I don't think anybody here on the forum has preconceived notions. I think we must all be open minded people, seeing as we are devoted fans to a boy choir, which is hardly the "in" thing of the times!
I guess it really comes down to "guilty before proven innocent". I think that's what is really wrong with the public school system here in the US. Everybody in the whole world needs to be a lot more positive and a lot less negative!
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Now that's one way of winning a woman's heart. And 5 young English gents...... I bet those women just wanted take all of you home.Yorkie wrote:Ann, that reminds me of the time (and I was younger and living at home so had plenty of spare cash) that me and some mates went to Barbados to watch the cricket test match.tcenrt wrote:For me is that on a crowded bus, all the able bodies would not give up their seats for the seniors. People just avoid eye contact, chat on their cell phones or listen to their i-pods. Sometimes they won't give up their seats even when ask.
Ann
We decided to catch a bus one day and we five were the only white blokes amongst the locals. Anyway the bus filled up and there were lots of women stood up in the aisle so, being young English gents, we gave up our seats. Well, those women just loved us! They were pleased as punch and had such huge smiles it made us feel 100 feet tall
Ann
'Let me go where'er I will,
I hear a sky-born music still:
It sounds from all things old,
It sounds from all things young,
From all that's fair, from all that's foul,
Peals out a cheerful song.'
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hear a sky-born music still:
It sounds from all things old,
It sounds from all things young,
From all that's fair, from all that's foul,
Peals out a cheerful song.'
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is very true. It is why I don't tell many people in my real life about liking Libera. You know what is thought of a middle aged single man who likes a boy choir? That is part of the reason for the lack of M&G's at concerts right now. If you are a single man and like boys, well you must be a predator. I know I mentioned earlier that I am the assistant youth teacher in my church. I had to have a State Police clearance and a criminal backround check done before I was allowed to become the assistant teacher. As required by the United Methodist church.libera36 wrote:I don't think anybody here on the forum has preconceived notions. I think we must all be open minded people, seeing as we are devoted fans to a boy choir, which is hardly the "in" thing of the times!
I guess it really comes down to "guilty before proven innocent". I think that's what is really wrong with the public school system here in the US. Everybody in the whole world needs to be a lot more positive and a lot less negative!
I really dislike people with pre-concived ideas on what people are by their married status.
Tom B.
Proud to be an American
Clan Farquharson, Scotland
"I AM THE DAWN OF ALL TIME."
Proud to be an American
Clan Farquharson, Scotland
"I AM THE DAWN OF ALL TIME."
Tom, thanks for sharing your perspective. I’m sorry that you’re on the receiving end of so many unsavory stereotypes, but I appreciate your dedication to Libera (and youth in general) even more for all the prejudice you endure to maintain it. Hopefully someday we’ll all live in a safer and better world where gender, race, age, and marital status are non-issues.
Sorry, addendum: yesterday I was driving with two friends and an acquaintance to see a movie across town. I had a Libera CD playing very, very quietly over the speakers. Five minutes after driving twenty miles out of my way to pick them up, the acquaintance groaned and asked if I have any other CDs, then plugged in his MP3 player and blasted his (terrible) music loudly for the rest of the trip there and back. I’m not so much annoyed that he insulted Libera—okay, that’s a lie; I am—but all that aside, it was my car, and I didn’t even know this guy! Good old-fashioned rudeness never ceases to amaze me. This happened last night, and I’m still seething.
Flora wrote:Sorry, addendum: yesterday I was driving with two friends and an acquaintance to see a movie across town. I had a Libera CD playing very, very quietly over the speakers. Five minutes after driving twenty miles out of my way to pick them up, the acquaintance groaned and asked if I have any other CDs, then plugged in his MP3 player and blasted his (terrible) music loudly for the rest of the trip there and back. I’m not so much annoyed that he insulted Libera—okay, that’s a lie; I am—but all that aside, it was my car, and I didn’t even know this guy! Good old-fashioned rudeness never ceases to amaze me. This happened last night, and I’m still seething.
People like that infuriate me... And some of my friends are like that. Course, my friends infuriate me too 
Good posts my friends, I feel your pain. But I've got to get this off my chest......
Women at cash points/ATM's - why does it take you three times longer to use them than men?
Also, at the checkout in a supermarket why is it a surprise when the cashier tells you the price? Why do women pack up the shopping and then act surprised when you are asked to pay and have to hunt through endless bags until you find your purse/cash/cards in order to pay?
Come on girls, you fanny around and slow things up
Women at cash points/ATM's - why does it take you three times longer to use them than men?
Also, at the checkout in a supermarket why is it a surprise when the cashier tells you the price? Why do women pack up the shopping and then act surprised when you are asked to pay and have to hunt through endless bags until you find your purse/cash/cards in order to pay?
Come on girls, you fanny around and slow things up
If I’ve got owt to say I says it, and if I’ve got owt to ask I asks it.
Mercy & Love
Mercy & Love
Most of us are technically challenged!Yorkie wrote:Good posts my friends, I feel your pain. But I've got to get this off my chest......
Women at cash points/ATM's - why does it take you three times longer to use them than men?
Also, at the checkout in a supermarket why is it a surprise when the cashier tells you the price? Why do women pack up the shopping and then act surprised when you are asked to pay and have to hunt through endless bags until you find your purse/cash/cards in order to pay?
Come on girls, you fanny around and slow things up
And we forget to factor in the magazine cost and we carry a lot of essential items in our bag (makeup, hairbrush, date planner, cell phone......). Oh, Yorkie, you just have to ask the store to have a line just for guys.
What's your hurry?Ann
'Let me go where'er I will,
I hear a sky-born music still:
It sounds from all things old,
It sounds from all things young,
From all that's fair, from all that's foul,
Peals out a cheerful song.'
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hear a sky-born music still:
It sounds from all things old,
It sounds from all things young,
From all that's fair, from all that's foul,
Peals out a cheerful song.'
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Haha, we need to get some better friends, I think.libera36 wrote:
Yorkie, you wouldn't want us to compromise our fantastic senses of style in lieu of speed, would you? We may take a long time, but we're totally worth waiting for!
lol i agree with you on the ATM thing, my mum is always taken her time at one, she puts her card in wrong atleast 3 times and then has to look in her purse for her pin code, my mother is a nightmare, i get so bored of waiting for her
When you miss me just look up to the night sky and remember, I'm like a star; sometimes you can't see me, but I'm always there.
I must always stand behind your mum thenkthomp wrote:lol i agree with you on the ATM thing, my mum is always taken her time at one, she puts her card in wrong atleast 3 times and then has to look in her purse for her pin code, my mother is a nightmare, i get so bored of waiting for her
If I’ve got owt to say I says it, and if I’ve got owt to ask I asks it.
Mercy & Love
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