I find this matches with my experience. I actually went to an atheist meetup here in my town last year, thinking it would be nice to have some fellowship. The group spent the entire session bitching it up. I didn't go back...
There was a GQ article interviewing Billy Ray Cyrus recently (I read it out of the perverse curiousity you have when you come from the same hometown) and he mentioned there's a sign in LA. Adopt-a-Highway, Atheists United. While Mr. Cyrus' interpretation left something to be desired, I thought it was neat - a group of actual civic minded atheists working together long enough to clean up a highway? Where can I find those people?
I imagine it will become more common and more successful as the boomers begin selling stock in large quantities to finance their retirements but the C-suite remains primarily boomer and unresponsive to their new constituency.
I'm assuming car or perhaps dirt bike accident, which led to him being physically unable to attend regular classes due to injuries and rehabilitation schedules- thus, the private tutor.
Please see other responses in this thread. Sic is the correct spelling; there is no verb "to sick" in American English, and as far as I know, is used in British English only to refer to the action of vomiting by a cat. ie, "the cat sicked on my slippers"
Requires blood serum at the moment. Eventually we'll be able to completely characterize and E. coli farm all of the relevant growth factors, but we're not there yet.
I hope for your daughter's sake she can handle your valuing of prestige over all else. It would be unfortunate if she chose any of the ways out available to her. You on the other hand would reap what you had sown.
My best friend's daughter just friended me, and I haven't been a big part of her life since they moved out of state ten years ago. Either she's already 'collecting' or the kids these days, they just don't get it.
Suburban kids go into biology and most of those think of it as pre-med. Farmers' kids have the sense to go into agronomics, which is where the money is, such as it is. Those suburban kids have probably never seen a farm field over the years to realize that (with decent to ok management) it doesn't gradually sink into the ground.
Why exactly would I want to spend my time - especially my time right before I retire - dealing with the idiots who get promoted out of teaching and into administration? I'd rather work retail again; at least there are objective standards in that field.
Compensation for when the gas dome collapses and your house is destroyed in the ensuing cave-in. Or, as happened to my parents, an undocumented coal mine shaft collapses and your foundation cracks- but since it's undocumented, you can't get disaster compensation, your homeowner's insurance laughs at you, and you lose half the usable square footage of your house because an artesian spring opens up in your formerly finished basement.
have you tried top bar hives? Supposedly bees can keep control of the mite more easily in natural-sized comb instead of the slightly too-big comb you get when using commercial frames with pre-molded supports. Of course it's more work for somewhat less honey, but mites suck.
A contributing factor to the severity of varroa mite infestations is the use of pre-manufactured wax or plastic comb supports, which cause the bees to build comb with cells that are just slightly larger than the cells bees build in the wild. For some reason, the bees aren't able to clean out the larger cells as effectively or perhaps they don't notice the presence of the mite eggs as soon. When bees are allowed to build comb to their own liking, as in a top-bar hive, you see very few varroa infestations (and that's more or less the extent of my bee-keeping knowledge, sorry).
It may be faster to drive assuming no traffic problems on the way, but I bet (at least I _hope_) that your boss got more done on the train in the morning than you did in your car- and he got two nice brisk walks to get fully woken up.
This reads like you're describing my husband, except I don't care about clothes either and still let his mom buy all his clothes. It works out.:-) I did ask her to stop getting him pleat-front pants, which she did.
The 36-50 year old guy asking out a college girl gets rejected because it's fucking creepy to be asking out someone young enough to be your daughter. You're 85% likely only after one thing, and you think a woman can't smell that a mile away?
We don't play golf because golf sucks. If we want to be outdoors (and I am shamelessly overgeneralizing here), we want to go hiking, or something else where the focus is on the activity and not the chitchat. We don't need an activity that allows us to talk without actually looking at one another, because we get a lot of extra information from looking at one another while we chat.
You are probably onto something with the yoga, though.
Well, good luck with your life... I try to have some fun on the way, because I could get hit by a truck tomorrow. While it's nice that my savings will go to my husband should I get hit by that truck, I also appreciate the memories we've created together while we're young and fit enough to do more than sit in our rockers and say to each other, Man, I wish I had worked more and spent less time with you while we were young!
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If it's your brat, you* should pay for its upkeep. Hardly an indignity unless you* consider honoring your commitments an indignity. (*generic you)
It's closer and you don't have to drag around an enormous drill.
I find this matches with my experience. I actually went to an atheist meetup here in my town last year, thinking it would be nice to have some fellowship. The group spent the entire session bitching it up. I didn't go back...
There was a GQ article interviewing Billy Ray Cyrus recently (I read it out of the perverse curiousity you have when you come from the same hometown) and he mentioned there's a sign in LA. Adopt-a-Highway, Atheists United. While Mr. Cyrus' interpretation left something to be desired, I thought it was neat - a group of actual civic minded atheists working together long enough to clean up a highway? Where can I find those people?
I imagine it will become more common and more successful as the boomers begin selling stock in large quantities to finance their retirements but the C-suite remains primarily boomer and unresponsive to their new constituency.
Thank you! I needed a succinct summary of Bioshock and that's the best I've seen.
pique :-)
I'm assuming car or perhaps dirt bike accident, which led to him being physically unable to attend regular classes due to injuries and rehabilitation schedules- thus, the private tutor.
Please see other responses in this thread. Sic is the correct spelling; there is no verb "to sick" in American English, and as far as I know, is used in British English only to refer to the action of vomiting by a cat. ie, "the cat sicked on my slippers"
How do you do this? I've looked several times and haven't found a way to do so.
Requires blood serum at the moment. Eventually we'll be able to completely characterize and E. coli farm all of the relevant growth factors, but we're not there yet.
I hope for your daughter's sake she can handle your valuing of prestige over all else. It would be unfortunate if she chose any of the ways out available to her. You on the other hand would reap what you had sown.
My best friend's daughter just friended me, and I haven't been a big part of her life since they moved out of state ten years ago. Either she's already 'collecting' or the kids these days, they just don't get it.
Suburban kids go into biology and most of those think of it as pre-med. Farmers' kids have the sense to go into agronomics, which is where the money is, such as it is. Those suburban kids have probably never seen a farm field over the years to realize that (with decent to ok management) it doesn't gradually sink into the ground.
Why exactly would I want to spend my time - especially my time right before I retire - dealing with the idiots who get promoted out of teaching and into administration? I'd rather work retail again; at least there are objective standards in that field.
Compensation for when the gas dome collapses and your house is destroyed in the ensuing cave-in. Or, as happened to my parents, an undocumented coal mine shaft collapses and your foundation cracks- but since it's undocumented, you can't get disaster compensation, your homeowner's insurance laughs at you, and you lose half the usable square footage of your house because an artesian spring opens up in your formerly finished basement.
interesting, thanks.
have you tried top bar hives? Supposedly bees can keep control of the mite more easily in natural-sized comb instead of the slightly too-big comb you get when using commercial frames with pre-molded supports. Of course it's more work for somewhat less honey, but mites suck.
A contributing factor to the severity of varroa mite infestations is the use of pre-manufactured wax or plastic comb supports, which cause the bees to build comb with cells that are just slightly larger than the cells bees build in the wild. For some reason, the bees aren't able to clean out the larger cells as effectively or perhaps they don't notice the presence of the mite eggs as soon. When bees are allowed to build comb to their own liking, as in a top-bar hive, you see very few varroa infestations (and that's more or less the extent of my bee-keeping knowledge, sorry).
Ack, I can't decide between funny and insightful, so I'll just comment instead!
It may be faster to drive assuming no traffic problems on the way, but I bet (at least I _hope_) that your boss got more done on the train in the morning than you did in your car- and he got two nice brisk walks to get fully woken up.
This reads like you're describing my husband, except I don't care about clothes either and still let his mom buy all his clothes. It works out. :-) I did ask her to stop getting him pleat-front pants, which she did.
The 36-50 year old guy asking out a college girl gets rejected because it's fucking creepy to be asking out someone young enough to be your daughter. You're 85% likely only after one thing, and you think a woman can't smell that a mile away?
We don't play golf because golf sucks. If we want to be outdoors (and I am shamelessly overgeneralizing here), we want to go hiking, or something else where the focus is on the activity and not the chitchat. We don't need an activity that allows us to talk without actually looking at one another, because we get a lot of extra information from looking at one another while we chat.
You are probably onto something with the yoga, though.
Yes, they just stab each other instead... poorly.
Well, good luck with your life... I try to have some fun on the way, because I could get hit by a truck tomorrow. While it's nice that my savings will go to my husband should I get hit by that truck, I also appreciate the memories we've created together while we're young and fit enough to do more than sit in our rockers and say to each other, Man, I wish I had worked more and spent less time with you while we were young!