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Saturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM
BRENDA
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: So am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. I hear ya. Moods... Been trapped in my house for a few weeks like I said, and now it's the weekend and it's in the single digits outside. I don't imagine I'll be going anywhere, even though I was hoping to hang out with one of my friends. It's going to warm up during the week though, so hopefully I can just drop by and visit his family for a while and maybe watch a movie or something. I need to get out of the house. Ever since I've been able to sit up without back pain, I've kind of dove back headfirst into my project work. Probably not the right thing to do, but I can't really seem to get myself motivated on doing work on my house at the moment, and it sure beats watching YouTube all day long. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick.
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: So am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.
Saturday, December 13, 2025 8:18 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him.
Quote:I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good.
Quote:Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again.
Saturday, December 13, 2025 10:49 PM
Saturday, December 13, 2025 11:55 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. Now I feel kind of bad that I let my back thing on top of the other stuff take such a toll on me this time around and I basically stopped communicating with everyone (IRL too). I enjoy our banter, even though I can't be relied upon at all to keep it up and I just kind of ride the waves... How do you mean "beating it off with a stick"? I think that's probably a local or Canadian idiom that isn't directly translated to one we regularly use around here, maybe? Does it mean "don't beat yourself up over it"??? I've found that keeping yourself busy is always the real way of getting yourself out of a funk or at least keeping it at bay. I hope you're still writing, and glad you go out all the time to play Mahjong. I know you rent stuff frequently from the Library, but outside of that do you regularly watch TV or the internet? For me, at least, I've found that this is the absolute worst thing I can do if I'm prone in any way to sink into depression or even just a temporary funk. I don't even feel that way about video games, at least the strategic and/or puzzle games I like playing. I may not be doing anything while I'm doing that, but I'm keeping my mind active instead of trancing out and allowing whatever is playing on the TV control the direction of my thinking on a one-way basis. Something about the interactivity of video games doesn't let me fall as deep into the depths as watching TV shows and movies do. That's why I can honestly say that the amount of movies and TV shows that I've watched since I sobered up nearly 9 years ago without being in the company of others is probably less than 50 hours. It's certainly under a hundred. That's not bad, considering there's 78,840 hours in 9 years. I dunno. Not telling you what to do or telling you that it would even work, but if you do watch the boob tube quite a bit on a given day, maybe you should listen to some music and do something else for a change of pace? Quote:I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Yeah. Me too. I rarely go a day without at least talking to some people on the phone, but after this much time it's just not the same. I think the high gets back up to around 40 by Tuesday, so fingers crossed. Right now it's 7 degrees (or about -14C) and headed towards a low of -2 degrees. Yuck. Quote:Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again.
Saturday, December 13, 2025 11:56 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick.
Sunday, December 14, 2025 2:16 PM
Sunday, December 14, 2025 2:19 PM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s.
Sunday, December 14, 2025 11:47 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. Ok, I won't. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Monday, December 15, 2025 1:03 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around.
Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it.
Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on.
Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah.
Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those.
Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies.
Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold.
Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great.
Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda.
Monday, December 15, 2025 2:02 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda.
Monday, December 15, 2025 2:03 PM
Monday, December 15, 2025 2:54 PM
THG
Keep it real please
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T
Quote:Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted...
Quote:Originally posted by THG: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger edge guy I'd ever hung out with who never smoked, drank or did any drugs. Damn shame. I'm sure you'll be fine in the pool Brenda. Just don't go it alone just in case. I'm glad that your doctor feels that it's safe for you to do it since you enjoy it so much and it really is good exercise and should help you out in other ways. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick.
Monday, December 15, 2025 2:55 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Wow, that is a handsome piece, SECOND! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry KissingerQuote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T
Monday, December 15, 2025 3:14 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick.
Monday, December 15, 2025 3:31 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)%0D%0A%0D%0APOSTED BY: SIGNYM%0D%0AUPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:14%0D%0ASHORT URL:%0D%0AVIEWED: 195028%0D%0APAGE 130 of 130%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0APREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE%0D%0ASaturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM%0D%0A%0D%0A%09%0D%0ABRENDA%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by 6ixStringJack:%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by Brenda:%0D%0ASo am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try.
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)%0D%0A%0D%0APOSTED BY: SIGNYM%0D%0AUPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:14%0D%0ASHORT URL:%0D%0AVIEWED: 195028%0D%0APAGE 130 of 130%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0APREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE%0D%0ASaturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM%0D%0A%0D%0A%09%0D%0ABRENDA%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by 6ixStringJack:%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by Brenda:%0D%0ASo am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick.
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)%0D%0A%0D%0APOSTED BY: SIGNYM%0D%0AUPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:14%0D%0ASHORT URL:%0D%0AVIEWED: 195028%0D%0APAGE 130 of 130%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0APREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE%0D%0ASaturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM%0D%0A%0D%0A%09%0D%0ABRENDA%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by 6ixStringJack:%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by Brenda:%0D%0ASo am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda.
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)%0D%0A%0D%0APOSTED BY: SIGNYM%0D%0AUPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:14%0D%0ASHORT URL:%0D%0AVIEWED: 195028%0D%0APAGE 130 of 130%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0APREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE%0D%0ASaturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM%0D%0A%0D%0A%09%0D%0ABRENDA%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by 6ixStringJack:%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by Brenda:%0D%0ASo am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around.
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See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. I hear ya. Moods... Been trapped in my house for a few weeks like I said, and now it's the weekend and it's in the single digits outside. I don't imagine I'll be going anywhere, even though I was hoping to hang out with one of my friends. It's going to warm up during the week though, so hopefully I can just drop by and visit his family for a while and maybe watch a movie or something. I need to get out of the house. Ever since I've been able to sit up without back pain, I've kind of dove back headfirst into my project work. Probably not the right thing to do, but I can't really seem to get myself motivated on doing work on my house at the moment, and it sure beats watching YouTube all day long. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 8:18 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. Now I feel kind of bad that I let my back thing on top of the other stuff take such a toll on me this time around and I basically stopped communicating with everyone (IRL too). I enjoy our banter, even though I can't be relied upon at all to keep it up and I just kind of ride the waves... How do you mean "beating it off with a stick"? I think that's probably a local or Canadian idiom that isn't directly translated to one we regularly use around here, maybe? Does it mean "don't beat yourself up over it"??? I've found that keeping yourself busy is always the real way of getting yourself out of a funk or at least keeping it at bay. I hope you're still writing, and glad you go out all the time to play Mahjong. I know you rent stuff frequently from the Library, but outside of that do you regularly watch TV or the internet? For me, at least, I've found that this is the absolute worst thing I can do if I'm prone in any way to sink into depression or even just a temporary funk. I don't even feel that way about video games, at least the strategic and/or puzzle games I like playing. I may not be doing anything while I'm doing that, but I'm keeping my mind active instead of trancing out and allowing whatever is playing on the TV control the direction of my thinking on a one-way basis. Something about the interactivity of video games doesn't let me fall as deep into the depths as watching TV shows and movies do. That's why I can honestly say that the amount of movies and TV shows that I've watched since I sobered up nearly 9 years ago without being in the company of others is probably less than 50 hours. It's certainly under a hundred. That's not bad, considering there's 78,840 hours in 9 years. I dunno. Not telling you what to do or telling you that it would even work, but if you do watch the boob tube quite a bit on a given day, maybe you should listen to some music and do something else for a change of pace? Quote: I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Yeah. Me too. I rarely go a day without at least talking to some people on the phone, but after this much time it's just not the same. I think the high gets back up to around 40 by Tuesday, so fingers crossed. Right now it's 7 degrees (or about -14C) and headed towards a low of -2 degrees. Yuck. Quote: Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again. Well yeah... The house projects are great. Each one is a step closer to getting this house ready to put on the market and give me more options than I currently have, and I'm up and about and active and just feeling better about myself. Unfortunately, that's not the projects I'm talking about right now. It's the computer based stuff that's been a life-long time sink and probably won't ever pay off in any way financially. I'm more likely to injure myself doing this by letting time get away from me and forgetting that I'd been sitting in the same position for 4 hours since the last time I got up and moved. But my mood is a lot better after a few days of at least feeling like I'm accomplishing something worthwhile instead of just sitting around in pain and/or in a freezing cold house. Hope you can get out of your funk too. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 10:49 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 11:55 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. Now I feel kind of bad that I let my back thing on top of the other stuff take such a toll on me this time around and I basically stopped communicating with everyone (IRL too). I enjoy our banter, even though I can't be relied upon at all to keep it up and I just kind of ride the waves... How do you mean "beating it off with a stick"? I think that's probably a local or Canadian idiom that isn't directly translated to one we regularly use around here, maybe? Does it mean "don't beat yourself up over it"??? I've found that keeping yourself busy is always the real way of getting yourself out of a funk or at least keeping it at bay. I hope you're still writing, and glad you go out all the time to play Mahjong. I know you rent stuff frequently from the Library, but outside of that do you regularly watch TV or the internet? For me, at least, I've found that this is the absolute worst thing I can do if I'm prone in any way to sink into depression or even just a temporary funk. I don't even feel that way about video games, at least the strategic and/or puzzle games I like playing. I may not be doing anything while I'm doing that, but I'm keeping my mind active instead of trancing out and allowing whatever is playing on the TV control the direction of my thinking on a one-way basis. Something about the interactivity of video games doesn't let me fall as deep into the depths as watching TV shows and movies do. That's why I can honestly say that the amount of movies and TV shows that I've watched since I sobered up nearly 9 years ago without being in the company of others is probably less than 50 hours. It's certainly under a hundred. That's not bad, considering there's 78,840 hours in 9 years. I dunno. Not telling you what to do or telling you that it would even work, but if you do watch the boob tube quite a bit on a given day, maybe you should listen to some music and do something else for a change of pace? Quote: I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Yeah. Me too. I rarely go a day without at least talking to some people on the phone, but after this much time it's just not the same. I think the high gets back up to around 40 by Tuesday, so fingers crossed. Right now it's 7 degrees (or about -14C) and headed towards a low of -2 degrees. Yuck. Quote: Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again. Well yeah... The house projects are great. Each one is a step closer to getting this house ready to put on the market and give me more options than I currently have, and I'm up and about and active and just feeling better about myself. Unfortunately, that's not the projects I'm talking about right now. It's the computer based stuff that's been a life-long time sink and probably won't ever pay off in any way financially. I'm more likely to injure myself doing this by letting time get away from me and forgetting that I'd been sitting in the same position for 4 hours since the last time I got up and moved. But my mood is a lot better after a few days of at least feeling like I'm accomplishing something worthwhile instead of just sitting around in pain and/or in a freezing cold house. Hope you can get out of your funk too. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 11:56 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 14, 2025 2:16 PM BRENDA Quiet Sunday around me. Got rain outside. So glad I'm staying in. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 14, 2025 2:19 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. Ok, I won't. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 14, 2025 11:47 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. Ok, I won't. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger Yeah, please don't. Still facing more rain up here. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 1:03 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:02 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:03 PM BRENDA Out on a windy and possibly rainy day. Need groceries as left overs gone. Seniors centre is doing its Christmas lunch and I need to order it for Thursday. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:54 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger edge guy I'd ever hung out with who never smoked, drank or did any drugs. Damn shame. I'm sure you'll be fine in the pool Brenda. Just don't go it alone just in case. I'm glad that your doctor feels that it's safe for you to do it since you enjoy it so much and it really is good exercise and should help you out in other ways. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Sorry to hear that SIX. That is terrible. So am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. OMG SIX, that's a tragedy. People don't respect how dangerous the ocean can be. Even experienced surfers have accidents just fooling around near shore. . Yes, BRENDA, antiseizure meds can really mess up moods. Keppra is one of them. And I'm sure the weather doesn't help. My sis in WNY turns into a total crank in winter. It's not seasonal affective disorder (SAD) I don't think. It's just that the snow makes life so difficult. AFA flooding ... I don't know about the hydrogeology in those areas, but one GOOD thing about widespread flooding is that (with the right geology) it can help recharge aquifers, which are being depleted prodigiously. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger No more chances T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:54 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by THG: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger edge guy I'd ever hung out with who never smoked, drank or did any drugs. Damn shame. I'm sure you'll be fine in the pool Brenda. Just don't go it alone just in case. I'm glad that your doctor feels that it's safe for you to do it since you enjoy it so much and it really is good exercise and should help you out in other ways. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Sorry to hear that SIX. That is terrible. So am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. OMG SIX, that's a tragedy. People don't respect how dangerous the ocean can be. Even experienced surfers have accidents just fooling around near shore. . Yes, BRENDA, antiseizure meds can really mess up moods. Keppra is one of them. And I'm sure the weather doesn't help. My sis in WNY turns into a total crank in winter. It's not seasonal affective disorder (SAD) I don't think. It's just that the snow makes life so difficult. AFA flooding ... I don't know about the hydrogeology in those areas, but one GOOD thing about widespread flooding is that (with the right geology) it can help recharge aquifers, which are being depleted prodigiously. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger No more chances T T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:55 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Wow, that is a handsome piece, SECOND! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 3:14 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. Wow, look at what I missed! I guess I have the opposite problem. Family and dog and housework and yardwork and doctors appointments keep me pretty busy. My "me" time is usually in the AM, before my night owl family wakes up, and that I spend either reading the news or playing various online games like sudoku or solitaire. Then I'm on the go as much as energy and motivation will allow. Hubby is no longer active. He sits and watches videos about big machine repair (turning new parts on a lathe, casting or welding, or about various planes or cars, etc) and he and dear daughter LOVE to watch TV in the evening, so I get stuck watching for 3 hours or so ... a lot more than I enjoy. I would really rather be bunny trailing my way thru the inet or reading or thinking. I know most of my neighbors... the dog is a real conversation starter... but I wouldn't call any of them friends. In fact, I really don't have any, and all of my family and hubby's family live in NY state (not the city. At the other end of the state!) so despite the fact that I know so many people, I'd say I was isolated too. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 3:31 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! 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He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. Wow, look at what I missed! I guess I have the opposite problem. Family and dog and housework and yardwork and doctors appointments keep me pretty busy. My "me" time is usually in the AM, before my night owl family wakes up, and that I spend either reading the news or playing various online games like sudoku or solitaire. Then I'm on the go as much as energy and motivation will allow. Hubby is no longer active. He sits and watches videos about big machine repair (turning new parts on a lathe, casting or welding, or about various planes or cars, etc) and he and dear daughter LOVE to watch TV in the evening, so I get stuck watching for 3 hours or so ... a lot more than I enjoy. I would really rather be bunny trailing my way thru the inet or reading or thinking. I know most of my neighbors... the dog is a real conversation starter... but I wouldn't call any of them friends. In fact, I really don't have any, and all of my family and hubby's family live in NY state (not the city. At the other end of the state!) so despite the fact that I know so many people, I'd say I was isolated too. 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Mon, December 15, 2025 14:45 - 24 posts QAnons' representatives here Mon, December 15, 2025 14:41 - 1142 posts Hollywood exposes themselves as the phony whores they are Mon, December 15, 2025 14:29 - 220 posts Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too? Mon, December 15, 2025 14:28 - 4105 posts Go Joe Biden Go Mon, December 15, 2025 14:26 - 259 posts A thread for Democrats Only Mon, December 15, 2025 14:25 - 7149 posts All things Space Mon, December 15, 2025 14:23 - 372 posts VIEW MORE TOPICS FFF.NET SOCIAL All FIREFLY graphics and photos on this page are copyright 2002-2012 Mutant Enemy, Inc., Universal Pictures, and 20th Century Fox. All other graphics and texts are copyright of the contributors to this website. This website IS NOT affiliated with the Official Firefly Site, Mutant Enemy, Inc., or 20th Century Fox. Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)%0D%0A%0D%0APOSTED BY: SIGNYM%0D%0AUPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:14%0D%0ASHORT URL:%0D%0AVIEWED: 195028%0D%0APAGE 130 of 130%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0APREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE%0D%0ASaturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM%0D%0A%0D%0A%09%0D%0ABRENDA%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by 6ixStringJack:%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by Brenda:%0D%0ASo am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. Wow, look at what I missed! I guess I have the opposite problem. Family and dog and housework and yardwork and doctors appointments keep me pretty busy. My "me" time is usually in the AM, before my night owl family wakes up, and that I spend either reading the news or playing various online games like sudoku or solitaire. Then I'm on the go as much as energy and motivation will allow. Hubby is no longer active. He sits and watches videos about big machine repair (turning new parts on a lathe, casting or welding, or about various planes or cars, etc) and he and dear daughter LOVE to watch TV in the evening, so I get stuck watching for 3 hours or so ... a lot more than I enjoy. I would really rather be bunny trailing my way thru the inet or reading or thinking. I know most of my neighbors... the dog is a real conversation starter... but I wouldn't call any of them friends. In fact, I really don't have any, and all of my family and hubby's family live in NY state (not the city. At the other end of the state!) so despite the fact that I know so many people, I'd say I was isolated too. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda:THG | Log off ABOUTMAPCHATEVENTSFIRECASTSBLOGSCOMMUNITYBLUE SUN ROOMPROFILEHOME Skip Navigation LinksHOME >> COMMUNITY >> REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS >> IN THE GARDEN, AND RAIN!!! (2) REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2) POSTED BY: SIGNYM UPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:31 SHORT URL: VIEWED: 195030 PAGE 130 of 130 PREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE Saturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: So am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. I hear ya. Moods... Been trapped in my house for a few weeks like I said, and now it's the weekend and it's in the single digits outside. I don't imagine I'll be going anywhere, even though I was hoping to hang out with one of my friends. It's going to warm up during the week though, so hopefully I can just drop by and visit his family for a while and maybe watch a movie or something. I need to get out of the house. Ever since I've been able to sit up without back pain, I've kind of dove back headfirst into my project work. Probably not the right thing to do, but I can't really seem to get myself motivated on doing work on my house at the moment, and it sure beats watching YouTube all day long. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 8:18 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. Now I feel kind of bad that I let my back thing on top of the other stuff take such a toll on me this time around and I basically stopped communicating with everyone (IRL too). I enjoy our banter, even though I can't be relied upon at all to keep it up and I just kind of ride the waves... How do you mean "beating it off with a stick"? I think that's probably a local or Canadian idiom that isn't directly translated to one we regularly use around here, maybe? Does it mean "don't beat yourself up over it"??? I've found that keeping yourself busy is always the real way of getting yourself out of a funk or at least keeping it at bay. I hope you're still writing, and glad you go out all the time to play Mahjong. I know you rent stuff frequently from the Library, but outside of that do you regularly watch TV or the internet? For me, at least, I've found that this is the absolute worst thing I can do if I'm prone in any way to sink into depression or even just a temporary funk. I don't even feel that way about video games, at least the strategic and/or puzzle games I like playing. I may not be doing anything while I'm doing that, but I'm keeping my mind active instead of trancing out and allowing whatever is playing on the TV control the direction of my thinking on a one-way basis. Something about the interactivity of video games doesn't let me fall as deep into the depths as watching TV shows and movies do. That's why I can honestly say that the amount of movies and TV shows that I've watched since I sobered up nearly 9 years ago without being in the company of others is probably less than 50 hours. It's certainly under a hundred. That's not bad, considering there's 78,840 hours in 9 years. I dunno. Not telling you what to do or telling you that it would even work, but if you do watch the boob tube quite a bit on a given day, maybe you should listen to some music and do something else for a change of pace? Quote: I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Yeah. Me too. I rarely go a day without at least talking to some people on the phone, but after this much time it's just not the same. I think the high gets back up to around 40 by Tuesday, so fingers crossed. Right now it's 7 degrees (or about -14C) and headed towards a low of -2 degrees. Yuck. Quote: Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again. Well yeah... The house projects are great. Each one is a step closer to getting this house ready to put on the market and give me more options than I currently have, and I'm up and about and active and just feeling better about myself. Unfortunately, that's not the projects I'm talking about right now. It's the computer based stuff that's been a life-long time sink and probably won't ever pay off in any way financially. I'm more likely to injure myself doing this by letting time get away from me and forgetting that I'd been sitting in the same position for 4 hours since the last time I got up and moved. But my mood is a lot better after a few days of at least feeling like I'm accomplishing something worthwhile instead of just sitting around in pain and/or in a freezing cold house. Hope you can get out of your funk too. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 10:49 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 11:55 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. Now I feel kind of bad that I let my back thing on top of the other stuff take such a toll on me this time around and I basically stopped communicating with everyone (IRL too). I enjoy our banter, even though I can't be relied upon at all to keep it up and I just kind of ride the waves... How do you mean "beating it off with a stick"? I think that's probably a local or Canadian idiom that isn't directly translated to one we regularly use around here, maybe? Does it mean "don't beat yourself up over it"??? I've found that keeping yourself busy is always the real way of getting yourself out of a funk or at least keeping it at bay. I hope you're still writing, and glad you go out all the time to play Mahjong. I know you rent stuff frequently from the Library, but outside of that do you regularly watch TV or the internet? For me, at least, I've found that this is the absolute worst thing I can do if I'm prone in any way to sink into depression or even just a temporary funk. I don't even feel that way about video games, at least the strategic and/or puzzle games I like playing. I may not be doing anything while I'm doing that, but I'm keeping my mind active instead of trancing out and allowing whatever is playing on the TV control the direction of my thinking on a one-way basis. Something about the interactivity of video games doesn't let me fall as deep into the depths as watching TV shows and movies do. That's why I can honestly say that the amount of movies and TV shows that I've watched since I sobered up nearly 9 years ago without being in the company of others is probably less than 50 hours. It's certainly under a hundred. That's not bad, considering there's 78,840 hours in 9 years. I dunno. Not telling you what to do or telling you that it would even work, but if you do watch the boob tube quite a bit on a given day, maybe you should listen to some music and do something else for a change of pace? Quote: I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Yeah. Me too. I rarely go a day without at least talking to some people on the phone, but after this much time it's just not the same. I think the high gets back up to around 40 by Tuesday, so fingers crossed. Right now it's 7 degrees (or about -14C) and headed towards a low of -2 degrees. Yuck. Quote: Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again. Well yeah... The house projects are great. Each one is a step closer to getting this house ready to put on the market and give me more options than I currently have, and I'm up and about and active and just feeling better about myself. Unfortunately, that's not the projects I'm talking about right now. It's the computer based stuff that's been a life-long time sink and probably won't ever pay off in any way financially. I'm more likely to injure myself doing this by letting time get away from me and forgetting that I'd been sitting in the same position for 4 hours since the last time I got up and moved. But my mood is a lot better after a few days of at least feeling like I'm accomplishing something worthwhile instead of just sitting around in pain and/or in a freezing cold house. Hope you can get out of your funk too. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 11:56 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 14, 2025 2:16 PM BRENDA Quiet Sunday around me. Got rain outside. So glad I'm staying in. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 14, 2025 2:19 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. Ok, I won't. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 14, 2025 11:47 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. Ok, I won't. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger Yeah, please don't. Still facing more rain up here. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 1:03 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:02 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:03 PM BRENDA Out on a windy and possibly rainy day. Need groceries as left overs gone. Seniors centre is doing its Christmas lunch and I need to order it for Thursday. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:54 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger edge guy I'd ever hung out with who never smoked, drank or did any drugs. Damn shame. I'm sure you'll be fine in the pool Brenda. Just don't go it alone just in case. I'm glad that your doctor feels that it's safe for you to do it since you enjoy it so much and it really is good exercise and should help you out in other ways. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Sorry to hear that SIX. That is terrible. So am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. OMG SIX, that's a tragedy. People don't respect how dangerous the ocean can be. Even experienced surfers have accidents just fooling around near shore. . Yes, BRENDA, antiseizure meds can really mess up moods. Keppra is one of them. And I'm sure the weather doesn't help. My sis in WNY turns into a total crank in winter. It's not seasonal affective disorder (SAD) I don't think. It's just that the snow makes life so difficult. AFA flooding ... I don't know about the hydrogeology in those areas, but one GOOD thing about widespread flooding is that (with the right geology) it can help recharge aquifers, which are being depleted prodigiously. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger No more chances T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:54 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by THG: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger edge guy I'd ever hung out with who never smoked, drank or did any drugs. Damn shame. I'm sure you'll be fine in the pool Brenda. Just don't go it alone just in case. I'm glad that your doctor feels that it's safe for you to do it since you enjoy it so much and it really is good exercise and should help you out in other ways. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Sorry to hear that SIX. That is terrible. So am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. OMG SIX, that's a tragedy. People don't respect how dangerous the ocean can be. Even experienced surfers have accidents just fooling around near shore. . Yes, BRENDA, antiseizure meds can really mess up moods. Keppra is one of them. And I'm sure the weather doesn't help. My sis in WNY turns into a total crank in winter. It's not seasonal affective disorder (SAD) I don't think. It's just that the snow makes life so difficult. AFA flooding ... I don't know about the hydrogeology in those areas, but one GOOD thing about widespread flooding is that (with the right geology) it can help recharge aquifers, which are being depleted prodigiously. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger No more chances T T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:55 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Wow, that is a handsome piece, SECOND! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 3:14 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. Wow, look at what I missed! I guess I have the opposite problem. Family and dog and housework and yardwork and doctors appointments keep me pretty busy. My "me" time is usually in the AM, before my night owl family wakes up, and that I spend either reading the news or playing various online games like sudoku or solitaire. Then I'm on the go as much as energy and motivation will allow. Hubby is no longer active. He sits and watches videos about big machine repair (turning new parts on a lathe, casting or welding, or about various planes or cars, etc) and he and dear daughter LOVE to watch TV in the evening, so I get stuck watching for 3 hours or so ... a lot more than I enjoy. I would really rather be bunny trailing my way thru the inet or reading or thinking. I know most of my neighbors... the dog is a real conversation starter... but I wouldn't call any of them friends. In fact, I really don't have any, and all of my family and hubby's family live in NY state (not the city. At the other end of the state!) so despite the fact that I know so many people, I'd say I was isolated too. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 3:31 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)%0D%0A%0D%0APOSTED BY: SIGNYM%0D%0AUPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:14%0D%0ASHORT URL:%0D%0AVIEWED: 195028%0D%0APAGE 130 of 130%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0APREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE%0D%0ASaturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM%0D%0A%0D%0A%09%0D%0ABRENDA%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by 6ixStringJack:%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by Brenda:%0D%0ASo am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. Wow, look at what I missed! I guess I have the opposite problem. Family and dog and housework and yardwork and doctors appointments keep me pretty busy. My "me" time is usually in the AM, before my night owl family wakes up, and that I spend either reading the news or playing various online games like sudoku or solitaire. Then I'm on the go as much as energy and motivation will allow. Hubby is no longer active. He sits and watches videos about big machine repair (turning new parts on a lathe, casting or welding, or about various planes or cars, etc) and he and dear daughter LOVE to watch TV in the evening, so I get stuck watching for 3 hours or so ... a lot more than I enjoy. I would really rather be bunny trailing my way thru the inet or reading or thinking. I know most of my neighbors... the dog is a real conversation starter... but I wouldn't call any of them friends. In fact, I really don't have any, and all of my family and hubby's family live in NY state (not the city. At the other end of the state!) so despite the fact that I know so many people, I'd say I was isolated too. 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I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)%0D%0A%0D%0APOSTED BY: SIGNYM%0D%0AUPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:14%0D%0ASHORT URL:%0D%0AVIEWED: 195028%0D%0APAGE 130 of 130%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0APREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE%0D%0ASaturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM%0D%0A%0D%0A%09%0D%0ABRENDA%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by 6ixStringJack:%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by Brenda:%0D%0ASo am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try.
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He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. I hear ya. Moods... Been trapped in my house for a few weeks like I said, and now it's the weekend and it's in the single digits outside. I don't imagine I'll be going anywhere, even though I was hoping to hang out with one of my friends. It's going to warm up during the week though, so hopefully I can just drop by and visit his family for a while and maybe watch a movie or something. I need to get out of the house. Ever since I've been able to sit up without back pain, I've kind of dove back headfirst into my project work. Probably not the right thing to do, but I can't really seem to get myself motivated on doing work on my house at the moment, and it sure beats watching YouTube all day long. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 8:18 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. Now I feel kind of bad that I let my back thing on top of the other stuff take such a toll on me this time around and I basically stopped communicating with everyone (IRL too). I enjoy our banter, even though I can't be relied upon at all to keep it up and I just kind of ride the waves... How do you mean "beating it off with a stick"? I think that's probably a local or Canadian idiom that isn't directly translated to one we regularly use around here, maybe? Does it mean "don't beat yourself up over it"??? I've found that keeping yourself busy is always the real way of getting yourself out of a funk or at least keeping it at bay. I hope you're still writing, and glad you go out all the time to play Mahjong. I know you rent stuff frequently from the Library, but outside of that do you regularly watch TV or the internet? For me, at least, I've found that this is the absolute worst thing I can do if I'm prone in any way to sink into depression or even just a temporary funk. I don't even feel that way about video games, at least the strategic and/or puzzle games I like playing. I may not be doing anything while I'm doing that, but I'm keeping my mind active instead of trancing out and allowing whatever is playing on the TV control the direction of my thinking on a one-way basis. Something about the interactivity of video games doesn't let me fall as deep into the depths as watching TV shows and movies do. That's why I can honestly say that the amount of movies and TV shows that I've watched since I sobered up nearly 9 years ago without being in the company of others is probably less than 50 hours. It's certainly under a hundred. That's not bad, considering there's 78,840 hours in 9 years. I dunno. Not telling you what to do or telling you that it would even work, but if you do watch the boob tube quite a bit on a given day, maybe you should listen to some music and do something else for a change of pace? Quote: I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Yeah. Me too. I rarely go a day without at least talking to some people on the phone, but after this much time it's just not the same. I think the high gets back up to around 40 by Tuesday, so fingers crossed. Right now it's 7 degrees (or about -14C) and headed towards a low of -2 degrees. Yuck. Quote: Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again. Well yeah... The house projects are great. Each one is a step closer to getting this house ready to put on the market and give me more options than I currently have, and I'm up and about and active and just feeling better about myself. Unfortunately, that's not the projects I'm talking about right now. It's the computer based stuff that's been a life-long time sink and probably won't ever pay off in any way financially. I'm more likely to injure myself doing this by letting time get away from me and forgetting that I'd been sitting in the same position for 4 hours since the last time I got up and moved. But my mood is a lot better after a few days of at least feeling like I'm accomplishing something worthwhile instead of just sitting around in pain and/or in a freezing cold house. Hope you can get out of your funk too. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 10:49 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 11:55 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Yeah, not good being in the funk I'm in. Doc said beating it off with a stick isn't much help. Can't say I disagree with him. Now I feel kind of bad that I let my back thing on top of the other stuff take such a toll on me this time around and I basically stopped communicating with everyone (IRL too). I enjoy our banter, even though I can't be relied upon at all to keep it up and I just kind of ride the waves... How do you mean "beating it off with a stick"? I think that's probably a local or Canadian idiom that isn't directly translated to one we regularly use around here, maybe? Does it mean "don't beat yourself up over it"??? I've found that keeping yourself busy is always the real way of getting yourself out of a funk or at least keeping it at bay. I hope you're still writing, and glad you go out all the time to play Mahjong. I know you rent stuff frequently from the Library, but outside of that do you regularly watch TV or the internet? For me, at least, I've found that this is the absolute worst thing I can do if I'm prone in any way to sink into depression or even just a temporary funk. I don't even feel that way about video games, at least the strategic and/or puzzle games I like playing. I may not be doing anything while I'm doing that, but I'm keeping my mind active instead of trancing out and allowing whatever is playing on the TV control the direction of my thinking on a one-way basis. Something about the interactivity of video games doesn't let me fall as deep into the depths as watching TV shows and movies do. That's why I can honestly say that the amount of movies and TV shows that I've watched since I sobered up nearly 9 years ago without being in the company of others is probably less than 50 hours. It's certainly under a hundred. That's not bad, considering there's 78,840 hours in 9 years. I dunno. Not telling you what to do or telling you that it would even work, but if you do watch the boob tube quite a bit on a given day, maybe you should listen to some music and do something else for a change of pace? Quote: I hope you can get out and see your friend and his family. Talking with people in person is good. Yeah. Me too. I rarely go a day without at least talking to some people on the phone, but after this much time it's just not the same. I think the high gets back up to around 40 by Tuesday, so fingers crossed. Right now it's 7 degrees (or about -14C) and headed towards a low of -2 degrees. Yuck. Quote: Think your projects are okay at least they keep you busy and give you something else to concentrate on. Just take them slow so you don't injure yourself again. Well yeah... The house projects are great. Each one is a step closer to getting this house ready to put on the market and give me more options than I currently have, and I'm up and about and active and just feeling better about myself. Unfortunately, that's not the projects I'm talking about right now. It's the computer based stuff that's been a life-long time sink and probably won't ever pay off in any way financially. I'm more likely to injure myself doing this by letting time get away from me and forgetting that I'd been sitting in the same position for 4 hours since the last time I got up and moved. But my mood is a lot better after a few days of at least feeling like I'm accomplishing something worthwhile instead of just sitting around in pain and/or in a freezing cold house. Hope you can get out of your funk too. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 13, 2025 11:56 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 14, 2025 2:16 PM BRENDA Quiet Sunday around me. Got rain outside. So glad I'm staying in. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 14, 2025 2:19 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. Ok, I won't. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 14, 2025 11:47 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Damn... It is so cold around here right now. Hope it's warmer up where you are, Brenda. Don't tell me how warm it is by you until at least Monday, Sigs. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. It's around 50F or s. Ok, I won't. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger Yeah, please don't. Still facing more rain up here. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 1:03 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:02 PM BRENDA Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:03 PM BRENDA Out on a windy and possibly rainy day. Need groceries as left overs gone. Seniors centre is doing its Christmas lunch and I need to order it for Thursday. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:54 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger edge guy I'd ever hung out with who never smoked, drank or did any drugs. Damn shame. I'm sure you'll be fine in the pool Brenda. Just don't go it alone just in case. I'm glad that your doctor feels that it's safe for you to do it since you enjoy it so much and it really is good exercise and should help you out in other ways. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Sorry to hear that SIX. That is terrible. So am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. OMG SIX, that's a tragedy. People don't respect how dangerous the ocean can be. Even experienced surfers have accidents just fooling around near shore. . Yes, BRENDA, antiseizure meds can really mess up moods. Keppra is one of them. And I'm sure the weather doesn't help. My sis in WNY turns into a total crank in winter. It's not seasonal affective disorder (SAD) I don't think. It's just that the snow makes life so difficult. AFA flooding ... I don't know about the hydrogeology in those areas, but one GOOD thing about widespread flooding is that (with the right geology) it can help recharge aquifers, which are being depleted prodigiously. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger No more chances T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:54 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by THG: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: One of my closest friends in HS was in the Air Force and was on vacation with his buddies for a few days (I don't remember where they were) and on the last day he went to the beach alone since nobody else wanted to go again on the last day. He got pulled in by the undertow, and a few weeks later I was speaking a eulogy at his funeral to an empty casket. The first in a very long list of friends who died prematurely was the straightest Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger edge guy I'd ever hung out with who never smoked, drank or did any drugs. Damn shame. I'm sure you'll be fine in the pool Brenda. Just don't go it alone just in case. I'm glad that your doctor feels that it's safe for you to do it since you enjoy it so much and it really is good exercise and should help you out in other ways. -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. Sorry to hear that SIX. That is terrible. So am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help. OMG SIX, that's a tragedy. People don't respect how dangerous the ocean can be. Even experienced surfers have accidents just fooling around near shore. . Yes, BRENDA, antiseizure meds can really mess up moods. Keppra is one of them. And I'm sure the weather doesn't help. My sis in WNY turns into a total crank in winter. It's not seasonal affective disorder (SAD) I don't think. It's just that the snow makes life so difficult. AFA flooding ... I don't know about the hydrogeology in those areas, but one GOOD thing about widespread flooding is that (with the right geology) it can help recharge aquifers, which are being depleted prodigiously. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger No more chances T T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 2:55 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Wow, that is a handsome piece, SECOND! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Pokrovsk is fully under Ukrainian control dummy. SIGNY: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! *gasp!* Hahahahaha! THGR: I don't see a denial. You were touting how Russia had taken Pokrovsk just last week. I said, not so fast. You insisted... And I don't see a relevant link. I skipped thru your video. It features a guy blabbing in front of a map that was drawn by ... him, probably... but unlike Military Summary it doesn't link to DRONE VIDEOS from BOTH sidez showing drone, bomb, and missile attacks, of Russian soldiers waving flags in various places in Pokrovsk and elsewhere. Kiev has a history of lying its ass off, painting evidence-free maps however it feels, and you don't think to question a guy whose sweatshirt has AZOV [NAZI] on it?? Ok, dummy. I literally burst out laughing reading your post. But if that's not enough of a denial ... if my continuing posts about Russian progress in the Pokrovsk/ Myrnograd pocket aren't enough ... here's the denial you seem to need: Russia is in control of Pokrovsk, and the area around Myrnograd has shrunk to about 20% of the city's footprint. You're so wrong, it's astonishing. T ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 3:14 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. Wow, look at what I missed! I guess I have the opposite problem. Family and dog and housework and yardwork and doctors appointments keep me pretty busy. My "me" time is usually in the AM, before my night owl family wakes up, and that I spend either reading the news or playing various online games like sudoku or solitaire. Then I'm on the go as much as energy and motivation will allow. Hubby is no longer active. He sits and watches videos about big machine repair (turning new parts on a lathe, casting or welding, or about various planes or cars, etc) and he and dear daughter LOVE to watch TV in the evening, so I get stuck watching for 3 hours or so ... a lot more than I enjoy. I would really rather be bunny trailing my way thru the inet or reading or thinking. I know most of my neighbors... the dog is a real conversation starter... but I wouldn't call any of them friends. In fact, I really don't have any, and all of my family and hubby's family live in NY state (not the city. At the other end of the state!) so despite the fact that I know so many people, I'd say I was isolated too. "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 15, 2025 3:31 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)%0D%0A%0D%0APOSTED BY: SIGNYM%0D%0AUPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:14%0D%0ASHORT URL:%0D%0AVIEWED: 195028%0D%0APAGE 130 of 130%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0APREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE%0D%0ASaturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM%0D%0A%0D%0A%09%0D%0ABRENDA%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by 6ixStringJack:%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by Brenda:%0D%0ASo am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote: I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote: Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote: I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote: Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote: Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote: Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote: That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote: I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try. Wow, look at what I missed! I guess I have the opposite problem. Family and dog and housework and yardwork and doctors appointments keep me pretty busy. My "me" time is usually in the AM, before my night owl family wakes up, and that I spend either reading the news or playing various online games like sudoku or solitaire. Then I'm on the go as much as energy and motivation will allow. Hubby is no longer active. He sits and watches videos about big machine repair (turning new parts on a lathe, casting or welding, or about various planes or cars, etc) and he and dear daughter LOVE to watch TV in the evening, so I get stuck watching for 3 hours or so ... a lot more than I enjoy. I would really rather be bunny trailing my way thru the inet or reading or thinking. I know most of my neighbors... the dog is a real conversation starter... but I wouldn't call any of them friends. In fact, I really don't have any, and all of my family and hubby's family live in NY state (not the city. At the other end of the state!) so despite the fact that I know so many people, I'd say I was isolated too. 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I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like doREAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS%0D%0A%0D%0AIn the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)%0D%0A%0D%0APOSTED BY: SIGNYM%0D%0AUPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 15:14%0D%0ASHORT URL:%0D%0AVIEWED: 195028%0D%0APAGE 130 of 130%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0APREV PAGE123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130NEXT PAGE%0D%0ASaturday, December 13, 2025 6:34 PM%0D%0A%0D%0A%09%0D%0ABRENDA%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by 6ixStringJack:%0D%0AQuote:%0D%0AOriginally posted by Brenda:%0D%0ASo am I. That was his other thing something else for me to do outside mah jong once a week and working once a month. See other people and some easy exercise, like an aqua fit class. He was also thinking of my moods. Seizure meds can really mess with your moods and this time of the year is bad for me. He thought doing something like that would help.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI hear ya. Moods...%0D%0A%0D%0ABeen n't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick.
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Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Don't worry too much about keeping up with things. I think we all fall with conversations on here. I know the phrase ,"Don't beat yourself up over it" but "beating it off with a stick" doesn't mean that. It's more like don't let it something like a funk or depression get a hold of you. So you are "beating it back." It's not Canadian in origin, most likely English and it just hung around. I've heard of "beating them off with a stick", but I'm pretty sure that was old school slang for a guy who was looking and/or dressed so good that he'd be "beating the ladies off with a stick" because he's irresistible. Sadly, I never was the guy who walked into a room and made all the ladies heads turn. Even at the weddings and such when I'm dressed to the 9's. I think that's probably because I'm not 6 feet tall. Quote:I am still writing and have a list of publishers that I started to go through that will take submissions. But being the end of the year I should up date it. I think I've said this as frustrating as the game can make me I do enjoy it. Good luck, Brenda. I'll never make any money doing my thing, so at least you have something to dream about and strive for. My thing's got, let's just say some legal entanglements that could possibly make things tricky. I'm thinking that once I know the end is neigh, however far I've taken it at that point in time, I'm going to release the entire unfettered thing out into the wild instead of just pieces like it is now. To me, it was never about money anyhow. I think it's probably more or less the same with you too, since I never hear you complaining about money or wishing that you could buy something that you can't afford... But wouldn't it be nice? Quote:Bout all I watch on tv nowadays is the news and any cooking or baking shows that have a chef on that I like. Oh, I also watch re-runs of M*A*S*H. I was watching "The Rookie" till it got canned and "FBI Most Wanted" till they got a new lead actor. When I was in high school I used to watch too much tv. Sci-fi, cop shows. Old shows from the 60s. Once saw all the Gilbert and Sullivan plays. They were being run on the CBC either on Saturday or Sunday night. On this thing when I can find them, I watch old cooking shows. Even managed to watch all 4 seasons of Starsky & Hutch. When I am writing on this thing I always have music on. If you don't mind me asking, how do you keep yourself busy when not watching TV? I know you got the job, but I've never gotten a sense of how often you're doing that work. I've always had the feeling it was a fairly part-time gig that didn't take up too much of your life, but maybe I'm wrong about that. My problem now is that I've gotten so used to YouTube as noise, that I have a hard time doing anything without it in the background. Most of the time I'm just putting it on autoplay and I notice a lot of the same videos playing over and over every few days, but I'm barely even paying any attention and lost in my work so I usually don't even bother changing them whenever I've noticed that. Unless I'm specifically looking for silence, or I'm doing chores or working on the house and listening to music, I usually like having the noise in the background instead of silence. Quote:I understand but my depression is more from actually starting to miss people. I've never been a real people person. But now that I'm getting older. Yeah. Man... Yeah. Sorry... I'm not quite there yet, but my circle is pretty small and while it was something that I joked about 5-10 years ago that more than half of them were quite a bit older than me, it's not actually funny. It was just my way of coping with the fact that I knew it was time that I'd start losing some of them, and my own circle has gotten smaller because of it. I think I still probably have some old relationships I abandoned back when I was drinking that I could put back together with time and work, but I'm not sure if it would ever be the same now. People change a lot in a decade. I haven't spoken with my oldest friend for over 6 years. I never met either of his sons, and I believe at least one of them is in high school now. The one time I did run into him at a party for a mutual friend, we actually did talk quite a bit and it was pretty cool, but neither of us asked the other for contact info and that was that. Quote:Oh, I play solitaire on here with different games. I found a mah jong site with lots of games and I play those. Yeah. That's cool. I really miss the Yahoo online games. Yahoo Spades! was one of my favorite online things to do for around a decade there. All the newer sites that do spades have always been too flashy and it seems a lot harder to keep a working list of good players and friends than Yahoo was (probably because it was tied directly to your email account). It was simple yet nice looking graphics, with a really strong connection that rarely dropped players, and the community rankings system was something that's never been replicated, at least as far as I know. Maybe I should look into that. It's been a few years since I've tried it. I almost forgot how much I miss playing Spades. Quote:Lucky you. Sometimes wonder why I have a phone. I rarely use it. It's mostly for emergencies. Yeah... I'm really going to miss my old man when he goes. I've really got to make an effort to see him more instead of just talking on the phone. Quote:Yipes, that is cold. Even at almost 9pm pacific it is 50C out but it is cold. Even colder right now. It's freakin' miserable. 1 degree F. It's all uphill from here though. Looks like it's going to get about 1 or 2 degrees warmer every hour from now until the sun comes up, and then we get a high of 26. Warmest that it's been in about 3 or 4 days. 48 degrees on Wednesday. Quote:That's good on the house. Oh yeah. Your computer stuff. Sitting forever. Yeah, I know that one. When I get sucked into solitaire or mah jong on my computer then I can sit forever. Still even if the computer stuff doesn't make any money for you at least you are thinking about complicated things and that is what the mind needs. That's great. Gotta get up more often though for real. Maybe I should set a timer on my computer to snap me out of work mode and make me get up and move around. Quote:I am working on it. Got a pamphlet from my seniors centre about the swimming. Haven't taken a real close look at it but that is definitely on the agenda. I'm glad for ya. How long has it been since you were swimming? Maybe you can make some new friends while you're there? I think, at least for me, it would probably be easier for me to make friends today then it was when I was a neurotic little kid who cared what everybody thought about him all the time. My only problem is that I really don't care to make any new friends right now and I don't make enough time for the ones that I do have. When I keep myself as busy as I usually do, I don't really have a lot of free time, even though pretty much all of my time is free time these days... -------------------------------------------------- Be Nice. Don't be a dick. I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Sorry about that line. That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try.
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Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Scrolling past THGR is easy. THGR, the problem with your formatting and signature is that you have one too many "endquotes". So when I erase all the crap that you attach to your posts I sometimes miss your coffee face. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Monday, December 15, 2025 7:02 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Trump is ‘effectively colluding’ with Putin | Sir Richard Shirreff Scrolling past THGR is easy. THGR, the problem with your formatting and signature is that you have one too many "endquotes". So when I erase all the crap that you attach to your posts I sometimes miss your coffee face. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Well, hubby and I got one more thing done today that hadn't been done for years: cleaning the ceiling fan/light fixture over the kitchen table. Thanks to his height he was able to reach up and remove T Trump is ‘effectively colluding’ with Putin | Sir Richard Shirreff the blades, LEDs, and bells for me to wash/ wipe, and then he put them up again. Tomorrow I'm going to get out the stepstool and finish cleaning. It was gross. I'm so glad it's done!
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Well, hubby and I got one more thing done today that hadn't been done for years: cleaning the ceiling fan/light fixture over the kitchen table. Thanks to his height he was able to reach up and remove T Trump is ‘effectively colluding’ with Putin | Sir Richard Shirreff the blades, LEDs, and bells for me to wash/ wipe, and then he put them up again. Tomorrow I'm going to get out the stepstool and finish cleaning. It was gross. I'm so glad it's done!
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Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Out and about in a bit. Need some groceries. So, what's for dinner? We has chicken soup yesterday. Back to the grind today. Today it's just chores and yardwork. Tomorrow the handyman will come by and finish the irrigation manifold,THG | Log off ABOUTMAPCHATEVENTSFIRECASTSBLOGSCOMMUNITYBLUE SUN ROOMPROFILEHOME Skip Navigation LinksHOME >> COMMUNITY >> REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS >> OVERSIGHT SAYS DC POLICE CHIEF ‘UNDERMINED’ ACCURACY OF CRIME DATA (OR WHY CRIME STATS IN THE 2020'S ARE MEANINGLESS) REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS Oversight says DC police chief ‘undermined’ accuracy of crime data (Or why crime stats in the 2020's are meaningless) POSTED BY: 6IXSTRINGJACK UPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 18:57 SHORT URL: VIEWED: 9 PAGE 1 of 1 PREV PAGE1NEXT PAGE Monday, December 15, 2025 6:57 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3917280/oversight-dc-pol ice-pamela-smith-crime-data/ Yup. Crime has sure been down in Big Blue Shithole cities. Those numbers don't go up if you stop counting them. The only real question is, was this intentional, or did you racist Lefty idiots hire so many DEI mouth breathers after street-abortionist and serial killer George Floyd committed suicide that nobody in the Government knows how to count anymore? Maybe when Paul Krugman and Ed Kilgore are replaced with AI, they can get a job counting for the Government. They're both as thick as a brick, but I know those two fuckin' nerds can at least count. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME PREV PAGE1NEXT PAGE YOUR OPTIONS NEW THREAD BOOKMARK UN-BOOKMARK SHARE THREAD NEW POSTS SINCE LAST READ USER POST DATE 6ixStringJack 12.15 18:57 OTHER TOPICS DISCUSSIONS In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2) Mon, December 15, 2025 19:06 - 6475 posts Russia Invades Ukraine. Again Mon, December 15, 2025 19:04 - 9573 posts Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? Mon, December 15, 2025 18:58 - 54 posts Oversight says DC police chief ‘undermined’ accuracy of crime data (Or why crime stats in the 2020's are meaningless) Mon, December 15, 2025 18:57 - 1 posts Florida Sheriff Humiliates Philadelphia Gangbangin' Trash Teens Mon, December 15, 2025 18:55 - 6 posts Is Trump Nuts? Mon, December 15, 2025 18:43 - 1047 posts Trump is a Troll Mon, December 15, 2025 18:36 - 239 posts Youtube steals money and BigTech SocialMedia political censorship Mon, December 15, 2025 18:35 - 12 posts Trump Is Destroying Everything He Touches Mon, December 15, 2025 18:33 - 1073 posts Why is Russia losing so much military equipment? Mon, December 15, 2025 17:34 - 80 posts So... Nobody wants to talk about the worst Presidential speech given in any living American's lifetime? Mon, December 15, 2025 16:45 - 89 posts All things Space Mon, December 15, 2025 16:40 - 374 posts VIEW MORE TOPICS FFF.NET SOCIAL All FIREFLY graphics and photos on this page are copyright 2002-2012 Mutant Enemy, Inc., Universal Pictures, and 20th Century Fox. All other graphics and texts are copyright of the contributors to this website. This website IS NOT affiliated with the Official Firefly Site, Mutant Enemy, Inc., or 20th Century Fox. yay! But that won't keep me from doing more yardwork. Wednesday I have plans to go out for a late T-day/ B-day get together. Was supposed to be yesterday, but ... still recovering. So we thought Tuesday, but Tuesday Mr Handyman will be here. And, still recovering. By Wednesday I hope we'll be ready for a nice restaurant meal. Since I can't taste anything, the food doesn't matter. But I like to be out with people enjoying themselves. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Work on the stairs done for the day. Just one more coat to go and then some long curing time before I can put those treads down. No huge deal, just no walking on the THG | Log off ABOUTMAPCHATEVENTSFIRECASTSBLOGSCOMMUNITYBLUE SUN ROOMPROFILEHOME Skip Navigation LinksHOME >> COMMUNITY >> REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS >> WHY DOES THUGR SHIT UP THE BOARD BY BUMPING HIS POINTLESS THREADS? REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? POSTED BY: SIGNYM UPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 18:58 SHORT URL: VIEWED: 2618 PAGE 1 of 2 PREV PAGE12NEXT PAGE Monday, March 11, 2024 2:38 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Fifteen threads??? Really?? It's like every ten days or so somebody lets him near the internet, and he goes nuts. Is it because he's butt-hurt and can't let it go? Crazy? Trolling? THUGR, the floor is yours... NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, March 11, 2024 7:35 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Fifteen threads??? Really?? It's like every ten days or so somebody lets him near the internet, and he goes nuts. Is it because he's butt-hurt and can't let it go? Crazy? Trolling? The purpose is to bump down any and all pertinent, meaningful, or sensible threads (because he obviously will not be involved in any of those.) The main page only shows 5 threads. The sub board only shows 12 in the right side panel. So when a search engine archives a page, only those are captured. That way, no meaningful thread topics are collected, and the interwebs know that this site is populated by insipid Libtards. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, March 11, 2024 7:35 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Well THUGR ...? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, March 11, 2024 10:01 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Because he's a fucking idiot with Main Character Syndrome. -------------------------------------------------- Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, April 9, 2024 12:52 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. THUGR, if you have to bump your own threads so often, you should realize that nobody is interested in your "facts", because they aren't. Sixteen threads (two under the JJ sockpuppet) today? Seriously? What makes you think I'll look at more than one? If I want propaganda, I'll just go directly to the source: CNN, MSNB, WaPo, NYT etc. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, April 10, 2024 12:50 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. More thread bumping, THUGR? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, April 10, 2024 2:54 PM THG Keep it real please The thread topics are relevant to what is going on today. Many will quiet down when Trump loses the election and is in jail. Others when Russia crumbles. Even more when Trumps cronies stop getting indicted. Until then, oh well. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Wednesday, April 10, 2024 8:22 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. Oh... and Russia isn't going anywhere either. -------------------------------------------------- Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, April 18, 2024 12:38 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. I see THUGR is still beating that dead Qanon horse. Keep flailing away, son! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, May 24, 2024 10:24 AM JAYNEZTOWN So THG and THGRRI is the same person, something not denied? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, May 24, 2024 1:15 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: So THG and THGRRI is the same person, something not denied? Yes. He's gone thru more than one combination of T,H,G, and R. I honestly don't remember how many so I always call him by the same name. Possibly it's more than one person, since the responses vary in spelling and coherence. But one poster usually posts cartoons. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 19, 2024 3:32 PM JAYNEZTOWN Books must be sold Zeihan has a drug-crack habit to support? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, June 20, 2024 12:35 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Some people sell worthless supplements, others sell worthless geopolitics? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, June 28, 2024 12:00 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. THUGR: I hope you realize that I don't even open your threads anymore. I used to look bc JAYNZE would occasionally post something interesting, but since it's mostly you posting ridiculous people spouting fact-free nonsense ... ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 24, 2024 1:35 PM JAYNEZTOWN no person came in to post Counter Arguments....because TH is indeed crapping up the board? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 24, 2024 2:05 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: THUGR: I hope you realize that I don't even open your threads anymore. I used to look bc JAYNZE would occasionally post something interesting, but since it's mostly you posting ridiculous people spouting fact-free nonsense ... I never hid behind the fact that after updating my password, because the site is poorly managed, I could not login. I was very open about it at the time. And yes, JJ is me as well. That said, I post facts comrade signym and you avoid my threads because those facts show you to be nothing but a Russian propagandist. A liar who can't argue against facts without lying. That, and you don't want to respond to posts that show how bad Russia is doing in the war. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 24, 2024 2:29 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by THG: I never hid behind the fact that after updating my password, because the site is poorly managed, I could not login. I was very open about it at the time. And yes, JJ is me as well. Regarding this, I will vouch for Ted that this is the truth. Even if I, personally, might have been confused about who was posting at one time or another with the name change, Ted never hid the fact of who was behind them to my recollection. At least not to me he didn't. My motivations for creating the 6ixStringJoker handle were due similarly to the antiquated nature of this forum and are constantly being misconstrued by Second whenver that gets stuck in his craw. He has claimed that it was a sockpuppet account (bad choice of name if that's the case), he has also claimed it is because I'm a fanatic over the movie Joker which I've watched one time when it was in theaters 5 years ago, and he's warped the timeline of the temporary name change to try to fit that narrative. It was just a card, and it was either that or King and even though 6ixStringKing would have rhymed, I don't like the sound of it and I don't consider myself very Kingly on my best days. I don't imagine anyone here would disagree with that. Ted probably hadn't done himself favors by making his names so short and completely different from one another (leading one to fairly easily make a claim that one was a sockpuppet), but I have zero recollection at least during my sobriety of Ted ever pretending to be somebody else under any of his names. Quote: That said, I post facts comrade signym and you avoid my threads because those facts show you to be nothing but a Russian propagandist. A liar who can't argue against facts without lying. That, and you don't want to respond to posts that show how bad Russia is doing in the war. Ted doesn't know how to differentiate facts from The Narrative, and it would appear that even after what they've done to him with Joe Biden* for years, Ted's continued trust in the Media that's lied to him all this time indicates that this will probably never change. But he was not making sockpuppet accounts, and from my perspective there were no dubious motives behind his name changes. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 2:51 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 3:31 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. Ted-Bot always had access. He was just crying in a corner with nothing in his hollowed out little brain cavity to post about. Ted is nothing but a propaganda machine and if they're not feeding him anything to signal-boost he has nothing to say since he is devoid of agency and free will. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 7:16 PM JAYNEZTOWN North and South did this since 1950s NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 7:43 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. Not bumps, mostly just responding to the last posts. Sorry, sometimes it takes me a bit to catch up. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 9:42 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by THG: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. Not bumps, mostly just responding to the last posts. Sorry, sometimes it takes me a bit to catch up. T Translation: The Legacy Media had nothing to tell me for 2 weeks so my brain stopped working. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 31, 2024 12:57 PM JAYNEZTOWN taking tranny meds? bumped maybe 42 of his own her own or it's threads? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 31, 2024 1:42 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: taking tranny meds? bumped maybe 42 of his own her own or it's threads? Ted-Bot's pronouns are It/Its. Wetware's pronouns also, are It/Its. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 1, 2024 8:26 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN He cannot think for himself, so he feels better by preventing others from social intercourse. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, August 9, 2024 9:35 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. Not bumps, mostly just responding to the last posts. Sorry, sometimes it takes me a bit to catch up. T Quoting yourself, from the last post in the thread, which was posted by you, and nobody responded to, and adding nothing substantive - nothing at all, or just another pointless GIF, or a brief senseless few words. Looks like a bump, walks like a bump, talks like a bump, acts like a bump. must be a bump. Responding to the voices in your head doesn't really count. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, August 26, 2024 8:50 AM JAYNEZTOWN more of those creepy Zeihan weirdo Stratfor videos coming NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, September 10, 2024 6:45 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: North and South did this since 1950s . Oh, I didn't see that It's kinda funny! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, October 17, 2024 1:44 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. I think he must be butt hurt ... So many threads with so much cope. Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Fifteen threads??? Really?? It's like every ten days or so somebody lets him near the internet, and he goes nuts. Is it because he's butt-hurt and can't let it go? Crazy? Trolling? THUGR, the floor is yours... ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, October 17, 2024 2:47 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK He's not half as desperate as Harris. I don't know what she was thinking showing up on FOX News. Biden* and Clinton never felt desperate enough to try that. I don't believe for a second they're going to allow her to go on Joe Rogan despite all the talk about it. That would be the final nail in the coffin of her candidacy if she did. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, November 27, 2024 12:10 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. THUGR, spamming the board. It would be one thing if he was bringing new info, but he's just bumping threads. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, November 27, 2024 4:43 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Yup. He's back. Refused to take his lumps for 3 weeks, refused to even address his long-awaited major loss, and proving in the last 24 hours that he refuses to learn anything and he's just going to be a miserable little prick for another 4 years. Fuck 'em. Who cares. Can't fix stupid. -------------------------------------------------- Trump is fine. He is also your current President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 1, 2024 11:56 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN Well, we had a respite for 3 weeks, but 6ix kept begging the trolls to return. That was apparently the time required to accomplish the mental pretzel gymnastics needed to reenforce his delusions. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, January 16, 2025 9:03 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. I see someone let THUGR out of his prison job this week. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, January 16, 2025 9:59 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK That clickbait ain't going to watch itself. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, August 20, 2025 8:38 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. THUGR is spamming the board again. Son, you're doing an awesome job, but you're gonna have to work harder to catch up to JAYNZE: 87(!) bumps in two days. 87!!! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, August 20, 2025 8:49 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Trump-brain DURRRRRRRRRRR Ted is just brain damaged beyond repair at this point. And his personal attacks on Brenda are just typical white Liberal college "educated" behavior. Nobody can ever possibly live up to their Purity Tests. Even the people they supposedly "represent" in their tireless quest for likes and good boy points for those dopamine hits they're all addicted to. It's really funny when white college educated liberals actually find out what minorities think about them. The minorities usually end up hating them more than the white people on the side of sanity do. They really have no clue. A big part of that is because they're all upper-middle class and they get to live in the areas with the greatest school districts and lowest crime rates in the country and never did an honest day's work in their lives. I guaranty you that every single white person working for the NYT, MSNBC and CNN combined has spent less time collectively working minimum or near minimum wage jobs with minorities and getting to know them on a personal level than I did in a single month of working overnight at KMart. And some of them are still trying to force that LatinX label and getting it to stick on Mexican Americans who hate it. Yanno... the same people who go around everyday saying that voter ID is racist because black people are incapable of getting a photo ID. Sad. Good thing most of them who write for a living are losing their jobs and will no longer be able to influence culture and politics going forward. They're all relics of the world from a year ago that no longer exists and they will not be missed. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 5:42 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Why, THGR? Why? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 5:50 PM THG Keep it real please Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Why, THGR? Why? Here is why. I just posted this elsewhere then saw your post. I think it addresses your comment aptly. Too funny... T Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: People stopped caring about what this idiot thinks 10 years ago. Evidence Jack and Signym are just plain stupid. To the point. Trump is driving our educated out of the country. He has cut science funding and grants pretty much to nil. Jack and Signym continue to cover for him and show no concern for this. And Jack thinks he is smarter than Neil. Too funny... T “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:27 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by THG: Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Why, THGR? Why? Here is why. I just posted this elsewhere then saw your post. I think it addresses your comment aptly. Too funny... T Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: People stopped caring about what this idiot thinks 10 years ago. Evidence Jack and Signym are just plain stupid. To the point. Trump is driving our educated out of the country. He has cut science funding and grants pretty much to nil. Jack and Signym continue to cover for him and show no concern for this. And Jack thinks he is smarter than Neil. Too funny... T “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson Nobody cares what this fat, low-T, DEI hire, fake scientist who can't even tell you what a woman is thinks about any topic. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:30 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Here's somebody that Neil deFaggot Tyson would call a woman because dude calls himself a woman. This shit right here is why you now lose on EVERY issue in 2025 until for the rest of forever, Ted. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:32 PM THG Keep it real please Without failure every time I point out Gilligan is dumb; he proves me right. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:33 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Here's somebody that Neil deFaggot Tyson would call a woman because dude calls himself a woman. This shit right here is why you now lose on EVERY issue in 2025 until for the rest of forever, Ted. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:34 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Dude has been arrested 4 times for felony charges before this latest incident in Colorado and released without bail every time. There is a video of him chasing after school children with a plastic bag and trying to capture one of them with it. He's changed his name to Carmella and identifies as a woman. What's not to get, Ted? You stupid, stupid fuck. Your party is dead. Forever. P.S. You think Neil would fuck her? I bet he would, but only if his new illegal alien invader voodoo priestess is pegging him from behind. Neil's dick doesn't work unless his prostate is being tickled at the same time by big fat girl cock. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:46 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Neil tells his new voodoo priestess girlfriend that he needs to choke the chicken and goes to the bathroom. When he exits the bathroom, Carmella was choking the life out of a literal chicken. Confused, he asks Carmella what the hell "she" is doing... "You said time to choke chicken. I thought that meant dinner time." We're shipping them all out, Faggot Ted. And there isn't a goddamned thing you can do about it. How's that feel? You've never felt more impotent in your life than you do right now. That's how Neil has felt every time he's tried to have sex without a big fat girl cock tickling his prostate. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 10:10 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Why, THGR? Why? Here is why. I just posted this elsewhere then saw your post. I think it addresses your comment aptly. Too funny... T Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: People stopped caring about what this idiot thinks 10 years ago. Evidence Jack and Signym are just plain stupid. To the point. Trump is driving our educated out of the country. He has cut science funding and grants pretty much to nil. Jack and Signym continue to cover for him and show no concern for this. And Jack thinks he is smarter than Neil. Too funny... T “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson Nobody cares what this fat, low-T, DEI hire, fake scientist who can't even tell you what a woman is thinks about any topic. Supreme Court lets Trump administration cut $783 million of research funding in anti-DEI push https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-lets-trump-admin istration-cut-783-million-of-research-funding-in-anti-dei-push/ar-AA1KYRNC?ocid=msedgntp&pc=EDBBAN&cvid=f9d98055df554ca9a46f53945f594cc0&ei=21 T “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 11:22 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Science does matter. Neil is an actor, and a very poor one at that. Why does everybody you associate with suck so bad? You're all like flies on shit. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, August 22, 2025 12:06 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? Why, THGR? Why? THUGR: Here is why. I just posted this elsewhere then saw your post. I think it addres your comment aptly. Too funny.. SIX: People stopped caring about what this idiot [de Grasse Tyson] 2thinks 10 years ago. THGR: Evidence Jack and Signym are just plain stupid. To the point. Trump is driving our educated out of the country. Is there a mass exodus of native born scientists? Links please Quote: He has cut science funding and grants pretty much to nil. Quote: The [2026 budget] proposal — which expands on topline numbers released earlier in the month — calls for reducing the National Science Foundation's budget by 57%, the National Institutes of Health’s budget by roughly 40%, and NASA's science budget by 47%. The Department of Energy's Office of Science faces a 14% cut, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology would see a 28% reduction. What I think about this is complicated. I used to work on a Federal health science grant years ago, doing what I thought was potentially significant work, attempting to understand why victims of trauma could come thru stabilization and surgery and appear to be doing well, only to succumb three weeks later. But so many grants go to university PhD- factories, where great deal of effort goes into trying to find some tiny niche of research that nobody has written a paper on before, just to do a piece of research that nobody will ever notice and grab that PhD. I think we overproduce PhDs. And I think that grants should be reserved for meaningful research. Quote: “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson youtube. com/watch?v=mEOeCi8pjog SIX: Nobody cares what this fat, low-T, DEI hire, fake scientist who can't even tell you what a woman is thinks about any topic. I also know, THGR, that you don't have the faintest idea what science is. Among other things, you have to ASK QUESTIONS, PAY ATTENTION TO REALITY, AND THINK DIFFERENTLY IF YOU WANT TO MAKE MEANINGFUL DISCOVERIES. SIX, you don't know what science is either. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, August 22, 2025 2:00 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Just as an aside... I have a BS in Chemistry with a minor in Physics. But I supervised people with BS, MS, and PhD degrees, and over the years supervised about 40 different degreed chemists. People were hired thru a process that began with a written chemistry test followed by competitive interviews. In our lab, it didn't matter how advanced your degree was, we were all hired thru the same process and started at the same level of work. In my group, everyone got a chance at a project as well as routine work, and if they were adept at problem solving they were assigned more projects. Most people had one area that they were particularly good at: some excelled at instrument repair, some at programming, some at wet chemistry, some at method development, some at field emergency response etc. And, again, FWIW, I had extensive cross-training going on. Our group was a kind of "Jack of all trades" group, we never knew what kinds of samples would arrive or what we needed to do with them and at what level of emergency, so for scheduling purposes I needed three people capable of running each analysis on any particular instrument- one at the expert level, one at the intermediate level, and one at the routine level. Cross training also promoted better group dynamics- they functioned as a team and it made the group stronger. Promotion was by competitive interview panel. Since promotion depended on, among other things, technical problem solving skills, the more projects you completed the better your chance of promotion. So, having worked for decades with people with all degrees at all levels of work, it seems to me that people with BS degrees were just as capable of problem- solving as people with PhDs. PhD degrees didn't seem to improve problem-solving capacity. The people who seemed mentally less flexible were often those with MS degrees. IDK what it is about that intermediate degree but it often seems to attract, or maybe create, people who just want to be told what to do. Point being PhD is not a guarantee of inventiveness or problem solving. It's unfortunate that so many companies and institutions require it. So, back to the function of science grants ... Universities depend on them, and student tuition, for funding. Whatever grant the researcher get, the University takes roughly 30% off the top for "administration". The researcher might be doing groundbreaking research, but the graduate students ... who are basically cheap labor, since they have to pay tuition to stay in research ... have to find some area in their advisor's field where they can carve out a paper for publication. Researchers are like legislators: They're judged on the quantity of output, not on the quality or impact. It's called 'publish or perish'. Most publications will have no impact on the furtherence of the state of knowledge, almost NONE will be repeated and it's quite possible that many aren't repeatable. There's got to be a better way to fund research, and a better way to get better research. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, August 22, 2025 2:17 PM JAYNEZTOWN Spending went crazy with 'The Bill' and cuts have been ordered While I have disagreed with THUGR, or THG or whatever the Latest Name ...I agree and support criticism of Trump where science cuts have happened Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Is there a mass exodus of native born scientists? Links please I don't think the 'Exodus' is so real, yet there is something There is cutting but I'm not sure if it is that big however something was reported, I'm not sure how true or at what scale cuts are happening some news examples France draws US scientists amid Trump cuts but slashes €1bn at home https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20250516-france-draws-us-scientist s-amid-trump-cuts-but-slashes-%E2%82%AC1bn-from-research-budget bla bla ‘I’m scared of fascism’ Leading centers in cities like Barcelona and Madrid have been receiving dozens of applications from researchers who fear loss of funds or deportation. A protest in Boston in early March in support of science following Trump's budget cuts. https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-03-27/us-scientists-who-w ant-to-move-to-europe-because-of-trump-speak-out-im-scared-of-fascism.html There might be an explanation here, citizenship issues awaiting a decision or resolution; these might be immigrants with their VISA status in Limbo Nearly 300 scientists apply for French academic program amid Trump cuts in U.S. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5368132/us-researchers-scientists -apply-french-university-program Also there is an AI race thread a 'Science Given the Boot' / NASA Exploration Futurism type thread This might be a Chatbot article the image looks somewhat AI and as an article it reads as if it was generated computer like 'A Scientific Exodus: A Nation at Risk of Losing Its Edge' https://theweeklytelescope.com/2025/04/19/a-scientific-exodus-a-nation -at-risk-of-losing-its-edge/ but you get A LOT of this stuff in feeds Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy says the agency will 'move aside' from climate sciences to focus on exploring moon and Mars https://www.space.com/space-exploration/nasa-administrator-says-the-ag ency-will-move-aside-from-climate-sciences-to-focus-on-exploring-moon-and-mars info on cuts https://www.planetary.org/articles/billions-wasted-mysteries-unsolved- the-missions-nasa-may-be-forced-to-abandon Firstpost is an Indian Hindu First news website owned by Network18 Nasa halting 41 key missions due to proposed cuts, agency’s funding at lowest since 1961 https://www.firstpost.com/world/nasa-donald-trump-us-china-india-space -13927062.html The military element of 'Space' seems to be expanding with 'The Space Force' but meanwhile NASA has been ordered to stay ahead of the Chinese, put a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon and build an exploration base on Mars before China does it NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME PREV PAGE12NEXT PAGE YOUR OPTIONS NEW THREAD BOOKMARK UN-BOOKMARK SHARE THREAD NEW POSTS SINCE LAST READ USER POST DATE 6ixStringJack 08.21 23:22 SIGNYM 08.22 00:06 SIGNYM 08.22 14:00 JAYNEZTOWN 08.22 14:17 6ixStringJack 08.22 16:53 SIGNYM 08.22 16:57 6ixStringJack 08.22 16:59 SIGNYM 12.15 18:58 OTHER TOPICS DISCUSSIONS In the garden, and RAIN!!! 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I might see about going to my friend's to help him tonight or tomorrow night since we didn't get together over the weekend. -------------------------------------------------- Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face. Oh yeah, that's right. I forgot you had that whole "paint durability" issue... er... covered. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Work on the stairs done for the day. Just one more coat to go and then some long curing time before I can put those treads down. No huge deal, just no walking on the THG | Log off ABOUTMAPCHATEVENTSFIRECASTSBLOGSCOMMUNITYBLUE SUN ROOMPROFILEHOME Skip Navigation LinksHOME >> COMMUNITY >> REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS >> WHY DOES THUGR SHIT UP THE BOARD BY BUMPING HIS POINTLESS THREADS? REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? POSTED BY: SIGNYM UPDATED: Monday, December 15, 2025 18:58 SHORT URL: VIEWED: 2618 PAGE 1 of 2 PREV PAGE12NEXT PAGE Monday, March 11, 2024 2:38 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Fifteen threads??? Really?? It's like every ten days or so somebody lets him near the internet, and he goes nuts. Is it because he's butt-hurt and can't let it go? Crazy? Trolling? THUGR, the floor is yours... NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, March 11, 2024 7:35 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Fifteen threads??? Really?? It's like every ten days or so somebody lets him near the internet, and he goes nuts. Is it because he's butt-hurt and can't let it go? Crazy? Trolling? The purpose is to bump down any and all pertinent, meaningful, or sensible threads (because he obviously will not be involved in any of those.) The main page only shows 5 threads. The sub board only shows 12 in the right side panel. So when a search engine archives a page, only those are captured. That way, no meaningful thread topics are collected, and the interwebs know that this site is populated by insipid Libtards. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, March 11, 2024 7:35 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Well THUGR ...? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, March 11, 2024 10:01 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Because he's a fucking idiot with Main Character Syndrome. -------------------------------------------------- Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, April 9, 2024 12:52 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. THUGR, if you have to bump your own threads so often, you should realize that nobody is interested in your "facts", because they aren't. Sixteen threads (two under the JJ sockpuppet) today? Seriously? What makes you think I'll look at more than one? If I want propaganda, I'll just go directly to the source: CNN, MSNB, WaPo, NYT etc. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, April 10, 2024 12:50 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. More thread bumping, THUGR? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, April 10, 2024 2:54 PM THG Keep it real please The thread topics are relevant to what is going on today. Many will quiet down when Trump loses the election and is in jail. Others when Russia crumbles. Even more when Trumps cronies stop getting indicted. Until then, oh well. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Wednesday, April 10, 2024 8:22 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. Oh... and Russia isn't going anywhere either. -------------------------------------------------- Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, April 18, 2024 12:38 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. I see THUGR is still beating that dead Qanon horse. Keep flailing away, son! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, May 24, 2024 10:24 AM JAYNEZTOWN So THG and THGRRI is the same person, something not denied? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, May 24, 2024 1:15 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: So THG and THGRRI is the same person, something not denied? Yes. He's gone thru more than one combination of T,H,G, and R. I honestly don't remember how many so I always call him by the same name. Possibly it's more than one person, since the responses vary in spelling and coherence. But one poster usually posts cartoons. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 19, 2024 3:32 PM JAYNEZTOWN Books must be sold Zeihan has a drug-crack habit to support? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, June 20, 2024 12:35 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Some people sell worthless supplements, others sell worthless geopolitics? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, June 28, 2024 12:00 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. THUGR: I hope you realize that I don't even open your threads anymore. I used to look bc JAYNZE would occasionally post something interesting, but since it's mostly you posting ridiculous people spouting fact-free nonsense ... ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 24, 2024 1:35 PM JAYNEZTOWN no person came in to post Counter Arguments....because TH is indeed crapping up the board? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 24, 2024 2:05 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: THUGR: I hope you realize that I don't even open your threads anymore. I used to look bc JAYNZE would occasionally post something interesting, but since it's mostly you posting ridiculous people spouting fact-free nonsense ... I never hid behind the fact that after updating my password, because the site is poorly managed, I could not login. I was very open about it at the time. And yes, JJ is me as well. That said, I post facts comrade signym and you avoid my threads because those facts show you to be nothing but a Russian propagandist. A liar who can't argue against facts without lying. That, and you don't want to respond to posts that show how bad Russia is doing in the war. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 24, 2024 2:29 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by THG: I never hid behind the fact that after updating my password, because the site is poorly managed, I could not login. I was very open about it at the time. And yes, JJ is me as well. Regarding this, I will vouch for Ted that this is the truth. Even if I, personally, might have been confused about who was posting at one time or another with the name change, Ted never hid the fact of who was behind them to my recollection. At least not to me he didn't. My motivations for creating the 6ixStringJoker handle were due similarly to the antiquated nature of this forum and are constantly being misconstrued by Second whenver that gets stuck in his craw. He has claimed that it was a sockpuppet account (bad choice of name if that's the case), he has also claimed it is because I'm a fanatic over the movie Joker which I've watched one time when it was in theaters 5 years ago, and he's warped the timeline of the temporary name change to try to fit that narrative. It was just a card, and it was either that or King and even though 6ixStringKing would have rhymed, I don't like the sound of it and I don't consider myself very Kingly on my best days. I don't imagine anyone here would disagree with that. Ted probably hadn't done himself favors by making his names so short and completely different from one another (leading one to fairly easily make a claim that one was a sockpuppet), but I have zero recollection at least during my sobriety of Ted ever pretending to be somebody else under any of his names. Quote: That said, I post facts comrade signym and you avoid my threads because those facts show you to be nothing but a Russian propagandist. A liar who can't argue against facts without lying. That, and you don't want to respond to posts that show how bad Russia is doing in the war. Ted doesn't know how to differentiate facts from The Narrative, and it would appear that even after what they've done to him with Joe Biden* for years, Ted's continued trust in the Media that's lied to him all this time indicates that this will probably never change. But he was not making sockpuppet accounts, and from my perspective there were no dubious motives behind his name changes. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 2:51 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 3:31 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. Ted-Bot always had access. He was just crying in a corner with nothing in his hollowed out little brain cavity to post about. Ted is nothing but a propaganda machine and if they're not feeding him anything to signal-boost he has nothing to say since he is devoid of agency and free will. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 7:16 PM JAYNEZTOWN North and South did this since 1950s NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 7:43 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. Not bumps, mostly just responding to the last posts. Sorry, sometimes it takes me a bit to catch up. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 30, 2024 9:42 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by THG: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. Not bumps, mostly just responding to the last posts. Sorry, sometimes it takes me a bit to catch up. T Translation: The Legacy Media had nothing to tell me for 2 weeks so my brain stopped working. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 31, 2024 12:57 PM JAYNEZTOWN taking tranny meds? bumped maybe 42 of his own her own or it's threads? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 31, 2024 1:42 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: taking tranny meds? bumped maybe 42 of his own her own or it's threads? Ted-Bot's pronouns are It/Its. Wetware's pronouns also, are It/Its. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 1, 2024 8:26 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN He cannot think for himself, so he feels better by preventing others from social intercourse. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, August 9, 2024 9:35 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Someone let THUGR near the internet again. 13 bumps today so far. Not bumps, mostly just responding to the last posts. Sorry, sometimes it takes me a bit to catch up. T Quoting yourself, from the last post in the thread, which was posted by you, and nobody responded to, and adding nothing substantive - nothing at all, or just another pointless GIF, or a brief senseless few words. Looks like a bump, walks like a bump, talks like a bump, acts like a bump. must be a bump. Responding to the voices in your head doesn't really count. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, August 26, 2024 8:50 AM JAYNEZTOWN more of those creepy Zeihan weirdo Stratfor videos coming NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, September 10, 2024 6:45 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: North and South did this since 1950s . Oh, I didn't see that It's kinda funny! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time." Or, any verification or thought. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, October 17, 2024 1:44 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. I think he must be butt hurt ... So many threads with so much cope. Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Fifteen threads??? Really?? It's like every ten days or so somebody lets him near the internet, and he goes nuts. Is it because he's butt-hurt and can't let it go? Crazy? Trolling? THUGR, the floor is yours... ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, October 17, 2024 2:47 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK He's not half as desperate as Harris. I don't know what she was thinking showing up on FOX News. Biden* and Clinton never felt desperate enough to try that. I don't believe for a second they're going to allow her to go on Joe Rogan despite all the talk about it. That would be the final nail in the coffin of her candidacy if she did. -------------------------------------------------- Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, November 27, 2024 12:10 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. THUGR, spamming the board. It would be one thing if he was bringing new info, but he's just bumping threads. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, November 27, 2024 4:43 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Yup. He's back. Refused to take his lumps for 3 weeks, refused to even address his long-awaited major loss, and proving in the last 24 hours that he refuses to learn anything and he's just going to be a miserable little prick for another 4 years. Fuck 'em. Who cares. Can't fix stupid. -------------------------------------------------- Trump is fine. He is also your current President. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 1, 2024 11:56 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN Well, we had a respite for 3 weeks, but 6ix kept begging the trolls to return. That was apparently the time required to accomplish the mental pretzel gymnastics needed to reenforce his delusions. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, January 16, 2025 9:03 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. I see someone let THUGR out of his prison job this week. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, January 16, 2025 9:59 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK That clickbait ain't going to watch itself. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, August 20, 2025 8:38 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. THUGR is spamming the board again. Son, you're doing an awesome job, but you're gonna have to work harder to catch up to JAYNZE: 87(!) bumps in two days. 87!!! ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, August 20, 2025 8:49 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Trump-brain DURRRRRRRRRRR Ted is just brain damaged beyond repair at this point. And his personal attacks on Brenda are just typical white Liberal college "educated" behavior. Nobody can ever possibly live up to their Purity Tests. Even the people they supposedly "represent" in their tireless quest for likes and good boy points for those dopamine hits they're all addicted to. It's really funny when white college educated liberals actually find out what minorities think about them. The minorities usually end up hating them more than the white people on the side of sanity do. They really have no clue. A big part of that is because they're all upper-middle class and they get to live in the areas with the greatest school districts and lowest crime rates in the country and never did an honest day's work in their lives. I guaranty you that every single white person working for the NYT, MSNBC and CNN combined has spent less time collectively working minimum or near minimum wage jobs with minorities and getting to know them on a personal level than I did in a single month of working overnight at KMart. And some of them are still trying to force that LatinX label and getting it to stick on Mexican Americans who hate it. Yanno... the same people who go around everyday saying that voter ID is racist because black people are incapable of getting a photo ID. Sad. Good thing most of them who write for a living are losing their jobs and will no longer be able to influence culture and politics going forward. They're all relics of the world from a year ago that no longer exists and they will not be missed. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 5:42 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Why, THGR? Why? ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 5:50 PM THG Keep it real please Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Why, THGR? Why? Here is why. I just posted this elsewhere then saw your post. I think it addresses your comment aptly. Too funny... T Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: People stopped caring about what this idiot thinks 10 years ago. Evidence Jack and Signym are just plain stupid. To the point. Trump is driving our educated out of the country. He has cut science funding and grants pretty much to nil. Jack and Signym continue to cover for him and show no concern for this. And Jack thinks he is smarter than Neil. Too funny... T “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:27 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by THG: Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Why, THGR? Why? Here is why. I just posted this elsewhere then saw your post. I think it addresses your comment aptly. Too funny... T Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: People stopped caring about what this idiot thinks 10 years ago. Evidence Jack and Signym are just plain stupid. To the point. Trump is driving our educated out of the country. He has cut science funding and grants pretty much to nil. Jack and Signym continue to cover for him and show no concern for this. And Jack thinks he is smarter than Neil. Too funny... T “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson Nobody cares what this fat, low-T, DEI hire, fake scientist who can't even tell you what a woman is thinks about any topic. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:30 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Here's somebody that Neil deFaggot Tyson would call a woman because dude calls himself a woman. This shit right here is why you now lose on EVERY issue in 2025 until for the rest of forever, Ted. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:32 PM THG Keep it real please Without failure every time I point out Gilligan is dumb; he proves me right. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:33 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Here's somebody that Neil deFaggot Tyson would call a woman because dude calls himself a woman. This shit right here is why you now lose on EVERY issue in 2025 until for the rest of forever, Ted. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:34 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Dude has been arrested 4 times for felony charges before this latest incident in Colorado and released without bail every time. There is a video of him chasing after school children with a plastic bag and trying to capture one of them with it. He's changed his name to Carmella and identifies as a woman. What's not to get, Ted? You stupid, stupid fuck. Your party is dead. Forever. P.S. You think Neil would fuck her? I bet he would, but only if his new illegal alien invader voodoo priestess is pegging him from behind. Neil's dick doesn't work unless his prostate is being tickled at the same time by big fat girl cock. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 7:46 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Neil tells his new voodoo priestess girlfriend that he needs to choke the chicken and goes to the bathroom. When he exits the bathroom, Carmella was choking the life out of a literal chicken. Confused, he asks Carmella what the hell "she" is doing... "You said time to choke chicken. I thought that meant dinner time." We're shipping them all out, Faggot Ted. And there isn't a goddamned thing you can do about it. How's that feel? You've never felt more impotent in your life than you do right now. That's how Neil has felt every time he's tried to have sex without a big fat girl cock tickling his prostate. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 10:10 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Why, THGR? Why? Here is why. I just posted this elsewhere then saw your post. I think it addresses your comment aptly. Too funny... T Quote: Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: People stopped caring about what this idiot thinks 10 years ago. Evidence Jack and Signym are just plain stupid. To the point. Trump is driving our educated out of the country. He has cut science funding and grants pretty much to nil. Jack and Signym continue to cover for him and show no concern for this. And Jack thinks he is smarter than Neil. Too funny... T “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson Nobody cares what this fat, low-T, DEI hire, fake scientist who can't even tell you what a woman is thinks about any topic. Supreme Court lets Trump administration cut $783 million of research funding in anti-DEI push https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-lets-trump-admin istration-cut-783-million-of-research-funding-in-anti-dei-push/ar-AA1KYRNC?ocid=msedgntp&pc=EDBBAN&cvid=f9d98055df554ca9a46f53945f594cc0&ei=21 T “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Thursday, August 21, 2025 11:22 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Science does matter. Neil is an actor, and a very poor one at that. Why does everybody you associate with suck so bad? You're all like flies on shit. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, August 22, 2025 12:06 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Why does THUGR shit up the board by bumping his pointless threads? Why, THGR? Why? THUGR: Here is why. I just posted this elsewhere then saw your post. I think it addres your comment aptly. Too funny.. SIX: People stopped caring about what this idiot [de Grasse Tyson] 2thinks 10 years ago. THGR: Evidence Jack and Signym are just plain stupid. To the point. Trump is driving our educated out of the country. Is there a mass exodus of native born scientists? Links please Quote: He has cut science funding and grants pretty much to nil. Quote: The [2026 budget] proposal — which expands on topline numbers released earlier in the month — calls for reducing the National Science Foundation's budget by 57%, the National Institutes of Health’s budget by roughly 40%, and NASA's science budget by 47%. The Department of Energy's Office of Science faces a 14% cut, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology would see a 28% reduction. What I think about this is complicated. I used to work on a Federal health science grant years ago, doing what I thought was potentially significant work, attempting to understand why victims of trauma could come thru stabilization and surgery and appear to be doing well, only to succumb three weeks later. But so many grants go to university PhD- factories, where great deal of effort goes into trying to find some tiny niche of research that nobody has written a paper on before, just to do a piece of research that nobody will ever notice and grab that PhD. I think we overproduce PhDs. And I think that grants should be reserved for meaningful research. Quote: “Science!!! Matters!!!” Neil deGrasse Tyson youtube. com/watch?v=mEOeCi8pjog SIX: Nobody cares what this fat, low-T, DEI hire, fake scientist who can't even tell you what a woman is thinks about any topic. I also know, THGR, that you don't have the faintest idea what science is. Among other things, you have to ASK QUESTIONS, PAY ATTENTION TO REALITY, AND THINK DIFFERENTLY IF YOU WANT TO MAKE MEANINGFUL DISCOVERIES. SIX, you don't know what science is either. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, August 22, 2025 2:00 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Just as an aside... I have a BS in Chemistry with a minor in Physics. But I supervised people with BS, MS, and PhD degrees, and over the years supervised about 40 different degreed chemists. People were hired thru a process that began with a written chemistry test followed by competitive interviews. In our lab, it didn't matter how advanced your degree was, we were all hired thru the same process and started at the same level of work. In my group, everyone got a chance at a project as well as routine work, and if they were adept at problem solving they were assigned more projects. Most people had one area that they were particularly good at: some excelled at instrument repair, some at programming, some at wet chemistry, some at method development, some at field emergency response etc. And, again, FWIW, I had extensive cross-training going on. Our group was a kind of "Jack of all trades" group, we never knew what kinds of samples would arrive or what we needed to do with them and at what level of emergency, so for scheduling purposes I needed three people capable of running each analysis on any particular instrument- one at the expert level, one at the intermediate level, and one at the routine level. Cross training also promoted better group dynamics- they functioned as a team and it made the group stronger. Promotion was by competitive interview panel. Since promotion depended on, among other things, technical problem solving skills, the more projects you completed the better your chance of promotion. So, having worked for decades with people with all degrees at all levels of work, it seems to me that people with BS degrees were just as capable of problem- solving as people with PhDs. PhD degrees didn't seem to improve problem-solving capacity. The people who seemed mentally less flexible were often those with MS degrees. IDK what it is about that intermediate degree but it often seems to attract, or maybe create, people who just want to be told what to do. Point being PhD is not a guarantee of inventiveness or problem solving. It's unfortunate that so many companies and institutions require it. So, back to the function of science grants ... Universities depend on them, and student tuition, for funding. Whatever grant the researcher get, the University takes roughly 30% off the top for "administration". The researcher might be doing groundbreaking research, but the graduate students ... who are basically cheap labor, since they have to pay tuition to stay in research ... have to find some area in their advisor's field where they can carve out a paper for publication. Researchers are like legislators: They're judged on the quantity of output, not on the quality or impact. It's called 'publish or perish'. Most publications will have no impact on the furtherence of the state of knowledge, almost NONE will be repeated and it's quite possible that many aren't repeatable. There's got to be a better way to fund research, and a better way to get better research. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, August 22, 2025 2:17 PM JAYNEZTOWN Spending went crazy with 'The Bill' and cuts have been ordered While I have disagreed with THUGR, or THG or whatever the Latest Name ...I agree and support criticism of Trump where science cuts have happened Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Is there a mass exodus of native born scientists? Links please I don't think the 'Exodus' is so real, yet there is something There is cutting but I'm not sure if it is that big however something was reported, I'm not sure how true or at what scale cuts are happening some news examples France draws US scientists amid Trump cuts but slashes €1bn at home https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20250516-france-draws-us-scientist s-amid-trump-cuts-but-slashes-%E2%82%AC1bn-from-research-budget bla bla ‘I’m scared of fascism’ Leading centers in cities like Barcelona and Madrid have been receiving dozens of applications from researchers who fear loss of funds or deportation. A protest in Boston in early March in support of science following Trump's budget cuts. https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-03-27/us-scientists-who-w ant-to-move-to-europe-because-of-trump-speak-out-im-scared-of-fascism.html There might be an explanation here, citizenship issues awaiting a decision or resolution; these might be immigrants with their VISA status in Limbo Nearly 300 scientists apply for French academic program amid Trump cuts in U.S. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5368132/us-researchers-scientists -apply-french-university-program Also there is an AI race thread a 'Science Given the Boot' / NASA Exploration Futurism type thread This might be a Chatbot article the image looks somewhat AI and as an article it reads as if it was generated computer like 'A Scientific Exodus: A Nation at Risk of Losing Its Edge' https://theweeklytelescope.com/2025/04/19/a-scientific-exodus-a-nation -at-risk-of-losing-its-edge/ but you get A LOT of this stuff in feeds Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy says the agency will 'move aside' from climate sciences to focus on exploring moon and Mars https://www.space.com/space-exploration/nasa-administrator-says-the-ag ency-will-move-aside-from-climate-sciences-to-focus-on-exploring-moon-and-mars info on cuts https://www.planetary.org/articles/billions-wasted-mysteries-unsolved- the-missions-nasa-may-be-forced-to-abandon Firstpost is an Indian Hindu First news website owned by Network18 Nasa halting 41 key missions due to proposed cuts, agency’s funding at lowest since 1961 https://www.firstpost.com/world/nasa-donald-trump-us-china-india-space -13927062.html The military element of 'Space' seems to be expanding with 'The Space Force' but meanwhile NASA has been ordered to stay ahead of the Chinese, put a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon and build an exploration base on Mars before China does it NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME PREV PAGE12NEXT PAGE YOUR OPTIONS NEW THREAD BOOKMARK UN-BOOKMARK SHARE THREAD NEW POSTS SINCE LAST READ USER POST DATE 6ixStringJack 08.21 23:22 SIGNYM 08.22 00:06 SIGNYM 08.22 14:00 JAYNEZTOWN 08.22 14:17 6ixStringJack 08.22 16:53 SIGNYM 08.22 16:57 6ixStringJack 08.22 16:59 SIGNYM 12.15 18:58 OTHER TOPICS DISCUSSIONS In the garden, and RAIN!!! 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I might see about going to my friend's to help him tonight or tomorrow night since we didn't get together over the weekend. -------------------------------------------------- Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
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Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Everything done for today. Made a great find at my library Season 3 of "Dark Winds". It runs AMC streaming or something like that. But my library gets them which is great. Will enjoy that.
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Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well.
Quote:I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair.
Quote:Sorry about that line.
Quote:That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice.
Quote:No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow.
Quote:Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on.
Quote:No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't.
Quote:Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures.
Quote:Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts.
Quote:Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way.
Quote:I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm.
Quote:Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try.
Tuesday, December 16, 2025 1:33 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Everything done for today. Made a great find at my library Season 3 of "Dark Winds". It runs AMC streaming or something like that. But my library gets them which is great. Will enjoy that. I think it's based on detective novels written by Tony Hillerman, set in Navajo nation. The protagonists are Jim Chee and Lt Joe Leaphorn. I started watching Dark Winds, but it's so different than the books and IMHO not as good. The books are gentler and less "angry", if you know what I mean. And IDK how relevant the books are to today's culture, but they really have a different "feel" than American culture. But if you like reading, I recommend ALL of his books ... https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/leaphorn-chee/ ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Everything done for today. Made a great find at my library Season 3 of "Dark Winds". It runs AMC streaming or something like that. But my library gets them which is great. Will enjoy that. I think it's based on detective novelshttps:// written by Tony Hillerman, set in Navajo nation. The protagonists are Jim Chee and Lt Joe Leaphorn. I started watching Dark Winds, but itTHG | Log off ABOUTMAPCHATEVENTSFIRECASTSBLOGSCOMMUNITYBLUE SUN ROOMPROFILEHOME Skip Navigation LinksHOME >> COMMUNITY >> REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS >> SHOOTINGS! REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS Shootings! POSTED BY: WISHIMAY UPDATED: Tuesday, December 16, 2025 06:08 SHORT URL: VIEWED: 23555 PAGE 1 of 4 PREV PAGE1234NEXT PAGE Wednesday, December 2, 2015 3:34 PM WISHIMAY It's not the media, it's not politics, it's not black or white or alien, it's not the guns, it's not games, or movies, or additives in food... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3343309/At-TWENTY-people-gunne d-California-mass-shooting-police-search-three-suspects.html IT'S PSYHOTIC PEOPLE. Predominantly psychotic MEN people. Why is this soooo hard to get? That G-23 Paxilon Hyrochorate is lookin' better and better and betterer.... NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 4:05 PM JAYNEZTOWN EDIT 'Tashfeen Malik' Female Terrorist Turns out one of the mass murdering terrorist killers is a woman, Wishway know for posting political threats to her fellow Americans is proven to be batshit insane retarded once again? Yes shooting trending on twitter and reddit possible explosive device..... https://twitter.com/RWSurferGirl/status/672155063075209216 https://twitter.com/492_AMU/status/672148045233025024 https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/3v6jw5/mass_shooting_active_sho oter_in_california_san/ https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/3v6iq7/authorities_respond_to_2 0_victim_shooting/ https://www.reddit.com/live/w0nn1o5hu90y https://twitter.com/latimes/status/672147970075320323 https://twitter.com/ComplexPop/status/672145715045507072 Quote: Originally posted by Wishimay: IT'S PSYHOTIC PEOPLE. Predominantly psychotic MEN people. Don't jump to conclusions yet, the scumbag murderers might have loony political motivation, the barbaric killers might have have some wacko god or religion that inspires them to murder, they might be on drugs or a crzy ganglnd mafia hit gone wrong....you just don't know yet...there is even a small precentage of possiblity it could be a woman with some involvement, you know women have killed too? Catherine the Great? Myra Hindley? the European Countess Báthory? Delphine LaLaurie? Aileen Wuornos?...women historically have killed too and even the recent woman in Paris France who suicide bombed herself....although men are far more likely to commit violent crime it is a sad fact that women can also be equally able of doing such evils Before saying anything as true I would say wait for the reports from police, FBI, paramedic...wait until news interviews the victims the firefighters helping on the scene before you draw a picture The twitter shows the buzz from newsfeeds, Cop to Dispatch Radio on Reddit website gives a feeling for what may be going on You can read police dispatch or twitter witness...to develop a picture but I would say We will have to wait for official statements NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 4:09 PM WISHIMAY P.S. that aside.... I have a problem... ironically with a female psychotic! I have a neighbor(ish) and for two years I was cordial to as I walked the dog past their house. One day she decided that I was the only person around that she could "use". She calls EVERY DAY (I've stopped picking up the phone) and leaves messages that I should call her, even though I've made it very clear I DO NOT CALL ANYONE. I don't even call family if I can avoid it. Her husband is a mean drunk and he gets drunk EVERY holiday, and last year shot out a window throwing a gun at her. She shows up at my house constantly wanting rides to go get her numerous medications. (I don't know why but she doesn't drive) I don't want to get in an argument with her as it is very clear she is unstable, and she has proven she will not hesitate to confront my daughter over perceived slights... Besides MOVING, do you have any suggestions? NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 4:20 PM JAYNEZTOWN reports of nearby Shopping center - shots fired Quote: Originally posted by Wishimay: Besides MOVING, do you have any suggestions? they sound too stupid to grow up, so find a way of informing them to get a divorce, people in a toxic relationship just spread their bad vibes and spread noise pollution to everyone around them...if they seperate they might have better lives NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 5:15 PM JAYNEZTOWN 11 o clock shooting. active shooter situation. long rifle "shell casings" found? killers wore body armor, masks, camo army jacket? 3 people entered large facility, busy building. 14 badly wounded. massive medic aid response. suspects may have fled, may be at large, suspects spotted in black SUV. no motive at this time. wounded are being extrated. FBI local police working to find suspects, it may or it may not be terrorist incident. Reports 14 dead. do not yet have information from witnesses on whether suspects said anything during shooting. Suspects with long-gun have fled. People who done killing came prepared, dressed prepared, weapons prepared. no indication yet of global terrorism but at minimum may be a domestic terrorist type situation. men arrived on a mission. reports say masks were involved Suspects STILL at large. PRESS CONFERENCE taking place in other news Dow Jones industrial average lost 158.67 points, or 0.9 percent, to 17,729.68. the Nasdaq composite index fell 33.08 points, or 0.6 percent, to 5,123.22. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 5:52 PM WISHIMAY Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: ...although men are far more likely to commit violent crime it is a sad fact that women can also be equally able of doing such evils... Pleeeease. If you even skimmed the reports of the shooters, armor, ak-47s- you know these are guys. And women are just as ABLE, but DON'T. Says a lot. STOP GIVING TESTOSTERONE A PASS. And I literally mean that. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 5:54 PM WISHIMAY Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: they sound too stupid to grow up, so find a way of informing them to get a divorce,] Neither of them has anywhere to go. And she would try to move in here, it ain't happenin... NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:11 PM JAYNEZTOWN Yes reports are of 3 men, three armed males on the run Quote: Originally posted by Wishimay: And women are just as ABLE, but DON'T. Says a lot. STOP GIVING TESTOSTERONE A PASS. And I literally mean that. what are you ranting about now women do ocassional make violent crime, I recently read of an Egyptian woman beating her sinful daughter to death with a rock because she sinned by hanging around with boys, I have read another of a Palestinian mother putting and plastic bag over her daughters head and smothering her because her dress shamed the family, another of a mother and father killing their son who wanted to leave islam....women have done violent crime, they do it less than men but they still do it I think you need to get over yourself, get over whatever wacko feminist views you got because girls and women also do crime, although statistically its a lower percent than men people with ovaries and estrogen are also able to do violence Female islamic terrorists are blowing people up in France / Europe ? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:17 PM JAYNEZTOWN I think they might have got one or got them http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/13038/web http://www.flightradar24.com/N404KR/826791d NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:18 PM JAYNEZTOWN sh!*t i heard 'officer down' hope its going to be ok :( NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:22 PM JAYNEZTOWN 'Requesting medical aid' NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:22 PM JAYNEZTOWN suspected SUV come to a stop NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:23 PM JAYNEZTOWN Officer hit? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:27 PM JAYNEZTOWN *heavy gun fire* sounds ? setting up perimiter chopper noise? talking about a school NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:30 PM JAYNEZTOWN Police in foot-pursuit of a suspect NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:36 PM JAYNEZTOWN Pipe bomb located shots fired again? SWAT team needed, (radio chatter is very busy hard for me to pick it all up) somebody running through backyards call for ballistic shield team need support NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:51 PM JAYNEZTOWN Someone in church one subject on 2nd level of building Cops now calling houses near were a bomb was found somebody running across airfield with phone camo pants and orange shirt/suit? behind church cop hear female arabic voice bomb squad in bomb disposal called NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:53 PM JAYNEZTOWN Good news! Sounds like they got him surrounded! NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:54 PM JAYNEZTOWN Houses being evacuated NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 7:06 PM JAYNEZTOWN Talk of a latino man, shaved head hispanic looking man 3rd man being persued AR-15 gun picked up no further explosive devices Code 3 'lights and siren'? 'no other explosive devices located' another suspicious subject detained other locations being looked at? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 7:08 PM JAYNEZTOWN Officer injury not life threatening NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 7:10 PM JAYNEZTOWN One Subject detained NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 7:15 PM JAYNEZTOWN NBC tweet One officer injured, non-life-threatening, during police shootout with suspect Trump twitter - 'Police and law enforcement seem to have killed one of the California shooters and are in a shootout with the others. Go police' ABC news Two suspects being "dealt with" Fox says Suspect may be barricaded in church LA County Sheriff's retweets SB county Suspicious vehicle reported to dispatch seaScanner911 says 4 officers injured. 8 people transported to hospital Marc Brown 'Possible additional suspect still inside the black SUV' Michelle Tuzee twitter 'Bullet riddled dark SUV' Suspicious two long beards drove by location twice Call for public to avoid the area Gunfire exchanged w/suspects during follow up invest patrol reports, dealing with active shooter in area locking perimeter down Residents told stay indoors Other residents being evacuated helicopter view NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 7:34 PM JAYNEZTOWN Snapchat has audio of gun battle in San Bernardino SB county 'We are asking that all people in the SB area south of San Bernardino Ave east of Mt. View stay in their homes w/doors locked & secure' Scanner is quiet now Dispatch reports: Radio difficulties. u can decode cop radio messages here http://www.radiolabs.com/police-codes.html NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 7:35 PM WISHIMAY Did you just confuse us with Twitter? #ummmno? NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 7:38 PM WISHIMAY Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: people with ovaries and estrogen are also able to do violence ....although statistically its a lower percent than men See, I don't even have to make my own point. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 7:44 PM WISHIMAY In 2013 there were 102,400 adult females in local jails in the United States, and 111,300 adult females in state and federal prisons In 2013 there were 628,900 adult males in local jails in the United States, and 1,463,500 adult males in state and federal prisons 1 to 6 1 to 14 Testosterone IS the problem. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 8:10 PM JAYNEZTOWN News media reports its a 'dispute' and not an act of global terrorism news reporter says not terrorism but a gun event after 'argument at a party' Buildings being shutdown, Offices at SB Airport are also closed, suspicious person near airport, another report of suspect running near airport EMTs need right away someone hit by vehicle yard to yard search Drone in the air? bomb threat at Med Center Fox17 comments on Scanner Report suspect Farooq Saiid or Farouk Sayed http://www.weaselzippers.us/243182-despite-no-previous-threats-against -san-bernadino-homeland-security-sure-scrambled-this-plane-pretty-quickly-huh/ Quote: Originally posted by Wishimay: 1 to 6 1 to 14 Would you also like to break this down by Race Ethnicity, what if you discover Negroid Black Females are doing Violent crimes more often than White Males or Yellow Mongoild Oriental Men....would you change the subject? two suspects dead? one is male, one female explosion in a rear alley, child screaming, fire in D Avenue 20 victims reported, according to Fire Department Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=807_1449091802 chopper pilot says one of the dead suspects may be a female, unconfirmed report, but he says he saw the suspect wearing a red bra. air view of car https:// i.imgur.com/ e7FUVft.png IED found? Police being pulled back FBI will be taking over Quote: Originally posted by Wishimay: In 2013 there were 628,900 adult males in local jails in the United States, and 1,463,500 adult males in state and federal prisons Do you want to really look at data. How willing is your brain to explore some facts? How does it break down by culture and race? Do Mexican women, Black women, islamic women do more crime than White or Yellow men from the Orient...you have freedom of speech correct but is this subject to taboo How about Sporty Tranny 'Women' those who steroid munch try to look like Sir-He-naaa da Penis Gorilliams She-Hulk person...are they more Testosterone than White Men or Yellow Man? I know you have a things for transexual rights lately. Are Black Females doing more murder and assault and theft and vandalism than White Men?...but if you seen these stats Would you make excuses for the Black Female Criminal and twist your brain and find a way to blame 'White Men'? NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 8:34 PM AURAPTOR America loves a winner! Farooq Saeed. Name of one of the suspected shooters. Make of that what you will. * that name is now being said to have " washed out ", and isn't being sought as being connected , though terrorism is NOT being ruled out. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 10:21 PM JAYNEZTOWN Yes I've seen and heard Farooq Saeed in San Bernardino with Suspect Muslim Female....I hear it on scanner, seen the name on twitter Then I seen the media try say he wasn't a muslim later he was a muslim once again then it wasn't Saeed..... ....finally I see articles on this Saeed guy ...not sure what to make of the media frenzy NEWS: Police used a robot to search for possible explosive devices, and the police scanner noted of a possible IED.... http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/san-bernardino-shooting/they-just-sta rted-shooting-survivor-recounts-attack-n473181 Quote: Two possible suspects, a man and a woman, were shot and killed in an exchange of gunfire with police hours after the after officers chased a vehicle that resembled one sought after the shooting, San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan told reporters. A police officer was also hurt, but the injury was not life threatening, she said. The shooting erupted during a holiday party in a conference room. Fourteen people were killed. At least 10 of the 17 wounded are in critical condition. Authorities identified a possible suspect as Syed Farook and another as possibly his brother. Police shot two suspects after a high-speed chase in a shootout hours later. The suspects — a man and a woman — were killed. A third person seen fleeing from the scene of the shootout is in custody. A police officer was wounded in the shootout. FBI say shooting in California 'may or may not have been a terrorist attack' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/12030160/Ca lifornia-shooting-Multiple-victims-reported-in-San-Bernardino-live.html Two law enforcement sources identified one of the suspects in the San Bernardino shooting as Syed Farook. According to public records, a Syed R. Farook worked as an environmental health specialist for San Bernardino County. It's unclear whether that is the same person connected to the attack. The shooting occurred at an event for the county's public health department. Two other federal law enforcement sources, while not revealing the name of the suspect they were referring to, said he was an American citizen. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-bernardino-shooting-li ve-updates-htmlstory.html NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 10:38 PM JAYNEZTOWN Quote: Originally posted by AURaptor: * that name is now being said to have " washed out ", and isn't being sought as being connected , though terrorism is NOT being ruled out. they forgot how to do their news, quick fax them those charts Fox's Rod Wheeler was on, he's waiting for reports of someone of the killers saying the words 'Alley Ackbor' or crying out the words Admiral Akbar before he can call it - if those words were not said then its work place violece if those words got said then its terrorism....media is a joke now, they are unable to think for themselves NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 11:11 PM AURAPTOR America loves a winner! They got the name backwards. Saeed Farooq is now the name which HAS been released. 2 are dead, and apparently there's no 3rd individual. Good grief. Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts. " AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 2, 2015 11:53 PM WISHIMAY This is the most bungled media whitewashing I have ever seen... Right now it could've been Mr. Snuffleupagus and Mrs. White in the Vestibule with the semi-automatic Candelabra... But we know there was a semi-automatic SOMETHING. THAT'S the important part NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 1:17 AM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/us/how-often-do-mass-shootings-occur -on-average-every-day-records-show.html?hpw&rref=us&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well How Often Do Mass Shootings Occur? On Average, Every Day, Records Show SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 2:39 AM JO753 rezident owtsidr I hav the perfect way to chase her away. Start talking to her about Nooalf. Call her about it! Nok on her door! YOU bekum the pest to be avoided. ---------------------------- DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early http://www.nooalf.com NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 6:09 AM AURAPTOR America loves a winner! Husband and wife death team, it seems. They wore body armor and go-pro cams. Yep. Just your typical work place violence. Nothing to see here. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 6:45 AM RAHLMACLAREN "Damn yokels, can't even tell a transport ship ain't got no guns on it." - Jayne Cobb How much do we know about the explosives that were found? Is there any robotic means to remotely dissect the bombs, so things can be more thoroughly investigated? A possible missed opportunity. How many reliable witnesses counted three suspects? *Also, I want to know EXACTLY what the argument at the party was about. It is scary how this shit was going down during my first viewing of Fahrenheit 9/11. *ETA Find here the Serenity you seek. -Tara Maclay NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 9:40 AM JAYNEZTOWN Media drops ball PBS NewsHour has a half hour of CAIR,.....big murder spree, IEDs, mass shooting, police gun battles and PBS runs straight to CAIR to ask why!? is it islamophobia!? why? some in-law is speaking and you see the CAIR banners “I have no idea ... Why would he do something like this.” CAIR recap: (rational wiki CAIR, is, depending on who you ask, either a human rights and civil liberties organization founded to protect the rights of Islamics or a Muslim Islamist lobby group with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and terror group Hamas. It should be noted that it's perfectly possible for both to be true. CAIR has been listed as a terrorist organization by the UAE, mainly due to an ongoing pissing match between the UAE and the Muslim Brotherhood, whom the UAE feels is giving CAIR their marching orders. ) Here we go, people come to their own conclusions Quote: http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1602506&page=28 Gonna be a workplace gun violence incident.... regardless of how many times a day they prayed first, or how long the radical islamists were planning it, or how many IEDs they found, or whether they were from Qatar or not. http://forum.slowtwitch.com/forum/Slowtwitch_Forums_C1/Lavender_Room_F 4/Mass_shooting_in_San_Bernardino%2C_12_dead_P5787531-7 According to one report there were two brothers. Both same initials, but different middle name starting with R. At press announcement for brother-in-law, a picture was shown of one brother, and they responded, no, that is the older brother. One was tax guy and other environmental inspector. Some stories conflate the two brothers. http://heavy.com/news/2015/12/syed-sayeed-farouk-farook-inland-regiona l-center-san-bernardino-shooting-suspect-gunman-name-identified-redlands-age-motive-photos-social-media-family-facebook-video-chase-shot-killed-dead/ Burguan said the suspects, wearing “assault-style” tactical clothing and armed with assault rifles and handguns, died at the scene. A suspicious device, possibly an explosive, was found near the car, according to police. A possible explosive device was also found inside the Inland Regional Center, police said. Police said the suspects fired at officers from the vehicle, and the officers returned fire. The SUV was riddled with bullets, and both of the suspects were killed. A police officer was also wounded during the shootout, but is expected to survive. http://www.defensivecarry.com/forum/off-topic-humor-discussion/226201- another-mass-shooting-now-san-bernardino-20-down-29.html This morning is the first that I'm really hearing about and looking into the whole events that unfolded yesterday, and here's what I've put together on my own: An American born devout Suuni muslim goes to Saudi Arabia for a month earlier this year and comes back with a wife he didn't previously mention, and together they shoot up his office Christmas party with ARs, pistols, IEDs, and extra mags (and possibly armored) chest rigs, before shooting it out with the cops after a brief chase. This isn't speculation as it's all been confirmed by multiple sources. I've had to put that together on my own because no MSM outlets will come out and say it like it is. Why strain at the neck to tap-dance around the issue this much? Are we really not going to address and continue to ignore the HUGE, GINORMOUS elephant in the room?? http://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/showthread.php?481088-Mass-shooting- in-progress-San-Bernardino/page2 national gun control is the only answer. http://www.topix.com/forum/city/san-bernardino-ca/TRB1R1GSKPF4PEO9U PS.....The media is trying to play it down, but it is clear that Farook was extremely religious. http://www.xdtalk.com/threads/shooting-in-san-bernardino.282351/page-2 1 Syed Farook's wife's name: Tashfeen Malik. Half a dozen middle-eastern men going in and out of the condo in recent weeks, but neighbor didn't report out of fear of being called racist. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141277682 Apparently he met his wife/gf online and they both came back from Saudi Arabia http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/03/2-suspects-killed-shootout-san-be rnardino-massacre-14-killed/ Farook, who authorities said was born in Illinois, and raised in California and had worked as a $51,000-per-year restaurant inspector at the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health for five years, was described by co-workers as a "devout" Muslim, who lived in a home in nearby Redlands, which sources described as "an IED factory." Bomb squads working with robots swept the home late into the night Wednesday, and witnesses reported hearing several explosions. Is CNN, is the ConfusedNoiseNetworks Anderson Cooper some kind of CIA shill lacky for defending Saudis, protecting islamism? Cooper went on and on about work place violence and mental health never once was terrorism mentioned. Here is more from online blogs and forums and one quote RussiaT basically the USSR Pravda news of today I never thought I would see the today where I be going to a Ruskie newspaper to find out truth about some islamo nutcases killing people in California Quote: Burguan later contradicted Bowdich’s assessment, however: “At the minimum, we have a domestic terrorist-type situation here,” the police chief said, noting that the three suspects “came in with a purpose, they came in to do something.” http://www.mycopper.net/Forum/yaf_postsm671857_FOX-News-Contributors-F arooq-Saheed-Is-Shooting-Suspect-in-San-Bernadino-Shooting-VIDEO.aspx FOX : “Faruq Saheed” Is Suspect in San Bernadino Shooting shooting reload http://forum.dvdtalk.com/religion-politics-world-events/629806-shootin g-san-bernardino-12.html https://www.rt.com/usa/324372-san-bernardino-active-shooter/ Now confirmed: It's all a simple misunderstanding. A bunch of county employees had a Christmas party, and one of them disagreed with something that was going on. He then went home and grabbed his body armor, accomplice, pipe bombs, assault rifles and went on a shooting spree. It's bad enough when a lone nut job goes on a shooting spree, but this was clearly a calculated, planned event. https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/1836960-san-bernardin o-ca-mass-shooting-p13.html Police have identified the suspected shooters in today’s mass killings as Syed Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27. Both were killed in a gun battle with police following a brief pursuit. Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were married and have a 6-month-old baby. AP reports that Farook had traveled to Saudi Arabia earlier this year and returned with his wife. http://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=413805&page=66 Apartment was a IED making facility -- http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=301136&am p;page=11 They feel confident that the IEDs in the Redland residence and the center were real. The female was named as Tashfeen Malik. http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/20/33701901-multiple-shootings-in-ca lifornia.html Just seen a graphic shot from the chopper that shows the deceased suspect, it was speculated that at least one is female, the reporter is speculating both deceased suspects are female, the image I just saw from the chopper appears to show this too. http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=4ea245802af1 e923851aff9159f9fe9f&t=489167&page=13 So, We have a dead shooter male is an American Devout Muslim who shot up a Christmas Party. We have a dead female Muslim from Qatar who helped him. Both attacked in full battle gear. If that isn't Muslim Terrorism, then this is not a Moto Forum. Female shooter identified. Tashfeen Malik http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=40c_1449109810 Chase, US citizen posts the event on social media, police bomb squad going through people's yards http://forums.sherdog.com/forums/f54/hahaha-workplace-violence-obama-s aid-again-sb-shooting-sickening-3114989/ "Workplace Violence!" neighbors say he and his wife had been getting deliveries and working in the garage all night for a while now and when the police went to the residence, they described it as a "bomb making factory." So hmm, Muslim, travels to Saudi Arabia, sets up bomb factory in his garage. Nah, must not be terrorism. http://www.conservativesforum.com/cgi-bin/conservatives-forum/YaBB.pl? num=1449085794/46 This is an embarrassment to us and across the world. They are ALL playing dumb. Yet they can tell us EXATLY how many rds they had of every different caliber... https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/breaking-mass-shooting-reporte d-in-san-bernandino-ca.366374/page-26 San Bernardino police chief Jarrod Burguan said late Wednesday that police have not ruled out terrorism as a motive in the mass shooting in Southern California. He said that, based on the armor and level of preparation, “there had to be some degree of planning in this.” Authorities reportedly said that three explosive devices found at the scene of shooting were “disposed of.” While investigators believe the devices were a “pipe bomb-type design,” Burguan could not confirm that at this stage. http://forums.officer.com/t202934-8/ Now the second suspects name is being retracted and claiming it was a hoax... Phuck, I'm off to bed... the mainstream media is a dinosaur, the mainstream media is dead NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 11:55 AM WISHIMAY *Key Sentence* "He then went home and grabbed his body armor, accomplice, pipe bombs, assault rifles and went on a shooting spree." Only a terrorist or devout redneck "patriot" would just happen to have that laying around... Every article is going out of the way to say "workplace violence" And I'm glad to know we're on the same page about something, G. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 5:55 PM JAYNEZTOWN News media clowns is this the begining of the end for US media? Is it better to go to the Onion, softcore site NakedNews, Colbert Report and MIBs Weekly World News for more accurate reports?? KTTV says gun control and said cops searching for 3 angry white males dressed in military gear…” NBC reported 3 whites attacking near by the Planned Parenthood facility and 'gun control' News from Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, regressive left political leaders = gun control, change gun laws, gun banning Mark Knoller white males - gun control Hillary Clinton tweeted “stop gun violence now.” or some sh!t LA Times and the drugged out journalistic Socal nuts of California even now is still blabbing about evil conservatives, anti-immigration racism, islamophobia and the reality of work place violence Sam Stein Huffington Post or Forbes? 'Planned Parenthood is 1.3 miles from shooting' Geraldo - WTF!! The 2d Amendment is Stupid!!! Don't rationalize. HuffPo writes a goof on religious people When Salon hears a muslim name tweeted in active shooting “I guess you got what you say you wanted” RIGHTWINGERS Bloomberg Business - San Bernardino Planned Parenthood(...seriously you can't make this sh1t up) DNC chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) blasts Republicans for “demonizing an entire religion.” She also renewed her push for Syrian refugees to be admitted to the country, arguing that Syrian migrants today are like Jews Steve Miller - MSNBC The planned parenthood clinic is only a few blocks away" Celebrity Hollyweird elites, seth green, rashida jones, debra messing, amy schumer, christina applegate....gun control, evil white men, gun control, ban guns, gun control, gun bannings, gun control CAIR National hears a muslim might be involved writes WATCH OUT FOR ISLAMOPHOBIA (this is while the islamist IEDs, gun battles, pipebombs, while mass murders continued) CNN’s Cooper reporting on gun control, work place violence, gun banning, racism against muslims.... what a f*cking Saudi loving idiot Cooper is, does he take it up the ass from Saudi for extra money? Majority of US mainstream news media “workplace violence”? Real news http://canadafreepress.com/article/77229 [ there was also an anti-Obama rant in the article so i cut to the facts ] Quote: “Patrick Baccari, a co-worker of Farook who suffered minor wounds from shrapnel slicing through the building’s bathroom walls, told the Associated Press he been sitting at the same table as Farook at the banquet before his colleague suddenly disappeared, leaving his coat on his chair. “Baccari also said that Farook had traveled to Saudi Arabia for about a month this past spring. When Farook came back, word spread that he had gotten married and the woman he described as a pharmacist joined him shortly afterward. The couple had a baby later this year. Baccari added that the reserved Farook showed no signs of unusual behavior, although he grew out his beard several months ago. .... “FBI spokesman David Bowdich acknowledged that “adjustments” had been made in the investigation with an eye on the possibility terrorism was involved. “In addition to the explosives found at the SUV, authorities discovered and detonated three pipe bombs late Wednesday at the Inland Regional Center, the complex where the initial shooting took place about 60 miles east of Los Angeles. “Another source described a house in Redlands that was being searched in connection with the shooting as “an IED facility.” The source said investigators discovered multiple pipe bombs in the house, as well as small explosives that were strapped to remote-controlled cars. .... http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/02/san-bernadino-mass- shooting/ Quote: There appear to be two suspects, both Muslim, a husband-and-wife team named Syed Rezwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27. Large portions of the city remain locked down. The F.B.I. is treating its inquiry into the massacre here as a counter-terrorism investigation, two law enforcement officials said Thursday, based on materials the suspects stockpiled — including explosives — their Middle East travels and evidence that one of them had been in touch with people with Islamist extremist views, both in the United States and abroad. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3344350/Devout-Muslim-citizen- Saudi-wife-living-American-Dream-identified-heavily-armed-duo-burst-office-holiday-party-slaughtered-14-leaving-baby-mother.html Quote: Radicalized US Muslim clashed with his Jewish co-worker over religion two weeks before he and Pakistani wife killed 14 at office holiday party using huge arsenal of weapons and pipe bombs During an early-morning search of a residence in the city of Redlands associated with Farook or his family, Chief Burguan said agents came away with a massive arsenal of ammunition, including 2,000 9mm rounds, another 2,500 .223 rounds and several hundred long-rifle bullets, along with 12 pipe bombs and tools that could be used to construct IEDs. Burguan noted that the couple were well-equipped to carry out another attack. He added that Farook had no criminal record that police were aware of. The New York Times reported that the FBI had uncovered evidence that Farook was in communication with multiple Islamic extremists both in the US and abroad over the course of several years, among them at least one individual who was a terrorism suspect. Terrible day for the US free speech and the United States news media, we basically have to go to nutty online blogs and forums and go to overseas news sites like RToday, basically the USSR Pravda news of today It is a sad day for truth and free news speech, I never thought I would see the today where I be going to a Ruskie newspaper finding truth about some islamo nutcases killing people in California NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 7:35 PM JAYNEZTOWN IED-making tools, Boston Bomber-style explosives and 4,500 bullets: The arsenal inside the home of the San Bernardino terror couple that could have cost as little as $4,000 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3345021/Twelve-pipe-bombs-4-50 0-bullets-tools-making-explosives-police-home-San-Bernardino-suspects-design-bomb-used-Boston-bombers.html The radicalized Muslim and his Pakistani wife who killed 14 people in San Bernardino used the same designs as the Boston Bombers to put together 12 pipe bombs, reports suggest. Police raided the home of US-born Syed Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, and found a chilling cache of 4,500 bullets they didn't use for the attack, and tools used to make explosives such as IEDS. The armory they developed, which included the 1,600 bullets and four weapons they took to the scene of the shootout with police, could have cost them as little as $4,000. The pair seemed to be using blueprints found in many issues of Inspire, Al Qaeda's extremist online publication in the Arabian Peninsula. The magazine in the past has outlined how to make the bomb from household goods and without using metal components. Articles have also encouraged lone-wolf attacks on the American 'super-rich' and published a 'kill list' of potential targets. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 8:46 PM JAYNEZTOWN San Bernardino shooting: Syed Farook 'used social media to contact extremists watched by the FBI' The FBI was last night treating America's latest massive shooting as a possible Islamist terror attack after investigators found a deadly arsenal at the home of the couple who killed 14 people and injured 21 others at a disabled people's centre. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/12030160/Ca lifornia-shooting-Multiple-victims-reported-in-San-Bernardino-live.html Farook, born in the US to a Pakistani family had worked at the centre for five years as a local authority environmental health inspector before turning on his colleagues in lethal fashion The act was said to be out of character by survivors, who described Farook as a quiet man who appeared to be "living the American dream", according to the Los Angeles Times. He was said to have travelled to Saudi Arabia in 2014 and returned with a new wife, Malik, whom he had met online. Malik is a citizen of Pakistan who was in America on a K-1 visa, according to the FBI. Tashfeen Malik, the Pakistani-American woman killed in the San Bernardino shooting, was able to enter the U.S. through a visa program for foreigners engaged to American citizens, according to federal government sources. Chris Christie, the Republican presidential candidate, said: Quote I am convinced that was a terrorist attack. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 10:54 PM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. We'll probably find out more later, but ... You don't know San Bernardino like I know San Bernardino, I suspect. When I first moved to California, one of my co-workers who lived there told me people called it San Ber'draino'. There's a lot of poverty and extreme people off in that direction - bikers, gangs, 'desert rats', drugs, prostitution. It's possible the man got disillusioned with the people around him and tried to find a more holy way to live, which led to him becoming more extreme. I can imagine him becoming profoundly alienated from the society he was living in. One of the people who was killed, Thalasinos, was apparently quite a vocal Zionist. Or maybe Farook was working with some adamant Christians who made the workplace into alien, unwelcoming territory. Or both, or something else. He seems to have become isolated from his co-workers, exchanging pleasantries, but little else. Certainly there are people who prey on those like Farook, who would use him as another pawn, fanning discontent and promising an answer. This was a Christmas ('holiday') party. He left angry, and came back with his wife, guns and a plan they put into action. There was something about work, about his interactions with people there, and I suspect about religion that coalesced into this violence. I don't think it was primarily driven by radical Islam, or political. I think he's a man who just snapped. SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 11:24 PM WISHIMAY Quote: Originally posted by 1kiki: ..driven by radical Islam, or political. I think he's a man who just snapped. Ummm. No. Neighbors said they've been getting hella lot of odd packages and acting weird. No one leaves a party and just happens to find $4000 worth of guns ammo and complicated rigged explosives in TWO HOURS. No matter the reason, this was planned out for a WHILE. And whether they were part of a cell or not, they knew what they were about to do and what it would look like. If it looks like jihad and walks like jihad and yells "ahlalalalalala"...... it MUST BE JIHAD. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 3, 2015 11:31 PM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. "No matter the reason, this was planned out for a WHILE. If it looks like jihad ..." But it doesn't. Not to me. Jihad targets maximum causalities of strangers, targets of maximum effect. It's strategic. This targeted a small, isolated gathering of people - co-workers, people he knew. He could have found much more damaging targets, like Ontario National Airport. Or the Inland Center, a large mall area. Hey, it's shopping season - right? It wouldn't be the first time a mentally unbalanced person associated with, and found a rationale through, an extremist position. For example Jared Lee Loughner ('Gabby' Giffords' shooter). ETA: It's always possible we'll find that his strain of violence had deep and enduring contacts with radical Islam. At this point, with the information available, to me he looks more like a pawn and less like a player. SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, December 4, 2015 1:07 AM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. Also, fwiw no armor or body cams. They did wear 'tactical gear' which allowed them to carry ammo. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/03/458277103/san-bernar dino-shootings-what-we-know-one-day-after Both were dressed in "tactical gear" (including load-bearing vests, but not ballistic or bulletproof vests) and carrying .223-caliber assault-style rifles and semiautomatic handguns, police say.. Man, you guys will believe anything if it fits some fantasy you already heave in your head. SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, December 4, 2015 2:07 PM WISHIMAY You seem to be trifling on what they were WEARING. No one here cares... Hello, PIPE BOMBS=PLANNING. This just might have been an opportune moment, but they meant to do what they did and where they did it to MAKE IT PERSONAL. They even took the kid to relatives and burned hard drives. They were going to do something at some point no matter what. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, December 4, 2015 6:16 PM WISHIMAY You never do know a man until you hold him over a volcano do you? My family know next to nothing about me. They don't want to know either, they all have this idea of "who I am" they hold on to, no matter what... NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, December 4, 2015 6:44 PM JAYNEZTOWN Quote: Originally posted by Wishimay: This is the most bungled media whitewashing I have ever seen... MSNBC LSD CNN Media Going Through Syed Farook's Personal Stuff NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, December 4, 2015 11:04 PM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. "Hello, PIPE BOMBS=PLANNING." Did I say ANYWHERE that it was spontaneous? Or are you being deliberately stupid? SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell. 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All other graphics and texts are copyright of the contributors to this website. This website IS NOT affiliated with the Official Firefly Site, Mutant Enemy, Inc., or 20th Century Fox. 's so different than the books and IMHO not as good. The books are gentler and less "angry", if you know what I mean. And IDK how relevant the Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Everything done for today. Made a great find at my library Season 3 of "Dark Winds". It runs AMC streaming or something like that. But my library gets them which is great. Will enjoy that. I think it's based on detective novelshttps:// written by Tony Hillerman, set in Navajo nation. The protagonists are Jim Chee and Lt Joe Leaphorn. I started watching Dark Winds, but it's so different than the books and IMHO not as good. The books are gentler and less "angry", if you know what I mean. And IDK how relevant the books are to today's culture, but they really have a different "feel" than American culture. But if you like reading, I recommend ALL of his books ... https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/leaphorn-chee/ ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Everything done for today. Made a great find at my library Season 3 of "Dark Winds". It runs AMC streaming or something like that. But my library gets them which is great. Will enjoy that. I think it's based on detective novelshttps:// written by Tony Hillerman, set in Navajo nation. The protagonists are Jim Chee and Lt Joe Leaphorn. I started watching Dark Winds, but it's so different than the books and IMHO not as good. The books are gentler and less "angry", if you know what I mean. And IDK how relevant the books are to today's culture, but they really have a different "feel" than American culture. But if you like reading, I recommend ALL of his books ... https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/leaphorn-chee/ ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Back after 3 today. Got a ride back because of all the rain. Tired.
Wednesday, December 17, 2025 1:04 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: I know the phrase "beating them off with a stick" and it can apply to women as well. Yeah. I'm sure you're right. Been so long since I heard it... I think it was probably already on its way out before you were in High School and somehow it stuck around because I was watched by my grandparents so often growing up. Quote:I know what you mean. I was never one of those either and truthfully, I wouldn't want to be. When you are like that then you know they just want arm candy. My problem is I want someone with some intelligence like my Blair. Yeah... I hear ya. I dated a girl back in the day and we'd joke around that we were each other's eye candy we would show off when we went out. She was fun, but neither of us had all that much intelligent to say to each other. It wouldn't be fair of me to say she wasn't intelligent. It just never really came up. She was a few years younger than me and I was still young and stupid myself more often than not. I still did things like read books, but I was mostly out partying those days and not doing all that much thinking about anything in general. That relationship was doomed to fail and never would have lasted much longer than it did. That's cool what you and Blair had. Even with the smart girls I dated, we never really did all that much deep conversations. I never really dated all that much as an actual adult, to be honest. Some brief things here or there over the years, but nothing long term. I hate the fact that he's not with you right now. I've never had what you did, but I think I can imagine what it would be like and how important and cherished it was. Quote:Sorry about that line. You've got absolutely nothing to apologize. If you want to change the subject and you don't want to reply at all to this whole first part of my reply, I completely understand, Brenda. Quote:That's my thing with my writing now that I am able to really work at it. I just want one book to be published and I would be happy. Oh, how I wish I had enough money to replace and get all the things I would like around here. So, yeah. I've got enough of the green stuff to be comfortable enough. But travelling more sure would be nice. I really hope it happens for you, Brenda. NGL, any time the Powerball gets to around 1/2 a Billion and I hear about it, I usually buy a ticket or two and think about what I'd do with all that money. I never come up with all that much though. I'd pay a legit and licensed crew to come and fix up my house completely. Probably wouldn't be in much of a rush to move anywhere because of family and friends still here, but there wouldn't be any cold nights anymore for sure. Other than that, just a nice new pickup truck and some more tools for my garage, and a top-shelf Generac backup generator on the house and I'd be set. I'd pay off everyone's house and buy those who don't have one their own house and tell them never to ask me for money again. Oh... and I'd be eating super expensive healthy food everyday too. Quote:No worries. I've to keep up on cleaning up around here but that gets to be a drag, then my walks. Those are for grocery shopping and other things like doctors. The "job" is just once a month now. I'll see her tomorrow. Oh... only once per month. I thought it was quite a bit more than that. Hope you had a good day at work today then. Quote:Something like YouTube on the background would drive me nuts. Need something more hands on. I'm so in my own mind when I'm doing project work, I barely even register it. I think the sound of other human voices talking just simulates the feeling of being around other people without having to, yanno... actually be around other people. Yeah... When I'm doing physical work on the house, I can't listen to any of that. Gotta have my music. Quote:No worries. It bothers me to hear people talking but I try to tune them out as best as I can. My circle of friends is smaller than when I was in high school. We are too spread out now and two of them have major health problems. So, I don't see them much. I know only one friend's child and grandchild. The others I don't. I hope you're able to see them more often in the future. You never know. Maybe you finally catch a break. Quote:Never heard of Spades but I do know that I have to watch how much I play with the clicking and such. Stupid seizures. Oh yeah. Didn't even think of that. Yahoo Games! didn't have any of that. No frills or special effects. I'll bet they had Mahjong on there too. They had Hearts and Checkers and Chess and all sorts of card and board games. Nothing licensed like Monopoly or Trivial Pursuit, but any of the older games that were played by everyone long before everybody was putting copyrights on everything that wasn't already nailed down. Man... I wonder how hard it would be to re-create that experience with today's tech, and possibly even AI tools? And then how expensive it would be to run an internet connection and server to keep it hosted until it got big enough where it couldn't be hosted on a residential connection anymore without some bigger money investment. I know everyone moved on from that decades ago now, but I bet if somebody built it, it would get huge again like it was back in the day. Tons of people still used it when they pulled the plug. Yahoo simply got bought out by somebody and they immediately tore that whole history of the internet down overnight and that was that. If it were able to be funded through donations at first instead of advertisements, it would probably be really low-bandwidth to do it even if it started getting thousands of people to come back. Pictures of the cards and tiles and pieces and such were just simple as can be 90's clipart and probably only 16 colors per tile. And once you sent it to somebody once even that could be hosted in their own cache and never need to be sent back to them again no matter how many times they play the game in the future. It would really just be tiny packets with little orders and numbers and statistics. No frills fun. No flashy lights. No gambling. No advertisements. Just people playing games with each other and a basic chat function in the tables and in the lobby where the leaderboards are shown. I really miss it a lot. I wonder how hard that would be to make with today's tools.... Quote:Yeah, I miss spending ages on the phone with friends and one of my aunts. Yeah... My old man never used to be one to talk on the phone much, but he warmed up to it during Covid when we were all stuck and he don't seem to mind it much now. Quote:Man, I am so glad down here on the coast we don't get temperatures like that. Right now there is some wind and more rain heading my way. Lucky. It's about 20 degrees warmer here overall the last 12 or so hours and even though it's still only in the teens right now, it's a notable difference in comfort compared to last night. My house is pretty good until around the low single digits at best. After that if I want to keep it warm it starts getting super expensive. Quote:I usually set myself a limit on my computer time when I am doing clean up or out the computer is off. Watching tv the computer is off and for the night I turn it off about 11pm. Good for you. Really good for you for enfocing your own schedule. I don't bother with such things when I have no real reason to and just work the night away a lot of nights without even realizing all that time went by. I hate alarm clocks... Maybe I should start using them though to tell me when I should be going to sleep. Quote:Oh, last time I hit a pool was when I was living in the crappy place as it was just a block away from me. So, that was over 5years ago now. That is where the doc is going. Talk to more people do more things. He asked me if I had one of those watches that count your steps. I don't because I think they are stupid. For me I am not sure about that. All I can do is try.
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Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Back after 3 today. Got a ride back because of all the rain. Tired. You sound tired. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Back after 3 today. Got a ride back because of all the rain. Tired. You sound tired.THG | Log off ABOUTMAPCHATEVENTSFIRECASTSBLOGSCOMMUNITYBLUE SUN ROOMPROFILEHOME Skip Navigation LinksHOME >> COMMUNITY >> REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS >> TRUMP IS DESTROYING EVERYTHING HE TOUCHES REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS Trump Is Destroying Everything He Touches POSTED BY: JJ UPDATED: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 06:59 SHORT URL: VIEWED: 56950 PAGE 1 of 22 PREV PAGE12345678910111213141516171819202122NEXT PAGE Monday, June 11, 2018 12:01 PM JJ Merkel: G-7 summit with Trump was a 'sobering' experience FRANKFURT, Germany — German Chancellor Angela Merkel found the contentious Group of Seven summit with U.S. President Donald Trump a "sobering" and "depressing" experience but said European leaders won't be "taken advantage of" on trade. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/merkel-g-7-summit-with-trump-was- a-sobering-experience/ar-AAytwie?ocid=spartanntp Some of us called this as soon as Trump started campaigning. The rest here were at that time, and remain to this day, to be fools and trolls. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 11, 2018 12:30 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Those of us with half a brain do not take anything Merkel says seriously. Then there's you. Do Right, Be Right. :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 11, 2018 12:46 PM JJ Dem amendment would force Trump to appoint a cyber coordinator A Democratic senator is looking to add an amendment to annual defense policy legislation to force President Trump to appoint a cybersecurity coordinator at the White House after the administration's controversial decision to eliminate the role. Of course, Trump wouldn't want the Russians monitored or blocked. What a traitor... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dem-amendment-would-force-trum p-to-appoint-a-cyber-coordinator/ar-AAyv5W9?ocid=spartanntp T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 11, 2018 4:01 PM JJ AP FACT CHECK: Trump ignores strong points in US trade President Donald Trump is presenting a skewed portrait of how the world does business with the U.S to rationalize his escalating trade dispute with allies. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/ap-fact-check-trump-ignores-s trong-points-in-us-trade/ar-AAyu1tC Altogether now, how stupid is Trump, that's right. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, June 12, 2018 12:34 AM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted by JJ: AP FACT CHECK: Trump ignores strong points in US trade President Donald Trump is presenting a skewed portrait of how the world does business with the U.S to rationalize his escalating trade dispute with allies. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/ap-fact-check-trump-ignores-s trong-points-in-us-trade/ar-AAyu1tC Altogether now, how stupid is Trump, that's right. T Totally destroying the Economy. Totally. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, June 12, 2018 2:51 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Peace is breaking out in Syria. The Kurds are going to negotiate without preconditions with the Assad government on how to shape Syria. Rumor is that a "federalist" approach is going to be the proposal. Peace in breaking out in N Korea. As for the Germans, fuck 'em. They've been taking the USA for a ride for years. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, June 12, 2018 3:18 AM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Peace is breaking out in Syria. The Kurds are going to negotiate without preconditions with the Assad government on how to shape Syria. Rumor is that a "federalist" approach is going to be the proposal. Peace in breaking out in N Korea. As for the Germans, fuck 'em. They've been taking the USA for a ride for years. See, now you're proving JJT right. A perfectly good War, lasting a couple Millennia in the Middle East, and now Trump is destroying that too. If Trump Peace keeps breaking out, where will any leftover Wars be? Trump is just destroying everything he touches, everything Liberals have been toiling away at for eons. Obama had such a great Legacy of War cultivated in Syria and neighbors, and now Trump destroyed all that work. What next, Tax Reform? Oops, too late, Trump already destroyed the Libtard Tax Code and Loopholes. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, June 12, 2018 3:23 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Merkle's just butt hurt because she's never actually dealt with a man who had testosterone before. She's got more than Treudeau and the eunuchs that run most of the EU states combined. Do Right, Be Right. :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, June 12, 2018 7:09 AM JJ In response to whomever posted that we are living in a Trump created economy, wrong. Trump is benefiting from what Obama did. Trump inherited a continually improving economy from Obama. One that had 7.8 percent unemployment rate and climbing when Obama took office, and was at 4.3 percent when trump took office. When Obama came into office we were hemorrhaging more than seven hundred thousand jobs a month. You guys crack me up. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, June 12, 2018 7:58 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Now I get to say that you guys crack me up. The economy isn't much better today than it was under Obama, and that wasn't good either. We might technically have more jobs than by the time GWB was out of office, but they're shit jobs compared to what were out there. You two arguing about it is like having a who's dick is bigger contest when you're both rocking under 3 inches. Do Right, Be Right. :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, June 12, 2018 1:32 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. What would it take to "fix" the economy? Well, it would take re-industrialization - to the point where the USA COULD produce every vital commodity and manufactured item ... steel, concrete, aluminum, chips, chemicals, construction and farm equipment, pharmaceuticals, batteries etc, and be able to trade fairly with any other nation for the missing items (i.e neutral balance of trade) and not be dependent on running massive trade deficits for maintaining our lifestyle. It would take doing away with fractional reserve banking, and developing national, state and local banks to help finance actual ... yanno ... investment, and not depend on money made out of thin air by private banks to prop up the financial speculation in which they are also invested. It would require massive re-investment in infrastructure- roads, bridges, waterways, electrical grid, water supplies, communications etc- to allow better transportation - of water, electricity, goods, information etc. PLUS, IN IDEAL CIRCUMSTANCES it would require production at the local and regional level, in preparation for any sort of disaster - hurricane, earthquake, cyberattack - to allow the economy to break apart into functional units that could maintain basic survival at the local level until the emergency was dealt with. In would require environmental restoration and conservation retrofitting so that our biological productivity and water supplies can be maintained indefinitely. This would be a multi-decade effort, FAR BEYOND what any President could hope to accomplish in one or even two terms, and the globalist elites and entrenched oligarchs and banking structures - and their deep state compatriots and media/ Hollywood collaborators - would fight tooth and nail, every inch of the way, to make sure that THEIR power and wealth would never be diminished. TRUMP IS NOT ABOUT TO DO ALL OF THAT. The best he can hope to accomplish is to dismantle as much as possible the deep state, and MAYBE audit The Fed. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, June 12, 2018 1:37 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. When I was youngish ... during the Vietnam War era ... "liberals" were antiwar. When did that all change? I can point to the breakup of Yugoslavia (accompanied by much cheering and applause) and our involvement in Somalia, under Bill Clinton, under the guise of that era's version of "R2P"; but attitudes must have changed before than. It was a sad conversion when liberals forgot their anti-war roots and dove headfirst into the "regime change" model. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 2:25 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Hmm.... so, no explanation from the "liberals" here as to how you became such warmongers? ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 10:23 AM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Hmm.... so, no explanation from the "liberals" here as to how you became such warmongers? Almost funny hearing Democraps cheering and chanting for Nuclear Armageddon, as long as it reflects poorly on Trump. And also wishing, hoping, praying for more Obama disastrous Economy, F-you to all honest working American Citizens - we need to make Trump look bad. What is R2P? NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 11:46 AM REAVERFAN Quote: Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Hmm.... so, no explanation from the "liberals" here as to how you became such warmongers? Almost funny hearing Democraps cheering and chanting for Nuclear Armageddon, as long as it reflects poorly on Trump. And also wishing, hoping, praying for more Obama disastrous Economy, F-you to all honest working American Citizens - we need to make Trump look bad. What is R2P? Why do you keep making shit up? NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 11:49 AM REAVERFAN Actual text: Joint Statement of President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at the Singapore Summit President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) held a first, historic summit in Singapore on June 12, 2018. President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un conducted a comprehensive, in-depth, and sincere exchange of opinions on the issues related to the establishment of new U.S.–DPRK relations and the building of a lasting and robust peace regime on the Korean Peninsula. President Trump committed to provide security guarantees to the DPRK, and Chairman Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his firm and unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Convinced that the establishment of new U.S.–DPRK relations will contribute to the peace and prosperity of the Korean Peninsula and of the world, and recognizing that mutual confidence building can promote the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un state the following: The United States and the DPRK commit to establish new U.S.–DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity. The United States and the DPRK will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula. Reaffirming the April 27, 2018 Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK commits to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. The United States and the DPRK commit to recovering POW/MIA remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified. Having acknowledged that the U.S.–DPRK summit—the first in history—was an epochal event of great significance in overcoming decades of tensions and hostilities between the two countries and for the opening up of a new future, President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un commit to implement the stipulations in this joint statement fully and expeditiously. The United States and the DPRK commit to hold follow-on negotiations, led by the U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, and a relevant high-level DPRK official, at the earliest possible date, to implement the outcomes of the U.S.–DPRK summit. President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have committed to cooperate for the development of new U.S.–DPRK relations and for the promotion of peace, prosperity, and security of the Korean Peninsula and of the world. DONALD J. TRUMP President of the United States of America KIM JONG UN Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Can you imagine the shit fits you fascists would be having if Obama had given away the store like Trump just did? Un played him like the fool he is. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 11:56 AM REAVERFAN "A document promising." The DPRK has made promises or guarantees of ending it's weapons program a dozen previous times. There are absolutely no mechanisms, contracts, or safeguards in place to inspect, much less guarantee, that North Korea follows through on anything. There is no allowance for international inspectors or regular inspections. There is no allowance for oversight from the international community of the denuclearization process. There is no timetable. There is no mention of anything except an extremely and intentionally vague promise between the two most dishonest heads of state in the world. In return Trump stood in front of The DPRK flag honoring the most genocidal and dictatorial regime in modern history. He praised Kim Jong-Un for his love of the people he enslaves, rapes, starves and executes. He praised their beautiful beaches and brought up their potential for luxury resorts. He promised to end all US military exercises in the region. Which he did without discussing it with our allies or even our own military. Then he came home and declared our own free press America's greatest enemy. Only a few days after defaming our closest allies and trade partner at The G-7 Summit where he defended Russian economic interests more than America's. If you do not have any problems with that than I hope you are planning on hiding inside on The 4th of July. That is not a threat of violence. Merely a comment on where you belong on that day. Because you certainly are not a patriot. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 12:06 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: What is R2P? "Responsibility to Protect", the banner under which liberals justify invading/ destabilizing foreign nations. They claim that they have the "responsibility to protect" citizens who are being tyrannized by their leaders, and then they go bomb the snot out of them and/or pay proxy jihadists/ neo-Nazis/ contract killers to do their dirty work for them. This is what "R2P" results in ... pictures "after and before". These pictures are of LIBYA. I could post similar pictures of Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. People who claim that TRUMP "destroys everything he touches" seem to have lost sight of the REAL destruction that occurred under Obama and Bush. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 12:14 PM REAVERFAN China approves Donald Trump-branded spas, escort services, hotels and massage parlours without US Congress permission Preliminary approval has been granted for 38 trademarks which raises further questions about conflicts of interest https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/china-donald-trump-b randed-without-us-congress-permission-trademarks-spas-escort-services-hotels-and-a7619136.html Nope, nothing to see here, folks. Just ignore the facts. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 12:18 PM REAVERFAN Trump Just Called the Free Press ‘Our Country’s Biggest Enemy’ https://www.politicususa.com/2018/06/13/trump-just-called-the-free-pre ss-our-countrys-biggest-enemy.html Can you say 'lugenpresse?" NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 12:26 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. It's not a "free press", it's a "bought and paid for" press. Meanwhile, you have totally ignored the REAL destruction wrought by Obama and Bush. How typical. You lack rationality ... (rationality- the ability to ratio/ compare relative size). How does the actual destruction of nations .... with it attendant loss of life and limb ... compare to the rhetorical "destruction" of NATO or "free trade"? Did anyone get killed? Was infrastructure destroyed? IMHO one event is clearly of much lesser importance that the other. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 3:24 PM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: It's not a "free press", it's a "bought and paid for" press. Meanwhile, you have totally ignored the REAL destruction wrought by Obama and Bush. How typical. You lack rationality ... (rationality- the ability to ratio/ compare relative size). How does the actual destruction of nations .... with it attendant loss of life and limb ... compare to the rhetorical "destruction" of NATO or "free trade"? Did anyone get killed? Was infrastructure destroyed? IMHO one event is clearly of much lesser importance that the other. Shove this up your ass, Signym: The con being played is, in its own warped way, magnificent: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future! 4:56 AM - Jun 13, 2018 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1006837823469735936 It’s not just that Trump spent a year threatening war and is now taking credit for war no longer being on the table. It’s more than that: North Korea is no longer even a nuclear threat, full stop. He’s basically claiming that the mere fact of meeting with Donald Trump has mesmerized Kim Jong Un into dismantling his nuclear arsenal. The reality is that North Korea still has nuclear weapons. They still have ICBMs. They still have centrifuges. They still have testing facilities. And they’ve made no commitments whatsoever—neither explicitly nor in any other way—to so much as slow down their nuke program, let alone abandon it. And yet, their nuclear threat is over. “Sleep well tonight!” Trump says, here: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1006839007492308992 The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 7:06 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: It's not a "free press", it's a "bought and paid for" press. - SIGNY No comment, SECOND? Quote: Meanwhile, you have totally ignored the REAL destruction wrought by Obama and Bush. How typical.- SIGNY No comment to this, either? Quote: Shove this up your ass, Signym: The con being played is, in its own warped way, magnificent: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future! 4:56 AM - Jun 13, 2018 So what? Trump, not the most articulate person ever. But wily. Definitely wily. I'm hoping you will pursue this topic with me some more Quote: I thank you for those words, and would appreciate more. Let's imagine that the military service, from draftee up thru the ranks to the highest generals AND the President, shared your idealism. What would "winning" have looked like, to you, and -perhaps more importantly - HOW would you have achieved that goal/ won the war? over here http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=61954&p=28 thanks! ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 8:01 PM WHOZIT Quote: Originally posted by JJ: Merkel: G-7 summit with Trump was a 'sobering' experience FRANKFURT, Germany — German Chancellor Angela Merkel found the contentious Group of Seven summit with U.S. President Donald Trump a "sobering" and "depressing" experience but said European leaders won't be "taken advantage of" on trade. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/merkel-g-7-summit-with-trump-was- a-sobering-experience/ar-AAytwie?ocid=spartanntp Some of us called this as soon as Trump started campaigning. The rest here were at that time, and remain to this day, to be fools and trolls. The G-7 use to be a photo op, then Trump shows up and turns it into a business meeting NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, June 14, 2018 11:42 AM JJ Quote: Originally posted by reaverfan: Quote: Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Hmm.... so, no explanation from the "liberals" here as to how you became such warmongers? Almost funny hearing Democraps cheering and chanting for Nuclear Armageddon, as long as it reflects poorly on Trump. And also wishing, hoping, praying for more Obama disastrous Economy, F-you to all honest working American Citizens - we need to make Trump look bad. What is R2P? Why do you keep making shit up? I know right? And they think it is viewed as intelligent instead of as the bullshit it is. It's like a road map to those who are dominated by their mental illness. Like X marks the spot. Here is a very sick individual. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, June 14, 2018 8:46 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: It's not a "free press", it's a "bought and paid for" press. Meanwhile, you have totally ignored the REAL destruction wrought by Obama and Bush. How typical. You lack rationality ... (rationality- the ability to ratio/ compare relative size). How does the actual destruction of nations .... with it attendant loss of life and limb ... compare to the rhetorical "destruction" of NATO or "free trade"? Did anyone get killed? Was infrastructure destroyed? IMHO one event is clearly of much lesser importance that the other. This. Meanwhile... One of the other threads here have turned into a "human rights" circle jerk. Welcome back Reaverfan. Do Right, Be Right. :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, June 16, 2018 8:55 AM JJ Breitbart traffic declines for seventh straight month In May, Breitbart registered 6.4 million unique visitors, according to comScore, compared to 12.1 million in May 2017 and 13.7 million as recently as November. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/16/breitbart-traffic-declining- trump-bannon-649571 T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, June 16, 2018 9:17 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Yeah. Probably in line with the decrease in memberships of Vox, Motherjones and Buzzfeed too. Nobody really gives a shit anymore. I wonder if that's good or bad news for Democrats? Guess we'll find out in November. Either way, we all lose. Do Right, Be Right. :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, June 16, 2018 10:10 AM JJ T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, June 16, 2018 11:40 AM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Yeah. Probably in line with the decrease in memberships of Vox, Motherjones and Buzzfeed too. Nobody really gives a shit anymore. I wonder if that's good or bad news for Democrats? Guess we'll find out in November. Either way, we all lose. Do Right, Be Right. :) How long ago was Breitbart killed? When Soros finally stopped bulldozing piles of cash into Air America, it vanished instantly, with nobody noticing. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, June 23, 2018 8:51 AM JJ T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, June 23, 2018 9:21 AM JJ Trump's go-it-alone immigration strategy ends in chaos, confusion On Wednesday morning, White House cooks were flipping steaks and unboxing popcorn machines ahead of the yearly congressional picnic. Within the hour, the picnic was scrubbed, the steaks on ice, and the popcorn machines trucked away. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/23/politics/donald-trump-immigration-week- chaos/index.html T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, June 23, 2018 10:34 AM REAVERFAN Quote: Originally posted by JJ: Trump's go-it-alone immigration strategy ends in chaos, confusion On Wednesday morning, White House cooks were flipping steaks and unboxing popcorn machines ahead of the yearly congressional picnic. Within the hour, the picnic was scrubbed, the steaks on ice, and the popcorn machines trucked away. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/23/politics/donald-trump-immigration-week- chaos/index.html T Oopsie! NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, June 23, 2018 10:34 AM REAVERFAN Quote: Originally posted by JJ: Trump's go-it-alone immigration strategy ends in chaos, confusion On Wednesday morning, White House cooks were flipping steaks and unboxing popcorn machines ahead of the yearly congressional picnic. Within the hour, the picnic was scrubbed, the steaks on ice, and the popcorn machines trucked away. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/23/politics/donald-trump-immigration-week- chaos/index.html T Oopsie! NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, June 24, 2018 9:08 AM JJ The man is so incompetent reaverfan he can't get or keep a staff. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, June 24, 2018 10:03 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Let's talk about REAL destruction Quote: There you go, minimizing the horror of our "interventions", which are bloody and painful to the people that we "help". During the Vietnam War, I saw a movie called "Hearts and Minds" and it made OUR VICTIMS very real to me, not just some colorless abstraction of "body counts" or tallies of "civilians killed", but people who lived, and then suffered and died at our hands. Mothers crying over the bodies of their babies, children crying over the coffins of their fathers. It took a documentary movie, with none of the gore removed, to wake me up and make me understand what, exactly, we were doing to the people that we were "helping". Well, I can't make you sit down and watch Hearts and Minds; all I can do is post a few pictures and a few descriptions and hope that, somehow, reality will sink in and horror will follow. What I find so terrible is that all of you people who CLAIM to be such nice, "caring" people can get so very, very tweaked about a child crying or about some concept like "human rights" can somehow ignore the literal mountains of bodies that we leave in our wake. Well, when I hear a child crying I just want to scoop them up and give them a hug. But let's be clear: This child is not dead, and neither are his or her parents. The problem is fixable, and should be fixed. Maybe we should start by NOT KILLING PEOPLE IN FOREIGN LANDS AND MAKING THEIR NATIONS HELLHOLES. Do you think THAT might be a good start? Or is that just too complicated for you? Where is your sense of proportion, or reality? Don't you have any sorrow, or pity, or shame? Apparently not! YOUR only reaction to the pictures of our victims is to attack me, personally, so you can once again deny reality, just as GSTRING's reaction is to attack me personally so that he can continue to minimize the awfulness. Why would you do that? Why would HE do that? Why would ANYone do that? ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, June 24, 2018 10:13 AM JJ Sig is so sick she is posting pictures of Putin and Assads handy work and trying to blame the west. Her photo was probably taken at one of the dozens of hospitals they bombed. Hey Sig, fuck you comrade troll and your bogus lies of suing some of us here. You're sick. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, June 24, 2018 10:20 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: THUGR is so sick he is posting pictures our atrocties and blaming Putin and Assad. Hey THUGR, fuck you deep state troll and your bogus lies. You're so stupid think we buy into that. What an ass. Two-year-old Ali Hussein is pulled from the rubble of his family's home in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, April 29, 2008. The child, who later died at the hospital, was in one of four homes destroyed by U.S. missiles. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20111204/news/712049915/ Madeleine Albright - The deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children was worth it for Iraq's non existent WMD's We came, we saw, he died (giggle!) This, about the destruction of Libya which changed it from the most prosperous north African state to a failed one, crawling with jihadists and full of death and destruction, and a never-ending source of refugees. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 10:32 AM REAVERFAN Hillary's a liberal? LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!! NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 10:37 AM JJ Quote: Originally posted by reaverfan: Hillary's a liberal? LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!! Being russian sig doesn't know a centrist who's a bit of a hawk when she sees one. I like how she faults Hillary for the destruction of Syria. Anyone with an IQ above 2 knows it happened because Assad started killing protesters in the streets. Protesters who were upset that their children were beaten in the streets because they were protesting. It isn't until you look at the totality of sigs' opinions that you really start to understand just how fucked up she is. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 10:42 AM CAPTAINCRUNCH ... stay crunchy... Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM:YOUR only reaction to the pictures of our victims is to attack me, personally, so you can once again deny reality, just as GSTRING's reaction is to attack me personally so that he can continue to minimize the awfulness. Why would you do that? Why would HE do that? Why would ANYone do that? Why would anyone post those images here? Do you know who those victims are? Killed by Russia? How 'bout this granny: if this is so important why don't you post your concerns on to Trump's twitter account? How about calling the Pentagon? Contact your congress reps? How about protesting to more than 10 people, most of whom have no respect for you or believe anything you say? The only reason you post here is to be an agitator, or a Russian Troll, or just a flaming *sshole or all 3. Actually, there's a 4th choice: batsh*t crazy. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 10:44 AM JJ Quote: Originally posted by captaincrunch: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM:YOUR only reaction to the pictures of our victims is to attack me, personally, so you can once again deny reality, just as GSTRING's reaction is to attack me personally so that he can continue to minimize the awfulness. Why would you do that? Why would HE do that? Why would ANYone do that? Why would anyone post those images here? Do you know who those victims are? Killed by Russia? How 'bout this granny: if this is so important why don't you post your concerns on to Trump's twitter account? How about calling the Pentagon? Contact your congress reps? How about protesting to more than 10 people, most of whom have no respect for you or believe anything you say? The only reason you post here is to be an agitator, or a Russian Troll, or just a flaming *sshole or all 3. Actually, there's a 4th choice: batsh*t crazy. here here T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 11:13 AM REAVERFAN NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 1:31 PM JJ Quote: Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Those of us with half a brain do not take anything Merkel says seriously. Fact-checking Trump’s immigration rhetoric http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/fact-checking-trump-s-immigrati on-rhetoric-1263277635779?v=b T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 1:35 PM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=62462&mid=1 055579#1055579 Quote: Originally posted by captaincrunch: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM:YOUR only reaction to the pictures of our victims is to attack me, personally, so you can once again deny reality, just as GSTRING's reaction is to attack me personally so that he can continue to minimize the awfulness. Why would you do that? Why would HE do that? Why would ANYone do that? Why would anyone post those images here? Do you know who those victims are? Killed by Russia? How 'bout this granny: if this is so important why don't you post your concerns on to Trump's twitter account? How about calling the Pentagon? Contact your congress reps? How about protesting to more than 10 people, most of whom have no respect for you or believe anything you say? The only reason you post here is to be an agitator, or a Russian Troll, or just a flaming *sshole or all 3. Actually, there's a 4th choice: batsh*t crazy. SECOND is a troll because it constantly misrepresents what people post, fails to address their actual positions, and resorts to personal attacks when its brain isn't working (which is most of the time). NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 1:39 PM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=62462&mid=1 055580#1055580 Quote: Originally posted by JJ: Quote: Originally posted by captaincrunch: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM:YOUR only reaction to the pictures of our victims is to attack me, personally, so you can once again deny reality, just as GSTRING's reaction is to attack me personally so that he can continue to minimize the awfulness. Why would you do that? Why would HE do that? Why would ANYone do that? Why would anyone post those images here? Do you know who those victims are? Killed by Russia? How 'bout this granny: if this is so important why don't you post your concerns on to Trump's twitter account? How about calling the Pentagon? Contact your congress reps? How about protesting to more than 10 people, most of whom have no respect for you or believe anything you say? The only reason you post here is to be an agitator, or a Russian Troll, or just a flaming *sshole or all 3. Actually, there's a 4th choice: batsh*t crazy. here here T SECOND is a troll because it constantly misrepresents what people post, fails to address their actual positions, and resorts to personal attacks when its brain isn't working (which is most of the time). NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 2:00 PM JJ T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 3:16 PM REAVERFAN Trump’s GOP is looking to deeply cut food stamps — hitting his voters hard https://www.washingtonpost.com/ NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 3:36 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Why would anyone post those images here? I answered that question, but I'll answer it again: Quote: During the Vietnam War, I saw a movie called "Hearts and Minds" and it made OUR VICTIMS very real to me, not just some colorless abstraction of "body counts" or tallies of "civilians killed", but people who lived, and then suffered and died at our hands. Mothers crying over the bodies of their babies, children crying over the coffins of their fathers. It took a documentary movie, with none of the gore removed, to wake me up and make me understand what, exactly, we were doing to the people that we were "helping". Well, I can't make you sit down and watch Hearts and Minds; all I can do is post a few pictures and a few descriptions and hope that, somehow, reality will sink in and horror will follow. Why do you post pictures of children crying as having been separated from their parents when no such thing happened? Why do you post pictures of children in cages that are entirely staged? Quote: Do you know who those victims are? Killed by Russia? Verifiably killed by the USA. I believe I posted links to the attached stories where blame is laid. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 3, 2018 7:48 PM JJ A Republican-controlled Senate panel has said that further evidence has been found to support a US intelligence assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help elect Donald Trump. The Senate intelligence committee said “information obtained subsequent to publication” of a January 2017 report by US intelligence agencies “provides further support” to the conclusion that Vladimir Putin and his government aimed to discredit Hillary Clinton and boost Trump. 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The rest here were at that time, and remain to this day, to be fools and trolls. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 11, 2018 12:30 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Those of us with half a brain do not take anything Merkel says seriously. Then there's you. Do Right, Be Right. :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 11, 2018 12:46 PM JJ Dem amendment would force Trump to appoint a cyber coordinator A Democratic senator is looking to add an amendment to annual defense policy legislation to force President Trump to appoint a cybersecurity coordinator at the White House after the administration's controversial decision to eliminate the role. Of course, Trump wouldn't want the Russians monitored or blocked. What a traitor... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dem-amendment-would-force-trum p-to-appoint-a-cyber-coordinator/ar-AAyv5W9?ocid=spartanntp T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 11, 2018 4:01 PM JJ AP FACT CHECK: Trump ignores strong points in US trade President Donald Trump is presenting a skewed portrait of how the world does business with the U.S to rationalize his escalating trade dispute with allies. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/ap-fact-check-trump-ignores-s trong-points-in-us-trade/ar-AAyu1tC Altogether now, how stupid is Trump, that's right. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, June 12, 2018 12:34 AM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted by JJ: AP FACT CHECK: Trump ignores strong points in US trade President Donald Trump is presenting a skewed portrait of how the world does business with the U.S to rationalize his escalating trade dispute with allies. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/ap-fact-check-trump-ignores-s trong-points-in-us-trade/ar-AAyu1tC Altogether now, how stupid is Trump, that's right. T Totally destroying the Economy. Totally. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, June 12, 2018 2:51 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Peace is breaking out in Syria. The Kurds are going to negotiate without preconditions with the Assad government on how to shape Syria. Rumor is that a "federalist" approach is going to be the proposal. Peace in breaking out in N Korea. As for the Germans, fuck 'em. They've been taking the USA for a ride for years. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, June 12, 2018 3:18 AM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Peace is breaking out in Syria. The Kurds are going to negotiate without preconditions with the Assad government on how to shape Syria. Rumor is that a "federalist" approach is going to be the proposal. Peace in breaking out in N Korea. As for the Germans, fuck 'em. They've been taking the USA for a ride for years. See, now you're proving JJT right. A perfectly good War, lasting a couple Millennia in the Middle East, and now Trump is destroying that too. If Trump Peace keeps breaking out, where will any leftover Wars be? Trump is just destroying everything he touches, everything Liberals have been toiling away at for eons. Obama had such a great Legacy of War cultivated in Syria and neighbors, and now Trump destroyed all that work. What next, Tax Reform? Oops, too late, Trump already destroyed the Libtard Tax Code and Loopholes. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, June 12, 2018 3:23 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Merkle's just butt hurt because she's never actually dealt with a man who had testosterone before. She's got more than Treudeau and the eunuchs that run most of the EU states combined. Do Right, Be Right. :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, June 12, 2018 7:09 AM JJ In response to whomever posted that we are living in a Trump created economy, wrong. Trump is benefiting from what Obama did. Trump inherited a continually improving economy from Obama. One that had 7.8 percent unemployment rate and climbing when Obama took office, and was at 4.3 percent when trump took office. When Obama came into office we were hemorrhaging more than seven hundred thousand jobs a month. You guys crack me up. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, June 12, 2018 7:58 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Now I get to say that you guys crack me up. The economy isn't much better today than it was under Obama, and that wasn't good either. We might technically have more jobs than by the time GWB was out of office, but they're shit jobs compared to what were out there. You two arguing about it is like having a who's dick is bigger contest when you're both rocking under 3 inches. Do Right, Be Right. :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, June 12, 2018 1:32 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. What would it take to "fix" the economy? Well, it would take re-industrialization - to the point where the USA COULD produce every vital commodity and manufactured item ... steel, concrete, aluminum, chips, chemicals, construction and farm equipment, pharmaceuticals, batteries etc, and be able to trade fairly with any other nation for the missing items (i.e neutral balance of trade) and not be dependent on running massive trade deficits for maintaining our lifestyle. It would take doing away with fractional reserve banking, and developing national, state and local banks to help finance actual ... yanno ... investment, and not depend on money made out of thin air by private banks to prop up the financial speculation in which they are also invested. It would require massive re-investment in infrastructure- roads, bridges, waterways, electrical grid, water supplies, communications etc- to allow better transportation - of water, electricity, goods, information etc. PLUS, IN IDEAL CIRCUMSTANCES it would require production at the local and regional level, in preparation for any sort of disaster - hurricane, earthquake, cyberattack - to allow the economy to break apart into functional units that could maintain basic survival at the local level until the emergency was dealt with. In would require environmental restoration and conservation retrofitting so that our biological productivity and water supplies can be maintained indefinitely. This would be a multi-decade effort, FAR BEYOND what any President could hope to accomplish in one or even two terms, and the globalist elites and entrenched oligarchs and banking structures - and their deep state compatriots and media/ Hollywood collaborators - would fight tooth and nail, every inch of the way, to make sure that THEIR power and wealth would never be diminished. TRUMP IS NOT ABOUT TO DO ALL OF THAT. The best he can hope to accomplish is to dismantle as much as possible the deep state, and MAYBE audit The Fed. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, June 12, 2018 1:37 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. When I was youngish ... during the Vietnam War era ... "liberals" were antiwar. When did that all change? I can point to the breakup of Yugoslavia (accompanied by much cheering and applause) and our involvement in Somalia, under Bill Clinton, under the guise of that era's version of "R2P"; but attitudes must have changed before than. It was a sad conversion when liberals forgot their anti-war roots and dove headfirst into the "regime change" model. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 2:25 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Hmm.... so, no explanation from the "liberals" here as to how you became such warmongers? ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 10:23 AM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Hmm.... so, no explanation from the "liberals" here as to how you became such warmongers? Almost funny hearing Democraps cheering and chanting for Nuclear Armageddon, as long as it reflects poorly on Trump. And also wishing, hoping, praying for more Obama disastrous Economy, F-you to all honest working American Citizens - we need to make Trump look bad. What is R2P? NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 11:46 AM REAVERFAN Quote: Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Hmm.... so, no explanation from the "liberals" here as to how you became such warmongers? Almost funny hearing Democraps cheering and chanting for Nuclear Armageddon, as long as it reflects poorly on Trump. And also wishing, hoping, praying for more Obama disastrous Economy, F-you to all honest working American Citizens - we need to make Trump look bad. What is R2P? Why do you keep making shit up? NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 11:49 AM REAVERFAN Actual text: Joint Statement of President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at the Singapore Summit President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) held a first, historic summit in Singapore on June 12, 2018. President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un conducted a comprehensive, in-depth, and sincere exchange of opinions on the issues related to the establishment of new U.S.–DPRK relations and the building of a lasting and robust peace regime on the Korean Peninsula. President Trump committed to provide security guarantees to the DPRK, and Chairman Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his firm and unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Convinced that the establishment of new U.S.–DPRK relations will contribute to the peace and prosperity of the Korean Peninsula and of the world, and recognizing that mutual confidence building can promote the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un state the following: The United States and the DPRK commit to establish new U.S.–DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity. The United States and the DPRK will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula. Reaffirming the April 27, 2018 Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK commits to work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. The United States and the DPRK commit to recovering POW/MIA remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified. Having acknowledged that the U.S.–DPRK summit—the first in history—was an epochal event of great significance in overcoming decades of tensions and hostilities between the two countries and for the opening up of a new future, President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un commit to implement the stipulations in this joint statement fully and expeditiously. The United States and the DPRK commit to hold follow-on negotiations, led by the U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, and a relevant high-level DPRK official, at the earliest possible date, to implement the outcomes of the U.S.–DPRK summit. President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have committed to cooperate for the development of new U.S.–DPRK relations and for the promotion of peace, prosperity, and security of the Korean Peninsula and of the world. DONALD J. TRUMP President of the United States of America KIM JONG UN Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Can you imagine the shit fits you fascists would be having if Obama had given away the store like Trump just did? Un played him like the fool he is. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 11:56 AM REAVERFAN "A document promising." The DPRK has made promises or guarantees of ending it's weapons program a dozen previous times. There are absolutely no mechanisms, contracts, or safeguards in place to inspect, much less guarantee, that North Korea follows through on anything. There is no allowance for international inspectors or regular inspections. There is no allowance for oversight from the international community of the denuclearization process. There is no timetable. There is no mention of anything except an extremely and intentionally vague promise between the two most dishonest heads of state in the world. In return Trump stood in front of The DPRK flag honoring the most genocidal and dictatorial regime in modern history. He praised Kim Jong-Un for his love of the people he enslaves, rapes, starves and executes. He praised their beautiful beaches and brought up their potential for luxury resorts. He promised to end all US military exercises in the region. Which he did without discussing it with our allies or even our own military. Then he came home and declared our own free press America's greatest enemy. Only a few days after defaming our closest allies and trade partner at The G-7 Summit where he defended Russian economic interests more than America's. If you do not have any problems with that than I hope you are planning on hiding inside on The 4th of July. That is not a threat of violence. Merely a comment on where you belong on that day. Because you certainly are not a patriot. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 12:06 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: What is R2P? "Responsibility to Protect", the banner under which liberals justify invading/ destabilizing foreign nations. They claim that they have the "responsibility to protect" citizens who are being tyrannized by their leaders, and then they go bomb the snot out of them and/or pay proxy jihadists/ neo-Nazis/ contract killers to do their dirty work for them. This is what "R2P" results in ... pictures "after and before". These pictures are of LIBYA. I could post similar pictures of Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. People who claim that TRUMP "destroys everything he touches" seem to have lost sight of the REAL destruction that occurred under Obama and Bush. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 12:14 PM REAVERFAN China approves Donald Trump-branded spas, escort services, hotels and massage parlours without US Congress permission Preliminary approval has been granted for 38 trademarks which raises further questions about conflicts of interest https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/china-donald-trump-b randed-without-us-congress-permission-trademarks-spas-escort-services-hotels-and-a7619136.html Nope, nothing to see here, folks. Just ignore the facts. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 12:18 PM REAVERFAN Trump Just Called the Free Press ‘Our Country’s Biggest Enemy’ https://www.politicususa.com/2018/06/13/trump-just-called-the-free-pre ss-our-countrys-biggest-enemy.html Can you say 'lugenpresse?" NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 12:26 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. It's not a "free press", it's a "bought and paid for" press. Meanwhile, you have totally ignored the REAL destruction wrought by Obama and Bush. How typical. You lack rationality ... (rationality- the ability to ratio/ compare relative size). How does the actual destruction of nations .... with it attendant loss of life and limb ... compare to the rhetorical "destruction" of NATO or "free trade"? Did anyone get killed? Was infrastructure destroyed? IMHO one event is clearly of much lesser importance that the other. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 3:24 PM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: It's not a "free press", it's a "bought and paid for" press. Meanwhile, you have totally ignored the REAL destruction wrought by Obama and Bush. How typical. You lack rationality ... (rationality- the ability to ratio/ compare relative size). How does the actual destruction of nations .... with it attendant loss of life and limb ... compare to the rhetorical "destruction" of NATO or "free trade"? Did anyone get killed? Was infrastructure destroyed? IMHO one event is clearly of much lesser importance that the other. Shove this up your ass, Signym: The con being played is, in its own warped way, magnificent: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future! 4:56 AM - Jun 13, 2018 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1006837823469735936 It’s not just that Trump spent a year threatening war and is now taking credit for war no longer being on the table. It’s more than that: North Korea is no longer even a nuclear threat, full stop. He’s basically claiming that the mere fact of meeting with Donald Trump has mesmerized Kim Jong Un into dismantling his nuclear arsenal. The reality is that North Korea still has nuclear weapons. They still have ICBMs. They still have centrifuges. They still have testing facilities. And they’ve made no commitments whatsoever—neither explicitly nor in any other way—to so much as slow down their nuke program, let alone abandon it. And yet, their nuclear threat is over. “Sleep well tonight!” Trump says, here: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1006839007492308992 The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 7:06 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: It's not a "free press", it's a "bought and paid for" press. - SIGNY No comment, SECOND? Quote: Meanwhile, you have totally ignored the REAL destruction wrought by Obama and Bush. How typical.- SIGNY No comment to this, either? Quote: Shove this up your ass, Signym: The con being played is, in its own warped way, magnificent: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future! 4:56 AM - Jun 13, 2018 So what? Trump, not the most articulate person ever. But wily. Definitely wily. I'm hoping you will pursue this topic with me some more Quote: I thank you for those words, and would appreciate more. Let's imagine that the military service, from draftee up thru the ranks to the highest generals AND the President, shared your idealism. What would "winning" have looked like, to you, and -perhaps more importantly - HOW would you have achieved that goal/ won the war? over here http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=61954&p=28 thanks! ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, June 13, 2018 8:01 PM WHOZIT Quote: Originally posted by JJ: Merkel: G-7 summit with Trump was a 'sobering' experience FRANKFURT, Germany — German Chancellor Angela Merkel found the contentious Group of Seven summit with U.S. President Donald Trump a "sobering" and "depressing" experience but said European leaders won't be "taken advantage of" on trade. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/merkel-g-7-summit-with-trump-was- a-sobering-experience/ar-AAytwie?ocid=spartanntp Some of us called this as soon as Trump started campaigning. The rest here were at that time, and remain to this day, to be fools and trolls. The G-7 use to be a photo op, then Trump shows up and turns it into a business meeting NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, June 14, 2018 11:42 AM JJ Quote: Originally posted by reaverfan: Quote: Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Hmm.... so, no explanation from the "liberals" here as to how you became such warmongers? Almost funny hearing Democraps cheering and chanting for Nuclear Armageddon, as long as it reflects poorly on Trump. And also wishing, hoping, praying for more Obama disastrous Economy, F-you to all honest working American Citizens - we need to make Trump look bad. What is R2P? Why do you keep making shit up? I know right? And they think it is viewed as intelligent instead of as the bullshit it is. It's like a road map to those who are dominated by their mental illness. Like X marks the spot. Here is a very sick individual. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, June 14, 2018 8:46 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: It's not a "free press", it's a "bought and paid for" press. Meanwhile, you have totally ignored the REAL destruction wrought by Obama and Bush. How typical. You lack rationality ... (rationality- the ability to ratio/ compare relative size). How does the actual destruction of nations .... with it attendant loss of life and limb ... compare to the rhetorical "destruction" of NATO or "free trade"? Did anyone get killed? Was infrastructure destroyed? IMHO one event is clearly of much lesser importance that the other. This. Meanwhile... One of the other threads here have turned into a "human rights" circle jerk. Welcome back Reaverfan. Do Right, Be Right. :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, June 16, 2018 8:55 AM JJ Breitbart traffic declines for seventh straight month In May, Breitbart registered 6.4 million unique visitors, according to comScore, compared to 12.1 million in May 2017 and 13.7 million as recently as November. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/16/breitbart-traffic-declining- trump-bannon-649571 T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, June 16, 2018 9:17 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Yeah. Probably in line with the decrease in memberships of Vox, Motherjones and Buzzfeed too. Nobody really gives a shit anymore. I wonder if that's good or bad news for Democrats? Guess we'll find out in November. Either way, we all lose. Do Right, Be Right. :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, June 16, 2018 10:10 AM JJ T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, June 16, 2018 11:40 AM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Yeah. Probably in line with the decrease in memberships of Vox, Motherjones and Buzzfeed too. Nobody really gives a shit anymore. I wonder if that's good or bad news for Democrats? Guess we'll find out in November. Either way, we all lose. Do Right, Be Right. :) How long ago was Breitbart killed? When Soros finally stopped bulldozing piles of cash into Air America, it vanished instantly, with nobody noticing. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, June 23, 2018 8:51 AM JJ T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, June 23, 2018 9:21 AM JJ Trump's go-it-alone immigration strategy ends in chaos, confusion On Wednesday morning, White House cooks were flipping steaks and unboxing popcorn machines ahead of the yearly congressional picnic. Within the hour, the picnic was scrubbed, the steaks on ice, and the popcorn machines trucked away. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/23/politics/donald-trump-immigration-week- chaos/index.html T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, June 23, 2018 10:34 AM REAVERFAN Quote: Originally posted by JJ: Trump's go-it-alone immigration strategy ends in chaos, confusion On Wednesday morning, White House cooks were flipping steaks and unboxing popcorn machines ahead of the yearly congressional picnic. Within the hour, the picnic was scrubbed, the steaks on ice, and the popcorn machines trucked away. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/23/politics/donald-trump-immigration-week- chaos/index.html T Oopsie! NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, June 23, 2018 10:34 AM REAVERFAN Quote: Originally posted by JJ: Trump's go-it-alone immigration strategy ends in chaos, confusion On Wednesday morning, White House cooks were flipping steaks and unboxing popcorn machines ahead of the yearly congressional picnic. Within the hour, the picnic was scrubbed, the steaks on ice, and the popcorn machines trucked away. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/23/politics/donald-trump-immigration-week- chaos/index.html T Oopsie! NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, June 24, 2018 9:08 AM JJ The man is so incompetent reaverfan he can't get or keep a staff. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, June 24, 2018 10:03 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Let's talk about REAL destruction Quote: There you go, minimizing the horror of our "interventions", which are bloody and painful to the people that we "help". During the Vietnam War, I saw a movie called "Hearts and Minds" and it made OUR VICTIMS very real to me, not just some colorless abstraction of "body counts" or tallies of "civilians killed", but people who lived, and then suffered and died at our hands. Mothers crying over the bodies of their babies, children crying over the coffins of their fathers. It took a documentary movie, with none of the gore removed, to wake me up and make me understand what, exactly, we were doing to the people that we were "helping". Well, I can't make you sit down and watch Hearts and Minds; all I can do is post a few pictures and a few descriptions and hope that, somehow, reality will sink in and horror will follow. What I find so terrible is that all of you people who CLAIM to be such nice, "caring" people can get so very, very tweaked about a child crying or about some concept like "human rights" can somehow ignore the literal mountains of bodies that we leave in our wake. Well, when I hear a child crying I just want to scoop them up and give them a hug. But let's be clear: This child is not dead, and neither are his or her parents. The problem is fixable, and should be fixed. Maybe we should start by NOT KILLING PEOPLE IN FOREIGN LANDS AND MAKING THEIR NATIONS HELLHOLES. Do you think THAT might be a good start? Or is that just too complicated for you? Where is your sense of proportion, or reality? Don't you have any sorrow, or pity, or shame? Apparently not! YOUR only reaction to the pictures of our victims is to attack me, personally, so you can once again deny reality, just as GSTRING's reaction is to attack me personally so that he can continue to minimize the awfulness. Why would you do that? Why would HE do that? Why would ANYone do that? ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, June 24, 2018 10:13 AM JJ Sig is so sick she is posting pictures of Putin and Assads handy work and trying to blame the west. Her photo was probably taken at one of the dozens of hospitals they bombed. Hey Sig, fuck you comrade troll and your bogus lies of suing some of us here. You're sick. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, June 24, 2018 10:20 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: THUGR is so sick he is posting pictures our atrocties and blaming Putin and Assad. Hey THUGR, fuck you deep state troll and your bogus lies. You're so stupid think we buy into that. What an ass. Two-year-old Ali Hussein is pulled from the rubble of his family's home in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, April 29, 2008. The child, who later died at the hospital, was in one of four homes destroyed by U.S. missiles. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20111204/news/712049915/ Madeleine Albright - The deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children was worth it for Iraq's non existent WMD's We came, we saw, he died (giggle!) This, about the destruction of Libya which changed it from the most prosperous north African state to a failed one, crawling with jihadists and full of death and destruction, and a never-ending source of refugees. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 10:32 AM REAVERFAN Hillary's a liberal? LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!! NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 10:37 AM JJ Quote: Originally posted by reaverfan: Hillary's a liberal? LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!! Being russian sig doesn't know a centrist who's a bit of a hawk when she sees one. I like how she faults Hillary for the destruction of Syria. Anyone with an IQ above 2 knows it happened because Assad started killing protesters in the streets. Protesters who were upset that their children were beaten in the streets because they were protesting. It isn't until you look at the totality of sigs' opinions that you really start to understand just how fucked up she is. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 10:42 AM CAPTAINCRUNCH ... stay crunchy... Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM:YOUR only reaction to the pictures of our victims is to attack me, personally, so you can once again deny reality, just as GSTRING's reaction is to attack me personally so that he can continue to minimize the awfulness. Why would you do that? Why would HE do that? Why would ANYone do that? Why would anyone post those images here? Do you know who those victims are? Killed by Russia? How 'bout this granny: if this is so important why don't you post your concerns on to Trump's twitter account? How about calling the Pentagon? Contact your congress reps? How about protesting to more than 10 people, most of whom have no respect for you or believe anything you say? The only reason you post here is to be an agitator, or a Russian Troll, or just a flaming *sshole or all 3. Actually, there's a 4th choice: batsh*t crazy. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 10:44 AM JJ Quote: Originally posted by captaincrunch: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM:YOUR only reaction to the pictures of our victims is to attack me, personally, so you can once again deny reality, just as GSTRING's reaction is to attack me personally so that he can continue to minimize the awfulness. Why would you do that? Why would HE do that? Why would ANYone do that? Why would anyone post those images here? Do you know who those victims are? Killed by Russia? How 'bout this granny: if this is so important why don't you post your concerns on to Trump's twitter account? How about calling the Pentagon? Contact your congress reps? How about protesting to more than 10 people, most of whom have no respect for you or believe anything you say? The only reason you post here is to be an agitator, or a Russian Troll, or just a flaming *sshole or all 3. Actually, there's a 4th choice: batsh*t crazy. here here T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 11:13 AM REAVERFAN NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 1:31 PM JJ Quote: Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Those of us with half a brain do not take anything Merkel says seriously. Fact-checking Trump’s immigration rhetoric http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/fact-checking-trump-s-immigrati on-rhetoric-1263277635779?v=b T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 1:35 PM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=62462&mid=1 055579#1055579 Quote: Originally posted by captaincrunch: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM:YOUR only reaction to the pictures of our victims is to attack me, personally, so you can once again deny reality, just as GSTRING's reaction is to attack me personally so that he can continue to minimize the awfulness. Why would you do that? Why would HE do that? Why would ANYone do that? Why would anyone post those images here? Do you know who those victims are? Killed by Russia? How 'bout this granny: if this is so important why don't you post your concerns on to Trump's twitter account? How about calling the Pentagon? Contact your congress reps? How about protesting to more than 10 people, most of whom have no respect for you or believe anything you say? The only reason you post here is to be an agitator, or a Russian Troll, or just a flaming *sshole or all 3. Actually, there's a 4th choice: batsh*t crazy. SECOND is a troll because it constantly misrepresents what people post, fails to address their actual positions, and resorts to personal attacks when its brain isn't working (which is most of the time). NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 1:39 PM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=62462&mid=1 055580#1055580 Quote: Originally posted by JJ: Quote: Originally posted by captaincrunch: Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM:YOUR only reaction to the pictures of our victims is to attack me, personally, so you can once again deny reality, just as GSTRING's reaction is to attack me personally so that he can continue to minimize the awfulness. Why would you do that? Why would HE do that? Why would ANYone do that? Why would anyone post those images here? Do you know who those victims are? Killed by Russia? How 'bout this granny: if this is so important why don't you post your concerns on to Trump's twitter account? How about calling the Pentagon? Contact your congress reps? How about protesting to more than 10 people, most of whom have no respect for you or believe anything you say? The only reason you post here is to be an agitator, or a Russian Troll, or just a flaming *sshole or all 3. Actually, there's a 4th choice: batsh*t crazy. here here T SECOND is a troll because it constantly misrepresents what people post, fails to address their actual positions, and resorts to personal attacks when its brain isn't working (which is most of the time). NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 2:00 PM JJ T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 3:16 PM REAVERFAN Trump’s GOP is looking to deeply cut food stamps — hitting his voters hard https://www.washingtonpost.com/ NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, June 25, 2018 3:36 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Why would anyone post those images here? I answered that question, but I'll answer it again: Quote: During the Vietnam War, I saw a movie called "Hearts and Minds" and it made OUR VICTIMS very real to me, not just some colorless abstraction of "body counts" or tallies of "civilians killed", but people who lived, and then suffered and died at our hands. Mothers crying over the bodies of their babies, children crying over the coffins of their fathers. It took a documentary movie, with none of the gore removed, to wake me up and make me understand what, exactly, we were doing to the people that we were "helping". Well, I can't make you sit down and watch Hearts and Minds; all I can do is post a few pictures and a few descriptions and hope that, somehow, reality will sink in and horror will follow. Why do you post pictures of children crying as having been separated from their parents when no such thing happened? Why do you post pictures of children in cages that are entirely staged? Quote: Do you know who those victims are? Killed by Russia? Verifiably killed by the USA. I believe I posted links to the attached stories where blame is laid. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake As long as you insist that everything is the Republicans'/ Democrats' fault, then you fail to grasp the REAL problem with American politics. America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 3, 2018 7:48 PM JJ A Republican-controlled Senate panel has said that further evidence has been found to support a US intelligence assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help elect Donald Trump. The Senate intelligence committee said “information obtained subsequent to publication” of a January 2017 report by US intelligence agencies “provides further support” to the conclusion that Vladimir Putin and his government aimed to discredit Hillary Clinton and boost Trump. 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Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Off to work tomorrow and this monitor is driving me crazy. It started misbehaving when the city was replacing pipes around my area. I wonder if they didn't do something. Or maybe my monitor is going. When I turn it on instead of going right to blue starts blinking orange at me.
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Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Off to work tomorrow and this monitor is driving me crazy. It started misbehaving when the city was replacing pipes around my area. I wonder if they didn't do something. Or maybe my monitor is going. When I turn it on instead of going right to blue starts blinking orange at me. Oh, so you know about Hillerman's books! I'll watch the TV series and see what it's like and we can talk about it. Work again? Didn't you just work yesterday? I guess she's preparing for the holidays?? Oh, crap! about the monitor! When you say the city was replacing pipes, do you mean like water mains in the street? If so, I can't think why that would cause a monitor the mess up. I sure hope it fixes itself bc they can be pricey to replace. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Off to work tomorrow and this monitor is driving me crazy. It started misbehaving when the city was replacing pipes around my THG | Log off ABOUTMAPCHATEVENTSFIRECASTSBLOGSCOMMUNITYBLUE SUN ROOMPROFILEHOME Skip Navigation LinksHOME >> COMMUNITY >> REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS >> ELLEN PAGE IS A DUDE NOW REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS Ellen Page is a Dude Now POSTED BY: 6IXSTRINGJACK UPDATED: Thursday, December 18, 2025 06:04 SHORT URL: VIEWED: 16124 PAGE 1 of 6 PREV PAGE123456NEXT PAGE Saturday, December 5, 2020 9:27 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK It appears that the $14 Million Dollar actress finally got sick of being oppressed and wanted in on some of that sweet, sweet white male privilege. Pictured: "Elliot" Page... because why make a clean break from the old name? Here's your tool belt, bitch. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-Black-10-Pocket-Contractor-s-Tool-Be lt-HD858759-TH/310338122 Time to get those purdy hands dirty. P.S. Home Depot has all the tools you need, except for, yanno... the one YOU need. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 5, 2020 10:01 PM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. I'm trying to figure out why I should care ... NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 7:37 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. But she (he?) still wants- and gets- to play female roles. Don't see him (?) chipping a manicure anytime soon. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake #WEARAMASK NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 7:47 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: But she (he?) still wants- and gets- to play female roles. Don't see him (?) chipping a manicure anytime soon. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake #WEARAMASK Well, I guess she cracked the code then. She's got everything now. Not passable at all for a man, but everybody she demands call her one will call her one, and they will also call her stunning and brave. But she's still able to keep her job and make millions playing women after having a lifetime experience of playing women. If I were Scarlett Johannson, I would tell "Elliot" that she can't she can't play women anymore. Scarlett had to give up a role playing a transgender because the Twitter mob was outraged that an actual transgender wasn't getting that role. If "Elliot" wants to be a man, she should only be able to play transgender roles now, yanno... if we're going to be fair about it. She's an evil white male now. She doesn't get to be stunning and brave too. She's got to live by the actual rules that evil white males have to play by everyday. What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 8:07 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Hey... so do you think she also believes that if she wears the baseball cap AND a pair of black plastic glasses that people will believe that she's Clark Kent too? What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 8:58 AM WHOZIT The way things are going these days you'd think the last thing he/she would want to be is a WHITE guy. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 9:32 AM THG Keep it real please Stopped in to see what the trolls are doing. What a bunch of sick, hateful pervs and morons. Once a troll always a troll I guess. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 10:03 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by whozit: The way things are going these days you'd think the last thing he/she would want to be is a WHITE guy. Well she's spent the last 5 years shitting on white dudes. Hilarious that she wants to BE one now. Aw... cute. Look at T simping. What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 10:48 AM CAPTAINCRUNCH ... stay crunchy... Quote: Originally posted by THG: Stopped in to see what the trolls are doing. What a bunch of sick, hateful pervs and morons. Once a troll always a troll I guess. Sad. I like how 6 has brought SIGNYM down to his level. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 1:16 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by captaincrunch: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Stopped in to see what the trolls are doing. What a bunch of sick, hateful pervs and morons. Once a troll always a troll I guess. Sad. I like how 6 has brought SIGNYM down to his level. Because I said he (?) won't be chipping a manicure anytime soon? OH, THE HORROR!!! I find transgender people curious folk. I can't imagine what they identify with so strongly. It's not like I wake up every morning and think I'm a woman!. (Altho I DO wake up most mornings and think Damn! I'm OLD!) I guess I have a more gender-neutral view of who I am, not tied all THAT strongly to sex. I've always done what my strength and abilities allowed, whether that was a traditionally male occupation (like stack testing, instrument repair) or a female one (yardwork/gardening.) and I was proud of doing a good job, whether it was a "man's" job or a "woman's" job. I never dressed "girly" or act "girly" either, and have never used my sex as a reason or an excuse for anything I've done (except have a child) so altho society treats me like a woman, it's a more neutralized version. So, what is it that attracts a person of one sex to believe that they would be better off as another? I don't feel that a person's sex should be central to what they do or how they see themselves. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake #WEARAMASK NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 3:40 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by captaincrunch: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Stopped in to see what the trolls are doing. What a bunch of sick, hateful pervs and morons. Once a troll always a troll I guess. Sad. I like how 6 has brought SIGNYM down to his level. I've always seen sig on the same level as Jack. To me a troll is a troll and they all sink to the lowest of lows. Done with this thread. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 5:53 PM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Because I said he (?) won't be chipping a manicure anytime soon? OH, THE HORROR!!! I find transgender people curious folk. I can't imagine what they identify with so strongly. It's not like I wake up every morning and think I'm a woman!. (Altho I DO wake up most mornings and think Damn! I'm OLD!) I guess I have a more gender-neutral view of who I am, not tied all THAT strongly to sex. I've always done what my strength and abilities allowed, whether that was a traditionally male occupation (like stack testing, instrument repair) or a female one (yardwork/gardening.) and I was proud of doing a good job, whether it was a "man's" job or a "woman's" job. I never dressed "girly" or act "girly" either, and have never used my sex as a reason or an excuse for anything I've done (except have a child) so altho society treats me like a woman, it's a more neutralized version. So, what is it that attracts a person of one sex to believe that they would be better off as another? I don't feel that a person's sex should be central to what they do or how they see themselves. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake #WEARAMASK Yeah, I noticed the makeup too. If jawn's now a man, jawn's a very well-made-up and manicured girly-girl-one. (girly-girl being a moniker from a CJ Cherryh novel) Maybe if one is always treated like one is of the wrong sex, what sex one is would be closer to the top of conscious thought. I'm trying to imagine how I would feel if everyone thought I was the opposite sex. If they called me one, if they treated me like one, if they gave all the jobs and tasks as if I was one. I think it could be really frustrating, but honestly, it's hard to imagine. As to this person, I really don't care about jawn in particular. I've never heard of jawn, don't care to know what jawn has to say about anything, and now that I've read about jawn, my life and ideas are no different than before. Jawn is just another meaningless forgettable over-hyped media face in the array of meaningless forgettable over-hyped media faces as far as I'm concerned. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 7, 2020 7:14 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. But then, what you're talking about isn't some internally-referenced identification, it's SOCIETY's response to your perceived sex, and its sex roles and expectations. SOME men who have transitioned to women dress and make up in such extremely feminine way they almost look like drag queens ... extreme social signalling that shouts out I'm a WOMAN but others seem content to dress and act like ordinary women, soI think there's some difference there. Another explanation is that some people crave attention and this is one socially- acceptable way to scratch that itch. I do wonder if society's sex roles were less rigid there would be fewer people feeling the need to transition. I still find the whole thing puzzling. ----------- Pity would be no mor e, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake #WEARAMASK NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 7, 2020 8:40 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK It's pretty safe to say she's not going to commit to any surgery or even any testosterone treatments since she can't seem to keep the makeup kit in the purse that she retired to the closet that's bigger than most people's entire bedroom. I'm half under the impression that she's just nuts, like most Hollywood types are, and that this is just possibly her "acting" a character in real life, combined with boredom during the lockdowns, and the need to stay relevant as the cuteness fades, the wrinkles start to manifest themselves and she pushes further and further past that cutoff age of 30 years old where most actresses fade away, never to be seen again except for maybe some one-off roles as "concerned mom" in some cop drama. She's just not as good of an actor as Joaquin Phoenix. To her credit, not many people can honesty say that they are. What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 7, 2020 11:49 AM JONGSSTRAW Ellen Page is a bona fide psycho. I've seen her go on rants during interviews, and she clearly has no idea about anything that isn't demented and psychotic. I think she's a lot like her Juno character .... she believes she's so intelligent and righteous, but actually she's just another Hollywood libtard douche. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 7, 2020 12:00 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK... and the need to stay relevant as the cuteness fades, the wrinkles start to manifest themselves and she pushes further and further past that cutoff age of 30 years old where most actresses fade away, never to be seen again except for maybe some one-off roles as "concerned mom" in some cop drama. Well, that's one of those very obvious prejudices against women: they can't age into mature roles, because female leads can't be anything but beautiful and young. I noticed that because I have a hard time recalling the faces of most actresses, they're pretty interchangeable IMHO, whereas men are allowed to be something other than handsome and their faces are more distinct. I did notice, tho, that British shows tend to show older women more often. We've gotten hooked on their "detective" shows, and I noticed a few things about them: The Brits, they drink. A LOT. They drink at home, alone. They drink at home with the family. And they go to pubs to drink with their colleagues. They're more demographically honest. Their shows just have a lotmore older people of BOTH sexes in them, and the problems of aging are part of the stories. Also, they can act circles around most of our actors. Joaquin Pheonix and Ron Glass (RIP) could get into the ring with them, but most American actors would come off as cartoon characters. ---------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake #WEARAMASK NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 7, 2020 1:10 PM THG Keep it real please NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 7, 2020 4:54 PM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: But then, what you're talking about isn't some internally-referenced identification, it's SOCIETY's response to your perceived sex, and its sex roles and expectations. SOME men who have transitioned to women dress and make up in such extremely feminine way they almost look like drag queens ... extreme social signalling that shouts out I'm a WOMAN but others seem content to dress and act like ordinary women, so I think there's some difference there. Another explanation is that some people crave attention and this is one socially- acceptable way to scratch that itch. I do wonder if society's sex roles were less rigid there would be fewer people feeling the need to transition. I still find the whole thing puzzling. ----------- Pity would be no mor e, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake #WEARAMASK Maybe the extreme over-display in trans people has something to do with their upbringing. Maybe as kids they were constantly 'encouraged' (harangued, scolded, punished) into conforming to their gender-appropriate toys, activities, behaviors. "For the love of god, Johnny, PUT THAT DOLL DOWN or I'll beat the crap out of you!" "Oh sweetie, don't you want to wear your pretty frilly pink dress instead?" NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 7, 2020 5:58 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by THG: Yeah. You keep saying that.... but. What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 12, 2020 11:05 PM JAYNEZTOWN Some people don’t care, I remember other weird stories there are many and many of them. Those two brother director dudes from the Matrix went Tranny I think...the first one chopped off his penis and pumped himself full of female hormones and started wearing a dress in public and then the second brother not to be outdone in attention by the first decided to do the very same thing...weird Ellen? I remember her / now him? in the movie Inception and one of those Xmen movies probably screwed in the head by Hollywood, most people there seem to be used, drugged up by the system and abused is it their wife or “his” wife or are both boymen now...odd Whats worse is their might be some crime happening when the adults take these big families of kids, they buy a new son or daughter like someoen buying an exotic pet. There are the types who buy kids from S.America, Europe, Africa, Asia and then pump them full of hormonal drugs and force them to change sex Maybe pirate news was correct, some of these weirdos might have some demon candles in some basement and praying to some Baphomet Goat of Mendes thing from Babylon days...Or maybe its something medical like munchausen syndrome by proxy Tv, radio and movies are beyond weird these days, without doubt some transgendering homosexual agenda thing going on it might not be so bad with 'adults' but push this stuff on kids, there seems to be a criminal connection happening I'm not going to bother with the whole ze/xer they/them nonsense The 'Adults' they are not mentally ill?...Maybe they really believe or want this stuff, maybe the whole thing could be talked about rationally or debated but then again "cancel culture" ended the story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Sexually_Identify_as_an_Attack_Helicop ter#Publication_history I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter So now she / it / he is now a he but straight since the other boyish looking girl is still a girl? or is she Lesbian, I dont know....maybe in older times described as a crazy fricking wackjob but these days in Hollywood a wackjob is more normalized. That odd casting couch many an American and Canadian eaten and abused by a system, the tinsel town madness, the years of indoctrination/brainwashing Ellen your DNA just called; you're still a chick NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 13, 2020 5:33 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK TS Elliot lol What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, December 15, 2020 9:10 PM WISHIMAY It's odd that most of the idiots with mental disorders here cannot deal with anyone else's mental disorders and think they are special because their mental disorder doesn't have anything to do with gender. Dim. Wits. I WILL HEARTILY DEFEND HUMAN RIGHTS UNTIL YOU CAN SEE YOUR WRONGS ................................ https://refusefascism.org/.................................... NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, December 15, 2020 10:09 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by WISHIMAY: It's odd that most of the idiots with mental disorders here cannot deal with anyone else's mental disorders and think they are special because their mental disorder doesn't have anything to do with gender. Dim. Wits. Are you speaking of yourself? ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake #WEARAMASK NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 16, 2020 3:04 PM WISHIMAY ^Dimwit that thinks she has no mental disorders It's always the dimmest that believe their own perfection. I WILL HEARTILY DEFEND HUMAN RIGHTS UNTIL YOU CAN SEE YOUR WRONGS ................................ https://refusefascism.org/.................................... NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 16, 2020 3:18 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK If this were Twitter, Nilbog would have been banned for saying that Ellen Page has a mental disorder. What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 16, 2020 3:38 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: If this were Twitter, Nilbog would have been banned for saying that Ellen Page has a mental disorder. What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) HAHAHAHA! Indeed! ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake #WEARAMASK NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 20, 2020 12:20 PM JAYNEZTOWN Theme tune? Take a walk on the wild side Shaved her legs and then he was a she She says, "Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side" Said, "Hey honey, take a walk on the wild side" Candy came from out on the island In the backroom, she was everybody's darlin' But she never lost her head Even when she was givin' head She says, "Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side" Said, "Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side" And the colored girls go Do-dado-do, Do-do, do-do-do or Duuuuude looks like a lady! Dude looks like a lady Back stage we're having the time. Of our lives until somebody says. Forgive me if I seem out of line. Then she whipped out a gun. And tried to blow me away.Dude looks like a lady ! Duuuuuude looks like a lady Dude looks like a lady! Dude looks like a lady! So never judge a book by its cover. Or who you gonna love by your lover. Love put me wise to her love in disguiseShe had the body of a Venus. Lord, imagine my surprise Dude looks like a lady! Dude looks like a lady NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 20, 2020 4:00 PM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. The first song is one of my - admittedly many - favorites. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 23, 2020 11:12 PM JAYNEZTOWN Lola - the Kinks? an encounter between a young man and a possible cross-dresser, whom he meets in a club in Soho, London. https://www.bitchute.com/video/s2ME6enbx62f/ https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x49go1 NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 23, 2020 11:52 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK The Crying Game? What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 23, 2020 11:54 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Or the "missing" lyrics to the full theme song for Cheers.... What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 24, 2020 4:45 AM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. Oh yeah - Lola is another one of my favorites. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, March 20, 2021 5:52 AM JAYNEZTOWN Transeuxal Dude / Transgender woman crowned now Miss Nevada and can contend for Miss USA? https://www.westernjournal.com/transgender-contestant-crowned-miss-sil ver-state-usa/ Transgenderism has become normalized and even exalted by entertainment and the weirdo social liberal / regressive left media. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, April 29, 2021 12:36 PM JAYNEZTOWN Elliot Page says he/she/it '100%' knew she/he/it was a boy/girl/trans from the time him/her/he/she/lgbt/it was a toddler Page also expressed concern about a number of 'anti-trans bills' The "Juno" actor told Vanity Fair's Thomas Page McBee a bunch of crazy https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/elliot-page-says-he -100-knew-he-was-a-boy-from-the-time-he-was-a-toddler/ar-BB1g9ZG9?ocid=mmx&PC=EMMX20 NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, April 29, 2021 3:11 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Nah... It wasn't from birth. I bet Weinstein fucked her up real good. -------------------------------------------------- Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, May 12, 2021 11:04 AM JAYNEZTOWN Banebdjed was referred to as “the goat of Mendes” Egyptian Babylon cult “The goat of Mendes” has been linked by some esoteric scholars to 'Baphomet' also been called the Black Goat, and the Judas Goat, the French esotericist, poet, and author of more than twenty books about magic, Cabbalah, alchemical studies, and occultism. Considered the most influential occultist of the 19th-century, "Éliphas Lévi", the name under which he published his books, was his attempt to translate or transliterate his given names "Alphonse Louis" into the Hebrew language. He had a deep impact on the weirdo rituals of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and later on the ex–Golden Dawn member Aleister Crowley. He was also the first to declare that a pentagram or five-pointed star with one point down and two points up represents evil, while a pentagram with one point up and two points down represents good. Lévi's ideas also influenced Helena Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society and a bunch of Royal Masonic Arabian Freemasonry Babylon stuff. authors, such as Macgregor Mathers and A. E. Waite, writing on the school of Jewish mysticism called the Kabalah, referenced the texts of Eliphas Levi, religious views of Eliphas Levi were generally syncretic, he followed mystic voodoo occult nonsense on the basis that all religions were different expressions of the same ancient source of wisdom - The core principle of the Prisca Theologia Levi himself called the figure Baphomet of Mendes Tranny Goat devil horn hoof Symbolism in the Occult? Biden speech on transexual pan sexuality shemale transgender youth? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/04/29/joe-biden-speech -congress-transgender-youth/4886157001/ The Biden administration announced Monday that it would reinterpret “sex” in the context of healthcare anti-discrimination laws to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity,” reversing a Trump administration policy that defined “sex” as gender assigned at birth. https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/10/biden-trump-policy-sex-sexual-orien tation-transgender/ Montana seventh state to ban gender-confused males in women’s sports this year NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, May 12, 2021 11:09 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Gender is Gender. I say stop banning them from playing sports. Let all of the female sports be dominated by men with mental disorders and not a single female sports record will be held by an actual female in the next 10 years. That's the only way this problem is ever going to be fixed. -------------------------------------------------- Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, May 26, 2021 7:00 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN I saw that he she it posted a topless photo recently. It was headline news. How exciting. Will it run for Governor now? NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, May 26, 2021 10:03 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK If you take your shirt off and nobody gives a shit and sees it, did you ever really take your shirt off? I knew a dude in high school who had weird man boobs and always felt bad for him when people gave him shit in the locker room. His tits were bigger than Ellen's. -------------------------------------------------- Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, June 1, 2021 12:32 PM JAYNEZTOWN More Tranny Babylon Shemale Agendas? https://www.wsj.com/articles/male-inmates-in-womens-prisons-1162247421 5 NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, July 3, 2021 8:44 AM JAYNEZTOWN ‘One Month Isn’t Enough’ – Canada Declares Pride SEASON Lasting All Summer https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3972713/posts#comment , https://dissenter.com/discussion/begin?url=https://www.breitbart.com/h ealth/2021/07/02/bidens-deputies-urge-children-to-demand-transgender-status/ Biden's Deputies Urge Children to Demand Transgender NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, July 3, 2021 9:21 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK It's pretty weird how hard they're pushing this, innit? -------------------------------------------------- And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 6, 2021 8:29 AM JAYNEZTOWN Andrew Cuomo’s daughter Michaela declares herself ‘demisexual’ https://nypost.com/2021/07/03/andrew-cuomos-daughter-michaela-declares -herself-demisexual/ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=demisexual 'A demisexual is a type of sexual identity where people do not feel or experience any type of sexual attraction toward their partner unless they form a certain strong emotional connection. This terminology comes from a sexual orientation that is in between sexual and asexual orientations.' NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 6, 2021 8:31 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK So she's a heterosexual with some mental problems that effect her performance in bed. Got it. We used to just call that frigid. -------------------------------------------------- And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, October 15, 2021 10:55 AM JAYNEZTOWN Father of Daughter Allegedly Assaulted by Boy in Skirt Breaks Silence https://rumble.com/vnpjbn-father-of-daughter-allegedly-assaulted-by-bo y-in-skirt-breaks-silence.html NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, October 15, 2021 11:00 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK That's what happens when society puts mental illness on a pedestal and makes them untouchable. -------------------------------------------------- Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work." NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, October 19, 2021 12:29 PM JAYNEZTOWN Quote: Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: That's what happens when society puts mental illness on a pedestal and makes them untouchable. read the old historica, the story of Rome, Meso-America, India, Arabia, Japan and Greece things in clownworld can get much worse https://news.yahoo.com/dr-rachel-levine-now-first-142436504.html Rachel Levine He / she / It is Now First Trans 4-Star Admiral in U.S. History NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, October 19, 2021 4:07 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: Quote: Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: That's what happens when society puts mental illness on a pedestal and makes them untouchable. read the old historica, the story of Rome, Meso-America, India, Arabia, Japan and Greece things in clownworld can get much worse https://news.yahoo.com/dr-rachel-levine-now-first-142436504.html Rachel Levine He / she / It is Now First Trans 4-Star Admiral in U.S. History Can ... whatever it is... do the job, and in an even handed way? That's all I care about. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, October 19, 2021 10:16 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: Quote: Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: That's what happens when society puts mental illness on a pedestal and makes them untouchable. read the old historica, the story of Rome, Meso-America, India, Arabia, Japan and Greece things in clownworld can get much worse https://news.yahoo.com/dr-rachel-levine-now-first-142436504.html Rachel Levine He / she / It is Now First Trans 4-Star Admiral in U.S. History Can ... whatever it is... do the job, and in an even handed way? That's all I care about. No. Because no matter how much they get they always want more. How much of the population is trans? A fraction of a fraction of a percent? Yet there are enough trans employees working at Netflix where they were able to organize a "Trans Walkout" over Dave Chappelle's latest comedy special? They are the most protected and entitled of all of the protected and entitled "classes". The very tippy top of the Oppression Pyramid. -------------------------------------------------- Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work." NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, October 19, 2021 10:22 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: The very tippy top of the Oppression Pyramid. -------------------------------------------------- Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work." NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME PREV PAGE123456NEXT PAGE YOUR OPTIONS NEW THREAD BOOKMARK UN-BOOKMARK SHARE THREAD NEW POSTS TODAY USER POST DATE JAYNEZTOWN 12.18 06:04 OTHER TOPICS DISCUSSIONS Russia Invades Ukraine. 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Oh, so you know about Hillerman's books! I'll watch the TV series and see what it's like and we can talk about it. Work again? Didn't you just work yesterday? I guess she's preparing for the holidays?? Oh, crap! about the monitor! When you say the city was replacing pipes, do you mean like water mains in the street? If so, I can't think why that would cause a monitor the mess up. I sure hope it fixes itself bc they can be pricey to replace. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Off to work tomorrow and this monitor is driving me crazy. It started misbehaving when the city was replacing pipes around my THG | Log off ABOUTMAPCHATEVENTSFIRECASTSBLOGSCOMMUNITYBLUE SUN ROOMPROFILEHOME Skip Navigation LinksHOME >> COMMUNITY >> REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS >> ELLEN PAGE IS A DUDE NOW REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS Ellen Page is a Dude Now POSTED BY: 6IXSTRINGJACK UPDATED: Thursday, December 18, 2025 06:04 SHORT URL: VIEWED: 16124 PAGE 1 of 6 PREV PAGE123456NEXT PAGE Saturday, December 5, 2020 9:27 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK It appears that the $14 Million Dollar actress finally got sick of being oppressed and wanted in on some of that sweet, sweet white male privilege. Pictured: "Elliot" Page... because why make a clean break from the old name? Here's your tool belt, bitch. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-Black-10-Pocket-Contractor-s-Tool-Be lt-HD858759-TH/310338122 Time to get those purdy hands dirty. P.S. Home Depot has all the tools you need, except for, yanno... the one YOU need. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 5, 2020 10:01 PM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. I'm trying to figure out why I should care ... NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 7:37 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. But she (he?) still wants- and gets- to play female roles. Don't see him (?) chipping a manicure anytime soon. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake #WEARAMASK NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 7:47 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: But she (he?) still wants- and gets- to play female roles. Don't see him (?) chipping a manicure anytime soon. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake #WEARAMASK Well, I guess she cracked the code then. She's got everything now. Not passable at all for a man, but everybody she demands call her one will call her one, and they will also call her stunning and brave. But she's still able to keep her job and make millions playing women after having a lifetime experience of playing women. If I were Scarlett Johannson, I would tell "Elliot" that she can't she can't play women anymore. Scarlett had to give up a role playing a transgender because the Twitter mob was outraged that an actual transgender wasn't getting that role. If "Elliot" wants to be a man, she should only be able to play transgender roles now, yanno... if we're going to be fair about it. She's an evil white male now. She doesn't get to be stunning and brave too. She's got to live by the actual rules that evil white males have to play by everyday. What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 8:07 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Hey... so do you think she also believes that if she wears the baseball cap AND a pair of black plastic glasses that people will believe that she's Clark Kent too? What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 8:58 AM WHOZIT The way things are going these days you'd think the last thing he/she would want to be is a WHITE guy. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 9:32 AM THG Keep it real please Stopped in to see what the trolls are doing. What a bunch of sick, hateful pervs and morons. Once a troll always a troll I guess. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 10:03 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by whozit: The way things are going these days you'd think the last thing he/she would want to be is a WHITE guy. Well she's spent the last 5 years shitting on white dudes. Hilarious that she wants to BE one now. Aw... cute. Look at T simping. What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 10:48 AM CAPTAINCRUNCH ... stay crunchy... Quote: Originally posted by THG: Stopped in to see what the trolls are doing. What a bunch of sick, hateful pervs and morons. Once a troll always a troll I guess. Sad. I like how 6 has brought SIGNYM down to his level. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 1:16 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by captaincrunch: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Stopped in to see what the trolls are doing. What a bunch of sick, hateful pervs and morons. Once a troll always a troll I guess. Sad. I like how 6 has brought SIGNYM down to his level. Because I said he (?) won't be chipping a manicure anytime soon? OH, THE HORROR!!! I find transgender people curious folk. I can't imagine what they identify with so strongly. It's not like I wake up every morning and think I'm a woman!. (Altho I DO wake up most mornings and think Damn! I'm OLD!) I guess I have a more gender-neutral view of who I am, not tied all THAT strongly to sex. I've always done what my strength and abilities allowed, whether that was a traditionally male occupation (like stack testing, instrument repair) or a female one (yardwork/gardening.) and I was proud of doing a good job, whether it was a "man's" job or a "woman's" job. I never dressed "girly" or act "girly" either, and have never used my sex as a reason or an excuse for anything I've done (except have a child) so altho society treats me like a woman, it's a more neutralized version. So, what is it that attracts a person of one sex to believe that they would be better off as another? I don't feel that a person's sex should be central to what they do or how they see themselves. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake #WEARAMASK NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 3:40 PM THG Keep it real please Quote: Originally posted by captaincrunch: Quote: Originally posted by THG: Stopped in to see what the trolls are doing. What a bunch of sick, hateful pervs and morons. Once a troll always a troll I guess. Sad. I like how 6 has brought SIGNYM down to his level. I've always seen sig on the same level as Jack. To me a troll is a troll and they all sink to the lowest of lows. Done with this thread. T NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 6, 2020 5:53 PM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Because I said he (?) won't be chipping a manicure anytime soon? OH, THE HORROR!!! I find transgender people curious folk. I can't imagine what they identify with so strongly. It's not like I wake up every morning and think I'm a woman!. (Altho I DO wake up most mornings and think Damn! I'm OLD!) I guess I have a more gender-neutral view of who I am, not tied all THAT strongly to sex. I've always done what my strength and abilities allowed, whether that was a traditionally male occupation (like stack testing, instrument repair) or a female one (yardwork/gardening.) and I was proud of doing a good job, whether it was a "man's" job or a "woman's" job. I never dressed "girly" or act "girly" either, and have never used my sex as a reason or an excuse for anything I've done (except have a child) so altho society treats me like a woman, it's a more neutralized version. So, what is it that attracts a person of one sex to believe that they would be better off as another? I don't feel that a person's sex should be central to what they do or how they see themselves. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake #WEARAMASK Yeah, I noticed the makeup too. If jawn's now a man, jawn's a very well-made-up and manicured girly-girl-one. (girly-girl being a moniker from a CJ Cherryh novel) Maybe if one is always treated like one is of the wrong sex, what sex one is would be closer to the top of conscious thought. I'm trying to imagine how I would feel if everyone thought I was the opposite sex. If they called me one, if they treated me like one, if they gave all the jobs and tasks as if I was one. I think it could be really frustrating, but honestly, it's hard to imagine. As to this person, I really don't care about jawn in particular. I've never heard of jawn, don't care to know what jawn has to say about anything, and now that I've read about jawn, my life and ideas are no different than before. Jawn is just another meaningless forgettable over-hyped media face in the array of meaningless forgettable over-hyped media faces as far as I'm concerned. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 7, 2020 7:14 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. But then, what you're talking about isn't some internally-referenced identification, it's SOCIETY's response to your perceived sex, and its sex roles and expectations. SOME men who have transitioned to women dress and make up in such extremely feminine way they almost look like drag queens ... extreme social signalling that shouts out I'm a WOMAN but others seem content to dress and act like ordinary women, soI think there's some difference there. Another explanation is that some people crave attention and this is one socially- acceptable way to scratch that itch. I do wonder if society's sex roles were less rigid there would be fewer people feeling the need to transition. I still find the whole thing puzzling. ----------- Pity would be no mor e, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake #WEARAMASK NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 7, 2020 8:40 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK It's pretty safe to say she's not going to commit to any surgery or even any testosterone treatments since she can't seem to keep the makeup kit in the purse that she retired to the closet that's bigger than most people's entire bedroom. I'm half under the impression that she's just nuts, like most Hollywood types are, and that this is just possibly her "acting" a character in real life, combined with boredom during the lockdowns, and the need to stay relevant as the cuteness fades, the wrinkles start to manifest themselves and she pushes further and further past that cutoff age of 30 years old where most actresses fade away, never to be seen again except for maybe some one-off roles as "concerned mom" in some cop drama. She's just not as good of an actor as Joaquin Phoenix. To her credit, not many people can honesty say that they are. What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 7, 2020 11:49 AM JONGSSTRAW Ellen Page is a bona fide psycho. I've seen her go on rants during interviews, and she clearly has no idea about anything that isn't demented and psychotic. I think she's a lot like her Juno character .... she believes she's so intelligent and righteous, but actually she's just another Hollywood libtard douche. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 7, 2020 12:00 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK... and the need to stay relevant as the cuteness fades, the wrinkles start to manifest themselves and she pushes further and further past that cutoff age of 30 years old where most actresses fade away, never to be seen again except for maybe some one-off roles as "concerned mom" in some cop drama. Well, that's one of those very obvious prejudices against women: they can't age into mature roles, because female leads can't be anything but beautiful and young. I noticed that because I have a hard time recalling the faces of most actresses, they're pretty interchangeable IMHO, whereas men are allowed to be something other than handsome and their faces are more distinct. I did notice, tho, that British shows tend to show older women more often. We've gotten hooked on their "detective" shows, and I noticed a few things about them: The Brits, they drink. A LOT. They drink at home, alone. They drink at home with the family. And they go to pubs to drink with their colleagues. They're more demographically honest. Their shows just have a lotmore older people of BOTH sexes in them, and the problems of aging are part of the stories. Also, they can act circles around most of our actors. Joaquin Pheonix and Ron Glass (RIP) could get into the ring with them, but most American actors would come off as cartoon characters. ---------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake #WEARAMASK NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 7, 2020 1:10 PM THG Keep it real please NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | EDIT | TOP | HOME Monday, December 7, 2020 4:54 PM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: But then, what you're talking about isn't some internally-referenced identification, it's SOCIETY's response to your perceived sex, and its sex roles and expectations. SOME men who have transitioned to women dress and make up in such extremely feminine way they almost look like drag queens ... extreme social signalling that shouts out I'm a WOMAN but others seem content to dress and act like ordinary women, so I think there's some difference there. Another explanation is that some people crave attention and this is one socially- acceptable way to scratch that itch. I do wonder if society's sex roles were less rigid there would be fewer people feeling the need to transition. I still find the whole thing puzzling. ----------- Pity would be no mor e, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake #WEARAMASK Maybe the extreme over-display in trans people has something to do with their upbringing. Maybe as kids they were constantly 'encouraged' (harangued, scolded, punished) into conforming to their gender-appropriate toys, activities, behaviors. "For the love of god, Johnny, PUT THAT DOLL DOWN or I'll beat the crap out of you!" "Oh sweetie, don't you want to wear your pretty frilly pink dress instead?" NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Monday, December 7, 2020 5:58 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by THG: Yeah. You keep saying that.... but. What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, December 12, 2020 11:05 PM JAYNEZTOWN Some people don’t care, I remember other weird stories there are many and many of them. Those two brother director dudes from the Matrix went Tranny I think...the first one chopped off his penis and pumped himself full of female hormones and started wearing a dress in public and then the second brother not to be outdone in attention by the first decided to do the very same thing...weird Ellen? I remember her / now him? in the movie Inception and one of those Xmen movies probably screwed in the head by Hollywood, most people there seem to be used, drugged up by the system and abused is it their wife or “his” wife or are both boymen now...odd Whats worse is their might be some crime happening when the adults take these big families of kids, they buy a new son or daughter like someoen buying an exotic pet. There are the types who buy kids from S.America, Europe, Africa, Asia and then pump them full of hormonal drugs and force them to change sex Maybe pirate news was correct, some of these weirdos might have some demon candles in some basement and praying to some Baphomet Goat of Mendes thing from Babylon days...Or maybe its something medical like munchausen syndrome by proxy Tv, radio and movies are beyond weird these days, without doubt some transgendering homosexual agenda thing going on it might not be so bad with 'adults' but push this stuff on kids, there seems to be a criminal connection happening I'm not going to bother with the whole ze/xer they/them nonsense The 'Adults' they are not mentally ill?...Maybe they really believe or want this stuff, maybe the whole thing could be talked about rationally or debated but then again "cancel culture" ended the story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Sexually_Identify_as_an_Attack_Helicop ter#Publication_history I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter So now she / it / he is now a he but straight since the other boyish looking girl is still a girl? or is she Lesbian, I dont know....maybe in older times described as a crazy fricking wackjob but these days in Hollywood a wackjob is more normalized. That odd casting couch many an American and Canadian eaten and abused by a system, the tinsel town madness, the years of indoctrination/brainwashing Ellen your DNA just called; you're still a chick NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 13, 2020 5:33 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK TS Elliot lol What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, December 15, 2020 9:10 PM WISHIMAY It's odd that most of the idiots with mental disorders here cannot deal with anyone else's mental disorders and think they are special because their mental disorder doesn't have anything to do with gender. Dim. Wits. I WILL HEARTILY DEFEND HUMAN RIGHTS UNTIL YOU CAN SEE YOUR WRONGS ................................ https://refusefascism.org/.................................... NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, December 15, 2020 10:09 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by WISHIMAY: It's odd that most of the idiots with mental disorders here cannot deal with anyone else's mental disorders and think they are special because their mental disorder doesn't have anything to do with gender. Dim. Wits. Are you speaking of yourself? ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake #WEARAMASK NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 16, 2020 3:04 PM WISHIMAY ^Dimwit that thinks she has no mental disorders It's always the dimmest that believe their own perfection. I WILL HEARTILY DEFEND HUMAN RIGHTS UNTIL YOU CAN SEE YOUR WRONGS ................................ https://refusefascism.org/.................................... NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 16, 2020 3:18 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK If this were Twitter, Nilbog would have been banned for saying that Ellen Page has a mental disorder. What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 16, 2020 3:38 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: If this were Twitter, Nilbog would have been banned for saying that Ellen Page has a mental disorder. What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) HAHAHAHA! Indeed! ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake #WEARAMASK NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 20, 2020 12:20 PM JAYNEZTOWN Theme tune? Take a walk on the wild side Shaved her legs and then he was a she She says, "Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side" Said, "Hey honey, take a walk on the wild side" Candy came from out on the island In the backroom, she was everybody's darlin' But she never lost her head Even when she was givin' head She says, "Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side" Said, "Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side" And the colored girls go Do-dado-do, Do-do, do-do-do or Duuuuude looks like a lady! Dude looks like a lady Back stage we're having the time. Of our lives until somebody says. Forgive me if I seem out of line. Then she whipped out a gun. And tried to blow me away.Dude looks like a lady ! Duuuuuude looks like a lady Dude looks like a lady! Dude looks like a lady! So never judge a book by its cover. Or who you gonna love by your lover. Love put me wise to her love in disguiseShe had the body of a Venus. Lord, imagine my surprise Dude looks like a lady! Dude looks like a lady NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, December 20, 2020 4:00 PM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. The first song is one of my - admittedly many - favorites. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 23, 2020 11:12 PM JAYNEZTOWN Lola - the Kinks? an encounter between a young man and a possible cross-dresser, whom he meets in a club in Soho, London. https://www.bitchute.com/video/s2ME6enbx62f/ https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x49go1 NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 23, 2020 11:52 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK The Crying Game? What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, December 23, 2020 11:54 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Or the "missing" lyrics to the full theme song for Cheers.... What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, December 24, 2020 4:45 AM 1KIKI Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us. Oh yeah - Lola is another one of my favorites. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, March 20, 2021 5:52 AM JAYNEZTOWN Transeuxal Dude / Transgender woman crowned now Miss Nevada and can contend for Miss USA? https://www.westernjournal.com/transgender-contestant-crowned-miss-sil ver-state-usa/ Transgenderism has become normalized and even exalted by entertainment and the weirdo social liberal / regressive left media. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, April 29, 2021 12:36 PM JAYNEZTOWN Elliot Page says he/she/it '100%' knew she/he/it was a boy/girl/trans from the time him/her/he/she/lgbt/it was a toddler Page also expressed concern about a number of 'anti-trans bills' The "Juno" actor told Vanity Fair's Thomas Page McBee a bunch of crazy https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/elliot-page-says-he -100-knew-he-was-a-boy-from-the-time-he-was-a-toddler/ar-BB1g9ZG9?ocid=mmx&PC=EMMX20 NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, April 29, 2021 3:11 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Nah... It wasn't from birth. I bet Weinstein fucked her up real good. -------------------------------------------------- Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, May 12, 2021 11:04 AM JAYNEZTOWN Banebdjed was referred to as “the goat of Mendes” Egyptian Babylon cult “The goat of Mendes” has been linked by some esoteric scholars to 'Baphomet' also been called the Black Goat, and the Judas Goat, the French esotericist, poet, and author of more than twenty books about magic, Cabbalah, alchemical studies, and occultism. Considered the most influential occultist of the 19th-century, "Éliphas Lévi", the name under which he published his books, was his attempt to translate or transliterate his given names "Alphonse Louis" into the Hebrew language. He had a deep impact on the weirdo rituals of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and later on the ex–Golden Dawn member Aleister Crowley. He was also the first to declare that a pentagram or five-pointed star with one point down and two points up represents evil, while a pentagram with one point up and two points down represents good. Lévi's ideas also influenced Helena Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society and a bunch of Royal Masonic Arabian Freemasonry Babylon stuff. authors, such as Macgregor Mathers and A. E. Waite, writing on the school of Jewish mysticism called the Kabalah, referenced the texts of Eliphas Levi, religious views of Eliphas Levi were generally syncretic, he followed mystic voodoo occult nonsense on the basis that all religions were different expressions of the same ancient source of wisdom - The core principle of the Prisca Theologia Levi himself called the figure Baphomet of Mendes Tranny Goat devil horn hoof Symbolism in the Occult? Biden speech on transexual pan sexuality shemale transgender youth? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/04/29/joe-biden-speech -congress-transgender-youth/4886157001/ The Biden administration announced Monday that it would reinterpret “sex” in the context of healthcare anti-discrimination laws to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity,” reversing a Trump administration policy that defined “sex” as gender assigned at birth. https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/10/biden-trump-policy-sex-sexual-orien tation-transgender/ Montana seventh state to ban gender-confused males in women’s sports this year NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, May 12, 2021 11:09 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK Gender is Gender. I say stop banning them from playing sports. Let all of the female sports be dominated by men with mental disorders and not a single female sports record will be held by an actual female in the next 10 years. That's the only way this problem is ever going to be fixed. -------------------------------------------------- Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, May 26, 2021 7:00 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN I saw that he she it posted a topless photo recently. It was headline news. How exciting. Will it run for Governor now? NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, May 26, 2021 10:03 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK If you take your shirt off and nobody gives a shit and sees it, did you ever really take your shirt off? I knew a dude in high school who had weird man boobs and always felt bad for him when people gave him shit in the locker room. His tits were bigger than Ellen's. -------------------------------------------------- Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, June 1, 2021 12:32 PM JAYNEZTOWN More Tranny Babylon Shemale Agendas? https://www.wsj.com/articles/male-inmates-in-womens-prisons-1162247421 5 NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, July 3, 2021 8:44 AM JAYNEZTOWN ‘One Month Isn’t Enough’ – Canada Declares Pride SEASON Lasting All Summer https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3972713/posts#comment , https://dissenter.com/discussion/begin?url=https://www.breitbart.com/h ealth/2021/07/02/bidens-deputies-urge-children-to-demand-transgender-status/ Biden's Deputies Urge Children to Demand Transgender NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Saturday, July 3, 2021 9:21 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK It's pretty weird how hard they're pushing this, innit? -------------------------------------------------- And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 6, 2021 8:29 AM JAYNEZTOWN Andrew Cuomo’s daughter Michaela declares herself ‘demisexual’ https://nypost.com/2021/07/03/andrew-cuomos-daughter-michaela-declares -herself-demisexual/ https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=demisexual 'A demisexual is a type of sexual identity where people do not feel or experience any type of sexual attraction toward their partner unless they form a certain strong emotional connection. This terminology comes from a sexual orientation that is in between sexual and asexual orientations.' NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 6, 2021 8:31 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK So she's a heterosexual with some mental problems that effect her performance in bed. Got it. We used to just call that frigid. -------------------------------------------------- And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, October 15, 2021 10:55 AM JAYNEZTOWN Father of Daughter Allegedly Assaulted by Boy in Skirt Breaks Silence https://rumble.com/vnpjbn-father-of-daughter-allegedly-assaulted-by-bo y-in-skirt-breaks-silence.html NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, October 15, 2021 11:00 AM 6IXSTRINGJACK That's what happens when society puts mental illness on a pedestal and makes them untouchable. -------------------------------------------------- Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work." NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, October 19, 2021 12:29 PM JAYNEZTOWN Quote: Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: That's what happens when society puts mental illness on a pedestal and makes them untouchable. read the old historica, the story of Rome, Meso-America, India, Arabia, Japan and Greece things in clownworld can get much worse https://news.yahoo.com/dr-rachel-levine-now-first-142436504.html Rachel Levine He / she / It is Now First Trans 4-Star Admiral in U.S. History NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, October 19, 2021 4:07 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: Quote: Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: That's what happens when society puts mental illness on a pedestal and makes them untouchable. read the old historica, the story of Rome, Meso-America, India, Arabia, Japan and Greece things in clownworld can get much worse https://news.yahoo.com/dr-rachel-levine-now-first-142436504.html Rachel Levine He / she / It is Now First Trans 4-Star Admiral in U.S. History Can ... whatever it is... do the job, and in an even handed way? That's all I care about. ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, October 19, 2021 10:16 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: Quote: Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: That's what happens when society puts mental illness on a pedestal and makes them untouchable. read the old historica, the story of Rome, Meso-America, India, Arabia, Japan and Greece things in clownworld can get much worse https://news.yahoo.com/dr-rachel-levine-now-first-142436504.html Rachel Levine He / she / It is Now First Trans 4-Star Admiral in U.S. History Can ... whatever it is... do the job, and in an even handed way? That's all I care about. No. Because no matter how much they get they always want more. How much of the population is trans? A fraction of a fraction of a percent? Yet there are enough trans employees working at Netflix where they were able to organize a "Trans Walkout" over Dave Chappelle's latest comedy special? They are the most protected and entitled of all of the protected and entitled "classes". The very tippy top of the Oppression Pyramid. -------------------------------------------------- Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work." NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, October 19, 2021 10:22 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: The very tippy top of the Oppression Pyramid. -------------------------------------------------- Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work." NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME PREV PAGE123456NEXT PAGE YOUR OPTIONS NEW THREAD BOOKMARK UN-BOOKMARK SHARE THREAD NEW POSTS TODAY USER POST DATE JAYNEZTOWN 12.18 06:04 OTHER TOPICS DISCUSSIONS Russia Invades Ukraine. 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Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Continued from here... http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=58882&p=1 Carry on!THG | Log off ABOUTMAPCHATEVENTSFIRECASTSBLOGSCOMMUNITYBLUE SUN ROOMPROFILEHOME Skip Navigation LinksHOME >> COMMUNITY >> REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS >> JAMES WOODS: ‘FREE SPEECH IS DEAD IN LIBERAL AMERICA’ REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS James Woods: ‘Free Speech Is Dead in Liberal America’ POSTED BY: JAYNEZTOWN UPDATED: Tuesday, December 16, 2025 13:14 SHORT URL: VIEWED: 4206 PAGE 1 of 1 PREV PAGE1NEXT PAGE Monday, July 10, 2017 12:39 PM JAYNEZTOWN ...did he really go rightwing...or has mainstream media drifted so far-Left? https://www.lifezette.com/popzette/james-woods-free-speech-dead-libera l-america/ conservative actor turns down most of the interviews he's offered these days NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 18, 2017 8:52 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: ...did he really go rightwing...or has mainstream media drifted so far-Left? https://www.lifezette.com/popzette/james-woods-free-speech-dead-libera l-america/ conservative actor turns down most of the interviews he's offered these days Isn't that a couple decades old, what James said back then? With validity increasing each day. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 18, 2017 10:54 PM RIVERLOVE Long live the new flesh! NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 12:32 AM WISHIMAY Left...Right...all roads lead to CircleJerk... NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 12:18 PM 6STRINGJOKER Quote: Originally posted by Wishimay: Left...Right...all roads lead to CircleJerk... LOL. Wishy, you made me laugh! That's a really good point though. I started imagining people just walking in circles aimlessly. It would probably be more appropriate to label the republicans Clockwise, and the democrats Counter-Clockwise. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 12:45 PM WISHIMAY Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: It would probably be more appropriate to label the republicans Clockwise OK, but walking backwards with blinders on and their thumbs up their asses. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 12:45 PM WISHIMAY (double post) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 2:23 PM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: LOL. Wishy, you made me laugh! That's a really good point though. I started imagining people just walking in circles aimlessly. It would probably be more appropriate to label the republicans Clockwise, and the democrats Counter-Clockwise. Walk around in Circles The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 3:26 PM 6STRINGJOKER Quote: Originally posted by Wishimay: Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: It would probably be more appropriate to label the republicans Clockwise OK, but walking backwards with blinders on and their thumbs up their asses. It doesn't matter how somebody gets back to the beginning over and over and over and over again. I think the problem is that all politicians are garbage people. What is somebody to do when the people who run the show are the worst humanity has to offer? NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 5:05 PM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: I think the problem is that all politicians are garbage people. What is somebody to do when the people who run the show are the worst humanity has to offer? What you are really doing is complaining that voters are some of the worse humanity has to offer. From my experience in Texas, the elected politicians' values are indistinguishable from their voters' values. That might not be true where you live and that might not be obvious unless you lived in Texas and it still might not be obvious even if you did live here but you don't pay enough attention to people's real lives as they live them and how they voted. People I don't admire (call them the chickens) turn out to vote for politicians I don't admire (call them the eggs laid by the chickens). A certain kind of politician follows inevitably from a certain kind of voter. That sounds too abstract until I give an example: I don't share the values of Pres George Bush or Sen Ted Cruz (you have heard of them, right?) but the people who voted for them do share. If you don't like those two famous Texas politicians you won't like the people who voted for them, once you really get to know them. Even the people who voted for Bush don't like Bush as much as they once did, but not because their values started to differ from Bush's. They don't like Bush because of the Iraq War. They truly loved that war up until the point when Bush was losing, then Texans slowly turned on him. But losing was inevitable because Bush went to war in the same fashion as the Texans who voted for him go about their daily lives: over confident, half assed, and learning very slowly from mistakes. If you aren't favorably impressed with politicians, you should see the unimpressive people who voted for them. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 5:34 PM REAVERFAN He's always been a reichwing nutjob. Nothing new to see here, folks. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 6:48 PM 6STRINGJOKER I think you're over-generalizing people and not giving them enough credit Second. I didn't like Obama at all, and I thought he was a terrible president. I like a lot of the people that I know who voted for him though. Well... as much as I actually "like" people. So no, I was not at all saying that I don't like voters. That would mean that I only like people that don't vote. I'm sure there are a lot of lousy people who don't pay attention to politics at all. I'm sure there are a lot of wonderful people too. I think, unlike you, I'm able to admit that there are plenty of shitty people on both sides and just because I don't see eye to eye with somebody on political ideas doesn't mean I think they're a shitty person. The problem is that the money and the power that comes with politics draws the shittiest people like moths to a flame. Politicians are garbage people. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 7:11 PM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: I think you're over-generalizing people and not giving them enough credit Second. . . . Politicians are garbage people. From the president of the United States, asked about the unemployment rate: When we got those great reports, I kept saying—you know, those numbers were 4.2, 4.3—I said, for a long time, they don’t matter. But now I accept those numbers very proudly. I say they do matter. https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/887779487781441538 This is laughable, but here’s the thing: I know that his Texan supporters love this kind of attitude. After all, that’s how they treat information. (Not you, of course. I mean other people.) If it supports their opinion, they trumpet it. If it doesn’t, they dismiss it. That’s how "normal" people who want to win arguments deploy facts and figures, and Trump’s fans view him as a "normal" guy who wants to win, not some truth-seeking academic egghead. Which came first? Chicken or egg? Bottom line: Donald Trump may be an asshole, but he’s their asshole. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 9:10 PM 6STRINGJOKER I don't want to take things out of context, so I'd have to see the whole press conference... or at least the question that was asked of him before he said it. That being said, on face value as it is presented with no context, that is a laughably stupid thing to say. He wasn't right by saying those numbers "didn't matter" before either. Maybe he meant that they were bullshit numbers, which they were. They're not even close to describing the actual jobs situation. If he is indeed all of the sudden saying that they are legitimate now that he's president that's bullshit. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 10:39 PM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: I don't want to take things out of context, so I'd have to see the whole press conference... or at least the question that was asked of him before he said it. . . . If he is indeed all of the sudden saying that they are legitimate now that he's president that's bullshit. Trump has done this same thing before today. It made no difference to his followers in the past. Today will make no difference to his followers in the future. His followers only believe what supports their opinions, which is why Trump only believes facts that support his opinions. Or is it the other way around? Chicken/Egg. Which came first? Followers believing or Trump believing? Trump's tone on the matter began to change shortly after he took office in January. In March, after a sizable gain in employment in February, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the president was pleased with the new numbers. “I talked to the president prior to this, and he said to quote him very clearly: 'They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now,' " Spicer said. Trump also took issue in the past with the unemployment rate, arguing that it was much higher than reported under former President Obama. "The unemployment rate is probably 20 percent, but I will tell you, you have some great economists that will tell you it's at 30, 32,” he said in September 2015. “And the highest I've heard so far is 42 percent." http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/342796-trump-monthly-jobs-r eports-do-matter The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 3:04 AM 6STRINGJOKER This isn't behavior exclusive to Republicans or supporters of Trump. Barry was a terrible president who contradicted himself constantly over 8 years, yet in the eyes of many he could do no wrong. (I'm being diplomatic here and not outright saying he lied constantly). Trump was right about the employment numbers during Obama, although he may have been exaggerating them a tad. I never heard that 42% number, but 20% is probably pretty accurate, especially if you include under-employment which in many cases is just as bad. I take great issue with him staying that the numbers are correct now though, if that is what he is saying. The 4% numbers are new to me though. My thoughts without seeing the entire press conference is that this was not a discussion about unemployment in America, but in one of the states that is doing better than average if they're throwing around numbers so low. Would not surprise me if the MSM took footage of him talking about unemployment in a particular area or state and said he was talking about the numbers in the entire country. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 10:15 AM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: The 4% numbers are new to me though. My thoughts without seeing the entire press conference is that this was not a discussion about unemployment in America, but in one of the states that is doing better than average if they're throwing around numbers so low. Would not surprise me if the MSM took footage of him talking about unemployment in a particular area or state and said he was talking about the numbers in the entire country. I know the video of the entire Q&A must be out there somewhere, yet I can't find the goddamn thing, but you can be certain that for years Trump attacked the Bureau of Labor Statistics' reports on the US labor market, except now that he is in charge he's singing a different tune. The Business Insider said that the 4.2% - 4.3% numbers Trump uses are almost the same as the actual 4.4% from the June 2017 Bureau of Labor Statistic's report of unemployment for the entire country. That is not just for one state. It is the whole country, including where you are. Some states, and especially some counties, will do far worse than 4.4%. It all averages to 4.4%. www.bls.gov/cps/ www.businessinsider.com/trump-accepts-jobs-report-unemployment-number- after-calling-hoax-2017-7 The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 10:20 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: I know the video of the entire Q&A must be out there somewhere, yet I can't find the goddamn thing, but you can be certain that for years Trump attacked the Bureau of Labor Statistics' reports on the US labor market, except now that he is in charge he's singing a different tune.- SECOND Of course he is. But that doesn't change the fact that more people are unemployed than ever before. EMPLOYED VERSUS OVERALL POPULATION- TIME- 01/07-06/17 RANGE- 58-64% BLS: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000 And that's using the EXTREMELY generous BLS definition of "employed", which counts you as "employed" if you got paid for ONE HOUR that month. If anyone were to graph a population-wide "total number of hours worked" versus the total work-age population, I'd bet the numbers would look even crappier. ----------- "Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck. I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 11:10 AM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: But that doesn't change the fact that more people are unemployed than ever before. You're full of shit, Signym. Or more politely: On the same graph at BLS that you posted, go back to 1950 when America was at Trump’s Peak of Greatness Again. Only 55% of people were working, less than 2017’s 60%. You will have to click a link to get the oldest data, including 1950. https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000 What was your point, Signym? That my parents should get jobs at Walmart so that I could say they are employed and their lives would instantly be more meaningful because of the importance of work to their spiritual well-being? (And pushing labor participation rate higher than 60% on the statistics?) My point would be that if you don’t have a job where you are living, move to where the jobs are. Don’t be ignorant and expect Trump to bring the jobs to you or other impractical people who are unemployed because they won’t understand that they will have to move or else live and die without money where they are. Why did the factory cross the road? To get away from Donald Trump’s kiss of death. https://qz.com/1013664 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 11:17 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: move to where the jobs are. - SECOND SECOND, stuck with head in the sand. Where is THAT, SECOND? Where should people move? Why not just say "Let them eat cake?" Quote: On the same graph at BLS that you posted, go back to 1950 when America was at Trump’s Peak of Greatness Again. Only 55% of people were working, less than 2017’s 60%. I shouldn't have to tell you ... but apparently I do ... that in 1950, you could actually support a family on one wage. Because back in our days of greatness, the tax rate on the rich was 90%, and American industry was preeminent in a world destroyed by war. The very best statistic for how "the middle class" is doing would be to multiply the total number of hours worked by the weighted average wage, add any "capital gains" that family might accrue, and then divide that by the total economy. Yanno, like this Not a good stat for the Dems either. ----------- "Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck. I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 11:27 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Nine New Findings About Inequality in the United States By JEREMY ASHKENAS DEC. 16, 2016 In a paper published last week, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman expand their earlier work, examining how taxes and government spending affect income inequality. 1) The bottom half of the country has been shut out from income growth for 40 years. The average pretax earnings of an American in the bottom 50 percent by income was $16,197 in 2014, a nearly invisible 2.6 percent gain over 40 years. Over the same period, the top 10 percent of Americans saw their pretax incomes grow by 231 percent. 2) Government spending has helped lift lower incomes, but only a little. The study subtracts taxes, and then adds back the benefits of both direct (Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps) and indirect (infrastructure, defense, education) government spending to arrive at an after-tax measure of income. By comparing pretax income to income after accounting for taxes and government spending, we can see a clearer picture of how government policy has affected income inequality in the United States. 3 Increased health care spending on the elderly consumes most of the gains. The effects of government assistance vary widely with age, especially within the lower half of incomes. Younger adults between 20 and 45 years old have seen their after-tax incomes flatline. But over the same period, seniors in the bottom half have seen their after-tax incomes grow by over 70 percent. The bulk of that gain represents increased health care spending through Medicare. 4) The top 1% and the bottom 50% have swapped their relative shares of the national income. Forty years ago, the top 1 percent of earners took home 10.5 percent of the total national income, and the bottom half earned 20 percent of it. By 2014, those percentages effectively flipped, with the top 1 percent earning a 20 percent share and the bottom half dropping to 12.5 percent. 5) Taxes in the United States are much less progressive than they used to be. Between the end of World War II and the 1980s, the gap between effective tax rates on the rich and the poor narrowed as a result of reductions in corporate and estate taxes on the upper class, and increases in payroll taxes on the working class. In 2013, the Obama administration sharply reversed the trend of declining top tax rates by allowing the 2001 Bush tax cuts to expire and introducing new surtaxes to fund the Affordable Care Act. 6) More women in the work force also helped mitigate rising inequality. Since the 1960s, more American women have joined the work force and their pay has increased, counteracting measures of inequality. In 1964, women made up only 38 percent of the work force; they are now nearly half of it. 7)but there’s still a heavy glass ceiling. Despite these gains, as you look farther up the income ladder, you find fewer and fewer women. Women are 48 percent of the American work force, but only one in 10 of the top 0.1 percent of earners. 8) Since 1999, any upper-middle-class income growth has been after-tax. Even for the upper-middle-class group, which the authors define as adults with incomes between the bottom half and the top 10 percent of Americans, pretax incomes haven’t grown over the past 15 years. Only rising public spending on benefits like health care has allowed upper-middle-class incomes to grow. 9) Taxes and spending helped blunt the effects of inequality and income stagnation. Over the past 50 years, the total share of national income that flows back to individuals through the government has grown. And that income has increasingly been transferred to the bottom 90 percent of Americans, helping to slightly slow the rapidly growing income inequality in the United States. Despite this, the study argues that more redistribution won’t fix the problem. Because the labor income of the bottom 50 percent of Americans has weakened so drastically, Mr. Piketty, Mr. Saez and Mr. Zucman write, “there are clear limits to what redistributive policies can achieve.” They argue that future policy should focus more on raising the primary income of the American working class. Possibilities include improving education and job training, equalizing distribution of human and financial capital, and increasing labor bargaining power, combined with a return to steeply progressive taxation. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/16/business/economy/nine-n ew-findings-about-income-inequality-piketty.html Nowhere in there does it say anything about Democrats changing the trajectory. You can argue all you want, SECOND ... and I know you will ... but that doesn't change the reality of the situation. It's that willful blindness of the DNC against the real problems that real people face, and towards favoring their wealthy sponsors that has cost the DNC votes. Not "Russia". Is Trump the answer? No, Trump was a protest vote. And now, back to our regularly scheduled discussion about James Woods ... ----------- "Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck. I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 12:33 PM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Nowhere in there does it say anything about Democrats changing the trajectory. You can argue all you want, SECOND ... and I know you will ... but that doesn't change the reality of the situation. It's that willful blindness of the DNC against the real problems that real people face, and towards favoring their wealthy sponsors that has cost the DNC votes. Not "Russia". Is Trump the answer? No, Trump was a protest vote. And now, back to our regularly scheduled discussion about James Woods ... Throughout history, plagues and wars have left greater equality in their wake. Can we get there again without violence? No is the short answer. Yes is the long answer, but American voters will need to act less in ignorance. The chances of that are close to zero when baby-boomers are dumb enough to keep electing Republicans to all offices. https://aeon.co/essays/are-plagues-and-wars-the-only-ways-to-reduce-in equality Law 4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake. https://qz.com/967554 Back when they were teens, the baby-boomers were dummies. They stayed stupid and we now live in the world full of problems those dumb-asses created: Quote: Americans are becoming increasingly ignorant about their own rights as citizens. Forty-seven percent of a sample of 17-year-olds, on the verge of becoming eligible voters, did not know the simple fact, according to a recent survey, that each state elects two United States senators. More than half of the 17-year-olds and more than three-fourths of the 13-year-olds in the survey could not explain the significance of the fifth amendment protection against self-incrimination. One out of every eight 17-year-olds believed that the president does not have to obey the law, and one out of every two students at both ages believe that the president appoints members of Congress. Half the 13-year-olds thought that the law forbids anyone to start a new political party. Hardly any of the students in either group could explain what steps the Constitution entitles Congress to take in order to stop the president from fighting a war without congressional approval. If an educated electorate is the best defense against arbitrary government, the survival of political freedom appears uncertain at best. Large numbers of Americans now believe that the Constitution sanctions arbitrary executive power, and recent political history, with its steady growth of presidential power, can only have reinforced such an assumption. -- From The Culture of Narcissism, Chapter VI, “Schooling and the New Illiteracy”, by Christopher Lasch, 1979. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 12:45 PM 6STRINGJOKER Quote: Originally posted by second: What was your point, Signym? That my parents should get jobs at Walmart so that I could say they are employed and their lives would instantly be more meaningful because of the importance of work to their spiritual well-being? (And pushing labor participation rate higher than 60% on the statistics?) https://qz.com/1013664 I'm kind of wondering what you're point is. "Labor Participation" and "Unemployment" are two very different things and are really not even comparable in any meaningful way. Labor participation in the 50's would have been much lower because a lot of women still didn't go to work for a living and took care of the house and the kids. Using that number to compare to today's workplace is not a good indicator of anything, except for maybe how little we get paid that most families MUST have two parents working today just to make ends meet. Your parents are not part of the unemployment number. Neither am I. Neither are millions of Americans who have "given up" looking for work. Neither are the tens of millions of Americans working minimum wage part time jobs. I just looked up the recent unemployment numbers and sure as shit I'm now seeing them as low as the mid 4% like you said. What a load of horseshit. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, July 21, 2017 9:27 PM AURAPTOR America loves a winner! NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 27, 2017 4:38 AM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted by AURaptor: Do you know how old that is? NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 27, 2017 8:51 AM AURAPTOR America loves a winner! Quote: Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: Do you know how old that is? Does it matter ? It sums up my views accurately. But no, I don't. James Woods High has been a running gag on Family Guy for some time now, I believe. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, April 28, 2021 3:40 PM JAYNEZTOWN movie time?! https://www.ranker.com/list/james-woods-movies-and-films-and-filmograp hy/ranker-film NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, April 28, 2021 5:14 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Diggstown, baby. -------------------------------------------------- Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, September 5, 2024 4:29 PM JAYNEZTOWN Harvard, Columbia, Penn top list of worst universities for free speech: student survey https://www.thecollegefix.com/harvard-columbia-penn-top-list-of-worst- universities-for-free-speech-student-survey/ NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, September 25, 2024 3:58 PM JAYNEZTOWN FEC ‘Fast-Tracks’ George Soros Deal To Take Over 200+ Radio Stations Before Election https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/fec-fast-tracks-george-soros-deal-to-take-o ver-200-radio-stations-before-election/ NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, September 25, 2024 4:31 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: FEC ‘Fast-Tracks’ George Soros Deal To Take Over 200+ Radio Stations Before Election https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/fec-fast-tracks-george-soros-deal-to-take-o ver-200-radio-stations-before-election/ . Oh, but of course. Long- range forecast for North America: More gaslighting than ever. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Americans support America NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, January 8, 2025 7:22 PM JAYNEZTOWN DEI SJW? Priorities stated in her bio below. https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1876939401181217220 Refilling the water reservoirs would have been a welcome priority, too, but I guess she had too much on her plate promoting diversity. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, January 12, 2025 7:59 PM JAYNEZTOWN LA residents are curious where all the tax money has gone? Well, Mayor Karen Bass raised her salary 72% to $750k/yr, just took her 2nd trip to Ghana during the fire & isn’t flying economy, & she increased funding for illegals & sanctuary support while defunding fire & police. https://x.com/VicRioli/status/1878420355276026239 This vulture is literally feeding off the misery of thousands of Californians, whose suffering he caused with his ineptitude. https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1878593876015055302 NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, January 12, 2025 8:57 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: LA residents are curious where all the tax money has gone? Well, Mayor Karen Bass raised her salary 72% to $750k/yr, just took her 2nd trip to Ghana during the fire & isn’t flying economy, & she increased funding for illegals & sanctuary support while defunding fire & police. https://x.com/VicRioli/status/1878420355276026239 This vulture is literally feeding off the misery of thousands of Californians, whose suffering he caused with his ineptitude. https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1878593876015055302 She's just the big-time version of Dalton's Super Mayor and fellow DEI Democrat Tiffany Henyard. Right now, since SOMEHOW NOBODY HAS YET TO ARREST HER, Tiffany is watching the TV and thinking "Thank you god for that dumb bitch. Everybody forgot about what I done now." The Sassy Black Lady is a role for Madea movies. They do not belong in any position of power anywhere in the public or private sector. 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Quote:Originally posted by Brenda: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Continued from here... http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=58882&p=1 Carry on!THG | Log off ABOUTMAPCHATEVENTSFIRECASTSBLOGSCOMMUNITYBLUE SUN ROOMPROFILEHOME Skip Navigation LinksHOME >> COMMUNITY >> REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS >> JAMES WOODS: ‘FREE SPEECH IS DEAD IN LIBERAL AMERICA’ REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS James Woods: ‘Free Speech Is Dead in Liberal America’ POSTED BY: JAYNEZTOWN UPDATED: Tuesday, December 16, 2025 13:14 SHORT URL: VIEWED: 4206 PAGE 1 of 1 PREV PAGE1NEXT PAGE Monday, July 10, 2017 12:39 PM JAYNEZTOWN ...did he really go rightwing...or has mainstream media drifted so far-Left? https://www.lifezette.com/popzette/james-woods-free-speech-dead-libera l-america/ conservative actor turns down most of the interviews he's offered these days NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 18, 2017 8:52 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: ...did he really go rightwing...or has mainstream media drifted so far-Left? https://www.lifezette.com/popzette/james-woods-free-speech-dead-libera l-america/ conservative actor turns down most of the interviews he's offered these days Isn't that a couple decades old, what James said back then? With validity increasing each day. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 18, 2017 10:54 PM RIVERLOVE Long live the new flesh! NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 12:32 AM WISHIMAY Left...Right...all roads lead to CircleJerk... NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 12:18 PM 6STRINGJOKER Quote: Originally posted by Wishimay: Left...Right...all roads lead to CircleJerk... LOL. Wishy, you made me laugh! That's a really good point though. I started imagining people just walking in circles aimlessly. It would probably be more appropriate to label the republicans Clockwise, and the democrats Counter-Clockwise. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 12:45 PM WISHIMAY Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: It would probably be more appropriate to label the republicans Clockwise OK, but walking backwards with blinders on and their thumbs up their asses. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 12:45 PM WISHIMAY (double post) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 2:23 PM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: LOL. Wishy, you made me laugh! That's a really good point though. I started imagining people just walking in circles aimlessly. It would probably be more appropriate to label the republicans Clockwise, and the democrats Counter-Clockwise. Walk around in Circles The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 3:26 PM 6STRINGJOKER Quote: Originally posted by Wishimay: Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: It would probably be more appropriate to label the republicans Clockwise OK, but walking backwards with blinders on and their thumbs up their asses. It doesn't matter how somebody gets back to the beginning over and over and over and over again. I think the problem is that all politicians are garbage people. What is somebody to do when the people who run the show are the worst humanity has to offer? NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 5:05 PM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: I think the problem is that all politicians are garbage people. What is somebody to do when the people who run the show are the worst humanity has to offer? What you are really doing is complaining that voters are some of the worse humanity has to offer. From my experience in Texas, the elected politicians' values are indistinguishable from their voters' values. That might not be true where you live and that might not be obvious unless you lived in Texas and it still might not be obvious even if you did live here but you don't pay enough attention to people's real lives as they live them and how they voted. People I don't admire (call them the chickens) turn out to vote for politicians I don't admire (call them the eggs laid by the chickens). A certain kind of politician follows inevitably from a certain kind of voter. That sounds too abstract until I give an example: I don't share the values of Pres George Bush or Sen Ted Cruz (you have heard of them, right?) but the people who voted for them do share. If you don't like those two famous Texas politicians you won't like the people who voted for them, once you really get to know them. Even the people who voted for Bush don't like Bush as much as they once did, but not because their values started to differ from Bush's. They don't like Bush because of the Iraq War. They truly loved that war up until the point when Bush was losing, then Texans slowly turned on him. But losing was inevitable because Bush went to war in the same fashion as the Texans who voted for him go about their daily lives: over confident, half assed, and learning very slowly from mistakes. If you aren't favorably impressed with politicians, you should see the unimpressive people who voted for them. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 5:34 PM REAVERFAN He's always been a reichwing nutjob. Nothing new to see here, folks. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 6:48 PM 6STRINGJOKER I think you're over-generalizing people and not giving them enough credit Second. I didn't like Obama at all, and I thought he was a terrible president. I like a lot of the people that I know who voted for him though. Well... as much as I actually "like" people. So no, I was not at all saying that I don't like voters. That would mean that I only like people that don't vote. I'm sure there are a lot of lousy people who don't pay attention to politics at all. I'm sure there are a lot of wonderful people too. I think, unlike you, I'm able to admit that there are plenty of shitty people on both sides and just because I don't see eye to eye with somebody on political ideas doesn't mean I think they're a shitty person. The problem is that the money and the power that comes with politics draws the shittiest people like moths to a flame. Politicians are garbage people. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 7:11 PM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: I think you're over-generalizing people and not giving them enough credit Second. . . . Politicians are garbage people. From the president of the United States, asked about the unemployment rate: When we got those great reports, I kept saying—you know, those numbers were 4.2, 4.3—I said, for a long time, they don’t matter. But now I accept those numbers very proudly. I say they do matter. https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/887779487781441538 This is laughable, but here’s the thing: I know that his Texan supporters love this kind of attitude. After all, that’s how they treat information. (Not you, of course. I mean other people.) If it supports their opinion, they trumpet it. If it doesn’t, they dismiss it. That’s how "normal" people who want to win arguments deploy facts and figures, and Trump’s fans view him as a "normal" guy who wants to win, not some truth-seeking academic egghead. Which came first? Chicken or egg? Bottom line: Donald Trump may be an asshole, but he’s their asshole. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 9:10 PM 6STRINGJOKER I don't want to take things out of context, so I'd have to see the whole press conference... or at least the question that was asked of him before he said it. That being said, on face value as it is presented with no context, that is a laughably stupid thing to say. He wasn't right by saying those numbers "didn't matter" before either. Maybe he meant that they were bullshit numbers, which they were. They're not even close to describing the actual jobs situation. If he is indeed all of the sudden saying that they are legitimate now that he's president that's bullshit. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 10:39 PM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: I don't want to take things out of context, so I'd have to see the whole press conference... or at least the question that was asked of him before he said it. . . . If he is indeed all of the sudden saying that they are legitimate now that he's president that's bullshit. Trump has done this same thing before today. It made no difference to his followers in the past. Today will make no difference to his followers in the future. His followers only believe what supports their opinions, which is why Trump only believes facts that support his opinions. Or is it the other way around? Chicken/Egg. Which came first? Followers believing or Trump believing? Trump's tone on the matter began to change shortly after he took office in January. In March, after a sizable gain in employment in February, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the president was pleased with the new numbers. “I talked to the president prior to this, and he said to quote him very clearly: 'They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now,' " Spicer said. Trump also took issue in the past with the unemployment rate, arguing that it was much higher than reported under former President Obama. "The unemployment rate is probably 20 percent, but I will tell you, you have some great economists that will tell you it's at 30, 32,” he said in September 2015. “And the highest I've heard so far is 42 percent." http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/342796-trump-monthly-jobs-r eports-do-matter The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 3:04 AM 6STRINGJOKER This isn't behavior exclusive to Republicans or supporters of Trump. Barry was a terrible president who contradicted himself constantly over 8 years, yet in the eyes of many he could do no wrong. (I'm being diplomatic here and not outright saying he lied constantly). Trump was right about the employment numbers during Obama, although he may have been exaggerating them a tad. I never heard that 42% number, but 20% is probably pretty accurate, especially if you include under-employment which in many cases is just as bad. I take great issue with him staying that the numbers are correct now though, if that is what he is saying. The 4% numbers are new to me though. My thoughts without seeing the entire press conference is that this was not a discussion about unemployment in America, but in one of the states that is doing better than average if they're throwing around numbers so low. Would not surprise me if the MSM took footage of him talking about unemployment in a particular area or state and said he was talking about the numbers in the entire country. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 10:15 AM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: The 4% numbers are new to me though. My thoughts without seeing the entire press conference is that this was not a discussion about unemployment in America, but in one of the states that is doing better than average if they're throwing around numbers so low. Would not surprise me if the MSM took footage of him talking about unemployment in a particular area or state and said he was talking about the numbers in the entire country. I know the video of the entire Q&A must be out there somewhere, yet I can't find the goddamn thing, but you can be certain that for years Trump attacked the Bureau of Labor Statistics' reports on the US labor market, except now that he is in charge he's singing a different tune. The Business Insider said that the 4.2% - 4.3% numbers Trump uses are almost the same as the actual 4.4% from the June 2017 Bureau of Labor Statistic's report of unemployment for the entire country. That is not just for one state. It is the whole country, including where you are. Some states, and especially some counties, will do far worse than 4.4%. It all averages to 4.4%. www.bls.gov/cps/ www.businessinsider.com/trump-accepts-jobs-report-unemployment-number- after-calling-hoax-2017-7 The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 10:20 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: I know the video of the entire Q&A must be out there somewhere, yet I can't find the goddamn thing, but you can be certain that for years Trump attacked the Bureau of Labor Statistics' reports on the US labor market, except now that he is in charge he's singing a different tune.- SECOND Of course he is. But that doesn't change the fact that more people are unemployed than ever before. EMPLOYED VERSUS OVERALL POPULATION- TIME- 01/07-06/17 RANGE- 58-64% BLS: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000 And that's using the EXTREMELY generous BLS definition of "employed", which counts you as "employed" if you got paid for ONE HOUR that month. If anyone were to graph a population-wide "total number of hours worked" versus the total work-age population, I'd bet the numbers would look even crappier. ----------- "Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck. I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 11:10 AM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: But that doesn't change the fact that more people are unemployed than ever before. You're full of shit, Signym. Or more politely: On the same graph at BLS that you posted, go back to 1950 when America was at Trump’s Peak of Greatness Again. Only 55% of people were working, less than 2017’s 60%. You will have to click a link to get the oldest data, including 1950. https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000 What was your point, Signym? That my parents should get jobs at Walmart so that I could say they are employed and their lives would instantly be more meaningful because of the importance of work to their spiritual well-being? (And pushing labor participation rate higher than 60% on the statistics?) My point would be that if you don’t have a job where you are living, move to where the jobs are. Don’t be ignorant and expect Trump to bring the jobs to you or other impractical people who are unemployed because they won’t understand that they will have to move or else live and die without money where they are. Why did the factory cross the road? To get away from Donald Trump’s kiss of death. https://qz.com/1013664 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 11:17 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: move to where the jobs are. - SECOND SECOND, stuck with head in the sand. Where is THAT, SECOND? Where should people move? Why not just say "Let them eat cake?" Quote: On the same graph at BLS that you posted, go back to 1950 when America was at Trump’s Peak of Greatness Again. Only 55% of people were working, less than 2017’s 60%. I shouldn't have to tell you ... but apparently I do ... that in 1950, you could actually support a family on one wage. Because back in our days of greatness, the tax rate on the rich was 90%, and American industry was preeminent in a world destroyed by war. The very best statistic for how "the middle class" is doing would be to multiply the total number of hours worked by the weighted average wage, add any "capital gains" that family might accrue, and then divide that by the total economy. Yanno, like this Not a good stat for the Dems either. ----------- "Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck. I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 11:27 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Nine New Findings About Inequality in the United States By JEREMY ASHKENAS DEC. 16, 2016 In a paper published last week, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman expand their earlier work, examining how taxes and government spending affect income inequality. 1) The bottom half of the country has been shut out from income growth for 40 years. The average pretax earnings of an American in the bottom 50 percent by income was $16,197 in 2014, a nearly invisible 2.6 percent gain over 40 years. Over the same period, the top 10 percent of Americans saw their pretax incomes grow by 231 percent. 2) Government spending has helped lift lower incomes, but only a little. The study subtracts taxes, and then adds back the benefits of both direct (Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps) and indirect (infrastructure, defense, education) government spending to arrive at an after-tax measure of income. By comparing pretax income to income after accounting for taxes and government spending, we can see a clearer picture of how government policy has affected income inequality in the United States. 3 Increased health care spending on the elderly consumes most of the gains. The effects of government assistance vary widely with age, especially within the lower half of incomes. Younger adults between 20 and 45 years old have seen their after-tax incomes flatline. But over the same period, seniors in the bottom half have seen their after-tax incomes grow by over 70 percent. The bulk of that gain represents increased health care spending through Medicare. 4) The top 1% and the bottom 50% have swapped their relative shares of the national income. Forty years ago, the top 1 percent of earners took home 10.5 percent of the total national income, and the bottom half earned 20 percent of it. By 2014, those percentages effectively flipped, with the top 1 percent earning a 20 percent share and the bottom half dropping to 12.5 percent. 5) Taxes in the United States are much less progressive than they used to be. Between the end of World War II and the 1980s, the gap between effective tax rates on the rich and the poor narrowed as a result of reductions in corporate and estate taxes on the upper class, and increases in payroll taxes on the working class. In 2013, the Obama administration sharply reversed the trend of declining top tax rates by allowing the 2001 Bush tax cuts to expire and introducing new surtaxes to fund the Affordable Care Act. 6) More women in the work force also helped mitigate rising inequality. Since the 1960s, more American women have joined the work force and their pay has increased, counteracting measures of inequality. In 1964, women made up only 38 percent of the work force; they are now nearly half of it. 7)but there’s still a heavy glass ceiling. Despite these gains, as you look farther up the income ladder, you find fewer and fewer women. Women are 48 percent of the American work force, but only one in 10 of the top 0.1 percent of earners. 8) Since 1999, any upper-middle-class income growth has been after-tax. Even for the upper-middle-class group, which the authors define as adults with incomes between the bottom half and the top 10 percent of Americans, pretax incomes haven’t grown over the past 15 years. Only rising public spending on benefits like health care has allowed upper-middle-class incomes to grow. 9) Taxes and spending helped blunt the effects of inequality and income stagnation. Over the past 50 years, the total share of national income that flows back to individuals through the government has grown. And that income has increasingly been transferred to the bottom 90 percent of Americans, helping to slightly slow the rapidly growing income inequality in the United States. Despite this, the study argues that more redistribution won’t fix the problem. Because the labor income of the bottom 50 percent of Americans has weakened so drastically, Mr. Piketty, Mr. Saez and Mr. Zucman write, “there are clear limits to what redistributive policies can achieve.” They argue that future policy should focus more on raising the primary income of the American working class. Possibilities include improving education and job training, equalizing distribution of human and financial capital, and increasing labor bargaining power, combined with a return to steeply progressive taxation. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/16/business/economy/nine-n ew-findings-about-income-inequality-piketty.html Nowhere in there does it say anything about Democrats changing the trajectory. You can argue all you want, SECOND ... and I know you will ... but that doesn't change the reality of the situation. It's that willful blindness of the DNC against the real problems that real people face, and towards favoring their wealthy sponsors that has cost the DNC votes. Not "Russia". Is Trump the answer? No, Trump was a protest vote. And now, back to our regularly scheduled discussion about James Woods ... ----------- "Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck. I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 12:33 PM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Nowhere in there does it say anything about Democrats changing the trajectory. You can argue all you want, SECOND ... and I know you will ... but that doesn't change the reality of the situation. It's that willful blindness of the DNC against the real problems that real people face, and towards favoring their wealthy sponsors that has cost the DNC votes. Not "Russia". Is Trump the answer? No, Trump was a protest vote. And now, back to our regularly scheduled discussion about James Woods ... Throughout history, plagues and wars have left greater equality in their wake. Can we get there again without violence? No is the short answer. Yes is the long answer, but American voters will need to act less in ignorance. The chances of that are close to zero when baby-boomers are dumb enough to keep electing Republicans to all offices. https://aeon.co/essays/are-plagues-and-wars-the-only-ways-to-reduce-in equality Law 4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake. https://qz.com/967554 Back when they were teens, the baby-boomers were dummies. They stayed stupid and we now live in the world full of problems those dumb-asses created: Quote: Americans are becoming increasingly ignorant about their own rights as citizens. Forty-seven percent of a sample of 17-year-olds, on the verge of becoming eligible voters, did not know the simple fact, according to a recent survey, that each state elects two United States senators. More than half of the 17-year-olds and more than three-fourths of the 13-year-olds in the survey could not explain the significance of the fifth amendment protection against self-incrimination. One out of every eight 17-year-olds believed that the president does not have to obey the law, and one out of every two students at both ages believe that the president appoints members of Congress. Half the 13-year-olds thought that the law forbids anyone to start a new political party. Hardly any of the students in either group could explain what steps the Constitution entitles Congress to take in order to stop the president from fighting a war without congressional approval. If an educated electorate is the best defense against arbitrary government, the survival of political freedom appears uncertain at best. Large numbers of Americans now believe that the Constitution sanctions arbitrary executive power, and recent political history, with its steady growth of presidential power, can only have reinforced such an assumption. -- From The Culture of Narcissism, Chapter VI, “Schooling and the New Illiteracy”, by Christopher Lasch, 1979. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 12:45 PM 6STRINGJOKER Quote: Originally posted by second: What was your point, Signym? That my parents should get jobs at Walmart so that I could say they are employed and their lives would instantly be more meaningful because of the importance of work to their spiritual well-being? (And pushing labor participation rate higher than 60% on the statistics?) https://qz.com/1013664 I'm kind of wondering what you're point is. "Labor Participation" and "Unemployment" are two very different things and are really not even comparable in any meaningful way. Labor participation in the 50's would have been much lower because a lot of women still didn't go to work for a living and took care of the house and the kids. Using that number to compare to today's workplace is not a good indicator of anything, except for maybe how little we get paid that most families MUST have two parents working today just to make ends meet. Your parents are not part of the unemployment number. Neither am I. Neither are millions of Americans who have "given up" looking for work. Neither are the tens of millions of Americans working minimum wage part time jobs. I just looked up the recent unemployment numbers and sure as shit I'm now seeing them as low as the mid 4% like you said. What a load of horseshit. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, July 21, 2017 9:27 PM AURAPTOR America loves a winner! NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 27, 2017 4:38 AM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted by AURaptor: Do you know how old that is? NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 27, 2017 8:51 AM AURAPTOR America loves a winner! Quote: Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: Do you know how old that is? Does it matter ? It sums up my views accurately. But no, I don't. James Woods High has been a running gag on Family Guy for some time now, I believe. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, April 28, 2021 3:40 PM JAYNEZTOWN movie time?! https://www.ranker.com/list/james-woods-movies-and-films-and-filmograp hy/ranker-film NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, April 28, 2021 5:14 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Diggstown, baby. -------------------------------------------------- Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, September 5, 2024 4:29 PM JAYNEZTOWN Harvard, Columbia, Penn top list of worst universities for free speech: student survey https://www.thecollegefix.com/harvard-columbia-penn-top-list-of-worst- universities-for-free-speech-student-survey/ NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, September 25, 2024 3:58 PM JAYNEZTOWN FEC ‘Fast-Tracks’ George Soros Deal To Take Over 200+ Radio Stations Before Election https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/fec-fast-tracks-george-soros-deal-to-take-o ver-200-radio-stations-before-election/ NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, September 25, 2024 4:31 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: FEC ‘Fast-Tracks’ George Soros Deal To Take Over 200+ Radio Stations Before Election https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/fec-fast-tracks-george-soros-deal-to-take-o ver-200-radio-stations-before-election/ . Oh, but of course. Long- range forecast for North America: More gaslighting than ever. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Americans support America NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, January 8, 2025 7:22 PM JAYNEZTOWN DEI SJW? Priorities stated in her bio below. https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1876939401181217220 Refilling the water reservoirs would have been a welcome priority, too, but I guess she had too much on her plate promoting diversity. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, January 12, 2025 7:59 PM JAYNEZTOWN LA residents are curious where all the tax money has gone? Well, Mayor Karen Bass raised her salary 72% to $750k/yr, just took her 2nd trip to Ghana during the fire & isn’t flying economy, & she increased funding for illegals & sanctuary support while defunding fire & police. https://x.com/VicRioli/status/1878420355276026239 This vulture is literally feeding off the misery of thousands of Californians, whose suffering he caused with his ineptitude. https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1878593876015055302 NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, January 12, 2025 8:57 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: LA residents are curious where all the tax money has gone? Well, Mayor Karen Bass raised her salary 72% to $750k/yr, just took her 2nd trip to Ghana during the fire & isn’t flying economy, & she increased funding for illegals & sanctuary support while defunding fire & police. https://x.com/VicRioli/status/1878420355276026239 This vulture is literally feeding off the misery of thousands of Californians, whose suffering he caused with his ineptitude. https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1878593876015055302 She's just the big-time version of Dalton's Super Mayor and fellow DEI Democrat Tiffany Henyard. Right now, since SOMEHOW NOBODY HAS YET TO ARREST HER, Tiffany is watching the TV and thinking "Thank you god for that dumb bitch. Everybody forgot about what I done now." The Sassy Black Lady is a role for Madea movies. They do not belong in any position of power anywhere in the public or private sector. 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Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Continued from here... http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=58882&p=1 Carry on!THG | Log off ABOUTMAPCHATEVENTSFIRECASTSBLOGSCOMMUNITYBLUE SUN ROOMPROFILEHOME Skip Navigation LinksHOME >> COMMUNITY >> REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS >> JAMES WOODS: ‘FREE SPEECH IS DEAD IN LIBERAL AMERICA’ REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS James Woods: ‘Free Speech Is Dead in Liberal America’ POSTED BY: JAYNEZTOWN UPDATED: Tuesday, December 16, 2025 13:14 SHORT URL: VIEWED: 4206 PAGE 1 of 1 PREV PAGE1NEXT PAGE Monday, July 10, 2017 12:39 PM JAYNEZTOWN ...did he really go rightwing...or has mainstream media drifted so far-Left? https://www.lifezette.com/popzette/james-woods-free-speech-dead-libera l-america/ conservative actor turns down most of the interviews he's offered these days NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 18, 2017 8:52 PM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: ...did he really go rightwing...or has mainstream media drifted so far-Left? https://www.lifezette.com/popzette/james-woods-free-speech-dead-libera l-america/ conservative actor turns down most of the interviews he's offered these days Isn't that a couple decades old, what James said back then? With validity increasing each day. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Tuesday, July 18, 2017 10:54 PM RIVERLOVE Long live the new flesh! NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 12:32 AM WISHIMAY Left...Right...all roads lead to CircleJerk... NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 12:18 PM 6STRINGJOKER Quote: Originally posted by Wishimay: Left...Right...all roads lead to CircleJerk... LOL. Wishy, you made me laugh! That's a really good point though. I started imagining people just walking in circles aimlessly. It would probably be more appropriate to label the republicans Clockwise, and the democrats Counter-Clockwise. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 12:45 PM WISHIMAY Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: It would probably be more appropriate to label the republicans Clockwise OK, but walking backwards with blinders on and their thumbs up their asses. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 12:45 PM WISHIMAY (double post) NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 2:23 PM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: LOL. Wishy, you made me laugh! That's a really good point though. I started imagining people just walking in circles aimlessly. It would probably be more appropriate to label the republicans Clockwise, and the democrats Counter-Clockwise. Walk around in Circles The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 3:26 PM 6STRINGJOKER Quote: Originally posted by Wishimay: Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: It would probably be more appropriate to label the republicans Clockwise OK, but walking backwards with blinders on and their thumbs up their asses. It doesn't matter how somebody gets back to the beginning over and over and over and over again. I think the problem is that all politicians are garbage people. What is somebody to do when the people who run the show are the worst humanity has to offer? NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 5:05 PM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: I think the problem is that all politicians are garbage people. What is somebody to do when the people who run the show are the worst humanity has to offer? What you are really doing is complaining that voters are some of the worse humanity has to offer. From my experience in Texas, the elected politicians' values are indistinguishable from their voters' values. That might not be true where you live and that might not be obvious unless you lived in Texas and it still might not be obvious even if you did live here but you don't pay enough attention to people's real lives as they live them and how they voted. People I don't admire (call them the chickens) turn out to vote for politicians I don't admire (call them the eggs laid by the chickens). A certain kind of politician follows inevitably from a certain kind of voter. That sounds too abstract until I give an example: I don't share the values of Pres George Bush or Sen Ted Cruz (you have heard of them, right?) but the people who voted for them do share. If you don't like those two famous Texas politicians you won't like the people who voted for them, once you really get to know them. Even the people who voted for Bush don't like Bush as much as they once did, but not because their values started to differ from Bush's. They don't like Bush because of the Iraq War. They truly loved that war up until the point when Bush was losing, then Texans slowly turned on him. But losing was inevitable because Bush went to war in the same fashion as the Texans who voted for him go about their daily lives: over confident, half assed, and learning very slowly from mistakes. If you aren't favorably impressed with politicians, you should see the unimpressive people who voted for them. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 5:34 PM REAVERFAN He's always been a reichwing nutjob. Nothing new to see here, folks. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 6:48 PM 6STRINGJOKER I think you're over-generalizing people and not giving them enough credit Second. I didn't like Obama at all, and I thought he was a terrible president. I like a lot of the people that I know who voted for him though. Well... as much as I actually "like" people. So no, I was not at all saying that I don't like voters. That would mean that I only like people that don't vote. I'm sure there are a lot of lousy people who don't pay attention to politics at all. I'm sure there are a lot of wonderful people too. I think, unlike you, I'm able to admit that there are plenty of shitty people on both sides and just because I don't see eye to eye with somebody on political ideas doesn't mean I think they're a shitty person. The problem is that the money and the power that comes with politics draws the shittiest people like moths to a flame. Politicians are garbage people. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 7:11 PM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: I think you're over-generalizing people and not giving them enough credit Second. . . . Politicians are garbage people. From the president of the United States, asked about the unemployment rate: When we got those great reports, I kept saying—you know, those numbers were 4.2, 4.3—I said, for a long time, they don’t matter. But now I accept those numbers very proudly. I say they do matter. https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/887779487781441538 This is laughable, but here’s the thing: I know that his Texan supporters love this kind of attitude. After all, that’s how they treat information. (Not you, of course. I mean other people.) If it supports their opinion, they trumpet it. If it doesn’t, they dismiss it. That’s how "normal" people who want to win arguments deploy facts and figures, and Trump’s fans view him as a "normal" guy who wants to win, not some truth-seeking academic egghead. Which came first? Chicken or egg? Bottom line: Donald Trump may be an asshole, but he’s their asshole. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 9:10 PM 6STRINGJOKER I don't want to take things out of context, so I'd have to see the whole press conference... or at least the question that was asked of him before he said it. That being said, on face value as it is presented with no context, that is a laughably stupid thing to say. He wasn't right by saying those numbers "didn't matter" before either. Maybe he meant that they were bullshit numbers, which they were. They're not even close to describing the actual jobs situation. If he is indeed all of the sudden saying that they are legitimate now that he's president that's bullshit. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, July 19, 2017 10:39 PM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: I don't want to take things out of context, so I'd have to see the whole press conference... or at least the question that was asked of him before he said it. . . . If he is indeed all of the sudden saying that they are legitimate now that he's president that's bullshit. Trump has done this same thing before today. It made no difference to his followers in the past. Today will make no difference to his followers in the future. His followers only believe what supports their opinions, which is why Trump only believes facts that support his opinions. Or is it the other way around? Chicken/Egg. Which came first? Followers believing or Trump believing? Trump's tone on the matter began to change shortly after he took office in January. In March, after a sizable gain in employment in February, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the president was pleased with the new numbers. “I talked to the president prior to this, and he said to quote him very clearly: 'They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now,' " Spicer said. Trump also took issue in the past with the unemployment rate, arguing that it was much higher than reported under former President Obama. "The unemployment rate is probably 20 percent, but I will tell you, you have some great economists that will tell you it's at 30, 32,” he said in September 2015. “And the highest I've heard so far is 42 percent." http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/342796-trump-monthly-jobs-r eports-do-matter The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 3:04 AM 6STRINGJOKER This isn't behavior exclusive to Republicans or supporters of Trump. Barry was a terrible president who contradicted himself constantly over 8 years, yet in the eyes of many he could do no wrong. (I'm being diplomatic here and not outright saying he lied constantly). Trump was right about the employment numbers during Obama, although he may have been exaggerating them a tad. I never heard that 42% number, but 20% is probably pretty accurate, especially if you include under-employment which in many cases is just as bad. I take great issue with him staying that the numbers are correct now though, if that is what he is saying. The 4% numbers are new to me though. My thoughts without seeing the entire press conference is that this was not a discussion about unemployment in America, but in one of the states that is doing better than average if they're throwing around numbers so low. Would not surprise me if the MSM took footage of him talking about unemployment in a particular area or state and said he was talking about the numbers in the entire country. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 10:15 AM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by 6stringJoker: The 4% numbers are new to me though. My thoughts without seeing the entire press conference is that this was not a discussion about unemployment in America, but in one of the states that is doing better than average if they're throwing around numbers so low. Would not surprise me if the MSM took footage of him talking about unemployment in a particular area or state and said he was talking about the numbers in the entire country. I know the video of the entire Q&A must be out there somewhere, yet I can't find the goddamn thing, but you can be certain that for years Trump attacked the Bureau of Labor Statistics' reports on the US labor market, except now that he is in charge he's singing a different tune. The Business Insider said that the 4.2% - 4.3% numbers Trump uses are almost the same as the actual 4.4% from the June 2017 Bureau of Labor Statistic's report of unemployment for the entire country. That is not just for one state. It is the whole country, including where you are. Some states, and especially some counties, will do far worse than 4.4%. It all averages to 4.4%. www.bls.gov/cps/ www.businessinsider.com/trump-accepts-jobs-report-unemployment-number- after-calling-hoax-2017-7 The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 10:20 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: I know the video of the entire Q&A must be out there somewhere, yet I can't find the goddamn thing, but you can be certain that for years Trump attacked the Bureau of Labor Statistics' reports on the US labor market, except now that he is in charge he's singing a different tune.- SECOND Of course he is. But that doesn't change the fact that more people are unemployed than ever before. EMPLOYED VERSUS OVERALL POPULATION- TIME- 01/07-06/17 RANGE- 58-64% BLS: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000 And that's using the EXTREMELY generous BLS definition of "employed", which counts you as "employed" if you got paid for ONE HOUR that month. If anyone were to graph a population-wide "total number of hours worked" versus the total work-age population, I'd bet the numbers would look even crappier. ----------- "Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck. I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 11:10 AM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: But that doesn't change the fact that more people are unemployed than ever before. You're full of shit, Signym. Or more politely: On the same graph at BLS that you posted, go back to 1950 when America was at Trump’s Peak of Greatness Again. Only 55% of people were working, less than 2017’s 60%. You will have to click a link to get the oldest data, including 1950. https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000 What was your point, Signym? That my parents should get jobs at Walmart so that I could say they are employed and their lives would instantly be more meaningful because of the importance of work to their spiritual well-being? (And pushing labor participation rate higher than 60% on the statistics?) My point would be that if you don’t have a job where you are living, move to where the jobs are. Don’t be ignorant and expect Trump to bring the jobs to you or other impractical people who are unemployed because they won’t understand that they will have to move or else live and die without money where they are. Why did the factory cross the road? To get away from Donald Trump’s kiss of death. https://qz.com/1013664 NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 11:17 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: move to where the jobs are. - SECOND SECOND, stuck with head in the sand. Where is THAT, SECOND? Where should people move? Why not just say "Let them eat cake?" Quote: On the same graph at BLS that you posted, go back to 1950 when America was at Trump’s Peak of Greatness Again. Only 55% of people were working, less than 2017’s 60%. I shouldn't have to tell you ... but apparently I do ... that in 1950, you could actually support a family on one wage. Because back in our days of greatness, the tax rate on the rich was 90%, and American industry was preeminent in a world destroyed by war. The very best statistic for how "the middle class" is doing would be to multiply the total number of hours worked by the weighted average wage, add any "capital gains" that family might accrue, and then divide that by the total economy. Yanno, like this Not a good stat for the Dems either. ----------- "Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck. I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 11:27 AM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Nine New Findings About Inequality in the United States By JEREMY ASHKENAS DEC. 16, 2016 In a paper published last week, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman expand their earlier work, examining how taxes and government spending affect income inequality. 1) The bottom half of the country has been shut out from income growth for 40 years. The average pretax earnings of an American in the bottom 50 percent by income was $16,197 in 2014, a nearly invisible 2.6 percent gain over 40 years. Over the same period, the top 10 percent of Americans saw their pretax incomes grow by 231 percent. 2) Government spending has helped lift lower incomes, but only a little. The study subtracts taxes, and then adds back the benefits of both direct (Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps) and indirect (infrastructure, defense, education) government spending to arrive at an after-tax measure of income. By comparing pretax income to income after accounting for taxes and government spending, we can see a clearer picture of how government policy has affected income inequality in the United States. 3 Increased health care spending on the elderly consumes most of the gains. The effects of government assistance vary widely with age, especially within the lower half of incomes. Younger adults between 20 and 45 years old have seen their after-tax incomes flatline. But over the same period, seniors in the bottom half have seen their after-tax incomes grow by over 70 percent. The bulk of that gain represents increased health care spending through Medicare. 4) The top 1% and the bottom 50% have swapped their relative shares of the national income. Forty years ago, the top 1 percent of earners took home 10.5 percent of the total national income, and the bottom half earned 20 percent of it. By 2014, those percentages effectively flipped, with the top 1 percent earning a 20 percent share and the bottom half dropping to 12.5 percent. 5) Taxes in the United States are much less progressive than they used to be. Between the end of World War II and the 1980s, the gap between effective tax rates on the rich and the poor narrowed as a result of reductions in corporate and estate taxes on the upper class, and increases in payroll taxes on the working class. In 2013, the Obama administration sharply reversed the trend of declining top tax rates by allowing the 2001 Bush tax cuts to expire and introducing new surtaxes to fund the Affordable Care Act. 6) More women in the work force also helped mitigate rising inequality. Since the 1960s, more American women have joined the work force and their pay has increased, counteracting measures of inequality. In 1964, women made up only 38 percent of the work force; they are now nearly half of it. 7)but there’s still a heavy glass ceiling. Despite these gains, as you look farther up the income ladder, you find fewer and fewer women. Women are 48 percent of the American work force, but only one in 10 of the top 0.1 percent of earners. 8) Since 1999, any upper-middle-class income growth has been after-tax. Even for the upper-middle-class group, which the authors define as adults with incomes between the bottom half and the top 10 percent of Americans, pretax incomes haven’t grown over the past 15 years. Only rising public spending on benefits like health care has allowed upper-middle-class incomes to grow. 9) Taxes and spending helped blunt the effects of inequality and income stagnation. Over the past 50 years, the total share of national income that flows back to individuals through the government has grown. And that income has increasingly been transferred to the bottom 90 percent of Americans, helping to slightly slow the rapidly growing income inequality in the United States. Despite this, the study argues that more redistribution won’t fix the problem. Because the labor income of the bottom 50 percent of Americans has weakened so drastically, Mr. Piketty, Mr. Saez and Mr. Zucman write, “there are clear limits to what redistributive policies can achieve.” They argue that future policy should focus more on raising the primary income of the American working class. Possibilities include improving education and job training, equalizing distribution of human and financial capital, and increasing labor bargaining power, combined with a return to steeply progressive taxation. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/16/business/economy/nine-n ew-findings-about-income-inequality-piketty.html Nowhere in there does it say anything about Democrats changing the trajectory. You can argue all you want, SECOND ... and I know you will ... but that doesn't change the reality of the situation. It's that willful blindness of the DNC against the real problems that real people face, and towards favoring their wealthy sponsors that has cost the DNC votes. Not "Russia". Is Trump the answer? No, Trump was a protest vote. And now, back to our regularly scheduled discussion about James Woods ... ----------- "Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck. I'll accept your apology any time, THUGR. But I know you're not man enough to give me one NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 12:33 PM SECOND The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: Nowhere in there does it say anything about Democrats changing the trajectory. You can argue all you want, SECOND ... and I know you will ... but that doesn't change the reality of the situation. It's that willful blindness of the DNC against the real problems that real people face, and towards favoring their wealthy sponsors that has cost the DNC votes. Not "Russia". Is Trump the answer? No, Trump was a protest vote. And now, back to our regularly scheduled discussion about James Woods ... Throughout history, plagues and wars have left greater equality in their wake. Can we get there again without violence? No is the short answer. Yes is the long answer, but American voters will need to act less in ignorance. The chances of that are close to zero when baby-boomers are dumb enough to keep electing Republicans to all offices. https://aeon.co/essays/are-plagues-and-wars-the-only-ways-to-reduce-in equality Law 4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake. https://qz.com/967554 Back when they were teens, the baby-boomers were dummies. They stayed stupid and we now live in the world full of problems those dumb-asses created: Quote: Americans are becoming increasingly ignorant about their own rights as citizens. Forty-seven percent of a sample of 17-year-olds, on the verge of becoming eligible voters, did not know the simple fact, according to a recent survey, that each state elects two United States senators. More than half of the 17-year-olds and more than three-fourths of the 13-year-olds in the survey could not explain the significance of the fifth amendment protection against self-incrimination. One out of every eight 17-year-olds believed that the president does not have to obey the law, and one out of every two students at both ages believe that the president appoints members of Congress. Half the 13-year-olds thought that the law forbids anyone to start a new political party. Hardly any of the students in either group could explain what steps the Constitution entitles Congress to take in order to stop the president from fighting a war without congressional approval. If an educated electorate is the best defense against arbitrary government, the survival of political freedom appears uncertain at best. Large numbers of Americans now believe that the Constitution sanctions arbitrary executive power, and recent political history, with its steady growth of presidential power, can only have reinforced such an assumption. -- From The Culture of Narcissism, Chapter VI, “Schooling and the New Illiteracy”, by Christopher Lasch, 1979. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 20, 2017 12:45 PM 6STRINGJOKER Quote: Originally posted by second: What was your point, Signym? That my parents should get jobs at Walmart so that I could say they are employed and their lives would instantly be more meaningful because of the importance of work to their spiritual well-being? (And pushing labor participation rate higher than 60% on the statistics?) https://qz.com/1013664 I'm kind of wondering what you're point is. "Labor Participation" and "Unemployment" are two very different things and are really not even comparable in any meaningful way. Labor participation in the 50's would have been much lower because a lot of women still didn't go to work for a living and took care of the house and the kids. Using that number to compare to today's workplace is not a good indicator of anything, except for maybe how little we get paid that most families MUST have two parents working today just to make ends meet. Your parents are not part of the unemployment number. Neither am I. Neither are millions of Americans who have "given up" looking for work. Neither are the tens of millions of Americans working minimum wage part time jobs. I just looked up the recent unemployment numbers and sure as shit I'm now seeing them as low as the mid 4% like you said. What a load of horseshit. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Friday, July 21, 2017 9:27 PM AURAPTOR America loves a winner! NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 27, 2017 4:38 AM JEWELSTAITEFAN Quote: Originally posted by AURaptor: Do you know how old that is? NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, July 27, 2017 8:51 AM AURAPTOR America loves a winner! Quote: Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN: Do you know how old that is? Does it matter ? It sums up my views accurately. But no, I don't. James Woods High has been a running gag on Family Guy for some time now, I believe. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, April 28, 2021 3:40 PM JAYNEZTOWN movie time?! https://www.ranker.com/list/james-woods-movies-and-films-and-filmograp hy/ranker-film NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, April 28, 2021 5:14 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Diggstown, baby. -------------------------------------------------- Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers. NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Thursday, September 5, 2024 4:29 PM JAYNEZTOWN Harvard, Columbia, Penn top list of worst universities for free speech: student survey https://www.thecollegefix.com/harvard-columbia-penn-top-list-of-worst- universities-for-free-speech-student-survey/ NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, September 25, 2024 3:58 PM JAYNEZTOWN FEC ‘Fast-Tracks’ George Soros Deal To Take Over 200+ Radio Stations Before Election https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/fec-fast-tracks-george-soros-deal-to-take-o ver-200-radio-stations-before-election/ NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, September 25, 2024 4:31 PM SIGNYM I believe in solving problems, not sharing them. Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: FEC ‘Fast-Tracks’ George Soros Deal To Take Over 200+ Radio Stations Before Election https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/fec-fast-tracks-george-soros-deal-to-take-o ver-200-radio-stations-before-election/ . Oh, but of course. Long- range forecast for North America: More gaslighting than ever. ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Americans support America NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Wednesday, January 8, 2025 7:22 PM JAYNEZTOWN DEI SJW? Priorities stated in her bio below. https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1876939401181217220 Refilling the water reservoirs would have been a welcome priority, too, but I guess she had too much on her plate promoting diversity. NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, January 12, 2025 7:59 PM JAYNEZTOWN LA residents are curious where all the tax money has gone? Well, Mayor Karen Bass raised her salary 72% to $750k/yr, just took her 2nd trip to Ghana during the fire & isn’t flying economy, & she increased funding for illegals & sanctuary support while defunding fire & police. https://x.com/VicRioli/status/1878420355276026239 This vulture is literally feeding off the misery of thousands of Californians, whose suffering he caused with his ineptitude. https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1878593876015055302 NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | TOP | HOME Sunday, January 12, 2025 8:57 PM 6IXSTRINGJACK Quote: Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: LA residents are curious where all the tax money has gone? Well, Mayor Karen Bass raised her salary 72% to $750k/yr, just took her 2nd trip to Ghana during the fire & isn’t flying economy, & she increased funding for illegals & sanctuary support while defunding fire & police. https://x.com/VicRioli/status/1878420355276026239 This vulture is literally feeding off the misery of thousands of Californians, whose suffering he caused with his ineptitude. https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1878593876015055302 She's just the big-time version of Dalton's Super Mayor and fellow DEI Democrat Tiffany Henyard. Right now, since SOMEHOW NOBODY HAS YET TO ARREST HER, Tiffany is watching the TV and thinking "Thank you god for that dumb bitch. Everybody forgot about what I done now." The Sassy Black Lady is a role for Madea movies. They do not belong in any position of power anywhere in the public or private sector. 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