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
The back country roads have been turning into drug warrens since fentanyl has come on the scene. All the crime around my rural area are due to fentanyl addicts, young kids I knew, some of my sons classmates, they come from messed up parents, it is not rural poverty, people from around where I live do not aspire for a lot of money, we live in a beautiful place and folks have always been good and hard working, live simple, and then there is the trash, and their kids are all on the stuff, used to be you dont lock your doors, hell, even leave the keys in the car, but fentanyl is another game altogether, and it is hitting rural areas like AIDS in a gay bath house. These are kids I remember as little ones from my sons school. Sketchy parenting, bad morals all around, the grandparents are at their wits end, I am talking white rural america here, not some awful city. Our Dollar General is barely staffed, I think the staff stays safe somewhere and all the check outs are self serve, a clerk comes to help if there is a glitch. It's nothing like it used to be. It aint mexicans either, rural white kids. It comes up from New Haven, NYC, and on to Springield Mass, which is a hell hole by the way, and then into the rural hills of Vermont, back roads forever and minimal policing. I have this old sheppie who is was a hell of a watch dog, but she is aging out, God Bless her, and this new dog I got is a Springer Poodle, useless, but cute. As soon as sheppie passes on I am getting another dog, yes, we have guns, but I am too old to shoot well anymore, so a good dog is your first line of defense.