It wasn’t so much remove them as fire anyone who went on strike…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_strike

I’ve never called my parents by their first names, and I’ve never known someone who did.

I called my grandparents “Grandma and Grandpa [Last Name]”. But my aunts and uncles were “Aunt [First Name]” and “Uncle [First Name]”. I would say that’s pretty standard for the USA.

As are we all. Trump cares about no one but himself.

Ludicrous speed.

Ludacris is the rapper, but I like your enthusiasm. :)

Someone else remembers CompuServe?!

Col. Mustard: Yours.

Mrs. White: Five.

Col. Mustard: Five!

Mrs. White: Yes, just the five. Husbands should be like Kleenex. Soft, strong, and disposable.

Col. Mustard: You lure men to their deaths like a spider with flies.

Mrs. White: Flies are where men are most vulnerable.

Col. Mustard: That’s right!

I guess I just assumed it was a child. Based on the skill level.

I can’t bring myself to mock something that someone probably made out of genuine love. It makes me too sad. No matter how much of a piece of shit Charlie might have been.

Mocking it feels like the opposite of empathy. I know how much he didn’t believe in empathy, but as usual, he was wrong. So I’m displaying some. Not for him. But for whoever made this for him.

I can nostalgically hear the sounds of the game while looking at these pictures. “Here we go!”

Measure of a Man > The Drumhead > Devil’s Due

Mostly personal opinion incoming, with a few facts mixed in: I think the message on the Statue of Liberty was what the best of us at the time wanted the majority of us to be. I’m not sure we ever were.

First we get the Puritans, wiping out Native Americans, and trying to push their religion on everyone.

Then you get the slave trade, which is not immigration, but a large influx of a new population regardless, that was suddenly a problem for some when those people were free and citizens.

Then you get the Ellis Island years. Immigrants would get here, get sucked into “the American dream” of capitalism (which can help only very specific people), then want to close the door behind them. That way none of the new, filthy immigrants from (insert ethnic/religious group of your choice) could get the same advantages. But everyone kept coming.

Now, in power due to the way everything got handled (badly) after our civil war, you have a combination of the religious right, who want christianity to continue to be number one, and the racists, who want to make sure their daughter doesn’t sleep with anyone who’s the wrong color. They were always here, festering in the background, but now they’ve gained power, and they’re louder than before.

The rest of us are still here, suffering, watching the country we were told was great reveal its ugliest population to everyone. I’m left wondering if we were ever a country who actually wanted immigrants. Or if it was merely aspirational.

The surroundings indicate that they are in a hotel, and do not have a stove. And likely not a microwave either. Hence this setup.

My biggest problems here are the phrases “no objections” and “evolve”.

• “No objections” is unhealthily controlling. You absolutely can object, and it’s gross that he seems to think you can’t.

• “Evolve” makes it sound like people who don’t go on dates are somehow not as human as the rest of society, and are not doing what they’re “supposed” to be doing. I don’t like that either. It strikes me as being in the same vein as how you’re “supposed” to be heterosexual, and get married, and have children. Because that’s what “normal” humans do.

If those two phrases weren’t in the response, I’d find the situation weird, but not overall objectionable.

It’s your dad’s attitude toward you that feels wrong, not the date itself.

I wish the maga loyalists would start their own country and leave ours. If I have to choose between orange asshole and brain worm… I think we’re better off with brain worm.

My boyfriend in his 40s finally got diagnosed with ADHD by a psychologist after suffering his whole life. The psychologist recommended stimulant medication.

Now he’s talking to a nurse, and has been prescribed a few different drugs that have helped some with his anxiety (gabapentin, zyprexa, the occasional xanax), but she refuses to prescribe a stimulant to address the ADHD because “it might make his anxiety worse”.

Why the fuck do you think he has anxiety? Could it be because he has had unmedicated ADHD for DECADES, and every time he tries to concentrate to complete a task, he can’t? And every time he tries to not dwell on bad thoughts and bad memories, he can’t make himself think about anything else, so he spirals downward? Because his ADHD is unmedicated? Jesus Christ.

Sorry for the long rant. We’ve been seeing her for a few months, but I’m losing hope that the actual problem is ever going to be addressed.

TL;DR: I wish I could get my bf into the category of “older person with ADHD taking stimulants”.

If you buy a home in which an HOA is already established, then yes, it’s required. And good luck finding a neighborhood where one isn’t already established. If you get a small enough town or cheap enough neighborhood, maybe.

I’m afraid Arlington cemetery is in Virginia. This is the Arlington in Texas (near Dallas/Fort Worth).

Edit: Lol, I didn’t even look at the healthy cities. I went straight to the naughty list.

I wouldn’t have said this is Far Side. This doesn’t look like his drawing style. But I could be wrong.

Also, Far Side has some great jokes. I’m a fan.

The bouncer / security guard is asking for ID (identification), but the hillbilly thinks he is asking if he has any “idee” (idea pronounced with a very strong accent). So the hillbilly is asking “idea about what?”

We’re not at the height of comedy here.

I’m honored!