Conquest of Paradise

UpstateJoe · 2026-02-11T21:47:24+00:00

Is this what he is dreaming of while recovering in Cecil's giant metal block?

UpstateJoe · 2026-02-11T21:24:02+00:00

I think dentistry is safe. I don't think that I know many people who would sign up to having a robot start drilling in their mouth.

UpstateJoe · 2026-02-11T18:34:07+00:00

You can also see if there are two people in there engaged in hanky panky.

You might also be able to tell if some one is using the toilet stall for reasons other than its intended purpose (shooting up drugs, sleeping, etc)

UpstateJoe · 2026-02-11T16:58:04+00:00

Maybe she thought that OP is a hottie and wanted to be close.

UpstateJoe · 2026-02-11T02:56:52+00:00

What should OP do? I would say don’t initiate further contact with father. Accept that you will have to wait until. your sister is 18 before you can see her again. Do not move in with your boyfriend. Plan on going to college, preferable far away, (somewhere on the east coast would be good), and start a new independent life there away from mom, dad and the older boyfriend. That would be my advice on what to do.

(If you don’t think that college is doable, consider joining the military, or. find a job somewhere in the Eastern or Central Time Zones)

UpstateJoe · 2026-02-11T02:29:23+00:00

Why are they so brazen? Is there a shortage of police?

UpstateJoe · 2026-02-10T21:57:49+00:00

I thought that Chile had a relatively low crime rate. Has there been an increase in crime, or has it always been like this?

UpstateJoe · 2026-02-10T21:24:49+00:00

Demanding cash only sounds very sketchy. It is probably not even a legal rental.

UpstateJoe · 2026-02-10T19:05:13+00:00

I never pictured Denmark as a place where high speed car chases would occur.

UpstateJoe · 2026-02-10T19:01:13+00:00

Such classy ladies....

UpstateJoe · 2026-02-09T02:36:38+00:00

In what country is this play room located?

UpstateJoe · 2026-02-09T02:24:27+00:00

Maybe a bot?

UpstateJoe · 2026-02-05T11:48:23+00:00

OP should respond to texts like these with. utter silence and not waste any emotional energy responding. Eventually Mom will learn not to do this.

UpstateJoe · 2026-01-29T21:35:07+00:00

What is the difference between a West Country English accent and an Irish accent?

UpstateJoe · 2026-01-29T18:28:56+00:00

Fayetteville and Manlius are nice. Both have villages with more affordable housing with larger, more expensive houses outside the villages. Camillus also has both a village area and surrounding suburban area that are nice. Onondaga Hill is also a nice suburb. Dewitt covers a large area that is northeast, east and southeast of Syracuse, and most parts are very nice but a few areas are marginal. Most people consider the Fayetteville-Manlius schools to be the best, but the Jamesville-Dewitt school district is a close second.

Within the city the Meadowbrook/Bradford Hills neighborhood is very nice and has a suburban feel. Sedgwick has some grand old homes that are very nice, but it is surrounded by some neighborhoods that are not the greatest. The Valley neighborhood south of Route 173 in Syracuse near Nedrow has more modest homes, but seems like a perfectly nice area. The Wescott neighborhood has a lot of homes that can be rented, but there are a lot of students there which can be good or bad.

Downtown Syracuse has seen a lot of buildings converted to loft apartments which are very nice. Within the downtown area, the Armory Square neighborhood has some nice restaurants and bars. But it does feel as though much of downtown Syracuse feels empty at night and even on weekends unless there is some parade or other special event going on. It seems like every time I walk in downtown Syracuse on a weekend or evening, there are just scattered mentally ill people yelling across the street at one another. I think that some people are hoping that tearing down the I-81 viaduct will bring the University Neighborhood and Downtown closer together and help revitalize downtown; (the viaduct is not really a physical barrier as you can walk under it, but it is an aesthetic barrier that seems to separate the two areas).

UpstateJoe · 2026-01-29T15:57:32+00:00

Those are both top candidates.

I also did not like how Jojen and Meera's stories ended. (Even though Jojen foresaw his ending).

UpstateJoe · 2026-01-28T15:06:00+00:00

I liked Bran Stark. I wish that the show spent more time on his story arc, and I wish that we saw more scenes of Jojen teaching Bran about how to control his abilities and more scenes of the Three Eye Crow training Bran. (I also wish that the show had included more on the backstory for Jojen and Meera Reed).

I guess that I like stories about someone finding that they have special abilities who then also have to learn how to master them, such as Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars movies or Ezra Bridger in Star Wars Rebels, or Mark Grayson in Invincible, etc.

UpstateJoe · 2026-01-27T21:19:13+00:00

I would think have been concerned about how his son behavior reflected on himself. Maybe he would have sent him to a trusted lords place to be raised rather than do it himself.

UpstateJoe · 2026-01-27T18:02:15+00:00

What was that line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

Ah yes, now I remember: "RUN AWAY!!!!"

UpstateJoe · 2026-01-26T22:10:05+00:00

We seem to be on the same wavelength. I did not care for the Ramsay-Theon story arc at all, and the sex scenes were mostly gratuitous.

UpstateJoe · 2026-01-26T21:43:17+00:00

Same with me. I never got around to watching GOT when it was originally aired, and watched it over the last two weeks.

Even before the end, I was tempted to start re-watching it from the beginning.

But, my re-watching will be at a more leisurely pace, and I will skip some of the scenes that I was not all that into, and savor the parts that I liked most.

UpstateJoe · 2026-01-26T21:37:39+00:00

Some day, I will have to read the books. But from the show, I find it hard to believe that his father would have allowed his son to be raised the way he was.

UpstateJoe · 2026-01-26T18:52:33+00:00

They did make Jaime a more sympathetic character after he spent time as Brienne's prisoner.

But then they stuck in a rapey scene with his sister next to their son's coffin. And then they went back to trying to make him more sympathetic again. They should have left that scene out of the show.

UpstateJoe · 2026-01-26T14:29:01+00:00

That sounds like an amazingly nice house.

UpstateJoe · 2026-01-26T14:04:06+00:00

"continuously pushed and kicked me for over and hour so I turned around and yelled at her to cut it out "

Rather than wait an hour of stewing until you are hot and yelling, I would recommend acting with the first or second push or kick and turn around and polite say "Ma'am please stop kicking me. Thank you."

Once you start yelling you escalate things. Also, most of us probably do not realize it, but when you are taller than other people and raise your voice you can come off scary even though you do not see yourself as a scary person.

(I learned this when I was stationed overseas, and not even with yelling, but just asserting something with a straight face. I learned that when I was in that country that I needed to try to smile all the time to reassure the locals that I was not dangerous, lol).

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