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HelloNewman

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  1. So how was the pre moistened toilet paper? Are you a believer yet?
  2. After the cameras go away.....house reassesed...property taxes doubled or tripled, family cannot afford it anymore, goes into foreclosure and then trashed. Hope they have a great security alarm because that house will be a target for vandalism too due to all the attention...just put a sign out front that says..."ROB ME"
  3. Especially beaker!!! memememememe!!!!
  4. Only if you try really hard.... they are super strong too. You can get them at all supermarkets in the TP aisle.....up here where I live Wegmans and Tops sell them and any drug store too. They also have coupons in the Sunday paper on occasion.
  5. I never knew how much time I was wasting using the regular dry toilet paper that never worked as well. These things are pre-moistened and with aloe....and septic safe. 2 sheets is all I needed and I was clean as a whistle as opposed to using 5-10 feet of the regular stuff till I felt clean. I wonder how many people in here use this stuff...if not you should try...you will be pleased. (I know I need to get a life but what the hey )
  6. Once an idiot...always an idiot...nice job family!! House for auction I nicknamed this program "Cry me a House" show.
  7. Here is a picture of Harvey Dent as two face...... Two Face photo
  8. I used to enjoy going to the grocery store for the weekly shopping....yes I am a domesticated male...product of a divorced family so I had to learn to "pitch in". Anyway, I cannot believe how much inflation has turned my ice-cream, bread and cereal into bird-size portions. Ice cream used to be a half gallon, then it went to 1.75 qt and now it is 1.5 quarts and the price has gone up to top it off. The same bread I bought at Wegmans for all this time for 99 cents is now about 2/3 of it s original size and my cereal has shrunken by about 1/3. I cannot believe how much I am getting screwed....what's next hot dogs the size of cocktail weiners? Pizzas the size of quarters? I cannot stand being nickel and dimed to death by grocery stores, airlines, restaurants, when will it end? *sigh*
  9. If any of you want to save for college get the Upromise credit card. It gives 1% of the transaction into your unpromise acct....www.upromise.com....good thing to have when saving for college tuition IMHO
  10. My advice to you is to skip the dish because you will not save either way switching...just more headaches. If you are looking to save money try and avoid the DVR thing....not necessary. Not sure if you have an HD tv or not but if you do have an HD set then just a basic HD converter box and turn down the DVR charge which I find unnecessary IMHO...just another way TW can soak ya IMHO....save 6.95 month at least. Then go to radio shack and buy a ethernet cable modem for $40 and use that to hook into your road runner ans skip the 3.00 monthly rental on your modem.....after 13 months of rental the rest will just be pure profit for TW because after 13 months you will be paying more for the modem than the one you bought outright. Get rid of the extra remote too for your coax tv's....use the one you got for the TV. This should save you money....remember cable is a luxury....
  11. All I keep hearing about in the media is the weakening dollar and how the dollar is falling in value against other currency. If I am not mistaken the Canadian dollar is the same value as the american dollar now...good for the canadiens but bad for Americans. What can I do as a consumer/homeowner/taxpayer/american to help stop the weakening dollar and get it back to its higher value? Why is it so weak now?
  12. Well once again I have an ear/sinus infection. For some strange reason I am prone to getting these all the darn time. Yes it could be worse....it is just frustrating...I cannot imagine how anyone who has chronic back/shoulder/neck issues can not go crazy after a while. I have been to the doctor and I am on antibiotics but I still can hear myself when I talk. I feel like I am getting an internal echo in my head
  13. Thanks for all the feedback from everyone so far. I do have to ask permission for everything in that house because the last time I did not I never heard the end of it so I was damned if I did ask and damned if I did not ask permission. When other relatives come to my house I say "make yourself at home." I try not to control them unless necessary and I see them taking a blow torch to the rug or something . Everyone who says I need to minimize contact with her is absolutely positively correct....perhaps meeting in a neutral place is also a correct solution too. Maybe out of the 4 day trip I take 2 days to visit and then 2 days to do other things without them. Unfortunately she is driven by money and it has affected the way she looks at other people who make less or are not as well off as her. It is sad really because she will just end up pushing people away because she talks down to people and is very judgemental towards them (including me and her own parents too). I do not like confrontation and I have discussed this with her many times to no avail...it just resets itself every time we go down to visit. I have to prove again and again that I am not a retarded 3 year old. When I mention what transpired to my in-laws they lift their eyebrows and wonder what her problem is. Anyway, she does not bring much to the table for me either so why bother? My little niece will still get gifts and presents and cards mailed to her because it is not her fault but for my sanity I need to keep her at a distance and contact to a minimum.
  14. I have an older sister (4 years) who is married and lives out of town in VA while I live in NY. I am 38 and she is 42. She is married and has an adopted daughter from China who is 2.5yrs old (very cute and I love her to death) and I have a daughter who is 22 months who amazes me everyday and I love very much like any father would. We lead very different lives...she is a top executive earning 180,000/yr and I barely crack 30,000/yr . She lives her life in controlled chaos. She is highly opinionated, thinks it is "all about her" in life due to her job status, loves money, loves to spend money, loves to yell when she disciplines her daughter, loves confrontation, feels she is entitled to know everything about me, and has zero sense of humor, and walks around with her emotions on her sleeve all the time. My wife and I run a quiet household where discipline is firm and not loud, my daughter is a great kid who listens 98% of the time, gets praise when she puts something away or does something helpful, is very smart, and my wife and I try our hardest to make sure she grows up with a sense of self esteem. We are not the perfect parents by any means and we have our struggles like anyone else. We run a household that is much more low key and less chaotic than my sister. Anyway, the whole point is... we are just two very different people and I am glad she lives far away cause she drives me nuts with her lack of respect for me as a 38 year old man. Her and her husband like to treat me as if I am an invalid who wears depends and lives secluded in a basement and cannot possibly handle life for some reason that is beyond me. Well my wife and I decided that it is important for our daughter to spend time with her cousin even though it is going to require a 10 hour car trip and other expenses on our part. We think it is important for my daughter to see family regardless of what I think of them. So I made sure I try my darndest to "bite my tongue" to be civil when my sister says or does something inappropriate towards me or my family. So we made the trip and went to visit and made sure we stayed in a hotel to get a break when needed. Sure enough not even 1/2 day into our 3 day visit the toxicity starts. Here are some examples.... 1) I ask if it is ok to watch some TV while the kids go out and play with their respective mothers watching them....my sister tells me to not touch anything on the remote in a tone like I was 3 yrs old and proceeds to turn it on for me and shows me how to change the channel and turn the volume up and down on a simple basic remote. (They have no elaborate setup here and I can figure it out myself since I have one at home thank you.) 2) I ask if it is ok to run some wash at her house since the hotel does not have one. She proceeds to tell me that I have only permission to push "power" then "start only"on both units because it is an expensive machine. I own 2 expensive machines at home with many buttons and I have not broken anything so far. (I guess I am too dumb to figure out how to select cycles/temps on a machine which is pretty self explanatory.) 3) We constantly get unsolicited advice and warnings from them about how we should be raising our child and statements like "Just you wait until she reaches 3 then you will know how tough it is like what we are going through now." She tends to imply that we have no idea what it is like to raise a child. Her opinions are the only ones that matter even though her family unit is toxic. 4) Both her and her husband like to yell at their daughter and if my daughter is next to her cousin while the yelling is going on it frightens her and she starts to get scared and cries. They have no concept of how loud they are and to pull their kid aside and discipline them. Needless to say this angers us to no end and we mentioned it to them but it falls on deaf ears. Anyway, after many instances of being talked down to.....the 3rd day into our visit and I have no more tongue left from biting it so hard....Our daughter goes to bed at 7:30-8pm and I let my sis know at 4:45pm that we need to go back to the hotel at 7:30pm after a long visit. My sister proceeds to tell me "7:30?? Isn't that a little early?" Her child has a much later bed time and they are constantly running late for everything they do. The husband goes out to a nearby grocery store to get food to grill on at 4:50pm and the kids and mommies go out to play in the yard after I have received my instruction on how operate the remote . Before I know it it is 6:50pm and no sign of the husband and nothing has happened in the dinner dept. I call my wife on the celll phone outside for privacy and tell her the time and that we need to leave in the near future because her bed time is appproaching around the corner (I would have gladly streched it an extra half hour if necessary but things are not happening like that). So my wife tells my sis outside who calls her husband and asks where the hell is he? To make a long story short he comes huffing into the house at 7:15pm and proceeds to stomp around the house like a little boy and says "after today I am done." to my sister. I of course try to bite my tongue and not get into any arguments but my sister who loves confrontation proceeds to tell me that I made a "federal case out of this." Not wanting to get into an argument or shouting match that my sister loves to do...I pick up my daughter, her things, my things, and proceed to walk out of the house quietly to my car then I call my wife and ask her to come to the car and she does and I say"get in...we are leaving." She reluctently does and tries to do the right thing and calls them and says we are heading back to the hotel. She gets an earful from my sister on the other end who lauches into a tirade about how they bent over backwards for us and that we are being ungrateful....blah...blah...blah. I have had enough emotional abuse from her and her chaotic ways and decide to end the visits so we spend the final day doing other things without them(and enjoying it) and drive home the following morning. My daughter gave us some no so subtle hints she is ready to leave to and had enough. I refuse to get into a fight with a crazy person like her because it is fruitless and I want to set an example for my child. I need space and I am through talking with them and they think I am using the children as a bargaining chip for some reason. We will not do that. Did I handle this correctly? Any help or advice is appreciated...thanks
  15. He must be gay....no shirt on while drinking with other guys....yeah that must be it...
  16. I feel sorry for that family....imagine having to compete with 17 other children for your parents affection....Sounds to me like the kids are nothing more than chore doers and mommy does not know when to keep her legs closed because "God willed it that way"....yeah right get over yourself.
  17. I do not drive a big gas guzzler either...a toyota Yaris. But with the costs of everything going up lately I cannot help but feel like I am being strung up by my toes. I am just curious....how much does it take to fill up your tank? Mine is about 30.00 for the Yaris tank....
  18. All I can say is that dancing at the line of scrimmage will not work in the NFL...all it will get you is stuffed in the NFL. He is looking like dancin mcGahee in those videos.
  19. I have a bad case of farting in our bed for about 10 minutes one right after the other...sometimes I even farted on her leg to hear her say "gross" If my wife eats a hard boiled egg and farts it can drive the cats upstairs for the rest of the day.
  20. Beat you all!!! BORN!!!!
  21. Just do like my area does....throw it out at the curb and every hobo and drug addict will emerge from under the rocks and start sifting through it and taking what they can sell for drugs except the village drunk who will wobble on by and use it for a toilet.
  22. Yes...she is not pregnant...trust me and no she does not have anyone on the side.... trust me on that one too
  23. Well my wife woke up this morning and proceeded "to call ralph on the big white phone"....disgusting!! She barfed 3 times this morning and proceeded to barf again at about 7pm. I love her to death do not get me wrong but the smell of it and hearing it happen is gross. No she is not drunk and she does not have food poisioning but it is still gross. yuck
  24. This is one of the dumber videos I found but after watching it about half way I started to chuckle cause of the silliness of it all..... Batman on Drugs
  25. Sister Mary Katherine entered the Monastery of Silence. The Priest said, "Sister, this is a silent monastery. You are welcome here as long as you like, but you may not speak until directed to do so. " Sister Mary Katherine lived in the monastery for 5 years before the Priest said to her, "Sister Mary Katherine, you have been here for 5 years. You may speak two words." Sister Mary Katherine said, "Hard bed." "I'm sorry to hear that," the Priest said, "We will get you a better bed." After another 5 years, Sister Mary Katherine was summoned by the Priest. "You may say another two words, Sister Mary Katherine." "Cold food," said Sister Mary Katherine, and the Priest assured her that the food would be better in the future. On her 15th anniversary at the monastery, the Priest again called Sister Mary Katherine in to his office. "You may say two words today." "I quit," said Sister Mary Katherine. "It's probably best," said the Priest, "You've done nothing but B word since you got here."
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