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Patrick says

I think that's pretty common. They don't have many outlets for enjoyment.

He was a friend of the family because my father and he would get shitfaced together (military base). I think priests have lots of outlets for enjoyment of all descriptions. Confession is for them, too. Gay priests are big cruisers.

HeadSet says

richwicks says

Where/what is "BA"?

Bay Area. San Francisco and vicinity.

Oh obviously, I'm stupid not to have recognized that.

The Bay Area I find to be quite polite. For example, me and my friend often hang out after work outside of my company (which is in a set of buildings owned by a 3rd party) to have a cookout. There's a grill there, nobody uses it (because nobody comes in), and we reheat pizza, or cook bratwurst or hamburgers. I have to fiddle with the gas line to make it work, and I had to replace a battery to get the ignition to work, etc. It was intentionally disabled during the coof, I fixed it.

Yesterday we got caught by security. We've been doing this for weeks.

In Boston, I would have been required to show ID, my manager would have been contacted, and I would have to face consequences almost certainly. I would have been forcibly removed and/or escorted off the premises. If I resisted, police would have been called and would have shown up.

Here, the security guard came up to me, asked me what I was doing, I apologized, said "I didn't realize it mattered" offered to leave, he said "don't bother" and gave me the ridiculous procedure I have to go through to sign up to use the grill which is a hurdle nobody would jump though, I offered him food which he politely declined and left and I hung out with my friend for another 2 hours drinking beers and making cheese burgers unmolested. Last time we can do that again for at least a good long while - it's getting cold anyhow and it's no real loss.

Here, being courteous and agreeable go far. If I'm trespassing, and I'm approached by security, I recognize that's security, I'm trespassing, I can put them at ease quickly by being honest, forthright, and apologetic. I'm never combative, I'll accept and obey requests, I'm not argumentative. If I do this HERE, I never have a problem. When I'm doing something stupid like trespassing, I realize I am in the wrong, I realize they have a job to do, I'm not supposed to be there, but I'm also not there to vandalize, steal, etc but they don't know that. When approached by security and I realize I'm being approached, I often come to them and speak first and ask them "am I causing a problem?" and they explain the problem I'm causing which I know I'm already guilty of then I offer a solution which is too dramatic, but I will follow if they agree to it - which they rarely ever do.

In Boston, being agreeable, polite and non combative doesn't help. They aren't agreeable or polite and they are combative.

For all that security guard knew, I was some homeless guy lying about working at the company, stealing 10 cents of natural gas. I wasn't asked to prove my identity. It would have been much worse on the East Coast because there, I would have had to prove my identity, they would have checked to see I worked there, the building manager would have been called, and my boss would have been notified. I would have been detained. The building supervisor would have been pissed, they would piss of my bosses' boss, which would piss off my boss, and it would have been taken out upon me - almost certainly.

The West Coast is MUCH more laid back than the East Coast. Situations that I intentionally create can easily be defused. Yeah, I was in the wrong, and I knew I was probably breaking rules at the start, but I also knew when I was eventually caught and confronted I had a 99.9% chance of getting out of it. I wouldn't do what I did in Boston.

I was being an asshole doing what I did, I realize, but here the security guard recognizes "he's being an asshole, but he's immediately standing down and isn't being an asshole now" - I got immediate forgiveness. I don't think that happens in Boston. There it's "you knew you were being an asshole, I'll fucking teach you not to be an asshole again, you fucking asshole" and then the security guard would have fucked me in every way he possibly could to teach me a lesson no matter what I did.

richwicks says

I'm never combative, I'll accept and obey requests, I'm not argumentative.

That proves it. You are definitely multiple personality. You should have been a spy.

Ceffer says

richwicks says

I'm never combative, I'll accept and obey requests, I'm not argumentative.

That proves it. You are definitely multiple personality. You should have been a spy.

Haha, spies are traitors to the group they infiltrate. I have better moral sensibilities than that.

Spies aren't James Bond, they are Whitey Bulger. They are moral scum. They befriend and infiltrate a group with the intention of betraying them to start with. The 500+ people in jail for the January "insurrection" were betrayed by spies. That's what spies ACTUALLY do. They are born traitors.

Multiple personalities aren't required, I think you need to be a sociopath to be a spy - or at least it helps. Narcissism does as well.

I can be very manipulative, but I never do this to harm the person I'm manipulating. I have empathy too, and frankly, I respect blue collar workers more than I respect white collar workers. I'm a white collar worker, and I become submissive to blue collar. They don't need me, I need them, and I'm fully aware of this even if they aren't.

See what a spy actually is. Nothing more than a professional traitor. This is 50 years old. Nothing has changed. The Black Panthers were originally a break away group that simply wanted to have autonomy, and the ability to police their own areas. They were good, moral, people - who happened to be black. They were a militia that was black that properly identified the enemy was their own government. All they wanted was autonomy. The man below was somebody that worked against that cause.


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BTW, I saw a comment somewhere that a lot of Catholics who are fed up with the woke pope are converting to Orthodox Christianity, which seems to be more traditional. Certainly more orthodox, lol.