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Bwah...guess who just got tabbed to make a visit to Wheeling, West Virginia at the end of March?

It's a 7 hour drive, or a 2-hour flight to Pittsburgh, followed by an hour and a half drive. Either way I'm going to be krabby AF when I'm done. And at the end of it all, I'll only be able to say I saw Wheeling.
 
Hu War Yu said:
Bwah...guess who just got tabbed to make a visit to Wheeling, West Virginia at the end of March?

It's a 7 hour drive, or a 2-hour flight to Pittsburgh, followed by an hour and a half drive. Either way I'm going to be krabby AF when I'm done. And at the end of it all, I'll only be able to say I saw Wheeling.
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I once took a detour through Wheeling driving back from Chicago. Don't blink or you might miss driving through the entire state of West Virginia. Also it's probably closer to an hour, depending on traffic
 
steelerssb said:
Sunday school for millennials. Two hours every Sunday night doing Bible and Catholic learning from 1st grade till confirmation from like Octobor to April. I grew up in a very catholic area so we did it at a neighbors house and either a teacher would come in or someone's mom would do it. I actually thought for a long time Catholicism was the country's far and away biggest sect because of how many people I knew in school went to the samd church as I did when I was younger.
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Ah.
I know a lot of people who grew up Catholic, and know there's some pretty intense, for lack of a better word, schooling involved.
That said, I always saw Catholics as pretty mellow ... the non-scary Christians.
In Kentucky, basically any Christian who wasn't Catholic was some kind of Evangelical, and they scared the shit out of me.
 
steelerssb said:
Used to be no meat every Friday all year right? I think my grandma might still go by that (or at least try to)

Also I think fish is okay because tl;dr one of the scriptures forbids consumption of land animals on Friday. Technicalities en sech.
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It's meatless Fridays year-round and no meat during Lent, right?

And yes, it's because fish are cold-blooded. Though, when Henry VIII left the Catholic church so he could get a divorce, the fishing industry took a huge hit and one of his future kids had to reinstate the Fish Fridays to prop up the industry again.

Another fun fact: McDonald's Filet-o-Fish was created because hamburger sales on Fridays sucked so bad.
 
I have a new team at AMEX for my annual CFO event and it consists of 2 Karens and a Carol. Phone meetings suck, always having to say Karen I. or Karen F. I wonder if one will let me call her Jessica.
 
moxie said:
It's meatless Fridays year-round and no meat during Lent, right?

And yes, it's because fish are cold-blooded. Though, when Henry VIII left the Catholic church so he could get a divorce, the fishing industry took a huge hit and one of his future kids had to reinstate the Fish Fridays to prop up the industry again.

Another fun fact: McDonald's Filet-o-Fish was created because hamburger sales on Fridays sucked so bad.
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You can eat meat during Lent just not Friday or Ash Wednesday.

I did know about the fishing industry thing which was why that was one of the first things I stopped doing. Fasting and giving something up is fine, but once the economics side of it came in it was like "alright well screw this."
 
steelerssb said:
You can eat meat during Lent just not Friday or Ash Wednesday.

I did know about the fishing industry thing which was why that was one of the first things I stopped doing. Fasting and giving something up is fine, but once the economics side of it came in it was like "alright well screw this."
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Are those the full fasting days? And for lent you just give up something else that is not good for you?
 
moxie said:
It's meatless Fridays year-round and no meat during Lent, right?

And yes, it's because fish are cold-blooded. Though, when Henry VIII left the Catholic church so he could get a divorce, the fishing industry took a huge hit and one of his future kids had to reinstate the Fish Fridays to prop up the industry again.

Another fun fact: McDonald's Filet-o-Fish was created because hamburger sales on Fridays sucked so bad.
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Who knew you were such a repository of enlightenment?
 
moxie said:
Are those the full fasting days? And for lent you just give up something else that is not good for you?
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One big meal or two smaller/snack meals.

And it can be but it doesn't have to be, that's mostly used as motivation. We always did something we liked because it's supposed to be a sacrifice.
 
steelerssb said:
I once took a detour through Wheeling driving back from Chicago. Don't blink or you might miss driving through the entire state of West Virginia. Also it's probably closer to an hour, depending on traffic
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Yeah, I've been through that peninsula once before, on the way from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh back in 86 or 87. My dad was driving at the time. Most of the other trips to WV were down in the southern part of the State.

But take heart: in April I might get to visit FABULOUS Council Bluffs, Iowa
 
Hu War Yu said:
Yeah, I've been through that peninsula once before, on the way from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh back in 86 or 87. My dad was driving at the time. Most of the other trips to WV were down in the southern part of the State.

But take heart: in April I might get to visit FABULOUS Council Bluffs, Iowa
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You'll have your pick of the trailer park there.
 
Dole ver 2.0 said:
You'll have your pick of the trailer park there.
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I checked the googlie mapps, Council Bluffs appears to be a suburb of Omaha, Nebraska, so you might be on to something here
 
steelerssb said:
I once took a detour through Wheeling driving back from Chicago. Don't blink or you might miss driving through the entire state of West Virginia. Also it's probably closer to an hour, depending on traffic
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Try goin the other way from Norfolk to South Bend in late December when the driver insists on goin thru the fng mountains during a mfng blizzard cuz dummay thought takin the southern route via Chasn was the right move.

Longest 18 hr drive in muh life.

I kissed the snowy ground when we finally got to South Bend.
 
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