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Posts posted by UpperWestside
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1 hour ago, YGIFS said:
Yeah, I still get brain fog especially towards the end of the week when my routine used to be started to crack open a bottle of wine. Had a real pissy conversation with a friend in politics on Thursday and Friday and it set me off since he hinted he'd tell people about my recovery but under the bullshit guise of "to help you create a network of folks you know with similar values, for support." Yeah, first 60 days sober, the best thing for me is for a bunch of Cruz and Abbott staffers and fundraiser to know I'm trying to quit. Already having enough nightmare fuel, thank you very much but he kept pressing (obviously for details, not 'cause he gives a shit). He's just pissed 'cause I keep talking about Cruz to friends and donors and he ain't happy about it given his job title. Didn't go boozing, but definitely got weird. I don't give a shit about me, I get threatened all the time. But I'm doing this for family, so in essence---he was threatening them and that didn't sit well. 95% of people in real life and on here that know (and it's not many) have been fantastic. But some people just fucking help themselves, they contact me with some bullshit ruse of concern. But it's about something else and they just see that I'm really vulnerable for the first time since they've known me and want to keep that information.
But yeah, I'll tone down the saltiness on here. I know some folks can talk about their shit on other threads/forums, I'm not there yet and don't care to be. I quietly joined several weeks ago just to join that thread because of lurking on there for months and the conversations help and talked to several folks off-line/real-life.
You know I'm looking for a discretion because I went almost 8 weeks without touching the Seinfeld thread. So that's that, enough about my shit. Back to fun topics like the fall of the Republic, more domestic violence-this time against librarians, and we are all apparently getting arrested on 30 October. Somebody please come back and remind me of that so I don't relapse that day and get arrested and have enemies think "Hey, that crazy tiktok dude was right, they are arresting anti-Trumpers!"
I don’t post on that thread, but be blessed in your journey towards recovery and finding joy and happiness. Keep co fronting the demon that is alcohol and never back down from it.
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Thanks for all of the detailed explanations @TwiceHorn. It is really cool of you to continue to do this for us. We all absolutely appreciate you taking the time to do it.
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36 minutes ago, Underdog said:
Didn’t the Lakers also get a PPP loan? And it’s only the Fed student loans that are being forgiven, am I right? So both the student and PPP loans fall under the Fed umbrella?
They applied for and we’re approved for a little under 5 million. They returned it not long thereafter. I am sure it was returned more because of the optics of taking it versus the team statement of wanting to make sure smaller companies had access to money that had quickly run out.
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19 hours ago, gyroprotagonist said:
throw in that false prophet Olsteen getting his $4M PPP loan forgiven as well.
You must understand that times are tough and Joel just needed a little spare change to see him through. I am sure it all went to his staff and he didn’t waste any of it.
/LOLHewastedmostofit
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28 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:
You're going to have to be more specific. That describes most of the current GOP.
I attempt to stray from blanket opinions, but yes right now we have a political party that went full blown cult and there are others like this guy. When a society breaks down at the core of its principles (Could probably make a good argument that we have no real guiding principle that the entire nation follows thanks to tribalism and this maga cult) this is the result. The best thing to do is attempt to meet people like this head-on. A bully like this does not enjoy when you give them exactly what they give and do to others.
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This is a very, very depressed human being taking out all his anger and rage on those he seems undesirables. This is what happens when the levers of power are given to a person with the intellect of a tree stump and the personality to match.
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Not cool to see this injury happen. Hopefully Holmgren still has a good career going forward and that this won’t be an injury that derails his young career for more than this season.
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I haven’t checked in here this month, but I really enjoyed reading everything that has been shared. @OWLVIS Everyone here wants to see you push forward and live a life that brings you happiness and peace. I fully believe that is possible. People here are graciously reaching out to you and you will get the help you desire. Never, ever give up or give in to a way of thinking that harms you mentally.
Something a manager at work said yesterday was something I found to be poignant. He is in his late 60’s and chooses to still work because he loves what he does. We were discussing how he likes to teach people what to do and he said “I teach people to do something because I want them to do it BETTER than I do it. I really enjoy working with him and his humility is not fake. When you work for people who have this attitude of humility it is easy to say that I never feel like I am working. I wish everyone on this thread had this type of situation or perhaps something even better in your chosen profession.
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On 8/23/2022 at 12:16 PM, Mach 1 said:
We have Spectrum 5g that’s fast but goes out all the time, so ordered Verizon 5g box.
It sucks for us. We have to put it in a far window in the house to get the best reception, but the speed of all devices farther away in the house is compromised.
Might work well for other folks depending on location. Still debating whether to return or just keep it as a back up to shitty Spectrum.
I stopped by the Verizon store on my way home yesterday to pick up the box. I am going to hook it up tonight and go to the Spectrum store tomorrow to give them back their equipment. I would prefer that I never use Spectrum for anything going forward and it is mostly because I find them to be a company I would never want to do any business with.
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Beast. It was okay, but probably a movie you would watch in your spare time at home.
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New Yorkers are a really nice group of people overall. They have been exceedingly good to me over the years that I have been here. The tourists I get from around the world always comment on how nice the people are here and how helpful they are.
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Glad to see y’all having fun here! I work in a restaurant so generally I fo not go to a ton of places. There is a Moroccan place about a 15 minute walk from where I work called Shalel Lounge. It’s on the UWS and is below street level. I have eaten there a few times and it has always been really good and I like the atmosphere. I really enjoyed the Lamb Shakshuka from this place.
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On 8/9/2022 at 5:18 PM, troph said:
I wish no personal ill will but Yeah it’s not laziness at all. I was deep, deep into the church, wanted to be a pastor and all of that and then some - despite the treatment. The fact is, the sheer number of Christians who spew hate, wish us silenced or dead overwhelms any other message. At some point - originally and now - those Christians won out under that tent. Not my job to say some under the tent are good, it’s time for the good people under that tent to take it back if it ever was theirs to begin with. It’s your home and you have allowed theives and scoundrels to take control. The Christian tent lost the ability to say but we aren’t all like that when those in control of that tent started stealing our rights from us. Rights we only recently gained after hundreds of years of living in the shadows or fighting for them for more than a century, rights we fought to take from a resistant Christian tradition to begin with. you can say you can't change it, and that's fine and probably true but there are more Christians who don't speak out against hate spewed by Christians than do and at some point the brand has the image it has. I'll gladly admit not all Christians are haters, but here's the thing, that might make a loving Christian feel good, but it gets me nothing, not one goddamned thing.
I don’t have any I’ll will for you or anyone else that has been ridiculed, berated, attacked emotionally and physically in many cases. I do not care for these people who co-opted a banner meant to spread peace and love for your fellow man and woman. I did not grow up in church and really did not regularly attend services until college when it was a requirement to be in church on Sunday. There are things from back them that stuck with me that were just horrific. A friend that passed away in college from sickle cell got up and spoke in chapel for an hour. He ended it by calling out students, professors and school administration for blatant racism. That day opened up my dumb, sheltered self to how awful people calling themselves Christians can be.
Have I had your experiences? Absolutely not. Do I have a mouth-breather of a governor trying to cancel my way of life right out of the state like you do? Of course not. To bring this back to Abbott I would say that he knows at his core that he is doing things that hurt people, but he doesn’t care because power corrupts. He will do and say whatever he has to do to maintain his grip on power. It is shameful and I do hope he receives payment in full for what he is doing to folks like yourself and everyone e else he decided does not matter and does not belong in Texas.
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2 hours ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:
Either way, don't you dare for another second pretend to understand why I have come to the conclusions I've come to and assign a lack of intellectual curiosity, laziness, or whatever else you are thinking.
When you decide to have anger and hatred for the people you do not like you are then no different from them. All that hate just burns you up.
When you apply a one size fits all label to people, even though there is ample evidence that that construct is not entirely true, that would be lazy. You are painting with a broad brush. It is the same thing people who hate Muslims or people who are gay or really any group of people throughout history have done. That “Christian” that hates you for who you are is no more a Christian than I am the shortstop for the Yankees. I have my own issues with “Christians”, but I learned that the anger and hatred is just not worth it.
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11 minutes ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:
Plus, blaming me for believing my own eyes and ears for the last 50 years is some major bullshit, man. I'm not a battered spouse, victim blaming is not going to work on me. Also, it's just not a good look.
I am not blaming you for anything, however, as I have already said, it is lazy to associate an actual Christian with these people in 2022 in the same way that people associated those of the Islamic faith with the 9/11 terrorists. I work with Muslims that are no different from me. They are branded as terrorists by a not insignificant portion of this country which is ridiculous. The kindest person I have ever worked with was a devout Muslim from Gambia. I asked him one time how he was able to always stay so happy no matter what was going on and he said “God is too good to me to not be happy.” Does that guy get the billing for his faith in this country? No we get to hear about terror-loving jihadists who hate the US.
I also keep the tenet, as best that I can, of judge not lest ye be judged. I do not have the energy to deal with these people fraudulently speaking in God’s name. I also do not expect actual peace-loving Muslims to stand up and have to waste time and energy defending their faith and how it has been perverted by terrorists.
The best point I guess I can make is you do not overcome bigotry and hatred by shouting it down and getting in the mud with it. You overcome it by what you do and how you conduct yourself. Attempting to control millions of hateful people is a fool’s errand that will do little to change things for the better.
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17 hours ago, troph said:
You can’t say that. It’s super unfair. The obligation to disassociate is on you and other *real* Christians. You need to be LOUD. It’s not our obligation to differentiate, it’s your job to call out those bearing false witness and using the lord’s name in vain (which as a side not isn’t saying god dammit but is doing exactly what the politicians and whacky evangelicals are doing). Call them out don’t ask non-Christians to differentiate.
I can say that because I HAVE ZERO CONTROL over their behavior. None. I am not going to scream from the rooftops about them nor will I associate with them. I am not going to waste even a millisecond attempting to argue with these people. Life is far too short to join in on something so toxic and so inherently negative. I mean I even stopped attending the church I was going to over some negative attitudes that I was not going to allow to drag me down with them. I am fairly consistent on this whether they are actual Christians or o Ed just masquerading as such.
You live in Texas. You live around people who have hearts made of stone. It is not your responsibility to change those people either. One of the ways that human beings harm themselves mentally is getting dragged into arguments with people who are itching for one. If you want to attempt to deal with people who are going to take away your happiness that is up to you. I have learned over the years that all I can control is NOTHING. I just do the best I can with each day and spread positivity and kindness in how I communicate with people as well as what I do.
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39 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:
You remember how we lectured Muslims after 9/11 about how the moderates needed to reclaim their religion from the extremists, otherwise they'd all me equated with terrorists?
Yeah, um @UpperWestside.
Anyone who said that back then should be embarrassed to have said it. Same as someone now lumping people claiming to be a Christian with people who actually are. It was lazy to do it then just as it is now.
I am not real loud about my own walk with Christ because that is not my personality. I do though gladly call out folks who claim to be Christians. These howler monkeys parading around as followers of Christ are going to get quite the shock if they ever see Him face-to-face. Seeing brown Jesus is going to be an amazing moment for them.
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2 minutes ago, trauma babe said:
Too late, my guy. That bell cannot be unrung
Hot Wheels and the gang can profess following Jesus. I can also say I’m the starting shooting guard for the Lakers. Neither would be accurate.
I also won’t insult cretins by referring to them as that. There will eventually be a reckoning for willingly doing evil things to people who cannot fight back.
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Of everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, that Hot Wheels has done, this is the lowest. I realize the guy isn’t a Christian (please don’t associate actual Christians or Christianity with these people), but turning your back on these folks, especially children, is cruelty on a level that there is not a good word for.
I don’t get to send anyone to Heaven or hell, but when you turn your back on children you absolutely deserve whatever unfortunate things occur due to that.
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I don’t think I have ever seen an episode of Hard Knocks. Following the Lions around should keep it that way.
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Didn’t think so with Chet. I follow Gonzaga closely, but did not ever look into his history prior to playing there.
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4 minutes ago, ztejas said:
It could depend on how Chet looks as a rookie.
That could play a part. Did he have any injury history thus far in his career?
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1 hour ago, billfromlaketravis said:
Any feet issues? I'd rather not go through the Yao BS again.
He does not have a foot issue. To me that is largely because his frame is not carrying excess weight that would put a severe strain on his feet.
Looking at his injuries thus far leave me skeptical about his future. If you are taking pre-cautions this early in your athletic career that would be a red flag. For the modern game I would prefer a point forward that can play the 1-4 to build a team around or even a prodigious guard that can fill it up.
Again you do not want to see these guys have injuries derail a career. As has already been noted, being the height he is is historically not optimal for a long career. Someone will hedge their bets on him though. I want to see who emerges over the next year that can be another potential number one pick. Again I would not tie my future to this young fella solely because of the injury risk. In a perfect world I would take him 1st overall. Should be fun to see how this ends up.

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Met Rainn Wilson awhile back. He is an incredibly nice guy.