Nobody around much, too quiet, must be football or tennis or something else I am (not) missing. Like I won't be missing (not watching) the Olympics either.
HELLO! ANYONE THERE?
:geezer!:
Oh, well, where's that vino? Bugger the gout!
No, on second thoughts . . .
Grump
Don't worry, you are not alone.
How is your gout doing? Mine is asleep for more than 10 years now. Ayurveda treatments made it disappear. Once in a while (on cold winter nights), I still feel a tingling in my left big toe, which (thankfully) goes away the next day. Wouldn't want to wake up that monster again.
Oh, dear, Tom has broken the prime rule and spoken directly to me! What do I do now?
Suppose I can sort of answer him . . .
Got a call today to say the blood test still shows elevated uric acid levels. What do I have to do? Trying to stick to rules :-[
Pain went away a week ago, then I went for a walk and it came back. Can't use normal painkillers so now have special stuff, does not kill pain just stops white cells rushing to the rescue at the site (pointlessly) and causing the swelling that is the main source of the pain. Plus uric acid reducing stuff that may take yonks to work.
Diets confusing, Mayo Clinic, "Go on! Nosh those nice beans and peas, shovel in the asparagus and that lovely brown bread." Other "authorities" say, "No way, Jose - even if your name is Dave!" All say keep off the offal - I can live with(out) that. All also say, "No sardines or other oily fish, well, small bit of baked salmon if you really must - occasionaly. Oh, and cod is a load of, er, trouble as well."
"Drink lots of water and caffeinated coffee." Oops, not last one for me, not good for my dicky ticker! OK, I start my day with green tea with lemon, lemon is healthy - right? And green tea has flavinoids, anti-oxidants, good for the heart. It's mint or ginger/lemon infusion for the rest of the day. "No alcohol", I'll rebel there and have a drop of vino once a week. Lo-fat milk is actually good for gout, but not for lactose intolerant gastric systems, like mine. Have you seen tbe price of lactose free milk?
I know there are "alternative" ideas in therapy, even Indian ones, but my scepticometer starts flashing orange at the mere mention of such.
Luckily pain not extreme, middle/outside of feet rather than toe joints at the mo, but not inclined to walk too far or climb stairs. Damn, I live on 1st floor, can't avoid the things!
I was hoping not to have to explain the idea of this thread.
Thanks, Buddy, and Tom but my OP was not a plea for contact; that question was, sort of, rhetorical.
So, Tom's response could take the form of his own musings, "Gloucester sounds lonely, I know what gout, and its mobility problems, feels like. Wonder how he is coping with it, has he considered Ayurvedic therapy? Worked for me for past ten years..." The thoughts that are the precursors to an actual, considered, response.
Some posts may not need a response at all, just a passing thought or an observation and anything (forum legal) goes. No specific subject needed.
Humour; rhetorical, even dry, wry, ascerbic or whatever, preferred.
At HAF you are never alone ;).
Talking to myself and hearing voices has turned into a career for me.
Sure... that's probably healthy!
Quote from: joeactor on July 05, 2016, 05:18:34 PM
Talking to myself and hearing voices has turned into a career for me.
Sure... that's probably healthy!
:lol:
Talking to myself...
Crow and Bruno de la Pole are not coming back.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Mds_SWoGbZA/UztC7oq2ldI/AAAAAAAABoU/quGxy8TTI5Q/w506-h750/Getup.gif)
"Get up Magdalena, the show must go on..." >:(
Quote from: Magdalena on July 07, 2016, 04:46:01 AM
Talking to myself...
Crow and Bruno de la Pole are not coming back.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Mds_SWoGbZA/UztC7oq2ldI/AAAAAAAABoU/quGxy8TTI5Q/w506-h750/Getup.gif)
"Get up Magdalena, the show must go on..." >:(
Woah wait up, what happened to Bruno?
Yes, what's up with him?
Bruno too? :query:
Bruno as himself was fun.
He as a white corporate executive deploring white advantage...
Yes, Bruno de la Pole is not coming back. I got an email that he wanted me to share with everyone, but I refused. I told him to come say goodbye himself. He said he didn't want to because we were gonna ask him why he was leaving us and he said he was gonna feel like responding, and then he was gonna end up staying--again. :sad sigh:
Our conversation looked like this:
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Anyways...
I'm sad about that. :(
He said he wasn't gonna check his PM, either, so...
I did share the email with Davin, I don't know if he wants to share it with all of you. Go ahead, Davin, Bruno de la Pole would've wanted you to--I don't have the heart. :cryandrun:
I really loved that Ape, as much as I love that Crow. :weepy:
Quote from: Magdalena on July 07, 2016, 07:02:13 PM
I did share the email with Davin, I don't know if he wants to share it with all of you. Go ahead, Davin, Bruno de la Pole would've wanted you to--I don't have the heart. :cryandrun:
I really loved that Ape, as much as I love that Crow. :weepy:
(https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/rps.gif?w=1000)
Honestly though, I don't feel comfortable sharing Bruno's email. It seems to me to be up to him and he has already chosen.
(https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2014-08/12/12/enhanced/webdr08/anigif_enhanced-16534-1407861689-6.gif)(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fgifsec.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2FGIF%2F2014%2F06%2FGIF-Feeding-baby-monkey.gif%3Fgs%3Da&hash=c5fb10e36a088eb8278a4a9f2e883ef88a1875a1)
Quote from: Davin on July 07, 2016, 07:39:34 PM
(https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2014-08/12/12/enhanced/webdr08/anigif_enhanced-16534-1407861689-6.gif)
That's probably what
Bruno and, you know who, are doing right now.
:rofl:
Tescos have are stocking Lindt, dark, chilli chocolate again.
I MUST NOT BE TEMPTED! >:(
NO! NO! No! No. no, er . . .
Oh, alright, go on then! :P
Dark mint chocolate. :yum: :love:
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on July 15, 2016, 09:23:15 PM
Dark mint chocolate. :yum: :love:
I like it, but my little boy doesn't. I gave him one last week and he said, "It tastes like chocolate and toothpaste." ;D
Quote from: Magdalena on July 15, 2016, 10:39:09 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on July 15, 2016, 09:23:15 PM
Dark mint chocolate. :yum: :love:
I like it, but my little boy doesn't. I gave him one last week and he said, "It tastes like chocolate and toothpaste." ;D
:rofl:
Chocolate toothpaste could probably work. :notsure: Or perhaps not.
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on July 16, 2016, 12:50:29 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on July 15, 2016, 10:39:09 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on July 15, 2016, 09:23:15 PM
Dark mint chocolate. :yum: :love:
I like it, but my little boy doesn't. I gave him one last week and he said, "It tastes like chocolate and toothpaste." ;D
:rofl:
Chocolate toothpaste could probably work. :notsure: Or perhaps not.
They have that... but I prefer this one:
http://mcphee.com/shop/bacon-toothpaste.html
Quote from: joeactor on July 16, 2016, 02:58:56 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on July 16, 2016, 12:50:29 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on July 15, 2016, 10:39:09 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on July 15, 2016, 09:23:15 PM
Dark mint chocolate. :yum: :love:
I like it, but my little boy doesn't. I gave him one last week and he said, "It tastes like chocolate and toothpaste." ;D
:rofl:
Chocolate toothpaste could probably work. :notsure: Or perhaps not.
They have that... but I prefer this one:
http://mcphee.com/shop/bacon-toothpaste.html
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv714%2Fnarnia27%2Fsmilies%2Fsign0137.gif&hash=e91b564eb8700ca48a417f5e4d91a1ac7531fc54) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/narnia27/media/smilies/sign0137.gif.html)
:frolic:
I got an email from
Crow and an email from
Bruno de la Pole!!!
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frs1215.pbsrc.com%2Falbums%2Fcc506%2FRockingbro%2F170422_dancing_banana.gif%7Ec200&hash=1ce36579885706970ff45ab3317732c74bedf330)
...I gotta go!!!............
Quote from: Magdalena on July 17, 2016, 02:08:40 AM
:frolic:
I got an email from Crow and an email from Bruno de la Pole!!!
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frs1215.pbsrc.com%2Falbums%2Fcc506%2FRockingbro%2F170422_dancing_banana.gif%7Ec200&hash=1ce36579885706970ff45ab3317732c74bedf330)
...I gotta go!!!............
A threesome? Why wasn't I invited?
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on July 17, 2016, 03:10:03 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on July 17, 2016, 02:08:40 AM
:frolic:
I got an email from Crow and an email from Bruno de la Pole!!!
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frs1215.pbsrc.com%2Falbums%2Fcc506%2FRockingbro%2F170422_dancing_banana.gif%7Ec200&hash=1ce36579885706970ff45ab3317732c74bedf330)
...I gotta go!!!............
A threesome? Why wasn't I invited?
Ummmm....because it's a threesome??? :notsure:
And because only atheist are allowed...?
Quote from: Magdalena on July 17, 2016, 01:45:54 AM
Quote from: joeactor on July 16, 2016, 02:58:56 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on July 16, 2016, 12:50:29 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on July 15, 2016, 10:39:09 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on July 15, 2016, 09:23:15 PM
Dark mint chocolate. :yum: :love:
I like it, but my little boy doesn't. I gave him one last week and he said, "It tastes like chocolate and toothpaste." ;D
:rofl:
Chocolate toothpaste could probably work. :notsure: Or perhaps not.
They have that... but I prefer this one:
http://mcphee.com/shop/bacon-toothpaste.html
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv714%2Fnarnia27%2Fsmilies%2Fsign0137.gif&hash=e91b564eb8700ca48a417f5e4d91a1ac7531fc54) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/narnia27/media/smilies/sign0137.gif.html)
:this:
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on July 17, 2016, 11:46:37 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on July 17, 2016, 01:45:54 AM
Quote from: joeactor on July 16, 2016, 02:58:56 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on July 16, 2016, 12:50:29 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on July 15, 2016, 10:39:09 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on July 15, 2016, 09:23:15 PM
Dark mint chocolate. :yum: :love:
I like it, but my little boy doesn't. I gave him one last week and he said, "It tastes like chocolate and toothpaste." ;D
:rofl:
Chocolate toothpaste could probably work. :notsure: Or perhaps not.
They have that... but I prefer this one:
http://mcphee.com/shop/bacon-toothpaste.html
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv714%2Fnarnia27%2Fsmilies%2Fsign0137.gif&hash=e91b564eb8700ca48a417f5e4d91a1ac7531fc54) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/narnia27/media/smilies/sign0137.gif.html)
:this:
Now, if they did a chili-con-carne or vindaloo flavoured . . .
Hmm, there is chocolate flavour
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi778.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fyy67%2FDaveGlos%2Fshopping.jpg&hash=48d55f7c6697799ff96b2c626d8ed154d5721d09) (http://s778.photobucket.com/user/DaveGlos/media/shopping.jpg.html)
Think I am going to have to buy a 10" tablet, finding it hard to hit the right keys on the on-screen keyboard on the 8 incher.
"Floaters" in my dead centre of vision do not help with very small letters.
Managed that with only one correction.
Shit, make that four - relaxed too much in that last line!
Quote from: Gloucester on July 23, 2016, 06:37:08 PM, finding it hard to hit the right keys on the on-screen keyboard on the 8 incher.
I'm sure nobody noticed.
Why don't get a proper keyboard that talks to the tablet
Quote from: Bad Penny II on July 23, 2016, 07:26:53 PM
Quote from: Gloucester on July 23, 2016, 06:37:08 PM, finding it hard to hit the right keys on the on-screen keyboard on the 8 incher.
I'm sure nobody noticed.
Why don't get a proper keyboard that talks to the tablet
That's cos I spends ages correcting all the typos!
Have a USB keyboard that is better, and I use that for very long posts or serious other stuff, but then I have to get my not-as-fat-as-once-was ass off the sofa and use the table!
Actually, it is not so bad if I type slower and actually watch where the stylus lands. Only one typo to be corrected in that last sentence, none in this one.
Can actually type quite fast and accurately on a standard or a laptop keyboard.
I'll persevere! :D
OK.
I'm drunk, and I should go to bed. :-[
Hi there tumbleweed, wanna stop by for a chat?
:tumbleweed:
No? OK...
:weepy:
I know that I should not keep banging on about this, but:
My bed is a platform in the corner, called a "podium" by the estate agents. This morning I stripped the bed, turned the double mattress up on edge, cleaned the platform, vacuumed the mattress, turned it over end for end and top for bottom, made the bed,. Then I did a few other little jobs, made lunch and did a week's worth of washing up.
All that with only two breaks for a drink and the meal and only the slightest signs of shortage of breath, with no extra nitrates taken.
Only a few months ago it would have taken me up to an hour to make the bed alone, then another hour's rest until tackling the cooking and washing up, with a rest halfway through the latter.
Feel like a new man!
Bloody losartan potassium side effects!
Quote from: Gloucester on July 30, 2016, 01:26:01 PM
I know that I should not keep banging on about this, but:
My bed is a platform in the corner, called a "podium" by the estate agents. This morning I stripped the bed, turned the double mattress up on edge, cleaned the platform, vacuumed the mattress, turned it over end for end and top for bottom, made the bed,. Then I did a few other little jobs, made lunch and did a week's worth of washing up.
All that with only two breaks for a drink and the meal and only the slightest signs of shortage of breath, with no extra nitrates taken.
Only a few months ago it would have taken me up to an hour to make the bed alone, then another hour's rest until tackling the cooking and washing up, with a rest halfway through the latter.
Feel like a new man!
Bloody losartan potassium side effects!
Glad you're feeling well!!!
Quote from: Gloucester on July 30, 2016, 01:26:01 PM
I know that I should not keep banging on about this, but:
My bed is a platform in the corner, called a "podium" by the estate agents. This morning I stripped the bed, turned the double mattress up on edge, cleaned the platform, vacuumed the mattress, turned it over end for end and top for bottom, made the bed,. Then I did a few other little jobs, made lunch and did a week's worth of washing up.
All that with only two breaks for a drink and the meal and only the slightest signs of shortage of breath, with no extra nitrates taken.
Only a few months ago it would have taken me up to an hour to make the bed alone, then another hour's rest until tackling the cooking and washing up, with a rest halfway through the latter.
Feel like a new man!
Bloody losartan potassium side effects!
I'm alarmed! I take that for high BP and haven't been feeling well. Didn't connect the two. I never read the possible side effects because I'm so suggestible. If it said you could grow a second head I would soon be convinced I had one.
Quote from: Essie Mae on August 03, 2016, 09:21:08 AM
Quote from: Gloucester on July 30, 2016, 01:26:01 PM
I know that I should not keep banging on about this, but:
My bed is a platform in the corner, called a "podium" by the estate agents. This morning I stripped the bed, turned the double mattress up on edge, cleaned the platform, vacuumed the mattress, turned it over end for end and top for bottom, made the bed,. Then I did a few other little jobs, made lunch and did a week's worth of washing up.
All that with only two breaks for a drink and the meal and only the slightest signs of shortage of breath, with no extra nitrates taken.
Only a few months ago it would have taken me up to an hour to make the bed alone, then another hour's rest until tackling the cooking and washing up, with a rest halfway through the latter.
Feel like a new man!
Bloody losartan potassium side effects!
I'm alarmed! I take that for high BP and haven't been feeling well. Didn't connect the two. I never read the possible side effects because I'm so suggestible. If it said you could grow a second head I would soon be convinced I had one.
That is often a problem and I sympathise, Essie, it is too easy for a little indigestion to feel like a major heart problem! Unfortunately the opposite applies as well.
Losartan certsinly has side effects that seem to "mimic" the symotoms of that which it is supposed to fix.
However, we are all individuals and react differently. It takes a good doctor to listen and view objectuvely, perhaps a better one who is willing to supervise a controlled withdrawal. It may need 24h monitoring and that is expensive.
Basically I had the chance to log my BP at sny time and note my "condition". The clue was that the symptoms seemed linked to periods of low BP.
That led to looking at the drugs that reduced BP, I was on two, a nitrste and losartan. My dictir duggested stopping the losartan after seeing my evidence. Felt better. Restarted on a lower dose, felt worse. Stopped zltogether and feel far, fsr better.
Now, tbe critical thing may be the fact that I had lowish BP to start with. Drugs that dropped it further meant a poor supply all over the body, weakness in tbe limbs, fuzxy head, angina, breathlessness.
If you have hypertension then it is more complicated and unmonitored withdrawal from losartan would not be a good idea at all.
I have my theories and am getting a few health professionsls to listen to them, but it us a steep slope. After all I am merely a patient . . .
Quote from: Gloucester on August 03, 2016, 10:00:12 AM
Quote from: Essie Mae on August 03, 2016, 09:21:08 AM
Quote from: Gloucester on July 30, 2016, 01:26:01 PM
I know that I should not keep banging on about this, but:
My bed is a platform in the corner, called a "podium" by the estate agents. This morning I stripped the bed, turned the double mattress up on edge, cleaned the platform, vacuumed the mattress, turned it over end for end and top for bottom, made the bed,. Then I did a few other little jobs, made lunch and did a week's worth of washing up.
All that with only two breaks for a drink and the meal and only the slightest signs of shortage of breath, with no extra nitrates taken.
Only a few months ago it would have taken me up to an hour to make the bed alone, then another hour's rest until tackling the cooking and washing up, with a rest halfway through the latter.
Feel like a new man!
Bloody losartan potassium side effects!
I'm alarmed! I take that for high BP and haven't been feeling well. Didn't connect the two. I never read the possible side effects because I'm so suggestible. If it said you could grow a second head I would soon be convinced I had one.
That is often a problem and I sympathise, Essie, it is too easy for a little indigestion to feel like a major heart problem! Unfortunately the opposite applies as well.
Losartan certsinly has side effects that seem to "mimic" the symotoms of that which it is supposed to fix.
However, we are all individuals and react differently. It takes a good doctor to listen and view objectuvely, perhaps a better one who is willing to supervise a controlled withdrawal. It may need 24h monitoring and that is expensive.
Basically I had the chance to log my BP at sny time and note my "condition". The clue was that the symptoms seemed linked to periods of low BP.
That led to looking at the drugs that reduced BP, I was on two, a nitrste and losartan. My dictir duggested stopping the losartan after seeing my evidence. Felt better. Restarted on a lower dose, felt worse. Stopped zltogether and feel far, fsr better.
Now, tbe critical thing may be the fact that I had lowish BP to start with. Drugs that dropped it further meant a poor supply all over the body, weakness in tbe limbs, fuzxy head, angina, breathlessness.
If you have hypertension then it is more complicated and unmonitored withdrawal from losartan would not be a good idea at all.
I have my theories and am getting a few health professionsls to listen to them, but it us a steep slope. After all I am merely a patient . . .
Sounds as though your problems are different from mine. I just sometimes feel lightheaded and dizzy and heavy-chested. I'm seeing a cardiologist in a couple of weeks so I'm hopeful it will be sorted. I hope you continue to feel better and get the meds that are right for you.
December 2016: I attended a wedding, a baptism, a Christmas party, and a New Year's party. January 2017: There was a birthday celebration today, but it was interrupted by news that someone in the family, died, so I will soon attend a funeral. :sad sigh:
The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States will be held January 20, 2017. My daughter's birthday is on the same day. :sad sigh:
Life:
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.websleuths.com%2Fforums%2Fimages%2Fsmilies%2Froller-coaster.gif&hash=25dc5ed4925f660cb3340b345bd2422b67b7941b)
I think I've had enough. :unsure:
Maybe I am just tired. :offtobed:
:console:
Quote from: Magdalena on January 05, 2017, 05:26:14 AM
December 2016: I attended a wedding, a baptism, a Christmas party, and a New Year's party. January 2017: There was a birthday celebration today, but it was interrupted by news that someone in the family, died, so I will soon attend a funeral. :sad sigh:
The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States will be held January 20, 2017. My daughter's birthday is on the same day. :sad sigh:
Life:
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.websleuths.com%2Fforums%2Fimages%2Fsmilies%2Froller-coaster.gif&hash=25dc5ed4925f660cb3340b345bd2422b67b7941b)
I think I've had enough. :unsure:
Maybe I am just tired. :offtobed:
:this:
:c'mere you:
:therethere:
Quote from: Magdalena on January 05, 2017, 05:26:14 AM
December 2016: I attended a wedding, a baptism, a Christmas party, and a New Year's party. January 2017: There was a birthday celebration today, but it was interrupted by news that someone in the family, died, so I will soon attend a funeral. :sad sigh:
The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States will be held January 20, 2017. My daughter's birthday is on the same day. :sad sigh:
Life:
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.websleuths.com%2Fforums%2Fimages%2Fsmilies%2Froller-coaster.gif&hash=25dc5ed4925f660cb3340b345bd2422b67b7941b)
I think I've had enough. :unsure:
Maybe I am just tired. :offtobed:
My Dearest Mags,
The wedding, baptism and even the Christmas party may have been unavoidable due to family obligations, butt no one forced you to attend a New Year's Eve Party did they? Mmmm? Huhhhh?
Sorry about your loss though, funereal's during the holiday can be rough.
You should throw your daughter a huuuuuge birthday party on the 20th, so as to distract you from having to pay any attention to what I believe will be the darkest day in American history. (Shivers with dread)
By the way
Free marijuana to be handed out Inauguration Day! (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/01/04/free-marijuana-inauguration-day/96143004/)So cheer up! 8)
Quote from: Magdalena on January 05, 2017, 05:26:14 AM
December 2016: I attended a wedding, a baptism, a Christmas party, and a New Year's party. January 2017: There was a birthday celebration today, but it was interrupted by news that someone in the family, died, so I will soon attend a funeral. :sad sigh:
The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States will be held January 20, 2017. My daughter's birthday is on the same day. :sad sigh:
Life:
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.websleuths.com%2Fforums%2Fimages%2Fsmilies%2Froller-coaster.gif&hash=25dc5ed4925f660cb3340b345bd2422b67b7941b)
I think I've had enough. :unsure:
Maybe I am just tired. :offtobed:
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gifbin.com%2Fbin%2F092010%2Freverse-rollercoaster-kid.gif&hash=d3cd4d0ecbce1b7900769cfd2e3dd3f078f113f5)
Quote from: Magdalena on January 05, 2017, 05:26:14 AM
December 2016: I attended a wedding, a baptism, a Christmas party, and a New Year's party. January 2017: There was a birthday celebration today, but it was interrupted by news that someone in the family, died, so I will soon attend a funeral. :sad sigh:
The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States will be held January 20, 2017. My daughter's birthday is on the same day. :sad sigh:
Life:
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.websleuths.com%2Fforums%2Fimages%2Fsmilies%2Froller-coaster.gif&hash=25dc5ed4925f660cb3340b345bd2422b67b7941b)
I think I've had enough. :unsure:
Maybe I am just tired. :offtobed:
:console:
I agree with what Bruno said, throw your daughter one heck of a party! :party: Forget about
Trash Trump.
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You guys are great! Thanks.
I wasn't expecting any responses. :shifty:
After all, this is the, "Talking to myself..." Thread. It's more like one of those confession booths they have at the catholic churches. :-\
Quote from: Magdalena on January 05, 2017, 07:57:09 PM
I wasn't expecting any responses. :shifty:
After all, this is the, "Talking to myself..." Thread. It's more like one of those confession booths they have at the catholic churches. :-\
In that case say three "Our Fathers', one "Novena" and I'll absolve you of all of your sins.
Father Bruno
P.S. Now I want to change my username from Bruno de la Pole to Father Bruno, or maybe Monsignor Bruno?
Quote from: Bruno de la Pole on January 05, 2017, 08:45:31 PM
Quote from: Magdalena on January 05, 2017, 07:57:09 PM
I wasn't expecting any responses. :shifty:
After all, this is the, "Talking to myself..." Thread. It's more like one of those confession booths they have at the catholic churches. :-\
In that case say three "Our Fathers', one "Novena" and I'll absolve you of all of your sins.
Father Bruno
P.S. Now I want to change my username from Bruno de la Pole to Father Bruno, or maybe Monsignor Bruno?
Banned for delusions of grandeur...
Oops, sorry, wrong thread. :-[
Quote from: Bruno de la Pole on January 05, 2017, 08:45:31 PM
P.S. Now I want to change my username from Bruno de la Pole to Father Bruno, or maybe Monsignor Bruno?
I vote for Monsignor Bruno -- aim for the skies.
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Quote from: Bruno de la Pole on January 05, 2017, 08:45:31 PM
P.S. Now I want to change my username from Bruno de la Pole to Father Bruno, or maybe Monsignor Bruno?
I vote for Monsignor Bruno -- aim for the skies.
Well....If you're gonna aim for the skies....
Pope Pompeux Pole(You can even add an accent on the e, any e, to make it fancier.) :grin:
Quote from: Magdalena on January 05, 2017, 09:56:18 PM
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on January 05, 2017, 09:22:14 PM
Quote from: Bruno de la Pole on January 05, 2017, 08:45:31 PM
P.S. Now I want to change my username from Bruno de la Pole to Father Bruno, or maybe Monsignor Bruno?
I vote for Monsignor Bruno -- aim for the skies.
Well....If you're gonna aim for the skies....
Pope Pompeux Pole
(You can even add an accent on the e, any e, to make it fancier.) :grin:
Me llamaste pomposo?
Me?
Anyway I think I prefer Father Bruno, and then like a good son of Jesus, I'll work my way up to Monsignor.
I wonder if the mods would change it for me?
I even have a cool avatar.
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Not gonna have any money for awhile... :marvin:
Bin there.
It sucks.
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Father Bruno.
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Dear Father Bruno,
I have a confession.
Last night I was bored and couldn't sleep so I went to read posts on other atheists forums. :shifty: Is this bad? Is this cheating? I didn't join the forum or anything like that. ::) I just read the posts. Really! You believe me, don't you?
Please don't make me pray a whole bunch of times, I doubt this will stop me from doing it again--just reading the posts--that is. I didn't even enjoy it. They didn't even call me a guest or user, I think they called me a "spider" which I didn't like.
Is this a bad sign? That I want to see other posts? This is the first or maybe the second time that I go lurking in other places at night--from the comfort of my home--of course. What's wrong with me?
Sincerely,
Magdalena's friend. :shifty:
:o I am shocked, Mags, shocked!
Shocked that your friend would do such a thing!
Dad, moves out, tells me to get room mate and split bills with them.
I can't afford bills that way.
Get room mate anyway since New Year bringing in extra money.
Dad says to cancel room mate because he wants to move back in.
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Good news is she was very understanding and kind about the whole thing. :love:
Quote from: Magdalena on January 07, 2017, 07:18:59 PM
Dear Father Bruno,
I have a confession.
Last night I was bored and couldn't sleep so I went to read posts on other atheists forums. :shifty: Is this bad? Is this cheating? I didn't join the forum or anything like that. ::) I just read the posts. Really! You believe me, don't you?
Please don't make me pray a whole bunch of times, I doubt this will stop me from doing it again--just reading the posts--that is. I didn't even enjoy it. They didn't even call me a guest or user, I think they called me a "spider" which I didn't like.
Is this a bad sign? That I want to see other posts? This is the first or maybe the second time that I go lurking in other places at night--from the comfort of my home--of course. What's wrong with me?
Sincerely,
Magdalena's friend. :shifty:
My Dear Child,
Your friend is being tempted because they have neglected their time
with God spent at HAF, and also because they are weak in the body due to physical exhaustion, most likely due to excessive partying.
We find it is easier to resist temptation by having a strong
spiritual life on-line social life, and avoiding compromising situations, and also by being accountable to someone.
Temptation will always be a part of our lives, it matters not our age or the circumstances of our lives, temptation will be something that we have to deal with until the end of our journey here on earth.
Not every temptation is caused by
Satan web-surfing, so we need to look at the two causes of temptation.
Most temptations are caused by
our fallen human nature boredom .
Original Sin Instant gratification has wounded our human nature. We simply do not have complete control over our mind, memory, imagination, will, passions and emotions. We will always struggle with something as long as there is another Facebook post to comment on, or a GIF needing posting somewhere.
Sometimes we might be tempted to be lazy and sleep in (Mags), rather than go to work or to school, or clean the house. Sometimes we might be tempted to gossip (Mags). Sometimes we might be tempted to be impatient. Sometimes we might be tempted to be unchaste (Fr. Bruno). Sometimes we might even be tempted to take something that does not belong to us.
Please tell your friend to remember the specific Catechism of the Catholic Church #2516.
"Because man and woman is a composite being, spirit and body, there already exists a certain tension in them; a certain struggle of tendencies between spirit and flesh develops. But in fact, this struggle belongs to the heritage of sin. It is a consequence of sin and at the same time a confirmation of it. It is part of the daily experience of the spiritual battle, blah, blah, blah....whatever"
I don't know if any of this makes sense, in fact I think I've given myself a headache simply trying to sound pastoral, so why don't you tell your friend to go ahead and look around other sites, even log in and post a comment or two, butt I think they'll find that there simply is no other site worthy of wasting their time on like HAF.
Also, say a couple Our Father's and make me some Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies for my time and blessing.
Sincerely,
Father Bruno
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on January 08, 2017, 10:02:46 PM
:o I am shocked, Mags, shocked!
Shocked that your friend would do such a thing!
I'm also shocked that my friend did that. :shifty:
Quote from: Father Bruno on January 09, 2017, 01:12:52 PM
My Dear Child,
Your friend is being tempted because they have neglected their time with God spent at HAF, and also because they are weak in the body due to physical exhaustion, most likely due to excessive partying.
We find it is easier to resist temptation by having a strong spiritual life on-line social life, and avoiding compromising situations, and also by being accountable to someone.
Temptation will always be a part of our lives, it matters not our age or the circumstances of our lives, temptation will be something that we have to deal with until the end of our journey here on earth.
Not every temptation is caused by Satan web-surfing, so we need to look at the two causes of temptation.
Most temptations are caused by our fallen human nature boredom . Original Sin Instant gratification has wounded our human nature. We simply do not have complete control over our mind, memory, imagination, will, passions and emotions. We will always struggle with something as long as there is another Facebook post to comment on, or a GIF needing posting somewhere.
Sometimes we might be tempted to be lazy and sleep in (Mags), rather than go to work or to school, or clean the house. Sometimes we might be tempted to gossip (Mags). Sometimes we might be tempted to be impatient. Sometimes we might be tempted to be unchaste (Fr. Bruno). Sometimes we might even be tempted to take something that does not belong to us.
Please tell your friend to remember the specific Catechism of the Catholic Church #2516.
"Because man and woman is a composite being, spirit and body, there already exists a certain tension in them; a certain struggle of tendencies between spirit and flesh develops. But in fact, this struggle belongs to the heritage of sin. It is a consequence of sin and at the same time a confirmation of it. It is part of the daily experience of the spiritual battle, blah, blah, blah....whatever"
I don't know if any of this makes sense, in fact I think I've given myself a headache simply trying to sound pastoral, so why don't you tell your friend to go ahead and look around other sites, even log in and post a comment or two, butt I think they'll find that there simply is no other site worthy of wasting their time on like HAF.
Also, say a couple Our Father's and make me some Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies for my time and blessing.
Sincerely,
Father Bruno
Father Bruno, my friend says you're fired.
Magdalena,
Tell you friend I can't be fired, only suspended or defrocked (An action known in the church as laicization, which comes from the Latin phrase, ad poenam or too punish) but such actions can only be imposed by the church, not from you or your friend.
So get baking, I want Oatmeal Butterscotch cookies.
Cruzar a sí mismo.
Fr. Bruno
Quote from: Father Bruno on January 09, 2017, 06:54:56 PM
Tell you friend I can't be fired, only suspended or defrocked...
My friend would like to know if she can watch while you're being defrocked.
Quote from: Magdalena on January 09, 2017, 07:44:36 PM
Quote from: Father Bruno on January 09, 2017, 06:54:56 PM
Tell you friend I can't be fired, only suspended or defrocked...
My friend would like to know if she can watch while you're being defrocked.
:lol:
Stripped of your privileges!
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on January 09, 2017, 09:43:24 PM
Quote from: Magdalena on January 09, 2017, 07:44:36 PM
Quote from: Father Bruno on January 09, 2017, 06:54:56 PM
Tell you friend I can't be fired, only suspended or defrocked...
My friend would like to know if she can watch while you're being defrocked.
:lol:
Stripped of your privileges!
:grin:
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on January 09, 2017, 09:43:24 PM
Quote from: Magdalena on January 09, 2017, 07:44:36 PM
Quote from: Father Bruno on January 09, 2017, 06:54:56 PM
Tell you friend I can't be fired, only suspended or defrocked...
My friend would like to know if she can watch while you're being defrocked.
:lol:
Stripped of your privileges!
Bom-chicka-bom-bomm...
Quote from: Firebird on January 09, 2017, 10:31:28 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on January 09, 2017, 09:43:24 PM
Quote from: Magdalena on January 09, 2017, 07:44:36 PM
Quote from: Father Bruno on January 09, 2017, 06:54:56 PM
Tell you friend I can't be fired, only suspended or defrocked...
My friend would like to know if she can watch while you're being defrocked.
:lol:
Stripped of your privileges!
Bom-chicka-bom-bomm...
Y'all have no respect for members of the cloth,...darn atheists. :hooked: :hulk: :hulk: :picard facepalm:
Quote from: Father Bruno on January 10, 2017, 04:21:26 AM
:hooked:
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Welcome back,
Brunito de la Pole.
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la? lololol
Quote from: Father Bruno on January 10, 2017, 04:21:26 AM
Quote from: Firebird on January 09, 2017, 10:31:28 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on January 09, 2017, 09:43:24 PM
Quote from: Magdalena on January 09, 2017, 07:44:36 PM
Quote from: Father Bruno on January 09, 2017, 06:54:56 PM
Tell you friend I can't be fired, only suspended or defrocked...
My friend would like to know if she can watch while you're being defrocked.
:lol:
Stripped of your privileges!
Bom-chicka-bom-bomm...
Y'all have no respect for members of the cloth,...darn atheists. :hooked: :hulk: :hulk: :picard facepalm:
No, no respect. :headshake:
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I suggest doing Surveys as a good idea for people stuck inside and mostly alone. There are plenty of them and they pay good money if you stick to it. Worth a try.
Quote from: Lark on January 12, 2017, 01:35:49 PM
I suggest doing Surveys as a good idea for people stuck inside and mostly alone. There are plenty of them and they pay good money if you stick to it. Worth a try.
Sage advice Lark
Though I query the marketing mysteries.
There's so many questions to be asked.
Those with money have not time to waste.
Stuck insides and mostly alone will suffice.
We were on the edge of the desert, near Barstow, when the drugs began to take hold...I wanted lemons, but they kept giving me oranges, not even a decent lime to bite into, just fucking oranges, but the salt was divine, straight from the desert floor, pure alkaline.
Raw tequila bites better than warm bourbon, and gives you a better voice. Less gravelly, more soul and spirit...bourbon is for cheap motels, unfiltered cigarettes, and washed-out dreams...with tequila you can see god, write poetry, fall in love.
Sobriety is sobering.
Quote from: Father Bruno on January 14, 2017, 04:12:51 AM
We were on the edge of the desert, near Barstow, when the drugs began to take hold...I wanted lemons, but they kept giving me oranges, not even a decent lime to bite into, just fucking oranges, but the salt was divine, straight from the desert floor, pure alkaline.
Raw tequila bites better than warm bourbon, and gives you a better voice. Less gravelly, more soul and spirit...bourbon is for cheap motels, unfiltered cigarettes, and washed-out dreams...with tequila you can see god, write poetry, fall in love.
Sobriety is sobering.
I see the Hotel California up ahead in the distance.
It's worth noting that tequila is the absolute best panty dropper in the known universe.
I spent the whole night with a young one from Argentina. :sad sigh:
He was young and robust, not smooth at all, a bit rough. Not refined and a little bit immature. Muscular and vigorous, very powerful body. Intellectually satisfying, but flamboyant and arrogant, in one word, "opulent." Good looking, but more like man-ballerina. Dumb, which is typical of those who are too young.
No cashmere in my mouth either. Let's just say, "took up all the room in my mouth and hanged in awkward places."
From now on, I will only spend the night with those who are more mature. They seem to be more elegant. They are more refined and harmonious. They can be lively and some even have vitality, but they are mellow, delicate and smooth.
I learned my lesson the hard way. :pensive:
From now on, only mature and noble Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley. :-\
:lol: Mags.
Enjoyed your post quite a bit Mags about the young one from Argentina, nicely done. Thank you for posting... ;)
I'm glad you guys liked it. :boaterhat:
...You guys didn't think that I actually, well, you know...did you? :o
Those are the actual words people use to describe the way a wine looks and tastes. One can easily get confused about what they're talking about. ;D
Quote from: Magdalena on January 15, 2017, 06:37:02 PM
I'm glad you guys liked it. :boaterhat:
...You guys didn't think that I actually, well, you know...did you? :o
Those are the actual words people use to describe the way a wine looks and tastes. One can easily get confused about what they're talking about. ;D
We got it, "Pinot Moir"! ;D
Quote from: Father Bruno on January 15, 2017, 08:02:37 PM
Quote from: Magdalena on January 15, 2017, 06:37:02 PM
I'm glad you guys liked it. :boaterhat:
...You guys didn't think that I actually, well, you know...did you? :o
Those are the actual words people use to describe the way a wine looks and tastes. One can easily get confused about what they're talking about. ;D
We got it, "Pinot Moir"! ;D
:this:
:P
>Dad puts room up for rent
>Get room mate
>Dad cancels room for rent so he can move back in
>Room mate turns out to be a scam
>Dad puts room back up for rent anyway
If I wasn't sedated by meds I'd probably say something.
Drexel as usual was late, but of course he was always late, and what irked us the most about it is the fact he didn't seem to give a shit in the least that he was always late. In fact the more we bitched about his lateness, the more it appeared to drive him to arrive even later the next time we were planning on getting together.
So we normally held our tongues and gave each other side glances when he would arrive, greeting his perfunctory hello with simply a grunt or nod of the head.
Tonight was different. Tonight we decided to wait no longer. You have to understand though, Drexel was a mess, always rumpled, hurried, a step or two back from where he should be, as if he was paused at some earlier recorded point in his life and simply couldn't find it in himself to fast-forward to the present.
Even in conversations he would be a sentence or thought behind everyone else, oftentimes repeating or requesting clarification on a point already made, disrupting the flow of words and thought to the point you felt as if you were trying to read from a book while the pages flapped in the wind.
'Lisabeth told me one night while she was really drunk and lonely, she made the mistake of having sex with him. I asked her how he was and she told me he seemed to approach sex the same way he did everything else, one or two thrusts behind. At one point she rolled off the top of him her own needs met, and while she was getting dressed he was still at it on the bed, finally finishing himself off, all the while telling her to wait for him, but she left, not wanting to spend the night there in the gloom.
So tonight we packed everything up, cleaned out all of the rooms and left forever...taking his share of the money, everything; his clothes, his albums, even his turtle and that fucking smelly-ass aquarium of his.
We heard later that when he finally arrived and found this world we had created gone, wiped completely and irrevocably clean he simply sat down and cried. I imagine it was not the loss he crying about, but rather the guilt he finally was able to feel, that part of his life, the part that had been on pause finally caught up to him, and he saw it played out in all of it's retched completeness.
He tried to hang himself about a week later in some dive motel on the strip, not far from where we first met, but apparently the pipe he tied his hang-knot to broke. He was found barely alive the next morning and taken to the hospital.
After getting discharged from the hospital several days later he was hit by a truck while crossing the street, and died almost instantly.
Bystanders said it looked like an accident, but I doubt it.
We often talked about taking him out ourselves, one time even coming so close as to drawing straws to see who would do it, but that wouldn't have been right. He needed to do it himself, he was the one responsible for all of it, the entire mess, for not only his guilt, but ours, especially ours.
We set the turtle free sometime later, as it was a pain to care for, anyway turtles don't belong in aquariums. We found a small pond back beyond the hospital grounds were 'Lisbeth was being treated. There were other turtles sunning themselves on logs as we approached the shore of the creek. When we set the turtle down on the sand it immediately craned it's neck forward, and then took off toward the water.
I half expected it to turn around, pause and take one last look at us, but it simply disappeared into the muck and water.
Bruno is showing some signs of talent for invention. ( I hope that last bit was invention) We may very well have a burgeoning Steven King type fiction writer in our midst. Go for it Father Bruno. Wheels ain't everything you know. **
**For those who do not know, Bruno is responsible for many of the wheels on new automobiles out of the Detroit area and beyond.
Quote from: Icarus on January 22, 2017, 01:19:35 AM
Bruno is showing some signs of talent for invention. ( I hope that last bit was invention) We may very well have a burgeoning Steven King type fiction writer in our midst. Go for it Father Bruno. Wheels ain't everything you know. **
**For those who do not know, Bruno is responsible for many of the wheels on new automobiles out of the Detroit area and beyond.
Appreciate the sentiment Icarus, and also kind of you to remember what I do for a living. Yes, the blurb I posted is a complete invention; well accept for the names Drexel and 'Lisbeth, and the description of the turtle release, that part was true. 8)
On the bleak side, but very evocative. I like it. :thumbsup:
So... the last hours are slipping away and soon the weekend will end. :sad sigh:
Earlier this afternoon I used a restroom in our office building, normally I use the one on our floor, but I was on my way down to check the mail so I stopped and used one located on one of the two main floors of the building.
The stall door was slightly open so I assumed it was empty, but the person using it hadn't either bothered or maybe notice the door wasn't locked, their was a gentlemen sitting on the toilet, his pants, underwear down completely to the floor, eating a bag of chips.
Not a small bag either, but a mid-sized one.
I was at first completely embarrassed by my accidental intrusion as one is apt to be in these situations, but the sight of the potato chip bag, along with this guy eating while sitting in a public restroom stopped me dead in my tracks and I just stood there for what seem like a minute staring at him before I remembered my place and quickly backed out the stall while mumbling an apology.
I didn't even bother at that point to go into another stall, I simply went over to the wash-basin, quickly washed my hands and left.
This is beyond weird and strange, and of course exceedingly gross and disgusting, but I can't shake the image from my head, and I'm been thinking of this guy all afternoon while at my desk.
I want to ask him why, and more importantly how he could eat while sitting on a toilet, especially a public toilet.
Seriously wish I could overwrite this image in my head, it's simply so fucking wrong.
OMG that is so wrong on so many levels! :rofl:
Quote from: Father Bruno on February 01, 2017, 08:06:28 PM
Earlier this afternoon I used a restroom in our office building, normally I use the one on our floor, but I was on my way down to check the mail so I stopped and used one located on one of the two main floors of the building.
The stall door was slightly open so I assumed it was empty, but the person using it hadn't either bothered or maybe notice the door wasn't locked, their was a gentlemen sitting on the toilet, his pants, underwear down completely to the floor, eating a bag of chips.
Not a small bag either, but a mid-sized one.
I was at first completely embarrassed by my accidental intrusion as one is apt to be in these situations, but the sight of the potato chip bag, along with this guy eating while sitting in a public restroom stopped me dead in my tracks and I just stood there for what seem like a minute staring at him before I remembered my place and quickly backed out the stall while mumbling an apology.
I didn't even bother at that point to go into another stall, I simply went over to the wash-basin, quickly washed my hands and left.
This is beyond weird and strange, and of course exceedingly gross and disgusting, but I can't shake the image from my head, and I'm been thinking of this guy all afternoon while at my desk.
I want to ask him why, and more importantly how he could eat while sitting on a toilet, especially a public toilet.
Seriously wish I could overwrite this image in my head, it's simply so fucking wrong.
That so sounds like a scene from one of the surealist films that were popular in the back street arts cinemas in Cambridge in the early 60s! Though he would have to have been stuffing the chips into his cake-hole as if life depended on it. I am sure the Dada-ists and other produced similar stuff long before. Have not followed that sort of genre for many fifty years.
Seemed so decadent sitting in that really grimy flea-pit of a place, drinking wine or beer and watching weird movies! :grin:
There might be a good explanation for it. There's a rush project on, and he doesn't really have time for lunch. Nature called, though, so he thought he'd get two things taken care of in the limited time available. As long as precautions are taken, no harm done. In fact, it makes a sort of sense not to lock the stall door in this instance, because that would involve touching a surface that is very likely contaminated. ;)
And since he probably lacks a sense of smell, he thought, why not?
Quote from: Recusant on February 01, 2017, 08:19:31 PM
There might be a good explanation for it. There's a rush project on, and he doesn't really have time for lunch. Nature called, though, so he thought he'd get two things taken care of in the limited time available. As long as precautions are taken, no harm done. In fact, it makes a sort of sense not to lock the stall door in this instance, because that would involve touching a surface that is very likely contaminated. ;)
Reading between the lines I suspect you're guilty of the same or similar act
Recusant, maybe not a bag of chips, hopefully not a public restroom. I mean you could argue that you were at home, in your own bathroom, and simply didn't want to share that bucket of fried chicken with your family, but I'm just not buying it, no sir. ;D ;D
8)
If he was rushed for time, I'm sure he could have ate some chips on the way back to his office or simply stopped for a quick moment in the lobby, butt you can't rationalize something like this. (I'm somewhat of a germ-a-phobe, so I'm sure I take this to a whole other level than most folks.
I think maybe you could rationalize this in a prison, but that's about it...maybe a convent, I mean you know how nuns are.
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on February 01, 2017, 09:00:08 PM
And since he probably lacks a sense of smell, he thought, why not?
:lol:
Bruno- What flavor were the chips? Salt and vinegar? Cheddar Cheese? Sour Cream and Onion?
Quote from: Apathy on February 01, 2017, 09:05:54 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on February 01, 2017, 09:00:08 PM
And since he probably lacks a sense of smell, he thought, why not?
:lol:
Bruno- What flavor were the chips? Salt and vinegar? Cheddar Cheese? Sour Cream and Onion?
Black bag, with a picture on the front of what looked like a reddish sauce or something in a bowl, I'm thinking barbecue maybe?
Quote from: Father Bruno on February 01, 2017, 09:13:07 PM
Quote from: Apathy on February 01, 2017, 09:05:54 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on February 01, 2017, 09:00:08 PM
And since he probably lacks a sense of smell, he thought, why not?
:lol:
Bruno- What flavor were the chips? Salt and vinegar? Cheddar Cheese? Sour Cream and Onion?
Black bag, with a picture on the front of what looked like a reddish sauce or something in a bowl, I'm thinking barbecue maybe?
Sweet chilli?
(My favourite)
Quote from: Father Bruno on February 01, 2017, 09:02:38 PMReading between the lines I suspect you're guilty of the same or similar act Recusant . . .
:lol: Not that I recall, no, but I wouldn't put it past me.
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Quote from: Father Bruno on February 01, 2017, 09:13:07 PM
Quote from: Apathy on February 01, 2017, 09:05:54 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on February 01, 2017, 09:00:08 PM
And since he probably lacks a sense of smell, he thought, why not?
:lol:
Bruno- What flavor were the chips? Salt and vinegar? Cheddar Cheese? Sour Cream and Onion?
Black bag, with a picture on the front of what looked like a reddish sauce or something in a bowl, I'm thinking barbecue maybe?
Sweet chilli?
(My favourite)
Whatever it was, it was probably his favourite if he couldn't wait to leave the contaminated area to eat it.
Maybe he thought that germ theory "is just a theory". :notsure: There's no shortage of weird people in the world...
Way back in the olden times there were deathly epidemics of serious proportions. What we learned from that pandemic era was: never eat where you shit. or visa versa.
The door was ajar and he had an American mid size packet of chips,
(which when emptied can serve 1-2 as emergency accommodation)
He was expecting company, somewhere there's a post of a thwarted.
Quote from: Icarus on February 02, 2017, 03:25:12 AM
Way back in the olden times there were deathly epidemics of serious proportions. What we learned from that pandemic era was: never eat where you shit. or visa versa.
You are effectively immune to most of the bugs in your own, fresh shit - unless you have a gut infection anyway! Other people may have a different zoo inside and so you are a potential danger to them. Babies are sometimes fed a tiny amount of their mother's poo to get their own intestinal zoo started properly. There are actually "poo banks (http://www.openbiome.org/about)" for "re-seeding" the guts of people who have lost their own (due to medication or procedures) and have no close relatives.
I am sure you did not want to know all that! :devil:
Apochryphal story: they decided to do Grannie a favour, install a downstairs inside loo in her house so she didn't have to venture outside to the one in the yard. Grannie was apalled at the idea, "What! Put one of those filthy things indoors, where I cook and sleep? No thank you very much!"
:puke: I would rather not be aware of the thriving ecosystem that I am.
I just returned from vacation abroad and I while gone I realized one thing that I feel is very important or at least I personally feel is important and needs to be noted or written down; I'm equally surprised I never thought of or noticed this before.
The whistle of the teapot speaks all languages does it not? I was sitting one afternoon with a family member of my wife in Honduras, and we had decided to have tea together outside in the garden while we were waiting for others to join us.
We had been to a lovely market the day before, and I picked up some Marrakesh Mint Green Tea along with some local raw honey.
When the tea kettle started to whistle I commented how relaxing and even sentimental the sound made me feel. From the early bustle of the pot as the water comes to boil and then on to the early wisps of the whistle itself until it reaches full sound, and then of course the short spats of the whistle as it is removed from the heat source to a cold burner.
I close my eyes and I'm a young boy at home running into our kitchen turning off the kettle for my mother, or if I close my eyes even harder I'm an even younger boy sitting at the kitchen table of my grandparents home, anxiously awaiting my tea and cookies from my Nana.
My tea partner this afternoon made a similar comment about how she also loved the sound of the kettle whistle, and found it equally relaxing. The tea kettle she said was a reminder of the importance of slowing down each day if just enough to take a break and relax for a short time and enjoy the present.
We made our tea, and sat together drinking it in comfortable silence while enjoying the garden view, the chatter of birds, the play of dogs and I'm sure the comforting memories of our lives.
I alway's like this quote about tea.
It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea."
― Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales
It's good to "see" you again, Father Bruno. :hug:
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Quote from: Father Bruno on April 19, 2017, 03:57:24 PM
We made our tea, and sat together drinking it in comfortable silence while enjoying the garden view, the chatter of birds, the play of dogs and I'm sure the comforting memories of our lives.
That is so impressionistically evocative - quite beautiful. It brought to mind Eartha Kitt singing
Lazy Afternoon.
Quote from: Davin on April 19, 2017, 04:09:39 PM
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I like iced tea. :yum:
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We made our tea, and sat together drinking it in comfortable silence while enjoying the garden view, the chatter of birds, the play of dogs and I'm sure the comforting memories of our lives.
That is so impressionistically evocative - quite beautiful. It brought to mind Eartha Kitt singing Lazy Afternoon.
Ah, Eartha Kitt. Ah . . .
Thanks Gloucester. You obviously see what I mean.
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I like iced tea. :yum:
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Quote from: Gloucester on April 19, 2017, 04:52:08 PM
Quote from: hermes2015 on April 19, 2017, 04:25:12 PM
Quote from: Father Bruno on April 19, 2017, 03:57:24 PM
We made our tea, and sat together drinking it in comfortable silence while enjoying the garden view, the chatter of birds, the play of dogs and I'm sure the comforting memories of our lives.
That is so impressionistically evocative - quite beautiful. It brought to mind Eartha Kitt singing Lazy Afternoon.
Ah, Eartha Kitt. Ah . . .
Yes, Eartha Kitt singing this song is the perfect accompaniment to my memory of that afternoon, thanks Hermes, both for the choice of song and the compliment.
You have to be pretty old to remember that Eartha Kitt was once a popular entertainer. I am, and I do.
Quote from: Icarus on April 20, 2017, 05:33:49 AM
You have to be pretty old to remember that Eartha Kitt was once a popular entertainer. I am, and I do.
That's true, and I am also old enough. However, I also believe that good music (and design, art, and everything else) is timeless. That is why one can still appreciate Bach and Mozart. Or a Chanel dress from the 1930s.
Quote from: Icarus on April 20, 2017, 05:33:49 AM
You have to be pretty old to remember that Eartha Kitt was once a popular entertainer. I am, and I do.
Me, too!
Quote from: Father Bruno on April 19, 2017, 03:57:24 PM
I just returned from vacation abroad and I while gone I realized one thing that I feel is very important or at least I personally feel is important and needs to be noted or written down; I'm equally surprised I never thought of or noticed this before.
The whistle of the teapot speaks all languages does it not? I was sitting one afternoon with a family member of my wife in Honduras, and we had decided to have tea together outside in the garden while we were waiting for others to join us.
We had been to a lovely market the day before, and I picked up some Marrakesh Mint Green Tea along with some local raw honey.
When the tea kettle started to whistle I commented how relaxing and even sentimental the sound made me feel. From the early bustle of the pot as the water comes to boil and then on to the early wisps of the whistle itself until it reaches full sound, and then of course the short spats of the whistle as it is removed from the heat source to a cold burner.
I close my eyes and I'm a young boy at home running into our kitchen turning off the kettle for my mother, or if I close my eyes even harder I'm an even younger boy sitting at the kitchen table of my grandparents home, anxiously awaiting my tea and cookies from my Nana.
My tea partner this afternoon made a similar comment about how she also loved the sound of the kettle whistle, and found it equally relaxing. The tea kettle she said was a reminder of the importance of slowing down each day if just enough to take a break and relax for a short time and enjoy the present.
We made our tea, and sat together drinking it in comfortable silence while enjoying the garden view, the chatter of birds, the play of dogs and I'm sure the comforting memories of our lives.
I alway's like this quote about tea.
It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea."
― Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales
OH, i just love this whole post....
^^^ Ditto
I have fond memories of the tea ceremonies I had with my daughter when she was five years old. We did make actual tea and we enjoyed it in pleasing quietude and love for each other. I referred to her, during those ceremonies as Miss Muffet........ nostalgia is sweet.
Quote from: Icarus on April 22, 2017, 07:45:53 AM
I have fond memories of the tea ceremonies I had with my daughter when she was five years old. We did make actual tea and we enjoyed it in pleasing quietude and love for each other. I referred to her, during those ceremonies as Miss Muffet........ nostalgia is sweet.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm too nostalgic, too sentimental as I often have a hard time letting go of material things because of the sentimental value I give them.
I mean I have small toys from when I was a boy adorning my dresser, my father's dress green jacket from the Army hangs in my closet next to mine...my mother's winter cap is on my hat rack, and both of my parents have long since passed away.
Wonder around my house, even my garage and workroom and you'll see things like that all over, from furniture, to bar signs, heck I have my father's shaving brush on display in my bookshelf. (It's old, ivory handled on a stand)
Weird huh?
Not weird so much, just ..... sentimental! And another dimension to your nostalgia is the fact that it sounds like a lot of what you hang on to and display are actual pieces of history, both personal and Americana. That's kind of neat! I say surround yourself with what you love! Screw what others think about it.
I myself am not very sentimental, and I can kind of trace why that personality trait developed in me. I get rid of stuff like you wouldn't believe. But there are definitely times that I wish so much that I had kept something.
I like this place because I learn a lot about the universe and myself. I'm comfortable here. This place is priceless.
:love: Dionysus :love:
Anyone...Can I get an amen? :tellmemore: Please?
~Thank you.
Quote from: Magdalena on May 07, 2017, 06:06:21 AM
I like this place because I learn a lot about the universe and myself. I'm comfortable here. This place is priceless.
:love: Dionysus :love:
Anyone...Can I get an amen? :tellmemore: Please?
~Thank you.
Amen, sister!
Quote from: hermes2015 on May 07, 2017, 06:14:20 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on May 07, 2017, 06:06:21 AM
I like this place because I learn a lot about the universe and myself. I'm comfortable here. This place is priceless.
:love: Dionysus :love:
Anyone...Can I get an amen? :tellmemore: Please?
~Thank you.
Amen, sister!
Amen, my brother,
hermes2015!
You and I don't speak too much, but this short, sweet, and pleasant conversation has been more than enough for me! :grin:
Quote from: Magdalena on May 07, 2017, 06:25:15 AM
Quote from: hermes2015 on May 07, 2017, 06:14:20 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on May 07, 2017, 06:06:21 AM
I like this place because I learn a lot about the universe and myself. I'm comfortable here. This place is priceless.
:love: Dionysus :love:
Anyone...Can I get an amen? :tellmemore: Please?
~Thank you.
Amen, sister!
Amen, my brother, hermes2015!
You and I don't speak too much, but this short, sweet, and pleasant conversation has been more than enough for me! :grin:
Ramen.
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on May 07, 2017, 07:01:55 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on May 07, 2017, 06:25:15 AM
Quote from: hermes2015 on May 07, 2017, 06:14:20 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on May 07, 2017, 06:06:21 AM
I like this place because I learn a lot about the universe and myself. I'm comfortable here. This place is priceless.
:love: Dionysus :love:
Anyone...Can I get an amen? :tellmemore: Please?
~Thank you.
Amen, sister!
Amen, my brother, hermes2015!
You and I don't speak too much, but this short, sweet, and pleasant conversation has been more than enough for me! :grin:
Ramen.
Ramen to you, my dear,
I tried to be a witch, but couldn't, sister,
BooksCatsEtc...
Ramen to you. :levitate:
Quote from: Magdalena on May 07, 2017, 07:07:17 AM
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on May 07, 2017, 07:01:55 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on May 07, 2017, 06:25:15 AM
Quote from: hermes2015 on May 07, 2017, 06:14:20 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on May 07, 2017, 06:06:21 AM
I like this place because I learn a lot about the universe and myself. I'm comfortable here. This place is priceless.
:love: Dionysus :love:
Anyone...Can I get an amen? :tellmemore: Please?
~Thank you.
Amen, sister!
Amen, my brother, hermes2015!
You and I don't speak too much, but this short, sweet, and pleasant conversation has been more than enough for me! :grin:
Ramen.
Ramen to you, my dear, I tried to be a witch, but couldn't, sister, BooksCatsEtc...
Ramen to you. :levitate:
I'm with you, sister!
Quote from: Magdalena on May 07, 2017, 07:07:17 AM
Ramen to you, my dear, I tried to be a witch, but couldn't, sister, BooksCatsEtc...
Ramen to you. :levitate:
The woo stuff is so dang hard! It'd be so much easier if all we had to do was dance around naked.
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on May 07, 2017, 07:01:55 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on May 07, 2017, 06:25:15 AM
Quote from: hermes2015 on May 07, 2017, 06:14:20 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on May 07, 2017, 06:06:21 AM
I like this place because I learn a lot about the universe and myself. I'm comfortable here. This place is priceless.
:love: Dionysus :love:
Anyone...Can I get an amen? :tellmemore: Please?
~Thank you.
Amen, sister!
Amen, my brother, hermes2015!
You and I don't speak too much, but this short, sweet, and pleasant conversation has been more than enough for me! :grin:
Ramen.
:this:
Ramen!
I'm glad to see that you're happy here, as this place wouldn't be the same without you! :grin:
^ Another Amen.
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on May 07, 2017, 11:51:27 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on May 07, 2017, 07:07:17 AM
Ramen to you, my dear, I tried to be a witch, but couldn't, sister, BooksCatsEtc...
Ramen to you. :levitate:
The woo stuff is so dang hard! It'd be so much easier if all we had to do was dance around naked.
Yes, I'm sure Dionysus would give us robust grapes if we did that, and a better wine recipe if we did that...in the rain. :shifty:
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on May 07, 2017, 04:05:18 PM
:this:
Ramen!
I'm glad to see that you're happy here, as this place wouldn't be the same without you! :grin:
Right back atcha! :thumbsup:
Quote from: Magdalena on May 08, 2017, 06:08:47 AM
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on May 07, 2017, 11:51:27 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on May 07, 2017, 07:07:17 AM
Ramen to you, my dear, I tried to be a witch, but couldn't, sister, BooksCatsEtc...
Ramen to you. :levitate:
The woo stuff is so dang hard! It'd be so much easier if all we had to do was dance around naked.
Yes, I'm sure Dionysus would give us robust grapes if we did that, and a better wine recipe if we did that...in the rain. :shifty:
And we just had such a nice bit of rainfall in LA county! Alas, one of life's opportunities missed.
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on May 08, 2017, 09:28:34 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on May 08, 2017, 06:08:47 AM
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on May 07, 2017, 11:51:27 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on May 07, 2017, 07:07:17 AM
Ramen to you, my dear, I tried to be a witch, but couldn't, sister, BooksCatsEtc...
Ramen to you. :levitate:
The woo stuff is so dang hard! It'd be so much easier if all we had to do was dance around naked.
Yes, I'm sure Dionysus would give us robust grapes if we did that, and a better wine recipe if we did that...in the rain. :shifty:
And we just had such a nice bit of rainfall in LA county! Alas, one of life's opportunities missed.
I know!
We had thunder and lightning, it was great! I was thinking about your comment while it rained, there was a huge smile on my face. :snicker:
Quote from: Magdalena on May 08, 2017, 04:31:36 PM
I know!
We had thunder and lightning, it was great! I was thinking about your comment while it rained, there was a huge smile on my face. :snicker:
And Joe got hail. We didn't have any bells and whistles here, just a lot of rain. I do love rain, even if my dancing in the rain days are over -- I love to sit by the big window and watch the rainfall with the cat curled up on my lap and a cup of hot tea in hand. So peaceful.
I wonder if I have PTSD. I hear that people who went to war want to go back because they miss it. I looked at some old things I wrote in high school and I can tell the themes were I missed living in the hood. And I remember my level of physical fitness was much higher and I was more motivated to be successful. I had more control over my life and my impulses. I was no wussy and more people seemed to like me.
Quote from: Arturo on June 13, 2017, 07:14:39 PM
I wonder if I have PTSD. I hear that people who went to war want to go back because they miss it. I looked at some old things I wrote in high school and I can tell the themes were I missed living in the hood. And I remember my level of physical fitness was much higher and I was more motivated to be successful. I had more control over my life and my impulses. I was no wussy and more people seemed to like me.
Doesn't sound like PTSD to me, Arturo. In my understanding PTSD sufferers have "trigger" situations - that may not seem directly linked to the original trauma.
Let's say that for a victim of child abuse at an early age, when it is not uncommon that the victim has no conscious memory of the actual abuse itself- the act(s) - a deep sense of guilt or embarrassment linked to those events may manifest itself at any point in the victim's life, repeatefly, triggered by a later even mildly embarrasing event that another would simply shrug off and everyone else involved soon forgets. To another that behaviour might seem inappropriate, excessive or just "weird", especially if verbal ejaculations are invoked.
Thus the person who hides in a corner or crouches in apparent fear on, say, bring told their fly is open may be reacting to a "forgotten" memory from maybe decades in the past. Not a good example but there is often a severe disconnect between stimulus and reaction to the objective observer. To a soldier it may well be caysed by (old joke for some) a car backfiring, someone shouting in their face . . .
The sirt if past we like to remember is often tinged a trifle rose coloured. I disliked many aspects of my RAF service but very much miss the camaraderie, the sense of teamwork, the common purpose, the knowledge that some one "has your six" and you have that of the guy in front (tail end Charlie has to be doubly vigilant!)
PTSD attacks are usually sudden and unpleasant, can happen a hundred times a day and then disappear for weeks if enough "now" events occupy the mind and emotions in a positive way.
My counselor has talked to me about transference a cpuple times to tell me to look for it in myself but I haven't been able to find what might have been transferred.
Quote from: Arturo on June 13, 2017, 08:19:14 PM
My counselor has talked to me about transference a cpuple times to tell me to look for it in myself but I haven't been able to find what might have been transferred.
Interesting, always thought "transference" referred to a client attemoting to establish a " child-parent" with the therapist, in the worse case with the client "transferring" the image of a real parent onto the perceived attitude of the therapist.
IIRC there used to be a sort of tberapy that encouraged transferrence, a "combatative" method where the client was encouraged to vent their repressed anger, verbally, on the therapist. A sort of "abreaction" method but dangerous for both. Then there was "primal scream" therapy, that encourage unrestrained verbal release; screaming, swearing, crying, whatever - catharsis of a kind for some.
Many variations over the last hundred years or more but few of them seem to do the trick for large numbers and fade into the background.
I've heard of those. I always doubted their potential. I think the root problem for some is that they have it too easy and don't know how to handle it. Having to choose between ice cream or chocolate cake and you can only have one makes people upset.
Quote from: Arturo on June 14, 2017, 12:13:53 AM
I've heard of those. I always doubted their potential. I think the root problem for some is that they have it too easy and don't know how to handle it. Having to choose between ice cream or chocolate cake and you can only have one makes people upset.
Unfair analogy I feel, Arturo. We are all unique and there may be a therapy that works better for the individual than others. You are quite lucky to find the right one first time, and very lucky if you get the chance to try more than one. Few get any choice at all.
Quote from: Gloucester on June 14, 2017, 03:34:49 AM
Quote from: Arturo on June 14, 2017, 12:13:53 AM
I've heard of those. I always doubted their potential. I think the root problem for some is that they have it too easy and don't know how to handle it. Having to choose between ice cream or chocolate cake and you can only have one makes people upset.
Unfair analogy I feel, Arturo. We are all unique and there may be a therapy that works better for the individual than others. You are quite lucky to find the right one first time, and very lucky if you get the chance to try more than one. Few get any choice at all.
Again I have no counter argument to your response Gloucester. You win again old bean.
Can a mod change my title to "Do Something Crazy!"
Quote from: Arturo on June 14, 2017, 05:25:46 AM
Can a mod change my title to "Do Something Crazy!"
Done.
I must not be allowed to have frienda because when ever they start dating the guy always tries to pick fights with me and then they both act like I'm jealous.
I think they must be insecure because they know their girl is easily manipulated and that they liked me at one point so they have to fight me to prove they're secure with themselves.
The weather was decent yesterday when I got off of work so I took my bike out for a ride, put in maybe 28-30 miles, and on my way home I took a detour through the neighborhood I grew up in, and ended up taking a break at the park.
So I pulled my bike to a stop atop the hill were as a child my sisters and I went sledding with my dad, right over there was the small parking lot now closed where he would park his car, and where we would drink hot chocolate and eat cream-wafers that our mom prepared for us after we finished sledding.
I leaned my bike against a very old tree, one that my friends and I used to climb on, sometimes we would sit on the branches talking or simply hang from our legs,... my friend Mark kissed his first girl in this tree.
Both the hill and tree look so small now, of course the hill has eroded some with time. Off to the side there was a small ridge that ran down to the side, and when I was older my friends and I would race our bikes down from the hill top and jump our bikes off the ridge.
Due to the fact that this hill was formed during the last ice age the hill is entirely made of sand, so where we landed our bikes was a large, soft spot. We would have contests to see who could jump their bikes the farthest.
One time as I jumped I watched in terror and disbelief as my front tire detached itself from my bike and flew away from me...I could see in my mind what would happen as I landed, first the rear tire would connect with the ground, and then my front forks would dig into the soft sand, and I would come crashing down onto my handlebars and smash head first into the bike frame and ground. So I simply let go of the bike and watched it slowly sail away from me as I prepared myself for impact as I was probably a good 3-4 feet up in the air. Strangely enough I didn't get hurt at all as I landed squarely on my butt in the sand, and my bike, the "Blue Presidential" as it flew on it's own easily cleared the previously held record for the farthest jump by quite a few feet.
On that day I was a hero, with my friends commenting that my jump and fall was the absolute coolest thing they ever saw. Of course someone suggested that maybe the jump shouldn't count as I wasn't actually on it when I landed, but they were quickly overruled.
As I stood there as these thoughts and memories came washing over me, I tried to determine where the time had gone...and I wanted to go back and do it all over again, but there is nothing there now. Just old memories that have passed along with the people I knew and loved, and who are now forever gone from my life.
I tried to imagine myself young again on this hill or up in the tree, and if possible imaging an older me standing someday on this very spot contemplating all that was and ever shall be, but it's fruitless I guess.
So the only thing I could think of doing was aligning my bike up on the hill as we once did as kids, drawing in a deep breath and charging down the hill toward the short end of the ridge with as much speed as possible.
Front wheel stayed on this time as I soared into the air, and I have no idea if the distance of my jump that day came close to beating any of our childhood records, but as I pulled myself up from the sand and checked my bike for damage I felt like I had turned the clock back a bit, even if for a brief moment and I swore I could almost hear the boys up on the hill cheering and laughing at me.
I did look around quickly and somewhat emberrasingly to see if anyone saw my jump and crash, but I was for the time alone. Alone in a patch of sand, on an old hill formed eons ago, a man in his early 50's with graying temples and a sad desire to relive the past.
I marked the spot where I landed, just like we did in the old days by planting a stick in the ground. Hopefully it will still be there this weekend, because I know I can beat that record damn't and I'll be back.
Some people find me charming and smart. Joke's on them. They don't see what a complete mess I am.
Quote from: Ali on June 22, 2017, 07:32:30 AM
Some people find me charming and smart. Joke's on them. They don't see what a complete mess I am.
At least you're smart enough not to care what they think.
Quote from: Ali on June 22, 2017, 07:32:30 AM
Some people find me charming and smart. Joke's on them. They don't see what a complete mess I am.
I'm glad most people don't know the real chaos of my mind!
Quote from: Claireliontamer on June 22, 2017, 04:17:52 PM
Quote from: Ali on June 22, 2017, 07:32:30 AM
Some people find me charming and smart. Joke's on them. They don't see what a complete mess I am.
I'm glad most people don't know the real chaos of my mind!
Right? Mr Ali and I were talking about mind reading for some reason, and he was saying that he thought if people could read each other's minds it would bring about true empathy and end wars and stuff. I was horrified by the very idea. I don't know what the inside of his head looks like, but mine is unlikely to bring about world peace, and the idea of someone being able to see what goes on in there is genuinely appalling.
If people looked into my mind, they'd just end up bored. More bored than when they talk to me.
"The only reason I don't kill you is I don't feel I know you well enough yet. Let's keep it that way." I don't remember where that quote (probably paraphrased) came from, but it's my general reaction to mind-reading.
Quote from: Father Bruno on June 21, 2017, 02:46:31 PM
The weather was decent yesterday when I got off of work so I took my bike out for a ride, put in maybe 28-30 miles, and on my way home I took a detour through the neighborhood I grew up in, and ended up taking a break at the park.
So I pulled my bike to a stop atop the hill were as a child my sisters and I went sledding with my dad, right over there was the small parking lot now closed where he would park his car, and where we would drink hot chocolate and eat cream-wafers that our mom prepared for us after we finished sledding.
I leaned my bike against a very old tree, one that my friends and I used to climb on, sometimes we would sit on the branches talking or simply hang from our legs,... my friend Mark kissed his first girl in this tree.
Both the hill and tree look so small now, of course the hill has eroded some with time. Off to the side there was a small ridge that ran down to the side, and when I was older my friends and I would race our bikes down from the hill top and jump our bikes off the ridge.
Due to the fact that this hill was formed during the last ice age the hill is entirely made of sand, so where we landed our bikes was a large, soft spot. We would have contests to see who could jump their bikes the farthest.
One time as I jumped I watched in terror and disbelief as my front tire detached itself from my bike and flew away from me...I could see in my mind what would happen as I landed, first the rear tire would connect with the ground, and then my front forks would dig into the soft sand, and I would come crashing down onto my handlebars and smash head first into the bike frame and ground. So I simply let go of the bike and watched it slowly sail away from me as I prepared myself for impact as I was probably a good 3-4 feet up in the air. Strangely enough I didn't get hurt at all as I landed squarely on my butt in the sand, and my bike, the "Blue Presidential" as it flew on it's own easily cleared the previously held record for the farthest jump by quite a few feet.
On that day I was a hero, with my friends commenting that my jump and fall was the absolute coolest thing they ever saw. Of course someone suggested that maybe the jump shouldn't count as I wasn't actually on it when I landed, but they were quickly overruled.
As I stood there as these thoughts and memories came washing over me, I tried to determine where the time had gone...and I wanted to go back and do it all over again, but there is nothing there now. Just old memories that have passed along with the people I knew and loved, and who are now forever gone from my life.
I tried to imagine myself young again on this hill or up in the tree, and if possible imaging an older me standing someday on this very spot contemplating all that was and ever shall be, but it's fruitless I guess.
Bruno, nostalgia is both beautiful and sometimes dangerous. I like your recount of the adventure. Best advice is not to try to best the distance records of your youth.
Quote from: Ali on June 22, 2017, 07:34:40 PM
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Some people find me charming and smart. Joke's on them. They don't see what a complete mess I am.
I'm glad most people don't know the real chaos of my mind!
Right? Mr Ali and I were talking about mind reading for some reason, and he was saying that he thought if people could read each other's minds it would bring about true empathy and end wars and stuff. I was horrified by the very idea. I don't know what the inside of his head looks like, but mine is unlikely to bring about world peace, and the idea of someone being able to see what goes on in there is genuinely appalling.
Mind reading...lol I think if you look at people with schizophrenia then you'll realize mind reading doesn't bring peace. It makes you fucked up.
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Some people find me charming and smart. Joke's on them. They don't see what a complete mess I am.
I'm glad most people don't know the real chaos of my mind!
Right? Mr Ali and I were talking about mind reading for some reason, and he was saying that he thought if people could read each other's minds it would bring about true empathy and end wars and stuff. I was horrified by the very idea. I don't know what the inside of his head looks like, but mine is unlikely to bring about world peace, and the idea of someone being able to see what goes on in there is genuinely appalling.
I think if people knew what was inside my mind it would most likely
start interpersonal wars instead of end them. Mind-reading would make lying useless, and the ability to lie is the "glue" that holds relationships together in some cases, maybe even entire societies.
For example, while I'm not judging them, professional clergymen who no longer believe and continue to preach/lie are responsible in a way for keeping communities together.
I came to the library after the gym to do something...but what was it...
Yesterday I heard a comedian say that when
Barack Obama became president of the United States he looked like
Bruno Mars. By the time he was done with both terms he looked like
Morgan Freeman. :lol:
~That's so true, and sad. :(
...Anyways...
Makes me wonder what President Trump will look like in the future if he's elected twice. :notsure:
He could be tired already, who wouldn't be...after working 169 days, 7 hours, some minutes and a few seconds! :lol:
He said: "This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier."
I imagine him looking like Noah, from the bible. Or Moses, or Methuselah ...one of those guys.
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Yesterday I heard a comedian say that when Barack Obama became president of the United States he looked like Bruno Mars. By the time he was done with both terms he looked like Morgan Freeman. :lol:
~That's so true, and sad. :(
...Anyways...
Makes me wonder what President Trump will look like in the future if he's elected twice. :notsure:
He could be tired already, who wouldn't be...after working 169 days, 7 hours, some minutes and a few seconds! :lol:
He said: "This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier."
I imagine him looking like Noah, from the bible. Or Moses, or Methuselah ...one of those guys.
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I imagine him locked up in an asylum
Quote from: Magdalena on July 09, 2017, 01:11:24 AM
Yesterday I heard a comedian say that when Barack Obama became president of the United States he looked like Bruno Mars. By the time he was done with both terms he looked like Morgan Freeman. :lol:
~That's so true, and sad. :(
...Anyways...
Makes me wonder what President Trump will look like in the future if he's elected twice. :notsure:
He could be tired already, who wouldn't be...after working 169 days, 7 hours, some minutes and a few seconds! :lol:
He said: "This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier."
I imagine him looking like Noah, from the bible. Or Moses, or Methuselah ...one of those guys.
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I'd imagine he'd look something like this:
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Yesterday I heard a comedian say that when Barack Obama became president of the United States he looked like Bruno Mars. By the time he was done with both terms he looked like Morgan Freeman. :lol:
~That's so true, and sad. :(
...Anyways...
Makes me wonder what President Trump will look like in the future if he's elected twice. :notsure:
He could be tired already, who wouldn't be...after working 169 days, 7 hours, some minutes and a few seconds! :lol:
He said: "This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier."
I imagine him looking like Noah, from the bible. Or Moses, or Methuselah ...one of those guys.
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I'd imagine he'd look something like this:
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He already does if you squint a bit!
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Yesterday I heard a comedian say that when Barack Obama became president of the United States he looked like Bruno Mars. By the time he was done with both terms he looked like Morgan Freeman. :lol:
~That's so true, and sad. :(
...Anyways...
Makes me wonder what President Trump will look like in the future if he's elected twice. :notsure:
He could be tired already, who wouldn't be...after working 169 days, 7 hours, some minutes and a few seconds! :lol:
He said: "This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier."
I imagine him looking like Noah, from the bible. Or Moses, or Methuselah ...one of those guys.
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I'd imagine he'd look something like this:
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He already does if you squint a bit!
:snicker:
Dropping this here, as I'm tired and don't feel like holding it any longer...an old friend of mine passed away recently. Took his own life at the age of 49.
He is an old army buddy of mine, we met back around 27 years ago in late 89 or 90...I forget. We called him D-Day, which was both a play on his last name, and also one of the characters from the movie Animal House.
I spoke with him only recently, back towards the beginning of May. Later this year we have an Airborne Reunion down at Ft. Banning and D-Day and I, plus another friend were planning to hook up and drive down together. Our other friend lives in Tennessee outside Chattanooga. We called this guy Smeeth, which is both short for Smith and Wesson, and also closely resembles how Drill Sargent Hernandez used to pronounce his name..., so the plan was to hook up early in the week at Smeeth's place, hang out for a couple days and then drive down together to Ft. Benning and spend the weekend with all of our old buddies.
So Smeeth got the call from D-Day's ex-wife about the suicide...he then called me. It's been a long couple weeks...apparently D-Day was struggling with a lot things in his life (Not just the PTSD, but employment struggles, alcohol abuse, failed relationships, and some recent health issues I wasn't aware of)
I miss my friend he had the most infectious smile you ever saw...when I think of him that's the image that alway's comes to my mind, of him looking at you with that big, wide grin of his.
I hadn't spoken to him much in the years since I left Benning, mostly the odd emails here and there...in fact when we spoke on the phone in May it was the first time I had actually spoken to him since I left.
He sounded well on the phone, and we talked for sometime, both reminiscing about our past times together and catching up on our lives since the Army, and planning our trip in September which we were both really excited about. Not just the reunion itself, but hanging out around Chattanooga for a couple days.
We spent a lot of time in and around Chattanooga when we were all together at Benning...only 3 hours drive from the base, and Smeeth's family lives in Ooltawah which is just outside the city, so we would use their family place in the hills as our base and go camping out in the Smokies whenever we had the chance, especially at a lovely and secluded place called "Lost Creek".
I have a lot pictures of out times camping, all of us together in some photo albums, and one picture in particular is of D-Day. Me and another guy were headed out one morning from our campsite to go fishing downstream of the creek and I happen to have my camera at the ready when we passed by D-Day squatting on the ground taking a dump over a slit-latrine. I yelled at him to say cheese and snapped a quick picture, and it turned out perfect, with his ass low to the ground, his body white as fuck, one arm stretched out in front of him holding onto a low tree branch, the other braced behind him as he turned his head to look at us and smile with his greatest grin ever. It's one of my favorite photo's, not only of him, but of the great times it reminds me of.
Yesterday I was on the phone with Smeeth, and we talked for a long, long time,... of course everyone in the Airborne community heard what happened, and so the reunion organizers are going to set aside a long table for those buddies we've lost over the years to include D-Day (Too long a table unfortunately). They've asked for pictures we can place on the table, so of course we thought it only fitting that I take a framed copy of my picture of D-Day squatting in the woods, I think he would like that.
Smeeth also told me that D-Day was cremated, and his family wants to give him some of the ashes. So he is planning to drive out to Kentucky in a couple weeks and pick them up (D-Day is from the coal mining hills)
We figure to take the ashes up to lost creek, camp over night and spread the ashes there.
Not sure who said it, but I remember a saying that goes along the lines of only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
Peace D-Day, I love you brother.
Sad news for you, Bruno.
Never having developed a relationship of quite that nature I only have a inkling if how you feel from when my old climbing buddy in the RAF got demobbed before I did (his new wife did not tolerate his old mates so...)
There is something so different in the relationship between two people, regardless of gender, that have shared a mutual, "I've got your back/rope," type situation where one's life might be at stake. It is entirely unlike any other kind and now that more women are allowed into high-risk-shared situations I think they are more in tune with what was once called "male bonding", and may be seen as a challenge, because it was only men that took some kinds of risks. There is room for both.
Yes, that brotherly love is a very precious thing and can be as strong a bond as any other. It's loss does really hurt.
I'm sorry Father Bruno.
That is bad news, Father Bruno.
My condolences
Sorry to hear that, Bruno. :(
Sorry Bruno :(
So sad and wasteful. :'(
:therethere: I'm sorry to hear this, Father Bruno.
It's so sad. :felix:
Thank you for sharing it with us.
Condolences to you, friend of a friend. Brotherhood does not fade easily.
So sorry for this, Father Bruno.
Thanks for all of the thoughtful comments everyone. I do appreciate it.
It's nice to have a place like this were one can voice their thoughts and feelings, especially with situations like this as it really helps to cope with my emotions. Thanks again everyone.
I'm sorry, Bruno. That is a terrible thing to go through.
I am considering the possibility that I may be attracted, physically and romantically, to the so called "attention-whores".
My last main romantic interest was very desperate for attention and I caught on quickly. I also see this a bit in myself, internally and outwardly. The people I hang out with online also have the traits of attention queens.
I've never considered I need attention before but looking back I can feel a "high" from when I posted a conterversial video on facebook. I also find myself included in drama. Not alot but...okay maybe alot.
Maybe I'm not as bad as some people but I know there are varying degrees of attention seeking. Hmmm, things to ponder....
I dunno, perhaps the old saying, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" is correct.
I went to Screwfix earlier to pick up another new toy tool. On the way back, because there was a three car sized gap in front of me, and a fully stuffed road behind, I flashed (with my headlamps you understand) the guy waiting to get out of a petrol station to do so. He waved and roared off in true boy racer style with spinning wheels.
Well, sometimes it encourages other road uses to show good manners to yet others in return . . .
Trouble is it did so in this case. The driver exiting via burning rubber then stopped almost immediately to let someone out of the very next turning. By this time I had caught up and almost went up his exhaust pipe!
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I dunno, perhaps the old saying, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" is correct.
I went to Screwfix earlier to pick up another new toy tool. On the way back, because there was a three car sized gap in front of me, and a fully stuffed road behind, I flashed (with my headlamps you understand) the guy waiting to get out of a petrol station to do so. He waved and roared off in true boy racer style with spinning wheels.
Well, sometimes it encourages other road uses to show good manners to yet others in return . . .
Trouble is it did so in this case. The driver exiting via burning rubber then stopped almost immediately to let someone out of the very next turning. By this time I had caught up and almost went up his exhaust pipe!
Bahaha
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Quote from: Gloucester on July 14, 2017, 08:51:18 PM
I dunno, perhaps the old saying, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" is correct.
I went to Screwfix earlier to pick up another new toy tool. On the way back, because there was a three car sized gap in front of me, and a fully stuffed road behind, I flashed (with my headlamps you understand) the guy waiting to get out of a petrol station to do so. He waved and roared off in true boy racer style with spinning wheels.
Well, sometimes it encourages other road uses to show good manners to yet others in return . . .
Trouble is it did so in this case. The driver exiting via burning rubber then stopped almost immediately to let someone out of the very next turning. By this time I had caught up and almost went up his exhaust pipe!
Bahaha
:lol:
And I say, hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah
I said hey, what's going on?
I think I just may adopt this as a greeting. :daddance: :wave hi:
:smilenod:
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And I say, hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah
I said hey, what's going on?
I think I just may adopt this as a greeting. :daddance: :wave hi:
:smilenod:
Great song, one of my favorites...Linda Perry is awesome 8)
When you are warm and comfortable and know that every step will hurt your gout ridden foot there is a strong temptation to just stay where you are - in bed!
You ever just walk into someone's house and wonder where they are?
Oh, dear, still haven't learned to wash my hands between eating chilli crackers and rubbing eyes!
:waah:
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Oh, dear, still haven't learned to wash my hands between eating chilli crackers and rubbing eyes!
:waah:
I am always astonished to see how eagerly my little African Grey parrot, Lulu, eats very hot raw chilis. It seems that capsaicin does not have the same effect on them.
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Oh, dear, still haven't learned to wash my hands between eating chilli crackers and rubbing eyes!
:waah:
I am always astonished to see how eagerly my little African Grey parrot, Lulu, eats very hot raw chilis. It seems that capsaicin does not have the same effect on them.
Yes, I have watched a cockatoo actively sort through a feed mix for bird's eye chillis. I took one home and tried it, one was enought for a whole meal for me!
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Quote from: Gloucester on August 16, 2017, 08:50:03 PM
Oh, dear, still haven't learned to wash my hands between eating chilli crackers and rubbing eyes!
:waah:
I am always astonished to see how eagerly my little African Grey parrot, Lulu, eats very hot raw chilis. It seems that capsaicin does not have the same effect on them.
Yes, I have watched a cockatoo actively sort through a feed mix for bird's eye chillis. I took one home and tried it, one was enought for a whole meal for me!
Her intelligence is also amazing. We have a glass bowl on the balcony that she uses as a bath. Recently, she came walking into the kitchen, looked up, and said "No water". When we checked, the bath was empty. She loves going out, especially drives in the car and shopping for food at the local, quite large, supermarket. I am well known as the eccentric guy with a parrot on his shoulder. I would recommend that to any guys looking to meet women. She attracts them like a magnet and I am usually surrounded by adoring women; some get quite flirty with me as well, although I am no oil painting.
Oh dear, I must be old, I'm not enjoying Fringe humour anymore! :sad sigh:
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Quote from: Gloucester on August 16, 2017, 08:50:03 PM
Oh, dear, still haven't learned to wash my hands between eating chilli crackers and rubbing eyes!
:waah:
I am always astonished to see how eagerly my little African Grey parrot, Lulu, eats very hot raw chilis. It seems that capsaicin does not have the same effect on them.
The birds don't taste the capsaicin. Squirrels can feel the burn, though. :o We add it to the food in the bird feeders for that reason.
I wish people would stop with the "What about my disease?!" when they come across a discussion about an entirely different illness.
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Quote from: Gloucester on August 16, 2017, 08:50:03 PM
Oh, dear, still haven't learned to wash my hands between eating chilli crackers and rubbing eyes!
:waah:
I am always astonished to see how eagerly my little African Grey parrot, Lulu, eats very hot raw chilis. It seems that capsaicin does not have the same effect on them.
The birds don't taste the capsaicin. Squirrels can feel the burn, though. :o We add it to the food in the bird feeders for that reason.
With that dry looking tounge I often wonder whether birds actyally taste anything, but they seem to have theur fsvourite seeds so I guessvthey do.
Hand feeding a rhea, the S. Anerican mini-ostrich, it grabbed at the pieces of apple eagerly but you could see them go immediately into the oesophagus, the lump travelling down the throat. No chewing, just the swallow, but evidently enjoyed going by the speed with which the mere sight of the apple attracted the bird and the undivided attention it got as I cut lumps off.
Like feeding a horse you learned to offer on a flat hand, that beak was hard and powerful!
Quote from: Gloucester on August 24, 2017, 06:43:35 PM
Oh dear, I must be old, I'm not enjoying Fringe humour anymore! :sad sigh:
What is that?
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Quote from: Gloucester on August 24, 2017, 06:43:35 PM
Oh dear, I must be old, I'm not enjoying Fringe humour anymore! :sad sigh:
What is that?
Every year Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, has a festival with concerts, a military tattoo (display of bands, trick horse and motorcycle riding, military choirs, competitions . . .) and other stuff. At the edge of all this is The Fringe - free shows of satire and comedy, street performers etc etc. It is huge, every possible "performance space" has a performance, there are no hotel or other room vacancies - a lot of the locals make a lot of money. And a lot of people sleep wherever they can. It has been the launch site for many now famous stand-up comedians from all over the world.
https://www.edfringe.com
Interesting...
I used to love Beyond the Fringe, especially Peter Cook. Dudley Moore tried a bit too hard sometimes.
Quote from: hermes2015 on August 25, 2017, 05:20:01 AM
I used to love Beyond the Fringe, especially Peter Cook. Dudley Moore tried a bit too hard sometimes.
Yes, that snd Behind the Fridge. A golden age of humour.
The trouble is that by the time you reach the maturer years, you've heard all the good jokes. Even though I'm more laid back; less uptight than I used to be, and although I want to laugh at modern humour, it is only very sporadically that it succeeds.😀😀☹️😀😀☹️
There was a period where I found mainstream humor very unfunny. That was pretty much because my only source of it was the tv. I didn't have the opportunity to tell jokes in my house because my step family was too sensitive to be able to make them. We spent more time at each other's throats than any time being anything else.
Then I found YouTube and began watching let's plays. That was about 3 years ago and I've never laughed harder. I mean these are real people telling real jokes or doing something natural that just becomes hilarious. It doesn't feel like I'm watching someone on stage and they share some of my ideals and humor. So I feel like I found people who's agent validate my ideals.
If there are no problems with the paperwork next Friday I start my new internship. Going over to the hospital to be introduced to people always gets me nervous!
That one escaped my stomach -->:chasingbutterfly:
*Sigh* I'm feeling tired. For some reason I did not sleep well last night but I woke up this morning feeling energetic. I went for a walk and right now all I want to do is sleep. The results for every blood test I've taken for the past 10 years show that I am chronically borderline anemic or anemic depending on what time of the month it is, and it never changes, even when I was taking iron supplements.
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*Sigh* I'm feeling tired. For some reason I did not sleep well last night but I woke up this morning feeling energetic. I went for a walk and right now all I want to do is sleep. The results for every blood test I've taken for the past 10 years show that I am chronically borderline anemic or anemic depending on what time of the month it is, and it never changes, even when I was taking iron supplements.
Ah, hence the addition of :visit morpheus: ! Take it you are getting plenty of vitamin C as well?
Take care
:console:
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Ah, hence the addition of :visit morpheus: ! Take it you are getting plenty of vitamin C as well?
Take care
:console:
:lol: I've been looking at that smiley for the past two minutes now and it has only made my eyelids heavier.
I'm not taking any supplements, and don't ingest nearly as much citric fruit (or any fruit for that matter) as I should. It's a problem, but I simply don't have the time during the week to sit down and have a proper lunch. Even though I live in cow country, red meat is expensive, with doesn't help the haemoglobin levels rise as I rarely buy any.
I have to get used to eating a light lunch and eating a more elaborate dinner but I don't like to go to sleep with stuff in my stomach still digesting. It gives me nightmares. Heh.
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Quote from: Dave on October 01, 2017, 05:56:21 PM
Ah, hence the addition of :visit morpheus: ! Take it you are getting plenty of vitamin C as well?
Take care
:console:
:lol: I've been looking at that smiley for the past two minutes now and it has only made my eyelids heavier.
I'm not taking any supplements, and don't ingest nearly as much citric fruit (or any fruit for that matter) as I should. It's a problem, but I simply don't have the time during the week to sit down and have a proper lunch. Even though I live in cow country, red meat is expensive, with doesn't help the haemoglobin levels rise as I rarely buy any.
I have to get used to eating a light lunch and eating a more elaborate dinner but I don't like to go to sleep with stuff in my stomach still digesting. It gives me nightmares. Heh.
I prescribe a black pudding sandwich followed by a large orange.
Quote from: Dave on October 01, 2017, 06:19:16 PM
I prescribe a black pudding sandwich followed by a large orange.
Hmm...I had to look up 'black pudding'. :blush:
I don't know...is it tasty? It resembles a carbonised sausage or burger and those are never the good parts of a barbeque! :P
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on October 01, 2017, 07:11:45 PM
Quote from: Dave on October 01, 2017, 06:19:16 PM
I prescribe a black pudding sandwich followed by a large orange.
Hmm...I had to look up 'black pudding'. :blush:
I don't know...is it tasty? It resembles a carbonised sausage or burger and those are never the good parts of a barbeque! :P
It's blood sausage with lumps of fat in it. It's lovely.
Quote from: Tank on October 01, 2017, 07:16:50 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on October 01, 2017, 07:11:45 PM
Quote from: Dave on October 01, 2017, 06:19:16 PM
I prescribe a black pudding sandwich followed by a large orange.
Hmm...I had to look up 'black pudding'. :blush:
I don't know...is it tasty? It resembles a carbonised sausage or burger and those are never the good parts of a barbeque! :P
It's blood sausage with lumps of fat in it. It's lovely.
In mine what looks like "lumps of fat" are actually swollen grain. Stuffed with haemoglobin. Fried until crispy round the edge! Yumm! :yum:
According to Wikipedia, the Brazilian equivalent of black pudding is called either chouriço or morcela. I've never had those, but I agree that black pudding is good. ;)
Quote from: Recusant on October 01, 2017, 07:35:10 PM
According to Wikipedia, the Brazilian equivalent of black pudding is called either chouriço or morcela. I've never had those, but I agree that black pudding is good. ;)
Oh! :hey: Morcilha (in the south)! I've only seen it, never tasted it.
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Quote from: Recusant on October 01, 2017, 07:35:10 PM
According to Wikipedia, the Brazilian equivalent of black pudding is called either chouriço or morcela. I've never had those, but I agree that black pudding is good. ;)
Oh! :hey: Morcilha (in the south)! I've only seen it, never tasted it.
Oh!
Moronga, Blood sausage. I love that! :yum:
I haven't had any in a long time.
:eyebrow: Is this delicious dish forbidden by any religion? Oh! Who cares, anyways!? :let'seat:
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:
There is something wrong with you people, blood sausage, ugh?
I was first exposed to kishka (Polish blood sausage) as a child when my mom would bring a coil or two of blood sausage home to cook for my father from the local polish butcher shop. Sautéd in a pan with onions, and additional fat...I hated it. The smell of it was as bad as the taste.
My parents, especially my father would make my sister's and I eat everything on our plates, but most often it was me sitting alone at the table long after the rest of the family had finished their dinner, just sitting there at the table staring down at my plate, slowly trying to either force the kishka down my throat by drowning it with ketchup or simply sitting there until my mother would take my plate away and send me off to my room to go to bed early as punishment.
Because of the kishka I never really liked ketchup anymore either,...probably why I'm also primarily a vegetarian now. There arejust some things we shouldn't be eating, like organs, blood, tongues,etc... ick.
Kishka, liver, head cheese, fried bologna are some of the nastiest things...I don't feel good now just typing this and thinking back to the horror of those days...ugh, going to bed. Goodnight :boring:
Quote from: Father Bruno on October 02, 2017, 04:09:44 AM
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:
There is something wrong with you people, blood sausage, ugh?
I was first exposed to kishka (Polish blood sausage) as a child when my mom would bring a coil or two of blood sausage home to cook for my father from the local polish butcher shop. Sautéd in a pan with onions, and additional fat...I hated it. The smell of it was as bad as the taste.
My parents, especially my father would make my sister's and I eat everything on our plates, but most often it was me sitting alone at the table long after the rest of the family had finished their dinner, just sitting there at the table staring down at my plate, slowly trying to either force the kishka down my throat by drowning it with ketchup or simply sitting there until my mother would take my plate away and send me off to my room to go to bed early as punishment.
Because of the kishka I never really liked ketchup anymore either,...probably why I'm also primarily a vegetarian now. There arejust some things we shouldn't be eating, like organs, blood, tongues,etc... ick.
Kishka, liver, head cheese, fried bologna are some of the nastiest things...I don't feel good now just typing this and thinking back to the horror of those days...ugh, going to bed. Goodnight :boring:
So I guess you wouldn't approve of ram's testicles either. I had them in Lebanon once and quite enjoyed the dish.
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Quote from: Father Bruno on October 02, 2017, 04:09:44 AM
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:
There is something wrong with you people, blood sausage, ugh?
I was first exposed to kishka (Polish blood sausage) as a child when my mom would bring a coil or two of blood sausage home to cook for my father from the local polish butcher shop. Sautéd in a pan with onions, and additional fat...I hated it. The smell of it was as bad as the taste.
My parents, especially my father would make my sister's and I eat everything on our plates, but most often it was me sitting alone at the table long after the rest of the family had finished their dinner, just sitting there at the table staring down at my plate, slowly trying to either force the kishka down my throat by drowning it with ketchup or simply sitting there until my mother would take my plate away and send me off to my room to go to bed early as punishment.
Because of the kishka I never really liked ketchup anymore either,...probably why I'm also primarily a vegetarian now. There arejust some things we shouldn't be eating, like organs, blood, tongues,etc... ick.
Kishka, liver, head cheese, fried bologna are some of the nastiest things...I don't feel good now just typing this and thinking back to the horror of those days...ugh, going to bed. Goodnight :boring:
So I guess you wouldn't approve of ram's testicles either. I had them in Lebanon once and quite enjoyed the dish.
hermes2015, what do ram's testicles taste like? :notsure:
I would try the dish. :smilenod:
Well...I've had beef kidney and I wouldn't know how to describe what it tastes like, so maybe I shouldn't ask. Some things have a unique flavor, difficult to compare it to something else.
Father, don't tell me you don't like
tacos de lengua. (Beef tongue tacos) :(
They're delicious!
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Quote from: Father Bruno on October 02, 2017, 04:09:44 AM
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There is something wrong with you people, blood sausage, ugh?
I was first exposed to kishka (Polish blood sausage) as a child when my mom would bring a coil or two of blood sausage home to cook for my father from the local polish butcher shop. Sautéd in a pan with onions, and additional fat...I hated it. The smell of it was as bad as the taste.
My parents, especially my father would make my sister's and I eat everything on our plates, but most often it was me sitting alone at the table long after the rest of the family had finished their dinner, just sitting there at the table staring down at my plate, slowly trying to either force the kishka down my throat by drowning it with ketchup or simply sitting there until my mother would take my plate away and send me off to my room to go to bed early as punishment.
Because of the kishka I never really liked ketchup anymore either,...probably why I'm also primarily a vegetarian now. There arejust some things we shouldn't be eating, like organs, blood, tongues,etc... ick.
Kishka, liver, head cheese, fried bologna are some of the nastiest things...I don't feel good now just typing this and thinking back to the horror of those days...ugh, going to bed. Goodnight :boring:
So I guess you wouldn't approve of ram's testicles either. I had them in Lebanon once and quite enjoyed the dish.
hermes2015, what do ram's testicles taste like? :notsure:
I would try the dish. :smilenod:
Well...I've had beef kidney and I wouldn't know how to describe what it tastes like, so maybe I shouldn't ask. Some things have a unique flavor, difficult to compare it to something else.
Father, don't tell me you don't like tacos de lengua. (Beef tongue tacos) :(
They're delicious!
Testicles tasted similar to sweetbreads to me. Perhaps I enjoyed the dish because I found it a nice change from the (to me) very monotonous and repetitive Lebanese cuisine. Whenever you are invited to a meal with any Lebanese family, you can predict very easily what you will find on the table.
Beef tongues are delicious!
Sheeps eyeballs are, basically, salty.
Only food I have ever turned down was some snails in Cyorus - they were still crawling around on the lettuce!
Quote from: Dave on October 02, 2017, 11:54:32 AM
Only food I have ever turned down was some snails in Cyorus - they were still crawling around on the lettuce!
:eeew:
Quote from: Magdalena on October 02, 2017, 02:51:55 AMOh! Moronga, Blood sausage. I love that! :yum:
I haven't had any in a long time.
:eyebrow: Is this delicious dish forbidden by any religion? Oh! Who cares, anyways!? :let'seat:
Since pretty much all of these delicacies are made with pork, Muslims who observe their religion's dietary restrictions can't have any. :smileshake:
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Quote from: Magdalena on October 02, 2017, 02:51:55 AMOh! Moronga, Blood sausage. I love that! :yum:
I haven't had any in a long time.
:eyebrow: Is this delicious dish forbidden by any religion? Oh! Who cares, anyways!? :let'seat:
Since pretty much all of these delicacies are made with pork, Muslims who observe their religion's dietary restrictions can't have any. :smileshake:
I thought
Moronga was made from cattle blood only. It doesn't really matter to me if they use pig's blood anyways. :shrug:
Quote from: Magdalena on October 03, 2017, 04:05:33 AM
Quote from: Recusant on October 03, 2017, 03:02:25 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on October 02, 2017, 02:51:55 AMOh! Moronga, Blood sausage. I love that! :yum:
I haven't had any in a long time.
:eyebrow: Is this delicious dish forbidden by any religion? Oh! Who cares, anyways!? :let'seat:
Since pretty much all of these delicacies are made with pork, Muslims who observe their religion's dietary restrictions can't have any. :smileshake:
I thought Moronga was made from cattle blood only. It doesn't really matter to me if they use pig's blood anyways. :shrug:
Cattle blood? The it's the Hindus who will have to sit one this out.
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on October 02, 2017, 10:47:51 AM
Beef tongues are delicious!
:smilenod:
I'm not a Mayan Virgin who hand rolls her tacos with exotic Mexican spices, but still...people always compliment my
tacos de lengua. :smug:
Ooh! I'm one post away from doing a 666 plus and extra 6! What does a quadruple 6 mean? :eyebrow:
Extra evil? :smug:
Quote from: Magdalena on October 03, 2017, 04:11:25 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on October 02, 2017, 10:47:51 AM
Beef tongues are delicious!
:smilenod:
I'm not a Mayan Virgin who hand rolls her tacos with exotic Mexican spices, but still...people always compliment my tacos de lengua. :smug:
Ooh! I'm one post away from doing a 666 plus and extra 6! What does a quadruple 6 mean? :eyebrow:
Extra evil? :smug:
Evil to the power of 6, so technically, extra
extra evil. :P
^ Pretty serious that sixth power of 666.
666^6 = 8.72 followed by 16 zeros. or..... 87,200,000,000,000
Mags is an impressively evil butterfly.
666999 is Mr abd Mrs Satan have a really good time!
Quote from: Icarus on October 04, 2017, 10:53:04 PM
^ Pretty serious that sixth power of 666.
666^6 = 8.72 followed by 16 zeros. or..... 87,200,000,000,000
Mags is an impressively evil butterfly.
:secrets1:
Recusant, I'm gonna copy your words.You flatter me overmuch,
Icarus, but I thank you. :embarrassed:
:)
I'm gonna have to cancel my internet service. Fuckers raised the price to $65.00 per month. :grrr: That's too much! ...Considering I don't even have a cell phone.
Looks like I'm gonna have to finally get a cell phone and post from there. :sad sigh: I don't think I'm gonna like it. I have been "experimenting" with wi-fi. It's kinda slow. :sad sigh: We'll see. If I get too desperate, I'll just walk 20 minutes to the public library and post from there.
Internet fuckers!
:rant1:
There are only two internet companies in my area. :fingertap: They both start with $30.00 for the first year, then it goes up to $40.00, then $60.00. >:(
Quote from: Magdalena on October 17, 2017, 10:10:20 PM
I'm gonna have to cancel my internet service. Fuckers raised the price to $65.00 per month. :grrr: That's too much! ...Considering I don't even have a cell phone.
Sucks, but as long as you can keep posting. :hug:
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Quote from: Magdalena on October 17, 2017, 10:10:20 PM
I'm gonna have to cancel my internet service. Fuckers raised the price to $65.00 per month. :grrr: That's too much! ...Considering I don't even have a cell phone.
Sucks, but as long as you can keep posting. :hug:
:smilenod:
I will find a way.
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Quote from: Magdalena on October 17, 2017, 10:10:20 PM
I'm gonna have to cancel my internet service. Fuckers raised the price to $65.00 per month. :grrr: That's too much! ...Considering I don't even have a cell phone.
Sucks, but as long as you can keep posting. :hug:
:smilenod:
I will find a way.
Hope so, Mags. Mine costs nearly $62/month for cable and unmetered landline phone calls to all inland landline and cellphone numbers (except premium ones). Looking at "deals", yeah start low but . . .
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Quote from: Magdalena on October 17, 2017, 10:10:20 PM
I'm gonna have to cancel my internet service. Fuckers raised the price to $65.00 per month. :grrr: That's too much! ...Considering I don't even have a cell phone.
Sucks, but as long as you can keep posting. :hug:
That does fucking suck Mags, and I hope you can work something out,...like Books said, "As long as you can keep posting"...:hug:
Cuz if you can't post often I will be sadz. :violin:
I wish I could help...the only thing I can think of right now to do is post this gif. It has nothing to do with internet service providers or your issue, in fact it has nothing to do with any of this, but I have been saving it for some time and it's killing me not to use it.
I wish I was Antonio Baddass in this gif, with his long hair, his sexy accent, and most importantly that I was kissing Selma Hyek instead of him.
(https://i.imgur.com/jftRxca.gif)
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Quote from: Magdalena on October 17, 2017, 10:10:20 PM
I'm gonna have to cancel my internet service. Fuckers raised the price to $65.00 per month. :grrr: That's too much! ...Considering I don't even have a cell phone.
Sucks, but as long as you can keep posting. :hug:
That does fucking suck Mags, and I hope you can work something out,...like Books said, "As long as you can keep posting"...:hug:
Cuz if you can't post often I will be sadz. :violin:
I wish I could help...the only thing I can think of right now to do is post this gif. It has nothing to do with internet service providers or your issue, in fact it has nothing to do with any of this, but I have been saving it for some time and it's killing me not to use it.
I wish I was Antonio Baddass in this gif, with his long hair, his sexy accent, and most importantly that I was kissing Selma Hyek instead of him.
(https://i.imgur.com/jftRxca.gif)
Thanks,
Father. ;D
I was able to make my first post last night using my tablet and wi-fi. It's slow, and I still don't know how to post gifs with it, but I'll learn. I'm sure some of you are happy to hear that I won't be posting as many gifs as I do right now. >:(
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Quote from: Magdalena on October 17, 2017, 10:10:20 PM
I'm gonna have to cancel my internet service. Fuckers raised the price to $65.00 per month. :grrr: That's too much! ...Considering I don't even have a cell phone.
Sucks, but as long as you can keep posting. :hug:
:smilenod:
I will find a way.
Hope so, Mags. Mine costs nearly $62/month for cable and unmetered landline phone calls to all inland landline and cellphone numbers (except premium ones). Looking at "deals", yeah start low but . . .
That's a good bundle you have right there. :)
My neighbors pay for my internet. They just don't know it. (https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.stardock.net%2Fimages%2Fsmiles%2Fthemes%2Fdigicons%2FGagged.png&hash=9b545d9c6babbe58bf3eb16c42e338f7edf55876)
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My neighbors pay for my internet. They just don't know it. (https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.stardock.net%2Fimages%2Fsmiles%2Fthemes%2Fdigicons%2FGagged.png&hash=9b545d9c6babbe58bf3eb16c42e338f7edf55876)
How do you do that? :eyebrow:
You know raps, I've tried to share my secret, but it's like nobody listens. Almost as if I'm talking to myself.
Quote from: No one on October 19, 2017, 12:31:29 AM
You know raps, I've tried to share my secret, but it's like nobody listens. Almost as if I'm talking to myself.
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WiFi theft is not a victimless crime!
So, according to the internet weight charts I'm fat. :cryandrun:
I'm supposed to go down 8 to 9 pounds to be at my :airquotes: ideal weight and :airquotes: ideal BMI. (Body Mass Index). It's not a lot, but just knowing bugs me.
They want me to weight almost as much as I did when I was in my 20's. :reading: --That's just crazy.
I'm depressed now...and hungry. :sigh:
Mags, those weight charts are stupid. Don't listen to them. They don't know you. You're practically perfect!
But really, the weight charts can't be accurate, since they can't see your muscles. They said my husband was almost obese, which is hilarious because he's so built and fit, we had to laugh.
Lets eat some ice cream, it'll make you feel better!
Quote from: Magdalena on January 28, 2018, 07:13:44 AM
So, according to the internet weight charts I'm fat. :cryandrun:
I'm supposed to go down 8 to 9 pounds to be at my :airquotes: ideal weight and :airquotes: ideal BMI. (Body Mass Index). It's not a lot, but just knowing bugs me.
They want me to weight almost as much as I did when I was in my 20's. :reading: --That's just crazy.
I'm depressed now...and hungry. :sigh:
According BMI, I'm fat too.
Quote from: Davin on January 29, 2018, 06:42:00 PM
According BMI, I'm fat too.
You don't look fat to me. :smileshake:
BMI was developed to compare populations and was never intendedas a scale for individuals.
Quote from: Dragonia on January 29, 2018, 03:10:16 PM
Mags, those weight charts are stupid. Don't listen to them. They don't know you. You're practically perfect!
But really, the weight charts can't be accurate, since they can't see your muscles. They said my husband was almost obese, which is hilarious because he's so built and fit, we had to laugh.
Lets eat some ice cream, it'll make you feel better!
:rofl:
Yes, let's eat some ice cream!
You're so sweet. :daisies:
Quote from: Tank on January 29, 2018, 07:22:14 PM
BMI was developed to compare populations and was never intendedas a scale for individuals.
~Good to know. I checked because I was curious, and curiosity told the cat, "You're fat!" ;D
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Like
Dragonia said: "Those weight charts are stupid." :grin:
People all over the word have different diets. Some of us eat what we can afford, not what we should or would like to. :-\
Quote from: Magdalena on January 29, 2018, 07:42:24 PM
People all over the word have different diets. Some of us eat what we can afford, not what we should or would like to. :-\
This is too true. Around here at least, sugary, high-carb foods are cheapest. Fruit, some veggies and meat are relatively expensive. I'm assuming it's the same in the States?
Not to mention, who on Earth literally drools over an asparagus? :grin:
Now pizza, that's somethin'. :yum: And ice-cream,
and chocolate, and hamburgers...
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on January 29, 2018, 10:31:43 PM
Quote from: Magdalena on January 29, 2018, 07:42:24 PM
People all over the word have different diets. Some of us eat what we can afford, not what we should or would like to. :-\
This is too true. Around here at least, sugary, high-carb foods are cheapest. Fruit, some veggies and meat are relatively expensive. I'm assuming it's the same in the States?
Not to mention, who on Earth literally drools over an asparagus? :grin:
Now pizza, that's somethin'. :yum: And ice-cream, and chocolate, and hamburgers...
;D
I think it's the same.
I would like to buy more things like, avocados, olive oil, nuts, fruit, etc, but it's expensive. Pork is cheap, but high in saturated fat. One whole chicken is @ $9.00. You can find it cheaper, but you have to finish removing the feathers, and I'm not a big fan of salmonella. Artificial juices loaded with sugar are much cheaper than natural juices, but who wants that?
It's not that we don't know about nutrition, or diseases associated with a bad diet, but if you have $3.00 what are you gonna buy, a pound of chorizo, or lettuce and tomatoes?
~It sucks.
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on January 29, 2018, 10:31:43 PM
Quote from: Magdalena on January 29, 2018, 07:42:24 PM
People all over the word have different diets. Some of us eat what we can afford, not what we should or would like to. :-\
This is too true. Around here at least, sugary, high-carb foods are cheapest. Fruit, some veggies and meat are relatively expensive. I'm assuming it's the same in the States?
Not to mention, who on Earth literally drools over an asparagus? :grin:
Now pizza, that's somethin'. :yum: And ice-cream, and chocolate, and hamburgers...
You're so correct, and it's terribly frustrating. Bad-for-you food and drinks are so much cheaper. And, having 3 hungry men eating in my family, I've got to do what I've got to do to fill my eating machines up.
Before race weekends, I've tried to buy healthy, whole foods, y'know, for lasting energy, but it's SO expensive, even for a few days. I HATE it.
(Oh, and by the way, I drool over asparagus! :tellmemore:)
Quote from: Dragonia on January 30, 2018, 02:06:10 PM
(Oh, and by the way, I drool over asparagus! :tellmemore:)
Really? :bigspecs:
Sure you're not confusing the word with 'pizza'? ;D
I love asparagus as well! Cooked gently, smothered in butter and fresh ground black pepper, eaten with buttery, creamy mash spud with garlic in it, tiny, tender steamed carrots and salmon pan cooked in olive oil then wiped and finished in Tewkesbury mustard!
Quote from: Dave on January 31, 2018, 07:41:59 PM
I love asparagus as well! Cooked gently, smothered in butter and fresh ground black pepper, eaten with buttery, creamy mash spud with garlic in it, tiny, tender steamed carrots and salmon pan cooked in olive oil then wiped and finished in Tewkesbury mustard!
:headshake:
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Quote from: Dave on January 31, 2018, 07:41:59 PM
I love asparagus as well! Cooked gently, smothered in butter and fresh ground black pepper, eaten with buttery, creamy mash spud with garlic in it, tiny, tender steamed carrots and salmon pan cooked in olive oil then wiped and finished in Tewkesbury mustard!
You had me until the mustard over the salmon. Doesn't the mustard smother the salmon flavour?
Quote from: Essie Mae on February 04, 2018, 10:45:03 PM
Quote from: Dave on January 31, 2018, 07:41:59 PM
I love asparagus as well! Cooked gently, smothered in butter and fresh ground black pepper, eaten with buttery, creamy mash spud with garlic in it, tiny, tender steamed carrots and salmon pan cooked in olive oil then wiped and finished in Tewkesbury mustard!
You had me until the mustard over the salmon. Doesn't the mustard smother the salmon flavour?
Depends a bit on the mustard but, basically, mustard loses its strength in cooking. Tewkesbury mustard is actually a, relatively, mild, yellow English mustard mixed with very finely ground horseradish, and a little honey with some recipes. Sounds terrible but it was my favourite until the original company disappeared. Most current recipes are too sweet for my taste, too much honey.
Dilute the mustard 50:50 with water and, a couple or three minutes before you think the salmon is cooked in the pan wipe out as much oil as you can, add the mustard and keep turning the salmon in it until it begins to thicken and stick. It is only a quick "sauté" and the mustard does not penetrate far into the meat.The taste of the salmon remains as a counterpoint to the mustard. Serve straight away.
Might work with Dijon mustard with less water. Might work with beef minute steak or gammon steak or . . . Could add some garlic . . .
Damn, I'm hungry again!
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on January 29, 2018, 10:31:43 PM
Not to mention, who on Earth literally drools over an asparagus? :grin:
Me! Me! Me! I just LOVE asparagus. Secret indulgence: Make a small pot of melted garlic butter, sprinkle it with fresh ground black pepper and dip you lightly steamed asparagus stalks in it and YUMMMO! ;D ;D ;D
Those sound like fabulous ways to eat asparagus, and I would eat it cooked any way (I think even raw is good, dipped in something). What I always do is sauté it for a bit in olive oil, salt and pepper, and a bunch of freshly crushed garlic. My whole family devours it.
Quote from: Dave on February 04, 2018, 11:36:08 PM
Quote from: Essie Mae on February 04, 2018, 10:45:03 PM
Quote from: Dave on January 31, 2018, 07:41:59 PM
I love asparagus as well! Cooked gently, smothered in butter and fresh ground black pepper, eaten with buttery, creamy mash spud with garlic in it, tiny, tender steamed carrots and salmon pan cooked in olive oil then wiped and finished in Tewkesbury mustard!
You had me until the mustard over the salmon. Doesn't the mustard smother the salmon flavour?
Depends a bit on the mustard but, basically, mustard loses its strength in cooking. Tewkesbury mustard is actually a, relatively, mild, yellow English mustard mixed with very finely ground horseradish, and a little honey with some recipes. Sounds terrible but it was my favourite until the original company disappeared. Most current recipes are too sweet for my taste, too much honey.
Dilute the mustard 50:50 with water and, a couple or three minutes before you think the salmon is cooked in the pan wipe out as much oil as you can, add the mustard and keep turning the salmon in it until it begins to thicken and stick. It is only a quick "sauté" and the mustard does not penetrate far into the meat.The taste of the salmon remains as a counterpoint to the mustard. Serve straight away.
Might work with Dijon mustard with less water. Might work with beef minute steak or gammon steak or . . . Could add some garlic . . .
Damn, I'm hungry again!
Now you put it like that .......I'm on my way.
Oh and can Dragonia and Bluenose come too with their asparagus?
Two words: asparagus soup.
One word: YUM!
Asparagus Soup with Lemon and Parmesan
https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/asparagus-soup-with-lemon-and-parmesan.html
Quote from: Dragonia on February 09, 2018, 12:24:44 AM
One word: YUM!
Asparagus Soup with Lemon and Parmesan
https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/asparagus-soup-with-lemon-and-parmesan.html
Indeed. Thanks for the recipe.
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on February 09, 2018, 12:25:39 AM
Quote from: Dragonia on February 09, 2018, 12:24:44 AM
One word: YUM!
Asparagus Soup with Lemon and Parmesan
https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/asparagus-soup-with-lemon-and-parmesan.html
Indeed. Thanks for the recipe.
Delicious indeed. What a great site. Thanks
I am drinking wine. Large quantities of red wine. From 2013.
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Thank you, Dionysus.
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:lol:
Hi,
Davin... :computerwave:
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Maybe I am just a good woman trapped inside the body of an alcoholic. :grin:
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:lol:
Hi, Davin... :computerwave:
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Maybe I am just a good woman trapped inside the body of an alcoholic. :grin:
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I think that deep down, with enough drink drunk, we are all a bit of an alcoholic.
(https://i.imgur.com/GyKsCAx.gif)
...or maybe not, maybe it's just me.
On the serious side: teaching little kids "habits" like that borders on chiod abuse in my book - sorry to be the party pooper but we all know that even small things can get deeply imprinted into young brains.
"Hey, little boy, it's OK to drink, it's fun!"
Quote from: Davin on February 13, 2018, 02:02:53 PM
I think that deep down, with enough drink drunk, we are all a bit of an alcoholic.
...or maybe not, maybe it's just me.
If enjoying a glass or two of wine makes me an alcoholic, according to experts...So be it.
:cheersfortwo:
Quote from: Dave on February 13, 2018, 03:44:00 PM
On the serious side: teaching little kids "habits" like that borders on chiod abuse in my book - sorry to be the party pooper but we all know that even small things can get deeply imprinted into young brains.
"Hey, little boy, it's OK to drink, it's fun!"
That GIF is just a joke.
Everyone knows you don't give children alcoholic beverages.
Quote from: Dave on February 13, 2018, 03:44:00 PM
On the serious side: teaching little kids "habits" like that borders on chiod abuse in my book - sorry to be the party pooper but we all know that even small things can get deeply imprinted into young brains.
"Hey, little boy, it's OK to drink, it's fun!"
Oh totally. My mom wouldn't let me drink root beer from a glass bottle because she thought the same thing. I had to sneak glass bottle root beer and now I'm a raging alcoholic that can't go an hour without a drink. I shouldn't have disobeyed my mom and imprinted drinking things from a glass bottle onto my mind.
Quote from: Magdalena on February 13, 2018, 04:03:25 PM
Quote from: Davin on February 13, 2018, 02:02:53 PM
I think that deep down, with enough drink drunk, we are all a bit of an alcoholic.
...or maybe not, maybe it's just me.
If enjoying a glass or two of wine makes me an alcoholic, according to experts...So be it.
:cheersfortwo:
If you can't admit that you have a drinking problem, then you have a drinking problem. So I figure I might as well just go around admitting that I have a drinking problem even though I probably don't have one. Is drinking only 4-6 drinks a week at most a drinking problem? Only if I don't admit that I have a problem.
Quote from: Davin on February 13, 2018, 04:54:00 PM
Quote from: Magdalena on February 13, 2018, 04:03:25 PM
Quote from: Davin on February 13, 2018, 02:02:53 PM
I think that deep down, with enough drink drunk, we are all a bit of an alcoholic.
...or maybe not, maybe it's just me.
If enjoying a glass or two of wine makes me an alcoholic, according to experts...So be it.
:cheersfortwo:
If you can't admit that you have a drinking problem, then you have a drinking problem. So I figure I might as well just go around admitting that I have a drinking problem even though I probably don't have one. Is drinking only 4-6 drinks a week at most a drinking problem? Only if I don't admit that I have a problem.
I have a drinking problem too. I can drink beer like a viking on a snowy day, and I can drink Jesus' blood like a thirsty mother fucking vampire.
Quote from: Davin on February 13, 2018, 04:46:52 PM
Quote from: Dave on February 13, 2018, 03:44:00 PM
On the serious side: teaching little kids "habits" like that borders on chiod abuse in my book - sorry to be the party pooper but we all know that even small things can get deeply imprinted into young brains.
"Hey, little boy, it's OK to drink, it's fun!"
Oh totally. My mom wouldn't let me drink root beer from a glass bottle because she thought the same thing. I had to sneak glass bottle root beer and now I'm a raging alcoholic that can't go an hour without a drink. I shouldn't have disobeyed my mom and imprinted drinking things from a glass bottle onto my mind.
My grandpa used to let me dip my little finger in a glass of sangria once a year. Every year.
Now look at me!
:drink:
Love you grandpa...Wherever you are. I hope you went to sangria heaven. :grin:
Well, it may be just a joke . . .
However I put it in a similar bracket to "candy cigarettes". Just a candy for kids, bit of fun . . But now banned in many countries because the esrly formed "habit" may encourage kids to smoke real cigarettes later. Such seemjngly harmless "hsbits", again at an early age before d7scretion and critical thinking are developed,, potentially transmute into more serious ones later.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_cigarette
Goes for many things, a sweet tooth is "learned" early and can lead to diabetes later. If you know any child or learning psychologists send that gif to them and ask their opinion.
Not quite relevant because it deals with adolescent drinking . . But perhaps parental drinking hsbits, even "pseudo-boozing" with their kids, could be a factor.
https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/adolescentflyer/adolflyer.htm
We have similar problems over here.
Quote from: Dave on February 13, 2018, 05:42:22 PM
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If you know any child or learning psychologists send that gif to them and ask their opinion.
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I rather send it to
Davin.
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Quote from: Magdalena on February 13, 2018, 05:14:48 PM
I have a drinking problem too. I can drink beer like a viking on a snowy day, and I can drink Jesus' blood like a thirsty mother fucking vampire.
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Quote from: Magdalena on February 13, 2018, 05:25:24 PM
My grandpa used to let me dip my little finger in a glass of sangria once a year. Every year.
Now look at me!
:drink:
Love you grandpa...Wherever you are. I hope you went to sangria heaven. :grin:
Everything is about amounts, too much of anything is bad... that's why it's a tautology. The "drinking things from a glass bottle is child abuse" though is far too ridiculous for me to take very seriously.
Quote from: Dave on February 13, 2018, 05:42:22 PM
Well, it may be just a joke . . .
However I put it in a similar bracket to "candy cigarettes". Just a candy for kids, bit of fun . . But now banned in many countries because the esrly formed "habit" may encourage kids to smoke real cigarettes later. Such seemjngly harmless "hsbits", again at an early age before d7scretion and critical thinking are developed,, potentially transmute into more serious ones later.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_cigarette
This is a false equivalency. Cigarettes are not normal things people do, it is a very specific action. It's also not something that a person needs to do. Drinking things however is a necessity, we can't get out of drinking things. I ate a lot of those candy cigarettes as a kid. I don't smoke.
Quote from: DaveGoes for many things, a sweet tooth is "learned" early and can lead to diabetes later.
Well shit, I guess that's the problem with all these diabetes, kids eating some candy. Never seen a kid deprived of something their whole life and then suddenly realizing that it's delicious? Yeah, from normal weight to obese in a few years. It's better to teach kids how to do things in moderation than to outright ban everything. That doesn't necessarily mean letting them do something under parental supervision. But lying about the effects of drugs, like alcohol and others, hurts more than it helps. Keep your hyperbole down, some of us are trying to have fun.
Quote from: DaveIf you know any child or learning psychologists send that gif to them and ask their opinion.
This is a old timers tactic. My mother loved it. Except for all the times I did precisely that and proved her wrong. It's like an appeal to authority fallacy, but without any actual authority to appeal to, just the promise that any authority that one may go to would just agree with you. Unfortunately it's not very effective when used against rational people.
Quote from: DaveNot quite relevant because it deals with adolescent drinking . . But perhaps parental drinking hsbits, even "pseudo-boozing" with their kids, could be a factor.
https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/adolescentflyer/adolflyer.htm
We have similar problems over here.
Oh, you're so right. You know what else beer is served in? Glasses. Don't let kids drink things from glasses, because that's child abuse that leads to alcoholism.
Or... we just take your musings as they are, baseless assertions attempted to be presented as something having evidential backing.
Check out these other examples of childhood drinking that clearly constitutes child abuse and destine the kids to a life of substance addiction.
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Anyway, I really think your taking this too far. You can see the bottle is empty, the kid is not actually drinking a beer. Teaching kids that people can have fun while drinking a beer is not child abuse. I think you're misusing that term.
There are a lot of studies that "show" a lot of things when it comes to raising children, not all of them are worth anything. Even if you could have gotten your hands on some and provided them we'd have to make sure they apply. But you didn't so we don't know.
I was beat severely for not sleeping long enough during nap time. That is abuse. I was hit with a tree branch until the branch broke because of a suspicion that I might have eaten some chocolate chips. That is abuse. That gif though? That's not abuse.
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Very nice, Davin.
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I agree with Davin, Dave. You're exaggerating a little bit.
Confucius say: You're not really drinking alone if your dog is at home. My dog is home.... :puppysnicker:
Quote from: Icarus on February 14, 2018, 12:07:21 AM
Confucius say: You're not really drinking alone if your dog is at home. My dog is home.... :puppysnicker:
I have a fish. Does that count? :notsure:
Quote from: Magdalena on February 14, 2018, 12:41:13 AM
Quote from: Icarus on February 14, 2018, 12:07:21 AM
Confucius say: You're not really drinking alone if your dog is at home. My dog is home.... :puppysnicker:
I have a fish. Does that count? :notsure:
I think a fish counts as a double yes.
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on February 14, 2018, 03:00:19 AM
Quote from: Magdalena on February 14, 2018, 12:41:13 AM
Quote from: Icarus on February 14, 2018, 12:07:21 AM
Confucius say: You're not really drinking alone if your dog is at home. My dog is home.... :puppysnicker:
I have a fish. Does that count? :notsure:
I think a fish counts as a double yes.
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Seeing all this talk about drinking problems, I hereby declare that I do not have a drinking problem: If I drink a lot, I get drunk. If I get drunk, I fall down. No problem!
Quote from: Magdalena on February 13, 2018, 08:06:36 PM
^^^
Very nice, Davin.
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I agree with Davin, Dave. You're exaggerating a little bit.
You are, Mags, entitled to agree with anyone whose world view accords with your own. I'll just offer these as reference:
https://www.livestrong.com/article/75282-parents-effect-child-behavior/
https://my.vanderbilt.edu/developmentalpsychologyblog/2014/04/how-do-you-affect-your-child/
That "amusing behaviour" you teach your toddler can become "that annoying behaviour" ten years later. Encouraging it 2 and punishing it at 12 can possibly confuse a kid and lead to emotional and/or behavioural problems. Excepting genetic problems, congenital conditions (not caused by the mother's habits), any kind of abuse by a non-family person (of which the parents are ignorant), and physical injury parents get the kids they raise, there is nothing and no-one else to praise or blame.
I have no more to say on this.
Quote from: Dave on February 14, 2018, 04:49:23 PM
Quote from: Magdalena on February 13, 2018, 08:06:36 PM
^^^
Very nice, Davin.
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I agree with Davin, Dave. You're exaggerating a little bit.
You are, Mags, entitled to agree with anyone whose world view accords with your own. I'll just offer these as reference:
https://www.livestrong.com/article/75282-parents-effect-child-behavior/
https://my.vanderbilt.edu/developmentalpsychologyblog/2014/04/how-do-you-affect-your-child/
That "amusing behaviour" you teach your toddler can become "that annoying behaviour" ten years later. Encouraging it 2 and punishing it at 12 can possibly confuse a kid and lead to emotional and/or behavioural problems. Excepting genetic problems, congenital conditions (not caused by the mother's habits), any kind of abuse by a non-family person (of which the parents are ignorant), and physical injury parents get the kids they raise, there is nothing and no-one else to praise or blame.
I have no more to say on this.
Dave,
Why are you giving me advice on how to raise my children? When I, you , or anyone else here talks about drinking wine it's always just a comment. Davin posted that gif that apparently bothered you a lot, not me. Why are you judging my parenting skills?
You don't know me. You don't know my kids. You don't even know how I act or what I do when and if I drink. You don't even know if my kids are around. I'm sorry if you had a bad experience with drunk adults when you were a child, I didn't. Please don't assume my house is a hell hole. Davin mentioned what child abuse is, I know what child abuse is, you know. That gif is not.
I made my post in the, Talking To Myself, thread because I'm just talking to myself. Apparently, I'm not. You made this thread, please change the tittle to, Come Be Judged.
This is not the parenting thread, or the, ask thread. I find it funny that people who never had children want to "advice" me. --Fuck that shit.
Don't confuse me with the people you hang out with.
"I have no more to say on this." Yes, you've said enough, and to the wrong person.
Fuck, now I want some coffee with Kahlua. :headshake:
Edit: Spelling.
No Mags, I'd recommend a coffee, followed by a good stiff whisky! :grin:
Mags I admire and respect you for being defensive about the way you treat your children. That is what good moms do. Great moms are likely to be deadly ferocious about their children's welfare. One is wise never ever threaten the lion mothers cubs. Granted that, you might be a tad over sensitive above, but we do understand your posture. Peace.
Quote from: Icarus on February 16, 2018, 01:27:22 AM
... Granted that, you might be a tad over sensitive above, but ...
Maybe.
Quote from: Bluenose on February 15, 2018, 12:38:29 PM
No Mags, I'd recommend a coffee, followed by a good stiff whisky! :grin:
Fine!
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"Why isn't this tea iced?"
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Here you go raps.
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Here you go raps.
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Quote from: Dave on February 14, 2018, 04:49:23 PM
You are, Mags, entitled to agree with anyone whose world view accords with your own. I'll just offer these as reference:
https://www.livestrong.com/article/75282-parents-effect-child-behavior/
https://my.vanderbilt.edu/developmentalpsychologyblog/2014/04/how-do-you-affect-your-child/
Parents affect their children's behavior? I think we can safely put that into the "no shit, Sherlock" bucket.
The question is how one affects them. Is going around blowing things out of proportion and calling silly things "child abuse" teaching your kids that it's OK to blow thing out of proportion and using terms inappropriately?
Quote from: DaveThat "amusing behaviour" you teach your toddler can become "that annoying behaviour" ten years later. Encouraging it 2 and punishing it at 12 can possibly confuse a kid and lead to emotional and/or behavioural problems. Excepting genetic problems, congenital conditions (not caused by the mother's habits), any kind of abuse by a non-family person (of which the parents are ignorant), and physical injury parents get the kids they raise, there is nothing and no-one else to praise or blame.
Are you trying to say that you had not choice in how you are behaving right now and that it is entirely the fault of your parents? Then the way they behaved is the result of their parents and they are not responsible for their actions. And all the way down the line no one is responsible for their own actions. Bullshit. People make their own choices and while parenting can influence children, each child is also an individuals who chooses how they act. That means that bad kids can come from good parents and good kids can come from bad parents. Both of which I have seen happen many times.
Quote from: DaveI have no more to say on this.
That is probably better for you.
Hmmm...I'd like to chime in even though I am not a developmental psychologist or anything. Take my thoughts with a grain of salt.
As far as behaviour goes, genes and environmental influences shouldn't be separated when it comes to learning. It's not nature or nurture it's almost always both to varying degrees depending on the behaviour and the individual. Besides genes and past experiences that may predispose us to certain behaviours, there are genes and past experiences which exert a protective effect as well. The complexities of learning should be considered, even if one really wants to reduce behaviour to "genes this" or "environment and parenting that". It's an orchestra of both.
Think of it as a baker making a cake, in which the cake is the individual, the ingredients are the genes and the environment are the baker's hands, making the finished product a certain way. If the baker isn't well that day the finished product can turn out a certain way, if there's an excess of an ingredient it will influence the outcome, etc. This analogy of course is extremely simplistic, as animals' brains are plastic to a degree and they and are constantly learning from incoming stimuli from the environment. No two cakes are ever the same, even two with the same amounts of ingredients (twins), because of the baker.
It seems to me that young children learn a lot from their parents, who are basically at the center of their world (OK, maybe young children see themselves at the center of their world ;D ) and as they grow into adolescence, peers gradually take precedence over parents. The pressure to "fit in" at that age can be overwhelming. Adolescents are naturally risk-takers, he frontal part of the brain, just behind the eyes, is not yet fully developed (this process takes longer in males). Evolutionary, it's a phase in which mammals start to come into their own and venture into the world. IMO, forbidding something makes it all the more attractive, but that's my point of view, not necessarily shared by others. :-X
I don't believe giving a young child a bottle filled with a nonalcoholic beverage will result in them growing up to be alcoholics. That's akin to saying that playing violent video games will make a person violent. It just doesn't make sense and doesn't take into consideration just how complex learning can be.
Dave, you mentioned a sweet tooth being a learned behaviour. I think there's truth to that, people can become addicted to the stuff and it acts on the brain in similar ways to some illicit drugs. Kids' brains can even be 'pre-programmed' to like certain types of food before they are born. My sister, for instance, would crave salt when she was pregnant and now my niece wants to put salt on everything! :lol:
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on February 23, 2018, 12:40:43 AM
Hmmm...I'd like to chime in even though I am not a developmental psychologist or anything. Take my thoughts with a grain of salt.
As far as behaviour goes, genes and environmental influences shouldn't be separated when it comes to learning. It's not nature or nurture it's almost always both to varying degrees depending on the behaviour and the individual. Besides genes and past experiences that may predispose us to certain behaviours, there are genes and past experiences which exert a protective effect as well. The complexities of learning should be considered, even if one really wants to reduce behaviour to "genes this" or "environment and parenting that". It's an orchestra of both.
Think of it as a baker making a cake, in which the cake is the individual, the ingredients are the genes and the environment are the baker's hands, making the finished product a certain way. If the baker isn't well that day the finished product can turn out a certain way, if there's an excess of an ingredient it will influence the outcome, etc. This analogy of course is extremely simplistic, as animals' brains are plastic to a degree and they and are constantly learning from incoming stimuli from the environment. No two cakes are ever the same, even two with the same amounts of ingredients (twins), because of the baker.
It seems to me that young children learn a lot from their parents, who are basically at the center of their world (OK, maybe young children see themselves at the center of their world ;D ) and as they grow into adolescence, peers gradually take precedence over parents. The pressure to "fit in" at that age can be overwhelming. Adolescents are naturally risk-takers, he frontal part of the brain, just behind the eyes, is not yet fully developed (this process takes longer in males). Evolutionary, it's a phase in which mammals start to come into their own and venture into the world. IMO, forbidding something makes it all the more attractive, but that's my point of view, not necessarily shared by others. :-X
I don't believe giving a young child a bottle filled with a nonalcoholic beverage will result in them growing up to be alcoholics. That's akin to saying that playing violent video games will make a person violent. It just doesn't make sense and doesn't take into consideration just how complex learning can be.
Dave, you mentioned a sweet tooth being a learned behaviour. I think there's truth to that, people can become addicted to the stuff and it acts on the brain in similar ways to some illicit drugs. Kids' brains can even be 'pre-programmed' to like certain types of food before they are born. My sister, for instance, would crave salt when she was pregnant and now my niece wants to put salt on everything! :lol:
I totally understand this.
I, as an individual, can understand how my DNA and the environment, made me who I am today. For some people, it ends there. People who have children have to consider how, who they are and what they do "shapes" their kids as well.
We are all so divided culturally that what seems "abusive" to some is "normal" to others. This is a crazy world. Circumsition is acceptable in some places, for whatever crazy reason, in other places is not. In some places kids drink a glass of wine, in others, they would call Social Services...even if the kid only mimicked drinking a beer.
Like
Davin said, good kids come out of horrible parents, and horrible kids come out of good parents...You never know.
I just dream of a place where we will find, "the middle." Not too much of something... and don't exaggerate out of ignorance...and or cultural differences.
Edit: Added last line.
Dave,
I would like to apologize for the way I responded to your posts. I should've taken my time to say what I should've said after thinking things through. I responded from the "gut" area.
--Not good.
This is what I should have said:
Thanks, Dave, I sincerely appreciate your concern and advice about me drinking wine sometimes. I, like everyone else, enjoy wine. It is my favorite forbidden pleasure here on earth.--Yeah, it's like that!
Anyways...
I have issues, OK? Who doesn't?
I don't enjoy hearing the "experts" tell me how to raise my kids because some people misinterpret what "the experts" say. When the kid doesn't "fit" the "mold" the parents "break" the kid to fit the "desired mold." That's when I get pissed. --I mean, very upset.
Also, my first child is nothing like my third child. My third child is nothing like my second child. I"m not the same mon I was with my first child as I am with my second and will be with my last. Things are constantly changing. --Good in some areas, bad in others, you never know.
If I were to raise my kids, according to your guidelines, my Latino kids would probably get beat up here in Los Angeles, California. :lol:
Anyways. Again, I am sorry for the rude way I behaved. I hope we can still be friends. I would never feed my kids a humanist for breakfast. A Nazi? Maybe at a party...They can be the tortilla chips..without the guacamole or salsa.
Edit: spelling.
Quote from: Magdalena on March 03, 2018, 08:44:24 AM
Dave,
I would like to apologize for the way I responded to your posts. I should've taken my time to say what I should've said after thinking things through. I responded from the "gut" area.
--Not good.
This is what I should have said:
Thanks, Dave, I sincerely appreciate your concern and advice about me drinking wine sometimes. I, like everyone else, enjoy wine. It is my favorite forbidden pleasure here on earth.--Yeah, it's like that!
Anyways...
I have issues, OK? Who doesn't?
I don't enjoy hearing the "experts" tell me how to raise my kids because some people misinterpret what "the experts" say. When the kid doesn't "fit" the "mold" the patents "break" the kid to fit the "desired mold." That's when I get pissed. --I mean, very upset.
Also, my first child is nothing like my third child. My third child is nothing like my second child. I"m not the same mon I was with my first child as I am with my second and will be with my last. Things are constantly changing. --Good in some areas, bad in others, you never know.
If I were to raise my kids, according to your guidelines, my Latino kids would probably get beat up here in Los Angeles, California. :lol:
Anyways. Again, I am sorry for the rude way I behaved. I hope we can still be friends. I would never feed my kids a humanist for breakfast. A Nazi? Maybe at a party...They can be the tortilla chips..without the guacamole or salsa.
Thanks, Mags. :daisies:
I should have replied that I was making a generalisation, but - for some reason - felt that I might make things worse. You did seem rather angry!
I have no kids of my own but experience has forced me to try to be as objective as I can about my own upbringing and I watched half of my 21nieces and nephews (and some of their kids) grow at close quarters.
I fear that two of my siblings made similar mistakes to those of our parents, ending up with kids with some serious problems of their own. The exception was a half-sister. This helped form my own decision never to have kids.
Though, now in my dotage, I sorely miss the opportunity to be an elder uncle or grandfather with enthusiasms, excitments, skills and knowledge to pass on. So I do it second hand by giving money to local schools to buy kit that help with science, craft and design, photography etc. Things that are way down the budget pecking order. Oh, and I have passed on some "interesting" magnets and other stuff to a neighbour's grandson.
So, kids and their welfare and development is an important subject for me.
Quote from: Dave on March 03, 2018, 09:58:51 AM
Thanks, Mags. :daisies:
:daisies:
"Right back atcha, Dave."