katiekitten
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Rugby World Cup
by katiekitten inwell its a week since johnny wilkinson kicked the frogs into touch on their home turf, and i cant wait for the match tonight.. loads of people at work have bet on an england win (not at the bookies, just in the staff sweepstakes!
) and i cant help thinking they are voting with their hearts rather than their heads.
still coming second is no shame, given how stupendously crap we have been recently.. am off for an all you can eat chinese before the match - gonna need some serious fuel for 8pm, and i think every pizza`delivery man in the land is going to be overworked.. anyone else all revved up for the limb fest that is going to be england v south africa?.
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Suddenly and inexplicably enraged
by katiekitten inmy mum showed me this e-mail her jw friend had sent her last week.. in it the friend explained how wonderful the magazines are and how they provide food at the proper time because they had recently had an article in about ' being prepared for the unexpected'.
the article had told them to have a bag packed with emergency stuff in case they ever needed to leave the house in a hurry.
so they were told to pack dried food, a wallet with important documents in, waterproof clothing etc.. now this, it seems, was pretty relevant because i live in gloucester where were had terrible floods a few weeks ago, and some peoples houses were flooded out, the entire city had its water cut off for a fortnight because the pumping station flooded, and most work places were unable to allow staff in because they were not able to provide flushing toilets or running water.. so my mims friend was totally blown away by how jehovah is so clever - although having dried food and your passport in a waterproof wallet did nothing to help you flush the toilet for a fortnight.. but - now heres to point of this long and rambling story - i suddenly got super angry about this article and its survivialist mentalilty.
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Public talk cut down to 30 minutes
by katiekitten inhas anyone else heard this?
(apologies if this has already been discussed).
my inactive mum has an active jw friend with an elder husband.
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Different magazines
by katiekitten inmy mum recently visited a friend who is still a jw (mum stopped going a few years ago).. the friend told my mum that there are now different magazines printed for jw's and for everyone else.
if this has already been discussed i apologise for the repeat.
as mum left the friend offered mum some magazines and mum said "ah but which ones are you going to give me?!
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Im Pregnant!
by katiekitten inhey gang, ive been away for a while so i thought i would come back with a bang, and share my good news - im 4 months pregnant.. but heres the really weird thing.
littletoe knew before i had told anyone.
he texted me and said "hows the pregnancy going?
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Eurovision Song Contest
by katiekitten indoes anyone watch it?.
it is absolutely the best thing on tv in the uk, because terry wogan commentates.. heres the ukrane entry!!!.
http://www.eurovision-fr.net/histoire/details_07.php?id=62.
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back in the good old days
by katiekitten inwhen i was a kid in the 1970,s there werent as many rules at kingdom hall.
one of the greatest things was that for some reason, if you were below the age of 15 then micro mini dresses with long white socks were considered entirely appropriate dress.
i have a photo of me and my two cousins at kingdom hall in 1977. one cousin was 4, i was 7 and the other was 10. the hems of our dresses all ended at the same point, despite the fact that cousin no 2 was twice as high as cousin no 1, meaning that the younger we were the shorter the dresses we were allowed to wear.
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What can you do with a heroin addict?
by katiekitten inor more to the point, what can you do with your cousin who is in love with a heroin addict, lives with him, has a child to him, is regularly beaten by him to the point that she went into a womens refuge last year, and supports him with all her income because she is the breadwinner.. sigh.. i just got in touch with my cousins again after several years, and i find out my beautiful cousin has been brutalised by this fuckwit for years.
but until she is ready to see hes ruining her life nobody can do anything to help her.. the whole family has given up on saying anything because she always goes back to him.
she loves him.
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What is the nature of addiction?
by katiekitten innoname's topic about the 'the walk of shame' got me thinking about the nature of addiction.. does having an addiction mean you cant help what you are doing?
or that you can help it a little bit?
or that you can help it completely and just arent trying hard enough (essentially the religious position)?.
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Trick or treat
by katiekitten inor as its known in england "give us yer stuff or we'll egg you".. it really isnt the cozy friendly 'kids get dressed up and chat to all the neighbours nicely' that it is portrayed on american tv (remember the et scene?).
i know you guys across the pond love haloween but imo its awful here.
youth crime goes up by 20% in the uk around haloween.. our version is way more menacing.