Polls

On Monday, January 15, 2024, Virgin Atlantic flight VS127 from Manchester (MAN) to New York (JFK) was boarded and getting ready to taxi, when a passenger noticed a problem with the wing and told the crew. Maintenance personnel were called, and the flight was canceled as a “precautionary measure.” The issue was reportedly that the tops of four fasteners on a wing panel were missing.

If you saw a problem with your plane, would you tell the crew? Do you think they would believe you?

I've NEVER had a girl ask me for a date. Not once. Maybe it's a generational thing because some young guys say it happens fairly often but I'm a bit skeptical. Girls, have you ever asked a guy for a first date? If so, how often have you done it? Guys, have you ever had a girl ask you for a first date? How often?

widows or aisle (corridor)

When you analyse female behaviour nowadays. Why would you trust a single one of them? I don’t want to get married or have a relationship, it’s just more to lose.

Raising teens and this is a problem... disconnected from reality. they are on devices all day, all the time, it's their world. When there is a spare moment... there is no spare moment... they are back on the device. They always have to be busy... on a device... and thus they aren't thinking or interacting in the real world.

I see this with some adults as well.

Are there rules you follow in raising kids, yourself, or your relationships to have time to:

* Think

* Communicate

* Engage in the physical world?

Mike Tyson and Sonny Liston both came out of poverty and despair…

Michael Gerard Tyson was born in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York City on June 30, 1966. Tyson's mother Virginia was described as a substance abuser who might have been a prostitute. On his birth certificate Tyson's biological father is listed as Purcell Tyson, but the man Tyson believed was his father was a pimp named Jimmy Kirkpatrick.

Kirkpatrick abandoned the Tyson family around the time Mike was born. Mike, his brother, sister and mother lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant until a move to Brownsville came from poverty when Tyson was 10 years old.

Growing up in Brownsville was…terrible. Mike described what that neighborhood was like:

“It’s bad stuff, it’s really bad stuff, people tying people up and doing bad things to ‘em over drugs and stuff. To their family members, just real bad stuff that you don’t even want to mention … Anything you can think of someone did to abuse a human being, they did it there.”

Tyson was effectively abandoned as a child, and was on his own on the streets at 13. Indeed, by 13 Tyson had been arrested 38 times, and finally, Mike was sentenced to the Tryon School for Boys, a juvenile prison, in Johnstown, New York.

Sonny Liston was whipped and used as a farm mule by his father. This would cause him to not have a good education. When he left the farm, he tried to go to school. But, he looked like an adult by 10 years old. Bullied for looking like a old man. Due to not performing well in school, he went to the mafia. Being a criminal, he gained everything he needed. He also got arrested and he enjoyed prison. The fact is that the first 10 years of his life were a nightmare. It caused mental scars that would soon lead Liston down a dark path.

Here are some examples:

Abortion is immoral

Racial discrimination is immoral

Drinking and driving is immoral

Stealing from the rich is immoral

Having lots of sexual partners is immoral

Polluting the Earth is immoral