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48 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:
Situational friends aren't friends, they are doormats.
That's what I mean. Apparently people are choosing to call themselves "space holders," and based on what my first impression of the term was, I didn't know why they would want to be that.
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40 minutes ago, Growsonwalls said:
I THINk it's supposed to be a woo-woo enlightened way of saying "I'm here for you."
I even found a flowchart explaining what it's supposed to mean.
I was originally thinking that "space holder" was someone you hung out with when your actual friends weren't available, and I didn't know why anyone would want to be that.
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I googled "space holder" after starting to read one of those links and deciding I was never going to make it through the essay/blog post. I read a definition and still don't understand what it is.
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2 hours ago, Browncoat said:
Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes made of ticky-tacky... and they all look just the same.
You beat me to it. I was going to see if there was a video.
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I know it's not technically a Christmas song, but it mentions Christmas, and that's the only time I ever really hear it. Anyway, I like it. (I also consider "My Favorite Things" a sort-of Christmas song because it was on one of our Christmas albums when I was growing up. I don't know why, but it was, so to me, it's a Christmas song.)
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55 minutes ago, Bastet said:
I used to get comments like that sometimes, too, because I read just about everything I could get my hands on. I preferred books about girls if they were doing something interesting (Harriet the Spy was my favorite, and I also loved Trixie Belden books), but a lot of (too many!) girls were written in ways that didn't speak to me even with my varied interests, so I also read plenty of books about boys. I think most girls did. If more boys also read "girl books", we'd all be better off.
That's another one that I probably shouldn't get into on a snow day (it feels like everything should be relaxed and easy on a snow day), but why are girls expected to read books about boys, but boys are not expected to read books about girls? I mean I read the Hardy Boys with no comment, but if my brother (if he had bothered to sit down and read, which he didn't, what with being more interested in taking apart the lawn mower) had checked out the Nancy Drew books, the librarian would have at least looked askance at him. And it's not like there's more romance or anything in Nancy Drew. The Hardy Boys had plenty with Iola and that other one whose name I can't remember.
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I will agree that toys marketed toward boys are much cooler than those marketed toward girls, which brings to mind another peeve, but it's a snow day here and I don't want to get started on that one.
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6 hours ago, Quof said:
I feel the same way about kindergarten "graduations". I am all for cake, any time, any day, but why the huge production of a ceremony, cap and gown and diplomas? Do you really not expect your child to accomplish anything more significant in their life, so you have to latch onto this opportunity to fete them?
We had kindergarten graduation back in the early 1970s. There was no party, but it was a special graduation ceremony in the gym/cafeteria/auditorium (the room with the stage that served all purposes for that school). Most of us were probably going to first grade in that school, but we were graduation from half-day to full-day school. (That was back when kindergarten was only a half-day program in our state. I think it's full-day in most places now. Even pre-K is full-day in most places, I think.) I don't remember robes of any kind, but we did have caps. They were made of construction paper. We also probably sang some songs or something. I think kindergarten was still relatively new in our town then because I went, and my brother who is two years older went, but my brother who is six years older than me started school in first grade. We did not have a big party that I remember, and I doubt anyone else did either. I doubt we even had cake at home, although I'm always up for cake.
I also wanted a boy because I was afraid that if I had a girl, she would be a girly girl, and I would not know what to do (fixing hair, cosmetics, etc.). Sometimes I wish I also had a girl, though, because the selection of girls' clothes is always so much larger than that of boys' clothes, even when they are babies. But I've had a lot of fun being a Scout leader and learning to carve wood with a knife and shoot a bow and arrow and BB gun and do other outdoor Scout things.
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Middle school and junior high kids have proms? Huh.
I think most gender reveal stuff is dumb, but I do have a friend who had gender reveal cupcakes about her yet-to-be-born baby for her older son and daughters. It was just a family thing, though.
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7 hours ago, Quof said:
Glitter is the herpes of the craft world; no one is sure where it came from, and you can never get rid of it.
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3 hours ago, GaT said:
Car horns. How many times have you been driving along & heard a car horn blasting at you, only to realize it came from the damn radio.
Sirens. Every time I hear a radio commercial with sirens, I start looking around for the ambulance or police car. Then I have to turn the radio off and back on again to determine if it's the radio.
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That's why I can't watch season 2. I didn't like some of the changes in season 1, but I could live with them, but I started episode 1 of season 2 and read what other people said about it and didn't think I could handle those changes. Everyone's character has been assassinated, even Charmaine. She was disappointed, but OK with Jack's decision in the book, and she wasn't pregnant. She didn't consider herself Jack's girlfriend, and wasn't clingy -- and she didn't even live in Virgin River. Paige didn't have her own business, and in fact probably shouldn't have even shown up until season 2. Hope and Doc were never married. Hope was a crank and a busybody, but not as bad as in the series. She did a lot of good for the town through the years, too.
And the Lizzie/Rick trouble made more sense in the books because she was around 15 years old.
I really wanted to like this series because I loved the actor who plays Jack when he was in Grey's Anatomy, but I just can't handle the changes. They're stupid. There was so much drama already in the books that I don't know why they had to make these changes.
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Coconut. I hate the flavor and the texture, and I can always taste it.
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Has he been on any online mom sites? They are not good for people who worry about people criticizing them for the way they do things. Heck, they're not good for people who don't have any social anxieties.
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2 hours ago, Enginerd said:
Lizzie as well...she's an adult; she doesn't have to live with her overbearing aunt just because her parents "sent" her there! Lizzie, you can go where you want! Go live in the big exciting city, find some job that pays the bills and a place to live, and go clubbing and have sex as much as you want! Or, maybe go to school? As long as you do the absolute minimum to keep up with some classes in the area of your choosing, your rich negligent parents will probably pay for you to stay there! And colleges have other young people and parties! Sheesh.
I think the plot about Ricky and Lizzie made much more sense in the books -- as apparently with everything else in Virgin River.
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Lizzie is 19 in the show? Wow. That is a huge change from the books.
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23 minutes ago, WarmSkull said:
Jack told Mike that Charmaine is pregnant. So Mike had an odd reaction. It’s in episode 5. The scene starts around 20:55 with the guys playing football. 21:47 is when Jack tells Mike about Charmaine and the whole scene is over by 23:00.
So, if the Netflix does have Mike has a possible baby daddy then there goes his book storyline with Jack’s sister.
Thanks. I don't think I need to see that. I don't understand why they had to create all this extra stuff and change everyone's storylines so much. There was plenty of drama in the books, I thought.
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12 minutes ago, MissAlmond said:
Actor David Prowse, the actor behind Darth Vader (James Earl Jones provided the voice) has died, age 85. Currently my links aren't working so please feel free to post them.
I'm sure I clicked on this link in your post, and it worked for me. At any rate, here it is again:
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3 minutes ago, valen said:
I thought I'd read that they filmed both seasons back to back, but I'd be surprised if that's the case. Charmaine's writing in particular was very uneven. One minute she's thanking Mel and the next she's being a total brat about the situation. In the first season, she understood that Jack wasn't going to commit, and although he'd told her that he wasn't going to do that, she was still sad but realistic. This season, she is insane and it's frustrating to watch.
It also doesn't seem to make sense that the characters keep interacting with known or suspected killers. It's dumb and too dark for the series. This series works best as romantic comedy with some light drama. The scenes with Mel and Jack that focus on their relationship, her grief, and his PTSD work the best. The drug stuff is just too dark and is jarring compared to the scenery and the rest of the storylines. Jack's behavior in that storyline also doesn't seem to fit given that he promised Mel she would never have to lose him and then he repeatedly puts himself in harm's way.
Finally, did anyone else get the feeling that Jack's friend from his troop had hooked up with Charmaine? Since she is still in the first trimester, I still suspect that the babies will end up not being Jack's. I imagine that the clue is in her bloodwork and that the timing won't match up. Speaking of timing, when Jack told his buddy that she was pregnant, he mentioned that they'd only been broken up for a month. If they had sex two weeks before they broke up, she'd only be 6 weeks pregnant, which makes the whole freaking storyline line even dumber since she likely wouldn't even know she was pregnant yet and certainly not for a whole month.
I haven't watched that far (and may not ever do so). What friend is it? I want to know if another character is being ruined that will make me really not want to watch.
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I started the first episode, but from what everyone is saying here, I don't think I want to continue. It sounds like the show is assassinating everyone's character. All of them were better and smarter and nicer in the books, even Charmaine, who was not at all clingy. Perhaps I'll just read the books again.
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3 minutes ago, ebk57 said:
We usually go to Mr. ebk's brother's house for dinner. This year, we're staying home...and having spaghetti! He is still baking an apple pie, though, so we've got that to look forward to.
I love spaghetti.
My son was very upset earlier this week because he was marked wrong on some quiz (I think it was extra, so not really a grade) when he listed apple as a kind of pie people eat at Thanksgiving. Pumpkin was apparently the only correct answer. Needless to say, it was not graded by a human.
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2 hours ago, icemiser69 said:
There was that one time long ago when I was speaking to a customer service rep from the south and she through out the "bless your heart" line at me. I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but even I knew that was code for something completely unpleasant. I was perfectly nice through the entire phone call, well that is my side of things, and I am sticking to it. She must have thought I was an idiot for not knowing what she was really saying.
"Bless your heart" often means something akin to "you poor deluded thing" or something more unpleasant, but not always. Sometimes it simply means the person speaking feels bad for you. It depends on how nice the person speaking is.
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3 hours ago, BexKeps said:
I'm lucky if I have 2 gloves that match each other, let alone the coat I'm wearing lol!
That's why I always buy black gloves and hats.
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On 11/10/2020 at 9:18 AM, WinnieWinkle said:
That absolutely never occurred to me! I always wondered why characters on TV shows had a table full of Chinese food in cartons and everyone seemed to eat individual items instead of spreading the food around like most people would do, I am now having a "duh" moment 🙃.
I am having the same moment. I always thought maybe I was just eating Chinese food wrong by taking it out of the carton and mixing it with rice (and sharing it with others).
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