I mean, your logic is fine and all, but his was longer, so it must mean he is more right.

they believe it’s every believers duty to give people opportunity to repent hence going door to door (I think they’ve stopped doing this now) or standing on the street offering their standard magazine “Awake”

They now stand outside places, like a university a few miles away from me, and have incredibly idiotic stands meant to take advantage of people going through hard times.

they practice ‘shunning’ family and church members who won’t repent of sin which sees some parents totally rejecting their children, people acting like people don’t exist if they see them on the street. (Again to be fair, this is what the new testament tells Christians to do). For this they (rightly) get flak for being cultish and overly controlling

They do far more than that to be considered cultish. The elders of an area have a large degree of input on things like marriage, for instance, which goes hand in hand with men moving their new wives to areas far away from any family. Combine that with the typical cult emphasis on only socializing with people in the cult, and you’ve got a beautiful combination to keep women oppressed and without options. I’ve had to sit and listen to a poor woman come to terms with leaving everything, adult children included, behind and hope that her family would still help her after 30 years, because she had no other means of support. It was horrifying, because even the resources I was trying to pair her with wouldn’t be enough to help.

Huh, well, that’s an odd route you’ve forced my brain to take this morning. I’m now having to wonder… dogs and cats drink by lapping up liquids as adults. They don’t really have lips like humans do. How do they suckle as infants?

It had way more fear inducement than any ‘children’s movie’ had a right to.

Eh, I have similar feelings, but there is a reason for the wedding price increase. As a florist once told me, there’s a reasonable amount of ‘oops’ that can happen with a regular customer, and they’re often accommodating. Only 11 roses came to the door on valentine’s day, but they ordered 12? An apology and a discount is often more than enough to make the customer happy. If a bride doesn’t get a perfect flower arrangement, it’s already too late.

Extend that to the other sorts of merchants you’ll be dealing with at a wedding, and look at the cost increase as buying super, ahead-of-time insurance to ensure that everything is perfect. For something like the cake or photos, that means you have to dedicate more time or resources than usual to make sure absolutely nothing goes wrong (enough to notice). Two photographers instead of the single photographer for a corporate shindig, three cakes baked just in case one of them turns out slightly flat, that sort of thing.

On the older, non-silicone CPR models, the foam has the exact same texture as these nerf balls. How do I know? Because one of the idiots in the CPR class decided he was a real man and real men go after foam CPR model tits.

Hmm, just spitballing here, but what could you point to on an elephant that’s unique (and/or in the public thoughts of elephants)? Memory, size, trunks, large ears, grey skin, tusks, fear of mice, (name of them?) pachyderm?

For memory - Because they’re the only animal that can remember how to score a strike?

Trunks - Because their trunks have room to spare?

Size - Because even the lions aren’t willing to tell them they crossed the line.

Mice thing - Because they always beat the mice’s half ounce balls.

Or maybe it’s something to do with bowling? Turkeys, lanes, (heavy/big balls), spares, lines, shoes…

Shoes - Because they can finally borrow shoes that fit?

Turkeys - Even elephants love getting turkeys?

Spares - I dunno

I remember when Amazon first started there were good deals on good quality items

I remember when the primary use of amazon was buying secondhand items. The deals on used discs for PS2 or gamecube were amazing. It was ebay without bidding.

It may be, but it can also come from having (for me) childhood experiences with parents who would absolutely lose their cool if appointments and other such scheduled activities were missed. I have this feeling and behavior pattern for things like work, hangouts with friends, and even casual events like a festival or faire, all in addition to the typical items like doctor’s appointments.

I know I’m probably getting the political landscape of vermont and new hampshire mixed up, but isn’t vermont pretty red? Similar to the way new york is pretty red once you get out of the big city? That’s probably going to be a nightmare if anything happened.

Aye, that’s why I was so confused about people not knowing what they were. Those damn commercials are still stuck in my head (along with most others when I get reminded of them. I hate advertising.).

They’re definitely epigenetic. You get them from whoever handled you more when you were young.

6/8 for life, bro!

actually just sad and all alone

Geez, dude, stop with the arrows to my heart. I do laugh at the not-really-a contradiction of masturbation and bdsm.

The point of laws is to enforce them.* Remember the old PSAs about forest fires? Go out and be the change you want to see in the world.

* -against people the system doesn’t like

There’s enoch, who was taken up to heaven by a chariot while on a stroll, I think. He supposedly ‘walked with god’ and was thus holy enough to not die or something. so there’s your oxen (the chariot) and went into the sky and never seen again.

Um… forgive me, but isn’t the verbiage “throw a 90kg projectile 300 metres” pretty against the idea of throwing a 400-600kg projectile a similar distance?

She’s checking that he’s very asleep.

They also do ‘wipe.’ Quite often, actually. I have seen just about every variety of mammal that I’ve observed for longer than a few hours lick their bum clean.

Wait until my date sees me bust out the five toe socks to go with 'em.