Comments by "B Nic" (@bnic9471) on "Dr. Todd Grande" channel.

  1. Pregnancy denial is real. When I was part of an ambulance squad, we had more than one disbelieving teenage mother get a total surprise in the bathroom.
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  2. Joe tested negative for president.
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  3. Didn't Depp lose a fingertip to a wine bottle that Heard threw?
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  4. A very measured, fair assessment, in my opinion. Dee Dee sounded like a monster.
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  5. This reminds me of the time when my husband against my wishes allowed an elder woman to use our barn and pasture. Within a week, the old lady was squatting in our milkhouse and acting as if the entire world was plotting against her. Took two years and the sheriff to flush her out. She travels with all kinds of hooved and fanged furry pets.
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  6. He sounds as if he's a Chinese citizen. Yank his visa and ship him home.
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  7. I used to be married to an unusually gentle Swede--just gentle by innate temperament, I think. Trauma or no trauma in the background, I think that just being Swedish is a big marker of vulnerability. I am only half-joking about that, being a chill Nordic, myself. But, poor Alf! What a sad case! And I would cut Trujillo no slack for `sudden passion. If she could open his braincase with a shoe for any reason, she's one of society's wild animals and should be treated as such. There is suddenly way too much of this `sudden passion' garbage going inadequately punished, right now.
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  8. Trump did a pretty good job. Anyone objective could discern that much.
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  9. Graves' disease can cause encephalopathy if antibodies attack tissues in the brain. It attacks the eyes, skin, thyroid, phalanges, nails, and pretibial areas, just for starters, and Wendy shows outward signs of most of that. She has a really bad case of Graves'. Getting sanctimonious over her past drug use may be fun for you, but it is a facile explanation.
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  10. As another professional translator, yes, adding names would totally not happen.
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  11. Joe has spent 40% of his term, so far, resting up in Delaware.
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  12.  @regmcg4171  We all knew. We were just laughed at, censored, or told that the other guy eats babies.
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  13. Thank you! Any combover is disturbing.
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  14. I see so many reactions to grief. Silence and denial are probably more common than overt grief. I once had a stillborn boy, whom I think of several times every day for the past 23 years, but at the time, I went right back to work. Even though I felt gutted, I kept my grief close.
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  15.  @burnhamsghost8044  Also, they pretend that this cognitive glitching was not obvious.
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  16. Have worked with many social workers and gradually have come to see the profession as a red flag, itself. So many of them are a little bit "off."
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  17. I have also wondered about his bilateral cerebral aneurysms dating from 1988. One began to leak, requiring surgery. The second also required surgery to clip it off. I've wondered if that bleed and the surgery had diminished his `cognitive reserve' in the ensuing decades, making him even more impulsive and gaffe-prone.
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  18. Hey, that's how my first husband proposed to me. Not kidding.
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  19. Bless their hearts.
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  20. He should be deported.
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  21. Mom fulfilled maybe half of these, and a lot of that was worsened when she began to drink, and as she got into her 60s. Yet, I think she did her best to be a good mother and mostly succeeded. She once confessed to me that she never felt "decent" as a young girl, having been raised by a cold, barking German farm wife who was a strict Catholic. I was able to forgive and forget much of her weaknesses as she aged, and it's coming up on the anniversary of her death. I miss her an awful lot, but her tortured soul is finally at rest.
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  22.  @FrankBenlin  She called us a "couple of assholes" for not letting her sleep in our spare bedroom. I had tried to share produce with her and helped her with chores. Once, I helped her pull a stillborn calf out of its mother. We had her in for Thanksgiving and Christmas one year. But nothing we offered was ever good enough, and she would fly in to rages in the barn at night, screaming and dashing things against the wall. I decided she was an animal-hoarding old borderline. When she called us assholes, I said "That's it!" and got the eviction ball rolling.
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  23. My first husband was a snoop like that. Installed an app on my phone without mentioning it, then asked me if I was cheating, once, when it appeared to him that I drove almost all the way to work, then veered off into a park and remained there for several hours. It seems to have been a GPS glitch, and that blew over, but I began to resent that he was sitting home, tracking my movements while I was at work. He was retired and caring for our son while I worked. The idea that he thought nothing of tracking me, going through my phone, etc., etc., really began to rankle me after that, and I eventually ended our marriage, after 23 years. I would never dream of spying on him!
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  24. As well as a member of the Hair Club for Men.
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  25. Same!
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  26. That reminds me of my senior year in college, where I majored in languages. I had to take one more science credit before graduation, so I picked anatomy & physiology. The professor pulled me aside after a day, saying, "You haven't taken chemistry in college. You will fail this course. I suggest you drop the course, now." I thanked her and kept on with it. By midterms, she pulled me aside and said, "Have you ever considered pre-med?" Made me laugh. I got an A for that course. The moral of the story is not to listen too hard to the numbers people.
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  27. The very definition of assault!
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  28. Evil: holding down a no-show job with companies and countries that want something from your powerful father. Evil: buying into a Chinese company that your father sold our Strategic Petroleum Reserve to. Evil: giving 10% to the `Big Guy'. Just a start, mind you.
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  29. My mom was on the self-centered and manipulative side, and she tended to dismiss some of my feelings.. I came out of her household with those traits, myself. What helped me was just growing up, basically, and setting my own goals. I learned how to dampen down those traits in her by just not reacting. We did enjoy a much better relationship the last 2 decades of her life, and now that she's died, I think of her as a great but flawed mother. I am so proud of what a bright, funny, loving, and hardworking person she was.
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  30. I remember the day in early 2019 when my three sisters were in the neurologists office, quietly watching our 85 y.o. father fail to draw a clock. The presenting problem was poorly controllable temporal lobe epilepsy. He'd already scored poorly on a SLUMS test, had limited insight into why he could no longer drive and was preoccupied with doctors ripping him off. The neurologist paused and said (this was when Sanders and Biden were dominating the primaries), "This is why we should not be sending near-octogenarians to the White House. By your dad's age, almost half of all people are showing some signs of dementia." I thought it was a bit rude, at the time, but now I look around and see nothing but gerontocracy.
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  31. Women deserve consequences equal to those that men get. Katie does not need counseling, she needs to cool her heels for a little bit at the Crowbar Hilton.
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  32. Jurors are usually picked for their lack of judgment.
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  33. Holy smokes! I used to own a house very near LeeAnna's disappearance street. I was getting it ready to rent, that summer, and I remember having a series of young tenants with kids, after that. Chisholm is a lovely town, but economically depressed. I must have been too busy to read the Chisholm papers that summer. Poor little dear. The people could have used a car rental and dumped her remains into the Pillsbury mine pit. There are no mine shafts in Chisholm, just giant strip mine pits, the abandoned ones full of water, like deep lakes.
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  34. It is amazing how many comedians have that dark side. The old podcast Mental Illness Happy Hour interviewed hundreds of them.
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  35.  @googleuser2226  Well, they were delivered by the time I saw them. They also appeared to have plenty of problems in their home lives.
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  36. Life is not fair, you know. Life is never fair. And Gypsy was not wielding that knife.
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  37. Doing something so heinous for money, cars, or shoes is not any better. Those are just things that lowlier types crave. Imagine jeopardizing somebody for a pair of Jimmy Choos. Ridiculous!
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  38. They like laundered foreign squeeze. It's that simple.
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  39. The Teenie-Weenie Meanie strikes again!
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  40. I remember seeing two bear cross a road in broad daylight, and my first rather illogical thought was, "Oh, it's two guys in bear suits."
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  41. Maybe this guy became a sort of fad among women, like owning a teacup Yorkie.
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  42. Maybe he can analyze why people think lawfare is okay in politics.
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  43. Just remember that he has always been a gladhander whose vote could be bought. He has never been a kind or honorable man.
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  44. Jim Jones was in my great-uncle's statistics class in Indianapolis. He invited my uncle and his wife to a People's Temple service once, and they went. They thought it was pure horseshit, with staged faith healings, and so forth.
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  45.  @TheSleepReaper  I'd always heard that Mama's got a squeezebox and Daddy never sleeps at night. It goes in 'n out n' in and out . . .
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  46. 36 years in the medical field in the U.S. Have always heard and said PHEN-er-gan
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  47.  @rodneyhamilton2562  Where on the dolly did Trump hurt you? Show me.
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  48.  @Harry_Stylus  Gypsy did her time, though. And Manson did life. Which he seemed to like, seeing as how he deliberately blew his parole hearings.
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  49. ​ @goshafrau3636 Not all women feel life. Fibroids, uterine malformations, sleepier fetuses, or confusing the sensation with that of bowel gas.
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  50. He lied about it, though. He did not disclose the bra part.
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  51. CPS is often so misguided.
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  52. Her speech seems more circumstantial and sometimes tautological. Saying a lot of words about nothing much probably served her well in the uncritical environment of California.
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  53. I chose brown hair and brown eyes to match my husband's color. In the same catalogue, a very tall, fair-haired, blue-eyed donor had several times the pregnancy rate of shorter, darker donors. People are so shallow. 🤪
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  54. My husband and I had a son by an anonymous donor. Dr. Bob did not "mix up" the specimens, but I'll tell you--the self-reporting broke down, and we now have way more half-siblings than we ever thought possible. 44 right now, with at least another 44, by my calculations, and much too concentrated in certain geographical locations.
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  55.  @jessef8833  It never goes well to analyze a joke. Why do people who dislike Trump seem incapable of taking his words other than literally? Aren't Democrats supposed to be smarter than everybody else?
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  56. My husband and I used a sperm donor, an anonymous one. We chose by ethnicity and personality/intellect. He was close to top in his college class in a STEM degree. We know him, now, along with 53 of the other kids (thanks to home DNA kits), and he is very bright and eccentric, as well as very nice. The kids appreciate him and each other and feel as if they have their own quirky tribe. My son has the same quick wit as the donor and considers him a friend. It has all turned out well, although I suppose it could as easily have been a disaster.
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  57. Keeping it in the family is the alleged Biden Way.
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  58. Yeah, like the time he poked a unionized autoworker in the chest, told him he was "full of [ish]," and "I don't work for you !"
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  59. ​ @TimJBenham A lot of donor kids do this.
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  60. Uh, I guess you must have a trail of bodies behind you?
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  61. Most homeschoolers do a great job. It would be inappropriate and heavy-handed for the government to prohibit homeschooling here in America; public schools just get lamer every decade.
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  62. I stumbled upon an Eckhart Tölle video about a year ago and found his voice soothing, as if he were delivering ASMR . . . but I got tired of the smell of baloney. Honestly, what he said about mindfulness and acceptance made sense, but I've been in that frame of mind for decades, now, and had no real need to hear it, beyond a snippet.
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  63. "Presumed innocent until proven guilty" is the American way.
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  64. Blames her problems on staff and does not read their briefs, much.
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  65. ​ @greenbrain8725 Biden's whole premise about a supposed insurrection and supposed felonies were totally wrong, though. Those aren't just lies, they are Big Lies.
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  66.  @finwefingolfin7113  Great observation. Did they have the corresponding stature and spadelike hands, too? If they did suffer from acromegaly, whatever they also did to their faces cosmetically did nothing to help.
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  67.  @coweatsman  And you can cause streaks, too!
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  68. This was my "great guy" of 30 years, too. A perfect sphinx, and absolutely unwilling to discipline the children. In fact, he undermined my efforts. His parents were stoic and used the silent treatment as a punishment. It was mostly a good marriage until it came time to split up, which we did amicably. We remain friends.
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  69. OJ is a despicable human being for having unleashed the Kardashians upon us.
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  70. That is certainly plausible. My husband said his life "turned to shit" after Katrina, yet there were and still are people grifting it up down there, living from hotel to hotel paid for recovery and reconstruction services that they really don't deliver. The pair in this video probably just enjoyed the anarchy, though.
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  71. The race card is in tatters from overuse.
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  72. My son is screwed either way, but, at 21, he has time to enjoy his long, curly locks.
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  73. She used to give updates and had seemed to be doing okay. Last year, I saw an article showing her walking around with wrapped, myxedematous lower legs and wondered why it was getting worse, now. What could have happened to her in the year 2021 to wake up her autoimmune system so rabidly? Hmmm.
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  74. Bilateral brain aneurysms apparently diminished his cognitive reserves. The possibility was known before he got the nomination, but nobody seemed to care about that. Nor about his characterological problems.
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  75. I know what you mean when a much-wanted baby is born still. My little guy would have been 23.
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  76.  @Flamsterette  Get help.
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  77. Hannah looks as if she's built for roller derby.
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  78. Whom the gods would destroy they first make orange.
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  79. What I learned again and again over 36 years in EMS and nursing is that the best things are to sequester yourself when you feel ill, and always wash hands and avoid touching your face as a general rule. It is much better to stay home while feeling sick than to wear any kind of mask and expose the public to your bugs. Mask-wearing is courteous, but it hardly compares to staying home while sick for effectiveness. Immunocompromised people can protect themselves in much the same way.
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  80. My husband was married to a particularly vindictive BPD for 11 years. It's been 10 years since he's seen her, and I still see panic and trauma responses in him from time to time. It took me 4 or 5 years to stop feeling anger about what she did to his mental and physical health. Now I just feel indifferent about that harridan.
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  81. Good Lord, this sounds like the botched murder scene from "Blood Simple."
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  82.  @davidpetrosky  Stockholm syndrome is not crap. My HS boyfriend was kidnapped by violent guerrillas and held for 60 days in the jungle. He came out of the jungle with a good degree of respect for them, even though he hated their politics and they'd shot one of his coworkers through the head. Decent people at the mercy of others struggle to see decency in their tormentors--it's a survival trait.
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  83. Sorry to see you exhibiting your fearful neuroses.
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  84. What, aside from mania, drives a chatterbox?
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  85. Williams seems like a bigger fool than his stalker. It would be nice if all gun owners would take their training from a good course rather than old-time Westerns. I say that as someone who legally carries a concealed weapon.
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  86. Lots of neurological problems present like Parkinson's, and none of them are good.
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  87. I think they are two peas in the wrong pod. 🫛
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  88. One of my best friends has BPD and has done a lot to beat it into submission with DBT. My impression is that she has endless, anxious emotional energy and is very verbal. She tells me, "I have an amygdala the size of a grapefruit, and I have had to work hard to realize that my negative emotions won't kill me."
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  89.  @AnonymousAnonymous-ir4ko  I'm sure he had his reasons, even if they weren't concrete ones. Salvaging his own machista sense of honor was my first bet. Honor cultures look crazy from the outside.
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  90. What she really meant to say was that there were 4 or more of them in the marriage. Charles, Diana, Camilla, James, James, Oliver, Barry, and so forth.
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  91. Praise be to Doug.
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  92. Joe has not earned any respect.
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  93.  @mikebott6940  "Funny Looking Kid" not in the sense of a chromosomal disorder, but in failing to fit in and striving to stand out.
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  94. Thanks, mandates! You singlehandedly caused a manpower problem!
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  95. Cows be like that.
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  96. It's quite the same thing on a behavioral unit, thanks to the mutual population of Cluster Bs. My first year working with them was mostly hardening myself against being used as a doormat. My job entailed a lot of turning on my heel and walking away when a patient got manipulative. It's not easy.
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  97. Did you hear the one about an Australian guy who died of a factured skull? He wouldn't eat his mushrooms.
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  98. Open another box of wine, pet your cats, and leave voting to the sane.
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  99. I had a very histrionic-type friend, a mental health counselor, ditch me when I raised my voice to her in a Mexican restaurant. She kept nagging me to repeat her order to the waitress in Spanish to make sure that she got it right and I said, "No! Her English is great!" Kind of glad she did kick me to the curb 25 years ago--she was absolutely exhausting.
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  100. Thanks for doing the pro-social thing, helping yourself and others, thereby. Keep it up! I'm not a psychopath, myself, but I have a few traits, including an almost automatic doubt of authority. Anyhow, you're just 25, and I suspect that, as you age, your struggle to do the right thing will become easier and easier. Good luck, and never stop being upright and admirable.
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  101.  @ZanePrice-hd5gj  much better, thanks! After some months, the eyes can sometimes revert to normal. I don't have to tape my eyes shut at night anymore, and they no longer hurt. But they'll always look large and somewhat strange. My avatar is in fact a picture of me about six years after my eyes "calmed down" a bit.
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  102. I rarely hold grudges, but my 3 months of work experience with a probable OCPD sufferer still angers me 6 years later. What an insufferable micromanager! I was supposed to take over her job, in which I had more experience than she, but she would not let me deviate in the least from her hidebound rules. It was the only time I quit with no notice. She made me that mad.
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  103. To the garbanzo beans--for all you do, this Bud's for YOU!
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  104. Way to hijack a topic. American women have all kinds of options, including access to abortion. This girl's ignorance and self-centeredness is the real topic.
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  105. How did he get the idea that he was exceptionally attractive? He looked strangely like an overgrown baby, which, in fact, he was.
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  106. I have a lot of family members down there who customarily attended that parade. I hope DB rots in jail for the next 60 years.
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  107. Thank you. The comments here that dehumanize Trump and his supporters are nauseating.
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  108. Some people just can't take a hint, can they?
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  109. I'm surprised that seemingly normal people are so enthusiastic about pornography. I'm not religious, and I do remember a time when porn occupied a more marginal spot in society. And the margins is exactly where it belongs.
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  110. @Bluebird19-ll8su  True. You make a good point; light eyes are so much less common, and therefore remarkable. I have blue-green eyes, myself. I was just giving in to cynicism.
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  111.  @Throatzillaaa  Didn't she stab Selena? Selena was a wonderful musician.
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  112. Jackie Kennedy always seemed so . . . medicated.
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  113. Maybe Grande should analyze your anti-Trump pathology.
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  114. I am so sorry you lost your dad. I used to work in acute-care behavioral health, and there was a strong push to give antipsychotics, wait a few days for the patient to "clear," then usher him out the door. I believe, at heart, that we do not know what we are doing with very mentally ill people, and that profits dictate the chemical/medical model that we use. It is sad, all around.
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  115. A decent person would never arrive at the diaper decision point.
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  116. Seems as though yoga would be less complicated.
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  117. Just saw a squib in the local paper with the headline, "UW-La Cross Chancellor Terminated," and figured it had to be something egregious. La Cross is such a crazy college party town. Maybe this chancellor showed 'em all the way.
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  118. Blah, blah, blah. I notice how easily the Australian government pushes around its citizens. You guys built quarantine camps and arrested people for wrongspeak on social media. Americans will never roll over for tyranny like that.
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  119. Trump's patter is repetitive, like Harris', but he makes a lot more sense to me. He usually has a clear point, which he repeats about three times in various ways before moving to the next point. Unfortunately, Kamala speaks in generalities, and her inappropriate laughter is off-putting. As if an unseen person is making balloon animals for her, or something. It's bizarre.
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  120. So, no great loss of nice people, here.
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  121. Godejohn is one of society's wild animals. Just be glad that he was not sentenced to death.
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  122. ​ @glen7318  I don't understand why women take somebody else's infidelity so seriously.
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  123. ​@lovemusic1963ify And also to Wisconsin. My Cuban-American professors tried to help process them, and one professor said, "No son cubanos, son bestias."
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  124. For diapers, maybe. Or Hot Pockets.
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  125. Stay away from strippers and other obvious opportunists for Pete's sake!
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  126. Yes. I could not stop wondering about those poor children.
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  127.  @mikebott6940  Part of cluster B, for sure (I used to work in acute-care psych and saw a lot of grandiosity), but I think that the need for attention is also a social phenomenon and by-blow of the rise of social media; instilling fear gets the fastest attention.
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  128. My mom was Czech and grew up picking "hobi." We never suffered . . . Although she generally limited herself to gathering cinnamon tops and cauliflower mushrooms.
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  129. Perhaps she'd used the dehydrator during the season in order to have a supply later. "Ope!" she told herself, "That dehydrator must go!"
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  130. If I wanted to watch two oldsters get it on, I'd . . . ugh. I can't even finish the thought.
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  131. Just consulted a hand surgeon this morning. He seems both legit and pretty efficient.
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  132. She seems to be a shooty person.
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  133.  @dawngrrrl  How about "kinkshaming" people who talk about their kinks in public fora when in reality no one wants to hear about it?
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  134. He does tend to talk about concrete things, though. His style is repetitive, arch, and frequently grating, but I get what he's saying.
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  135. February is also Thyroid Awareness Month. And the first Graves' patient I ever met was a 96 y.o. woman who was born on Leap Day. She told me she was just 24.
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  136. At a rummage sale?
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  137. The comments here that dehumanize Trump and his supporters are sickening.
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  138.  @howdareyouexist  That's true, as well, nowadays.
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  139. My rule 9f thumb is that anybody doing selfies and videos in her car for social media purposes is an attention seeker, and maybe even a bit of a head case.
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  140. So that's what happened to Bambi. Had no idea that she had died. As a native Milwaukean, I have no doubt that the police investigation was a total hairball. Can we cede Milwaukee to Illinois, or something? It now drags Wisconsin down with it.
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  141. He may have been psychotic, but he was likely not wrong about the crap pulled by Democrats at the leadership level. One man's "myth" is another man's nightmare regime.
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  142.  @lorizeppelina2286  As a human being, he should never have accepted the nomination for president. He is currently holding his party hostage in his refusal to retire, lol.
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  143.  @Mandrake591  I read a lot, and in several different languages. You seem to be outing yourself as gullible.
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  144. @greenbrain8725  Your comment is very self-serving, since you know nothing about me, including education and occupation.
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  145. Graves' ophthalmopathy, a form of Thyroid Eye Disease. Happened to me, though not as markedly. My right eye was affected worse, and I still have double vision when I look up or to the side. The fat and muscles inside the eye socket get attacked by antibodies and swell, pushing the globes forward. It can cause blindness in a couple different ways.
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  146. Madison can contribute to society by being made an example and a warning to her fellow nitwits.
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  147. OCPD patients are some of the most unreachable people, or so I found in my year of being a psych nurse.
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  148. Non-minorities in Milwaukee thought little of the police force, either.
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  149. In her case, immersion in those values may have enabled her vile acts. Progressivism in its current form arrogates the right to impose your own "greatness" upon lesser creatures—you know, like conservatives and Derrick.
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  150. Do you think she would have been a better person if she had opted for a more traditional role in life? Not wanting to argue, just curious about your opinion. To me, it's not her authority that was as awful as her misplaced feelings after a relatively purpose-free life.
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  151. No. Her Graves' disease did that to her eyes. Marty Feldman also suffered from that.
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  152. You're nutz. 50 is prime time.
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  153. @Wolf-qh2lk  Well, I'm glad to be married to him and not you. My husband has 2 biological kids of his own, and has been a good father to all three; blood was not an issue to him.
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  154. I have some basement demons that get here by tunnel. They live off pizza and Watergate salad, and occasionally tighten our natural gas fittings, although I suspect that they loosen them in the first place.
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  155. Although I haven't ever watched Williams, i have checked in on her because of her Graves' disease, which I also suffer from. Luckily for me, my disease is in persistent remission. You don't want Graves' disease; not only is it disfiguring, but it alters your personality and cognition, at least temporarily. One doctor told me that Graves' patients tends to get divorced and get into a lot of car wrecks, probably because of the shortened temper, sense of panic, and altered vision. Sometimes, Graves' sufferers use alcohol just to be able to function calmly. Williams seemed to be doing ok with her disease ten years ago, but something seems to have shotgunned the disease into a more aggressive state. She's thin, her exophthalmos is much worse, and she has really bad myxedema in her lower legs. My disease flared out of remission and disfigured my eyes after I got a flu shot one year, but hormonal events and stress can do it, too. Poor, poor Wendy Williams! She seems to have drawn the shortest straw.
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  156. ​ @CawKee Thanks! He's the son of Mary McLeod of Stornaway. And he fights like Braveheart.
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  157. ​ @anthony.3614 How could we dislike hearing such a fact? That's strange.
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  158. I said, "Ouch! Shut up! Hahaha!"
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  159.  @C.Church  You wrote some pretty tribalist stuff, right there. Do you often divide people up in such manichaean terms?
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  160. Did she get someone to take her bar exam for her?
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  161.  @marshamcdonald1475  It's one thing to criticize a court system, but why bring your racial prejudices into it? Or your obvious sexism? That's disheartening and even disgusting of you.
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  162. Yeah, people are amazed that I had a great-uncle with that name, but he was born way before even WW I.
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  163. Vester is as absolutely gorgeous as Fester.
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  164. How crass.
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  165. If his own dogs are any clue, he probably wouldn't take very good care of your huskies.
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  166. My son's anonymous donor was so abused as a child that he chose to not raise kids, but he has dozens of offspring. I don't blame him for making that decision. And our son is such a delight. Husband and I are so grateful.
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  167. @annaf3915  One of the offspring tracked him down. He agreed to meet with donor children.
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  168. Anything goes and nothing matters, apparently.
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  169. Thank goodness you've settled the score on the whole alien lizard thing. 🦎
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  170. It is relevant because she was acting on her beliefs.
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  171. I need to write #3 down. Profound!
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  172. Yes! (It isn't Dick Cheney's old heart, is it? That thing even had its own Twitter account for a while.)
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  173. The sight of that ill kept house is depressing.
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  174. Can't watch this. This channel is ever more lurid and depressing.
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  175. Maybe this sort of living should be called Wallowing Disorder.
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  176. ​ @lobstermash And they are often used as mood stabilizers in people with severe behavioral problems.
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  177. I remember hearing her give a short speech in Spanish and wincing.
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  178. Well, why not have a developmentally delayed president, too? Democrats love (s)electing those "firsts."
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  179.  @chad3232132  Personal foul! Unnecessary Trump reference!
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  180. Maybe they were the real Frito Bandidos.
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  181. Funny to see this; Candy, with that perm and goggles, was about as sexy as Church Lady.
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  182.  @amann399  Whatever his problems are, Trump is not yet in cognitive decline. His mother's mind held up well into her nineties, but his dad exhibited some cognitive decline in his 80s.
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  183. They now have him using the short stairs.
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  184. ​ @joriejay7950 Prison sounds like an excellent idea for a monster who would kill her own children for any reason. To suggest otherwise seems to suggest that women are special and not fully accountable for their actions. Throw away the key on that so-called mother.
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  185. Was it the Ex-Lax?
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  186. Oh my gosh-- he's still practicing.
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  187. The number of American nationals left behind in Afghanistan-abandoned, really- has been revised from about 200 to about 9,000 Americans, now. Biden violated what little trust Afghan officials had in us by abandoning Trump's withdrawal date as well as the Trump administration's steady withdrawal plan. Love him or hate him, Donald Trump knew how to lead and knew how to conduct diplomacy with Third World strongmen. Biden seems to be more of a legislator with very little ability to meet other cultures' leaders with any degree of nuance or strategy.
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  188. Hey, who cares if he can't act—he still has the whitest Chiclet smile money can buy. 🙄
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  189. The Man with the Golden Arm
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  190. Not sure which is grosser--wrinkled meat or cuisine without meat.
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  191. I did not vote for Mr. Biden for a whole raft of reasons, but clear evidence of dementia was not one of them. As a geriatric-specializing nurse, and having watched him for 33 years, and having known his bilateral cerebral aneurysm background, I know he's not what he once was. At "best", I think he's somewhat impaired. Check out his old speeches from decades ago. He in fact used to say stupid things in a very silver-tongued way. He's only ever been a colorful gladhanding politician with a taste for donor money. Maybe he said he was going to beat Jill Biden.
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  192. My mother told me that my mid-term miscarriage was God punishing me for being pro-choice. I remember screaming at her, "You're not my mother!" several times in her back yard while she frantically tried to shush me. I ran off to see my sister, who was weeding her garden, and she paused, gave me a hug, and intoned, "Mom . . . is beyond comprehension." That soothed me considerably. That might have been the dumbest thing Mom ever said to me, but I can't blame her, really, since she was a serious, strict Catholic, and none of us kids could make him- or herself believe what the nuns taught us. We were born agnostics. It must have really shamed her.
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  193. Barb looks like pelican. Her throat can hold more than her belly can.
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  194. Christ on a cracker! How'd she graduate from college?
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  195. Alan Funt, you have a lot to answer for!
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  196. I made the mistake of naming my child `Theodore' back in the day, and ended up with a huge closet of teddy bears. It. Was. Hell. I alone live to tell the tale.
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  197.  @STR82DVD  The Democrats are obsessed with skin color. Most especially orange skin color. This may crush their peabrains finally and forever.
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  198.  @Johnnyjingles87  He's pretty darn orange! On the other hand, he does not seem to dwell in the same uncanny valley that sliced-and-diced Biden inhabits. Botoxed, lifted, filled, and freakish . . . and now he's dyed orange, too.
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  199. The Tale of Dork Web Karen
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  200. As an American, all I can say is, "Why does this concern me?"
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  201. What a hothouse flower A.S. was. What a fruitcake.
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  202. He's done a bazillion on Trump already. Cool your jets.
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  203.  @LukeMcGuireoides  It may be pop culture, but, with respect to The Daily Show, it was a catastrophic change. In 2000, everybody loved The Daily Show. In 2016, half the audience was turned off like a switch.
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  204. Time for Joe to hire a food taster, because the DNC et al. have already broken records with the lengths they will go to cling to power.
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  205. Rittenhouse had a right to self-defense, to try to avert a gas station explosion, and to scrub graffiti off walls, which was what he was initially there to do. This dingdong is no Kyle Rittenhouse. Do you have any harsh words for the bussed-in anarchists who destroyed Kenosha? For the three men who tried to murder Rittenhouse? Quit being an ignoramus.
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  206. ​​ @cerealkiillar  Several biographers document this. One of Raine Spencer's servants saw the push. Charles Spencer admitted putting Raine's stuff in garbage bags and kicking it down the stairs. Let's not forget Diana's whacking Charles around with a Bible as he knelt for evening prayers. She was a pain in the azz.
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  207. It's an autoimmune disease that attacks the eyes and thyroid. In rare cases, it can cause dementia, although typically, the mental, emotional,, and cognitive problems go away when the disease goes into remission.
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  208. The gait disturbance would lend credence to that, too. He seems to have started shambling. George H. W. Bush seems to have suffered from a type of vascular dementia as well. I forget the exact label, but it seems to have produced some impulsivity and put him in a wheelchair and given him that permanent rictus in the decade preceding his death.
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  209. Also at the troughs of foreign governments. They don't call him China Joe for nothing.
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  210. Good luck, Gina! Hope you're still doing well in every way.
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  211.  @maryballwashington4674 Thanks for demonstrating another reason why this regime is a nightmare; it encourages rank and file Democrats like you to demonize others for absolutely no reason.
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  212. What a bleak story. Such shallow people as Julie are a bummer to even think about.
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  213. I was struck by the facial features of the child in the family photo.
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  214.  @sweetmissypetuniawilson9206  I chose a donor of average height (5'10") because height isn't important to me, being short, myself. Well, the kid turned out quite a bit taller than his sire.
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  215. One quarter million for a feculent Milwaukee Cape Cod? That's almost as crazy as that bizarre mother.
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  216. The whole of the DNC leadership has been using Joe for their own ends, from the 2019 primaries onward.
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  217. I can not listen beyond, "Hello, this is Doctor Grande."
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  218. Oh . . . get ready for the river of kaka they have on her.
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  219. Aside from her hair, she has that numbed face look of the profoundly stupid.
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  220. GTFO with your partisan garbage.
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  221. --As a potato, not as a POTatUS.
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  222.  @beverlyrhame3692  She might have a small goiter, or perhaps she had her thyroid removed or destroyed.
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  223. She was going after a piece of skull that was slithering off the Lincoln's trunk.
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  224. I gave up smoking Vantage Cocaines well before I joined the Navy.
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  225.  @aprilkurtz1589  You mean like how he suspended the constitution during his first four-year term? GFY and your cat, too.
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  226. @aprilkurtz1589  Silly lady! You actually take Trump literally?
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  227. @aprilkurtz1589  Are you asking me to somehow help you how to think outside of the concrete realm? I'm a nurse, April, not a miracle-worker!
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  228. Remind me to never hire you, Fred.
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  229. Nobody is ever a villain in his own eyes. And Humbert was especially good at making us dislike his prey, whom he characterized as a promiscuous and transactional brat.
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  230. Corporate wokeism, and the suddenly `sexy' appeal of mixed-race hues. I am eagerly waiting for the tipping point when corporations give up on pandering to a loud, reckless minority of Americans.
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  231. The CEO of AstraZeneca said that their product should not be taken by those with autoimmune diseases.
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  232. Wow! Was she raised by wolves? What a terrible thing to do.
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  233.  @vonclod123  The voluntary eye-popping thing is just something some people can do--it doesn't hurt them. What Wendy has is involuntary. It can be helped by surgery, though, to make more room in the sockets for the eyeballs. It's a risky surgery, though. They chip windows in the bone of the socket so the swollen tissue around the eyes can ooze back into the skull.
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  234. Especially Old Joe, with his hand out for the bribe. In fact, he came out of the womb asking, "What's in it for me?"
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  235. ​ @maloudelosreyes661 Maybe because 3rd- world countries have terrible problems.
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  236.  @davidpetrosky  Great points. I agree with you about women abdicating responsibility much too much. It may have something adaptive about it, in fact--going with the strongest strongman.
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  237.  @Birchwoodlavender  Ick! Olbermann is a one-dimensional cartoon who likens half the voting populace to larval flies. He is as funny as a sledgehammer baked in turkey guano.
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  238.  @ChrisNoonetheFirst  Aw, the teevee made you a 6tard.
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  239. I can't wait until Harry loses himself 115 pounds of useless fat.
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  240. Those Spencers . . .
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  241. "BIPOC"? Who talks about human beings as collectives like that? Lol! Why not just make a point about the punishment fitting the crime?
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  242. Really. You are simply not very objective and resorting to whataboutism.
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  243. I never camp without a gun.
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  244.  @MitchellJRo  Ashli Babbitt was recorded crying out for the Antifa guys to stop bashing through that door and trying to put herself in their way when the Keystone Kop, Michael Byrd, stepped up and dropped her with a point blank shot to the neck. Why did you even bring up Trump, ya dingus? Wake up!
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  245. The worst professional experience of my life was being hired to take over the job of a retiring OCPD sufferer. She had no respect for my longer experience or superior credentials, and spent 3 months making me use her very nitpicky process. I pride myself on adapting to anything, but I could never adapt well enough to suit her. I finally just quit in utter disgust, since it was clear that she would never consider my streamlined and equally successful approach to the same job.
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  246. Dr. Grande, have you ever covered the concept of `communal narcissist' before? That's what these church pillar criminals put me in mind of.
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  247.  @amandanegrete1306  I am. We all know just how accident-prone Baldwin was. Not. Why is he walking free?
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  248. I had always heard that Hubbard had made a bet with science fiction author Robert Heinlein that he could make up a religion. Heinlein himself is alleged to have led a messy personal life (including crawling in the sack with Hubbard, himself), and I'll bet Heinlein would make a good case study, himself. Vulnerable, prickly toward critics, polyamorous, prone to marrying crazies, and traumatized by a harsh mother, who blatantly favored his older brother. Heinlein wrote Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers
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  249. Recently, Harris was clearly half in the bag as she gave a speech. But funnily enough, she made a lot more sense than when sober. Scuttlebutt has it that she is a heavy drinker. In her awful position, I'd probably get into the schnapps, too.
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  250. I once needed to be restrained in a Waffle House when I found out that they didn't serve real butter. Now I just smuggle my own butter in. And Faygo. That's a lot easier.
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  251. ​@shastamccoy7777 Plus this one went way beyond "liberal" and plunged into "crazy" all for the sake of her professed values.
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  252. "Hendiadys" would explain Giselle's redundant language. It's a rhetorical device. Giselle may be a darkly tragic figure, but giver her a little credit for rhetorical flair! 😉 😜
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  253.  @traversetownie  I've never used an IUD, but my uterus was divided into 2 chambers (common birth defect) and an IUD might have killed me by perforating the uterine wall.
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  254. Excuse me--"autoimmune disease" was what I meant to type. I also have Graves', but it is in remission. I'm careful about what I put into my body because I don't want a third round of Graves'. Anything that challenges the immune system can cause a flare. In my case, having a baby, an MMR vaccine, and an influenza vaccine probably triggered mine. There used to be a compound in some traditional vaccines that would cause autoimmune disorders to flare.
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  255. I need a civil engineer to make me look good! P.s. Stadol is crap. Utter crap. I learned that while suffering from premature labor.
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  256. Peasant.
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  257. ​ @neilreynolds3858 Aneurysms and bilateral brain surgeries changed Biden early on, fellow legislators have said.
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  258. Just Stubblefield's list of causes and use of buzzwords pins her down as a leftist. Her need to be an in-your-face activist also points that way. Did Grande even mention her political affiliation? Frankly, people who speak and believe as Stubblefield does tend to cause problems because, for them, the personal is political and vice versa. To be a progressive is to be dedicated to shaking things up. Why not be irritated with Stubblefield for not only fitting the stereotype, but embellishing it?
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  259. If only she'd been carrying an equalizer on her hike . . .
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  260. It's pretty obvious from her list of buzzwords and causes that she was on the leftist/habitual activist side. That side of the political spectrum seems more neurotic in general than its opposite side.
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  261. ​ @roginutah That must be the American version. Has a better ring than `storm in a teacup.'
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  262. Or maybe you are.
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  263. Good Lord! If my kid had had to have a mandatory psych evaluation just to go to a public school, I'd nope out of it and send him to private school or teach him myself. Your idea pathologizes normal maturation and social interaction. Have you seen how whimsical the DSM-V is? Maybe schools are too big and just operated poorly.
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  264. Hard to avoid politics, there.
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  265. We all have some degree of narcissism in us. Trump appears to have a great deal of it . . . But that does not automatically add up to NPD. It's important to know the difference. Reports of the private Trump paint a picture of a very appropriate demeanor and plenty of interpersonal warmth. Frankly, I have always thought that he was a huge narcissist, but an adaptive one with a quirky public persona that he's developed since the 1990s. Just look at old footage of Trump from the early 1990s when testifying before a congressional committee. He's no showman in that footage, just a very articulate, sharp businessman offering his perspective on tax policy changes that happened in 1986 that basically kneecapped profits in the real estate field. At some point after that, he took on a sort of funny WWF braggadocio that he retained--at least while giving speeches.
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  266. God, I remember the wall-to-wall OJ case coverage. I avoided watching a single thing about it, and still absorbed the story osmotically. He was a terrible actor, yes.
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  267.  @janinemccartha1811  I like the concision. If this were on cable, the denouement would have been interminable.
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  268. I prefer a president who can draw a clock.
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  269. Her feeling of being a rescuer of marginalized people was basically her rationale for her crimes.
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  270.  @Lionforaday  Thank you. Geriatric RN with acute-care behavioral health experience, here. I really appreciate your clarifications. One thing any observant layman or medical professional can see, here, is that something is not right with Lunchpail Joe. He has somehow deteriorated since his heyday, even though he seems more capable than his partisan detractors make him out to be. I wanted to add a bit of apocrypha from his campaign. When the DNC put him in the fast track in the South Carolina primaries, his family is reported to have panicked, knowing that Joe had lost his fastball--whether through grief, depression, or old age is not clear. Too bad they did not do the right thing and give him permission to drop out, which he might have felt like doing.
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  271. While I agree with you, I don't think dragging federal politics into this discussion is helpful or appropriate.
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  272. He did not look normal, he looked really dissipated.
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  273. I think being so dreaded gets to some of the dentists. I had one who left his wife and 9 kids for an assistant. Another committed suicide one Christmas Eve. A third is meaner than snot to his assistants.
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  274. He moves like a sloth, sometimes.
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  275. Eh, Caroline.
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  276. But he was dumb enough to kill someone . . . He killed a woman.
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  277. Do you have a medical alert bracelet? Legit first responders are pretty good at sorting out drunkenness from insulin shock.
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  278. I'm fed up with that anti-sandwich nonsense!
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  279. How is he still alive 32 years after being sentenced to death? I am not fond of the death penalty at all, but either have it, or don't have it. Better to spare a guilty man than execute an innocent one. Mensa, I think, is the least exclusive IQ club, since 132 is the minimum score. That means you might only be the second-smartest shopper in a Wal*Mart at any given time. <sniff>
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  280. Graves' disease. She has a really severe case. This happened to me, too, to a moderate degree. It has made me self-conscious of having an angry-looking glare.
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  281. I keep hearing that Jill is the one responsible for Biden's continued candidacy. But is there a clear source for this rumor?
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  282. She has a numb, slack look of stupidity on her face in all those photos.
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  283. My husband once constructed a rocket igniter from Pep Boys parts for NASA, but no lives rode on that, because it was just a test. Even so, I can not feel bad for these people, except maybe for the 19 y.o.
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  284.  @detectivefiction3701  And so what if he is a Trump supporter? They are decent people, just as you regard yourself to be. And besides, no matter how he votes, his discernible bias is negligible. I could go on, but gee whiz, sports fan, start using your head in a less reflexively partisan way.
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  285.  @samuelmack-poole6789  "I love you, and I want to die in your arms."
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  286. Too simple an explanation.
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  287.  @magiemaggot  Oh, stick your Trump derangement! Get some help with your scapegoating problem.
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  288.  @franciastone5048  The neurologist said that. I think he was rounding up by a bit. Without getting into politics, I think that all presidents are afflicted with massive egos, and that does not necessarily spell "mentally ill." By CMS standards, mental illness excludes depression and personality disorders. Joe Biden has some kind of disinhibition problem, and the signs are evident, if not the cause.
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  289. I don't know if I'm way off-base, or what, but I think that Flanagan guy was a real jerk!
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  290. You seem slow.
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  291.  @cattycorner8  Davidson also got a hideous Hillary Clinton tattoo on his arm following her loss in 2016.
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  292.  @TheOnlyKateslate  Hunter Biden might have TBI, but that does not exempt him from judgment. His whole family is rotten to the core; I judge them collectively.
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  293. Give the guy a Gatorade.
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  294. You just had to bring President Trump into this. You are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of being a tool.
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  295. Dr. Grande, have you explored the dysfunction, depression, and addictions set off by the COVID lockdowns? I have heard so much hearsay about the woe unleashed by these authoritarian measures.
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  296. Why use a euphemism when "female" would do? Only intact females are capable of getting pregnant. Theoretically, you could transfer a zygote into the peritoneal cavity of a male and it would grow, but the outcome of a live caesarian birth is unlikely. I can't agree with your linguistic police work, there.
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  297. Word Salad Surgery
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  298. Graves' disease is a form of autoimmune hyperthyroidism. Thyroid problems have an effect on all bodily systems. She has a pretty severe case if it.
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  299. I don't think I've ever seen Perry in anything except "A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon," but his story is affecting, and this video explains quite well why his life and death is worth caring about. I saw publicity surrounding his memour, as well as how drink-ravaged he looked, and had a bad feeling about his prospects. Now this.
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  300. Me too, and I have Graves' ophthalmopathy, myself.
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  301. Not really. He acted like an unreasoning beast.
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  302. Once, I was hired to train with and take over the job of a pregnant nurse who in retrospect, I think, had OCPD. it was an exacting job, requiring systematic assessment of all areas of a patient's life. This type of nurse had to be very organized and productive. Pregnant nurse was a rockstar in her facility, and, although I had experience and actual certification in that area of nursing, she insisted in "allowing" me to take over her job in only the tiniest baby steps. I also had to adhere to her method of record keeping, which was excruciatingly fussy. Beyond any discernible rationale, she hovered over me, checked my work, and would not let me use my own tried, true, and efficient method of doing the same job. She kept insisting that I redo assessments to her exact procedures. If I issued a memo, she rewrote it. If I held an interdisciplinary meeting and invited give and take, she shut me down. (Her method was to never vary in style, and the interdisciplinary team meetings were like kabuki theater, with her playing all the roles) One month in, the micromanaging was starting to cost me sleep. By two months, I just slapped my badge on the Don's desk and said, "I can not work with this person" and left without notice. To this day, I think of her as Nurse Total-Spectrum Domination. Sheesh!
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  303. First responders are under no obligation to sacrifice themselves for the rescuee.
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  304. This Mark--he was really a jerk!
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  305. ​ @bluejay9890 Were you unconscious during his first term? He did just fine.
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  306. It strikes me that sex figures prominently in victim coverage simply because women are more vulnerable, both biologically and culturally. And economic class, rather than race, accounts for greater concern for these "Upper class" Caucasian females. Do we hear very much about abducted poor white women? Unusual status, indeed.
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  307.  @rullmourn1142  My physician thought that he could handle my uterine deformity, until he made a hash of it. Lucky for him that I delivered a healthy boy. Hope the stupid surgeon is retired or dead by now. He signed his lousy book for me.
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  308. What were the symptoms? John Fund said Biden was never the same and became much more impulsive.
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  309. Truinanashabadaprzhr!
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  310. You never hear of people proud of qualifying for DENSA . . .
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  311. My taxidermist brother once did some bear hides for a Segal movie around 2000 or so. I wonder which stinker that was. [Edit: Oh, crap. My brother provided bear hides for Jean Claud van Damme. I mix all these guys up! LOL] My kid idolizes Segal for his high grade of poor acting.
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  312. ​ @jameswhipp3221 Only specuwating.
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  313. I think I know why. She had a trigger-happy immune system to begin with.
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  314. She is only a victim insofar as her massive vanity has been wounded. Her type are a dime a dozen.
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