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Prisoner_Number_Six Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 08:36 PM
Original message
Wow! Looks like a LOT of snow coming down!
I sure am glad I'm in Texas, and it's not snowing HERE!

Anybody who lives north of the snow line deserves what they get...

:evilgrin:
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 09:01 PM
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1. Weeelllllllllllll…
If I have to make a choice between snow and Texas…

Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

Hee-Hee :)
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 09:45 PM
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10. I Chose Neither
I
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Maine-ah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:10 PM
Response to Reply #1
16. my sentiments exactly. Though it's 10 pm and it still hasn't
started yet. They were claiming 12 inches or so. Give me snow or give me texas? Shit, dump it on baby! let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!!!:headbang:
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mermaid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 09:25 PM
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2. Thanks A Fuck Of A Lot
Edited on Mon Feb-28-05 09:30 PM by mermaid
I am having to LEAVE Texas because I can't fucking find work down here anymore...and having to go back home to Mommy in goddam snow-hell in Pennsylvania.

Thanks for rubbing salt in my wounds.

'Preciate it.

See how much YOU like Texas when you lose YOUR job and can't get another decent-paying job to save your life...and see how much YOU enjoy trying to wrench piddly unemplyment checks out of the system who only wants any little excuse in the world to deny you your payments.

Fuckin' Texas.

I've had all I want of this place. employers are God's here...they can never do wrong, and their word is Gospel truth....and employees are shit down here...
An employer can LIE about why you got the shaft and fuck you out of your unemployment, and usually you cant do a goodam thing about it.

Screw this.

I've had it with trying to make a go of it in Texas.

Nuch as I love the no-snow weather...I need to eat.

With your little snarky comment about people who live north of the snow line...I sure hope YOU are never forced, against your will into moving up there...and I sure hope that if it DOES happen to you...no one rubs salt in YOUR wounds, like you just did to me.

Have a nice time in Texas, and think about me when I'm in snow up to my asshole. Thanks a whole fuck of a lot for making me feel just fucking lovely.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 09:31 PM
Response to Reply #2
7. Seriously
this thread was a JOKE. Why are you taking everything so seriously?

No sense of ha, ha?
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mermaid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 09:33 PM
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9. See How Much HA HA You Have Left After 10 Fucking Months Unemployed, Okay?
See How much "ha ha" you have left when you come to the realization that you are a loser at age 34 because you gotta go back home to Mommy.

See how much "ha ha" is left in you when you face employment discrimination and can't do a fucking thing about it.

See how much "ha ha" you have left in you after walking a mile in my fucking shoes.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:26 PM
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21. .........
I know all this stuff has happened to you. I've read about it in your posts.

That doesn't mean you can't take something posted with humor in the lounge in the spirit in which it was intended, right?

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mermaid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:39 PM
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25. I Have No Humor Left.
It hurt. It hurt like a motherfucker. The main goddam reason I didn't want to go back to Pennsylvania was the motherfucking snow. and to hear this guy gloat on about how nice and warm he will be while I freeze my ass off as a 34 year old loser...well, I'm sorry, there is no goddam humor here.

He ripped my heart out and it is just that simple.

He ripped my heart out, filled the hole with salt, and then pounded a fucking stake into it just for good measure.

I hope he knows how bad he hurt me.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:54 PM
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33. I bet Prisoner Number Six
KNEW the main reason you didn't want to go back to Pennsylvania was the snow.

I bet he posted that on purpose just to rip your heart out, fill the hole with salt and then pound a stake into it.

I betcha he thought "Hey how can I hurt the shit out of mermaid on DU? I know, I'll jokingly post about snow and how I'm in Texas and not getting any, that'll really just tear her heart out."

Maybe you should hit alert? Or put him on your ignore list?

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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 11:00 PM
Response to Reply #9
36. would you please
start a thread in the lounge including all topics we aren't allowed to kid about and ask skinner to pin it to the top. We can't let this happen again.
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mermaid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 11:12 PM
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39. Oh, Just Knock It Off...Can't You Have Some Compassion for someone Who Is
hurting??

or do you just have to dismiss my hurt with a wave of your hand like it is unimportant....yeah, who gives a crap...god this whole world sucks...i swear, if it wasn't for my dog and my mom I'd take the easy way out.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 11:18 PM
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41. I have plenty of compassion.
But this is crazy. It's a humorous post in the lounge. What LDS said is that Prisoner Number Six couldn't have had any idea how you felt. Can't you take THAT into consideration before you start yelling at everyone?

I get that you are hurting. I get that things suck for you right now. BELIEVE me, I get it. You aren't the only person who's ever gone through a REALLY shitty period in their life. But I what I don't get is how that gives you the right to go off on everyone. It doesn't.

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mermaid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 11:27 PM
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42. Look
Prisoner Number Six and I are having our own little discussion about it on PM, so how about you just move on to other things, okay?

You aren't helping.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 11:31 PM
Response to Reply #42
44. Well excuse the shit out of me.
You DID yell at me, you know.

Whatever. I'm done with this bullshit.
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 11:35 PM
Response to Reply #39
46. sorry.. you seem to enjoy being the victim too much
to be full of compassion for.
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 09:55 PM
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12. Another Dem leaving Texas
Damn. Another Dem leaving Texas-- there's only a handful of us left here it seems.

Sorry 'bout what happened. It's a shitty deal. It hapened to me, also. When I was 34... and in TX, too. Honstly, I hate this place. The culture is steeped in good ol' boyism and God forbid you have a Demo bumber sticker on your car if you get pulled over by the State Troopers.

You lived in Austin, though and that is a bit different (I read your main post this afternoon-- I'm not some weidro... :silly: ).

Hang in there, kid. My prayers and good thoughts are with ya. I've got a gut feeling that you're a scrapper and you'll come outta this lookin' better than ever.

:)
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mermaid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:03 PM
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13. Yeah, But It Hurts Like A Sonofabitch, Because
the main reason I didn't want to go back to Pennsylvania was....drumroll, please....

THE MOTHERFUCKING SNOW!!!

and to finally have come to the point where I know there is no way I will get to stay here...

And then to have some guy rub salt in my wounds by mocking the fact that it is snowing up there...and how nice and warm he will be in Texas while I freeze my fucking ass off...goddamn it it just really hurt. A lot.

And I hope he comes back and reads this thread and knows how badly he hurt me.
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Prisoner_Number_Six Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:16 PM
Response to Reply #2
18. I was unemployed for 4 years
--that was after my knee replacement from arthritis forced me to quit a job I'd had for fifteen years.

I got out of it by starting my own business-- in Dallas Texas.

Go figure.

BTW, I was born and raised in northern Indiana and Ohio. I've shovelled my way through a thousand showdrifts in my time. I've earned the right to laugh about it.

Perhaps one day you will too.
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mermaid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:36 PM
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23. I Already HAVE
I left Pennsylvania last in 1997, vowing never to have to go back to that hell hole...after the fucking blizzard that dropped 39 goddamn inches on us at one goddamn time!

Six ana half fucking hours I was out shoveling out my car, and for what?? So a fucking city snowplow could come along and rebury my ass, creating another goddam six hours of work.

Goddamn

I did not want to have to go back. I desperately tried anything I could to avoid it. But in the end...I lose. And it hurts. Badly.

And this guy just rubbed salt in the wounds. Hope he sleeps well tonight, knowing he just damn near ripped my heart out.
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Canadian Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:23 PM
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20. Mermaid
there is nothing wrong with snow. Speaking as someone who lives in the "Great White North".
Okay, I'm lying. I hate snow too. Heavy to shovel. Hard to walk through. etc. BUT, it does give us needed moisture in a very dry climate.

What!?

Will no one think of the farmers?
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 12:20 AM
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 09:28 PM
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3. May I refer you to General Phil Sheridan,
who once said "If I owned Hell and Texas, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell."

Redstone

Don't get all cranked up now, it's just a joke.
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Goldmund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 09:28 PM
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4. It's a small price to pay for living in a blue state, bud.
Edited on Mon Feb-28-05 09:28 PM by Goldmund
:evilgrin:
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 09:29 PM
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5. amen brother
I'll take some snow, you can have Governor Goodhair
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DrZeeLit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 09:29 PM
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6. gmta... I was just going to add that gem!
Blue state, blue state, we're in a blue state....na na na na na!
Okay.... not snowin' in Vermont... yet.

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meganmonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 09:32 PM
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8. Bite my pasty white Yankee ass, pal!!!
You couldn't handle this!

:evilgrin:
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 09:47 PM
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11. Shut. Up. You. Anyone who lives in Texas deserves W as a president.
:evilergrin:
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:50 PM
Response to Reply #11
31. hey now grumpy
be nice
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cyberpj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:09 PM
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14. Delaware here - we got lots today and more tonight - but we're still a
BLUE STATE TOO!!!

Nya-nya-nya-nya---nya..............


This is from my balcony at 3:15 today.
(As you can see I was impatient for St. Patrick's Day...)
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:10 PM
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15. it;s fucking crazy outside- 40 MPH winds here!!
I am praying for no school tomorrow. C'mon, St.Ignatius would want us to sleep in dammit!!
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:13 PM
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17. I'd take the snow over living in Texas every day of the year
and yes, I've been to Texas, I DO know what I'm missing
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:18 PM
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19. I'd rather have Noreasters nine months a year
Edited on Mon Feb-28-05 10:25 PM by Kathy in Cambridge
than live in freakin' Texass. No offense intended to the good liberals who live there. But what an armpit.

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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:37 PM
Response to Reply #19
24. A-flippin-men
hi Kathy! :hi:
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:39 PM
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26. hi sean! No school or work tomorrow!
:bounce:
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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:40 PM
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27. that's awesome! i bet my company will make me come in
i haven't even had a snow day on a blizzard yet :cry:
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:53 PM
Response to Reply #27
32. at least you take public trans
driving should prove to be a nightmare tomorrow.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 11:44 PM
Response to Reply #19
51. Hey! The entire state's not an armpit!
Harumph.
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hickman1937 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:35 PM
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22. I Love Snow.
I don't mind shoveling it, I've been driving in it since I was 15, and its easier to drive in than wet roads. That said, I've never been to Texas, but the few people I've met from there seem to really know what the word neighbor means.
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mermaid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:41 PM
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28. I Absolutely, Totally, Completely FUCKING DETEST Snow!!
Having to shovel it
Having to drive in it
Having to be outside in it
Having to even LOOK at it.

Snow...how do I hate thee?? Let me count the ways....
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hickman1937 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:45 PM
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29. Then I guess you're in the right place for you. n/t
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mermaid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:49 PM
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30. Yeah, But The Problem Is...I DON'T GET TO STAY HERE!!
Within the next month, I will be moving back to Pennsylvania, back home tyo mommy like a 34 year old loser, because I can no longer find life-sustaining work.

And to have the OP post what he did about people who live north of the snow line....well, he might as well have ripped my heart out, stomped on it, and poured salt into the wound.

Hope he fucking sleeps well tonight, because I won't now...thanks to him.

I'm sitting here at my keyboard now, crying, because of him.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:56 PM
Response to Reply #30
34. Ok
step away from the keyboard. For your own mental and emotional health, please. Take a break. If a joking post in the lounge gets you this down, seriously......
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mermaid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 11:06 PM
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37. I Can't...I Just fucking Can't...Okay??
I keep beating myself up and beating myself up and I just can't stop. i'm such a pathetic lousy goddam loser to have to go back home at 34...I can't make myself stop....all I know is I tried my goddamndest, I did the best I could and it wasn't good enough, and so I am a miserable fucking failure, okay??

I can't make myself stop...it hurts so damn bad...All I wanted was to be able to make a life for myself....was that so much to want?

apparently so.
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hickman1937 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 10:59 PM
Response to Reply #30
35. mermaid, I'm sorry for what you are trying to deal with,
but thats unfair. Granted, I've never had to live away from my chosen climate, but prisoner didn't create the problem, bush did. I'm hoping for you that in the next few months, you can go back somehow.:hug:
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mermaid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 11:10 PM
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38. I won't
with the expense and hassle of moving...no, I won't be back in warm weather for a long time to come. i'm gonna be stuck in fucking snow hell...eight years it's been and in all that time I have seen snow three times.

I never wanted to have to see it again.

Now I am going to have LIVE in it againn...for at LEAST seven more years, until my mom finally retires and moves South. Because I'm not likely to leave my mom amnymore now.

I already planned on moving back with her when she retired, because I didn't want her to be alone at that point.

the difference is...THAT would have been a CHOICE to move back in...not an economic FORCE.

I would have gone back because I WANTED to...not because I HAD to. and it makes all the difference.

I am a pathetic lousy player at life. I'm a 34 year old loser who isn't worth jack shit. Just ask all the employers in this state...since none of them seem to want to hire me, I must really be a big-time loser.

15 million people manage to make it in Texas, but I can't, so what does that say about me?
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 11:41 PM
Response to Reply #38
47. actually, 22 million people make it in this state
not fifteen.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 11:18 PM
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mermaid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 11:29 PM
Response to Reply #40
43. See How Well YOU Take It When Your On Life's Shitheap
ok?
you aren't helping.

Prisoner number 6 and I are having our own little conversation now, via PM's...so how about you just move on to other things, too? okay?

I really don't need this right now. I am hurting. and if you cannot understand that, or give validity to my feelings...well, then...how about you just leave me alone for a while, okay?

Please?

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fudge stripe cookays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 11:35 PM
Response to Reply #43
45. I've BEEN on life's shitheap before.
I've even overdosed before.

But I didn't have to take my personal issues to a lighthearted thread on a public internet forum to get over them.

If you want to be left alone why don't you sign off? It's quite easy. Go read a book, or meditate, or make a cup of tea.

Stop being a drama queen and people won't react the way they do.
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Prisoner_Number_Six Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 11:41 PM
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48. Alright, enough.
It's gotten too out-of-control here. IT WAS A JOKE. Just everybody stop arguing and let it be, please.

It's just not worth the anger that's being generated.
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 11:43 PM
Response to Reply #48
49. don't be all nice now, you KNEW you were starting a flame war
when you posted this.
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Ariana Celeste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-05 11:44 PM
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50. Been seeing flurries all day in IN today
Kind of refreshing, considering the lack of snow and ice so far this winter.
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