Conservative Christians are some of the first people to claim they’re being persecuted any time they are blocked from forcing their beliefs on others. They are also the people most likely to persecute others if given the opportunity. The expectation of privilege here is off the chart.
And their behavior is perfectly in keeping with their Talibangelical Christianity and its handmaiden Christian Nationalism. I am just waiting for them to completely rewrite the Bible to fit in with their beliefs. It would be the antithesis of the Jefferson Bible - a tome of hatred and intolerance.
Many church leaders want to be persecuted, it's an adventure fantasy for them. They don't know what the real thing feels like in countries where Christianity is illegal. They've been so sheltered from the real world. By being horrible people, they could bring on actual persecution - supporting MAGA politicians comes to mind. But, some Christians are waking up to what MAGA and Rump is, and they're denouncing him.
'Probably still are' is my bet too. I'm sure there's a lot of white supremacists who are drooling over the thought of SCOTUS ruling that 'sincerely held religious beliefs' trumps regular employment and employee conduct laws. And Thomas and Alito would probably do it. I think Roberts is wary of exactly this outcome, however, which is why to date pretty much all of these pro-religious rulings have had this "yes, but..." logic to them, where the court gives the okay for discrimination or special religious privilege in a specific case, but uses the other side of their mouth to tell us all that the general rules are still intact.
Seems as though we got a real Ash-hole here. What we apparently have is yet another gender absolutist, who thinks that sex and gender are the same thing when they AREN'T, and pretty clearly cannot respect the identity of someone who actively exercises their right to gender self-identity. What's even worse is that Luke Ash would consider going so far as petitioning the government to defund the library to satisfy his desire to be the Ash-hole that he is.
He thinks that sex and gender are the same thing, and that they are a strict binary. He was working at a fucking library, he could have easily found out where he was wrong.
There's also a distinction between what I think and how I act. Most children learn this some time in primary school, eg we might think that this person is a complete twat and yet continue to be polite to him/her/them.
Coming back to this person, no-one disputed that he had the right to hold whatever opinions he holds about people who are not lilly-white, cisgendered, heterosexual, christian whatever. The dispute was about his actions!
I saw that, if briefly. I think maybe the bot didn't like the lack of a hyphen, but who knows. Hell of it is, we were getting along just fine WITHOUT the nannies for a fair while, and I'm more than a little surprised that Hemant is tolerating their presence.
While having some moderation is a good thing to prevent comment sections from devolving into the shitshow that is a Twitter/"X", there needs to be human involvement since nannybots cannot see nuance, hyperbole or sarcasm. Unfortunately, Hemant probably doesn't have the time for that.
The "Replies hidden" link was missing from my page. I refreshed, changed the order, left the page and came back, did not bring it back. Then I went to use the bathroom, came back and "Replies hidden" came back. IDFK.
I was going to say… the “I can always tell” club is often wrong and they have been quite dangerous to all who cross them, transgender and cisgender alike. “Protect the girls” has always been a threat to girls and women, since the dawn of time. And it has never actually protected anyone. It is always just an excuse to be rude (at best) and violent towards those who don’t conform or those who have what the bigots want. The witch trials were about keeping women in their place and taking wealth and property from the widows. This is just more of that.
Worse than just being rude, it's an attempt to put the speaker in a position of control and authority. Luke Ash strikes me as just one more scared little boy who thinks he can use words to control his reality.
You are right though. It is an issue of control, if I can dispute your right to decide whether you're a 'she' or a 'he' or a 'they', if I assume that right and make it mine to decide, then I am denuding you of a good chunk of your personal autonomy. It's not 'bodily autonomy' but it certainly is personal autonomy.
Thank you, for giving me that angle of looking at the issue.
Well he's a conservative evangelical pastor. So of course he's got control issues. No doubt that had this issue not come up, there would've been some other friction he had with the library boss, because he likely was going to play the religion card for just about any policy disagreement.
Can these people not be exported somewhere? Given that they don’t seem to like living in the USA with its church/state separation rules, can they not be enticed to leave and set up their theocracy somewhere?
Exporting them, to me, smacks too much of the: "If you don't love this country, LEAVE IT" mindset. Granted that the indoctrination with people like Luke is pretty strong, and talking him out of his current position, if it's possible at all, would be a long, drawn-out process.
Still, I wonder if, again, given time, the fact that we don't much want to do to him what he would likely LOVE to do to us might just sink in ... MAYBE.
I’ve had an androgynous style or gender expression since I was a teenager and I’ve received a lot of (assumed) anti-lesbian hate from both men and women. This includes a woman on a train once that got up in my face screaming “stop looking at me dyke”. She wanted to fight. I am heterosexual.
I don't understand people who want to fight just because they perceive the other person as different from them. And I grew in the "bad part of town" where I learned at an early age to distrust any strangers.
It’s bizarre. I’ve always assumed that it’s just you existing the way you do scares them regarding something about themselves they don’t like or feel confused about? To be perceived as such a threat. Btw, I had my headphones on and wasn’t looking at anyone. I was jamming out.
In other words, their argument is that far right white Christianity must be catered to, regardless of what anyone else believes. Let him have his job back, then tell him he cannot demand any of his coworkers be disciplined for referring to him as "bigot" instead of he/him or his actual name.
You don't get to create a hostile workplace and demand that your religious rights mandate the hostility.
Nah. Faux-martyr would eat that up. Having inconsequential harms done to them for their faith is exactly what they're looking for - it gives them all the martyrbation feelings they crave, without any actual personal cost.
Quote "demand that your religious rights mandate the hostility."
When it actually doesn't. There are umpteen examples of Jesus being nice to/about disfavoured people, such as customs inspectors, samaritans, prostitutes (I hesitate with the latter, because I am not certain that Mary Magdala is indeed a prostitute or is just a lady who is thought of as having loose morals)
The entitled privilege on display here really is breathtaking.
This guy is making a serious attempt at using protections intended to safeguard minorities from people just like him as a weapon. Never mind that white male Christian nationalists are the favored group in modern US society, Mr. Ash is pretending to have been victimized by the system. The worst part is that it might work; as noted by others elsewhere, the Fifth Circuit is conservative and will likely accommodate Mr. Ash despite the fact that he IS the problem here. This guy lost a government job because he refused to behave in the expected manner after being told to what the consequence would be. He has nothing at all to complain about. If all that weren't enough, he's following a road map laid out by several conservative whiners in the past, and said whiners have been entirely too successful.
Missed a bunch of birthdays yesterday: Patrick Stewart is 86, Harrison Ford is 84 and Cheech Marin is 80. Also, the man who invented the toy to drive you mad. Erno Rubik turned (heh heh) 82.
I have a friend who loves puzzles. Somebody gave me one of those link things you have to take apart as part of Christmas. Took me ages to figure it out, took him about two seconds. So we were in Hong Kong and I saw these 3D jigsaws – plastic things where you had to build something – in this case are pirates' treasure chest. I bought him one and gave it to him triumphantly, and he emailed me – "it was hard took me about half an hour, and I had to sort of force one of the parts in." Bastard.
I have a small collection of mechanical puzzles. It's one of the things I look for at garage sales and flea markets. Those and animal shaped wicker baskets (large collection). I'm not weird at all.
“Man of God” arrested on 90 counts of child molestation — after decades of posing as a defender of “biblical values” on Facebook.
David Mercer, 72, spent years online lecturing his 1.8K Facebook friends about “guarding the hearts and minds” of children, blasting secular schools, and warning that pastors are persecuted and betrayed (of course 🙄). He was, until his arrest, still working as a youth pastor in Folsom, Louisiana.
Now Bossier Parish Sheriff’s deputies say Mercer m*lested at least 4 children between 1989 and 1995, while he was youth minister at Cypress Baptist Church of Benton — a position he resigned from in 1995. He was arrested July 10 without incident and booked into the Bossier Parish Maximum Security Facility on 90 counts of forcible fondling m*lestation of a juvenile.
His bond is set at $2.5 million.
Sheriff Julian Whittington didn’t mince words: “Although nearly 40 years have passed, the passage of time does not lessen the seriousness of these crimes or the impact they have had on those affected.” He’s urging any additional victims or witnesses to come forward — investigators expect more charges and more victims.
"Youth pastor" again – figures. I'm really glad I managed to get through scouts without incident, apart from being kicked out. But better than being abused.
Wearing "winkle pickers" because they were on special and they were all I had because that's what my mother bought, and I didn't have enough sense to beg. Just told them to F off – at least under my breath. They must've heard something because I was told I wasn't welcome.
Luke Ash pronouns:
Fired/unemployable/loser
Amen!
Whiner
I don’t think those technically are used as pronouns…although perhaps with people like this guy running around we ought to start….
Is asshole a pronoun? I ask because this guy is a biological and chromosomal asshole.
It's considered a "vulgar noun." Will that suffice?
I am pro that noun, so it's a pronoun as far as I am concerned.
A-HA!
Conservative Christians are some of the first people to claim they’re being persecuted any time they are blocked from forcing their beliefs on others. They are also the people most likely to persecute others if given the opportunity. The expectation of privilege here is off the chart.
We even made a bigger chart and the expectation of privilege 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 went past the end.
And their behavior is perfectly in keeping with their Talibangelical Christianity and its handmaiden Christian Nationalism. I am just waiting for them to completely rewrite the Bible to fit in with their beliefs. It would be the antithesis of the Jefferson Bible - a tome of hatred and intolerance.
They don't need to leave out much to get to that.
Just a big chunk of what their savior said.
They don't listen to that hippie.
Many church leaders want to be persecuted, it's an adventure fantasy for them. They don't know what the real thing feels like in countries where Christianity is illegal. They've been so sheltered from the real world. By being horrible people, they could bring on actual persecution - supporting MAGA politicians comes to mind. But, some Christians are waking up to what MAGA and Rump is, and they're denouncing him.
Fifty years ago, these people would be throwing a tantrum for having to let Black people into the library.
He'll, privately, they probably still are.
'Probably still are' is my bet too. I'm sure there's a lot of white supremacists who are drooling over the thought of SCOTUS ruling that 'sincerely held religious beliefs' trumps regular employment and employee conduct laws. And Thomas and Alito would probably do it. I think Roberts is wary of exactly this outcome, however, which is why to date pretty much all of these pro-religious rulings have had this "yes, but..." logic to them, where the court gives the okay for discrimination or special religious privilege in a specific case, but uses the other side of their mouth to tell us all that the general rules are still intact.
The library should put a picture of Ash on the wall: "Snowflake Of The Month"
That’s an insult to snowflakes.
Seems as though we got a real Ash-hole here. What we apparently have is yet another gender absolutist, who thinks that sex and gender are the same thing when they AREN'T, and pretty clearly cannot respect the identity of someone who actively exercises their right to gender self-identity. What's even worse is that Luke Ash would consider going so far as petitioning the government to defund the library to satisfy his desire to be the Ash-hole that he is.
I sincerely hope the courts hand Ash his ass.
He thinks that sex and gender are the same thing, and that they are a strict binary. He was working at a fucking library, he could have easily found out where he was wrong.
A librarian who is disinterested in LEARNING is in the wrong profession!
There's also a distinction between what I think and how I act. Most children learn this some time in primary school, eg we might think that this person is a complete twat and yet continue to be polite to him/her/them.
Coming back to this person, no-one disputed that he had the right to hold whatever opinions he holds about people who are not lilly-white, cisgendered, heterosexual, christian whatever. The dispute was about his actions!
Books. What are they for?
Throwing on bonfires for hurting the feelings of the all-knowing all-powerful invincible Sky Daddy!
🎵 (Books) h'uh
Yeah!
(What are they good for?)
Absolutely (nothin) uh-huh, uh-huh
(Books) h'uh
Yeah!
(What are they good for?)
Absolutely (nothin')
Say it again, y'all
(Books) h'uh (h'uh) look out!
(What are they good for?)
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Apologies to Edwin Starr
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I used Ash-hole and got sent to the principal’s office by the bot, so I deleted my comment.
(I also called him Lucy. Bot didn’t like that either)
I saw that, if briefly. I think maybe the bot didn't like the lack of a hyphen, but who knows. Hell of it is, we were getting along just fine WITHOUT the nannies for a fair while, and I'm more than a little surprised that Hemant is tolerating their presence.
I had to add the hyphen in my reply to you so I wouldn't get zapped again.
I think the bot is Substack's idea and that Hemant has no control over it.
While having some moderation is a good thing to prevent comment sections from devolving into the shitshow that is a Twitter/"X", there needs to be human involvement since nannybots cannot see nuance, hyperbole or sarcasm. Unfortunately, Hemant probably doesn't have the time for that.
Now I lost the ability to see banned comments. This place is getting as bad as Patheos.
Did you scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the little arrow next to "replies hidden"?
The "Replies hidden" link was missing from my page. I refreshed, changed the order, left the page and came back, did not bring it back. Then I went to use the bathroom, came back and "Replies hidden" came back. IDFK.
He can *think* whatever he likes about sex, gender, and his co-worker.
As Hemant says, this is really about an employee being fired for harassing another employee.
Yet another case of "I'M BEING SILENCED!" from a guy who belongs to a religion whose followers never shut up.
So called christian beating up on a gay person with a baseball bat:
“You’re hurting my bat! Stop it!”
Ash: I have the right to disrespect people while on the job! But don't you dare disrespect me.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑑, ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑐𝑜-𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑒, 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛 “𝑠ℎ𝑒.” 𝐴𝑠ℎ 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑏𝑦 “ℎ𝑒.”
𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝐴𝑠ℎ, 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑛 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 “𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑒.” (𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑖𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡? 𝑁𝑜 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑠.)
Just how bigoted is Ash-hole? The individual he misgendered could very well have been a cisgender man with an androgynous style.
I was going to say… the “I can always tell” club is often wrong and they have been quite dangerous to all who cross them, transgender and cisgender alike. “Protect the girls” has always been a threat to girls and women, since the dawn of time. And it has never actually protected anyone. It is always just an excuse to be rude (at best) and violent towards those who don’t conform or those who have what the bigots want. The witch trials were about keeping women in their place and taking wealth and property from the widows. This is just more of that.
Worse than just being rude, it's an attempt to put the speaker in a position of control and authority. Luke Ash strikes me as just one more scared little boy who thinks he can use words to control his reality.
He is sadly and badly mistaken.
I hadn't thought of it as an issue of 'control'.
You are right though. It is an issue of control, if I can dispute your right to decide whether you're a 'she' or a 'he' or a 'they', if I assume that right and make it mine to decide, then I am denuding you of a good chunk of your personal autonomy. It's not 'bodily autonomy' but it certainly is personal autonomy.
Thank you, for giving me that angle of looking at the issue.
Well he's a conservative evangelical pastor. So of course he's got control issues. No doubt that had this issue not come up, there would've been some other friction he had with the library boss, because he likely was going to play the religion card for just about any policy disagreement.
Can these people not be exported somewhere? Given that they don’t seem to like living in the USA with its church/state separation rules, can they not be enticed to leave and set up their theocracy somewhere?
Venus is my choice.
Exporting them, to me, smacks too much of the: "If you don't love this country, LEAVE IT" mindset. Granted that the indoctrination with people like Luke is pretty strong, and talking him out of his current position, if it's possible at all, would be a long, drawn-out process.
Still, I wonder if, again, given time, the fact that we don't much want to do to him what he would likely LOVE to do to us might just sink in ... MAYBE.
I’ve had an androgynous style or gender expression since I was a teenager and I’ve received a lot of (assumed) anti-lesbian hate from both men and women. This includes a woman on a train once that got up in my face screaming “stop looking at me dyke”. She wanted to fight. I am heterosexual.
I don't understand people who want to fight just because they perceive the other person as different from them. And I grew in the "bad part of town" where I learned at an early age to distrust any strangers.
It’s bizarre. I’ve always assumed that it’s just you existing the way you do scares them regarding something about themselves they don’t like or feel confused about? To be perceived as such a threat. Btw, I had my headphones on and wasn’t looking at anyone. I was jamming out.
Seems like a reasonable analysis. Why else act aggressively toward someone who isn't doing anything to you?
'Live and let live' is actually a really great maxim to live by.
Now if we could only get people to live by it.
I got that once in a straight bar, because I had cut my hair very short one summer because the style was cute. I'm very femme with either side I date.
It’s true that a simple haircut alone can drive people mad. It makes no sense.
Seriously, have these bigots nothing better to do with their lives than making them miserable for everyone else around them?! Urgh!
No. No, they don't.
But they should.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑦 𝑎 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦’𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑏𝑦 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛.
In other words, their argument is that far right white Christianity must be catered to, regardless of what anyone else believes. Let him have his job back, then tell him he cannot demand any of his coworkers be disciplined for referring to him as "bigot" instead of he/him or his actual name.
You don't get to create a hostile workplace and demand that your religious rights mandate the hostility.
Nah. Faux-martyr would eat that up. Having inconsequential harms done to them for their faith is exactly what they're looking for - it gives them all the martyrbation feelings they crave, without any actual personal cost.
This guy would use this as further reason to sue.
Quote "demand that your religious rights mandate the hostility."
When it actually doesn't. There are umpteen examples of Jesus being nice to/about disfavoured people, such as customs inspectors, samaritans, prostitutes (I hesitate with the latter, because I am not certain that Mary Magdala is indeed a prostitute or is just a lady who is thought of as having loose morals)
And that's the thing. This is NOT Christ-like behavior in the LEAST.
The entitled privilege on display here really is breathtaking.
This guy is making a serious attempt at using protections intended to safeguard minorities from people just like him as a weapon. Never mind that white male Christian nationalists are the favored group in modern US society, Mr. Ash is pretending to have been victimized by the system. The worst part is that it might work; as noted by others elsewhere, the Fifth Circuit is conservative and will likely accommodate Mr. Ash despite the fact that he IS the problem here. This guy lost a government job because he refused to behave in the expected manner after being told to what the consequence would be. He has nothing at all to complain about. If all that weren't enough, he's following a road map laid out by several conservative whiners in the past, and said whiners have been entirely too successful.
Christianity, you ARE the problem.
I wouldn't be surprised if Ash knew of the inclusive policy before he applied and violated it to get fired and play the victim card.
He was probably put up to it by Tony PerKKKins.
jews created christianity and islam, but you all will never talk about that.
That's because it's wrong.
explain how it is wrong. all the twelve apostles were jews.
They rejected Judaism when they decided that Jesus was the Messiah.
Offshoot is a better term.
so judaism is good?
It's just as wrong as all other religions.
you do not believe that the new testament is just midrash of the old testament by jewish mystics?
Nope. Christian mystics.
You really need to post that shit in the original German.
Al twaalf apostels was jode
He complains about what he sees as discrimination and hires Liberty Counsel, a known hate group that discriminates against LGBTQs.
It isn’t discrimination when he does it.
Of course he does. Because he knows they're they only legal outlet that's willing to go to the mat for hate and bigotry.
More likely, Liberty Counsel hired him to have him get a job in order to be a provocateur / plaintiff (snowflake!).
👆🎯
The situation is actually just another case of him being expected to act like everyone else.
That's not discrimination.
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Missed a bunch of birthdays yesterday: Patrick Stewart is 86, Harrison Ford is 84 and Cheech Marin is 80. Also, the man who invented the toy to drive you mad. Erno Rubik turned (heh heh) 82.
Rubik's cube never drove me mad – tried it once threw it in the bin. I hate puzzles.
I like all sorts of puzzles, but not that cursed thing.
I have a friend who loves puzzles. Somebody gave me one of those link things you have to take apart as part of Christmas. Took me ages to figure it out, took him about two seconds. So we were in Hong Kong and I saw these 3D jigsaws – plastic things where you had to build something – in this case are pirates' treasure chest. I bought him one and gave it to him triumphantly, and he emailed me – "it was hard took me about half an hour, and I had to sort of force one of the parts in." Bastard.
I have a small collection of mechanical puzzles. It's one of the things I look for at garage sales and flea markets. Those and animal shaped wicker baskets (large collection). I'm not weird at all.
As long as you don't have all your hair and nail clipping from your entire life in bags in the cellar, you ain't weird.
So, it has to be both. Good to know. ; )
Or bellybutton fluff. I have a vague memory of some guy with jars of the stuff.
Eww.
I used to be able to solve those without any problem. Can't remember some of the middle steps now.
I got 2 sides max.
Do it in layers; top, middle, bottom.
It's a cube. Which is top? Which is side? Which is bottom? :D
I just remembered. I've got a Rubik's cube with pics of naked ladies on the sides. It was solved when I got it. I've never mixed it up.
I cheated, I bought a book with the solution.
Stewart and Ford are still of interest to me, as a straight woman who loves the sci-fi.
Sir Pat is 6 years older than Cheeto Benito, but looks so much younger and 1000% healthier.
Not really OT since this is the xtian pattern
Not a drag queen
Not LGBTQ
Not a protestor
Not an immigrant.
“Man of God” arrested on 90 counts of child molestation — after decades of posing as a defender of “biblical values” on Facebook.
David Mercer, 72, spent years online lecturing his 1.8K Facebook friends about “guarding the hearts and minds” of children, blasting secular schools, and warning that pastors are persecuted and betrayed (of course 🙄). He was, until his arrest, still working as a youth pastor in Folsom, Louisiana.
Now Bossier Parish Sheriff’s deputies say Mercer m*lested at least 4 children between 1989 and 1995, while he was youth minister at Cypress Baptist Church of Benton — a position he resigned from in 1995. He was arrested July 10 without incident and booked into the Bossier Parish Maximum Security Facility on 90 counts of forcible fondling m*lestation of a juvenile.
His bond is set at $2.5 million.
Sheriff Julian Whittington didn’t mince words: “Although nearly 40 years have passed, the passage of time does not lessen the seriousness of these crimes or the impact they have had on those affected.” He’s urging any additional victims or witnesses to come forward — investigators expect more charges and more victims.
https://www.ksla.com/2026/07/13/former-youth-pastor-arrested-decades-old-child-sex-crimes/?outputType=amp
"Youth pastor" again – figures. I'm really glad I managed to get through scouts without incident, apart from being kicked out. But better than being abused.
Knot tying problems? : )
Wearing "winkle pickers" because they were on special and they were all I had because that's what my mother bought, and I didn't have enough sense to beg. Just told them to F off – at least under my breath. They must've heard something because I was told I wasn't welcome.