You're not the only one whose lifestyle is like that Track. If you wrote that in your profile you would probably get responses from not only men but women too.
When you think of it, being a depressed pot smoker who lives at home and spends most of his time posting nonsense probably relates to a lot of people on CS.
I watched every minute of the trial since it started and I've got the proof of a spasm in my back due to almost 7 hours of closing arguments. :grim: Who is MadMax?
Nelson already asked for a mistrial because Blackwell said "shady stories". The judge said no mistrial.
When I married my husband I didn't know that he was an alcoholic. He hid is drinking for many years. When he no longer cared about hiding bottles or showing in front of me that he drank too much the relationship broke down.
Two years after we married our daughter was born. She was a big part of his life and I stayed with him for a long time because I didn't want to upset her life.
The time came (when she was four years old) that upsetting her life had to go on the backburner because he had put me down on the floor and shoved a shotgun in my face while being greatly intoxicated. Needless to say I was scared to death. The very next day when he went to work I packed essentials and walked out the door with our daughter.
All during the years that he drank I went to AA meetings with him hoping he would get his life under control. It was a learning experience about alcoholism. The average person doesn't understand what alcoholism is nor do they understand that you cannot change an alcoholic.
I'll respond why I was at fault of my relationships breaking up.
In my last relationship I wouldn't bend to his order to talk only when he said it was okay to talk. He didn't like it that I was overweight and often criticized how I looked. He couldn't deal with me standing up to him so HE dumped me in a rant that was unexpected.
WHAT SHOULD I HAVE DONE TO STAY IN THE RELATIONSHIP: If I had let him walk all over me perhaps it might have worked for awhile, but unlikely cause I won't let anyone press their thumb on me.
In the relationship before the last, I eventually realized that he was looking for someone to foot his bills. I also knew that his personal cleanliness and the way he lived was not up to my standard. In addition, he had a very bad temper and tried to intimidate me. The handwriting was on the wall so I left him.
WHAT SHOULD I HAVE DONE TO STAY IN THE RELATIONSHIP: Feel sorry for him being in debt because he didn't pay his bills and write check after check. Not gonna happen!!
It doesn't matter who indirectly caused the breakup. There always mitigating reasons why it didn't work.
I lived in NJ and made arrangements to meet a man from NY at a specific restaurant for lunch. I knew about 10 minutes after we sat down at the table that he wasn't for me. When the waitress put the tab on the table I grabbed it with the intention to pay the whole thing. I wanted to do that because he came all the way from NY and I knew I was going to tell him it wouldn't work for us.
He got livid and said he wouldn't allow me to pay the tab. I suggested that he leave the tip for the waitress. He grabbed the tab out of my hand and said "No, you leave the tip". And I did. I left twenty dollars the amount I was going to pay for the tab.
Of interest, this man was Italian. I told others about the story and they said that an Italian man would never let a woman pay the tab for a meal.
I've learned that I can trust no one but myself. I've learned that life in the senior years is much harder than I thought it would be. I've learned that money is an important commodity. I've learned that love was a figment of my imagination.
Life is what you make it and you can make it on your own
I heard in the news tonight that Pfizer says those who have gotten two shots will probably have to get a third shot and more than likely get a shot every year. That should brighten their Profit & Loss Statement especially on the Profit side.
I've have never gotten a flu shot and have no intention of getting a Covid vaccine shot especially the Johnson & Johnson one.
A couple weeks ago I watched the documentary about Bernie Madoff. If you have this particular show on your tv you might be interested in the story of what this creep did to so many people. An interesting thing I found out is the people who thought they made a bundle of money actually paid taxes on that money but it wasn't really there. They paid taxes to the government on ponzi money.
I remember many, many years ago going to a wedding shower. Unbeknown to me a "dancer" showed up and got up on the table gyrating his body. He had pants on and gyrated right in front of me. I was embarrassed and I think he could tell by my eyes that he didn't do anything for me.
I am a prude to some extent when it comes to things like the dancer in public. However, in private I'm a different animal.
MICHAEL BALSAMO and TOM HAYS Wed, April 14, 2021, 9:28 AM NEW YORK (AP) — Bernard Madoff, the infamous architect of an epic securities swindle that burned thousands of investors, outfoxed regulators and earned him a 150-year prison term, died behind bars early Wednesday. He was 82.
Madoff's death at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, was confirmed by his lawyer and the Bureau of Prisons.
Last year, Madoff's lawyers unsuccessfully asked a court to release him from prison during the coronavirus pandemic, saying he suffered from end-stage renal disease and other chronic medical conditions.
His death was due to natural causes, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity.
For decades, Madoff enjoyed an image as a self-made financial guru whose Midas touch defied market fluctuations. A former chairman of the Nasdaq stock market, he attracted a devoted legion of investment clients — from Florida retirees to celebrities such as film director Steven Spielberg, actor Kevin Bacon and Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax.
But his investment advisory business was exposed in 2008 as a Ponzi scheme that wiped out people’s fortunes and ruined charities. He became so hated he wore a bulletproof vest to court.
The fraud was believed to be the largest in Wall Street's history.
Over the years, court-appointed trustees laboring to unwind the scheme have recovered more than $14 billion of an estimated $17.5 billion investors put into Madoff’s business. At the time of Madoff’s arrest, fake account statements were telling clients they had holdings worth $60 billion.
Madoff pleaded guilty in March 2009 to securities fraud and other charges, saying he was “deeply sorry and ashamed.”
After several months living under house arrest at his $7 million Manhattan penthouse apartment, he was led off to jail in handcuffs to scattered applause from angry investors in the courtroom.
“He stole from the rich. He stole from the poor. He stole from the in between. He had no values,” former investor Tom Fitzmaurice told the judge at the sentencing. “He cheated his victims out of their money so he and his wife ... could live a life of luxury beyond belief.”
Madoff's attorney in recent years, Brandon Sample, said in a statement that the financier had “lived with guilt and remorse for his crimes” up until his death.
“Although the crimes Bernie was convicted of have come to define who he was — he was also a father and a husband. He was soft spoken and an intellectual. Bernie was by no means perfect. But no man is,” Sample said.
U.S. District Judge Denny Chin sentenced Madoff to the maximum possible term.
“Here, the message must be sent that Mr. Madoff’s crimes were extraordinarily evil and that this kind of irresponsible manipulation of the system is not merely a bloodless financial crime that takes place just on paper, but it is instead ... one that takes a staggering human toll,” Chin said.
A judge issued a forfeiture order stripping Madoff of all his personal property, including real estate, investments, and $80 million in assets his wife, Ruth, had claimed were hers. The order left her with $2.5 million.
Why didn't Rose pull Jack onto the door that she was on? Why didn't she yell out for help instead of staring out into space? She blew the whistle after it was too late. Even though he was dead I would have held onto him just to have him near me.
I'm not going anywhere today because I'm still watching the trial of Derek Chuvin.
Prosecutors put 38 witnesses on the stand. Now today, April 13 the State rested their case.
Defense put four witnesses on so far today.
The Judge expects Closing Arguments on Thursday and he said the court is taking Friday off which gives the jury a break to get things in order at home to start being sequestered on Monday.
We all have an ego some more than others. If I write a thread and it doesn't get a good response it doesn't bother me. What does annoy me is when the OP does a pick and choose who he/she will respond to.
I agree it's an ego thing. There are certain members who want their thread to have the most posts ever seen in the years CS has been around. The factors that encourage people to post are just about impossible because you have people from all over the world who have very different lifestyles.
I read a post this morning where someone responded to a post and they said "I can't top that" referring to what the previous poster wrote. It has become a game of one-upping everybody else.
People who bump a thread are assuming that members didn't see that thread. That's not what happened. They aren't interested in posting for various reasons so they move on to another thread or log out.
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I responded to you on the other side.
RE: I'm Thinking #2
You're not the only one whose lifestyle is like that Track. If you wrote that in your profile you would probably get responses from not only men but women too.When you think of it, being a depressed pot smoker who lives at home and spends most of his time posting nonsense probably relates to a lot of people on CS.