Ironhold

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  1. Frankly, I just use Keebler brand if I don't simply get a pie that's pre-made. Keebler is one of several brands affiliated with Kellogg's, and so most of their products are eligible for the Kellogg's Family Rewards program: https://www.kelloggsfamilyrewards.com/en_US/home.html Not only does Kellogg's offer a large quantity of coupons via their website and their frequent e-mails, you can use the points you get from buying product to either purchase more coupons or purchase merchandise from their store. I use the points to get codes that let me legally download music from an affiliated website; this is letting me replace some of my old, worn vinyl and audio cassettes for free.
  2. Fun fact: Sandy Peterson, the guy who designed 1/3rd of the total levels in "Doom" and "Doom II", is a member of the church.
  3. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432971/melissa-click-university-missouri-protests-fired?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=56ef122204d3015337df9cb9&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook Melissa Click says that she shouldn't have been fired over what happened, as she didn't know that the journalist had the right to be there.
  4. In my case, I'm making fair wages for my area; I just can't get enough hours at my present job. I'm only getting 15 hours a week or so plus stringer rate, which isn't enough for me to live on my own. And sales at my Half.com store bottomed out last year; it went from being a third paycheck to hardly worth the time to maintain. That's why right now I'm just trying to save to get the money to relocate elsewhere. If I can't get more hours, if not a different job, then it'll be my only option. Until then, I'm stuck living with family.
  5. "Mormon" is the term that the general public uses when dealing with the church, and so saying that they're Mormon too would generate more confusion than is necessary.
  6. That last anecdote makes it seem like you're questioning the guy's sexual preference.
  7. Just saw Miracles From Heaven. They show a fair bit of detail concerning the medical treatment, so it's not for the squeamish.
  8. Waco Stake? Waco was actually split off of Killeen after it got too difficult to get everyone together for stake events.
  9. I've come to the realization that so long as I'm still in the stake someone is going to do their darndest to keep rubbing it in my face. Enough people are still around after all this time to remember that I never went, and we've had more than a few toxic members rotate into the stake due to their involvement with the military; some hold opinions similar to those expressed earlier, while others are on ego trips because of their own missions and don't value those who didn't go.
  10. MBA time here. Do you want to know why diamonds cost so much, folks? 1. Hype 2. Oligopoly on supply Diamonds are nothing more than carbon that have been subjected to the proper conditions of heat and pressure. Every so often both DC Comics and groups spoofing DC will even go so far as to show Superman making a diamond out of coal in order to get himself out of trouble with Lois. That's both how common the base material for diamonds are and how common the knowledge of this is. Cubic zirconium is actually rarer than diamond, but costs less because the demand is less. After all, diamonds are the "proof" you love her, while cubic zirconium is "proof" that you're a cheapskate. There are actually places in this world (I understand there's quite a few of them in Arkansas) where you can rent a patch of land and spend the day searching for diamonds; from the sounds of it, diamonds are almost as common in Arkansas as trilobite fossils are here in Texas. As you can imagine, we had a few discussions about this in both my business and geology classes in college. Basically, the whole diamond industry as we know it is a big honkin' scam. It's an even bigger scam than the gold industry, folks.
  11. 1. When I went in for a temple recommend a decade back, the person who was stake president at the time shot me down cold. He said that he was told to only give temple recommends to people who were going on missions, getting married, or at a stage in their life where their finances were absolutely secure. Until I met one of those three criteria, it was a lost cause regardless of how I lived. College blew my finances apart, such that I'm still trying to rebuild. I never went on a mission, so that's out. And because I never went on a mission, I'm not getting married any time soon, so that's out. 2. I've got a master's degree in business administration. Before the recession hit, I would have been making six figures a year at this point. Unfortunately, the big white-collar jobs left the region after that, and given my financial state I don't have the money to follow them. So I'm in sort of a vicious cycle right now. 3. See above. The B-school I attended made a major snafu that resulted in my being denied financial aid through no part of my own, and so I had to pay for an entire calendar year's worth of classes out-of-pocket. This and the time I spent unemployed with the recession (I was laid off from what was a good entry-level office job) destroyed my finances; I'm still trying to rebuild. 4. I'm a movie reviewer for a local newspaper, so yes I'm up on the arts. 5. Back when I was at my peak I could push Buicks around like lawnmowers. Nowadays, I've got a few injuries that are slowing me down because I was never off my feet long enough for them to heal right; I was having to work my way through school just to try and keep from going into even more debt than I was already in. 6. You do realize that Vin Diesel is on the list of rich & famous who routinely play Dungeons & Dragons, right? That in and of itself is no impediment.
  12. I keep trying to let it go. People keep throwing it in my face. It doesn't matter that I was spreading the gospel online before LDS.org was even fully operational. It doesn't matter that I've dealt with ministers, writers, and journalists of all stripes (including some fairly big names). It doesn't matter that I'm an openly religious person in a field where there aren't a whole lot of openly religious people. I never wore a name tag, and so far too many people don't care about anything else I've done.
  13. I keep trying to let it go. People keep throwing it in my face. It doesn't matter that I was spreading the gospel online before LDS.org was even fully operational. It doesn't matter that I've dealt with ministers, writers, and journalists of all stripes (including some fairly big names). It doesn't matter that I'm an openly religious person in a field where there aren't a whole lot of openly religious people. I never wore a name tag, and so far too many people don't care about anything else I've done.
  14. As a mid-single? I'm single because when I was growing up, stake leadership drummed "All young men must go on a mission, and any young man who does not go on a mission is not worthy to be a husband and father" into the heads of as many people as they could. I stayed home because my family needed help caring for a mentally ill relative. Sure enough, I never got a second look from anyone in the stake. I never went, and so I wasn't worthy. At most, I'd get stuck in the "friend" zone and that would be it. Am I bitter about that? Better believe it. I'm basically being punished because I decided to put others ahead of myself. I haven't had a date in 10+ years, and that was with a woman who was from another stake (things didn't work out due to an error on my part, unfortunately). At this point, I have better odds of a random anime girl coming out of my TV than of getting a real-life girlfriend who's in my age bracket.
  15. FYI - according to Box Office Mojo, only three films have crossed the $100m US Domestic mark to date: Deadpool ($328m), Zootopia ($142.6m), and Kung-Fu Panda {$136m). Ride Along 2 is at $89.7m. Everything else is below $55m.
  16. Yeah, unfortunately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Cloverfield_Lane#Marketing It can take an entire evening to wade through everything, especially since there are videos to watch and lengthy supposed letters to read. The ARG provides vital world-building people need in order to understand how this film actually fits in with the overall movie franchise. It also goes into more detail about just what Howard (John Goodman's character) did in the military and why he's the way he is. If you know this all going in, then it spoils a big chunk of the movie since it provides critical insight into Howard that most theater-goers wouldn't otherwise have... and it's this lack of insight that drives most of the psychological aspect of the film, since a lot of it relies on whether or not Howard's truly insane or if he's somehow justified in his actions.
  17. 10 Cloverfield Lane. You need to be familiar with the associated ARG (alternate reality game) to understand the background of the film and how it ties in with the larger "Cloverfield" mythos, but if you get too deeply in to the ARG then it'll spoil the film for you.
  18. Basically, grape juice has many of the same benefits as wine; the purer it is, the better. As such, this is rather a moot point for us.
  19. Believe it or not? About a decade back, Hasbro unveiled its new advertising campaign: "Family Game Night". According to Hasbro, families would benefit if they would all take just one night a week in order to sit around and play games with each other. When they first launched the campaign, they even had an offer going where buying Hasbro games could get you free pizza. And when The Hub (now Discovery Family) launched, they even had a "Family Game Night" game show wherein families competed in events themed around Hasbro games. In other words, Corporate America had finally embraced FHE. Hasbro offers a selection of "travel" games, games that are small, portable versions of their full-sized games. Two-player offerings include versions of Battleship, Connect 4, and Hungry Hungry Hippos.
  20. Havarti cheese. A good Havarti is so soft that it can be warmed up and spread like butter.
  21. http://www.kcentv.com/story/31394418/christian-group-disrupts-catholic-church-mass They're back. This time, they struck in Texas. Round Rock is near enough to Austin that people likely didn't know what was going on. Most other places in the state likely wouldn't have taken things so passively.
  22. https://www.facebook.com/groups/523765677776014/ This is one of the groups that was formed last year when Beliefnet shut down its message board.
  23. Just because... *Would aliens be eligible for baptism into the church? *Could a truly sapient robot have a soul? Add your own!
  24. Welcome to the universe of Warhammer 40K. 1,000 human lives are sacrificed each day to provide the God Emperor with the energy he needs to continue spreading his power and influence across the galaxy. Soldiers with the Imperium can spend years, if not a full decade, at a hitch travelling from planet to planet responding to whatever the crisis of the day is... and once on-planet, they can spend years or even a full decade there resolving the matter. Of course, "high body counts" are practically par for the course, meaning that these units are often under-strength. Granted, the Commissar assigned to each unit *can* help out with the fighting if they so choose, but you have to be careful lest your Commissar decide that *you* are now a threat to the Imperium as well and have you thrown in prison, if not summarily executed. Oh, and did I mention that these are the good guys?
  25. Back in middle school or junior high (I can't remember which), everyone in my grade level who had a clean discipline record got to have a "field day" at the local military base courtesy of the military unit that was our official school sponsor. Not only were we allowed to examine their equipment up close and personal, we also had MREs for lunch and had military-themed athletic challenges as well. Because I was bigger than most of my classmates, a number of soldiers kept challenging me to perform various physical feats. I had trouble working the mechanism (can't remember if it was a bolt or firing pin) on one of the machine guns because I couldn't get a good enough grip (I suffered severe nerve damage in both hands back in elementary school; this would have disqualified me from service even if I didn't have my weight issues). But they weren't laughing after I hefted the door-breaching implement one-handed and did the Humvee pull event all by myself.