Over the years, my family kind of went their own ways. Once my grandparents passed away, we seem to have mostly just stop celebrating a lot of holidays. I mean we do birthdays still, summer cookouts (4th of July is a real banger every year), Christmas... But that is about it. I don't remember the last time we celebrated Easter or Halloween, even Thanksgiving. I think 2020 put the nail in the coffin for those completely as we had plans but they fell through. Which holidays do you and yours celebrate?

Not trying to be political here but I definitely think the pandemic has influenced my feelings toward the general public. I was never a people person before but now I feel like that's even worse lol Has it affected you?

I'm hearing that we may be required to get a booster shot after we get our vaccines (if you haven't already). I feel like covid is never ending at this point. Does the vaccine even work if we need to get more of the vaccine? Seems weird to me. Are you guys going to get the booster shot if you have to in our area? Or will you wait it out a bit first?

Any fans of this show? I like that they always do something different every season, and the most recent season had Chris Rock as one of the main stars. I watched it recently and I thought it was great. But so is every previous season of the show. I wonder what the next season will be like. I hope they keep making new seasons going forward. I like how they always mix it up each season.

What is your favorite food? I am going to go cliche here and answer pizza. I love pizza dude, it's my favorite, and I could honestly eat it a lot. Which looking at my habits, is probably a bad idea haha! I buy a lot of frozen pizza, and even order once in a while. It's addicting isn't it?

But what is your favorite food?

These days I kinda steer away from social media, because it's just a mess of dumb people arguing about politics, covid and other such things. It's a big reason I left Facebook, because so many of my friends and family just talked nonsense about stuff and i got tired of it.

Do you guys even bother with social media anymore? I wouldn't count streaming or doing videos (Youtube), but facebook and twitter for sure.

Its cuz of this idiot.

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We have train tracks downtown Dallas and people either try to beat the train or end up stopping dead on the tracks waiting for a light to change. Common sense tells me to not roll on a train tracks if I don’t have a clear path across it but common sense ain’t common.

I don’t think I could trust myself on it let alone a tesla. The visibility going up has to be terrible, it’s like a San Francisco street on steroids.

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YOOOO!

Any Common fans here? Looking forward to hearing what he's putting out.

Common Announces New Album + Shares Black Thought Collaboration 'When We Move'

This is kind of a controversial topic but for the men here, do you expect a woman to submit to you without you having to be accountable for results? It seems like a lot of men in our society feel that submissiveness from a woman is a right, I disagree. I feel like submissiveness is a privilege and you have to earn it by being a provider and protector that creates emotional, financial, and physical stability in the household. A woman is unable to bask in her feminine energy when the basic tenets of survival are unmet.

This is why our Black American women typical display masculine traits because they have been dealt a bad hand over the past 70 years. Their men have been overly arrested, overly charged, overly Incarcerated, and denied jobs which culminated in a environment where Black American women had to be the tentpole for the family. To make matters worse, the Man was UNABLE to come back into the household if the woman was on public assistance thus reinforcing the Black woman having to hold down the household.

So I say all that to say this, understand masculinity and what woman expect from you as a man. Be a leader, a provider, and protector and she will choose to lock onto your plan if it makes sense. Will there be women out there unwilling to do so? Yes. But for every bum ass woman is a bum ass dude…don’t let their darkness mask your light.

Submissiveness is a side effect of you being a provider and protector…don’t expect it if you ain’t doing your job.

I'm still a little undecided. I do like that they kept the original actor from the first one but for some reason, I can't really get into it. I'm sure I'll check it out at some point but I don't know if I'll rush to see it in theaters.

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I hear a lot of stories about people trying to make long distance work but I don't think I could personally do it. It seems to take a certain type of personality to even attempt it and even then I don't know that it works every time. That's just my opinion though - What do you think?

Peep the pic below. Do you still believe in gender roles??? Should the woman make the plate or should he get his own plate? Was it rude for her to sit without getting a plate for him?? What if she never makes his plate at home, should she have at least made his plate this time around???

This is something so frustrating to me, it’s the biggest bitch move in the world. I understand if they’ve tried to communicate to you a few times and you‘ve brushed them off or you’re lagging in deliverables but on the first notification, it’s BS. I didn’t attach a technical item to a document and this person instead of coming to me to rectify, airs me out with a Director and my boss CC’d…I’m like…yo you couldn’t reach out to me to resolve first? I’m a great worker but this place I’m at has a culture of people CC’ing your superiors all the time…it’s annoying. I hate that I have to think this but I wonder if it’s because I’m one of 2 Black people in the whole company. CC’ing my boss is their version of calling the cops on me when they want me to be corrected. There’s a white dude from Texas that does it non-stop to me for no reason…always quick to escalate on me even if it’s been 20 minutes…shit is crazy.

Off top a cooking forum would be fire. Of course a gym forum as well.

About 4 years ago, I had to address the fact that my budgeting skills sucked. I basically had no budget. I just spent how I felt. I would at least check my account balance periodically, but I was stuck in a cycle of overdrafting my account and rushing to switch from savings to avoid the overdraft fee. So basically outside of direct deposit into savings I was always ending up broke and my money management was sloppy.

I had to change it up. I did my online research and got put onto using a rewards credit card for every single purchase. The catch is you have to keep a zero balance. I zeroed out all of my credit cards and haven’t used a debit card other than at the atm since.

My question is who else on this site is doing this. I wondering if we can share ideas on techniques and what’s the best card to use.

Keanu Reeves is on the top of the list for sure. He seems like a decent guy and would be cool to hang with. Terry Crews seems pretty chill too!

Mine was completing Dark Souls when it first came out. I really felt like I had conquered the world lol I still remember nearly throwing my controller against the wall after dying so many times.

I tend to stick with Netflix and Hulu but I find myself considering a few others here and there. I feel like with every network coming out with their own, it’s impossible to keep up. I also feel like it’s getting more expensive than cable now so I’ll be interested to see where it all ends up going.

Always looking for some new material to listen to. I used to listen to a few business and self help podcasts but I fell out of touch with those a few years ago. I'm open to any categories now; I'm not very picky as long as it's interesting!

I have been looking for some new people to sub to. As of now, I am only watching a handful of people. I used to be subbed to like 30+ channels but stopped watching a lot of them.

SomeOrdinaryGamers, SomeBlackGuy, Pewdiepie, LongBeachGriffy, The Critical Drinker, and penguinz0 to name a few. I like things related to entertainment topics, relaxed reaction videos, tech stuff, anime talk, some gaming, just things of that nature. I am open to some recommendations.

You can just share what you are currently into as well.

Not a loaded question and don't want this to become something political. Some of my friends did, some didn't. My family is a mixed bag on the topic. Some got theirs right away, others are waiting, some don't want it at all. I was going to get mine but my doc told me to wait. I have certain allergy issues he has concerns with and wants to wait until there is more testing done. He said the J&J shot is likely the safest route for me. I'm fine with waiting cause I already had COVID-19 back in June of 2020.

I grew up watching DBZ, Cowboy Bebop, and other sorts of animes. I still enjoy it today. While I don't like it as much as DBZ, I am still following Dragon Ball Super. Recently got into buying the mangas and I am really enjoying it. Always felt like this series was one of my favorites so I love meeting new people who enjoy it as well.

Are you into anime? If so, what are you into?

This is hilarious, he’s brake checking people and recording them as they call into the line. Then when he gets them on the phone he hops out and confronts them. It’s probably scripted but it’s a fun watch.

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