John Flushing

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    Strange, but the headline made me think of those off-hour TV preachers who were healing by the "power of God". She can see again, he can walk again! lol :lol:

    As an evangelical Christian, what I think is ridiculous and serves no purpose (other than being a showoff/clown and thereby providing entertainment) is when the preachers on T.V. yell "FIRE" in a crowded building and they knock people over.

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    I don't wear anything that could be considered an accessory, aside from a holster for my cell phone. No watch, rings, necklaces, or even belt buckles. But I'm mostly a jeans and t-shirts guy.

    For whatever it's worth, I personally never wear short sleeved shirts (unless I wear a long sleeved shirt underneath the short sleeved shirt) nor pairs of shorts.

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    My personal theory is that enthusiastic people like to talk about their motorcycles and when they see a fellow motorcyclist, they assume that I like to talk about mine as much as they like to talk about theirs.

    To me driving is a chore. It is simply what has to be done-nothing more and nothing less. I ultimately have as much as enthusiasm for driving a motorcycle as I have for using a clothes washer to do laundry.

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    I am fed up and had it with the random strangers who barrage me with annoying questions about my vehicle every time I go to buy fuel. I just want to be left alone. I want to pump my fuel in peace. I do not know you. I am not interested in your conversation.

    I hate the fact that the English language only has one word for love (despite the fact that there are other languages which have multiple words). If I do choose to get married someday, then the love I have for my wife and the love I have for my daughter are going to be two very different things, in the same way that apples and oranges are two different things. If there is only one word for love, then by that logic, there should also be only one word for apples/oranges/grapefruits/etcetera.

    This ultimately means that I cannot tell my female friends how much I love them. I fear it might sound like I'm being romantic towards them, when I am in no way being romantic towards them. Whoever invented the English language really had no clue what they were doing.

  14. Posted · Edited by John Flushing

    May I ask, if someone who you admire and like or perhaps a friend of yours, will get a tattoo, would you change your opinion about him\her? Will you like that person less? Silly question I know, hope it won't offend you.

    Although I know that your question is addressed to Frstplce, I will state that I have had numerous friends who have pierced their noses, and gotten tattoos I do not admire, and that does not make me like them any less. While I still think it looks disgusting, I am nonetheless friends with a person. I am not friends with a person's appearance.

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  16. Posted · Edited by John Flushing

    Several points in response:

    1) I do think that tattoos in general look disgusting (link), although I will admit that I have admired some tattoos.

    2) I absolutely refuse to wear either a pair of earrings or a necklace. While I have seen some men who do look good with such jewelery, I do not believe that I would look good with such jewelry. This, for many years, created a dilemma for me, because my favourite animal is the bottlenose dolphin. But because necklaces and pairs of earrings would both look absolutely ridiculous on me, I was not able to express my love of dolphins the way that most women can (when they wear necklaces and pairs of earrings).

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    3) I eventually took the time to think outside the box, and I bought myself both a dolphin necktie, and a dolphin belt buckle, and a pair of seashell cufflinks. I was absolutely determined to find accessories that would look good on me, and I eventually succeeded thank goodness.

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    4) The aforementioned belt buckle was a hassle for me to deal with, because the piece of leather was sold separately from the buckle. Once the buckle arrived from the post office, I had to drive to four different stores (Phillip Van Heusen, Wal-mart, Kohls, and Kmart, in that order), before finally finding a piece of leather (at Kmart) that both fit me, and worked for me (if that even makes any sense).

    When a woman buys herself a necklace, the chain comes with the pendant (traditionally). If the chain comes with the pendant, when a woman buys herself a necklace, then it would stand to reason that the piece of leather should come with the buckle, when a man buys himself a belt.

    5) I hate having to put my belt on counterclockwise (to prevent the three dolphins from swimming upside-down). Before purchasing the aforementioned belt, I always put my belt on clockwise, because I am right-handed.

    6) Furthermore, I hate when I put my belt on only to realize that I missed a belt loop (it is so annoying). I have to unbuckle the belt and then re-thread it through all of the belt loops.

    7) Bellybutton piercing looks disgusting in my opinion (no offense). I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how there are men in the world who think that bellybutton piercing looks attractive (I feel the same way about nose piercing). To me it is anything but attractive. If anything, it grosses me out.

    8) I dislike the fact that men can take their shirts off in public but women cannot (please feel free to disagree). As a matter of public decency I wish that men would keep their shirts on (thus the reason I swim with my stomach covered), but if women do choose to take their shirts off, then at least they are for equality.

    9) Because this is a football forum I hereby post an image of David Beckham which is relevant to the topic at hand.

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