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1 hour ago, Dolf said:

Very popular with blacks and latinos now. 

Of course, if you say so. 

On 2/22/2024 at 2:02 PM, Zab1e said:

The burden of proof shd be on her. She is a political figure, supposed to be serving the people. Its her job to prove that she is working for the ppl and not herself. 

13 hours ago, Zab1e said:

Immature

Did someone say immature?

5 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

 

Unfortunately these cowards are speaking from a protected position, safe from defamation lawsuits.

This is not about defamation. This is (potentially) about conspiracy to interfere in an election. Not sure they are protected if those charges were brought against them. 

17 minutes ago, retarius said:

Did Jesus preach hating anyone? No, he didn't. Sorry pal but you are the hypocrite pretending to be a Christian. 

You really have no idea what you’re on about, do you? I never claimed to be a Christian. Just wanted to point out the hypocrisy of the evangelicals, who claim to be Christians, yet are anything but. And if there’s anything I really can’t stand, it’s those ‘holier than thou’ hypocrites. 

22 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

with liberty and justice for all.

How does that compute with (white) Christian nationalism?

4 minutes ago, scorecard said:

Aware of this. My buddy at primary school missed many days. 

 

Why? His mother would stop him at the front door from leaving the house to go to school. She then gave him a prepared list of the work he had to do that day at home. Always a long list, more than a days work.

 

She sat in the living room with her older sister drinking tea and gin all day.

 

Mother often yelled for her son to come to the living room with a strap and she proceeded to give him the strap across his bare* buttocks and his legs.

*He had to take off his shorts and underwear and was prohibited from covering his genitals and his mother would also smack his genitals with the palm of her hand and make him fall over. 

 

Then she would make him sit in a sofa chair so his bare area could be seen by his mom and her sister and eat his lunch which he had prepared himself to take to school.  

 

He mentioned several time that his father knew about all of this but father did nothing because he was very frightened of his wife who had previously several times beat him up using the same strap. 

 

 

Wow, that’s a very sad story. Imagine having to grow up like that. Why parents would do that to a child is beyond me.

My mother didn’t get physical with us, though, the abuse was much more psychological, resulting in stress, depression and even trauma. It took me a long time to discover where all that came from, and that my dad had been more or less complicit, in that he never lifted a finger to stop his wife from psychologically abusing us kids. My father was a gentle soul, a pushover, and my mother walked all over him. Also something I didn’t realize until much later.

36 minutes ago, Thailand said:

You are advocating shooting without trial?

Not really, I may have been exaggerating a little. But this just p!sses me off no end. On the one hand the total inaction of the Thai authorities over (at least) the last two decades when it comes to putting a stop to this recurring smog, and on the other hand the total disregard for the population’s health by a bunch of morons who set fire to the forest so that they can make money. It’s just shocking to me that this has gone on for so long already, and probably will go on for a long time to come.
So some draconian measures are desperately needed, IMO. Shooting these people is probably a bridge too far, but I would definitely be in favor of locking them up for a very long time.

2 hours ago, Thailand said:

I expect we will see multiple arrests and massive fines to deter the arsonists doing further damage.

Short of shooting a couple of guys responsible for starting those fires, to set an example of what can happen to anyone starting such fires, I don’t think anything would deter them. And maybe you’re thinking ‘shooting people for this is way over the top’. Maybe, but maybe not. These people are responsible (in part) for the smog that covers the north of Thailand every dry season, and it seems to be getting worse every year.
Thousands, if not tens of thousands of people, develop respiratory diseases because of this (I got bronchitis twice staying in CM), and it will shorten the lives of many by years and years. It does a lot of damage to the people, to the environment and to the economy. And all that just so that some selfish dumbasses can pick mushrooms and earn a lot of money? I say hunt them down and throw them in jail for at least ten years. But that would mean that the RTP would have to get off their backsides and actually do something worthwhile, and we all know that’s never going to happen.

3 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

I’m not sure you understood my comment…

 

I have so much respect for my father, even if my son respects me only to half the amount - I’ll be happy.

 

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Bit of a misunderstanding, I guess, since I was commenting on the last sentence in your post: “I wonder if people should not have to pass a test before becoming parents !!”

6 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

Another barstool myth that the uneducated repeat and the foolish believe. 

 

"Pitbulls" jaws do not "lock". Their bone structure is the same as any other dog. 

 

 

https://www.k9magazine.com/pit-bull-locking-jaw-myth/

 

I got this advice from a vet many years ago, and I assumed he knew what he was talking about. i stand corrected.

5 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

If my son has half the respect for me that I have for my father, then I’ll consider myself proud of a job well done…

 

What does surprise me when reading such threads is how many people come from such disrupted & broken family backgrounds. 
 

I wonder if people should not have to pass a test before becoming parents !!

 

 

Couldn’t agree with you more. My mom and dad should never have gotten married, much less had children. But if they hadn’t gotten together, I would never have been born. So…..

I have very mixed feelings about my dad. He certainly wasn’t a louse, far from that. But then again, he failed to protect me and my siblings from our narcissistic mother, who did quite a number on most of us and caused a lot of psychological damage. Hence the mixed feelings.

I once got this advice from a vet. When a pitbull bites and gets a hold of you (like your arm or something) apparently his jaws lock and it’s impossible to get your arm out again. The only way to deal with this is to lift the dog up and violently slam its body into a wall or a tree or whatever until the dog loses consciousness (or is dead), and the jaws unlock. I kid you not.

3 minutes ago, candide said:

It's not Yellowtail's trolling style at all. Yellowtail's m.o. is to lay traps by asking biased questions.

It looks more like Bignok's style.

I guess we’ll never know….