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TexasProgresive

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9. I was told something 45 years ago by my Dad

Reply to BigDemVoter (Reply #5)

Sat Apr 25, 2015, 08:33 AM

Apr 2015

"Excusing your actions because you are drunk is no excuse because you knew what you were doing before you drank." Perhaps that doesn't make sense to most but it does to me. If you act in a way that impairs your good sense- then you should accept the consequences of that behavior.

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When I read something like this, I want to reach for my belt. [View all] RandySF Apr 2015 OP

Absolutely inexcusable and disgraceful. NBachers Apr 2015 #1

Get in line. 47of74 Apr 2015 #2

Whoa, wtf? lovemydog Apr 2015 #3

It's not your place to say so. They got expelled. Good enough. blkmusclmachine Apr 2015 #4

Wrong. The university should expel them. In vino Joe Chi Minh Apr 2015 #6

expelled from the *fraternity.* Not from school. magical thyme Apr 2015 #11

What isn't his place to say? That it makes him mad? Why can't he say that? stevenleser Apr 2015 #14

Oops. Ugly Behavior! BigDemVoter Apr 2015 #5

I was told something 45 years ago by my Dad TexasProgresive Apr 2015 #9

Your dad sounds like a very smart man. ScreamingMeemie Apr 2015 #10

drinking doesn't change underlying character or personality; it exposes it by lowering inhibitions magical thyme Apr 2015 #12

Oh I agree with you there. . . . BigDemVoter Apr 2015 #13

These guys were drunk and now the frat is on "double secret probation", but.. Sancho Apr 2015 #7

I think everyone of them should be in jail. kentuck Apr 2015 #8

the only people these turd maggots should pick on olddots Apr 2015 #15