Random thoughts...

I hate winter.  Especially in the Northeast.  Can't wait until it's over.   

Got the boot yesterday. Officially because my boss wants to restructure my department but the real reason is most probably because I wanted to be open and honest about paternity leave and thus left myself vulnerable for being fired. Oh well, at least I get to help out my wife with the kids and our baby being born this month...

Gas prices are up another 30 cents a gallon since Monday when I last filled up.  It is time to limit my miles as I cannot afford to keep paying these exorbitant prices.

alldatndensum wrote:Gas prices are up another 30 cents a gallon since Monday when I last filled up.  It is time to limit my miles as I cannot afford to keep paying these exorbitant prices.

I've seen some pics of $7+ per gallon gas in southern California.  

Likewise a news clip circulating from northern Alabama where a gas station is lamenting they have to remove 5-6 Biden "I did that!" stickers from their pumps PER DAY.

15 years to the day since the last time I drank alcohol.  God made this possible.

My pathetic internet is down again.  Last month, I was down for 8 days.  If it is down that long this time, I will demand they rip up my contract and I will go to another, more reliable, company.

> sees a thread in a Christian community talking about Bible inerrancy
> asks if a bible found in a hotel room that's missing a page, is inerrant
>> 'The Bible is inerrant' is angrily repeated and reaffirmed, without any further elaboration
>> 'no, that's just a copy'
>> 'depends on what page'
>> 'a Bible we read isn't actually God's word, its just a representation of God's word'
>> 'The Bible is inerrant, but a bible being inerrant, depends.' (great answer)
> feels happy to see a good explanation, finally
> feels concerned over how some Christians respond when a question is asked

Every day in my news feed I see another notice of a mansion or house on the East coast being sold for some crazy amount, like $20 million, $50 million, sometimes $100 million....it just boggles my mind how people can get that kind of money.  
It just amazes me.  Like Bezos, he reportedly makes $144,000 per minute.  I can't even fathom that kind of material wealth, it's so alien to my experience.

What happened to Pethead?

I miss him too.

XBOX Series S and bluray player are operational.

Son of Nun wrote:What happened to Pethead?

BaleMaster wrote:I miss him too.  

I just pm'd him to check in.  Hopefully he comes back to say hi!

Hey, guys! I’m still alive and well. It’s been really crazy lately with both church and family stuff, but hopefully I can get back here more when things calm down a bit.

Just read that Bruce Willis is retiring from acting due to aphasia, which is a neurological condition that affects memory and communication skills. So bummed, but I'm glad we have everything he's done over the years in his career. May God bless him and his family in his retirement. Yippee-kai-yay to the legend, indeed!

My job for more than a decade has been customer service by phone.  (answering 7+ different 1-800 numbers, ranging from order placement, roadside assistance, service calls for equipment repair, licensing and technical support, etc.)

Yesterday, I had probably one of the most disturbing calls I've ever had.  It was on one of the 'conservation' lines I answer (think hunting and fishing licenses, but its not for the state I live in)

An elderly male (born 1945) called in stating he needed a fishing license.  He already bought one that was still currently active, so really, he just needed it printed out again.  He was at Walmart, and they can do this, but they were giving him a hard time.  (they didn't know how to do reprints)

Most callers reaching out to me, if they voice their need for this, its because they don't want to have to pay a fine for fishing without a license on them.  This person, voiced their need for this, because they didn't want to 'have to shoot a conservation officer'.  

...and he kept saying it...  like 5 times on the call, later elaborating he didn't want to have to stab him, or shoot him.  He went on to gush that he was an extremely violent person, just got out of prison for murdering someone, and he's 'one of those people' who can't accept any authority.

He was quite rude with the Walmart employees, and stated he's not leaving, until he gets his permit.  I was able to help him and them, and this....  psychopath....  got the permit he needed.

The client absolutely wants to know about calls like this, and I stayed after work reporting it.  ...but its been renting space in my head on if this was some sort of cry for help, or weird bragging on a state recorded line, or if he would have actually tried to murder an employee at Walmart, if I wasn't able to help.

Yeesh...

A real piece of work.

Yikes, that sounds like one scary conversation, even on the phone.

The Disney + package is no more.  This insidious corporation has run its course and deserves to die a slow, agonizing death via millstone-neck syndrome. 

^Amen to that; I've been saying it for years. 

^Disney is now well-established within the upper ranks of the "Seriously Evil" corporations.

You know, the ones who had tag lines of "Do No Evil" and other high-sounding catch phrases that they had no intention of ever honoring....

I think my wife would prefer to keep Disney+ for the classic pre-cult entries.  Too much nostalgia for her to give that up, for now....  but her and I both have shaken our heads over the new sex/gender ideology being absolutely mired in everything new they touch.

They too appear unable to define what a woman is.  (not to get political, but from what I've seen of a particular cultist MDs declaration, they can all say black and brown 'women', but anyone white is only a 'person' or 'people'.  This sounds racist to me, but these people don't even see white as a race.  At this rate, give it a year, they won't even see white as people.)
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If my prior post wasn't enough work drama, I happened to remark yesterday in my work chat, something along the lines of "full moon out?  These callers are unhinged.".  (I stated it that way for the context of whackadoodle people being out during a full moon, and the callers were more bonkers in behavior than usual)

I found the following remarks from 3 of my female coworkers to be confusing?  They immediately started talking about the moon cycles and 'setting their water out'.  I was too busy to think much of it, but after work I looked more into what they were talking about. 

Long story short, apparently there's a small coven of sorts where I work, as 'moon water' recipes for (witchcraft) spells and potions are listed online.

*sigh*

What a world we live in now...

ThomasEversole wrote:They too appear unable to define what a woman is.  (not to get political, but from what I've seen of a particular cultist MDs declaration, they can all say black and brown 'women', but anyone white is only a 'person' or 'people'.  This sounds racist to me, but these people don't even see white as a race.  At this rate, give it a year, they won't even see white as people.)
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What a world we live in now...

I saw recently that black and brown women were called "women' as you said, but their white counterparts were called "birthing people." !  And this was an official spokesperson from the WH....

Thing is, if they can't even state what a woman is, then why are they so insistent at putting one on the Supreme Court or other political office?  If womanhood doesn't really mean anything or even exist, then what are they proving, and for whom?

Yes, and that spokesperson is a licensed doctor, which just horrified my nurse wife.  Makes me think the likeminded staff in the local labor and delivery at the hospital, would never state "Its a boy/girl!" but instead, have to get a biologist to define the baby?



My best guess on what they're trying to prove, they have the power to re-coin any words used by us plebs.  Anyone who wasn't brainfogged into this cult that showed up 15 minutes ago, knows what a woman is.  (Its our mothers, sisters, girlfriends, wives and female friends and acquaintances.)

...but the elites are tired of our vernacular, so they've turned how we talk and the words we use, into an ultimatum as to how we can fit into the society they currently control.

I facepalmed and groaned at seeing a talking-head on Fox bring up violent movies and video games with this Texas school shooting. Might as well add heavy metal to the list at this rate.


It blows my mind that people still think guns, video games, music, etc. are the catalyst to these spree killings. There would certainly be more killings if that were the case, as millions and millions of people partake, without any issue like this at all. 


If anyone asks me, I believe it's pharmaceutical related. Its less than 10% of the entire population on anti-depressants, or anti-psychotics, but I'm fairly confident in saying almost all (if not entirely all) of these school shooters, even since Columbine, were on 'mental health meds' of some kind.


These medications don't cause a problem for many people, but they do cause a small percentage of people who take them, to become violent enough to be homicidal or suicidal.


My two cents on how to prevent school shootings? Kids on mental health meds, need to be better monitored. Doctors need to stop scripting and sampling these drugs like they're candy. 


If kids on these meds withdraw socially and/or stop talking, they need taken off the meds, until they can communicate or show, how they're feeling with them.