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Post by Ginger on Feb 21, 2021 19:18:00 GMT -6
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Post by thunderhawk on Feb 21, 2021 23:39:07 GMT -6
Fucking moron doing fucking moron shit
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Post by twinlaker on Feb 22, 2021 6:28:31 GMT -6
Fucking moron doing fucking moron shit Dude is a preening schmuck. Never met a camera he didn’t love
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Post by Ginger on Feb 22, 2021 8:00:42 GMT -6
Fucking moron doing fucking moron shit Dude is a preening schmuck. Never met a camera he didn’t love I’m pretty sure this guy graduated from Dowling a year before me. 1980. He was short and he was obnoxious. That’s what I remember anyway.
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Post by NOTTHOR on Feb 22, 2021 8:24:07 GMT -6
Dude is a preening schmuck. Never met a camera he didn’t love I’m pretty sure this guy graduated from Dowling a year before me. 1980. He was short and he was obnoxious. That’s what I remember anyway. Oh, you went to Dowling?
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Post by Ginger on Feb 22, 2021 9:02:52 GMT -6
I’m pretty sure this guy graduated from Dowling a year before me. 1980. He was short and he was obnoxious. That’s what I remember anyway. Oh, you went to Dowling? Yes. I thought I’ve mentioned that before.
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Post by GhostMod 5000 on Feb 22, 2021 10:22:11 GMT -6
You wouldn't expect her to go to public school, would you?
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Post by livingintheusa on Feb 22, 2021 10:26:50 GMT -6
Just a word Brad "Plastics"
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Post by Ginger on Feb 22, 2021 11:35:09 GMT -6
You wouldn't expect her to go to public school, would you? I attended public school for kindergarten, and 4th-8th grade. 1st through through 3rd was at Christ the King on the south side where I was deeply traumatized by mean nuns and terribly mean kids. High school was different. The nuns weren’t mean. The kids still sucked especially those from the south side. Same kids I went to early grade school rode the same bus and god damn it if bus #3 wasn’t always being called to the office of the Dean of Discipline, Mr. Flynn. The entire bus. There you’d wait in chairs as he’d call each kid into his office to grill them with questions that usually started with “DID YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BACK OF THE BUS?!” My answer was always no. I’m no snitch and besides I always sat in the front. Since I was on the bus for 90 minutes I did one of two things. I studied or did the Homework I failed to do the night before, or I slept because usually didn’t go to bed until 1 or 2 am and had to catch the bus at 6am. It often got me out of at least one class period waiting to be interrogated.
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Post by GhostMod 5000 on Feb 22, 2021 12:40:40 GMT -6
90 minutes on the bus, holy shit
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Post by thunderhawk on Feb 22, 2021 13:07:11 GMT -6
Fucking Dowling. My cousins who went there are complete fucking assholes, save a few.
Their fucking football program recruits like it’s in the SEC.
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Post by Ginger on Feb 22, 2021 14:03:38 GMT -6
Fucking Dowling. My cousins who went there are complete fucking assholes, save a few. Their fucking football program recruits like it’s in the SEC. Football has always been that way there. There are a lot of assholes there. Usually the ones that come from money. I was always turned off by the fake and hypocritical Christianity. The students acted all pious when there was fundraising to be done; example Christmas baskets for the needy, but in general there was nothing christ like about their behavior towards one another. I was at a disadvantage because I came from public school and was an outsider compared to the kids a that had all grown up together in their respective parishes. I was very shy then too. I went there to get out of public school because in middle school, which then was grades 7-9 (technically 9 was HS but there was no room at the high school) there was a lot of fighting and I was tired of it. To segregate the schools they had started bussing black kids from the east side to SW side when I started 7th grade. There initially were a ton of “rumbles” between the black and white kids but that calmed way down after a few months and went back to black on black and white on white violence. There were just too many fights and the teachers didn’t seem to have any control. I saw my vice principal get beat up in the auditorium after he tried to break up a fight and also another fight between some short assed kid that thought he was tough and a 6 foot kid that was, right next to me in my math class. My neighbor girl friend went to Dowling and she always came home with stories of kids getting slammed up against lockers by the priests there and I was like “Alright!!” So my grandpa found out I wanted to go there and paid for my tuition. My parents wouldn’t have been able to. The very first fucking week I was there, in the hall between classes there was this one kid, Tim, who was hassling some other kid and screaming at him. Father Culver, who seemed like he was at least 6’5” came up and grabbed this kid by the throat and slammed him against the lockers and yelled into his face. I was like “this! This is why I’m here!” The education was pretty good although focused on the basics. Not a lot of electives to be had. They promoted themselves as a college prep school and I liked that the emphasis was on being smart whereas in public school if you were smart you were not cool. Not that I was anything near cool. They emphasized things like the proper way to do reports and term papers. I found out when I went to Iowa how many kids had no idea how to do a term paper which seemed really odd. So I don’t regret the sound education I got but I didn’t give a shit about anyone I went to school with. I’ve never kept in contact with anyone in my school and have never gone to any HS reunions either. But that education has led me to my current position as a global moderator on a lame sports message board so it was good for something.
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Post by NOTTHOR on Feb 22, 2021 14:11:22 GMT -6
90 minutes on the bus, holy shit I assume she means "desegregate" here, but this ought to explain it: To segregate the schools they had started bussing black kids from the east side to SW side when I started 7th grade.
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Post by Ginger on Feb 22, 2021 14:38:49 GMT -6
90 minutes on the bus, holy shit I assume she means "desegregate" here, but this ought to explain it: To segregate the schools they had started bussing black kids from the east side to SW side when I started 7th grade. Yea desegregate. They should just desegregated the Italians on the SE side with the poor and rich whites on the SW.
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Post by Ginger on Feb 22, 2021 14:46:51 GMT -6
90 minutes on the bus, holy shit They only had money for a few buses pal. So they had one for the south side that crawled around picking up everyone and unfortunately I was first on that list. Got picked up at 6:01 and got to school about 7:35am. Unfortunately my family was poor when I was in school so I rode that mother fucker for four years. Most of my peers got cars or friends with cars that took them to school for junior and senior year. Not me. I could have caught the bus about 30 minutes later if I wanted to walk a few blocks but I wouldn’t have gotten a seat. You were supposed to sit 3 to a seat before anyone was allowed to stand but having half a cheek on a seat wasn’t sitting, it was squatting with style. When I came home I would sometimes get off early and walk home or I could stay in and get dropped off in front of my house.
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Post by thunderhawk on Feb 22, 2021 18:01:00 GMT -6
One of my brothers went to Dowling. He’s a socialist atheist now.
I’m the “right wing asshole” of the family because I’m insufficiently woke.
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Post by Ginger on Feb 22, 2021 18:32:33 GMT -6
One of my brothers went to Dowling. He’s a socialist atheist now. I’m the “right wing asshole” of the family because I’m insufficiently woke. I don’t think that’s uncommon. I took to heart the social justice teachings of Jesus. I no longer believe the BS that the pope and man teach. I loved mass and a good homily but there’s too much misogyny, too many hypocrites and too much holier than thou attitudes by believers. They can all fuck off. You’re an asshole??? Wow. It sounds like you’re woke enough to admit that. First steps and all.
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Post by NOTTHOR on Feb 22, 2021 21:56:05 GMT -6
One of my brothers went to Dowling. He’s a socialist atheist now. I’m the “right wing asshole” of the family because I’m insufficiently woke. My old lady started going to a Southern Baptist megachurch because she's so pissed off at the pastor at our church rambling on about gay and trans shit incessantly and because our church is closed still. I went once a couple weeks ago. Cult fucking vibe. Rock concert for 15 minutes. Dude in leather jacket who is the "spiritual leader" for 5 minutes. 15 minute sermon on a movie screen that would make an IMAX screen blush. Leather jacket guy for another couple minutes and then two rock songs to shut it down. "Get your asses out of here so we can get the next service in." No Lord's Prayer, no "say hi to your neighbor," no Apostle's Creed, no eucharist, no children's sermon, no organ, no psalms.
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Post by Earl Slick on Feb 23, 2021 9:28:30 GMT -6
One of my brothers went to Dowling. He’s a socialist atheist now. I’m the “right wing asshole” of the family because I’m insufficiently woke. My old lady started going to a Southern Baptist megachurch because she's so pissed off at the pastor at our church rambling on about gay and trans shit incessantly and because our church is closed still. I went once a couple weeks ago. Cult fucking vibe. Rock concert for 15 minutes. Dude in leather jacket who is the "spiritual leader" for 5 minutes. 15 minute sermon on a movie screen that would make an IMAX screen blush. Leather jacket guy for another couple minutes and then two rock songs to shut it down. "Get your asses out of here so we can get the next service in." No Lord's Prayer, no "say hi to your neighbor," no Apostle's Creed, no eucharist, no children's sermon, no organ, no psalms. I went to a tent revival meeting down south once in the 70’s. It was enough of that old time religion to last me a lifetime.
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Post by A boy named Sioux on Feb 23, 2021 10:39:31 GMT -6
One of my brothers went to Dowling. He’s a socialist atheist now. I’m the “right wing asshole” of the family because I’m insufficiently woke. My old lady started going to a Southern Baptist megachurch because she's so pissed off at the pastor at our church rambling on about gay and trans shit incessantly and because our church is closed still. I went once a couple weeks ago. Cult fucking vibe. Rock concert for 15 minutes. Dude in leather jacket who is the "spiritual leader" for 5 minutes. 15 minute sermon on a movie screen that would make an IMAX screen blush. Leather jacket guy for another couple minutes and then two rock songs to shut it down. "Get your asses out of here so we can get the next service in." No Lord's Prayer, no "say hi to your neighbor," no Apostle's Creed, no eucharist, no children's sermon, no organ, no psalms. Did you have to submit a financial statement before attending so they could calculate your require tithing level? When I lived in the souf, I recall a friends wife attended such a church, and if you were not in church on sunday, they sent you a bill for that weeks tithe. F that shit I said.
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Post by Ginger on Feb 23, 2021 10:54:02 GMT -6
My old lady started going to a Southern Baptist megachurch because she's so pissed off at the pastor at our church rambling on about gay and trans shit incessantly and because our church is closed still. I went once a couple weeks ago. Cult fucking vibe. Rock concert for 15 minutes. Dude in leather jacket who is the "spiritual leader" for 5 minutes. 15 minute sermon on a movie screen that would make an IMAX screen blush. Leather jacket guy for another couple minutes and then two rock songs to shut it down. "Get your asses out of here so we can get the next service in." No Lord's Prayer, no "say hi to your neighbor," no Apostle's Creed, no eucharist, no children's sermon, no organ, no psalms. Did you have to submit a financial statement before attending so they could calculate your require tithing level? When I lived in the souf, I recall a friends wife attended such a church, and if you were not in church on sunday, they sent you a bill for that weeks tithe. F that shit I said. They did have to get a tithing statement from our church to submit. So if you didn’t belong to a church it was twice as much tuition. There was a Jewish kid in my class. I’m sure he paid double. My older sister went to Lincoln high at the same time I went to Dowling and after her experiences there my parents decided my younger so sister and brother would also go to Dowling and they did. My grandpa didn’t pay for them. My tuition for freshman year was 450 and by senior year it was 850. I think we had to pay extra for the bus. I think now the tuition to go there is more than going to the U of I.
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Post by socal on Feb 23, 2021 11:44:36 GMT -6
Did you have to submit a financial statement before attending so they could calculate your require tithing level? When I lived in the souf, I recall a friends wife attended such a church, and if you were not in church on sunday, they sent you a bill for that weeks tithe. F that shit I said. They did have to get a tithing statement from our church to submit. So if you didn’t belong to a church it was twice as much tuition. There was a Jewish kid in my class. I’m sure he paid double. My older sister went to Lincoln high at the same time I went to Dowling and after her experiences there my parents decided my younger so sister and brother would also go to Dowling and they did. My grandpa didn’t pay for them. My tuition for freshman year was 450 and by senior year it was 850. I think we had to pay extra for the bus. I think now the tuition to go there is more than going to the U of I. Went to Regina here. Was half-off with Catholic mass duties. Found out after the fact that my inheritance/trust fund went to paying my Regina tuition. If I'd have known I was paying for it when attending, would have went to City vs 6 years of that shit.
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Post by NOTTHOR on Feb 23, 2021 12:10:36 GMT -6
Did you have to submit a financial statement before attending so they could calculate your require tithing level? When I lived in the souf, I recall a friends wife attended such a church, and if you were not in church on sunday, they sent you a bill for that weeks tithe. F that shit I said. They did have to get a tithing statement from our church to submit. So if you didn’t belong to a church it was twice as much tuition. There was a Jewish kid in my class. I’m sure he paid double. My older sister went to Lincoln high at the same time I went to Dowling and after her experiences there my parents decided my younger so sister and brother would also go to Dowling and they did. My grandpa didn’t pay for them. My tuition for freshman year was 450 and by senior year it was 850. I think we had to pay extra for the bus. I think now the tuition to go there is more than going to the U of I. In Chicago, the Catholic schools slide the tuition based on the number of kids. At most schools it goes to 50% for kid 2, 25% for kid 3 and free for kids 4 and above (for parish participating families, of course). They realized the massive economic disincentives to having large families if they were gonna jam people on tuition. I think the one down here does that as well, but it never goes to 0. The one down here wants $16k a year for non-Catholics. That's a lot of coin. We're hopeful that by that time the Mandarin school will go through 12th grade. My boy starts kindergarten at the Japanese Saturday school in a few weeks and The Germ has fucking obliterated the attendance base so I'm guessing I'm gonna get hit for a big chunk of coin for that.
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Post by NOTTHOR on Feb 23, 2021 12:12:57 GMT -6
My old lady started going to a Southern Baptist megachurch because she's so pissed off at the pastor at our church rambling on about gay and trans shit incessantly and because our church is closed still. I went once a couple weeks ago. Cult fucking vibe. Rock concert for 15 minutes. Dude in leather jacket who is the "spiritual leader" for 5 minutes. 15 minute sermon on a movie screen that would make an IMAX screen blush. Leather jacket guy for another couple minutes and then two rock songs to shut it down. "Get your asses out of here so we can get the next service in." No Lord's Prayer, no "say hi to your neighbor," no Apostle's Creed, no eucharist, no children's sermon, no organ, no psalms. Did you have to submit a financial statement before attending so they could calculate your require tithing level? When I lived in the souf, I recall a friends wife attended such a church, and if you were not in church on sunday, they sent you a bill for that weeks tithe. F that shit I said. My wife doesn't work and her Japanese friend who goes there doesn't work, either. The friend said she told them "I earn $0, $0 times 10% is $0."
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Post by thunderhawk on Feb 23, 2021 15:05:46 GMT -6
My old lady started going to a Southern Baptist megachurch because she's so pissed off at the pastor at our church rambling on about gay and trans shit incessantly and because our church is closed still. I went once a couple weeks ago. Cult fucking vibe. Rock concert for 15 minutes. Dude in leather jacket who is the "spiritual leader" for 5 minutes. 15 minute sermon on a movie screen that would make an IMAX screen blush. Leather jacket guy for another couple minutes and then two rock songs to shut it down. "Get your asses out of here so we can get the next service in." No Lord's Prayer, no "say hi to your neighbor," no Apostle's Creed, no eucharist, no children's sermon, no organ, no psalms. Did you have to submit a financial statement before attending so they could calculate your require tithing level? When I lived in the souf, I recall a friends wife attended such a church, and if you were not in church on sunday, they sent you a bill for that weeks tithe. F that shit I said. "The God I believe in isn't short of cash, mister." -Bono, circa 1987
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