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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2015 0:34:40 GMT -5
Thank you. Sorry, cranky from the heat. No problem, quoting was a major p.i.a. until I started using the bbcode, so I understand the frustration. -M PS under the edit your profile settings tab, you can set bbcode as the default instead of preview so you don't have to think about it.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Dec 31, 2015 1:04:31 GMT -5
My wife is watching Supernatural in our room. My youngest is watching, at the present, the Robin Hood Looney Tunes episode. And my oldest is watching Lost World. I am cooking tacos and drinking. I watched Darkman earlier before I started cooking. Now I'm a few glasses of wine and a few beers into my evening. Glad there is no work for me tomorrow.
Edit: Now it's Duck Amuck.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Dec 31, 2015 9:06:40 GMT -5
Maybe in fast food, but restaurants? I have waitressed at a LOT of restaurants, and not once did I ever even hear of anyone messing with a customer's food. Ever. You're one of the good ones. My pal worked as a waiter once...and told me some of what some of his colleagues did. Like dropping a bit of the customer's food on the floor, picking it up, putting it back in the plate, and carrying to the customer...who's none the wiser and wolfs it down. Then there's my other pal, Linda the Lesbian...who'd get hit on a lot at bars, sometimes quire crudely. So when she was bring them their beers, she'd SPIT in the foamy part....and they wouldn't know it while they were gulping it down. We had a restaurant nearby (a Texas Road House) where a customer sent back a steak that wasn't done to his taste. The cook cut a pocket into the steak and stuffed it with hair. Incredibly obvious to the customer. Incredibly stupid cook. He was fired, arrested, and got a couple of years in jail for tampering with food.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Dec 31, 2015 9:10:03 GMT -5
My wife is watching Supernatural in our room. My youngest is watching, at the present, the Robin Hood Looney Tunes episode. And my oldest is watching Lost World. I am cooking tacos and drinking. I watched Darkman earlier before I started cooking. Now I'm a few glasses of wine and a few beers into my evening. Glad there is no work for me tomorrow. Edit: Now it's Duck Amuck. I love those old Looney Tunes cartoons. Probably not a big surprise from my avatars.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 31, 2015 11:49:41 GMT -5
So when I moved three years ago or so to Sweden, I Had a lot of stuff with me, like hundred of cardboard boxes filled with books, comics, DVDs, VHSs, boardgames, CDs, cassettes and vinyls, it took a long time to get it sorted, and a few items went missing, as is usually the case with such a huge moving. Well today I just found a couple of boxes in the outdoor shed part of the garage, completly forgotten and covered with bags of old magazines and stuff to be driven to the garbage place (I live in the forest, I have to transport most of my garbage myself). Those withheld many old novels I'll probably never read agaon and magazines I had written articles for, but it also had a file with some pages, and oh joy, some old comic book artists sketches I thought long lost from even before that move! So Inow have two detailed sketches of Judge Dredd by Gary Frank and Travis CHarest to enjoy once again, christmas miracle!
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Post by Confessor on Dec 31, 2015 13:05:16 GMT -5
...but it's reassuring to know that a heavy, leather-bound version of the King James Bible could do a lot of damage if it was hurled at someone's head with enough force. Why would you throw that at someone? It's better to hold onto it and hit them repeatedly rather than risk them ducking and you losing your weapon without doing any damage. How dare you, sir!! I'll have you know that I never, ever miss. It's a good job that you're out of range of my Encyclopedia Britannica collection.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Dec 31, 2015 13:06:07 GMT -5
My wife is watching Supernatural in our room. My youngest is watching, at the present, the Robin Hood Looney Tunes episode. And my oldest is watching Lost World. I am cooking tacos and drinking. I watched Darkman earlier before I started cooking. Now I'm a few glasses of wine and a few beers into my evening. Glad there is no work for me tomorrow. Edit: Now it's Duck Amuck. I love those old Looney Tunes cartoons. Probably not a big surprise from my avatars. Bugs and Daffy are great together. As I like Wile E and Bugs together. But for some reason there's something nonstop and perfectly hilarious about Robin Hood.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 31, 2015 13:16:22 GMT -5
I'm sorry if you felt singled out. I was just giving an example of something that actually happened, multiple times, to an American friend of mine, who used to wait tables. I didn't feel singled out necessarily, but as a Christian, however, it seems to me that there is a lot of vitriol on this forum at times toward people of my faith. I do feel that some individuals (not saying you specifically) take every opportunity to make derogatory comments about Christians in a wide, stereotypical sense, the style of comments that, were they made about an ethnic group, sexual or gender orientation group, or other religion, would be decried as bigoted, racist, homophobic, etc. That said, I do recognize there are a lot of things that "Christians" do that are less than Christian, and when those things occur, I absolutely agree with calling them out on it. Leaving Bible verses instead of a tip is poor form and a douche move, certainly, but as I stated in my original response, other groups, be they associated by religious affiliation (or lack thereof), race, gender, sexual orientation, etc., stiff servers on tips all the time; it's just that they don't leave a calling card about it.
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Post by the4thpip on Dec 31, 2015 14:33:03 GMT -5
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 31, 2015 14:38:03 GMT -5
Growing up in a 99% catholic environement raised up by atheists, I sympathize. I guess I also grew tough skin when confronted on my atheism (which happened almost on a daily basis during my youth). I don't get bothered at all anymore when I read or hear atheists being singled out in any way, therefore I have no problems expressing my views on christianism when the topic turns up, but I wouldn't let it turn personnal, even if I welcome debate on this as I read plenty of catholic publications on various topics, mostly historical ones. For me it's all a fairytale, but I really mean it in the nicest way possible as I could say much nastier things about it (mmostly about organized religions and churches as I don't mind at all peoples private beliefs). Christianity has a long history of hate and crimes, but the common aspects of those is htat it all got perpetrated by humans, and many weren't christians as well, so it's really just a matter of being a somewhat good yet flawed human being, christian, muslim, atheists or whatever. I really believe that most people who feel a need to single out christians, have personnal grounds to do so, and probably an urge to do so because of their life experiences, yet you can do it within the boundaries of discussion or debate and refrain from personnal attacks. Christianity still is by far the majority in Europe and northern America, it is state funded in many countries and have been so for centuries. I'm sure it can endure some criticism now that the crusades are long over. Its capacity to do so actually is its current greatest asset.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 31, 2015 16:43:25 GMT -5
I don't know the source of this, but it is all kinds of awesome. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by the4thpip on Dec 31, 2015 17:31:56 GMT -5
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Post by the4thpip on Dec 31, 2015 18:06:02 GMT -5
I am posting from the future, from the far-off year of 2016!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 31, 2015 19:19:03 GMT -5
I am posting from the future, from the far-off year of 2016! Have you watched Dinner for one ?
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Post by wickedmountain on Dec 31, 2015 19:23:13 GMT -5
Happy New Year Everyone
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