happy new year, motherfuckers!

[billy rubin]

dunno about you, but im going to do better this year.

i shall start by not breaking my ankle again. im hoping that will be easiest.

[Dark Lightning]

Happy New Year, yourself, asshole! I'd like to get some relief with my arthritic knees, but from what I'm seeing on the 'net, it can be up to a year of painful for recovery from each surgery. I might not live that long.

[billy rubin]

youve still got the originals on both sides, right? it takes a year to get over a replacement?

that sucks.

im pissing and moaning about the next five weeks.

[Dark Lightning]

Yes, mine are both original. You have a broken ankle, that hopefully will heal well. I'm seeing people who still have effects a year after knee replacement surgery. Not happy about that and the amount of painful therapy. Then again, I've had 5 surgeries on my feet for arthritic joints, and they usually resolve after about six weeks, usually in a boot. Choose your parents wisely folks; those hereditary ailments are a bitch.

[billy rubin]

most of my physical issues are self-inflicted, but so far they havent slowed me down a lot. but ill hit my three-score-and-ten in two weeks, so ive started down the slide.

[Dark Lightning]

Got you by 3. I turned 73 last October.

[Icarus]

You guys are both young whippersnappers.  I am old enough to be your high school math teacher. 

So far my knees are OK but my brain may be having some difficulties.

[billy rubin]

you would have to wear a sari to have been my high school math teaxher.

[Recusant]

You guys are both young whippersnappers.  I am old enough to be your high school math teacher. 

So far my knees are OK but my brain may be having some difficulties.

It's not much to go on, some posts on a quiet forum, but from what I can tell your brain is sufficiently functional. Admirably functional, considering.   

[Icarus]

Thank you Rec.

[billy rubin]

doesnt have to be quiet, you motherfuckers.

im always ready to debate the flat earth.

nobody has produced contrary personal evidence yet, aroud here.

just stuff people tell them, and that they like to believe.

do it.

[Dark Lightning]

Someone is shouting at clouds...

[Recusant]

 

[billy rubin]

well, sometimes the clouds offend me. i am in good company.

All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other; since there is ever a sort of fair play herein, jealousy presiding over all creations.

[xSilverPhinx]

Right back at ya!