People close to me suffer from it. They too poor to go to therapy and they don't know exactly what they got. They smoke weed just to make through the day with out realizing they have a reliance on the drug.
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People close to me suffer from it. They too poor to go to therapy and they don't know exactly what they got. They smoke weed just to make through the day with out realizing they have a reliance on the drug.
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That's if you can even get a job.
My friend struggled to find employment for years after leaving the service because so many employers are afraid of the "risks" of PTSD (the stigma of the disease within out society) in the workplace. Even though he had gone through treatment and was completely stable, and was more than qualified for numerous positions he interviewed for.
Like damn the military just chewed him up and spit him out. and in civilian life it's all "thank you for your service" to your face while people give you side eyes and thinks you're crazy and want nothing to do with you.
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That’s right, conspiracy buff. I spent 75 million dollars on a fake presidential campaign. All just to tick Superman off.
How is a damn sentai vid not available in Japan
Just go to the nearest quarry, a sentai scene will break out.
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eh, I used to do some private sector hiring- architects, engineers (civil, structural, mechanical, architectural) as well as finance.
Military resumes would come in and go right in the bin. It's not that PTSD was the issue, it was understanding how military experience is applicable to private sector work. Hiring managers can understand "I have an MS from Prestigious university and X years working in the field", but tell them you have a guy with military service and it's like trying to cram a square peg in a round hole.
Currently I work in the public sector for the state- they have a much better grasp of how that sort of thing is applicable, and preferential hiring for veterans.
edit: I should stop drinking when I'm on GAF. I get ornery.
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Maybe it's where he was looking then.
All I really know is what he told me and it was just hard seeing him struggle over what his military experience did to him
Depending on what I read, I get like this without drinking.
real shit
i wouldn't put military experience on my resume at all UNLESS
i was applying to a place specifically asking for military
at place that i know for a fact is looking for vets in order to get the benefits/exemptions/etc
outside the us
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see, funny story about this stuff. I used to throw wild ass parties at my place downtown, and would grab several cases of the good stuff, (plus another couple hundred worth of hard alcohol) and a case of $10 joke beer.
It was always either schlitz, Colt45, or steel reserve.
everyone. EVERYONE loved the joke beer. And it was a lot of white people getting lit up on Colt 45 and making jokes about it working "every time"
edit: wait, does that say shlitz on tap? That can't be real. TELL ME WHERE THAT BAR IS
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could be. Tell him to look into public sector if he hasn't. I recently made the jump to public sector and I'm totally an evangelist. We hire everyone for everything you can think of, promote and train from within, and don't shit on employees.
It's amazing, like taking a flying balloon to oz
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Thanks. I'll check up with him
anyways enough serious shit in this thread for one day
naw
we need mumei to come in and drop a well-written post on institutional racism with several links and a youtube vdoc that we'll all read, watch, then catnap in the fetal over before returning to chicken-talk to laugh the pain away
we need mumei to come in and drop a well-written post on institutional racism with several links and a youtube vdoc that we'll all read, watch, then catnap in the fetal over before returning to chicken-talk to laugh the pain away
somewhere in the south where you can still get it on tap.
we need to finish the week on an ain't shit note.
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I'm kinda hoping for more tales of Daquan to come out before that happens
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Dy pls
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you got sent to the bushes?
naw a lebron rumor that this dude labeled as fact led to the forum crashing the same time as the world cup shootout
he's been marked for death
I just love those awkward moments when a relative volunteer's me to entertain another relative that I've never met or spoken to who is visiting from outside of the country and I'm just like, 'Nah, I'm not doing that. If he's coming all the way from the EU without plans, that's none of my motherfucking business."
I live for these moments. These are the moments I feel most like a grownup.
I live for these moments. These are the moments I feel most like a grownup.
Devolution
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The moments I feel most grown up is going to a titty bar and thinking "wow this is lame" and leaving.
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That too. One night though it just wasn't worth it. Also I'm cheap. Fuck covers.
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The loyal gif destroyed me.
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they have their place. There's only one I'll think about going to though- that one I can hang out, have a beer, talk shit with strippers while watching a ball game. All they want is a dollar every 6-10 minutes or so, or if I'm talking to one a free drink with maybe a lapdance later.
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I missed them all. whats up
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Watching True Detective
Why am I just now finding out about Alexandra Daddario?
Why am I just now finding out about Alexandra Daddario?
I assume it revolves around her playing Storm. What the fuck else could a bunch of nerds have an issue with her for?
Them titties, am I right?
Just rolled into that Extant thread and saw that shit.
I'll probably catch that show tonight though.
Storm and Catwoman. It's stupid as hell but it's probably the only things they've seen her in.
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Them everything. Girl is gorgeous
but yeah them titties
Are they blaming Catwoman completely on her?
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I spent about an hour searching for a good stock photo of two black men talking in a kitchen scenario. Turns out stock photos aren't the most politically correct practice in the world.
I just looked, he crashed the site over that shit hahaha
I don't know if I would even comeback, or atleast create an alt
there were only like... 3 good castings in all of the xmen movies though between wolverine, magneto, and prof. prior to first class of course.
I just don't get it.
Halle was THE Black America's Sweetheart for much of her early career.
When she won the oscar for Best Actress, we rooted for her because not only was she was making history, but she genuinely deserved the recognition for her role in Monsters Ball
We shook our heads at "That Scene", but that was it.
Halle then did Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, won the Emmy and Golden Globe for Best Actress (putting her just a Tony away from the EGOT) and cemented her place as one of the greatest black actresses off all time, a true Hollywood A-Lister, and was one of the formative Hollywood big names to start the trend of A List actors doing HBO films.
Of all the things questioned about Halle (her tragic choice in men, for one), her acting ability was not.
....
...but then she makes Catwoman... -__-
Oldschoolgamer
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Halle was great in (edit) Things We Lost in the Fire.
Cameron Diaz as Wonder Woman.
I like Halle as an actress, but I wished she had more heavy and serious roles, like Monsters Ball without the jasons lyric type stuff except with Tommy Lee Jones or fucking whoever it was Billy Bob Horton. The Swordfish shit was horrible, the quick Bond girl toss was eyeroll worthy. She was capable of a lot more in her prime, but I guess it just wasn't there. Or it went to Meryll Streep.
I like Halle as an actress, but I wished she had more heavy and serious roles, like Monsters Ball without the jasons lyric type stuff except with Tommy Lee Jones or fucking whoever it was Billy Bob Horton. The Swordfish shit was horrible, the quick Bond girl toss was eyeroll worthy. She was capable of a lot more in her prime, but I guess it just wasn't there. Or it went to Meryll Streep.
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And Gothika... and Perfect Stranger... and Dark Tide... and New Year's Eve... and The Call... and Movie 43...
I don't fault her for the X-Men franchise because they really don't give Storm much to do in the series but the majority of her stock falling has been a string of awful movie selections.
I think where Halle fucked up was in trying to balance being a vetted "legit" actress (which got her roles), and maintaining her status as a Hollywood Vixen (which also got her roles...and endorsements...and just a shit-ton of money in general).
Same thing happened to Charlize Theron.
Same thing is happening to Jennifer Lawrence.
But most of those were just shitty movies in general, she wasn't the bad part of any of them.
and, to be fair, Cloud Atlas was one of her more recent films, and she was damn good in that.
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