Posts by GrreatTeacher

my wife and i teamed up and had 5 children between 1966 and 1978 (she did the hard part) we never knew the sex until the the little sweety was born.. now days, we know if we're having another grandson or grandaughter months before they're born.. big difference.. names = male or female?

better have one or the other ready for the birth cert.

info.. clothes are not that critical.

GrreatTeacher

The sex of the baby is still a surprise whether you find out out at 4 months or 9 months.

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Kid charged over $500 to a game

by skeeter1 in

yesterday, i got our credit card statement, and looked at the charges.

over $500 to itunes.

questioned everyone, and it's for "jewels" for a kim kardashian game my 13 year old charged.

GrreatTeacher

This is going back to the 90s, but we got a phone bill with about $500 in 1-900 sex line calls. The phone company refused to reimburse us.

Then we found out my husband's brother had done it when we went out of town. My husband threatened to take it out of him in blood. It's the only time I have had to physically hold him back. I got between him and his brother while his brother's GF screamed at us to get off of their property.

I have not seen that side of him in 20 years and had never seen it before. Something about unauthorized charges makes people go crazy...

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Come with me, back to the 1980s--you know want to.

by FlyingHighNow in

i don't know about ya'll, but i did not appreciate the 1980s enough.

i was too busy lamenting how different they were from the 1960s and 1970s to bask in and appreciate how wonderful they were.. this is 80s music, especially new wave music, and 80s fashion and culture appreciation thread.

what did you love about the 80s?

GrreatTeacher

Anybody remember Kix or was that just a local band?

I've Got the Itch

Blow My Fuse

Cold Shower

Now I've got to find all of my old Kix cassettes!

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How many born ins actually stay?

by lostinthought in

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friends

i was wondering if anyone know sany statistics of the amount of born ins that actually stay in the orginization.

i think i have read it before on here but i can't really remember what it was.

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GrreatTeacher

Wing Commander, I also grew up in a south central PA circuit. And I know folks who have become Utz (am I right?) delivery men. It takes no skill, though the days are long. So sad for otherwise intelligent people.

I was in PA circuit #5. Maybe I know you...

Anyhow, my best friend growing up is living in a trailer. She was so smart. Her husband is a €ick, jw style. She pioneers and works part time. My other very good friend married a JW who was not so rabid. She works and they own a home, but they're still in. Neither have children, waiting for the New System, I guess.

Another friend I grew up with is still officially in, but basically has nothing to do with it, so faded, I guess.

I just feel like there was so much more they could've done with their lives.

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Kid charged over $500 to a game

by skeeter1 in

yesterday, i got our credit card statement, and looked at the charges.

over $500 to itunes.

questioned everyone, and it's for "jewels" for a kim kardashian game my 13 year old charged.

GrreatTeacher

If you keep your credit card number on file for easy checkout for online retailers, the number may have already been there on the computer.

Never do this! It is better to type in the card number every time.

Loved the fact that you unplugged her. We did this once for our son at age 12 because of a bad report card. The grades came up really quickly.

Also like the idea of the kid having to work off the debt for minimum wage. At $7.25 an hour it would take 69 hours to work off a $500 debt.

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Sad story

by truthseekeriam in

jw
friends

traverse city alyce morales' sobs hung in a benzie county courtroom as she told a judge that panic gripped her after she secretly gave birth to a daughter in a tent.. .

morales, 19, of cicero, illinois, said she felt sorry every day since july 22, 2013, for what happened next.

she closed her fist and struck herself before hitting her daughter, marie, with a blow that fractured the infant's skull.. "i was in a really bad situation.

GrreatTeacher

Why would you name a baby and then kill it? Or vice versa.

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Come with me, back to the 1980s--you know want to.

by FlyingHighNow in

i don't know about ya'll, but i did not appreciate the 1980s enough.

i was too busy lamenting how different they were from the 1960s and 1970s to bask in and appreciate how wonderful they were.. this is 80s music, especially new wave music, and 80s fashion and culture appreciation thread.

what did you love about the 80s?

GrreatTeacher

Nice pink shirt! You weren't one of those guys who permed your hair, were you?

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book about JWs "Watch How We Walk" nominated for prestigious Giller Prize

by Scully in

http://jenniferlovegrove.wordpress.com/watch-how-we-walk/.

can't wait to read this book, by a canadian author.. .

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GrreatTeacher

I remember that song from the purple songbook.

"Let's watch how we walk and watch how we talk."

And I think the next part was, "That thus we may be alert and wise, buying out the opportune time since this world in Satan lies."

But I may have mixed them up.

Crazy what I remember from all of those years ago...