Yeah, never argued against that. Life's hard ):
SacredStoneHead said:If you're being serious, just a , and glad you made it.
If not, I really didn't catch the reference.
Untitled. said:Have they made a movie out of your life yet?
In 1993, [Rick James] and future wife Tanya Hijazi were accused of holding 24-year-old Frances Alley hostage for up to six days, tying her up, forcing her to perform sexual acts, and burning her legs and abdomen with the hot end of a crack cocaine pipe during a weeklong cocaine binge. In 1993, while out on bail for that earlier incident, Rick James, under the influence of cocaine, assaulted music executive Mary Sauger at the St. James Club and Hotel in West Hollywood. Sauger claims she met James and Hijazi for a business meeting, but said the two then kidnapped and beat her over a 20-hour period.
He was found guilty of both offenses, but was cleared of a torture charge in the crack-pipe incident that could have put him in prison for the rest of his life. He served two years in Folsom Prison, and lost US $2 million in a civil suit to one of the women. He was released in 1996. In 1998, James was accused of sexually assaulting a 26-year-old woman though charges were later dropped.
kurczak said:unfortunately, it actually did happen. But my coke habit was relatively discreet, I was still functional (even if slightly paranoid), just wasting a lot of money on it. Also the inflation and the relatively rapid rise in nominal wages in mid and late 90s effectively ate away a large part of the debt. It would be much worse now or if any bothered to index loans back then.
But in all seriousness, my story is not that unique in the context of the post-communist world. About everybody and their aunt had "a great idea" or got into some borderline illegal scheme in what we, survivors, call the Klondike Nineties.
Yeah, I just got a new laptop too but I'm installing 7 on it.AWdeV said:New laptop; windows 8 looks horrible and behaves annoyingly. Too much superfluous crap on the laptop and it took me ages to rename the account. (it was a show model in the store.)
I'm 22 and recently dropped out of a course. I think it's time to hit the bank for a loan.kurczak said:The good news is, it can and often gets better. I was 22 when I dropped out of a useless course, took a loan, started my own night club, developed a coke habit, failed spectacularly, owed 3 times then average yearly salary, seriously contemplated shooting porn for a while (those were the times when people still actually paid for porn). Turns out, there's a way even out of that kind of thing. (Without having to shoot porn)
Why didn't you stop them and throw a burning cigarette in their gas tank?!Angelsachsen said:Driving up to the parents along country lanes, some idiota behind had his (or her) lights on full beam. I couldn't see anything through the reflection so pulled over and let 'em past as. And I did try to tell them as well as I could.
If it comes with 8, getting drivers for 7 is going to be impossible more than likely.Harkon Haakonson said:Yeah, I just got a new laptop too but I'm installing 7 on it.AWdeV said:New laptop; windows 8 looks horrible and behaves annoyingly. Too much superfluous crap on the laptop and it took me ages to rename the account. (it was a show model in the store.)