{"id":51354,"date":"2013-12-11T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=51354"},"modified":"2023-09-23T03:36:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T11:36:26","slug":"conversations-with-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=51354","title":{"rendered":"Conversations With Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* It&#8217;s uncanny how accurately and quickly my female therapists have been able to read my mood. I&#8217;ll walk in the door and sit down and bam, they can just tell how I am. There&#8217;s something comforting and reassuring when somebody is so tuned in to you. I&#8217;ve noticed in general that women are much sharper at detecting emotional states in others. They can tell when I&#8217;m lying and much of the time, they can tell what I&#8217;m thinking. The moment I am sick of her company, after six hours of enjoying it, she just picks it up and then she names it and she leaves.<\/p>\n<p>* I just signed up for Covered California (Obamacare). It took me 20 minutes and there were no glitches. <\/p>\n<p>* Old Guy: &#8220;How would you like to come to the Billy Joel concert with me?&#8221;<br \/>\nLuke: &#8220;What would your wife say?&#8221;<br \/>\nOld Guy: &#8220;You just talked your way out of a free ticket.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Rich buddy: &#8220;Stock-market is crashing through the floor.&#8221;<br \/>\nLuke: &#8220;I better call my broker.&#8221;<br \/>\nRich buddy: &#8220;You retard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* I got my boss to take chocolate caramel clusters protein bars from his kid to give to me.<br \/>\n&#8220;Better me than him,&#8221; I said. &#8220;That&#8217;s my life motto.&#8221;<br \/>\nBoss: &#8220;Your life&#8217;s gonna be short so it is probably a good one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Lubavitchers write letters to the rebbe. I&#8217;m writing a letter to Martin Luther King, letting him know about two things I&#8217;ve done that I&#8217;m proud of.<\/p>\n<p>* What exactly is offensive or horrific about mocking the fake interpreter on stage during Mandela&#8217;s funeral? It&#8217;s racist to claim you can not mock him because then you are arguing that by virtue of skin color, this buffoon cannot be mocked.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sweet seeing the PC crowd all torn between their sensitivities to the deaf and to blacks.<\/p>\n<p>* Many American Jews get disappointed when they visit Israel because it is so grubby, trash-strewn and third-world in places (outside of the Ashkenazi strongholds) while many African-Americans get disappointed when they visit Africa because the continent is black-run and a mess. Reality can be such a let-down. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* It&#8217;s uncanny how accurately and quickly my female therapists have been able to read my mood. I&#8217;ll walk in the door and sit down and bam, they can just tell how I am. There&#8217;s something comforting and reassuring when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=51354\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51354"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152480,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51354\/revisions\/152480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}