I just don't feel it. Hell, I haven't even done any shopping yet. We did manage to get the tree up and the indoor decorations done. I just don't feel it at all. I wish I did, because I love to "feel" Christmas, but it just ain't happening. Maybe I need a candy cane.
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No Christmas Vibe??
by LouBelle ini am at an iffy place with christmas this year - i don't know if i'm not trying hard enough, or if this has just been a really difficult year, but i've lost my christmas groove.
and it's not just me.. so many that i've spoken to are saying the same things.
even the shopping malls haven't gone all out - i don't hear christmas music, they've got some decorations up but nothing that shouts ""christmas is here"".
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Christmas shopping unhealthy for men.
by BrentR inmost of us guys hate shopping and now there was a study done on the psysiologic effects of shopping on men.
so ladies, when we don't want to go shopping with you don't take it personal.
it might be relaxing and enjoyable for you but it has the opposite effect on men.. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/1998/12/22/xmasshop981222.html.
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Uriah, it sounds like you've been shopping with my wife! I got dragged to the mall 3 times last weekend. I get dragged from store to store, then she asks me an opinion on something, I give her my honest opinion and then she treats me like an idiot because obviously my opinion is wrong, then of course I get to hear "You said that just to shut me up". Dude, I think all the women get a little manual to read when they get married detailing how to torture their husbands with shopping. When I go shopping, first I need a reason to be there. I know WHY I'm going to the store (to purchase a particular item), I know WHAT store I need to get it at, I actually PURCHASE it, and then I go HOME! I don't waste all day and gallons of gas trying to find something at multiple stores when I don't even know why I'm there.
I had only one shopping goal last weekend: To purchase a watch battery for my wife's watch. I know what battery the watch needed. I know where to buy the battery. And, I know how to get back home and put the battery in the watch. But, because she dragged me to stores from 7:30 AM to 11:00 PM Saturday, I didn't get to go to the electronics store to buy the battery. So, Sunday morning I hear: "You didn't do a thing yesterday; at least you could have fixed my watch!" I almost had a stroke!
And it is very stressful for a man trying to purchase a gift for his wife. The first reason is that wives don't want to tell their husbands what they want. We desperately want our wives to be happy with our purchases for them, but most of the time they aren't. Women have this fantasy that if a man really loves you, he should automatically know what she wants and give it to her without having to ask her. I only wish that was true the other way around. Because, if things worked that way, my wife would automatically know that the only thing I want for any occasion is a BJ, she would automatically do that every time without being asked. Oh well. I guess that means she doesn't love me. hee hee.
The second reason is that unless you are one of the rare men who have an unlimited source of income and an unlimited amount of free time, most of the crap that society has convinced women they need as a gift is way too expensive for most average men to easily afford. Throw a couple of children or other family members in there to buy gifts for, and the money worries cause enough stress to kill a man.
So, holiday times are hell for men. It's one of the many reasons that men die before the women. Imagine ladies.... the stress of holiday shopping for men is the same stress level as being shot at! Sucks to be us!
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How do you feel about Photo Radar?
by Funchback inrecently, in my great city of phoenix, arizona, i received a notice of violation for speeding even though the actual person (a woman) who was captured by the photo radar was driving a car which wasn't mine with a plate that wasn't registered to me.
i took it to the media and they did an interview with me, which you can see here: www.kpho.com/video/14785490/index.html.
my biggest issue or concern is that i am jumping through hoops to clear this up with the arizona department of public safety.
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My opinion? Every night when I get home from work I watch the news. And every night there's a new robbery or murder or some other crime in this town that the police just don't seem to have the funds or manpower to take care of. And yet, every morning and every evening those doughnut-munching morons are out on the side of the road with their radar guns writing tickets to all of the good working people of this world. Why do they do this, I ask? They say that it is for "public safety". As far as I can tell, nobody was ever raped, robbed, or murded while exceeding the "speed limit" while going to work in the morning. It's all about money and picking on an easy target. My safety has never been in jeopardy because I was driving 65 miles an hour in a 55 mile an hour zone. My safety has been in jeopardy, however, when driving through the bad part of town at night that the police won't patrol because they don't have the time or people because they're all out saving us all from that most terrible of criminal elements: the speeder.
In fact, speeders are so dangerous and they are such ravenous, preadatory criminals that the police have stepped up their efforts to stop these law breaking bastards once and for all! Now, we have speeding cameras! So, even when there aren't any cops around, the cameras can catch them in the act. After all, we wouldn't want one single person to get to work 5 minutes faster in the morning! Hell, if people started getting to work quicker, the world might stop turning and fling us all off into outer space and that would be bad.
We all know why the police target speeders. Let's be honest. Because most of the people who are out on the road are easy targets. We're working people usually going to or comming home from work. Being the productive memebers of society that we are, we obey the officer, pull over, take our ticket with a smile on our face, and then send in the payment. Most of us don't even go to court. Why? We have jobs, that's why! They know that we will not flee the police or resist the officer or take the time off from work to even dispute a ticket because that would mean screwing up our jobs and our lives. It's easy money, all day long. An actual criminal will flee the police and kill a police officer if necessary to avoid capture and jail time. It's simply too risky for police to persue those people, and, besides, there's no money in that! The local news here in Atlanta runs stories all the time exposing memos sent to local officers instructing them to write more tickets to generate revenue.
Oh, and let's talk about red light cameras! I am against these cameras for two reasons. The first is that the traffic lights that have these cameras are set up differently to write more tickets. It's a fact. The local news here actually timed the lights and proved it. The yellow light is at least 1 second shorter at the camera-equipped traffic light than it is at the traffic lights without cameras. As a result, not only does it screw up the flow of traffic and screw people with crooked tickets, but it leads to my second reason for not liking red light cameras. Every traffic light where they've installed these cameras have seen the number of rear-end collisions at those lights double. Why? Because so many people have been screwed by the crooked red light camera tickets, everybody now slams their brake pedal with both feet the minute the light turns yellow, and the person behind them hits them. Let me say that I think that people who run red lights should be ticketed. They are infinitely more dangerous than any speeder. The police should write tickets for this, but most of the time they don't. The police should be patrolling the streets and finding dangerous drivers, especially those who run red lights and risk killing people every time they do this. But, the police have treated this as just another opportunity for generating revenue and it has backfired and has become the cause of more accidents.
Sorry to be so long-winded, but this is has been a sore spot with me for many years. Well, gotta go to lunch now. Just hope I don't get a ticket!
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WOULD WOMEN MAKE GOOD ELDERS?
by Dansk ini've come to love and cherish much of the wisdom that emanates from the dear ladies of this forum and believe watchtower boobed in making all women subservient to the men.
so, do you think women would make good elders?.
ian.
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Honestly, I don't know..... I'm married, so........ hmmm..... LOL. True, women can be compassionate and understanding, but I've noticed that many of them are vicious and vindictive. They can be kind and compassionate and in the very next breath they can be vicious and vindictive. It's kind of scary. I am always the mediator in the office wars between the various females that work here and I can tell you that it is not pretty dealing with the women at my office who are in positions of power. It is constant drama. Seriously. Every day is like a bad movie off of the Lifetime Channel. Who-said-what-about-who, who-is-out-to-get-who, who-does-she-think-she-is, I'm-going-to-get-her-back-for-that, etc., etc., ad nauseum.
I prefer the kindness and understanding of a woman, but I fear the underlying potential of such unfettered, unreasonable, misdirected viciousness that I witness on a daily basis. When I think about this topic, all I can think of when I close my eyes is Hillary Clinton, which is very scary.
Now that I've pissed off a bunch of people with my opinion, I must say that I have an even greater amount of fear and distrust of anyone who seeks a position of authority because way too many people want the status of a title attached to their names or want the authority just to abuse it. Rare is the person who seeks a position just because they want to help others. Just think of how many priests abuse kids or how many crooked cops there are or how many crooked politicians, lawyers and judges there are out there! I think the best thing is to be able to think for yourself and understand your own circumstances well enough so that you won't blindly follow the advice of someone who seeks to manipulate you for their own advantage or amusement. Man, am I cynical or what?
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So, Did you do the TWIST anyway?
by nomoreguilt ini'm going to date myself on this and i suppose many of you will also.
it never ceases to amze me on the stand the wts will take on the latest fads or styles.
when chubby checker came out with the twist the wts had to come out and do their thing.
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I wasn't allowed to go to my cousin's house for like a whole year when I was a kid because he had Smurfs AND Cabbage Patch Dolls! My father thought that my cousin's head was going to turn 360 degrees while spewing pea soup all over the place. By the way, the Smurfs never tried to kill my cousin in his sleep and my cousing was much more of a threat to the Cabbage Patch Doll than the Cabbage Patch Doll ever was to him! I think he ripped the doll's head off after about a month.
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Is There Anybody That You KNOW That You Can Implicitly Trust?
by minimus inis there a person or persons that you can trust 100%?
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No, not really. Not even the wife. Kinda sucks.
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For anyone who's lost someone. . .my favorite song (sound on)
by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gvwlwlcvp8
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Harumph.... not really a Pink fan.... But a gift of music is better than I gift of.... pickled pig's knuckes. Yep. It is.
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If I had a million dollars (reprise)
by RisingEagle ini'd buy you a green dress, but not a real green dress, that's cruel.
i'm paying bills...is it my imagination or do they seem to grow right before the holidays?
santa should visit parents, first, in early november, with a check!.
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You know what they say: Money can't buy you happiness. But, if you have enough of it, you get to choose what sort of misery suits you best!
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They screwed up my dogs treatment!
by Bumble Bee ini posted way back in september that my dog had two bad cancers in her mouth.
we took her into the ontario vet college for available treatment options.
this is a world class, top notch veterinary teaching college.
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This is why when you go to the hospital for an operation on a particular arm or leg they hand you a majic marker to write on which arm or leg you want to be operated on. Kinda makes me afraid of a vasectomy!! I may wake up with 2 extra nuts and a circumcision.
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The wierdest thing happend to me at work today!!!!!
by changeling ini was at the front desk (can't tell you what i do, as i'm a fader).
i get a call from a company that works closely with us.
the lady says: "i have a client here that needs an_____, but he wants a jehovah's witness.".
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The weirdest thing happened to me at work today, too! The Ex JW and Ex Seventh Day Adventist put up a Christmas tree together while the Jewish secretary played Christmas carols. And the Hindu shipping clerk brought Christmas cookies. Pretty weird, huh?