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Originally Posted by Bill Gray:

 Hi Nagel and Uno,

 

Sorry, my Friends, but you are both wrong.  No one is born homosexual.  There is NO SUCH THING as a "homosexual gene." 

 

And, neither homosexuality nor bisexuality is acceptable to God.

 

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

 

Bill


first.... prove it, genetically. otherwise stfu about things you don't have a clue about. just because it has yet to be identified, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

second, it was a joke, sometihng that was susposed to be amusing to people who have a 1/2 a clue.

3rd... the bible says that it's an abomonation for men to lie with men as with a woman....

so, according to the bible, it's ok for men to lie with men, AS  they were a man...

which means it's ok to be g a y as long as you're pitching and not catching....

if we are to take the bible word for word, that is.....

Originally Posted by Jennifer:

Jimi, I really wonder why you and a few others want to constantly "run down" the South. That's a sign that you and those people have no idea what goes on in the rest of the country or even the world.

The only thing required to "run down the South" is to repeat the actions of those who live there.  Nowhere else in the world will you find more ignorant, uneducated people, who choose to remain that way. Most of their political and social ignorance is caused by their medieval religions beliefs. Homophobic, anti- science, racism, misogyny, lack of critical thinking skills, still fighting the Civil War, etc.

Originally Posted by JimiHendrix:
Originally Posted by skippy delepepper:

Hey they have came along way.

They get their own parades. Get their own flags. They get their own special laws.

Got people like Barney Frank to represent them. They have got their own *** TV.

You know how ticked off my mom off was when she found out Rock Hudson was ***.

Even stole my Aunt ***'s name. Ruined a lot of perfectly good songs. Try singing that

your happy and *** on the west side of Las Vegas.

Heck they don't even get stoned to death anymore. What more could they want?

 

Skippy

"Hey they have came along way." This is no longer funny. It is beyond sad. It is truly pathetic.

Jimi--If you are going to share the forum with Skippy, you will have to put up with a lot of illiteracy; get used to it.

Oh really jimi? Then why is the North such a ****hole that they're all running down here? You really do need to get out more. Who's still fighting the war? The only fight is against the ignorance of the people in the North that think it was about slavery. Proof they either didn't have a proper education or they choose, as you say, to remain ignorant.

Originally Posted by Jennifer:

Oh really jimi? Then why is the North such a ****hole that they're all running down here? You really do need to get out more. Who's still fighting the war? The only fight is against the ignorance of the people in the North that think it was about slavery. Proof they either didn't have a proper education or they choose, as you say, to remain ignorant.


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My 2c....

 

I'm guessing that when people here refer to 'the north', they're referring to either the rust belt states (where everything has just rusted away and pretty much gone straight down the crapper-or to Ohio, which is pretty much another planet altogether.  I'm guessing that people either migrate here from the rust belt or TO the rust belt, so that's all they got for a reference. I've been to Michigan and Indiana and Illinois and I got relatives in Ohio. Been there, done that.

 

It isn't a s%$thole in the northeast. It's a beautiful place-when it isn't frozen over. I spent most of my life there. It's just too expensive to live there now. Lotsa rich, rich folks, and I don't mean the "Dixie-Mafia-I-own-a-horse-farm-and -several-businesses-and-my-Silverado-has-bling-rimz-on-it" rich...I'm talking "How-much-are-you-asking-for-that-country-over-by-Russia" rich. No more middle class anymore. Folks like me just can't compete with the rich folks that are taking over the place.

  It's still 30 years ago down here and in a lotta ways that's a good thing-but in some others....well maybe not.

  One thing I notice down here is that people will just plain cold f$#k themselves up falling over each other to try and prove how 'educated' they are-and then they start spewing stuff from an ancient book of superstitious fairy tales and actually ACTING on it to the point where they're shooting themselves in the foot.

F'rinstance..

  Schools here have to beg for money just to keep themselves in supplies.

Schools where I'm from are teaching (as an elective) 4th graders MANDARIN CHINESE fa chrissakes. (China is rapidly becoming a country to be reckoned with economically).

The high school I went to just recently (4 years ago) completed an entire new :"media center" wing-all glass-enclosed and packed full of the latest in computer and mutimedia technology. Ninth graders in my old school spend at least one period a day participating in online class with their peers in Japan.

 

How do they manage this?  Easy. There's a state lottery that helps pay for things like schools and good roads and stuff. People here who wanna gamble hafta go to another state to do so on account of the 'ignant thumpers' that wanna keep all the marbles and keep everybody in the dark ages.

Seems there's a mentality among the religious nutbags that southerners (or people anywhere) as a rule apparently lack self-control.

 (I'm not saying that-the preachers are-remember-It's THEM that ultimately make the rules here.)

 

Government BY the preachers-FOR the preachers.

 

They could have all the supplies for schools that they needed-or wanted-but apparently GAMBLING is a "see-yun" and begging is honorable.

 

Riiiiiiight. But getting s#*thouse drunk and beating yer wife is OK.

 

 

Wait....... tell me again what a s#%thole the north is?

 

The self-righteous thumpers go on and on about 'the homosexual agenda' when they got much bigger issues to deal with.

 

Homosexuals are the LEAST of their worries.

 

 

RP, we do business all over this country.  The South does not have a lock on getting drunk and beating your wife or any other thing like that, it goes on all over the country/world.  I can speak of one customer in Watertown MA., born and raised in MA. and he doesn't tell it like it's the land of milk and honey. His father is in a "hospice" and he is upset that the care he's getting comes from unqualified people that can barely speak English.  He complains a lot actually. It's not an argument, it's not wanting to fight about it, it's just plainly that if people are so unhappy here they are free to leave. And unfortunately the religious nuts are all over the country too.

 As far as the North being a ****hole, I don't have to tell you, the people moving South in droves tell us that daily.  As for the school system, there will never be enough money to satisfy them. It's a money pit. I've made it clear what I think of the churches with their WWJD signs whenever the lottery comes up. Who cares what he'd do. I see that same bunch in Ardmore Tn buying their lottery tickets, see that same bunch checking the lottery numbers via their cell phones.

 

Oh my, was that bitter, angry, hostile??

Originally Posted by Jennifer:

RP, we do business all over this country.  The South does not have a lock on getting drunk and beating your wife or any other thing like that, it goes on all over the country/world.  I can speak of one customer in Watertown MA., born and raised in MA. and he doesn't tell it like it's the land of milk and honey. His father is in a "hospice" and he is upset that the care he's getting comes from unqualified people that can barely speak English.  He complains a lot actually. It's not an argument, it's not wanting to fight about it, it's just plainly that if people are so unhappy here they are free to leave. And unfortunately the religious nuts are all over the country too.

 As far as the North being a ****hole, I don't have to tell you, the people moving South in droves tell us that daily.  As for the school system, there will never be enough money to satisfy them. It's a money pit. I've made it clear what I think of the churches with their WWJD signs whenever the lottery comes up. Who cares what he'd do. I see that same bunch in Ardmore Tn buying their lottery tickets, see that same bunch checking the lottery numbers via their cell phones.

 

Oh my, was that bitter, angry, hostile??

 

 

 

 

So, you have a business partner that carries the load while you sit at your PC and post  in the Religion Forum everyday? 

You ARE one of the "Blessed"...

Chithead, my "business partner" is my husband, and I do way more in a  day than post on this forum. How brain damaged are you anyway? Of all the posts I've made today, heck in any day, it's not 10-15 minutes of reading and typing time. How long does it take you to read a post or type a response? See, you should have stayed in school and gotten that education you so desperately need, and then you'd have something to do while waiting on me to post.

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Originally Posted by JimiHendrix:
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Originally Posted by Bill Gray:
quote:   Originally Posted by JimiHendrix:

I have never understood why so many religions people in the South constantly bash homosexuals. Without them, most churches wouldn't have choir directors.

Hi Jimi,

 

It is not the Christians in the South, nor the Christians around the world, who are saying that God has declared the homosexual lifestyle to be an abomination -- it is the Bible.   All the Christians are doing is telling you what God has written through the men He chose to inspire.  So, your argument is not with Christians; but, with God -- for He is the One who has condemned the homosexual lifestyle.

 

Choose His way -- and you will have no eternal problems.   Deny His way -- and you are in for an eternity of hurt.  Simple!

 

By the way, you mention choir directors -- are you implying that all musicians are homosexual?   Boy, talk about "open mouth, insert foot!"   My Friend, this time you have outdone yourself.

 

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,  Bill

Here is one that you seem to forget: "Thou shalt not lie." - God  [/quote]

Hi Jimi,

 

You are notorious for making bold, empty declarations.  You say I have lied in my post.  Show me ONE LIE in this post.  Otherwise, open mouth -- insert foot!   As usual!!

 

And, Jimi, if you do not like the South or Southerners -- there are plenty of buses with empty seats heading North.  I give you my solemn promise that NONE of us will try to stop you.   Have a nice trip home.

 

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

 

Bill

Originally Posted by Jennifer:

Chithead, my "business partner" is my husband, and I do way more in a  day than post on this forum. How brain damaged are you anyway? Of all the posts I've made today, heck in any day, it's not 10-15 minutes of reading and typing time. How long does it take you to read a post or type a response? See, you should have stayed in school and gotten that education you so desperately need, and then you'd have something to do while waiting on me to post.

 

 

Good grief! You can't even take a "compliment"?  It appears you are "bitter and angry". 

Am I the only forum member who takes equal delight in getting both Jennifer and Bill's drawers in a wad? Jennifer is smart about religion but dumb about everything else. Bill is just plain dumb. If about five people stopped posting I would probably stop reading this mess every day. Except for a few posters, it is pretty boring.
Originally Posted by JimiHendrix:
Am I the only forum member who takes equal delight in getting both Jennifer and Bill's drawers in a wad? Jennifer is smart about religion but dumb about everything else. Bill is just plain dumb. If about five people stopped posting I would probably stop reading this mess every day. Except for a few posters, it is pretty boring.

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jimi,,, you can't hammer billie better than I can, I can catch him in a lie and he will

delete his post and start a new lie.

 

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quote:
Originally Posted by Jennifer:

Jimi, when did you get my "drawers" (they're thongs btw) in a wad?  Dumb? Not dumb enough to be a democrite like you.

Hi Jennifer,

 

Now, that, my Friend, is a wee bit more information that I need -- and, a lot more than I want to visualize.

 

What is it that Jay Leno called that attire -- butt floss?   He didn't mention if it was plain or mint.   How about jalapeno?

 

Y'all come back now, ya heah?

 

Bill

Originally Posted by Bill Gray:
quote:
Originally Posted by Jennifer:

Jimi, when did you get my "drawers" (they're thongs btw) in a wad?  Dumb? Not dumb enough to be a democrite like you.

Hi Jennifer,

 

Now, that, my Friend, is a wee bit more information that I need -- and, a lot more than I want to visualize.

 

What is it that Jay Leno called that attire -- butt floss?   He didn't mention if it was plain or mint.   How about jalapeno?

 

Y'all come back now, ya heah?

 

Bill

This comes from the self-appointed "adult" on the forum. Hard to figure which is worse, Jennifer bragging that she can wear a thong or Bill talking about it. Lord, give us strength!

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  Originally Posted by INVICTUS:
jimi,,, you can't hammer billie better than I can, I can catch him in a lie and he will delete his post and start a new lie.

Hi Vic,

 

Quite truthfully, in over 4 1/2 years of posting on the Religion Forum -- I cannot recall ever deleting a post.  There was a time I wanted to in the first and early months of my venture into Forumland -- when Joy and I had a dialogue on the PM which so impressed me in a positive way, that I wanted to share it. 

 

So, I posted what we had written on the PM, on the open Forum -- without realizing my error or thinking about that being a breach of her privacy.  I did not do it to embarrass her or to call her on anything.  As I recall -- it was because I was impressed with what she had written.

 

When Joy asked me to delete the post -- I could not.  For the first 6 or 8 months, I could post a response to discussions others had begun -- but, I could not start a new discussion nor could I delete a post or a PM.  Joy will recall this very well.  Even though she was ticked at me -- she was a good Christian sister and told other that I had dug myself into a hole and, due to technical problems, could not climb out.

 

I could write a PM and I could write a posted response -- but, that was it.  We even got the TD tech supporters involved trying to help me figure out the problem.  And, finally, we did solve it. 

 

Thereafter, much to the great happiness and joy of all my atheists, secularists, cult, false religion, and and vanilla-flavored non-believing Friends -- I was able to actually create a new discussion all by myself.   For the past 4 years, I have been thrilling all of my fans (especially Vic, Jennifer, and Chick) with new discussions begun by your favorite Christian writer, Bill Gray.

 

But, in all that time -- I do not recall EVER deleting a post.  Think about it.  Why would I go to all the effort and time to create and write a post -- and then just delete it because my good buddy, Vic, disagreed?

 

So, Vic, my Friend -- as much as I hate to say it, "It does appear that you, my dear Friend, are fabricating your own version of reality in a very limited space -- your head," 

 

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

 

Bill

Hey y'all,

 

Jump on over to the new discussion titled "Setting The Record Straight!"    I know it will give you a warm and fuzzy feeling.  What more could I want for my good Friends -- especially ones who are such good judges of who is and who is not a Christian believer?

 

Hey, Chicky, that building your drove past on your way to Walmart -- that was a church.  One of these days you should visit and find out all about this guy named God.  You will be eternally thrilled if you do.

 

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

 

Bill

Jennifer-

 

There are religious nuts all over the country-but only HERE (The Shoals) it seems-are they allowed to actually dictate LAW and PUBLIC POLICY.

 

The south (bible belt) has the highest concentration of religious nutbags in one place than anywhere else in the whole country.

 

No, the south doesn't have a lock on getting hammered and beating the wife-but it DOES appear to be more....acceptable here. (The whole subjugating women thing and all...That and all the drunkard has to do is go to church and ask jaysus fer f'givness.)

You say you do business with people from all over the country...Have you ever BEEN all over the country? Do those people discuss things like religion, their drinking habits and spousal abuse with you? Maybe you have-But forgive me-I'm just used to people who have never been 'out of the county' telling me how it is all over the country. Nuthin' personal against you if ya have.

 

I don't see the 'people moving south in droves" you mention. I

 

Everybody I meet around here has a hayseed accent.

Or Mexican... No New Yorkers, No New Englanders. Nobody from Jersey.....

 

Oh sure-there's maybe one or two from Illinois or Michigan-the rust belters once in a blue moon.

 

That's hardly the droves you speak of-unless yer referring to Florida, which is geographically south but really is just a suburb of Long Island, NY.

 

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BeeG spewed:

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And, Jimi, if you do not like the South or Southerners -- there are plenty of buses with empty seats heading North.  I give you my solemn promise that NONE of us will try to stop you.   Have a nice trip home.

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Uh...Would that be in effect before or after you move back from Californistan?

 

Standard southern reply to anything a yankee says.  How original. Yankees don't even think like that.....

Truly spoken like somebody who isn't even here.

 

I dunno how much ya remember of this area, BeeG, but there's no mass transit here.

I have YET to see a Greyhound bus, A Trailways bus, or ANY coach bus ANYWHERE in this area unless it's a chartered tour bus from Anchor Tours or somewheres.

Ya even have to go SOMEWHERE ELSE to catch a flippin' BUS.

 

I don't have a problem with southerners or the south.

I do have a problem with intolerant, sanctimonious, ultra-religious nutbags keeping a society more or less in the Dark Ages. Leave the g ay guys alone fa chrissakes. You got bigger fish to fry.

 

"Old Times here are not forgotten", indeed!

 

Bring on the torches and pitchforks....

 

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RP I have travelled the country a bit, plan on doing it more, and yes, even out of this country. If you knew how I felt about flying you'd know that's saying something. We deal with people in other countries, even China at one time, but for some reason after 9/11 we never heard one more word from our customers there. In our neighborhood alone we have people from all over the country, some job related, some came here to retire because they were familiar with the area because of previous business trips here. One of our neighbors has a t-shirt he wears sometimes that says "Why yes, I AM a Rocket Scientist". He was born and raised in Mississippi, he IS a rocket scientist. Of course I take offense at people trying to paint us as backward.

I've heard what others across the country say about blacks.  Racism is as rampant in the North-East-West, as the South and sometimes it seems it's more so. Believe me, some of you yankees can get rough when talking about different races.  I've heard things I never heard a Southerner say.

No bus terminals?  There were when people travelled mainly by bus, but how would they make money today? Would I move somewhere, be miserable there, constantly moan and groan about the area, insulting it and the people that loved it? And if I did, wouldn't their natural reply be "well leave"?  Instead of complaining I'd be figuring a way to get my butt outta there.

The Southern religious folks are the only ones that have a problem with g a y s?  How do you figure that? Bill and a couple of others that post on here seem to be the extreme. They're not like any christian I know in my life. Bill seems more like one of the creepy insane snake handling kind of christians that would be right at home at the Westboro "church". Bill, imo, is about as tolerant and loving as a radical muslim. Sometimes I wonder if bill's idea of heaven includes 70 virgins. I am with you on one thought though, bill seems very interested in the going ons in this area. He says it's because he was born here but I have my own ideas. If he's that emotionally attached to the area he'd be living here.

Lastly, how  could anyone not know about domestic violence, spousal abuse, child abuse, and all sorts of crimes that go on all over the country and world? 

Yeah ya got me there,

 

We're 'equal opportunity offenders' when it comes to pretty much all races/creeds. Even us     crackas.

We're pretty brutal about it, too.

 

But that's only because a good many of us aren't afraid of a magical man in the sky.

 I've been all over this country and out of it a few times myself.

 

I just think it's pretty hypocritical of the ultra-religious southerners to be self-righteous enough to one one hand preach against those crimes and then commit them regularly and then hit the easy button to make it all right again.

  Sure. Some Jersey S**** (Frackin' filter! "The edge of the land by a body of water....Y'know..the "Sh o re"&nbsp guidos are proud to beat their women and those women are stupid enough to keep taking the beatings-but the guidos don't try to justify it with scripture like I've seen it done down here.

 

As much as it irritates southerners t hear it-this place is still 30 years behind the times.

Religion is usually the reason.

 

G ays  are the new blacks. Just somebody else for the fundies to foam about.

Actually, around here it's just BeeG doing the foaming.

 

Nobody else seems to give a crap. 

 

 

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Originally Posted by Road Puppy:

Yeah ya got me there,

 

We're 'equal opportunity offenders' when it comes to pretty much all races/creeds. Even us     crackas.

We're pretty brutal about it, too.

 

But that's only because a good many of us aren't afraid of a magical man in the sky.

 I've been all over this country and out of it a few times myself.

 

I just think it's pretty hypocritical of the ultra-religious southerners to be self-righteous enough to one one hand preach against those crimes and then commit them regularly and then hit the easy button to make it all right again.

  Sure. Some Jersey S**** (Frackin' filter! "The edge of the land by a body of water....Y'know..the "Sh o re"&nbsp guidos are proud to beat their women and those women are stupid enough to keep taking the beatings-but the guidos don't try to justify it with scripture like I've seen it done down here.

 

As much as it irritates southerners t hear it-this place is still 30 years behind the times.

Religion is usually the reason.

 

G ays  are the new blacks. Just somebody else for the fundies to foam about.

Actually, around here it's just BeeG doing the foaming.

 

Nobody else seems to give a crap. 

 

 

  

 

Show me an example the 30 years ahead, present day utopia, please. I've been around also.

OK Blind baby...Since ya asked specifically....

 

 

Let's start with education. 

 All the kids (I'm talking eighth graders here) that ride my bus have at one time asked me where I'm from (natch-I don't sound like I'm from around here), When I tell them-I'd say about 9/10ths of them can't for the life of them tell me even remotely where Connecticut is-much less which way is northeast. Not only that, they could care less. It ain't Alabama-I guess they figure they don't need to know it.

  One kid upon seeing the weight limit sign on a bridge I was crossing asked me which weighs more, a ton or a pound?  He was serious.

  I see the school papers that middle school kids leave on the floor or the seats.  It's obvious that they have no real grasp of their own language. TEACHERS mis-correct spellings on their work-I've seen it with my own eyes the teacher's comments on a student's paper where he had written a sentence "The snow fell." She (the teacher) had corrected it from "The snow fell." to "The snow fill" and left the student a note on the paper to practice spelling the word correctly.

(The fill-fell merger f#%kup.)

A TEACHER, mind you, who should know better.

 

When I attended J.W. Powell school back in the 70s, my fourth grade teacher taught me that the words "pin" and "pen" were homonyms. Words that sounded the same but were spelled differently and had different meanings (pin-pen merger). Ditto with the "tin-ten" merger.

 

I had a lotta catching up to do when I arrived in the Ridgefield, CT schools from here back in 1977. I was WAY behind.

My daughter is still in that school system in Connecticut and could speak in three languages (Spanish/German/Mandarin Chinese) by the time she was a sophomore in high school.

 She was one of the ones I mentioned who participated in online class with her peers in Japan.

From what I've observed-many high school kids here have enough trouble with their native tongue.

There- grade schools are state-of-the-art and crammed with high-tech learning tools. They can afford 'em. Gambling isn't a sin there. The state lottery makes sure that schools don't have to beg for money anymore like they still do here. The couple casinos that are there contribute to the state's coffers as well.

 

Now let's move on to stuff like laws and policy...

 

F'rinstance, Here you can operate a motor vehicle without actually having insurance. Until you can't show proof to a cop. Oh yeah.

The insurance companies don't report to the Department of Motor Vehicles  here when somebody's coverage lapses because there ISN'T a Department of Motor Vehicles.

  You can't even register a vehicle of any kind where I'm from without first providing proof of insurance. They look it up on their computers and it's either go or no go.

 Here the lady at the county tag office just asks ya if you have it. No proof required.

THEY TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT. Up north, a cop runs your tag right there in his cruiser and it comes back to him whether or not you have insurance. Right then and there.

  Vehicle standards: I know why cars are so darned expensive (and deadly) here. There's no safety inspection. At all. Civilized states require it....

 Vehicle emissions standards: If Alabama ever instituted an emissions testing program-half the cars in the state would suddenly be off the road. Everywhere else that has one-you can't even register a car until it passes at least minimally.

  First thing any redneck here worth his stuff does with his truck is chop the catalytic converter off it and hock it for meth or beer money (muffler, too! Who needs it!?) and install twice pipes. Nevermind the big grey cloud of unburnt fuel or oil smoke behind it.  On any given day the little valley I live in has a haze similar to the one over Mexico City in it. In short-A third world country's air quality.

 

There's an abundance of ambulance chasing lawyers here it seems by watching the CW channel on TV. Hmm...Wonder why? Could it be because driver education sucks here? I dunno. Could be.

When I was transferring my CDL to Alabama at the trooper's office in Muscle Shoals-I was watching the folks testing for their drivers' licenses. I like to watch people, y'know?

While I was waiting for the apparently nineteenth century laminating machine to finish cooking my new license, I happen to notice this great whacking big overall-sportin', six-toothed bumpkin of about 17 years old come out from the testing area and announce to maw and paw that he'd passed the exam-just barely. His words in between cackles were "I got five wrong-but I don't care!"

 

Great....Now one day I'm prolly gonna hafta dodge the flaming, tumbling wreckage when "Junior" goes careening off the overpass I'm traveling under because he doesn't have the sense to hang up the dang cellphone or use a turn signal when changing lanes.....Just ducky.

 

Reading some of the threads regarding traffic controls here on this forum-I see people asking questions of LEOs or explaining their versions of how they think traffic rules work.

 

Don't they teach this stuff in driver's ed? Isn't it on the test somewhere? Everywhere I've ever been it sure is. Has been forever.  Apparently not here, by cracky. Not by the sound of things.

 

Smoking:  No big deal everywhere else. I haven't been able to smoke inside a building in 30 years up north.  I was amazed when I got down here again and everybody was puffing away inside

(Hey! Dontcha know that s#!t'll ki ll ya!?)

Funny how the whole smoking inside ban JUST STARTED here what? Last year? The year before? Uh-huh. 30 years behind the times, I says.

 

Uh-huh. People still look at me funny when I get up and go outside to smoke. Even when I don't have to.  30 years up there I had to smoke outside.  It's a built-in habit to go outside now. 

It's a brandy-new problem for folks here. Yup. Change is haaaaarrrrrrd. 

 

The guy who reads my electric meter pulls in my driveway in his truck with the preacher station blaring and whips out a pair of opera glasses and tries to read my meter. Only twice in almost two years has he actually gotten the numbers right. He mistakes a 3 for an 8 or such sh#t.

I call Florence utilities to straighten it out and nobody answers the phone during business hours.

I go down there in person. Nobody can find my account. I wait for a supervisor to finish her two-hour biscuit break or whatever and haggle with her for half a day before they finally realize a mistake has been made.

  Same with the ninety year old woman who struggles to read my water meter. She dang near fell in the hole wrasslin' with that big iron thing they open it with.

Overcharged me by ten thousand gallons three times in the last 18 months.

Same crap to deal with fixing it. I guess whoever runs the waterworks only comes in to work when they're not too busy being the police chief or the local magistrate or the proprietor of the local junk-a-torium. What's with all the junk shops around here anyways? Oh well...They don't hafta worry about anybody stealing any of it. Nobody steals it prolly for the same reason nobody buys it.

 

Good ol' Mayberry. Yup. Where I'm from-the meter readers scan your meters by radio as they drive by and the information is sent directly to the home office computers in an instant. Kinda like the Zonar units we pre-trip our buses with.  All they have to do is aim and push a button. Go figure.

 

Up in the northeast-you might see three or four churches in any town. Some even less.

Here-They're on EVERY CORNER. Lotta sinners here by the looks of it... I'm surprised that they don't have a drive-up window for fried chicken, biscuits and a blessing, too. 

  Up there, a preacher is just that. A preacher. Few take him really seriously.

Here, they're like village wise men. So it seems. And EVERYBODY'S either a preacher or a used to be preacher. They dictate laws and public policy....and the sheeple follow blindly for the most part. 

Nope. Very few superstitious folks up there-and the ones that are pretty much keep it to themselves...well except for the jehovahs and the mormons...They're pretty much universally PITAs.

 

In short-We yankees aren't afraid of jesus. In fact, for much of the early part of my life-I actually thought that jesus' middle and last names were "-effing christ."

 

Helmet laws truly suck. I wonder just who the hell thought that one up.

 

I never rode a bike with a helmet in the few decades I've ridden until I got here and hadda put the lid on. never once did I actually need to wear one in all that time. 25 or 30 years ago the bikers in CT rode their bikes up and down the steps of the state capital for a few days until the lawmakers got the idea and repealed the lid law for anybody 18 and older and started educating motorists and riders better instead. Helmets don't save lives. Educating dumb people does.

Every skin-crayon I've seen or heard about in this state that died on a bike was wearing a lid.

 

 

If I wanted to, I could walk into a convenience store up north and buy a girly mag-hardcore even. No problem. It's got a plain brown wrapper around it so as not to offend anybody. Can't do that here. Preachers won't allow it. Same with adult videos, or toys or anything else of that ilk. The religious nutbags don't think I have the self-control not to get overexcited and go rape somebody or some such s#!t. (In fact-that kinda stuff-like violent video games actually provides an outlet for people so they DON'T tend to get in situations where they'd commit crimes or immoral acts....Hmmm....Mebbe we yanks don't hafta spend so much time in church because we're not SINNING OUR ASSES OFF as much as southerners. Hmmm...?) 

  I can buy booze at the grocery store. The hard stuff. Not here. It's a sin and the state has to have absolute control over it because apparently we don't have any self control (and they make money off the sales).

 

Cops....

 

Y'all got so MANY kinds of cops down here.  Now I realize that there's a whole lotta area to cover and a whole lotta sinners to wrangle, but back home-Sheriffs are just a vestigial force. Mainly for serving court papers and summonses, etc. While they CAN enforce the laws, they're usually not needed to.  Local police handle all of that and staties pretty much stick to the interstate highways and rural areas.

 

Listening to the scanner regularly, I can see why ya need so many kinds of cops on so many different levels.

 

It's like listening to the wild west of the 1800s. People shooting the crap outta each other cause they got drunk and got into a pizzing match. Domestics out the wazoo. Is it so hard to just walk away when your spouse says something ya don't like?  It worked pretty good for me anytime that happened.  I get the impression that a lotta southern guys still consider their wives chattel.

 

How ancient.  Oh well. It's biblical, I'll give 'em that much.

 

We've evolved past that for the most part where I'm from. Oh it still happens now and again cause asshats will be asshats, but one visit from the local fuzz and a goodly beatdown usually ensures that they won't hafta come back. In a domestic situation there-SOMEBODY is going to jail. Always.

None of this "oh yeah, them again....I'm responding code 3 again" crap. Besides-a lotta relationships in hamlets like Ridgefield, CT are more like business arraingements. Lotsa money tied up in 'em. No need to beat each other up when it goes bad. Just take 'em to divorce court and sue the bejesus outta 'em.

 

Funny too how high the divorce rate is down here. You can get a $300 uncontested quickie special. Hmm....If yer spouse runs off and ya can't find 'em ya can run a legal notice in the paper for a specified minimum amount of time and poof! Divorced.

 

(That's kinda neat, actually.) But unnecessary where I'm from.

 

 

The bank not far from where I Iive was advertising "FREE CHECKING!" on it's sign the other day.

Like that's something new?  OK mebbe here, but up nawth every bank BETTER have free checking or they prolly wouldn't have any customers. It's a given for the last 25 or so years.

 

Just recently in the TD, I read that schools are finally getting around to the bullying issue.

That is so 1980s.

 

The attitudes of whites toward blacks I've noticed is still kinda Jim Crow-ish here.

We got lotsa black people up north, too-we just don't really think of 'em as any different than us crackas. Not down here, by gum...Nosirree. Oh sure, there's a goodly number of enlightened white folks down here and I'm cool with that, but I wish I had a nickel for every white person who's said something racist under their breath in casual conversation regarding blacks.

I've only been back here two years nearly and I'd already have a sock fulla nickels.

 

Same with homosexuals. They wanna get married-I say let 'em. Let 'em have the whole experience-good, bad, or ugly just like the rest of us. They aren't bothering anybody and we aren't scared of 'em.

 

I lived right here in Florence back in the early-mid 70s.

When I came back in 2009 one of the things that struck me was that Alabama seemed to be a state that was permanantly mired in 1965 and still struggling desperately to come to grips with 1985. Nothing has changed except that the goobers are yapping on high-end cell phones while they're weaving down the road and chucking beer cans and McDonalds crap into my front yard.

 

That crap-Most of this crap that goes on here has either been evolved past, outlawed or is just no longer socially acceptable where I'm from anymore.

 

Anybody doubts what I'm sayin'-Go look up "Ridgefield, Connecticut" and mebbe follow some links. Look at some pictures. No junk cars in the yards, no decrepit houses, very VERY few grossly obese people...And lately all the corrupt politicians have been fired some years ago.  

We even got g ay bars all over the place up there. No big deal.

 

Like I said-Most of us elsewhere have evolved past that.

 

Need I go on?

 

Holla back if u fillin me aight? Peace.

 

/shrug

 

 

Last edited by Road Puppy
Originally Posted by Blind Melon Chit'lin:
Originally Posted by Jennifer:

Of course I'm not saying that jimi. I'm sorry, I really thought you were smarter than that. If five men attacked you, each harming you equally, would you blame just one and let the other four slide? That's what I'm saying.

 

 

If five men attacked jimi, it would be called "pest control".

Very intelligent response.

Originally Posted by Bill Gray:
Sigh, how can you completely ignore reality over and over again?
  Sorry, my Friends, but you are both wrong.  No one is born homosexual.  There is NO SUCH THING as a "homosexual gene."  People are born with the sexual equipment God gave them -- and, as they grow, their sexual inclinations fall into line with their equipment.
Really? Well then how do you explain people who have XXY, XXXY, or other many other combinations? What about those born with CAIS, who have both ********s and a ******? Are they "not acceptable to God" as well?
However, society, their environment, and the world often insist upon changing the perfection of God's plan.  And, often, in the end, many become confused about their sexuality and wander into forbidden gardens.  But, no, no one is born ***.  We are are born as a clean
slate -- and then the world happens.

...snip...

And, neither homosexuality nor bisexuality is acceptable to God.

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