I think xoxoxoBruce found my digital camera... ;)

Oh God, that sounds awful. Poor baby.

The one with the wedding pictures in it?

What my son was he will never be again.

Ach, honey. My heart goes out to you both.

Who? Me? :blush:

Some people are so easy... to rile. :lol:

I'm so sorry, yesman. At least he will always have you.

yeah.

Yeah, there's no sport in it at all. And it's annoying to others. Go you. :rolleyes:

Hey, I agree...its fun poking the wingnuts with a stick and watch them freak out...like Merc's 10 pic childish rampage in politics or lookout's "I dont give a fuck what you think," panties in a knot rile in current events. :D

Ha, ha, yeah.... go fuck yourself.

See how easy it is to get you riled. ;)

Isn't he cute folks? It's like he's almost likeable.

. . . almost ;)

cat puke.

myself
1) i have no one (other than family) to celebrate my birthday with
2) i was mean to my g-ma over an e-mail forward. idk, i've tried in the past to respond reasonable and tell her why she should not fw those things, gave her links to snopes, ect. she didn't stop, so i just stopped looking at them until the other day when she sent me this one. CLICK HERE
i sent her back a harsh reply, that she should be ashamed to spread such rascist lies and bigotry, that she should be more responsible, ect ect. she sent back reply that she was sorry and she'd deleted me from her contacts so i won't get her fws anymore. i shouldv'e called to apologize, i didn't. she called me today, left a message that she wants to apologize and to call her back. i haven't yet. although i know that i should not have been so harsh with her, i also believe i'm right.

Right or wrong, you should allow her to apologise. She might be reallly worried she's offended/angered you. Not calling her back, will seem like that apology is being flung back in her face. If you think you were overly harsh, then say so. You can say it in a way that doesn't negate your overall objection. The fight against racism and bigotry does not begin with, nor is it served by, making your gran feel small.

On a lighter note: Happy Birthday m'dear.

Happy Birthday, MTP. Come to my house (in Texas) and we'll throw you a party.

I have seen big family blow ups over my sister telling people to please stop sending countless non-substantive forwards like "lol me too" etc. on a family email distribution list, and explaining that her phone is constantly going off with every email and none of them say anything useful. Of course, she was perceived to be "in the wrong" and the response was something similar to what you got of, "fine, I'll remove your address" rather than the offended parties stopping to think "I shouldn't be using an email chain to transit pointless instant message/chat room-type comments."

Pssst: is mtp.

Her gran obviously doesn't share her view of these emails as wrong. But she is respecting her views by removing her from the forwarding circle.

You can't always change people. Sometimes you just have to accept that that's who they are. I have friends who hold racist views. occasionally they send me racist jokes in text messages. I occasionally tackle it in a gentle way. Mostly I just ignore it. It doesn't really serve much purpose to try and change them. Just hurts them or you: even more so if there is a large generation gap.

Sorry, I didn't mean that I wouldn't accept her apology. I just wasn't sure how to handle it, I know I owed her one too for being so harsh, but not because I was wrong about the forward. I did call, it was a short convo, but we agreed to forgive and forget. I tried to be gentle and tell her that she doesn't have to send those forwards on, there is no obligation. I don't know why she feels like there is. I guess I should be more mad at the people who send my gma that shit. She's not stupid by all means, but she has a lack of education and that information kinda overwhelms her, she has a hard time sorting it out truth from fiction I think. *Sigh* Its getting more and more difficult for me to handle the people that I love dearly, but have such different beliefs than I do.

Thanks dana and flint for the bday wishes. I tried to get my mom to take me to the Ft. Worth zoo for my bday but she says the weather is gonna be too nasty :(. We're goin to Dallas Aquarium instead. I'm hoping to catch the shark feeding.

HBD MTP. My mother sends me that kinda trash but I ignore the content and just realize she has something to do and that makes her happy. I don't think she reads half the crap she sends me or else she would not be sending it. Not talking to her because she is sending crap I don't agree with would be worse than her sending the crap. :headshake

My old friend from childhood that I reconnected with on facebook still sends me right wing religious crap after me twice asking her not to. She can't bother to compose an email to me about herself - just wants to make sure I know she's jeebus' BFF.
Just backs my belief that religion is a mental illness.

Happy birthday MTP!

I think it is good your grandma is reaching out and she doesn't seem defensive.


As for the texting and the posting in lieu of a real friendship.

I don't like for my friends to constantly text me without the intention of having a real conversation. To me constant texting is like graffiti. It doesn't tell me anything about the person nor contributes to a friendship. I hate it. I am not talking about the occasional text. I am taking about things like, "I feel really bad today...._ blank."
"I am worried about so and so....__blank." " I am going here to do this or that.....__blank." Just statements without the desire or acknowledgment of any response. Finally I am WTF...You can call me if you want to talk or I'll call you but still. ___blank * crickets *

After repeated attempts asking for a normal conversation I put my foot down. ( phone down?)

One friend is offended and one friend made it right.

One 30 minute conversation with your best friend is worth a thousand simple texts.

Also extremist emails are the same as extremist talk. I stand the drama or the fear mongering. Whatever you want to call it

I think some religion is whacked. I don't think all religions are though. Some people can have one and not over spiritualize every daily occurrence.

I am not sure about political extremists though.

The inchling is under the weather today, listless and nearly immobile, now in bed. It's odd that when his energy level is up to 11 I wish he'd chill out, but when he's down to zero I realize that 11 is normal and healthy.

I know it's hard to see them not feeling well. :(

Well wishes out to the small one.

Thanks.

Poor li'l inchling. How's he doing today, any better?

Happy bday MTP.

I'm pretty brisk with the trash can anymore. No reply no commentary just silence... kinda like troll wrangling.

There are many people who have faith who don't wear their religion on their sleeve. I consider my belief to be a personal matter, and I have no interest in trying to force it on others. It is unfortunate that all Christians are often placed in the same catagory as the fundie nutters.

I think that's a fair point. However, it seems to be a trend that affects more than just Christians. Moslems get lumped in together. So do atheists.

What religion doesn't, Dana?

Everyone has preconceived notions of what a "Christian" "Muslim" "Atheist" and so on are. Lumping all of them into one thing or defining them because of their faith is part of the problem. There are good and bad among all religions. They are not all the same, no matter what their belief system may be.

A little better today thanks, he's watching The Mikado right now with the millimeter.

Yeah, I filter any message that has Fwd: in the subject line. It's the same as bulk "first class" mail. If you don't put a stamp on it or take the time to edit the subject line, it can't be all that important.

you'll miss out on a lot of good pr0n that way, son.

The Fucking Smoke Alarm.

JEEEE


ZUSSSS!

If your fucking smoke alarm is going off, maybe you should use some lubricant.

I had the children deal with it, they used towels.

What?

I'm afraid to look at the type of porn my elderly aunts might send me, thus the filter...

This is me taking it up with the person who's pissing me off Jumbo.

Get a fucking life and get over it would you. I hardly post here anymore because of fuckwits like you (mainly you) and I've never complained about nasty people here. Pretty much just you cockhead. I think pretty much everyone in this place knows it's you I have the problem with, and it's you who ruins this place for me.

So there you go Jumbo. Grow the fuck up and leave me out of your thoughts for a while huh?

UT O

I'm such a non presence at this point, that if I'm single handedly ruining your cellar experience, I would suggest that you might have a little obsession problem that you need to deal with. It's understandable, I AM quite riveting.....but.... maybe ask your therapist for help?

How does one be a non presence and be quite riveting at the same time?

I know I HAVE been confused lately.


What's upsetting? Not much,,,more like unsettling.

My mom. I love love love her and she is having a hard time. I am running errands,washing her clothes and buying her take out but it just isn't making her young again.:(

I just moved her two months ago and she is thinking of a retirement home. It's sad. I'm sad.

will nothing go the fuck right today? it's been a catalog of nasty since lunchtime yesterday and there's no end in sight. the latest drip is that I just drove across town to see my daughter play cello in a quartet. Made it a couple of minutes late. didn't miss her, because she didn't play. One of the quartet didn't come to school today. We missed her chirstmas concert too due to a downed power line. Doesn't bode well for orchestra night on the 18th -the one we delayed our Florida trip for....

fuggidyfux

I am damn sick and tired of being deaf in one ear. The infection may be gone, but the fucker is still plugged up tight.

Commiseration to Monnie and Clod. Both very sucky situations:(

*hug* for Sky: must be awful hon.

Looks like he's just hanging out with Ellen Degeneres to me...

Let's not split hairs, m'kay?

lol @catalog of nasty.

@ clod...I've heard of so many people getting those.

I am deaf in one ear. I kinda like it. It makes sleeping so quiet.

@ Dana A HUGE THANK YOU! for caring.
I'm just taking one day at a time and striving for the best outcome!

I dealt with it today by buying Burts Bees face wash. I have old dry skin but for some reason the stress is making me oily at the same time. Burt's Bees is nice if you have not tried it. All natural and soothing. A friend of mine in Canada who has such dry skin it cracks uses it so I thought I would try it.

Mrs. Dallas' laptop is in need of Winblows re-installation. I picked up a hard drive at Best Buy last week. To save time I did the order on the Internet and pick up in store. Of course I never got around to it last weekend. I was going to start tonight and found... they gave me the wrong drive. Parallel ATA instead of Serial. (Almost identical packages too.) Now I get to go back and try to do an exchange with item X and a receipt that says I bought item Y.

My SS very thoughtfully included a pack of Burt's Bees goodies in my gift :) They're wonderful. ; I got such a lump in my throat when I saw them because I've said so many times in here that bees are very special to me. I'd never heard of them before, but my eldest niece was most impressed. She has a burt's bees lip balm and says they're 'really cool'. When a 15 year old deems something 'cool' you know you've hit the jackpot :P

Dana, you'd better sit down. There are also these things called Birds, see? and well, when a man and woman love each other very much...

rofl!

It's hard to explain... better show her, Nutkin. ;)

Twisted metal.
I think I've stopped shivering at this point though, so that's good...

Son of a crap.

!!!

Photos that make you want to bust right through the screen to ask if you are OK! ?

Well you say you are shaken up and no doubt! I am glad you are alright! I don't need to ask what happened. damn snow :(

where are you? standing in the snow?

and I hope it runs warm until the tow truck gets there.

I'm worried.

No I guess you are home unless you are posting right from your blackberry. If that's possible.

No worries sky, we're all fine and home and warm now.

good

Goddammit! That sucks, jinx. Glad everyone's okay.