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  1. She was definitely correcting my language. I had picked up my dog and was trying to carry her across the street while the other dog was running around me, growling and snapping, and my dog freaked out and was flailing her legs, scratching me, and trying to get back down on the ground with the other dog. I let fly something that I do not normally say, immediately felt bad about it, but was more worried about getting my dog away without any bites than apologizing for my language. 

     

    The neighbor apparently felt that my language was more important than preventing a bite. Maybe her dog just acts like a little meanie and would never actually bite, but circling me and my dog, growling, and snapping didn't give me a good feeling. Besides, there is a leash law. Dogs are not supposed to come running out into the street, period. I'll give them a pass if they are not threatening in any way, or if they are on strict voice control. But this dog was growling, snapping, circling, and the lady was laughing about how she was calling him but he wasn't listening. I started out very polite. "Please call off your dog." "Please call your dog." But now I'm the bad guy, and I'm ticked off because I feel like my language did make me the bad guy.  :crying:

  2. When I said tacky, I really meant the atmosphere at the place dh went. I wasn't calling the profession tacky per se. I think I said one of the more pro-stripper things on this thread actually. I meant it when I said I wouldn't be bothered if it was someone's thing as long as the women (or men) involved don't feel exploited and any significant others don't feel bothered by it either. My friend I mentioned who stripped short term definitely didn't feel exploited. She enjoyed the work when she did it. It was sort of artistic expression for her. I had a chance to see her dance and it was definitely interesting.

     

    Now, glittery pasties on the other hand, that's tacky and nothing anyone can say will convince me otherwise!  :tongue_smilie:

     

    Glittery pasties make me think burlesque, which for some reason I see as an entirely different thing than stripping. Maybe it's the intent of the audience? I'm not sure. 

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  3. It's definitely not restricted to certain groups, and patrons definitely don't all meet your stereotype. 

     

    Like zoobie pointed out, there are strip clubs in abundance in the bible belt, some of them in areas that don't seem to have a grocery store or a stop light. 

     

    Yeah, I was just giving my impressions. But if I find out that someone frequents a strip club, yeah, I will think they are tacky. 

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  4. It's probably common, among certain groups. In my mind, the people who would frequent strip clubs would be guys who are kind of slimy, used car salesman types who go around slapping each other on the backs and yelling "Boo-yah!" It just seems really tacky to me. 

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  5. I'm sure that everyone else has better answers, but I think that I'm a cautionary tale about this type of habit. I was in a gifted program as a youngster, but in hindsight I was decently bright but not actually gifted. I was able to skate by through high school, and to some extent college, quit grad school, worked a series of dead-end, minimum wage jobs, and have tried to go back to school a couple of times for vocational programs, but never finished anything. Now I'm attempting to homeschool my kids, but it is not going well. I have no job skills. I wish that at some point I would have understood that I was developing a habit of laziness and that it could lead nowhere but bad places. At this point, with three young children, I don't know how to un-ruin my life. 

  6. I need to go back and get the address so that I can call animal control, but I don't trust myself right now. I'm still in the "thinking murderous thoughts" state of adrenaline high. Lol. Fortunately, the dog didn't get any bites in. I'm just glad my kids weren't with me--if one of the had been bitten I'd probably be on the news. 

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  7. Got charged by mean dog during our walk :( We are ok, but we have a big dog (white German shepherd)...not a good idea to charge at him. Anyway, thank God nothing happened

     

     

     

    Hey, it's a trend today. We got attacked today too--and then the lady whose dog tried to attack mine yelled at me when I slipped and said a bad word.

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  8. I've never done these threads before, but I need some accountability. So....

     

    shower

    weight watchers meeting (dreading this--I think I gained back all the weight I lost in two months over the past week.  :crying: )

    pick up some hot glue sticks and some hand soap at Joann. (not yarn, not yarn, not yarn....)

    meal planning. I have to take stock of what I have and plan for the rest of the month. We have a metric ton of food. I just have to cook it. 

    work on a project with the kids. 

    laundry

    school planning. what the heck am I going to do with these kids this year?  :laugh:

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  9. I think that the sycamore fruits are pretty dry, aren't they? Little fuzzy-looking balls. So no soft smashed stinky fruit to slip on in the garden. I like gingko trees, but only the male trees, due to the stinky fruit factor. 

  10. Well, first of all, I should mention that I no longer attend that church since we moved a few weeks ago.

     

    But also, there's no history of violent events that I'm aware of. However, it's not uncommon here for the larger mega-churches to have armed guards on campus.

     

    Interesting. I'd never thought of that. 

     

    No mega-churches near Big Bend?  :laugh:  How far do you have to drive to find a mini-church? 

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