Is America out on vinyl?

In the paranoid form of this disorder, the sufferer develops delusions of persecution or personal grandeur. The first signs of paranoid schizophrenia usually surface between the ages of 15 and 34 (Ed. whereas many other types of schizophrenia usually manifest at earlier ages.) There is no cure, but the paranoid schizophrenia can be controlled with antipsychotic medications. Severe attacks may require hospitalization.
In the DSM-IV, paranoid schizophrenia is defined as:
A type of schizophrenia in which there are:

1. Preoccupation with one or more systematized delusions or with frequent auditory hallucinations related to a single theme.
2. None of the following: incoherence, marked loosening of associations, flat or grossly inappropriate affect, catatonic behaviour, grossly disorganized behavior.

The essential feature of Paranoid Schizophrenia is preoccupation with one or more systematized delusions or with frequent auditory hallucinations related to a single theme. In addition, symptoms characteristic of the Disorganized and Catatonic Types such as incoherence, flat or grossly inappropriate affect, catatonic behaviour, or grossly disorganized behavior, are absent. When all exacerbations of the disorder meet the criteria for Paranoid Type, the clinician should specify "Stable Type".
Associated features of Paranoid Schizophrenia include unfocussed anxiety, anger, argumentativeness, and violence. Often a stilted, formal quality or extreme intensity in interpersonal interaction is noted.
The impairment in functioning in Paranoid Schizophrenia may be minimal if the delusional material is not acted upon. Onset tends to be later in life than the other types, and the distinguishing characteristics may be more stable over time. Some evidence suggests that the prognosis for the Paranoid Type, particularly with regard to occupational functioning and capacity for independent living, may be considerably better than for other types of schizophrenia.

I didn't know America were considered country... although I only know that song "Horse with No Name" and I never liked that.

Thanks Dr David White.

America is still running on 8-track! (I don't know what that means)

racist.

Racist.....and probably you also hate single mums too.

Well said.

I've done my fair bit of travelling around the world, and I must say America has the nicest people of all (yes, I've been to Canada), and that the UK probably has the least friendly, most arrogant and anti-social citizens.

That being said, I've never been to the east coast of the US, except for a day I spent in Philadelphia- which was okay.

Exactly, do not respond to his repeated attempts at baiting.

The overwhelming majority of the now banned internet gaming sites did their banking in London, UK.
This same law delivered a blow to the British economy by stripping it of billions of dollars in annual income coming into the country.

It makes sense to me! Oddly enough.

i haven't read the rest of this thread porkie,, but let me just say that the title immediately made this answer pop in my mind:

"try sudan for a week"

iran?

cuba?

afghanistan?

shall i continue???

Hooray! I felt a small pang of national pride at that comment.

ha ha that is funny. 2 countries i've never been too keen on visiting are england and germany. my only experience with germany was a 6 hour stopover at the frankfurt airport, horrid enough to dissuade me from ever going again. about england, well... it's full of english people :p

no country is good for you :p

me or the porkie, you meant?

his majesty porkmarrass

Your post above is a bit ironic, crypto, considering that Texas recently deemed Rodin's "The Thinker" an obscene sculpture. An exemplary, well-liked public school teacher of more than twenty years was fired as a scapegoat after the school district received many angry complaints from backwoods parents. The instructor had taken her classes to view the reproduction at the Museum of Fine Arts right there in Houston.

just cause im a texan doesnt mean i agree with them

surely not

but the fact that you don't agree with them doesn't cancel the irony :D

Dear David,
Even the walls in my kitchen now accuse me of being an all hateful,spiteful italian piece of fascist shit because of this thread and the other ones i generated.I have decided to send myself to the moon tonight.

Yours

porkbastard

porkie, you could look at yourself in the mirror and sing this:

Fly me to the moon
And let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
In other words hold my hand
In other words darling kiss me Fill my life with song
And let me sing forevermore
You are all I hope for
All I worship and adore
In other words please be true
In other words I love you





Eh???

I think I've eaten a porkbastard before. Ironically, in the US.

In a slightly related incident, I too created an almighty hell once when I put it to the floor that there was quite a bit of shit on US television.

I really, really wish I'd never posted that thread...

(DISCLAIMER: I now realise that there is absolute shit on most television in most countries. Except Japanese television.)

Yeah, go live with Shaka in a van down by the river to clear your head of the cobwebs hehe.

Shaka, I might need to take you up on that offer if you'll extend it to myself if my business goes south. I'm planning on ramming all the cards for as much as possible and disappearing if that happens. Everything usually works out to keep the shell game going though. It's just that at the end of the year during the holidays the sales go way down into death valley. I go through this every end-of-year and this year, the summer was also particularly troublesome with cash flow...very touch-and-go.

It's so cold in Alaska.
(obvious)
I'm in Virginia. Where the fuck are you?

West is great, that is unless you mean West Virginia. I've been meaning to get back west. I was born in Ventura County, California.

Down By the River...MAMMOTH TUNE

I lived with a friend of mine one summer after high school in a trailer on the Oconee River, so I know about River People.

There was this restaurant a long stone's throw away that had the best steaks. The place reeked pretty bad though. We'd get it to go.

I remember this one River Person that gave us a whole brown grocery bag full of some pretty harsh marijuana. It was beyond schwaggy, but we were just teens out of high school and we got soooo stoned all summer. I vaguley remember giving a spontaneous oration on the history of Ancient Greece in the voice of a young girl and also listening to Led Zeppelin I and The Steve Miller Band.

I've recounted this one story before, but one day I woke up and this guy I'd never seen before had a shotgun pointing in my face. As I was waking, he and this other guy and my friend were all around me laughing. I swiped the barrel away with my arm and just about killed that guy after we ended up in the yard outside. I was banging his head against some rocks over and over again until I was pulled off of him.

I would have gotten off if I had ended his life. I had just woke up, was ostensibly defending myself and I had just been the high school valedictorian. My girlfriend was the County Sheriff's niece as well.

Well, that all happened in Southeast Georgia in the late '80s. I've heard great things about small towns in California.

Small towns in California are the best.

I've lived in Atlanta in Grant Park, Marietta on Delk Rd., Jonesboro in some apt. complex, and in Athens for eleven years.
Athens is magical. There's no place like it that I've ever been to, and I find that when I meet people that have lived there or visited a lot to say that there is no place like it that they've ever been to either.

Do you have the Kill the Hippies bootleg? It's from that Atlanta show. It's a good one.