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Off-Topic / Snakes and Friends
« on: January 04, 2016, 03:45:51 pm »Message ID: 1037515
There once was a woman who had a pet snake that she loved very much. The snake was about 7 feet long and one day it just stopped eating. After several weeks of trying everything she could to get the snake to eat, the woman took it to the vet.

The woman explained the situation to the vet and he asked her, "Has your snake been sleeping with you at night or snuggling really close and stretching himself out?" The woman replied, "Yes he's been doing it everyday and it makes me so sad that I can't help him feel better."

The vet says "Ma'am your snake is not sick, he has been preparing to eat you. He's been sizing you up everyday so he knows how big he has to be, and not eating so he has enough room to digest you.

Moral of the story: You've gotta recognize the snakes out there. Just because they seem close to you and sleep in your bed, it doesn't mean their intentions are good. Even Judas gave the first kiss.

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Off-Topic / The Hospital Patients
« on: December 20, 2015, 05:58:16 pm »Message ID: 1033678
The Hospital Patients
Author Unknown

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on holiday.

And every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window. The man in the other bed began to live for those one-hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and colour of the world outside.

The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every colour of the rainbow. Grand old trees graced the landscape and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.

As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene.

One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man couldn't hear the band - he could see it in his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words. Days and weeks passed.

One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away. As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch and, after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone. Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the world outside. Finally, he would have the joy of seeing it for himself. He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed.

It faced a blank wall. The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window. The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall. She said, "Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you."

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Off-Topic / What God wants-Biblical Marriage
« on: December 18, 2015, 07:20:06 am »Message ID: 1033261
Maybe we need to read what it says before we criticize...

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Off-Topic / Aisle 5 Life Lesson for husbands everywhere...
« on: December 13, 2015, 12:25:36 pm »Message ID: 1032303
A husband and wife are shopping in their local supermarket.
The husband picks up a case of Budweiser and puts it in their cart.

"What do you think you're doing?" asks the wife.

"They're on sale, only $10 for 24 cans" he replies.

"Put them back, we can't afford them" demands the wife, and so they carry on shopping.

A few aisles further on along the woman picks up a $20 jar of face cream and puts it in the basket.

"What do you think you're doing?" asks the husband.

"It's my face cream. It makes me look beautiful," replies the wife.

Her husband retorts: "So does 24 cans of Budweiser and it's half the price."

That's him on Aisle 5 - he never knew what hit him...

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Payment Pictures / My $30.30 PayPal cashout payment
« on: December 03, 2015, 06:06:41 am »Message ID: 1029982


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Support / Hyprmx video error message
« on: November 30, 2015, 09:51:53 am »Message ID: 1028929
When I try to view hyprmx video, I get the following error message:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
      <Error><Code>AccessDenied</Code><Message>Access Denied</Message><RequestId>7EB77E59AD7B8E1F</RequestId><HostId>1Bjafu+wFTuW2O+P1lqkT6+z8WEtFht1hf6jSatpwMlWVSvzvk+cSbWuMlF2HsOu</HostId></Error>

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Off-Topic / Something to think about...
« on: November 27, 2015, 02:04:53 pm »Message ID: 1027903
"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they're going to profit from it."
George Orwell

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Debate & Discuss / Refugees
« on: November 27, 2015, 06:01:36 am »Message ID: 1027818
No One Leaves Home Unless

no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark
you only run for the border
when you see the whole city running as well
your neighbors running faster than you
breath *bleep* in their throats
the boy you went to school with
who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory
is holding a gun bigger than his body
you only leave home
when home won’t let you stay.

no one leaves home unless home chases you
fire under feet
hot blood in your belly
it’s not something you ever thought of doing
until the blade burnt threats into
your neck
and even then you carried the anthem under
your breath
only tearing up your passport in an airport toilet
sobbing as each mouthful of paper
made it clear that you wouldn’t be going back.
you have to understand,
that no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land
no one burns their palms
under trains
beneath carriages
no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck
feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled
means something more than journey.
no one crawls under fences
no one wants to be beaten
pitied

no one chooses refugee camps
or strip searches where your
body is left aching
or prison, because prison is safer
than a city of fire
and one prison guard
in the night
is better than a truckload
of men who look like your father
no one could take it
no one could stomach it
no one skin would be tough enough
the
go home blacks
refugees
dirty immigrants
asylum seekers
sucking our country dry
niggers with their hands out
they smell strange
savage
messed up their country and now they want
to mess ours up
how do the words
the dirty looks
roll off your backs
maybe because the blow is softer
than a limb torn off
or the words are more tender
than fourteen men between
your legs
or the insults are easier to swallow
than rubble
than bone
than your child body
in pieces.

i want to go home,
but home is the mouth of a shark
home is the barrel of the gun
and no one would leave home
unless home chased you to the shore
unless home told you
to quicken your legs
leave your clothes behind
crawl through the desert
wade through the oceans
drown
save
be hunger
beg
forget pride
your survival is more important
no one leaves home until home is a sweaty voice in your ear
saying-leave,
run away from me now
i dont know what i’ve become
but i know that anywhere
is safer than here.

From the Kenyan-born Somali poet Warsan Shire

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Support / Half cent videos not opening
« on: November 15, 2015, 08:43:15 am »Message ID: 1025499
The background goes dark and the box where the video plays comes up, but it is a blank white space. No video shows.

It's random, not the same videos. It's happened on videos I've had no trouble watching before.


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Off-Topic / Calling people stupid
« on: October 29, 2015, 06:41:06 pm »Message ID: 1021596
Every time I hear someone say someone is stupid, or their idea is stupid, I think of my dad.

One of his pet peeves was using the word stupid.

He'd say, "Were you born knowing what you know?  Nobody is stupid.  Ignorant, yes. Stupid, no."








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Payment Pictures / My $30.00 PayPal cashout payment
« on: October 19, 2015, 06:26:00 am »Message ID: 1019336


Member comment: Thank you!

This image was posted automatically.

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Off-Topic / Spiders
« on: October 11, 2015, 12:03:07 pm »Message ID: 1017699
Why are people so freaked out by spiders?

I was in the kitchen yesterday, washing dishes when I heard a loud clatter out front.
I went to see what was happening.

There was a man and several young boys standing in my yard, looking up at the roof.
The man tossed a stick up towards the roof, and said he was trying to "get that spider."

I looked, and sure enough, there was a spider building its' web from my roof to the roof of the next apartment.

I asked the man why he wanted to kill it, and he said, "It's a spider!"

He couldn't understand why I didn't want it dead too.

So I guess there's another neighbor that thinks I'm weird.
I just don't see the need to kill something just because it's there.




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Debate & Discuss / Take America Back
« on: September 26, 2015, 12:55:03 am »Message ID: 1013728
I hear politicians say that a lot.

I don't get what they mean.

Back from whom? Back to where? Back to what?


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Support / Ad-Verify
« on: September 18, 2015, 10:49:43 am »Message ID: 1012209
I'm getting a screen from ad-verify when I try to watch some of the videos. 
Is there something going on with the videos that we should know about? Or am I doing something wrong?

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