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[orrpeople]

@WVduckchick - use the words "exotic mix" when you decide to sell them... they'll be exotic, (and probably cute beyond all cuteness) alright!

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Let me try. Conflict/war/colonial rule leaves a bitter taste to the victims, but not forever . At some point it becomes an integral and accepted part of who we are today and in many ways is celebrated. Thus, perceived symbols of oppression/struggle today, will simply become imbibed into the tapestry that makes us who we, in the furture.

In South Africa, for example a number of monuments refelecting Boer rule (and Cecil Rhodes, for that matter) have been pulled down and understandably, for now. It may be regretted in a couple of hundred years as they will have lost the physical history of where they came from and what they have become.

And please, I implore you - keep any such intellectual gymnastic-related issues to before Gordon's o'clock

Well put! I get what you're saying.
And I will try to keep Gordon's time in mine next time!

 

[perchie.girl]

Snatches

 

[Pork Pie]

Snatches

Ya just made his day

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Snatches

Everything go well yesterday with appointments?

 

[Alaskan]

No... youtube tells people that drakes whangs fall off every year and grow back...

HOW did that start!?!?!?!

All I'm saying is my hubby thinks their underwear is worth the price.

people, true living human people, actually pay that much money for a single underware??

my mind is blown....

I thought prices like that were for the movie star folks

Any American Indian in his pedigree? He could make a loin cloth.

There was 1 year...all of the kids decided to be Indians. Naked Indians running through the forest and living off the land. I worked hard to convince the older ones to wear loin cloths. I wasn't sure if they were going to follow the loin cloth suggestion, so I got them to promise to not let the neighbors see them.

But, we have zero Indian blood.

Yeah it's just not the same In Marquette either.... They trick or treat only in the daylight... For an hour....

lame.

Where you are right.... There were sickos when I grew up too.... Some of the problem these days are the way we coddle our kids.
Like i say some of the problem.... We don't want to expose our kids to danger.... But at the same time these days we can't even allow them to scrape their knees..... We will raise kids that can't function in the real world.

Last spring I was driving down the hill (2 lanes total, lots of curves, a few hairpins). right before a hairpin the car in front of me suddenly turned to the left so it was blocking both lanes, then came to a shuddering stop.

The guy driving sat in the car and started using his phone, calling someone.....

I sat there with my jaw on the floor.

Luckily there was no danger of us getting hit.

So, then I get out of the car and walk to the motionless dude and ask him if he could get out and we could push his car to the side so that people could pass. He said he thought the axel had busted because the car could not move, the wheels were locked.

By this point, another young guy, from a car down hill from busted guy comes up. I say, no problem, let's hook a tow rope up and drag it to the side. I am driving a weeny car, as well as uphill, so I ask the downhill guy if he can tow it to the side.

he said... "no, we need to wait for the cops. they have to take care of this"



They guy with the busted vehicle said "I called my friend, he knows how to deal with this, he is coming"



I couldn't say anything.

I just got back in my car and u-turned to get out of there.

If that is typical of this day and age, it us a miracle that the power still turns on.

We ate mostly canned & frozen crap. I don't ever remember my mom making any sort of dessert.

even canned crap can be comfort food.

I have a strong fondness for canned chili.

Are you and Sour and Spookwriter related? I love your stories and your writing style is so similar. I miss Spook...

nope, but that is a great compliment so thanks! And yep, me too. @Spookwriter

Exactly. I think you'd have to gather up a dozen millenials (not our kids, of course) to have enough life skills to match one of the generation born the first half of the 20th century at the same age.

nope.... read my story above. They would just sit together and call around until they found an older person willing to help them.

I once had the neighbor kids help my kids fix the church driveway. ..... I said they should walk down the road with shovels and fix the potholes.

the other kids asked HOW??

Banjos? Nah. Guitar & an electric piano.

I am impressed! How did you keep the piano from sliding off the roof of the car when you banged into something?

except the Scots dont use "containment"

and so you save money! You own one kilt and 3 shirts, I guess they do wear socks... But still, not bad!

 

[Alaskan]

Everything go well yesterday with appointments?

yeah.... did they @perchie.girl ?

 

[Chaos18]

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[BantyChooks]

I agree! And it's gonna get worse before it gets better!

I am impressed! How did you keep the piano from sliding off the roof of the car when you banged into something?

Duck tape, silly. What else?

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Duck tape, silly. What else?

Duck tape n caulk solve everything!