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UTProf said:
Eh he has a point, talking about yesterday’s hardships don’t do a thing to help today’s hardships. In some cases people only use them to minimize the suffering a lot of people are experiencing now. Just becaus our grandparents had it rough doesn’t mean folks aren’t suffering individual tragedies that are as as bad or even worse. The big difference is scale but a dead relative or loved one is dead, personal economic devastation is economic devastation, and personal tragedies and suffering is suffering regardless of whether we are using mules to make molasses or iPads to type messages. And God do we need some football news lol.
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True, but the more that are suffering with fewer able to help brings on more hopelessness and fear. It's easy to look back now and not realize how people doubted it would ever change when it went on so long for so many.
 
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butchna said:
You’re not a breeder...how would you know?
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Well I'm puzzled. You said, "In control of yourself being right and it mattering," in response to me stating I had no kids. I said it doesn't quite work that way but that I wished it did. To put it another way, I'm saying non-breeders don't get to control any of that. It would be awesome if we did. Were you trying to say something else? If so, I must've responded incorrectly because I thought you were saying we had that control.
 
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jackcrevol said:
In that case, my Pop was too old for WW2. But between growing up eating squirrel meat on a Rural Hall farm, raising three kids after going through GP, and retiring from Grayhound ... my man developed quite a system. Talk about a tight wad. He would die a millionaire - no one had a clue.

To this day, I love the idea of taking things that would otherwise be thrown out as garbage - and reusing them.

Talk about personality. I guess people back then used to enterain each other ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . He grew everything he ate, fav sammich was Slice of Tomato, Lettuce, & Mayo on White Bread - with pepper!

Pop had a Magnolia tree in his front yard, that Mom played under as a little girl. Years later he would take a cutting from that tree and plant it in my Mom's yard. The acidity of leaves kills anything under it, perfect place for a fort.

When my oldest was born, rented a chain saw and took out a 30 year old Juniper bush & root system. First purchase was a Magnolia tree.

I always tell my girls that story. It's perfect place to build a fort or place to hide.
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Are you really that old? For some reason I thought you were in your 30s.
 
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UTProf said:
Well I'm puzzled. You said, "In control of yourself being right and it mattering," in response to me stating I had no kids. I said it doesn't quite work that way but that I wished it did. To put it another way, I'm saying non-breeders don't get to control any of that. It would be awesome if we did. Were you trying to say something else? If so, I must've responded incorrectly because I thought you were saying we had that control.
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Pontificating to kids about how right you are has amazing results...for the therapists they pay for in adulthood. I’d discourage you and your fellow elite from reproducing for that very reason. 😎
 
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Actor Nick Cordero has died after an extremely long fight with Covid. I know some of you had followed this. After he woke from coma for a while and lost his leg to it and still lived, I really thought he'd beat it. Reading about it, it sounds like they did everything in the world to try and keep him alive but his body finally gave out.
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What a shame. We saw him on Broadway in A Bronx Tale.
 
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Would appreciate prayers, folks. I’ve mentioned on here before that my dad is battling dementia. He’s been struggling the past couple of days, so we had him taken to the emergency room. Just heard back that he has COVID. He’s not in distress. I would appreciate prayers that he continues not to be in distress and that my brother and I make the right decisions about his care.
 
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I think it's just a complex illness that we don't know a whole lot about. His case aligns with the early accounts doctors were giving of patients experiencing all sorts of very extreme things brought on by the virus. Even his recovery matches them -- I remember reading about patients who were suddenly fine (better than Nick ever was) that after a little while of being better took a very dramatic downturn and died. (Back then, we pretty much only counted those hospitalized because we didn't have good testing for the general public). Now we know there are very mild cases and some will only ever be asymptomatic carriers but for some covid just shuts ish down despite doctors giving their best efforts. I tend to think that there's more than one strain of Covid going around and that the milder strain is less deadly but more contagious. Whereas the deadlier strain is less contagious but far more deadly. It would explain a lot but I'm far from a medical doctor and am talking out of my rear so keep that in mind. Strains producing differing symptoms and severities just makes sense to me though. BUT it could just be that we haven't figured out the common factor that those who get Nick's sort of covid share. They could have a gene or something else (there's a lot of talk about blood type again) that makes them more vulnerable that we just don't know about yet.
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My DIL shared something on FB a while back that said they were finding it has something to do with the blood, but I can't remember what it was. It made sense with how it has a different effect on different people. I will have to try to find that.
 
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SweetasSoda said:
True, but the more that are suffering with fewer able to help brings on more hopelessness and fear. It's easy to look back now and not realize how people doubted it would ever change when it went on so long for so many.
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Definitely and tbh, I think a lot of folks are doubting if it ever ends now or for my family personally, the question is whether or not it ends in time. It seems like Covid is going on forever. We're in hospice and it's essentially trapped us inside the house with no end in sight. Hell one of the reasons we're in hospice instead of palliative care atm is because we couldn't get treatment anyway without the risk outweighing the benefit. Will this ish die down so we can get back to seeing the docs because when it hit we never had the chance to get answers or the followups needed post-cancer surgery and I don't want to transition back to palliative until that's more of a go because although we need answers I don't want to take services away until we can for sure get them. I also desperately want us to experience life, maybe even a mini-vacation while it's still possible but I don't know if that's going to be possible.

I have no doubt that America and the world will get through this. We're a tough bunch and if we didn't kill ourselves with 2 world wars and the development of nukes, we'll make it through this just fine but that's at the broader level. On the individual level, while most will be fine it gets more tragic - some of us won't make it whether it's medically, financially, etc. and some of us hit by it may live through it but never quite recover. So I kinda see it as there's an optimism in knowing that if our grandparents can get through it we can too and that gives me hope for the country and world but that's also more of a comfort on a societal level for me (I know America will survive and I'm glad for that). I also know that there's still those that won't and I probably feel that a lot more keenly than a lot of people because I know it's a death sentence - no ifs ands or buts - if someone brings it into my house. We're trying to make it to Halloween again and caring for someone who statistically doesn't have long to live without a transplant during a pandemic which makes transplants far less likely for multiple reasons makes it difficult to have optimism on a personal level. (I hope that makes sense).
 
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VolsDoc81TX said:
American through and through.

Dislike any and all of the political parties as they are strictly agenda and self-interest driven. Regardless of what they say, what’s best for America is not part of their plan.
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Bolded has always been my political outlook. Party-based politics are a cancer upon America that has metastasized to all segments of society.
 
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tnhunter 10 said:
I was at that game. The FU FL chants were LOUD.
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I just went back and looked. Besides 2013 which is debatable Butch had a chance to beat UF every year. That's crazy that we only got 1 win in that span.
I singled out 2013 specifically because that was the only 2 score win.
 
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