness to make the marriage work. Again, this doesn't mean I think divorce law should be toughened up; only that changes in law that affect marriage affect the cultural institution, not just the legal practice.

Three laws. Three well-meaning reformers who were genuinely, sincerely incapable of imagining that their changes would wreak such institutional havoc. Three sets of utterly logical and convincing, and wrong arguments about how people would behave after a major change.

So what does this mean? That we shouldn't enact gay marriage because of some sort of social Precautionary Principle

No. I have no such grand advice.

My only request is that people try to be a leeetle more humble about their ability to imagine the subtle results of big policy changes. The argument that gay marriage will not change the institution of marriage because you can't imagine it changing your personal reaction is pretty arrogant. It imagines, first of all, that your behavior is a guide for the behavior of everyone else in society, when in fact, as you may have noticed, all sorts of different people react to all sorts of different things in all sorts of different ways, which is why we have to have elections and stuff. And second, the unwavering belief that the only reason that marriage, always and everywhere, is a male-female institution (I exclude rare ritual behaviors), is just some sort of bizarre historical coincidence, and that you know better, needs examining. If you think you know why marriage is male-female, and why that's either outdated because of all the ways in which reproduction has lately changed, or was a bad reason to start with, then you are in a good place to advocate reform. If you think that marriage is just that way because our ancestors were all a bunch of repressed bastards with dark Freudian complexes that made them homophobic bigots, I'm a little leery of letting you muck around with it.

Is this post going to convince anyone? I doubt it; everyone but me seems to already know all the answers, so why listen to such a hedging, doubting bore? I myself am trying to draw a very fine line between being humble about making big changes to big social institutions, and telling people (which I am not trying to do) that they can't make those changes because other people have been wrong in the past. In the end, our judgement is all we have; everyone will have to rely on their judgement of whether gay marriage is, on net, a good or a bad idea. All I'm asking for is for people to think more deeply than a quick consultation of their imaginations to make that decision. I realise that this probably falls on the side of supporting the anti-gay-marriage forces, and I'm sorry, but I can't help that. This humility is what I want from liberals when approaching market changes; now I'm asking it from my side too, in approaching social ones. I think the approach is consistent, if not exactly popular.

Update A number of libertarians are, as I predicted, making the "Why don't we just privatise marriage?" argument. I don't find that useful in the context of the debate about gay marriage in America, where marriage is simply not going to be privatised in any foreseeable near-term future. I wrote an immediate follow up saying just that, but of course, I got a lot of readers from an Instalanche, which I didn't expect (no one expects an Instalanche!), and they just read the one post. So the second post is here; if you are thinking of making the argument that we should just get the state out of the marriage business, please read it.

Also, a lot of readers are saying that I'm wrong about marriage always being between a man and a woman, citing polygamy. I have been told this is a "basic factual error."

No, it's not. Polygamous societies do not (at least in any society I have ever heard about) have group marriages. Men with more than one wife have multiple marriages with multiple women, not a single marriage with several wives. In fact, they generally take pains to separate the women, preferably in different houses. Whether or not you allow men to contract for more than one marriage (and for all sorts of reasons, this seems to me to be a bad idea unless you're in an era of permanent war), each marriage remains the union of a man and a woman.

[Njobe]

that takes 3 words to a whole new level... way to go and ruin it

[lanning]

evil butt slut

[Ziptied]

fail copy paste

[csmiths]

i figured with how lame ia can be that it would turn out this way. someone has to be the center of attention everywhere they go......

[SicStang03]

i figured with how lame ia can be that it would turn out this way. someone has to be the center of attention everywhere they go......


You have a PM

[The Youngn]

This was on another forum that i frequent, and it has actually turned into a hilarious thread. just post three words, that can be relevant to the post above it. easy enough?

Obviously not with this bunch

[uproot]

the brady bunch

[BKgen®]

gangbanged a giraffe

[BKgen®]

with a rusty

[FTMFL]

nail with no lube.

[BKgen®]

nail with no lube.

That was four

[THEONE]

just be you..........

[AFSil80]

You have a PM

That's 4 words.

[aguynamedpat]

Crooked body panels............

[FTMFL]

That was four
Tell me it wasn't awesome though.

[aguynamedpat]

Tell me it wasn't awesome though.

Dude can't count

[FTMFL]

FUCK THIS THREAD.

[aguynamedpat]

FUCK THIS THREAD.

Aww why sad?

[BKgen®]

because a beaner

[aguynamedpat]

because a beaner

Think hes bosnian

[Black4DrEK]

Fuckin yo moma

[BKgen®]

with roman candles

[aguynamedpat]

Fuck immature bishes

[FTMFL]

Eat a dick

[BKgen®]

Fuck immature bishes

truer words have

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never been spoken.

[aguynamedpat]

truer words have

never been spoken :ninja:

[BKgen®]

YOU MAKE REPOST!

[aguynamedpat]

See also: :ninja:

[02SloWrx]

i lick pussy

[BKgen®]

don't we all?

[Black4DrEK]

i lick pussy


gotta be asian

[aguynamedpat]

gotta be asian

Think hes bosnian

[FTMFL]

don't we all?
You eat bananas?

[BKgen®]

you like kimchi?

[BluesClues]

I like that :yes:
(in response to: I lick pussy)

[BluesClues]

Ctl Alt Delete

[aguynamedpat]

Hondas are gay

[02SloWrx]

I like it

That you like

It

[BKgen®]

high school drama

[BKgen®]

everywhere i go

[Black4DrEK]

everywhere i be

[aguynamedpat]

everywhere i go



Keeps mouth shut

[Black4DrEK]

eyes on me :D

[02SloWrx]

This is not three words.

[aguynamedpat]

This is not three words.

fail at thread

[aguynamedpat]

and at life

[Black4DrEK]

Waste of sperm

[FTMFL]

skeet skeet skeet

[Black4DrEK]

In yo face

[aguynamedpat]

Moneyshot the twat

[DunDunSkeert]

Fat saggy pussy

[aguynamedpat]

sleeve of wizard?

[Black4DrEK]

Fat saggy pussy

Is all yours

[THEONE]

high school drama

fukin bull shit :D

[FTMFL]

boom boom pow

[THEONE]

boom boom pow

fukin bull shit ......

[aguynamedpat]

THEONE's full of...

[Black4DrEK]

Hot wet asshole

[FTMFL]

THEONE's full of...
cum and shit?

[Black4DrEK]

THEONE's full of...

Dirty afgani cock

[THEONE]

Dirty afgani cock

maybe your right

[esi_atlanta]

fuck the life

[TRDwasiq]

fuck the life
or your wifey

[Black4DrEK]

Or the GOVERNMENT

[TRDwasiq]

Or the GOVERNMENT
are you 18

[THEONE]

fuck the life

ENJOY the LIFE

[Black4DrEK]

naw im 20

[FTMFL]

I'm your pusher

[02SloWrx]

You guys suck at this 3 game word. Last time I checked, You were supposed to follow the person before you and finish his statment or w.e.

As you can see here, you can barelly put 3 words with somone elses 3 words.

FAIL!

[BKgen®]

chewbacca between legs

[BKgen®]

^yeah, that's how it's supposed to work 02slowrx... but these kids are morons.

[aguynamedpat]

chewbacca between legs

Past your bedtime....

[Black4DrEK]

^^^ yea that what i thought too...

but everybody was just Shoutin shit out at RANDOM.. lol

[FTMFL]

lol lol lol

[02SloWrx]

^yeah, that's how it's supposed to work 02slowrx... but these kids are morons.


This is like bunch of retards locked in one room and yelling out random shit.

[Black4DrEK]

This is like bunch of retards locked in one room and yelling out random shit.:lmfao:

[THEONE]

good bye everyone :D

[Black4DrEK]

yea im done..

[TRDwasiq]

This is like bunch of retards locked in one room and yelling out random shit.
you shouldnt be on IA...

[Black4DrEK]

Your mom goes to college!!!

[aguynamedpat]

you shouldnt be on IA...

Vote for ban.

[02SloWrx]

you shouldnt be on IA...

I see some retard got offended by my comment. My apologise, my mom did always tell me, dont hit girls, and dont joke around with retards.

[FTMFL]

I see some retard got offended by my comment. My apologise, my mom did always tell me, dont hit girls, and dont joke around with retards.
apologise=apologies
did=shouldn't be there
tell=told
:goodjob::goodjob::goodjob::goodjob:

[02SloWrx]

apologise=apologies
did=shouldn't be there
tell=told
:goodjob::goodjob::goodjob::goodjob:

Lets see, you're under 18 get lost.
my mom still tells me that, so "tell" still applies.
And dont be another pat following people around and correcting their every post, it kinda shows how much life you have there sir.

:goodjob::goodjob::goodjob:

[aguynamedpat]

Actually, "tell" does not apply in the sense that you posted.

My mom did always tell me - Past Tense (did)

You saying it still applies, you would have to say "My mom tells me..."

[FTMFL]

Lets see, you're under 18 get lost.
my mom still tells me that, so "tell" still applies.
And dont be another pat following people around and correcting their every post, it kinda shows how much life you have there sir.

:goodjob::goodjob::goodjob:
Lol, right at 18 buddy, nice try though. Aren't you supposed to be banned? And I don't have a life, but I'm not in denial about it.

[02SloWrx]

Lol, right at 18 buddy, nice try though. Aren't you supposed to be banned? And I don't have a life, but I'm not in denial about it.


buhhahahaha DOBAR SI.

[FTMFL]

buhhahahaha DOBAR SI.
Bet lol.

[02SloWrx]

ohh and I was banned, not supposed to be banned.

[FTMFL]

ohh and I was banned, not supposed to be banned.
Ehh, comparing apples to oranges, man. Btw you or aldin faster?

[02SloWrx]

According to what he say he got under the hood, he should be faster. we never raced or compared cars.

[FTMFL]

According to what he say he got under the hood, he should be faster. we never raced or compared cars.
From what I heard his was recently in the shop because of a blown engine or something? Yours boosted?

[02SloWrx]

Yeah he had blown motor. And according to what he say he got now, he should be fast with a good tune. And yeah, mine is boosted.

[FTMFL]

Yeah he had blown motor. And according to what he say he got now, he should be fast with a good tune. And yeah, mine is boosted.
Good shit, man. But damn man everyone blowing subarus like they're cheap and shit lol.

[02SloWrx]

Good shit, man. But damn man everyone blowing subarus like they're cheap and shit lol.

who is everybody?

[FTMFL]

who is everybody?
Shady, Aldin and whoever else lol. I only know them 2 seeing as how they live down the street from me lol.

[Bus Driver J]

((Wow, this thread went to shit fast...))

Cracked Ring Lands.

[FTMFL]

((Wow, this thread went to shit fast...))

Cracked Ring Lands.
You are late.

[Bus Driver J]

Oh Fuckin Well...

[FTMFL]

Too fucking bad?

[02SloWrx]

Shady, Aldin and whoever else lol. I only know them 2 seeing as how they live down the street from me lol.

Shady bought his wrx for like 5 or 6 grand. He knew his shit was fucked even before buying it. it was just matter of time before his wrx died. And Aldin, i dont know what happened to his.

[Bus Driver J]

Not for me.

[FTMFL]

Shady bought his wrx for like 5 or 6 grand. He knew his shit was fucked even before buying it. it was just matter of time before his wrx died. And Aldin, i dont know what happened to his.
From what I remember he ran decent numbers, for it being fucked up I guess. I just heard from some people that Aldins blew like a couple of weeks ago.

[02SloWrx]

shady was full of shit about his wrx. Every time u talk ot him, he tells u different story.

[FTMFL]

shady was full of shit about his wrx. Every time u talk ot him, he tells u different story.
I never really talked to him personally about it, just from what I saw on here when he got it tuned I think. I might have read it wrong but I think it said something like 384whp. I'm not 100% on that though, I can't find the shit lol.

[x Resilience]

shady was full of shit about his wrx. Every time u talk ot him, he tells u different story.

For real, and when it was tuned he told the guy he had a bunch of shit he didn't so the guy got the most he could get out of it, causing it to blow.

Aldin I believe had a hole in his block.

[02SloWrx]

I never really talked to him personally about it, just from what I saw on here when he got it tuned I think. I might have read it wrong but I think it said something like 384whp. I'm not 100% on that though, I can't find the shit lol.

384 on a 2.0 no way. unless he had built motor with some gt30r or 35r in there.

[x Resilience]

384 on a 2.0 no way. unless he had built motor with some gt30r or 35r in there.

Let me answer that for you, by quoting you.


shady was full of shit about his wrx. Every time u talk ot him, he tells u different story.


There is your answer.

[02SloWrx]

Why aren't you sleeping. Don't you have to wake up at like 7am.

[x Resilience]

Why aren't you sleeping. Don't you have to wake up at like 7am.


I was but then I woke up to take a shit, now I can't fall asleep.

[02SloWrx]

Well im going on facebook, might hack some more games. peace.

[ilovemyhonda.]

semenya loving gay

[TRDwasiq]

I see some retard got offended by my comment. My apologise, my mom did always tell me, dont hit girls, and dont joke around with retards.
seriously?? lol :lmfao::lmfao::lmfao: .... what should i say to this... i was just playin man.... little comment offended u that much? all i said You shouldnt be on IA and forgot to ( this :ninja: or this? :D) no need to get upset! ..
no wait wait
:D:D:D .................

[hondachik]

Simple directions and yet IA failed.

[xxbckiexx]

this thread has been done 913417721389 times on the internet csmith. thus why no one is entertaining it.

[BobbyFresco]

Fuck this thread.

[PURP]

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.:Stirfry:. 299
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FlipKing 247
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LS2ner 207
thegovanator 206
BobbyFresco 194
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jdm>usdm 165
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Psycho 148
Marcus Burnett 148
Njobe 144
T2KU 143
E=MC² 143
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Corolla_TC 129
blackboi50 129
FriskyWalrus 118
osnap 107
The Ninja 107
81911SC 103
thecrazyone 98
Got Milk? 92
Jason.. 82
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EmminoDaGreat 78
Mooseiah 68
MoFo 66
DunDunSkeert 65
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Sneezin 62
tj1986c 62
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C-loS109 58
Just_CHill 58
§treet_§peed 56
dabuilding 56
stephanie 56
JDMbabe 53
imbosile 53
Dr.G35 51
LS3_KID 50
809KiNg 50
Mrs. Purp 48
TheDrunkScotsman 48
Dev 47
Master Shake 44
Maniacc 43
KPowerEP3 42
OneSlow5pt0 40
_Christian_ 40
LiL PaKi 39
browningboy7 39
Lizbiz101 39
k20siboii 38
Tech5 37
boostleak 34
JDM TYTE YO 34
LongLiveH2b 34
1SICKLEX 34
Nitro 33
Ms Dollar 32
redGT 32
ArK 32
G35Cam 32
big crunch22 32
xdavidscenex 31
The Creeper 29
Leisa 29
jonathanjone 29
Maniac1 27
Zodiac 27
STRteg 27
murderrsiren 27
Jecht 26
tron 26
DieselNuts 26
J-ROCK 26
VQ35 Star 25
bdydrpdmazda

[02SloWrx]

seriously?? lol :lmfao::lmfao::lmfao: .... what should i say to this... i was just playin man.... little comment offended u that much? all i said You shouldnt be on IA and forgot to ( this :ninja: or this? :D) no need to get upset! ..
no wait wait
:D:D:D .................

okey retard. Ever thought someone else having same thought as you? If you look at all my posts, most of them are bashing someone. :screwy: :lmfao: :ninja:

[bdydrpdmazda]

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Catnip 4,195
DriVaH 3,912
mmmmpsi 3,010
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MistaCee 1,976
slostang 1,704
jew_boy 1,662
lanning 1,655
KustomBuildz 1,537
03RCode 1,366
jhadleyh 1,302
Fast-Tech™ 1,297
GSRteg® 1,166
nismo_92 1,137
Buttons 1,136
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roxie911 814
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WTF? 368
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TheGrillMan 362
Sammich 361
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13Bracer 347
allmotoronly 332
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RedEj8 310
.:Stirfry:. 299
haybuddyy 264
FlipKing 247
MINI 234
JEY$JDM 223
all_american_gurl09 223
LS2ner 207
thegovanator 206
BobbyFresco 194
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jdm>usdm 165
Andy_013 154
Psycho 148
Marcus Burnett 148
Njobe 144
T2KU 143
E=MC² 143
TheGodfather 129
Corolla_TC 129
blackboi50 129
FriskyWalrus 118
osnap 107
The Ninja 107
81911SC 103
thecrazyone 98
Got Milk? 92
Jason.. 82
Turbodude06 80
EmminoDaGreat 78
Mooseiah 68
MoFo 66
DunDunSkeert 65
Turbd4DE 63
Sneezin 62
tj1986c 62
speedminded 60
3.5altman 59
C-loS109 58
Just_CHill 58
§treet_§peed 56
dabuilding 56
stephanie 56
JDMbabe 53
imbosile 53
Dr.G35 51
LS3_KID 50
809KiNg 50
Mrs. Purp 48
TheDrunkScotsman 48
Dev 47
Master Shake 44
Maniacc 43
KPowerEP3 42
OneSlow5pt0 40
_Christian_ 40
LiL PaKi 39
browningboy7 39
Lizbiz101 39
k20siboii 38
Tech5 37
boostleak 34
JDM TYTE YO 34
LongLiveH2b 34
1SICKLEX 34
Nitro 33
Ms Dollar 32
redGT 32
ArK 32
G35Cam 32
big crunch22 32
xdavidscenex 31
The Creeper 29
Leisa 29
jonathanjone 29
Maniac1 27
Zodiac 27
STRteg 27
murderrsiren 27
Jecht 26
tron 26
DieselNuts 26
J-ROCK 26
VQ35 Star 25
bdydrpdmazda
huh?

[02SloWrx]

huh?


I believe that's from last "3 word" thread. It shows hwo much each person posted. I believe.

[roxie911]

I believe that's from last "3 word" thread. It shows hwo much each person posted. I believe.

Uhm, no...that's from the record thread.

[bdydrpdmazda]

it has me down for not having any post. I know ive posted all up in the record thread but i dont remember any other 3 word threads

[Njobe]

User Name Posts
oneSLOWex 4,845
Catnip 4,195
DriVaH 3,912
mmmmpsi 3,010
NVEOUS 2,381
junior_tm 2,213
You_Wish 2,005
MistaCee 1,976
slostang 1,704
jew_boy 1,662
lanning 1,655
KustomBuildz 1,537
03RCode 1,366
jhadleyh 1,302
Fast-Tech™ 1,297
GSRteg® 1,166
nismo_92 1,137
Buttons 1,136
redrumracer 999
Slow Motion 949
Revmaynard 860
roxie911 814
PURP 808
DeeAOne 734
gtrmonkey 709
TS240 588
hondachik 582
AnthonyF 568
Oz10 561
ilovemyhonda. 558
blaknoize 500
Motivation 465
Echonova 436
transamkid 422
Double_0_Rusty 420
Humphries 416
X-Runner 386
WTF? 368
NAIZBST 368
TheGrillMan 362
Sammich 361
EL-CANGRI 354
13Bracer 347
allmotoronly 332
IMPORTchic 316
RedEj8 310
.:Stirfry:. 299
haybuddyy 264
FlipKing 247
MINI 234
JEY$JDM 223
all_american_gurl09 223
LS2ner 207
thegovanator 206
BobbyFresco 194
PURE jdm 173
jdm>usdm 165
Andy_013 154
Psycho 148
Marcus Burnett 148
Njobe 144
T2KU 143
E=MC² 143
TheGodfather 129
Corolla_TC 129
blackboi50 129
FriskyWalrus 118
osnap 107
The Ninja 107
81911SC 103
thecrazyone 98
Got Milk? 92
Jason.. 82
Turbodude06 80
EmminoDaGreat 78
Mooseiah 68
MoFo 66
DunDunSkeert 65
Turbd4DE 63
Sneezin 62
tj1986c 62
speedminded 60
3.5altman 59
C-loS109 58
Just_CHill 58
§treet_§peed 56
dabuilding 56
stephanie 56
JDMbabe 53
imbosile 53
Dr.G35 51
LS3_KID 50
809KiNg 50
Mrs. Purp 48
TheDrunkScotsman 48
Dev 47
Master Shake 44
Maniacc 43
KPowerEP3 42
OneSlow5pt0 40
_Christian_ 40
LiL PaKi 39
browningboy7 39
Lizbiz101 39
k20siboii 38
Tech5 37
boostleak 34
JDM TYTE YO 34
LongLiveH2b 34
1SICKLEX 34
Nitro 33
Ms Dollar 32
redGT 32
ArK 32
G35Cam 32
big crunch22 32
xdavidscenex 31
The Creeper 29
Leisa 29
jonathanjone 29
Maniac1 27
Zodiac 27
STRteg 27
murderrsiren 27
Jecht 26
tron 26
DieselNuts 26
J-ROCK 26
VQ35 Star 25
bdydrpdmazda
:D

[jhadleyh]

i gotz more bish

[Njobe]

i gotz more bish
post whore :lmfao:

[jhadleyh]

yeah you right