Because I never had a job that I could do from home, not having to drive to work in the morning and back home in the evening is one of the best things about retirement. Three times in my career I purposely picked a place to live in close proximity to my work location only to be fucked by the corporation moving my work location to another part of town a short time later.
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Obviously priests arenât all pedophiles. However, the organization they represent has a long, horrific and continuing record of harboring and protecting pedophiles. Until the church rights its ship in this regard - which would include a complete confession of its sins - itâs going to remain an unfortunate stereotype.
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Do they wear hoods as they are driven to school?
Sometimes people buy houses in the suburbs because their job is in the suburbs. At least for the time being.
They have a responsible adult to point out and explain the wages of sin.
I was gonna go with something about dad wearing a hood on a Saturday night out with the boys, but itâs a tough crowd.
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Thatâs how you end up with those Essex girls.
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I have no need for you to express any admiration. Youâre just making a cheap joke that has nothing to do with the subject at hand. I expect no less but that doesnât make it any less hackneyed.
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Are stereotypes good? I canât control what the Vatican does, but serious question, what could the church do now that would make you stop making the joke? Itâs an easy joke, just not a good one. It doesnât hold anyone accountable nor doesnât comfort those that were abused.
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It wasnât a joke.
You arenât getting paid while you sit in traffic. You also arenât spending quality time with your family. Youâre in limbo, literally wasting away a significant portion of your life while incurring direct and indirect costs (e.g. gas, maintenance and depreciation on your car).
At best youâre listening to a podcast while pouring all the venom and hate you can muster into the back of the head of the driver in front.
Please, o Lord, strike down someone famous (preferably someone very bad) to restore this thread to its rightful purpose.
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At least they never stoned anyone to death or chopped anyoneâs head off. Or charged an overly high interest rate.
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One would argue (not me, but others who enjoy that lifestyle) that the quality time comes from kids having their own room and with having a backyard and a swimming pool and decorating the house Clark Griswold styleâŚnot the extra hour with dad before supper. That having a suburban lifestyle offers things with family that one doesnât get in a 2-bedroom apartment in the city.
And the guilty pleasures of pure A.M. gold on the radio. Where else would you find time to sing along to the Carpenters?
I get to work from home now (clearly, âworkâ means righteous ranting on baseball message boards), and Iâm not sure how much of a salary bump it would take to get me to go back to an office. My company re-opened the office, but few employees came back. They ended up sub-leasing literally half the office space, and now there are âhotel desksâ available on a first-come basis.
Oh, and since 2020, my officeâs revenue has increased each year and we have outperformed an increased target each year. The guy who runs the office was adamant that everyone had to come back to the office after the pandemic; now he sees the value of increased productivity and reduced overhead in his bonus every year.
Just an insult for no damn reason? Duly noted.
Right. And this is kind of the point. If you can live closer to where you work, then thatâs great. If you canât, giving you only the option of driving to work is what creates the expensive mess we have today.
Just an observation.
Observational comedy.
What could the church do? Confess. Tell us what it knows and suffer whatever consequences come therefrom.
Right now, the church is being run by a lot of the same people involved in the cover up, and some may well have been perpetrators themselves. How can the church expect forgiveness without contrition?
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It has. Doesnât matter to most people. Which is their choice, but donât pretend itâs what they want.
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