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Off-Topic / Re: Paying Tax on Earnings on this Site

« on: September 06, 2018, 08:41:41 am »Message ID: 1236470

Exactly! I know that this is better addressed in a support ticket, but I always seem to get this warning (and it prohibits me from posting) whenever I have just a couple of words in all caps - like the quote in your recent post. It is a glitch of some sort obviously - especially when you factor in that it wasn't me who used any caps and it still prohibits my post after I've deleted the caps in an edit...


 

So you are submitting a support ticket - telling on me?  Uhm okay.  You can always just type your own post and put the first line the person you are wanting to talk to.  I have never posted an entire post in all caps.  I get the same warning as everyone else.

No, you missed my point entirely!  I didn't submit a support ticket about this - mainly because it's ultimately not a big enough deal to be worth it. ...and I have no problem with your posts precisely because they aren't in all caps.


The point was just that I found it odd that the forum software would not let me quote a post where you had only one or two words in all caps (hardly excessive) and it still told me that I needed to correct that after deleting the portion of the quote that was in caps (which, in my mind, corrected the red flag).


I am not submitting any support tickets and I have no problem with you as there were no violations! (Also I would not be that petty to whine about somebody in a support ticket - what am I? In the second grade on the playground?)


No, my frustration was with the glitch that even after deleting caps that it let you post, it was still flagging and not allowing my reply with NO caps as a violation.  So, just to be clear - no animosity here - was just trying to point out the irony with some sarcasm that doesn't translate very well just with text.  It's all good!   
 


 

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Off-Topic / Re: UnitedHealthcare Motion - a new healthy way to earn a few extra dollars!

« on: September 05, 2018, 07:09:21 pm »Message ID: 1236417

I've earned $125 and I've lost six pounds since starting on July 26.
 

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Off-Topic / Re: OMG! Hoarding is a disease now?!!!!

« on: September 05, 2018, 06:57:11 pm »Message ID: 1236414

With all due respect, the first problem is believing hoarding is a disease.  With it being labeled that, people are told that it's not their fault and that they can't help it.  It is sad to me that people are labeling stuff like this a disease.

With all due respect, "labeling" it a disease in no way communicates to people that it is not their fault and that they can't help it. When you have cat *bleep* throughout your living space and dead animal carcasses decaying in your bedroom and bottles of your own pee in the corner of your kitchen, it is not because you are lazy and a lousy housekeeper. That is not normal human behavior - it is a mental illness!!!

When you become violently agitated at the mere suggestion from a loved one that you throw away curdled milk or green moldy meat and you would rather your spouse or children completely sever their ties with you if it means you don't have to throw away baby clothes soaked in rat feces or stop using a bucket for a toilet because you haven't had running water in your house for six years - you have a mental illness!!!


Yes, I am using extreme examples and not all hoarders are this severe. But just trying to make my point once again that "disease" is not limited to those maladies brought on by viruses and bacteria. There is a big difference between someone who is lazy and someone who doesn't even realize that they are making completely irrational decisions because of a mental illness!!!

These people need therapy to fully understand the consequences of their actions. They need to see that they are at fault for the deplorable conditions in which they live and that they can change their circumstances if they accept help. Labeling it a disease doesn't give them a free pass to continue the patterns of behavior that made their living space so deplorable, but it does give them the tools to get the help they need to break free from the chains by seeking out the underlying root of their illness.

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FusionCash / Re: FC Fantasy Football

« on: September 03, 2018, 05:18:00 am »Message ID: 1235742

I'm involved in two leagues this year - one is a recurring league made up of some of my wife's co-workers and a few spouses/relatives.  I used to also do a league online with a few friends that live spread across the country, until they began excluding many states from eligibility. So the past few years, I've just joined a single random online league. This year, my state was added to the ineligible list. So I converted myself over to a Yahoo! league. I hope that this one doesn't add Ohio to the excluded states list.


I missed out on the FC league a few years back, but would be interested in joining a league in the future if organized.

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Off-Topic / Re: DWI traffic stops

« on: September 03, 2018, 05:10:22 am »Message ID: 1235737

My one friends boyfriend just got his  6th.  I guess he is going away for a while. They think 5 years.

Nothing against your friend and her boyfriend personally, but why in the world should it take 6 times for that to happen? I can't be the only one who thinks that should happen after #2 or #3?


Regardless, I hope that he is able to get some help with that problem - for his own sake and those he comes into daily contact with.   Everyone be safe out there!

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Off-Topic / Re: OMG! Hoarding is a disease now?!!!!

« on: September 02, 2018, 03:18:25 pm »Message ID: 1235635

It is not a disease. Neither is being on drugs. I get so sick of hearing all this stuff that people call a disease. That is a slap in the face to people who actually do have a real disease.

Keep stuff or don't.  The only way to get past it is to decide you are tired of the clutter and just throw stuff away.  I done that a few years ago but let a family member put a bunch of stuff here so I am now cluttered again. LOL
It is what it is.

It is a disease, just not a physical disease like diabetes or cancer. It is a mental disease and not a choice often brought on by some sort of traumatic experience.


Clutter keeping and hoarding are not the same thing.

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Off-Topic / Re: forget about uniquerewards

« on: September 02, 2018, 03:12:10 pm »Message ID: 1235634

I've been using UR for quite some time with no problems. My last few cashouts have gone off without a hitch - paid in Bitcoin.   

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FusionCash / Re: Check arriving today!!

« on: August 27, 2018, 12:51:59 pm »Message ID: 1234501

Nice job!  I think this is the month that my streak ends. I've had three full years of never missing a month of at least a $25 cashout, but I've not had the time to do surveys like I have in the past and I am only at $13 earned for the month.  My time devotions are shifting, so I may become one of those cash out every two months Fusion Cashers. My apologies to my sponsor.
 

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Off-Topic / Re: Best ways to supplement your income

« on: August 27, 2018, 12:38:10 pm »Message ID: 1234500

I would suggest a 2nd job if you really wanted to make extra money 

That will also help to bring the unemployment rate down even further!   LOL


Google Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and her thoughts on the nation's unemployment rate for a real 'education' on the subject!
  

The "Unemployment RATE" is a joke. And very inaccurate.  First off, people who have been unemployed for a certain amount of time or have exhausted their benefits are no longer counted in the numbers.

Well, in case my point was missed, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is a former Bernie Sanders staffer and a current socialist candidate for U.S. Congress and she recently said that the reason why unemployment rates have been falling under President Trump is because people are being forced to go out and get a second job in order to survive.

So she is basically saying that people who are already employed (therefore are not even a factor in the unemployment rate) and then get a second job are bringing down the unemployment rate by taking on that second job. 

(Apparently her math and logical reasoning skills are not quite on par with that of your average sixth grader).

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Off-Topic / Re: Favorite Show Currently Watching?

« on: August 27, 2018, 11:01:56 am »Message ID: 1234492

I am not actively watching any TV right now, although I am waiting patiently for the third season of Man in the High Castle and am cautiously optimistic that it will arrive before the fourth season of Fargo, which is my other favorite still well over a year away.

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Off-Topic / Re: R.I.P Senator John McCain

« on: August 27, 2018, 08:44:14 am »Message ID: 1234473

It would seem that John McCain was the last of the true statesman this country was founded by, it seems like everyone else in government is just in it for themselves.

Agree.  We need more like John McCain.  Willing to work across the aisle and wanted what was best for the people.

He would have made a fabulous President had he been elected, but I am glad he was able to continue to make his mark in the Senate in lieu of the White House.


It's funny - I heard a strong left liberal comment today that "Tump has already ordered the flag back to full staff! What an insensitive idiot he is!" (I hadn't heard this myself and am not expressing an opinion on that decision here - but it wouldn't surprise me considering the rift between Trump and McCain). 


But my point is that this same person criticizing Trump now for being insensitive to McCain's death is the same person who ten years ago would have been calling McCain a despicable racist conservative woman hater... 


Another irony I heard yesterday.  The same form of brain cancer killed both McCain and Ted Kennedy. And they both died on the same date - nine years apart.

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Off-Topic / Re: Are you ready for some football!!!

« on: August 26, 2018, 02:09:57 pm »Message ID: 1234328

(I do hate it when they run into overtime and interfere with one of the shows I like.  I think sports should only be on 1 or 2 channels at most and really should be part of a sports package that you have to buy in order to receive. It is automatically part of the Xfinity line-up and I resent that I am paying for something I have no interest in.)

While I don't resent having to pay for the stuff I get and never watch, I could go for a little bit more football coverage without having to pay more for it and get rid of most of the crap that I am forced to pay for.


Loving me some football - just had my live fantasy draft yesterday and picked up LeVeon Bell in the first round!

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Off-Topic / Re: Do you like tap water?

« on: August 25, 2018, 05:25:43 pm »Message ID: 1234248

We are lucky to have good tasting tap water in my area, so that it what I drink about 95% of the time that I drink water (which is probably 90% of what I drink in terms of overall beverage choices). I do drink it through a pitcher filter or through our refrigerator filter, but it is still tap water.

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Off-Topic / Re: Should marijuana be excluded in drug test for employment? What do you think?

« on: August 25, 2018, 05:17:44 pm »Message ID: 1234247

Absolutely Not!!!!!!!!! There is no reasonable argument (in my opinion) to remove this from employment drug testing. The arguments made by some that it is legal in many states or that it is a natural substance that God created for us to use are not very convincing (in my opinion, but others may disagree).


Legal or not, God given or not, it is still a dangerous mind altering drug which affects productivity. If an employer has two equally qualified and capable job applicants (one who smokes marijuana and one who doesn't) - I think he/she has the right to know and select the non-user and I do not believe that is discrimination in any way.

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Debate & Discuss / Re: Biggest debate of all time

« on: August 22, 2018, 10:55:01 am »Message ID: 1233816

Driving through a small town nearby the other day, I was stopped at a red light and I saw an old man come walking out of the post office. He had a white scraggly beard and walked with a bit of a limp.  He had on a faded red t-shirt with the original Starship Enterprise on it with the words "Star Trek" printed across the top in the original series typeface.  It made me crack a smile.