Imponderables- Christmas Already? by nvghostrider

firsties??

Did I get firsties??

YAY...also I did not get poisoned by our culinary arts students in their monthly teacher lunch. My students begged me to attend. They did well.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Thursday, October 21, 2010 9:21 AM

phew I thought this thread might be naked old man themed with the way the last one ended. I bet Santa wouldn't be as popular if he was commonly portrayed as being in a locker room.

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Thursday, October 21, 2010 9:51 AM

Agree on the naked dude in the locker room thing. I think after a certain age some folk just hit a point of truly not caring anymore.

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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
-Loretta Lynn

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Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:12 AM

Well for the most part I don't really care right now, but at least I'm courteous to everybody else.

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Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:36 AM

Maybe it is like the Ghost of Christmas Future.

THE GHOST OF SAGGY MAN-PARTS

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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
-Loretta Lynn

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Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:51 AM

Great now I'm going to have nightmares.

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Thursday, October 21, 2010 11:14 AM

I was going to sa THE GHOST OF SAGGY MAN-PARTS TO COME, but, um, yeah...

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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
-Loretta Lynn

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Thursday, October 21, 2010 12:54 PM

I just saw the Christmas section at Walgreens, so it is happening.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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Thursday, October 21, 2010 4:07 PM

Halloween candy has been on sale for a month and they have plenty of it. It surprizes me. I live on the east side of Milwaukee. We have retirement Communities and students, not many children in that crowd. I think most people are buying it because it is cheaper then standard candy prices.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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Friday, October 22, 2010 6:13 AM

Who votes no kids get Halloween candy...'cause they become so hyper in class and they are wandering with candy swapping. So ANNOYING!!

Oh so glad it's Friday

Kinda disturbed by your locker room issue...good luck on that:)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Friday, October 22, 2010 8:25 AM

What? No candy for kids?!? You're like the Halloween grinch. Kids and candy go together like peanut butter and jelly. I always buy candy just in case some kids show up at my apartment. I'm just about ready to throw out last year's left over twix and milky way's to make room for this years batch.

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Friday, October 22, 2010 8:34 AM

GREENKA61

I'm thinking of handing out broccoli this year. Our just cutting to the chase and giving them each five pound bags of sugar.

Really - Nevada Day needs to be the day _after_ Halloween so the parents can deal with the sugar highs instead of school.

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Friday, October 22, 2010 9:18 AM

Not no candy period...just no candy at school. It's such a hassle policing them and there are always fights over it and the kids are mutant hyper. I am all for candy, Halloween and trick or treating. Just not having the stuff come to school after elementary:)

Still vaguely disgruntled over Johnny's birth. If I had known I was going to have a c-section anyway, I would have made them do it on his due date and then I could have the Halloween/Nevada Day/Anniversary/Birthday aka HaNeAnBirday

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Friday, October 22, 2010 9:44 AM

Deal no candy in class. They should just setup a giant pixie stick that's like a human version of those water bottles for hamsters. Put it at the door to the school and let the kids get a mouthful of sugar before entering. Done and done.

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Friday, October 22, 2010 9:45 AM

Walgreens has Halloween and Christmas stuff right next to eachother, does that seem right to you?

And hey!! Johnny was born in the best month of the year!

Actually, I think we're exactly one week apart (well besides the pesky 25 years earlier thing).

Oh and incase you haven't heard, I GOT A JOB!!!!!!! :oD

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Friday, October 22, 2010 10:05 AM

JUST DICOVERED TODAY IS "INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY".LOL

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
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Friday, October 22, 2010 10:11 AM

CAPS CAN ALSO EMOTE EXTEME HAPPINESS!!!!!

Sorry for treating the imponerables like its the bar, I can think of one if that makes it better.

...later.

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Friday, October 22, 2010 10:33 AM

What's the job?

My department at work went to lunch at this BBQ place down here and we thought about how they move the line so fast with 5 registers going at lunch and dinner rush. They have multiple locations in town. So, we theorize that they must have some BBQing factory in town where they're just constantly cooking the meat. Sounds like a sort of interesting job though at the same time we figure you'll smell like BBQ for months even after leaving the job.

Will your new job make you smell like anything unique?

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Friday, October 22, 2010 1:02 PM

It's just at an insurance company. But the pay is good and the benefits/perks are sweeeeeet.

I'm no longer a temp! It feels great to say that!

I don't think it gives me a unique smell, no.

When we go out for lunch we often smell like wherever we went (like the Japanese place where the guy goes crazy on the grill, we smell like those places ).Does that count?

Edit: I thought of a ponder, but its WAY un PC and may cause drama here but I'll ask anyway.
Bullying. Its a hot issue latley. Almost getting shoved down our throats:

My ponder: Are bullies meaner or are kids wussier?

I think its a combination of both. Bullies can get at you more now with cell phones and internet (cyber bullying), but kids gotta cowboy up. It happens to all of us and until everyone starts looking exactly the same in some weird scary sci-fi dimension, it will continue to happen.

Thoughts? I know its friday, and this place dies on the weekends... but I had to put it out there.

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Monday, October 25, 2010 7:13 AM

I like your ponder Avery
and I'd say kids are meaner. It's become far more socially acceptable to bully past the point of just bullying and into the stalker/assault zone. It's common place for kids now to use social media to terrorize, intimidate, and basically break another kid and the other kids around them don't seem to find it out of line.

I'm not saying there was no bullying when I went to school, but it certainly wasn't generally tolerated to say make fake facebook pages and use them to get another kid kicked out of school.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Monday, October 25, 2010 8:38 AM

I blame the internets. It's all their fault. When I was a kid the internets were barely in their infancy. So, information wasn't at the touch of a button. I never even thought about kids our age shooting people or committing suicide. So, it wasn't even in the realm of possibility. I'm guessing that if it was in the minds of kids when I was younger that some of the more sensitive ones who were bullied would go that route. Then it would be just as big of an issue as it is these days. Plus like MsA says it's just another venue for the bullying and it makes it more of a constant thing.

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Monday, October 25, 2010 9:01 AM

I agree, when I was in school, until high school internet wasn't as popular as it was now.

It seems like kids have more time on their hands to bully (and yet THEY pick people who the consider "losers"...)

Columbine happened when I was a senior and it wasn't until then did they start to crack down on bullying...and dress codes.

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Monday, October 25, 2010 9:02 AM

Sorry I am now distracted from the bullying by the disaster of my current moment. Stupid lender is going to deny our loan because our crawl space is apparently 1 foot too low...WTF!!

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Monday, October 25, 2010 11:27 AM

What!? That stupid! How the hell would you even fix something like that?

They suck, I hope theres some sort of loophole you can find!

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010 5:39 AM

We are working on it

BTW big HUGS and AWESOMES on the new job Ms hired Avery

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010 9:55 AM

There was a bulletin on the ABC News Now ticker this morning saying that some bullying violated anti-discrimination laws. Don't get me wrong, bullying is wrong. But are we going to start charging children with felonies? I want to blame so many people for this but can't seem to find the right ones to blame. F-it. I'm blaming everyone. Wait, that's what got us into this mess of everyone being a victim. Damn...

On the brighter side, I am an evil, evil man. Nearly laughed up my Nilla Wafers when Johnny and I saw this on Attack Of The Show:

*cough* Just laughed my ass off again. Evil I tells ya!

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010 11:17 AM

That was great. I had to suppress a laugh and my mom looked at me weird...

Yeah that's pretty ridiculous to make it violate "anti discrimination laws".

I don't know, we all got bullied and unless your parents were Mother Theresa and Jesus you bullied too. Not necessarily to super mean extend we see in movies and apparently the media, but I know you all whispered something to your friend and giggled about it.

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010 1:36 PM

Meh, I kept to bullying assholes so I felt justified. Yeah, still wrong. But it sure made a lot of smaller weaker kids feel better about themselves.

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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
-Loretta Lynn

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:24 AM

Ok I feel like a bad person for laughing at the little girl falling...

NV

Oh YAY week over

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
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Thursday, October 28, 2010 8:27 AM

Yay Nevada Day!!!

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 8:38 AM

Well that was interesting. I got an email today about a fraud alert on my credit card. Of course I don't trust email. So, I called the bank and sure enough it was real. Somebody in NY bought two plane tickets for around $4,000 on my card. Yikes! Glad we have legislation protecting us. No charge to me.

Now I just have to figure out if I had any auto payments on that card for anything. I probably need to file a fraud alert with the credit rating people too. Bah! I guess it could be $4,000 worse though.

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 9:19 AM

Hey that just happened to me two weeks ago Zeek... stupid person in Brooklyn NY was at Target trying to use my card. They blocked it and I had to wait for a replacement, but all in all glad nothing was stolen:)

OK seriously considering the blocking thing.. how often do you think these scammers actually get away with anything?

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
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Thursday, October 28, 2010 9:36 AM

KELKHIL

Quite a bit actually. Happened to me a few months back. Person charged up a ton of stuff on my card. Buy. com called me when said person tried to order some stuff and ship it to a different address than the one I had listed. Saved my ass.

Filed all the paper work needed to recredit my account and get a new card. Even had Buy. com rep ready to help catch him. Was told by the police that I could file a report if I wanted but since the culprit was across state lines all they would be able to do was issue a bench warrant in case said asshat ever came to my home state. They do not extradite for credit card fraud.

Dood is just lucky that Buy. com was not allowed to give me his address or I just might have drove to his house, threw him in the trunk and delivered him to the Cop Shop Batman style!!!

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Thursday, October 28, 2010 10:49 AM

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Originally posted by MsA:
Hey that just happened to me two weeks ago Zeek... stupid person in Brooklyn NY was at Target trying to use my card. They blocked it and I had to wait for a replacement, but all in all glad nothing was stolen:)

OK seriously considering the blocking thing.. how often do you think these scammers actually get away with anything?

I don't know but I just read about the fraud alert stuff and it sounds like it could be more trouble than it's worth. Like if I have that turned on and do ever decide to buy a house they can actually increase your interest rate do to the added processing time and hassle. Way to punish people for trying to reduce fraud. Sheesh.

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Friday, October 29, 2010 9:29 PM

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Dood is just lucky that Buy. com was not allowed to give me his address or I just might have drove to his house, threw him in the trunk and delivered him to the Cop Shop Batman style!!!

I might pay a little cashy money to see that.

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Monday, November 1, 2010 5:54 AM

What a happy Halloween. The Saints took down the Steelers. Good times.

Also hilariously my waitress at the hottie waitress restaurant was my neighbor. The fact that I'm not at all interested in her mean "bad waitress day"

It also doesn't help that her bf/husband/whatever is huge and scary.

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Monday, November 1, 2010 7:01 AM

Yikes Kelkhil... glad you got it stopped. HUGS
I was super grateful to my credit card company for being so alert.

Aw Zeek sorry about the hottie waitress fail

NV oooh maybe we should all join up and make a Justice League style vigilante group who "returns" credit card fraud felons to the offending state

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010 5:58 AM

I r voter.

Everybody else do their civic duty today?

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010 10:46 AM

Now I got my flu shot too. I'm loaded up with stickers describing things I did today. Though I had to have it pointed out to me that my voter sticker is in spanish. oops.

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010 12:55 PM

Having a Spanish voting sticker seems.....odd.

I voted! No sticker, no pin, no coffee. Whats with this year?

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Wednesday, November 3, 2010 5:57 AM

I have apathy.. not for voting, just for the sheer pointlessness of the voting. Not saying I wouldn't and don't vote, just saying it doesn't exactly get me anything except the same frustration it always does...regardless of who I vote for.

Sorry just bitter and tired right now and sick of working a million hours, paying my taxes on time, paying all bills on time and contributing to the community by educating children and having that mean I can get no assistance or aide of any kind, but if I were a worthless parasitic drain on society there would be tons of people lining up to help me.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Wednesday, November 3, 2010 6:32 AM

Oh I don't think my vote counts for jack really. The reason I vote is I've heard the fact of whether you vote or not is available. So, they may not know who you voted for, but they know whether or not you're a voter. So, if I ever want a politician to listen to anything I have to say I at least need to have a record of being an active voter.

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Wednesday, November 3, 2010 7:15 AM

ooh good point Zeek. I'll at least feel like I'm building a good permanent record

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Wednesday, November 3, 2010 2:24 PM

Did you guys have a weird new way of voting too?

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Thursday, November 4, 2010 3:28 AM

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Did you guys have a weird new way of voting too?

Not for me. We used a machine that we've used since the Bush vs Kerry election. Not that it's very intuitive. It uses a big wheel to navigate the ballot where you can just turn right to go forward or left to go back. Then a button to select stuff or clear something. It works but it's silly why not have a forward and back button?

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Thursday, November 4, 2010 5:25 AM

Ours are the touch screen ones

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
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Thursday, November 4, 2010 11:06 AM

We have heavy card stock that you fill in an arrow with a pencil, to select your choices, and then you insert it into a electronic counter. It is simple and quick.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
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Friday, November 5, 2010 3:59 AM

Did anybody notice? It's Friday!!! Yay!!! This week seems like it has been at least 1 day too long already. I think it's that whole "Fall back" thing. They repeated Tuesday without us noticing didn't they? Jerks!

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Friday, November 5, 2010 4:51 AM