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Old HLSDude Enters his 79th Year - Taking Questions
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Date: December 31st, 2025 1:58 PM Author: OldHLSDude I'm listening... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552402) |
Date: December 31st, 2025 1:59 PM Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois) What would you do differently if you could go back to age 30? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552408) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:03 PM Author: ban spaceporn The fuck does it matter to you? You're 53 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552429) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:31 PM Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois) I'm suing you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552522) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:04 PM Author: OldHLSDude Probably not much, as I had committed most of my fuck ups by then. If could experiment with different life courses I would try to avoid doing raw start ups and try to stay in one place. At age 31 or so I left my first start up and began a promising career in bigcorp. I have wondered what might have happened had I stayed instead of bailing to do another start up, or possibly moved into a mid sized corp instead of a gargantua. Certainly corp was a more comfortable life than start ups. Obviously wish my kids didn't have psychiatric disorders, but that seems to be heavily genetic. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552432) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:05 PM Author: Sandor Ferenczi Schizophrenia is caused by poor parenting (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552437) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:22 PM Author: OldHLSDude Freudians are pretty much gone these days. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552492) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:29 PM Author: Sandor Ferenczi I wonder why (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552511) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:30 PM Author: OldHLSDude They found out that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. I'm more of a Jung guy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552517) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:32 PM Author: Sandor Ferenczi No they found out exposing pedophilia doesn't go over well (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552532) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:06 PM Author: Brother Peter Dimond have you ever tracked down your wife's kid she had before you met? if so did he/she have similar issues (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552441) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:22 PM Author: OldHLSDude No. No idea. She has a nephew with schizophrenia, but there's no clear family pattern. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552490) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:35 PM Author: FUCK LIBS (TDNW) wait, what kid? what happened to him? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552541) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:52 PM Author: OldHLSDude My wife had a child before I met her. Kid was adopted. That's all we know. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552635) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:55 PM Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois) That's cool. Who was the dad, and was he black if you know? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552646) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:47 PM Author: OldHLSDude The dad was some manager in the firm she worked for. She said it was a date rape situation. Not black so far as I know. In those days you didn't see blacks in corporate jobs. She would never tell me which guy was the pappy. At this point I have zero curiosity and never had much. I thought perhaps there would be a hit from 23andme, but not yet. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552797) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:58 PM Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth) it's wild having your wife never tell you something like this. you just figured nbd not worth fighting about? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552835) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:03 PM Author: OldHLSDude No, she told me about when we were dating. It was nbd to me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552853) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:27 PM Author: FUCK LIBS (TDNW) “you gave your kid away to strangers, let’s have more kids together” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552902) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:47 PM Author: Wang Hernandez Assuming the kid went to a good family, it is the right thing to do. This was much more common in the 1970s. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552954) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:55 PM Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552975) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:59 PM Author: Brother Peter Dimond did you do a 23andme too? any surprises? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552995) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:14 PM Author: FUCK LIBS (TDNW) JFC (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552717) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:00 PM Author: ;::;:;;::;;;;;:::: If you had one thing to do to avoid practicing law, what would it be? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552411) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:05 PM Author: OldHLSDude I did it. I left very early to do a start up, which I actually began 3L. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552435) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:00 PM Author: the cathedral of light would you come RAGE with us at an xo meetup (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552413) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:06 PM Author: OldHLSDude Sure, if the location and timing worked. I am limited in my raging ability, but I can still BS. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552439) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:00 PM Author: bust a nut inside ur eye 2 show u where i cum from ((zurich is stained)) are we still friends? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552414) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:06 PM Author: OldHLSDude Sure. Why not? I certainly cannot afford to lose younger friends as all the old ones are dying or getting obnoxious. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552443) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:00 PM Author: Azn | pussy | poaster What do you do right with your kids when they were young? What do you wish you had done differently? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552415) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:08 PM Author: OldHLSDude We had a very solid traditional family life. Screwed up as they are, they often talk about how happy their childhoods were. I wish I had moved heaven and earth to keep them away from weed, as it likely precipitated psychosis. Also wish I had recognized early signs and tried to intervene before they were 18. Unfortunately, the early stages of crazy are pretty much identical to adolescence. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552447) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:20 PM Author: Azn | pussy | poaster All your kids are drug addicts with schizophrenia? Did you ever fear getting Rob Reinered? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552481) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:23 PM Author: OldHLSDude No, they've never been addicts and aren't taking anything right now. Not even tobacco or alcohol. I worried about being Reinered when they lived with us and referred to themselves as the Menendez bros, but not any more. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552495) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:34 PM Author: ,.,....,..,.,.,,,,..,..,.,..,.,.,.,... Your sons sound 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552540) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:51 PM Author: OldHLSDude I love and like them. They are good people and I wish they didn't have these impediments to deal with. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552631) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:25 PM Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552741) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:01 PM Author: fulano How do you think your sons are going to use their inheritance (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552417) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:10 PM Author: OldHLSDude Just to live modestly without working What they both receive with be through special needs trusts so they don't get their hands on any significant lump sums. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552449) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:01 PM Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois) Great thread so far. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552419) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:02 PM Author: Soren "Bob" Odenkierkegaard congrats! are you schtick like evan39 or are you really an oldHLSdude? |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:13 PM Author: OldHLSDude No, I really am fucking old. Long ago I had to poast proof in the form of my ancient LSAT score and degrees with dates.The LSAT is still on imgur: https://imgur.com/qVfwkPx Note that I had completed a year of grad school and 3 years of compulsory uniformed service, hence the 1972 date. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552451) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:25 PM Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth) i believe you also posted your balls once, as evidence (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552742) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:57 PM Author: OldHLSDude It was full dick pic. I must have been drinking. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552834) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:58 PM Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552838) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:02 PM Author: .,.,.;;,;.,;:,:,,:,.,:,::,..;.,:,.:;.:.,;.:.,:.::, what was your nw and professional status at age 35?
when and how did you make most of ur money? |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:16 PM Author: OldHLSDude At 35 I was a corporate director of R&D for a very large company. I headed a lab with about 50 Phds in it. I probably was making around $100K all in, which would be like $350K today. I have no idea what my net worth was, but it wasn't much. Maybe $250K? Equivalent to under $1M now. I made most of my money through stock grants and start up equity stakes, though I have made more with my own investing activities than anything. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552468) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:06 PM Author: Ban Christopher Spinelli from this forum Do you still think that mass non-white immigration is the greatest thing ever or has your "opinion" on that changed since last year? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552444) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:14 PM Author: William of Nigger (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552456) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:17 PM Author: Ass Sunstein (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552471) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:18 PM Author: OldHLSDude I don't know where this allegation that I support mass immigration came from. I don't and have not. OTOH, I don't that that all immigrants are evil. It's pretty clear that there was an intentional plan to non-Europeanize the US. They did a pretty damned good job. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552477) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:19 PM Author: William of Nigger Ok, boomer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552480) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:20 PM Author: the cathedral of light but do you know who (((they))) might be possibly be? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552483) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:28 PM Author: OldHLSDude The liberal/Democratic/academic crowd, though even Reagan enacted mass amnesty, though I suppose with him it was a pragmatic political move and not a core philosophy. This of course raises the jewish question. I don't see anything in judaism that should make jews shitlibs. Certainly Israel as a country is not a shitlib place, though they do have that constituency. I blame it on academic intellectualism. I also blame foreign influence. This is easiest country on earth to fuck with on a budget. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552509) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:41 PM Author: FUCK LIBS (TDNW) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552573) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:24 PM Author: the cathedral of light enjoy some scholarship, my confused boomer friend:
https://archive.org/details/cultureofcritiqu0000macd |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:29 PM Author: Ban Christopher Spinelli from this forum https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5652505&mc=21&forum_id=2
This one where he endorses Nikki Haley for president in 2024 was also a real "banger"
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5468328&mc=301&forum_id=2#47234122 |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:32 PM Author: OldHLSDude Amazing that anyone would care and save these poasts. I voted for Trump 3x. As a result I am now up to 7 people I've know for 20-60 years who will no longer speak to me because of it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552529) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:39 PM Author: Ban Christopher Spinelli from this forum I still remember that thread because it was such an absolute slam dunk on your boomer ass
"The world is better than it used to be" was an amazing line too |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:54 PM Author: OldHLSDude It is better than it used to be. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552644) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:02 PM Author: Gay Grandpa "My world, anyway" is the line you ended with, which is so fucking insane I still can't process it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552665) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:03 PM Author: Ban Christopher Spinelli from this forum (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552672) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:10 PM Author: OldHLSDude No fucking sense of humor here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552696) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:28 PM Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552751) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:09 PM Author: William of Nigger Why do you religiously vote against me in MPM every year (HAtp)? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552448) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:19 PM Author: OldHLSDude I don't remember who I voted for. Usually it's random. This year I didn't vote at all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552479) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:20 PM Author: William of Nigger I didn't either but I just recall that every single year you pop up voting for the other guy. It's not right. You should rethink your actions. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552482) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:29 PM Author: OldHLSDude I guess I did rethink and didn't bother voting this year. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552512) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:36 PM Author: Nippon Professional Baseball you fags can both vote for me in the final. thank. keep in mind i made this thread long before soliciting this vote: https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815765&mc=3&forum_id=2 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552553) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:53 PM Author: OldHLSDude Thanks for the Happy New Year! Happy New Year to you! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552641) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:12 PM Author: cannon Do your sons post on social media? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552450) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:20 PM Author: OldHLSDude No. I think that's a good thing. Younger son will not use a computer and still has a flip phone. Younger son reads a lot on the internet but does not poast so far as I know. He does text a lot of people, but that's it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552484) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:24 PM Author: the cathedral of light hes a megaposter, friendo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552500) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:28 PM Author: OldHLSDude What's his moniker? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552510) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:13 PM Author: Paralegal Mohammad (Death, death to the IDF!) Can we get a Free Palestine? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552452) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:21 PM Author: OldHLSDude That's too big a situation for an easy sound bite. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552486) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:43 PM Author: Trust If Aryan JFC you apologists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552587) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:45 PM Author: Paralegal Mohammad (Death, death to the IDF!) Lol. What do you think about the Jewish influence on the Trump administration? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552599) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:56 PM Author: OldHLSDude There is a lot of it. It's funny that Trump is a Presbyterian. When I was a kid the few jews in town were regarded as some kind of Presbyterian. At least one family attend the P church. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552648) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:31 PM Author: fully online and responsive Why is your gen so TDS addled and losery. What age did you go through andropause (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552524) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:35 PM Author: OldHLSDude Where do you get that? Most of the people I know of my age who will still speak to me are Trumpmos, or at least not afflicted with TDS. Andropause is a very gradual process. I supposed I started noticing it at 70 and it accelerated at 75. I still get boners and want to fuck women, though I would want an ED drug for backup. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552551) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:37 PM Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois) gross (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552560) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:38 PM Author: fully online and responsive The "No Kings" crowd are all old af (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552562) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:57 PM Author: OldHLSDude My wife has a step sister who is into that. We live in a 98% white county that went 78% for Trump. I rarely bump into a Democrat. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552652) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:32 PM Author: CapTTTainFalcon how is your prostate health? what are you doing to improve, mitigate? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552528) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:37 PM Author: OldHLSDude My prostate is in good shape for my age. My PSA has just crept over 1.0 for the first time and I don't get up to pee 1/2 the time. If I drink a lot of fluids before bed I will have to get up. I credit lots of sex and whacking off. Lately it has been 100% whacking off. Exercising it is key. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552561) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:41 PM Author: CapTTTainFalcon nice, I suddenly stopped beating off in the past two years
need to force myself to stay active, even if I've given up hope of ever getting laid |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:51 PM Author: OldHLSDude I was never able to go more than 3 days. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552626) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:34 PM Author: CapTTTainFalcon I'm thinking of leaving my sinecure with reasonably high pay and absolute job security
I'm mostly in meetings and otherwise I'm reviewing documents
I mostly work 10 hours a week
I'm in my 30s
Should I do it |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:38 PM Author: Emotionally + Physically Abusive Ex-Husband (oppose bitchbois) I'm in my 30s too, haha (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552564) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:41 PM Author: OldHLSDude That sounds pretty sweet. Objectively leaving it may be a bad idea, but it depends upon whether for you it's psychologically necessary. I guess it was for me, or I would have stayed in big corp. Do you really have absolute job security? That's very rare. Consider whether it's really true. The three start ups I did with 24/7 marathons. They really, truly mess up your quality of life. I'm a much more capable person because of those experiences, but it was not cheap schooling. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552575) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:38 PM Author: CapTTTainFalcon yes, absolute
what is a "psychological necessity" to you |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:44 PM Author: OldHLSDude Something that if I don't do I will feel miserable about not doing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552787) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:37 PM Author: dj clue You previously mentioned your speculation that UFOs might be an entirely psychic phenomenon. Would you mind expanding on that? Thoughts on the existence of "psi" generally? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552559) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:46 PM Author: Sandor Ferenczi holy fuck lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552601) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:50 PM Author: OldHLSDude I think there is something there, but I don't know exactly what. My working hypothesis is that we are field creatures of some kind, and the field in which we exist as (nodes?/distributed nodes?/wave functions?) is the mechanism though which these various occult phenomena occur. That's really vague, but I can't do any better. A Jungian shrink I know calls it "The Weather Channel." Sometimes I speculate that there exists a higher dimensional world and these phenomena come and so as that world moves and the projections into our spacetime vary. When I was a little kid I spent a lot of time watching bugs, especially ants. I remain amazed at the complexity of behavior among those little critters with nearly invisible little brains. I speculated then that some of their cognitive bioware was in hyperspace. Of course hive behavior is a much simpler and likely more correct interpretation, but it doesn't explain the occult. The whole field is really messy. It's filled with fraud, hoaxes, misperceptions, gossip, myths, etc. Lots of noise. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552621) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:56 PM Author: Sandor Ferenczi jfc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552649) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:13 PM Author: dj clue Thanks for the sincere response. I was surprised to learn that there is real evidence for the existence of "psi", although it appears that the effect (as presently understood/employed) is too weak and unreliable to be of practical value. I agree regarding the noise. My suspicion is that there is a kernel of truth that is being intentionally obscured by the powers that be, but as ordinary civilians it is basically impossible for you or I to determine what is true and what is BS. By the way, I've posted under other monikers before, but my brother has a mental illness with presentation similar to your sons' condition (in fact I was doing year-end work related to his special needs trust last night). You and I have discussed before, and I really appreciate those conversations. I have great sympathy for you--it's been hard having a brother go through this, I cannot imagine two sons |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:51 PM Author: The Soo CR National Champions JUGGERNAUT HBD 🥳 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552634) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 5:03 PM Author: OldHLSDude ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49553010) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:53 PM Author: "'''''"'''"""''''" Why weren’t you in Vietnam? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552637) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:02 PM Author: OldHLSDude Because I got sent to Cincinnati. Maybe you missed the prior threads, so I'll reprise. I drew a low draft number while in grad school and was classified 1-A. I didn't want to get drafted, so I tried OCS. Only the Navy was taking applications. I did very well on the OAR and was physically qualified so they told me that if I promised to volunteer for nuclear sub school after OCS they would expedite my application. Fortunately, I had the discovered the US Public Health Service direct commission program and they were faster than the Navy. My draft board was not to be dissuaded, so I had to go get sworn in by a justice of the peace two weeks before reporting. As a result I used the GI Bill to help with LS costs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552664) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:57 PM Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth) so you served for a short time in US Public Health Service? i don't think i ever heard of it before today (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552832) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:06 PM Author: OldHLSDude Yes, it was a sweet gig. I was on active duty for 27 months then stayed on stacking paper for another year as a GS-13 before heading to LS. We were direct commissioned with extra rank and pay, along with full benefits, including VA. I had never heard of it until it came up at dinner one night when I was still in school. It sounded too good to be true, but was real. The downside was the 1% acceptance rate. https://www.usphs.gov/ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552861) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:55 PM Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552977) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:57 PM Author: Civil Attorney (The Kraken is BACK) Please describe in a long and meandering poast with lots of sidebars how America has changed over the years. Ideally sprinkle in some odd anecdotes or dicta that will surprise and delight your faithful readers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552650) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:14 PM Author: OldHLSDude I don't think I have time this afternoon to do this justice. I am going to go fill up my tractor with diesel in case I have to plow snow. I want to try out my new battery powered diesel pump. Be back later. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552711) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 2:58 PM Author: Sandor Ferenczi Do you think your schizoid belief in 'occult phenomenon' had any impact on both ur children developing schizophrenia (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552654) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:04 PM Author: OldHLSDude Belief is overstating it and the schizoid label is totally off the wall. No. I don't spend any time on this other than having idle thoughts. My friend who was really into it is det, so I don't even have anyone with whom to engage in whiskey talk. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552674) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:05 PM Author: Sandor Ferenczi that feels like a very defensive yes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552678) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:11 PM Author: OldHLSDude Whatever (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552700) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:14 PM Author: dj clue I enjoy the conversations. Many people wonder about this stuff and its fun to talk about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552714) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:06 PM Author: Gay Grandpa Are you a materialist-atheist who believes that there is no Satan and no God, or are you just Jewish? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552686) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:06 PM Author: Sandor Ferenczi calling someone who denies occult phenomenon a satanist is very stupid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552689) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:09 PM Author: Gay Grandpa Its not stupid, its just the most likely explanation. Ive never met an atheist who accepted the existence of the occult and most theists do believe that Satan interfaces with the physical world in some way (beyond the mind).
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:10 PM Author: Sandor Ferenczi ur weak mind would cause schizophrenia in ur children if u had any (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552697) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:14 PM Author: Gay Grandpa Wrong, i went through all kinds of abuse as a child Today i make awesome money, have a beautiful gf and multiple children. Youre way off about weak mind |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:27 PM Author: Sandor Ferenczi Ok we're cool (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552748) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:15 PM Author: dj clue edited (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552719) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:17 PM Author: Gay Grandpa What did you edit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552722) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:12 PM Author: OldHLSDude You guys are not entertaining. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552704) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:16 PM Author: dj clue Why are you being a dick? This guy is one of the best posters here, and does great threads. In fact, you are in one such thread right now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552721) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:19 PM Author: Gay Grandpa Tbf to this guy, OldHLS used to poast waaaay more shitlib boomer garbage and is walking back a lot of it here. His previous views were little different than straight up open borders (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552729) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:20 PM Author: Sandor Ferenczi ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552733) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:22 PM Author: Gay Grandpa 100% (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552736) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:38 PM Author: OldHLSDude Horseshit. To the extent you believe that you've been trolled. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552773) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:45 PM Author: dj clue no idea if that's true but who gives a fuck? he's a good poster. disagreeing about politics is not a good reason to run off one of the few remaining good posters (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552789) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:59 PM Author: Gay Grandpa No real poa would be run off for political disagreement, and OLDhls has tough skin... if you knew him- which i do- you would know that I also kniw his political views and he is die hard egop including third base coach waving |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:01 PM Author: piss daddy How do you feel about winning the xo Special Olympics? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552660) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:05 PM Author: OldHLSDude I was so honored I jizzed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552677) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:03 PM Author: black abyss (definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving) My wife invited over family to celebrate my kid’s birthday. 4 extra kids and 7 extra adults. My job made me so stressed out that I nearly flipped out. I had to grab the axe and go out and chop wood for 30 minutes to ground myself. I feel like I can no longer do this. The deleterious effects of playing the game you can never win for nickels and dimes seems less and less worth it. Do you ever regret hanging it up when you did? Do you think people thought less of you after you stepped away? |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:09 PM Author: OldHLSDude No. I have never missed the office. I really don't know what people think. I'm pretty sure I get talked about behind my back, but it's not on my list of things to worry about. Being stressed like that will suck the life out of you. The conundrum is how to pay the bills. I was lucky to have other options. I had an OCI experience with a firm during which the partner told me that his firm would not hire me because I had too many other options. He said that practicing law was a terrible life, and that I would soon bolt since I had other ways to earn a living. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552694) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:46 PM Author: magister ludi cold hard truth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552952) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:14 PM Author: OldHLSDude Taking a break to go fill up my tractor with diesel in case I have to plow later. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552716) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:36 PM Author: OldHLSDude Back from filling up tractor
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:38 PM Author: Candy Ride I am worried about what society will do when boomers can no longer carry it. Almost all top level component people are boomers. I think we need societal changes to keep them in the work force as long as they want to work. They idea that you can lose social security benefits by working is ridiculous.
At the same time, millennials seem uniquely unambitious, lazy, wasteful, frivolous, and resentful of success. I am worried about our future. What are your thoughts? |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:44 PM Author: OldHLSDude I am so far removed from the world of work I don't have confidence in any of my opinions. FWIW, I heard the same arguments about my generation and then the one right behind me. I have been around a long time and have seen a lot of stuff, so I can often be helpful. I find that on the boards I serve on. Some things that are to me really easy look like insurmountable difficulties to those who are encountering them for the first time. I guess in a perfect world each generation would hang around long enough to transfer its know how to the next. One problem is that the next generation often thinks the old folks don't get it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552784) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:46 PM Author: dadgummit can you objectively rate your wife as a human being? she sounds kind of terrible (abandoning a baby, etc.) from what you describe. what drew you to her? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552792) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:53 PM Author: OldHLSDude I don't think it was abandonment. She was single, not making a lot of money and would have been ridiculed and shunned in those days. She went to a Catholic home for unwed mothers and the baby was adopted by a screened Catholic family through a private adoption. I thought it was pretty heroic myself. She is a 180 human being. I often wish she would turn down the piety a notch, but it's better than the country club. She was smart, lively, tall, and attractive. In those days she was more flirty and more sexual, but I thought she was great wife material. I think her deep association with Opus Dei changed her personality some beginning about 40 years ago. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552815) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 3:56 PM Author: OldHLSDude How was everyone's holiday? My college roommate came to visit for a week. We had a small (12 people) family party while he was here. 4 of my wife's siblings and spouses/spouselike persons, my friend, and a priest friend. Had another couple over on Christmas Eve. Made salmon oscar and drank Manhattans and wine. Friend was happy to have his Tesla drive him home. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552828) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:11 PM Author: Candy Ride Company for a week seems like a very long time.
I have been visiting my in laws since the 24th and I am going to lose my mind if I can't get back to the office soon. Times like this really make a person appreciate being a partner at a law firm. |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:10 PM Author: OldHLSDude Thread is fading. Will check back later. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49552871) |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:44 PM Author: Charles Tyrwhitt Dad I always enjoyed your posts and did check xoxohth to see if you were doing your NYE special.
Xoxohth is its last gasps. It's hard to have a frank and intelligent conversation on here these days as most people with an ounce of sensibility drifted away a long time ago. The racism and bigotry and antisemitism bothers me. Someone needs to administer death rites.
My father died not long ago from PSP. Poor man, he was only in his late 70s and never had the life expectancy of his parents and all four grandparents and all his aunts and uncles by blood, who lived into their 90s. That's life for you. Now dealing with a widowed mother who wants me to take over all her finances and pay her bills and give her an allowance so she doesn't have to think about it. I'm also in the process of starting up a trust for her assets. And it's making me much more cognizant of what I need to do for my own wife and kids. Definitely feel like I've aged a lot in the last year. And my dad's passing has also made me wonder if I spend too much time working and not enjoying life, money really isn't an issue at this point and I could contemplate an early retirement in 10 years or so, the one thing to keep an eye out for is that youngest would only be 16 at that point (boys are currently 16, 14 and 6). And I also worry about getting the boys properly launched in life, in a good and productive way. Or maybe I worry about it too much as I can't control everything. I've watched some families and it's interesting how disorganized families no matter how loving they are tend to have kids who end up with more disorganized life progressions, while super organized families tend to have kids who follow a pretty predictable route to better outcomes re jobs and relationships. I guess you can say I want to herd my boys away from the dangers of ending up a tattooed pierced metrosexual hipster. If they end up a dull financial analyst or consultant with a pretty girlfriend, job well done. But they do have their own burgeoning personalities and I've learned from it as well.
Will say, partly because of dealing with reorganizing my mother's finances after dad's death, that the a key observation I have of the changes in society from the past is that organizational structures seem to be significantly less competent in getting things done efficiently. Is it a coincidence that as white men are replaced with DEI people, everything only gets more bureaucratic and less efficient? I don't mean to say that only white men are capable of productive leadership but the culture generated by white male leadership is results oriented whereas DEI leadership is process oriented and cares less about actual outcomes as long the process is followed and the process needs plenty of DEI managers. I like to look at how ruthlessly efficient Amazon is versus government and healthcare. Just a speculation. Any thoughts? |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 4:37 PM Author: piss daddy My M1 16” MacBook Pro won’t boot. Won’t charge, either — MagSafe LED does not turn on when plugged in. Typical keyboard resets for M1s have not done anything. Why did this have to happen as I start a four-day weekend? Most likely need a new logic board from Apple. Can you buy me a new MacBook Pro?
Your son,
Stalin tp |
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Date: December 31st, 2025 5:01 PM Author: (NSFW) Happy Birthday, fren.
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Date: December 31st, 2025 5:11 PM Author: ReneGirard How would you advise someone to think about retirement spending? a lot of us are a ways away but for those who have been financially fortunate, how do you think about the following (1) how to invest retirement funds (eg total index funds vs QQQ); (2) how much you take out of your portfolio (eg is 4% rule right, will we get historic returns); and (3) most importantly, what have you seen of folks who retired early bc they saved better vs those who had to work to eg 70 in a job they hated? How do you think it impacted those folks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5815827&forum_id=2,#49553020) |