Because I drew it, although I've been meaning to update it.

Yes. Even if you got past the social stigma, which I won't comment on because that is the one point where there is no wrong opinion, it potentially does lasting genetic damage to the offspring. That's how you end up with people like King Charles II of Spain.

6'1", 195 lbs.

I'd say I'm above average.

@solidfish30: I find this description extremely irritating, and if you're not just straight up lying for your own enjoyment and making people that do this unwillingly look like mooks, you are a portion of the population that doesn't deserve the money hard-working people earn. This is appalling.

When I was working at Home Depot, the schedule was:

Leave for work at 8:30 PM

Start at 9:00 PM

Skip lunch and break because too much to do

Leave at 5-6 AM, depending on how much there was to do

Arrive home at 7:00 AM after eating breakfast at McDonalds

Sleep until 6-7 PM.

Eat dinner at 7:30 PM

Get ready for work, spend 15 minutes watching TV, then leave for work again.

Now, I didn't work no office job, no light work. Overnight freight is no walk in the park, especially if you aren't the one that drives the forklift. It was heavy lifting and on your feet moving 8 hours a night, 6 nights a week. Being the youngest guy on the team of 5 and the only one without some kind of back problem, I was the one entrusted to move the heavy stuff on foot. The shelf-stocking was left to the older guys while I was out in garden or over in lumber. As I wasn't driving the forklifts, I was stacking the mulch walls or putting up the stone. You know those rows of mulch and dirt over in the outside sections of home improvement stores? I was the one stacking them, one by one, over 30 pallets, every night. That was what took most of the time out of the job. I was the only one stacking them most nights. After that, it was stack the stone, then move on down to lumber so I could stack the planks, the beams, the roofing materials, the concrete, the ladders, and the wall siding. It was really grueling work, especially since I did most of the heavy lifting by myself when everyone else was bringing it from out back or stocking the smaller stuff (there was a lot more smaller stuff. I don't really blame anyone I worked with).

In the end, working at Home Depot totally consumed my life. I was always tired, I never had free-time, and even my one day off was spent sleeping. I got payed 8 bucks an hour, no overtime, and they didn't even give me an employee discount. I absolutely hated it. I ended up getting let go at the end of the season (it was seasonal work) because I was the only one who didn't ask for more time and because it took me too long to stack the heavy stuff and clean, according to the store manager. Normally that wouldn't bother me, but aside from me being the only one doing it most of the time, I had multiple people tell me that my work made their jobs easier. Neatly stacked wood that didn't get stuck on the siding or bleed into neighboring displays, mulch wasn't sliding off the pallets halfway into the day, stone looked presentable and not just thrown on the pallets, there was a massive reduction of broken garden supplies because it wasn't just falling off the back of the shelves anymore (go look behind the stone in your local Home Depot. There will be plenty of broken bricks and decorative stone), the bags of concrete and mulch weren't ripping as much due to getting stuck on another bag, and I received a Homer Award because the floors in the garden section were, and this is straight out of the managers mouth "the cleanest they've been since this store was opened". I managed to get a paint stain out of the concrete that had been there since the last store was there... 15 years prior. However, they wanted speed on top of the quality. It took me 6 hours to pressure wash the outside garden section's floor, and they wanted it done in 1, an hour to stack the wood and mulch when they want it done in 20 minutes. I put a lot of pride into my work, as unappreciated as it was and despite the scornings from my superiors, and in the end it cost me my job. I was the only seasonal worker who lost their job, out of 25. My manager said I was an excellent employee, but my attention to detail was "costing the rest of the team in the long run".

That was way longer than I wanted it to be. In short, I hated my job. However, I don't hate working. I loathe sitting around when I could be doing something, but I've been unemployed for 6 months now and it is driving me insane. It's the winter months, so farmhanding isn't exactly needed right now and no one is responding to my calls or applications. The job market is going to be the death of me.

It's a bit fickle. I don't pirate and I think pirating is generally a very bad thing, but it can be used to widen audiences in certain situation. As an example, a cousin of mine pirated an album by a band called Hammerfall about 8 years ago. He ended up loving it so much, he went out and bought every album of theirs he could find (save the one he pirated). I listened to some of it, liked it, bought the album myself, and showed it to others. I got at least 10 people for sure to at least buy a single album. I did some research into them and that's how I discovered other bands I like, a few being Powerglove (heavy-metal band that specialize in metal covers of video game and TV serials. Good ones, too.) and Sonata Arctica.

I still don't support the practice. It's just not something to be encouraged.

Well that sucks.

No Queen? Get it together, man.

So many favorites. Honey-roasted Black Forest Ham, oven-roasted chicken, cured venison, braunschweiger, Kufta (ground lamb filled with parsley and onions)... but the prize goes to Squirrel. It is absolutely delicious when prepared correctly.

Ah, this is a touchy issue. Should people be allowed to make self-detrimental decisions if the results don't harm anyone outside of themselves? We already allow some forms of this, with alcohol, tobacco, fighting for sport, the emerging marijuana market... while impeding it in other ways that people claim as infringing on their personal liberties, e.g. - suicide, dueling, seatbelts, hard drug use...

This is a very tough subject to argue either way. I myself am on the fence. The basis of most of these laws is to prevent self-inflicted harm and to prevent a "slippery slope effect", like legalized brawling. Some think that if we allow brawling to settle issues, it'll lead to the foundation of fight clubs that could potentially lead to reports of manslaughter with no legal repercussions, or possibly the reemergence of dueling. Violence becomes widespread and accepted, blah, blah, blah. At the same time, these laws do infringe on the basic rights of people. A personal right to life should allow for the right to take away your own life. As a Christian, I do see suicide as a sin in the eyes of God, but I do not believe it is the rights of others to make this an illegal act. It's a personal decision and should not be interfered with (but even that is dubious. Suicide has the potential to harm others, emotionally and physically).

I just honestly don't know. Too many potential ways each of these actions can be interpreted. Smoking causes second-hand smoke, Drinking causes wild emotional responses in the recipient that could lead to assault of some kind, brawling could lead to accidental death, suicide causes deep emotional trouble for those that were close to the deceased, not wearing a seatbelt could turn you into a meat bullet... It's one of those situations where both sides are both incredibly right and horribly wrong.