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You should see MG's photos from those same trends.

Oh sure. Cool story, bro. Whatever it takes to overcome chastity issues.

Oh...for a minute there I thought this was going to be a question about whether proxy excommunications can be done for those who died before two or more witnesses came forth.

Maybe it's just me, but frankly, if you and your partner are willing to focus on making the act as enjoyable as possible, I can't see how, short of serious physical or psychological issues, it can really be that bad. If one isn't willing to do that, then it's a much deeper problem that just happens to manifest there.

Aw, that doesn't get my dishes washed and toilet scrubbed. Unless it's maybe a Cinderella roleplaying thing...

Great! I won't be home until around 8, but there's a fresh box of trash bags under the loft stairs, and a mostly new giant bottle of Dawn Ultra in the bathroom. (Works great for degreasing hands and spot treating laundry with grease stains.) At least I hope that's the kind of overhaul you mean.

What's the point of putting up with lawyers if they can't get you off the hook for a little questionable handling of (other types of) annoying people?

Ask if you can beat the snot out of every ~10th one. It really helps, especially if you leave them hog tied with duct tape where the others can see.

Trust me, you don't want to know. It's in that "things that can't be unseen" category.

iSpirit? Has Apple even ruined Divinity with a proprietary version now?

Maybe they've improved safe search, but suffice it to say that "CBT" has an entirely different meaning to the BDSM crowd.

Never saw that here, but then, the few LDS in the regular troops didn't form up into one patrol either. It was a lesson in the real world, where you might someday have to work outside the Clone Army, with infidels and such. Even learning to lead them. That's sort of the pot calling the kettle black. What does signing off requirements not actually met to the published standard make?

Because it doesn't make much sense outside of LDS troops; it's mostly just normal Scout stuff everywhere else. The few things that were seen as a bit too advanced to be simply normal troop activities with an appropriate age limit were handled in Venturing.

I've been known to point out that window shopping is a woman thing, and I don't go look unless I'm planning to take at least one home. Usually shuts them up.

There's a big difference between "progress oriented" (which means micromanaging in the LDS troops I've seen) and hands-off yet supportive of progress. The former leads to scouts who must be "commanded in all things" while the latter aids and rewards individual initiative. Also, the Scout-led nature of the troops gives the younger ones a definite leadership goal to work toward if they want to. I spent enough time as acting SPL to know that anyone truly good at that job has great potential as a cat herder, kindergarten principal or fascist dictator, depending on personality. Unfortunately, the job market for fascist dictators is very limited, so I never tried to get the long term spot.

And their rank will actually mean something. That's one part of the Church I'm glad I didn't have growing up; our troop made it hard to get Eagle, and even though I moved on to other things (a nice little blonde in particular) before I got there, I still have yet to meet a LDS Eagle with the skill level of most of our Star scouts.

I've yet to see anyone use even a fraction of the available tools.

Dude, anybody who looks like they have $20 to spare, or might be a potential green card gets offers all the time in plenty of those countries. Don't even have to go there for the green card ones; just being an American on a LDS singles Facebook group gets me friend requests from 19 year old Filipinas all the time. (And that's just the real ones.)

Connect with the world around you, maybe. It's pretty rare that I go to a grocery store without seeing at least one person I know by name. Heck, even when I lived in Dallas I'd run into someone unexpectedly a few times a year. Often in really strange circumstances, like an old high school friend's little brother delivering my pizza, or another friend whose mother turned out to be my ex wife's next boss after the divorce. (Apparently, when her mom found out she knew me, her comment was "Six years? He must be a very patient man.")

That's just because you're ugly.

Not really; I interact with dozens of people every day. Two that I see by chance on a reasonably regular basis happen to be members, but the "not on my list" mentality means that such interactions are rarely if ever taken advantage of properly by most of the members. (They're both active, so I'm not passing up any opportunities there.)

This. If local leadership refuses to honor a simple "please stop sending people over" request, that is only going to make the person less likely to want to return. It's a small town; you can't avoid running into people from time to time, so there are opportunities to connect, but there's also a strong "you're not on my HT/VT list" mentality, that basically means the majority of chance encounters will go to waste.

The ones that were only penciled out would still get put on someone else's to-do list, until they got fed up enough to either formally resign or involve law enforcement.

Well, then tell us how it is with this gift to see so perfectly into the hearts of all men, you haven't brought them all back into the fold?