Dear Sir,
Your real name is stupid. We’ve taken the liberty of filing legal papers to change your name to John Smith.
We hope you enjoy your new name!
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My former spouse managed to get one last dig in during the finalisation of our financial separation, by leaving it till the day AFTER his deadline to pay up. I was all geared up for a fight when he’d passed the deadline, with no money appeared, and it was actually a complete anticlimax when the cheque landed on the doormat two days late.
Been a bit blah since, but hey, I made it to the bank and deposited it, so I actually have savings again. Which means my benefits will now be cut accordingly - he’d actually done me a favour by holding out for so long.
Guess this means it’s all over now. I thought I’d be partying and celebrating freedom, but it’s just incredibly sad really. We have a daughter together that he’s never met, and that’s the last other (legal) tie severed now.
We’re going to see my inlaws tonight. This is the first time I see my SIL since she announced her pregnancy. I’m dreading it. I don’t want to talk about the contents of her precious magical uterus all night. And I’m out of anxiety meds and my new doctor told me to meditate to relax.
24-hour allergy pill my $BODYPART. I’m lucky to get 12, and yesterday’s fizzled out around 7 or 8.
I didn’t even HAVE seasonal allergies before moving to Sacramento!
I’ve had bronchitis for a couple of weeks now. As in, 13 days of the damn problem. I’m just now getting over it.
Our old house was broken into again. This time, they took our 3 year old stove + oven. When we moved, I wanted to use professional movers, and get everything out of the house. I also wanted to list the house with a realtor. My husband insisted that he, his brother, and assorted relatives could move us. Well, not everything got moved, because when two guys who are over 50 are doing most of the moving in their spare time, they can always find something, ANYTHING else which has a higher priority. And if we’d moved everything with pros, and listed it with a realtor, we’d probably have saved money by selling the house already. As it is, we’ve paid taxes on it, we’ve been paying utilities on it, and we’re having to repair or replace some of the things that were stolen. I wish that I knew who the thieves were, at least.
Lynn, you have my sympathy. My Bill has a townhouse that has been unoccupied for 5 years. It hasn’t been broken into, but its falling apart. I finally managed to convince him to pay someone to fix it up so we can sell it, but now he wants to hold onto it in case Tony changes his mind about moving.
Tony is not going to move, and the housing market is booming. Just sell the thing, already!!!
Lucky didn’t get put in the trash can today, which is a good thing. I really don’t like giving cats water baths.
He did manage to lock himself in the bathroom, though. For over 5 hours. Bathmats and tile don’t cry and try to run away when they are washed, so all is good.
I’m going to have to put my foot down here.
No one’s doing anything about this issue until we get a link to the Youtube video.
Now get your priorities straight and get with the program.
Sorry if my focus was on the Spanish. It’s just that I learned about bullfighting quite recently, and it was in Spanish class. So that’s all I was aware of, but yes, I am completely opposed to anyone who supports or practices bullfighting. And yes, actually I think that animal cruelty is bad. It’s a real jerk move. As I said in one of my earlier post, the only reason we are able to pull this kind of shit is because we are so technically advanced and modernized as a result of our intellect. In reality, physically we are just a bunch of weak asses, and we couldn’t practice “bullfighting” or any other kind of practices that involve animal cruelty if we were still back in the good old caveman days. It’s complete condescension that humans demonstrate towards other animals.
Also, the argument that bullfighting is a tradition so you can’t abolish it is complete bullshit. Unfair practices definitely should and have been banned. Like I said earlier, the Chinese banned foot-binding in 1911. This was also a “tradition”, but it was also eventually outlawed. Another example is the Indian tradition of it being an expectation for women to throw themselves into fire if their husbands die. This was also a “tradition”, but it isn’t practiced anymore since 1829 because it’s just not ethical. So I am pretty sure that it’s possible to abolish bullfighting as 72% of Spanish people don’t have interest in the practice anyways. The problem is that bullfighting is going to stay until tourists stop attending these bullfights. Once they start losing revenue, it may end up being on the road to banning. I feel like we really need a “world government” that keeps the whole world organized as the “federal government” is for the United States. That way we could set laws that the whole world must abide to, and we certainly do need laws like this. We might be able to get animal cruelty and other foolish and cruel practices banned.
I am against bullfighting because of the overall cruelty involved, from which people seriously get pleasure.:rolleyes:
I may actually consider becoming a vegetarian now that I think about animal cruelty in general.
re Bullfighting: what about that country where they toss goats off the roofs? Can’t remember who/where/for what holiday.
Terrible way to make cheese.
On a lighter note, I’ve been sick for three weeks now. Fever left after two but the ice pick is still sticking above my left eye. (Sinuses.) When I try to speak I bark like a dog, if anything comes out at all.
Instead, they burn the wives while the husband is still alive, if the wife’s family doesn’t come up with additional dowry. Yeah, it’s illegal…but it’s still happening, at a rate of about one every hour.
Thank you and sorry, I stand corrected. It is outlawed, but still practiced, but the point is that at least they took the step to make it illegal. I was using that as a supporting fact for my argument that just because something is a “tradition” doesn’t mean it can’t be banned for ethical reasons. The foot-binding evidence at least, still stands, I think.
Another benefit of listening (maybe for years) before you start posting much: you’ll find that things you learned about “quite recently” have been covered, are already common knowledge, or are more complex than you thought. Or would be received better if phrased differently.
You may think people are being tough on you, but I’m actually cutting you a lot of slack, because you’re young. Young enough to be in that “Whoa, people are mean to animals-- I’m going vegetarian” phase. That many of us have gone through.
Anonymous User I agree that bull fighting is terrible. But…that isn’t happening in the US. Maybe you should start worrying about what is happening here first. Start by volunteering at an animal shelter.
Spend every penny you have to have homeless critters vetted, spend all of your free time caring for them. Thats what I do. It doesn’t really make a differnce, but I feel like I am doing something.
Stop worrying about what is happening elsewhere and start to try to clean up your small part of the world.
PS, when you are out and about, pick up litter. Its a small thing, but it helps the world.
I am sorry, but I fail to understand how this is applies to my posts in this thread about bullfighting and animal cruelty. Can you please further explain this?
Actually, feel free to give constructive criticism. Go ahead and point something else out that you did not originally, if you want to. I will try to keep an open mind if you do.
We really are bing nice to you Anonymous User. Its because we know that you are ignorant and young. (if you google ignorant, you will learn that I didn’t just call you stupid.)
You are posting in an adult room and asking child like questions and making teenager stands.
Personally, I like you. But I almost cried when Diamonds05 was banned, so you shouldn’t take my vote of confidence as a group thing.
Unless you define “tourist” as “anybody who lives in a different town”, that “72% of Spanish people* are not interested in bullfighting” does not match with your apparent belief that the bullfights depend on tourists. In Spain alone, 99% of bullfighting events (which are a lot more varied that the kind you’ve been told about) aren’t witnessed by a single foreigner.
I’ve attended a single corrida de toros in my life and have no interest in going to another or to a corrida de rejones, but you’ll get my encierros and corridas vasco-landesas (neither of which involves the animals’ death) out of my cold, dead hands. If you can.
- Are you counting Mexicans, Peruvians, etc. as “Spanish people” or not? Sorry but your phrasing is unclear.
If you want to read previous threads on the subject, search for bullruns, bullfights or corridas, Anonymous User. We tend to get at least one every July. There was even a year I wrote down that year’s Sanfermines bullruns as they happened, in the MMP.
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Here in the US, we still have dog fighting and cock fighting, for instance. Yep, illegal…but it still happens, in the name of tradition. For that matter, we have professional boxing, in which two humans will each attempt to beat the other person unconscious. And that’s LEGAL.
flatlined, you said “it really doesn’t make a difference” but it really does. Every cat you have saved is able to love and be loved because of you. I have two wonderful (except when they wake me up at 5 a.m.) kitties that would be dead if not for someone like you who saved them and someone else like you who fostered them. So, it really DOES make a difference.