that's what my jw mother said.
folks, there are plenty of reasons not to watch how i met your mother, but a gay actor playing a straight part is not one of them.
i should give her a list of known gay actors and ruin a bunch of movies and t.v.
I heard the same shiite from my family. "We loved Desperate Housewives until they got all involved in a gay story line". My sister didn't want to come with us to Jersey Boys because she thought it was about gays. Give me a break.
It's kinda funny, though. I think my mom didn't realize these characters were gay, because she loved How I Met Your Mother, and Big Bang Theory. Such ridiculous, foolish prejudices.
before the usual suspects start reaching for the pich-forks and forming a mob, i invite you to actually read and consider this, not just leap to conclusions.. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/130607/7-graphs-america-overrated-nsa-prism-privacy.
why do i care?
it seems the people being screwed the most are also the most visciferous defenders of the status quo which sees them being severely disadvantaged.. maternity leave?
Well, lots of things wrong with some of the assumptions here. First, I must say I suspect where these graphs came from and what comparators they used to reach their conclusions.
Second…Simon, I’m surprised, given the province you and I live in, that you would ever be critical of another country’s record on health care, given the ridiculous scandals and waste and mismanagement our system has experienced. I’m not sure we’re all that stellar here in Canada on many of the other measurements either.
However, I do agree that because the U.S. claims to be the best country in the world they leave themselves open to this kind of criticism by promoting their exceptionalism. There are some very worrisome things about living in the US (the surveillance graph is concerning, but England is the same). I didn’t realize the no maternity leave thing. That’s unfortunate. Vacations….well, I don’t get vacations either, nor do I get paid for a day off. That’s not limited to the US.
The idea that hard work is rewarded is a fallacy. Yep. Absolutely 100 percent agree. I work three jobs and cannot get ahead. I know countless others just like me. We work hard, very, very hard. But we get no rewards. *jumping on my soapbox* In my province, it is the wealthy, the privileged, those who are friends of the people in power who get the good jobs, who see all kinds of rewards, even though they don’t work very hard. The little guys on the bottom who scramble every day to make society function and who work their buns off….nope. Sorry. They just get the endless treadmill. It’s not a factor of the so-called American Dream. It’s here in Canada, too.
I love Canada. But I’ve loved every part of the US that I visited. I loved Central America when I lived there, too. You can love your country and be proud of it without having to put down another country.
I just have to add one final thing to those posters who claim everyone is beating down the doors to come to America. Um…no. Many, many people have absolutely no interest in living in the US. I think that’s a fallacy that has been perpetuated to support the myth that America is the best place in the world to live.
to come across that insensitive?
or is she a future republican?.
abuse victims blast serena williams' rape comment posted by barbara dorris on june 19, 2013 flag.
Yeah, Tater T - I was going to comment on what you said about the "virgin" thing on the other thread. It's a horrible thing for her to have said, and I'm sorry, but it has a very clear implication (which I'm sure has roots in JWism) that if she was not a virgin, that somehow makes this less of a crime.
this is more of the same from the people who brought you force adding to their facebook page, pix of board members flipping the bird in front of the kingdom hall.and now the latest debacle is .
:" the sparlockian voice".
yes, this serious group of anti's , that either want to discuss reform with or annihilate the wts has provided more fodder.
Agree, RIP and Sir82 - no one is angry on this thread at all - disappointed, if anything. The BXBB group purports to speak on behalf of the ex-JW community, but it seems like all they are doing is giving apostates a bad name. The tone of the guy who was trashing comments was appalling. They are not running some witty satirical or Hollywood gossip site, they are supposed to be reaching out to people who have been profoundly abused and hurt. Incredibly unprofessional at the very least, and also potentially quite damaging, given that they are trying to draw media attention.
this is more of the same from the people who brought you force adding to their facebook page, pix of board members flipping the bird in front of the kingdom hall.and now the latest debacle is .
:" the sparlockian voice".
yes, this serious group of anti's , that either want to discuss reform with or annihilate the wts has provided more fodder.
Not only is the title highly inappropriate, they have a little cartoon on the page which also mocks non-English speakers.
so you survived the wts upbringing and despite a bad start managed to put your life back together and plan for the future:.
pension planning and general finance for ex-jws.
sadly, you may find yourself still at a disadvantage as you lack the support group of friends and family that many rely on and could be cut-off even from immediate family.. but it can't get any worse can it?.
Who will take care of your kids is a huge issue, and should be motivation enough for any parent to prepare a proper will. It's also a good idea to do a living will. I don't know what the JW take on euthanasia is, but I wouldn't want their twisted ideas dictating my existence if I was helpless.
Also really important - make sure you make your funeral wishes very clear. I DO NOT want them doing one of their horrible stupid funerals. And they will if they get the chance.
Edited to add: Michael Jackson is a great analogy, but I think he had a will. His kids are with his mother and dysfunctional family because he likely asked for it, thinking they'd be okay. My youngest brother left the religion very young, but he would have left his kids in the care of my mom and the religion because he never truly got rid of the indoctrination.
i'm trying to figure it out.
if we are just dead then there is no point to anything i do.
i'd like to hope our energy goes somewhere... but, i'd like to examine what somebody presents as proof....
I think we move to a different type of existence. I've seen members of my family in dreams shortly after they died. Makes me think there is something.
On the other hand...from a scientific perspective, we are organic and when life leaves us, we simply disintegrate back to our chemical makeup - dust, I suppose.
she knows when i am lying.
she knows when i am keeping a secret.
she has this really weird way of reading my mind sometimes.
Cognac - my sister and I used to be like that. We'd leave our separate houses and arrive at a location wearing virtually the same thing. *sigh* I have very little contact with her now that I've left. I'm the evil apostate, after all.
this is the first of three "dramas" this dc, and i have to say, it was one of the weirdest dramas ever.
i won't go through all the details.
maybe someone else wants to throw in their 2c.. it starts out with two men standing on the "beach" talking, but it took me awhile to figure out what in the hell was going on.
hmm..I watched part of the video and kept skipping forward (couldn't stomach it). It kept slowing down and locking up. AFter I commented on this thread I went back to look at it said "private". Maybe whoever posted it saw this thread and immediately pulled the video.
so while making a you tube video of my dad today, i came across this in a dvd of home movies from way back, i didn't even know about it... originally shot on super 8 film, shot off screen with camcorder in 1992, with open mic, transfered to dvd in 2010 .. made to you tube in 2013.... check out the food service, without paper plates no less .. it's only a couple minutes on convention then, a little seatle conventions were a family vacation when we were growing up ... .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teslivkoak4.
I heard the military coming to the Assembly story, too.
That video takes me back. They had MacDonald's standardized service back then. I recall standing at tables and eating from those metal trays. The food was pretty good, considering.
