@patzering said
I don't talk to non-subs 😒

Nobody cares Sally. Why don’t you take up a new hobby like huffing paint or giving handies to the homeless then you’ll have something interesting to tell people about.

Blessed is the man who,
having nothing to say,
abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
-George Eliot
English novelist (1819 - 1880)

@patzering said
What is important in life?
I'm having a midlife crisis. 🤔

The midlife awareness that you had a great fun childhood and maximised your educational opportunities to springboard into a decent career. You’ve made the most of your relationships and have lived an exciting life while you are young enough to have done so. You’ve loved and still love your ageing parents and have a great future to look forward to based on a sound fiscal strategy from early life and well developed sense of values, spirituality and morality.

Hope this helps.

@patzering said
What is important in life?

I'm having a midlife crisis. 🤔

It's a phase; it'll pass. What's important are: friends and health (don't vegetate; get out, move your body, cycle, hike, row, with friends if possible -- if your current friends don't do any of those things, do them anyway and make some new acquaintances).

@philokalia said
It would not make sense to give free healthcare to illegal aliens.

Of course, we have to treat them for their injuries, but we also have to repatriate them.

If we actually had a really efficient system of repatriation where we stopped them at the border, this wouldn't be such a big deal.

But, instead, our system is broken.

Free healthcare for aliens won't work because the organ layout is different and they can't tolerate human blood.

@executioner-brand said
I started vaping near a week ago. Haven't had a normal smoke in 4 days now which feels real strange for me after 30 years every day. I already notice breathing becoming easier as the dangerous CO levels they(the quit smoking clinic) test for decreases.

The idea is to switch to vaping(done) and then give that up which isn't an established addiction like 30 years of smoking.

Has anyone else had success using a vape to quit this disgusting habit?

Vaping is for skids and posers.

Try this instead. Open a new pack of your favorite brand of cigarettes. Have a friend stick the filter end of one cigarette into his ass and randomly place it back in the pack. Butthole cigarette roulette is a great way to quit.

@very-rusty said
Hell at 17 I knew EVERYTHING....now I am still learning new things, don't know what happened!!! 😉 Turns out my father was correct about many things!

-VR

“When I was 14, my father was so ignorant I could scarcely stand to have the old man around. But when I was 21 I was astonished at how much he had learned.” — Twain

@ponderable said
That was not very polite.
Anyway you probably can't avoid getting into conversation with non-Subs if you want to take part in the Forum.

I think it was just his way of letting people know he had subscribed to the site.

@great-big-stees said
He/she (Patzering could be either) may not have realized that a "Star" appears beside their name indicating they have actually paid to be on this site...or not.

Maybe he’s claiming that he never talks to:- Ships, Boats, Catamarans or basically any sea going vessel that’s not a Sub, some people can be funny that way.

@eladar said
If you could rate the biggest disadvantages in this life how would you rank them?

Intelligence or lack of any
Wealth or lack thereof
No family connections
Extremely Ugly
Race
Fat
Social Skills

I would rank my top 5 as

1. Money
2.Looks
3.Social skills
4. Intelligence
5.Lack of family connections

Feel free to add more.

Wears a MAGA hat to church. 😛

@very-rusty said
Look at the list of Clubs that I am in, not that I actually participate much except to play in their tournaments. Too freaking boring for me in the forum!! 😛 Everyone has their own tastes though just not for me when it comes to chat.

Also, I realize you want to stay on side with the crowd so have to throw a shot my way!!! 😛 😉

-VR

You offer yourself as target very aggressivekly, so....you presume everything as shot.

@suzianne said
Especially if that skin color is black or brown, right? Whites (especially in America) have been given promotions and college entrance based on their skin color literally since this country was founded. You just can't handle that something you've enjoyed since you were born can be taken away, isn't that right? In fact, isn't a White Supremacist America what you mea ...[text shortened]... ire.

Sorry but your racist views will never become mainstream, no matter how hard you try.

So I am a racist for thinking skin color should not play a part in decisions? Liberal lunacy at is best. 🙄

@livineasy4 said
How can you say that when Iran said it would raise rnrichment low grade uranium beyond the limits set by the 2015 international nuclear deal. They are violating the deal, which is in place And they are definitely guilty for putting bombs on tankers, bombing tankers. and they have attacked a tanker. Would you want them to increase their nuclear arsenal by enriching uranium? And what has all that got to do with the United States president ?

Me thinks you need to travel abroad for a while and experience some of the world.

@mott-the-hoople said
what aggressive action has the US taken toward iran?

Moving troops towards their borders. Economic sanctions despite Iran complying with the nuclear deal. Pressuring other states into upholding those economic sanctions. Threatening over and over an invasion.

I responded not for you but for others who might not realize the US is the aggressor here. Don't bother answering back.

@mott-the-hoople said
Yeah the US is bombing oil tankers...no wait...

Bolton and Pompeo's "evidence" that Iran bombed those tankers is about as believable as Powell and Cheney's "evidence" that Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons factories. That was a big, fat lie, perpetrated to fabricate an excuse for a war for the sake of petroleum; and so is this.