Vehicle plows into crowd on Bourbon St., with 14 fatalities

[SirLoinSaint64]

Keeping people safe takes idea's, action, money, and politicians working together with the understanding it's a forever war and you're not going to win every battle. America is lacking in all of those categories.

 

[Sailorsaint]

Yeah that was a rough one for me too.

It was E.T. for me. Still brings tears to my eyes to this day.

 

[sfidc3]

Part of my recent setback was opening up to a woman I was dating. I was honest even though I felt vulnerable. My philosophy has been at 63 that I don't want to waste my time, nor waste the time of another so I'll just be honest from the start. I don't expect perfection and cannot offer it. We don't get this far in life without battle scars.

She used that honesty against me and just made it orders of magnitude harder for me to open up to the next woman. **** that ****, I'll play my cards close to the vest.

Brother, I'm sorry to hear this, hoping for the best for you going forward....Cheers....

 

[Madmarsha]

Part of my recent setback was opening up to a woman I was dating. I was honest even though I felt vulnerable. My philosophy has been at 63 that I don't want to waste my time, nor waste the time of another so I'll just be honest from the start. I don't expect perfection and cannot offer it. We don't get this far in life without battle scars.

She used that honesty against me and just made it orders of magnitude harder for me to open up to the next woman. **** that ****, I'll play my cards close to the vest.

It's not generally acknowledged but a lot of women are butt crevasses, like that one. They are trying to be what they think give men their "strength" in order to be a boss ***** to prove their "strength".

People are stupid.

ETA: This seems to be morphing with guido's marriage thread for some odd reason

 

[buzd]

Bro, I got a little weepy when Tom Hanks lost “Wilson” in Castaway and my wife teases me about it to this day, but not in a mean way. I never know when something is going to get to me but when it does, it just does and so what. We’re too hard on each other in society from so many different angles. We place unrealistic expectations on each other that we can’t achieve ourselves; yet, we expect other people to. We all have our biases and selfish desires, and we have to be intentional about accepting each other on a daily basis.

Many of us are fortunate to have enough emotional intelligence and self control to never do anything like this; but there are also many of us who lack those qualities and this tragedy is yet another horrific example of the results.

I can squeeze out a tear at the end of pretty much any stupid romcom. I don't think that counts.

 

[saintmdterps]

It's not generally acknowledged but a lot of women are butt crevasses, like that one. They are trying to be what they think give men their "strength" in order to be a boss ***** to prove their "strength".

People are stupid.

ETA: This seems to be morphing with guido's marriage thread for some odd reason

Problem being we just had a discussion less than 24 hours prior about how much I hated the holidays, and my reasons why (a ton of personal setbacks in Nov/Dec) and she said she really wanted to make these holidays special. That night I opened up about one last thing and she ended the relationship-with a text. We did talk at length the following day. I assured her it was now over, period, and advised her to behave like an adult in her next relationship.

Point of order-she was in a 20-year verbally and physically abusive marriage for which she never sought adequate counseling. My last bit of advice to her was to get counseling for her sake and the sake of her 3 children aged 16-21. A friend of mine who is a counselor said her behavior was unfortunately textbook for victims of abusive marriages. Reach a certain point in the relationship, get scared by the emotions they feel, then end the relationship on any pretense at all.

Yes, this could migrate to Guido's thread as a cautionary tale. Apologies for the threadjack.

 

[saintmdterps]

Yeah that was a rough one for me too.

Brian's Song
Saving Private Ryan

 

[gummbo70114]

Is now the time to remind you where our state ranks in just about every important metric in the country?

#What’sTheDefinitionOfCrazy

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

It's not generally acknowledged but a lot of women are butt crevasses, like that one. They are trying to be what they think give men their "strength" in order to be a boss ***** to prove their "strength".

People are stupid.

ETA: This seems to be morphing with guido's marriage thread for some odd reason

The worst coworkers I have are all women on an ego trip.

 

[VPCajun]

I would give the benefit of the doubt that they didn't know what they were looking at and were just being curious. If I looked in a cooler and recognized a bomb, I would RUN away .... for my own safety and then also find a cop.

Honestly this makes more sense than that there were 3 other people working with him. Lone crazy dude radicalized by ISIS makes more, um, sense.

Well, if there goal was to get refreshments, they probably overlooked the other stuff...

 

[Tapxe]

Problem being we just had a discussion less than 24 hours prior about how much I hated the holidays, and my reasons why (a ton of personal setbacks in Nov/Dec) and she said she really wanted to make these holidays special. That night I opened up about one last thing and she ended the relationship-with a text. We did talk at length the following day. I assured her it was now over, period, and advised her to behave like an adult in her next relationship.

Point of order-she was in a 20-year verbally and physically abusive marriage for which she never sought adequate counseling. My last bit of advice to her was to get counseling for her sake and the sake of her 3 children aged 16-21. A friend of mine who is a counselor said her behavior was unfortunately textbook for victims of abusive marriages. Reach a certain point in the relationship, get scared by the emotions they feel, then end the relationship on any pretense at all.

Yes, this could migrate to Guido's thread as a cautionary tale. Apologies for the threadjack.

Self sabotage is real. It sucks too when you finally realize how much you do it.

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

Basically the city has not been doing any of the usual pre-Super Bowl prep that any normal city would be doing in the 3-4 years leading up to the game because we have an absentee mayor. Once Landry won he got together with Cantrell and they agreed to hand all the preparations over to Michael Hecht with GNO Inc, who has been spearheading all the various road and other projects - trying to fit 5 years of work into less than 1. This is just another example.

Admittedly, I don't follow Louisiana politics that much since I don't live there and tend to try to keep focused on my own corrupt mayor and governor .... but during the press conferences both yesterday and today, Latoya kept looking Landry in the eye and repeatedly thanked him. It made me uncomfortable and I was like "are they secret lovers? Is she kissing his arse but really hates him? What is going on here???"

Needless to say, these exchanges made me cringe.

 

[brandon8283]

It was E.T. for me. Still brings tears to my eyes to this day.

I literally never cried at movies before my daughter was born.

Now I cry at freaking every mildly emotional moment in every single movie, lol. Defying Gravity from the new Wicked has gotten me like 10 times already, even just the sound track. My daughter plays it just to troll me.

 

[efil4stnias]

Admittedly, I don't follow Louisiana politics that much since I don't live there and tend to try to keep focused on my own corrupt mayor and governor .... but during the press conferences both yesterday and today, Latoya kept looking Landry in the eye and repeatedly thanked him. It made me uncomfortable and I was like "are they secret lovers? Is she kissing his arse but really hates him? What is going on here???"

Needless to say, these exchanges made me cringe.

oh no

There is ZERO love lost between Baton Rouge and New Orleans when it comes to politics.

I would venture to guess it was an "over-the-top" thank you- facetious in nature. I didnt see it but can only imagine.

SE LA would have long seceded from the rest of La using I10 as the dividing line if it could have.