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I was about to post a message saying how weird I thought you were... then I thought about it, and realised I do exactly the same thing too. It only applies to socks though. Trousers and the like are all fine, unless they have been worn for more than half an hour. And there was me thinking I was free of OCD. I hadn't even thought about that as being an OCD trait haha.

Hahahah, while I was working at the temple, two male employees at the temple and myself entered the female toilet/bathroom in the onsite MTC to do some work in there. We had placed an out of order sign on the door, as it wouldn't be good for a sister missionary to be using the toilets while there were three men present... except that is exactly what happened. Apparently this sister missionary either didn't see our sign or ignored it. We didn't realise she was there until it was too late. It doesn't seem that bad, but they don't like things like this to happen in the MTC

I don't think they can. It wouldn't make sense at all. I assumed upon reading this, that mormonmusic meant that the previous stake president had borrowed money from another budget that the church holds somewhere, and now has to pay that money back out of the stake budget. So it's just throwing money around within the church effectively. That is what I thought he was referring to anyway - it makes more sense than borrowing money from an external source.

In the job mentioned above, I worked in two different buildings half a mile apart. It was the last day of term before breaking up for christmas and that day I had been assigned to work in building one. There was a party later that night, as per usual on the last day of term. Most people had left as it was the end of the day, but I had needed to run over to building two to finish some end of term jobs before heading off to the party. When I arrived, the place was all but deserted. Only the caretaker was around, and he had to go out for a bit, so he told me just to close the doors behind me when I needed to leave, as they would lock automatically. So I set about doing what I needed to do, and about an hour later I was ready to leave. The front entrance to the building has a porchway. There is an internal door and an external door. This was my usual exit so I opened the internal door, which closed and automatically locked behind me. I got to the external door only to find it was locked. So there was me, in an empty school, stuck between two locked doors. Then I remembered the caretakers final intructions... use the back door to leave *sigh*. As if my luck wasn't already bad enough, I'd just used the last of my credit on my phone to call a friend before getting locked in, so I couldn't call anyone for help. I was stuck for two or three hours before someone finally called me to ask where I was. I did manage to get to the party, albeit very late and arrived to applause from everyone. It seemed someone had found out and announced my predicament to them before hand.

I was sitting in the reception office of a previous workplace (gosh, why do all these happen at work ) and on the phone to the support company of some management software they were using in that office. It was the middle of summer and there was a wasp flying around the office. I couldn't move because I was on the phone, one of my hands holding the phone to my ear and the other contolling the computer mouse. The wasp, noticing my vulnerable position decided to take this moment to dive bomb me. It landed on the left side of my neck and very quickly crawled under the collar of my shirt, where it proceeded to sting me several times. I was unable to do anything to remove it as I was trying to continue the phone conversation as professionally as possible. After being stung about six or seven times, one of the ladies in the office noticed my obvious discomfort and ventured beneath my collar with a tissue and extracted the wasp. I don't think the guy I was talking to had any clue there was something not quite right.

I was at a large conference for work, and there were multiple companies around trying to advertise their goods. One of them had employed a magician to attract people to their section of the hall and I stood in the background briefly trying to figure out how he was doing the things he was doing. He was involving the audience in his tricks, though I wasn't intending on getting involved with it. Anyway one of his colleagues ushered me forward, and I somehow found myself his next target. It was a derivation of a popular card trick, and the previous person had been asked to pick a card after he flicked through the pack in front of him. When he came to me, I assumed he was doing the same thing. However, due to nerves of having been placed on the spot, I seem to have missed the instruction to tell him to stop at a random point as he flicked through them. He got to the end of the pack and I hadn't told him to stop. He repeated the instructions, though while I heard them, they didn't register (again, due to being nervous). He repeated flicking through the cards, and I once again didn't tell him to stop, still assuming he was doing the same to me as he'd done to the previous victim. He flashed me a perplexed look, and said "sorry to wake you up mate", before moving onto the next person. Of course I realised my mistake at this point, and thankfully managed to shrink into the shadows and away to another part of the conference centre, which fortunately was very large. I still cringe at that, not sure what the people observing must have thought

Telling someone her profile was too big at work, which was causing her problems. She understood it the way most people would take it, I actually meant her computer profile however, I just assumed she would understand what I meant. Didn't make that mistake again.

In reponse to a couple of posts on here, let me clarify that Santa does not live in Alaska. He lives in the geographical North Pole which is in the arctic. I should know, he is a close, personal friend of mine :)

Lol... the problem with threads like this, is we all have access to google. It's not the same

A small excerpt from the church handbook of instructions (this does not break copyright). So the short answer is yes. To get the long answer, the bishop of your ward / branch will be able to help you further. There are other potential exceptions.

If you don't have any relatives in the USA... your best bet is via a job. Though if you don't have any good standing qualifications or any other kind of career prospects or relevant experience, you don't have a lot of hope just yet. It's not easy to get into either England or the USA, as they are both countries with considerable amounts of people trying to get in. They will want to know what you can offer their country that isn't generally offered by the average US citizen, like being an entrepreneur with the potential to employ several US citizens, or your career path being one that is in demand.

Ah, you see, what you should have said is this: From me ("the wisher") to you ("hereinafter called the wishee") please accept without obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, politically correct, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. Also, a financially successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2010, but with due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures or sects whose contributions to society have helped make Britain great, (not to imply that Britain is necessarily greater than any other country or is the only "Britain" in the western hemisphere), and having regard to the species, race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer platform or dietary preference of the wishee. By accepting this greeting you are bound by these terms, inter alia that: 1. This greeting is subject to further clarification or withdrawal. 2. This greeting is freely transferable provided that no alteration shall be made to the original greeting and that the proprietary rights of the wisher are acknowledged. 3. This greeting implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes. 4. This greeting may not be enforceable in certain jurisdictions and/or the restrictions herein may not be binding upon certain wishees in certain jurisdictions and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. 5. This greeting is warranted to perform as reasonably may be expected within the usual application of good tidings, for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first. 6. The wisher warrants this greeting only for the limited replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher. Any references in this greeting to "Father Christmas", or any other festive figures, whether actual or fictitious, dead or alive, shall not imply any endorsement by or from them in respect of this greeting, and all proprietary rights in any referenced third party names and images are hereby acknowledged" I think that just about covers your back. What do you think, Just_A_Guy, as our resident lawyer? Seasonal felicitations everyone

Excerpt taken from: USCIS - Citizenship for Permanent Residents So yes, you do have to known the basics of English to become a US citizen.

They also understand the legal/press issues involved in allowing someone who has committed this type of crime to be allowed to work with children in the church, hence the mark on their record to stop this happening.

Please bear in mind that he has only been arrested and from what you have said, not been found guilty yet. He may be innocent, unless he is known to have admitted it.

Ha... no some of the kids at the primary school I attended were really quite cruel. Anyone who believed before their first christmas at that school, no longer believed after it

There are some people I know who think vice versa. They don't understand how others could be so evil as to lie to their children.

Morning after pill. Regretpill is a nickname for it, i.e. they regret doing it.

I have a theory that all our mods are in fact the same person, posting under different aliases .

Lol, surely walmart isn't in the dictionary?

Whoa, I don't think we want to be jumping to conclusions like that. I know it was meant well, but some people might read more into it than is there. There are thousands of sexual deviations around, and I'm guessing it's one of them from the words lostsheep used. Doesn't mean it's an illegal one.

It's not really dependant on your computer, it's mainly your webserver. But as long as they have PHP enabled (any good web host will) then it will be fine. There are instructions on how to upload it to your webserver via FTP on the website. It will also tell you which permissions you need to set on each folder (for securities sake). Once all that is done, you visit the specified page on your website (this is given in the instructions) and it will ask you to follow some steps to automatically set up an SQL database. It can be difficult to get your head around at first, so you're right in thinking you'll need some time to play with it. But once it's done and you figure out how to use it, you'll end up much better off for it. At least in my opinion. It's been a while since I've had to use it, but it saved me mountains of time when I did.

Press CTRL + F5 together when a page with hillbillys post on is open.

Joomla makes websites far easier to manage. Many years ago now, most websites were completely static. Each page on a website was its own unique entity. You could change something on one page, and all the others would remain completely as they were (unfortunately this method is still often taught in schools). With CSS and server side includes, this is changing, so that you can update all your page with a brand new design in one go. A lot of people make their own basic versions of this, but joomla is an advanced system designed to effectively give you the pre-built framework of a website, without actually taking away any customisation of your website. You don't install it on your computer, you upload it to your webserver and go from there. The only way I can describe it, is a bit like this forum we are using now. It has a similar interface, but far more advanced. It even has it's own WYSIWYG editor built in (a bit like a basic web based version of dreamweaver), so you can log into your website from any computer and edit the site, without needing any software installed on the computer you are logged into. There are also countless extensions for joomla, like image galleries, forums, templates etc. The idea behind it is to save people many hours building the framework to their website before they even think about the design or content (i.e. not having to reinvent the wheel). Plus it makes it easier for you when making the design and content. Joomla is free to use, modify and abuse, whether for business or personal use. Welcome to the world of open souce :). Most of the addons and templates are also free, however there are a few people who charge here and there. The only requirement is that your webserver is PHP compatible, as joomla is made in PHP. If it isn't, you'd need to swap to another webserver. However you will be able to keep your current domain name one way or another. See above, and there is also a lot of info on the joomla website I gave you. I think there is a demo site on there somewhere as well, where you get to play with the backend a bit. Once you get your head around how it all works, you won't want to go back to the original way of designing websites. Yes. The software is free, you can use it for as many websites as you like. You'll need to install a different instance of joomla on your webserver for each website you want to build with it.

You actually saw that? I hope the reward you got for it was worth the suffering you went through. This is possibly the most realistic post in this thread