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OldHLSDude Enters his 75th Year. Taking questions
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:10 AM Author: turquoise den (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704605) |
Date: December 31st, 2021 11:11 AM Author: titillating navy fanboi Are you on a calorie restricted diet (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704608) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:12 AM Author: turquoise den No, but I probably should be. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704620) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:21 AM Author: titillating navy fanboi Yeah you shouldn’t be eating more than 1800 calories a day (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704680) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:07 PM Author: wonderful brindle public bath for an old guy, less than that honestly. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705104) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:13 PM Author: turquoise den I am sure I exceed that every day, but my weight is pretty stable. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705167) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 1:42 PM Author: titillating navy fanboi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705634) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:11 AM Author: Cerebral Sweet Tailpipe Ape what is your best career advice? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704611) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:14 AM Author: turquoise den Probably that active tenacity is the best attribute you can have. Also, don't let work ruin the rest of your life, especially relationships. In the GC environment it's a tough needle to thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704635) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:01 PM Author: Amethyst dashing locale can you elaborate on what you mean by active tenacity sir (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706241) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:12 PM Author: turquoise den By active tenacity I mean just not enduring and sticking with something, but actively taking intiative and pushing forward to make things happen and solve problems. If A doesn't work, do B. Then C. Then D, etc. It's hard to do, partly because there are always people in opposition, telling you what a big risk you're taking, or how you are bound to fail, or asking "why aren't you satisfied?" I have often thought that each person trying to get something done supports at least 10 critics.
Passive tenacity is when you don't give up, but merely put up with circumstances. For me that is a painful way to live.
I have known a lot of entrepreneurs over the years, and the ones who made it for the most part were actively tenacious. Maybe I am full of crap. Just my view. |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 5:26 PM Author: Amethyst dashing locale This is credited advice. Thank you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706589) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:18 PM Author: comical antidepressant drug personal credit line No, this is credited. It's just that most human beings are cut out for Passive tenacity. Or being critics. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706858) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 10:24 PM Author: Vibrant church building fuck the haters, got it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43708245) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 2:02 PM Author: laughsome fuchsia temple Seems 100% correct. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43710722) |
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Date: January 2nd, 2022 5:21 PM Author: Glittery goal in life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43717177) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:12 AM Author: Excitant lilac state cuck When are you going to acknowledge the truth about HBD and how you’ve ruined this country through blank slatism? You have very little time left to repent for your extreme evil (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704616) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:14 AM Author: Cerebral Sweet Tailpipe Ape happy birthday to who? whose birthday is it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704637) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:15 AM Author: fear-inspiring factory reset button chapel OP's (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704640) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:15 AM Author: Cerebral Sweet Tailpipe Ape (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704644) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:33 AM Author: Charismatic Orange Voyeur (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704786) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:34 AM Author: Charismatic Orange Voyeur You’ll never be half the man oldhlsdude is (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704792) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:48 AM Author: Excitant lilac state cuck I dunno he seems pretty small and frail (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704920) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 3:50 PM Author: useless aphrodisiac death wish market (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706207) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:13 AM Author: Galvanic aggressive dilemma How do you enjoy your free time? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704626) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:18 AM Author: turquoise den In retirement there really isn't a distinction between free and unfree time. I spend a ton of time on volunteer activities. Otherwise I ponder, read, wife and I usually watch some streaming thing in the evenings, meals with friends, interactions with kids and family, yard work, gardening. Just got back from a 3 hour breakfast with a good friend. Have not been biking or golfing lately, but like those. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704660) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:26 AM Author: Cerebral Sweet Tailpipe Ape ljl that's a better life than 99% of us (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704731) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:02 PM Author: Amethyst dashing locale What are you reading this days? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706246) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:18 PM Author: turquoise den Right now I am in the middle of two books, "From Missouri," the autobiography of Thad Snow who was a pioneer farmer and sharecropper rights (New Deal era) activist from my part of the world. My parents were sharecroppers for a number of years, and I'm really enjoying the book. It covers the period about 1900-1950. The other one is "Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters" by Steve Koonin. It's a critique of the establishment view of the scientific basis of human caused climate change and has been widely vilified by the left. My good friend a theoretical physicist sent it to me. I also have a friend's really bad novel queued up on the iPad, but haven't managed to get past the first few pages. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706319) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 5:25 PM Author: Amethyst dashing locale 180 I'm going to pick up Unsettled.
What are your favorite book(s) you've read in the past couple of years |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:19 PM Author: Onyx twinkling uncleanness crackhouse Only two? I'm in the middle of ten books right now.
Here, I'll list them, not to brag or anything:
Philosophical Foundations of Physics (Rudolf Carnap) ((I'm only interested in Part Three, The Structure of Space)), Groups and Symmetry, The Divine Comedy, Candide, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Perelandra (CS Lewis), The Passion of the Western Mind, The Age of Reason (Thomas Paine), The Closing of the American Mind, Fear and Trembling (Soren Kierkegaard).
Is that too many? I've gotten through more than a quarter on three of them. I'm scatterbrained as fuck.
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:31 PM Author: Amethyst dashing locale are you still smoking tina man (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706966) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 7:46 PM Author: Onyx twinkling uncleanness crackhouse Obviously. Let me tell you something, I have slept a total of 4 hours in the last three days. I'm exhausted, I have schizophrenic voices in my head yelling at me when I try to go to sleep or lie down. I've been lying down trying to sleep for hours at a time and I cannot. By the by, do you know what happens to a person if they cannot sleep for days? I'm talking not even 3 or 4 hours here and there, I'm talking no sleep at all, and staying up by smoking methamphetamine. Cause I'm on day four of this adventure and I am starting to seriously worry. I am not in control at all of what these voices do and how they do it, they can scream in my head for hours at a time, and what can I do about it? It's all luck at this point. They let me go to sleep before, i.e. they would stop talking to me when I laid down to go to sleep, or at most would do so for 10 minutes or so, annoying but not fatal.
Now I am wondering if this is how I die from exhaustion or what the fuck is going on? Do you have any advice on what I could do? Sleep deprivation is literally torture, I am being tortured right now. Only reason it doesn't feel like literal torture is because of the methamphetamine that I stay up on, and I use more than I would have needed for this reason, because I am trying to go to sleep, which means I am seriously sleepy, and still cannot go to bed and rest my eyes and drift away. I'm scared man. I might be on the precipice of losing my mind, or maybe even something worse, like death.
Succumbing to methamphetamine, or even shall I say giving in to the temptation to use it, was maybe one of the biggest mistakes of my life. It was the wrong decision, big time. |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 10:03 PM Author: Amethyst dashing locale Jesus have you considered getting help (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43708105) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 2:07 PM Author: laughsome fuchsia temple "I'm talking not even 3 or 4 hours here and there, I'm talking no sleep at all, and staying up by smoking methamphetamine. Cause I'm on day four of this adventure and I am starting to seriously worry"
You should worry and you need to stop. Your mental issues are going to rapidly progress (meaning, get worse) if you keep going with this. You need appropriate medication to manage those "voices" and to live a healthy lifestyle including normal sleep habits.
To put it another way, your brain needs sleep to function properly. As you sleep toxins are removed and your memory is reorganized to allow you to function the next day. Some stuff gets moved from short term to long term memory and short term memory is freed up. That's why people that are up for days later have trouble remembering what actually happened during those days - very little got committed to long-term memory. Interestingly, while your brain is reorging your memories you "dream" - in other words, a different part of your brain is working. |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 10:52 AM Author: floppy halford 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43709720) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:13 AM Author: Bateful yapping boltzmann (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704628) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:14 AM Author: Alcoholic set can you tell us about your moments of great existential despair and how you dealt with them? like not material crises like job/poverty/family/health stuff, but mental and spiritual malaise where things didn't seem worth doing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704633) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:25 AM Author: turquoise den Had a massive panic attack during college graduation. Was sitting there sweating (nobody came to see me graduate but could not get my $10 for the cap and gown back) when I suddenly realized that even though I was getting two degrees I couldn't think of anything I had learned and had just wasted years of life. Later discovered I had acquired skills I didn't know I possessed. Had to hire an armed guard for a shareholder meeting because on anonymous online death threats (intro to the psychology of internet boards -xo 101). Discovering number 1 son was psychotic, then discovering number 2 son was also psychotic. Latter revealed when the Secret Service showed up at my office to inform me of his Saturday night visit to the White House to see W. Realization sophomore year in college that I might never get laid again (later disproved, fortunately). Plenty of others. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704724) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:03 PM Author: jade cracking station international law enforcement agency But how did you deal with them? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705074) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:13 PM Author: turquoise den I just kept going and solving problems as they arose. I usually didn't have a grand sense of strategy, but just took on whatever the most immediate thing was. Most of the time outcomes that appear inevitable can be overcome one way or the other. Sometimes I had to remind myself is that the worst outcome is that I'm dead (even if that's not really the worst possible outcome). Sometimes what feels like existential dread is misperception. At the limit I guess I follow that line in "The Naked and Dead." "Keep a tight asshole and everything will come out all right." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705159) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 3:30 PM Author: jade cracking station international law enforcement agency (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706105) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:16 PM Author: Galvanic aggressive dilemma Why did you think tou would never get laid after sophomore year of college lol? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705194) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:17 PM Author: turquoise den I had a very long dry spell that year. Thought it would never end. The gay guy down the hall was starting to look good. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705203) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 2:41 PM Author: razzle volcanic crater *Our protagonist only later realized he had been staring at a mirror at the end of the hall this entire time*
Happy bday. Always enjoyr reading your posts |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:01 PM Author: turquoise den lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706243) |
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Date: January 2nd, 2022 3:54 AM Author: passionate turdskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43714781) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 2:49 PM Author: Odious Bisexual Incel LMAO @ the armed guard for death threats. your schizophrenic tendencies are finally emerging. how bad of an executive do you have to be to end up in that situation? Just Ljl you dumb fucking boomer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705947) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 2:50 PM Author: orchid heady puppy dragon i don't understand your crusade against this bort treasure.
this seems to have been in the early days of the internet, when anonymous threats by keyboard warriors was taken more seriously. |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 2:53 PM Author: Odious Bisexual Incel OldHLSDude let his sons shit into buckets & hoard everything for years until their houses resembled hazardous landfills. he ran a tech company without understanding CS fundamentals. he chased prestige into old age instead of fixing his sons. he’s beyond grotesque (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705969) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 2:54 PM Author: orchid heady puppy dragon i think you're projecting the anger you feel for your parents because they didn't address your mental illness. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705976) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 2:57 PM Author: Odious Bisexual Incel no, there are just way too many red flags with OldHLSDude. i enjoy calling out poasters on their BS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705986) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 3:07 PM Author: brass codepig Bark bark kill self (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706018) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 3:09 PM Author: Odious Bisexual Incel the only tech CEO i worked for that had bodyguards was a legit psychopathic con man that was apparently defrauding investors (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706023) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:04 PM Author: Electric soggy lettuce immigrant A lot of us here worked at that company lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706258) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:53 PM Author: turquoise den To be clear, the guard was only at the shareholder meeting. After the threats I thought I had a duty to get him there in case of violence. Nothing happened. It was xo type forum stuff. Have dealt with many truly unhinged people though. When you get your name and pic in the WSJ weird shit happens. There must be a reservoir of nut jobs who scan the paper every day looking for names. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706449) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:17 AM Author: crawly lake french chef half-breed youve mentioned before that you and you wife(mostly her iirc) are Catholic.
what role did that play in your sons' upbringing?
did you ever consider that spiritual warfare may be at play with them? ever consider exorcism |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:30 AM Author: turquoise den Yes, I have considered exorcism. I gather they don't meet the criteria, but #2 son exhibited symptoms that sure resembled demonic possession. Medication suppresses the symptoms, so probably not. However, it is a very eerie experience to someone tell you he is not himself, but a "million year old spirit who is the Lion King of Judah." Then speak in what sounds like French and Hebrew. I played a big role in their upbringing. We had a lot of family time together. Almost always had dinner together, many camping trips, trips to the beach, sports events, movies, jogging, biking, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704756) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:15 PM Author: Galvanic aggressive dilemma I’m glad tou got to spend time with them before they became psychotic. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705178) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:18 PM Author: turquoise den I still see them regularly. We still have relationships and communication, but of course it's different now. In fact I just fielded a call from #1 son. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705211) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:21 AM Author: Beta skinny woman indian lodge Is today's 24/7 GC business/working world worse than the working world of 40 years ago, or does it just seems that way? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704683) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:32 AM Author: turquoise den I think it is much, much worse, though fortunately I am not much in it so my views are mainly derivative. I haven't had a real job since 1998, then I was in a university until 2004, which is a mess, but not exactly GC. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704775) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:34 AM Author: Beta skinny woman indian lodge How is it worse and what should a working stiff in his 30s do in response? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704794) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:39 AM Author: turquoise den 24/7 availability. People are treated like cogs in a machine, especially in personal services businesses like law firms. My own approach was to try to build my own business and make it dependent upon making something and selling it other than just billing time. Let machines do machine work. I also have found that life in the non urban heartland is less intense. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704844) |
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Date: January 2nd, 2022 3:54 AM Author: passionate turdskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43714785) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:22 AM Author: titillating navy fanboi How sad are you about not having grandkids (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704692) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:31 AM Author: Snowy mother This is a good question if it’s not meant to be mean. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704770) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:35 AM Author: turquoise den I have resigned myself to it, so I it is not anything I think about. Under current circumstances if we had grandchildren we would be caring for them, so in that respect I am glad we don't. I wish our kids were "normal" and we had grandkids, but I am grateful that things are not worse. At the moment nobody is in jail or the hospital, which is not always the case. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704802) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:12 PM Author: Soul-stirring hyperventilating piazza travel guidebook wait, all that striving and grinding and in the end your genetic line is just going to blink out of existence? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706297) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:20 PM Author: turquoise den The point is...? Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. That's life. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706325) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 7:31 PM Author: aromatic juggernaut I deliberately had 4 kids with the expectation some will be retards and dead end pawned (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707317) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 9:37 PM Author: turquoise den Good portfolio strategy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707938) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:26 AM Author: up-to-no-good menage deer antler Have you ever posted any sort of proof that you’re a 75 year old HLS grad and not a character/schtick? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704737) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:42 AM Author: turquoise den I think I poasted some degrees and dated LSAT scores once upon a time. Name redacted of course. Can answer questions about having Larry Tribe for Con Law and evidence and a locker in the basement of Langdell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704857) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:55 AM Author: up-to-no-good menage deer antler Was it astonishingly easy to score back during the summer of love in 68 even if you were not in San Francisco? What was an approach like? Effortless to just casually approach hippy chicks in Harvard Yard and take them back to your apartment? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704981) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:59 AM Author: turquoise den No. It was a shitload of work. At least for me. I don't know where all these hippy free love chicks were. I had to strive. Possibly it's because I went to a college with nearly no women. Seems like you guys have it easy with Tinder, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705024) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 1:01 PM Author: up-to-no-good menage deer antler Weird. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705464) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 2:51 PM Author: Rebellious masturbator You're just trying to get him to repost the dick pic, aren't you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705959) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:32 AM Author: Charismatic Orange Voyeur How do you feel? Healthy? Older? Do you think about death a lot? Does it scare you? Are you becoming more religious the older you get? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704778) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:48 AM Author: turquoise den I seem to be fairly healthy and I don't have any diagnosed bad things, though I am in worse shape than pre-Covid. The whole shut down thing has been depressing and has made me feel sluggish. At least that's what I blame it on. I started feeling age at about 70, and there are physical things that used to be easy that now are not. I no longer get on the roof, for example, and have become wary of lifting very heavy things (over 100 lbs.) Of course I ponder death, but I don't feel frightened. Perhaps I will change my mind when it is imminent. I would say that I have become more religious, though not in an exactly orthodox way, the past 20 years. I spend considerable time reflecting on it. I feel somewhat "in converation with God," whether delusional or not. I am 100% convinced of God the Creator. What happens afterwards is pretty speculative. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704912) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:49 AM Author: Charismatic Orange Voyeur How about mentally? Do you ever feel older in that regard or do we always basically stay the same unless we get dementia or something? 180 btw |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:57 AM Author: turquoise den I still feel about 18. My dad used to tell me that and I thought it was bullshit, but I don't feel like an old man. It's always a shock to see a photograph. I do realize I am not as mentally quick as I used to be (I was a speed demon in my 20s - finished the LSAT in half the allotted time and had time to go through it all again then compute the distribution of a,b,c,d, answers. Equal, BTW). Can't do that anymore. OTOH, I have experienced many more situations and have a much larger library of macros to work with, so not every problem has to be approached from stage zero. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705004) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:05 PM Author: Charismatic Orange Voyeur My grandpa tells me that and I thought it was bullshit too. Hence the question (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705093) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:15 PM Author: turquoise den I don't know if it's protective psychology or a jest of God. My sister lived to be 90 and said she never felt old. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705174) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:06 PM Author: crawly lake french chef half-breed is you're sister actually your mom (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706270) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:21 PM Author: turquoise den It is possible, perhaps even likely, but I'll never know the answer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706327) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 6:44 AM Author: passionate turdskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43709268) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:33 AM Author: angry locus Do you think this country is on a path of rapid decline? If so, which country do you see as the next dominant player?
On a personal level, what's the ideal place to retire, anywhere in the world, irrespective of your own circumstances (language, affinity, etc)? |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:54 AM Author: turquoise den I am not fond of the current macro trends, and I hope they will reverse. In my lifetime and from what I have read of the past, things are cyclical. However, technology has brought us the potential for irreversibility (e.g, global nuclear war). Barring that, I think current trends will change. It's not a 2-D situation, so change may not be the same as reversal. At the very least there is hysteresis in reversal, so things never go back exactly the way they were. That sounds confusing, but bottom line is I am hopeful things will get better, but the trouble with predictions is that they're about the future. Personally, I don't spend time brooding, but just do what I can to impact local situations that I can affect, hopefully in a good way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704971) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:19 PM Author: angry locus Thank you for that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705217) |
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Date: January 2nd, 2022 4:59 PM Author: passionate turdskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43717093) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:36 AM Author: Odious Bisexual Incel do you think they’ll have a great selection of cheeses at next year’s MIT reunion? all that prestige surely makes up for not being able (or even willing) to fix your schizophrenic sons (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704813) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:43 AM Author: Odious Bisexual Incel schizophrenia is not associated with any brain abnormalities beyond insignificant changes in ventricle size and other minor changes. it’s about as big a difference that comes from frontal lobe shrinkage caused by dehydration. brain autopsies rarely reveal any significant pathology unless hard drugs are involved. Environmental triggers and stressors are key to initiating and sustaining psychosis, and you’ve revealed you were very involved in your sons’ upbringing. they both went insane as soon as they left the house, indicating you and/or your wife are almost certainly the triggers and stressors here. two non-twin siblings both being schizophrenic is rare and points to external factors. despite all this you claim, without evidence, that all of this has to do with the “final stages of brain development.” what’s it like being a prestige whore fraud that didn’t give one shit about his sons? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704869) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:17 PM Author: wonderful brindle public bath I think he said before it was drugs for both of them. They both smoked a lot of pot very early on, while their brains were developing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705202) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:37 PM Author: Odious Bisexual Incel Weed isn’t going to break your brain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705323) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 1:10 AM Author: dull vivacious library stain Studies show the oppsosite. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43708920) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 3:31 PM Author: Razzmatazz base So did I and I'm not skitzo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706111) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 2:16 PM Author: Pungent plum elastic band Shut the fuck up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705785) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 10:02 PM Author: Hilarious haunted graveyard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43708097) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 5:50 PM Author: drunken learning disabled main people hell you sound deranged, dood (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706719) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 10:19 PM Author: Dun corner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43708203) |
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Date: January 2nd, 2022 9:30 PM Author: comical antidepressant drug personal credit line lost some respect for you today. you also need to sit on that dick. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43718892) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:44 AM Author: internet-worthy area headpube Should I quit my job in 2022? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704875) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:01 PM Author: turquoise den I would only do it if I had another one lined up or strong savings. Not sure what the Magic 8 Ball would say. Perhaps, "It is likely." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705049) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:08 PM Author: internet-worthy area headpube It’s probably just time to go. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705119) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:17 PM Author: turquoise den Have been there and done that, but always had something lined up in advance, so was never unemployed until retirement. I never had any financial backstop and was in fact the backstop for other people, so I was always paranoid about not having a source of income. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705196) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:47 AM Author: Odious Bisexual Incel how were you able to run a tech company without understanding the basics of version control (literally CS101)? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704906) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 11:47 AM Author: aromatic juggernaut Odds of civil war in next 8 years? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43704908) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:00 PM Author: turquoise den Low, I hope. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705032) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:00 PM Author: big abode bbw When did your dick stop working? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705030) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:02 PM Author: turquoise den Surprisingly it still works, though not like the old days. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705064) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:05 PM Author: aromatic juggernaut Do you get morning wood? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705084) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:20 PM Author: turquoise den Yes, unless I have whacked off the day before. Still have lust in my heart, too. Wonder if Jimmy Carter is still troubled by it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705229) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:22 PM Author: big abode bbw Sweet. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705236) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 7:30 PM Author: aromatic juggernaut 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707307) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:07 PM Author: Charismatic Orange Voyeur Any advice for Richard on how he should deal with the MPM cheating shenanigans? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705103) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:21 PM Author: turquoise den No. In fact I didn't much follow MPM this year. I have been too busy to spend much time on xo lately. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705233) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 3:37 PM Author: Stirring casino get a life. wtf kind of question is this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706135) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 5:16 PM Author: Charismatic Orange Voyeur Fuck off dude (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706546) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:07 PM Author: Mustard marvelous native Should I rip bong? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705110) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:22 PM Author: turquoise den I know what a bong is, but ripping bong is a new one. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705237) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:08 PM Author: stubborn step-uncle's house Do you agree that boomer politicians your age and older have stayed in power too long? And that it is extremely extremely rare for an 80 year old to be cognitively capable of running the country? |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:25 PM Author: turquoise den Yes, definitely It's not merely cognitive decline, but energy level. Guys that age should be counselors, not Presidents. Moreover, I also don't think old folks ought to hang on to control of businesses and other organizations until they have to be carried out. Get the fuck out of the way and let new leadership rise up. I never liked working that much anyway. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705249) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:32 PM Author: turquoise den Generational world view plays a role, too, but that's a long subject. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705295) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:36 PM Author: Odious Bisexual Incel 🚨 WARNING 🚨
OldHLSDude’s sons live like this: https://m.imgur.com/a/rXUjtWe
Please keep this in mind before asking him for advice. |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:41 PM Author: Charismatic Orange Voyeur REMINDER: Septic queer is a mentally deranged loser (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705354) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 12:41 PM Author: Odious Bisexual Incel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705357) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 3:24 PM Author: titillating navy fanboi What’s your beef with him (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706070) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 3:34 PM Author: Odious Bisexual Incel http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&mc=92&forum_id=2#43705969 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706121) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 2:16 PM Author: laughsome fuchsia temple His sons are schizophrenic. There's nothing he can do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43710819) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 7:03 PM Author: concupiscible office brethren Fuck you faggot. Wtf did your parents do to you? You realize parents have like 15% control over their kids’ life outcomes at most, right? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707167) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 2:25 PM Author: laughsome fuchsia temple I might contest that, but if the kids are legit mentally ill (schizophrenics being the most unquestionable example of that) then there's absolutely nothing the parents can do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43710888) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 2:43 PM Author: orchid heady puppy dragon how do you compare the insane shitlib nonsense of today to the 60s? i've thought about what you've said about it perhaps being cyclical, and that eventually people will see it for what it is. there are signs people are waking up a bit as shitlib nonsense strains belief. what signs were there of culture shifting from lib 60s to conservative 80s? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705911) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:25 PM Author: turquoise den I think the current level of stupidity is much worse than the 60s, and it's being embraced by people old enough to know better. I think the 60s crowd grew up, but there are a lot of grown ups already in the present left. I can't even call them liberals. Hubert Humphrey was a liberal. These people are totalitarians seeking tyranny. I never embraced the 60s much, either. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706339) |
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Date: January 2nd, 2022 3:54 AM Author: passionate turdskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43714783) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 3:01 PM Author: razzle volcanic crater If you could go back in time to a period in your life and take someone out (assasinate to death) without consequences, who would you take out? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43705997) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:27 PM Author: turquoise den Nobody. I don't hate anyone and have no desire to kill any person, consequences or not. Maybe I would wipe out Covid on day 1. OTOH, perhaps it is teaching us a valuable lesson. You never know until you get to the end of the book. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706345) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:06 PM Author: razzle volcanic crater You could of at least taken out Bin Laden or Will Smith (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706801) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 3:42 PM Author: Multi-colored garrison scourge upon the earth Q 4 U: who did you like better as a kid - Liz Taylor or Sophia Loren? |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:27 PM Author: turquoise den Sophia Loren, though Liz Taylor's eyes in color are wonderful to behold. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706346) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 4:53 PM Author: passionate turdskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43711863) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 3:49 PM Author: appetizing lemon kitchen private investor Is there any relief in the imminence of death being closer as you get older? Probably the biggest stressor in my life is really feeling like I don’t fit in well with the world and wondering how I’m going to keep this charade up (in work, in relationships, etc) for decades to come. It seems inevitable that, given the time left that I assume I have, I will finally have that schism from society and live the remainder of my life in ruination. Is there comfort in knowing that the act will come to an end, or is the relief outweighed by dread or sadness that all aspects of life, not just the u pleasant parts, will end? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706205) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:34 PM Author: turquoise den Hmmm. Interesting. I guess there is relief in the sense that I have had a decently long, interesting and productive life and I hope to have made the way better for a few other people. When I was young I guess I felt that if I dropped dead I would be missing out on a lot. Now I enjoy naps more. The dirt nap is the ultimate nap. FWIW, I have always felt like an outsider in most situations. Always the guy wearing brown shoes with a tuxedo, to paraphrase Gorge Gobel. I did learn early on to be a chameleon and hide various things in the interest of "fitting in," e.g., if you are 12 and going home to read a book on relativity and calculate time dilation on the surface of a massive planet, it's not a good idea to mention it at baseball practice. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706379) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 3:52 PM Author: outnumbered principal's office If you were born in the 80s or early 90s do you see yourself getting married or would modern society and modern women have ruined you from ever considering matrimony? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706213) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:38 PM Author: turquoise den Pretty much impossible to know. I don't know much about modern women. Anybody younger than 50 is a complete mystery. I do think that solo old age probably sucks, so perhaps I would spring for marriage if I could stand it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706398) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:39 PM Author: outnumbered principal's office You have never observed women under the age of 50 these days? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706408) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:56 PM Author: turquoise den I've looked at them, and know some from boards, but don't hang with any socially other than relatives. Most of what I "know" about them comes from xo. Certainly I have not been in a sexual situation with any of them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706454) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 5:28 PM Author: outnumbered principal's office Have you never just walked down a street or sat on a park bench and just observed their mental illness??? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706596) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 9:39 PM Author: turquoise den Just their tits and increasingly ample asses (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707947) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 1:27 AM Author: outnumbered principal's office 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43708943) |
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Date: January 3rd, 2022 4:24 AM Author: comical antidepressant drug personal credit line (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43719882) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:00 PM Author: Henna mind-boggling kitty mental disorder do you have enough money if you live another 25 years? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706235) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:39 PM Author: turquoise den Yes, and enough to leave a sizeable estate, barring total collapse. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706403) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:14 PM Author: Light Idea He Suggested what do you think about all the threads or ideas that tell poasters to get out of America? do you think there's any traction to the idea that for a man its better to find a community/spouse outside of an increasingly woke and dysfunctional country (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706307) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:18 PM Author: outnumbered principal's office Need OP to answer this one. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706323) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:48 PM Author: turquoise den I don't personally know of another country in which I would want to live. I think I failed to address this in another earlier question. I used to think I would like to live in Australia, having spent a lot of time there in the 80s, but it seems to have gone down the sewer in a spectacular way, if the news is right (always a ?). I can't think of a country I had rather live in. Every place seems fucked up, but I've only been to 30 or so countries, and not much of anywhere lately. I think the USA is still dynamic enough to save itself. Other than Australia, the other place I have liked enough to consider living in is Sweden, though it was being overrun by Islamists when I was last there. They're pretty leftie, but it seemed tolerable. Bottom line: no geographic escape fantasies. OTOH, I will say that in some sense I have escaped by moving to a rural/small town area in a red state. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706433) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 5:07 PM Author: Light Idea He Suggested Would you recommend XO'ers to move to a red state? Is it really night and day compared to the urban centers? Or has leftist ideology spread there as well.
Also I forgot to add, TY for this, youre 180. It'll be sad when on Dec 31 we dont get this thread (stay healthy gramps).
Forget about your troll too. You never become a board legend without at least one hater. So its a sign that you've maed it sir. |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 5:35 PM Author: turquoise den Big city mayors tend to be Dem, but outside them very red. We have few Covid restrictions and the legislature removed the governor’s authority to issue lockdown orders, etc, even though he’s an R (though he’s s centrist R). The biggest difference is that locally if you meet a random person 75% likely they are not shitlib. Most things state government does make sense. Climate is generally pro business, though taxes are not low. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706631) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 5:30 PM Author: outnumbered principal's office Where in Australia did you live? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706602) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:57 PM Author: turquoise den Oh, I didn't live there. Just traveled for extended periods. Mostly in Canberra, but also Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707125) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:37 PM Author: Odious Bisexual Incel what do you think you’re wrong about? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706394) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:48 PM Author: turquoise den Oh, horsefly, probably everything. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706435) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 4:49 PM Author: Odious Bisexual Incel 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706438) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 5:08 PM Author: disrespectful resort foreskin 180. Congrats. Do you own any high end watches? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706512) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 5:21 PM Author: turquoise den No. I have a Citizen eco drive. Not a watch guy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706571) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 5:35 PM Author: outnumbered principal's office You always struck me as a pocketwatch aficionado. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706633) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:58 PM Author: turquoise den I have my grandfather's. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707133) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:06 PM Author: disrespectful resort foreskin My only watch is a citizen eco drive too. Do you collect anything? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706803) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:55 PM Author: turquoise den I have a lot of vintage electronics, but it's not really a collection as I use most of it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707109) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 5:23 PM Author: Electric soggy lettuce immigrant What do you wish you'd done in middle age?
What would you be doing if you were young today?
How do you see the next 25 years unfolding? 100?
What are some of the biggest surprises about the present day?
How do you think the political situation compares to the early 70s? |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:00 PM Author: turquoise den In a perfect world I would have done my last startup extravaganza when I was younger and I would have enjoyed middle age more. From about 42-52 I was pretty much swamped 24/7. I don't feel like I missed a lot of stuff, but it was a very intense time with a lot of stress.
If I were young today? Hard to imagine. Guess it depends upon how young. Most likely I would take a different path because times are different. What worked then is probably no good now. Academically and professionally I might go into biotech. I did a project in RNA (reconstitution of the tobacco mosaic virus) when I was 15 and could see vaguely the outline of what might happen, but science developed so slowly that by the time I went to college bio was still sort of boring. I would probably be in an urban area because that's where opportunity is. The life I lead now is only feasible if you are cashed out.
I don't have a clue about the future. I didn't see any of what exists now coming. I think there is a substantial likelihood of a catastrophic global military event in the next 25 years. Also expect to see future pandemics. Pretty sure Covid is a gain of function lab leak. Probably at least 100 places in the world where this could happen again, possibly in a worse way. If we are lucky, the experience with this will help with the next one. In 100 years China will be either calling the shots or collapsed. But who knows? My crystal ball has never worked very well. Maybe UFOs will turn out to be something real and transformative. Experience dictates to the contrary, but one can always hope.
Some of the biggest surprises of the present day? Weakness of leadership and incompetence in US federal government. Left wing craziness dominating so much of life and government in the US. The nearly complete dissolution of journalism. The ascendancy of China. Surprised the space program is so far behind where it might have been. Surprised by what microelectronics and infotech have created. Surprised and dismayed by the unpleasantness of daily life for many people. Surprised we haven't had a nuclear exchange somewhere in the world by now.
None of this is profound. |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:05 PM Author: Electric soggy lettuce immigrant Many thanks, and may you have a happy New Year. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706794) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 7:09 PM Author: concupiscible office brethren This is a great post. Love old dudes like you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707206) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 6:40 AM Author: passionate turdskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43709265) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 5:27 PM Author: Odious Bisexual Incel are Black people better than white people? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706594) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 5:37 PM Author: turquoise den Only for BBC (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706642) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 5:40 PM Author: outnumbered principal's office (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706666) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:03 PM Author: Umber Curious National (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706785) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 5:39 PM Author: arousing wild dopamine rehab Are you optimistic or pessimistic when thinking about the long-term prospect of the U.S.? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706660) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:05 PM Author: turquoise den At the moment I am pessimistic. The trend is bad but could change. I am hoping that our country's ability to reinvent itself will come through again. We have piss poor national leadership. Fortunately, government is not the country, but it certainly affects how people behave. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706795) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 5:41 PM Author: outnumbered principal's office Who were the best pornstars by decade since the 1970s. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706669) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:12 PM Author: turquoise den They have names? Would not like this category on Jeopardy. I remember Linda Lovelace and Johnny Wad, but that's about it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706826) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:49 PM Author: outnumbered principal's office FUCKING 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707066) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 5:44 PM Author: talented naked stag film Do you still have your old Service Dress Blues? Any ribbons/medals? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706684) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 5:45 PM Author: Light Idea He Suggested he was in the PHS. his uniform prob looked like a pilots with no ribbons. maybe he has an NDSM lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706686) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:07 PM Author: turquoise den I've still got the dress blue coat and the hat. No ribbons or medals. I don't think I ever got any. Rarely wore a uniform anyway. Now they do, but back then hardly any locations required uniforms. It was the peak of "baby killer" accusations toward anything remotely military looking, so everyone wanted a low profile. I only wore a uniform to fly military standby. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706810) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:07 PM Author: Cerebral Sweet Tailpipe Ape Why don’t you get your sons on xo? It could be a father son bonding activity (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706809) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:09 PM Author: turquoise den They are far too paranoid to poast. One won't use a computer at all, and the other will not use wifi - only cellular data. Visited with both today and they seem pretty cheery. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706814) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:12 PM Author: Odious Bisexual Incel why are they unable to overcome their paranoia (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706833) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:13 PM Author: turquoise den You will have to tell me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706839) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:27 PM Author: Odious Bisexual Incel they’re dopamine addicts trapped in the “high” of psychosis (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706939) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 9:41 PM Author: turquoise den Makes sense (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707965) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:09 PM Author: Odious Bisexual Incel what’s your social security number (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706816) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:12 PM Author: turquoise den 666-66-6666 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706831) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 9:56 PM Author: Fragrant copper kitty cat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43708059) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:12 PM Author: Pungent plum elastic band Did you know Betty White? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706829) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:13 PM Author: turquoise den Only by reputation and now she's dead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706838) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:13 PM Author: ocher spectacular property How did you get from law to running companies? Did you start with startups then lateral in to other startups? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706842) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:23 PM Author: turquoise den I'll postpone my break a few minutes. Realized I hated law after a 2L clerkship. 3L I started a business with a friend for whom I had worked part time while in LS. Worked in law and on the company for one horrible year then quit law for the business. We sold it, and after a while I went into an executive role in a big corp, then left to do a Si Valley startup, then left that to form a competitor which IPO'd after a bit. The Valley startup IPO'd after I left, but I still had some stock. Then went to a large university for about 5 years, then "retired" again. Pretty much a drunkard's walk of a career. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706903) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:14 PM Author: Umber Curious National Who's a late-20th century public figure whose influence positive or netgative (in anything--politics, development, science, etc.) you think was/is vastly underestimated? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706845) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:29 PM Author: turquoise den Rush Limbaugh, though perhaps not all underestimate him. I think he had a profound influence. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706949) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:35 PM Author: Umber Curious National That's a pretty damn good one. I think lots of people here grew up in mild-lib upper middle class suburbs of major metros and don't realize the extent to which many millions of people listened to him (to say nothing of setting the template for 21st century media). I probably heard more Rush Limbaugh in the car growing up than collective hours of every children's show I ever watched. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706998) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:40 PM Author: turquoise den I first heard him in the 90s when the CTO of my company started playing him on the radio every day in the engineering lab. Huge arguments erupted daily between the left wing CFO and the right wing CTO. At first I thought Rush was a bombastic fool, but I came to respect him greatly. He and I grew up about 90 miles apart, though he was a bit younger. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707023) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:14 PM Author: turquoise den Taking a break. Hope to get back for clean up later this evening.
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:15 PM Author: Light Idea He Suggested if your wife died now would you look for strange or try to date again? or would you be resigned to incel-dom (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43706848) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:36 PM Author: turquoise den I probably would try to date, but cautiously. It is hard to find women even remotely close to my age who want to have sex. It is probably easier to find a woman who would like a sugar daddy. I have been accused of being intimidating, though I don't see it myself, so perhaps I would just be home alone. I'm not beautiful, either. My sister had a thing for alcoholics with good silver hair, an Elks Club membership and a taste for Coupe deVilles, and I suspect she has a lot of company. Could not tolerate a shitlib academic. There is probably a small subset of women who could stand me and vice versa. Maybe I would just buy a high end sex doll. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707004) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:38 PM Author: Light Idea He Suggested would you do the sugar daddy thing in this case?
why do women close to your age not want to have sex? Menopause? that sounds awful. cuts against that social narrative that guys your age should date "age appropriate" women. |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:48 PM Author: turquoise den I might be a sugar daddy if I got horny enough, but would prefer a "real" relationship. I think most women's interest in sex wanes with age and many experience discomfort and suffer body image problems. I'm sure there are exceptions.At least I hope there are exceptions. I had a friend (now deceased), whose formula for a girlfriend was (his age/2)+7. That resulted in a memorable dinner party at which his date revealed she was a senior in high school. He was 45 at the time. He was married 4 times, all to women named "Pat." My wife thought he did it on purpose to avoid drunken name confusion. I lack his sense of style. He had good hair and a Coupe deVille, BTW. After wife #4 he was reduced to buying used Caddies. I guess there is life out there for some old guys at least. However, he died at 75 in his sleep after a night out at a jazz bar. His Facebook page was filled with condolences from all kinds of hotties. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707063) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:50 PM Author: Light Idea He Suggested 180.
How can us dorks learn from this guy's charm? That sounds like a life well lived. What did he do for work/what made him such a ladies man |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 9:44 PM Author: turquoise den He was tall and athletic looking, even though a heavy smoker. Amazingly, he was Phd (Rice plus Reed undergrad) physicist working in an industrial R&D job. If you met him you would never in a million years be able to guess his background. Not sure I ever saw him sober, though. His 4 wives are all hot as are his two daughters. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707983) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 6:43 AM Author: passionate turdskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43709266) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:56 PM Author: Well-lubricated Swashbuckling Cruise Ship Party Of The First Part if your wife dies and you decide to go the sugar baby route, please make sure to document everything and poast it. this would make for fantastic content. the younger the better. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707118) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:57 PM Author: Light Idea He Suggested (poaster murdering OldHLSdude's wife for the content) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707123) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:59 PM Author: Well-lubricated Swashbuckling Cruise Ship Party Of The First Part it would be worth it. he's not getting laid these days anyway. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707139) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 7:58 PM Author: razzle volcanic crater Your buddy prbly had a fucking piece! 8"+ prbly (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707432) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 9:45 PM Author: turquoise den Never saw it, but he was quite tall. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707985) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 6:43 AM Author: passionate turdskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43709267) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 6:48 PM Author: turquoise den Now really taking a break. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707064) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 9:38 PM Author: Fragrant copper kitty cat Happy New Year OldHLSDude (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707944) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 9:40 PM Author: High-end vigorous business firm ratface What’s the key to the good life? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707954) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 9:46 PM Author: turquoise den Friends and humor. A little cash helps also, along with some help from on high. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707991) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 6:37 AM Author: passionate turdskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43709262) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 2:08 PM Author: laughsome fuchsia temple (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43710769) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 9:47 PM Author: turquoise den Happy New Year, xo. I sincerely hope 2022 is a great year for everyone and that prince tp gently comes off his meth high. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43707997) |
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Date: December 31st, 2021 10:27 PM Author: brass codepig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43708262) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 6:37 AM Author: passionate turdskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43709264) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 9:28 AM Author: Odious Bisexual Incel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43709501) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 2:05 PM Author: Umber Curious National (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43710741) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 2:07 PM Author: laughsome fuchsia temple (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43710763) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 2:12 PM Author: Well-lubricated Swashbuckling Cruise Ship Party Of The First Part (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43710798) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 2:41 PM Author: razzle volcanic crater (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43710981) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 6:30 PM Author: floppy halford (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43712513) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 6:36 PM Author: Charismatic Orange Voyeur (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43712565) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 6:37 PM Author: Fragrant copper kitty cat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43712569) |
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Date: January 2nd, 2022 6:50 PM Author: Glittery goal in life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43717859) |
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Date: January 3rd, 2022 6:09 AM Author: Electric soggy lettuce immigrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43719984) |
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Date: January 3rd, 2022 6:11 AM Author: outnumbered principal's office 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43719985) |
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Date: January 1st, 2022 4:51 PM Author: Odious Bisexual Incel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4997205&forum_id=2#43711852) |