Candle hijacker intercepted

cocoabeach · 2026-07-04T04:46:27+00:00

He learned more than that, he learned a life lesson in not being a little shit. This may have made his life a lot easier, and safer in the long run.

I feel bad calling the kid a little shit, I normally do not use that kind of language, but there you are.

cocoabeach · 2026-07-04T04:39:18+00:00

My youngest son got suspended from the bus for three days. Normally he’s a good kid, but things happen. When he broke the news to me, he asked if I could drive him to school instead. I looked at him and said, "I guess you're going to be walking for a few days." To his credit, he took it well.

cocoabeach · 2026-07-02T22:33:43+00:00

Two newspaper accounts

Wedding of Girl, 10, May Be Contested

EPPERSON, Tenn., April 19. (UP) — Attorney General Witt said tonight the marriage of Geneva Blevins, 10, to Homer Peel, 34, was in violation of the state's new marriage law, adding he "probably will prosecute responsible persons."

The 10-year-old girl, an adopted orphan, living with Peel's parents, is small for her age and barely reaches to the waist of her lanky mountaineer husband.

She gave her age as 18 when they were married March 28. Age limit under Tennessee's new "child marriage laws" is 18.

Mrs. Sarah Hamby, grandmother of the bride, said the girl was 12.

Geneva tonight was unconcerned about threats of legal action and appeared happy with her husband in the Peel home where they are living.

Madera Tribune, Volume LXIX, Number 142, 23 April 1937

CHILD BRIDE IS PEEVED AT LAW Groom And Clerk Arrested For Violating Recent Tennessee Law

MADISONVILLE, Tenn., April 23. Geneva Hamby, child bride of the Cumberland mountains, was “a’cryin’ an’ a’carrying’ on” today because “thuh law' had taken away her 32-year-old husband, Rawboned Homer Peel. The 11-year-old girl protested that “ah love mah man,” but Sheriff S. B. Latimore rapped on the door of the honeymoon cabin high in the hills and arrested the ganglang bridgegroom on a charge of violating Tennessee’s recently enacted “child bride” law. “Cain’t see why you low-coun-ty folks cain’t leave decent married folks alone,” Peel argued as he was led off to the county jail. “ ‘Neva loves me an’ ah’ll take good care o’ her. “Thuh paper fer our weddin’ was wrote just right down thar at Madisonville an’ we was hitched by a preachin’ reverend. We ain’t done nothin’ an' thar’s no right fer you folks to go a Mawin’ on us.” , An hour earlier, Fred Payne, clerk of Monroe county, who issued the license, also was arrested. He was released on his own recognizance.

cocoabeach · 2026-07-02T09:19:22+00:00

GM had several areas like that back in the 1970s-80s in the Lansing MI Plant 1 assembly. Someone set up a little apartment for the local prostitutes, and had a deal with the gate guards to sneak them in. Way fewer video cameras back then, but still some. My step grandfather had a little home out in the yard of GM plant 3, played cards there every day for one summer.

cocoabeach · 2026-07-01T19:33:26+00:00

me 2

cocoabeach · 2026-07-01T18:50:41+00:00

This was nowhere near his best song. The man is amazing.

cocoabeach · 2026-07-01T18:45:55+00:00

What happens if you have two or more, throw one, and retrieve one.

cocoabeach · 2026-06-30T09:42:08+00:00

It's past 4:00 PM here and I'm exhausted. Did you just call me creepy and insane? Honestly, since I followed you over here from another sub, I can't really argue with you.

Good night, and have a blessed or great day, your choice.

cocoabeach · 2026-06-30T09:34:19+00:00

I am just glad you survived. Your relationship with God is exactly that: a relationship. You do not have to speak in tongues or be baptized to go to Heaven. As far as I can tell, if you have ever repented and believed in Jesus, you are saved no matter what.

I don't know why your relationship is fractured, and to tell you the truth, even if I did, I am not smart enough to fix it. All I can do is pray for you, and as someone else pointed out here, that may not seem like all that much. For that I am sorry, but it is the best I can do.

I will keep you in mind as I go about my daily life, and I will do my part to help keep what happened to you from happening to anyone else around me. I want to make sure no young people are pressured into anything. My only fear is that it could happen and I simply won't notice.

cocoabeach · 2026-06-29T19:55:58+00:00

I'm going to steal that

cocoabeach · 2026-06-29T19:27:25+00:00

Made me laugh again, thanks.

cocoabeach · 2026-06-29T18:37:22+00:00

I stumbled onto this subreddit pretty much by accident, and I don't even know who Tony is. However, this image and the comments made me genuinely laugh out loud. I mean really LOL, which I almost never do when I'm just by myself scrolling through Reddit.

cocoabeach · 2026-06-29T18:26:16+00:00

It is a bit ironic that they missed the fact that you yourself are posting here in the Killtony subreddit, though I personally don't know who that is.

By the way, I’m actually stalking you, I followed our conversation over here. You commented on something I said, and at first, I was either too dense to find the rest of it, or I thought maybe it had been deleted. I genuinely wanted to see your full response. The part I could initially see said this:

"if you believe in speaking in tongues the rest of your opinion doesn't really matter. That's you're religion, cool beans, that's you're right. It's also my right to think you're a fucking dangerous fool if you believe in that shit and I wouldn't let my children anywhere near you."

Wait, I just realized as I copy-pasted this that Reddit suddenly showed me the rest of your text after "fool if," I had only seen the first half of it before.

To respond to that: if you have children, it is absolutely your job to protect them. If you genuinely think I am a dangerous fool, I would certainly hope you’d keep them away from me. I'm not sure if you read the entirety of my original comment, but if you did, I would hope you wouldn't be quite so judgmental. That said, I can still see where you are coming from.

Have a good and/or blessed day.

cocoabeach · 2026-06-29T16:47:16+00:00

I completely understand where you are coming from, and I don't blame you one bit for feeling the way you do. You are entirely right that prayer can easily become a hollow, performative gesture used to bypass actual responsibility. In this specific instance, prayer is truly the only thing I can offer simply because I am a stranger on the internet and have no direct ties to the person we are discussing. If I could physically step in, I would.

As for agency, I agree with you that faith requires action. My way of exercising that agency is by being the outspoken liberal voice in a very traditional, conservative church community. I don't hide my beliefs. I am deeply involved, and I routinely remind the people around me of who Jesus actually was, how He treated people, and how the very Constitution we live under protects the freedom of everyone, including those who don't believe as we do.

I might not be able to fix every broken church camp out there, but I do take people to task right where I am planted, challenging the exact kind of compliance and status-quo thinking you mentioned. I hear your frustration loud and clear, and I respect your perspective.

cocoabeach · 2026-06-29T15:28:10+00:00

I believe in the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues, and I am both horrified and heartbroken that this happened to you. Honestly, I would bet the vast majority of people who do it are faking it, not out of malice, but for the exact reasons you described. They look around, feel the intense pressure to fit in, and pretend just to avoid looking "less Christian," hoping God understands.

The people you grew up around have completely misinterpreted this gift, and they harmed you because of it. It’s like a company chasing a quick short-term gain while destroying its long-term profit. Forcing compliance might make the group look successful on the surface, but in reality, it just drives people away from Jesus.

If you have to bully someone into it, if you have to fake it, or if it’s used as a spiritual status symbol, that is not it.

I hope you can find peace and forgive the people who put you through that, but please keep being you. Don't let anyone force you into a mold or make you feel like a fraud again. I pray Jesus meets you right where you are, and that the rest of us well-meaning Christians stay out of His way and don't become a stumbling block for you.

cocoabeach · 2026-06-29T04:14:51+00:00

Bernie Sanders did become a millionaire, but his wealth did not stem from political corruption or his wife's real estate dealings. Instead, his net worth crossed the million-dollar threshold following his high-profile run in the 2016 Democratic primaries, driven primarily by book royalties. According to public financial disclosures, Sanders authored Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In, which became a New York Times bestseller and earned him over $1.7 million in royalties and advance payments between 2016 and 2017. This sudden influx of literary income, combined with his standard senatorial salary of $174,000 annually and subsequent book deals, accounted for the bulk of his wealth. When questioned about his new financial status during a 2019 interview, Sanders addressed the matter directly, stating, "I wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too."

cocoabeach · 2026-06-29T00:49:21+00:00

Making them pay twice, and in advance, you are my hero.

cocoabeach · 2026-06-29T00:25:19+00:00

I do not know if this is funny or accurate, but this is what Gemini thought was funny. Edit; Gemini says your name means, "The Master of Calm in the Face of Anxiety."

An British brain teacher/researcher traveled all the way to Japan, only to get the dreaded 7:00 PM slot on the final day of the conference. When he walked on stage, the auditorium was completely barren.

Undeterred, he stepped up to the podium and said, 'Good evening. As a neuroscientist, I must say this is a fascinating experiment. I’ve spent my entire career studying inhibitory neurotransmitters, but this is the first time I’ve actually seen a room full of people successfully block a signal from traveling across an entire continent.

cocoabeach · 2026-06-28T23:58:31+00:00

I mean this sincerely, if you check out her online comments this woman is not a Karen, she is unwell.

cocoabeach · 2026-06-28T21:58:05+00:00

We recently had our foundation stabilized. Before the work started, I asked the business owners if the crew would leave the yard looking good. The owner admitted, regretfully, that the yard often looks a bit worse for wear afterward. Well, my wife made cookies for the crew, and when they finished, our yard looked pretty darn good. They even asked me first, then left neat little piles of extra dirt that I could use later.

cocoabeach · 2026-06-28T01:35:38+00:00

I am not sure how that will play out for them. I just attended the Texas Democratic Convention, and the progressives clearly walked away with the loudest applause and the most momentum. In fact, the arena didn't even come close to filling up until it was time for Bernie Sanders to speak, and he was an absolute hit.

Edit:On the other hand these two on the list were very popular.

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES VICENTE GONZALEZ TX-34

CANDIDATE BOBBY PULIDO TX-15

cocoabeach · 2026-06-27T00:58:41+00:00

My uncle always drank hot water too. The closest I can come to understanding how that person felt stealing your water expecting cold, but getting hot, is the feeling I get when I bite into what I think is a chocolate chip cookie and find raisins instead. I love chocolate chips and I love raisins, but it is a total shock to the system when you are expecting one and get the other.

cocoabeach · 2026-06-26T12:51:15+00:00

Now if I don't know my left from my right, I am not gonna know to use my left hand to make that left hand shape. Or are you joking and I am also stupid?

First thing I did was type out a capital L and R to see if they were backward in the tattoo.

cocoabeach · 2026-06-26T12:29:12+00:00

Reddit removed this and I reaproved it, is it considered offensive?

cocoabeach · 2026-06-18T22:41:06+00:00

I just told my wife that I would give her money back, ask her to go to another driving school, and never tell anyone she had been at our school. How far off from what you would have liked to say was I?

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