Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
https://clifhigh.substack.com/p/macro-behavior?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2. Clifs take on the Elohim
Charlie Sheen " I took briefcases of coke to hooker parties"
Hunter " hold my beer"
Buck and Clay on in background talking to Chris Christie. What an insufferable prick that guy is.
My hubby and I decided not to give our dogs anymore of the normal shots that vets normally say dogs need, but what about the rabies shots? Does anyone know if this is one shot the pups should get? One of our dogs needs his check up for intestinal parasites & heartworms, and vet says he needs his rabies shot. He's just over a yr old, our other dog is almost 5 yrs old.
It is heartening to know that there are still good people out there. I am traveling by myself (older woman) and got a flat late last night just after leaving Williamsburg fireworks. On side of busy I-64. Really busy highway with everyone heading into Richmond from Williamsburg and the beach, flying past me. Of course flat was the driver side. Female state trooper stopped after I called AAA. Said they would be really slow in responding. (She was right.)
She was on her way to another call and had to leave but said she would come back. So I started moving stuff to get to spare, which of course I had forgotten to maintain. (Fortunately I have a portable air compressor.) State trooper returned and waited while I pumped tire. VDOT worker stopped just as I was loosening lug nuts and he quickly did it all for me.
AAA never showed and I was there at least 90 minutes. I tried to cancel via their phone customer service after I got down the road and found a safe place to stop - and that was even an ordeal.
This morning I looked online and found a local tire place 1.5 miles from hotel and they got great reviews. I was there less than 30 minutes. They were so cheerful, helpful, and competent. I was so thankful to find them. I have had horrible experiences with dealers, tire shops, and mechanics for the past few years so was dreading dealing with a mechanic trying to rip me off again.
I am thankful for everyone who helped me through a stressful situation, especially God who kept me safe.
That's why I stopped AAA a few years ago, I hardly ever needed them for one and for another, when you need them, either they never show up or make you wait hours for service. Glad everything worked out for you.
I noticed that Trump posted Happy 4th of July yesterday. I thought that was kind of weird, coming from him. I would have thought he would wish us Happy Independence Day or make reference to the Founding Fathers or something more historical than Happy 4th. Just caught my eye. Got my noggin joggin.
I remember reading somewhere about celebrating a whole year to our Independence in the near future
You're right! Trump said that!
The Sound of Freedom 2 is coming out per Jim Caviezel. They will be doing multiple movies. #2 will be about Haiti ...tick tock
Need some feedback please:
I've been debating making a post about a kid I grew up with. In summary, he graduated HS in the early 90's and went to Cali to become an actor. In the mid 2000's the strangest thing happened to him (and me) that makes more sense now that I know how evil unHolywood is.
He came running to me in our childhood neighborhood screaming for help, clothes torn and scratches all over his body. Calling my name, he grabbed me while I was washing my car and shook me begging for a ride. He said "they" were coming for him and he needed to get away. After he saw his stepdad running towards him and heard police sirens he ran off.
A year or so later he was dead. The following month his cousin who I also knew from school was dead also.
He was a small time actor (mostly commercials) but I can't help wonder if he stepped out of line and the cabal had him killed.
At the small risk of doxing myself, I can share more details and links (obituary) about him and his stage name and the obit for his cousin.
I'm hoping the post will provoke other Anon's to think of any strange past life experiences that didn't add up. Did someone have a FreeMason family member, a politician, a Union boss, or Mafia associate that may have been part of this giant web?
The only feedback I can provide is your suspicions sound correct and I am sorry you and him went through that.
I think we might need to re-think our linking to tiktok now that twitter is kind of shot down.
https://www.tiktok.com/search?q=france%20protests%202023
France protests ^
Tiktok is stil a CCP manipulation and surveillance tool.
DWAC is up, i'm still red, but not as red as yesterday
The worst part of going to the movie theater to see Sound of Freedom was going early and having to sit through the stupid ads and promos before the movie--I couldn't find the Mute button or the Skip Ads button. Was very annoying and I finally just closed my eyes and prayed my way through it. Advice: Don't go early. But definitely Go see it.
Fortunately it was worth watching the movie.
Still thinking about how to apply what I saw...
Establish competitive theaters that don't advertise Disney and sucky movies before shows. Surely there is another way besides ads. Ads are meant to brainwash. Why cannot we exclude the brainwashing from the experience? Books don't have ads, though admittedly articles, podcasts, and magazines do.
Enable freer speech zones in these new theaters for communities to discuss what they saw afterwards. If movies are going to start being deep and worthy, like Sound of Freedom is, it almost seems that there needs to be a decompression zone. Or maybe we just go home and write on GAW.
I usually go early to secure a good seat, then use the ad time to use bathroom or get popcorn, I know, they are awful, and seem to go on forever. I endure the horrible local ads, sometimes just business cards slide shows with awful backround music, and then the bigger ads, and then the previews, and then the reminder to not use cellphones, where the exits are, and then, finally :Enjoy the Show". Sheesh. Probably why I choose to stream almost everything.
On your second point, I have watched some public showings of documentaries lately with conversation after--it's a great format. I really wanted to run up front after watching Sound of Freedom yesterday and start a conversation. I even wanted to meet the men and women who yelled "Amen!" and "Hallelujah!"
It is crazy. We are already paying to be in the theater. Why should we also have to see ads?
Amen. You get it.
Very clever!
I remember the initial blow back. I thought he had healed, or at least to a degree. Has he still been speaking out?
Hunter Clapton likes his booger sugar
LOCAL FIREWORKS DISPLAY!
Please let me know if your fireworks display was ordered from wish.com? This year’s was so lackluster, and barely lasted 20 minutes. I’m completely underwhelmed.
I felt like last year was Melania Trump, and this year was Jill Biden. 🤦♀️
I don't where the local cities get fireworks. I'm in NC and anyone can by fireworks legally. At the NC coast Saturday night a neighborhood across the water from where I was staying had better fireworks than any city fireworks in the past five years. I didn't plan on going to the local fireworks. Monday night we driving back from a family bday/4th party and for some reason my husband came home a different way. I saw cars on the side of the streets and thought what's going on, light bulb went off & I realized fireworks so we went down a back road and watched. I was surprised they lasted at least twenty minutes. I grew up in the 70s and none are as good as they were back then.
The fireworks were better than I expected from this liberal town. The city gov is very corrupt and don't care if gangs rule. Over twenty years ago I struck up a conversation with a young lady in the doctors office. Her husband was a cop in the gang division. Her husband and others working to take down gangs got a letter in mail saying they knew where the wife worked and kids went to school/daycare. Soon after this he transferred to FL and they moved. Everything thing this city does is catered to the lower class (or non working) black community. It's terrible these corrupt politicians only care about money. They don't give a damn about the poor! If they did they would be teaching them a skill to learn an honest wage.
Local cities around here did it all on the 3rd, any that were scheduled for last night were washed out, we had storms and hail and tropical downpours every half hour. We were gonna have a cookout, but the weather came.
In Houston it has been lasting less than 10 minutes for years.
https://www.houstontx.gov/july4/
look at that sponsor list...America Last
Holy crap, I am just dumbfounded that the general chat thread has been up for an hour and there aren't butthundred posts already. Or maybe it is because everyone in America is still watching fireworks and such?
I had the idea of writing a poem in honor of everyone's favorite troll, NewbishBewbish. The doofus who is too chickenshit to post anything on GAW, but has nothing better to do with his life but to park his ass on here and continues to PM members here, demonstrating his inability to catch references and threatens people with "Imma dox yew, urrrf!" messages. I thought I would style it in the manner of John Keats's "Ode to a Grecian Urn." I've only done a few lines so far.
Ode to an Online Turd
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Thou supercilious prick of faggotry,
Thou art the unwanted stepchild of slow wit
Quarrelsome messages which betray your pageantry
Of online trolling, mindlessly talking shit
What stupidity haunts about thy mind
Of lackluster insults not properly conceived?
What questionable parentage produced your kind?
Thou art contemptuous, loathsome, aberrant and deceived!
...Well anyhow, that's all I've got so far. Hope you enjoyed it.
https://files.catbox.moe/fwzfqj.jpg
This feels obvious, but gotta say - the more you feed the trolls, the more they come following you. Why do you guys keep posting about this troll all the time? You want him gone? Ignore him completely.
Wow. Unexpected levels of eloquence, Steve. Although I suspect that giving such attention to our favorite troll may only make his condition worse, your elocutionary prowess here is indeed something to behold.
But I also wish to echo the other sentiment you expressed. Gen Chat has been up for 2 hours, and I am also disappointed and dismayed that we don't have several thousand threads yet. Well, I guess we just have to accept things the way they are....
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Have a great Gen Chat day, everyone! :D
Does he frequent other places or just general chat? I don’t like calling him names but I did experience his anger inducing PM’s yesterday. Needless to say, he is blocked and I reported him to a mod
In my case, he's trolled me only for comments I've made in General Chat. My Catcher in the Rye reference went WAY over his head and right away I realized what a moron he is. I'm wondering if he's the same user as the account PierrePierre. Same attitude, threatening to dox people.
That’s fabulous! Please keep on going. I can’t wait until tomorrow, when people are on this thread, and giving you the big thumbs up. 👍