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Yes, legalese defining what you can call product on the store shelves is an uniquely American invention.

That was my first thought, wooden acting and staged scenarios are par for the course for reality TV.

Either some sort of compromised is reached or they don't go. If it's a one off thing on P-Day you might be able to get a temporary companionship swap approved (for the duration of the activity) if there is another Elder nearby who likes to run as well, but if you're talking morning exercise you can't exactly physically drag someone running with you. It can be kinda rocky, some missionaries are only learning interpersonal relationships skills where you are effectively tethered to an equal so not all of them are particularly good at compromise, all part of the learning experience. I had a companion who wanted to run in the morning, but there was no physical way I could have kept up (he was in shape, I was not). I did exercises at the end of the driveway while he basically did laps in the cul-de-sac we lived on. *shrug* For P-Day activities, on my mission, leadership was generally liberal with allowing P-Day companionship swaps so that people could do what they wanted to do. They were also okay with having odd-numbered groups for P-day activities, So if you had 3 companionships with 3 missionaries who wanted to bike and 3 who wanted to run you'd just end up with two groups of three missionaries while they did their thing. If leadership was less liberal about changing up companionships temporarily or if missionaries had been further spread out then you're back to learning to compromise.

Mission Presidents can make adjustments, we're discussing the white handbook here.

Basketball is something an Elder can do on his mission, there is no doctrine or rule requiring they play basketball.

Much like you'd expect the military to spell colonel like it's pronounced...

Yay, phone flipped out.

Not the recovery, but it is a might difficult to complain when you're spending most the hours of the day in a coma.

Not the recovery, but it is a might difficult to complain when you're spending most the hours of the day in a coma.

Not the recovery, but it is a might difficult to complain when you're spending most the hours of the day in a coma.

Not the recovery, but it is a might difficult to complain when you're spending most the hours of the day in a coma.

My favorite gift this year is Beefche recovering from her traditional Christmas flu/cold. More materialistically, the money I've dumped into the Steam sale this year without wifely complaint.

That was my first thought, sometimes setting boundaries means the other party is offended/miffed/hurt. The key is that you set them fairly and present them with compassion.

Since I know everyone was waiting with 'bated breath, German Christmas Eve turned out okay. We're holding off on dessert as Beefche isn't feeling well and my rouladen skills could use some refinement but all in all I call it a success.

I enjoy fruitcake.

Any restaurant where the waitstaff is likely to be offended by 'sure bert' is unlikely to have sherbet on the menu, at lest in the US, it's going to have it listed as sorbet.

I pronounce it akin to "Sure, Bert." Funnily sorbet gets the frenchified pronunciation.

Dankeschön.

Well, rightly or wrong, most of what you are getting directed at you is people arguing over the how. I won't say there hasn't be any commentary on the what but if you've been speaking in terms of what and you've been getting responses in terms of how then the miscommunication going on (from both sides) isn't the least bit surprising.

2ndRateMind, I like you man, but several people have been trying to direct you to: c. They believe the redistribution of wealth and effort should be made voluntarily and not by governmental decree and enforcement. Now it's fine if you don't like that option for whatever reason, but don't ignore it. The disagreement isn't fundamentally about if a more egalitarian world would be better (though there are still those who would argue the specifics), but in how to go about realizing that world. It seems to me you feel that it must be done by government taxation and action to such a degree that when people are disagreeing with government taxation and action you automatically conclude they disagree with a goal of a more egalitarian world. Note, it's perfectly legitimate to argue and disagree with the how, just don't confuse it for the what.

The recipe I've found is essentially pickle, onion, mustard, bacon, salt, pepper, and beef. We'll be making it from scratch. Due to Beefche not wanting to use red wine we found a recipe that doesn't call for it, I don't know just how authentic a red wine free version will be (quite a few of the recipes I found called for it) but hopefully it'll turn out okay. You say it tastes best the next day? Maybe I'll have to make it tomorrow in preparation for Christmas Eve so it can have a night in the fridge.

I'm glad it's actual German approved.

This year's Christmas Eve will be Germany. We'll be making rinderrouladen with rotkraut and bratäpfel for desert (recipes are untested).

Only close because you'll finish perfecting it later, right?

The physical understanding available to Joseph Smith at the time would have been Newtonian in nature. Even if you want to argue for increased understanding due to revelation it's likely a 'Newtonian filter' would have been at play. Of course, this is even assuming he was trying to describe a physical system at all, which as you point out may not be a valid assumption at all.