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  What did you have for Christmas dinner?

  by GrreatTeacher in

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  my inlaws are polish, though my husband is a 3rd generation american, but the food traditions have stuck around.. we have christmas eve dinner starting with red beet soup with sour cream, pierogies filled with mashed potatoes or saurkraut, ham, polish sausage sliced and cooked with saurkraut, turkey (that part is american), krischickies (likely spelled wrong) which are crispy pastries dipped in powdered sugar, and apple pie (also american.).

  there are goodnatured threats toward bad children who may need to get their dupa busted (butt spanked) and therefore santa will bring figismachen.

  i also love golabkis (ground beef and rice wrapped in cabbage leaves), but these were not served this time.

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  talesin

  Had it last week; the traditional turkey with trimmings. Cooked by someone else, hooray! For a change.

  Today? Chocolate bars, chips, and some chicken and mashed. Oh, and some Rolos to finish the evening. : D
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  Favourite Christmas presents!

  by nicolaou in

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  my son bought me a 64gb micro sd card for my phone!

  "what kind of geeky xmas pressie is that nic?!

  " i hear you cry.

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  GT - lol, those "Ped Egg" things ......... well, I bought one at the local store - it's just a file in a fancy plastic case. No, the dremel is not good, but a simple file that costs about $2 will do the trick!
  
  And ...... Oh, no, he didn't! At least the thought was for you...... : )
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  Merry Christmas!

  by lambsbottom in

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  wow, 4 years!

  it has been a real journey.

  going from a devout jw, to having a close call with a loved one possibly needing a transfusion, to researching the heck out of everything, to letting it rest and go back to sleep for a while, to moving states and almost going crazy knowing all the bs they were speaking from the platform.

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  That is such GOOD NEWS! So glad to hear it, and Happy Xmas, Jake. xx
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  Wooly Mammoths

  by Bloody Hotdogs! in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a jw came to my door a while back and used wooly mammoths as evidence for noah's flood.

  he was a bit older, so i thought this must be some oddball out-of-date teaching of jehovah's witnesses.

  i could remember something in the insight book about frozen mammoths, but not much else.

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  I like the information on your site, it's excellent! I'm no expert, so can't say if you missed anything.

  Nice work. xx
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  American accents, Bette Midler, Clinton, Rick Fearon, Strathclyde, Morningside

  by slimboyfat in

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  i used to enjoy being able to distinguish different local accents, but for some reason i've got worse at it.

  i was thinking about this today when i was listening to bette midler on the scottish radio.

  i thought to myself i quite liked her accent and also that it reminded me of someone else.

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  talesin

  I know how it could be sexier .... but not gonna happen. ; )
  
  "The name is Elba, Idris Elba."

  
  
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  Favourite Christmas presents!

  by nicolaou in

  1. jw
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  my son bought me a 64gb micro sd card for my phone!

  "what kind of geeky xmas pressie is that nic?!

  " i hear you cry.

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  talesin

  An anthology of short stories from Newfoundland. : )

  LisaRose, my kind of gurl! I have a Dremel, and love my power tools (had to sell my band saw this year *sigh*)

  and oh, SAH, yes! That is a great prezzie "Woke up this mornin', feelin' fine ..." yeah!
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  Today is Christmas, and guess what? Witnesses's were going house to house on my block, TODAY ON CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

  by Dunedain in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i kid you not!!!!!

  my family, and i, were on our way to my wife's brothers house today, which is the families christmas tradition.

  we open presents in the morning, and at around 10:30, we head over to my brother in laws for breakfast/brunch, with all the family.. so, as we loaded some presents up in the car, and we all jumped, and drove away, at the end of my block, jehovahs witnesses!

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  talesin

  It was discouraged here (70s), because it would alienate people and was also considered highly disrespectful. Maybe it's a Canadian thing, Clambake.
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  American accents, Bette Midler, Clinton, Rick Fearon, Strathclyde, Morningside

  by slimboyfat in

  1. social
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  i used to enjoy being able to distinguish different local accents, but for some reason i've got worse at it.

  i was thinking about this today when i was listening to bette midler on the scottish radio.

  i thought to myself i quite liked her accent and also that it reminded me of someone else.

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  GT My grandfather used to say 'warshing machine', must be a NE thing. : D
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  American accents, Bette Midler, Clinton, Rick Fearon, Strathclyde, Morningside

  by slimboyfat in

  1. social
  2. current

  i used to enjoy being able to distinguish different local accents, but for some reason i've got worse at it.

  i was thinking about this today when i was listening to bette midler on the scottish radio.

  i thought to myself i quite liked her accent and also that it reminded me of someone else.

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  talesin

  We have a variety of regional dialects here. In the city, I guess we sound like Californians (that's what people thought when I was in CA "are you from here? You have no accent,"). But we just watch too much TV, that's my theory, though I always wondered why we sounded 'just like those kids on the Brady Bunch'.

  If you drive 100+ klicks south, the accent is thick, often hard to understand, with strong German influences (more what I would call a regional dialect, rather than an accent; ie, different words/terms.) . Go 100+ klicks in the other direction (my family home) and it's another different way of speaking.
  

  Hop over the causeway to the island culture of my province, and you will 'stick out like a sore thumb' - everyone from The Hawk to Nart' Sydney will know you're a mainlander. Their speech is most colourful! : D

  We don't say 'eh'; we end our sentences with 'right?' And i never heard the word 'hoser' before the McKenzie Bros. movie came out in theatres (Strange Brew). :P

  There's French here (Acadian and just horrid to a Parisian - the dialect is hard to understand - France french is much easier - lol, probably because I studied it for 10 years)..

  Aussies are the hardest to imitate. I'm somewhat of a mimic, and can do many 'accents', but not AU.

  GB (the island) has so many accents & dialects! Even languages (thinking Welsh and Gaelic at least).. Would love to visit some day, and explore my Welsh & Cornish roots.

  I can't recall anyone on Seinfeld that had what i'd think of as NYC accent, except for George's mother, Estelle Costanza "George! What are you doing, George!" in that screechy voice. hehehe

  Oh, and we are the home of the Trailer Park Boys, which is a good representation of the local culture. hehehe
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  The Pain of Coming to a Decision

  by daniel-p in

  1. jw
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  it's been at least a couple years since i've posted anything on here, and much longer than that since when i was active.

  ten years ago i first came here all in turmoil over my disillusionment of my beliefs.

  i've been through lots of ups and downs since then.

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  talesin

  I don't want any part of it. I thought I could live with it, before. I thought I could compromise. But I was wrong. I was wrong about myself and my ability to stagger on in the wilderness of my own spiritual void, forever and perfectly alone. I have grown numb, laying at her side in bed. Spooning her and feeling the softness of her skin and the warmth of her body, but none of the relief of having arrived at where I need to be after out wandering for so long.

  This made me feel for you, the heartache. You'll figure it out, whatever's best. <3

  ((((kairos))))