Posts by GrreatTeacher

Had a nice getaway to the Outer Banks, but tropical storm Larry was churning off the coast and the beach was closed for swimming because of wild currents and riptides.

Thank God he stayed off coast. Having to evacuate is a real thing and ruins vacations semi-regularly.

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Fall camping is the best...

by MeanMrMustard in

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GrreatTeacher

Ha! I recently got blasted for using the phrase, "high-key."

"Did you just say, "high-key?" You can only say, "low-key." There is no "high-key," mom!"

So, they tried but failed at teenage speak!

BTW, great time of year to go camping. I love nature, but refuse to sleep there, although fall is the best temperature for that.

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My 20 year anniversary

by new boy in

jw
friends

after being a jehovah's witness for 52 years, today marks my 20 year anniversary of being out of the borg!

i turned in my letter of disassociation on september 18th 2001. it was read to the congregation on september 19th, my wife's birthday.

of course the years have had its difficulties but it has also had many wonderful experiences and epiphanies.

GrreatTeacher

Well, gee, congrats on that!

It was harder to get out then without the internet, but not impossible. And you did it! Nice!

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Not sure where I want to live!

by Iamallcool in

jw
friends

since covid have forced many stores not to be open 24 hours a day like wal-mart, etc…i do have one 24 hour kroger near my home.

if you want to know where it is, message me but i might not tell you if you have not been here long enough or i feel that i can’t trust you yet.

do you have 24 hour grocery stores near you?

GrreatTeacher

If you like history, Maryland has been here since 1634!

While its capital, Annapolis, was serving as the nation's capital, George Washington resigned his commission as general and the Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Revolutionary War. The United States' boundary was designated and differentiated from Britain's remaining colonial interests. (ahem..Canada)

Virginia is great for history, too. George Washington lived just across the Potomac River at Mount Vernon. Colonial Williamsburg looks exactly like it did in the early 1700s.

Also, George Washington apparently slept all up and down the east coast. The number of establishments that brag "George Washington slept here." is mind-boggling.

Anyhoo, just plugging the Mid-Atlantic. New England always gets focused on as the cradle of American history, but the Mid-Atlantic has been settled just as long. And we weren't religious weirdos like the Puritans. We were here to make money. The state of Virginia literally started as The Virginia Company.

I'll shut up now. I'm a history nerd and love literally walking the same steps as people did who were settled here 150 years before the United States was formed. Come visit Annapolis, you'll love it if you're into American and British colonial history!

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How do JW feel about CBD?

by Iamallcool in

jw
friends

i am not so sure if i am willing to discuss cbd with my jw aunt.

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GrreatTeacher

Personally I think that CBD oil is a modern version of snake oil medicine. Can it really help everything from pain to toenail fungus to making your sheets brighter and whiter? It's ridiculous the amount of maladies it's reported to cure.

Mick, I have a prescription for Ambien, and have woken up in the morning with the remains of a large bowl of ice cream on my nightstand! No memory of eating it at all! It definitely induces amnesia!

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Remember when HITTING A WOMAN was just WRONG!

by pistolpete in

just a few years ago, any man that slapped a women was considered a piece of shit.

today people are are paying and cheering to see a man knocking the shit out of a woman.

what feminists, social warriors, and gender recognition fighters don't realized is that their actions are actually causing the world to revert back to the days when the world treated women as property, second class species, with no rights whatsoever, whose only value was a sex instrument for the male species.

GrreatTeacher

I was never particularly reassured when men would say, " I would never hit a woman."

I always felt like, 'Well you're halfway there, but I'd appreciate it more if you'd never hit anybody at all. Use your words!'

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Gigs and Music

by punkofnice in

it's nice to be getting back into the swing of going to see bands again.

also, playing in a band too.. we've done a couple of gigs, which was great.

one of which, we had to wait to be paid because most people were paying by card.. i went to see steve hackett at leicester de mountfort hall last friday.

GrreatTeacher

I had forgotten how much I liked listening to music. My kid was always very sensitive to sound and he never outgrew it. He's 20 now and still doesn't listen to music.

The only kind he occasionally likes to fool around with is what I would describe as piano saloon music from the late 1800s. He's obsessed with trains and railroading and will add that as background music when he creates his train videos.

However, he's in college most of the day so I've had a chance to cue up Pandora radio and play around with song lists. I had forgotten how much I loved loud music and how it makes the time fly when working around the house!

Once Pandora morphed to playing 70s Yacht Rock and the cat loved it. Not my favorite, but I let it play. He was just chilling and I swear I caught him bobbing his little cat head.

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