so a few things .... apparently it's superbowl 54, and also the centennial of the sport.
erm ... i'm not a mathematician, but aren't there 46 superbowls missing?.
americans claim that uk sport ("soccer", aka real football) is too low scoring.
It's the NFL's 100th year, not the Super Bowl's. The Super Bowl started being played when the American Football League and the National Football League merged during the 1960's.
The half-time show was okay. As mentioned above, Prince put on a hella show in 2007...in Miami...in a pouring rain.
Whitney Houston did a nice version of the National Anthem. She sang it straight for the most part. I do wish more singers would just sing the song and not improvise. Unless you are Marvin Gaye.
this guy was not a born in and did not really work his way up from the very bottom.
he kind of got some kind of fast track.
its a bit strange.
All the high ranking officials of the Society gather at HQ and prospective candidates are nominated. After much debate and prayer ballots are cast. If a candidate receives 2/3's of the vote - HOORAY - a new GB member is in. If not the process is started again. A fire is lit after the vote. Black smoke means failure and white smoke means success. Or maybe a bunch of names are tossed in a hat and one is pulled out. I really don't know. I'm sure that whatever the process, it is Jehovah approved.
new coronavirus wreaking havoc.....first case detected in the us one hour ago....six deaths already in china.....hope it gets controlled soon.....
This is Xi and Trump colluding to push Trump's impeachment trial off the front page. If Trump is judged Guilty, people will start dropping like flies and Trump will declare himself President for Life, just like Xi. Anonymous sources are preparing to come forward and unverified documentary evidence is being gathered. Coming soon to a Twitter account that has a blue "been verified" check mark.
after at least 8 excrement findings, police in massachusetts finally caught this woman who would poop in a parking lot and leave her crap as well as some tissues.
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i just thought you should know about this 💩.
I heard that in California this behavior has almost been normalized. San Fran has a "poop patrol" that responds to cases of human and animal waste. Its the old saying, you gotta go when you gotta go.
i don't know if this topic has been covered before - it might 've been.. i also recommend flipper's excellent music thread ('what songs have you been listening to?
', or similar).. but, i'd just like to start a thread about certain songs giving me goosebumps.
y'know, when you hear a song that profoundly effects you in some difficult-to-describe way and the hairs on your arm stand on end even though the room temperature's comfortably warm.. so, which songs give you goosebumps?.
My choice is a bit odd since I usually lean towards music from artists like Merle Haggard, but there is something about Vivaldi's Winter that can almost move me to tears. Here's a version I just found played on a piano. Have to marvel at the artist's skills:
hope you are all well,.
i was wondering within the organisation if there are any guidelines or grounds for nullifying a baptism.
see i grew up a jehovah's witness and was baptised at age 13, i didn't get baptised for the right reasons, i felt pressured to because my friends were getting baptised at the same time.
The best way to renew a relationship with family after being disfellowshipped is to go make a success of yourself. I've seen this happen.
A witness kid was baptized when he was 14 or so. When he graduated High School he announced he no longer wanted to be a JW. This sent an earthquake through his family and congregation as his dad was an uber-elder, his mom had been a full time pioneer forever, and his sister had married a bethelite and moved to NYC. The son was disfellowshipped and shunned by everyone.
The disfellowshipped young man continued to live in the area. He married (no family attended or acknowledge the wedding), had a couple of kids (not acknowledge by family), and lived his life. He started a business and it turned out that the disfellowshipped man was quite the entrepreneur. Then his father, the elder, went to work for him. In fact, a few others in the congregation went to work in his company. They justified it by claiming they actually worked for the elder father, not the disfellowshipped son. Turns out they are one big happy family!
You may have heard that "living well is the best revenge." So that is my advice to anybody, live well and sooner or later the ones who are shunning you will turn up like nothing had ever happened.
i do it most years.
being in the uk, virtually every other country nearby drives on the right.
we drive on the left.
i drove in New Zealand and got used to driving on the left side in short order. Where I would tend to mess up was checking to the left first when making turns. Ended up with my head swiveling several times before pulling out.
The checking to the left first when walking across a street is particularly dangerous. I wonder how many people get smacked making that mistake while walking around town in a left side country?
As a friend in New Zealand told me, "In America, you drive on the right side of the road. In New Zealand, we drive on the proper side."
you used to hear christmas music blaring on every radio station.
not anymore.
people used to jam the roadways and malls to do their christmas shopping and now it’s no big deal.
I agree that Christmas has lost something for me. I also agree that it has to do with shopping on line. I don't buy many people gifts, but the ones I do are mostly through Amazon, way easier! In fact about the only gifts I actually purchase in person are a couple of gift cards to local restaurants that I give to the letter carrier and the garbage truck driver, two people I don't actually know. It would probably be different if I had little kids around.
I do still have fun doing a little celebrating on Solstice which is coming up December 21 at 10:19 PM CST. I will have a couple of drinks with a few friends and if it's not too cold, meaning below 0, we will have a fire outside. I let my inner pagan out once in a while.
she certainly is passionate about climate change.
🤔.
you can’t throw a snowball at a person as kids often do.
you can’t throw it in a park, at a building, anywhere.
comments please.
I read this news article
https://fox6now.com/2019/12/02/city-ordinance-bans-snowballs-in-wausau-in-the-interest-of-public-safety/
and had two takeaways.
The first one is the ordinance applies only to public property. Banning activity on public property isn't all that rare. Drinking alcohol, smoking, noise, etc, are banned or restricted in communities all over the country on public property. If I read the article correctly, if you want to have a snowball fight in your own backyard, have at it.
The second takeaway has to do with enforcement. The police noted that not one citation has been issued. That's the problem I have with ordinances like this one. What's the point if it is not going to be applied fairly and equally? It's just stupid, feel good politics. Kind of like plastic bag bans or fees for their use (recently passed in my town). Doing "something" about plastic bags really isn't going to impact the total use of plastic, but by Gawd, it did raise awareness for about 5 minutes.
