Posts by Married to the Mob

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The WHO at the Super Bowl!

by lepermessiah in

i was having a conversation with a younger guy at work - he barely knew who the who was....... he was telling me that he recognized the songs but thought they sounded pretty rough.. i told him that i wish he could have seen them even 10 years ago - i saw them live in 2000 and roger still sounded awesome, and pete was still.....pete!.

the real big loss was losing the ox - john entwistle was so important to that band.

he was amazing live....... moon was a huge loss, but after je passed, i really wish they would have stopped performing live as the who.. here is an awesome taste of him in action.......rip ox............ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvl39lbzgmw.

Married to the Mob

The who rock!

I have an uncle who vaguely remembers them playing at Warwick university in the early 70s! This fact alone is amazing as he openly admits he remembers very little of the late 60's and 70's.

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Does the JW Cult Rob People of Their Humanity!

by LittleSister in

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well for those of you who many not know i gave birth to a beautiful baby boy on the 31st jan, however our joy soon turned to concern when it was discovered our son had breathing problems.

this concern later turned to fear as we learned that he had a congenital diaphragmatic hernia (cdh) and that he would need an operation asap.. basically our baby had a hole in his diaphragm and most of his digestive system now resided in his left chest cavity compressing his heart and lungs into the remain space in the right cavity.

this is a very serious condition and much of the information we were given made very bleak reading.

Married to the Mob

Congratulations on your new addition!

To answer your question, humanity, empathy are foreign to dubs!

My MIL is hardcore R&F and whilst she is a lovely old dear, the dub thinking kicks in fairly quickly

My mil has a friend who a few weeks ago had their furnace pack up. Now given that even here in southern ontario we can get tempretures around -20C plus the wind chill this is a little serious! She comes out to the lounge and tells me all about it.

Me - thats terrible, well is there anything we can do for them, its going to be cold tonight

MIL - yes it is bad, they will be cold tonight, but no her family can help her.

On which she wandered off to make herself a cup of tea, while I sat there speechless!

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Favorite catch phrases from movies, the ones you actually use.

by John Doe in

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the old wierd guy on "princess bride" who says "have fun storming the castle!

" i've used that line more than once.

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Married to the Mob

yarp - hot fuzz

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Favorite catch phrases from movies, the ones you actually use.

by John Doe in

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the old wierd guy on "princess bride" who says "have fun storming the castle!

" i've used that line more than once.

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Married to the Mob

"would you like a dog" - snatch

"zee germans" - snatch

"f...king northern monkeys" - lock stock and 2 smoking barrels

"don't knock it, its cheap like the budgy" lock stock and 2 smoking barrels

"check check check" - kgb teddy from rounders

"mine" - finding nemo!

"i am a nice shark" brue from finding nemo!

"its as kosher as christmas" lock stock and 2 smoking barrels

"Who took the jam outta your doughnut?" snatch

"Too tight? You could land a jumbo fucking jet in that" - snatch

"just remember this - in this country they drive on the other side of the road" - italian job

Spring chicken to shitehawk in one easy lesson - battle of britain

"don't panic" dads army

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My Uber-Dub sister is depressed !

by wobble in

despite being in what she insisted to me was "the best way of life" my oldest sister has a bad case of depression.. i know on here, jwn, we tend to almost laugh at the number of dubs who suffer from depression, and blame the cult , which attitude may have a good deal of truth in it, i still feel that i would like to help her in some way and do not know for sure how to.. getting her out of the cult is not going to happen, and any lessening of her blind faith i feel would be dangerous for her.. can any of you good folk on here offer any advice.

the trigger for her problem is the fact that her husband is seriously ill, and may not pull through, but i believe she must have an underlying problem that the present circumstance has brought to the surface.

and she needs to be a positive support for him at this time, and cannot be.. here in the u.k the family doctor tends to prescribe some pills and see how you get on, if you don't top yourself, you can go back and he might try some more or different pills,beyond that not much is offered.. ideas?.

Married to the Mob

Hi Wobble

Sorry to hear about your sister an your brother in law.

A doctor can refer a patient in the uk to see a phycotherapist but as you know the NHS has very few and waiting list is well, a bit long! Any private health coverage? I am guessing from the time you said she is in the cult she is an OAP so no chance of his or her work having a crisis support line who will pay for it?? If you have this service you might be able to use your coverage for her.

Unfortunately if she is truely "uber" she probably won't want to see the physcotherapist anyway......

As undercover said, unconditional love and support is all you can do.

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empathy - for jw is this possible?

by Married to the Mob in

the night before my wife went to dallas on a 2 week course i asked her a question.. "while your away, think about how i will feel going to my brother's wedding on my own?".

to cut a long story short my brother can be a bit of a obnoxious git at times.

he is the golden boy for my parents and thinks like my parents which is not always a good thing.

Married to the Mob

first off, myself and my side of the family are not in the borg! Never have been, never will be! My parents are Daily Mail readers!

My wife is in the borg! Yes she married a worldly, however her mom who lives with us is hardcore r&f. She might be 84 going 85, but she is still putting in her field service! My wife while she likes some of the finer things of worldy life, she is still in the borg and the mentality shows.

Have my parents been nasty, yes! My mum's idea of an xmas present this year to my wife was the worse necklace I have ever seen. IF it cost her five quid I would say she had been robbed! But lets be fair, my mum has been a bully her whole life, a trait she learnt from her mum, this I discovered from my uncle who was no end of support to us and helped me understand the ways of my mum.

I have always supported my wife in arguements against my family. Even when we have had a game plan to deal with my parents and she (my wife) has veered big style from the plan, i have always supported her.

My wife's feeling are anger, at my parents for the way they behaved over our wedding, the way they behaved when we moved to canada, the way my brother and his wife to be are treated by them and the way my brother has behaved. Do I understand her anger, absolutely, do I feel her anger, yes as I have the same issues with them.

It will not be nice to see my mum beam with joy over her new DIL when she could barely smile at my wedding. I have considered not going, but what does that solve? nothing, all i would end up doing is burning bridges. Am I pleased for my brother, yes, I hope he and his wife will be very happy.

If my wife doesn't come, I am going to have to answer the questions from friends and family over where she is, deal with the comments from my parents, and whilst I will know plenty of people there, I will still be on my own. And at the end of the day when the wedding and the party is all over, i am going to end up in a hotel room on my own.

But I should be used to this, there have been a number of events where she has decided not to come leaving me high and dry to go on my own. xmas parties, evenings out. But this time its a wedding.......

The funny thing is that we have been seeing a marriage councilor for a year. I am learning, I need to communicate my feelings more, empathise more but she seems to be just going through the motions. If the councilling was to work, that would mean thinking and doing for herself.

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empathy - for jw is this possible?

by Married to the Mob in

the night before my wife went to dallas on a 2 week course i asked her a question.. "while your away, think about how i will feel going to my brother's wedding on my own?".

to cut a long story short my brother can be a bit of a obnoxious git at times.

he is the golden boy for my parents and thinks like my parents which is not always a good thing.

Married to the Mob

The night before my wife went to Dallas on a 2 week course I asked her a question.

"While your away, think about how I will feel going to my brother's wedding on my own?"

To cut a long story short my brother can be a bit of a obnoxious git at times. He is the golden boy for my parents and thinks like my parents which is not always a good thing. 2 years ago was not a good for year for me, and I am in no ways perfect. My drinking, travelling for work, being in an affectionless marriage, combined with deeper roooted issues all lead to me getting into trouble. Since then I have been in Therapy, my life in someways is back on track, otherways not so much! Needless to say my parents hopped straight into the fray with how awful I had been and my brother well he rememinded me how mum and dad are right my version of past events are all off and everything is my fault.

These comments hurt me deeply but wife pretty much decided to cut my side of the family off and me not speaking to my brother for 9 months (his choice). When we last saw my parents (last april), my wife and mum got into a monster arguement which again had been seeded by my brother and ended up with my wife saying she wanted nothing to do with them. Now when I speak to my parents my wife is always out or asking me to make excuses for her not talking on the phone. Fortunately my parents haven't pushed too hard to talk to her. Whilst my parents whitewash everything to make it all seem ok, they hold everything as ammo for an arguement!

Anyway, my brother is getting married! And despite a few mind games from him which were to be expected, we have been invited to go. My wife is NOT going, she flat out refuses. On some level I don't blame her, its not exactly going to be fun watching my mother gush over her daughter in law when she could barely be happy for my wife at our wedding and he still hurts from what my brother said before.

However I can't cut off my family, my dad did it to his brother for reasons I will never understand, and despite everything that has happened and my own personal issues, I would like to see what should be the happiest day for my brother. In light of everything that has happened and the past my brother and I are never going to be best buddies or see each other on a regular basis, however I am not going to cut him off, it doesn't solve anything and just makes thing harder in the future.

Well the 2 weeks have passed, the MIL didn't die, the world didn't collapse although admittedly I was ready to throttle the MIL when I came home to find her armed with a screw driver trying to take apart the furnace to "clean" it........while it still running

Has my wife thought about the question i posed to her........NO!

her comments were:

Why do I need to be there.

You'll know loads of people there, you will be fine

I really don't want to go

Are you afraid to be with your parents on your own?

Apart from the last comment which is more of a question its clear that my feelings don't matter or she can't empathise with how I might be feeling.

Is there a bit of borg brainwashing that switches off the ability to empathise and that cutting off people doesn't help?

When this is added in with the total lack of affection, I am feeling a bit lonely.

MTTM

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The most frightening time in this Worlds History!

by wannabe in

does the bible supply us with any information, that might give us, at least, some idea when this frightening time period will begin?does it show us, in some way, just how frightening this time period will be, and just what is the main cause of it?

" [matthew 24:8 niv}.

what was it that actually marked the beginning of these birth pangs?

Married to the Mob

I blame 24 hour news coverage!

Seriously, there is nothing more scary going on in ther world than there 30 years ago! Infact its a lot safer.

But the anderson coopers and nacy graces have to hae something to fill the hours with!

Put down the watchtower and the bible, go out and enjoy the world! you might like it!

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Why Would Someone Like me Leave the "Truth"? Part 5 (Final Installment)

by cantleave in

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this is a direct continuation od part iv.................................... you can imagine the reaction of the people who saw me storm out of the hall but what happened in the elders meeting after i left was even funnier.

mike told me that there was stunned silence for about a minute.

slimeball said well take that as his stepping down!.

Married to the Mob

Cantleave - thank you for posting your story. I have been hooked from begining to end. Next time I am over in dear old blighty, let me buy you a pint!

Like cyberjesus i wondered if you had reconnected with Jerry?

I also wondered how your relationship with mike is and if he after seeing all of this is still fully committed to the truth?

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Kids TV programmes (England and Ireland only sorry) that were on in the 70's and early 80's

by jdhf in

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i am trying to remember a kids programme that was on while i was a wee thing during the 70's... now i was only born in '68, so i guess it would be late 70's early 80's.

i remember bears, and animation, but i don't think cartoon.

anyway, please can anyone list their favourite british kids programmes during these times and hopefully i will get an epiphany!