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Coffee Crowd for Civilized Discourse on World Events
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[quote:Riff-Raff:MV81MTgwOTc3Xzk4NTY0Njk2XzVDOEVENEY5] [quote:Larry D. Croc:MV81MTgwOTc3Xzk4NTYzNTA3XzY1REFEOUM2] I'm thinking we might be, the three of us, triplets. Given up at birth, knocked around the foster home system for most of the next four years. Adopted by a couple who, I've come to believe, wanted children because all their friends had some. Dad was a functioning alcoholic which, in the 50's and 60's, was more common than not for lower middle class families. The alcohol helped blot out what their lives had NOT turned out to be. Dad had decided early on what my career was going to be. I was going to go to Michigan Tech in the upper peninsula and come out a metallurgical engineer. I hate cold, I really hate snow, and working in a factory my whole life wasn't anything I'd ever imagined. A vet? Yup, love animals. An oceanographer? Yeah, always loved the water. His response was easy to interpret, "get the fuck out, I don't care what you do but you'll get no help from me. The day you graduate high school you're on your own you ungrateful little shit." Per Riff, several questionable career choices later and after a much too soon marriage was over I finally, in 1999, found my true calling and spent the final 21 years of my working life looking forward to going to work every day. Liz and I found each other almost 16 years ago to the day. Finally found some birth family at the end of 2019 and that's worked out better than expected. Liz wonders why I'm such an early riser. I had to think about that myself because I'm far enough into retirement that it's not just "habit" any more. I figured it out. It's simply a matter of being so happy that I look forward to and want to see what the day holds. There were long periods in my life when that wasn't the case... [/quote] Congrats on your 16 years, Larry. Raffette and I are only a few years ahead of you. And this might explain why we've gotten to be such good friends here. Our backgrounds have some similarities, beyond the basic generational stuff. Anyone else think they might be part of the Tex-Croc-Raff family? On another note, it's snowing here. Looking at the radar, we're probably only going to get an inch or two, but that sets us up a nice base for round two, which is setting up for the possibility of major accumulation combined with gusty winds. [/quote]
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Since Clever Creator's thread has been taken over by AC keyboard warriors who have no function in life other than trolling web forums, creating this thread for our continuing discussion on world events:
- Covid
- Russia/Ukraine
- China/Taiwan
- US civil unrest
Or whatever else comes our way.
Everyone with a registered account is welcome here. AC's are banned from posting. I have only one rule: Treat others with respect even if you disagree with their position. This is
discussion
, not
argument
. I don't care who you voted for in the last election and I don't care who you're voting for in the next one. Keep it civil.
For reference:
Original Covid-19 thread by Dangerous Times:
Thread: Covid19/2021-22 OMICRON/ VIRUS "IHU" FRANCE:P13310/NEWEST VIRUS: "NEOCOV" HIGH INFECTION RATE+1 IN 3 DIE !?! P13315
Clever Creator's Covid-19 thread (now locked):
Thread: Sars Cov 2 … the grinder continues to eat away at resources and humanity.
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