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  Am I right here, or just Sarcastic...

  by Tuesday in

  1. jw
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  so my mom might be having an operation shortly, so i asked her about the blood card.

  i said that since i was the closest relative that would at least understand her beliefs and follow them (no other relative in the area would allow her to not take blood) i said that i understood there was a new blood card with the various incraments and particles of blood that will be allowed.

  she said there was and she had the card filled out, which i took a look at it and everything was checked off.

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  Abaddon

  You are as close to being right as makes no difference as far as I know.

  AND sarcastic at the same time, so you get bonus points!!!!
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  UK-Aisleyne's dad recalls emotional reunion

  by DannyHaszard in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  digital spy

  aisleyne's dad recalls emotional reunion

  digital spy, uk - 59 minutes ago .

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  Abaddon

  I was just wondering what Congo she went to; I was in Marylebone until I left London in 1990, Paddington before then. If he mum ives near Regent's Park then it's Camden, Paddington or Marylebone, isn't it? Or am I forgetting Kensal Rise or something like that?

  Whatever, can't picture her or her mum.
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  Do You Get Any Pleasure Out of the Holidays Since Leaving the Watchtower?

  by jayhawk1 in

  1. social
  2. family

  yesterday was my crappy birthday, http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/20/127389/1.ashx and while the evening went along, i realized something.

  i've been out of the watchtower for about 6 years now and i still don't enjoy the holidays or my birthday.

  i can't recall one time saying to myself, "wow, that was so much fun.

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  Abaddon

  The first year, no. Few friends as I'd left the Dubbies, I was student and most all the people I knew disappeared during Christmas. I didn't see anyone for three days I think.

  Following year I had Christmas with my then-gf's family, and it was lovely. Really warm and loving. A few uninspiring Xmases since then, mostly in student days when most of my friends were back home in the vacations. A rather funny one at another x-gf where I made the cardinal mistakes of totally thrashing her entire family at Trivial Pursuit AND compunded it by beating her mum's High Score (she prided herself on being indisputed family Tetris queen) on a Tetris hand-held the first time I picked it up (blind chance more than skill). Another one at friends from Uni' after Uni meeting up at their house with a mutual acquaintence who was a fb of mine, very boozy and humourous. Then I move over here (from UK to Holland) and it's back to family CHristmas's again, which are great. I even go to Christmas Mass as my fiance likes me to.

  This Christmas was the best, as I was able to give my 16 year-old daughter her first proper Christmas; seeing her face when we walked into the Chricstmas deocrations dhepartment was wonderful, and she still has her own tree up, LOL.

  I had a few memorable birthdays at Uni', most years I don't get round to organsing anything but this year had quite a nice party, considerably tamer party than in Uni' days, but with family round and a fiance there's less potential for debauchery than with twenty people cramed into a student bedroom off their faces (with at least two who fancy me).
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  SKYPE - ANYONE

  by stillajwexelder in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am sure there has been a thread about this but i downloaded skype - (free) and i have a webcam and a microphone so i can call friends and family in europe who also have skype and i can talk and see them free of charge - really cool.

  anyone of you guys got skype?

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  Abaddon

  Heya FBF/RAF/Corrine...

  ... your written English is SO good, much better than I remember. Wish my Dutch had improved as much in that time!!

  Just to add, Skype also works like any old Chat software ICQ/Messenger/Communicator etc.
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  SKYPE - ANYONE

  by stillajwexelder in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am sure there has been a thread about this but i downloaded skype - (free) and i have a webcam and a microphone so i can call friends and family in europe who also have skype and i can talk and see them free of charge - really cool.

  anyone of you guys got skype?

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  Abaddon

  To clarify, you ONLY need

  1. a PC, Mac or Linux box
  2. speakers or headphones and a headphone socket
  3. mike and/or a microphone/line socket

  You can then download and install Skype and make yourself an ID, like gyles_williams, for example. You can then talk free to anyone with Skype, and make low-cost calls to real phone numbers by purchasing 'SkypeOut' credits; all of this only works whilst your computer is on.

  You can also;

  1. use a webcam
  2. purchase a Skype USB phone (several models available, PC and maybe Mac compatable) which means you can use a normal phone handset instead of yodelling into a mike and using your speakers or headphones
  3. purchase a cordless Skype USB phone (several models available, PC only) which means you can use a normal phone handset instead of yodelling into a mike and using your speakers or headphones or being in front of your computer
  4. purchase a SkypeIn number which gives you a normal phone number; for example, I could have an American NYC number ringing in London if I got one off Skype

  Again, all the above requires your computer to be on.

  As pointed out, quality of service depends on connection speed of the client, i.e. your computer, and a bad WLAN link can bugger up a good Internet connection...
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  SKYPE - ANYONE

  by stillajwexelder in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am sure there has been a thread about this but i downloaded skype - (free) and i have a webcam and a microphone so i can call friends and family in europe who also have skype and i can talk and see them free of charge - really cool.

  anyone of you guys got skype?

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  Abaddon

  Corrine!! So good to see you here again.

  Yes, you're right a Skypecast, Conf calls have a low participant limitand need a central person whose ID is known to all or knows the ID of all participants, but Skypecasts are (I think) >99 people.

  Mmmm... "Outcast ApostoSkype" - the weekly Skypecast for xJW's - bring your own intoxicants"?
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  CO/DO's in the UK?

  by pobthespazz in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  can anyone compile a list of as many as possible past and present co/do's from the uk?

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  Abaddon

  I can only remember two and that's from my days in London.

  Tom Maltby was an unmittigated sack of sh1t, a real rule obsessed shite-house who went down with a relaxed 60% carribean cong like Mahler at a Reggae gig.

  I seem to recall David Sidbury,unless there was ALSO a David Salter and I am mixing the two together. He was actually a human being.

  Have no recollection of CO's from my last three years as an active Dubbe in Devon. Maybe my brain just edited them out as too painful or traumatic.

  For similar reasons I STILL can't recall the Bay City Rollers
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  SKYPE - ANYONE

  by stillajwexelder in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am sure there has been a thread about this but i downloaded skype - (free) and i have a webcam and a microphone so i can call friends and family in europe who also have skype and i can talk and see them free of charge - really cool.

  anyone of you guys got skype?

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  Abaddon

  Been using Skype for a few years now, just got a Philips VOIP 321 which is a cordless POTS/Skype phone, i.e. you plug it into your landline AND your PC and can make or get calls via your normal phone line or receive and make calls via Skye when you're not in front of PC (but it has to be on, nach). Not bad for €75. You can scroll through your Skype contacts on the handset. Now I just need to figure out why the phone jack by the PC which I've never used before doesn't work..

  ... anyone wants my Skype ID, just ask.

  We also use it at work for Conference Calls.

  HEY!!!!

  How about an Apostoskype????!!
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  I guess because we arent like them

  by IP_SEC in

  1. social
  2. current

  yesterday i was working outside a convenience store.

  a black woman and her little boy pulled up to get gas and were asked to use a credit card or prepay.

  this is common to everyone around here.

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  Abaddon

  This reminds me of an advert for the policeforce in the UK.

  You saw a young, shaven-headed white man, dressed in a style of clothing that identified him as a skinhead, a notorious racist grouping. He was running pell-mell toward an old lady, shouting and gestiulating violently, knocking her flying with both hands. The film froze. A caption comes up; what do you think? Then the film replayed at a wider zoom setting, where you saw the old lady was beneath some collapsing skaffolding, and the man was running to push her out of the way.

  Because of my personality I would for a moment feel offended on the womans part, and then pobably reflect on the fact that it was possible a black shop-clerk inside was saying how some people just had such a lousy attitude. I think (however unfairly) my appraisal of her would count; skank crack-mama would envoke different sympathies from smartly-turned out and dignified.

  What she said seems to lean towards the latter. Still doesn't mean she's not the asshole in the situation.

  Part of the joy of equality is men, women, gays, straights, black, white, Jewish, Muslim, WHATEVER... we all get an equal chance of being an asshole.
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  9/11 coinsidences

  by 5go in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i post this in the name of tongue and cheek.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/september_11.

  1776 - british-american peace conference on staten island fails to stop nascent american revolution.

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  Abaddon

  Nuts! Whole hazelnuts, Cadbury's take them and they cover them with chocolate...

  If we ignore for one second the tsunami of drivel that is supposed to support such claims, and say, okay, these guys are real...

  ... how come they don't shut people like you up. They certainly have the technology to block dissemination of the truth about them, and to track, trace and eliminate those brave people trying to disseminate such information. In fact, isn't there a noise outside just now?!

  Oooo! I am sooo excited, this is just like the X-Files. Abi! Abi! Don't walk towards the light!!! No doubt you can make yourself invisible with a cloak given to you by Dumbledore, or chant, or hide in the tin-stocked Apocalypse bolt-hole in your laundry basket. Case.

  Now, Funky, Tetra and old 'Baddy are going to sign off work (obviously we are in cahoots with the elite), and fly in our Mach 9 Aurora spyplane, our stealth helicopter, and car powered by plain H2O to our the island hideaway and chat with the Thunderbird boys before hopping over to Area 51 and stealing the alien saucer they have there to ruin the life of some poor sod by giving them a real sight of a UFO they can never prove that ultimately leads them to unemployment, divorce, and endless cold pizza and X-Files. We will then sit by the pool sipping gnat sweat with out model girlfriends whilst we stoke their pussies.

  An exotic Persian, a sultry Abyssinian, and a Maine Coon.

  Bwahahaha! Bwhahahaha!

  Time for another spliff...

  BEHIND YOU!!!