Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

[Aksannyi]

Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

Not so much of a TL/DR as a TL/WR.

Something struck me as rather odd yesterday. The entire family went to church, then on the way home, I sat with my kids' grandparents in their car, which are my ex-husband's parents.

They asked me (as usual) if I have a boyfriend, which even if I did, unless it was serious, I wouldn't tell them because I just don't feel the need to share my private life with anyone. I never actually do seem to have one while I'm in Mexico, I'm usually between. It's far too complicated for me to explain all that in Spanish as it is and again, I really wouldn't share that information anyway. (How does one explain friends with benefits in Spanish to a pretty religious and conservative family? Yeah, that's a tough one and I left it alone several years ago.)

So the kids' grandmother asks me if I would ever marry my ex again. Uh, no. And she's like, "Why not?" Well for one, he's a pig-headed douchebag who smacked me around, put me down, refused to let me go out unless I were practically wearing a burqa (sp?) and didn't let me have any male friends. But I settled for "I don't love him." Which is the truth and easiest to explain. I found it really odd though - divorce is divorce. I have to wonder if they don't really believe in divorce or some shit, which is ... lol. Because lol.

Anyway, I found that a weird question to ask someone.

[Taskmage]

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Christian in Mexico generally means Catholic, right? If so then yeah, they don't believe in divorce. At least that's the official stance of the institution. They do allow "nullification," which is sortof an end-run around the no-divorce thing, which is where you say that one or both of you didn't really mean your wedding vows as you were saying them, or for some other reason they weren't valid, like if one of you was already married to someone else. That way you're not violating your holy union so much as creating a polite fiction that you never had one in the first place.

[Fliegar]

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That... sounds a little bit like they're trying to fool themselves.

[Aksannyi]

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Christian in Mexico generally means Catholic, right? If so then yeah, they don't believe in divorce. At least that's the official stance of the institution. They do allow "nullification," which is sortof an end-run around the no-divorce thing, which is where you say that one or both of you didn't really mean your wedding vows as you were saying them, or for some other reason they weren't valid, like if one of you was already married to someone else. That way you're not violating your holy union so much as creating a polite fiction that you never had one in the first place.

I know this, as I did grow up Catholic. However, pretty much all of my Catholic family agrees that divorce is divorce and recognizes it as the dissolving of a shitty marriage. Though many have criticized me for it, they still recognize that I'm not still married.

So yeah, seems like some sort of denial. Back when the X and I were having all our problems and I knew the marriage was ending, my sister-in-law tried to tell me we'd work it out, and that we loved each other and I'll be honest, it did sound like she was trying to convince herself. In Mexico I think you're expected to stay with whatever shitty spouse you choose and just deal with it. In the States, not so much. There is, of course, a fine line between truly irreconcilable differences and just not trying hard enough, true, but when the very thought of him even touching me repulsed me (and still does), yeah, there's no saving that.

At any rate, I can manage to talk to him without wanting to commit murder at this point, but I still avoid it when possible.

[Raydeus]

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After all Religion is all about fooling yourself, and how others profit from it.


And about marriage itself it's way less disposable over here than it is up north, but it's really a cultural thing. No one can really say one point of view is better than the other, only that whichever works best in your culture is what becomes the norm over time.

[Yellow Mage]

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Yar, here be politics

So last night, I was introduced to this nifty website, iSideWith.com, which basically asks you your political positions and compares where you stand with six different Presidential candidates.

Apparently, "I side with" Jill Stein the most out of all of them with a score of 80%, though Barack Obama was uncannily close at 79%. Mitt Romney was at 34%, though I was surprised to learn that his science views actually meshed with my own the most, and that he's the only candidate who wants to expand our foray into space exploration. Doesn't make the rest of him any less terrible, though.

Gary Johnson, who my dad and other Libertarian-nut friends have been advocating (apparently my dad learned of him through a similar, if not the same website) got a 62% match from me, for what it's worth, putting him behind Rocky Anderson at 67%, whom, much like Stein, I had never heard of before.

Thought it was a nifty website, and though I know Obama has basically already been elected for office at the DNC, at least I can say I had no part of that.

Funny thing is, though, that I apparently side with 92% of the Democratic party platform, as opposed to 74% of the Green party (and 53% Libertarian, and 21% Republican) . . .

[cidbahamut]

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I saw that floating through BG a while back and was convinced it was a cleverly disguised site designed to promote awareness of Jill Stein.

[Aksannyi]

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I had never heard of Jill Stein or Gary Johnson before I saw this pop up on BG, either. And somehow I sided with Johnson. Meh. Politics is fucked anymore regardless.

[Feba]

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so am I confused, or did Nintendo make a legendary Pony pokemon?

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That... sounds a little bit like they're trying to fool themselves.

Christians? Never!

[Yellow Mage]

Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

so am I confused, or did Nintendo make a legendary Pony pokemon?

They made about four (depending on how far your definition of "pony" reaches), modeled off The Three Musketeers characters. The Water-type that was given an alternate form with an utterly ridiculous-looking horn is supposed to be d'Artagnan.

[Feba]

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I mean it looks like a fairly clear MLP jack here, man

[Nandito]

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I don't know the status of MLP:FiM's popularity in Japan, but I really doubt it had an influence. Coincidence, maybe.

[Taskmage]

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There's only a fujillion pokemon now. You should be able to pick any creature real or fictional and find a pokemon that looks just like it now.

[Aksannyi]

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The feeling that I must be missing something - I haz that.

I've been going over and over and over and over my finances since I've spent a (ahem) bit more than I've wanted to while I've been here, but from all angles, I look ... fine? Wait, what? So I swear I am missing something. Some bill has gone unpaid. Somewhere. Either that or I really did make a fuckton of money from all this overtime and I didn't even realize it.

Failing both, I'm sure I'm due for a massive vehicle breakdown soon. Though honestly, if that happened, I'd start walking to work.



This part is for the universe to skip. Move along, universe. This doesn't concern you.
Or maybe for once in this godforsaken life of mine, I can get ahead? Maybe?
Nothing to see here, move along. *whistles*

[Firewind]

Re: Official Bored at Work / Off-Topic Chat Thread II

so am I confused, or did Nintendo make a legendary Pony pokemon?