Honesty is a strange thing; perceived differently by different people.
Lagoona described himself in the OP as 'not a heavy smoker'.
He's done a great job cajoling people to quit with a little humour to 'jolly' them along.
I've always found it ironic though that, as far as the HONESTY part goes, the gentleman failed to impart the knowledge that he was very proud of the fact that he used to smoke but didn't buy any cigarettes............... as he quietly helped himself to the cigarettes of other people he explained that this prevented him from smoking excessively!
However, to be HONEST, he did then insist on buying the person he'd cadged ciggies off a drink, so he was NOT taking financial advantage of the smoker who had actually bought cigarettes.
Maybe it had got to the desperate stage where he ended up buying his own cigarettes - and hence the 'smoking and honesty thread' was born!
Well done all of you who have quit........... I hope to join the non-smokers too one day and hopefully before it is too late - like Phoenix I know I am not ready yet, but I'm getting more and more scared of the unseen damage being done to me!
I've only been to Georgia, North-West Florida and Alabama........ to tell the truth I'd not want to live in any of those states although I enjoyed visiting them - there is obviously a lot of the USA that I have not seen - maybe I'll have a look round in another lifetime but I have so many other places I'd like to visit first!
Well, first time that happened to me I left a good career in banking and joined the Army for 13.5 years to punish myself for losing the most precious thing life can offer a human being - love!
I would not join the Army now - they wouldn't want me back at my age.... thank God!
No thanks - a mother, three female carers, the cleaning lady AND a future wife are more than enough to cope with as it is!
Plus one of the cats is female - I thought she was a 'he' and called her Timmy by mistake........ Tiggy is in fact the male although a skinny little runty thing in comparison to Timmy aska Garfield!
True - my fiancee has bought a thing for scraping plaster off the walls and expects me to help instead of just watching and making encouraging noises and getting her the occasional coffee!
Hey - it's my contribution to the economy in times of recession!
I employ three carers, a cleaning lady, a nurse, a physiotherapist, occasionally a heart consultant and a gardener - I wish I had a little more of it to spend on myself, but keeping my mother in the manner to which she is accustomed is the priority.
Life is still good to me, as I can just save up enough money to fly and see the love of my life every few weeks!
Where I live was a farmhouse for a few hundred years.......... the ground floor is mainly original but the first and second floors were built in 1970/1971............. there are at least 60 windows all with red shutters outside that my dad used to take down and paint every 3/4 years - they are now in a bad state and I'm in the process of replacing them a floor at a time.
I'm too modest to put up a picture of my house.......anyway it's a bit of a mess outside as the helipad is being installed and lots of 'dust' and stuff everywhere!
Actually, my brother once told a friend of his that my dad had a helipad at the villa - then met this friend while on holiday out here - the helipad was a lie (and still is) and my brother didn't invite the friend round as he didn't want his lie to be found out!
I must admit that I am very luck - a cleaning lady comes in twice a week, but I do clean the dishes as she has more important work to do!
Hoarding gold sounds a bit negative to me............... it might be useful as a measure of wealth but can't be put to good use in quite the same way as money - lending another person a few bars of bullion is probably more of a logistical problem than an electronic transfer of 'paper money'.
However, I do see times of huge inflation ahead as governments have started increasing the money supply 'willy nilly' (£75 billion alone in the UK) before wealth has been created - maybe time to invest in some tangible assets like a few tons of grain or rice................ you still have the problem of storage - oh, there's the futures market - but again the means of trading them is stuff called 'money'!
43rd President of the United States (January 20, 2001 to January 20, 2009)
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Born: July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut
Father: George Herbert Walker Bush Mother: Barbara Pierce Bush Married: Laura Welch (1946- ), on November 5, 1977 Children: Barbara Pierce Bush (1981- ), Jenna Welch Bush (1981- )
Religion: Methodist Education: Graduated from Yale University (1968); Graduated from Harvard Business School (1975) Occupation: Businessman Political Party: Republican Other Government Positions:
I didn't realise that Canada was bigger than China or Australia!
1 Russia 17,075,400 2 Canada 9,976,140 3 United States 9,629,091 4 China 9,596,960 5 Brazil 8,511,965 6 Australia 7,686,850 7 India 3,287,590 8 Argentina 2,776,890 9 Kazakhstan 2,717,306 10 Sudan 2,505,810
At least, looking at top four, we can at explode the myth that 'big is better'!
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RE: why connectingsingles making me single
Poor guy - some horrible woman threw him in the pool with all his clothes on!