I’m serious. What is it about “I don’t like this thing” that equals “bad?” Barbeque, like many things, is completely subjective. It’s beyond obnoxious and entitled to get insulting because something isn’t to your personal taste.

They call it x Cantonese style duck on the menu but the presentation looks the same.

Why do you feel the need to insult someone else’s hard work because it doesn’t appeal to you, personally? Barbeque is a pretty personal taste. There’s no need to tear down one business to build up another.

Eh. Barbeque preferences are personal depending on where you’re from and what you like. It’s not cool to trash someone’s hard work just because you, personally, don’t care for it.

Please share what you consider good barbeque.

Wow. Ok. One wonders what barbeque you do like.

Test is always second Wednesday of the month at 10:00am. For some reason they ran the test twice today.

Excuse me? No one is going to jail for refusing a vaccine. Thank you for demonstrating, in one sentence, why I shouldn’t vote for you. Yikes.

The important part here is the funding removal. ALEC and the GOP have been gunning to cut library funding for years. They don’t actually care about protecting anyone.

Also can we talk about the way the GOP constantly tries to supervise and regulate female-dominated professions? Librarians, as a general rule, are highly educated professionals with extensive training in curating and managing book collections. The majority of them are also women. The audacity of these mediocre men thinking they know better. It’s the same with teachers. Clearly the wimmins need guidance and supervision from their betters. Ugh.

I am. Yes, some of us do work to address adult hunger. There is a coalition of local churches that are providing cold weather shelter and meals to as many as 200 people a night right now. Asbury Methodist, Grace Methodist, Brentwood Christian, National Avenue Christian, Springfield Unitarian Church, Connecting Grounds Church, and a few others. Faith Voices of Southwest Missouri and the Ozarks Council of Churches do legislative work advocating for anti-poverty programs. Please let me know if you have any questions and I can try to answer them.

The garlic green beans at Asian King are my favorite. Everyone else will be eating crab legs and chicken and I am chowing on plates of green beans. Seriously, though, Asian King is decent.

Soooo…Dr. Middleton at Smith-Glynn is great BUT if you have any chronic issues like diabetes you’ll want to see a specialist. TBH, family doctors aren’t much good for anything except treating colds.

For psychiatry, Dr. Willis Hoyt at Mercy is great. Good luck getting in, though. Dr. Autumn Clark is great too, at Jordan Valley.

For therapy, Tomi Taylor at All the Pieces Counseling is good. Again, not sure what their availability is.

Avoid Nancy Service at Mercy Behavioral Health Lark Street if you have anything other than mild issues. I was with her for years and she completely missed my diagnosis then argued with me when I finally got it corrected.

Ooooh. Some people are gonna be mad.

You have to consider that there are a lot of people in Springfield who have never grown out of the high school mentality. Imagine having nothing better to do for a hobby than shitposting on Facebook. It’s sad.

It absolutely fries my brain that behaving like an asshole and calling out someone for behaving like an asshole are considered equally offensive by some folks. I think we can all agree that adults need to take responsibility for their own behavior, yes? Maybe…and hear me out here…if someone doesn’t want to be publicly criticized they shouldn’t (checks notes) admin a group that punches down on vulnerable, marginalized people under the guise of humor. That’s just me, though.

First of all, I’m not the OP on this post. Second of all, I never said I agreed with the people encouraging harassment. Unlike cowards who hide behind “free speech” and don’t remove literal death threats in their Facebook groups, if it were up to me those comments would be removed. But I’m not a mod. Third, this isn’t a closed group. Nobody here is hiding their behavior in a closed Facebook group.

Springfield is toxic, let’s face it.

He’s a complete piece of work. The Springfield area Facebook restaurant groups used to be nice places to get recommendations until he showed up and started spamming every post recommending his own places. (Sometimes regardless of the type of food being requested.) But yeah. There are several closed groups that encourage harassment, doxxing and even violence against Springfield residents. Queen City Watchdog is one (Edit to add that it’s owner, J. Michael Hasty is running for school board) and there’s another ostensibly about SPS issues that I forget the name of.

It really sucks because Facebook groups provide some privacy for things like support groups and affinity spaces, but they also provide places for bullies to hide and organize. The only way to get toxic groups shut down is to infiltrate and report them. But that leads to the same behavior in return. It’s why a lot of LGBTQ+ and other marginalized people are migrating to Discord.

Literally the only thing we can do is make note of who runs these groups and who belongs to them so that the police can be involved if something happens. Although, from personal experience I can tell you that SPD doesn’t really give a shit about “personal” issues like doxxing and property being vandalized, even if it is organized on social media.

Missouri has been a lost cause for at least a decade, federally, and more than 20 years state. If you want to have sane, moderate leadership you’ll have to move elsewhere.

That really, really, really sucks. I’m so sorry about that.

Eggs Atlantis? I’ve never heard of that. I’ll have to look it up.

I love the food and service at Gailey’s but it is SO loud in there.

Unless they stopped, that isn’t true. You may need a referral from a psychiatrist or therapist, but that is where I got diagnosed in 2020z