I'm the same way, I view all my jobs as basically me being a mercenary. You pay me X number of dollars for me to do Y. There's no emotion, feeling or loyalty beyond the money you give me. The second I leave work, it is out of my head and I'm off to enjoy life. I'm thankfully at a point where my wise investing and…

Double post, kinjaaaaaa

I prefer when it is just frowned upon.

So basically like Apollo from the Authority?

Right on. I'm pretty sure I JUST read an article on one of the blogs by a black doctor saying the same exact thing as Mo, though regarding black families dealing with mental illness.

Those fucking grey aliens. I used to scare myself (and still do) imagining what I'd do if I looked out the peephole and saw one staring back at me. AHHHHHH!!

I was cruising into Whole Foods to buy some dandelion for my tortoise, when I see a guy doing a cooking demonstration to one person. It was like ... 10:20 am on a weekday, store was basically dead. The person getting the demonstration said some pleasantries and walked away as it finished. The cook smiled at me and…

Is... is this about ethics in sports journalism?

Is that David Bowie... or a shape shifter pretending to be David Bowie...

I know I love them because there is no annoying canned human interaction to get what you want. Here is money, give me product.

Yeah I did some housecleaning when I left college. Down to 140 friends/family from near 1000. Don't really need to be friends with a random person you met at a bar once and haven't talked to for a year. I'm guessing these women are enjoying the "fame" of having a few thousand friends or having thousands of…

Except it was all supposed to be done before she got Chikungunya. Then she got a second chance to do it in London. Instead of doing it in London, she went to Bora Bora on vacation, where she got sick. The Chikungunya isn't the reason she didn't do it.

Yep my University too! We all avoided it like the plague.

I was the same with my grandpa (and dad too). My grandpa is gone three years now, but I think of him no matter what genre movie or tv show I'm watching. I like to think I'm enjoying them for him :) It is rough for the first year, but I know my grandpa would call me CRAZY for missing out on Avengers (he died right…

Well I can say if CPS was involved it was handled poorly then, your dad should have been contacted and there is no point in badgering a young child like that. In your situation, yes having family friends as neighbors would have been all I'd wanted to hear. I might have asked if those family friends would let you…

Correct me if I'm wrong, but did you ever speak to CPS? Or was it just guidance at school? (Sorry, came into this late, not sure if I was able to see all your posts). I'll assume you're talking about a CPS worker talking to you like that (Don't have any control over guidance! Though they may chat with students…

It's quite difficult for CPS to remove from a home, and we'd only do it as a last resort. You're hearing about a lot of shit on the news, but it falls into the same fear as everything else. You're hearing the outliers, the ones that give headlines, and you're also only hearing one side of the story.

Yeah, it is nothing we would take as presented. at MAX a phone call. I don't know how things are divided up there, but even the "affluent" areas in my state also cover their less affluent neighbors. We got too much going on to deal with this, the paperwork from even an "open/shut" case is suffocating. And the more…

We pretty much do it by the code, if it is valid by the code for the state we work in we take it. If not, we don't. (Which from some examples above I could see the frustration, some wouldn't meet the code so there is nothing we could do. We have plenty of people call in pissed that we never "do anything".) We also…

Ten bucks says there is a lot more to this story, cause as told I wouldn't bother with this nor would any of the agencies I'm familiar with. At max MAYBE a phone call. If it is true what the parents are saying, we have plenty of lawyers we deal with that would LOOOOVE to take up their case. Lucky for this family,…