Renting is a particularly bad deal right now.
Rent a place for $2400 right now while the equivalent mortgage on the same house would be about $1600.
It doesn't pay to be noncommittal and itinerant in the current real estate market.
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Newly wed--todays WT
by road to nowhere insince i am still "in" i "studied".
it takes all of 3 minutes to skim the article.
points;.
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Weasel Words coming from the Weasel Den on the lake in Tuxedo Park, New York. Or Warwick. Or an old missile silo.
A humble den where the weasels hibernate for the winter, or the extent of Covid, or indefinitely.
Why leave when weasel food is delivered electronically via Donate buttons, or occasionally from the local liquor emporium?
It's comfy there among the rocks, or, the, erm, granite countertops.
And, it's dark. They wait there for New Light, or the bright flash of Armageddon's fire and brimstone, or the light at the end of the tunnel.
And they play with words. And they play with lives. And they pray that Karma is not real.
"The Weasel Den: Come Retire With Us Today!" Or not. So many retirees have been made redundant, laid off, fired. The Weasel Den is cozy, but they can't have it too cozy, can they?
It's best that only the most Equal Weasels be residents. The better the distribution from the Donate button, or the liquor store, or the government.
All animals are Equal, but, indeed some animals are more Equal than others.
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Moses, Pharaoh and the Exodus Fairytale
by RULES & REGULATIONS inexodus 7. .
new king james version.
moses before pharaoh.
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I'm just wondering how the Syrians became the ASSyrians just by moving slightly inland.
Is this where the donkey herders lived or were these people, in general, idiots and so were pushed away from the gentle Mediterranean breezes by the other Syrians?
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McFree v. Watchtower!
by Atlantis inmcfree v. watchtower.
a us federal judge has ruled against watch tower pennsylvania, denying their dmca subpoena to identify the creator of the jehovah's witness parody videos known as "dubtown.. .
see last page (page 20).
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How have I missed these videos?
I'm going on a YouTube bender tonight!!
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Not On Simon's Board--The Forbidden File!
by Atlantis inhi mike:.
the file you have requested, is a file i will not provide a link for out here on simon's board.
i will be happy to give you a link for that "forbidden" file in private.
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Luckynedpepper, silly, everyone knows it was Super8.
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I just turned 75 and here is a giant steaming pile of my "Wisdumb"
by Terry inbirthday wisdom magnum opus.
i was born 2 years after the end of wwii.. everything was in black and white.. harry truman was president.. mahatma gandhi was the spiritual leader of india.. .
by the time i was 5, a new-fangled invention called television.
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GrreatTeacher
Also, seems the vacuum cleaner was invented before your birth too.
I'll give you the Roomba, though. Who could've imagined a robotic vacuum that gives free rides to the family cat?
I definitely didn't see that one coming!
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I just turned 75 and here is a giant steaming pile of my "Wisdumb"
by Terry inbirthday wisdom magnum opus.
i was born 2 years after the end of wwii.. everything was in black and white.. harry truman was president.. mahatma gandhi was the spiritual leader of india.. .
by the time i was 5, a new-fangled invention called television.
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The escalator was invented in the late 1800s, so unless you're going on 125, you can take that one off your list.😋
Wait, was this a test to see who was paying attention? So, I get a prize, yes?!?
Our local Target has an escalator and a cartolator. When taking your purchases to your vehicle in the garage below, you put your cart on the cartolator right next to the escalator and you and your purchases arrive at the garage together.
Kinda cool and I've never seen another one anywhere else.
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Boris Johnson must resign
by LoveUniHateExams inon may 20, 2020, boris johnson's private secretary sent out an e-mail to 100 staff asking them to enjoy the sunshine in the downing street garden, adding they could bring their own bottle.. at the time the uk was under a harsh covid lockdown - people could meet up with up to six members of their own household, and only with one person from another household, socially-distanced of course.
the prime minister attended this party for 25 minutes but his excuse yesterday at pmqs was that he thought it was a work event.
as excuses go, this one is right up there with 'the dog ate my homework', lol.. boris johnson must resign - if you force harsh rules on people but break those same rules yourself, it's surely game over.. his private secretary should go, too..
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I don't know whether or not he must resign, but what he really must do is find a new barber/ hair stylist!
All of his money and he can't find anybody to fix his hair?
He looks like a troll doll.
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Merry Christmas Everyone
by jhine ini don't think that it's too early to start this thread so .
merry christmas everyone.
maybe people could share christmas music or clips to get us all in the mood.
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I will say that the US postal service is beyond slow right now.
Maybe people have given up and just decided not to bother because it'll never get there anyhow.
I have a cousin in the UK who sent out Christmas cards in the beginning of December and we didn't get it until the week after Christmas. I didn't send a card in return because when would they get it? Valentine's Day?
The USPS announced recently that they would be delivering out of area mail 2 days later than they had previously. And previously it had been bad.
Some post offices have had so many employees out sick that they haven't delivered mail at all in 2 weeks.
I wouldn't take it to heart at all if the US postal service is involved.
Oh, and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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A typical Wednesday evening Drunk story
by GrreatTeacher inwait, you don't go drinking on wednesday nights?
you don't get drunk and drive?
neither do i.. but, one of my neighbors does!.
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Wait, you don't go drinking on Wednesday nights? You don't get drunk and drive?
Neither do I.
But, one of my neighbors does!
Here's the setting: it's a Wednesday evening about 8:30. It's completely dark outside. Northern hemisphere winter and it had snowed, dumping about a foot of snow on the area. My husband and I had been anxiously waiting for our 20 year old son to get home from his three day trip to Pittsburgh. My husband had just gotten out of the shower when the boy showed up. He was in and out unpacking his car. We had just sat down in the living room and we were listening to all of his stories.
Son hadn't shut the front door, leaving only the storm door closed, and the cold was seeping in. My husband, having just jumped out of the shower and only wearing shorts got up to close and lock the door for the night.
Suddenly, a loud bang, then a continuous loud scraping sound. You know, just like when someone slams the lid shut on a trash bin and then drags it down the driveway to the street. At least that was my first thought. But, no, it was louder than that.
My husband was at the front door and he yelled, " What the hell? Son, get your keys. Go, go, go!" They rushed out the door and jumped in my son's car and drove off down the street like a bat out of hell.
What the actual eff, I thought, grabbed my coat really quickly (it was freezing with snow on the ground and the driveways) and ran outside where I saw a couple of my neighbors. One of them had just been turning into her driveway and saw the whole thing. A driver had hit the side of my next door neighbor's car that was parked on the street, smashing the rear and pushing it half cocked onto the roadway. Then, it had proceeded to also scrape all down the side of another of their vehicles that was parked in front.
But, the best part? This person had hit and run, but not before losing its front passenger side wheel! It was sitting in the middle of the dark street! And they kept on going!
We called 911 and slowed incoming traffic down so they wouldn't hit the giant wheel in the middle of the street. More neighbors were outside now. We actually had to wake up the people whose cars were involved because they had been asleep in the back of the house and didn't hear it.
Suddenly my cell phone rang. It was my husband.
"We found her," he said. "She pulled into 111 Our Same Name Drive and she's drunk. Call 911 and give them that information. Oh, and ask Butch to drive down with a jacket for me. All I'm wearing is my shorts and it's freezing out here. Plus, she's really belligerent and I'm staying here until the cops get here so I can identify her as the one who did it." Our neighbor Butch went down the street to deliver some clothing and it was all of 2 blocks away on our street!
Two sheriff's deputies finally arrived. One stayed to do an accident scene investigation and the other went down the two blocks to deal with the drunk hit and run driver.
He found my husband and my son parked in front of her driveway, got the story and proceeded to perform a field sobriety test on this lady. A state trooper also responded and he was talking to my husband and son getting more information from them. Drunk lady yells, " Oh, so I guess this is a PRIVATE conversation, huh?" Officer tells her that the conversation didn't include her and moved my husband and son toward their car and eventually told them they could go. The lady failed the test and got a free ride in the back of a police car!
The rest of the story was this: they followed the lady down the street by following a big scrape mark from her missing tire. She managed to pull into her driveway, plowing the stones as she went. She sat in her car. My husband got up and went to the driver's window. She was looking down, head dropping as if she were sleeping! My husband startled her as he knocked on the window and told her to roll it down.
" Hi, neighbor!" she said as if she hadn't just hit two cars without stopping, lost a wheel and limped home, and as if she were not sitting in that very vehicle, missing a wheel at that very moment.
" You hit my car!" he responded and she thought about that for awhile, reeking of alcohol.
"Why are you naked?" she asked, slurring her words. And it was very nearly true. He had run out of the house with only his shorts on and stumbled into his slippers. From what she could see, from the waist up, he was indeed naked, standing at her car window in the freezing winter cold!
"You hit my car!" my husband said again more forcefully. She pondered this for a bit.
"Well," she said looking him up and down salaciously, "maybe we could work something out!"
That's when he had called me requesting clothing and backup. Guess he didn't want to be nearly naked when the cops showed up!
He told me when she said that he thought, 'wait, did this just really happen? I've been waiting my whole life for someone to say that, and, it happens with drunk lady who just hit and run my neighbor's cars!'
Drunk lady caught 6 charges including driving while intoxicated, failure to stop at the scene of an accident, negligent driving, and reckless driving.
She was released to her mother and was home that night. Her crippled Tahoe with only 3 wheels is still sitting in her driveway.
Can you believe that? Would you chase a hit and run driver?
Know anybody else drunk as a skunk by 8:30 on a Wednesday evening?
"You might be an alcoholic if..."