Only the bible says Christ was born in December even though that was added in Carthage in 297 AD and done so to coincide with a Pagan holiday, most true Christian scholars will admit the reality Jesus was born in December is highly unlikely. It's more likely he was born in March or April. So the entire context of dates in the bible need to be taken with a large, large, VERY large grain of salt, and probably, most everything else in the bible (after all, in it the world was flat).
The same nutjobs (Mary above) and others were the same one trying to "prepare" us (read: enslave us with their batsh!ttery) that Y2K was the end of the world. I work in the Bible Belt and had to deal with crackpots like Mary et. el. saying then it was the end of the world, which, yeah no, not so much. The world has been around a long time, it will continue, sorry to burst people's bubbles. Though it is fun to totally pick on mercilessly the crackpots, like Mary above or the freaks in the bible belt when they're wrong, as they always are, though they'll always squirm out of it saying "well, it's because so and so... " yeah no, you're just ignorant. Close your bible, open your mind.
So this is where most of the US thought they were god's gift and the only country on the planet. Considering Russia lost more troops and won most of the European theatre (and freed the Jews) and Britain was battling the Germans much longer with more casualties and just about every country was involved in the Pacific theatre. Other than being first to develop the cold war cursed bomb which, many scholars, and even some US generals, realized that the atomic bomb drop was most likely unnecessary for Japan's surrender, no wonder the US people have their heads up their collective arrogant asses.
"Forever to afford one." Ahhh another sucker to the blood diamond industry, a rock that isn't that precious and that people are butchered and killed for all for the shallowness of American women and the dumb sheep men who both think a shiny common object with a completely fictionalized value = love or happiness.
+1 to the person re: spay and neutered. "Experienced sailer" but clearly not a decent human being. Thanks for continuing the overpopulation of pets lady.
This is why unions are becoming a footnote in the workforce as we know it.
In NYC I had to have work done, electrical, in a building, and it was like some lightbulb joke, only it was no joke. You had to have an apprentice (who did all the work), an engineer, and a supervisor, neither of whom did anything but collecting a high hourly rate to stand there and no do anything. And you had to hire union electrical companies/workers at something like $180 an hour, of which the one who did the least made the most.
Most union systems are so power hungry and are so absurd that they border on why many companies are shutting down and/or cant stay competitive. I now work for higher ed, and the unions are just as greedy and insane. Hell, a professor can rape a person, or not show up for work once their tenured, making exorbitant wages, but the college can't fire them. And they don't retire, why would they take the pay cut (which is much more than you and me) when they can't be fired, they simply don't work and keep on collecting salaries, and the students and education suffers.
Unions are too powerful, too delusional, and this story serves to prove this. Because they're fat lazy asses are laid off and they have to maintain some fiefdom BS over what they perceive as their right or no right, the city and it's parks will suffer. Well boo effin' hoo! If cities like many I know, including mine, weren't scammed by 1/4 the union force into disability and retirement packages 90% of Americans will never see that drain coffers left and right most cities and most companies wouldn't be in the state they're in.
Unions started with great noble reasons and to create equity in the workplace and safe environments, but like all systems, they got corrupted, perverted, and are now grossly outdated and outmoded.
And no, I'm not some GOP reupublitard blowhard, I'm a left-leaning liberal who believes we need public healthcare and to get out of the BS lie-created wars and need to start spending here and stop being world cop. I'm just sick of seeing all the BS the unions cause, and it needs to stop.
One often little mentioned fact about pot is it was made illegal in one small part because it was used in ceremonies by the Native Americans in the US by ol' whitey because ol' whitey wanted to make sure they destroyed every last vestige of tradition and heritage the people who happened to be in North America first had. Alcohol, well that was fine with ol' whitey, it's a good christian drug, but that mother earth drug thing is the world of the devil to ol' whitey. That's the part that makes me sick.
Signed, I don't even smoke pot but don't care if some people do.
If by "destroy" this blowhard means "evolution in society for [the] good" then yes, the internet is "destroying" things making the world a better place. Sadly I doubt this world-class old stuffy arsehat meant it "destroy" as such, then again, the Daily Telegraph is (or was) a mostly paper based rag, so his livelihood is another thing being "destroyed," so I guess I can understand his knee-jerkism.
Only root canals aren't painful and that one-liner has gotten old. Unless a dentist has no idea what they're doing and the tooth is actually still alive, you don't FEEL a root canal. A root canal is done on a dead tooth after it's abscessed, by dead, we mean deceased, there's no nerves running to it, it's a goner, there's no pain. In fact many root canals can be done without any novocaine, the same can't be said for common fillings or other dental procedures. Stop perpetuating this weird and incorrect saying about root canals.
What?! Man, the "entitlement me me me" generation thing has been happening about three times longer than Facebook has been around. What with parents coddling their kids with, well, kid gloves, never saying no, and treating them like they're the center of the friggin' universe... I work at a university and I've been seeing this downward spiral since probably about 1998. Whomever upthread said it, said it best, basically it's bad parenting... plain and simple.
The same nutjobs (Mary above) and others were the same one trying to "prepare" us (read: enslave us with their batsh!ttery) that Y2K was the end of the world. I work in the Bible Belt and had to deal with crackpots like Mary et. el. saying then it was the end of the world, which, yeah no, not so much. The world has been around a long time, it will continue, sorry to burst people's bubbles. Though it is fun to totally pick on mercilessly the crackpots, like Mary above or the freaks in the bible belt when they're wrong, as they always are, though they'll always squirm out of it saying "well, it's because so and so... " yeah no, you're just ignorant. Close your bible, open your mind.
In NYC I had to have work done, electrical, in a building, and it was like some lightbulb joke, only it was no joke. You had to have an apprentice (who did all the work), an engineer, and a supervisor, neither of whom did anything but collecting a high hourly rate to stand there and no do anything. And you had to hire union electrical companies/workers at something like $180 an hour, of which the one who did the least made the most.
Most union systems are so power hungry and are so absurd that they border on why many companies are shutting down and/or cant stay competitive. I now work for higher ed, and the unions are just as greedy and insane. Hell, a professor can rape a person, or not show up for work once their tenured, making exorbitant wages, but the college can't fire them. And they don't retire, why would they take the pay cut (which is much more than you and me) when they can't be fired, they simply don't work and keep on collecting salaries, and the students and education suffers.
Unions are too powerful, too delusional, and this story serves to prove this. Because they're fat lazy asses are laid off and they have to maintain some fiefdom BS over what they perceive as their right or no right, the city and it's parks will suffer. Well boo effin' hoo! If cities like many I know, including mine, weren't scammed by 1/4 the union force into disability and retirement packages 90% of Americans will never see that drain coffers left and right most cities and most companies wouldn't be in the state they're in.
Unions started with great noble reasons and to create equity in the workplace and safe environments, but like all systems, they got corrupted, perverted, and are now grossly outdated and outmoded.
And no, I'm not some GOP reupublitard blowhard, I'm a left-leaning liberal who believes we need public healthcare and to get out of the BS lie-created wars and need to start spending here and stop being world cop. I'm just sick of seeing all the BS the unions cause, and it needs to stop.
Signed,
I don't even smoke pot but don't care if some people do.
Great pics though.
^ Donnie nails it.