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highbrow sei un cornuto!!!

Thanks for your honesty as you are one of the more accomplished people here.Amen to the gray despair part. Then, please put Portland and Seattle on your "do not move to" list. The gray is starting to get to me and did a number on me when I lived here previously as well.

integration

Last week was my last goof-off trip of summer as I plan to move within the next month. Up in Canada, I had two rental cars...an Allure (LaCrosse) for a week followed by a Camry for a day. In the Allure and in all GM products, when the door locks are in the closed position, you cannot open the door from the inside. In the Camry (and I believe in Chrysler and Ford products), when the door locks are in the closed position, you still can open the door from the inside. Maybe I'm showing bias for GM (so what else is new), I think that the closed door lock should also mean one cannot open the door freely with the handle inside the car. I've never understood why Toyota and others would do this differently. Your preference and thoughts?

nudity hey, ocnblu, no more of the above, since summer is over

Don't know what to say. Growing up on the westside of LA, I had several Jewish friends. I think that they view the Holocaust as something they have gotten past and have overcome as a people. I have never spoken to anyone who showed anger, which surprises me. The weirdest thing was when I was in college and used to work part time in the accounting department of a hospital...I was speaking to this always-friendly elderly lady, Jewish and with some kind of Eastern European accent, and standing at her desk while she was seated. As she was moving her hands, I noticed what looked like serial numbers near her wrist. I think that the Nazi flag probably brings a chill of sorts but have never had that confirmed by the Jewish people I know. Also, I don't discuss that subject since we usually have other intellectual discourse (most of the Jewish people I knew tend to be intellectual). I don't know about the confederate flag. Why now is what I ask? It segregates an area of the country from "the whole." Maybe that's what I liked about Atlanta where this wasn't so prevalent and is now even less Southern as it has people from every damn corner of the globe. In fact, one of Atlanta's founding fathers encouraged integration of Northerners into the city after the war to help prop it up. Did you know it billed itself as "the city too busy to hate"? I thought that was cool. I know one thing -- the Southern people I knew when I lived there were certainly nice but tended to hang with other locals while, as a Westerner, all of my friends were transplanted Northeasterners and Floridians.

This time, for a change of pace, the expatriate was the culprit.

suggestive

Don't let that gate hit you on the ass on the way out, ok!

True...it's a place where profs can vaunt their points of view safely.FOG, I like the way your accounting teacher thinks...the most realistic of the bunch. Mustang, I'm glad your getting these perspectives and getting into debates, even though it's frustating. Too many architecture students seem to sleep in their other classes, partly because they're tired and partly because they're tunnel-visioned.

$h!, you're STILL here...I thought that you weren't going to post anymore now that you have this highbrow Swiss job.Heads of companies have gone to therapy for marital issues, substance abuse and the like. You ought to go to one to trim your inflated ego a bit.

The concept of a "model" per smallchevy is pretty good and pretty accurate, after all, they study patterns in their training and see patterns in practice. That's why, when you listen to a talk show, the invited psychologist or psychotherapists explains things in broader generalities based on what they have studied and encountered. Plus, you (the patient or client) is who needs to put things into practice.

Whoa, hold your horses, there.I found the opposite to be true. Sorority chicks tend to do fraternity guys, for the most part. Non-sorority chicks, but who are still attractive, appear to put out easier because they don't have a "collective" group of expectations to live up to. Plus, once they leave the college setting, sorority girls will always be sorority girls...for life. There I go again, stereotyping...

Thank you...and a much better post than the one immediately above it...sorry, Fly, like you're exempt and I only mean that "globally" since I don't know you?There is nothing to be ashamed about in seeking any kind of help for physical or psychological conditions. The important thing is that you get help from professionals who are good at what they do. I don't know how one would line up a good therapist, per se. It might be weird to get a referral from a friend but perhaps you can get a referral from a university's counseling department or a member of the clergy with whom you feel comfortable. And, yes, as stated above, the right credentials and amount of experience are important...and you will need a baseline for your area to gauge that from. (And don't listen to PCS, Germans are only good at engineering and other RIGID things, thus lacking completely in people skills. ) Good friends are super important. My friends are my therapists in a way and, God, am I ever their therapist. I say to myself: this is what I should have done so I could charge for it! The problem is that there are different gradations of friends and some are too superficial while others are deeper. And remember, there are also TERAPISTS, without an h, according to Dr. Ruth Westheimer. I love that lady!

burlesque

I am not convinced that being a law enforcement person is a true indicator of one's stability or good character.Some people I grew up with just fell into it because it seems like they couldn't do anything else. Two people I know who went into it from my high school years were "wusses" who are now "real men" because they have a badge. I only know one guy who was in fraud investigation for LAPD and who is married to a chick who grew up in my street and now lives up north near me who is nice. It's impossible to screen everybody. Think of all the almost pathological people you may have worked with or for...for those of us in the work force. That alone is a frightening thought.

Greek yeah, baby, the tomatoes, the cucumbers, the feta cheese...

my response to thread:get not you, bud, just anyone who needs one

Maybe so, but 8 marriages raises eyebrows (and qualifies one for Jerry Springer) and the huge diamonds are a vulgar display of wealth. Amazing that this flashy rag evolved from what started out as what they call an English Rose, which I guess means an attractive, demure and restrained young lady.

You are such an ass, but what would we do without you...Response to thread: slicker

shark aka squalo, tiburon, tiburao

Believe me, I've bumped into some real coarse Greek immigrants running restaurants with zero people skills (they take the prize, even though I like their food) as well as some Sicilians (o lixo dos Italianos and, unfortunately, my relatives) who are just as brusque.

As I have posted repeatedly, I grew up in LA and left a few years after finishing undergrad, largely because my entire family picked up and moved north. I went to Atlanta instead because that's where a decent job offer together with a relocation reimbursement presented itself When I was a teenager, I thought movie star sightings were cool and that they must have it together...at least more so than the rest of us. I was never THAT taken by them, however. After I moved away and could see things clearly, I realized that a lot of them have poor values, low morals, don't know how to channel their money and fame, and, are generally pretty repulsive. This stretches from Elizabeth Taylor (before our time, at least for most of the active posters here) and her 8 marriages, vulgar diamonds, friendships with all of Hollywood's weirdos such as Michael Jackson all the way to today...with people like Britney Spears who is a piss-poor role model and basically a cheap slut fighting all that baby fat. The same holds true for many male actors who are so unnecessarily tragic, starting with Michael Jackson and including people like Robert Downey Jr. who for whatever reason kept bouncing in and out of jail and courtrooms. Those people should work for about 10 or 15 years, try to stay out of the limelight, stash a bunch of cash and then do good deeds / live somewhere off the beaten path. Some have done that, and those are the FEW I admire. The rest of them still haven't figured out that they wipe their asses just like the rest of us.

Oh $h!, this is a thread in itself.My response to thread: marine

From the way you "act" and post, I would say NO... at least, not ones that you've helped produce. Plus, the thought of you reproducing is