<p>Good WOMAN. Not sir! People who get into Stanford should have to pass a random CCer gender identification test. This is the second time a Stanfordian has wrongly called me a male.</p>
<p>Beerom, your arm gets *<strong><em>ed up, if you make it get *</em></strong>ed up. There are ways to prevent said injuries from happening. Sports are fun and entertaining, that’s why people pay for it. That’s why players are paid to show their talents regardless of MLB or whatever pro level. You don’t get paid to kill yourself. I’d rather pay for something entertaining, and something that can MAYBE injure you. Smoking is almost guaranteed to make something abnormal happen to your body.</p>
<p>@everyone: Alright alright alright alright. Let’s all just take a deep breath (don’t if you’re near a smoker) and calm down. Perhaps I did not seriously think that all of you would take even half the things I’ve said as my true opinion. I think it was your seriousness and even citations that fueled my posts. As stated previously, I often enjoy antagonizing people. Romanigypsyeyes, you can rest peacefully tonight knowing that I would never kill my wife knowingly or even smoke for that matter. I’m not quite as dumb as some of you might suppose and am actually quite competent socially.</p>
<p>I like the attempt to compare smoking to baseball. In terms of baseball, the costs (potential injury) don’t outweigh the benefits (all the benefits associated with sports, i.e. exercise, better academics…).</p>
<p>Smoking is like paying to kill yourself.</p>
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<p>Hahaha, I loled. No worries though, I didn’t take you seriously. I can pick out a joker with much better acuracy than you can identify genders. Though this joke was dumb.</p>
<p>Well, we see you’re going to Stanford, so we’re not doubting you lack intelligence. You obviously have some, but you make it sound like smoking is a good thing.</p>
<p>@Anon, that’s what I’m saying Girllll. :P</p>
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Muhahaha.
She made me laugh,
I got her autograph</p>
<p>MattNC, I don’t think you’ll get into Stanford. You have successfully acknowledged my gender.</p>
<p>On a not at all related note, do you think I was too mean to the poor junior?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1064332320-post14.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1064332320-post14.html</a></p>
<p>I mean, I feel like it was necessary, but I don’t want to make a junior hate him/herself. But I don’t really want to apologize either.</p>
<p>thank you, beerom.
i smoke once a week, and away from other people. Is that so wrong? If i wanna get lung cancer, let me, dammit. You’re allowed to call smoking ‘unattractive,’ ‘deadly,’ and whatever else, but you have no right to call it immoral. </p>
<p>smoking is pleasurable, and, most importantly (at least, for me), a stress-reliever . </p>
<p>go ahead, make the case that smoking can kill those around us. fine, don’t hang around us. for me, i try to smoke in areas that are least populated. I’m doing my job as a responsible smoker. </p>
<p>Finally:</p>
<p>I started this thread to engage some friendly banter, not incite some venomous war.</p>
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<p>The first part: nice. The second part: Seriously? You’re okay with getting lung cancer? I mean, I’m not going to stop you, but I’d hope you value your health more than that. And don’t even try to tell me about your mental health and how smoking helps that. RUN if you’re stressed. BAKE. Paint. Whatever.</p>
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<p>Because smoking is a topic I love to casually interject into friendly conversation.</p>
<p>It’s ok Anon, I don’t want to go to Stanford anymore, too much smoking and meth. 
That’s a joke by the way.</p>
<p>“Hi there Anonymous93, how was your day?”
“Oh, Wonderful, do you agree that smoking before the SAT will raise SAT Scores <em>eye flutter</em>”?</p>
<p>haha. no problem charlieharper. I’d imagine that this thread turned out to be completely different than you expected but if you never need me to defend smoking on your behalf, just let me know. </p>
<p>@anonymous: No. I think you were perfectly in the right to do so. I also dislike people who do community service because they selfishly think that it will get them somewhere without little regard for their altruistic obligations. Hopefully, that junior does some serious reflection on why he/she (<–thats for you) does community service.</p>
<p>@MattNC - Hahahahaha, the eye flutter? That is definitely my defining characteristic, let me tell you.</p>
<p>It’s nice to feel the camradarie now that we’re not viciously debating the merits (or lack thereof) of smoking.</p>
<p>Thank you for the gender ambiguity. 
I just think it’s rude to use community service to get into college. It demeans the value of community service and turns it into something that isn’t community oriented at all, but more self-oriented. Not that I think community service on college applications is bad at all. I just think he/she went too far by asking “Will 150+ more hours make a difference [to the college people that I want so much to impress]?”</p>
<p>I think community service as a requirement to graduate is ridiculous. If a person wants to do something to help the community, they should do it. If they don’t, then that’s their choice. I still think even if it weren’t a requirement people would do it JUST for college because it looks good. Camaraderie is important nowadays. Lol.</p>
<p>Morality is intrisically ambiguous. I think that we’d have to start a completely new thread to even establish the meaning of moral grounds. MattNC does have a point though in that by making it a requirement, it devalues the importance of community service in the eyes of both students and colleges. It should be seen as an act of generosity and kindness.</p>
<p>Yes, morality is ambiguous. But its kinda insane how the schools make it compulsory. I mean, what’s the point if you didn’t do it out of your own free will?</p>
<p>I did a lot of stuff on my own (teaching etc.) and only after the fact, when I was applying to colleges, that I realized it was community service.</p>
<p>Anon93, I remember you from the Stanford REA thread, I was so impressed how you didn’t report your community service hours. But I always thought you should have, since you really don’t have anything to prove to other people. You did it for yourself, not for college, and I think that if you know that, its enough.</p>
<p>I never get why people always point out the health problems that can be obtained from smoking.
I just don’t give a ■■■ if someone gets a hole in their jaw. In fact, I’ll probably be the jerk pointing and laughing and attempting to push golf balls through said hole, and then encourage other people to smoke so that my fun may continue. </p>
<p>I hate when people try to discourage others to quit. Why do that when it’s a win-win situation? They get to smoke, and I get a chuckle. What the hell is the problem?</p>
<p>The only actual irritation I get is that they smell. Really bad.
Seriously, if you’re a smoker, please bathe 3x a day. The normal amount is not enough. And maybe rub deodorant on your tongue while you’re at it.</p>
<p>Otherwise, it’s all good.</p>
<p>Smoking is unhealthy. I don’t have a high toleration of smoke itself.</p>
<p>I definitely think the OP was just kidding. He was probably bored.</p>
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<p>It is, however, in the Constitution that not every right has to be enumerated.</p>
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<p>Wrong!</p>
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void USA()
{
enum Rights
{
FreedomOfSpeech=100,
FreedomOfReligion,
AgainstCruelUnusualPunishment,
ToBreath
};
}
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