They should have that everywhere.
I'm bummed today because...
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Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
That was good! You're cute
The withdrawal symptoms were not fun but I think it's worth it in the long run
...you say that like it's a bad thing.....
It would be nice if I could just watch the trial on my phone and text a verdict.
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It would be nice if I could just watch the trial on my phone and text a verdict.
Piece o cake, Joe. Bah, try 18 weeks foreman of a Grand Jury.
Thinking, 'what were they thinking?' 'act adult' 'God help us all'.
Thank gans my vote did not count.
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Jury selection could be on facebook
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Jury selection could be on facebook
Now you're talkingIt would be nice if I could just watch the trial on my phone and text a verdict.
I hate it when there's a tragedy and people have to make it about themselves. Someone loses a parent and people make a point of telling him about their own mother or father who died. Or someone got raped in a news article and people on the FB page have to go into great detail about the time they themselves were assaulted. It kinda minimizes the loss. Some people are so self absorbed. Can they not just say sorry for your loss and leave it at that?
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
In a perfect world, yes - perhaps they believe the old saying "Misery loves company" and they're just trying to sympathize?
Sorry this is bumming you out today
Hmm, I don't see this as someone trying to make it about themselves. It's how people connect and bond. Shared experiences. And, it will give them a person they can bounce questions off of, or just not feel so alone.
Every single person on this board practically has had a moment where, "this has happened to me too" and they have shared.
I was recently directed to someone on this board who shared an experience with me. While her experience was much more grave, she was someone I could ask questions of -- did this happen to you? how long did this last? etc...etc... It was nice seeing someone who had gone through the same thing I did and seeing they did come out the other end doing well. It's a give and take conversation about an event. And a way to say, if you need to talk to someone, I'm here.
I guess it's a matter of your perceived motives of another. I just look at that as a way to say, You aren't alone.
I'd read a book once about the differences between how men and women communicate. According to the author, women share their similar experiences as a way of bonding with the other person through a common experience, i.e. to say "I understand what you have been through even though it may not be exactly the same" but for a man, it can be perceived as a way of one-upping the other person.
I perceive it as one-upping too. It didn't happen at this website. Instead of getting sympathy for the abuse I suffered as a child and as a teenager, I got a whole wack of other people's stories and very little actual sympathy. They just used it as an opportunity to talk about themselves. Some people seemed determined to let me know that what they went through was a lot worse than what I went through, insinuating that I should stop feeling sorry for myself.
Maddie
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Excellently well said Dana Jean! I think too that a reason we tend to talk most about ourselves, on any subject at hand, is because thats the one thing we all know the most about, our own covered dish and everyone brings theirs to the table.
Maddie
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Hi sweet Cori, the thought for a photo of you with Mr. Bradbury came instantly on your birthday and I took the one of you visiting his grave from your cemetery thread here, and flipped it so it looked a little different but Im really glad you liked it, and i really enjoyed doing it . One special present here will always be your presence, gifted through your words.
And this is very excellently well said too.
Maddie
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Alas, there seems no hope. I can't do the simplest thing right. I was mistaken as to the date of the county fair although I was SURE I saw it in print and impressed it in my mind several times! If Mom had been going to do flowers this year I'd have had it right as she would have prepared everything days in advance, but she said she was not up to it so I passed all those materials on the last day of August to a lady in charge, obviously thinking that left her a week longer to prepare things than it actually did. I heard the job was dumped on a man who had never done it and they could have really used our help. I don't have the heart to even try to go to the fair. Everything I do is wrong and utterly and ultimately futile. It's scary when you consider all the charges leveled at me over the years, if a fraction were true I'd be one of the worst life forms on this planet!
Anyhow, I have managed to fail yet again, and at something so basic which I have done on and off for nearly 45 years, almost continuously for 37 years. If you want later on the crafts thread I can post some of the photography and other things I was planning to enter had not everything gone horribly wrong.
Anyhow, I have managed to fail yet again, and at something so basic which I have done on and off for nearly 45 years, almost continuously for 37 years. If you want later on the crafts thread I can post some of the photography and other things I was planning to enter had not everything gone horribly wrong.