Darth_Vader

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I’m pretty sure it was when the last Top Gun movie was released. How long ago was that? A year?

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"Top Gun-Maverick" was the last of the series and it came out in 2022.

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Damn. It’s been longer than I thought since I went to the movies.

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Can I bring my kids over? They'd have a field day in there. You probably wouldn't appreciate it though

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“For display only, please do not touch”

I’m trying to remember the last time we even went to the movies. I’m pretty sure it was when the last Top Gun movie was released. How long ago was that? A year? It isn’t that I’m opposed to going to the movies. I actually love going. There just haven’t been any movies come out that I see as worth going to the movies to watch.

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How did you get my family Christmas portrait? And I don’t appreciate you thinking my family is a meme.

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OT, what would you suggest in this situation?

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Right here is where you messed up….

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My husband looked like he wanted to kill him and he started toward him, but I put a hand on his chest and told him to go outside and that it’s my family so let me handle it.

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Wrong move. You should have let the father of your children do his duty as he saw fit, namely to stomp a mud hole in that idiot’s scrawny arse and then proceed to walk it dry.

I don’t think I’ve been banned, at least not that I remember. But I’ve received a warning of two here and there over the years. As others have said though, it’s easy to miss the warnings if you’re not looking can’t top of the home page.

Just imagine how much money she could make if she created an OF page.

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What’s mind blowing is how quickly the pills can set the hook within your brain. It’s scary. So fast. Just one month has resulted in many people ending up in rehab.

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Exactly. I can’t remember the strength of the Oxy I was prescribed, but it was pretty strong. I’m just glad I had the forewarning of what these things can do and limited my intake instead of taking as many as directed on my prescription. Otherwise I’d have got addicted.

After open-heart surgeries in 2016, I was given a prescription for OxyContin. I was supposed to take one every so many hours, like 6 or 8 hours I think. But, despite being in rather intense pain, I was terrified of getting addicted. I’d heard the horror stories and didn’t want to become one. So, instead of taking them as directed, I’d take only one per day right at bedtime so I could go to sleep. And when my prescription ran out after a couple of months, I refused to get it renewed even though my surgeon was pretty pushy about wanting me to renewed.

But even doing what I did, when I stopped taking them, I could still feel the physical urge to get more. I didn’t have full blown withdrawals or anything, but my body definitely craved for this pill for at least a few days. I’m pretty sure if I’d have taken them as directed, namely 2-3 per day instead of limiting myself to no more than 1, I’d have become a full blown addict.

One thing that still sticks out to me is that in the fist few weeks after I was released from the hospital, I had to go back to my heart surgeon for follow ups. Whenever the nurse would walk in the room, the first thing out of her mouth was to ask me if I needed more pain meds. It gave me the feeling that they really, really wanted me taking as many of those pills as possible.

Well, just finished this episode. As always, Dan Carlin did a fantastic job. I found his discussion on how economic concerns played a role in Alexander’s invasion of Asia quite interesting as it’s something I’ve never even considered before.

I have to say though, considering how little Carlin advanced in the story of Alexander the Great, I think this series is going to have at least a dozen episodes or more and take him about 20 years to complete considering how much time usually passes between episodes.

My brother and were I raised by our widowed material grandmother Growing up I thought we were rich. I got pretty much anything I wanted. Christmas morning meant waking up to the living room full of Star Wars toys. We always wore nice clothes, had nice things, and took nice vacations.

As an adult though now I realize all that was because our grandmother, who was retired, received my late grandfather’s pension from US Steel plus social security checks for herself, me, and my bother. Along with this, she didn’t have a mortgage either.

But looking back, even though as a kid it didn’t occur to me at the time, all those Christmas mornings when my bother an I were opening presents, she be sitting in her recliner drinking coffee an watching us. Never once saw her open a present of her own. I remember going clothes shopping all the time. And while we always got whatever clothes we wanted, I never saw her buy a stitch of clothing for herself. The reason I thought we were rich was because she took the money she had and used it all on us kids.