262460 pts · November 13, 2013
I'd write something interesting about myself, but if I were interesting, you'd already know about me.
I think this was what killed Kirk. They couldn't have TWO obviously faked assassination attempts in a row, and they needed a martyr. Probably told Kirk it was going to be faked, and killed him anyway.
My mom in the mid-90's was told to bring her husband to buy a new car. She told them she wasn't married, and they insisted. She had to go to a completely separate dealership to buy a car.
Correction, not "read," but heard. Realized the story is from his appearance on Dirty Laundry.
Unrelated, but one of my favorite anecdotes I read is that Brian Huskey, the actor portraying Duncan Birch, was stunned to find out that many people in his own family didn't recognize him from his EXTENSIVE IMDb credit list, because they all just kind of assumed it was some other totally neutral looking balding guy who just kinda looked like Uncle Brian...
My daughter kept complaining about things going missing, so my wife bought a wireless camera to put in her room. I said there's no way in hell I'm putting a wireless camera inside of a teenage girl's bedroom. Five years later, that camera is still in the original box, and my wife is sure she'll "find a use for it..." (Plot twist: daughter's cat is a sneaky little thief, and her missing stuff was under the bed.)
My go to is "Cuties and cutthroats." Non-gendered, and you get to decide which group you belong to, or both if you want, I don't care.
While my mom was battling my adopted sister's bio dad over custody (he was a drug addict in and out of prison, and would spend his visitation with my sister ignoring her for an entire weekend) it was pretty rough. Her neighbor ended up at one point catching a charge for threatening him with a gun and firing a warning shot. At 80, they just put him on probation. One day he and I were sitting alone, and he said, "It wasn't a warning shot. I missed. Figure a life sentence for me isn't that long."
Wish you the best. Found family is just as valid, by the way. My kids have "aunts and uncles" that they love more and see more often than their actual aunts and uncles. One time my buddy drove for three hours to pick up my oldest, just to drive three hours back home, and do it again a couple of days later because his daughter wanted mine to come to a birthday party sleepover.
My mom is technically a boomer, but like on the tail end of it. My aunts and uncles are gen xers. I always kept her at arms length, but my bio sister and she had a fallout, and I got blacklisted for "picking sides" when I drove my sis to meet and talk with her. They have since made peace, but like, nobody ever bothered making peace with me. I'm an outsider and bastard by birthright, so I just accept it and move on.
I have an adopted sister around the same age as my youngest daughter, and my relationship with my own mother and stepdad is more of a "My daughter's friend's parents" relationship than anything else. My last phone call to my mom was tricking her into letting my wife take my sister to see Hamilton, avoiding the minefield of guilt, blackmail, and manipulation by saying we had already bought the ticket for another of my daughter's friends and they had to cancel.
Every jacket I've ever owned has been lost to my wife or daughters. They'll be like, "It was just laying there. You hadn't worn it for months," and I'm like, "No, it was hanging on the coat hook by the door and it's August!" She even "accidentally" shrunk one down to exactly her size so now it's too small for me.
#15 I'm pretty anti-religious for the most part, but I'll take a Sikh any day. They're the real deal. If following a tenet of their religion would cause harm or allow harm to happen, they are to break the tenet and help people. I'll break bread with a Sikh any day of the week.
Yeah, like 30 seconds of heat turns an overpowering mess into an amazing addition. Sauté them onions, yo!
A couple of months after paying off a Toyota Camry, single owner, no serious incidents, wife got clipped, totaled the car. We got 8 grand for a car that's gonna cost $35000 to replace...
Pete still comes by a couple of times a week to retest, but seems to fail it every time!
Full honesty here, when I realized I was attracted to feminine, not female, a lot of confusion cleared up. Like, "wow, dude is looking hot. Wasn't hot yesterday. Wtf?" And come to realize dude was looking more fem than usual. It's all a spectrum. No hard binaries in nature. Even the difference between saltwater and freshwater is 2-3%.
It's because it allows for better temperature regulation without having to wake up. Too hot? Dip a leg or arm out of the blanket. Too cold? Tuck that bad boy back in. Stuff you can do without having to wake up. Cozy pajamas sound good in theory, but if you overheat, you get woken up.
My preferred types! Strong women and twinks!
#22 Is that Russel Brand? You know, the rapist?
When I was 19 I worked in a max security prison in the Ad Seg department. Not the "busted for pot" crowd, but the "Difference between a mass murderer and a serial killer is body count divided by time" crowd. Flaw in the door design meant that it would take about 45 minutes to cut through one specific spot and the whole door would come off. It was later fixed, but I never realized how much impact that had on me until my kids were playing Jenga behind me 15 years later. Same exact sound....
Tech guy told me that revolutionaries keep burning down his data centers, and I asked how many data centers he had and he said every time revolutionaries burn one down he just builds another one and I said that it sounds like he's just feeding data centers to revolutionaries and Mark Zuckerburg started crying.
#29 https://youtu.be/gnrogbZC3b0?si=eVPxMiV7jFJmSgyO
Oh thank god. I was worried the reference wasn't coming through. Thanks for the confirmation that I hit the right tone!
(By "take care of that" I mean arrange medical care and transport, not that the Sgt was supposed to give him stitches. I actually had 1st aid and emergency training from a previous job, but most of the staff had none at all.)
Worked at a small county jail, and a guy had cut himself for attention. We didn't have 24 hour medical care at the time. I brought him to the infirmary and rendered 1st aid to the best of my ability with what supplies I could find. He was fine, but needed stitches. The Sgt is supposed to be the one to take care of that, so I swapped posts with the Sgt so he could make that call. At that point my involvement was complete, and from there the lawsuit took over. Sgt didn't make that call...
Live the kind of life that you can make it 99% of the way to a century and people still say you were gone too soon...
Honestly if I had everyone in my house even agree on DINNER just once I'd start to freak out.
GB:"My war crimes are fun and whimsical! His war crimes are cruel and nasty."US:"I'll pistol whip the next one of you to say 'war crimes!'"GB:"Hey Trump! What's that thing you like to do? You know, to distract from the Epstein files?"DT:"Oh, you mean war crimes?"
I want to argue, but then I remember how I was basically pushed out of the job because I did it ethically and properly. One occasion a lawsuit was filed, and I was the only one NOT named in the suit, as my actions were to render first aid to the best of my ability and then relieve the sergeant from their post to take over.
I think this was what killed Kirk. They couldn't have TWO obviously faked assassination attempts in a row, and they needed a martyr. Probably told Kirk it was going to be faked, and killed him anyway.
My mom in the mid-90's was told to bring her husband to buy a new car. She told them she wasn't married, and they insisted. She had to go to a completely separate dealership to buy a car.
Correction, not "read," but heard. Realized the story is from his appearance on Dirty Laundry.
Unrelated, but one of my favorite anecdotes I read is that Brian Huskey, the actor portraying Duncan Birch, was stunned to find out that many people in his own family didn't recognize him from his EXTENSIVE IMDb credit list, because they all just kind of assumed it was some other totally neutral looking balding guy who just kinda looked like Uncle Brian...
My daughter kept complaining about things going missing, so my wife bought a wireless camera to put in her room. I said there's no way in hell I'm putting a wireless camera inside of a teenage girl's bedroom. Five years later, that camera is still in the original box, and my wife is sure she'll "find a use for it..." (Plot twist: daughter's cat is a sneaky little thief, and her missing stuff was under the bed.)
My go to is "Cuties and cutthroats." Non-gendered, and you get to decide which group you belong to, or both if you want, I don't care.
While my mom was battling my adopted sister's bio dad over custody (he was a drug addict in and out of prison, and would spend his visitation with my sister ignoring her for an entire weekend) it was pretty rough. Her neighbor ended up at one point catching a charge for threatening him with a gun and firing a warning shot. At 80, they just put him on probation. One day he and I were sitting alone, and he said, "It wasn't a warning shot. I missed. Figure a life sentence for me isn't that long."
Wish you the best. Found family is just as valid, by the way. My kids have "aunts and uncles" that they love more and see more often than their actual aunts and uncles. One time my buddy drove for three hours to pick up my oldest, just to drive three hours back home, and do it again a couple of days later because his daughter wanted mine to come to a birthday party sleepover.
My mom is technically a boomer, but like on the tail end of it. My aunts and uncles are gen xers. I always kept her at arms length, but my bio sister and she had a fallout, and I got blacklisted for "picking sides" when I drove my sis to meet and talk with her. They have since made peace, but like, nobody ever bothered making peace with me. I'm an outsider and bastard by birthright, so I just accept it and move on.
I have an adopted sister around the same age as my youngest daughter, and my relationship with my own mother and stepdad is more of a "My daughter's friend's parents" relationship than anything else. My last phone call to my mom was tricking her into letting my wife take my sister to see Hamilton, avoiding the minefield of guilt, blackmail, and manipulation by saying we had already bought the ticket for another of my daughter's friends and they had to cancel.
Every jacket I've ever owned has been lost to my wife or daughters. They'll be like, "It was just laying there. You hadn't worn it for months," and I'm like, "No, it was hanging on the coat hook by the door and it's August!" She even "accidentally" shrunk one down to exactly her size so now it's too small for me.
#15 I'm pretty anti-religious for the most part, but I'll take a Sikh any day. They're the real deal. If following a tenet of their religion would cause harm or allow harm to happen, they are to break the tenet and help people. I'll break bread with a Sikh any day of the week.
Yeah, like 30 seconds of heat turns an overpowering mess into an amazing addition. Sauté them onions, yo!
A couple of months after paying off a Toyota Camry, single owner, no serious incidents, wife got clipped, totaled the car. We got 8 grand for a car that's gonna cost $35000 to replace...
Pete still comes by a couple of times a week to retest, but seems to fail it every time!
Full honesty here, when I realized I was attracted to feminine, not female, a lot of confusion cleared up. Like, "wow, dude is looking hot. Wasn't hot yesterday. Wtf?" And come to realize dude was looking more fem than usual. It's all a spectrum. No hard binaries in nature. Even the difference between saltwater and freshwater is 2-3%.
It's because it allows for better temperature regulation without having to wake up. Too hot? Dip a leg or arm out of the blanket. Too cold? Tuck that bad boy back in. Stuff you can do without having to wake up. Cozy pajamas sound good in theory, but if you overheat, you get woken up.
My preferred types! Strong women and twinks!
#22 Is that Russel Brand? You know, the rapist?
When I was 19 I worked in a max security prison in the Ad Seg department. Not the "busted for pot" crowd, but the "Difference between a mass murderer and a serial killer is body count divided by time" crowd. Flaw in the door design meant that it would take about 45 minutes to cut through one specific spot and the whole door would come off. It was later fixed, but I never realized how much impact that had on me until my kids were playing Jenga behind me 15 years later. Same exact sound....
Tech guy told me that revolutionaries keep burning down his data centers, and I asked how many data centers he had and he said every time revolutionaries burn one down he just builds another one and I said that it sounds like he's just feeding data centers to revolutionaries and Mark Zuckerburg started crying.
#29 https://youtu.be/gnrogbZC3b0?si=eVPxMiV7jFJmSgyO
Oh thank god. I was worried the reference wasn't coming through. Thanks for the confirmation that I hit the right tone!
(By "take care of that" I mean arrange medical care and transport, not that the Sgt was supposed to give him stitches. I actually had 1st aid and emergency training from a previous job, but most of the staff had none at all.)
Worked at a small county jail, and a guy had cut himself for attention. We didn't have 24 hour medical care at the time. I brought him to the infirmary and rendered 1st aid to the best of my ability with what supplies I could find. He was fine, but needed stitches. The Sgt is supposed to be the one to take care of that, so I swapped posts with the Sgt so he could make that call. At that point my involvement was complete, and from there the lawsuit took over. Sgt didn't make that call...
Live the kind of life that you can make it 99% of the way to a century and people still say you were gone too soon...
Honestly if I had everyone in my house even agree on DINNER just once I'd start to freak out.
GB:"My war crimes are fun and whimsical! His war crimes are cruel and nasty."
US:"I'll pistol whip the next one of you to say 'war crimes!'"
GB:"Hey Trump! What's that thing you like to do? You know, to distract from the Epstein files?"
DT:"Oh, you mean war crimes?"
I want to argue, but then I remember how I was basically pushed out of the job because I did it ethically and properly. One occasion a lawsuit was filed, and I was the only one NOT named in the suit, as my actions were to render first aid to the best of my ability and then relieve the sergeant from their post to take over.