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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24690 on: September 13, 2022, 06:48:53 AM »
I went so hard getting an entry level job in a new field I forgot to apply for grad school. Maybe now that i've got a skillset and money coming in I can actually plan something out + how to pay for it and fit classes into my life. I had a gnarly scholarship for undergrad so I can get caught up in unrealistic dreams, like going Ivy or something. My partner's 50k in the hole from a top-level teaching program and they regret it sometimes
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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24691 on: September 13, 2022, 06:57:34 AM »
Memphis has made national news multiple times this week for horrific shit. First a billionaire’s heir was kidnapped and murdered, a man jumped off the Mississippi bridge, some dude went around and shot 5 fucking people last night and finally was brought into custody around 8pm when it started at 4:30pm.

I fucking love my city, but goddamn I can’t stand seeing this shit. I need a vacation.

Wow didn’t hear about that billionaires heir thing.  Guess it got a little overshadowed in the news cycle

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24692 on: September 13, 2022, 10:44:38 AM »
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Memphis has made national news multiple times this week for horrific shit. First a billionaire’s heir was kidnapped and murdered, a man jumped off the Mississippi bridge, some dude went around and shot 5 fucking people last night and finally was brought into custody around 8pm when it started at 4:30pm.

I fucking love my city, but goddamn I can’t stand seeing this shit. I need a vacation.
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Wow didn’t hear about that billionaires heir thing.  Guess it got a little overshadowed in the news cycle

Yea she was out jogging and was a catholic school teacher, doubt the killer knew who she was.


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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24693 on: September 13, 2022, 02:47:44 PM »
My second job. All the managers and coworkers I like are quitting. The GM has to work 70 hour weeks I feel so bad for her. She’s quitting too.  Seriously there’s 10 people in total who work at this pizza place and 6 of them can only work 2-3 days a week. Feel like this place is gonna go under because there not enough people to work

Have they tried offering higher wages?

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24694 on: September 14, 2022, 07:31:14 AM »
Fought through dreams of my ex-wife all night last night...

Parents needing money right when I need to save, despite them being capable of working and making money themselves...

Well, it could always be worse.

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24695 on: September 15, 2022, 01:53:24 AM »
Tore a tendon in my thumb from simply pulling out my license from my wallet at the post office. Now I need surgery.

I have fallen on this hand from skating (not sure if it's related), but I still can't believe this shit.
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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24696 on: September 15, 2022, 02:39:24 AM »
girls that don't text back. shit stopping mid conversation, gotta wait 23 hours for a response on whether or not they want to hang. shit's totally on their terms. sucks

impossible to know if they're not interested or just don't care about me that much vs there's a legitimate reason, ie they're just busy.

as I get older, it seems like people being semi responsive is becoming more of a non negotiable for me. I almost want to start just moving on from people who leave me hanging but not sure if i'm overthinking
Absolutely move on. Fuck em. They are either not (very) interested or just shitty at communicating. Either way, it isn’t worth your time. If they do come back around, bonus. If not, cool too.

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24697 on: September 15, 2022, 03:29:24 AM »
Fought through dreams of my ex-wife all night last night...

Parents needing money right when I need to save, despite them being capable of working and making money themselves...

Well, it could always be worse.

I used to have really bad dreams about my gf that passed away. It fucked me up for the first few years. Over time as I learned to accept what happened it started to happen less frequently, but it still happened. In the past few years it's barely been an issue, I don't know if it's the weed/improving my general mental health to the point I don't subconsciously think about it or just the passage of time or what.

It did eventually get better though, so hang in there man. You're a good dude and I hope you meet a nice sugar mama who wants to pay your bills and make you suck her toes. There's always money in the toe sucking business Adam.

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24698 on: September 15, 2022, 04:33:04 AM »
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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24699 on: September 15, 2022, 04:51:24 AM »
Literally 10 minutes after I ripped a FAT bowl of the blueberry muffin bubble hash I posted in the weed thread the fucking fire alarm went off. Part of the deal I have for them not raising my rent is that I'm basically a live in emergency maintenance guy and when the fire alarm goes off I have to basically drop what I'm doing and respond. It's just after 7 AM and most of our residents were still asleep.

So I run downstairs to the control panel and figure out where the alarm is since it's an 11 story building. This one was on the 5th floor and our regular elevators automatically shut down when the fire alarm goes off, so I had to run up 6 flights of stairs against a throng of sleepy college students. Once I finally made it up there, I ran into the property manager who informed me that he had found the sensor and it was a false alarm. All that running for nothing. The firemen were kind of dicks too, they started bitching about the elevators not working but then wouldn't wait 30 seconds for me to go get the old school accordion door manual stop freight elevator and take them up that way. They said they couldn't find the stairwell when there's 2 of them and there was a guy standing in front of the door for both. It was not a fun time and pretty well ruined my buzz as well as the last hour of quiet time before the neighborhood starts to wake up and get noisy.

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24700 on: September 15, 2022, 10:14:37 AM »
Literally 10 minutes after I ripped a FAT bowl of the blueberry muffin bubble hash I posted in the weed thread the fucking fire alarm went off. Part of the deal I have for them not raising my rent is that I'm basically a live in emergency maintenance guy and when the fire alarm goes off I have to basically drop what I'm doing and respond. It's just after 7 AM and most of our residents were still asleep.

So I run downstairs to the control panel and figure out where the alarm is since it's an 11 story building. This one was on the 5th floor and our regular elevators automatically shut down when the fire alarm goes off, so I had to run up 6 flights of stairs against a throng of sleepy college students. Once I finally made it up there, I ran into the property manager who informed me that he had found the sensor and it was a false alarm. All that running for nothing. The firemen were kind of dicks too, they started bitching about the elevators not working but then wouldn't wait 30 seconds for me to go get the old school accordion door manual stop freight elevator and take them up that way. They said they couldn't find the stairwell when there's 2 of them and there was a guy standing in front of the door for both. It was not a fun time and pretty well ruined my buzz as well as the last hour of quiet time before the neighborhood starts to wake up and get noisy.

Smoking hash in the AM... Funny to think about how if someone, myself included, was using dope or something, wouldn't think twice about getting loaded upon waking up, but smoking hash at 7am is another story hahahaha good for you on reclaiming AM high.
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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24701 on: September 15, 2022, 10:41:48 AM »
Double layered slight annoyance. So the hippy dipshit parent thing has gone well beyond the no Vax and is now stories of people like no shoes and no swimming lessons. Which is just fukn dumb. But of course these stories only come out because people want clicks so I got sucked right in. (Not because I interacted or anything but just because I'm thinking about it)

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24702 on: September 15, 2022, 01:41:10 PM »
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girls that don't text back. shit stopping mid conversation, gotta wait 23 hours for a response on whether or not they want to hang. shit's totally on their terms. sucks

impossible to know if they're not interested or just don't care about me that much vs there's a legitimate reason, ie they're just busy.

as I get older, it seems like people being semi responsive is becoming more of a non negotiable for me. I almost want to start just moving on from people who leave me hanging but not sure if i'm overthinking
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Absolutely move on. Fuck em. They are either not (very) interested or just shitty at communicating. Either way, it isn’t worth your time. If they do come back around, bonus. If not, cool too.

Thank ya chief, needed to read this. This is what I would tell my friends and I believe it on paper but it's harder to put into action when you've invested some time into someone or whatever.

I actually did do this earlier this week, got fed up and said i was over waiting around and that I didn't want to hang anymore. Felt good.

If they do come back around, bonus. If not, cool too.

This is kinda what came to me after I cut it off. Like if they're actually interested, they might step to me in the future with a little more intention. but if they don't come back around ever, then they never really cared that much in the first place. Either way a positive outcome for me.

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24703 on: September 15, 2022, 01:43:51 PM »
I hope you meet a nice sugar mama who wants to pay your bills and make you suck her toes. There's always money in the toe sucking business Adam.

huge!! I wish this for Adam and everyone on the SLAP messageboards. the toe sucking sugar mama/daddy/elder they-them arrangement of our collective dreams

also holy fuck can you please change your name

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24704 on: September 16, 2022, 03:45:20 AM »
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I hope you meet a nice sugar mama who wants to pay your bills and make you suck her toes. There's always money in the toe sucking business Adam.
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huge!! I wish this for Adam and everyone on the SLAP messageboards. the toe sucking sugar mama/daddy/elder they-them arrangement of our collective dreams

also holy fuck can you please change your name
why??? hes the greatest conductor of all time just unfortunately named

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24705 on: September 16, 2022, 04:18:11 AM »
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I hope you meet a nice sugar mama who wants to pay your bills and make you suck her toes. There's always money in the toe sucking business Adam.
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huge!! I wish this for Adam and everyone on the SLAP messageboards. the toe sucking sugar mama/daddy/elder they-them arrangement of our collective dreams

also holy fuck can you please change your name
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why??? hes the greatest conductor of all time just unfortunately named
It could be Buttfart Grapedick. Keeps wkuk themes but doesn't upset those sensetive to particular words.

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24706 on: September 16, 2022, 06:02:16 AM »
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Fought through dreams of my ex-wife all night last night...

Parents needing money right when I need to save, despite them being capable of working and making money themselves...

Well, it could always be worse.
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I used to have really bad dreams about my gf that passed away. It fucked me up for the first few years. Over time as I learned to accept what happened it started to happen less frequently, but it still happened. In the past few years it's barely been an issue, I don't know if it's the weed/improving my general mental health to the point I don't subconsciously think about it or just the passage of time or what.

It did eventually get better though, so hang in there man. You're a good dude and I hope you meet a nice sugar mama who wants to pay your bills and make you suck her toes. There's always money in the toe sucking business Adam.

Appreciate it, man. You're a good guy as well, much love

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24707 on: September 16, 2022, 11:21:47 AM »
Got an x ray on my ankle in April just to learn its just a bad sprain.

Even with insurance im still getting bills:
$190 for x ray
$210 for visiting the clinic.

What in the absolute fuck do I get for paying for health insurance.... I seriously will never understand this shit. Deductibles make no fucking sense either. I see a doctor once every 5 year at the most, that means insurance will never cover anything cause I never exceed that fucking deductible and always out of pocket

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24708 on: September 16, 2022, 02:24:09 PM »
Got an x ray on my ankle in April just to learn its just a bad sprain.

Even with insurance im still getting bills:
$190 for x ray
$210 for visiting the clinic.

What in the absolute fuck do I get for paying for health insurance.... I seriously will never understand this shit. Deductibles make no fucking sense either. I see a doctor once every 5 year at the most, that means insurance will never cover anything cause I never exceed that fucking deductible and always out of pocket

that's absolutely fucked up dude, i'm sorry.

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24709 on: September 16, 2022, 04:31:24 PM »
Got an x ray on my ankle in April just to learn its just a bad sprain.

Even with insurance im still getting bills:
$190 for x ray
$210 for visiting the clinic.

What in the absolute fuck do I get for paying for health insurance.... I seriously will never understand this shit. Deductibles make no fucking sense either. I see a doctor once every 5 year at the most, that means insurance will never cover anything cause I never exceed that fucking deductible and always out of pocket

word in 2008-2015 i worked for a construction company that had excellent plans...annoyed me that every 8 months we had to update the plans.  Ended up using it once...I got a $500 bill for a blood test in 2009 and never paid it, thought i was covered, and the doc suggested it because i had a really bad flu, the blood test didnt show shit

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24710 on: September 23, 2022, 06:13:36 AM »
they blocked skateboardle at work! somehow found its way into the online games category. back to archive.org DOS tetris jk
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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24711 on: September 23, 2022, 08:18:06 AM »
I am not stoked our healthcare sucks so badly in the US, and how some people actually disagree because its socialism or some other well thought out reasoning.

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24712 on: September 23, 2022, 10:50:27 AM »
I am not stoked our healthcare sucks so badly in the US, and how some people actually disagree because its socialism or some other well thought out reasoning.

I've become very open about telling folks, pretty much everyone, that I've had state health insurance for over ten years and was on food stamps for half of that time. People, even the most brainwashed, would never, ever think to call me a welfare person or whatever. I tell em about the specialized care I got for neck/back/muscular injuries (MRI, CT, PT, OT, etc). I tell em how I just got a Masters degree in state for almost no cost. I explain how food stamps/EBT works and throw in that billionaires don't pay taxes and that takes away a whole lot more $ from civic resources than even if every person received $184/month with which to buy food and support local businesses.

People have very little negative stuff to say afterwards and don't treat me any differently, some even stop spouting off long enough to talk about their experiences with insurance or poor health care outcomes.

This is where social media really fouls things up. Easy to point and yell from the keyboard, harder to process others experience.
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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24713 on: September 23, 2022, 10:22:19 PM »
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I am not stoked our healthcare sucks so badly in the US, and how some people actually disagree because its socialism or some other well thought out reasoning.
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I've become very open about telling folks, pretty much everyone, that I've had state health insurance for over ten years and was on food stamps for half of that time. People, even the most brainwashed, would never, ever think to call me a welfare person or whatever. I tell em about the specialized care I got for neck/back/muscular injuries (MRI, CT, PT, OT, etc). I tell em how I just got a Masters degree in state for almost no cost. I explain how food stamps/EBT works and throw in that billionaires don't pay taxes and that takes away a whole lot more $ from civic resources than even if every person received $184/month with which to buy food and support local businesses.

People have very little negative stuff to say afterwards and don't treat me any differently, some even stop spouting off long enough to talk about their experiences with insurance or poor health care outcomes.

This is where social media really fouls things up. Easy to point and yell from the keyboard, harder to process others experience.

Good on you for getting an education and taking advantage of the low cost healthcare we do have. I'm in my late forties and social media hasn't influenced my opinion, and I'm not yelling from a keyboard, I'm just fucking disappointed that this will most likely ever happen in my lifetime, or even ever.

Maybe, just maybe part of some of these countries actually make sure the people who are billionaires pay their fair share. Some of our fellow citizens would immediately say that socialism and that's the end of it.  Some would also shit all over EBT/welfare because its people getting, "muh free shit".

Somehow though these countries all seem to flirt with this ideal of being able to receive medical care without going bankrupt, yet they still seem to proceed as usual.

Some of these people whom you say dodge paying taxes or seem to thrive without helping at all make their billions profiting from this fucking model we use for healthcare. Its almost like how our prisons are so great, rehabilitate prisoners, and don't have the record for the most incarcerated on the planet. It's shit, and these people are making obscene profits doing the bare minimum, and hey, profits are good, and this will never fucking end, so why try to do anything different?

I am in no way trying to be a dick about this, I have nothing against you or what you said.  You even made me see a different way.  I am really impressed you did all that despite this system crushing us.  I would gnar you for setting this great representation of people who use EBT/etc., I just don't really post that much, yet here my dumb ass is posting.

Of course our gov sucks too, our infrastructure was good enough, and it seems like now its a little late for some simple changes that could have prevented these rusty shitbuckets that are failing left and right.

TLDR I'm not a smart person, but I had to clarify I'm not just parroting some shit some dumb motherfucker said on social media. I also just want a better healthcare system in this country, and I'm an idiot because it's not going to happen. Again, I mean no offense or take any, but I had to say my part too. Shit, agree to disagree?

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24714 on: September 23, 2022, 11:39:00 PM »
My coworker for the last 5 years has hummed a little bit.  However lately it's becoming straight up obnoxious.  Tonight he easily put in 3 hours of humming, tapping on his desk, and occasionally talking to himself.  Now I'm in the predicament, do I say something and make it super awkward, or live with it.  I'm kinda low on funds right now, but I'm probably going to drop a few hundred on noise cancelling head phones.

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24715 on: September 24, 2022, 11:18:57 AM »
My coworker for the last 5 years has hummed a little bit.  However lately it's becoming straight up obnoxious.  Tonight he easily put in 3 hours of humming, tapping on his desk, and occasionally talking to himself.  Now I'm in the predicament, do I say something and make it super awkward, or live with it.  I'm kinda low on funds right now, but I'm probably going to drop a few hundred on noise cancelling head phones.
nah just call him crazy and tell him to shut the fuck up

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24716 on: September 24, 2022, 04:54:16 PM »
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I am not stoked our healthcare sucks so badly in the US, and how some people actually disagree because its socialism or some other well thought out reasoning.
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I've become very open about telling folks, pretty much everyone, that I've had state health insurance for over ten years and was on food stamps for half of that time. People, even the most brainwashed, would never, ever think to call me a welfare person or whatever. I tell em about the specialized care I got for neck/back/muscular injuries (MRI, CT, PT, OT, etc). I tell em how I just got a Masters degree in state for almost no cost. I explain how food stamps/EBT works and throw in that billionaires don't pay taxes and that takes away a whole lot more $ from civic resources than even if every person received $184/month with which to buy food and support local businesses.

People have very little negative stuff to say afterwards and don't treat me any differently, some even stop spouting off long enough to talk about their experiences with insurance or poor health care outcomes.

This is where social media really fouls things up. Easy to point and yell from the keyboard, harder to process others experience.
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Good on you for getting an education and taking advantage of the low cost healthcare we do have. I'm in my late forties and social media hasn't influenced my opinion, and I'm not yelling from a keyboard, I'm just fucking disappointed that this will most likely ever happen in my lifetime, or even ever.

Maybe, just maybe part of some of these countries actually make sure the people who are billionaires pay their fair share. Some of our fellow citizens would immediately say that socialism and that's the end of it.  Some would also shit all over EBT/welfare because its people getting, "muh free shit".

Somehow though these countries all seem to flirt with this ideal of being able to receive medical care without going bankrupt, yet they still seem to proceed as usual.

Some of these people whom you say dodge paying taxes or seem to thrive without helping at all make their billions profiting from this fucking model we use for healthcare. Its almost like how our prisons are so great, rehabilitate prisoners, and don't have the record for the most incarcerated on the planet. It's shit, and these people are making obscene profits doing the bare minimum, and hey, profits are good, and this will never fucking end, so why try to do anything different?

I am in no way trying to be a dick about this, I have nothing against you or what you said.  You even made me see a different way.  I am really impressed you did all that despite this system crushing us.  I would gnar you for setting this great representation of people who use EBT/etc., I just don't really post that much, yet here my dumb ass is posting.

Of course our gov sucks too, our infrastructure was good enough, and it seems like now its a little late for some simple changes that could have prevented these rusty shitbuckets that are failing left and right.

TLDR I'm not a smart person, but I had to clarify I'm not just parroting some shit some dumb motherfucker said on social media. I also just want a better healthcare system in this country, and I'm an idiot because it's not going to happen. Again, I mean no offense or take any, but I had to say my part too. Shit, agree to disagree?

I'm wondering if I'm misreading  or misleading, coming across as saying that poor people have it easy or something due to foodstamps and subsidized insurance. If so, that's not what i'm saying at all. America hates poor people. i've been lucky, played my cards right, and have protective factors and realize that the vast majority of poor people, or people receiving benefits, don't have that trifecta.

The reason I tell folks this sort of shit is because oftentimes there's been a narrative created stating that only certain kinds of people use state benefits, that's it's a sign of weakness or being lesser than. The people I'm talking about this to might think that of other people- people of a different race/ethnicity, outwardly or visibly disabled, different appearing, etc- Think Regan's welfare queens driving cadillacs or how people don't want to see homeless people on the streets or whatever. I don't meet any of those criteria, so by saying "ya, I took the state benefits, they're great (even though it sucks how you need to be to get them), and there's nothing intrinsically different between the two of us" it can help start a different conversation with the folks who might otherwise being saying "ya, that's communism... socialism... only bums get that shit and i work hard for my health insurance..."
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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24717 on: September 24, 2022, 05:30:38 PM »
Memphis has made national news multiple times this week for horrific shit. First a billionaire’s heir was kidnapped and murdered, a man jumped off the Mississippi bridge, some dude went around and shot 5 fucking people last night and finally was brought into custody around 8pm when it started at 4:30pm.

I fucking love my city, but goddamn I can’t stand seeing this shit. I need a vacation.

dude... Im from seattle and did a big road trip a couple years ago and went from arkansas to Memphis. Big drive. Memphis was so depressing we said fuck it and drove to nashville that night. Im not saying your city is shitty and scary and sad. But its sad and scarry and shitty.

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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24718 on: September 24, 2022, 07:54:52 PM »
I met people who don't like Madonna today. I was like are you 7 years old or broken.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eTm07Ht2_vs&feature=share&si=EMSIkaIECMiOmarE6JChQQ

How can you hate this? Do you know who wrote it? My god what an amazing song. I fucking love Madonna too. Especially like gold tooth short hair Madonna. I just melted at the thought.
I don't even like blonde white girls like that.
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Re: Things You Are Not Stoked On
« Reply #24719 on: September 25, 2022, 04:30:21 PM »
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