OT - NO POLITICS We’re on to Thanksgiving
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lots of nuts out there nowadays.
That is terrifying. I have seen this type of thing on the news, video footage of it happening in Toronto. I am scared of what is happening in this world, as you said, too many angry people. That single act could change someone's life hugely.
Bocephus86
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I've never caught one of these on a Friday, first timer:
1. No, but I have done the opposite (sticking through a upcoming Bday/Xmas)
2. No. Will offer to buy food if it makes sense (IE, outside a dunkins)
3. Sports Hub simulcast, fan behind me in my office, faint traffic out on the street.
4. Non-believer/N/A
5. I pretended to have Covid to get out of a friend/family commitment. That enough? If not that than pretending to be better than I really was a few years ago to friends/family so they didn't worry (all good now, years ago).
1. No, but I have done the opposite (sticking through a upcoming Bday/Xmas)
2. No. Will offer to buy food if it makes sense (IE, outside a dunkins)
3. Sports Hub simulcast, fan behind me in my office, faint traffic out on the street.
4. Non-believer/N/A
5. I pretended to have Covid to get out of a friend/family commitment. That enough? If not that than pretending to be better than I really was a few years ago to friends/family so they didn't worry (all good now, years ago).
Bocephus86
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Forgive me for quoting./snipping this, but I have a very silly story that popped into my mind reading this, it has nothing more to do with your post than that.
Back in high school a few friends and I played hookie and went into the city. We spent most of that time indulging in a certain plant. As we emerged from our hiding spot near South Station, there was this random guy pushing someone on a wheel chair asking if we could take him the rest of the way (I forget where exactly). We obviously effectively freaked out, said no, and went on our way. Well one my friends started saying What if God was one of us? What if that guy in the chair was Jesus testing us? We have to do something! I don't even believe in God, nor did I then, but he had me going. We ended up going back to help but they were gone when we arrived.
In short, I'm either going to Hell because of that or we avoided getting robbed blind.
1.no
2.no. only once. true story. after a bruins game when i was younger, you needed a collared shirt to get into this club. i think it was called the Rack. i had a bruins jersey on and couldnt get in. so i gave this homeless dude 5 bucks for the collared shirt he was wearing.lol.
3.music in the background while im eating lunch
4.not really religious. dont even think about that stuff really.
5.nothing really signifigant. just alot of lies to make individuals not feel bad about themselves.
quietbruinfan
Salt and light
Friday five:
1. No
2. Yes, I live in a tough neighborhood with a lot of homeless and troubled people. However, a few of them recognize me and hit me up everytime I go for a walk, so I stopped giving to one person.
3. Conversations and sirens from my aforementioned neighborhood.
4. My Bible says He and I go with that. He is beyond race and sex though. The Chinese have a special, non-specific, singular pictogram/word for God.
5. That my health is good. How ya doing? Fine, I say. According to several scans during my cancer scare, I am fine, but I have not felt fine for sometime.
1. No
2. Yes, I live in a tough neighborhood with a lot of homeless and troubled people. However, a few of them recognize me and hit me up everytime I go for a walk, so I stopped giving to one person.
3. Conversations and sirens from my aforementioned neighborhood.
4. My Bible says He and I go with that. He is beyond race and sex though. The Chinese have a special, non-specific, singular pictogram/word for God.
5. That my health is good. How ya doing? Fine, I say. According to several scans during my cancer scare, I am fine, but I have not felt fine for sometime.
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The Bride is away for a girls scrapbooking weekend. Toilet got broke here.
Thankful for Amazon. Parts came in and I had it fixed in 5 minutes.
She’ll never know.
and no Dan, that isnt lying.
Thankful for Amazon. Parts came in and I had it fixed in 5 minutes.
She’ll never know.
and no Dan, that isnt lying.
No.
If someone who appears to be in need approaches me, I’ll give them a 5 or a 10. However… if I have food with me - on my way to or from work or the grocery store -I’ll offer them something to eat instead.
Matthew 25:40 ~ And the king answering, shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.
Motor vehicles in the distance. It’s quiet here.
I’m pretty sure that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit is Male.
I am also pretty sure that God does not have a “race.” And if He did, I would not care.
In the past I have signed my name on important documents as “Jed Clampett.” So often apparently, that I had been entered into “the system” as having an alias. For example:
rfournier103
DOB - XX/XX/XXXX
Address - XXXXXX
Known aliases - AKA: JED CLAMPETT.
This came up in a job interview once, and thankfully my interviewer was a fellow Westfield State Fighting Owl who had the means and authority to delete that from my record. I had no idea it was even in there! I’ve told that story here before. I suppose the biggest lie you can tell someone is that you’re actually someone else. I’ve told some whoppers in my day, but I’d say that’s the biggest.
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Wally is the best.
You will be fine because you care.
You can always come here for advice as there are many dads on this board!
When I got my first, the doctor asked what I did for a job. I told him and said it was boring but paid the bills...He said "I look up people's asses all day"
We are on the cusp of a new era on par with the discovery of the internet - maybe even on par with the discovery of electricity
b in vancouver
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Just ... ugh. My teenage daughters wander Vancouver and Toronto on their own and although I'm not always comfortable I trust them. I forget about this idiocy. 98% of my interactions are positive but then you get this shit.
p.s. 5 I wish my family blushed. Me, my kids, gal, siblings, parents, nephews, nieces, cousins, etc. Our lies are just part of the conversation.
Might be all the board games and cards.
Security guard killed in hospital shooting and responding trooper hailed as heroes
A security guard was killed and the suspected gunman is dead following a shooting at New Hampshire State Hospital in Concord, New Hampshire, state police said.
abcnews.go.com
Suspect dead.
It was a psychiatric hospital. I wonder if this was committed by a former patient or a family member?
Mini rant:
Although I feel good 10 days after the surgery I get tired very quickly. Take today for example. I got up, did my laps& exercises, ate breakfast and then did some work. I was up for maybe 2 1/2 hours. I was completely whipped as if I had been up all day. I went back to bed, only getting up long enough to eat lunch & dinner plus exercise.
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Although I feel good 10 days after the surgery I get tired very quickly. Take today for example. I got up, did my laps& exercises, ate breakfast and then did some work. I was up for maybe 2 1/2 hours. I was completely whipped as if I had been up all day. I went back to bed, only getting up long enough to eat lunch & dinner plus exercise.
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Anesthesia will do that to you. I had a 12 hour surgery once, it took me 6 months to stop feeling the after effects.
McGarnagle
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1. Never ran into that situation.
2. No, I'm very frugal and not really open to just giving away money. I should give back more somehow, but I've seen the homeless around here and to be honest, they're a problem and I can't just trust them or that the money will go to any good or help them get out of that situation in any way, so I don't give to panhandlers.
3. I hear Judge Judy on the TV
4. Per the Summa Theologiae, God cannot be subject to limiting categories like gender and race. But for tradition and consistency's sake use masculine pronouns when referring to him.
5. It was probably something about giving up drinking soda even though I haven't and won't, just to stop the nagging.
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