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Lets Paint The Kettle Black,Do You Have A Bitch On Whats Going On Around The Site Or Any Thing Negative To Report
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17. July 2007 @ 05:04 |
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@Onya ... we didn't smuggle booze through the tunnels but we did smuggle in booze!
Perhaps you can explain the difference one Gerry :)
If I made comments in my previous post that suggested your involvement in any way, the activitys imlied or otherwise that compromised common morals, then I most humbly appologise.
I realise that this issue is in the main news forum today, and controversey surrounds yet again.
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Regarding Abuse by priests:
As you say you have happy memories of your stay, and have brought balanced views to AfterDawn. May these continue Gerry.
For all those that have been or allegely been abused by those trusted individuals, perhaps JUDGEMENT AWAITS THEM. Not being a religious man, these words may seem hollow, but if I'm wrong.......... then Eternity could be an awfully long time.
Best thoughts and wishes...
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gerry1
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17. July 2007 @ 05:54 |
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@Onya ... I did not take your words as an implication of any sort. I just wanted to give my view on WHY this happened. Like I said, it was also (and to some degree, possibly is) a big problem in all boys boarding schools and it my own opinion and observation, not a scientific study.
Someday, if you want a good chuckle, read just a synopsis of something called "Pascal's Wager". Blaise Pascal was a statistician, mathematician of considerable prominence (philosopher to a much lesser degree). He compared belief in God and eternity to a poker game complete with statistical information for the odds of winning the big prize LOL!
If you ever want to have a good laugh, read the first 30 pages or so of a Mark Twain book called "Letters From the Earth". It was actually illegal until the 1960s or 50s because of its disrespect LOL! Its hysterical!
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18. July 2007 @ 04:56 |
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about the priest abuse, gerry1 pretty much hit the nail on the head with that one, I will also add another one, I to went to cathlic school and church, I only had one incident with a priest about sexual abuse, me and 5 other guys, it was nothing serious but my Mom found out about it and beat the crap out of him, case closed he never did it again.
But another main reason I think anyway is, gerry1 I think your a little younger than me, but there was a time when I started school the older priests were still able to marry and were, in my Ukrainain Catholic curch and school they were, up until the early 5o's, than they prohibited it, I never heard of any incident with them, and I know cause I was a devout follower of our church for years, than in the late 70's I dropped the church like a hot potatoe, not just mine all churches or religions, they create more problems than they solve, but not to able to marry or experiance a woman in your lifetime I also think creates problems, what do they have left, little boys as a temptation, and I'm not using it as an excuse, first you got to be sick in the first place than get your ass wooped priest or not, but combining everything gerry1 said in addition to this I think is a problem.
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18. July 2007 @ 05:12 |
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The thing that rises to the top just as much as the "bad" priests is the fact that the entertainment media (sorry news and news channels are just that) took an untrue story and ran like the wind with it. It truly saddens me to think of a man that is innocent and charged with such heinous crimes and is crucified by someone or something that is supposed to "report" the truth. I can't think of many crimes worse than abusing little children with comparison to what some of these priests are accused of.
OK I better stop before I piss someone off. :P
HOPE all is well with everyone. GOOD morning.......... :)
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18. July 2007 @ 06:07 |
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greensman, your absolutly right, to me a false accusation of this magnatude is as bad as the act itself.
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18. July 2007 @ 07:04 |
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In Philly one time, there was a rather bad bus accident. THe bus hold fifty people or so and there were over 300 people filing lawsuits claiming they'd been hurt. It's nothing but pure greed but its more and more common. What a society we've become eh?
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18. July 2007 @ 07:06 |
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Yep. Did you know that over half the world's lawyers and solicitors live and work in the USA?
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18. July 2007 @ 07:39 |
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I didn't know that but it makes perfect sense to me. The lawyers aren't going to refuse a case even if they know the person is full of Sh** because they'd lose out on potentially a lot of money. Many year ago, I got into a serious accident and had to go on disability as I lost the use of my left side. THe judge ordered that I get disability retroactively from the time of application and the lawyers took damn near every penny of it.
I don't agree with George Bush on much but I did agree with him when he spoke of reforming this but, unfortunately, he went too far. He wanted to limit malpractice to 100 grand and I know there is a lot of fraud there too but if you're screwed up so bad that you can't work for the rest of your days, 100 grand isn't going to come close to supporting you if you're unable to work again because of a mistake. Because of this, his plans were rejected by just about all lawmakers.
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18. July 2007 @ 07:42 |
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Doesn't surprise me, and I also agree, 100,000 isn't going to cover a lifetime's wages lost through disability.
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18. July 2007 @ 09:25 |
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There was a program about malpractice on TV about 15 years ago. There was a plastic surgeon in Florida that had been sued so many times that he got tired of it (This guy was a bad doctor and shouldn't have been practicing- maybe that was what he was doing, practicing up). He just put all his assets in his wife's name and he owned nothing and never bought malpractice insurance again, and since the lawyers could get nothing, there were no more law suits. Something does need to be done about limiting awards in lawsuits. One thing that might help would be the losing attorney would have to pay all court cost and opposing attorney's fees + a % of the award he was seeking. Filing false claims in insurance scams should require felony convictions and confinement.JM2C
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18. July 2007 @ 14:02 |
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@garmoon...amen to that!
My Bitch: I had a kid come to me for educational funds this afternoon; he was just one month out of high school. For obvious reasons, we have to administer basic skills tests ... he could only read at the first grade level (which actually means that he's totally [not just functionally] illiterate...just by filling in all the dots, you're apt to get a couple right by chance. After fifteen years at this job and however and seeing this over and over again, it just never ceases to amaze me how one can spend twelve years in school, pass from one grade to the next without being able to read a word!
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18. July 2007 @ 14:17 |
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My bitch.
Laptop was pretty screwed due to multiple downloads and things, so i thought id back everything up on an external harddrive and reinstall windows.
So, i did just that. THen, i copied everything that was essential back onto it.
It was good for a bit, now its absolutely PISSING me off. The internet takes so long to load for no apparent reason. My routers a good one, i had no problems before, we have pretty good internet providers, but after the reinstall, pages (ESPECIALLY from aD) take AGES to load.
Like now when i hit "post reply", it will take about 2 minutes too load.
Thanks ireland!![afterdawn legend]
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18. July 2007 @ 14:17 |
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@gerry1
How do you keep your sanity? I hope you have kept a journal because I'm sure you got a best seller in there some where.
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18. July 2007 @ 14:40 |
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billybob, there is a problem with the ad servers as i have that problem too but not other sites.
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gerry1
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18. July 2007 @ 14:42 |
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@garmoon...you know, I really should do that LOL! A co-worker saves the more bizzare resumes. My favorite this year was from a woman who worked in a clothing store and in describing her job responsibilities on her resume she wrote:
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Serviced our male customers on the floor of the men's department.
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18. July 2007 @ 14:55 |
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@billybob
Something's wrong at AD. Everyones been double posting. And it does take longer than normal sometimes to load. Your laptop is ok.
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18. July 2007 @ 14:58 |
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Well here is my bitch for the day:
I hate people who don't use caution when opening car doors after they have parked. My car, although still perfectly straight, has some really weird shaped paint chips in it. I don't know when or how they got there as I know they were not there when I got the car. Also, I have two small white gashes, about 1/4"-1/2" long, across the rear passenger door now. I bet they happened yesterday at work. I know that car paint isn't good forever and that dings happen but it just sucks as I bought it Saturday. :P
However, here is the really weird part, the door isn't dented at all. I looked at it from multiple angles and the door is still as straight as ever. I can't see any "foreign" colored paint in the chipped area either so I am really confused as to how it did what it did.
Oh well, its cool as long its not something thats easily seen.
Peace
P.S. Here are the pictures of my car. Its actually right on the site of the place I got it from, hence why it says "Sold". :-)
Pop Smith's Car!
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18. July 2007 @ 15:04 |
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Yaaay. Cheers guys :D
Thanks ireland!![afterdawn legend]
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18. July 2007 @ 19:36 |
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@Gerry1,
My favorite application I have ever seen, coming from a Jr. College graduate here in NC, described her previous job as an "A$$ Manager"
and secondary job as an "A$$" designer. (replace the dollar signs with an "S". We had a great laugh over that one.
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@blivetNC ... LOL! I've seen that often myself. Ass. instead of Asst.
WHAT A DOPE! I just had another client who wrote on his resume the killer words Dishonorable Discharge! I swear, the majority of people I run into are dumber than dirt!! (I'm in a pissy mood today.)
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19. July 2007 @ 08:20 |
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Gerry
I feel your frustration over the level of education with which some young people are leaving our high schools. In my opinion teachers
are being asked to do the jobs that many parents should be doing.
They are expected to teach manners, morals, and a lot more. They
are spread so thin I don't know how they get the job done at all.
A lot of young people never feel a need to achieve. They never know
the feeling of real accomplishment. That's a shame.
Also we are spending more and more on education, but a lot of it
goes for extra curricular activities. It used to be if you wanted
your children to learn something extra you paid for the lessons. Now
you scream at the school board to pay for it for everybody.
I don't believe that telling every child they are okay at something
when they are below an exceptable achievement level is not doing
them any favors. When they get out in the real world nobody is going
to pat them on the head and say it's okay.
I seem to have gotten on that soap box again.
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19. July 2007 @ 08:59 |
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Shardew...your parental teacher theory is plausible, but i must say i disagree. I think it is more simple than that.
Back when you guys were kids, there were less....luxuries shall i say? Ill ellaborate. Nowadays, we (well, i do, and im sure i represent quite a few), have MobilePhones, Internet, More and more crude/strong languages tv programs, and cinemas. Much more external influences. We have magazines for kids, radio, lots of non-essentials that im sure are polluting peoples brains.
They watch the films, and they get a rolemodel that was never meant to be a rolemodel. They get phones, giving them more interaction with friends giving them more of a sense of independance as opposed to leaerning to cooperate with their family and piers that they may not neccesarily have fun with. Internet. They (we?) have a huge amount of access to the internet, being MSN Messenger, Myspace, lots of sick stories, games. Loads of stuff.
All leading to polluting of their brain, or them spending more time alone not learning vital interpersonal skills.
Oh and theres one more, teachers cant even isolate a pupil nowadays without "picking on him/her". Load of crap.
Im not saying im perfect, im far from it, but im a little more intelligent than most my age and i can recognise things, i can act how i want and when i want. And im certainly not suggesting i dont take advantages of these modern day circumstances. Especially the one about the teachers LMAO! Lots of abuse of that one ;)
Well anyway, im going to go watch TheFootballFactory, text my friend, log into myspace, and watch some porn. Lmao. Im actually gonna read my book :D
Thanks ireland!![afterdawn legend]
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19. July 2007 @ 09:28 |
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Shardel I think you're pretty close in your assessment. :D
billy,
I hear what you're saying but you're forgetting what Shardel said about it's the PARENTS job to teach their children certain things. I don't for a second think that you, Ripper, Domreis, and some of the younger crowd that I "associate" with are part of this problem or really have a lack of intelligence. IT'S the people (kids) passing that REALLY AREN'T passing that's an absolute tragedy.
You can't continue to pass people that can't read past a 1st or 2nd grade level. It's not ok to tell them it's ok and send them on. THAT is a disservice to the community and the CHILD most of all. I'm teaching my children what I think they should know at almost 7, 5 and 2. TO OBEY YOUR PARENTS or there are consequences.
IT's no different in the real world as you know. If you don't do well on a test, at work, at sports, and so on then there is something that you have to change to get better or try something else. I'm not saying that a student should try something else but they should search out someone or something to assist them in making themselves better. Whatever that may be, another student, a teacher, a parent, after school help and again so on. I'm talking education right now but this is BIGGER than simple education. It relates to the work field. HOW many jobs do you think someone can get with a 1st grade reading level? NOT many!!!
IT's like my job (golf course superintendent or greenkeeper whatever your preference.... :P) IF YOU CAN't READ and do some MATH you're screwed. BECAUSE you could kill something that you didn't intend on killing because you interpreted the directions incorrectly. I know I'm making this fairly simple but it's true. :)
NOT ranting just trying to educate and enter my 2 cents at the same time. :D I hope that I made some sense as well. OH!! and this small novel isn't directed at you so don't take offense billy. :)
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19. July 2007 @ 09:42 |
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@billy ... our activities aren't the same as kids today, but it doesn't mean we did less. We were probably even more active without those things you mentioned: we rode our bikes, played sports outside, hung out with our buddies at whatever the local spots were, we went hiking, camping and truly did a lot of things that are probably a great deal better for you than my space and video games. But the words "Not until you've done your homework" was a common phrase in those days. In order not to be hyprocritical here, I must confess that I always managed to copy someone else's LOL! But at least I turned in and, in those days, there actually was homework and being kept back if you failed. At least in the U.S. they don't keep kids back anymore because they say its psychologically traumatic. Having to teach at the level of the class, it means our standard of education has dropped lower and lower. A friend of mine was a professor at Temple University. He use to teach literature, creative writing and journal. For the last fifteen of the thirty years he taught, he complained that he did nothing more than teach 5th grade grammar...in one of our major universities. Several years ago, Canada started requiring American students going to university in Canada to take basic skills testing first so that what happened here doesn't happen to them.
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19. July 2007 @ 10:12 |
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No sweat greensman i can have a mature discussion u no :D
I see what your saying, but shardew said that he feels it is up to parents to teach things such as manners, morals and such.
Like i said, i do understand what hes saying, but i think more of the issue is related to the things i said in my last post...EVEN manners in most cases.
I think youd find that most children have been taught manners, but they choose not to use them in front of strangers and their peers.
Im really tired...i had a load of points in my head to write down..and theyve just gone lol.
Gerry. my point exactly. Im not knocking what you guys did when you were younger, im doing the exact oppposite.
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