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melliyna and I have been tossing this around for the past few days, and I thought it would be nice to open it up to all of you.What have you learned from watching Criminal Minds?
Also, we seem to have started a #hashtag on twitter: #ThingsIHaveLearnedFromCM. Come play! :)
Here are some of the #ThingsIHaveLearnedFromCM:
- It is okay to not be okay. The people who are always okay? Are a little scary.
- The only person who can actually save you is yourself. Keep going.
- If you don't take control of your life, your life will take control of you.
- Always, always, always lock the back door!
- Watch out for the twitchy ones [tardive dyskinesia]
- People who lie look down and to the left.
- There are no excuses. There may be explanations, but there are no excuses.
- Doing nothing is a still a choice.
- Don't underestimate the geeky ones :)
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 12:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 05:50 am (UTC)How is that even fair?
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 12:27 am (UTC)- Don't use the pick up line "I work for the FBI" if you live in Virginia. Real FBI agents will LOL at you.
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 12:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 12:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 12:37 am (UTC)*Don't mess with the cute blondes.
*It's okay to say you are not okay.
*Families can be made, not born.
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 12:39 am (UTC)Always secure normal locks, electronic locks, and just about anything other people can use to get inside your house.
Surviving with an unsub #101: play along.
Learn self defense.
And quite a few other things.
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 01:54 am (UTC)Unless they're sort of delusional and keep you locked in a cage and want you to read them stories.
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 12:47 am (UTC)False! I can look someone directly in the eye and lie...and usually look away at various points just to confuse them, so they don't know WHEN I'm being honest or lying. I can cry and look truly in distress when I feel fine...I can "fake" all sorts of things!
Lots of sociopaths are "clever".
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 11:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 12:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 08:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 01:14 am (UTC)*Be assertive -- do not go quietly
*Know your rights
Also, since an episode of Criminal Minds (the one with the woman who's being stalked -- idk the name of it) I'm much more careful with customer's personal information. I work at a Blockbuster and I try to never say a customer's complete info (like address or telephone number) out loud unless they ask me to.
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 01:19 am (UTC)there are 800? kernels of corn on a cob in 14? vertical rows
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 01:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 01:23 am (UTC)- Be careful when accepting food from strangers, even if they belong to the same social group as you do.
- Make sure that you have cellphone service where you're going.
- It's easier if people think you're a bad liar. Then you can get away with the really big ones.
- "FINE!" is an acceptable answer to everything.
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 01:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 01:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 01:29 am (UTC)The creepy guy who looks like he wants to kill you is probably going to kill you. Horribly.
The people most likely to molest you are closer than you think.
Don't let your children out of your goddamn sight!
Don't have glass doors. Always have security screens and lockable windows and a deadbolt.
Always have a Garcia or a Reid on hand when you get stuck on the details! And if you need someone to do the tackling, make sure Morgan's around, or in a pinch Hotch or Prentiss.
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 05:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 02:00 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 04:40 am (UTC)If you want to steal from a store line the bags with tinfoil. This ensures the alarm won't go off.
If you are pretty, you're pretty much screwed because some psychopath will pick and stalk you because you fit the victimology. (pretty blondes or brunettes or red heads).
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 05:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 04:45 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 08:36 am (UTC)a) directions
b) a light
c) [insert totally innocent request here ]
chances are I will pepperspray you, kick you, tie you up in a knot, and then drop-kick you into the next available manhole/river/off the next roof, because CM has made me a leeeetle paranoid.
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 08:28 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 11:18 am (UTC)- sugar and caffeine are also major food groups
- run if you can (but not down the middle of the road)
- if you can't run, then fight (and fight dirty)
- if you can't run and you can't fight, then THINK (and don't give up) (although I think this is pretty much standard training for front line officers)
- don't ever get out of your car
- and for the really paranoid - don't go out. But if you do go out, don't go home after.
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 12:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: Dec. 14th, 2009 08:34 pm (UTC)Coffee is a food group.
The nice people are usually the ones out to get you.
The normal people are usually the ones out to get you.
The scary people are usually the ones out to get you.
Webcams, garage door openers, GPS, and almost all electronics will lead someone to stalk you and kill you.
We can choose our family.
Brooding is sexy.
Continuity is for wimps....I'm making up my history as I go along.
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