funxsinia Forum Posts (328)

RE: How powerful are Words...?

thank you...me too

RE: How powerful are Words...?

Sincere thank you to all who offered kind words, but don't want anyone to feel sorry for me. yes we have since reconciled and he figured out on his own the reasons why what happened happened and in fact is in high school now and lives with me.

i was simply pointing out that sometimes even when we choose not to let words hurt us we are sometimes helpless when faced with them.

perhaps it was too extreme of an example for this format.

again...thank you

RE: How powerful are Words...?

Well Jac I mentioned earlier something about the thickness of one's skin and was referring to myself. I consider myself to be pretty tough when it comes to the whole sticks n stones....but words will never hurt me thing and have tried to live up to that. But the day that I drove away from my exwife and children and my oldest son who was 7 at the time not knowing the true situation only that his father was leaving jumped onto the hood of my car pounding his fists against my windshield screaming "I hate you...I will always hate you if you leave...I hate you!!!"
Even though i knew those words were coming from a confused, hurt child, they cut so deeply into my heart that it put my into a downward spiral that finally bottomed out in a very dark place. I knew they were only words...but still....

RE: How powerful are Words...?

or if that choice is made difficult to live up to sometimes.


Howdy ma'am ( memory like an elephant hehe )

Annette Funicello has died

she was an American icon back in the days before color television, the interweb thingamajiggy, push button phones, or text messages

Annette Funicello has died

and my favorite mouseketeer

Annette Funicello has died

I suspect that for many men around my age or a little older this is far more troubling than the news of the passing of PM Thatcher.
I will never forget the first time I understood what the term sweater puppets meant.

RE: How powerful are Words...?

I, like most I would assume, like to think that I am immune to the consequences of words. Yet no matter how thick my skin I cannot account for the effects that words have on others often times inciting them to action.

So, "How powerful are words?" you ask. I would submit that they are infinately powerful.

RE: Lets Blame America

Ideally I would like to see us spend the resources at home. Shore up our own borders to slow illegal immigration and focus on improving legal immigation. Knock down our debt. Maintain a strong and ready military. And always be vigilant and ready to defend the defensless. Maybe just maybe then the world would view us as they did in the days of our grandparents and great grandparents.

RE: Lets Blame America

I was going to post a simple thumbsup but you said no emoticons.

I agree the US get's or maybe I should say allows itself to get dragged into far to many conflicts that we really should stay out of but to completely withdraw from the world theater would certainly take time. The power vacuum left behind would certainly create turmoil...look no farther than Egypt then imagine that happening on a global scale.

RE: Should people be banned from posting on here if all they do is post negative vitriolic comments?

If history teaches us anything it is that censorship leads to tyranny

RE: What would u like to do with the person above u (here in the thread,I mean :) ?

ask her for a guided tour of Jakarta

RE: Does one person or group really run the entire world ?

thanks man i'll try to pretend that i'm not and we should have it covered

RE: Does one person or group really run the entire world ?

Dude I thought we ruled the world! oh crap forgot to put my disguise on...I'm really not very good at this clandestine secret society stuff!

RE: Why do "some" women talk like preps.

Boban is the antiprep

RE: ORIGIN OF UNIVERSE: GOD / BIG BANG

Frank looks suspiciously like Conan O'Brien

RE: ORIGIN OF UNIVERSE: GOD / BIG BANG

boooooooooooooooring

almost like being stuck in the middle of a debate between preachers and science geeks....oh wait crap...i am....HELP ME!!!!!!!!PLEASE!!!!

RE: Why do "some" women talk like preps.

Ok...for those of you not from the States Boban pretty much nailed it with his definition....interesting site the urban dictionary is by the way...anyway I digress...preps is a shortened form of what originally started out as being known as preppies in the 1980s.
The definition of what constitutes a prep has been on a bit of a sliding scale over the years.
Nowadays pretty much a prep if female is a weak minded individual (although for some strange reason some wear the label proudly) who ONLY wears, says, does, whatever is considered to be "in" at the moment. Ridiculasly trendy to the Nth degree. If a prep is a guy it pretty much means he is a complete douchebag who believes in style over substance.
Hope this little American Pop Culture moment was enlightening

RE: Does God exist ?

Ok....I'll have an orange thanks

RE: North Korea - what they really said, not what the Western twisted media reported

I thought Dennis Rodman had that situation handled already

RE: Does God exist ?

Hey buddy...think I might hang around and see where this goes. I'll try a Sinalco...what is it?

RE: Does God exist ?

Do I exist? Do you? Do any of us? Is this all a giant figment of someone's imagination? OMG it's starting to make my head spin thinking about it!

RE: What foods must go together?

the second one is technically a beverage but buffalo wings and beer

RE: Who Let The Dogs Out?

LMAO ....dang, some songs just won't die!

RE: Has Anybody Ever Heard Of "The Weather Underground" In The United States

idk monte...don't know much about redfords politics or motives...just was spelling out what i know...seems like it was a rather nasty outfit.
and btw monte sorry i got sidetracked on your thread earlier...not like me to go down roads of personal disagreement that are off subject

RE: Bored at work

appliance repair...on my knees all the time

RE: Does America need more gun control laws?

More gun control laws? Hell, we can't even enforce the gun control laws we have on the books now. to say that stricter laws and bans on weapons would keep them out of the hands of criminals is complete rubbish.
Banning weapons or requiring a national registry of gun ownership would only serve to make criminals of otherwise law abiding citizens. The black market is so flooded with guns now that it would take generations to even make a dent in the ease of unlawful ownership.
We banned alcohol during prohibition and how well did that work? What about our laws against marijuana...how hard is it to get marijuana? I'll tell you how hard...my 12 year old could bring me some home from school any day of the week if he so decided and it would be far more potent than anything we had around when I was in college.
Sticter laws and bans are only effective for one thing...helping the naive and the self serving sleep better at night.

RE: Why can't a poster just ask a question instead of spending a lot of efford listening his prepared an

i suppose you always have the option of not selecting one of the suggested answers and instead replying with your own answer.

i doubt it's the case too often here but a common tactic of pollsters is to list only possible answers that will steer those who reply to the results that the pollster hopes to achieve.
this happens in american politics all the time.

RE: Has Anybody Ever Heard Of "The Weather Underground" In The United States

Yep...Kathy Boudin. Bill Ayers was a prof at University of Illinois college of education. Believe he has retired.

Who should we get to teach our kids next? Patty Hearst? Squeeky Frohm?

RE: Do you buy bottled water and drink it on a daily basis?

SO with you on that one Tom