How many of you that have been previously divorced are confident you will not get married again(even...

seattlepanda comments on Jun 3, 2019:

For some of us, marriage is a way of switching countries, a practicality...

Our kids are so great at bringing joy (& tears).

seattlepanda comments on Jun 3, 2019:

We were on a road trip through west-central Montana, self and 5-year-old Andrew. Hot, windows down. Each time we drove past some cattle grazing near the road, I would hang my head out the window and MOOOO!!..."they looked! they looked!" :D Andrew: Dad! You're embarrassing me! Dad: Embarrassing you!? There's no one here but you and me... Andrew: You're embarrassing me in front of the cows...

Our kids are so great at bringing joy (& tears).

seattlepanda comments on Jun 3, 2019:

sensible...

[youtu.be] Dare to eat the wood worms😆

seattlepanda comments on Jun 1, 2019:

In hangzhou, a popular dish is called "Drunken Shrimp", live shrimp in a hard liquor broth. Eaten live...(not me, no way)...

Mine is vegetarian, what's yours?

seattlepanda comments on May 31, 2019:

anchovies, double-cheese...

What's your favorite song from childhood?

seattlepanda comments on May 31, 2019:

I'll arbitrarily define my childhood as pre-rock/pop times...mother's record albums, Burl Ives and Music Man soundtrack...

The North Korean official who handed Trump a 'very nice' appreciation letter is reportedly now in a ...

seattlepanda comments on May 31, 2019:

I believe this guy's dead now...

Any thoughts on what would be a great investment in today's economy ?

seattlepanda comments on May 31, 2019:

I'm looking at gold and cannabis(funds)...

Some common problems in English writing and usage: I am a college professor and grade a lot of ...

seattlepanda comments on May 30, 2019:

who's/whose

Some common problems in English writing and usage: I am a college professor and grade a lot of ...

seattlepanda comments on May 30, 2019:

their/there/they're

Remember this song...and TV series? [youtu.be]

seattlepanda comments on May 30, 2019:

Can't watch the video, but assume it's Rawhide... ;D

Perfect advice for many people on this site:

seattlepanda comments on May 29, 2019:

Fake. I know her. She would never say this...

Gaming Addiction is now a disorder, according to World Health Organization

seattlepanda comments on May 29, 2019:

I would take it beyond gaming. Cellphones are now a near universal "accessory".

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reveals Chilling Morning Ritual In Face Of Death Threats

seattlepanda comments on May 29, 2019:

Any doubt we live in a sick society?

Trump's goons are now trying to go after the people who discovered his corruption

seattlepanda comments on May 29, 2019:

Read the report. It's perfectly clear why the campaign would be investigated.

Public Service Announcement.

seattlepanda comments on May 29, 2019:

Bremerton Washington is a good spot. Affordable(relatively), one hour boat from Seattle(not affordable)...one deterrent, first strike zone if USA is targeted.

With the ever increasing loss of personal anonymity, many people are concerned about technology ...

seattlepanda comments on May 29, 2019:

this is old news in China...employed now on a massive scale...

From my short stay in Seattle.

seattlepanda comments on May 29, 2019:

my neighborhood...

Getting To The Bottom Of The Unanswered Questions In The Mueller Report | Deadline | MSNBC - YouTube

seattlepanda comments on May 28, 2019:

Read Vol.1, Russia involvement. Clearly an "unsolved crime". The "Office" alludes to this many times.

Memorial Day: Remember the Victims of American Bombs When You Remember the Soldiers Who Died for Our...

seattlepanda comments on May 27, 2019:

an end to American meddling in overseas situations that typical Americans have no idea about and need to be brainwashed into support...

When I was in the service my mos was Guam.

seattlepanda comments on May 27, 2019:

moved it to the Officer's Club...

I cannot remember the last time i had a stress free guilt free relaxing day where i could just ...

seattlepanda comments on May 27, 2019:

closest I come to relaxing and stress-free is when I get out of the USA...

Gotta love it when your religious parents give you this as a 20 year old.

seattlepanda comments on May 27, 2019:

have fun. live in the moment. avoid endless thoughts of marriage...

The age of realism is over...we have entered the era of living historical fiction

seattlepanda comments on May 27, 2019:

the age of realism is never really over

Does this group do anything consrtuctive that benefits society?

seattlepanda comments on May 27, 2019:

do we need to "benefit society" to be worthwhile?

I'm a regular coffee person, are you or decaffeinated?

seattlepanda comments on May 27, 2019:

decaf and Baileys...on 12 hour flights...

I’ve made it to California! My car has logged 6,330 miles since April 4.

seattlepanda comments on May 27, 2019:

welcome to the left coast...

Laundromats are not my favorite places but my washer broke and can’t get a new one right now.

seattlepanda comments on May 27, 2019:

I don't know that putting the tortured and stoned on the guy was that good...but I admire your outlook, we have much to be grateful for here :)

I get my kids dinner ready every night of course.

seattlepanda comments on May 26, 2019:

Brings back some good memories...though I only had one...

Has you heart ever been haunted by something, decision or choice?

seattlepanda comments on May 26, 2019:

I've hurt some people in my past. It never gets out of my head. I am always aware and look for opportunities to make amends if possible...

Budapest has very clean streets and I am sure it has a lot to do with people like this gentleman.

seattlepanda comments on May 26, 2019:

In China, we have armies of street sweepers everywhere. Their brooms are made of bamboo twigs, tied around a stick. Many are parents/grandparents of higher-paid migrant workers.

Methinks Amazon is trying to tell me something

seattlepanda comments on May 26, 2019:

Alexa! Meow!!

Chat room: off shoot idea of @Thinktwice topic.

seattlepanda comments on May 26, 2019:

2pm PDT

I have just turned forty. Whats (sex) life in your forties like?

seattlepanda comments on May 26, 2019:

Mine took off like a rocket...

Anyone go to school in a place like this?

seattlepanda comments on May 25, 2019:

I couldn't even imagine it...

If this means conservative Christians would move away from the rest of us, I'm all for it.

seattlepanda comments on May 25, 2019:

I am of the Western Washington Soviet. For what it's worth, I have long contended that our constituencies are too large for effective representation.

Just something interesting -- and because I love bees. [treehugger.com]

seattlepanda comments on May 25, 2019:

very good...I like bees too... :)

So sad to see this happening.

seattlepanda comments on May 25, 2019:

I can't view youtube where I am but I assume you've watched the local production, "Seattle is Dying". I can't equate this with the refugee situation. In the 70's we took in 1000's of Vietnamese(remember the boat people?)...these were people whose lives were endangered by our ultimately botched southeast Asia policies. We recognized a moral responsibility for innocent people whose lives we ruined. Somehow we disconnect the same situation in Central America today, where our "War on Drugs" has precipitated a militarization of the region with the resulting push-back of groups(gangs?) determined to supply Americans insatiable appetite for drug-induced escapism. So we have 1000's of good, hard-working innocents whose lives are endangered by cartels and their enforcers that our policies have produced. Vietnam and Central America are related consequences. Seattle vagrancy is unrelated.

Poll: 60 percent say Trump should not be reelected | TheHill

seattlepanda comments on May 25, 2019:

only 60%...my cynicism of Americans in a statistic...

What is the best sex you ever had, and what made it that way?

seattlepanda comments on May 25, 2019:

2nd wife...her quirks bought out my own(previously unknown)...

What's everyone doing for Memorial Day Weekend?

seattlepanda comments on May 25, 2019:

memorial day...what's that?...

When you wake up and look out the window and there's a coyote in the neighbor's driveway.

seattlepanda comments on May 25, 2019:

yep...you're up in Snohomish(I think)...it's a coyote...

Saw this license plate on a car at the grocery store last night. I feel you!

seattlepanda comments on May 25, 2019:

as I think that love is highly overrated, I can't comprehend the effort to have such produced...

His track record seems impressive. Would you support Bernie Sanders? [facebook.com]

seattlepanda comments on May 25, 2019:

yes

Hell Introduces 13 New Varieties Of Pineapple Pizza

seattlepanda comments on May 24, 2019:

Pineapple pizza is the devil...

How would you react if you were to learn that your mate or significant other had a lover of the same...

seattlepanda comments on May 24, 2019:

Makes her more interesting. Part of intimacy for me is sharing past experiences.

We all went the same schools, and took the same 9th grade civics class.

seattlepanda comments on May 24, 2019:

I recall nothing from school. I learned the most about our government during the Watergate hearings...

Guilty as charge....

seattlepanda comments on May 24, 2019:

In China, many sidewalks move, vertically...and, you needn't be drunk...

I have just talked to my good friend from Barbados.

seattlepanda comments on May 24, 2019:

I don't know that I've seen Kamala Harris angry...(understandably)frustrated sometimes, but angry I don't recall...

The US has the largest military force on this planet, in history - uncontestable military might.

seattlepanda comments on May 24, 2019:

cracks me up when I see FB posts of soldiers "fighting for our freedom"...last time our military fought for our freedom, 1812??...

Never played with these but the girls in my neighborhood did.

seattlepanda comments on May 24, 2019:

I played these when I wanted to play with girls...

"Climbers" dying on Everest while waiting in line.

seattlepanda comments on May 24, 2019:

rock bottom of my bucket list...but...Nepal is near top...

When you were a kid what did you think?

seattlepanda comments on May 24, 2019:

Frankly, I don't remember what I thought when I was a child...

Do you believe that.....

seattlepanda comments on May 23, 2019:

nope...destiny is myth...all is random...

What is this?

seattlepanda comments on May 23, 2019:

Sometimes you don't want them both wandering around loose...

The US has the largest military force on this planet, in history - uncontestable military might.

seattlepanda comments on May 23, 2019:

Who said anything about keeping Americans safe??...always been about keeping American business safe...

Just been looking at google maps and realised that from top to bottom of the UK is slightly less ...

seattlepanda comments on May 22, 2019:

thank you for the insight(sincerely)...I am also a a geographer....

How do you answer the banal message, "Hey, how are you?"

seattlepanda comments on May 20, 2019:

I have no idea why someone would initiate a PM to someone who lives somewhere they have no intention of moving to...

Hell's chicken has arrived

seattlepanda comments on May 20, 2019:

will Satan be there? :O

1980 Has it been that long? Mt. St. Helens

seattlepanda comments on May 20, 2019:

Wife and I departed Detroit for Seattle, about 20May1980. Collected some ash on I90 near Centralia...

Not ridiculing, just curious.

seattlepanda comments on May 18, 2019:

I hear you Steven... I'm a person with no remarkable animosity toward religion; I just don't buy-in. I like this site as a place to socialize with similar-minded folk. I am interested to note differences in values and mores, between believers and non-believers. I have no particular desire to discuss theology, pro or anti and will scroll through (especially the more bitter-hysterical)posts and comments. btw...I perceive no discernible difference between social beliefs of most people here with that of the public at-large...(in a sense, "we are all "Christians" :D)...

Is it just me or are some posts (here and in other groups) just plain difficult to understand?

seattlepanda comments on May 18, 2019:

I've noticed same... I scroll through many posts... Look at most my favorites comments...(mine tend to be literate and lucid)... It's good enough. Even the most opaque posts and comments seem to get likes, so someone is saying something right to someone... Live and let live....

Wow, I’m grinning from ear to ear.

seattlepanda comments on May 18, 2019:

Eyes open for an exit plan and have heard good things about CR...how are prices there?

To Have A Friend, "With Benefits'.

seattlepanda comments on May 18, 2019:

Second wife was essentially FWB, and should have remained such... A subsequent FWB did same, suggested we move in together...she became a HP(Hot Potato)

Something for the guys...if it applies.

seattlepanda comments on May 18, 2019:

Cabala?

What's the biggest mistake you've ever made while at work or in your personal life?

seattlepanda comments on May 17, 2019:

I worked one season as a cashier at the aquarium. Although I am a working accountant, I could NEVER balance at the end of the day. The digital register confused me. That's all. I can't recall any monumental errors...

NYC Mayor de Blasio is seeking Democratic nod for president

seattlepanda comments on May 17, 2019:

I don't care how many run in primaries, long as all get behind the eventual nominee...

Ummmm.......

seattlepanda comments on May 17, 2019:

Women: (to rephrase) We CAN enjoy sex too.

So I have questions for those who are online.

seattlepanda comments on May 17, 2019:

those I delete

FACT CHECK: Did 56% of Survey Respondents Say 'Arabic Numerals' Shouldn't be Taught in School?

seattlepanda comments on May 16, 2019:

Likely many of them don't know what "Arabic" numerals are...

how do you define success?

seattlepanda comments on May 15, 2019:

My opinion, success is less about financial successes and elevated state of living. More about general satisfaction in life experiences to date and that we are comfortable in our life today. In this context, I feel much more "successful" than many with much more material possessions than me.

Mine would be Shelby 🚘

seattlepanda comments on May 15, 2019:

Pini Pooper

I so miss these days, do you?🤗

seattlepanda comments on May 15, 2019:

I don't miss them...but many are, or elicit, fond memories...

Headed out for a mini vacation, need to get out of Dodge, off the Island, etc.

seattlepanda comments on May 15, 2019:

I'm hooked on annual, months-long "sabbaticals"...

Are you up for any of these things?

seattlepanda comments on May 15, 2019:

conversations, USED book stores, references to culture of my youth...

Today, I'm missing how completely unfettered I felt with him.

seattlepanda comments on May 15, 2019:

I'll go to my grave missing my gf, 2009-2011...

I imagine I’ll be experiencing a bit of culture shock tomorrow as I travel from Watford City, ...

seattlepanda comments on May 15, 2019:

Have a nice time... For me, reverse culture shock is always the more profound... (I return in July...I want the guy gone by then...got that? ;D )

Do you have pictures on your refrigerator?

seattlepanda comments on May 15, 2019:

I used to when I had a full-size. Now with a mini, nothing at eye level. I have a few keepers on my file cabinets....(ask again in July ;) )

When the Buddha obtained enlightenment he went out to teach his students asked, are you a god?

seattlepanda comments on May 15, 2019:

Defining himself by his state of consciousness, rather than by his relationship with others.

Well I never, have you?

seattlepanda comments on May 14, 2019:

look like Twinkies...

Is it just me or everyone breaking up or getting divorced?

seattlepanda comments on May 13, 2019:

Most adults I know are divorced, many on second marriage. Been like this a long time.

What is your opinion on Catholic schools? Are they forms of modern brainwashing?

seattlepanda comments on May 12, 2019:

I went to catholic schools 1st thru 12th grade. Got an excellent education. Learned a lot about the religion. In high school, we were taught to question(which my Dad supported). My questioning led ultimately to agnosticism. My 6 brothers and sisters also spent most of their pre-college years in parochial schools. None today are religious or particularly spiritual.

Very dark.

seattlepanda comments on May 11, 2019:

and their unvaccinated classmates...

Forgive me if this gets a little raw.

seattlepanda comments on May 11, 2019:

carpe diem... maybe it works, maybe not...have a try and have fun...

Out of the ones listed here, which is your favorite.

seattlepanda comments on May 11, 2019:

I like them all...and Green Acres...

1975 Cost of Living.........59 gallon for gas!!!!!?????

seattlepanda comments on May 11, 2019:

1972...gas wars in Detroit... .12/gal.

Ladies. Where are we on this new whatever it is?

seattlepanda comments on May 11, 2019:

If you build it, they will come...

This is how we do it.

seattlepanda comments on May 11, 2019:

Who actually decided the election of 2016: -idiots who actually voted for the present grifter-in-chief -pie-in-the-skies who voted for 3rd parties(in recent times, NEVER get as much as 5% of the vote) -Sanders supporters who stayed home rather than vote for Clinton... 2016 margin of "victory" makes it pretty simple really...

'To the person who uses metal straws to save fish but consumes animals, I’d like to say thank you.

seattlepanda comments on May 10, 2019:

very good...thanks Celia and Carla...

How do you feel about pet names early on?

seattlepanda comments on May 10, 2019:

I only use pet names for pets...

Summer's right around the corner, get yours before they sell out.

seattlepanda comments on May 10, 2019:

still popular in Seattle...

She Needs to be Reminded of her Part in the Play.

seattlepanda comments on May 10, 2019:

Very peculiar disconnect here...

Georgia Makes Abortion A Crime Punishable By Life In Prison Or Death Penalty | Michael Stone

seattlepanda comments on May 9, 2019:

Is this sharia law?...no stoning?

While on a trip to another city, Your Spouse or (Lover) meets and spends a night with a exciting ...

seattlepanda comments on May 8, 2019:

It's not cheating if I know about it beforehand...

For those still supporting trump: - Mueller report shows he is a criminal - his taxes shows he ...

seattlepanda comments on May 8, 2019:

You get more than just a "like" from me on this one. Americans may be the stupidest people on earth.

How do you de-stress?

seattlepanda comments on May 8, 2019:

Look back on my life and appreciate all I've experienced, the bad as well as the good. Look forward and know that there's more to come...

Why is everything so disposible these days?

seattlepanda comments on May 8, 2019:

concur...planned obsolescence...infuriating

I have read quite a few posts about climate change, plastic pollution, droughts, and how something ...

seattlepanda comments on May 8, 2019:

I'm planning a treatise to propose that a surcharge be applied to oil imported from places we spend taxpayer and borrowed money to "protect". Should be popular with free market folk. Will reflect the true cost of oil and it's derivatives...

Do you ever have recurring fears that you have a hard time shaking?

seattlepanda comments on May 8, 2019:

I used to fear not being able to breathe. I think it disappeared about the time I took up scuba diving...

Do you ever have recurring fears that you have a hard time shaking?

seattlepanda comments on May 8, 2019:

Dangling from heights. My window-washer friends post photos of themselves on the side of buildings...my hands ache, palms sweat...