# Unbragging **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 28, 2020, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbragging/913529 "2020-06-28T15:19:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbragging/913529/1 "2020-06-28T15:19:34Z")
I have mentioned here in MPSIMS that I made a donation to “Feeding America” in the amount of my stimulus check…which bu the way, has yet to be received. The Trump Squad has probably made note of all my disparaging remarks, and made sure my stimulus check was “lost in the mail,” or “the dog ate it.” I’m spending my Sunday AM watching the LA Pride celebrate 50 years, and Shangela, a drag queen, made an appeal for “Feed the Queens.” I love drag queens, I adore RuPaul, hey, they gotta eat too! So I made a donation! I’m one of the potential COVID throwaway. I’m old, retired, and my body is filled up with “pre-existing conditions.” According to some, I’m a drain on society. I’m not independently wealthy. BUT…I was employed throughout my productive years. I contributed to my retirement, and I also watched Social Security take a hefty bite out of my paycheck every month. Yes, I have “government” checks deposited now that I’m retired, but BY GOD, it’s my money! I pay my mortgage and my bills, I make sure everybody is well-fed, and I’ve tried to step up during the Coronavirus pandemic and help. Don’t kill me off, yet. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbragging/913529/2 "2020-06-28T15:25:10Z")
All that, AND you’re entertaining and informative. There are no COVID throways. Don’t care what anybody says. There are many possible good solutions, which we havent’ found yet. Hang in there! (And I’m learning lots about low-salt diets. Probably should use this information now, and in the future.) ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbragging/913529/3 "2020-06-28T15:35:04Z")
Bless you! ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbragging/913529/4 "2020-06-29T00:39:36Z")
No no no no! Sigh! You are not! as Die Capacitrix noted, a “throwaway” of -any- sort. The world would have, less, in it without you. I tell you three times, you are a font of invaluable experience and wisdom and funny humor and social defiance that I find appealing. Or what Die said, just wordier ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbragging/913529/5 "2020-06-29T00:51:24Z")
_hugs the VOW_ None of us are throwaway. Particularly not the cool folks like you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbragging/913529/6 "2020-06-29T02:18:00Z")
Sister, you are absolutely one of my favorites (not THE fave, mind you, but one ‘of’ 😉). I kid. You are never throwaway. I know us sicklies feel that way some times. But we’re not. I, like you have much more to give to the world. At least through our grandkids. If nothing else, that’s an important pursuit. We love you **~VOW** , never change. You do **~VOW** , better than any one else. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbragging/913529/7 "2020-06-29T02:31:53Z")
You tell 'em, sistah! Ignorance seems to have reached pandemic proportions. Thanks for setting people straight. (P.S. The money we put into social security all those years went towards retirees’ social security, not our own, but I feel good about that. Don’t you?) ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbragging/913529/8 "2020-06-29T06:06:26Z")
You’re _no one_’s throwaway. I love drag queens, too! Jujubee’s my favorite on the current All-Stars. Be sure to stream _Dragnificent_ on TLC if you haven’t seen it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbragging/913529/9 "2020-06-29T11:02:21Z")
Another COVID “throwaway” here. They’ll have to carry me off, kicking and screaming. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbragging/913529/10 "2020-06-29T13:23:38Z")
@panache45…the Threadgames would collapse if they throw you away. I’ll kick and scream along with you, buddy. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbragging/913529/11 "2020-06-29T14:34:39Z")
I adore Shangela. I can’t tell if I have a crush on him or her. Whatevs. I heart her. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unbragging/913529/12 "2020-06-30T18:47:43Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > Be sure to stream _Dragnificent_ on TLC if you haven’t seen it. 🙂 _Dragnificent_ is awesome. After watching an epsiode of it, I said to my wife, “If _RuPaul’s Drag Race_ and _Queer Eye_ had a baby, it’d be this show.” 😃