GLASSMANOAK'S Contest Thread #125 for WINNERS and with MULTIPLE WINNERS !!

[Fuzzy Thunderbear]

1/4 #3

I was gonna say that is the standard labor cost for friends and family, but while I was typing, Blue already said it, so you can ignore this one.

 

[tiggerrts]

1/4 - 2: Howdy all back, @jpf880 continued prayers and good vibes to you and your wife.
@liblue1 glad you got some snow and more is coming.
Looks like the hot topic has died down, and I may consider leaving it; though I have a personal experience that may enlighten one small aspect of the convo.


And officially, I do not like the new look, it is "fatter?"

 

[CountBoredom]

1/4 #5
Dodged some rain and checked out the FRAD house since his daughter-in-law has left.

 

[tiggerrts]

So - While I do agree with @aikanae1 - that there are many Children who are abused in more ways than one and that not enough is being done to protect them, especially with the way in which many people in society consider some children just "Throw aways" and not worth the effort of caring. I also agree with @Fuzzy Thunderbear - that there are also those times when some people in supposed authority become so overzealous in their efforts to actually access the situation and rectify the situation to protect the child - that it hurts the child/family relationship even more than what actually caused the problematic situation in the first place.

1/4 - 3: Okay I think I can do this right and offend no one, or either side of this particular little aspect of the discussion. First most of you do not know my name, my real name; and I could gladly give it to you so you can look it up and find that the record is clean.

This was discussed a long time ago and one of my best friends if not best has shown me the way, but anyway. A Wiccan had tried to put a spell on me, one to entice me away from my wife; not only to her and her husband, but to two other males as well. It did not work. So they have one of their children get "concerned" for ours. One story later........

Trying not to get emotional here. So almost two years later our family kidnapped apart from each other by the state, is finally able to reunite. Two lawyers, one the district attorney for the wife and children. My wife did state to the workers that the only ones who ........ the children was CPS. 13,000 dollars later, time, sorrow.

Yep they can do good, but when they are wrong; they should just admit it and stop.

 

[rangerrobin]

1/4 #3
@Fuzzy Thunderbear it turned out the timing belt was worn and it jumped time, so it needs a whole new timing kit installed. Thank goodness for mechanics in the family. $80 to fix it.

Thank goodness is right! I had a timing belt go out and it caused the short block to warp. $1500 later….

Have a terrific evening, everyone!

 

[Roadtrip635]

1/4 #1
I like the style change of the forum. I feel like a Star Wars character, light theme or dark theme. Going with the dark theme for now.....

 

[tiggerrts]

1/4 #1
I like the style change of the forum. I feel like a Star Wars character, light theme or dark theme. Going with the dark theme for now.....

1/4 - 4: Then we are on the same side......

 

[DaleH1985]

1/4 #4

Came home to a nice surprise in the mail today, my 2 bottles of liquid from GMO. Now I'm torn between opening them or stocking them until needed. Still using 3 bottles from the vape tree now. Decisions, decisions....

 

[tiggerrts]

TIOA Sns 5 Eps 27:
The gravesite was perfect. There were dolls and the like around originally, so some were made into metal items, the lights had been kept inside a glass and metal encasing. An "original" metal vase that held real fresh flowers. The instructions of the will were clear, many days to celebrate, before or after no matter. Some of the ashes to be added to the seed and the rest under the plant site so the tree could feed off the ash. So just behind the site, right behind it; if your facing the grave is a large Oak tree.

If you wanted to remember the face of the fallen you could walk right up to the memorial and look down and there was an everlasting laser image of Fuzzy as he was looking out on the maiden voyage.

Fin.
For all the treepeep who are no longer with us.






Sir your meeting?
Angel breathed a little harder, sipped on her Slurpee. Blue was looking at a new stone and sighed for Angel.

 

[Roadtrip635]

1/4 #4

Came home to a nice surprise in the mail today, my 2 bottles of liquid from GMO. Now I'm torn between opening them or stocking them until needed. Still using 3 bottles from the vape tree now. Decisions, decisions....

1/4 #2
I always let mine steep a while longer, the flavor really gets better.

 

[CountBoredom]

1/4 #6
Good night, Treefam!

 

[tiggerrts]

1/4 - 5: Good night Count, I received some liquid in the mail today.

 

[Roadtrip635]

1/4 #3
It feels strange now that the holidays are over.....

 

[Fuzzy Thunderbear]

1/4 #4

Looks like the hot topic has died down, and I may consider leaving it; though I have a personal experience that may enlighten one small aspect of the convo.

Well, Tigger, it might be dead here, but it will never be dead. But speaking of "dead," I came up with a parallel issue while contemplating the recent conversation. Anger, which leads to violence... and how violence has changed in society over the years.

Imagine, if you will, that all wars once were fought with clubs... then swords and axes. Back then, you looked your opponent in the face when you tried to kill him. Then we created bows and arrows and you could kill from 50-100 yards away. Then guns, and you could kill up to 1500 yards away. You could still see that it was a human you were killing, but never had to look him in the eyes, so the act of killing got far less personal. (sound a little like Facebook?) Then someone invented canons, then airplanes with bombs... at which point you didn't even have to see that there were any people at the target site. Hell, if there were children, you didn't know it, and killing became something that only required the push of a button and no guilt because you never even saw the enemy. But still, the pilot had to fly the plane into battle. Now what do we have? Drones. They can be flown from the comfort of your easy chair and you don't even have to be in the same country as the drone that is doing the killing. You look at a video screen, zoom into the target, press the button and... Is that any damn different than a video game? Is THIS what we have trained our children to do? Kill at a distance with no feeling whatsoever because the enemy is just an image on the screen?

 

[tiggerrts]

1/4 - 6: Well time for me to lay my head down.

 

[liblue1]

TIOA Sns 5 Eps 27:
The gravesite was perfect. There were dolls and the like around originally, so some were made into metal items, the lights had been kept inside a glass and metal encasing. An "original" metal vase that held real fresh flowers. The instructions of the will were clear, many days to celebrate, before or after no matter. Some of the ashes to be added to the seed and the rest under the plant site so the tree could feed off the ash. So just behind the site, right behind it; if your facing the grave is a large Oak tree.

If you wanted to remember the face of the fallen you could walk right up to the memorial and look down and there was an everlasting laser image of Fuzzy as he was looking out on the maiden voyage.

Fin.
For all the treepeep who are no longer with us.






Sir your meeting?
Angel breathed a little harder, sipped on her Slurpee. Blue was looking at a new stone and sighed for Angel.

Very nice Tiggs.........how about this.............

 

[Slowone2]

1/4 #4

Well, Tigger, it might be dead here, but it will never be dead. But speaking of "dead," I came up with a parallel issue while contemplating the recent conversation. Anger, which leads to violence... and how violence has changed in society over the years.

Imagine, if you will, that all wars once were fought with clubs... then swords and axes. Back then, you looked your opponent in the face when you tried to kill him. Then we created bows and arrows and you could kill from 50-100 yards away. Then guns, and you could kill up to 1500 yards away. You could still see that it was a human you were killing, but never had to look him in the eyes, so the act of killing got far less personal. (sound a little like Facebook?) Then someone invented canons, then airplanes with bombs... at which point you didn't even have to see that there were any people at the target site. Hell, if there were children, you didn't know it, and killing became something that only required the push of a button and no guilt because you never even saw the enemy. But still, the pilot had to fly the plane into battle. Now what do we have? Drones. They can be flown from the comfort of your easy chair and you don't even have to be in the same country as the drone that is doing the killing. You look at a video screen, zoom into the target, press the button and... Is that any damn different than a video game? Is THIS what we have trained our children to do? Kill at a distance with no feeling whatsoever because the enemy is just an image on the screen?

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Wow that is deep. And so on point it is scary.

 

[Shawn Hoefer]

1/4 #4

Well, Tigger, it might be dead here, but it will never be dead. But speaking of "dead," I came up with a parallel issue while contemplating the recent conversation. Anger, which leads to violence... and how violence has changed in society over the years.

Imagine, if you will, that all wars once were fought with clubs... then swords and axes. Back then, you looked your opponent in the face when you tried to kill him. Then we created bows and arrows and you could kill from 50-100 yards away. Then guns, and you could kill up to 1500 yards away. You could still see that it was a human you were killing, but never had to look him in the eyes, so the act of killing got far less personal. (sound a little like Facebook?) Then someone invented canons, then airplanes with bombs... at which point you didn't even have to see that there were any people at the target site. Hell, if there were children, you didn't know it, and killing became something that only required the push of a button and no guilt because you never even saw the enemy. But still, the pilot had to fly the plane into battle. Now what do we have? Drones. They can be flown from the comfort of your easy chair and you don't even have to be in the same country as the drone that is doing the killing. You look at a video screen, zoom into the target, press the button and... Is that any damn different than a video game? Is THIS what we have trained our children to do? Kill at a distance with no feeling whatsoever because the enemy is just an image on the screen?

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The breakdown, I think, came later than you imagine. Even during WWI, the French and the Germans would come out of the trenches and swap bottles of wine on Sundays.

Then the Americans arrived. When the Germans came out on Sunday, they were mowed down.

Guerilla warfare...



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[KatzWh1skers]

1/4 #1
Oooooooooooooooo ...so it IS a new screen thinga-ma-do ... I thot it was just this new monitor I was using .
Hmmm...am I on the Dark setting @tiggerrts or the Light setting /?
Well...if this were a turkey,I'd def go with Dark ..
If it were a Bean @Shawn Hoefer ...I'd def go with Light.
OK...I know what to do....I'll check the setting below...
And let you know next post

 

[sig-cmt]

Thank you to Leonard @ The Vape Tree who graciously allowed me to gift the winnings to a deserving member of our community . The Vape Tree = One Stand Up Company.