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Give ER is a subscription based website on Locals.com, committed to encouraging generosity and philanthropy through the promotion of, and giving of, monetary gifts supplied to successful applicants. The subscription rate is $3.50 monthly.
The money would be given to those that submit a request/petition (in writing, as a post on the site within limited characters or a short video submission), detailing the reasons why they should be chosen as a “Giver” and how they would use that money
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August 25, 2025
Musings to Muse Over

• When I’m playing high stakes poker with shady “businessmen” I like to lean in close and sneer, “Go fish.” We all laugh and laugh, sometimes even hours later when we’re burying the bodies. It’s just one of those jokes that never gets old.

• You know how frustrating it is when someone will insult you and you can’t think of a really snappy comeback until hours later? Well just the other day that exact thing happened to me with some goofus. Boy was I steamed! But later that night I went to his house and when he answered the door I yelled, “YOU’RE the ignoramus!!!” He was really smug and said all sarcastic like, “Oh, great comeback.” So I screamed, “HAI YA!!!” and karate chopped him in the neck.

• It was the perfect setting: The lights were dimmed, soft music was playing in the background and the candle was casting a flickering, sultry light that danced against the walls. I was lost in the romance of the moment so I stood up and took my clothes off. Then the waiter showed up and ruined everything.

• With each passing day, the chances are growing slimmer and slimmer of me being the first person to walk on Mars. I won’t say that I’ve wasted the years away, but I sure could have spent less time watching TV and more on “astronaut training”.

• Here’s something hilarious that you can do if you’re in a seafood restaurant: stand up on your chair and loudly yell (so that everyone can hear you), “There’s something fishy going on here!!!” Then wait for the laughs to wash over you like the sweet, sweet love and attention that my parents never gave me.

• In the whole spirit of “paying it forward” I will often approach strangers on the street that look kind of down and say, “Hey buddy, you look like you could use a hug.” When they refuse, I yell at them, “Not that YOU care, but I could have used one!!!!” That always makes them feel worse.

• It’s a scientific fact that anyone more successful than me got that way through magic spells and voodoo. They may argue that they attained their success through hard work and persistence but don’t be fooled… it was mostly the voodoo.

• I have to say, I thought I knew pretty much everything there was to know about nature but I was pretty darn surprised when all of a sudden rain seemed to be falling right out of the clouds.

• Being rejected from the Big Brother program hasn’t slowed me down a bit. A while back I told some kid that if he wants to make it with the popular kids at his junior high school then he’d better rethink his whole stance on “not smoking crack.” “Sometimes,” I told him, “You have to go outside your comfort zone.” The last I heard he was living under a bridge. That crazy kid and his wacky adventures! I wonder if he ever made it with those cool kids he admired so much.

• I think the best part about being involved in a gang related shoot-out is the whole “going out for ice cream” afterwards.

• Say what you want about how cute the Smurfs are, but to me, they’ll always be the marauding thugs who invaded Poland. I’m pretty certain that was them.

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September 01, 2025
My Resignation Letter

This is why I am unemployable. I think my hatred of authority made me a great manager and a really shitty employee.

November 19, 2021

Good day,
I regret that our introduction to each other comes within this context, however, I feel that I have been left with little choice but to resign from the Government of Alberta.

It is not the intent of this letter to offer any arguments against the current policy regarding the sharing of health information or any other covid mandate. Those arguments have been made by better qualified men and women, specialists in their respective fields, as well as countless members of the self-educated laity.

To state it baldly, I do not intend to share my personal health information with my employer.

We are being mandated to take a drug, described as a “safe and effective” vaccine, which at best is inefficient and at worst, dangerous and even lethal, in order to stay employed. As a concession, we are being offered to spend our resources of time and money for testing ...

September 01, 2025
I didn't do this...

...but I totally would have.

Grammar is important.

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September 01, 2025
A proud moment...

Yeah, I built this beautiful outhouse. It's ok if you are stunned with wonderment.

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An Article About YOU

I may or may not know you personally, but either way, I can tell you some absolute facts about you.   The first is that you are wholly and completely unique.  You are one of a kind and following the rule that rarity can equate to value, then you are priceless.   You are one of the most complex and amazing things on earth.  You specifically are incredible!

You have talent.  You have skills.  You have things to show and teach to others.  You have incredibly strong and complex emotions.  You have done things that have affected the entire world, performing actions that created ripples in a pond that stretch out beyond your wildest imagination.  You have done good things that have helped people (even when, or perhaps especially when, you didn’t even realize it!)  You have changed lives.  These are all facts and they are indisputable.   Even though every human can lay claim to these things, each and every single one of us, you for instance, are wholly unique in what you’ve done, seen, felt, and thought.    

You have the capacity for great good and also for great evil, likely in even measures.   How awe inspiring is that?  You have this unbelievable potential and if you are reading this, then you have purpose and meaning!  You are alive and existing for a reason (or many reasons!)  Your work here is not yet done and neither I, nor you, have any idea when your reason for existing will be complete.    That is just one more amazing, irrefutable fact about you.

I don’t know how old you are, what gender you are, what your sexual orientation is, or what color your skin is.   I don’t know which side of the political spectrum you are on.  I don’t know what movies you like, what kind of music you enjoy or the kinds of food that are most appetizing to you.  I don’t know any of that and it doesn’t matter – all of the things that are wonderful about you that I mentioned above still apply.  

You, my possibly unknown friend, are a wonder and a miracle.   My greatest wish for you is that you accept that fact.   I hope you believe it and I hope that never have cause to question it.   But the cool thing is even if you don’t believe it, it doesn’t stop it from being true.   Even with all your power and strength (of which you have in great amounts!) you cannot change the fact, the unshakeable reality, that you are incredible.  

I can say, with all honesty and sincerity, that if we met, there would be things about you that I would absolutely love.

Thanks for being you.

 

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