Define a Friend

[Iraganji]

You love them like a brother and would give the cloths off of your back, and they the same.

 

[cocktail frank]

a friend is a ride or die homie.
he would stop a bullet for you and vice versa.
no end for the love you have for each other.
but if those said friends ever do you filthy,
the hellstorm that u bring on them would be way worse than you would put on any enemy.

 

[paladin420]

I have never really used a scale or gauge to evaluate friendness.

I have always believed that a persons friends are determined by the level of friendship they are willing to extend. I have a lot of friends. People who are in my everyday life whom I confide in and share life's events with. Some even know I smoke mj too and a couple who know I grow.

But it is my doing that I trust them only to the degree I do, and I hold no expectations regarding their trustworthiness.

A friend to me is somebody with whom I am completely comfortable in my home without me being present. If there are any doubts or hesitations then there is no friendship.

Oh yes that is a very nice 'rule'. Not many allow in let alone,alone!!

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

IMO, 'friends' have degrees from family to associates. Instead of applying meaning to the verbiage, I try to be exclusive with my actions. I also attempt to refrain from making value judgements. An associate might have the values I look for in closer friends. We just haven't made it that far in our interactions. Illegal actions on my part temper and even remove the process from potential maturity.

 

[mad librettist]

Define a Friend

get a divorce and you will know

 

[forty]

a guy who bails you outta jail in the middle of the night from half way across the country, finds a late night kinko's with a fax machine, blows up his credit card... and says "you owe me a fuckin beer!" afterwards.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Friend? Hell, I'd marry that mofo.

 

[crazybear]

I hear em too, paladin420. As long as we don't converse with em we're fine. I've talked to myself before but I don't answer myself back.

HOld it answering yourself is a sign of being crazy? OH yeah that's right I"M crazy! LOL!

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Don't know if I'm crazy but I do lie on occasion.

 

[paladin420]

Friend? Hell, I'd marry that mofo.

I would certianly see to it that a very attractive person brought him a beer. In bed. Her place. For breakfast

 

[JJScorpio]

A friend is someone you could leave all of your money and your wife with for a month and he wouldn't touch either of them......

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

In that case, I hope wives are friends too.

 

[RetroGrow]

It's your dog....

 

[whateverman]

Egh, there's limits. I wouldn't say a friend is someone who would help no matter what.

If I got arrested for fucking a kid or killing an innocent person, I wouldn't want to associate with the emotionally-blinded, delusional fellow who would bail me out/bring the shovel.

I love my brother like nobody in the world, but if he got picked up on a child porn charge or something like that, he can fuck off.

It's not wise or moral or healthy to be that localized in your relationships.

 

[Stress_test]

Egh, there's limits. I wouldn't say a friend is someone who would help no matter what.

If I got arrested for fucking a kid or killing an innocent person, I wouldn't want to associate with the emotionally-blinded, delusional fellow who would bail me out/bring the shovel.

I love my brother like nobody in the world, but if he got picked up on a child porn charge or something like that, he can fuck off.

It's not wise or moral or healthy to be that localized in your relationships.

I suppose that would be a limitation to a lot of people and I understand it completely.

However I have also spent enough years living in America to know that 90% of the allegations made are insanely exaggerated by LEO and the court systems. If I consider somebody a friend of mine, I allow them the benefit of doubt and will back em until I know otherwise.
But just because somebody accuses another, doesn't mean it's true.
And just because a judge will allow a prosecuting attorney to sell a lie to a jury doesn't mean a crime ever occurred.

 

[MMJcali]

a friend is someone who will visit you REGULARLY when you're locked up...

happened to me. I had these friends I grew up with, went to high school with, were roommates all through college...all three of us grew up in the private school environment.

I get picked up for a stupid non violent charge and thrown in county for 30 days...out of the five on my list (my girl at the time, a classmate that could bring me work, my sister and my two friends in question), only my girlfriend and my classmate visited. sister never showed. my two friends never showed. out of 30 days, they couldnt find 30 minutes to see me (and the jail was less than 10 minutes away from our place).

my 'classmate' visited the most...just to shoot the shit, not to bring me assignments.

Now he's my #1. real stand up guy.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Here's a Good friend we may have overlooked. The sick gentleman in handcuffs could be any one of us.

Rochester Woman Arrested After Videotaping Police From Her Own Front Yard

NEW YORK -- In May, the Rochester Police Department arrested a woman on a charge of obstructing governmental administration after she videotaped several officers' search of a man's car. The charge is a criminal misdemeanor.


The only problem? Videotaping a police officer in public view is perfectly legal in New York state -- and the woman was in her own front yard. The arrest report of the incident also contains an apparent discrepancy from what is seen in the woman's own video.


That video, uploaded to the Internet this week, more than a month after Emily Good's May 12 arrest, begins by showing a black male being questioned by a police officer at about 10 p.m. The red and blue flashes of a police cruiser illuminate the scene on Aldine Street.


"I just got out of the house, man, I'm sick, man," the man who has been pulled over says. Other police officers search his car.


Then one of the officers, identified as Mario Masic in the arrest report, turns to the camera and asks, "You guys need something?"


"I'm just -- this is my front yard -- I'm just recording what you're doing. It's my right," Good replies.


"Actually, not from the sidewalk," the officer replies, incorrect about the legality of Good's actions.


"This is my yard," Good says.


"I don't feel safe with you standing behind me so I'm going to ask you go into your house, you understand?" Masic says.


From there, the conversation escalates into a confrontation, with Masic alleging that Good is threatening his safety, and that she expressed other, unspecified anti-police statements before the videotaping began.


"Due to what you said to me, before you started taping, I think, uh, you need to go stay in your house, guys."


Good's public defender, Stephanie Stare, told HuffPost she believes from her conversations with several neighbors who were present that Good made no threatening comments before the tape begins.


Ryan Acuff, a friend of Good's who witnessed the exchange and picked up the video camera after she was arrested, agreed.


"None of us was talking to them until they came to us," Acuff said. "The first contact was definitely on tape."


For more than a minute of the video, the officer and Good argue about whether she is threatening his safety. Finally, it appears, Masic has had enough: "You know what, you're gonna go to jail. That's just not right."


Acuff claimed that he and Good were complying with the policeman's order to return to their porch when she was arrested.


"The real reason they arrested her was because she was videotaping," Acuff said. Both he and Good are activists who have previously protested foreclosures in the area.


Acuff has posted his own account of the arrest on Indymedia. He said he and Good were videotaping the traffic stop out of concern about police misconduct.


The police report of the arrest contains another apparent discrepancy from what appears on the video: Masic writes that the traffic stop targeted three individuals who "were all chalkem south gang members."


"This gang is known for drugs guns and violence," Masic notes, underscoring the danger of the situation.


The video, while dark, appears to only show one man led out of the car. Good's public defender says that as far as she has been able to determine, only one man was pulled over.


The Rochester Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.


In a statement released to the press, Rochester Police Chief James Sheppard said that while he had "researched" the incident, "With the case still pending and my unfamiliarity with the specific details, any assumptions at this time would be premature."


The police department has launched an internal investigation.


Good is scheduled to appear in court on Monday, where her public defender hopes the case will be dismissed.


If that doesn't happen, Stare said, she was not afraid of bringing Good's case to a jury trial.


"She was well within her rights."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/...ed-videotaping-police-rochester_n_882122.html

video linked

 

[BrnCow]

Back in the day in hs, there was a joke going around that a friend was someone who got two bjs and came home and gave you one...lol

 

[paladin420]

I suppose that would be a limitation to a lot of people and I understand it completely.

However I have also spent enough years living in America to know that 90% of the allegations made are insanely exaggerated by LEO and the court systems. If I consider somebody a friend of mine, I allow them the benefit of doubt and will back em until I know otherwise.
But just because somebody accuses another, doesn't mean it's true.
And just because a judge will allow a prosecuting attorney to sell a lie to a jury doesn't mean a crime ever occurred.

And if a friend of mine had molested a child I would sadly take my bro fishin/huntin or whatever man one last time. Just like ole Yellar..

 

[joeuser]

Your only true friend is the reflection you see in the mirror. But to get an idea who is really down for you just see who is still around when you have nothing to offer. Better yet when you are down and out.

Why should they? Seriously...

How many losers do YOU hang out with? Do you meet them in their cardboard box under the bridge? Or do they come to your house for a meal and a shower?

People want winners...you do too.

I learned VERY early how shitty people are and how they LOVE you when you're a winner and dump you in a minute when you lose.