Off Topic Forum...

[trailmix 77]

Hey everyone. I've got a slight basement mold problem. Is this something I should hire a contractor to take care of, or has anyone successfully fought mold in their basement and won?

Obviously, per the Off-Topic Forum, the mold in your basement is the fault of illegals.

Are you sure it doesn't tie in with free school lunches somehow??

Anyway, I love your dress Tinker!

[Tinker 0]

Thanks Trailmix

I'm so disgusted with that thread.....we always say kids are cruel. Now I'm seeing why, cause their parents are all hypocrites.

am I allowed to say stuff like that?

[misa 2]

Tinker, love the dress!

As for the other topics, I'm staying away from them... grrr...

[Tinker 0]

me thinks it's time to duck and run....

If that's the way you have to be to be an "American" well..... I'll state proudly that I'm Canadian.

Going to make sure I volunteer at the places I was thinking about, even my SO is unhappy about where, but they can all stick it, someone has to make a start to help make things better.

My daughter is laughing her ### off at me right now, she knows how much these things drive me nuts

[misa 2]

Where do you want to volunteer? Eventually I'd like to help people that other VJers would not want being helped.

[Tinker 0]

I saw a few places down there, but I've forgotten the names.

I was hoping to help out single mothers and at the schools. I have the home care training, but I don't think it's accepted down there, but I want to work with disabled kids at home as well. HE says they're all n****** (not the disabled children) and I shouldn't go near them, because they're not the same as up here!! gawd

How can it get better if no one ever tries. Maybe I can make a difference coming from here, not holding any prejudices. He's in AR so you can understand how he thinks.

[Tinker 0]

What the heck is fast reply anyway??

*snickering* at a post in one of the threads..... SO THERE.....

My daughter,the admin on another board,

wanted to come in and straighten some of this up herself, silly girl

[misa 2]

I saw a few places down there, but I've forgotten the names.

I was hoping to help out single mothers and at the schools. I have the home care training, but I don't think it's accepted down there, but I want to work with disabled kids at home as well. HE says they're all n****** (not the disabled children) and I shouldn't go near them, because they're not the same as up here!! gawd

How can it get better if no one ever tries. Maybe I can make a difference coming from here, not holding any prejudices. He's in AR so you can understand how he thinks.

Err... OMG! Well hopefully you can help out. Um, what's "AR"?

[Tinker 0]

Arkansas....

Misa ya gotta learn your states.

Yeah it's omg, rolling your eyes, disbelief....glaring at him so he knows not to even say it.

This is kinda cute in a sad way....his grandmother (90+) watched Die Hard with a Vengence so she could watch Samuel Jackson die hard.. There's a real OMG!!!! *thud* This is the kinda stuff I'm going to have to ignore and not let it get to me in anyway.

UM no one take offense please, I don't mean any!!

Edited August 27, 2007 by Tinker

[Tinker 0]

me thinks it's payback time *sigh* in off topic

[Kathryn41 3,205]

no offense taken, Tinker.

I live in the Deep South too and it is 'interesting' to see the variety of opinions expressed by friends and acquaintances. Some people who seem really quite nice have surprised me with the vehemence of their disdain or prejudice. It is an attitude I find very very hard to understand and I definitely don't relate to it at all.

I also have to say that one of the things I noticed very strongly when I arrived here is how friendly the blacks I encountered were and are. Standing in line at the mall, walking through a parking lot to a store, at the gas station, they smile at you, say hello, wish you a blessed day and are friendly and interactive. Of course I respond back or initiate the conversation at times. The whites I encountered, however, were much more reserved - didn't smile, didn't talk with others in line, kept their eyes straight ahead walking and kind of pretended that no one else was there. When my maid of honour and her family, who live in Michigan, arrived here for our wedding, she and her husband noticed and commented on exactly the same thing.

It's too bad people can't just let people be 'people' rather than having to categorize them.

Edited August 28, 2007 by Kathryn41

[misa 2]

Wowzers Tinker... that's gotta be a hard situation for you! Hopefully you can shake some sense into some people there. Like you said, you gotta start somewhere to make things better.

Edited August 28, 2007 by misa

[Tinker 0]

I'll be fine, I wish it was more like Georgia, Mississippi or Tennessee *sp*

BUT I'm stubborn....lol, he say's I'm "stupid".....grrrrrrrrr niave would have been nicer don't ya think?

[~Nini~ 2]

Tinker, the dress is luverly!

*resists the OT forum*

Edited August 28, 2007 by Nini & Bee

[Tinker 0]

Looks like they got bored.

Okay, I got up early, when I'm starting nights to watch the eclipse... can't see the moon anymore it's getting too light. I was hoping it'd be more spectacular, just looked like thick clouds passing over the moon.

I'm going back to bed, lol