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So broke,

I think prostitution might not be that bad of an idea.

I don't remember the last time i had chocolate.

I'm actually considering getting married.

I don't ever want kids.

I can't afford to be fat.

I want to move to Canada.

in short i can't find a freaking job!!!! aggrrrrrivating...

Omni_Skittles;1358798 wrote: So broke,

I think prostitution might not be that bad of an idea.

I don't remember the last time i had chocolate.

I'm actually considering getting married.

I don't ever want kids.

I can't afford to be fat.

I want to move to Canada.

in short i can't find a freaking job!!!! aggrrrrrivating...


Hi and welcome back stranger!

Canada is just the same concerning employment, you have to keep submitting resume's to the same company once a month!

You will eventually find something.

then again, prostitution does pay well!:sneaky::yh_rotfl

I hesitate to ask whether that was the voice of experience.

Chocolate would give you acne, Skittles. It's only permissible as compensation for not having the important things like a quick brain and minimal years on the clock.

Consider how many less able people manage to find employment, and then mail your paperwork through a few more doors every day. Have you considered qualifying as a preacher?

Congratulations. You are the member of a noble underground, the unemployed, although at this time you might not appreciate that fact. Many years from now when you have achieved success remember these times and when you see some politician or one of your neighbours raves on about the feckless layabouts that can't be bothered getting a job be understanding. Resist the urge to belt them one. Try not to laugh when you hear it is the lazy unemployed that are ruining the country, or the greedy workers demands that have forced companies to move abroad and how your right to join a union and have them negotiate on your behalf wrecked the economy. When someone tells you you should move to another area to get employment refrain from asking them to lend you the money so you can travel and have the means to support the hunt, refrain from asking forcefully how many employers will take on someone that doesn't live locally there or is in temporary accomodation sopending their savings while they job hunt. When some pillock of an employement exchange (or US equivalent) asks you to prove you have been jobhunting point out in a polite manner that you have no control over whether employers will even bother acknowledging your application. They do not understand you will be a better person because you will.

Buy toilet paper with the face off your favourite politician on it (being american you mioght not spot it but that I'm being ironic) at least then, in a small way, you will have helped the bastard achieve something useful.

You do realize how cold it gets in Canada?:yh_rotfl

Omni_Skittles;1358798 wrote: So broke,

I think prostitution might not be that bad of an idea.

I don't remember the last time i had chocolate.

I'm actually considering getting married.

I don't ever want kids.

I can't afford to be fat.

I want to move to Canada.

in short i can't find a freaking job!!!! aggrrrrrivating...


Maybe you can create your own job. Your town of Waxahachie is a small one (22,000 or so) and 30 miles south of Dallas ($$$ commuting to Dallas)-----------Could you hire out as a house cleaner at $15 per hour? Taking the elderly to doc appointments and grocery shopping for them. Yard care-------lawns and shrubs (borrow equipment) $15 per hour

I hope you are not considering marriage because you can't find a job.

I think Skittles should busk until she gets a job offer. What can you play, skittles? Anyone can sound soulful on an harmonica.

Lon;1358870 wrote: Maybe you can create your own job. Your town of Waxahachie is a small one (22,000 or so) and 30 miles south of Dallas ($$$ commuting to Dallas)-----------Could you hire out as a house cleaner at $15 per hour? Taking the elderly to doc appointments and grocery shopping for them. Yard care-------lawns and shrubs (borrow equipment) $15 per hour

I hope you are not considering marriage because you can't find a job.


OK place names like auchtermuchty and ecclefechan sound falrly rude but waxahachie? What's a hachie and why would you want to wax it?

gmc;1358891 wrote: OK place names like auchtermuchty and ecclefechan sound falrly rude but waxahachie? What's a hachie and why would you want to wax it?


Its American Indian. Means Buffalo Creek. They don't do much waxing but they were known for scalping.

YZGI;1358898 wrote: Its American Indian. Means Buffalo Creek. They don't do much waxing but they were known for scalping.


Interesting, Place names derived from the language of the indigenous people I find interesting, they're often descriptive, auchtermuchty means field of the boars. ecclefachan is part old british (welsh) and part gaelic.

YZGI;1358848 wrote: You do realize how cold it gets in Canada?:yh_rotfl


excuse me?:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Lon;1358870 wrote: Maybe you can create your own job. Your town of Waxahachie is a small one (22,000 or so) and 30 miles south of Dallas ($$$ commuting to Dallas)-----------Could you hire out as a house cleaner at $15 per hour? Taking the elderly to doc appointments and grocery shopping for them. Yard care-------lawns and shrubs (borrow equipment) $15 per hour

I hope you are not considering marriage because you can't find a job.
marry a rich engineer was an idea.... but like have no kids cause they screw you over in the cash department.

gmc;1358891 wrote: OK place names like auchtermuchty and ecclefechan sound falrly rude but waxahachie? What's a hachie and why would you want to wax it?lol that's where i went to school... i'm in houston actually, nasa's shutting down, and pretty much all the "summer jobs" are taken by teachers.

spot;1358872 wrote: I think Skittles should busk until she gets a job offer. What can you play, skittles? Anyone can sound soulful on an harmonica.uhhh i'm not talented

spot;1358809 wrote: I hesitate to ask whether that was the voice of experience.

Chocolate would give you acne, Skittles. It's only permissible as compensation for not having the important things like a quick brain and minimal years on the clock.

Consider how many less able people manage to find employment, and then mail your paperwork through a few more doors every day. Have you considered qualifying as a preacher?I do have 21 hours of bible classes..... maybe i should look into that

Omni_Skittles;1358925 wrote: I do have 21 hours of bible classes..... maybe i should look into that


It can't harm anything, alongside all your other applications. Joel Osteen at Lakewood Church would size you up if you told him God wants you to minister full-time, he's pretty close.

spot;1358934 wrote: It can't harm anything, alongside all your other applications. Joel Osteen at Lakewood Church would size you up if you told him God wants you to minister full-time, he's pretty close.


funny thing about that... the graphics director there has taught me a lot of what i know... but the closest thing i'd get is an internship that not even my school will approve

Any Chik Fil A's near you? They would hire you for the summer or longer while you finish school. All the kids at church came home from Bible college for the summer, and they are busy working there. *making me lots of shakes*

Some folks are so broke they can't pay attention long enough to pay their respects.

chonsigirl;1358943 wrote: Any Chik Fil A's near you? They would hire you for the summer or longer while you finish school. All the kids at church came home from Bible college for the summer, and they are busy working there. *making me lots of shakes*lol along with the other 50 applicants? lol sadly they're not hiring...

Omni_Skittles;1358955 wrote: lol along with the other 50 applicants? lol sadly they're not hiring...


What about seasonal farm work? I spent my unemployed years picking fruit and brocolli to keep my head above water. I can still close my eyes and see flelds of brocolli stretching out before me. My wife can't undestand why I refuse to eat it. Grape picking in france or australia appealed more but when you don't have enough for the fares:(

Fruit Picking Australia

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It's easier and relatively cheaper to travel now. Just staying where you are can be pretty depressing. Gorgeous texan seeks seasonal employment - anywhere else but texas and you will be viewed as somerthing exotic and interesting with the boys flocking round like flies, or stay at home and be depressed, does no harm to consider alternatives. What most people who have been long tern unemployed just don't get is that you get turned down for jobs because you don't have any experience - but how do you get that experience - and the longer you have been unemployed you get those idiots who think it's because you are not trying.

gmc;1358979 wrote: What about seasonal farm work? I spent my unemployed years picking fruit and brocolli to keep my head above water. I can still close my eyes and see flelds of brocolli stretching out before me. My wife can't undestand why I refuse to eat it. Grape picking in france or australia appealed more but when you don't have enough for the fares:(

Fruit Picking Australiathat seems pretty interesting... i will most definitely look into it hahaha

Picking Jobs - Search Results

Picking Jobs - the international job site linking employers with seasonal workers

It's easier and relatively cheaper to travel now. Just staying where you are can be pretty depressing. Gorgeous texan seeks seasonal employment - anywhere else but texas and you will be viewed as somerthing exotic and interesting with the boys flocking round like flies, or stay at home and be depressed, does no harm to consider alternatives. What most people who have been long tern unemployed just don't get is that you get turned down for jobs because you don't have any experience - but how do you get that experience - and the longer you have been unemployed you get those idiots who think it's because you are not trying.i will certainly look into this! lol seems interesting can't be too hard to pick fruit lol

Omni_Skittles;1358924 wrote: uhhh i'm not talented


Have you ever actually pushed air back and forth through an harmonica? It's impossible not to make a tune, and the less recognizable it is the more bluesy people will mistake you to be. When in doubt, slow it down and sob. You might make a fortune if a passing record executive signs you up to his label.

spot;1359073 wrote: Have you ever actually pushed air back and forth through an harmonica? It's impossible not to make a tune, and the less recognizable it is the more bluesy people will mistake you to be. When in doubt, slow it down and sob. You might make a fortune if a passing record executive signs you up to his label.


I have played the harmonica for 60 years---------everything from Blues to Classical---------Malaguena is my favorite piece.

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Lon;1359078 wrote: I have played the harmonica for 60 years---------everything from Blues to Classical---------Malaguena is my favorite piece.oh em snaps! is that really you jumping???? you've got to be the coolest um +25 person i know...

spot;1359073 wrote: Have you ever actually pushed air back and forth through an harmonica? It's impossible not to make a tune, and the less recognizable it is the more bluesy people will mistake you to be. When in doubt, slow it down and sob. You might make a fortune if a passing record executive signs you up to his label.my brother has a set of harmonicas, why a set? i dont know but maybe i'll give it a whirl.

Omni_Skittles;1359088 wrote: my brother has a set of harmonicas, why a set? i dont know but maybe i'll give it a whirl.


If your brother has a SET of harmonicas they are in different keys and he must play fairly well to have a set instead of just one.

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A chromatic's a very different creature Lon - it brings Larry Adler to mind, it's a virtuoso concert instrument. Do you ever use a plain small pocket harp? Which do you prefer the sound of?

If you blow each of that set in turn at the same place, Skittles, you'll get a sound that's one note higher than the one before. It means each has a different range, and you'd choose one over another so you could play more or less happy or woebegone on account of where the flats and sharps move to.

spot;1359092 wrote: A chromatic's a very different creature Lon - it brings Larry Adler to mind, it's a virtuoso concert instrument. Do you ever use a plain small pocket harp? Which do you prefer the sound of?

If you blow each of that set in turn at the same place, Skittles, you'll get a sound that's one note higher than the one before. It means each has a different range, and you'd choose one over another so you could play more or less happy or woebegone on account of where the flats and sharps move to.


I don't read music and learned to play simple songs on a small Honer when I was 10 years old. It took me a full year to master "Home on the Range" & "Red River Valley" without mistakes. Then I discovered that I could hear a song on the radio and duplicate it on the harmonica, but not being able to play some of the notes lead to the Chromatic which I continue to prefer. I can play most songs after hearing them once or twice and the more difficult songs take more practice. I like the piece MEMORIES from "Cats", but it took some practice to get it right.



YouTube - Cats Musical - Memory

Omni_Skittles;1358925 wrote: I do have 21 hours of bible classes..... maybe i should look into that


Does the bible actually allow females to be preachers?

Should Women Be Pastors and Elders? | Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry

There is a guy named David Harp that has a great little series of books on playing blues harp.

yaaarrrgg;1359112 wrote: Does the bible actually allow females to be preachers?Not if you insist the recommended practices of the early church and apostolic injunctions are binding on all generations. You need to be pretty sad to think that way though.

There will always be some church traditionalists who refuse to make communion with other Christians because the others fail some test or other, nearly always to do with who they recognize as authentic priests. The bible neither allows nor disallows anything. People do that when they decide what authority the book has for them, and what the words mean and who they apply to.

Lon;1359090 wrote: If your brother has a SET of harmonicas they are in different keys and he must play fairly well to have a set instead of just one.that is exactly what it looks like lol

yaaarrrgg;1359112 wrote: Does the bible actually allow females to be preachers?

Should Women Be Pastors and Elders? | Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry

There is a guy named David Harp that has a great little series of books on playing blues harp.
actually, i still have a professor at my school who thinks women shouldn't preach and calls us a waste of time for lack of remembering his fancy college terms... i think there will always be these battles in anything and women doing something.

Omni_Skittles;1359118 wrote: actually, i still have a professor at my school who thinks women shouldn't preach and calls us a waste of time for lack of remembering his fancy college terms... i think there will always be these battles in anything and women doing something.


I completely agree with the modern view that females are equals, and think the old view is becoming increasingly an embarrassment to the church. Though is it fair to say your professor still thinks this way, because this is the view put forward in the Bible? It explicitly says that females shouldn't even make noise in a church. Whether we like it or not, the bible puts females as second class citizens.

Similarly many more Christians today think that openly gay people should not be preachers, because the bible is as homophobic as it is misogynistic.

One can always replace the biblical teachings with modern viewpoints .. and that's probably the best approach to take when there's a conflict with common sense. At the same time, it's worth considering that this practice would have landed a person under a pile of rocks if our society still took what the Bible said seriously. If we are just making things up, and calling it religion, why even start with a text that promotes such backward values?

yaaarrrgg;1359120 wrote: I completely agree with the modern view that females are equals, and think the old view is becoming increasingly an embarrassment to the church. Though is it fair to say your professor still thinks this way, because this is the view put forward in the Bible? It explicitly says that females shouldn't even make noise in a church. Whether we like it or not, the bible puts females as second class citizens.

Similarly many more Christians today think that openly gay people should not be preachers, because the bible is as homophobic as it is misogynistic.

One can always replace the biblical teachings with modern viewpoints .. and that's probably the best approach to take when there's a conflict with common sense. At the same time, it's worth considering that this practice would have landed a person under a pile of rocks if our society still took what the Bible said seriously. If we are just making things up, and calling it religion, why even start with a text that promotes such backward values? uh... do you listen to yourself?

Omni_Skittles;1359122 wrote: uh... do you listen to yourself?


Yes usually, though I doubt you bothered listening. Your professor is actually right on this one .. you are wasting your money on a Bible degree, if that's what you are doing. Because most people that call themselves Christians have already decided that they'd never hire you. Though he's happy to continue taking your money and not kick you out of the class, like you will be kicked out of the professional community.

Come to Ireland, the govenment pays more to you for being on welfare than what you would make in a low paying job.

You would get:

1. Welfare payments

2. rental allowance

3. free medical

4. (and if you have a kid) as single mother's allowance

If you are working you have to pay:

1. huge tax

2. additional health levy on your income

3. pay €55.00 just to walk into a doctors office.

Come to Ireland and be unemployed.. heck we even borrow over a €billion a year just to keep the unemployed happy and pay them.

Mike, you can't be pretending Skittles would qualify for any of those welfare payments just by arriving in the country. She certainly wouldn't in England.

yaaarrrgg;1359125 wrote: Yes usually, though I doubt you bothered listening. Your professor is actually right on this one .. you are wasting your money on a Bible degree, if that's what you are doing. Because most people that call themselves Christians have already decided that they'd never hire you. Though he's happy to continue taking your money and not kick you out of the class, like you will be kicked out of the professional community. :)like we said in junior high... ohhhhhh buuuuuurrrrrrnnnnnn, someone call the fire department cause i just got burnedddddddd ooooohhhh snaps!

mikeinie;1359128 wrote: Come to Ireland, the govenment pays more to you for being on welfare than what you would make in a low paying job.

You would get:

1. Welfare payments

2. rental allowance

3. free medical

4. (and if you have a kid) as single mother's allowance

If you are working you have to pay:

1. huge tax

2. additional health levy on your income

3. pay €55.00 just to walk into a doctors office.

Come to Ireland and be unemployed.. heck we even borrow over a €billion a year just to keep the unemployed happy and pay them.that's sad what a world we live in.

mikeinie;1359128 wrote: Come to Ireland, the govenment pays more to you for being on welfare than what you would make in a low paying job.

You would get:

1. Welfare payments

2. rental allowance

3. free medical

4. (and if you have a kid) as single mother's allowance

If you are working you have to pay:

1. huge tax

2. additional health levy on your income

3. pay €55.00 just to walk into a doctors office.



Come to Ireland and be unemployed.. heck we even borrow over a €billion a year just to keep the unemployed happy and pay them.


just like Canada Mike;)

Odie;1359164 wrote: just like Canada Mike;)


You're saying if Skittles went to Canada she'd be put on welfare if she asked?

Do you really think that's true?

spot;1359166 wrote: You're saying if Skittles went to Canada she'd be put on welfare if she asked?

Do you really think that's true?


anyone who comes from a different country with no money applies for welfare, what else are they going to live on spot?

problem is, we pay for it from our tax's..some find jobs.....most sit at home all day drinking beer and playing video games.

Odie;1359169 wrote: anyone who comes from a different country with no money applies for welfare, what else are they going to live on spot?

problem is, we pay for it from our tax's..some find jobs.....most sit at home all day drinking beer and playing video games.


My word, you have such odd misconceptions. The real world and your mind just don't meet up.

You seriously think what you just wrote is the truth, don't you.

I can't speak for all countries, but New Zealand requires proof of financial stability if you plan to stay for any length of time and if you are going for just 30-60-90 days you must show proof of a return ticket out of the country. However, if you are a Kiwi, dole benefits are generous and aplenty.

Lon;1359172 wrote: However, if you are a Kiwi, dole benefits are generous and aplenty.I'm sure the Irish[1] are eligible for Irish welfare and Canadians are eligible for Canadian welfare, too. The idea that Skittles can just show up in either country and sign on is ludicrous though.









[1] and, possibly, other EU citizens on account of the devolved sovereignty involved. But definitely not Americans!

spot;1359170 wrote: My word, you have such odd misconceptions. The real world and your mind just don't meet up.

You seriously think what you just wrote is the truth, don't you.




You need proof of all finances, but yup.....its just that simple.



you wouldn't know spot as you don't have 260,000 immigrants landing there like Canada does.

you really live a very sheltered life spot.

Odie;1359184 wrote: You need proof of all finances, but yup.....its just that simple.



you wouldn't know spot as you don't have 260,000 immigrants landing there like Canada does.

you really live a very sheltered life spot. lol i know a customs agent who'd sneak me in =)) (joke btw) and also, i am still applying for jobs so no need to fret me going to your country and living off welfare.

Omni_Skittles;1359135 wrote: like we said in junior high... ohhhhhh buuuuuurrrrrrnnnnnn, someone call the fire department cause i just got burnedddddddd ooooohhhh snaps!


You're getting burned by the Christian community, not me. I think you are qualified as anyone to be a minister/preacher/priest.

Omni_Skittles;1359135 wrote: like we said in junior high... ohhhhhh buuuuuurrrrrrnnnnnn, someone call the fire department cause i just got burnedddddddd ooooohhhh snaps!


Maybe you could start your own religion - the way of the omni skittle - and get people to give you money as you sell them courses that allow them to work their way to enlightenment and once they've bought all the courses they get to become full members of the forumgarden. This is a place where the spirits live and communicate their wisdom, they are aliens with very strange names that can never ne utteres but also some who are human with names that can be pronounced who have managed to reach what is kmnown as senior member status.

OK L Ron Hubbard did it first but that only proves there are many gullible people out there just waiting for the right answers.