Posts by tijkmo

parents encourage children to do things they dont necessarily want to do in all aspects of life..they do it because they believe it will be for their benefit ...or because they get some pride in it.

thus children become athletes, musicians, politicians, dentists, etc etc etc almost always because it was the parents choice initially.

seldom if ever does such encouragement demand the shooting of such parents

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Night Guards at Twickenham

by Duncan in

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a very enjoyable part of my job these last few years has been entertaining clients with corporate hospitality at the rugby union international matches at twickenham.

i work for a software company, as finance director, and these events such as the six nations, or the annual barbarians tour - provide companies such as mine a valuable opportunity to spend time with customers and prospects and try to interest them in our products, or at least get them to be favourably disposed to the company.

sponsorship of rugby matches like this is actually quite a smart move marketing-wise.

tijkmo

i always wanted to be a night guard

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The End of Circuit Overseers

by scotsman in

is indeed apparently nigh as another poster predicted along with the end of the weekly bs.

not sure when this should take place but i'm reliably informed by a family member that one of the uk's overseers was talking about it fairly recently.

reduced to weekend visits by an outside but local elder instead.. i have no further info..

tijkmo

If there were no C/O's then congs could drift into doing their own thing.

ha...dunoon do anyway

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The End of Circuit Overseers

by scotsman in

is indeed apparently nigh as another poster predicted along with the end of the weekly bs.

not sure when this should take place but i'm reliably informed by a family member that one of the uk's overseers was talking about it fairly recently.

reduced to weekend visits by an outside but local elder instead.. i have no further info..

tijkmo

The WTS has also had a hard time recruiting new COs and DOs to replace the aging population.

ha..and there was me desperate to be a c.o. and continually being passed over for lesser qualified, boring, ugly, ill, merciless bros some of whom couldn't even drive.

most of them had problems wives.

and some of them were quite haughty too...

the irony just knocks me out

(i was also going to make the point that molybdenum made but molybdenum already made it so i wont)

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Rangers v Zenit St P - any predictions

by besty in

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i'll start - sir walter 2 wee dutch dickski 1. all goals scored from open play in normal time.. any advance?.

tijkmo

haha besty i just saw your avatar on another thread and thought i would ask you if you would be watching..

then i saw this thread..

i am at all rangers home games and some away...recent games have been dire...but on saturday there were signs of improvement and that bodes well...like you i believe they will win 2-1 in real time.

i will be at ibrox where the game is also being shown on the big screens... pretty much a full house is expected cos it is free..although i dont think there are any rangers fans left in scotland..maybe celtic fans will take advantage of the freeness and come and cheer zenit st p lol.

whatever it will be great.

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Automatic reinstatement if teaching gets reversed?

by Fatfreek in

let's say your spouse admitted to having sex with animals, you went to the elders and they told you that you were not free to remarry -- but you went ahead, divorced the scumbag, and remarried someone else.

you, of course, got disfellowshipped.

since then, the society reverses its position.

tijkmo

at the last elders school they were told to df for viewing porn.

6 months later they ammended this position by letter and said it would not be an automatic df-ing offence.

the letter said that the decision was not retroactive and anyone who was df-ed was to remain so

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Latest Witness comments about no more Bookstudy- Rejoicing and happy????

by Witness 007 in

i've asked afew witnesses at work and around town about no more bookstudy.........they are all so relieved!

one elder with four kids said..."it will make things alot easier, with rushing home from work, the society understands our needs.

"......another brother said: "it's great, now we can go to the cinema on half price tuesday's!

tijkmo

i said at dinner this evening to my family that it was strange that petrol (gas) prices have always been higher in europe than u.s. (we currently paying around $10 dollars a gallon) but as soon as petrol (gas) prices hit £3.50 in u.s jah decides that it is time to drop a meeting. my ma said well we dont know what is going to happen to oil in the future.(as if the gb do)

i said yeah but in africa they are still expected to traverse crocodile infested rivers to get to the meetings.

and she said yeah well at least they dont have to do it so often now.

you have to laugh really dontcha.. i mean you just gotta.

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Let's Hear It for Canadian Rockers!

by Quirky1 in

hello all, i am just curious if there any fans of the canadian rockers out there?

i am a huge fan of aldo nova and doucette being a couple.

there are many other bigger bands or individuals i could list but don't want to ruin the fun.

tijkmo

patrick watson

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Let's Hear It for Canadian Rockers!

by Quirky1 in

hello all, i am just curious if there any fans of the canadian rockers out there?

i am a huge fan of aldo nova and doucette being a couple.

there are many other bigger bands or individuals i could list but don't want to ruin the fun.

tijkmo

yup alanis does it for me

and celine

(lying about celine)