StrangeOne
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Hello. I don't really know what to put here. My POV isn't always the popular opinion, I do like toying with Devil's Advocate, and thinking outside the box.
I treat everyone with respect, so please respect me.
You'll find that I gravitate to lifestyle, worldly, nature, culture and other social interest topics.
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Hey Pandas, What's The Stupidest Reason You Lost A Friend?
I'm not really sure what was up with my now ex-friend. I lost contact with her right after our last sleepover when I was 15. About a year later, after I had moved, she somehow found my new number in the phone book. We met up. My mom told her she had to take a bus home. (My mom would drop me off and pick me up at her place, or pick up my friend at her place and drop her off for the years we were friends. Her mom rarely did.) After that I didn't hear from her until about a year or 2 later. We hung out a couple times. It was like this until I was about 20 or 21. Then one day she stopped calling, until 12 years later. She found me on Facebook, asked me to go to her place and catch up. I go there and she's got about 5 or 6 other women over. Her husband doesn't acknowledge me as he's taking their kids to the park. I see a table with a bunch of products on a table and realized this is no ordinary visit. My "friend" apologizes for the get-together, saying I can sit in and we can catch up after this party. At the end of it all, it was an It Works MLM party. After everyone left, her husband brought home the kids and she started to make supper for them. She became occupied by a sale. I was asking her what this product was about, because I hadn't heard about it before, nor really knew about MLMs before. Her husband snapped at me for being in the way and then my now-ex friend, in an oddly, passive aggressive manner, walked me to the bus stop, despite not giving me a chance to find out when the bus came, on a Sunday schedule, then walked away, leaving me in the cold. If she wanted me to just be there for the MLM party, she should've just said so and not lie about wanting to reconnect. Her husband seems super scary and aggressive, but she seems very happy, too. If she found happiness, that's great. I don't need to be friends with her. I tried reaching out to her, seeing if she wanted to come over. "I have kids and 2 jobs.", she snapped. That's the 3rd so-called friend who got offended for me inviting them over to my place, spitting the same old thing about having kids and living across the river, or in another community, despite being in the same city. Ah, well.Hey Pandas, What's The Most Horrifying Fact You Know?
The last Indian Residential School closed in 1994. The rest of society of kept in the dark of what was going on in those Catholic run schools until survivors started speaking out years later. It was more than dressing Indigenous kids in school uniforms and making the learn in a school setting. Boys and girls were sexually assaulted. Students were not allowed to speak their native languages, wear their own traditional clothes and boys hair was cut short, a practice of humiliation and degrading. It would be like cutting off all of a girl's hair, but maybe worse. If a student spoke in their native language a teacher would stick their tongues with pins. When the students got to the schools they were harshly scrubbed in baths all over, at every age. It has been described as "trying to erase the Indian out of us." Students were not allowed to have any contact with their families. Parents and other family member of the children would try to sneak around the school, but if they got caught they were arrested. During the "60s Scoop "children weren't sent to the schools by their family's own free-will. The kids were taken by force at gun point. Sometimes a girl will become pregnant. The baby would be taken at birth and killed. Some say the father was one of the male staff, like a priest. Many children fell ill and died due to lack of care. They were buried around the school in unmarked graves and their families may or may not have been told. Just left to guess what may have happened to their child. The effects of the abuses and cultural genocide have affected multi-generations of the Indian Residential School students, leading to generations of poverty, mental health problems, lack of belonging and their own understanding of their culture. There is still a lot of negative attitudes towards the Indigenous. Even with people disregarding and discrediting the abuse and neglect claims.Show All 14 Upvotes
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Hey Pandas, What's The Stupidest Reason You Lost A Friend?
I'm not really sure what was up with my now ex-friend. I lost contact with her right after our last sleepover when I was 15. About a year later, after I had moved, she somehow found my new number in the phone book. We met up. My mom told her she had to take a bus home. (My mom would drop me off and pick me up at her place, or pick up my friend at her place and drop her off for the years we were friends. Her mom rarely did.) After that I didn't hear from her until about a year or 2 later. We hung out a couple times. It was like this until I was about 20 or 21. Then one day she stopped calling, until 12 years later. She found me on Facebook, asked me to go to her place and catch up. I go there and she's got about 5 or 6 other women over. Her husband doesn't acknowledge me as he's taking their kids to the park. I see a table with a bunch of products on a table and realized this is no ordinary visit. My "friend" apologizes for the get-together, saying I can sit in and we can catch up after this party. At the end of it all, it was an It Works MLM party. After everyone left, her husband brought home the kids and she started to make supper for them. She became occupied by a sale. I was asking her what this product was about, because I hadn't heard about it before, nor really knew about MLMs before. Her husband snapped at me for being in the way and then my now-ex friend, in an oddly, passive aggressive manner, walked me to the bus stop, despite not giving me a chance to find out when the bus came, on a Sunday schedule, then walked away, leaving me in the cold. If she wanted me to just be there for the MLM party, she should've just said so and not lie about wanting to reconnect. Her husband seems super scary and aggressive, but she seems very happy, too. If she found happiness, that's great. I don't need to be friends with her. I tried reaching out to her, seeing if she wanted to come over. "I have kids and 2 jobs.", she snapped. That's the 3rd so-called friend who got offended for me inviting them over to my place, spitting the same old thing about having kids and living across the river, or in another community, despite being in the same city. Ah, well. StrangeOne • is following 5 people
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