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OK,
The state just cut our school district budget by a whopping 15% ($3 million). This means that cuts have to be made. So the school board has been having meetings about these cuts for months now, with open meetings, input from the public, etc., etc. They finally came up with a budget that is painful, but at least balances the books. I will admit that I haven't looked at it, but I understand the parameters under which they were working, and I know darned well that the process was very public.
Tonight they're going to vote on the budget. So this morning I got an urgent e-mail from a parent: "This budget is unacceptable! Write the school board and make them reject it! There are better alternatives! This budget will destroy our schools!"
Ah, the wonderful fear-mongering and lack on information:
So, the school board gave me MONTHS of notifications, draft copies of the proposed budgets, held many open meetings, and I could have been involved all this time if I had so chosen. You are asking me to rise up, totally ignorant, and tell them to throw out all those months of work without even providing an alternative solution?
Yeah, not gonna happen.
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*Stays dressed, again*
...? Whut?Beware Asians offering Christmas decorating! :-P
When Shiro was working in Japan decades ago, he found it hilarious that the Japanese knew about Christmas, and had some ideas as to the iconography, but weren't 100% clear.
The light-up crucified Santa tree ornament was his favorite...
They knew Christmas was a "Christian" holiday, and the greatest icon of Christianity is Christ on the cross, while the greatest icon of Christmas is Santa Claus.
So putting Santa Claus on the cross must be even better, right?
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2nd combo streak was longer I think up to around 79. What were you looking at on first combo streak(64 only) exactly?
it wasn't 69? I thought it was 69.
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OK, ** spoiler omitted **
oh come now.
You know as well as I do professionally speaking that if you cut it and it bleeds without crying out, it will be slashed repeatedly as it will be seen as superfluous. After all, they didn't complain the first time they were cut...
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*Stays dressed, again*
...? Whut?Beware Asians offering Christmas decorating! :-P
When Shiro was working in Japan decades ago, he found it hilarious that the Japanese knew about Christmas, and had some ideas as to the iconography, but weren't 100% clear.
The light-up crucified Santa tree ornament was his favorite...
They knew Christmas was a "Christian" holiday, and the greatest icon of Christianity is Christ on the cross, while the greatest icon of Christmas is Santa Claus.
So putting Santa Claus on the cross must be even better, right?
WOOOOOOW
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Beware Asians offering Christmas decorating! :-P
When Shiro was working in Japan decades ago, he found it hilarious that the Japanese knew about Christmas, and had some ideas as to the iconography, but weren't 100% clear.
The light-up crucified Santa tree ornament was his favorite...
That's absolutely hysterically wonderful.
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*Stays dressed, again*
...? Whut?Beware Asians offering Christmas decorating! :-P
When Shiro was working in Japan decades ago, he found it hilarious that the Japanese knew about Christmas, and had some ideas as to the iconography, but weren't 100% clear.
The light-up crucified Santa tree ornament was his favorite...
They knew Christmas was a "Christian" holiday, and the greatest icon of Christianity is Christ on the cross, while the greatest icon of Christmas is Santa Claus.
So putting Santa Claus on the cross must be even better, right?
This is sound reasoning
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But there's got to be something to the game, because all 3 of them are still playing it in spite of all that...
Watching the trainwrack in a slow motion?
Setting the dumbster on fire and pushing it down the hill to see the world burn?
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Beware Asians offering Christmas decorating! :-P
When Shiro was working in Japan decades ago, he found it hilarious that the Japanese knew about Christmas, and had some ideas as to the iconography, but weren't 100% clear.
The light-up crucified Santa tree ornament was his favorite...
ZOMG! Now that I know such a monstrosity exists I want one so bad!!! ;P
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Laughing at a game with poorly written code?But there's got to be something to the game, because all 3 of them are still playing it in spite of all that...
Watching the trainwrack in a slow motion?
Setting the dumbster on fire and pushing it down the hill to see the world burn?
They all are in game design and/or programming, more or less, right? Maybe they want to feel so much better about their own products?
Sometimes poking at things that are terrible belonging to your own area of expertise is fun. Sometimes.
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Well, I was what my husband has termed clever stupid. I figured if I iced my ankle until it was numb I could get the lights up. Which technically worked. But now I can’t really put any weight on it so I can’t get the tree up yet. Still, progress! After a fashion...that involves failing several wisdom checks...
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I hate my feet. I just fell up the stairs again.
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Interesting. I may have to take Shiro to task.
He swears he personally saw it, but maybe it was a gag gift at that point, produced based on the legend.
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Interesting. I may have to take Shiro to task.
He swears he personally saw it, but maybe it was a gag gift at that point, produced based on the legend.
I was going to say - haven't there been Christians in Japan for 500+ years?
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Just barely. The religion was outlawed for centuries and even now only make up a single digit percentile of the population.
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Though supposedly, there is a degree of interest in Christian-flavored aesthetics, though much less so in Christian theology.
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Though supposedly, there is a degree of interest in Christian-flavored aesthetics, though much less so in Christian theology.
I initially read that as "Christian-flavored anesthetics". I had many, many questions.
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Though supposedly, there is a degree of interest in Christian-flavored aesthetics, though much less so in Christian theology.I initially read that as "Christian-flavored anesthetics". I had many, many questions.
mmm, sacramentally delicious.
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RIP: Roger the Ripped Kangaroo! No one crushed buckets like you, well probably some coked up bikers do, but they aren't kangaroos.
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Interesting. I may have to take Shiro to task.
He swears he personally saw it, but maybe it was a gag gift at that point, produced based on the legend.
Just this week, I saw a photo floating around FB of a Japanese store window display with Santa on a cross. Granted, it could have been photoshopped.
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Mischief managed.
I've sent it to the three of you for whom I have non-Paizo contact info.
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Mischief managed.
I've sent it to the three of you for whom I have non-Paizo contact info.
I did indeed receive it.
I do know Japan outlawed christianity for AGES, although I didn't know it was centuries. The few Japanese Christians I have met have been *surprisingly* zealous and polite, even for Japanese people.
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I look at it more in the way of the absurdist anarchy of Japanese fashion, like the Harajuku kids taking different Western modes and fads from different eras and mashing them up in new ways.
Art is what you can get away with, and, "oh, we didn't understand" is a great excuse.
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So, remember in Spaceballs, when Princess Vespa is singing in her jail cell, and she has a really deep voice?
What if she's really a young Dr. Mrs. The Monarch from The Venture Brothers?
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Mischief managed.
I've sent it to the three of you for whom I have non-Paizo contact info.I did indeed receive it.
I do know Japan outlawed christianity for AGES, although I didn't know it was centuries.
1500s to 1800s, according to Wikipedia, so take that for what it's worth.
Bleh.
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Yep. If, after hearing the legend arise (likely in the late 80s or early 90s, according to Snopes), someone DIDN'T turn it into a real product I'd be sorely disappointed in the Japanese.
Yet my attempts to buy one and secretly ship it to lynora have so far proved fruitless.
Darned hard-to-find, absolutely necessary items!
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Ok. That's it! It's time to make Hi (even) rich(er)!
He's a certified machinist and electrician. I'm getting him to make me some light-up "Santa on a Cross" ornaments for this holiday season.
Because who wouldn't want one?
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I hunger.
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One of the movies my brothers have been trying me to do for years is Jesus vs Santa Claus Ninja battle or something.
But I'm no actor so I'd rather not humiliate myself in something that would inevitably be shown on YouTube.
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One of the movies my brothers have been trying me to do for years is Jesus vs Santa Claus Ninja battle or something.
But I'm no actor so I'd rather not humiliate myself in something that would inevitably be shown on YouTube.
Remember the Florida Hurricane Flag guy?
Now I picture you as his Blizzard counterpart.
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I don't remember that to be honest, but If it involves me standing steadfast in defiance of an oncoming blizzard, then yes, that's me.
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Also, not to be That Guy, but some snow sure would be nice.
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'Morning, everyone. Yeah, I got called in to do a double shift, again. I'll be here all day, so don't mind me.
*Attempts to send back pats, a thermos with coffee and a hipflask with scotch to John*
Not much better than yesterday. But she is taking the medicine.
*Send positive thoughts and hope for a swift recovery for John's mother*
EIGHT.
Also, WW and I both get paid this week!
Paid is good.After WW finished his shift at the restaurant Saturday night, he stayed out until 2 giving more Lyft rides so we wouldn't be in the hole with his Lyft car again this week. I don't think I've ever seen him work this hard before.
He's supposed to hear this week sometime about an interview he had last week that is his first best chance in a long time. Fingers crossed.
*Crosses fingers*
*Also imagines LM rolling around, in a pile of dollar bills, on her bed*
Debating whether my ankle will stand it if I try to finish putting up the Christmas decorations. I dislocated it badly Thursday night and I put it back in okay, but it was far enough out of socket that it left me with a bad sprain. Heck, my husband even suggested that I might need to go to the doctor, but I nixed that once I was sure it wasn’t broken. For a sprain they would just tell me to do exactly what I’m already doing. No need to pay for expensive tests for that. Anyhow, I’ve been pretty much off my feet for the last three days thanks to this and the Christmas lights still aren’t up and neither is the tree and it’s driving me nuts that I haven’t been able to finish the task. :(
Oh boy! Oh boy! Oh boy! Lyn is back!
*Runs around Lyn, panting with his tongue hanging out*
But...
You're hurt!
*Whines and attempts to send an ice pack, tea and a bag of liquorice to Lyn while giving her box of Christmas decorations the stink-eye*
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Also, not to be That Guy, but some snow sure would be nice.
what are you talking about? We NEED snow.
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Beware Asians offering Christmas decorating! :-P
When Shiro was working in Japan decades ago, he found it hilarious that the Japanese knew about Christmas, and had some ideas as to the iconography, but weren't 100% clear.
The light-up crucified Santa tree ornament was his favorite...
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Also, not to be That Guy, but some snow sure would be nice.
You can have ours. Together with rain that it was mixed with.
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Well, I was what my husband has termed clever stupid. I figured if I iced my ankle until it was numb I could get the lights up. Which technically worked. But now I can’t really put any weight on it so I can’t get the tree up yet. Still, progress! After a fashion...that involves failing several wisdom checks...
Can kiddo put up the tree? I should have paid more attention when they were putting up and decorating the office tree, but I shuffled off to do some work.
Kjeldorn, I think Lyn would be able to take a break more easily if the tree and Christmas lights up..
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For the RAWyers. I'm looking at you, Mort!
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For the RAWyers. I'm looking at you, Mort!
GM discretion. I would lie to the school of even if the spell has no saving throw, the other party knows since atonement has a rather expensive material component cost. Though I could understand if people would want to play it the other way, since rules are silent on this.
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Kjeldorn, I think Lyn would be able to take a break more easily if the tree and Christmas lights up..
See here Mort...
This is were this normally laid back Norse man goes full 'Bah Humbug!'I find seasonal decorating utterly superfluous, and am scathingly critical about any attempts of making people (me or otherwise) conform to the 'Christmas-spirit' though months long, and near constant exposure to Christmas tat, glimmer and (urgh) music.
(Urgh, I used a hashtag...I feel so dirty and icky)
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Though I do acquiesce to the "Your home, your rules" line of thought, so others are of course free to decorate to their hearts content...
Though I would be sorely tempted to take a nutcracker to the nearest (decoration/doll) elf's kneecaps…
*Grumbles*
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Squee! My new Christmas cd just got here!
This is stupid... I shouldn't be getting so excited over this. But these are old, old songs that my Grandpa used to sing to me when I was a little girl, but done with modern arrangements, by a band I really like. (Enej are kind of like Gogol Bordello would be if they had a bath and a valium.)
Also, not to be That Guy, but some snow sure would be nice.You can have ours. Together with rain that it was mixed with.
*wistful sighs as nostalgia rose-tints memories*
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You can always tell when TL is back. Lots of drive-by favoritings...
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Hey! I'm totally not driving!
*pets his keyboard, separate monitor, and tower*
... I wonder if I can make these work in the car...
>.>
#needaselfdrivingcar