wtarshi
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Awwww I love esympathy!!! I'm usually okay with Monday, but today Monday has slapped me in the face with a sock filled with bars of soap.
I want to stay in bed and snuggle. I declare Monday snuggleday
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Awwww I love esympathy!!! I'm usually okay with Monday, but today Monday has slapped me in the face with a sock filled with bars of soap.
I want to stay in bed and snuggle. I declare Monday snuggleday
Peach State Scholar
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I second that declaration
Also, I used to work at Wal-Mart in college and that picture gives me what can best be described as flashbacks.
wtarshi
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I second that declaration
Also, I used to work at Wal-Mart in college and that picture gives me what can best be described as flashbacks.
Oh, I do apologise for bringing back your post traumatic stress
I am kinda sad that we have no wal-mart here...there seems to be a plethora of interesting people who flock there
Peach State Scholar
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Oh, I do apologise for bringing back your post traumatic stress
I am kinda sad that we have no wal-mart here...there seems to be a plethora of interesting people who flock there
Oh no...the last thing Australia needs is Wal-Mart. Low wages + cheap products = :smt078
I did run into some rather interesting people at the various shoppes around the city when I was there but I think the type of people you'd see at Wal-Mart are an "only in America" type thing. So, no free comedy for Australia lol.
curleyblonde
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I have visited a few Wal-Marts in the States and I must say, I could just go there for the entertainment alone.... But I do agree, I don't think we would get the same happening here that I have seen there in person and in photos online.
Unique4ever
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Bliss
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So loved this!
Aww, this made me tear up.. A part that stood out-
The fact that that is exactly how it occurred is no coincidence. It's also a scientific fact that people can die of a broken heart.
Although in this instance I think it was a bit of both - their soul pact, plus once she died, he really couldn't go on. :heart:
Aww, this made me tear up.. A part that stood out-
The fact that that is exactly how it occurred is no coincidence. It's also a scientific fact that people can die of a broken heart.
Although in this instance I think it was a bit of both - their soul pact, plus once she died, he really couldn't go on. :heart:
Alinoa
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LOL!!!
Size 16 crocs with the ugly strawberry bling-bling through the pukas and a stinky lump of doggy poo on the bottom.
Mondays suck.
We are getting hit by Flossie. Though, to be honest, it just makes me want to listen to Fergie.
Maybe I will when we are being swamped by rain and 50 mph wind gusts.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...ie-threatens-life-and-property-on-hawaii?lite
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Archman
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Arch's universal measures for staying in good graces with family and extended family at gatherings:
- Do not correct a much older man....rather, encourage him, as you would your own father....
- Treat younger men as you would your own brother brother....
- Treat much older women as you would your own mother.....
- Show the same respect to younger women that you would to your sister....
- Do not correct a much older man....rather, encourage him, as you would your own father....
- Treat younger men as you would your own brother brother....
- Treat much older women as you would your own mother.....
- Show the same respect to younger women that you would to your sister....
buglerroller
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wtarshi
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hahahahaha
:freehug:
Peach State Scholar
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RaiderLL
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Already celebrated once...but heck, I could go again! :smt038
Peach State Scholar
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wtarshi
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Awwww happy birthday jnr
Alinoa
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thanks tarshi
Archman
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The shockingly sad shape of Detroit:
- Ninety-three percent of eighth graders read below their grade level (that’s no typo: 93%!)
- Forty-seven percent of the adult population in Detroit is functionally illiterate (this doesn’t give you much to work with if you’re planning on establishing one of Obama’s “Enterprise Zones” or “Innovation Hubs” in Detroit)
- The average response time for police after calling 911 is 58 minutes
- The police force has been reduced by 40% in the last decade
- Only 10% of crimes are solved in Detroit
- The incidence of violent crime in Detroit is 5 times higher than the national average
- 79,000 homes are abandoned and empty in Detroit
- Of those remaining in their homes, only half pay property taxes
- Forty percent of street lights don’t work
- 210 of 317 city parks have been closed
- Only one third of the ambulances in the city are operable and of those many have over 250,000 miles on them
- Realtors are offering homes for $1 and still find no takers
As one commentator put it: Were we to compare photographs of today's Hiroshima with today's Detroit, we would assume Japan won the Second World War after nuking Michigan.
Here’s the parallel between Detroit and the US:
It would require $25,000 from every man, woman, and child of Detroit to eliminate Detroit debt.
It would require $53,000 from every man, woman, and child of the US to eliminate US debt.
Now do you see the difference? The difference is that as a country, we’re in twice as deep as Detroit, but we’re not bankrupt because we can keep printing money while Detroit can’t. The problem is, all of those bonds we’re buying during the Federal Reserves’ “quantitative easing” need to be paid back someday. When will that day come? Who’s to know but I do know that we’re continuing “quantitative easing” at the rate of $84 billion PER MONTH so that day keeps getting pushed out into the future. That just makes the final day of reckoning all the more painful when it finally happens.
- Ninety-three percent of eighth graders read below their grade level (that’s no typo: 93%!)
- Forty-seven percent of the adult population in Detroit is functionally illiterate (this doesn’t give you much to work with if you’re planning on establishing one of Obama’s “Enterprise Zones” or “Innovation Hubs” in Detroit)
- The average response time for police after calling 911 is 58 minutes
- The police force has been reduced by 40% in the last decade
- Only 10% of crimes are solved in Detroit
- The incidence of violent crime in Detroit is 5 times higher than the national average
- 79,000 homes are abandoned and empty in Detroit
- Of those remaining in their homes, only half pay property taxes
- Forty percent of street lights don’t work
- 210 of 317 city parks have been closed
- Only one third of the ambulances in the city are operable and of those many have over 250,000 miles on them
- Realtors are offering homes for $1 and still find no takers
As one commentator put it: Were we to compare photographs of today's Hiroshima with today's Detroit, we would assume Japan won the Second World War after nuking Michigan.
Here’s the parallel between Detroit and the US:
It would require $25,000 from every man, woman, and child of Detroit to eliminate Detroit debt.
It would require $53,000 from every man, woman, and child of the US to eliminate US debt.
Now do you see the difference? The difference is that as a country, we’re in twice as deep as Detroit, but we’re not bankrupt because we can keep printing money while Detroit can’t. The problem is, all of those bonds we’re buying during the Federal Reserves’ “quantitative easing” need to be paid back someday. When will that day come? Who’s to know but I do know that we’re continuing “quantitative easing” at the rate of $84 billion PER MONTH so that day keeps getting pushed out into the future. That just makes the final day of reckoning all the more painful when it finally happens.
Alinoa
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Why is Detroit so picked on?