ER- have you read a lot of Emile Bronte and Louise May Alcott?
I only ask because you seem like the kind of person who would.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 05, 2022, 11:02:12 PM
ER- have you read a lot of Emile Bronte and Louise May Alcott?
I only ask because you seem like the kind of person who would.
It would help to spell the authors names right...
That's... pretty personal, RC.
I've never read anything by Alcott except her diary, and I did read Wuthering Heights by Bronte.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 05, 2022, 11:41:27 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 05, 2022, 11:02:12 PM
ER- have you read a lot of Emile Bronte and Louise May Alcott?
I only ask because you seem like the kind of person who would.
It would help to spell the authors names right...
Excuse me! Louisa!
Personal question, John- do you like baked potatoes? :question:
Quote from: ER on February 06, 2022, 12:07:12 AM
That's... pretty personal, RC.
I've never read anything by Alcott except her diary, and I did read Wuthering Heights by Bronte.
Yeah, I know it's not ....I don't know.
I just get that vibe.
And I never read any of these authors. :bluesad:
Of old writers- I admire the style of Charles Fort who questioned everything- but never really took any of it too serious.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 06, 2022, 12:37:42 AM
...Personal question, John- do you like baked potatoes? :question:
Yes, I ate one last night.
That's "personal"? :question:
Yes! Who else am I going to ask if you like baked potatoes?
Would you ask a stranger on the street- " Do you like baked potatoes?"
RC, what is your favourite issue of your favourite magazine and why?
Alex, is there a relationship you regret so much you wish it had never happened?
Quote from: Alex on February 06, 2022, 10:47:04 AM
RC, what is your favourite issue of your favourite magazine and why?
^ Castle of Frankenstein #25, 1975- the final issue. I bought it in 1975. It had a lengthy review of the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, and none of all the 'monster' magazines at the time even gave a passing comment on it. And, unlike those other mags, CoF was a mag written for adults, not 12 year olds.
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Quote from: ER on February 06, 2022, 10:53:57 AM
Alex, is there a relationship you regret so much you wish it had never happened?
Yes.
Hallows- Have you ever read Charles Fort?
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 06, 2022, 06:49:21 PM
Hallows- Have you ever read Charles Fort?
That's one helluva personal question! Nope.
OK- I'll ask something else.
Have you ever lost faith in your religion?
Cerebus- Do you have any religious preference?
You don't have to state it. Yes or no; none of your f**king business; I'm a Satanist, et. al.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 06, 2022, 07:03:25 PM
OK- I'll ask something else.
...
Hey, I was kidding. The answer was "nope".
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 06, 2022, 07:03:25 PM
...Have you ever lost faith in your religion?
All kidding aside, how could you not understand that that IS a personal question? I answer: yes.
I was testing the waters.
You know me- I don't want to p**s people off.
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Quote from: RCMerchant on February 06, 2022, 08:46:33 PM
^ I'm sorry. I thought you wanted something real personal.
As a person of little faith in anything, it's interesting to me.
Hey, I answered you! And in the long run, I'm a clown.
I'm a Teenage Werewolf! :drink:
RC - have you ever considered giving up pot altogether?
^ YES! between 1981 and 1986 I smoked no weed.
In fact, I rarely smoked weed at all until it was legalized in Michigan a couple years ago. I couldn't afford it. Plus it made me paranoid. But about 5 years ago, I started smoking more. It stopped me from drinking myself to death.
But I'm an addictive personality- so no. Not in the near future. And I'm almost 60.
RC, have you ever had a night terror?
^ I've had episodes of sleep paralysis as a child and in my 20's, and it was terrifying, if that counts.
To you all: you all do know how much I love you all? :smile:
That's sweet of you to say, Trevor. You're cared about and valued by others here too. :smile:
But as for personal questions, so, are we done probing each other?
Hey, Trevor, what's the longest you've ever worn a pair of underwear between changes?
Quote from: ER on February 07, 2022, 01:45:40 PM
Hey, Trevor, what's the longest you've ever worn a pair of underwear between changes?
In 1983 at boarding school, we attended a two week long "cadet camp". Marvelous fun, they even gave me a 7.62 caliber rifle to shoot at targets with :buggedout:.
Answer: I didn't change my clothes, including socks and undies for
almost 2 weeks: my undies stood up on their own after that. :buggedout: :tongueout: :twirl: :wink:
Rev- what drew you to Bad/ Psychotronic films?
Quote from: Trevor on February 07, 2022, 01:56:04 PM
Quote from: ER on February 07, 2022, 01:45:40 PM
Hey, Trevor, what's the longest you've ever worn a pair of underwear between changes?
In 1983 at boarding school, we attended a two week long "cadet camp". Marvelous fun, they even gave me a 7.62 caliber rifle to shoot at targets with :buggedout:.
Answer: I didn't change my clothes, including socks and undies for almost 2 weeks: my undies stood up on their own after that. :buggedout: :tongueout: :twirl: :wink:
Everything makes sense now!
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 07, 2022, 02:37:50 PM
Rev- what drew you to Bad/ Psychotronic films?
A PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE screening on PBS. The idea of a movie that was so bad it was funny sounded appealing, and it turned out I loved it. Later I moved to Dallas and Joe Bob Briggs expanded my knowledge and appreciation of exploitation movies (this was when he was just a local columnist, before his TV show). A little later I bought Michael Weldon's books and I was off.
^I loved PBS in the 70's. They played NOSFERATU, the BATTLESHIP POTMEKIN, MABUSE THE GAMBLER, The CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and many other silent films.
Hey, indy, y'ever sleep wearing socks?
Quote from: ER on February 08, 2022, 11:26:15 AM
Hey, indy, y'ever sleep wearing socks?
I'm trying to think . . . not that I can remember. Even when it's cold, I rarely wear more than my skivvies to bed.
Maybe once, when I was camping out about 30 years ago - I do remember sleeping fully clothed that trip.
I presume that included socks.
John- do you ever chuckle to yourself when you're alone?
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 09, 2022, 02:33:59 AM
John- do you ever chuckle to yourself when you're alone?
Often.
Anyone else here ever throw loose change into open fields and along riverbanks, seeding future artifacts for people to find someday?
Quote from: ER on February 15, 2022, 05:54:21 PM
Anyone else here ever throw loose change into open fields and along riverbanks, seeding future artifacts for people to find someday?
Can't say I have.
Quote from: ER on February 15, 2022, 05:54:21 PM
Anyone else here ever throw loose change into open fields and along riverbanks, seeding future artifacts for people to find someday?
Never. I put it in a dish on a desk.
Quote from: ER on February 15, 2022, 05:54:21 PM
Anyone else here ever throw loose change into open fields and along riverbanks, seeding future artifacts for people to find someday?
I normally chuck random loose change out of my window and then I hear "Yo! WTF is the matter with you?" from outside. :teddyr:
Hey Alex, do Scots still eat traditional sheep-stomach haggis? Have you ever had it and if so do you like it?
Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 18, 2022, 02:16:12 PM
Hey Alex, do Scots still eat traditional sheep-stomach haggis? Have you ever had it and if so do you like it?
Yes they do (although there are other versions available), and I do enjoy it. Most people find it tastes entirely different to what they expect. I'd say 80% of the people I've seen try it from the US have liked it (normally to their surprise).
Hey, Rev, what do you think of Southeast Christian Church?
Quote from: ER on February 19, 2022, 06:57:15 PM
Hey, Rev, what do you think of Southeast Christian Church?
I don't think much of any Church. However, I do think that's the church my ex-addict cousin goes to and receives support that keeps him from going back to drugs, so they're good in that regard.
Also, every time we drive past it my mother says she's glad my father doesn't make her go there anymore. Neither of them have ever been inside in their lives.
Somebody ask me something and I will likely answer. After all, couldn't be rougher than my little "Ask Me Anything" event last year.
Quote from: ER on February 20, 2022, 02:16:22 PM
Somebody ask me something and I will likely answer. After all, couldn't be rougher than my little "Ask Me Anything" event last year.
What happened? :question:
Ha, I told people I knew to "Ask Me Anything" and they shore did....
Quote from: ER on February 20, 2022, 05:28:34 PM
Ha, I told people I knew to "Ask Me Anything" and they shore did....
So how many times have you...oops. Editing myself. :smile:
Do you usually put your left shoe on before your right?
^I never paid attention. Whatever shoe is closest, I guess.
Quote from: ER on March 02, 2022, 09:28:01 AM
Do you usually put your left shoe on before your right?
edit: Oh yeah, these days the left first... :bouncegiggle:
What is one fact about you that would surprise other people if they knew?
Something that those who don't know me closely may not guess is that I have lived a lot of my life afraid of someone.
Quote from: ER on March 04, 2022, 01:24:10 PM
What is one fact about you that would surprise other people if they knew?
Something that those who don't know me closely may not guess is that I have lived a lot of my life afraid of someone.
That person who scares you: I have a cricket bat with their name on it. :hatred:
There's a lot of things I keep secret about myself and some people would be surprised if they knew.
1. I am an abuse survivor: people who know me well and have kids will quite happily let me look after their kids as they know no harm will come to them as I won't allow it.
2. I lived through a war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesian_Bush_War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesian_Bush_War) which messed me up mentally.
3. Most adults find me very scary: I have been told I have a madness in my eyes at times but kids like me for some weird reason and they don't find me scary at all.
4. Some people think I am either homophobic, racist or both: I am neither.
5. I am the son of a former criminal turned cop and a radical feminist.
I once (briefly) held an Australian death adder.
Quote from: ER on March 04, 2022, 01:24:10 PM
What is one fact about you that would surprise other people if they knew?
Something that those who don't know me closely may not guess is that I have lived a lot of my life afraid of someone.
when i was very young, i stuttered, and had a severe lisp. i took speech classes for 3 years, but it( the stutter) still shows up when i'm under severe stress. the lisp came back when my wisdom teeth grew out of the roof of my mouth, but i can work around it, mostly.
What movie do you wish you could forget watching so you could enjoy watching it again as if it were the first time?
I'd go with the first Saw movie.
Quote from: Alex on March 27, 2022, 05:13:52 AM
What movie do you wish you could forget watching so you could enjoy watching it again as if it were the first time?
I'd go with the first Saw movie.
David Millin ASC's landmark war film
Shangani Patrol (1970): I would like to watch it as for the first time I screened it publicly with 120 people in the cinema in 1999. Mom was in the audience and Dad was with me in the projection booth :smile:
Here's the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T5pcpzY6mE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T5pcpzY6mE)
Quote from: Alex on March 27, 2022, 05:13:52 AM
What movie do you wish you could forget watching so you could enjoy watching it again as if it were the first time?
I'd go with the first Saw movie.
Most of the movies I love are because I have looked at them numerous times. I watched
THE LAST EMPEROR (1987) last night and immediately thought of it with your question... in a way, the fun of discovering a movie I love is seldom and one of life's great joys. If I forgot
THE LAST EMPEROR and discovered it anew last night that would've been wonderful.
5 Centimeters Per Second
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? (Not like x-ray vision, something doable.)
I think I'd like to have artistic talent. Or to be better at sleeping.
Hmmmm.
That's a good question.
I'd make myself a lot richer, I guess! So tired of scrimping and saving and barely getting bills paid each month.
Quote from: ER on March 31, 2022, 04:17:18 PM
I think I'd like to have artistic talent. Or to be better at sleeping.
You would be me.
MONEY SEX, POWER....
In order of most important to you to least important to you, rank which you'd want to have: money, sex, power?
Me, I think that's the order I'd choose, money, sex, power, since money can get the other two, assuming I even wanted power, which I don't, but I can think of cases where an excess of the other two doesn't bring money. (Like a streetwalker who has sex for a living but has no money or power, or a religious or civil rights leader who might have power but isn't rich, and in the case of Gandhi or a Pope, supposedly celibate.)
So, yeah, money, sex, power, in that order.
Anyone?
Eh- I can't say. I've never had to choose because it was never a problem. I never had any of it. I didn't even care. I still don't care. Except money...I gotta pay the bills.
what id'd change about myself? i'd be a great deal more cynical and a great deal less trusting.
what i'd want? money. that allows people to hide from reality.
Quote from: ER on April 05, 2022, 11:55:55 AM
MONEY SEX, POWER....
In order of most important to you to least important to you, rank which you'd want to have: money, sex, power?
Me, I think that's the order I'd choose, money, sex, power, since money can get the other two, assuming I even wanted power, which I don't, but I can think of cases where an excess of the other two doesn't bring money. (Like a streetwalker who has sex for a living but has no money or power, or a religious or civil rights leader who might have power but isn't rich, and in the case of Gandhi or a Pope, supposedly celibate.)
So, yeah, money, sex, power, in that order.
Anyone?
I do not ever wish for any of those. My sister (whom I don't speak with) thinks I'm "rich", I could always get sex and was pursued but lived like a monk, and power I've had and was pressured or resented for it.
Do you leave the water running when you brush your teeth?
Quote from: ER on January 15, 2023, 10:30:47 AM
Do you leave the water running when you brush your teeth?
Is this some kind of trap joke I don't know about? Does this have something to do with your winky nightmare?
I do let the water run, but I don't understand why this is controversial? Does everyone else's tap water warm up instantly? When I turn the hot water on, it's cold/coldish right away, I fill my rinse cup and rinse my toothbrush with it and leave the water running to warm up while I brush. By the time I'm done brushing (which is like a minute, not 40 years - maybe I'm a bad brusher) the water is hot/warm enough to rinse the frothy toothbrush, then I wash my face and hands with the warm water. Every where I've ever been to tend to personal toilet - home, hotels, etc. - the water more often than not takes about a minute or 2 to reach maximum warmness. If I want warm water, I need to let it run so I think I'm being more efficient by using the cold water to fill my cup and rinse my brush and letting the water warm up while I brush then using the warm water to wash my face and hands.
My daughter was just criticizing me for this too and I was like what the heck you don't know how to wash! Am I a monster?
I leave the water running too. I don't think it's a big deal. Sometimes the hot water smells like rotton eggs.
Running water while you brush your teeth must make you some kind of eco-terrorist, because even Barney the Purple Dinosaur sings against it, and he's pretty darn accepting.
He'd just lose his purple mind if he knew my son runs the sink water when he pees.
In the morning, part of my routine when I wake up involves going into the toilet, turning on the tap, then going for a pee after which I will then brush my teeth and if I haven't done so the night before, then shaving.
Quote from: ER on January 15, 2023, 01:33:05 PM
my son runs the sink water when he pees.
I do that when I poop at other peoples houses sometimes. For that I accept the title of eco-terrorist.
Now I think I've made this the TMI thread instead of Personal Questions.
Quote from: ER on January 15, 2023, 10:30:47 AM
Do you leave the water running when you brush your teeth?
Guilty.
When I think of purple I think of the color Prince used to wear. Barney isn't a purple dinosaur, he's more of a violet dinosaur.
If you asked your friends to guess how many people you've had sex with, do you think they'd get it right?
(I should try this. Now where can I make some friends?)
Quote from: ER on January 27, 2023, 06:33:29 PM
If you asked your friends to guess how many people you've had sex with, do you think they'd get it right?
(I should try this. Now where can I make some friends?)
No way! I don't tell anyone about people I've had sex with. (If you saw the people I've had sex with, you'd understand why!)
Shrug, just declare bankruptcy on your sex life and wipe it clean. It's easy....
It depends. If it's a really ugly woman, no.
I doubt they'd get it right. I never considered the looks of the woman to be important though, it was more about the experience itself for me.
I really don't want to gross anyone out with this but the person I was with in my so far last relationship said that I was the best lover she ever had. 😳
Quote from: Trevor on January 28, 2023, 08:19:13 AM
I really don't want to gross anyone out with this but the person I was with in my so far last relationship said that I was the best lover sge ever had. 😳
Respect!! :cheers:
The old claim is that men tend to inflate their body count and women to downplay it, but I don't know I've found that to seem true.
One thing I have noticed is women will be more detailed and descriptive about sexual events than most men are. Men will say, "I banged her." Women will....tell you extreme details. I've had my late friend Amy in my thoughts lately, even written about her here, and she more than any human being I ever knew in my life would regale everyone with near-pornographic accounts of what she'd been getting up to, and she was prolific in her adventuring too.
Annnnnieway, just had crossed my mind to wonder if friends would make an accurate guess. ("Let's go with 25!") I wonder all kinds of things at random through the day, like if local girls in Nazareth had the hots for Jesus and wondered if he was gay for hanging with men and not having a girlfriend. Or if newborn babies assume this world is just a terrible dream that'll end soon. Or if it's true jungle rot could get under eyelids. Or if Walt Disney had a mistress. Or if Taco Bell realizes its food is basically all the same, like Thomas Kincaid paintings. Or if Bob Ross ever painted sad little trees. You know, unanswerable things.
I mean I just spend my life wondering about stuff. Wonder if that makes me rare? (See, I did it again!)
Quote from: ER on January 27, 2023, 06:33:29 PM
If you asked your friends to guess how many people you've had sex with, do you think they'd get it right?
(I should try this. Now where can I make some friends?)
Problem is, most would. I'm blatantly honest and open with everyone so like, I mean.
Assuming reincarnation and karma exist, realistically, what would your next earthly lifetime be like, based on the way in which you've lived your current life, its excesses and failings and lessons learned?
Me, I figure I'd come back as a professional insect catcher for the wealthy in Dhaka, since I spent this life working for powerful people without growing wise, so I'd try again from a lower rung. Bug catcher. Fourth World.
My husband would be a celibate nun in Nigeria. Gee, he'd love that.
My late neighbor Mrs. Glenn would be a Chinese girl with an eating disorder.
My friend Hugh would be a helpless child born with a debilitating disease, to teach him existence is not about power and control.
My mom would teach classes in sociology in Canberra.
RC Merchant would transmigrate into an ant for a few months just for the sheer fun of being an ant, since he enjoys watching them.
indy will ascend to a higher plane with my grandma; like her he's done with the world.
Dana will come back as a fluffy Persian cat much loved by a gay couple in Malibu, whom she'll befriend but bite sometimes for no reason.
Lester will Quantum Leap into Tony Hawk circa 1999.
My Uncle Jerk will get eaten by roaches for ten straight lives as lepers.
And my buddy Edie will for sure be German.
As for my children, hey, they're going to live forever.
But seriously, what would fill the tracks you made in this lifetime?
I would become the next South African President and bring in the following laws which should fix our broken country:
1. No appointment to jobs on the basis of race or gender: merit only.
2. Closure of the apartheid style censorship board.
3. GBV and abuse - against women and children -to be declared a crime and punishable with a very long prison term.
4. Re-institution of the death penalty.
5. Re-introduction of armed forces conscription.
6. Sex work to be legalized.
7. Marijuana use to be legalized but only for religious or medicinal use.
8. Whole scale theft and corruption are to be punished severely.
9. No more re-naming of places in this country: it destroys history.
Hmm . . .
Given my lifelong record of premarital celibacy and marital fidelity, I'd probably come back as a gigolo.
As a punishment, of course . . . :wink:
I used to think reincarnation was hogwash, but then I heard some perspectives on it that I hadn't thought of. What made sense to me was that there are a multitude of experiences one must go through for the soul to reach maturity, far too many to complete in a single lifetime. Once those have been achieved you can move on to the next thing which I guess would be a spirit guide or something cool like that. I also heard that souls travel in circles, so someone's brother in one life might be their child or best friend in the next – my best friend is exactly 9 months younger than me to the day so... sounds legit.
I like to think that we have a checklist on our nightstand on the "otherside" and when we're done, we look at it and have a Homer Simpson "doh!" moment because we missed one or two simple things like "hug a Jewish person". Then in our next life we get pre-loaded with certain attributes to help us out and that's where those weird "huggers" come from.
That said, I'd probably come back as ER 2.0 because I think the life you've led is so polar opposite to mine that anything I didn't check off in this life would be checked off living yours.
Hug a Jewish person? :question:
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 01, 2023, 11:29:05 PM
Hug a Jewish person? :question:
That's how you can feel if they're wearing the secret treasure map to their hidden
Judengeld. Hey, I've listened to Eric Cartman, I know the score....
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 01, 2023, 11:29:05 PM
Hug a Jewish person? :question:
Is that a personal question? Sheesh. I answer yes!
^ I dunno. See what Paquita wrote.
I suspect I'd end up being a pacifist vegan, but I would not be happy about it.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 03, 2023, 03:25:10 PM
^ I dunno. See what Paquita wrote.
I do not understand what
Paquita wrote, but I now understand why you asked. :question: :twirl:
Ever held a secret so dark and deep that if it were known it would change your life?
Er, not me, nope.
Quote from: ER on February 05, 2023, 11:56:10 AM
Ever held a secret so dark and deep that if it were known it would change your life?
Er, not me, nope.
Yes. And no, I can't tell you what any of them are.
Nope. I blurt out all sortsa stupid sh!t.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 05, 2023, 12:46:44 PM
Nope. I blurt out all sortsa stupid sh!t.
Yeah, me too, only in my case I merrily post them on this one obscure message board.
Jellybeans or peeps?
Quote from: ER on February 06, 2023, 10:31:07 AM
Jellybeans or peeps?
Jellybeans. I find those marshmallow things kind of disgusting, wouldn't eat one by choice.
Jelly beans. Peeps are gross. Like sugar coated styrafoam.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 06, 2023, 10:34:54 AM
Quote from: ER on February 06, 2023, 10:31:07 AM
Jellybeans or peeps?
Jellybeans. I find those marshmallow things kind of disgusting, wouldn't eat one by choice.
When I was a kid, marshmallows made me gag as they tasted (to me) like they were made from snot. I will only eat toasted ones.
Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist party?
Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 06, 2023, 11:18:01 AM
Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist party?
No, friend computer. (I'll be impressed if anyone gets that reference).
Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 06, 2023, 11:18:01 AM
Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist party?
No. But I would party with a commie!
Quote from: Rev. Powell on February 06, 2023, 11:18:01 AM
Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist party?
In my last year of high school (1984) my parents went to a PTA meeting and the headmaster greeted my Dad with the words "Ah, you must be Comrade Moses." Dad's reply? "Who the *EXPLETIVE DELETED* is your *EXPLETIVE DELETED* comrade?" :teddyr: :teddyr:
That was the last PTA meeting my folks went to :buggedout: :wink: :wink:
You know, I have had to sign papers attesting to the fact I am not and never have been a member of the Communist Party.
^ When? 1950? :question:
It's not against the law, you know.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 06, 2023, 03:14:23 PM
^ When? 1950? :question:
It's not against the law, you know.
I had to do the same thing when I joined up mate. It isn't uncommon.
Yeah, they ask about all sorts of affiliations, though they've by that time investigated you so thoroughly that it's half formality, half control measure, since if they ever did miss something and you lied about it they could prosecute you. (Though they would probably be less about punishing you at that point and more about using you, since facing jail time you might prove malleable.)
One of my positions, albeit briefly and late in things, was handling federal background checks.
ER- Have you ever seen a horror film in the theater?
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 06, 2023, 07:19:35 PM
ER- Have you ever seen a horror film in the theater?
I have. Let's see....
The Sixth Sense
The Others
The Blair Witch Project
The Ring
Uhhhj.... I'm sure there were more.
Ever faked being drunk to fit in someplace?
Quote from: ER on February 11, 2023, 11:35:54 AM
Ever faked being drunk to fit in someplace?
AHAHAHAHAHA! :bouncegiggle:
What do you think? :drink:
Hypothetically, if a retired entrepreneur were to offer a service where after your death you could have your life story written in your blood and bound with your actual skin, would that interest you?
Quote from: ER on February 12, 2023, 12:15:55 AM
Hypothetically, if a retired entrepreneur were to offer a service where after your death you could have your life story written in your blood and bound with your actual skin, would that interest you?
Man you are so weird.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 12, 2023, 12:38:06 AM
Quote from: ER on February 12, 2023, 12:15:55 AM
Hypothetically, if a retired entrepreneur were to offer a service where after your death you could have your life story written in your blood and bound with your actual skin, would that interest you?
Man you are so weird.
Sooo, putcha down two copies? :teddyr:
Quote from: ER on February 12, 2023, 12:15:55 AM
Hypothetically, if a retired entrepreneur were to offer a service where after your death you could have your life story written in your blood and bound with your actual skin, would that interest you?
Life story? I can't even remember what I did last week!
Quote from: ER on February 12, 2023, 12:15:55 AM
Hypothetically, if a retired entrepreneur were to offer a service where after your death you could have your life story written in your blood and bound with your actual skin, would that interest you?
Well, it isn't like I'd have a use for it any more.
Quote from: Alex on February 13, 2023, 09:10:26 AM
Quote from: ER on February 12, 2023, 12:15:55 AM
Hypothetically, if a retired entrepreneur were to offer a service where after your death you could have your life story written in your blood and bound with your actual skin, would that interest you?
Well, it isn't like I'd have a use for it any more.
That's how I always feel at the BMV when I'm renewing my license and they read this rote pitch to me about putting "organ donor" on my license so they can harvest my parts if I die suddenly. I think well I'm not going to need them anymore, but I also do wonder if I could have arranged to sell them, maybe leave my family a few extra bob.
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Hypothetically, if a retired entrepreneur were to offer a service where after your death you could have your life story written in your blood and bound with your actual skin, would that interest you?
Well, it isn't like I'd have a use for it any more.
That's how I always feel at the BMV when I'm renewing my license and they read this rote pitch to me about putting "organ donor" on my license so they can harvest my parts if I die suddenly. I think well I'm not going to need them anymore, but I also do wonder if I could have arranged to sell them, maybe leave my family a few extra bob.
For some reason, the only part of me it would bother me to donate is my eyes. I just don't like the thought of doing that for whatever reason.
Does shaking hands bother you? I've never particularly liked it, to be honest. I'll do it, but I don't understand why so many people feel it is necessary.
Quote from: ER on February 15, 2023, 07:16:05 AM
Does shaking hands bother you? I've never particularly liked it, to be honest. I'll do it, but I don't understand why so many people feel it is necessary.
I enjoy shaking hands, hugging, and generally having physical contact with people I'm fond of.
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Quote from: ER on February 15, 2023, 07:16:05 AM
Does shaking hands bother you? I've never particularly liked it, to be honest. I'll do it, but I don't understand why so many people feel it is necessary.
I enjoy shaking hands, hugging, and generally having physical contact with people I'm fond of.
Well yeah, but you're a living saint.
Quote from: ER on February 15, 2023, 07:16:05 AM
Does shaking hands bother you? I've never particularly liked it, to be honest. I'll do it, but I don't understand why so many people feel it is necessary.
No. I like connecting with folks.
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Quote from: ER on February 15, 2023, 07:16:05 AM
Does shaking hands bother you? I've never particularly liked it, to be honest. I'll do it, but I don't understand why so many people feel it is necessary.
I enjoy shaking hands, hugging, and generally having physical contact with people I'm fond of.
Well yeah, but you're a living saint.
I think that's a BIT of an exaggeration. I just like people until they give me a reason not to.
^ I like folks- and like Indy said.
Quote from: ER on February 15, 2023, 07:16:05 AM
Does shaking hands bother you? I've never particularly liked it, to be honest. I'll do it, but I don't understand why so many people feel it is necessary.
In the wake of Covid, I am less inclined towards physical contact, but shaking hands, hugging and even kissing are things I enjoy when warm feelings are mutual.
If you were offered a 2,000 square foot new house at no cost, an acre of ground with it, and $25,000 per year, tax free, in addition to any other income you earned, would you be willing to relocate permanently to an isolated town in rural North Dakota?
I'd say no.
Quote from: ER on February 17, 2023, 01:26:39 PM
If you were offered a 2,000 square foot new house at no cost, an acre of ground with it, and $25,000 per year, tax free, in addition to any other income you earned, would you be willing to relocate permanently to an isolated town in rural North Dakota?
I'd say no.
way
Quote from: ER on February 17, 2023, 01:26:39 PM
If you were offered a 2,000 square foot new house at no cost, an acre of ground with it, and $25,000 per year, tax free, in addition to any other income you earned, would you be willing to relocate permanently to an isolated town in rural North Dakota?
I'd say no.
In a NY minute!
Ever had a dream in which you murdered someone?
On a stupefyingly hot night in 1997 I dreamed I murdered an old lady who worked in a library in a small town. (The old lady and the library were only in my dream, not real.) The feeling of sheer dread I experienced in the dream, the sickening certainty I was going to be caught, the awfulness of being at my victim's funeral, not caught yet but sure I would be, and feeling remorse, too, was like few dreams I've ever had, and I was so glad to wake up and realize it wasn't real.
Rate in order of personal importance:
Sex
Drugs
Rock and Roll
(R&R, sex, drugs.)
Quote from: ER on February 21, 2023, 04:41:54 PM
Rate in order of personal importance:
Sex
Drugs
Rock and Roll
(R&R, sex, drugs.)
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll a distant, distant third. I'm reminded of a stand-up's line that after the 60s passed, he realized that when you took out the sex and drugs, rock and roll wasn't all that good.
Rock and Roll, drugs (as in pot), sex.
If you lost your sense of touch (a condition called hypoesthesia) and felt nothing, would you still want to have sex? And if so, why? Procreation, nostalgia, for the status of it? Think about it....wouldn't that kind of make the act ....meaningless?
Quote from: ER on February 23, 2023, 09:35:40 AM
If you lost your sense of touch (a condition called hypoesthesia) and felt nothing, would you still want to have sex? And if so, why? Procreation, nostalgia, for the status of it? Think about it....wouldn't that kind of make the act ....meaningless?
Well, I've had sex with people I haven't enjoyed, but did so on the basis that I knew it would make them happy, so I'd have to go with yes.
Do other people have conversations that include lines like "What about Juanita, the transsexual rage mage. How does she fit into your theory?" or is that just me and my circle of friends?
Quote from: Alex on February 23, 2023, 09:46:05 AM
Quote from: ER on February 23, 2023, 09:35:40 AM
If you lost your sense of touch (a condition called hypoesthesia) and felt nothing, would you still want to have sex? And if so, why? Procreation, nostalgia, for the status of it? Think about it....wouldn't that kind of make the act ....meaningless?
Well, I've had sex with people I haven't enjoyed, but did so on the basis that I knew it would make them happy, so I'd have to go with yes.
Altruistic sex gets you into Heaven, you know.
Quote from: Alex on February 23, 2023, 09:47:17 AM
Do other people have conversations that include lines like "What about Juanita, the transsexual rage mage. How does she fit into your theory?" or is that just me and my circle of friends?
No! Can you believe I never have had that sentence in a single one of my conversations?
Quote from: ER on February 23, 2023, 09:35:40 AM
If you lost your sense of touch (a condition called hypoesthesia) and felt nothing, would you still want to have sex? And if so, why? Procreation, nostalgia, for the status of it? Think about it....wouldn't that kind of make the act ....meaningless?
I don't have sex now. If I lost my sense of touch, it wouldn't bother me.
Quote from: Alex on February 23, 2023, 09:47:17 AM
Do other people have conversations that include lines like "What about Juanita, the transsexual rage mage. How does she fit into your theory?" or is that just me and my circle of friends?
No. I never had anyone say that around me.
Quote from: Alex on February 23, 2023, 09:47:17 AM
Do other people have conversations that include lines like "What about Juanita, the transsexual rage mage. How does she fit into your theory?" or is that just me and my circle of friends?
No, I don't know anyone named Juanita.
If you see a penny lying on the ground, how likely are you to pick it up?
^ Always.
Even if the penny is face-down, and bad luck? ;-)
Yeah, I usually pick up coins too.
Quote from: ER on March 05, 2023, 09:23:49 AM
If you see a penny lying on the ground, how likely are you to pick it up?
Very likely. However, a neighbor I don't know has a little display sign with cup that reads " Garden Tour 5c " so if I had a coin, I'd typically leave a dime. They always disappeared.
Ever in your entire life, even once, even for a second, experienced the strange feeling that land masses have relocated on printed maps in your house, making you wonder if you are in another reality, another dimension, on another plane, have taken too much sugar with your peyote, are being pranked, were wrong the day before, or are just plain bats**t nuts?
Quote from: ER on March 08, 2023, 03:03:53 PM
Ever in your entire life, even once, even for a second, experienced the strange feeling that land masses have relocated on printed maps in your house, making you wonder if you are in another reality, another dimension, on another plane, have taken too much sugar with your peyote, are being pranked, were wrong the day before, or are just plain bats**t nuts?
Can't say it has, Ma'am. :buggedout:
Dang, really? I could swear on a stack of (insert chosen holy book) that Sri Lanka suddenly up and moved a few years ago, and I am obsessed with geography.
I dunno, man! :question:
The weird thing is I looked online and other people said the same thing, "It ain't where it used to be!" I mean....islands don't just get up and waltz somewhere else like that, I have found no maps whatsoever that show Sri Lanka sitting where all my life I always took it for granted it was (due south of the Indian subcontinent) but I admit it was one of the rare times when I felt some sympathy for the Mandela Effect tinfoil beanie crowd because it puzzled me too. Shrug.
Quote from: ER on March 08, 2023, 03:08:15 PM
Dang, really? I could swear on a stack of (insert chosen holy book) that Sri Lanka suddenly up and moved a few years ago, and I am obsessed with geography.
Nope, Sri Lanka is still off the eastern coast of Canada, where it's always been.
Once while playing World of Warcraft, it was mentioned that I'd spent time in the Falkland Isles. One of the players went looking for it, thinking it was somewhere off the coast of Kalimdor.
Ah, thanks, you guys are making this former empress of Russia feel so reassured about Sri Lanka that I will put in a good word for you with my husband Jesus.
I remember seeing a classroom globe for sale about ten years ago where it had RHODESIA printed over the country of Zimbabwe 😳
Dark Side of the Moon, or The Wall?
(Guess which one I say...)
For me, it's Wish You Were Here- I'll say you like the Wall.
Animals is also good.
I agree with RC - Wish You Were Here is their peak. Dark Side of the Moon > The Wall.
Dark Side of the Moon is probably the superior album between the two, but I actually prefer The Wall, but then I find I often favor a book or song or movie that isn't considered the maker's best work over one that is. (For instance Eyes Wide Shut is my favorite Kubrick movie, even though it's not his best.)
Wish You Were Here has a couple of songs I like a lot but Pink Floyd almost seems to demand the album be listened to as a whole, a single entity with many bodies conjoined and somehow....
"Well, I mean occasionally it seems to have, how shall one say?"
"Too many notes, Your Majesty?"
"Exactly. Very well put. Too many notes."
PINK FLOYD's best album is Wish You Were Here. I agree with ER that it almost demands listening in its entirety.
I suspect ER prefers The Wall as its PINK FLOYD's most Pop record. That would be my own normal inclination.
I listen to The Wall more than Dark Side... and Atom Heart Mother more than either!
The Wall was banned in South Africa in 1980 😳
Who's your favorite movie star?
I honestly don't think I have one.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 09, 2023, 06:33:10 PM
Who's your favorite movie star?
Hmmm...I dunno? :tongueout:
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Quote from: RCMerchant on March 11, 2023, 02:51:17 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 09, 2023, 06:33:10 PM
Who's your favorite movie star?
Hmmm...I dunno? :tongueout:
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:teddyr: One of the few I'm always interested in watching, like this lady:
INGRID BERGMAN (https://media1.giphy.com/media/HjxkUATryCupG/giphy.gif)
I like Hepburn, but Bette Davis has got to be one of my favorite actresses of that era- or any era!
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Quote from: RCMerchant on March 11, 2023, 03:52:34 PM
I like Hepburn, but Bette Davis has got to be one of my favorite actresses of that era- or any era!
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Uhm... the picture is
INGRID BERGMAN...
Yup! I'm an idiot! :lookingup:
Do you like seafood?
As far as meat goes, yeah. About once a year I'll have shrimp.
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 12, 2023, 02:16:22 PM
Do you like seafood?
I love seafood. The only seafood that I don't like are oysters and salmon.
I hate seafood. Freshwater fish- yeah. Seafood- NO.
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 12, 2023, 02:16:22 PM
Do you like seafood?
Like it all, with one exception: Oysters. I'll eat them, but I don't really care for them.
Anything else that comes out of the ocean, I'm in.
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Quote from: RCMerchant on March 12, 2023, 02:16:22 PM
Do you like seafood?
Like it all, with one exception: Oysters. I'll eat them, but I don't really care for them.
Anything else that comes out of the ocean, I'm in.
"Pray, never eat oysters!"
---Oscar Wilde
Have the most intimate relationships of your life been the carnal ones?
No, I think it was one where I killed many, many, people.
Seriously, I lived with Tiana for 11 years, and she's still my best friend.
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 12, 2023, 11:50:38 PM
No, I think it was one where I killed many, many, people.
Seriously, I lived with Tiana for 11 years, and she's still my best friend.
OK, if it's out of line to ask this, feel free to throw shade at me, but
where are the bodies buried I have known a lot of people who say they married their best friend (or lived with them a long time, etc.) and that idea has always seemed foreign to me, because, well, how do you have sex with your best friend? To me the nature of a best friend is entirely different from the relationship you have with a lover. Have I been deprived one of life's best experiences?
Quote from: ER on March 12, 2023, 11:23:49 PM
Have the most intimate relationships of your life been the carnal ones?
The two deepest and most personal relationships of my life are on opposite sides of that question.
My wife I've known now since we were 7 - that's 52 years - and we are both emotionally close and physically intimate.
The deepest friendship/relationship I've ever had beyond that is with a person whom I've never met face to face. We are incredibly intimate, but not in the physical sense.
Quote from: ER on March 12, 2023, 11:23:49 PM
Have the most intimate relationships of your life been the carnal ones?
No, I think my most intimate relationship was with my mother. Particularly considering the very earliest years of my life.
Mostly my most intimate ones have been non-carnal. There are a few exceptions, but I've generally kept myself emotionally separate from people I was just having sex with.
Quote from: ER on March 13, 2023, 12:12:38 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 12, 2023, 11:50:38 PM
No, I think it was one where I killed many, many, people.
Seriously, I lived with Tiana for 11 years, and she's still my best friend.
OK, if it's out of line to ask this, feel free to throw shade at me, but where are the bodies buried I have known a lot of people who say they married their best friend (or lived with them a long time, etc.) and that idea has always seemed foreign to me, because, well, how do you have sex with your best friend? To me the nature of a best friend is entirely different from the relationship you have with a lover. Have I been deprived one of life's best experiences?
Like Alex says, sex is just sex. And yes, you can have sex with your friends. Who else would you have sex with? Your enemies? A stranger, I guess, or a hooker.
Not to gross anyone out but I stayed a virgin until I was 36. :buggedout:
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 13, 2023, 09:03:09 AM
Quote from: ER on March 13, 2023, 12:12:38 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 12, 2023, 11:50:38 PM
No, I think it was one where I killed many, many, people.
Seriously, I lived with Tiana for 11 years, and she's still my best friend.
OK, if it's out of line to ask this, feel free to throw shade at me, but where are the bodies buried I have known a lot of people who say they married their best friend (or lived with them a long time, etc.) and that idea has always seemed foreign to me, because, well, how do you have sex with your best friend? To me the nature of a best friend is entirely different from the relationship you have with a lover. Have I been deprived one of life's best experiences?
Like Alex says, sex is just sex. And yes, you can have sex with your friends. Who else would you have sex with? Your enemies? A stranger, I guess, or a hooker.
I feel like one of the games where someone says something and if you've done it, you need to take a drink. Yes, I've had sex with an enemy and strangers. Even a strange enemy.
Quote from: Alex on March 13, 2023, 10:10:40 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 13, 2023, 09:03:09 AM
Quote from: ER on March 13, 2023, 12:12:38 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 12, 2023, 11:50:38 PM
No, I think it was one where I killed many, many, people.
Seriously, I lived with Tiana for 11 years, and she's still my best friend.
OK, if it's out of line to ask this, feel free to throw shade at me, but where are the bodies buried I have known a lot of people who say they married their best friend (or lived with them a long time, etc.) and that idea has always seemed foreign to me, because, well, how do you have sex with your best friend? To me the nature of a best friend is entirely different from the relationship you have with a lover. Have I been deprived one of life's best experiences?
Like Alex says, sex is just sex. And yes, you can have sex with your friends. Who else would you have sex with? Your enemies? A stranger, I guess, or a hooker.
I feel like one of the games where someone says something and if you've done it, you need to take a drink. Yes, I've had sex with an enemy and strangers. Even a strange enemy.
Congratulations, you just triggered one of my uncontrolled laughing fits.
Oh, man, I need help.
Quote from: ER on March 12, 2023, 11:23:49 PM
Have the most intimate relationships of your life been the carnal ones?
No. Undoubtedly the most intimate relationship I've had is with my brother's wife. We were always close, but we experienced perhaps the most difficult time of our lives together which forged an unbreakable bond. Death breaks all bonds.
Quote from: Trevor on March 13, 2023, 09:16:25 AM
Not to gross anyone out but I stayed a virgin until I was 36. :buggedout:
Not gross, you were being who you are, and who you are seems like a pretty decent bloke.
Quote from: indianasmith on March 13, 2023, 05:58:43 AM
Quote from: ER on March 12, 2023, 11:23:49 PM
Have the most intimate relationships of your life been the carnal ones?
The two deepest and most personal relationships of my life are on opposite sides of that question.
My wife I've known now since we were 7 - that's 52 years - and we are both emotionally close and physically intimate.
The deepest friendship/relationship I've ever had beyond that is with a person whom I've never met face to face. We are incredibly intimate, but not in the physical sense.
So which of those two relationships would you consider the more intimate? Considering you've known me since I was twenty-one, since two months before Brian died, actually, when I was apparently more flirty and lighthearted with everyone, as you once described, ha, I can probably get away with asking you that, and I am curious. The spouse or the mouse?
PS I won't tell either one.
I will go all Solomon on this one and say equally intimate in very different ways.
Quote from: indianasmith on March 13, 2023, 10:54:51 PM
I will go all Solomon on this one and say equally intimate in very different ways.
Dude, that was a slow pitch over home plate to say your wife. Be abashed, Indy, be abashed. :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: indianasmith on March 13, 2023, 10:54:51 PM
I will go all Solomon on this one and say equally intimate in very different ways.
What is your relationship with this third party you are intimate with that you've never met?
If you were picked by lottery to execute someone on death row whose identity and crime were not revealed to you, or if you refused, this person would be set free, would you execute this person?
BTW, as much as I oppose the death penalty---which isn't that passionately, though I do think it's wrong---I believe in that case I would trust American justice enough to think the greater evil would be releasing a presumably convicted murderer out into society, so I'd choose to be the executioner, and hope it would be just throwing a switch and I didn't have to stab or beat someone to death.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 14, 2023, 02:33:35 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on March 13, 2023, 10:54:51 PM
I will go all Solomon on this one and say equally intimate in very different ways.
What is your relationship with this third party you are intimate with that you've never met?
Simply the closest friend I've ever had, who knows all my secrets and the depths of my soul.
I love my wife more, of course, but this person knows some things about me I've never told another soul.
Quote from: ER on March 14, 2023, 02:59:49 PM
If you were picked by lottery to execute someone on death row whose identity and crime were not revealed to you, or if you refused, this person would be set free, would you execute this person?
No. Such an absurd condition would suggest a corrupt motive.
Quote from: ER on March 14, 2023, 02:59:49 PM
If you were picked by lottery to execute someone on death row whose identity and crime were not revealed to you, or if you refused, this person would be set free, would you execute this person?
Oh hell no. I am for the death penalty, but under those rules- f**k no.
That's Nazi s**t.
Quote from: indianasmith on March 14, 2023, 03:38:25 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 14, 2023, 02:33:35 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on March 13, 2023, 10:54:51 PM
I will go all Solomon on this one and say equally intimate in very different ways.
What is your relationship with this third party you are intimate with that you've never met?
Simply the closest friend I've ever had, who knows all my secrets and the depths of my soul.
I love my wife more, of course, but this person knows some things about me I've never told another soul.
Indy, I don't mean to pull teeth. How did you come in contact?
A rather long story, TBH. Our friendship grew very slowly for the first ten years.
We became much closer over the last decade.
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 14, 2023, 05:01:01 PM
Quote from: ER on March 14, 2023, 02:59:49 PM
If you were picked by lottery to execute someone on death row whose identity and crime were not revealed to you, or if you refused, this person would be set free, would you execute this person?
Oh hell no. I am for the death penalty, but under those rules- f**k no.
That's Nazi s**t.
You guys have minds that work differently from mine. I enjoy contemplating strange scenarios like that. :teddyr:
Like today I was pondering, if two people were drowning in front of me and I could only save one, and one was a five year old, the other a much-hated middle-aged billionaire jerk who vowed to build a children's cancer hospital if I saved him, what would I do, save one child directly, or potentially save thousands of children indirectly? I thought about that all the time I sat through this extremely remedial lecture I had to go to.
Quote from: ER on March 14, 2023, 09:43:15 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 14, 2023, 05:01:01 PM
Quote from: ER on March 14, 2023, 02:59:49 PM
If you were picked by lottery to execute someone on death row whose identity and crime were not revealed to you, or if you refused, this person would be set free, would you execute this person?
Oh hell no. I am for the death penalty, but under those rules- f**k no.
That's Nazi s**t.
You guys have minds that work differently from mine. I enjoy contemplating strange scenarios like that. :teddyr:
Like today I was pondering, if two people were drowning in front of me and I could only save one, and one was a five year old, the other a much-hated middle-aged billionaire jerk who vowed to build a children's cancer hospital if I saved him, what would I do, save one child directly, or potentially save thousands of children indirectly? I thought about that all the time I sat through this extremely remedial lecture I had to go to.
Middle-aged billionaire jerks have a lousy track record of keeping their promises.
Yeah, but remember, Hitler was once a five year old. Do I gamble on the odds of this one being another Hitler and pull the mite out of the water?
Quote from: ER on March 14, 2023, 09:51:51 PM
Yeah, but remember, Hitler was once a five year old. Do I gamble on the odds of this one being another Hitler and pull the mite out of the water?
Yeah- but I bet on the present- not the future. A child is innocent. f**k rich scumbags.
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 14, 2023, 10:10:39 PM
Quote from: ER on March 14, 2023, 09:51:51 PM
Yeah, but remember, Hitler was once a five year old. Do I gamble on the odds of this one being another Hitler and pull the mite out of the water?
Yeah- but I bet on the present- not the future. A child is innocent. f**k rich scumbags.
Aw, you know I'm just bumblefuggin' around, RC, I'd pull the child out without thinking twice. I just amuse myself constructing odd scenarios.
Goodnight to you and all. I hope you're doing well. :cheers:
^ I might even help him die!
Not the kid. Well, maybe. Depending on how hungry I am at the time.
Seriously, what the hell are you all talking about?
^ Drowning babies and billonaires, of course. :bouncegiggle:
But of course!
(Insomnia yet again.)
Have you ever had a memorable bodily accident?
Yes. I totaled a truck. I broke both my legs, got a big ass scar on my chin. Second car wreck (I wasn't driving this time) I went threw a sunroof while the car was doing endos in a cornfield and broke my neck.
The one-car crash I've been in, was the day we later found out that Kristi was pregnant with Ash. Pretty sure I'll remember that day.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 15, 2023, 12:32:05 AM
Have you ever had a memorable bodily accident?
Oh my yes. One almost killed me when I was fifteen.
Waaaait. You didn't mean "accident" as in like needing to change undergarments, did you? (Oh, Trevor's starting to influence me.)
Have you ever p**sed on someone. I mean take a p**s on them.
Does being a baby count?
I reckon!
I lived in an old trailer across from a biker bar in Marcellus, Michigan. Melvilles!
Anyway, me and my brother were sh!tfaced. Glenn passed out on a couch, I was trying to find the bathroom half asleep, and p**sed on Glenn by mistake. He was p**sed! More ways than one! :bouncegiggle:
When he was a newborn my son peed in my mouth. Perfect shot as I was talking while changing him, zing, a splash of it went bullseye. I thought my husband was gonna die laughing and all I could think of to say to him with the faintly sweet taste of baby pee in my mouth was come give a kiss.
But did YOU ever p**s on somebody?
My son's Jed and Eddie p**sed on me all the time.
My buddie Eathon was hammered. I was too. I passed out on the couch with him, and he p**sed himself.
We were watching some horror movie. His girlfreind Destiny was there too. She thought it was funny!
I guess it was!
Quote from: ER on March 15, 2023, 02:39:37 PM
Waaaait. You didn't mean "accident" as in like needing to change undergarments, did you? (Oh, Trevor's starting to influence me.)
Yes, I did! :teddyr:
Quote from: ER on March 15, 2023, 02:39:37 PM
Waaaait. You didn't mean "accident" as in like needing to change undergarments, did you? (Oh, Trevor's starting to influence me.)
As my friend Empreror Palapatine said "Good, good, let my influence flow through you....." :buggedout: :wink:
Who was your first celebrity crush?
Mine was - don't laugh!!! - Debby Boone.
I think Carrie Fisher, but it might have been Debbie Harry.
Dame Joan Collins very closely followed by Princess Diana.
Singers: I had quite a crush on Sheena Easton and Dame Olivia Newton-John too.
I feel left out but I don't think I ever had a thing for celebrities or celebrity culture. The closest I got was liking certain characters on screen, but more because they were in shows I enjoyed.
At various times Catharine Bach, Lynda Carter, Jacklyn Smith, Dawn French, and Barbara Eden. Not really "crushes" per se, just the women I found attractive.
Nobody.
Dou you like horseradish?
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 16, 2023, 07:15:08 PM
Dou you like horseradish?
Love it! The hotter the better!
Yes, I like the sting.
Not so much by itself, but in things like wasabi and cocktail sauce, ABSOLUTELY!
Ever known a Flat Earther?
I have, and it's amazing how detailed and thought-out their erroneous views can be. Some of them may be crazy but they aren't all stupid.
Quote from: ER on March 17, 2023, 09:02:42 AM
Ever known a Flat Earther?
I have, and it's amazing how detailed and thought-out their erroneous views can be. Some of them may be crazy but they aren't all stupid.
I haven't met any flat earthers, but I did used to spar with a holocaust denier, and it's the same thing - they're incredibly invested in their flawed worldview and can cite "evidence" to support it while finding creative ways to dismiss all real evidence to the contrary.
Holocaust deniers are hard to get. Where do they think the Jewish population of the Pale and elsewhere in Europe went? What about all the eyewitnesses? I heard one on TV say the Holocaust couldn't have happened because Germany didn't have enough fuel to incinerate so many bodies. That was his evidence. I think the default setting of far to many people is to believe what they want and then try to find evidence to support it. (I also remember on September 11, 2001, literally ON that day, before it was over there were people saying in effect it never happened.)
The guy I got into it with claimed that there was not trace evidence of cyanide on the gas chamber walls at Auschwitz, therefore they were just showers, not gas chambers.
Beneath his veil of polite skepticism lurked a nasty anti-Semitism. I asked him once about the tens of thousands of eyewitnesses who had seen the horrors in the camps, who had lost loved ones there, etc. The mask dropped for a minute and he said:
"They've gotten away with this for far too long!"
Quote from: ER on March 17, 2023, 09:02:42 AM
Ever known a Flat Earther?
I have, and it's amazing how detailed and thought-out their erroneous views can be. Some of them may be crazy but they aren't all stupid.
Yes. Tara Sue's son Jim was one, just before he died.
At least flat-earthers are harmless. Holocaust deniers- f**k them all to hell.
Quote from: indianasmith on March 17, 2023, 09:16:06 AM
The guy I got into it with claimed that there was not trace evidence of cyanide on the gas chamber walls at Auschwitz, therefore they were just showers, not gas chambers.
Beneath his veil of polite skepticism lurked a nasty anti-Semitism. I asked him once about the tens of thousands of eyewitnesses who had seen the horrors in the camps, who had lost loved ones there, etc. The mask dropped for a minute and he said:
"They've gotten away with this for far too long!"
Whenever a holocaust denier starts with me I always say the same thing: My granddad was one of the guys who liberated Belsin. Might want to be very careful what you say next, cos it might just be engraved on your gravestone.
None of them have ever said anything next.
Let me think up one of these before bed....
OK, here's one. Have you ever been so afraid you couldn't seem to move a muscle?
I felt that way one night alone in a tent in a forest in Maine, miles from where anyone was supposed to be. It was as dark as the interior of a cave outside, and someone was walking around very close to me, taking small quiet footsteps. It was absolutely terrifying.
Never. Nothing scares me. I swear to...? My Ma's grave.
I may get scared for a second- but that turns into anger very fast. I don't think that's a healthy reaction, but it's the truth.
Quote from: ER on March 18, 2023, 12:30:53 AM
Let me think up one of these before bed....
OK, here's one. Have you ever been so afraid you couldn't seem to move a muscle?
I felt that way one night alone in a tent in a forest in Maine, miles from where anyone was supposed to be. It was as dark as the interior of a cave outside, and someone was walking around very close to me, taking small quiet footsteps. It was absolutely terrifying.
One of my earliest memories involves waking up from a night terror (I still remember what I was dreaming of. We left that house where I had that dream when I was 3), and being unable to move or cry out.
How long do you sleep?
I average about five hours a night, which I'm told is not enough, and will bite me in some way down the road.
Generally 4 hours and night and ditto on the shortened lifespan as a result.
I shoot for (and average) 8 hours a night, prefer 9 if I can get it. If I have less than 7 hours I drag noticeably the next day.
Because of issues I have with anxiety and depression, I'm happy if I can get five hours of sleep per night.
I get about 5 - 6 hours' sleep nightly when I'm working, rarely more. In the summers, when I'm off, I generally sleep till I wake up - which is usually after about 7 hours.
This is a disturbing question, or at least I find the subject disturbing, and I lived contentedly a long time* before I was even aware of the stereotype/accusation, but do you think it's true that funeral directors and morticians are often sexually attracted to dead people?
(*I found out when the necrophile House Hlaalu dark elf in Oblivion joked about the fine in Cyrodiil, and someone brought that subject this up, so like 2007-ish.)
Quote from: ER on March 18, 2023, 04:46:02 PM
This is a disturbing question, or at least I find the subject disturbing, and I lived contentedly a long time* before I was even aware of the stereotype/accusation, but do you think it's true that funeral directors and morticians are often sexually attracted to dead people?
(*I found out when the necrophile House Hlaalu dark elf in Oblivion joked about the fine in Cyrodiil, and someone brought that subject this up, so like 2007-ish.)
Uhm. I'll PM you a story (not involving me directly, but it is pretty damn dark).
Quote from: ER on March 18, 2023, 04:46:02 PM
This is a disturbing question, or at least I find the subject disturbing, and I lived contentedly a long time* before I was even aware of the stereotype/accusation, but do you think it's true that funeral directors and morticians are often sexually attracted to dead people?
(*I found out when the necrophile House Hlaalu dark elf in Oblivion joked about the fine in Cyrodiil, and someone brought that subject this up, so like 2007-ish.)
I don't think it's OFTEN, but it does happen.
^ Hey, look at that, indy's got 2,500 karma! :cheers:
Quote from: ER on March 18, 2023, 04:46:02 PM
This is a disturbing question, or at least I find the subject disturbing, and I lived contentedly a long time* before I was even aware of the stereotype/accusation, but do you think it's true that funeral directors and morticians are often sexually attracted to dead people?
(*I found out when the necrophile House Hlaalu dark elf in Oblivion joked about the fine in Cyrodiil, and someone brought that subject this up, so like 2007-ish.)
Ugh. I hope not. I'd put mortician in the realm of proctologist; money must be the motivation. And somebody has to do it.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 18, 2023, 09:04:32 PM
Quote from: ER on March 18, 2023, 04:46:02 PM
This is a disturbing question, or at least I find the subject disturbing, and I lived contentedly a long time* before I was even aware of the stereotype/accusation, but do you think it's true that funeral directors and morticians are often sexually attracted to dead people?
(*I found out when the necrophile House Hlaalu dark elf in Oblivion joked about the fine in Cyrodiil, and someone brought that subject this up, so like 2007-ish.)
Ugh. I hope not. I'd put mortician in the realm of proctologist; money must be the motivation. And somebody has to do it.
Did you ever hear that in France under Napoleon III the government paid doctors a modest sum to conduct medical exams on sex workers in brothels in order to try to curb the spread of diseases, but so many doctors applied for these relatively low-paying jobs that someone got the idea of charging doctors for the license to perform this formerly salaried task, and the government actually found it a lucrative source of revenue? I've often thought about that when people have suggested phsicians become asexual when examining patients. (Maybe some do but apparently some at least find other motivations beyond the application of their medical training.)
Ever experienced a sexual attraction that ran contrary to what you thought of as your sexual identity?
I truly don't think I have.
I have been kissed by at least two women that I can think of off the top of my head, both of them did it abruptly, and I had a friend get very odd and physical with me once, though I don't think that was sexual as much as her seeking some form of comfort considering the state she was in, and I also had a waxer one time leave me wondering, um, are you sure you need to be doing that?
But that was all them to me, not me to them. (Though I did hold my friend tightly that night when she was being like she was.)
No.
Yes, quite a few times.
Nope. But, when I was 18, there was a brief period when I did go to a lot of gay bars, because they would let us in and sell us beer without checking I.D. Stopped because as a straight guy, getting hit on by gay guys is annoying. (I sympathize with women in bars.)
No. I've had a couple of gay guys come on to me, but I've just had no interest. One gay guy did once tell me that I was the least gay man on the planet.
Ha, BTW, I married a guy who used to get hit on by gay men cawnstantly.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 18, 2023, 09:04:32 PM
Quote from: ER on March 18, 2023, 04:46:02 PM
This is a disturbing question, or at least I find the subject disturbing, and I lived contentedly a long time* before I was even aware of the stereotype/accusation, but do you think it's true that funeral directors and morticians are often sexually attracted to dead people?
(*I found out when the necrophile House Hlaalu dark elf in Oblivion joked about the fine in Cyrodiil, and someone brought that subject this up, so like 2007-ish.)
Ugh. I hope not. I'd put mortician in the realm of proctologist; money must be the motivation. And somebody has to do it.
I've known an oddly significant number of people who work in funeral homes (my stepfather's family owned several, plus a couple other connections), and they often knew other people in the industry of course. A surprisingly large number of them were just family businesses still, so the children just were very used to it, grew up in it, weren't creeped out by being around the dead, and then became funeral directors or had related jobs like morticians and worked for the family. Helps that it's constantly in demand, it's not like funerals dry up, and the profit margins are good. There's not really huge corporate groups buying up all the little funeral homes yet, like family farms, and booting families to the side. I mean, there's a little of that, but not to the same extent.
Getting back to important things...
Ever poop yerself?
Ever pee yerself?
Yes. When I was in the hospital in November. I was so weak for about 2 months I couldn't walk. I lost over 25 pounds. I went from 145 to 110 pounds in weight. I had to wear an adult diaper. I'm ok now!
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 26, 2023, 03:39:00 AM
Yes. When I was in the hospital in November. I was so weak for about 2 months I couldn't walk. I lost over 25 pounds. I went from 145 to 110 pounds in weight. I had to wear an adult diaper. I'm ok now!
Thanks. I was thinking more along the lines of stuck in the car, couldn't hold it in school, childhood oops...
About 35 years ago, all in office were let go early for an impending storm that hadn't yet started... I remembered this story because of
ER's story about her son "never don't pee before you get in the car" or such... I hurried out of the building briefly considering a pit stop I didn't make and six or seven hours later when I finally got home I made it... :hatred: I had staying power!
I remember being stuck at the front of an Iron Maiden concert and being desperate for a pee. I couldn't get out and wanted to pee myself just to relieve the pressure on my bladder, but couldn't bring myself to do it.
Does when water breaks before labor count?
If you had to pick an Elder Scrolls race/species to live as, which one would it be? (Yes, I know this is a really, really personal question.)
Except for Skyrim making them out to be total choads, I always was partial to High Elves.
Orc. I like being on the fringes of society.
' Elder Scrolls' ? :question:
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 28, 2023, 02:20:29 PM
' Elder Scrolls' ? :question:
I think it's Lord of the Rings sh!t. The movies are overblown and pompous. Lots to recommend. BORING!
^ No wonder I don't know what it is! Tara Sue LOVED the books! She saw a couple of the movies before she died. I bought her the whole series of books on Ebay. She loved them. Her daughter Angel has them now.
I still have 5 her paintings. All hanging on my walls.
Her son Jimmy had the rest. He died in the Philipines last year. He married a girl out their. He was in the Iraq war in search and destroy missions. He died last year. I loved him too. He was 35.
Why is my crazy old ass still alive? :bluesad: :question: My brother, mother, father, cousin Ricky who committed suicide in 1979, Tara, Jim, Gramma, my Uncle Ron, Aunt Barb, my best friend Larry Conklin.
My sister Brenda is about to die. "All my friends and they die."
Quote from: ER on March 27, 2023, 07:50:21 PM
Does when water breaks before labor count?
I suppose...
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 28, 2023, 05:44:53 PM
^ No wonder I don't know what it is! Tara Sue LOVED the books! She saw a couple of the movies before she died. I bought her the whole series of books on Ebay. She loved them. Her daughter Angel has them now.
I still have 5 her paintings. All hanging on my walls.
Her son Jimmy had the rest. He died in the Philipines last year. He married a girl out their. He was in the Iraq war in search and destroy missions. He died last year. I loved him too. He was 35.
Why is my crazy old ass still alive? :bluesad: :question: My brother, mother, father, cousin Ricky who committed suicide in 1979, Tara, Jim, Gramma, my Uncle Ron, Aunt Barb, my best friend Larry Conklin.
My sister Brenda is about to die. "All my friends and they die."
About 2006 when my employer died became a long "time of dying". It really hasn't ended, because dying is life will go on.
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Quote from: RCMerchant on March 28, 2023, 02:20:29 PM
' Elder Scrolls' ? :question:
I think it's Lord of the Rings sh!t. The movies are overblown and pompous. Lots to recommend. BORING!
No, Elder Scrolls is a fantasy, open world adventure video game series.
(And THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy is the greatest cinematic effort in history, you Philistine!!!! :twirl: :twirl: :twirl: )
Quote from: ER on March 28, 2023, 11:49:47 AM
If you had to pick an Elder Scrolls race/species to live as, which one would it be? (Yes, I know this is a really, really personal question.)
Except for Skyrim making them out to be total choads, I always was partial to High Elves.
I loved being a Wood Elf. Mad archery skills, and great at sneaking past bad guys!
Quote from: indianasmith on March 28, 2023, 10:07:09 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 28, 2023, 02:31:26 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 28, 2023, 02:20:29 PM
' Elder Scrolls' ? :question:
I think it's Lord of the Rings sh!t. The movies are overblown and pompous. Lots to recommend. BORING!
No, Elder Scrolls is a fantasy, open world adventure video game series.
(And THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy is the greatest cinematic effort in history, you Philistine!!!! :twirl: :twirl: :twirl: )
Of course you're right about Elder Scrolls 'cause it was a guess but it's that same Fantasy stuff I dislike. The closest I got to admiring the genre was
GENE WOLFE's
Torturer series of books... he was a Catholic SciFi writer.
^ I'm with John. I don't like LORD OF THE RINGS or any of that elf/ dragon fantasy s**t.
LORD OF THE RINGS, HARRY POTTER, etc movies make me wanna set my TV on fire.
Quote from: indianasmith on March 28, 2023, 10:07:09 PM
(And THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy is the greatest cinematic effort in history, you Philistine!!!! :twirl: :twirl: :twirl: )
So you've finally given up on Sucker Punch? :teddyr:
Different genre, but still one of my all time favorite movies.
One word to describe your whole life.
Mine would be "unexpected."
That sums it up start to now, how it began, how it deviated from script, so much that's happened, (and likely how it will end): unexpected.
Coincidence. Most of my major life events have had odds against them that were almost astronomical against them happening.
Quote from: RCMerchant on March 29, 2023, 12:53:02 AM
^ I'm with John. I don't like LORD OF THE RINGS or any of that elf/ dragon fantasy s**t.
LORD OF THE RINGS, HARRY POTTER, etc movies make me wanna set my TV on fire.
:buggedout: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr:
Quote from: ER on March 29, 2023, 06:49:34 AM
One word to describe your whole life.
Mine would be "unexpected."
That sums it up start to now, how it began, how it deviated from script, so much that's happened, (and likely how it will end): unexpected.
Complicated.
Quote from: ER on March 29, 2023, 06:49:34 AM
One word to describe your whole life.
Mine would be "unexpected."
Lucky.
I have to go with "lucky" too.
Worse than I desire, better than I deserve.
(That's more than one word, innit?)
OK . . .
Ordinary.
I was going to say "hedonistic," but "lucky" actually fits better.
Would you rather remove one person from your sexual history, or add one? (The addition can't be some fantasy figure, it's realistically someone you have known, maybe someone who got away, that sort of deal. No hot 'n heavy Marilyn Monroe weekend in Hawaii.)
Remove. I slept with some real mutts.
Add. I've had some women I found bored me in bed, but on balance, I'd rather have sex with more than less. Besides only removing the person from my sexual history still leaves me knowing them in a non-carnal way.
Add. I can think of numerous opportunities I missed that I would have liked to correct.
Considering I'm a lifelong monogamist, removing someone would leave me without sex altogether for my 59 years on this planet.
So I'd say add, I guess.
Quote from: ER on March 30, 2023, 08:26:55 AM
Would you rather remove one person from your sexual history, or add one? (The addition can't be some fantasy figure, it's realistically someone you have known, maybe someone who got away, that sort of deal. No hot 'n heavy Marilyn Monroe weekend in Hawaii.)
I cannot remove or add anyone. I did say lucky didn't I? :teddyr: :lookingup:
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 30, 2023, 09:48:41 PM
Quote from: ER on March 30, 2023, 08:26:55 AM
Would you rather remove one person from your sexual history, or add one? (The addition can't be some fantasy figure, it's realistically someone you have known, maybe someone who got away, that sort of deal. No hot 'n heavy Marilyn Monroe weekend in Hawaii.)
I cannot remove or add anyone. I did say lucky didn't I? :teddyr: :lookingup:
Meaning you have never been with anyone? (Thought I'd ask you to clarify, because that's how I read it, which is fine if that's how it is, your life to live, even a certain honor in it possibly, I just wasn't sure I understood what you meant and didn't want to get what you were saying wrong.)
Before I go I guess it's only fair I answer my own question.
I've spent a long time attempting to figure someone out, and I still don't know, but I'd have to be insane not to wish him away.
I am unique in my experience and have been in love thrice, hence my sex partners. I'm very happily married. There is little more uncomfortable than someone you don't care for touching you. I have never experienced real casual sex. And I'm proud of it.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 30, 2023, 10:27:53 PM
I am unique in my experience and have been in love thrice, hence my sex partners. I'm very happily married. There is little more uncomfortable than someone you don't care for touching you. I have never experienced real casual sex. And I'm proud of it.
Cool! Just when you said you "could not" it kind of threw me.
Quote from: ER on March 31, 2023, 04:29:02 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on March 30, 2023, 10:27:53 PM
I am unique in my experience and have been in love thrice, hence my sex partners. I'm very happily married. There is little more uncomfortable than someone you don't care for touching you. I have never experienced real casual sex. And I'm proud of it.
Cool! Just when you said you "could not" it kind of threw me.
Well you did rule out any fantasy get-away Hawaii Marilyn Monroe type trysts!
What is your favorite style/kind of painting?
I like many pour paintings, which are abstracts, but most abstracts I don't care for. Impressionism was often beautiful, photorealism can be impressive, the PRB has held my interest to the point I even sought out some of their graves in London, but in the mid-2010s I saw a trailer for a film called Tim's Vermeer, sponsored by Penn & Teller, and on the trailer Penn said, "When you look at Vermeer's paintings, you are essentially looking at photographs of the 17th century." Something about him saying that captivated me and I was never able to see Vermeer's works in the same way again. Ever since then I have found them not just masterful but magical.
No one should be surprised to hear me answer Surrealism.
(https://davidcharlesfox.com/blg/dcf/user_img/20220504/1651721712542811.webp)
I like realistic paintings, leaning more towards landscapes than portraits (which strikes me more as an ego thing). Turner would be a good example, although I'm fairly sure he'd be horrified at some of the trash the prize awarded in his name goes to each year nowadays.
Pop art, I guess.
Cartoon art.
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Ever found a four-leaf clover?
No.
Quote from: ER on April 02, 2023, 08:22:53 AM
Ever found a four-leaf clover?
I find lots of them. I always carry little plastic baggies with me to collect them.
While alone you see a blinding light from above and hear a booming voice that claims to be God, and this voice tells you to go forth into society and repeat a certain (non-violent and mostly beneficial) message word for word, telling everyone God told you to say this. How do you react?
Tell him to get off his lazy arse and do it his damn self.
^ What he said.
People called by God so often led subsequent lives of misery that the Catholic Church used this as an indication that the claims of divine visitation were valid. In other words, as John Lennon said, I'd run. (Hopefully in my case it'd work out better.)
Quote from: ER on April 04, 2023, 04:49:13 PM
People called by God so often led subsequent lives of misery that the Catholic Church used this as an indication that the claims of divine visitation were valid. In other words, as John Lennon said, I'd run. (Hopefully in my case it'd work out better.)
When I was in Primary school (ages 5 to 12), we used to have to listen to I guess what would now be a weekly podcast, but back then was sent out on cassette tapes. It would be all about some religious figure and a group could Sherwood (if I recall correctly), would sing some uplifting song. I remember when they were telling us all about Livingston and his missionary work in Africa, realising that every week the person they told us about ended up disease-ridden, poor, oppressed and quite often burned at the stake. I decided that day that if god ever came calling with a mission for me, he'd get turned out on his ear and told to bugger off since he cared so poorly for the wellbeing of his employees. I would have been I guess somewhere between 9 and 11 when I came to that conclusion.
It's further proof of what I've long said: if God is real, God is strange.
Do you ever watch a news report about a disaster, and you're appalled on the surface, but something deep down in your reptile brain finds pleasant satisfaction in the carnage and destruction?
^ Not really. :bluesad:
Quote from: ER on April 05, 2023, 08:07:42 AM
It's further proof of what I've long said: if God is real, God is strange.
Really? You are strange. Free will is a malleable concept.
Quote from: ER on April 07, 2023, 09:16:57 AM
Do you ever watch a news report about a disaster, and you're appalled on the surface, but something deep down in your reptile brain finds pleasant satisfaction in the carnage and destruction?
WTF? NEVER. You ARE strange.
Normally no.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 07, 2023, 01:13:04 PM
Quote from: ER on April 05, 2023, 08:07:42 AM
It's further proof of what I've long said: if God is real, God is strange.
Really? You are strange. Free will is a malleable concept.
Quote from: ER on April 07, 2023, 09:16:57 AM
Do you ever watch a news report about a disaster, and you're appalled on the surface, but something deep down in your reptile brain finds pleasant satisfaction in the carnage and destruction?
WTF? NEVER. You ARE strange.
Oh, I can assemble a good case for God's strangeness, lol.
And if you think that reptile brain question was strange (a question you seem to think I answered based on how you attacked me) you'd really have leaned closer to your screen over some I've decided not to ask. :bouncegiggle:
Never be afraid to open your mind to uncomfortable things, John, and exercise that God-given imagination. It can take you to unexpected places.
God?
Never think it may exist.
That some almighty enity you have never seen and have no proof that it really exists except old scripts. The idea of God will come for you if you f**ked up- you will be punished. It became a cult.
Quote from: ER on April 07, 2023, 07:40:40 PM
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Oh, I can assemble a good case for God's strangeness, lol.
And if you think that reptile brain question was strange (a question you seem to think I answered based on how you attacked me) you'd really have leaned closer to your screen over some I've decided not to ask. :bouncegiggle:
Never be afraid to open your mind to uncomfortable things, John, and exercise that God-given imagination. It can take you to unexpected places.
I did not attack you, merely reacted. I apologize. Other than "lucky" I would describe myself as "unafraid". My mind is open wide and I nary indulge my own wishes or wants. I am a pragmatist yet always uncomfortable with the idea of suffering, particularly savored. I am not naive.
You tell John to open his mind? Open YOUR mind.
What if a GOD doesn't exist- and the whole concept of some unseen enity created the universe is myth?
An unseen being looks over us and rules us? Determines my destiny and controls my life even after I'm dead? Will send me to hell? If I don't love him? THAT is EVIL. Dumbest s**t I ever heard. I'm sorry. I don't try to s**t on your weird imaginings. But DON'T mock folks who don't follow that party line. I'm a hardcore atheist- I get mocked all the time. Like I'm evil. I'm not evil.
And you think it's enjoyable to watch people die? f**k that. :hatred:
God is strange. Bulls**t. If there was a God- he's a scumbag.
OK! Being I'm on this stupid rant- Do you believe in a God?
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 08, 2023, 06:21:42 AM
OK! Being I'm on this stupid rant- Do you believe in a God?
Dad was raised in the Jewish faith, Mom was raised in the Dutch Reformed Church and I was raised Presbyterian after Dad converted from Judaism in order to marry Mom as her Dad said that he didn't want his youngest daughter marrying someone who was Jewish.
I was raised to believe in God and I still do but man, my faith has taken a serious knock since 1997. I haven't been to church since 2008 when Dad passed. :bluesad:
^ Hey man. I feel for you. I can understand folks who have faith. I'm sorry for your pain. My Ma, my little brother Richie, my Dad, Tara Sue. I wish I could help more than just being an a***ole on the internet.
Thing is- your strong, man. Have faith in yourself.
I think you know my answer to that question!
Yes, I believe there is a God because that makes more sense than there not being one.
I believe the God of the Bible is real because I believe the Gospels are accurate works of history about a remarkable moment in human history when God walked among us.
^ That's cool, Indy. I respect you, my friend, because you do good work. You follow the Word, and don't use it as a tool for power. Your a good man.
I hope I'm not coming across as anti religion. You can believe Mickey Mouse is a God- that's ok with me. It's when people start killing one another because they have different faiths. That is evil. That is religion- used as an excuse to control and kill those you fell "unworthy". That's politics.
It ain't cool, man.
Again, Ronny, I think you confuse religion with God. One is a human construct, the other may exist and be outside of human comprehension. One is an attempted path to the other. I am not a great fan of one, but I do try to figure out the other, even though I know it is a futile quest and I will die no more enlightened than I began.
You often attack me for things I never even said, including in this thread, and when you do I try to take it as revealing of yourself, in sometimes sad ways, as someone should be able to face most ideas without sliding into an enraged response. I think anger has been your shield and companion for so long it's left you closed-minded and hostile to some contemplations, and you blame religion for what's really human nature, tribalism, xenophobia, things like that, showing that your hatred of God is rooted in a lot of hurt more than it is in disbelief.
I'd say never close your mind to possibilities, including the fact there may be a creator of everything, or there may not be. Actually I'd agree, if there is a God, God is a scumbag. (Or "strange" as I more tactfully put it, lol.)
I'd also say unless your life is working to the point it is making you happy, don't close off avenues for improvement. In any case, we should all do our best to be polite to one another and not stifle ideas, like the Nazis did, don't you agree? :smile:
My" hatred" of God? :question: I hate the way folks weaponize it.
And yes, Ma'am, I do agree on many points. Is their something after death? It's arrogant to think we insects in the universe know wtf is really going on.
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"- and all is one and one is all- is aaalll-!"
If there is a God, I reckon I'll find out when I die. Easy as that.
Ok. Do you have favorite authors?
Mine would be Shirley Jackson-#1.
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Quote from: RCMerchant on April 08, 2023, 11:03:31 AM
Ok. Do you have favorite authors?
Mine would be Shirley Jackson-#1.
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She's great. :smile:
The American ambassador's home in Pretoria is called Hill House, believe it or not :buggedout: :wink:
^ I ain't going there! :buggedout:
I don't think I could pick a single favourite author.
Quote from: Alex on April 08, 2023, 11:36:25 AM
I don't think I could pick a single favourite author.
Well, you know, an author you enjoy.
Vladimir Nabokov.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 08, 2023, 11:35:03 AM
^ I ain't going there! :buggedout:
:teddyr: :teddyr:
It's quite nice from the outside.
https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/news/us-dignitaries-sa-keeping-close-eye-elections/ (https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/news/us-dignitaries-sa-keeping-close-eye-elections/)
David Gemmell.
Stephen King
Alistair MacLean
Desmond Bagley
Herge
Goscinny and Uderzo
Wilbur Smith
A baker's dozen: Oscar Wilde, Neil Gaiman, Joyce Carol Oates, Shirley Jackson, Gary Jennings, Arthur Conan Doyle, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Parker, Peter Straub, Jane Austen, Stephen King, Garrison Keillor, King Solomon.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 08, 2023, 11:03:31 AM
Ok. Do you have favorite authors?
Mine would be Shirley Jackson-#1...
We Have Always Lived In The Castle has long been a favorite of mine. The last story I read was probably
The Lottery... which I had reread just a few years ago. Her personal life was troubled... mostly by neighbors!
I also like F. Scott Fitzgerald Thomas Harris Ernest Hemingway Mark Twain Stephen King Anne Rice Gene Wolfe ...
Can you taste the difference in an orange and a tangerine?
^ No.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 08, 2023, 10:57:12 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 08, 2023, 11:03:31 AM
Ok. Do you have favorite authors?
Mine would be Shirley Jackson-#1...
We Have Always Lived In The Castle has long been a favorite of mine. The last story I read was probably The Lottery... which I had reread just a few years ago. Her personal life was troubled... mostly by neighbors!
I also like F. Scott Fitzgerald Thomas Harris Ernest Hemingway Mark Twain Stephen King Anne Rice Gene Wolfe ...
I also enjoy HP Lovecraft, Issiac Asimov, Sandra Dee, William Shirer, Clive Barker, Stephan King, Charles Fort, Ivan Sanderson, and others of course.
Have you ever got high from huffing? (glue, gas, paint)
I have on all 3. Glue, because I built monster model and WWII model kits as a kit. Got high as a kite.
Gas- yes as well. Also when I was a kid, we lived in an old farmhouse, and there was a pipe coming out of the ground in the backyard with a large rusty ball on top of it. Most been an old pump there, because I usta huff on that thing.
Paint- again yes. I painted houses, machines at work, etc. When I'd be about half-way through I'd be high as a kite.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 09, 2023, 06:38:22 PM
Have you ever got high from huffing? (glue, gas, paint)
I have on all 3. Glue, because I built monster model and WWII model kits as a kit. Got high as a kite.
Gas- yes as well. Also when I was a kid, we lived in an old farmhouse, and there was a pipe coming out of the ground in the backyard with a large rusty ball on top of it. Most been an old pump there, because I usta huff on that thing.
Paint- again yes. I painted houses, machines at work, etc. When I'd be about half-way through I'd be high as a kite.
Nope, but we did do whipits and poppers...
I've never done that, but I do find I am in a minority in that I kind of think gasoline smells interesting, and turpentine smells downright good.
Ever known a Scientologist?
Quote from: ER on April 11, 2023, 03:45:45 PM
Ever known a Scientologist?
(https://i.chzbgr.com/full/6766980352/hD93A7540/scientology)
Quote from: ER on April 09, 2023, 08:35:44 AM
Can you taste the difference in an orange and a tangerine?
Yes. The textures and taste are similar, but the smell is distinctly different.
Quote from: ER on April 11, 2023, 03:45:45 PM
Ever known a Scientologist?
Not beyond bumping into random recruiters. I've heard their numbers are falling which hopefully is true.
^ The saying on that Scientology poster is hilarious.
I was approached by a Scientologist who was handing out fliers and I said "No thanks, I've seen the movie Going Clear." He yanked that paper out of my hand so quickly I got a paper cut 😳
Quote from: ER on April 11, 2023, 03:45:45 PM
Ever known a Scientologist?
Nope. Don't care too.
Quote from: ER on April 12, 2023, 05:14:39 AM
^ The saying on that Scientology poster is hilarious.
The more you get into it, the more you get out of it... :bouncegiggle:
"The better you look, the more you see."
Every time some man I knew said that back in the day, I'd think, that narcissist is tainting that clever bit of double meaning. (But it is a cool saying.)
Which brings me to my question: Ever loved and hated someone at the same time?
I used to but I think I got over it.
Sort of. There have been people in my life (normally female), who have been going through tough times and I've wanted to help, but they have been so determined to sort out their problems their own way and kept digging themselves into more and more trouble. Eventually I've had to say enough and step away rather than let myself be dragged down further into their issues. Those people, no matter how much I have cared about them I have also ended up being really p**sed off at by the time I reached the point where I walked away and left them to it.
Has anyone else ever picked up a universal remote control and tuned it into their neighbour's TV just so you could randomly change channels on them and generally mess with their heads?
Quote from: ER on April 13, 2023, 07:20:49 AM
"The better you look, the more you see."
Every time some man I knew said that back in the day, I'd think, that narcissist is tainting that clever bit of double meaning. (But it is a cool saying.)
Which brings me to my question: Ever loved and hated someone at the same time?
I used to but I think I got over it.
My Dad.
Quote from: Alex on April 13, 2023, 08:24:13 AM
Has anyone else ever picked up a universal remote control and tuned it into their neighbour's TV just so you could randomly change channels on them and generally mess with their heads?
No, but my grandson Aiden did. To me!
I haven't done that with a remote but I once had a supervisor who routinely did that to his neighbor., keeping it up even after he'd seen a cable trucks in his driveway over the course of weeks. (His neighbor was even a cop!)
Quote from: Alex on April 13, 2023, 08:24:13 AM
Has anyone else ever picked up a universal remote control and tuned it into their neighbour's TV just so you could randomly change channels on them and generally mess with their heads?
The last time I was home in Zimbabwe (1997) the motel I stayed in would regularly and without warning its' guests, change the channel being screened in all the rooms. I ended up watching the movie Needful Things three times in one day that way :buggedout:
Quote from: ER on April 13, 2023, 07:20:49 AM
"The better you look, the more you see."
Every time some man I knew said that back in the day, I'd think, that narcissist is tainting that clever bit of double meaning. (But it is a cool saying.)
...
(https://i.chzbgr.com/full/6766980352/hD93A7540/scientology)
Quote from: ER on April 13, 2023, 07:20:49 AM
Which brings me to my question: Ever loved and hated someone at the same time?
I used to but I think I got over it.
No.
Have you ever built a sandcastle?
Having lived close to the ocean for the vast majority of my life, yes many times.
If you could offer your younger self----let's say age 15-20 or thereabouts---personal advice (not stuff like "Buy Amazon!") what would it be?
I'd tell myself to stop trying to figure things out, quit worrying, enjoy the moment, go for the ride, things will be more or less fine.
Quote from: ER on April 16, 2023, 08:50:48 AM
If you could offer your younger self----let's say age 15-20 or thereabouts---personal advice (not stuff like "Buy Amazon!") what would it be?
I'd tell myself to stop trying to figure things out, quit worrying, enjoy the moment, go for the ride, things will be more or less fine.
In my case it would be as a teen to stop worrying about school, exams and zits. :buggedout: :wink:
Hmm, generally he had things figured out well enough and things worked out ok, so the only thing I'd say to my younger self is buy less stuff from GW.
I'd say to myself " Don't drink so much! It will bite you in the ass later!"
On your way to Earth for your next life, God gives you a last-minute choice: win a huge lottery at twenty but die a virgin at eighty, or just take your chances with sex and money?
I'd take my chances.
I think I'd take my chances.
I'd stay a virgin 😉
Quote from: ER on April 17, 2023, 08:22:05 AM
On your way to Earth for your next life, God gives you a last-minute choice: win a huge lottery at twenty but die a virgin at eighty, or just take your chances with sex and money?
Cheese and crackers, who wouldn't take their chances? Oh. I can name two. I would take my chances.
Here's a related question- when's the last time you had sex?
Me- about 6 years ago. :bluesad:
Last Thursday. (I was gone all weekend)
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 17, 2023, 07:52:49 PM
Here's a related question- when's the last time you had sex?
Me- about 6 years ago. :bluesad:
I don't know if anyone wants to know my answer as it might gross them out :buggedout: but the last time I was with anyone was in August 2004: been celibate since then.
^ Why is that gross? :question:
Gross would be- "Last night, with a freshly decapitated chicken."
Yesterday, although I am hoping to get some later today after we've dropped Ash off at school.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 18, 2023, 12:56:48 AM
^ Why is that gross? :question:
Gross would be- "Last night, with a freshly decapitated chicken."
That's what happened in August 2004 😳😉😉😆🐢
Quote from: ER on April 17, 2023, 08:22:05 AM
On your way to Earth for your next life, God gives you a last-minute choice: win a huge lottery at twenty but die a virgin at eighty, or just take your chances with sex and money?
I'd take my chances too.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 17, 2023, 07:52:49 PM
Here's a related question- when's the last time you had sex?
Me- about 6 years ago. :bluesad:
Health concerns deny me of that pleasure in too long a time to remember.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 18, 2023, 05:21:17 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 17, 2023, 07:52:49 PM
Here's a related question- when's the last time you had sex?
Me- about 6 years ago. :bluesad:
Health concerns deny me of that pleasure in too long a time to remember.
The man's a poet, and don't know it.
Ginger or Mary Ann?
Mrs. Howell. :buggedout:
No- Mary Ann.
I've always thought Mary Ann was by far the better choice. If nothing else, in a survival situation she'd have had no qualms about killing, cleaning, and eating Ginger.
Ask me anything, and tomorrow I may answer it. Goodnight.
Quote from: ER on April 20, 2023, 09:29:54 PM
Ask me anything, and tomorrow I may answer it. Goodnight.
When was the last time you had sex?
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 20, 2023, 09:35:00 PM
Quote from: ER on April 20, 2023, 09:29:54 PM
Ask me anything, and tomorrow I may answer it. Goodnight.
When was the last time you had sex?
August 2004: oh, sorry wrong person 😉🐢
Quote from: ER on April 20, 2023, 09:29:54 PM
Ask me anything, and tomorrow I may answer it. Goodnight.
What are the details to access your bank account? :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: Alex on April 21, 2023, 08:34:00 AM
Quote from: ER on April 20, 2023, 09:29:54 PM
Ask me anything, and tomorrow I may answer it. Goodnight.
What are the details to access your bank account? :bouncegiggle:
Ha! Someone hacking my bank account would be very disappointed with the meager results these days, lol. Decent net worth in property; not overflowing with spending cash.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 20, 2023, 09:35:00 PM
Quote from: ER on April 20, 2023, 09:29:54 PM
Ask me anything, and tomorrow I may answer it. Goodnight.
When was the last time you had sex?
I'd rather not say.
^ I don't think so. I enjoy his films.
What was your caste designation in high school?
Someone told me I was hard to classify because I had so many contradictions. It was the most flattering thing he ever said.
I always thought I was the coolest of the nerds, or the nerdiest one in the cool crowd. I transferred high schools when I was a junior and was pretty much a loner, no one knew what to make of me but they didn't try to f**k with me. Later on I hung out with the punks because they were the most interesting, even though I never really liked the music.
Quote from: ER on April 21, 2023, 07:57:35 PM
What was your caste designation in high school?
Someone told me I was hard to classify because I had so many contradictions. It was the most flattering thing he ever said.
I hung out with the farmers, mostly. Because they were my neighbors. And they all drank and smoked weed. And liked hard rock. What was odd is that lotsa kids liked me because I was a good artist, and made them laugh. Even most teachers liked me, because I was smart. I was even elected class president in my sophmore year! I quit because they asked some of us to select a movie for Thanksgiving movie s**t. We picked PSYCHO.
But some prissy ass girl, who was a teachers daughter, almost p**sed herself at a screening, so they showed the Beatles MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (ugh!) and almost all the kids in the auditorium walked out. I resigned the next day. They people talked, and the elite ruled. f**k that!
Q: Is JAMES DEAN over-rated?
^ I answered that earlier, before you edited it. I said no, I think he's good.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 21, 2023, 09:28:49 PM
^ I answered that earlier, before you edited it. I said no, I think he's good.
Got it. Then got buried. I am interested in everyone's opinion.
^ Do you think he's overrated? :question:
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 21, 2023, 09:45:50 PM
^ Do you think he's overrated? :question:
Yes. The only movie I really like is
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. The other two are kind of overblown, particularly
GIANT.
I'm interested in what people think of him now. I was thinking about a few of that generation of 50s bad boy trouble actors like Brando Clift Perkins ...
The only film of his I've ever seen was Rebel Without A Cause and that was a long time ago. I don't recall being particularly impressed by him so based on that limited exposure, I'd have to say yes, overrated.
You guys should give EAST OF EDEN (1955) a try. I like it better than REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 21, 2023, 09:27:35 PM
Q: Is JAMES DEAN over-rated?
I'm on the fence with this one: his tragic early death made him an icon and his performances were good but I'm not sure if he's over or under rated. My first memory of him is seeing him in
Giant, all covered in oil. :smile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkUeztGivQg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkUeztGivQg)
^ Creepy.
Have you ever stole anything? Be honest!
I have. I usta buy monster mags, and hide a comic book in the middle. Never got caught. I did fell real bad.
I did it about 3 times. I had to get my Famous Monsters mag, and I only had a dollar. And they had the new Captain America (Kirby!)...ah... no excuse. But otherwise... :bluesad:
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 22, 2023, 01:13:50 PM
^ Creepy.
Have you ever stole anything? Be honest!
I have. I usta buy monster mags, and hide a comic book in the middle. Never got caught. I did fell real bad.
I did it about 3 times. I had to get my Famous Monsters mag, and I only had a dollar. And they had the new Captain America (Kirby!)...ah... no excuse. But otherwise... :bluesad:
I stole a Christmas tree. (Should've saved that one for the true or false thread).
I was a teenager when I stole the comic books. Christmas tree? How do you steal a Christmas tree?
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 22, 2023, 01:51:33 PM
I was a teenager when I stole the comic books. Christmas tree? How do you steal a Christmas tree?
:bouncegiggle: Easily.
If the only answer is yes or no with nothing in between, then, yes, James Dean is overrated. (I went to visit his grave in high school with some boy I knew who was into him.) Death can be a terrific career move for cool young people. Nothing wrong with his acting but had he lived longer I seriously doubt he'd have been so revered.
Have I stolen? One thing that comes to mind is as a teenager I used to walk out with library books marked adult, not in the porn sense but our library would not let people under eighteen check out certain books, mostly ones with bad language or anything sexual in nature in them at all, which included a lot of Clive Barker, Stephen King, a lot of James Joyce, No One Here Gets Out Alive, Tropic of Cancer, The Pillars of the Earth, and quite a few others I wanted to read, so I used to take them and then bring them back when I was done. I figured it was pragmatism mingled social protest against a nanny state.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 22, 2023, 01:51:33 PM
I was a teenager when I stole the comic books. Christmas tree? How do you steal a Christmas tree?
There was a big stack of them at a store like Big Lots. Drove up in a pickup truck, jumped out, grabbed one, threw it into the truck bed, rode off. Alcohol may have been involved.
^May have, huh? :drink:
I stole a Snickers bar from the store as a kid.
What was the attitude toward religion in your family when you were growing up?
Dad and Mary Joe sent us to a holy roller church. I HATED it. They never went, of course. It was just to get us out of the house for a couple of hours.
I lived in a Catholic orphanage for a short time as a small child. The nuns were very sweet.
We were forced to go to church every Sunday, and then Sunday school. Must have been 4 hours all in. I used to spend most of it trying to think of ways not to get bored. My family were the only people in the building who weren't past retirement age. Other than Sunday religion wasn't a big factor in our lives though. No saying grace before dinner etc. Once my mum left my dad, it would be many years before I'd set foot in a church. I went for a couple of months in my mid-20s, but still found it spiritually dead.
My Dad was a Baptist preacher and my Mom played the piano for church services, so I had little choice about attending.
But I enjoyed church, and the people there, and what it taught me about God and the Bible.
I still attend every Sunday to this day.
Quote from: ER on April 23, 2023, 11:27:49 AM
What was the attitude toward religion in your family when you were growing up?
Mom was brought up in an Afrikaans language church and when she met Dad (raised in the Jewish faith) he had to very quickly leave that faith as her Dad didn't want his little girl marrying a Jewish person so he became a Presbyterian and so did she.
I was raised to believe in a higher power and was even a Sunday School teacher in 1986.
My mom was raised in a Catholic family so devout that growing up she was told there was no salvation outside the Church, and while she was never that severe herself, she did come over with notions that were beyond those my dad was raised with in the US (his background was church on Sunday morning and that was mostly it) and so I grew up with her trying to guide me toward what she thought was right, going to church on Sunday and days of obligation, saying the rosary with her about once a week, keeping Lent, going to Catholic school, and to confession.
She also was artistically talented, though, and had good taste in rock, and wasn't a Bible thumper, she just had it drilled into her brain that you had to live under Church doctrines or else you weren't doing what you should be doing. Mostly she let me read what I wanted and wasn't unreasonably strict about anything, and I enjoyed being with her. She was so pretty and so kind, and honestly very young, (and apparently, secretly, unhappy).
My dad could take or leave religion growing up and later but didn't disregard it either, and told me to listen to my mom when she told me to go to church or things like that. When he was in school and his teachers got wind of how intelligent he was the Jesuits tried HARD to recruit my dad, and got absolutely nowhere: he liked girls way too much, lol.
My mother believes there's a good chance I am going to go to Hell, and that disturbs and saddens her.
Quote from: ER on April 23, 2023, 11:27:49 AM
What was the attitude toward religion in your family when you were growing up?
I was given zero instruction in any direction. Not dissuaded from it, not pushed into it. My mom is from a very Catholic family, so I'm pretty sure that was a deliberate decision.
My parents answered questions I had honestly, but were generally neutral. My dad was skeptical of organized religion, but more vague on the possibility of God, he was agnostic but possibly leaning slightly in a deistic kind of direction. I quite liked it all around really, I think it was a good way to approach it. Myself and both my sisters are non-religious as adults.
QuoteThere was a big stack of them at a store like Big Lots. Drove up in a pickup truck, jumped out, grabbed one, threw it into the truck bed, rode off. Alcohol may have been involved.
Hah, we did that one year when I was a teenager. We (my mother and I, I couldn't drive yet) went to buy a tree Christmas Eve, but the place closed early! So we parked near the edge of where the trees were, grabbed it and quickly tossed it into our van, and drove it home. The leftovers just get woodchipped anyway, so I can't say I feel bad about it.
What do you call soft drinks?
Some call it Pop (like me). Soda? Soda Pop? a Coke?
And what's your favorite flavors? I like Grape. I can't find Welch's grape pop no more, so it's Grape Crush. Or a Grape Stewarts if I can find it.
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Quote from: ER on April 23, 2023, 11:27:49 AM
What was the attitude toward religion in your family when you were growing up?
The Catholic Church was the one true church. All of us received sacraments through Confirmation.
All 5 of us went to Catholic schools. My oldest brother and sister both graduated from Catholic High Schools.
My father was a school teacher and made little money; yet they found tuition for 5 of us.
My father had a "falling out" with the church after my mother left and then he felt my other brother had been mistreated by the school. He pulled us out and we went to public school.
The Catholics are my tribe.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 23, 2023, 11:21:19 PM
What do you call soft drinks?
Some call it Pop (like me). Soda? Soda Pop? a Coke?
And what's your favorite flavors? I like Grape. I can't find Welch's grape pop no more, so it's Grape Crush. Or a Grape Stewarts if I can find it.
(https://i.imgur.com/ZK9cfcZ.png) (https://lunapic.com)
Just call/called it soft drink. For some reason my son calls it soda, but I'm not sure where he picked that up. (I know a lot of people do, I just mean no one else at home does.)
For a while in the "90s I'd drink Mountain Dew sometimes, which along with Snapple was a fad, but most of my life I didn't drink much soft drink, and today I won't touch the stuff because I think it's worse for people's health than is generally acknowledged.
I rarely drink pop either. When I do, it's grape. Or Verneer's. I prefer tea or ice tea. Unsweetened. With a little lemon in the ice tea. I usta like Big Red, but don't see it around any more.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 23, 2023, 11:21:19 PM
What do you call soft drinks?
Some call it Pop (like me). Soda? Soda Pop? a Coke?
And what's your favorite flavors? I like Grape. I can't find Welch's grape pop no more, so it's Grape Crush. Or a Grape Stewarts if I can find it.
(https://i.imgur.com/ZK9cfcZ.png) (https://lunapic.com)
We always just called it Soda.
I drank regular Dr. Pepper for years. Shifted to Diet about 10 years ago.
Drink a ridiculous quantity of it daily.
I do not know why, but it is referred as ginger here.
Ever been inside a mine?
No.
Quote from: ER on April 24, 2023, 06:48:28 PM
Ever been inside a mine?
I believe so, on a vacation out west.
And I've ridden the RUNAWAY MINE TRAIN at Six Flags more times than I can count!
Have you ever eaten cow tounge?
I have- it's quite good!
Yeah, had it a few times.
Surprisingly, yes. A Chinese restaurant used to serve it.
Why don't men carry purses?
Quote from: ER on April 25, 2023, 04:27:20 PM
Why don't men carry purses?
Because we have pockets.
Quote from: ER on April 25, 2023, 04:27:20 PM
Why don't men carry purses?
Some do, a thing called a man purse.
I have never seen someone wearing one, but if I did I would rip it from his body and beat him with it.
Would you rather be seen as:
Cunning, formidable, popular and seductive
Or:
Forgiving, loyal, generous and kind?
Well, I'm not any of #1, so 2, I guess.
I'd rather be commonly seen as 1, but actually be 2.
Quote from: ER on April 28, 2023, 08:08:02 PM
Would you rather be seen as:
Cunning, formidable, popular and seductive
Or:
Forgiving, loyal, generous and kind?
None of them: I am perfect 😉
Being the second sounds like a recipe for spending your life being walked over, used and abused so I'll have to go with the first option.
Ever had intimate carnal relations with a virgin?
Yes. Two different ones.
Myself!
When I was a little jerk off!
I remember when I was fifteen being told what a perplexing mystery it was that puzzled many a young male where all the virgins went when so few guys had ever been with one. The only explanation they could come up with was that a small minority of men were getting everybody else's share. I could tell I'd truly hit on a topic much lamented over and great puzzling to them all, something that had eaten up many a beer-drinking session.
OK. This is getting real creepy! :bouncegiggle:
Have you ever eaten live earth worms? Like night crawlers.
Probably, but not to my knowledge. I did read a book called How To Eat Fried Worms. We were taught in survival situations there are many bugs you could eat, but not earthworms.
^ I'm from Michigan. I eat road kill.
Quote from: ER on April 29, 2023, 05:05:43 PM
Ever had intimate carnal relations with a virgin?
HAVE YOU? :question:
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 29, 2023, 09:43:03 PM
Quote from: ER on April 29, 2023, 05:05:43 PM
Ever had intimate carnal relations with a virgin?
HAVE YOU? :question:
Now, John, do I strike you as the sort who'd enjoy playing tennis against a novice?
Er, well, once, yes. So Alex, Indy and I are the only punchers of v-cards in the place?
My wife and I are each other's first and only partners. So yes for us both.
Quote from: ER on April 29, 2023, 10:36:09 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 29, 2023, 09:43:03 PM
Quote from: ER on April 29, 2023, 05:05:43 PM
Ever had intimate carnal relations with a virgin?
HAVE YOU? :question:
Now, John, do I strike you as the sort who'd enjoy playing tennis against a novice?
Er, well, once, yes. So Alex, Indy and I are the only punchers of v-cards in the place?
You had refused to answer a comparable question so I was surprised by your latest.
Now, Evelyn, you strike me as cagey.
And my answer to your question is yes. Once. The first time.
Quote from: ER on April 29, 2023, 05:05:43 PM
Ever had intimate carnal relations with a virgin?
Yes, I was the virgin 😉
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 29, 2023, 11:20:35 PM
Quote from: ER on April 29, 2023, 10:36:09 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on April 29, 2023, 09:43:03 PM
Quote from: ER on April 29, 2023, 05:05:43 PM
Ever had intimate carnal relations with a virgin?
HAVE YOU? :question:
Now, John, do I strike you as the sort who'd enjoy playing tennis against a novice?
Er, well, once, yes. So Alex, Indy and I are the only punchers of v-cards in the place?
You had refused to answer a comparable question so I was surprised by your latest.
Now, Evelyn, you strike me as cagey.
And my answer to your question is yes. Once. The first time.
I hadn't asked the question that I declined to answer the other day. If I ask a question for a topic it's only fair that I'd answer it too. I also don't think I've sidestepped too many sexual subjects, lol.
Thanks for playing!
What decade from the 1960s to (ahem) now has had your favorite music?
For me deciding between the '80s and '90s is hard but some of my favorite groups were in the classic rock era. I'll go with....the '90s.
80's all the way, baby!!!! (With a bit of late 70's thrown in).
60's.
Quote from: ER on April 30, 2023, 08:52:05 PM
What decade from the 1960s to (ahem) now has had your favorite music?
For me deciding between the '80s and '90s is hard but some of my favorite groups were in the classic rock era. I'll go with....the '90s.
The 90s were the "classic rock era" my posterior.
Quote from: RCMerchant on April 30, 2023, 10:48:42 PM
60's.
That's the ticket!
Sigh. John, if I had a farthing for every time you've misread my posts, I'd finance Indy's retirement. :lookingup:
Quote from: ER on April 30, 2023, 10:59:55 PM
Sigh. John, if I had a farthing for every time you've misread my posts, I'd finance Indy's retirement. :lookingup:
Whatever that might mean, Ms Cagey.
I guess you need greater annotation then. If you read more carefully you might notice I was not saying the 1990s was classic rock, I was saying some of my favorite bands were in the era of classic rock. So your posterior remains safe.
That wasn't a post I thought I'd have to explain, but glad to help.
60s, followed by 90s.
In the sixties you had a real wealth of great music because rock was still rising, but jazz-based styles were not yet dead.
Quote from: ER on April 30, 2023, 10:59:55 PM
Sigh. John, if I had a farthing for every time you've misread my posts, I'd finance Indy's retirement. :lookingup:
Tap dancing. Cagey. Define the "classic rock era".
For me it was the 1970s with Boston, Kansas, Led Zeppelin, The Who, ACDC etc.
Quote from: Trevor on May 01, 2023, 12:42:53 PM
For me it was the 1970s with Boston, Kansas, Led Zeppelin, The Who, ACDC etc.
I once read that radio stations label rock older than 25 years as "classic rock", and songs older than 50 years as "golden oldies".
1974 - 1998 - Classic Rock
1973 and older - Golden Oldies
Quote from: claws on May 01, 2023, 01:04:04 PM
Quote from: Trevor on May 01, 2023, 12:42:53 PM
For me it was the 1970s with Boston, Kansas, Led Zeppelin, The Who, ACDC etc.
I once read that radio stations label rock older than 25 years as "classic rock", and songs older than 50 years as "golden oldies".
1974 - 1998 - Classic Rock
1973 and older - Golden Oldies
50 years ago, writers and record labels routinely defined 10 or 15 year old records as "golden oldies".
Do you worry about being murdered?
Anyone could be a murder victim, I think we all know that on some level, but the odds are so low that most people seem to give it little thought. Me, I admit I think about it, and I've even been told the things we obsess over are pulled toward our lives. I don't know if that's true but so various acquaintances of mine have claimed. For most of the first twenty-nine years of my life I was sure I would die at age twenty-nine. I was so sure of it it was like being aware of a meeting scheduled for a time ahead. People who knew me then remember how much a part of my life and identity, my very existence, that strange certainty was. It colored everything, even not wanting to be married and have children, if I wouldn't be with my family. I recall the morning I turned thirty, waking up and realizing it never happened, this thing that had walked with me for years, like a shadow, proving even the strongest premonitions can be wrong.
So I don't pay to much attention anymore to that inner feeling I'll meet a violent, probably sudden, end, but one thing I know is whoever came for me would be paid back in a multitude of unpleasant and far-reaching ways that would go on and on like ripples in water. I don't get revenge, it's an ugly thing, forgive, forget, move on, life is a tiny little spark in the greatness of time, just enjoy having it, but some people I know seem absolutely in love with vengeance and payback, and they'd act on my behalf making cruelty follow cruelty, not what I'd want. But it'd happen.
High stress time now. Someone I love is dying painfully. Haven't slept in a long time. Thoughts like these....whatever.
Nope.
Quote from: ER on May 02, 2023, 05:12:30 PM
Do you worry about being murdered?
Anyone could be a murder victim, I think we all know that on some level, but the odds are so low that most people seem to give it little thought. Me, I admit I think about it, and I've even been told the things we obsess over are pulled toward our lives. I don't know if that's true but so various acquaintances of mine have claimed. For most of the first twenty-nine years of my life I was sure I would die at age twenty-nine. I was so sure of it it was like being aware of a meeting scheduled for a time ahead. People who knew me then remember how much a part of my life and identity, my very existence, that strange certainty was. It colored everything, even not wanting to be married and have children, if I wouldn't be with my family. I recall the morning I turned thirty, waking up and realizing it never happened, this thing that had walked with me for years, like a shadow, proving even the strongest premonitions can be wrong.
So I don't pay to much attention anymore to that inner feeling I'll meet a violent, probably sudden, end, but one thing I know is whoever came for me would be paid back in a multitude of unpleasant and far-reaching ways that would go on and on like ripples in water. I don't get revenge, it's an ugly thing, forgive, forget, move on, life is a tiny little spark in the greatness of time, just enjoy having it, but some people I know seem absolutely in love with vengeance and payback, and they'd act on my behalf making cruelty follow cruelty, not what I'd want. But it'd happen.
High stress time now. Someone I love is dying painfully. Haven't slept in a long time. Thoughts like these....whatever.
Define the "classic rock era".
I'm very fortunate that I have little money and no real enemies that I know of.
If I am murdered, it will be in a random act of violence, like a school shooting. And in that circumstance, I like to think that I would do all I could to protect the innocent, even if it meant sacrificing myself to do so.
I'd rather die quickly, whether from a gunshot wound or a sudden heart attack, than fade out by inches over a period of years, my mind trapped inside a failing body, lamenting my lost youth . . .
My uncle (by marriage, a marriage that ended) used to own radio stations and he'd use terms like "Hot AC" and various codes for genres, and his classic rock station out west, and the "classic rock" channel on the radio locally and the classic rock setting on the music streaming service we get plays music from maybe the mid-1960s to the mid or late 1970s. That is my take on Classic Rock as a commercial genre rather than a description, and what I was referring to in my post from ...way back
Can I ask, John, is there a reason you obsessively focus on me so much and seem to have so much snideness toward me? This "grouch with a grudge" vibe? Whatever the reason, it'd be nice if you'd stop because it disturbs the sense of community this site so often has and which I think for the most part everyone enjoys.
Quote from: ER on May 02, 2023, 05:12:30 PM
Do you worry about being murdered?
Yes! Not so much anymore, but when I was living in the city, it was always a possibility in the back of my mind. I had been followed home by strangers multiple times, stalked, almost pulled into a gangway and probably would have been raped and murdered just feet from my house ("almost" thanks to my ever-watchful grandmother), and once got lost and stupidly accepted a ride home from a stranger – all before high school ended. As an adult, I'd continue to be followed by strangers coming off the train after work and had long-standing tensions with a family on my block that I am pretty sure have connections with drug trafficking, possibly worse. It was when my daughter ended up in the same class as one of their kids and started saying they were "best friends" that I decided we had to move immediately. That and the boy that was murdered in front of our house that had drawn droves of "mourners" that would come at all hours of the day and loiter, tag, shout, fight and basically engage in every possible activity you can think of to put a giant target on our area to be ripe for more drive-by shootings.
Shortly after we moved to the suburbs, there was this weird salesman that came to my door trying to sell educational materials. He insisted he needed to come into the house to "lay things out" for me to see all the offerings and said everyone else he spoke to in the neighborhood had allowed him in. Of course I didn't let him in, but he did give me a card with his picture on it which I thought was odd if he really was a murderer, still very suspicious. I don't think it's a very good business practice for door-to-door salesmen to insist on coming into someone's house these days.
Now I'm just worried about my kids after seeing all these adolescent/teen killers in the suburbs. I want to be sure they know the red flags if they make friends with anyone like that, and I want to be sure they don't become one themselves.
Quote from: ER on May 02, 2023, 11:08:59 PM
My uncle (by marriage, a marriage that ended) used to own radio stations and he'd use terms like "Hot AC" and various codes for genres, and his classic rock station out west, and the "classic rock" channel on the radio locally and the classic rock setting on the music streaming service we get plays music from maybe the mid-1960s to the mid or late 1970s. That is my take on Classic Rock as a commercial genre rather than a description, and what I was referring to in my post from ...way back
Can I ask, John, is there a reason you obsessively focus on me so much and seem to have so much snideness toward me? This "grouch with a grudge" vibe? Whatever the reason, it'd be nice if you'd stop because it disturbs the sense of community this site so often has and which I think for the most part everyone enjoys.
Are you kidding? You play games. I disagreed with an assertion you had made. To which you responded typically with an INSULT.
As usual, you avoid answering perhaps because you can't find a way to be right. You stated I did not read your post correctly. Terms defined would help, like "classic rock era". Actually, I think you realized your writing was not precise... and debatable.
Thanks for your answer, John. You're insane, but thanks for your answer.
Quote from: ER on May 03, 2023, 12:52:46 PM
Thanks for your answer, John. You're insane, but thanks for your answer.
Thank you again for another insult. I am not insane but YOU tap dance. We could have had a friendly exchange, a direction I thought we were headed in. It is worth pointing out that you had written to me privately essentially on the same topic. Seems friendly. It's not. It's your self absorption.
What's the longest you've ever walked in one day? (Distance or time, either works.)
I think thirty-two miles is my record.
The man I was going to walk the AZT with (along with his family) did the twenty-four hour challenge on the Appalachian Trail and put in sixty-six miles in twenty-four almost continuous hours. :drink:
I walked for 2 days hitchhiking from Michigan to New York with my brother Glenn. I was 16, and he was 14.
Have you ever been in Psychotherapy?
Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 06, 2023, 02:10:05 PM
Have you ever been in Psychotherapy?
Three times in my 50 + years on this planet.
Quote from: Trevor on May 06, 2023, 02:31:58 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 06, 2023, 02:10:05 PM
Have you ever been in Psychotherapy?
Three times in my 50 + years on this planet.
Was it of use for you?
Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 06, 2023, 02:10:05 PM
Have you ever been in Psychotherapy?
Kind of. Rehab- twice.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 06, 2023, 03:39:56 PM
Quote from: Trevor on May 06, 2023, 02:31:58 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 06, 2023, 02:10:05 PM
Have you ever been in Psychotherapy?
Three times in my 50 + years on this planet.
Was it of use for you?
I wanted the help but all three specialists I went to said that they couldn't help me as they found it hard to get through to me 😳
Quote from: Trevor on May 06, 2023, 05:30:11 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 06, 2023, 03:39:56 PM
Quote from: Trevor on May 06, 2023, 02:31:58 PM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 06, 2023, 02:10:05 PM
Have you ever been in Psychotherapy?
Three times in my 50 + years on this planet.
Was it of use for you?
I wanted the help but all three specialists I went to said that they couldn't help me as they found it hard to get through to me 😳
Three specialists? Sounds like three failures at their profession.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 06, 2023, 10:02:05 PM
Three specialists? Sounds like three failures at their profession.
:teddyr: Can you blame them for failing? I was their patient. :wink:
Quote from: Trevor on May 07, 2023, 01:39:07 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 06, 2023, 10:02:05 PM
Three specialists? Sounds like three failures at their profession.
:teddyr: Can you blame them for failing? I was their patient. :wink:
You should curb making jokes at your own expense. If you needed help, sought it out and they blamed you for their failure to help, these "specialists" were ass backwards. Unqualified. Were these people therapists or doctors?
Quote from: Allhallowsday on May 07, 2023, 01:31:41 PM
You should curb making jokes at your own expense. If you needed help, sought it out and they blamed you for their failure to help, these "specialists" were ass backwards. Unqualified. Were these people therapists or doctors?
Thanks: my ability at self deprecation's helped me a lot in my life to cope with all the crap that's happened to me - abandonment, physical abuse, etc - so if I didn't have a sense of humor about myself and the situations I find myself in a lot, I wouldn't be alive.
I genuinely think these doctors had issues with getting through to me like so many people have had in the past, like my school teachers.
Dad's advice to me back then was "**** them son, you'll be OK, live your life as best you can." :smile:
Quote from: Trevor on May 06, 2023, 05:30:11 PM
I wanted the help but all three specialists I went to said that they couldn't help me as they found it hard to get through to me 😳
Did you refuse to open up? Never been to a psychiatrist but if I ever did I would tell everything so they could help me to get better. Isn't that the whole point of going there?
Quote from: claws on May 07, 2023, 03:47:32 PM
Quote from: Trevor on May 06, 2023, 05:30:11 PM
I wanted the help but all three specialists I went to said that they couldn't help me as they found it hard to get through to me 😳
Did you refuse to open up? Never been to a psychiatrist but if I ever did I would tell everything so they could help me to get better. Isn't that the whole point of going there?
I told them that I wanted help and was 100 % open with them but they said that they couldn't find a way to get through to me and assist me, so I left it there and haven't been in therapy since.
How do you want to be remembered?
As a good Christian, a loving father and husband, a loyal friend, and a teacher who loved his students.
Quote from: ER on May 07, 2023, 07:19:32 PM
How do you want to be remembered?
I don't care.
Quote from: ER on May 07, 2023, 07:19:32 PM
How do you want to be remembered?
exactly as i will be. as barri.
I would like to be forgotten. That's why I don't even want a tombstone. As one of my favorite poems says it so well:
Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim
Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again,
And, lost each human trace, surrendering up
Thine individual being, shalt thou go
To mix for ever with the elements,
To be a brother to the insensible rock
And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain
Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak
Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould.
Yet not to thine eternal resting-place
Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish
Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down
With patriarchs of the infant world—with kings,
The powerful of the earth—the wise, the good,
Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past,
All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills
Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,—the vales
Stretching in pensive quietness between;
The venerable woods—rivers that move
In majesty, and the complaining brooks
That make the meadows green; and, poured round all,
Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,—
Are but the solemn decorations all
Of the great tomb of man.
Quote from: ER on May 09, 2023, 11:08:20 AM
I would like to be forgotten. That's why I don't even want a tombstone. As one of my favorite poems says it so well:
Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim
Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again,
And, lost each human trace, surrendering up
Thine individual being, shalt thou go
To mix for ever with the elements,
To be a brother to the insensible rock
And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain
Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak
Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould.
Yet not to thine eternal resting-place
Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish
Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down
With patriarchs of the infant world—with kings,
The powerful of the earth—the wise, the good,
Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past,
All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills
Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,—the vales
Stretching in pensive quietness between;
The venerable woods—rivers that move
In majesty, and the complaining brooks
That make the meadows green; and, poured round all,
Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,—
Are but the solemn decorations all
Of the great tomb of man.
As long as any of us who know you survive, my friend, you will NEVER be forgotten!
Do you like hot peppers?
I LOVE hot peppers. But I won't go beyond jabeneros. I HAVE- but not with my gut like it is. Heartburn would kill me.
I like hot food, although it gives Kristi asthma attacks, so I very rarely get to eat it these days. I suspect I've lost my tolerance for it.
What is the longest time in your life you've spend afraid?
That's a good question; I'm not a fearful person - not on my own account, anyway.
The longest I was afraid for myself was probably the three days it took USS Lockwood to ride out a huge Pacific typhoon. No joke; those waves were 30-40 feet tall and were breaking over the bow of the ship. I was seasick, scared, and homesick all at once.
As far as being fearful for others - once I didn't hear from my best friend, with whom I write back and forth several times a day, for over a week. I was scared something awful had happened.
Quote from: ER on May 12, 2023, 04:57:44 PM
What is the longest time in your life you've spend afraid?
A second or two. I don't get scared- I get angry.
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 12, 2023, 07:19:16 PM
Quote from: ER on May 12, 2023, 04:57:44 PM
What is the longest time in your life you've spend afraid?
A second or two. I don't get scared- I get angry.
Dig it. What we have in common I've pointed out: lucky... to be alive.
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 09, 2023, 07:00:11 PM
Do you like hot peppers?
I LOVE hot peppers. But I won't go beyond jabeneros. I HAVE- but not with my gut like it is. Heartburn would kill me.
Oh yeah, pickled hot peppers on pizza, sub sandwich, chili, love 'em!
Then you're all lucky. I've been afraid many times and sometimes for a long time. Always with reason though, and I always kept going.
Quote from: ER on May 13, 2023, 11:57:57 AM
Then you're all lucky. I've been afraid many times and sometimes for a long time. Always with reason though, and I always kept going.
You're a courageous person.
I've been afraid many times. Fear is something that has evolved to help us survive. I think the most I've ever been afraid was the night we lost Lilly-Beth and Kristi was having a bad reaction to the medication she'd been given. Nothing life-threatening, but that isn't how it felt. I really thought I was going to lose both of them. When my mind was playing tricks on me and I couldn't trust my own senses or memory, I was definitely afraid that I'd never be able to trust it again. That would be the longest I've been afraid of. I can't remember exactly how long that went on, but I'd estimate a couple of months before I got it under control. I suspect I was very afraid when I was being shot at or stabbed, but I was too busy dealing with the situation to really take notice of it. I remember being scared when I was on a lift that suddenly broke and plunged down, but I managed to keep myself calm and deal with it without panicking. Every time I get on an airplane, during take-off and landing I have an unreasonable fear that one of the wings will fall off, but I don't let it stop me from flying.
For anyone who has never felt afraid, I'd suggest going for therapy. You are missing a vital part of your psychological makeup that prevents you from doing stupid things. Not feeling it is not a good thing, quite the opposite. As long as you can deal with feeling it, it is a normal, healthy reaction.
Quote from: Alex on May 13, 2023, 01:52:02 PM
...For anyone who has never felt afraid, I'd suggest going for therapy. You are missing a vital part of your psychological makeup that prevents you from doing stupid things. Not feeling it is not a good thing, quite the opposite. As long as you can deal with feeling it, it is a normal, healthy reaction.
I haven't spent much time considering fear, but I have experienced it. Going to a new school is frightening when you're young. Work problems like Am I going to be fired...? Rough plane rides are scary. Death beds are the worst, fear
and sorrow.
Kristi is watching Eurovision and I am afraid she is going to expect me to pay attention. :bouncegiggle: I am watching The Doom That Came To Gotham instead.
Considering fear, I forgot two TERRIFYING car rides I've been in with 2 different reckless drivers. I haven't driven with either of them behind the wheel since.
All right, what's the bravest thing you've ever done?
I once had to get close to a genuine psychopath, someone I later associated with the concept of yandere. He could go from kind and generous and quiet to explosively violent and suspicious in an instant. Terrifying human being, and out of everything I ever did, being around him was the thing I was sure was most likely to get me killed in the long or short term. He later got murdered in prison.
On the lighter side, when I was a teenager Brian used to like to be up on tall places like hilltops and the roofs of buildings, and one night he started walking on the ledge of a building about sixty or seventy feet up and finally sat down with his feet hanging over the side and said come sit with me. I decided I'd rather fall to my death than let him know how terrified I was, so I went and sat beside him, and it was pretty cool being up there unseen above people, our legs dangling in open space, but I was scared the whole time, trying to hide it, which questionable judgment aside, was probably the bravest thing I'd done to that point in my life. Crazy time....
I guess it would have been when I was 11. I was out for Samhain taking two younger kids out. We were crossing an open park when a guy attacked the younger pair with a knife. I jumped between them and shouted to the pair to go get help while I tried to fight off an older attacker. Got my first knife wound that night when my left eyelid was slashed open, but luckily for me it didn't go any deeper and cut the eyeball itself.
Quote from: ER on May 13, 2023, 03:18:50 PM
All right, what's the bravest thing you've ever done?
Probably not killing myself after being horribly abused in my teens, facing up to the abuse and trying to move on with my life ☹️
Lived on the streets of NYC in the 80's.
Never had any real problems, except for finding food. You would be surprised what you would do. Eat garbage. And I do mean garbage. Not brave. Not afraid. Just going on survival mode.
Quote from: Alex on May 13, 2023, 03:33:07 PM
I guess it would have been when I was 11. I was out for Samhain taking two younger kids out. We were crossing an open park when a guy attacked the younger pair with a knife. I jumped between them and shouted to the pair to go get help while I tried to fight off an older attacker. Got my first knife wound that night when my left eyelid was slashed open, but luckily for me it didn't go any deeper and cut the eyeball itself.
America's gun culture is horrifying, no denying, but that knife s**t you guys got going on over there is twelve kinds of awful. That'd spook the hell out of me.
I'll take facing down someone with a knife over a gun any day of the week myself.
^ Imagine if people were just nice to each other.
In 2002, as my wife and I were in the process of moving to our current abode, I saw a home next to the highway we took that was on fire. No one had arrived on the scene yet, so we pulled into the driveway. My wife called the local fire department, and I kicked in the back door of the house to see if anyone was trapped inside. You couldn't see the ceiling of the room due to the dense cloud of smoke filling the air, but I crawled on my hands and knees into the house, calling out to see if anyone was home. No one was, and I backed out pretty quickly - but later on I realized that I had just kicked down a door and gone into a blazing home with zero protective gear or experience!
Firefighters appeared moments later and got the fire under control before it broke through the roof, and the owners were able to repair the house. Then, two years later, it caught fire again and burned to the ground. Weird.
Quote from: ER on May 12, 2023, 04:57:44 PM
What is the longest time in your life you've spend afraid?
3 months. my husband's old heart doctor convinced us that curtis would die without a new pacemaker battery, it too me 3 months to get together the money to pay for 1/2 of the operation. 6 months later, his new doctor told us he has never been pacemaker dependent at all. we could easily have waited for his medicare to start and the whole thing would have been free. yes, i'm in a class action suit to sue the old doctor.
Quote from: ER on May 13, 2023, 03:18:50 PM
All right, what's the bravest thing you've ever done?
I once had to get close to a genuine psychopath, someone I later associated with the concept of yandere. He could go from kind and generous and quiet to explosively violent and suspicious in an instant. Terrifying human being, and out of everything I ever did, being around him was the thing I was sure was most likely to get me killed in the long or short term. He later got murdered in prison.
On the lighter side, when I was a teenager Brian used to like to be up on tall places like hilltops and the roofs of buildings, and one night he started walking on the ledge of a building about sixty or seventy feet up and finally sat down with his feet hanging over the side and said come sit with me. I decided I'd rather fall to my death than let him know how terrified I was, so I went and sat beside him, and it was pretty cool being up there unseen above people, our legs dangling in open space, but I was scared the whole time, trying to hide it, which questionable judgment aside, was probably the bravest thing I'd done to that point in my life. Crazy time....
hhhmmm.... does it count if i didn't know it was " brave' at the time?
Do you think WWIII will happen in your lifetime?
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I'm about to turn 60.
Frankly, I think not. The Russians can't even conquer Ukraine; the Chinese don't need to resort to nukes as they plan on dominating the world economically. And since the grown-ups are back in control of the government and Trump's chances of getting elected again appear to be diminishing by the day, I don't see us starting it either.
Me neither, buddy. :smile:
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 15, 2023, 07:20:09 PM
Do you think WWIII will happen in your lifetime?
Doubt. There are nothing to gain economically from it and I don't think(at least currently) any ideological movement is strong enough rn to force it
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 15, 2023, 07:20:09 PM
Do you think WWIII will happen in your lifetime?
I'm doubtful, too, although the chances are much greater than I would have thought ten years ago.
One silver-lining outcome of the Ukraine conflict is that aggressors will (hopefully) learn by example that, in the modern world, warfare isn't worth it. Watching what's going on, I don't think China is making plans to go after Taiwan.
After growing up in the environment I did, I always felt that a third world war wasn't far off until Gorbachev started speaking about perestroika ☺️
I think Taiwan is more likely to kick things off than Ukraine. I am expecting trouble there before the end of the decade.
So far, has your life been a comedy or a tragedy?
Mine has been a very black comedy.
While I've had elements of both, I'd have to go with neither.
Quote from: ER on May 20, 2023, 09:01:03 AM
So far, has your life been a comedy or a tragedy?
Mine has been a very black comedy.
Tragi-comedy, especially in the last three years.
Mine is one of those sappy-sweet 80's sitcoms with moments of Indiana Jones thrown in.
The EVIL DEAD 2
Sometimes it's so f**ked up it's funny.
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How much would you miss this site, if you left?
If I left- not at all. I mean, I left, didn't I? :question:
Now if I left because I died- I wouldn't miss anything. I'd be dead.
If it shut down, yeah- I'd miss it.
Quote from: Alex on May 20, 2023, 09:27:35 AM
While I've had elements of both, I'd have to go with neither.
same here. so far, it's been one hell of a ride! :cheers:
OK, this question isn't personal but it is strange, and I was thinking about it last night on a plane....
Why are the digits on a keyboard's number pad and the digits on a phone reversed? (The "1" is on the upper left on a phone, the lower left on most keyboards.)
It's on the upper left of my keyboard and phone.
Have you ever set a house on fire?
No, am I missing out?
I don't know. I haven't either.
My brother Glenn burned my Ma's house down! He passed out with a candle sitting next to a curtain. Dum f**k.
Ever walked into a restaurant and seen the people working there and thought....m'gawd, I wouldn't want you touching something I owned, let alone have you fixing something I was going to consume?
^ No. I've eaten jail food.
Which gives you more pleasure, giving someone a gift and seeing the happiness it brings, or getting a gift yourself?
(I've been given some nice things but honestly I think I've gotten more joy from making others happy.)
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 22, 2023, 05:50:28 PM
My brother Glenn burned my Ma's house down! He passed out with a candle sitting next to a curtain. Dum f**k.
:buggedout: :buggedout:
Quote from: ER on May 24, 2023, 01:43:39 PM
Which gives you more pleasure, giving someone a gift and seeing the happiness it brings, or getting a gift yourself?
(I've been given some nice things but honestly I think I've gotten more joy from making others happy.)
I love giving gifts. I think I enjoy giving them often more than people like receiving them.
Quote from: ER on May 23, 2023, 04:52:46 PM
Ever walked into a restaurant and seen the people working there and thought....m'gawd, I wouldn't want you touching something I owned, let alone have you fixing something I was going to consume?
no, having spent most of my adulthood in the food service industry, i don't judge people by what they look like.
Quote from: chefzombie on May 27, 2023, 01:18:30 AM
Quote from: ER on May 23, 2023, 04:52:46 PM
Ever walked into a restaurant and seen the people working there and thought....m'gawd, I wouldn't want you touching something I owned, let alone have you fixing something I was going to consume?
no, having spent most of my adulthood in the food service industry, i don't judge people by what they look like.
So what a person looked like, the level of hygiene you observed, the state of health, there's nothing about appearance whatsoever that would factor into whether you ate something prepared by this person?
^ Where do you eat at where the people preparing the food are so filthy?
Jail? A dive bar run by a greasy slob? C'mon- gimme a break.
I know there used to be a lassie who worked in a local shop who always had a fake tan, but it just made her look dirty. I refused to let her serve me.
^ I dunno. I ate jail food served by some nappy looking cons. I ate it.
If you don't have cash for commissary- you ate it or you ate nothing. And you will get hungry sooner or later.
I ate hocks and beans made by my first wife- and she was nasty as homemade soap. But she made some good beans! With onions and hot peppers! She was a Texan.
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 27, 2023, 08:19:08 AM
^ Where do you eat at where the people preparing the food are so filthy?
Jail? A dive bar run by a greasy slob? C'mon- gimme a break.
Sometimes I've gone into a place and the people don't strike me as clean. It's not a particular group I am leery of, that summation has stretched across cultural boundaries and age and types of cuisine, but if someone looks dirty to me, I don't want that person making my food. I got bad vibes off a Taco Bell in Maine years ago, just before the health department closed it down over a hep-b outbreak. Guy the other day in this restaurant had some of the filthiest hair I had ever seen, way beyond any normal "he needs a good shampoo" range, and I thought....nah. Gotta look out for yourself and your family in this life, and I'd rather support a place that maintains higher standards than to have a worker with hair that stinks up the whole cash register area be around something I might eat.
BTW, I try not to be a pain in the butt customer and usually tip 30% unless someone really gives bad service. I have even sent money back to the kitchen many times along with compliments. I like rewarding working people directly, but...seriously, dirty folks shouldn't be in the business.
^ There you go! Taco Bell! That food tastes like it's made of dirt!
I wouldn't feed that slop to my dog!
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 27, 2023, 10:43:36 AM
^ There you go! Taco Bell! That food tastes like it's made of dirt!
Agreed. Way worse than it was in the '90s, and it was practically horsemeat back then.
Quote from: ER on May 23, 2023, 04:52:46 PM
Ever walked into a restaurant and seen the people working there and thought....m'gawd, I wouldn't want you touching something I owned, let alone have you fixing something I was going to consume?
No but friends of mine had a restaurant in Pretoria central and they named a burger after me: a Trevor burger, no sauce, no garnish, just the bun and a well cooked patty. That was until my vegan sister begged me to cut down on red meat. :smile:
Many years ago, before I moved up this way, I was passing through Inverness. Felt hungry and popped into a nearby kebab shop. I was walked in a rather dirty looking fat man wearing a string vest and with way too much body hair sat down at a table and planted his face in his food, eating it like that. Decided not to eat in that place afterall. The next time I came through two years later it had thankfully closed down. Turned out the fat guy was the chef.
^ :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
:bouncegiggle:
Quote from: ER on May 27, 2023, 04:13:19 AM
Quote from: chefzombie on May 27, 2023, 01:18:30 AM
Quote from: ER on May 23, 2023, 04:52:46 PM
Ever walked into a restaurant and seen the people working there and thought....m'gawd, I wouldn't want you touching something I owned, let alone have you fixing something I was going to consume?
no, having spent most of my adulthood in the food service industry, i don't judge people by what they look like.
So what a person looked like, the level of hygiene you observed, the state of health, there's nothing about appearance whatsoever that would factor into whether you ate something prepared by this person?
i look at 3 things in that sense. do they have any open sores? if so, i report the whole establishment. do they have their hair/beard/whatever properly restrained? again, if not the health department gets a call. the third is are they wearing gloves? and when i spend 3-4 minutes observing them, do they treat their gloves and hands appropriately? and again, if not i turn in the whole place.
if i can't trust the management to hire people that follow health codes, i turn them in, and i eat elsewhere. we get sweaty in food service, and we don't always smell like roses. we also get flushed from the heat, and people THINK we're sick. or we have tats and scars and piercings that make people ASSUME we MUST be filthy nasty people.
Does it bother you to see babies with piercings?
Quote from: Alex on May 27, 2023, 12:04:09 PM
Many years ago, before I moved up this way, I was passing through Inverness. Felt hungry and popped into a nearby kebab shop. I was walked in a rather dirty looking fat man wearing a string vest and with way too much body hair sat down at a table and planted his face in his food, eating it like that. Decided not to eat in that place afterall. The next time I came through two years later it had thankfully closed down. Turned out the fat guy was the chef.
😳😝😝😂😂
Quote from: Trevor on May 28, 2023, 11:24:16 AM
Quote from: Alex on May 27, 2023, 12:04:09 PM
Many years ago, before I moved up this way, I was passing through Inverness. Felt hungry and popped into a nearby kebab shop. I was walked in a rather dirty looking fat man wearing a string vest and with way too much body hair sat down at a table and planted his face in his food, eating it like that. Decided not to eat in that place afterall. The next time I came through two years later it had thankfully closed down. Turned out the fat guy was the chef.
😳😝😝😂😂
I haven't eaten in a kebab shop since.
Quote from: ER on May 28, 2023, 11:22:12 AM
Does it bother you to see babies with piercings?
Yes. It does the kid no good; it's for the a***ole parents to show off the kid.
Quote from: RCMerchant on May 28, 2023, 12:10:01 PM
Quote from: ER on May 28, 2023, 11:22:12 AM
Does it bother you to see babies with piercings?
Yes. It does the kid no good; it's for the a***ole parents to show off the kid.
It bothers me too. I saw a baby girl with a stud in her nose the other day and it made me mad. Getting common to see babies with pierced ears too. Used to be getting your ears pierced was a kind of rite of passage, freely chosen.
Ash certainly won't get any piercings unless he asks for them. It should be something with a minimum age requirement.
When you are dipping/if you ever dipped out of a carton of Neapolitan ice cream, have you/would you scoop across all three flavors, or concentrate on one?
All three. :thumbup:
Me too!
Otherwise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYSBPo_mAD0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYSBPo_mAD0)
Quote from: ER on May 29, 2023, 11:11:24 AM
When you are dipping/if you ever dipped out of a carton of Neapolitan ice cream, have you/would you scoop across all three flavors, or concentrate on one?
I do one at a time with a little bit of overhang at the edges. BTW I recommend Kroger Neapolitan Ice Cream Sandwiches.
sorry, i can't answer this since i can't eat ice cream, and my old guy would die before he ate strawberry anything, lol!
What candy is the worst?
I'm going with Peeps and Kandy Korn.
Anything with licorice. That's a flavor I can't abide!
^ I LOVE black licorce!
I don't like anything marshmallow-based.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on May 30, 2023, 08:37:00 PM
I don't like anything marshmallow-based.
Agreed: marshmallows taste like snot to me, always have. If its toasted on a stick then yes. Otherwise 😳
American candy is strange. I can understand why so many of my stateside friends and family get me to bring over stuff they can't get there. Kristi once sent me a bag of Hershey's hugs and kisses. When I tried one I seriously thought this was her way of telling me I was dumped. It tasted like someone had just vomited in my mouth. Because of the adverts in comics I'd read as a kid I'd always wanted to try Twinkies and Jolly Ranchers. When I did, I pretty much spat them straight back out.
I don't know if there are any candies worse tasting than any of those, but after those experiences, I gave up trying them. Good job the cheeseburgers made up for things (we are arranging for someone to have a Pace's Countryboy Double Burger waiting for me when I get off the plane).
Quote from: Alex on May 31, 2023, 01:39:26 AM
American candy is strange. I can understand why so many of my stateside friends and family get me to bring over stuff they can't get there. Kristi once sent me a bag of Hershey's hugs and kisses. When I tried one I seriously thought this was her way of telling me I was dumped. It tasted like someone had just vomited in my mouth. Because of the adverts in comics I'd read as a kid I'd always wanted to try Twinkies and Jolly Ranchers. When I did, I pretty much spat them straight back out.
I don't know if there are any candies worse tasting than any of those, but after those experiences, I gave up trying them. Good job the cheeseburgers made up for things (we are arranging for someone to have a Pace's Countryboy Double Burger waiting for me when I get off the plane).
I don't know about candy but I once bought a bottle of root beer: ice cold on a hot day and I almost 🤢🤮😝
Quote from: Trevor on May 31, 2023, 03:38:24 AM
Quote from: Alex on May 31, 2023, 01:39:26 AM
American candy is strange. I can understand why so many of my stateside friends and family get me to bring over stuff they can't get there. Kristi once sent me a bag of Hershey's hugs and kisses. When I tried one I seriously thought this was her way of telling me I was dumped. It tasted like someone had just vomited in my mouth. Because of the adverts in comics I'd read as a kid I'd always wanted to try Twinkies and Jolly Ranchers. When I did, I pretty much spat them straight back out.
I don't know if there are any candies worse tasting than any of those, but after those experiences, I gave up trying them. Good job the cheeseburgers made up for things (we are arranging for someone to have a Pace's Countryboy Double Burger waiting for me when I get off the plane).
I don't know about candy but I once bought a bottle of root beer: ice cold on a hot day and I almost 🤢🤮😝
Agreed on Twinkies, I have always found them pretty disgusting. The Hershey's kisses might have gone bad; I can see someone not liking them, but I can't see describing them as tasting like vomit. Jolly Ranchers are a bit sour and not my favorite, but they're OK. I guess root beer might be an acquired taste, but I expect Trevor didn't sample the highest quality bottle.
I don't like Twinkies either. I enjoy a good bottle of root beer on occasion, but rarely drink soda pop.
Speaking of candy, what is a candy that is local to you that outsiders might not have tried? Here in KY we make bourbon balls, which are literally chocolates with liquid bourbon centers. Delicious but decadent.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on May 31, 2023, 08:10:41 AM. I guess root beer might be an acquired taste, but I expect Trevor didn't sample the highest quality bottle.
I bought one of this company's products: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie%27s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie%27s) Not nice at all :drink: :tongueout: :tongueout:
Quote from: Rev. Powell on May 31, 2023, 08:10:41 AM
Quote from: Trevor on May 31, 2023, 03:38:24 AM
Quote from: Alex on May 31, 2023, 01:39:26 AM
American candy is strange. I can understand why so many of my stateside friends and family get me to bring over stuff they can't get there. Kristi once sent me a bag of Hershey's hugs and kisses. When I tried one I seriously thought this was her way of telling me I was dumped. It tasted like someone had just vomited in my mouth. Because of the adverts in comics I'd read as a kid I'd always wanted to try Twinkies and Jolly Ranchers. When I did, I pretty much spat them straight back out.
I don't know if there are any candies worse tasting than any of those, but after those experiences, I gave up trying them. Good job the cheeseburgers made up for things (we are arranging for someone to have a Pace's Countryboy Double Burger waiting for me when I get off the plane).
I don't know about candy but I once bought a bottle of root beer: ice cold on a hot day and I almost 🤢🤮😝
Agreed on Twinkies, I have always found them pretty disgusting. The Hershey's kisses might have gone bad; I can see someone not liking them, but I can't see describing them as tasting like vomit. Jolly Ranchers are a bit sour and not my favorite, but they're OK. I guess root beer might be an acquired taste, but I expect Trevor didn't sample the highest quality bottle.
I know Kristi won't touch Hershey's chocolate. Certainly, the impression I've gotten from her friends and family when they've visited was that they weren't a very liked brand. One of the local shops started selling it when some US troops got permanently based here with the P-8s. The box is still sitting there pretty much untouched (unless the boxes of them get emptied really quickly and I've only seen them just after they've been replaced) over a year later so I got the impression they weren't really that popular with anyone. I would say the hugs and kisses were the foulest-tasting sweets I have ever tried, a position that had been previously held for 20 odd years by Fishermen's Friends.
Quote from: Alex on May 31, 2023, 12:03:06 PMI would say the hugs and kisses were the foulest-tasting sweets I have ever tried, a position that had been previously held for 20 odd years by Fishermen's Friends.
Those lozenges taste like they've been made with run-off from my undies but they do work. :wink:
I've never liked Skittles even a little bit. Plus in college a friend left a pack in her car overnight in sub-zero weather, popped one in her mouth the next day and chipped her tooth it so so frozen solid.
Skittles do have one neat use though:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ihN8dR9N1-M (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ihN8dR9N1-M)
Quote from: Alex on May 31, 2023, 12:03:06 PM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on May 31, 2023, 08:10:41 AM
Quote from: Trevor on May 31, 2023, 03:38:24 AM
Quote from: Alex on May 31, 2023, 01:39:26 AM
American candy is strange. I can understand why so many of my stateside friends and family get me to bring over stuff they can't get there. Kristi once sent me a bag of Hershey's hugs and kisses. When I tried one I seriously thought this was her way of telling me I was dumped. It tasted like someone had just vomited in my mouth. Because of the adverts in comics I'd read as a kid I'd always wanted to try Twinkies and Jolly Ranchers. When I did, I pretty much spat them straight back out.
I don't know if there are any candies worse tasting than any of those, but after those experiences, I gave up trying them. Good job the cheeseburgers made up for things (we are arranging for someone to have a Pace's Countryboy Double Burger waiting for me when I get off the plane).
I don't know about candy but I once bought a bottle of root beer: ice cold on a hot day and I almost 🤢🤮😝
Agreed on Twinkies, I have always found them pretty disgusting. The Hershey's kisses might have gone bad; I can see someone not liking them, but I can't see describing them as tasting like vomit. Jolly Ranchers are a bit sour and not my favorite, but they're OK. I guess root beer might be an acquired taste, but I expect Trevor didn't sample the highest quality bottle.
I know Kristi won't touch Hershey's chocolate. Certainly, the impression I've gotten from her friends and family when they've visited was that they weren't a very liked brand. One of the local shops started selling it when some US troops got permanently based here with the P-8s. The box is still sitting there pretty much untouched (unless the boxes of them get emptied really quickly and I've only seen them just after they've been replaced) over a year later so I got the impression they weren't really that popular with anyone. I would say the hugs and kisses were the foulest-tasting sweets I have ever tried, a position that had been previously held for 20 odd years by Fishermen's Friends.
They used to be the #1 selling chocolate brand here and probably still are. They are fine, but a little boring. The chocolate bar with almonds is excellent.
I found this: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-most-Europeans-hate-Hershey-s-chocolate (https://www.quora.com/Why-do-most-Europeans-hate-Hershey-s-chocolate) that may explain the "vomit" comment. Personally I can't tell much difference between Hershey's and European style chocolate. Of course dark chocolate tastes much different (and better).
Chocolate covered pecans are one of my favorite treats, but they are pricey!
I like Raisonettes and Goobers (chocolate covered peanuts.)
I try to keep my sugar intake low, so when I eat chocolate, it's almost always a high-cacao dark chocolate, but honestly, I find chocolate in general, like coffee, leaves me jittery, so I don't eat it too often.
Would you rather be eaten by a shark, or die from leprosy?
Getting eaten by a shark is WAY cooler.
Y'all ever lie awake with insomnia late at night and watch 1950s faith healer videos on YouTube? The kind where they are all in a big tent in Oklahoma or Arkansas and the men wear tiny ties and plaid suits and the women have on little hats and lace cloths hanging over their shoulders even though it's clearly 100 degrees inside there, and the preachers have slicked-back hair and whack the faithful on the forehead with their hands and shake their cupped heads violently before shouting in tongues and asking the sick if they can hear/walk/breathe now? Those are fartin' awesome. I mean like more out there than '80s Japanimation clips. Those engross me.
Ahem. Yes, that's my question.
No, I have not been drinking but I did get stung by what looked like a flying scorpion earlier, so I may be experiencing the onset of mutant powers. Fingers crossed....
^ Hmm. No.
I can't say I ever have.
What's a personality trait that you wish you had/had more of?
Me, I wish I was more mellow and less driven.
More self-confidence.
Quote from: Alex on June 04, 2023, 09:58:24 AM
More self-confidence.
I would not have guessed that about you. You seem plenty confident and capable.
Quote from: ER on June 04, 2023, 10:00:01 AM
Quote from: Alex on June 04, 2023, 09:58:24 AM
More self-confidence.
I would not have guessed that about you. You seem plenty confident and capable.
Trust me, self-confidence is my biggest weakness. Holds me back from a lot of things, like submitting stuff to see if I can get published.
Quote from: Alex on June 04, 2023, 10:01:20 AM
Quote from: ER on June 04, 2023, 10:00:01 AM
Quote from: Alex on June 04, 2023, 09:58:24 AM
More self-confidence.
I would not have guessed that about you. You seem plenty confident and capable.
Trust me, self-confidence is my biggest weakness. Holds me back from a lot of things, like submitting stuff to see if I can get published.
FWIW, submitting manuscripts takes a certain amount of masochism.
Quote from: ER on June 04, 2023, 10:02:21 AM
Quote from: Alex on June 04, 2023, 10:01:20 AM
Quote from: ER on June 04, 2023, 10:00:01 AM
Quote from: Alex on June 04, 2023, 09:58:24 AM
More self-confidence.
I would not have guessed that about you. You seem plenty confident and capable.
Trust me, self-confidence is my biggest weakness. Holds me back from a lot of things, like submitting stuff to see if I can get published.
FWIW, submitting manuscripts takes a certain amount of masochism.
I will be doing that exact thing on Tuesday: I feel like I'm losing a part of me.
Quote from: ER on May 28, 2023, 11:22:12 AM
Does it bother you to see babies with piercings?
It's so funny you asked that question. On that same day I had a dream that Octomom wanted a baby girl from me. She was so sure she was going to get her that she showed up at the hospital on the delivery day and had the baby's ears pierced and nails painted. I was furious.
That said, I have known some girls that have had their ears pierced since they were a baby and they were grateful that they didn't have to go through the unpleasantness of the maintenance when they were older. I would still never do it.
Quote from: ER on June 04, 2023, 09:57:08 AM
What's a personality trait that you wish you had/had more of?
Me, I wish I was more mellow and less driven.
cynicism.
Would you rather lose an arm or a leg?
I'd go for leg.
NO!
My leg. Would taste better.
I would have to go with leg. Someone in my house has to be able to open jars.
I think I taught Bronte (Jane Eyre), once for a grad school lit theory class (in light of Gilbert and Gubar's Madwoman in the Attic), and another for an undergrad gothic lit.
I can't remember using Alcott, but I remember watching the 1994 movie after Christmas, and in the theater. It was OK, but Winona was still a hottie.
Quote from: ralfy on June 06, 2023, 03:28:50 AM
I think I taught Bronte (Jane Eyre), once for a grad school lit theory class (in light of Gilbert and Gubar's Madwoman in the Attic), and another for an undergrad gothic lit.
I can't remember using Alcott, but I remember watching the 1994 movie after Christmas, and in the theater. It was OK, but Winona was still a hottie.
?
Do you like boiled cabbage? :question:
Actually it's not bad.
No. Cabbages and Brussel sprouts are both evil.
I can eat cabbage in things, but not boiled by itself.
Cabbage is one of the only cruciferous vegetables I can tolerate.
Cabbage has always tasted like boiled underpants 😝
Quote from: Trevor on June 06, 2023, 03:30:53 PM
Cabbage has always tasted like boiled underpants 😝
I do not want to know how you know what they taste like. :lookingup:
I like it with corn beef and carrots and cabbage. It's boiled. Glumpki's- stuffed cabbage. I make my own on occasion. I'm a Norwegian hillbilly, who grew up around old farmers. Mostly Polacks and Russians. I can cook anything. :drink:
Waffles or pancakes?
Pancakes. Waffles lie too much. They promise something tasty and never deliver. :bouncegiggle:
When I was a kid pancakes were my absolute favorite food in the world but somewhere in time I flipped to liking waffles more.
You know how sometimes you will never have heard of something in your life, then you'll suddenly start hearing about it or encountering it everywhere, all the time for a brief while?
When's the last time you remember that happening to you?
It's not quite the same thing but lately I have been waking up at 3:11 AM... A LOT, and what's a little added weirdness, several times this week I'll look to see what time it is and my phone will be right then that exact instant switching to 3:11 PM.
What's the story, morning glory???
^ In the AMITYVILLE HORROR it's always 3:14 or 3:15.
Quote from: Alex on June 06, 2023, 03:36:06 PM
Quote from: Trevor on June 06, 2023, 03:30:53 PM
Cabbage has always tasted like boiled underpants 😝
I do not want to know how you know what they taste like. :lookingup:
I tried to clean my only pair a little better and well, you know what happened 😳😝🤧😉😉🐢
Quote from: ER on June 06, 2023, 02:02:44 PM
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http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,157088.msg678762.html#msg678762 (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,157088.msg678762.html#msg678762)
Do you call it soda, pop, coke, or soda pop?
I swear, some folks from down south I met call every flavor "coke".
I say soda pop.
What's your favorite flover? Mine's either grape or ginger ale. I rarely dink the s**t though. Kool-Aid is cheaper. And I got lotsa family here a lot lately.
We call it pop or ginger.
Soft drink.
I don't drink it though.
" Soft drink"?
That's kinda snooty!
In a Snooty voice-
"Neeew- I don't partake of soft drinks". :bouncegiggle:
We call any kind of soft drink a colddrink :drink:
Down here it's usually "soda" or "coke" (even if it's really Dr. Pepper!)
Soft drink and ginger ale, though if I drink one its usually a Coke Zero for the caffeine.
One of the ways I lost nearly 100 pounds years ago was by cutting out regular cokes. One bottle has as many calories as a damn ice cream cone, it's insane!
I like soda pop, I just can't afford it. Ice tea and Kool-Aid.
What are you "sick and tired" of right now?
I'm tired of seemingly endless hot sunny days with the same pale blue cloudless skies. How do people stand this?
Cleaning baths that have been crapped in.
Sick of getting the runaround from movie rights holders.
Quote from: ER on June 09, 2023, 08:10:38 AM
What are you "sick and tired" of right now?
Donald Trump's stupid ass.
My mom asking, "what door am I going to go out when I leave?" twenty times an hour.
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 09, 2023, 10:23:58 AM
Quote from: ER on June 09, 2023, 08:10:38 AM
What are you "sick and tired" of right now?
Donald Trump's stupid ass.
PREACH IT, BROTHER!!!!!
I long for the day when I never see his face, hear his name, or have to listen to that incredibly annoying voice again.
Quote from: ER on June 09, 2023, 08:10:38 AM
What are you "sick and tired" of right now?
I'm tired of seemingly endless hot sunny days with the same pale blue cloudless skies. How do people stand this?
Politicians attacking the LGBTQ+
^ They don't have an agenda for this country- so they push an agenda on people they don't like. Moral f**kheads who wouldn't know true morals if it bit them in the ass.
Crybaby pinheads.
All right, on the flip side, a much harder question to answer, what is something you're grateful for right now?
I am grateful that people are capable of forgiveness. I mean that very sincerely from the bottom of my heart.
I am grateful for my family. My sons and grandkids.
I'm grateful that my mother's still here to ask me 20 times an hour which door she's going to exit by when she leaves.
I'm grateful for my wife and family and my best friend.
Also grateful for having been blessed with the sexiest nostrils west of the Mississippi!
Quote from: Rev. Powell on June 09, 2023, 07:10:57 PM
I'm grateful that my mother's still here to ask me 20 times an hour which door she's going to exit by when she leaves.
^I wish the best for your Ma, man.
What do you think your life will be like in five years?
Mine will be stable and happy with a touch of calm sometimes heretofore lacking.
Dead.
Leaving a job I am currently looking to start (although there is a chance I'll do 8 instead).
About the same as today, but with more money since I'll be able to withdraw from my IRA without penalty.
Quote from: indianasmith on June 09, 2023, 07:19:33 PM
Also grateful for having been blessed with the sexiest nostrils west of the Mississippi!
:teddyr: :teddyr:
If you see a note lying crumbled on the sidewalk and pick it up to see what is written on it, and you then put the paper back down, have you yourself littered, or does the fact you are basically continuing a pre-existing state of litter cancel out your action?
I'd set it on fire and dance around it.
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 13, 2023, 04:23:21 PM
I'd set it on fire and dance around it.
OK, that'd definitely be littering.....
^ No- because it would burn to ashes and blow away. Gone!
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 13, 2023, 05:07:42 PM
^ No- because it would burn to ashes and blow away. Gone!
You are so brilliant sometimes.
It's all an act.
(https://i.imgur.com/O4sOaMa.gif) (https://lunapic.com)
I found the biggest leap of faith in Psycho II was the makers expecting us to believe Norman could have survived twenty years of therapeutic incarceration without getting shanked.
^ He was in a mental hospital. Not a prison. 2 of my brothers did time in the nuthouse. No one get's "shanked".
The man who's life this was loosely based on was Ed Gein. He was arrested in 1957, and died in a mental hospital in 1984. the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE was also loosely based on Gein. The best movie about Gein is DERANGED (1973).
The town burned his house down. It had been filled with body parts and his mother's corpse. He had a woman hung up like a deer. Gutted. The true story is so much worse than movies because IT'S TRUE.
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^ I know he was in a mental hospital, that's why I called it "therapeutic" incarceration. They're dangerous places based on conversations I've had with several therapists who have worked in them.
^My brothers were in there, a number of times. Richie (who shot himself) twice, and Glenn, who escaped and went to San Francisco. He's a Nazi now. My brother Mike was too, come to think of it. He went to prison for stabbing a women, then the nuthouse for attacking a women and her son from his church in a shopping mall with a baseball bat. He pulled a knife on me about 15 years ago when he came to visit and lost his meds. He was arrested. My son called the cops. I explained to the cops he lost his meds. He's a very quite religious man now. But he can go off like a bullet. He's on anti-psychotic dope to keep him stable.
So yeah- I know a little.
What do you think about the "divine ratio"?
God's fingerprint on the universe.
Quote from: ER on June 16, 2023, 08:20:58 AM
What do you think about the "divine ratio"?
Some really complicated math stuff. I hate math.
^ You know what I have often thought, is that a divine being that could create math and insert this ratio into even the tiniest objects would surely be too complicated and logical to have authored the codes held by most religions. But then again, I don't know. Maybe God is above such things but the point is that humans are no and that's why God would demand those observances of us. A rabbi I enjoy listening to claims that God /G-d, ha, is "infinite everything": infinite joy, sorrow, wonder, fear, love, infinite all things, including infinite loneliness, so perhaps aspects of human religions do move something in such a being if there is some element within God that needs us. One thing I have long accepted is that (at least in this lifetime) I will never have the answers to the questions which have been at the forefront of my mind for most of my life.
How old are you? Don't be shy- I'm about to be 61.
I'm proud to say I am forty-four, which is significantly farther than I thought I'd get. I have squeezed every drop out of life's lemons, and savored its champagne.
55 in 2 days. I'll be eligible for discounted movie tickets!
49 and wondering how I got here. I've been feeling a lot recently that I've won at life.
56 this September: my bad start in life meant I wasn't supposed to be here that long - plus all the other crap I've been through in my life but here I am. 😊
59 and still wondering how that happened!
I turn 40 in October.
Do you enjoy discussing/debating/arguing politics, and if so, why or why not?
I'm generally a big "no," at least on forums. I find the only way to discuss these things fruitfully is in a one-on-one situation with a reasonable person (whether I agree or disagree). When it goes public, people have too much pride invested: they don't want to lose, they want to "beat" the other other side. But people never come to any sort of agreement or epiphany, and there's never any winner; everyone leaves with their opinion reinforced in their own minds.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on June 18, 2023, 09:31:00 AM
Do you enjoy discussing/debating/arguing politics, and if so, why or why not?
I'm generally a big "no," at least on forums. I find the only way to discuss these things fruitfully is in a one-on-one situation with a reasonable person (whether I agree or disagree). When it goes public, people have too much pride invested: they don't want to lose, they want to "beat" the other other side. But people never come to any sort of agreement or epiphany, and there's never any winner; everyone leaves with their opinion reinforced in their own minds.
Having been born in a country where politics and propaganda ruled and then moving to one where everyone was governed by Nazi like laws, I prefer not to discuss politics of any country, so no. Any other subject, no problem.
No. I find the activity tends to lack attachment to facts, degenerates quickly into personal attacks, rarely rises above the airing of emotions. It's a fruitless and usually unpleasant pursuit and boring at that. It appeals most to people who enjoy anger.
Depends very much on the person. The majority of people in a democracy will vote for a single party their entire lives. They tend not to actually know how the party they vote for affects them although they themselves will not recognise this and will vehemently claim otherwise. Those people I don't consider it to be worth my time to discuss politics with. Floating voters, I find tend to more open to discussing what each party does and means for them. Those people I can have a good conversation with.
Not really, because I dislike ALL parties, and tend to call people a***oles- while making an ass of myself.
How comfortable are you talking about sex?
Me, I don't get either the taboos about it as a subject or why others seem only able to get lurid and salacious. It's just a topic.
I don't find the need to advertise my sex life.
Lost my virginia at age 36 and I been celibate since 😳😉🐢
Pretty much an open book here. If I was going to be embarrassed about doing something, I wouldn't have done it.
Sex in general? No problem. My personal sex life? I'll discuss it without specifics. I may change names to protect the guilty.
Ever known anyone you think might truly be....well, brainwashed?
I think my mom is kind of that way. Called her today to tell her happy sixty-third birthday, and even today she couldn't stop telling me all these....
Well, anyway, I do think her mind has been bent by bad influences, and it's maddening and aggravating and frequently hurtful. I mean for one day, one phone call, one conversation she couldn't stay off these topics that have taken her over in the last few years? She's an ethereal artist, absolutely beautiful, how did she reach this point? It's terrible sometimes.
Quote from: ER on June 19, 2023, 10:25:35 AM
Ever known anyone you think might truly be....well, brainwashed?
I think my mom is kind of that way. Called her today to tell her happy sixty-third birthday, and even today she couldn't stop telling me all these....
Well, anyway, I do think her mind has been bent by bad influences, and it's maddening and aggravating and frequently hurtful. I mean for one day, one phone call, one conversation she couldn't stay off these topics that have taken her over in the last few years? She's an ethereal artist, absolutely beautiful, how did she reach this point? It's terrible sometimes.
Sadly, that happens to older people more than younger people. I think it has to do with increasing fear and anxiety and the illusion of control conspiracy theories provide. We hope we will be immune when our turn comes, but you never know.
Quote from: ER on June 19, 2023, 10:25:35 AM
Ever known anyone you think might truly be....well, brainwashed?
A lot of people my age who grew up in apartheid South Africa and served in the armed forces believing that they would triumph are like that: unable to accept change and stuck in "the good old days". People from my birth country are almost all like that sadly.
Quote from: ER on June 19, 2023, 10:25:35 AM
Ever known anyone you think might truly be....well, brainwashed?
I think my mom is kind of that way. Called her today to tell her happy sixty-third birthday, and even today she couldn't stop telling me all these....
Well, anyway, I do think her mind has been bent by bad influences, and it's maddening and aggravating and frequently hurtful. I mean for one day, one phone call, one conversation she couldn't stay off these topics that have taken her over in the last few years? She's an ethereal artist, absolutely beautiful, how did she reach this point? It's terrible sometimes.
As you age, the first part of your brain to start shutting down it seems to connected to your feelings of empathy. I remember in her last years, my gran who had been one of the kindest women I ever knew would just start randomly saying quite nasty things about people passing her in the street. It got so bad that I didn't want to take her out anywhere. It wasn't until years later, long after she'd died that I found out the cause behind this. It means people can come to believe things and say things and just not realise how this affects people around them. It hits all manner of things about our personalities from who we vote for (who'd have thought that older people becoming more right-wing in their views was down to a mental health condition and what does that say about those policies, but that is a debate for another time). Had I known this back then I'd have dealt with things entirely differently rather than getting alienated from her. I don't know if that helps how you feel about your situation any, but there you go.
I have met many people who were and are brainwashed. The vast majority have done it to themselves though. However they get there though it seems to always come down to religion, politics or flying saucers.
My brother Glenn. He's always been a racist, but he's so much worse now. He's a full blown Nazi.
In politics, I blame phones. Yes PHONES. No one listens to the issues- just the sound bites. Not many people actually read- and I mean really read anything anymore. If it takes more than a minute or two watching a news bite or a catch phrase, folks lose interest. It has to be loud, a soundbite, a catch phrase. A constant flow of the same thing over and over. That's why Trump won in 2016. It's easy to be a lemming.
Look around you. What will be in this space in 100 years?
I'm in my house and I say it will still be standing and descendants of mine will live still here. (And I'll playfully haunt them.)
I'm sitting at home, too. In 100 years. No clue. Maybe the house will burn down. Maybe a tornado will take it out. Maybe someone will tear it down. Maybe it will still be here.
What do you think about abortion?
Myself- no. No. I can understand why some folks are for it, but It aint me.
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 20, 2023, 10:49:40 PM
What do you think about abortion?
Myself- no. No. I can understand why some folks are for it, but It aint me.
That's the
only subject I don't have an opinion on.
I will never be able to convince myself it is anything other than the taking of a human life.
I recognize there are rare cases where it is a medical or moral necessity - no 11 year old should be forced to bear her rapist's child - but its normal use as ex post facto birth control is a shame.
Scoff, it's for wimps. Now exposing your unwanted infant after birth....that's showing those feelings of maternal bonding who's boss!
I think the whole slogan about not telling women what they can do with their bodies is wrong. You aren't telling them what they can or can't do with their own body. You are telling them what they can or can't do to someone elses.
I do believe there are times when it is justified or even necessary11, but as with Indy I do not believe it should ever be used as a form of birth control. There are plenty of other options out there for that.
After we lost Lilly-Beth, both the women I knew who'd had abortions seemed to think in some way I'd hate them. I try not to presume to judge them though. It is a situation I've not been in myself so I can't speak for what they went through before that led to that decision or how they felt afterwards.
"What's your least favorite country, France or Italy?"
(Nobody ever says Italy.) :wink:
Italy. Better food.
EDIT: Least favorite? OH! France! Wait- France gave us the Statue of Liberty and fought against the Nazi's. And no big Mafia thing. I like France better.
Do you have a pet? I got Lily- me sweetie. She's a chiweenie.
This is my dog Inky in 1971
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My dog Skip. He still misses his brother.
Whatever became of Inky?
Quote from: ER on June 22, 2023, 08:31:48 PM
"What's your least favorite country, France or Italy?"
(Nobody ever says Italy.) :wink:
France: apologies to my fave French filmmakers.
Quote from: ER on June 23, 2023, 09:46:26 PM
My dog Skip. He still misses his brother.
Whatever became of Inky?
He got hit by a truck. :bluesad: He was 8 years old.
Cake or pie?
Cake, because it's a delivery system, for icing.
Pie, 'cause I'm a fruit guy.
Quote from: ER on June 24, 2023, 10:22:15 AM
Cake or pie?
Cake, because it's a delivery system, for icing.
Pie! Pecan, if I got it! With cool whip! Or ice cream!
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 24, 2023, 06:52:37 PM
Quote from: ER on June 24, 2023, 10:22:15 AM
Cake or pie?
Cake, because it's a delivery system, for icing.
I change my answer, pecan pie is best of all. What was I thinking?
Pie! Pecan, if I got it! With cool whip! Or ice cream!
Quote from: ER on June 24, 2023, 10:22:15 AM
Cake or pie?
Cake, because it's a delivery system, for icing.
Cake all the way!
If you HAD to join a religion or convert to a new religion from the one you're in now, what religion would it be?
Although I once had a powerful experience in a Hindu temple, I think I might like Taoism, minus the rituals later added in.
Taoism (I'd need to research it more) or Buddhism.
I would take up the worship of his Great Noodley goodness and become a Pastafanarian.
Quote from: ER on June 26, 2023, 07:28:10 AM
If you HAD to join a religion or convert to a new religion from the one you're in now, what religion would it be?
Although I once had a powerful experience in a Hindu temple, I think I might like Taoism, minus the rituals later added in.
Satanism.
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You're on your deathbed when your fairy godmother, Betty, appears and says, "I have the power to allow you to live your entire life over again....only you must do it as the opposite sex."
Would you take the offer and re-live your lifetime as outie when you were an innie, or vice-versa, or Just Say No?
I'd roll the dice on it, I suppose. Be interesting to find out what having one prevailing mood would feel like.
Ugh- no.
I can't imagine being a girl. If I was I'd be a girl who eats p***y.
I wouldn't want to live my life over as a male, much less a female. I mean, it would be cool when I got to be an adult and knew what to do, but waiting to grow up again would be hell.
I'd give it a go. I wonder how the crazier women I've dated in my life would be from the other side? Maybe I'd be able to figure out their... mercurial natures more.
Then again, maybe they were just nutjobs.
Quote from: ER on June 27, 2023, 04:03:15 PM
You're on your deathbed when your fairy godmother, Betty, appears and says, "I have the power to allow you to live your entire life over again....only you must do it as the opposite sex."
Would you take the offer and re-live your lifetime as outie when you were an innie, or vice-versa, or Just Say No?
I'd roll the dice on it, I suppose. Be interesting to find out what having one prevailing mood would feel like.
Totally. Well maybe not MY life as it was as me, I love my kids too much to undo them or risk some crazy harpy having them instead of me. But just living A life again as a man? Sign me up! I think I'd make such an awesome dude. I basically am one except for all the lady parts, femininity, crying, emotions, high maintenance grooming habits, squeaky voice, etc. I could roll out of bed in the morning and just be ready for the day – maybe put on deodorant and brush my teeth, maybe I'll do it later. I can wear the same thing every day and no one will care (I kind of do that now but people ask questions). Showers will be done in 5 minutes using a single multi-purpose soap. If I'm greasy I can just grow a beard and no one will notice. My hair will always look amazing until it falls out and I don't have to worry about it anymore. I could go anywhere anytime, within reason, without being cat-called, groped, harassed or followed. I can be single and travel the country living out of my car taking odd jobs and never worry about being captured and sold as a sex slave. The world would be my urinal! I've probably spent at least 10% of my life looking for a clean & acceptable place to pee as a woman. I ain't saying life would be easy, but I think I could get a lot more done and it would be a heck of a lot more interesting.
Do you like pickles?
I love pickles. Dill, sweet, hot- bring it on!
My son Eddie drinks pickle juice!
I save empty pickle jars with the juice and put in fresh jalapeno's to set.
Me, too! As a kid I would go to the concession stand at football games and ask for a glass of dill pickle juice instead of a soda.
Yep, love pickles. And I was guilty of drinking pickle juice rarely. Your daily allowance of salt in a teaspoonful!
Dill pickles are great, sour pickles and garlic pickles are good-esque, but sweet pickles I cannot stand.
Do you like Jazz?
I love Jazz. Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, Sun Ra, the Jazzual Suspects- all sortsa stuff.
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 28, 2023, 06:57:04 PM
Do you like Jazz?
I love Jazz. Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, Sun Ra, the Jazzual Suspects- all sortsa stuff.
You know it!
Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bobby McFerrin, Ahmad Jamal, Ray Barreto, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Gene Ammons, and Al DiMeola are my most listened to. Love Getz and Sun Ra too.
I've heard jazz I liked, some I liked a lot, but I rarely listen to it. My grandpa had a friend named Oscar Treadwell (O.T.) who was apparently somehow famous in the jazz world but not as a musician.... through decades in radio, I think, and when I was a kid and happened to be at Grandpa's house when O.T. was there, O.T. gave me some recordings because he said he didn't think jazz was reaching enough of the younger generation for it to be appreciated. One of the albums was Kinda Blue, by Miles Davis, one was by someone called Gerry Mulligan, and another was an anthology of a type of jazz called "bop" which I admit I know nothing whatsoever about. Maybe I should explore jazz someday.
Quote from: ER on June 28, 2023, 07:20:36 PM
I've heard jazz I liked, some I liked a lot, but I rarely listen to it. My grandpa had a friend named Oscar Treadwell (O.T.) who was apparently somehow famous in the jazz world but not as a musician.... through decades in radio, I think, and when I was a kid and happened to be at Grandpa's house when O.T. was there, O.T. gave me some recordings because he said he didn't think jazz was reaching enough of the younger generation for it to be appreciated. One of the albums was Kinda Blue, by Miles Davis, one was by someone called Gerry Mulligan, and another was an anthology of a type of jazz called "bop" which I admit I know nothing whatsoever about. Maybe I should explore jazz someday.
Who's on the Bop anthology?
Do you drink alchohol? Or smoke pot?
I said I quit drinking. I lied. I still drink. When I said it, it was true. Didn't last long. I smoke pot every other day. I get it free from my friend who grows for a dispensry- so yeah.
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Never tried pot.
Sampled alcohol a handful of times in my life; don't like it at all.
^ More power to ya.
I drink because my brain is f**ked and it was something everybody did in the 60's and 70's. In my family, and the old farmers I knew. I worked for farmers, and I would drink moonshine wine. I didn't smoke as much pot as I drank.
I also sold LSD at a biker bar, did coke and mushrooms. Not no more. It's been decades. I still smoke pot and drink.
I did drink, but I have stopped drinking. I have tried smoking pot, but I didn't like it.
I drink, and did some pot as a teenager.
No. Even if I wanted to the structure of my life wouldn't allow me the luxury of the time to be incapacitated, and I wouldn't want my children to see me in that state. For me it'd be a selfish thing to do and would also create an exploitable weakness.
I drink a lot, but I haven't been drunk in years. I've fine-tuned my alcohol drinking to where I can reach the point of being pleasantly tipsy and then quit for the night. No stupidity, no hangovers.
Pot is illegal in my state. If it was legal I would smoke about once or twice per month.
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 28, 2023, 06:57:04 PM
Do you like Jazz?
I love Jazz. Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, Sun Ra, the Jazzual Suspects- all sortsa stuff.
I like some jazz artists: ones I heard in my younger years like The Crusaders, Ronny Jordan, Herb Alpert and SA's own Hugh Masekela who I was privileged to meet in 2017. :smile:
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Quote from: ER on June 28, 2023, 07:20:36 PM
I've heard jazz I liked, some I liked a lot, but I rarely listen to it. My grandpa had a friend named Oscar Treadwell (O.T.) who was apparently somehow famous in the jazz world but not as a musician.... through decades in radio, I think, and when I was a kid and happened to be at Grandpa's house when O.T. was there, O.T. gave me some recordings because he said he didn't think jazz was reaching enough of the younger generation for it to be appreciated. One of the albums was Kinda Blue, by Miles Davis, one was by someone called Gerry Mulligan, and another was an anthology of a type of jazz called "bop" which I admit I know nothing whatsoever about. Maybe I should explore jazz someday.
Who's on the Bop anthology?
Unfortunately I never listened, and after thirty-three years I don't still have it.
Quote from: ER on June 29, 2023, 09:03:25 AM
...Unfortunately I never listened, and after thirty-three years I don't still have it.
Just the kind of Jazz I listen to.
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Quote from: RCMerchant on June 28, 2023, 10:21:07 PM
Do you drink alchohol? Or smoke pot?
No. Tried both in younger years but they never did anything good for ne to do more.
I was 16 when I smoked pot the first time. My mom bought some out of curiosity while we were on vacation in Morocco. We didn't feel anything except for a burning sensation in the throat and a bit of coughing. My mom said afterwards 'what a waste of money*.
Tried it a second time when I was 23. I was invited by Iranian asylum seekers I had befriended. This time it made me puke, and afterwards I had several giggle fits. It was funny for the moment but later I thought how silly and pointless this was. Anyway, that was the last time I did pot.
I was part of our town's drug scene but only as a "bystander". Most of my friends smoked drugs and I would usually just tag along. Since German drug laws are strict nobody openly admitted smoking pot, and everything was done super secretly.
My dad was an alcoholic and my mom had random drinking phases. Both set a good example not to drink. Besides that I never developed a taste for beer in general. Alcohol just tastes awful to me. I was dead drunk three times in my life and after the third time I said "no more".
With that said, I am a social drinker but never more than one glass of alcohol. During summer I do enjoy what Germans call Radler, which is 50% beer and 50% sparkling lemonade mixed together. However, I mix my Radler with 30% beer and 70% lemonade :teddyr: That's the only way I can drink beer.
Quote from: claws on June 29, 2023, 06:07:05 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 28, 2023, 10:21:07 PM
Do you drink alchohol? Or smoke pot?
This time it made me puke, and afterwards I had several giggle fits. It was funny for the moment but later I thought how silly and pointless this was. Anyway, that was the last time I did pot.
With that said, I am a social drinker but never more than one glass of alcohol. During summer I do enjoy what Germans call Radler, which is 50% beer and 50% sparkling lemonade mixed together. However, I mix my Radler with 30% beer and 70% lemonade :teddyr: That's the only way I can drink beer.
Throwing up on pot is extremely rare (except when mixed with lots of alcohol). It's usually used to reduce nausea and makes people hungry! You probably just have an unfortunate allergy type of reaction---or the pot was laced with something else.
I love radler, but last time I drank it I added a shot of gin to beef it up.
Well, I think they showed me the 'proper' way how to smoke pot? They told me to inhale and keep it in my lungs for some time before exhaling. We didn't do it like that in Morocco.
They also said puking is a 'normal' reaction the first time when doing pot the 'right' way for the first time. No idea if that is true. I did have a craving for sweets, forgot to mention that in my post.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on June 29, 2023, 07:04:55 PM
I love radler, but last time I drank it I added a shot of gin to beef it up.
Here in Franconia there's something called (translated) "Your Final Mug (of Beer)" It's equally parts of beer and coca cola in a big mug.
At the bottom of the mug they place a small glass filled with cherry schnapps, and then fill up the mug with beer and coke. For some reason the cherry schnapps doesn't spill (much) into the beer/coke. The schnapps is meant to be your final shot before going home, or where ever your drunk ass is heading.
Tried it once on a night out with friends but there was too much beer in it for my taste, but I finished it anyway.
When you are going to sleep at night (or whenever) do you ever hear a cacophony of voices babbling in your head?
Of course.
Doy you like saurkraut?
On hot dogs or with fried porkchops- oh yes!
Quote from: ER on June 30, 2023, 11:27:31 AM
When you are going to sleep at night (or whenever) do you ever hear a cacophony of voices babbling in your head?
Sometimes
Quote from: ER on June 30, 2023, 11:27:31 AM
When you are going to sleep at night (or whenever) do you ever hear a cacophony of voices babbling in your head?
No. I think I scared the voices off.
Ever had someone who went through a near-death experience tell you that besides the dark tunnel and white light and all that there was also a powerful smell that accompanied the event?
Several people I have known who went through NDEs mentioned smelling ozone or metal. How when they'd stopped breathing in, I don't know, but I guess dying is a full-sensory experience.
Do you think you're good in bed?
I think I am literally f**king awesome.
I don't think I'm great but... the bar for a man is pretty low. All the really terrible male lovers out there make me look pretty good by comparison!
Possibly more detail than anyone here needs, but if you want to read on, you've been warned.
I have told the story of the lesbian who seduced me one night elsewhere on this forum. She'd left the bed so wet that when we finished we had to change the sheets. She told me no woman had ever been able to do to her the things I had. She had trouble walking the next day. Based on that I am going to say I am above average.
I wish we'd kept in touch, but when she moved down to London and a couple of weeks later I moved up to Lossiemouth we lost contact.
I think my right hand is good!
Quote from: ER on July 02, 2023, 04:03:31 PM
Do you think you're good in bed?
I think I am literally f**king awesome.
i don't think it, i know it.
Quote from: ER on July 02, 2023, 04:03:31 PM
Do you think you're good in bed?
I think I am literally f**king awesome.
Not to gross anyone out but in my last relationship before I became celibate (by choice) in 2004, the person I was with told me that I was the best lover she ever had and when I asked why, she said that I seemed to take all our intimate times together to please her and do what she wanted, not the other way around.
So yes, I think I was OK as a lover: note the use of the word was.
Quote from: Alex on July 02, 2023, 04:40:22 PM
Possibly more detail than anyone here needs, but if you want to read on, you've been warned.
I have told the story of the lesbian who seduced me one night elsewhere on this forum. She'd left the bed so wet that when we finished we had to change the sheets. She told me no woman had ever been able to do to her the things I had. She had trouble walking the next day. Based on that I am going to say I am above average.
I wish we'd kept in touch, but when she moved down to London and a couple of weeks later I moved up to Lossiemouth we lost contact.
:cheers: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :smile:
OK, so we all think we're God's gift to carnal gratification, except the Rev, whose modest answer probably hides talents far beyond our mutual imaginations.
Do you have kids? Grandkids?
I have 2 boys, 3 grandsons, and 2 granddaughters.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 04, 2023, 01:02:26 PM
Do you have kids? Grandkids?
I have 2 boys, 3 grandsons, and 2 granddaughters.
No unfortunately none.
I have two young friends - my very special sisters kids - who I have always seen as my kids and they're the only young people in the world who can call me Uncle 😊
Quote from: ER on July 04, 2023, 08:26:11 AM
OK, so we all think we're God's gift to carnal gratification, except the Rev, whose modest answer probably hides talents far beyond our mutual imaginations.
The obvious conclusion is that watching bad movies makes you a better lover.
Quote from: Alex on July 04, 2023, 02:48:18 PM
Quote from: ER on July 04, 2023, 08:26:11 AM
OK, so we all think we're God's gift to carnal gratification, except the Rev, whose modest answer probably hides talents far beyond our mutual imaginations.
The obvious conclusion is that watching bad movies makes you a better lover.
lol! no, i had friends who were experts in the trade back when i worked on the edge of the combat zone. just listening to the 2 of them taught me more than i think i could have ever learned through my own experiences.
If you had to move to a different continent, which would you pick?
I guess I'd opt for Europe.
Europe. I've been thinking about retiring in Portugal. Costa Rica is also a possibility, but it's technically still North America.
Quote from: ER on July 08, 2023, 08:54:21 AM
If you had to move to a different continent, which would you pick?
I guess I'd opt for Europe.
Europe too.
Antartica.
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Europe, most likely Italy.
I would really go to Norway.
Canada for the landscapes and, most importantly, the snow.
I live in Germany. Health care is excellent (18 months paid sick leave), and you'll get up to 31 days of paid vacation.
Germany has complicated, ridiculous and strikt laws on almost everything. For example, if you want to buy and live in a tiny house you'll run against a never ending wall of bureaucracy. It is less complicated to build your own normal sized house.
They do love to party though and drink a lot of alcohol, and soccer is a religion.
Weather is usually very hot in summer and mild in winter
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 08, 2023, 06:22:40 PM
I would really go to Norway.
It is a lovely place, but expensive.
^ Never been their- but my Greatgrand folks are from there. Where I got my middle name- Christopher. As did my brother. "Ronald" is an american version of Roalnd.
I'd happily go back and visit again. It has a town in the north called Hell. For much of the year it is indeed frozen over.
We have a town in Michigan named Hell!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan
There's three places in South Africa called Hell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotazel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotazel)
1. Hotazel (hot-as-hell) in the Cape Province
https://www.discover-sedgefield-south-africa.com/die-hel.html (https://www.discover-sedgefield-south-africa.com/die-hel.html)
2. Die Hell: a nature area in South Africa which is actually quite beautiful.
3. My laundry basket :buggedout: :buggedout: :wink:
Ever been to an orgy?
I was once. Did not like it. Sat with a cute girl named Penny in the kitcken and drank whiskey. Creeped me out.
Next to a biker bar in Marcellus, MI. Near Fish Lake. Middle of nowhere. I lived across the road in a trailer. Melville's. It may be still there. Place was crazy. All about sex drugs, booze, and more booze. I was selling sheet acid to bikers.
I've never participated in an orgy but I did see one once, though it involved Japanese beetles on my raspberry vines.
Yeah. Didn't turn me on or anything. I felt a lot of the people involved could do with a good wash.
Quote from: Alex on July 09, 2023, 01:51:22 PM
Yeah. Didn't turn me on or anything. I felt a lot of the people involved could do with a good wash.
😳🥴🤧😝😄😄😄😄😄😄🐢
What do you think the supposed UAP/UFOs on the military pilots' cameras are?
I truly don't know, but I am skeptical of interstellar traveling alien races.
I already told you the answer to this one. If I tell you again, those men in black suits will just wipe your memory again.
Quote from: ER on July 12, 2023, 05:57:10 AM
What do you think the supposed UAP/UFOs on the military pilots' cameras are?
They're unidentified, they fly, and they are objects.
Here's my thought, if it was really aliens or time travelers, the government would have denied it by now. No denial, shrug, must not be real.
^ But they HAVE been denying it since 1947.
Do you call them lightning bugs, or fireflies?
I was raised on saying lightning bugs.
Same. In the South, they are lightnin' bugs.
Lightning bugs.
Fireflies here.
I am cold. 🥶
both, depending on where i was and with witch side of the family.
Do you think prostitution should be legal and regulated? I do.
Among adults who freely enter it, sure, absolutely, it's selling your time and owning your body. Plus if it were legal it might shut down some of the exploitation that accompanies it at present as a black market industry.
I think it should be legal and regulated. I feel the tax man is missing out there. It would also allow its practitioners more protection and I guess rights of complaints from the customers if the service isn't what was advertised.
Yes and yes.
Of course. Making it illegal is what makes it dangerous. Pimps... :hatred:
Quote from: Rev. Powell on July 14, 2023, 07:45:53 AM
Do you think prostitution should be legal and regulated? I do.
absolutely. :thumbup:
my turn. if you were offered 10 grand, would you do a tv show where you learn to be a drag queen or king?
Quote from: Rev. Powell on July 14, 2023, 07:45:53 AM
Do you think prostitution should be legal and regulated? I do.
Yes.
Quote from: chefzombie on July 15, 2023, 04:02:49 AM
my turn. if you were offered 10 grand, would you do a tv show where you learn to be a drag queen or king?
Yes but considering the way I look and dress daily, the $$$ would have to be paid upfront 😳😉🐢
For 10 grand? I would walk down main street jerkin off bare assed! And I'm as straight as an arrow!
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 15, 2023, 05:43:41 AM
For 10 grand? I would walk down main street jerkin off bare assed! And I'm as straight as an arrow!
😳😂😂😂😂😎🐢
I've done worse for less, so yeah.
I went as an 18th century fop at our party one Halloween....2004 I think, so the cross dressing wouldn't bother me, but I wouldn't go on TV, so no.
Quote from: chefzombie on July 15, 2023, 04:02:49 AM
my turn. if you were offered 10 grand, would you do a tv show where you learn to be a drag queen or king?
No. I've worked hard my whole life for my reputation, and that would harm it greatly.
I'd probably do it for $500, depending on the time commitment required.
Quote from: chefzombie on July 15, 2023, 04:02:49 AM
my turn. if you were offered 10 grand, would you do a tv show where you learn to be a drag queen or king?
Sure.
thanks y'all! i didn't expect anyone to answer this at all! :cheers:
Spend a hundred years in Purgatory, trapped in an elevator with Oprah, or spend one year in Purgatory free-falling through darkness?
Assuming Purgatory led to paradise, I guess I'd want to go there faster, so I'd take the free-fall. Of course assuming once in Purgatory one could not lose salvation, it might be fun to punch Oprah in the mouth once a day for a century. Nah, still the free-fall.
I am good with skydiving for a year.
Sky dive.
I guess that question is kind of like those challenges on The Amazing Race, where one takes courage but is over fast and the other is less risky but more time consuming: bungee jumping off a cliff versus stacking crates of beer for a festival. But punching Oprah as a bonus...I don't know, man.
Do you like pizza? I liked pizza when I was in New York City. Otherwise- I can't stand pizza. Grezzy, nasty s**t. And when I eat it, it f**ks up my gut and gives me nightmares.
I love pizza.
The reason I like NYC pizza is because- I dunno. It's like fresh NYC bagals. They say it's the water. Which I find amazing because when I lived in the Bronx the water was nasty!
I'm a big fan of pizza as long as I can get it cooked to order.
i like pizza, but i prefer my own nowdays.
I love all pizza. I prefer NY style.
I think you'd have to be an evil alien disguised in human form not to like pizza.
If you had to live your life on a sit-com, which one would you pick?
I'd say The Big Bang Theory. It's contemporary, covers subjects I enjoy, I like most of the characters on there, and ultimately those guys would be easy to manipulate.
^ " Easy to manipulate"? :question:
That's sad. :bluesad:
I guess GREEN ACRES.
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Hmm... CHEERS? I wish real bars were that much fun.
Without searching Google, can you name a Taylor Swift song? (I can't.)
Quote from: Rev. Powell on July 19, 2023, 11:40:58 AM
Hmm... CHEERS? I wish real bars were that much fun.
Without searching Google, can you name a Taylor Swift song? (I can't.)
Oh that one, you know. About her breaking up with a boyfriend.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on July 19, 2023, 11:40:58 AM
Hmm... CHEERS? I wish real bars were that much fun.
Without searching Google, can you name a Taylor Swift song? (I can't.)
Romeo and Juliet, something like that.
Funny, I don't think I know even one Taylor Swift song, but I do seem to recall she had one called Dear John, right?
Quote from: Rev. Powell on July 19, 2023, 11:40:58 AM
Hmm... CHEERS? I wish real bars were that much fun.
Without searching Google, can you name a Taylor Swift song? (I can't.)
No.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on July 19, 2023, 11:40:58 AM
Hmm... CHEERS? I wish real bars were that much fun.
Without searching Google, can you name a Taylor Swift song? (I can't.)
Antihero
What do you think Area 51 is?
It's an air force training and test range in Nevada.
Is it "racist" to dislike an ethnic cuisine?
Of course not.
Well since food isn't a race, I'd say no. Then again, yesterday I saw an argument where someone was declaring that having all Mind Flayers as evil is racist.
If Mind Flayers existed then maybe he'd have a point, but they are also a race that survives by feeding on intelligent species brains and breed by implanting a tadpole into people's brains until it takes over their bodies. If someone was trying to do either of those to me, I'd class them as evil.
Sorry, I am wandering a little.
It shocks me that some people do consider food prejudices "racist." It amuses and irks me how "racist" has replaced "prejudiced" as the all-purpose go-to word for any sort of perceived discrimination, against people or things.
Quote from: ER on July 21, 2023, 12:11:52 PM
It shocks me that some people do consider food prejudices "racist."
I've never heard anyone make that claim, and if I did I would think they were not a serious enough person to get mad at.
Sad to say my fourteen year old is of the opinion that there's racism in shunning ethnic foods. Sigh. Brilliant girl but full of controversial viewpoints. (I think she's at an age when being critical empowers a sense of independent identity in her.)
Quote from: ER on July 21, 2023, 10:39:00 AM
Is it "racist" to dislike an ethnic cuisine?
Wha? :question:
Quote from: ER on July 21, 2023, 01:28:36 PM
Sad to say my fourteen year old is of the opinion that there's racism in shunning ethnic foods. Sigh. Brilliant girl but full of controversial viewpoints. (I think she's at an age when being critical empowers a sense of independent identity in her.)
14-year olds have lots of dumb ideas. She's just declaring her independence--from common sense!
Red Pill: $1 million a month income for the rest of your life
Blue Pill: Start your life over at 18 knowing everything you know now
Which do you take?
Red pill. Forward, never back. Starting life over again sounds like a demon's bargain. I'm Monkey's Paw-literate. :wink:
Take both, become ungovernable. :twirl:
I would take the blue pill with knowledge about lotto numbers.
If I'm time-traveling back to 1986 when I was 18, definitely start over. Otherwise take the money.
Red pill. Why on earth would I want to go threw all that sh!t again???
I'd take the blue pill, have even more fun the second time around and have the knowledge that later on in my life I was going to get someone make this offer to me again allowing me to then take the money.
red.
What's your favorite sound?
In moderation, I am fond of silence.
Water running over rocks on a cool spring morning.
Three way tie between white water rapids, waterfalls, and waves hitting the beach.
Gun to my head and I'll probably go with waves hitting the beach, but ask me tomorrow and I'll probably give you a different answer.
Quote from: indianasmith on July 21, 2023, 08:08:52 PM
Red Pill: $1 million a month income for the rest of your life
Blue Pill: Start your life over at 18 knowing everything you know now
Which do you take?
Red: that's ZAR10 million!! :cheers:
Quote from: ER on July 23, 2023, 08:43:29 AM
What's your favorite sound?
In moderation, I am fond of silence.
The screams of the innocent as they die by my hand.
Seriously- birds in the morning. Crickets at night.
Also thunderstorms. We had one this morning. Beautiful.
I love peace and quiet. Rarely get it though. :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 23, 2023, 10:02:53 AM
The screams of the innocent as they die by my hand.
:buggedout: + :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:
For me, rain on the thirsty earth
Falling water
Light wind through trees and birds
My landlord farting in the room next to me :tongueout: :wink:
my husband's voice, in particular his singing and his laughter.
How much time do you spend thinking about your own death?
No surprise, I spend a lot.
Occasional musings.
A lot. Several times a day. I find it crucial to enjoying life. Tomorrow may never come.
Daily; several times a day.
Mainly wondering how many more years of good health I have left.
Too much, sadly.
If you no longer had to eat to survive, would you still eat food?
Quote from: Alex on July 24, 2023, 02:55:54 PM
If you no longer had to eat to survive, would you still eat food?
Oh God yes. I'd like it even more. Imagine how lame sex would be if you had to do it to survive!
Quote from: ER on July 24, 2023, 10:03:20 AM
How much time do you spend thinking about your own death?
A bit.
Quote from: Alex on July 24, 2023, 02:55:54 PM
If you no longer had to eat to survive, would you still eat food?
Sure.
No, I wouldn't eat if I didn't have to. I would LOVE not to have to eat. Such a silly weakness in our design. Such a demand on our time.
Quote from: Alex on July 24, 2023, 02:55:54 PM
If you no longer had to eat to survive, would you still eat food?
Absolutely! Good food is right up there with sex in terms of enjoyment for me.
Quote from: Alex on July 24, 2023, 02:55:54 PM
If you no longer had to eat to survive, would you still eat food?
Yes: me and my turtles need a bit of pizza now and then.
I actually only eat because I have to and not because I want to.
Quote from: ER on July 24, 2023, 10:03:20 AM
How much time do you spend thinking about your own death?
No surprise, I spend a lot.
Not too much. I know I'm gonna croak soon, and I'm not concerned.
There's a time to live, and a time to die.
Quote from: Alex on July 24, 2023, 02:55:54 PM
If you no longer had to eat to survive, would you still eat food?
Yes. Life would be meaningless without fried chicken with hot sauce.
Quote from: ER on July 24, 2023, 03:46:24 PM
No, I wouldn't eat if I didn't have to. I would LOVE not to have to eat. Such a silly weakness in our design. Such a demand on our time.
I had a girlfriend like that. She didn't enjoy eating (except for desserts) and would prefer to fuel up as fast as possible so she could go do other things. I couldn't understand how someone could be wired that way. To me, eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
For me, I eat to survive. As long as it doesn't taste bad I rarely care what I am actually eating. I agree with your ex lol.
suffice it to say, food is a huge part of my life, and i love my own cooking, so i'd eat still.
^ Food is fuel, yeah.
If you had to pick one person from this forum to be stuck with on a large, tropical island, just you and this person on the whole island, who would it be?
I mean you could choose this person out of friendship, survival skills, maybe so you could stake this person down over a fire ant hill, your answer is your baby, run with it.
I think you would win that contest, hands down, ER.
Whoever is the biggest person. I'd need a backup in case the island didn't have a lot of available food.
Quote from: Alex on July 25, 2023, 08:42:51 AM
Whoever is the biggest person. I'd need a backup in case the island didn't have a lot of available food.
I haven't decided, but this is EXACTLY why I ruled out Alex.
How about ex members? If so- Svenghoulie. I would most certainly have no problem killing and eating him. Might be a little bitter, though.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 25, 2023, 09:45:41 AM
How about ex members? If so- Svenghoulie. I would most certainly have no problem killing and eating him. Might be a little bitter, though.
I think that meat would be a bit (pun intended) past its' sell by date :tongueout: :twirl: :wink: :wink:
Quote from: Trevor on July 25, 2023, 11:12:22 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 25, 2023, 09:45:41 AM
How about ex members? If so- Svenghoulie. I would most certainly have no problem killing and eating him. Might be a little bitter, though.
I think that meat would be a bit (pun intended) past its' sell by date :tongueout: :twirl: :wink: :wink:
Yeah, I might be willing to eat some people to survive, but c'mon I have some standards.
Quote from: Alex on July 25, 2023, 01:40:26 PM
Quote from: Trevor on July 25, 2023, 11:12:22 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 25, 2023, 09:45:41 AM
How about ex members? If so- Svenghoulie. I would most certainly have no problem killing and eating him. Might be a little bitter, though.
I think that meat would be a bit (pun intended) past its' sell by date :tongueout: :twirl: :wink: :wink:
Yeah, I might be willing to eat some people to survive, but c'mon I have some standards.
😀😀
And WyreWizard would be too wiry 😝😉
Quote from: Trevor on July 25, 2023, 02:47:10 PM
Quote from: Alex on July 25, 2023, 01:40:26 PM
Quote from: Trevor on July 25, 2023, 11:12:22 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 25, 2023, 09:45:41 AM
How about ex members? If so- Svenghoulie. I would most certainly have no problem killing and eating him. Might be a little bitter, though.
I think that meat would be a bit (pun intended) past its' sell by date :tongueout: :twirl: :wink: :wink:
Yeah, I might be willing to eat some people to survive, but c'mon I have some standards.
😀😀
And WyreWizard would be too wiry 😝😉
He was before my time here. :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: Alex on July 25, 2023, 02:50:37 PM
Quote from: Trevor on July 25, 2023, 02:47:10 PM
Quote from: Alex on July 25, 2023, 01:40:26 PM
Quote from: Trevor on July 25, 2023, 11:12:22 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 25, 2023, 09:45:41 AM
How about ex members? If so- Svenghoulie. I would most certainly have no problem killing and eating him. Might be a little bitter, though.
I think that meat would be a bit (pun intended) past its' sell by date :tongueout: :twirl: :wink: :wink:
Yeah, I might be willing to eat some people to survive, but c'mon I have some standards.
😀😀
And WyreWizard would be too wiry 😝😉
He was before my time here. :bouncegiggle:
Thou art lucky 😳😉😉🐢
^ Wyre. That cockgazer. :hatred:
^LOLOLOLOL! You guys truly hated that man.
Quote from: ER on July 25, 2023, 07:58:18 AM
^ Food is fuel, yeah.
no. food is love and joy and comfort, be it eating it or cooking it.
Quote from: ER on July 25, 2023, 08:00:49 AM
If you had to pick one person from this forum to be stuck with on a large, tropical island, just you and this person on the whole island, who would it be?
I mean you could choose this person out of friendship, survival skills, maybe so you could stake this person down over a fire ant hill, your answer is your baby, run with it.
if it's deserted with no hope of rescue. none of them.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 25, 2023, 08:09:42 PM
^ Wyre. That cockgazer. :hatred:
On a scale of 0 - 10 (where sven would be 10), how bad was he?
10. There was one member, (I can't remember his name) who was arrested for murder.
Ash (old school member - and a great guy) - would know.
Here's that sad piece of s**t (Wyre) on his you tube channel 9 years ago- what a miserable excuse for a human being.
http://youtu.be/NiqcDSexI8o (http://youtu.be/NiqcDSexI8o)
What was your worst subject in school?
Mine was math. I sucked.
Phys Ed. I just wasn't interested in most of the activities except for rugby and long-distance running.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 26, 2023, 06:00:11 AM
10. There was one member, (I can't remember his name) who was arrested for murder.
Ash (old school member - and a great guy) - would know.
Here's that sad piece of s**t (Wyre) on his you tube channel 9 years ago- what a miserable excuse for a human being.
http://youtu.be/NiqcDSexI8o (http://youtu.be/NiqcDSexI8o)
I watched about the first minute before his droning voice put me off any more.
Latin was my worst subject. I could see no reason to be made to study it for the semester required of us.
Quote from: Alex on July 26, 2023, 06:33:01 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 26, 2023, 06:00:11 AM
10. There was one member, (I can't remember his name) who was arrested for murder.
Ash (old school member - and a great guy) - would know.
Here's that sad piece of s**t (Wyre) on his you tube channel 9 years ago- what a miserable excuse for a human being.
http://youtu.be/NiqcDSexI8o (http://youtu.be/NiqcDSexI8o)
I watched about the first minute before his droning voice put me off any more.
He was a trolling drone. He never had a good thing to say about anyone or anything.
^ Hmm, see my Happy Thought.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 26, 2023, 06:00:11 AM
10. There was one member, (I can't remember his name) who was arrested for murder.
Ash (old school member - and a great guy) - would know.
Metropolisforever as far as I can remember: he even got into it on here with Andrew. Not a good career move :buggedout:
Quote from: Trevor on July 26, 2023, 08:29:23 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 26, 2023, 06:00:11 AM
10. There was one member, (I can't remember his name) who was arrested for murder.
Ash (old school member - and a great guy) - would know.
Metropolisforever as far as I can remember: he even got into it on here with Andrew. Not a good career move :buggedout:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Ryne_Goldberg
He spent a surprising amount of time trolling here, considering the stuff he was into (trying to manipulate others into committing terrorist acts). In a way, we should be honored.
WyreWizard was a miserable person, not too smart and suffering badly from Dunning–Kruger effect. He once claimed in all seriousness that no animal in nature was blue, because he couldn't come up with one in the 30 seconds he spent thinking about it.
Yeah! Metropolis Forever! He was nuttier than a fruit cake.
EDIT: Rev- I had to look up Dunning-Kruger. Interesting.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on July 26, 2023, 08:48:02 AM
Quote from: Trevor on July 26, 2023, 08:29:23 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 26, 2023, 06:00:11 AM
10. There was one member, (I can't remember his name) who was arrested for murder.
Ash (old school member - and a great guy) - would know.
Metropolisforever as far as I can remember: he even got into it on here with Andrew. Not a good career move :buggedout:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Ryne_Goldberg
He spent a surprising amount of time trolling here, considering the stuff he was into (trying to manipulate others into committing terrorist acts). In a way, we should be honored.
WyreWizard was a miserable person, not too smart and suffering badly from Dunning–Kruger effect. He once claimed in all seriousness that no animal in nature was blue, because he couldn't come up with one in the 30 seconds he spent thinking about it.
First thing that came to my mind was a blue whale followed by a blue tit.
Hmm, that guy will be out in two years. Hopefully part of his parole is limiting his internet access.
I am sure I've seen more posts by him, but the only one I recall seeing of WyreWizards was him saying goodbye on the forum and then posting as a friend to see what the reactions would be. I might be misremembering the details, but something like that.
You could look him up- if the member search thing wasn't gone.
This forum is old. I'm still amazed it's still here. AND thankful.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 26, 2023, 11:38:48 AM
You could look him up- if the member search thing wasn't gone.
This forum is old. I'm still amazed it's still here. AND thankful.
I am glad you are still here and around. One of my favourite posters.
Gee- tanks! :thumbup:
I like you too!
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 26, 2023, 11:38:48 AM
You could look him up- if the member search thing wasn't gone.
This forum is old. I'm still amazed it's still here. AND thankful.
http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php?action=mlist (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php?action=mlist)
WyreWizard: http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=293 (http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=293)
Metropolis' posts seem to have all been deleted (by Andrew, I suppose).
^ I must be high.
Wait a minute! I AM high! :buggedout:
Do you ever have days when you feel like shouting "f**k the world, I am doing great?"
Right now that is how I am feeling. I like other people to feel that way too.
Bizarre, I didn't shout it, but as I walked through a parking lot about three hours ago I abruptly mumbled to myself, "Fock this world."
I wasn't even mad.
Um, so yes.
Quote from: Alex on July 26, 2023, 03:44:52 PM
Do you ever have days when you feel like shouting "f**k the world, I am doing great?"
Right now that is how I am feeling. I like other people to feel that way too.
Every f**king day.
Quote from: Alex on July 26, 2023, 03:44:52 PM
Do you ever have days when you feel like shouting "f**k the world, I am doing great?"
Right now that is how I am feeling. I like other people to feel that way too.
Yes I do.
OK, not exactly a personal question, but -
What is your all time favorite thread in this forum?
For me it's the one about SCARLET FRY'S JUNK FOOD HORROR FEST
It went on for SO many pages!
I dunno- Picture of the Day, I reckon.
How many times have you voted- for politcians, in elections?
Myself- never.
If you vote for these idiots, you have no right to b***h about it.
Quote from: indianasmith on July 26, 2023, 06:18:52 PM
OK, not exactly a personal question, but -
What is your all time favorite thread in this forum?
For me it's the one about SCARLET FRY'S JUNK FOOD HORROR FEST
It went on for SO many pages!
For all-time probably the Random Thought one.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 26, 2023, 07:07:54 PM
How many times have you voted- for politcians, in elections?
Myself- never.
If you vote for these idiots, you have no right to b***h about it.
Quite a few times but I always felt slightly soiled under my fingernails when I did. I may never do it again, or at least til someone impresses me as being worthy of supporting. I'm truly trying to withdraw from society these days and have a retirement within my own parameters, politics most definitely not invited to my party. Fock the World, indeed.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 26, 2023, 07:07:54 PM
How many times have you voted- for politcians, in elections?
Myself- never.
If you vote for these idiots, you have no right to b***h about it.
I vote in every election. Sometimes I like my choices better than others.
Frankly, I think if you DON'T vote you forfeit your right to complain, but that's just me.
Quote from: indianasmith on July 26, 2023, 10:32:38 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 26, 2023, 07:07:54 PM
How many times have you voted- for politcians, in elections?
Myself- never.
If you vote for these idiots, you have no right to b***h about it.
I vote in every election. Sometimes I like my choices better than others.
Frankly, I think if you DON'T vote you forfeit your right to complain, but that's just me.
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The f**king Republican party voted in a criminal, racist scumbag. I have every right to b***h about it.
The Republican party- which you are a member of- is trying to turn this country into a dictatorship. Why you still support this party is beyond me. So don't even try to say I have no reason to b***h about it. Sorry Indy- but you have no right to b***h about scumbags like Trump- your base has been cultivating this for decades. And if you have not seen this, you have been wearing blinders. Your life may have been apple pie and the flag- but not others- and if you continue to suppprt these self-serving a***oles- YOU have no right to b***h about what you helped get this country into. It's my fault? NO It's YOUR fault.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 26, 2023, 07:07:54 PM
How many times have you voted- for politcians, in elections?
Myself- never.
If you vote for these idiots, you have no right to b***h about it.
Ever since the 2016 election I go vote. I didn't for the 2016 election and regret it ever since.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 27, 2023, 12:11:57 AM
Quote from: indianasmith on July 26, 2023, 10:32:38 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 26, 2023, 07:07:54 PM
How many times have you voted- for politcians, in elections?
Myself- never.
If you vote for these idiots, you have no right to b***h about it.
I vote in every election. Sometimes I like my choices better than others.
Frankly, I think if you DON'T vote you forfeit your right to complain, but that's just me.
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The f**king Republican party voted in a criminal, racist scumbag. I have every right to b***h about it.
The Republican party- which you are a member of- is trying to turn this country into a dictatorship. Why you still support this party is beyond me. So don't even try to say I have no reason to b***h about it. Sorry Indy- but you have no right to b***h about scumbags like Trump- your base has been cultivating this for decades. And if you have not seen this, you have been wearing blinders. Your life may have been apple pie and the flag- but not others- and if you continue to suppprt these self-serving a***oles- YOU have no right to b***h about what you helped get this country into. It's my fault? NO It's YOUR fault.
Bottom line - I DON'T. Not any more. I am no longer a Republican and haven't been since Trump came along. I voted against him twice, and watching what he's done to the GOP, I doubt I can ever support them again.
I voted for Reagan, don't regret it one bit. McCain, Romney - I liked those guys. But since then, the party sold its soul to a man who is pure evil, and I'm DONE with them.
^ I'm sorry I was being an a***ole. But I'm so fed up with these self serving morons making a mockery of what should be for the people. And scum like Margarie Taylor Green, Laurane Boebort, George Santos, Jim Jordan, and Desantis, have no interest in advancing any kind of programs to help life for people, just making it more difficult. It's a philosphy of hate and a lust for power. Hitler, like Trump, tapped into the plight of the poor, and exploited it. "It can't happen here". It is happening here.
Have you ever had a time in your life when everything has been entirely out of your control, been unable to even feed yourself, struggled to get a job or a relationship and everything just seemed to be against you?
Quote from: Alex on July 27, 2023, 11:27:30 AM
Have you ever had a time in your life when everything has been entirely out of your control, been unable to even feed yourself, struggled to get a job or a relationship and everything just seemed to be against you?
From the time Mom got sick in 2020 until fairly recently, things have been tough. Not all of the above applies but most of it sadly.
Quote from: Alex on July 27, 2023, 11:27:30 AM
Have you ever had a time in your life when everything has been entirely out of your control, been unable to even feed yourself, struggled to get a job or a relationship and everything just seemed to be against you?
Mainly from 2017-2020, though I was able to feed myself.
Have you ever had a time in your life when everything has been entirely out of your control: yes.
been unable to even feed yourself: Not since I was a baby, no.
struggled to get a job: no.
or a relationship: yes.
and everything just seemed to be against you? Kind of.
Quote from: Alex on July 27, 2023, 11:27:30 AM
Have you ever had a time in your life when everything has been entirely out of your control, been unable to even feed yourself, struggled to get a job or a relationship and everything just seemed to be against you?
When I was homeless in NYC. I slept in a Salvation Army drop off box. Me and My friend Joey would call a pizzaria just before closing. When no one came to pick up the pizza, they would toss it in the dumpster. Free pizza!
What's a bad habit you've overcome?
When I was a teenager I used to write "Counterfeit" on money. I don't anymore.
I used to crack my knuckles constantly in high school.
I quit doing that looong ago.
Smoking, though I still vape. Not healthy, but healthier.
Drinking is the main thing I overcame.
If you were terminally ill, do you think you would eventually take your own life?
I'm not sure. I know I would want to be with those I loved for as long as I could, and I am not convinced enough of there being anything after this life for me to feel certain I would be "going to a better place" (or that I deserve a better place) but I also would hate the idea of burdening my family, and I have experienced enough of physical pain to know how terrible and motivating it is, so....I don't know. I don't know.
It would come down to the quality of life. If you were lying in a bed, in so much pain that the strongest painkillers could only dull the pain I wouldn't want to hang around any longer than I needed to. If I am still able to interact meaningfully with my family, then I'd hang on in there.
Quote from: ER on July 29, 2023, 10:04:00 AM
If you were terminally ill, do you think you would eventually take your own life?
Yes: I would not like to suffer the way Dad did and as Mom is currently doing. :bluesad:
A lot would depend on the nature of the illness.
If I were going to be reduced to nothing but a pain-addled, skeletal shadow of my former self, bereft of all dignity and functionality, I think I'd take the fast way out, honestly.
If I were terminally ill, I would die anyway, so what's the sense?
Yes I would.
What state do you think has the best music heritage?
Me- what do you think I think?
There's a strong case to be made for Michigan, since Motown is the greatest record label of all time.
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 29, 2023, 07:41:39 PM
What state do you think has the best music heritage?
Me- what do you think I think?
Louisiana is the birthplace of jazz, which was the forefather of rock and roll, so I'd give them the nod.
Ever had a teacher who was out to get you?
I had an old bag of an English teacher once who wasn't particularly nice to anyone but who seemed especially bent on hazing me. We called her Axis Agnes. It was a shock to me at the time because mostly my teachers seemed to like me.
Quote from: indianasmith on July 29, 2023, 10:29:10 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 29, 2023, 07:41:39 PM
What state do you think has the best music heritage?
Me- what do you think I think?
Louisiana is the birthplace of jazz, which was the forefather of rock and roll, so I'd give them the nod.
Agreed.
Quote from: ER on July 29, 2023, 10:27:49 PM
There's a strong case to be made for Michigan, since Motown is the greatest record label of all time.
:thumbup:
Quote from: ER on July 30, 2023, 10:39:29 AM
Ever had a teacher who was out to get you?
I had an old bag of an English teacher once who wasn't particularly nice to anyone but who seemed especially bent on hazing me. We called her Axis Agnes. It was a shock to me at the time because mostly my teachers seemed to like me.
My history teacher was p**sed at me because I couldn't stop laughing at nothing (I was on acid) so he grabbed me by the throat and pinned me against the wall. I spit in his face. I got expelled.
I had a teacher who was fond of hitting her pupils. Me and her did not get on from day one, but she wouldn't touch me as she'd made the mistake of hitting my youngest aunt (only about 5 years older than me), and my gran had went down to the school and punched her out. She did her best to get to me in other ways, and for a while this did get to me, but I learned to just ignore her and get on with my day. She openly asked me in front of the class if anything she did bothered me and I answered "No, you just aren't important enough to me."
I did hear a few years later that she'd went too far, and while grabbing some girl by the ear she'd caught her earring and ripped her earlobe off. That made the national news, but after the first day I never heard anything else about it. I would imagine she was out of a job at the very least out of it.
If you don't like kids you shouldn't be a teacher, period!
Miss Boothby didn't care for me. She wasn't out to get me, though. Some mo mo named Danny Cutler was f**king with me while I was high- giving me the finger and s**t from across the room. I stood up and threw that hardcover English book at him hard. Missed his head by a hair. Got kicked out for that too. She always gave me good grades though! I was good at reading and writing. I knew how to read when I was 5, believe it or not. Not just Dick and Jane s**t.
What was your best day?
When my first son Jed was born.
It's not fair to compare any day to the joy I felt when my children were born, so I'll say September 25, 1994, when I was more or less accidentally left alone all weekend, and got to spend the whole day out with the man I was in love with, and even as the day happened I was aware I was happier than I had ever been in my life.
You get very few absolutely perfect days in a lifetime.
The day I got married and the day my twins were born are probably top of the list.
My first full day in Israel, back in 2016, was simply glorious - perfect from start to finish.
And when Patty and I went to New York last summer, there was a Sunday that we started at the Hamilton Grange, attended a wreath-laying ceremony at Alexander Hamilton's graveside, ate supper at the 270-year-old Fraunces Tavern, and the rode the Staten Island ferry across the bay and back at sunset, just to see the Statue of Liberty silhouetted against the twilight sky . . . what a day that was!!!
Time changes us, so what is something you don't believe now that you think you might come to believe in the future?
I think I will believe the human future will be brighter than it has sometimes seemed to me in the past.
^ Well, if I die and find out there is some supernatural being as God, then I will change my mind, I suppose. Until then, I don't think so.
Quote from: ER on July 31, 2023, 11:25:59 PM
Time changes us, so what is something you don't believe now that you think you might come to believe in the future?
Covid resulted from a lab leak. Evidence is trending that way.
How many pairs of shoes do you have?
I have some lowtop black patent leather shoes, some Converse, some penny loafers, and some workboats.
So that's 4. I wear the first pair the most.
Have you ever had a stalker?
I had a moderate one. She lived far enough away (and since I moved houses two weeks after she last saw me she me) that she couldn't try her stuff in public, but it did take 6 years before I could get her out of my life thanks to social media. I had her blocked on I don't know how many different profiles, I made it abundantly clear that I wanted nothing to do with her. I was considering getting the law involved when she finally stopped. Her last contact was a couple of weeks before I met Kristi. I have no idea if there is any connection there or if that is just a coincidence.
Shoes: 2 pairs dress shoes, 1 pair tennis shoes, 1 pair flip flops, 1 pair house shoes. Then some older shoes that are worn out but I haven't thrown away.
Stalker: nope. I know a woman who has a pretty serious and scary stalker: threatening violence, texting her pictures of her from unknown numbers, and so on. She suspects who it is but can't prove it.
Quote from: Alex on August 02, 2023, 02:08:10 AM
Have you ever had a stalker?
I had a moderate one. She lived far enough away (and since I moved houses two weeks after she last saw me she me) that she couldn't try her stuff in public, but it did take 6 years before I could get her out of my life thanks to social media. I had her blocked on I don't know how many different profiles, I made it abundantly clear that I wanted nothing to do with her. I was considering getting the law involved when she finally stopped. Her last contact was a couple of weeks before I met Kristi. I have no idea if there is any connection there or if that is just a coincidence.
Stalk? Me? :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 02, 2023, 08:07:38 AM
Quote from: Alex on August 02, 2023, 02:08:10 AM
Have you ever had a stalker?
I had a moderate one. She lived far enough away (and since I moved houses two weeks after she last saw me she me) that she couldn't try her stuff in public, but it did take 6 years before I could get her out of my life thanks to social media. I had her blocked on I don't know how many different profiles, I made it abundantly clear that I wanted nothing to do with her. I was considering getting the law involved when she finally stopped. Her last contact was a couple of weeks before I met Kristi. I have no idea if there is any connection there or if that is just a coincidence.
Stalk? Me? :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
Just be glad he didn't ask have you ever
been a stalker! :buggedout:
Yes and no to the stalker question. I had one but it turned out to be a psychological exercise.
I have a dozen pairs of shoes.
How many bands have you seen live?
I been to 14. I seen Aerosmith twice (in the 70's), Foghat (also in the 70's), Megadeth, the Dead Boys (inna club in NYC!), White Zombie, Judas Priest, the Melvins, the Rev. Horton Heat, Suicidal Tendencies, Lynn Anderson (!) ( at the Van Buern county fair in 1972) , Joan Jett and the Blackhearts (at the Cass county fair in 1987!) She was fantarastic! She played punk rock over the speakers while the band set up the gear on some stacked pallets covered with plywood! Bless her heart!, the Outlaws, the Black Crowes (an opening act).
If I had money when I was in NYC- dam! :bluesad: I was broke as a joke.
Hmm, not counting seeing the same bands multiple times these are the ones that I can remember in as much of the right order as I can manage (not very apparently).
The Almighty (several times), Motorhead (many, many times), D.A.D, Ozzy Osbourne, Queensryche (a couple of times), AC/DC, Group Dogdrill, Skid Row, The Damned, Joan Jett, Girlschool, Lita Ford, Halford, Iron Maiden (several times), Judas Priest, The Mission, Alice Cooper (several times), The Wildhearts (many times), Tragedy (several times), Bootyard Bandits, Alestorm, Gloryhammer, John Carpenter, Nanowar of Steel, The Tubes, Gary Numan.
There are more than that. I just can't recall the names right now.
Formatting in concerts I've been to, not counting music festivals though:
Kamelot, Nightwish
Amon Amarth, Sabaton, Skeletonwitch
Ghost (x3), Iron Maiden
Against the Grain, Toxic Holocaust, Sacred Reich, Gwar
Weird Al
Gojira, Knocked Loose, Alien Weaponry
Death Angel, Exodus, Testament
Alluvial,Fallugah, Rivers of Nihil
CHVRCHES
Turnstile
Lingua Ignota
The Cure
So currently 24 bands/artists. There's more if I include music festivals, though I'll probably forget some there.
Quote from: Alex on August 03, 2023, 01:08:13 PM
Hmm, not counting seeing the same bands multiple times these are the ones that I can remember in as much of the right order as I can manage (not very apparently).
The Almighty (several times), Motorhead (many, many times), D.A.D, Ozzy Osbourne, Queensryche (a couple of times), AC/DC, Group Dogdrill, Skid Row, The Damned, Joan Jett, Girlschool, Lita Ford, Halford, Iron Maiden (several times), Judas Priest, The Mission, Alice Cooper (several times), The Wildhearts (many times), Tragedy (several times), Bootyard Bandits, Alestorm, Gloryhammer, John Carpenter, Nanowar of Steel, The Tubes, Gary Numan.
There are more than that. I just can't recall the names right now.
WAIT! I seen Queensryche too! And back in the 70's a long forgotten band called Head East.
Quote from: Alex on August 03, 2023, 01:08:13 PM
Hmm, not counting seeing the same bands multiple times these are the ones that I can remember in as much of the right order as I can manage (not very apparently).
The Almighty (several times), Motorhead (many, many times), D.A.D, Ozzy Osbourne, Queensryche (a couple of times), AC/DC, Group Dogdrill, Skid Row, The Damned, Joan Jett, Girlschool, Lita Ford, Halford, Iron Maiden (several times), Judas Priest, The Mission, Alice Cooper (several times), The Wildhearts (many times), Tragedy (several times), Bootyard Bandits, Alestorm, Gloryhammer, John Carpenter, Nanowar of Steel, The Tubes, Gary Numan.
There are more than that. I just can't recall the names right now.
I would commit murder to have seen Motorhead!
What's your favorite Motorhead song?
Mines ROCK AND ROLL. Because, at least in my case, it's true.
"because if that's all there is, it aint so bad!"
OK, do you live in a big city or a small town?
I live in a very small town. You can walk from one end of Main Street to the other in about, eh- 15 minutes.
I lived in NYC many times. That's f**king BIG.
I live out in the country, on the outskirts of a medium town (pop. around 30,000).
Quote from: indianasmith on August 03, 2023, 09:26:14 PM
I live out in the country, on the outskirts of a medium town (pop. around 30,000).
30,000 is medium?
Lawton is about 1,500 on a good day. Aint s**t around us either. Lakes. Swamps. Meth labs.
Well, the next town to our north has 250. Most of my life, I've lived in small towns (2000 or less) or out in the country, like I do now.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 03, 2023, 08:04:17 PM
OK, do you live in a big city or a small town?
I live in a very small town. You can walk from one end of Main Street to the other in about, eh- 15 minutes.
I lived in NYC many times. That's f**king BIG.
I live in Pretoria, a big s**tty...........sorry, a big city. :wink:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretoria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretoria)
I've lived here since 1987 when I came down from Zimbabwe to study.
The poopul...........sorry, population :wink: here at the last census was almost two and a half million plus me. :wink:
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 03, 2023, 07:40:45 PM
Quote from: Alex on August 03, 2023, 01:08:13 PM
Hmm, not counting seeing the same bands multiple times these are the ones that I can remember in as much of the right order as I can manage (not very apparently).
The Almighty (several times), Motorhead (many, many times), D.A.D, Ozzy Osbourne, Queensryche (a couple of times), AC/DC, Group Dogdrill, Skid Row, The Damned, Joan Jett, Girlschool, Lita Ford, Halford, Iron Maiden (several times), Judas Priest, The Mission, Alice Cooper (several times), The Wildhearts (many times), Tragedy (several times), Bootyard Bandits, Alestorm, Gloryhammer, John Carpenter, Nanowar of Steel, The Tubes, Gary Numan.
There are more than that. I just can't recall the names right now.
I would commit murder to have seen Motorhead!
What's your favorite Motorhead song?
Mines ROCK AND ROLL. Because, at least in my case, it's true.
"because if that's all there is, it aint so bad!"
While Lemmy was alive, I loved hearing 'I'm So Bad Baby I Don't Care' or 'Dr Rock' (which was the opening song the first time I saw them in 91), but after Lemmy died they released an album of covers that had him singing Bowie's 'Heroes' that to me blows the original out of the water. I'd have to say currently it is my favourite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J06yQb4lbPk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J06yQb4lbPk)
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 03, 2023, 05:48:15 PM
Quote from: Alex on August 03, 2023, 01:08:13 PM
Hmm, not counting seeing the same bands multiple times these are the ones that I can remember in as much of the right order as I can manage (not very apparently).
The Almighty (several times), Motorhead (many, many times), D.A.D, Ozzy Osbourne, Queensryche (a couple of times), AC/DC, Group Dogdrill, Skid Row, The Damned, Joan Jett, Girlschool, Lita Ford, Halford, Iron Maiden (several times), Judas Priest, The Mission, Alice Cooper (several times), The Wildhearts (many times), Tragedy (several times), Bootyard Bandits, Alestorm, Gloryhammer, John Carpenter, Nanowar of Steel, The Tubes, Gary Numan.
There are more than that. I just can't recall the names right now.
WAIT! I seen Queensryche too! And back in the 70's a long forgotten band called Head East.
Nice! I saw them for Promised Land and then they went on tour playing the whole of Operation Mindcrime 1 & 2.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 03, 2023, 08:04:17 PM
OK, do you live in a big city or a small town?
I live in a very small town. You can walk from one end of Main Street to the other in about, eh- 15 minutes.
I lived in NYC many times. That's f**king BIG.
I live in a small big city.
Quote from: indianasmith on August 03, 2023, 10:24:20 PM
Well, the next town to our north has 250. Most of my life, I've lived in small towns (2000 or less) or out in the country, like I do now.
I always imagine Texas looking like the TEXAS CAHINSAW MASSACRE. It was filmed in Texas!
It looks...desolute. But if I did live in Texas- that's where I would want to be. I don't like the city.
I hated NYC. Long Island was worse. I saw more crime and drugs and just flat-out crazy s**t happen on Long Island then I ever did in the Bronx!
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 04, 2023, 06:58:23 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on August 03, 2023, 10:24:20 PM
Well, the next town to our north has 250. Most of my life, I've lived in small towns (2000 or less) or out in the country, like I do now.
I always imagine Texas looking like the TEXAS CAHINSAW MASSACRE. It was filmed in Texas!
It looks...desolute. But if I did live in Texas- that's where I would want to be. I don't like the city.
I hated NYC. Long Island was worse. I saw more crime and drugs and just flat-out crazy s**t happen on Long Island then I ever did in the Bronx!
Thing about Texas is there are a WIDE variety of landscapes here - 12,000+ foot mountains out west, swamps along the Louisiana border, desert, pine and hardwood forests, grassy coastal plains - a little bit of everything!
I think I would go in the swamp. :smile:
Apparently the census department classifies where we live as "ideal suburbia" but why it merits the distinction I don't know. We're fifteen miles from the downtown of a tri-state metropolitan region of 2.4 million and about 6,400 people live in this community.
I avoid most of them whenever possible.
^ I have no one to avoid. I know almost everyone in town. I been here most of the time since 1970.
I went back to NY a lot- I don't like NY. I liked upstate! But the city is f**ked up. Waaaay too many people. I went to school for about 2 weeks in the Bronx in 1979. NY was broke. Garbage workers were on strike. People were just throwing their garbage out the window. Good thing me and Gramma Morris and Aunt Carrol lived 6 stories up. I was in DeWitt Clinton High School. All boys. They had a student lead shut down when they cancelled school sports. It was a riot. Me and my friend from Peru walked out to Poe Park and got drunk.
I didn't ever go back to school. I have no diploma.
The place I mostly grew up in had a population of about 24,000. If you wanted someone bigger, you didn't have to travel far. Lossiemouth has about a third of that, and the closest small city is about an hour away.
What nation's food do you consider the best? Indian, for example, is hard to beat for sheer flavor.
With a few exceptions among regional cuisines, have you ever noticed how almost every type of cooking from around the world is better to eat than American food? American food is over-salted and substitutes quantity for quality. I've been to forty-nine states and 4 1/2 continents and I truly think we Americans shame ourselves on the culinary front.
^ American. Steak with onions and mushrooms, fresh mashed taters with butter, collard greens, drop biscuits- oh hell yes. Fried Chicken, sweet potatoes, black eyed peas with hot sauce- man oh man! A burger cooked on the grill, fried taters and onions, corn on the cob with butter, pork chops and mustard greens, a turkey with all the trimmings, pot roast and gravy, deviled eggs- I'm gettin' hungry!
I can't limit myself to one cuisine. I'd say Thai, Indian, and Italian are standouts.
If I were forced to stick to one, though, I think I'd take Mexican. I've been exploring authentic Mexican places lately and there's a lot more variety than I realized. Even the Tex-Mex stuff is great: real comfort food (for me, at least).
^ love real Mexican food. When I worked at Honee Bear, 3/4 of the folks who worked there were Mexican. And they brought some damn good food to work. I can never eat at a Taco Bell. That s**t's about as Mexican as Donald Trump.
Tie for me between Mexican and Thai.
Chinese or Mexican, most likely.
If you won a million dollars, what would be the first thing you would buy?
I'd buy my son a car.
Then I would buy myself a set of glasses. I lost mine about a year ago.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 05, 2023, 05:54:51 PM
If you won a million dollars, what would be the first thing you would buy?
I'd buy my son a car.
Then I would buy myself a set of glasses. I lost mine about a year ago.
A house.
^ Yeah- I'd pay off the mortgage.
^Would be nice to get away for a highly toxic sibling.
You don't need money to do that. Just go. I left home at 16 with 20 dollars in my shoe. Its hard- but it makes you strong.
I'd pay off every debt we have and buy a decent second vehicle. I'd give both my kids $100,000 to get them OUT OF MY HOUSE.
Then I'd start doing some of the much-needed repairs on this dilapidated farmhouse we live in until the money ran out or it was fixed up.
That is almost 8 million bucks here: I would buy Mom a house and set her up there for life with a live in carer ☺️☺️
What do you think of the UFO hearings underway now? A revelation, a distraction? Will anything actually change? Are we truly any closer to proof of aliens visiting Earth?
Quote from: ER on August 06, 2023, 02:09:03 PM
What do you think of the UFO hearings underway now? A revelation, a distraction? Will anything actually change? Are we truly any closer to proof of aliens visiting Earth?
Just look at me: that's all the proof of aliens you need right there 😳😉🐢
I doubt we will find out anything new. Hell, for all we know any aliens could be life forms so radically different from us that we couldn't even perceive them never mind understand or interact with them.
Ufo's? The hearings? I don't see anything new coming out of all this. As far as hidden wreckage or alien bodies- I don't think so. Since when was anybody in government able to keep their mouths shut about anything?
Quote from: ER on August 06, 2023, 02:09:03 PM
What do you think of the UFO hearings underway now? A revelation, a distraction? Will anything actually change? Are we truly any closer to proof of aliens visiting Earth?
Not following it closely (is it still going on?), but it seems like it's one guy offering no actual evidence beyond his personal testimony. Given the extraordinary nature of his claims, it would need a lot more smoke than that to make me pay much attention.
I can't imagine the people who have testified to such remarkable things would expose themselves to what could be stiff perjury charges unless they either were telling the truth, believed they were, or were coerced into the lies, perhaps as part of some grand operation, which opens a whole new line of speculation. Either this is the most underappreciated great moment in human history or one of the strangest in a while.
Perjury? How would they know if he is lying when the guy refuses to give his sources?
What's your bank account number, current balance, and the last 4 digits of your Social Security number?
42.
666
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 07, 2023, 01:06:14 PM
What's your bank account number, current balance, and the last 4 digits of your Social Security number?
0000 000000 00000
0000
My digits were removed after circumcision :wink:
Inralp reezilmanorp. Magorzip! Chumble spuzz.
That should give you full access to everything, once you translate it.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 07, 2023, 01:06:14 PM
What's your bank account number, current balance, and the last 4 digits of your Social Security number?
69 420
Quote from: indianasmith on August 07, 2023, 03:43:42 PM
Chumble spuzz.
Oy: I was diagnosed with chumble spuzz about a decade ago, terrible spillage from either end. :wink:
For a million dollars, would you flirt with one of your kids, assuming you could never tell your offspring it was done for money?
I definitely would, but only when he or she was asleep and wouldn't know what I'd said. :teddyr:
Nah, that's just too creepy!
Hell no! That's waaay to creepy.
Ever experienced tunnel vision? Not as in the expression, I mean the real-life stress reaction, where your vision retreats til it is like you're looking out from a point far back inside yourself, everything compressed like you're seeing it down the wide end of binoculars.
I have during a few select horrible events, and from a physiological standpoint I doubt it indicated anything good was going on inside.
^ Never. When bad s**t happens (and I've had some f**ked up s**t happen) I get real calm. Nothing freaks me out anymore. I concentrate. Focus.
Quote from: ER on August 10, 2023, 05:17:06 AM
Ever experienced tunnel vision? Not as in the expression, I mean the real-life stress reaction, where your vision retreats til it is like you're looking out from a point far back inside yourself, everything compressed like you're seeing it down the wide end of binoculars.
I have during a few select horrible events, and from a physiological standpoint I doubt it indicated anything good was going on inside.
i've lived with tunnel vision all my life, seeing in the " normal" way would likely send me to an asylum. i can't even comprehend what peripheral vision really is.
Have you ever had a blackout after drinking too much?
I have-many times- when I was more of an alcoholic then I am now.
I got black out drunk after having a lot of bourbon and Coke.
Yes.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 11, 2023, 11:00:08 PM
Have you ever had a blackout after drinking too much?
I have-many times- when I was more of an alcoholic then I am now.
Never: Dad had an alcohol problem towards the end of his life so I don't touch liquor at all.
I will have a beer shandy now and then, that is delicious but no hard tack.
Nay.
If, like them soccer players stranded in the Andes- would you revert to cannibalism?
Myself- yes. With no problem. They're dead. I'm hungry.
Sure, I'd do whatever it took And if someone I love was there with me in that situation, I would even kill and butcher someone rather than let someone I love die from hunger.
What do you think of Keith Moon?
He was a dam fine drummer.
Quote from: ER on August 12, 2023, 04:44:31 PM
Sure, I'd do whatever it took And if someone I love was there with me in that situation, I would even kill and butcher someone rather than let someone I love die from hunger.
I would
not kill someone.
Shrug, killing people is like sliding down a muddy hill, after the first step the rest is easy.
Quote from: ER on August 12, 2023, 10:29:17 PM
Shrug, killing people is like sliding down a muddy hill, after the first step the rest is easy.
Have you ever killed anybody? Do you know anyone who has? Or has been killed? I do.
It's easy to be glib about it when you don't know how heartbreaking it is and traumatic to the family' of the murderer or having a friend murdered. It makes you feel like you're falling in a bottomless pit. My old girlfriend Kerrie had her parents murdered in a horrible way. Kerrie lived in my house for a while after- she lost her mind. She would sit in her car and scream at the top of her lungs at the sky. She lost her mind. The funeral was closed casket. My brother in law Leroy did 25 years in prison for cutting a man in half with a 12 gauge shotgun. My kids loved Uncle Leroy. All through school they were known as being related to a killer .
You're being glib about it is insulting. Shut the f**k up. :hatred:
Quote from: ER on August 12, 2023, 07:35:00 PM
What do you think of Keith Moon?
he was a hot nun, lol!
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 12, 2023, 11:06:16 PM
Quote from: ER on August 12, 2023, 10:29:17 PM
Shrug, killing people is like sliding down a muddy hill, after the first step the rest is easy.
Have you ever killed anybody? Do you know anyone who has? Or has been killed? I do.
It's easy to be glib about it when you don't know how heartbreaking it is and traumatic to the family' of the murderer or having a friend murdered. It makes you feel like you're falling in a bottomless pit. My old girlfriend Kerrie had her parents murdered in a horrible way. Kerrie lived in my house for a while after- she lost her mind. She would sit in her car and scream at the top of her lungs at the sky. She lost her mind. The funeral was closed casket. My brother in law Leroy did 25 years in prison for cutting a man in half with a 12 gauge shotgun. My kids loved Uncle Leroy. All through school they were known as being related to a killer .
You're being glib about it is insulting. Shut the f**k up. :hatred:
Oh, I think I can match you pretty well, Ron.
Ever seen two parents shot to death in front of their children by soldiers? Watched the children screaming in front of their mother's body while her eye dangled out of what's left of her head?
Ever had a job where you not only watch people die every week but helped coordinate the ops that kill them?
Ever gotten to know someone personally yet known the whole time you were helping out them on a path to an unpleasant end?
Ever cared about people and lived terrified they were going to die at any given time doing the jobs they did?
You tell me about knowing murder victims and think it gives you a monopoly on the subject of death?
Hon, you don't know the half of things.
And, yes, after you start in it does get easier. Don't ask me why but it does. The first brown-skinned kid you watch get taken down messes you up a lot more than the next fifty.
My former employers say I have high-functioning PTSD but I always think it'd be much scarier to feel nothing after working a job where the work I was part of resulted in people losing their lives.
So, yes, I can say I know a little about the subject. I'm sure a lot more than you do.
Personally- I think you're full off sh!t, but that's just my opinion.
You seem flip and callous.
I like you, RC, but frankly you're not worth the trouble of lying to.
ellie, i think you are too. i think you insert yourself into what you see on tv and post it here as your own life. and no, i don't plan to apologize for saying so, just so you know. you aren't the only person i've known to do that.
Quote from: chefzombie on August 13, 2023, 02:07:29 AM
Quote from: ER on August 12, 2023, 07:35:00 PM
What do you think of Keith Moon?
he was a hot nun, lol!
Brilliant drummer and also - despite his issues - was apparently a nice man too.
There's a clip of him on YT being interviewed in a bathroom so he sits down in the small urinal and then leans back :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R90cvjqv96M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R90cvjqv96M) :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: ER on August 14, 2023, 09:37:52 AM
If you wouldn't then you're not entitled to have loved ones.
I wouldn't want my loved ones to kill for me, either. What makes my life more valuable than anyone's? Those people have loved ones too. If we die, we die. I will not EVER murder someone for such selfish reasons. The only way I would kill anyone is in self-defense. I would not go to war, either. If the rich want war- they should be the first to enlist. I don't think we have had a war since WW II that was just.
I don't think we've had a war since WWII that was just either.
And, yes, rich people shouldn't be able to avoid what poor people are sent to do.
OK, moving on from all this inspiring drama-
Are there any foods you will not eat?
For me- liver. Or liverwurst. Just the smell makes me wanna puke. Same goes for tripe or squid. Spahgettios as well. Tasteless canned mush. No clams or oysters either. Cilantro ruins any food.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 14, 2023, 12:11:41 PM
OK, moving on from all this inspiring drama-
Are there any foods you will not eat?
For me- liver. Or liverwurst. Just the smell makes me wanna puke. Same goes for tripe or squid. Spahgettios as well. Tasteless canned mush. No clams or oysters either. Cilantro ruins any food.
Corn on the cob
Any sort of salads
Seafood or pizza with pineapples on it
Sushi or meat that is rare or under-cooked
Chicken flavoured sausages
Anything hot: I can't eat things like curry although I do like it.
Liver. I hate the texture. Cabbage and Brussel sprouts, I just loath the taste.
Lots. Most cruciferous vegetables are a no-no: cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts. I do like cabbage sometimes, though, and I can take kale in a salad. I also can't do asparagus, yams or eggplant. I can't stand pumpkin. I have eaten chicken liver, beef liver makes me gag. I won't eat veal or foie gras for ethical reasons. Other than that, pretty much anything.
Beets. Loathe them passionately. Likewise most meat. I also felt like a wuss but I couldn't make myself eat Limburger cheese on a dare one time. I thought I could handle it but just couldn't get past the smell.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 14, 2023, 12:11:41 PM
OK, moving on from all this inspiring drama-
Are there any foods you will not eat?
For me- liver. Or liverwurst. Just the smell makes me wanna puke. Same goes for tripe or squid. Spahgettios as well. Tasteless canned mush. No clams or oysters either. Cilantro ruins any food.
I don't eat asparagus, corn on the cob (hurts my teeth), liver, oysters, anchovies, and most pickled things,
I try to avoid mushrooms, mustard, ketchup, peanuts, peanut butter, and pasta.
Bass guitar solos. Yes or no?
I've heard a few good ones but mostly they don't do it for me.
I really can't think of any songs with bass solos.
I really don't care for long solos anyway. That's why I like punk. Fast and to the point.
Quote from: El Misfit on August 14, 2023, 02:39:04 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 14, 2023, 12:11:41 PM
OK, moving on from all this inspiring drama-
Are there any foods you will not eat?
For me- liver. Or liverwurst. Just the smell makes me wanna puke. Same goes for tripe or squid. Spahgettios as well. Tasteless canned mush. No clams or oysters either. Cilantro ruins any food.
I don't eat asparagus, corn on the cob (hurts my teeth), liver, oysters, anchovies, and most pickled things,
I try to avoid mushrooms, mustard, ketchup, peanuts, peanut butter, and pasta.
I HATE asparagus. I worked inna factory for 30 odd f**king years and we canned that sh!t constantly. The smell of cooking asparagus in that sweltering hot, low paying sh!thole- makes me wanna puke just thinking of it.
I saw Ron Carter do a terrific bass solo live (not this one). Of course, Ron Carter is an exception.
https://youtu.be/xPwp6YsraZw
My no-go foods are corn, raw tomatoes, liver, and oysters.
Fine with nearly anything else.
I love corn on the cob. Sweet corn grows all over here. Roll it on some buttered bread, salt it good- mmmm-man!
Tomatoes- I love me a good BLT, and I can eat cherry tomatoes like candy.
Is Sesame Street not the greatest TV show of all time?
Seriously!
^ Nooo! Green Acres is!
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Batman!
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^That was on some channel a couple months back. All episodes. I went threw them all in 3 days. :thumbup:
I feel compelled to ask: do you believe we have free will, or that all our actions are determined by forces beyond our control?
^I feel you can do whatever the f**k you want. You may go to jail, or homeless and broke, but you are free to do that. You can stick a gun in the roof of your mouth and be really free of anything, I reckon!
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(i caught that. Score a lot in Ireland, I tell you.)
Quote from: ER on August 15, 2023, 06:39:49 PM
(i caught that. Score a lot in Ireland, I tell you.)
^ ? :question:
The Rev will get it.
^Well, I don't! Now I'm going crazy!
(Well, not going- I kinda guess I been there for a while.)
What do you think of the Disney corparation?
Myself- f**k them. Scumbag Rudy Gullianni sold 42nd Street to f**king Disney, put all independent businesses out of work. All the old NYC grindhouses were bought up. He may have busted the Mafia, but he became the Mafia. He got a kickback from that. f**k him. Same reason he sided with Trump- he wanted a kickback. He was in cohoots with that poor excuse for a human being back in the 80's.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 15, 2023, 06:46:52 PM
^Well, I don't! Now I'm going crazy!
(Well, not going- I kinda guess I been there for a while.)
Oh, sorry. A long time ago, years back, something the Rev said was funny and I told him with his wit women in Ireland would appreciate him. (In so many words.) He said something witty and subtle in his question tonight and I made a little reference to telling him that years ago, thinking he'd probably remember that. Incidentally, after I said that to him years back he made me laugh again byreplying, "How much is a plane ticket to Ireland?" :bouncegiggle:
I believe in both free will and predestination. Not sure how they both fit together, but I don't have to know in order to believe.
To skip to the answer: free will.
For a longer reply, I find it hard to believe there is a plan to this chaotic life, and while we may not always understand that what seems like free will to us is us being motivated by what Joyce Carol Oates called the "Night-Side" of our natures, our sub consciousness for instance, but if I had to pick either/or I'd say free will. I can't see how predestination would work out on so vast a scale. It'd be like trying to herd cats to corral everyone toward one specific point in time. It'd surely be too much trouble for whatever or whoever would control that. Why not wind us up and let us go and sit back and see what we choose to do? If there's a God I think we exist to please and entertain that not always benevolent being, I truly do.
There are also considerations like people who commit violent spree or serial murders are often found to have had a recurring deformity in the pre-frontal lobes of the brain, so perhaps they truly do not choose to act as they do, maybe that behavior and so much else is determined all in or part by anatomy.
My friend Mitch, the supposed trance channel, tells me we enter each incarnation with a broad self-chosen life plan that has certain major goals but that mostly the life plan gets discarded and we're lucky if we get anything that we scripted accomplished. (For instance he told me I had "pre-birth agreements" to have two children, yet of course I have three.) I like Mitch but I think he has bought into himself for too long and truly believes he can do what he says he can do, which is channel astral and mid-Causal beings. In all the years I have known him I have not once had a moment where I thought, yeah, I see, you're truly doing this.
Ultimately we'll likely never know answers to any of the big questions, and accepting that is a major milestone, or was to me.
Did you know anyone who committed suicide?
My cousin Ricky Merchant hung himself in juvie in 1979. My little brother Richie shot himself in the head.
My brother Glenn cut his throat ear to ear after he stabbed a guy in the face 13 times with a screwdriver in a drug store because he was f**king his girlfriend. He lived. He was put in a nut house. He escaped to San Fran, where he is today.
I tried it once in 1989. I put a 12 gauge shotgun to my head on the floor and pulled the trigger with my toe. The gun jumped. I put a hole in the ceiling of my apartment. Good thing it was on the top floor. Neighbors called the cops. I told them I was cleaning it and it went off. They believed that bulls**t- I was cleaning a shotgun at 2 in the morning? And how does cleaning a gun make it fire? I never tried that again. Scared the fvck outta me. I tried to drink myself to death last year. That didn't work either. I'm never gonna die. :bluesad:
Odd you should ask since my terminally-ill father in law killed himself two weeks ago. I think that's one reason I've been emotionally off lately even if it wasn't the same as someone young and physically healthy acting out of less logical reasons. In his case no matter how it may have otherwise affected us all I think everyone basically understood the situation where an elderly man with a hopeless illness shot himself after two years of pain and however much suffering still ahead of him. Sad but somehow excusable?
I had just picked up two of Kristi's cousins from the airport and was driving home when I got a phonecall from my mum. Kristi answered it since I was driving and she blurted out to me that my uncle had killed himself. My aunt had been in hospital and they found his body when they got home. Most of the people I've came across who have said they were suicidal were more doing it for the attention rather than being serious. I'd spoken with my uncle just a few days before and he'd seemed fine then.
I've never had anyone close to me kill themselves - like a family member or close friend.
My neighbor two doors down shot himself in his driveway about four or five years ago.
Quote from: indianasmith on August 15, 2023, 08:39:00 PM
I believe in both free will and predestination. Not sure how they both fit together, but I don't have to know in order to believe.
This put it together for me:
"Life... is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself."
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)
I've had two friends (probably) commit suicide. In neither case did they leave a note or anything, but in one case it was obvious, in the other it's very probable.
The self-euthanasia question is interesting. I think it's completely reasonable. But should they inform their close family before doing it, rather than surprising everyone?
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 16, 2023, 08:22:55 AM
The self-euthanasia question is interesting. I think it's completely reasonable. But should they inform their close family before doing it, rather than surprising everyone?
That's been a question I've had on my mind and I have come to think my father in law probably told his wife he was going to end his life and they said their goodbyes I also think that's why he didn't leave a note, he'd said what he wanted to say. I don't know that but it's what I think happened. I was with him the day before and he didn't say anything to me about doing that or if he gave indications that particular day it was coming I didn't perceive them. He had spoken a few months ago about wanting to end what he was going through but not lately.
It says something big about his state of mind that he did this in a laundry room where there's a drain in the floor, and ghastly as that detail is it showed consideration, if that's the right word.
OK, you die and find yourself in an afterlife that is nothing like anything your own beliefs about death primed you to expect. How shocked would you be?
I'd be stunned if there is any afterlife.
^ What he said.
I'd be pretty surprised, but on the other hand I have a few bones to pick with anyone who might happen to be in charge and I owe them a swift kick (or many kicks) in places that hurt so I'd view that as bonus.
Which had a deeper negative impact on humankind, Nazism or Communism?
While the goals of Communism were more benevolent than those of Nazism, Communism actually killed more people and had a longer time to spread its misery, even today, so....I think Communism.
Communism, due to its longevity. Nazism was more destructive than any ideology in history, but for a mercifully brief time.
If anyone actually founds a communist state (as per Marx's writings), then I'll let you know. The countries that have claimed communism as their type of government have done a huge amount of damage to themselves and others. Sometimes I wonder if Nazism didn't prevent them doing worse, or if it assisted it more.
That's like comparing Dahmer and Gacy.
f**k both.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 18, 2023, 12:02:08 PM
That's like comparing Dahmer and Gacy.
f**k both.
You nailed it right there, Ronnie!!!
What is the strangest food you ever ate? I had homemade blood sausage made by an old Russian woman when I was a kid. With goat cheese and home-made wine. She could barely speak English. We called her Motka- which is Russian for Mother. I lived around a lot of folks of Russian, Polish, and German descent when I was a kid. I knew a couple Slavs too. My family were the only Norwegians.
She was old. Cooked everything on a woodstove and got her water from a well. My buddy Nick Siskaninitz and me usta plow, plant, and fertilize her cornfield on her property behind her house for free.
Oh yeah- it was good. She came from Russia right after the Revolution. She was over 80 years old. Beautiful lady.
When I was in Japan, we went to a VERY ritzy sushi bar that featured an enormous fish tank full of live, fresh-caught ocean fish. You pointed out the one you wanted, and they would catch it in a dipnet, filet it in front of you, make it into a nagiri (oblong ball of rice, dab of wasabi, and a nice slice of raw fish on top) in front of you - and when they served it to you, they would show you the hapless fish's body, its gills still reflexively pumping, to prove to you how fresh it was!
Best sushi I ever ate.
^ :buggedout:UGH!
What paranormal things do you believe in, if any.
Myself, UFO's are real. Paranormal, from outer space, another dimension- I dunno.
ESP. Yes. I've done it myself.
Ghosts? I'm not sure- I just don't know.
Bigfoot- no. The Loch Ness Monster-no. Mothman-no. Most cryptids- no.
God- no. There is less evidence of the existence of that then any of the above.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 19, 2023, 09:39:49 AM
What paranormal things do you believe in, if any.
Myself, UFO's are real. Paranormal, from outer space, another dimension- I dunno.
ESP. Yes. I've done it myself.
Ghosts? I'm not sure- I just don't know.
Bigfoot- no. The Loch Ness Monster-no. Mothman-no. Most cryptids- no.
God- no. There is less evidence of the existence of that then any of the above.
None of the ones you listed (except UFOs--yeah, people see things in the sky that they can't identify, nothing special about that). If the definition of "paranormal" is "denoting events or phenomena... that are beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding," then existence, consciousness.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 18, 2023, 08:13:36 PM
What is the strangest food you ever ate? I had homemade blood sausage made by an old Russian woman when I was a kid. With goat cheese and home-made wine. She could barely speak English. We called her Motka- which is Russian for Mother. I lived around a lot of folks of Russian, Polish, and German descent when I was a kid. I knew a couple Slavs too. My family were the only Norwegians.
She was old. Cooked everything on a woodstove and got her water from a well. My buddy Nick Siskaninitz and me usta plow, plant, and fertilize her cornfield on her property behind her house for free.
Oh yeah- it was good. She came from Russia right after the Revolution. She was over 80 years old. Beautiful lady.
I've had blood rice cubes at a Taiwanese restaurant, that was pretty good. Just had a mild copper taste, mostly tasted like meat. Someday I want to try making Sanguinaccio Dolce, which is an Italian dish mixing blood and chocolate. The blood is for salt, chocolate for sweet, supposed to be quite good and pretty easy to make. Edible blood is weirdly hard to get though, have to go to specialty stores.
I've also had century duck egg, which are those preserved Chinese eggs that are a pretty gross black color. Sometimes you'll see "weird food" people just eat one of these by itself, like a hard boiled egg, which is baffling. It'd be like just taking a giant spoonful of horseradish and going BLECH. Of course that would be gross, it's really strong. Sometimes they're also getting a really crappy brand, kind of like buying crappy beer - it's going to suck.
I had it mixed into congee (rice porridge) with diced green onion on top. It was actually really good and rich that way. Also, it was at a Chinese restaurant, and the older server lady was super happy to see a white guy enjoying it, which was pretty funny. She told my wife she picked a good one in Cantonese.
Quote from: indianasmith on August 18, 2023, 09:01:24 PM
When I was in Japan, we went to a VERY ritzy sushi bar that featured an enormous fish tank full of live, fresh-caught ocean fish. You pointed out the one you wanted, and they would catch it in a dipnet, filet it in front of you, make it into a nagiri (oblong ball of rice, dab of wasabi, and a nice slice of raw fish on top) in front of you - and when they served it to you, they would show you the hapless fish's body, its gills still reflexively pumping, to prove to you how fresh it was!
Best sushi I ever ate.
Holy Gobi, that's worse than those people who go in a field and boil corn while it's still attached to the plant.
As for weirdest food, I don't know, I once ate a tiny sliver of a slice of "memorial bread" at a synagogue that was made from wheat grown from a field next to Auschwitz.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 19, 2023, 09:39:49 AM
What paranormal things do you believe in, if any.
Myself, UFO's are real. Paranormal, from outer space, another dimension- I dunno.
ESP. Yes. I've done it myself.
Ghosts? I'm not sure- I just don't know.
Bigfoot- no. The Loch Ness Monster-no. Mothman-no. Most cryptids- no.
God- no. There is less evidence of the existence of that then any of the above.
I believe nothing is supernatural, all is part of nature, just possibly not understood by us, so I guess what I believe in is the preternatural.
I went through a stage in my teens and early in college where I tried hard to be logical and doubted almost anything and everything undocumented by science but in doing that I was denying my true feelings, because I do think a lot of weird stuff is out there. For instance I think "time slips" and intrusions into and from other dimensions of existence might be perfectly real and would explain some of the reports of ghosts and the like, the ones that aren't pure fertilizer. (And I don't believe they all are.)
So:
UFOs: yes, whatever they actually are in each case.
ESP: oh, yeah, anyone who has ever had a deep bond with someone can tell you that's real to some extent.
Ghosts: For lack of a better explanation, yes, but I think most reports are misunderstandings or lies.
Bigfoot: no, though maybe explicable by the interdimensional thing I mentioned.
Nessie: tourist trap!
Mothman: Hey, who's to say what those West Virginia hillbillies were mating with, right?
Most cryptids: no.
God: Yes, because something had to have preceded nothing, though I don't know if we are capable of envisioning what this would be, and no human conception of God is necessarily right. Jesus coming back from the dead argues more for God being personally accessible to humans than anything else in organized religions.
Now the Loveland Frogman, oh hell yeah, that baby's real!
"Jesus coming back from the dead argues more for God being personally accessible to humans than anything else in organized religions."
I don't believe in vampires or zombies either.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 19, 2023, 03:25:12 PM
"Jesus coming back from the dead argues more for God being personally accessible to humans than anything else in organized religions."
I don't believe in vampires or zombies either.
RC, I'd actually be grateful if you could discredit the resurrection for me in a way that covers all the known facts. I have truly tried, and I think the only explanation that fits what we know was that the claimed event truly took place. If I quit believing this I would discard Christianity entirely as something based on a lie.
^ What facts? The Bible? I read comic books , but I don't believe in the Incredible Hulk.
It's hard for me to believe something that was written over 2000 years ago without any hard evidence.
People write books that say the Mothman is real- will someone read that in 2000 years and say it's true?
Perhaps. Myself, I need evidence of the existence of something to believe in it. I'm kinda weird like that.
Quote from: Jim H on August 19, 2023, 01:11:32 PMSomeday I want to try making Sanguinaccio Dolce, which is an Italian dish mixing blood and chocolate. The blood is for salt, chocolate for sweet, supposed to be quite good and pretty easy to make.
Now I have the phrase "Like Water For Chocolate" stuck in my head...disturbingly.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 19, 2023, 03:54:59 PM
^ What facts? The Bible? I read comic books , but I don't believe in the Incredible Hulk.
It's hard for me to believe something that was written over 2000 years ago without any hard evidence.
People write books that say the Mothman is real- will someone read that in 2000 years and say it's true?
Perhaps. Myself, I need evidence of the existence of something to believe in it. I'm kinda weird like that.
How much research into the authenticity and age of Christian scripture have you done though, RC? I used to believe in later dates and retroactive validation of the books of the Bible and that the wording was altered with time, but the more I studied, the less I found that to be the case. There is reason (or many reasons) to accept the earliest claimed dates for most Bible books and reasons also to accept the traditional authorship of the books and the accounts they give. Archaeology has been especially supportive of much of the history of the New Testament. Logic also can go a long way in an investigation of the resurrection story, by that I mean thinking which explanations go with what we know or what we can make educated guesses about what could have happened. What theories survive that examination and which don't? It isn't exactly what I want to believe, it's what I do believe, reluctantly, but solidly.
Go beyond flippant dismissals and look into the subject sometime and see if you don't find yourself surprised too. Or don't. Your life, your time.
^ No thanks. I will never believe in it, just as you will. To each his own.
We could go back and forth on this all day- and achieve what? :question:
I'm sorry I brought this up.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 19, 2023, 04:48:22 PM
^ No thanks. I will never believe in it, just as you will. To each his own.
We could go back and forth on this all day- and achieve what? :question:
I'm sorry I brought this up.
Ach, between our two warped minds I doubt there's a topic we we would fear to take on.
Like this:
Would you rather push a button and cause all child molesters everywhere to catch fire, or push a button and have twenty million dollars placed in your bank account?
Spontaneous pedo combustion!!!!
Quote from: ER on August 19, 2023, 05:18:13 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 19, 2023, 04:48:22 PM
^ No thanks. I will never believe in it, just as you will. To each his own.
We could go back and forth on this all day- and achieve what? :question:
I'm sorry I brought this up.
Ach, between our two warped minds I doubt there's a topic we we would fear to take on.
Like this:
Would you rather push a button and cause all child molesters everywhere to catch fire, or push a button and have twenty million dollars placed in your bank account?
Can I advertise that I will only push the button after 20 million people donate $1 to my "burn the pedos" fund?
Let 'em burn. What am I gonna do with a million bucks? I don't care about money, except to pay my bills.
Quote from: ER on August 19, 2023, 05:18:13 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 19, 2023, 04:48:22 PM
^ No thanks. I will never believe in it, just as you will. To each his own.
We could go back and forth on this all day- and achieve what? :question:
I'm sorry I brought this up.
Ach, between our two warped minds I doubt there's a topic we we would fear to take on.
Like this:
Would you rather push a button and cause all child molesters everywhere to catch fire, or push a button and have twenty million dollars placed in your bank account?
Where's the button to burn pedos? That needed to be pushed a long time ago.
Would you rather live in a smaller house with neighbors nearby or a larger house with neighbors far away?
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 19, 2023, 09:02:59 PM
Would you rather live in a smaller house with neighbors nearby or a larger house with neighbors far away?
Small house, I really don't need the empty rooms. Plus taxes would be lower I would think.
The latter describes our situation, and I enjoy it.
Quote from: ER on August 19, 2023, 04:43:53 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 19, 2023, 03:54:59 PM
^ What facts? The Bible? I read comic books , but I don't believe in the Incredible Hulk.
It's hard for me to believe something that was written over 2000 years ago without any hard evidence.
People write books that say the Mothman is real- will someone read that in 2000 years and say it's true?
Perhaps. Myself, I need evidence of the existence of something to believe in it. I'm kinda weird like that.
How much research into the authenticity and age of Christian scripture have you done though, RC? I used to believe in later dates and retroactive validation of the books of the Bible and that the wording was altered with time, but the more I studied, the less I found that to be the case. There is reason (or many reasons) to accept the earliest claimed dates for most Bible books and reasons also to accept the traditional authorship of the books and the accounts they give. Archaeology has been especially supportive of much of the history of the New Testament. Logic also can go a long way in an investigation of the resurrection story, by that I mean thinking which explanations go with what we know or what we can make educated guesses about what could have happened. What theories survive that examination and which don't? It isn't exactly what I want to believe, it's what I do believe, reluctantly, but solidly.
Go beyond flippant dismissals and look into the subject sometime and see if you don't find yourself surprised too. Or don't. Your life, your time.
After hearing "Oh, but MINE is different, look into it!" a half dozen times for different religions, it's remarkable how little it moves you.
QuoteWould you rather live in a smaller house with neighbors nearby or a larger house with neighbors far away?
Larger house. I seem to not really talk to my neighbors much, so might as well get the space. But I guess it does depend on how remote.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 19, 2023, 09:02:59 PM
Would you rather live in a smaller house with neighbors nearby or a larger house with neighbors far away?
Small house, with folks around. What am I gonna do with a big house? I have a small house. Big house around folks you don't know? No way.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 16, 2023, 05:36:34 AM
Did you know anyone who committed suicide?
My cousin Ricky Merchant hung himself in juvie in 1979. My little brother Richie shot himself in the head.
My brother Glenn cut his throat ear to ear after he stabbed a guy in the face 13 times with a screwdriver in a drug store because he was f**king his girlfriend. He lived. He was put in a nut house. He escaped to San Fran, where he is today.
I tried it once in 1989. I put a 12 gauge shotgun to my head on the floor and pulled the trigger with my toe. The gun jumped. I put a hole in the ceiling of my apartment. Good thing it was on the top floor. Neighbors called the cops. I told them I was cleaning it and it went off. They believed that bulls**t- I was cleaning a shotgun at 2 in the morning? And how does cleaning a gun make it fire? I never tried that again. Scared the fvck outta me. I tried to drink myself to death last year. That didn't work either. I'm never gonna die. :bluesad:
yes, my aunt beulah.
Whom do you find more trustworthy, doctors or lawyers?
I've had good and bad experiences with each but I'd say probably doctors.
probably doctors. I've generally had good ones.
f**k lawyers. Pay them enough and they'll say a serial killer is a saint.
The reason I asked the small house/large house question is because I heard the answers correlated strongly with political leanings, with republicans choosing large houses and democrats favoring small houses.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 20, 2023, 09:38:55 AM
The reason I asked the small house/large house question is because I heard the answers correlated strongly with political leanings, with republicans choosing large houses and democrats favoring small houses.
Interesting. My grandpa bought the house he left me back in 1965 and was a lifelong, albeit conservative, Democrat. All my paternal family are, except me, and I refuse to give blanket allegiance to any parties. Lol
Oh sh!t! I forgot the Good Reverend is a lawyer!
Not you- ahhh, f**k.
Preachers are the worst, for me at least. You can tell me what you believe- but don't try to make me believe what you believe.
Politictians. Used car salesmen. Tell you what you want to hear and turn their backs and snicker like a Scooby Doo villian.
Well, I've had a few doctors mess things up and cause me some pain, but nothing that lasted more than a few days.
I've had some pretty big lawyers bills to pay for very little work though.
I trust journalists and politicians less though.
It's OK to distrust lawyers more than doctors. Lawyers have both more opportunity and more motive to screw you over. It's not like doctors can steal your health for themselves!
That said, most lawyers take our strict code of ethics seriously, and you should definitely trust yours, if you have done your research. Not being frank with your attorney can cost you your freedom or your money.
I don't practice much. Just occasional wills, contracts and traffic court for friends and family.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 20, 2023, 09:38:55 AM
The reason I asked the small house/large house question is because I heard the answers correlated strongly with political leanings, with republicans choosing large houses and democrats favoring small houses.
i'd say that was true in my own personal experience, and the big house people tend to have a " i've got mine, you're on your own" attitude to go with it. some of my family members aren't nice people, needless to say.
Quote from: ER on August 20, 2023, 06:58:38 AM
Whom do you find more trustworthy, doctors or lawyers?
I've had good and bad experiences with each but I'd say probably doctors.
Good question.
There's some contextual differences for me personally. In terms of trusting their professional judgement and behavior, I've actually had better personal experiences with lawyers. I've had more doctors treat me flippantly, have poor bedside manner, treat me callously when someone had died, half-ass diagnosis stuff and ignore my questions, be rude to me, and so on. I also have in-laws with weak english skills now, and I've seen doctors not treat them well due to it multiple times, which is really infuriating.
Lawyers have always been professional every time I've dealt with them, and take their work more seriously, even though it's something I'd consider less important. So my personal inclination, in terms of the profession and acting how I think they should, I trust lawyers more.
But in a broad personal sense, if I met a lawyer in person and a doctor in person, not doing their job, I'd trust the doctor more. Maybe there's some unfair prejudice there, or my experiences are unusual, I dunno.
Weird, right?
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 20, 2023, 09:38:55 AM
The reason I asked the small house/large house question is because I heard the answers correlated strongly with political leanings, with republicans choosing large houses and democrats favoring small houses.
I don't think that is a fair correlation. I think the difference between people who want small homes vs large homes and less neighbors would be the difference of the number of people in the family. It makes sense for a family of 3 or less to be perfectly comfortable in a small home with close neighbors, but once you start getting into a family of 4 or multifamily scenarios (like in-laws, etc.) you're going to want more space, bedrooms and bathrooms
The neighbor-loving part of the question would also play into the size and age of the family. I am pretty wary of strangers to begin with and more so now that I have young kids. I don't want to be worried about meth houses, creepers, angry old men yelling at my kids to get off their lawn, grouchy neighbors leaving notes that my dogs are barking after 10pm and my grass is too high.
Even before I had an actual litter of children, I always wanted a large home. I attribute that to growing up where we often had friends and family coming to live with us for extended periods when they fell on hard times. Our place was small and it wasn't easy packing so many people there. I always told myself if I got a house of my own I'd want to have ample space to comfortably accommodate family and friends whenever needed.
For the record, I don't follow or care for politics of any kind.
MAYBE there's a political leaning correlation between people with larger families vs single people/smaller families, but I don't think home size is it.
Quote from: Paquita on August 20, 2023, 05:43:28 PM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on August 20, 2023, 09:38:55 AM
The reason I asked the small house/large house question is because I heard the answers correlated strongly with political leanings, with republicans choosing large houses and democrats favoring small houses.
I don't think that is a fair correlation. I think the difference between people who want small homes vs large homes and less neighbors would be the difference of the number of people in the family. It makes sense for a family of 3 or less to be perfectly comfortable in a small home with close neighbors, but once you start getting into a family of 4 or multifamily scenarios (like in-laws, etc.) you're going to want more space, bedrooms and bathrooms
The neighbor-loving part of the question would also play into the size and age of the family. I am pretty wary of strangers to begin with and more so now that I have young kids. I don't want to be worried about meth houses, creepers, angry old men yelling at my kids to get off their lawn, grouchy neighbors leaving notes that my dogs are barking after 10pm and my grass is too high.
Even before I had an actual litter of children, I always wanted a large home. I attribute that to growing up where we often had friends and family coming to live with us for extended periods when they fell on hard times. Our place was small and it wasn't easy packing so many people there. I always told myself if I got a house of my own I'd want to have ample space to comfortably accommodate family and friends whenever needed.
For the record, I don't follow or care for politics of any kind.
MAYBE there's a political leaning correlation between people with larger families vs single people/smaller families, but I don't think home size is it.
It's just what the statistics showed. It's far from absolute. Don't really know the cause. Maybe city dwellers tend to live closer together and be more liberal, country folk further apart and more conservative.
^ I dunno- I'm poor as dirt, live in the boonies in a little house- because, well, I'm poor. And I think I'm pretty liberal.
Bah! That's one of the reasons I can't stand politics. They always have studies to twist things into a rich vs poor, lavish vs humble, good vs evil sort of angle and there's always more to the story. Some people would say living in a house of any size makes you some kind of high falutin elite.
If you were a billionaire, where would you live?
I think I'd stay where I am now but maybe with all that money I'd change. I do sometimes think I'd like to have a house in the southern hemisphere so I could go there during the hottest part of our summer. Maybe I might end up with houses all around the world: London, Scotland, Alaska. Maybe I'd buy a mountain and build houses at different elevations, so I could have warmer and cooler weather on a whim. One place I'd not move is that pencil-think skyscraper in New York that looks over Central Park, which looks insanely scary to me.
Where I am. I like my house.
At the east coast of South Africa, have Mom there with a full time carer. 😊
Live in a small house, spend the rest fixing up different cities.
I'd find an island with a volcano that I could use for geothermal power and then construct my underground lair, while posing as a wealthy recluse, then start training my evil army of cats to take... Damn, I've told you too much of the plan. I am afraid I am going to have to kill you now.
Have you grown more in your life during times of harmony or times of adversity?
Conflict has always wearied me because its demands consume so much, and in chapters of peace I've had time to think.
When I was younger I thrived on conflict and learned a lot about people from it, to the point I could steer people in a certain direction by making a fairly simple comment in the right place and time and they will never even realise. The past couple of years I've felt the want to understand people and how they work slowing down. Overall, yeah I've definitely learned more when I've been under pressure and stress.
Adversity and conflict have always been present in my life from the start, sadly.
Conflict. I used to go to jail a lot- now I don't. Must have learned something.
How many showers/baths do you take a week?
Me, seven, sometimes more if I get dirty working outside or something. I don't like being dirty. I also wash my hands a lot every day. People have been known to comment on how often I wash my hands, lol.
I bathe or shower every night right before bed.
I hate the feeling of going to sleep gritty or sweaty!
Very much depends on what I am doing. I like to have a good clean in the morning and that normally. I've been staying in hotels for extended periods, and since I've had nothing else to do, I've had 4 to 6 showers a day.
Every morning (usually). On rare weekends when I have nothing to do, I skip a shower--but it's rare. After all, it's a pleasure, not a chore.
Very rarely I will take a bath.
I haven't had a bath since 2019 😝😉*
* My landlord's new place for me has a shower 😉🐢
Related shower question: do you use old-fashioned soap, or newfangled body wash?
Me, I was unaware of the popularity of body wash until just recently. I bought some to try out when my soap supply runs out.
About every other day. And I use body wash.
I prefer soap to body wash but I am drawn to good smells and have bought quite a few body washes. I smelled one on a shelf the other day, marketed to men, and it was something crazy-good like cedar, rosemary, and eucalyptus.
I, for, the most part think women are attracted to me for my manly smell of booze, cigarettes, and rotten smelling ass. That's why I'm surrounded by beautiful women all the time, waiting on me like a bronze Greek god.
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Quote from: RCMerchant on August 24, 2023, 03:55:53 PM
I, for, the most part think women are attracted to me for my manly smell of booze, cigarettes, and rotten smelling ass. That's why I'm surrounded by beautiful women all the time, waiting on me like a bronze Greek god.
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Not to mention your confidence in yourself. :wink:
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 24, 2023, 03:55:53 PM
I, for, the most part think women are attracted to me for my manly smell of booze, cigarettes, and rotten smelling ass. That's why I'm surrounded by beautiful women all the time, waiting on me like a bronze Greek god.
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That gave me the best laugh I've had all day!!!
I use bar soap as I find it makes me feel cleaner than body wash.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 24, 2023, 03:55:53 PM
I, for, the most part think women are attracted to me for my manly smell of booze, cigarettes, and rotten smelling ass. That's why I'm surrounded by beautiful women all the time, waiting on me like a bronze Greek god.
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I really needed those LULZ today :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
How many streaming services do you subscribe to?
One at a time here.
Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime (which is a hybrid service, but the streaming part sort of dominates the package).
None.
I watch Tubi a lot and true crime s**t. I watched NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1958) on Tubi 2 nights ago. So great.
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I tend to limit it to 2 paid services, although currently we have amazon (more for deliveries than watching it history be said), Disney, FITE and Creature Features, so we are doing well on that one. Once a year or so we get Netflix for a month, binge anything we want to watch, then dump it. I think Disney will be moving to that model too for us with them cutting back on their content.
Just one at the moment; Tidal.
Quote from: ER on August 25, 2023, 07:49:33 AM
How many streaming services do you subscribe to?
One at a time here.
Too many. The main ones Prime, Hulu and Netflix. But I've also had the Disney+ add on for Hulu, and we also have Peacock and Paramount Plus. It's approaching cable TV costs. Going to cut at least two out pretty soon.
In October I usually do a month of Shudder, so that'll be on there too.
Cats or dogs?
Myself- dogs. Lily is my best friend. She's a Cheweenie.
I have several free ones - Roku, Tubi, and FAwesome Horror - and our paid subscriptions are Disney Plus, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Paramount All Access.
We also get HBO and SHOWTIME on our satellite. Too many shows, not enough time.
Quote from: indianasmith on August 25, 2023, 09:21:10 PM
I have several free ones - Roku, Tubi, and FAwesome Horror - and our paid subscriptions are Disney Plus, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Paramount All Access.
We also get HBO and SHOWTIME on our satellite. Too many shows, not enough time.
You got dogs named Roku and Tubi? :question:
Sorry, answering the previous question.
I like dogs in the yard and cats in the house.
Right now I have two Pyrenees pups, named Clown Hound and Yella Fella.
And a three legged cat named Crookshanks.
When I lived in back of the Welch's factory, I had some sheds and an old outhouse. Wild cats all over the yard at night. They lived under my shacks. I threw out bones for them. I caught 2 coyotes on my porch eaten bones I put out for the cats! I opened the screen door and they took off.
Racoons and possums too. Even deer in the fall! No mice!
Dogs, no question. Cats always remind me that we're the punch line of some inside joke they share.
Dogs. I was allergic to cats as a kid and never liked 'em. My allergies went away, but not my distrust of cats.
Cats. I like pets that are independent and not always slavishly devoted.
Both. I miss our feral cats at the work.
Are you an extrovert or an introvert?
I am an introvert who isn't shy and who can fake being an extrovert so well most people think I am one, but truthfully I'm inwardly focused through and through and that's my default setting.
Introvert. I thought lockdown was great.
Quote from: RCMerchant on August 25, 2023, 08:41:24 PM
Cats or dogs?
Myself- dogs. Lily is my best friend. She's a Cheweenie.
Dogs, I find them more fun to have around than cats.
Quote from: ER on August 26, 2023, 04:09:49 PM
Are you an extrovert or an introvert?
I am an introvert who isn't shy and who can fake being an extrovert so well most people think I am one, but truthfully I'm inwardly focused through and through and that's my default setting.
Introvert, though I am trying to break that by going out more.
Extrovert. I would get as stupid as humanly possible when I was drunk in public. Which was most of the time.
Now I would rather be alone most of the time.
Extrovert - I like people and I love being the center of attention!
Do you think the United States of America will still exist in a hundred years?
Since regionalism on a world stage seems the mentality of the age over non-economic globalism, I don't think it will.
^ Yes.
Quote from: ER on August 26, 2023, 04:09:49 PM
Are you an extrovert or an introvert?
I am an introvert who isn't shy and who can fake being an extrovert so well most people think I am one, but truthfully I'm inwardly focused through and through and that's my default setting.
Both.
Do you ever feel like taking a long break from the internet?
No.
Not a really long brea, but a small break every now and then.
As I get older, I often wonder what it would be like to step back to my 16-year-old self, knowing all that I know now, and live my life over.
Would I do it, if I could? Honestly, I think I would. I've had a good life, overall, but there are things I wish I had done differently.
And some things I wish I'd done sooner.
What about you? A complete do-over at the age of your choosing, knowing all you know now.
Yea or nay?
Nay. Forward, never back.
Quote from: indianasmith on August 28, 2023, 08:26:35 PM
As I get older, I often wonder what it would be like to step back to my 16-year-old self, knowing all that I know now, and live my life over.
Would I do it, if I could? Honestly, I think I would. I've had a good life, overall, but there are things I wish I had done differently.
And some things I wish I'd done sooner.
What about you? A complete do-over at the age of your choosing, knowing all you know now.
Yea or nay?
I sometimes wish I would have stayed in NYC a little longer, being I was poised to get a job at HEAVY METAL magazine, which was a sci-fi horror comic. But I
hated the city.
Things have turned out well for me, but yes, I would love to try again. I would go back to 18 and go to film school.
See, my thinking is if I went back in time I'd be killing people I loved, at least from my perspective in the reality I'd then be inhabiting, because in going back things would be different, and new opportunities wouldn't be worth that. I'd feel guilty and I'd miss them so much it'd tear me apart. Plus it'd be exposing myself to new dangers and who is to say I wouldn't have died in some accident instead of making it this far.
All that said, if I did go back, I would absolutely choose a different career. I might aim for being a SAHM, truthfully, because at times in my life I had to be away from my family and lost so much that way that cannot be given back.
So I'd play this hand I was dealt.
Mostly the same, except I'd have sex with most of the girls who I didn't realise were coming on to me at the time. :bouncegiggle:
Also, it goes without saying, I'd invest in Apple.
Quote from: indianasmith on August 28, 2023, 08:26:35 PM
As I get older, I often wonder what it would be like to step back to my 16-year-old self, knowing all that I know now, and live my life over.
Would I do it, if I could? Honestly, I think I would. I've had a good life, overall, but there are things I wish I had done differently.
And some things I wish I'd done sooner.
What about you? A complete do-over at the age of your choosing, knowing all you know now.
Yea or nay?
Probably would go back and start losing weight there, finding a summer job for the summer, and plan on being who I currently am.
If you try, really try, can you remember how it felt in that first minute of getting off school for the summer?
Yes. I felt somewhat similiar to that when I got back home after leaving my work for the last time.
I recall it as a feeling of relief rather than exhilaration, peace rather than excitement.
I recall me and my friends jumping in cars and jamming Schools Out by Alice Cooper on the 8 track.
I remember it being just about the best feeling in life. (Though many summers in late elementary thru middle school I got sent to these horrid "intersession clinics" for gifted students, which were like intense eight-hour daily 2-3 week workshops in math and science tilI I finally got my parents to stand up to the school and quit sending me.)
Do you still have a desk top computer?
That's all I have. covered in ashtrays and pot pipes and - f**k! And a fly at the moment!
Anyway- yeah! My son uses his phone. I am the only person I know who uses a desktop. Of course I don't know a lot of people.
I much prefer a desktop to a laptop for gaming, writing, and surfing the web. I hate the tiny keyboard on my phone - nearly every time I use it I wind up with errors that I don't make using my desktop.
Yes, I have a desktop, and I will always have one. Phones are great and useful on the go, but the tiny screens and keyboards can't do what a desktop can.
I have my desktop for regular use and my laptop for when I am travelling.
Would you say people tend to have strong reactions to you, either liking you very much or disliking you with equal vigor?
I think that's been true in my life. Take my friend Clare's parents, whom I've known for decades. Her dad seems to want to do anything for me, while I do think her mom wishes I'd die. I had an advisor in college who gave every impression of hating me from minute one for no reason I was ever able to figure out or ever able to change. Sure, plenty of people are so-so/just whatever about me but I've noticed and others have noticed I tend to inspire deep affection or even loathing when I'm not altogether sure either was merited. Strange.
Most people who meet me in person tend to like me, with very few exceptions.
Online, I get more mixed responses.
Quote from: indianasmith on August 30, 2023, 09:04:22 PM
Most people who meet me in person tend to like me, with very few exceptions.
Online, I get more mixed responses.
I can't believe you're one of the most smited people on this site. You also seem admirably sang-froid about people getting negative with you. Well done.
When I first joined here I could be very argumentative. It was in the middle of the Iraq War and my defense of GWB really angered some people here.
I've mellowed over the years, and they've gotten used to me.
People who don't know me well find me a little strange and intimidating - I've also been told that I have a way of looking at people which makes them a little uncomfortable. Children and young peeps tend to disagree and almost all agree that I am pretty fly foran old guy 😊😊😊🐢
Have you ever been cheated on in a relationship?
I have. :cheers:
Yes.
Yes.
Quote from: ER on August 31, 2023, 09:38:44 AM
Have you ever been cheated on in a relationship?
I have. :cheers:
No.
I've only had one romantic relationship in my life, and we've never cheated on each other.
What's the weirdest question you've ever been asked?
I was once asked if I got my DNA from my parents or from someone else.
Someone once asked my wife and I if we planned to have twins.
Quote from: indianasmith on September 01, 2023, 09:26:40 PM
Someone once asked my wife and I if we planned to have twins.
Oy 😳😊😊
Two strange ones:
"If you're African, why aren't you a person of color?"
"Do you have toilets here?"
😳😳
Quote from: Trevor on September 02, 2023, 12:35:58 AM
"If you're African, why aren't you a person of color?"
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Quote from: Trevor on September 02, 2023, 12:35:58 AM
"If you're African, why aren't you a person of color?"
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This exactly 😁😁
Quote from: ER on August 29, 2023, 02:29:24 PM
I remember it being just about the best feeling in life. (Though many summers in late elementary thru middle school I got sent to these horrid "intersession clinics" for gifted students, which were like intense eight-hour daily 2-3 week workshops in math and science tilI I finally got my parents to stand up to the school and quit sending me.)
i was far too busy helping my parents and family to be unimpressed with the summer school AP courses i got to do. they were awesome, and FUN!
Quote from: ER on August 30, 2023, 07:23:21 PM
Would you say people tend to have strong reactions to you, either liking you very much or disliking you with equal vigor?
I think that's been true in my life. Take my friend Clare's parents, whom I've known for decades. Her dad seems to want to do anything for me, while I do think her mom wishes I'd die. I had an advisor in college who gave every impression of hating me from minute one for no reason I was ever able to figure out or ever able to change. Sure, plenty of people are so-so/just whatever about me but I've noticed and others have noticed I tend to inspire deep affection or even loathing when I'm not altogether sure either was merited. Strange.
i always expect to see all ranges of reaction to me, mostly because i don't pull punches, i never judge on first impression, i'm a very loving person, but i'm also a strict b***h when it come to what i allow to happen around me. love me, hate me, whatever, that's on you, and we can discuss it anytime , over a beer and a plate of tacos.
Maybe this is a tough one but have you ever regretted being pressured to do something because it was a societal norm?
^ "Societal norms"? :question:
Such as?
Quote from: ER on September 02, 2023, 08:34:02 AM
Maybe this is a tough one but have you ever regretted being pressured to do something because it was a societal norm?
When I came to SA in 1987, conformity was the norm and I rebelled against that very much. Society was very restricted and restrictive then and people like me were frowned on 🙄
What's your favorite cartoons?
Anything done by Tex Avery just kills me.
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Probably King of the Hill.
Ever seen this analysis of the beauty of the background art in classic Warner Brothers animation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a50tAXNvUE8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a50tAXNvUE8)
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 02, 2023, 10:58:21 AM
^ "Societal norms"? :question:
Such as?
Aw, nevermind, mine was too hard of a question. I had something in mind as an answer to my original question but occasionally a dormant little filter kicks on in my head and tells me I probably should not say that.
Quote from: ER on September 02, 2023, 08:34:02 AM
Maybe this is a tough one but have you ever regretted being pressured to do something because it was a societal norm?
i can't regret what i never did.
Quote from: ER on September 02, 2023, 01:25:43 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 02, 2023, 10:58:21 AM
^ "Societal norms"? :question:
Such as?
Aw, nevermind, mine was too hard of a question. I had something in mind as an answer to my original question but occasionally a dormant little filter kicks on in my head and tells me I probably should not say that.
really ellie?? REALLY??? you are a real piece of work, child. too hard a question? your arrogance is getting REALLY annoying. and your condescension is sadly misplaced here, take it somewhere else.
Do you collect anything odd?
Among other stuff I have containers of dirt from all around the world.
Quote from: chefzombie on September 04, 2023, 03:32:22 AM
Quote from: ER on September 02, 2023, 01:25:43 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 02, 2023, 10:58:21 AM
^ "Societal norms"? :question:
Such as?
Aw, nevermind, mine was too hard of a question. I had something in mind as an answer to my original question but occasionally a dormant little filter kicks on in my head and tells me I probably should not say that.
really ellie?? REALLY??? you are a real piece of work, child. too hard a question? your arrogance is getting REALLY annoying. and your condescension is sadly misplaced here, take it somewhere else.
I finally read another of your posts and this is what I see. Troublemaking once again. Gasp, never saw that coming. OK, Cook, you win, I did try to keep the peace with your grudge-fueled ego but a fifth personal attack merits a response.
You truly have a messianic complex, you know it? Gotta vicariously rescue others whether the person needs it or not. RC and I are fine, and if ever we're not, we work it out. He doesn't need his grandma standing over his shoulder.
I think it conceals deep insecurity in you that you make so much trouble wherever you go, even bragging here about making it elsewhere, but then again living vicariously is what you do, isn't it, adopting surrogate daughter-nieces and such.
Shame you are clearly so unhappy and that makes you lash out even at someone who hadn't done anything to you, as I did absolutely nothing to you, Cook. Nothing. For a poor line cook at a bar and grill in (yawn) Kansas----oh, sorry, I mean a (ahem) chef, you sure feel entitled to judge others. I guess it's because you are so happy and successful. Or at least stuck in a perpetual adolescence, working a college student job, staying up all night. Still getting stoned?
My annoyance at your obsession with me aside, the way you see things is so odd. Paranoid, chip on your shoulder, just plain weird to be honest.
Where you see arrogance in my post I intended self-deprecation, admitting maybe my question was too undefined and unfair to lay out there, and that the answer I had in mind to give was probably one I shouldn't have said. There's no arrogance there, Cook, there's a humble admission that the fault of the inquiry being unclear lay with me, not the person who didn't get what I was asking about.
How you see the actions of others says a lot about you. It might interest you to know three people here, Cook, three, have told me privately they wish you had kept your word about only reading the posts here from now on and not posting anymore. You remember the second to last time you stomped off, mad? The nicest guy in here literally said this to me:
"I wish she had not come back."
No, she's too obsessed with self-assertion in general and her burning seven year old grudge in particular to not come back and slide into her familiar predictable pattern of troublemaking judgment.
Under your self-delusions of being some woke warrior, Cook, you're simply an angry, unpopular person, and you go after others out of unhappiness.
Good job. You made trouble. You can open the nightstand drawer for some action tonight.
Just be nice and put some music on for your neighbors. Thin low-rent flat walls, you know.
you're adorable when you're triggered, ellie. and you really should be writing fiction for money, you're VERY good at it, lol! :cheers:
I thought about something last night, and it left me feeling sorry for you. That thing was how your trolling and bullying are symptoms of the fact you have nothing to be happy about in your life. You're poor, you're old, you labor in a dead-end kid's job with getting Social Security now being such a life changer to your dire situation that you brag about it (oh and now you've got a car!), you're married to an old man, you have only vicarious family, a made-up religion most kids outgrow in their twenties, and amid that emptiness you fill it with anger, apparently going from website to website "triggering" others and telling yourself you're standing for something, so in need of validation you come in bragging about picking fights and reporting people for rules violations. Once I really thought about what living that way would be like, I started feeling bad for you. Thank God I'm not a bitter old childless woman with nothing to make me happy but my efforts to hurt other people.
Have fun, Cook, I really do feel sorry for you.
What has this thread devolved to?
Look, Chef, we get that you and ER don't like each other.
She offered a reasonable compromise - SIMPLY IGNORE HER.
You're making this forum a contentious place by not accepting a truce when it's offered.
I know. I do. I think I'll go back to ignoring her toxic trolling. If someone with a long history of online bullying kept coming after you, though, Misfit, to be honest, mightn't you eventually respond, especially if you'd tried to make peace and tried to ignore but the bully kept picking on you? Even if you knew this is all she does on various sites, targeting and causing trouble, even if you find her highly predictable, wouldn't you maybe have enough? There's a cycle with her, she comes in and plays sweet and nice, builds up, erupts, usually on someone else's behalf, needing to feel she's a hero in her own mind, then after several venomous months makes a big dramatic show of leaving when she gets stood up to. I figured it might speed that up so we can have some peace again if I pile-drivered her nose out the back of her head with a bombastic if accurate reply, but I don't think we're close to the end of this cycle of her trolling yet. After all, this site still lets her in; not all of them do. She never ever shows up without bringing trouble, despite the posted first rule of this place to be courteous here. If I broke that rule last night, hey at least I took about ten jabs off her before I replied.
Like I said, I'm tired of her game. Let her snipe and troll. It's literally all she's got. She's mental.
Have you ever had a veneral diasese?
I had the clap once. You know- drippy dick syndrome.
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 07, 2023, 11:03:36 PM
Have you ever had a veneral diasese?
I had the clap once. You know- drippy dick syndrome.
😳😳I should be so lucky to get anything 😉
Quote from: indianasmith on September 07, 2023, 10:15:47 PM
Look, Chef, we get that you and ER don't like each other.
She offered a reasonable compromise - SIMPLY IGNORE HER.
You're making this forum a contentious place by not accepting a truce when it's offered.
lewis, you took her side once too often. you hurt people who love you because of her. and that sucks. but you know what? you keep her, she's exactly what you deserve.
as for the rest of you, you allowed her to take over. have fun. i'll pop in now and then to see who else has disappeared, and i pity you all . your female trump's name is ellie. you earned her.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Can't say I have, RC.
No VD for me.
Can't say that I had that, RC
Quote from: Rev. Powell on September 08, 2023, 07:48:35 AM
No VD for me.
My car's license plate has those two letters in it :buggedout: :buggedout:
When you were a kid, did you ever break off an icicle and eat it?
Quote from: ER on September 08, 2023, 03:04:10 PM
When you were a kid, did you ever break off an icicle and eat it?
Zimbabwe never got that cold 🥶🥶🥶😉
Quote from: ER on September 08, 2023, 03:04:10 PM
When you were a kid, did you ever break off an icicle and eat it?
Yes.
I've been completely monogamous my entire life, as has my wife.
So none of that for us! LOL
Quote from: ER on September 08, 2023, 03:04:10 PM
When you were a kid, did you ever break off an icicle and eat it?
What do you mean, when I was a kid? I still do that when it freezes!
Quote from: ER on September 08, 2023, 03:04:10 PM
When you were a kid, did you ever break off an icicle and eat it?
I used to stab the side of the barn with them.
Quote from: indianasmith on September 08, 2023, 05:50:10 AM
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
guess what? i'm a woman, i changed my mind! i'm not going to leave, and you can feel free to trash me as much as she does. after all, it's the christian thing to do, right? instead of caring about people who actually love you for you? have fun.
Quote from: indianasmith on September 07, 2023, 10:15:47 PM
Look, Chef, we get that you and ER don't like each other.
She offered a reasonable compromise - SIMPLY IGNORE HER.
You're making this forum a contentious place by not accepting a truce when it's offered.
It takes two Indy. Chef is not the offender.
ETA:
"Let her snipe and troll. It's literally all she's got. She's mental." That is what got us here in the first place: the remarkable and deep tolerance this forum has for offensive behaviour. But what applies to one applies to
all and we cannot say one member's behaviour is completely acceptable - even welcomed - and another's is not when they are really quite similar. Your bias is showing.
Quote from: chefzombie on September 08, 2023, 11:59:20 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on September 08, 2023, 05:50:10 AM
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
guess what? i'm a woman, i changed my mind! i'm not going to leave, and you can feel free to trash me as much as she does. after all, it's the christian thing to do, right? instead of caring about people who actually love you for you? have fun.
I only have a problem with you insofar as you keep attacking my friend. I still say, if you two ignore each other, this forum would be a better place for ALL the rest of us.
Quote from: indianasmith on September 09, 2023, 07:03:39 AM
I only have a problem with you insofar as you keep attacking my friend. I still say, if you two ignore each other, this forum would be a better place for ALL the rest of us.
How about ER dials it back a bit too? That is the root of the 'problem'. Chef is simply the most outspoken about it: there are many who have left because of what Chef is commenting about. Is that what you want: a private forum for you and your friend?
She generally doesn't attack unless someone attacks her. If I think she goes overboard, I will let her know. But in this case, she was the one who offered a truce, and Chef refused to accept.
Yeah, if she gets clapped, she's going to clap back.
But she's been my friend for 20 years, and if I have to choose between her and this forum, it's no choice.
I'd rather see the place keep rocking along as it has now since the dawn of the internet, so again I will respectfully ask:
Please quit attacking my friend.
Thank you for trying, Indy, but I think you're only going to put yourself in the crosshairs for no good reason. I can't quite believe the re-writing of the history of this meanness I see here when the chronology is right there for all to see but honestly what's left to talk about? I tried, you tried, it's not going to do any good. I finally defended myself and get called the aggressor, lol. Only banning people who begin personal attacks will stop the cancer from spreading and I wish it was the new policy. Clean slate for everybody, just don't do it anymore, or else. That'd solve it all
How many of you smoke pot?
If not- seems like some folks should and just chill the f**k out.
No, even if I wanted to I honestly don't have the luxury of being underperforming through part of my day, and that's how it'd affect me, I'd be partially incapacitated because all I'd want to do is sit and stare and think and be alone off somewhere with my illusions of deep thoughts. Lot of demands on me all day long in my life, not much free time.
BTW, little funny but the police came to our house last month because a snitty little girl who spent the night with my daughter got told by my daughter there was marijuana growing wild in our woods and she told her parents we were growing pot. Lol. Cops came asked about it, said they weren't interested in wild plants and asked if they could fly a drone over our property. I said go for it, they did, saw nothing, thanked me, and left.
Not keen on that girl coming back. :bouncegiggle:
^ Do something. Chill out, man. :lookingup:
I dunno, I can think of someone I know (not you!!) who smokes it after staying up half the night after work and isn't chill at all, in fact is mean as a snake, so it must not work on everyone. I'm more goal oriented than laid back but I do get a lot done, most of it in service to other people, though I know how that sounds. (A fair question before parting, but would you let someone pick on you day after day and never respond?)
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 09, 2023, 08:49:43 AM
How many of you smoke pot?
If not- seems like some folks should and just chill the f**k out.
I don't smoke it but there is something weirder that's available for me to consume; THC seltzer. And I have had it, it's actually refreshing.
Let's cool it on all personal attacks.
As far as pot, it's not legal here yet, but Delta 8 is, and I confess to having a few puffs of that last night. It's lighter than Delta-9-THC but if you smoke enough of it the effect is indistinguishable. I kind of like the lighter feeling, though.
QuoteHow Pot Affects Your Mind and Body
You Can Get "High"
It's why most people try marijuana. The main psychoactive ingredient, THC, stimulates the part of your brain that responds to pleasure, like food and sex. That unleashes a chemical called dopamine, which gives you a euphoric, relaxed feeling.
It May Affect Your Mental Health
Not everyone's experience with marijuana is pleasant. It often can leave you anxious, afraid, panicked, or paranoid. Using marijuana may raise your chances for clinical depression or worsen the symptoms of any mental disorders you already have. Scientists aren't yet sure exactly why. In high doses, it can make you paranoid or lose touch with reality so you hear or see things that aren't there.
Your Thinking May Get Distorted
Marijuana can cloud your senses and judgment. The effects can differ depending on things like how potent your pot was, how you took it, and how much marijuana you've used in the past.
You May Get Hooked
About 1 in 10 people who use marijuana will become addicted, also known as cannabis use disorder. This means you can't stop using it even if it harms your relationships, school, job, health, or finances. The CDC states that you have a 10% risk of a cannabis use disorder if you use marijuana.
Your Brain May Be Impaired
Marijuana can make it harder for you to focus, learn, and remember things. This seems to be a short-term effect that lasts for 24 hours or longer after you stop smoking.
It May Harm Your Heart
Marijuana makes your heart work harder. Normally the heart beats about 50 to 70 times a minute. But that can jump to 70 to 120 beats or more per minute for 3 hours after the effects kick in. The added strain plus tar and other chemicals in pot may raise your chance of heart attack or stroke. The danger is even greater if you're older or if you already have heart problems.
It Intensifies Alcohol's Dangers
More than 1 in 10 drinkers say they have used marijuana in the past year. Combining alcohol and marijuana at the same time roughly doubled the odds of drunk driving or legal, professional, or personal problems compared to drinking alone.
It May Ease Your Pain and Other Symptoms
Medical marijuana is legal in some form in a majority of states. And more than 10 states and Washington, DC, have legalized recreational pot. But the federal government's ban on marijuana has made it hard to study its effects on humans. Limited research shows that medicinal pot might help:
Ongoing pain (This is the most common use and a possible benefit of medical marijuana.)
Stiff muscles or muscle spasms from multiple sclerosis.
Sleep problems for those with fibromyalgia, MS, and sleep apnea
Anxiety
Loss of appetite and weight loss in people with AIDS
Nausea or throwing up from chemotherapy
Seizures from epilepsy
Dravet syndrome or Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
I don't need drugs to chill or to have a good time. When I feel the need to relax I play my rain app on my smart phone. Doesn't have any side effects to my knowledge.
^ (What's a rain app?)
Rain sounds for sleeping and relaxing. There are different kind of rain sounds you can pick (rain on window, rain on tent, rain on car, coastal rain etc) and I can adjust the intensity of the rain, thunder and wind. There's also a lightning option (it uses the flash from the cam on my phone). Its pretty neat if that is your kind of thing. I downloaded it for free from the google app store.
When I need to chill out, I spend a day on the lake or river. I come home tired but relaxed and happy.
Quote from: claws on September 09, 2023, 06:20:28 PM
Rain sounds for sleeping and relaxing. There are different kind of rain sounds you can pick (rain on window, rain on tent, rain on car, coastal rain etc) and I can adjust the intensity of the rain, thunder and wind. There's also a lightning option (it uses the flash from the cam on my phone). Its pretty neat if that is your kind of thing. I downloaded it for free from the google app store.
I'm going to look for that. Thanks.
Well, thank you Claws for preaching about something you have no experiance with! So wise!
Just preach s**t you read!
:lookingup:
Not everybody is as perfect as you, I reckon. All us lowly addicts are beneath your consideration, I suppose.
Quote from: indianasmith on September 09, 2023, 07:03:39 AM
Quote from: chefzombie on September 08, 2023, 11:59:20 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on September 08, 2023, 05:50:10 AM
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
guess what? i'm a woman, i changed my mind! i'm not going to leave, and you can feel free to trash me as much as she does. after all, it's the christian thing to do, right? instead of caring about people who actually love you for you? have fun.
I only have a problem with you insofar as you keep attacking my friend. I still say, if you two ignore each other, this forum would be a better place for ALL the rest of us.
feel free to ignore me. feel free to encourage her by doing so, like you did with john. you did him dirty, you know it, and i'd really like to know why. i don't expect you to tell me though.
Quote from: indianasmith on September 09, 2023, 07:42:05 AM
She generally doesn't attack unless someone attacks her. If I think she goes overboard, I will let her know. But in this case, she was the one who offered a truce, and Chef refused to accept.
Yeah, if she gets clapped, she's going to clap back.
But she's been my friend for 20 years, and if I have to choose between her and this forum, it's no choice.
I'd rather see the place keep rocking along as it has now since the dawn of the internet, so again I will respectfully ask:
Please quit attacking my friend.
and now you are flat out lying. shame on you.
Quote from: ER on September 09, 2023, 08:25:55 AM
Thank you for trying, Indy, but I think you're only going to put yourself in the crosshairs for no good reason. I can't quite believe the re-writing of the history of this meanness I see here when the chronology is right there for all to see but honestly what's left to talk about? I tried, you tried, it's not going to do any good. I finally defended myself and get called the aggressor, lol. Only banning people who begin personal attacks will stop the cancer from spreading and I wish it was the new policy. Clean slate for everybody, just don't do it anymore, or else. That'd solve it all
be thankful that search doesn't work here, ellie. and remember that i have LOTS of time to do a manual search to disprove your lies.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on September 09, 2023, 11:18:00 AM
Let's cool it on all personal attacks.
As far as pot, it's not legal here yet, but Delta 8 is, and I confess to having a few puffs of that last night. It's lighter than Delta-9-THC but if you smoke enough of it the effect is indistinguishable. I kind of like the lighter feeling, though.
i didn't start this, rev. she did by revealing a PM that she instigated. she tried to make herself the victim, as always, and i didn't tolerate it. and i won't tolerate it. if she EVER talks to me the way she did to john, i'll go over your head too, that is NOT acceptable.
Quote from: claws on September 09, 2023, 05:26:25 PM
QuoteHow Pot Affects Your Mind and Body
You Can Get "High"
It's why most people try marijuana. The main psychoactive ingredient, THC, stimulates the part of your brain that responds to pleasure, like food and sex. That unleashes a chemical called dopamine, which gives you a euphoric, relaxed feeling.
It May Affect Your Mental Health
Not everyone's experience with marijuana is pleasant. It often can leave you anxious, afraid, panicked, or paranoid. Using marijuana may raise your chances for clinical depression or worsen the symptoms of any mental disorders you already have. Scientists aren't yet sure exactly why. In high doses, it can make you paranoid or lose touch with reality so you hear or see things that aren't there.
Your Thinking May Get Distorted
Marijuana can cloud your senses and judgment. The effects can differ depending on things like how potent your pot was, how you took it, and how much marijuana you've used in the past.
You May Get Hooked
About 1 in 10 people who use marijuana will become addicted, also known as cannabis use disorder. This means you can't stop using it even if it harms your relationships, school, job, health, or finances. The CDC states that you have a 10% risk of a cannabis use disorder if you use marijuana.
Your Brain May Be Impaired
Marijuana can make it harder for you to focus, learn, and remember things. This seems to be a short-term effect that lasts for 24 hours or longer after you stop smoking.
It May Harm Your Heart
Marijuana makes your heart work harder. Normally the heart beats about 50 to 70 times a minute. But that can jump to 70 to 120 beats or more per minute for 3 hours after the effects kick in. The added strain plus tar and other chemicals in pot may raise your chance of heart attack or stroke. The danger is even greater if you're older or if you already have heart problems.
It Intensifies Alcohol's Dangers
More than 1 in 10 drinkers say they have used marijuana in the past year. Combining alcohol and marijuana at the same time roughly doubled the odds of drunk driving or legal, professional, or personal problems compared to drinking alone.
It May Ease Your Pain and Other Symptoms
Medical marijuana is legal in some form in a majority of states. And more than 10 states and Washington, DC, have legalized recreational pot. But the federal government's ban on marijuana has made it hard to study its effects on humans. Limited research shows that medicinal pot might help:
Ongoing pain (This is the most common use and a possible benefit of medical marijuana.)
Stiff muscles or muscle spasms from multiple sclerosis.
Sleep problems for those with fibromyalgia, MS, and sleep apnea
Anxiety
Loss of appetite and weight loss in people with AIDS
Nausea or throwing up from chemotherapy
Seizures from epilepsy
Dravet syndrome or Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
I don't need drugs to chill or to have a good time. When I feel the need to relax I play my rain app on my smart phone. Doesn't have any side effects to my knowledge.
well thank you revered professor claws. or should i say saint claws? that was pretty rude, coming from someone who actually knows nothing about marijuana and didn't even think to post the good things about it.
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 09, 2023, 07:51:01 PM
Well, thank you Claws for preaching about something you have no experiance with! So wise!
Just preach s**t you read!
:lookingup:
Not everybody is as perfect as you, I reckon. All us lowly addicts are beneath your consideration, I suppose.
and not a single word about the good that pot does for so many people who deal with anxiety, glacoma, arthritis and especially epilepsy/seizures of any kind. my friend james finally can live a real life and leave his house because he no longer has gran mal seizures 5 to 8 times a day.
Quote from: chefzombie on September 09, 2023, 11:06:03 PM
well thank you revered professor claws. or should i say saint claws? that was pretty rude, coming from someone who actually knows nothing about marijuana and didn't even think to post the good things about it.
Rude? clean your monocle and cream your dentures before opening your big fat cakehole you crusty yodelzombie.
Not my fault you suck at reading. Once more:
QuoteMedical marijuana is legal in some form in a majority of states. And more than 10 states and Washington, DC, have legalized recreational pot. But the federal government's ban on marijuana has made it hard to study its effects on humans. Limited research shows that medicinal pot might help:
Ongoing pain (This is the most common use and a possible benefit of medical marijuana.)
Stiff muscles or muscle spasms from multiple sclerosis.
Sleep problems for those with fibromyalgia, MS, and sleep apnea
Anxiety
Loss of appetite and weight loss in people with AIDS
Nausea or throwing up from chemotherapy
Seizures from epilepsy
Dravet syndrome or Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 09, 2023, 07:51:01 PM
Well, thank you Claws for preaching about something you have no experiance with! So wise!
Just preach s**t you read!
:lookingup:
Not everybody is as perfect as you, I reckon. All us lowly addicts are beneath your consideration, I suppose.
You make things up by reckoning and supposing. Lame.
and cherry picking to support your reckoning and supposing. Lame. This is sh!t?
QuoteMedical marijuana is legal in some form in a majority of states. And more than 10 states and Washington, DC, have legalized recreational pot. But the federal government's ban on marijuana has made it hard to study its effects on humans. Limited research shows that medicinal pot might help:
Ongoing pain (This is the most common use and a possible benefit of medical marijuana.)
Stiff muscles or muscle spasms from multiple sclerosis.
Sleep problems for those with fibromyalgia, MS, and sleep apnea
Anxiety
Loss of appetite and weight loss in people with AIDS
Nausea or throwing up from chemotherapy
Seizures from epilepsy
Dravet syndrome or Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
If you say so.
Quote from: chefzombie on September 09, 2023, 11:08:48 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 09, 2023, 07:51:01 PM
Well, thank you Claws for preaching about something you have no experiance with! So wise!
Just preach s**t you read!
:lookingup:
Not everybody is as perfect as you, I reckon. All us lowly addicts are beneath your consideration, I suppose.
and not a single word about the good that pot does for so many people who deal with anxiety, glacoma, arthritis and especially epilepsy/seizures of any kind. my friend james finally can live a real life and leave his house because he no longer has gran mal seizures 5 to 8 times a day.
:bouncegiggle:
QuoteMedical marijuana is legal in some form in a majority of states. And more than 10 states and Washington, DC, have legalized recreational pot. But the federal government's ban on marijuana has made it hard to study its effects on humans. Limited research shows that medicinal pot might help:
Ongoing pain (This is the most common use and a possible benefit of medical marijuana.)
Stiff muscles or muscle spasms from multiple sclerosis.
Sleep problems for those with fibromyalgia, MS, and sleep apnea
Anxiety
Loss of appetite and weight loss in people with AIDS
Nausea or throwing up from chemotherapy
Seizures from epilepsy
Dravet syndrome or Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
I've seen marijuana do a lot of harm, claws, and thought that was an informative post. Thanks for it.
Quote from: chefzombie on September 09, 2023, 10:55:53 PM
Quote from: ER on September 09, 2023, 08:25:55 AM
Thank you for trying, Indy, but I think you're only going to put yourself in the crosshairs for no good reason. I can't quite believe the re-writing of the history of this meanness I see here when the chronology is right there for all to see but honestly what's left to talk about? I tried, you tried, it's not going to do any good. I finally defended myself and get called the aggressor, lol. Only banning people who begin personal attacks will stop the cancer from spreading and I wish it was the new policy. Clean slate for everybody, just don't do it anymore, or else. That'd solve it all
be thankful that search doesn't work here, ellie. and remember that i have LOTS of time to do a manual search to disprove your lies.
Anything negative I said to you was after you started in on me and after I tried to keep things peaceful. You finally pushed me too far.
Anything negative I said to John (which is between him and me and none of your business; do you conveniently forget you also had conflict with him, as I recall?) was in private and after he'd started in on me for a long time. He bombed my Pearl Harbor, I dropped an A-bomb on his Nagasaki. He got the worst of a fight he picked, oh, boohoo. I'm sorry he's sick but being ill doesn't give someone blanket forgiveness for his troublemaking or excuse him from accountability. He got a bloody nose on a PM, well he shouldn't start things.
But you make trouble every time you come in year after year. Conflict surrounds you and follows you. You're making it now. You've pledged to keep making it by bringing up old fights. You could let things heal and post things here that would be pleasant but you are even now making promises of more trouble to come.
You aren't here to get along, you're here to cause conflict.
I'm going to let the last couple weeks go and move on so the members here can get back to peaceful enjoyment of the place. (Trevor's second home.... doesn't his plea move you at all?) Somehow I don't think that's going to be your agenda though.
I guess what I'd say is, if you can't abide by the posted rules of courtesy here, be honorable enough not to come. Let things go. It's a message board, not a mud wrestling pit. At least you should attack me via PM.
Really, be nice or go?
Well, all this conflict is stressing me out. Think I'll fire up a bowl.
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 10, 2023, 08:31:08 AM
Well, all this conflict is stressing me out. Think I'll fire up a bowl.
Funny! (As opposed to the morning of sobriety you had planned, eh? :wink:)
Well, this was fun and educational. Let's all do this again some other time. Cheers :cheers:
Is breakfast the best-smelling meal of the day?
Maybe, but not if whatever you're making for dinner has a lot of garlic and onions.
Quote from: ER on September 12, 2023, 11:36:03 AM
Is breakfast the best-smelling meal of the day?
First thing in the morning absolutely. Around dinner time not so much, though that depends on what's for dinner.
I rarely eat breakfast. A bagel with cream cheese at most.
Quote from: ER on September 12, 2023, 11:36:03 AM
Is breakfast the best-smelling meal of the day?
If there is bacon involved, YES!!
Have you ever did something real stupid or flat out crazy while drunk or high?
Not trying to sound sanctimonious, but I've literally never been drunk or high in my life.
So all my idiot moves were made when stone cold sober!
I've done more than I can count. My police record is full of them. And that's only the tip of the iceberg.
I have had more mugshots than baby pictures. And I am not exagerating.
That counts the vast amounts of times I got in bar fights, did waaay to much acid, drank for a year straight and ended up hospitalized, put a shot gun to my forehead and fired (it jumped), Smoked angel dust in the Bronx at 17, dropped acid in the 11th grade and got expelled from school when I fell back in my chair laughing my ass off when my buddy Lance punched our history teacher in the face. ( he was the one who gave me the purple double barrel microdot.)
Ahh. Good times. :smile:
Not while drunk or high, RC, just lots of other times. Heck, I once walked out of a house with nothing but the clothes on my back, got in my car, and drove all the way to the end of the land in America.
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 12, 2023, 06:55:05 PM
Have you ever did something real stupid or flat out crazy while drunk or high?
Can't say I have done something really stupid while drunk or high besides passing out on the floor. :bouncegiggle:
The stupid thing I did was actually getting high. I had silly giggle fits, and that was it.
I've been with people who get high most of my life. Never seen them do anything crazy. They talk incoherent and were mostly letharic. They inspired me not to do drugs.
The few times I was drunk I never did anything crazy except for falling asleep in a cornfield once. Not sure if that was crazy tho..
I've did tons of crazy stuff not under the influence.
I punched out a window while drunk. How I did this without breaking my hand or getting it all cut up eludes me to this day.
Do you enjoy grilling out?
Me, I think God miracled us indoor kitchens so we don't have to risk eating as many flying insects.
Grilled food is the best. Steak, burgers, even corn. NOTHING beats a grilled hot dog with onions.
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 13, 2023, 07:02:58 AM
Grilled food is the best. Steak, burgers, even corn. NOTHING beats a grilled hot dog with onions.
My sister is a vegan and she convinced me to cut down on the red meat I eat: not to stop but just to cut down.
I still like a nice steak on a barbecue though.
How much longer do you think you will live?
I got about 100 years, myself.
I'm never gonna die.
Quote from: ER on September 13, 2023, 06:52:40 AM
Do you enjoy grilling out?
Me, I think God miracled us indoor kitchens so we don't have to risk eating as many flying insects.
I find grilling food is great and a great break from cooking on the stove top/baking in the oven.
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 13, 2023, 07:07:37 PM
How much longer do you think you will live?
I got about 100 years, myself.
I'm never gonna die.
Not long. Death only has to get lucky once, you know, and I've already out stepped it several times. Whether I live to be 87.5 like the study I was part of predicted or don't last the night, I'm at peace. I've fallen in love, I've had children, lived someplace beautiful, had some modest successes, been blessed to dwell in a superpower in interesting times. It's not fair to ask much more from life. But I don't think I'll live much longer. Not much longer at all.
I sincerely hope you are wrong on that count.
Me, I don't care how long a I live anymore, as long as I LIVE until I die.
Would the world be a better place if there actually was instant karma?
I would imagine most people would put a bit more thought into their daily actions. Not convinced it would make things better though.
Quote from: ER on September 09, 2023, 08:25:55 AM
Thank you for trying, Indy, but I think you're only going to put yourself in the crosshairs for no good reason. I can't quite believe the re-writing of the history of this meanness I see here when the chronology is right there for all to see but honestly what's left to talk about? I tried, you tried, it's not going to do any good. I finally defended myself and get called the aggressor, lol. Only banning people who begin personal attacks will stop the cancer from spreading and I wish it was the new policy. Clean slate for everybody, just don't do it anymore, or else. That'd solve it all
ER April 29, 2023, 11:00:05 PM
Do you still listen to every song posted here?
Allhallowsday April 30, 2023, 06:46:37 PM
Sometimes. Why?
ER April 30, 2023, 08:48:21 PM
A long time ago you said you listened to every song that was posted, and since I've been posting songs I remembered that and was curious if it was still true.
Allhallowsday April 30, 2023, 10:46:30 PM
I did in fact listen to any YouTube save Black Sabbath. The embedded video no longer works for me here, so I must follow a link and startup YouTube. Nah.
ER May 05, 2023, 11:55:04 AM
I was going to let you figure it out on your own, but as a courtesy I'll let you know that as of my last answer to you earlier in the week, I have stopped reading your posts altogether., and don't plan to change that.
ER May 05, 2023, 05:41:13 PM
You see, I kept waiting to feel some sense of flattery in your obsession with me, or even some amusement in watching you always stumbling through a sense conspiracies and double meanings in the plainest and most straightforward of posts, but the fact is you were just boring. So boring. The room didn't need to watch me put you in your place yet another time, which I was going to have to do sooner or later, so this way you keep your self-delusions about your sense of wit and insightfulness, how big and bad a crusader you are (yawn) and for me it's like you in all your befuddled, boring, grouchy cluelessness don't even exist. I love it.
Pace, morono! :-)
ER May 06, 2023, 10:08:08 AM
For what it's worth, I don't want bad relations here with you or anyone else, but you won't leave me alone. You feel at liberty to constantly pick on me, so it's easier to ignore you. How about on the forum and in here we leave each other alone?
ER May 21, 2023, 01:00:19 PM
Oh, hey, some long-windedness, because I know you'll read it all. Lol
I find people without sex lives are often bitter, so I make allowances for you. I guess I struck a nerve that day when I finally told you how boring I find you, and you couldn't keep it in anymore, but honestly, if you were going to try to hit me back tit for tat (you do remember tit, right?), couldn't you have done it without showing everyone how you read my every post, every karma, listen to every song? That makes you seem pitiful in your obsession. (You wouldn't believe the private messages I get laughing about you.... Someone the other day said he's trying to match your grouchiness to some old man hormone cycle.)
You know, I've extended an olive branch to you in the past, ignored you til I felt bad and gave you another chance. Are you just too bitter to let things go and co-exist? You know, you roll the dice enough you eventually get lucky, so I'm sure one day you will stumble onto something and make me mad and, well, I'll have to do something about you, but I'd rather not get to that.
Let things go, John, be happy, ignore me and I'll return the favor. WWJD, right? Or Pope Francis? Or someone whose balls aren't chronically backed up?
Answer: they'd be more pleasant in life, less a grouchy old man. I guess if you can't get c**t you be one, huh?
All right, the person I am picking up is finished, so I needs must depart, but thanks for reading every word of this and proving a point to us both.
--LE
PS: I increased the font size for you.
PPS: This was fun!
Allhallowsday May 21, 2023, 02:03:27 PM
Hi Indy,
I have rec'd a few private messages that I would like to share with you. It seems someone who accuses me of "obsession" has an obsession... with me. Please advise and thank you.
jgg
ER May 21, 2023, 02:06:23 PM
Come on, make peace with me once and for all. Bad feelings aren't good for anybody. Peace? Or at least politely ignoring? Truce, and I won't be the first to break it.
indianasmith May 21, 2023, 02:16:44 PM
I'd rather not get in the middle of it, to be honest.
ER May 21, 2023, 02:28:18 PM
Everybody is ratting you out, John.
"I have rec'd a few private messages that I would like to share with you. It seems someone who accuses me of "obsession" has an obsession... with me. Please advise and thank you.
jgg"
I swear you are such a whiny baby who can dish it out (calling yourself a poked bear? lol) but you sure can't take it.
***
Allhallowsday May 21, 2023, 02:29:35 PM (to Indy)
There's no problem and no middle. I have not responded to the msgs I've rec'd, but they are remarkably insulting and unkind and unwarranted. I merely wanted a witness that I trust.
Thanks for your response.
Allhallowsday May 21, 2023, 02:31:50 PM
I see you've already shared my msg with Evelyn. You disappoint me.
indianasmith May 21, 2023, 02:58:54 PM
She's one of my closest friends. I thought she deserved to know.
I cannot be the impartial arbiter you seem to want; she and I go too far back.
Allhallowsday May 21, 2023, 03:15:53 PM
Perhaps I will post them publicly. Loyalty is a wonderful thing which I admire. This is a web forum which some take too personally. I won't trouble you again.
end
Quote from: Alex on September 19, 2023, 10:21:26 AM
I would imagine most people would put a bit more thought into their daily actions. Not convinced it would make things better though.
I don't know, if there was instant pain or an instant reward for good works, it might be enough of a carrot/stick situation to make a real difference.
Quote from: ER on September 22, 2023, 12:24:08 AM
Quote from: Alex on September 19, 2023, 10:21:26 AM
I would imagine most people would put a bit more thought into their daily actions. Not convinced it would make things better though.
I don't know, if there was instant pain or an instant reward for good works, it might be enough of a carrot/stick situation to make a real difference.
How many people do stuff knowing in advance that it is going to have a bad outcome?
Welcome back, John. Not that you ever really left. I guess since you've taken up where you left off, what I'd like to ask is if you're truly trying to pretend those things I said to you almost half a year ago on private message fell out of a clear blue sky, no provocation at all on your part going back literally years? Just me one day getting it into my head that I was abruptly going to send you those posts? No reason at all, you were as blameless as a babe, you never in your life did one single thing to inspire any of that? No grouchy zings at me ever, no singling me out again and again with snide comments, nothing at all to make me get my fill and finally tell you off? You're an innocent victim of another person's sudden malice? I just spontaneously woke up and said, hey, I think I'll go after AHD today? The answer is no, John, you can't say that. When someone has enough and responds to a provocation as I did in your case, it's not a one-sided quarrel, and to whine when you finally did get me to respond is hypocritical. It's the nature of quarrels that mean and unnecessary things get said. That's why it's best not to have them. You're not a troll, you're a member here who has contributed a lot. And you're a grouch. You also do seem honestly puzzled as to why I wrote all that to you, so I'd tell you just as honestly that you tried for years to devil me for your own amusement, I repeatedly asked you to stop, and I had enough. You provoked the response I gave you and as far as I was concerned the matter was over. You made trouble, I blew off steam. Now you reappear to try for sympathy, which I don't doubt some will give you, to play a victim, and to make trouble while reaching shamelessly for allies. It should be beneath the dignity of a man to keep fighting with a woman. It should be beneath the dignity of those who make trouble to clutch at a victim card when they get hit back. I showed patience with you for a long time and even came to your aid a time or two, but in your mind you have no guilt. You are also acting like this is some big sneak attack when you've already posted much of this, and I also said last spring to go ahead, I wouldn't be so daft as to say anything in private to you I couldn't bear to be made public. People who cry when their own actions lead to them getting hit back are weak indeed, but there's a lot of that in this world. John, be a man.
Quote from: Alex on September 22, 2023, 12:40:17 AM
Quote from: ER on September 22, 2023, 12:24:08 AM
Quote from: Alex on September 19, 2023, 10:21:26 AM
I would imagine most people would put a bit more thought into their daily actions. Not convinced it would make things better though.
I don't know, if there was instant pain or an instant reward for good works, it might be enough of a carrot/stick situation to make a real difference.
How many people do stuff knowing in advance that it is going to have a bad outcome?
Far too few!
If you eat breakfast, what is your go to meal?
For me it's a vegetarian breakfast burrito (I'm trying to cut down my red meat intake) and some black medium roast coffee.
I find it hard to want to eat the initial couple hours I'm up but my first brunch-ish meal is usually either a smoothie with blueberries or banana, made with homemade yogurt, sometimes goat milk yogurt, or I'll have some type of grains, often whole oats. I find it's mid-day when I get hungriest.
I kind of eat weird stuff, I know.
At the moment I am going with a couple of Weetabix. Making an effort to have a breakfast in the morning.
Quote from: El Misfit on September 22, 2023, 11:12:11 AM
If you eat breakfast, what is your go to meal?
For me it's a vegetarian breakfast burrito (I'm trying to cut down my red meat intake) and some black medium roast coffee.
Everything bagel with cream cheese. If anything.
Usually a cigarette and a drink of water.
Just coffee.
If I get something out and I have my pick, I'll take huevos rancheros.
(https://i0.wp.com/www.aspicyperspective.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/best-huevos-rancheros-recipe-25.jpg)
^ A breakfast and brunch restaurant called First Watch makes that very well.
I normally get a proper breakfast at Wimpy several times a month.
We have a store called QT (QuikTrip) that makes a delicious breakfast pizza. Bacon, eggs, sausage, and cheese on pizza crust, with cream gravy in place of tomato sauce. That's fuel for the tank right there!
Would you ever kill somebody?
If they were trying to kill me- f**k yes.
Would I go to war and kill someone. Oh hell no. NEVER. Kill someone I don't know because some rich cocksucker hates them? f**k that- YOU go kill 'em!
Unless it was WWII. Nazi's WERE trying to kill us. f**k Nazis. But I wasn't around then- so f**k no.
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 22, 2023, 08:02:12 PM
Would you ever kill somebody?
If they were trying to kill me- f**k yes.
Would I go to war and kill someone. Oh hell no. NEVER. Kill someone I don't know because some rich cocksucker hates them? f**k that- YOU go kill 'em!
Unless it was WWII. Nazi's WERE trying to kill us. f**k Nazis. But I wasn't around then- so f**k no.
It is a lot harder for most people to kill anyone than is generally realised. We are psychologically primed by society not to and breaking that training can be very tough. It takes a lot to get through that. Even soldiers who hated nazi's in WW2 for example found it impossible to actually pull the trigger when they had someone in their sights and would instead fire a shot into the air instead.
The only way I could kill someone is in self-defense, or maybe defense of another in immediate peril.
I was in the military, but my role was decidedly noncombatant in nature. Still, I trained with weapons and I practiced martial arts for many years.
Could I kill if I had to? I think so. Would I? If they were going to hurt someone I loved, I think I would do it without hesitation.
And need years of therapy afterwards!
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 22, 2023, 08:02:12 PM
Would you ever kill somebody?
If they were trying to kill me- f**k yes.
Would I go to war and kill someone. Oh hell no. NEVER. Kill someone I don't know because some rich cocksucker hates them? f**k that- YOU go kill 'em!
Unless it was WWII. Nazi's WERE trying to kill us. f**k Nazis. But I wasn't around then- so f**k no.
I grew up during a war: I was disappointed that the war ended in 1980 and I was only 12 so I couldn't join up.
Quote from: ER on September 22, 2023, 01:01:07 AM
Welcome back, John. Not that you ever really left. I guess since you've taken up where you left off, what I'd like to ask is if you're truly trying to pretend those things I said to you almost half a year ago on private message fell out of a clear blue sky, no provocation at all on your part going back literally years? Just me one day getting it into my head that I was abruptly going to send you those posts? No reason at all, you were as blameless as a babe, you never in your life did one single thing to inspire any of that? No grouchy zings at me ever, no singling me out again and again with snide comments, nothing at all to make me get my fill and finally tell you off? You're an innocent victim of another person's sudden malice? I just spontaneously woke up and said, hey, I think I'll go after AHD today? The answer is no, John, you can't say that. When someone has enough and responds to a provocation as I did in your case, it's not a one-sided quarrel, and to whine when you finally did get me to respond is hypocritical. It's the nature of quarrels that mean and unnecessary things get said. That's why it's best not to have them. You're not a troll, you're a member here who has contributed a lot. And you're a grouch. You also do seem honestly puzzled as to why I wrote all that to you, so I'd tell you just as honestly that you tried for years to devil me for your own amusement, I repeatedly asked you to stop, and I had enough. You provoked the response I gave you and as far as I was concerned the matter was over. You made trouble, I blew off steam. Now you reappear to try for sympathy, which I don't doubt some will give you, to play a victim, and to make trouble while reaching shamelessly for allies. It should be beneath the dignity of a man to keep fighting with a woman. It should be beneath the dignity of those who make trouble to clutch at a victim card when they get hit back. I showed patience with you for a long time and even came to your aid a time or two, but in your mind you have no guilt. You are also acting like this is some big sneak attack when you've already posted much of this, and I also said last spring to go ahead, I wouldn't be so daft as to say anything in private to you I couldn't bear to be made public. People who cry when their own actions lead to them getting hit back are weak indeed, but there's a lot of that in this world. John, be a man.
really, b***h? who do you think you're fooling besides the poor fool that's in love with who you pretend to be, despite his devotions elsewhere? shall we talk about some of the things you've said to me too? like calling me a murderer because i chose my own life over a blob of flesh when i was young? or because i chose my own life over a fetus that would have killed me during birth, even as much as i wanted to give my friend a child? or the disgusting insults you threw at me because we are polygamous? YOU CHEAT , and you do it online , you make it obvious. and you get p**sed off when the men you hit on don't respond accordingly.
THAT is why you did this to john. you won't win, ellie, trust me on that. i won't let you destroy this haven. and i am a LOT more influential than you are, remember that. you WILL lose this battle. please keep talking about your victimhood, it just shows who you really are.
Quote from: chefzombie on September 23, 2023, 03:50:46 AM
Quote from: ER on September 22, 2023, 01:01:07 AM
Welcome back, John. Not that you ever really left. I guess since you've taken up where you left off, what I'd like to ask is if you're truly trying to pretend those things I said to you almost half a year ago on private message fell out of a clear blue sky, no provocation at all on your part going back literally years? Just me one day getting it into my head that I was abruptly going to send you those posts? No reason at all, you were as blameless as a babe, you never in your life did one single thing to inspire any of that? No grouchy zings at me ever, no singling me out again and again with snide comments, nothing at all to make me get my fill and finally tell you off? You're an innocent victim of another person's sudden malice? I just spontaneously woke up and said, hey, I think I'll go after AHD today? The answer is no, John, you can't say that. When someone has enough and responds to a provocation as I did in your case, it's not a one-sided quarrel, and to whine when you finally did get me to respond is hypocritical. It's the nature of quarrels that mean and unnecessary things get said. That's why it's best not to have them. You're not a troll, you're a member here who has contributed a lot. And you're a grouch. You also do seem honestly puzzled as to why I wrote all that to you, so I'd tell you just as honestly that you tried for years to devil me for your own amusement, I repeatedly asked you to stop, and I had enough. You provoked the response I gave you and as far as I was concerned the matter was over. You made trouble, I blew off steam. Now you reappear to try for sympathy, which I don't doubt some will give you, to play a victim, and to make trouble while reaching shamelessly for allies. It should be beneath the dignity of a man to keep fighting with a woman. It should be beneath the dignity of those who make trouble to clutch at a victim card when they get hit back. I showed patience with you for a long time and even came to your aid a time or two, but in your mind you have no guilt. You are also acting like this is some big sneak attack when you've already posted much of this, and I also said last spring to go ahead, I wouldn't be so daft as to say anything in private to you I couldn't bear to be made public. People who cry when their own actions lead to them getting hit back are weak indeed, but there's a lot of that in this world. John, be a man.
really, b***h? who do you think you're fooling besides the poor fool that's in love with who you pretend to be, despite his devotions elsewhere? shall we talk about some of the things you've said to me too? like calling me a murderer because i chose my own life over a blob of flesh when i was young? or because i chose my own life over a fetus that would have killed me during birth, even as much as i wanted to give my friend a child? or the disgusting insults you threw at me because we are polygamous? YOU CHEAT , and you do it online , you make it obvious. and you get p**sed off when the men you hit on don't respond accordingly.
THAT is why you did this to john. you won't win, ellie, trust me on that. i won't let you destroy this haven. and i am a LOT more influential than you are, remember that. you WILL lose this battle. please keep talking about your victimhood, it just shows who you really are.
Please quit. You are fragrantly violating the rules against personal attacks/flame wars. "She started it" is not a defense. PM this s**t if you must. Most of us do not care. A suspension comes next.
ER do not respond.
If you had to choose, live poor in a civil rights-enshrining democracy, or be wealthy in a totalitarian society?
I'd say poor and free.
If you are one of the rich ones in a totalitarian state the chances are you can either make the rules, or ignore them. Or both.
Do you have any band shirts?
I have 1 Black Flag, 2 Dead Kennedys, 1 AC/DC, 1 Ramones.
Offhand, got a few Iron Maiden and Motorhead ones, AC/DC, Alice Cooper, Sabbat, Rob Zombie, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Alestorm, The Almighty, Tragedy, Machine Head... Doubtless a few other bands I've forgotten about.
Quote from: Alex on September 24, 2023, 11:56:58 AM
If you are one of the rich ones in a totalitarian state the chances are you can either make the rules, or ignore them. Or both.
Pretty much what is going on in SA right now: the fat cats are getting fatter and we are getting poorer :bluesad:
I also got a Dracula, Glenn Strange as Frankenstein, 3 Charlie Manson's, DeNiro in TAXI DRIVER, A Demon with the words NO LIVES MATTER, and Popeye.
T-shirts.
As far as goverments go- gee- I wanna be in a Nazi state- Go Trump! :tongueout:
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 24, 2023, 12:19:48 PM
I also got a Dracula, Glenn Strange as Frankenstein, 3 Charlie Manson's, DeNiro in TAXI DRIVER, A Demon with the words NO LIVES MATTER, and Popeye.
I refuse to make a list of all my non-band tee shirts. I have a lot.
^ Give it a whirl! :thumbup:
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 24, 2023, 12:23:48 PM
^ Give it a whirl! :thumbup:
There ya go (except for the ones I've just finished washing (Sunday is laundry day)).
(https://i.imgur.com/PEhsaZg.jpg)
^ Dam! You got more clothes than I got weeds in my yard! And my yard is all weeds!
Quote from: Alex on September 24, 2023, 12:38:46 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 24, 2023, 12:23:48 PM
^ Give it a whirl! :thumbup:
There ya go (except for the ones I've just finished washing (Sunday is laundry day).
(https://i.imgur.com/PEhsaZg.jpg)
What is this thing you call "laundry?" 😳😉😉
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 24, 2023, 11:59:45 AM
Do you have any band shirts?
I have 1 Black Flag, 2 Dead Kennedys, 1 AC/DC, 1 Ramones.
10+
1 Toxic Holocaust, 2 Death, 1 Lorna Shore, 1 Saor, 1 Knocked Loose, 2 Cure, 1 Black Dahlia Murder, 1 Gojira, plus a few more that I'll probably give to Salvation Army.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on September 23, 2023, 08:26:53 AM
Quote from: chefzombie on September 23, 2023, 03:50:46 AM
Quote from: ER on September 22, 2023, 01:01:07 AM
Welcome back, John. Not that you ever really left. I guess since you've taken up where you left off, what I'd like to ask is if you're truly trying to pretend those things I said to you almost half a year ago on private message fell out of a clear blue sky, no provocation at all on your part going back literally years? Just me one day getting it into my head that I was abruptly going to send you those posts? No reason at all, you were as blameless as a babe, you never in your life did one single thing to inspire any of that? No grouchy zings at me ever, no singling me out again and again with snide comments, nothing at all to make me get my fill and finally tell you off? You're an innocent victim of another person's sudden malice? I just spontaneously woke up and said, hey, I think I'll go after AHD today? The answer is no, John, you can't say that. When someone has enough and responds to a provocation as I did in your case, it's not a one-sided quarrel, and to whine when you finally did get me to respond is hypocritical. It's the nature of quarrels that mean and unnecessary things get said. That's why it's best not to have them. You're not a troll, you're a member here who has contributed a lot. And you're a grouch. You also do seem honestly puzzled as to why I wrote all that to you, so I'd tell you just as honestly that you tried for years to devil me for your own amusement, I repeatedly asked you to stop, and I had enough. You provoked the response I gave you and as far as I was concerned the matter was over. You made trouble, I blew off steam. Now you reappear to try for sympathy, which I don't doubt some will give you, to play a victim, and to make trouble while reaching shamelessly for allies. It should be beneath the dignity of a man to keep fighting with a woman. It should be beneath the dignity of those who make trouble to clutch at a victim card when they get hit back. I showed patience with you for a long time and even came to your aid a time or two, but in your mind you have no guilt. You are also acting like this is some big sneak attack when you've already posted much of this, and I also said last spring to go ahead, I wouldn't be so daft as to say anything in private to you I couldn't bear to be made public. People who cry when their own actions lead to them getting hit back are weak indeed, but there's a lot of that in this world. John, be a man.
really, b***h? who do you think you're fooling besides the poor fool that's in love with who you pretend to be, despite his devotions elsewhere? shall we talk about some of the things you've said to me too? like calling me a murderer because i chose my own life over a blob of flesh when i was young? or because i chose my own life over a fetus that would have killed me during birth, even as much as i wanted to give my friend a child? or the disgusting insults you threw at me because we are polygamous? YOU CHEAT , and you do it online , you make it obvious. and you get p**sed off when the men you hit on don't respond accordingly.
THAT is why you did this to john. you won't win, ellie, trust me on that. i won't let you destroy this haven. and i am a LOT more influential than you are, remember that. you WILL lose this battle. please keep talking about your victimhood, it just shows who you really are.
Please quit. You are fragrantly violating the rules against personal attacks/flame wars. "She started it" is not a defense. PM this s**t if you must. Most of us do not care. A suspension comes next.
ER do not respond.
at least it was fragrant. don't worry, i'm done.
Quote from: chefzombie on September 25, 2023, 06:31:19 PM
at least it was fragrant. don't worry, i'm done.
:lookingup: I'm sorry. I'm a doctor, but even I don't have a cure for someone having to have the last word.
This last week has been wild. One week ago today, my 21 year old donated a lobe of her liver. The University of Washington has a living donor program and I hadn't even heard about it, but she did. She pursued all the workup, and just a few weeks ago a surgery date was set.
So, my wife and I spent alternating nights in the hospital after surgery. I've got Norwegian-descended doctor abilities to partition emotions, and even I would say the anxiety was quite a lot... but, she got through well and is doing well, and all is well. The UW transplant team is very, very good, and they took the best care of her. I have one brave, altruistic kid. And that's my true and personal story for the day.
Glad to hear it went well and congratulations to your kid. I volunteered to donate a kidney, so I have a fair idea of what you've had to go through.
What's your preferred pizza topping(s)?
Mine are: Pepperoni/chicken, onions, bell peppers, artichokes, or sun-dried tomatoes for my "normal" pizza. Other toppings includes shrimp, gyro meat, roasted garlic, spinach, broccoli, green onions, poblano peppers.
^ Mushrooms, bell peppers, black olives, double cheese.
Quote from: Zapranoth on September 27, 2023, 11:54:27 AM
Quote from: chefzombie on September 25, 2023, 06:31:19 PM
at least it was fragrant. don't worry, i'm done.
:lookingup: I'm sorry. I'm a doctor, but even I don't have a cure for someone having to have the last word.
This last week has been wild. One week ago today, my 21 year old donated a lobe of her liver. The University of Washington has a living donor program and I hadn't even heard about it, but she did. She pursued all the workup, and just a few weeks ago a surgery date was set.
So, my wife and I spent alternating nights in the hospital after surgery. I've got Norwegian-descended doctor abilities to partition emotions, and even I would say the anxiety was quite a lot... but, she got through well and is doing well, and all is well. The UW transplant team is very, very good, and they took the best care of her. I have one brave, altruistic kid. And that's my true and personal story for the day.
I bet you're proud of your daughter. Her selflessness is outmatched only by her bravery. That's a wonderful story to share!
Green peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes, onions, a little goat cheese, fresh basil makes for a tasty pizza!
Sujuk (beef or lamb sausage)
Quote from: El Misfit on September 27, 2023, 01:17:34 PM
gyro meat
Doner kebab meat with Hollandaise Sauce is next level pizza. You should try if you can.
Quote from: ER on September 27, 2023, 03:14:05 PM
Green peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes, onions, a little goat cheese, fresh basil makes for a tasty pizza!
Where the f**k do you get goat cheese on a pizza? Do you live in Translyvania or something?
Hamburger, mushrooms, extra cheese, and light on the sauce.
Have you ever eaten tripe? The must disgusting food beyond pickled f**king pigs feet!
What is the most disgusting food you ever ate?
The French fries that our Filipino mess sergeant served on the USS Lockwood. They were made from POWDERED POTATO MIX and poured into a mold! Nothing but foul tasting grease sponges! They were so bad that the first time our new captain ate on the mess decks with the crew he summoned the cooks up to his wardroom afterward and said: "You will NEVER serve this sh** to my crew again!"
After that we got fresh sliced and fried potatoes.
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 27, 2023, 09:48:39 PM
Have you ever eaten tripe? The must disgusting food beyond pickled f**king pigs feet!
What is the most disgusting food you ever ate?
My wife likes tripe. Probably the key there is growing up in a Cantonese family, which results in you actually liking chewy slimy stuff. They all like tendons and connective tissue on bones too.
I don't care for tripe.. But, worst for me that I can think of, are what should be nothing. Any of those variants of stuffed green beans. Or even just steamed green beans, to a lesser extent. They actually make me gag I find them so repulsive. I don't know why! The only way I've ever liked them are the breaded and deep fried versions, but even then sometimes the green beaniness comes through and I get grossed out.
Although it rates low on most people's grossness scale and doesn't compare to slurping down the raw contents of pig intestines like the Comanche did, and considered a delicacy, beets are the only food I've ever eaten that instantly made me wretch. Even the smell can make me gag. At Smoothie King a couple summers ago I got a smoothie that I didn't know had beet powder in it and upon the first sip I almost threw up in my car (which my youngest found hilarious).
Of course my slightly nuts ever-reliable friend Mitch, the "channel medium" says this revulsion relates to a past life spent in near starvation conditions when we had nothing to eat but a small quantity of beets, and that my cellular memory rejects beets to this day because it reminds me of those hard times. So there you go, that's definitely 100% why.
Calamari: I was enjoying it until Mom told me I was eating octopus :tongueout: :buggedout:
Liver. Ugh. Even the smell.
Quote from: RCMerchant on September 28, 2023, 02:59:05 PM
Liver. Ugh. Even the smell.
I used to like liver as a kid but now, no.
My stepmother used to make us Liverwurst sandwiches with mayo on white bread. In the middle of the summer. I think she was trying to kill us. Even Inky, my dog, wouldn't eat it.
My dog Inky in 1971
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Quote from: RCMerchant on September 27, 2023, 09:48:39 PM
Have you ever eaten tripe? The must disgusting food beyond pickled f**king pigs feet!
What is the most disgusting food you ever ate?
Probably Russian cake; it's cake pieces mixed with licorice liqueur. Absolutely vile.
Quote from: claws on September 27, 2023, 04:03:22 PM
Sujuk (beef or lamb sausage)
Quote from: El Misfit on September 27, 2023, 01:17:34 PM
gyro meat
Doner kebab meat with Hollandaise Sauce is next level pizza. You should try if you can.
I've tried Hollandaise on eggs Benedicts before, didn't care for it. However that was a while back and my taste palette has changed quite a bit.
Quote from: El Misfit on September 28, 2023, 06:23:06 PM
Quote from: claws on September 27, 2023, 04:03:22 PM
Sujuk (beef or lamb sausage)
Quote from: El Misfit on September 27, 2023, 01:17:34 PM
gyro meat
Doner kebab meat with Hollandaise Sauce is next level pizza. You should try if you can.
I've tried Hollandaise on eggs Benedicts before, didn't care for it. However that was a while back and my taste palette has changed quite a bit.
There's a saying here in Germany: Hollandaise makes everything better. German schnitzel with fries and hollandaise? Amazing combo.
pimento cheese, head cheese, tripe, seafood of any kind and sweetmeats of any kind. oh, and condiments that aren't gravy. all are disgusting, and the same goes for sausage of any kind, mushrooms , onions, bell peppers and moldy cheeses. i'm picky, and i like it that way. :cheers:
Do you sleep on your back, side, stomach, all three, or something else?
I am all over the place.
Side, fetal position. I can't fall asleep any other way.
I've slept in woods and on park benches. I've learned to fall asleep in any space and position I can fit in.
On the floor is my usual spot :wink:
Like Alex, I can sleep anywhere, anytime, any place.
I sleep in my bed :twirl:
I sleep on my back, rarely I sleep on my side.
I slept on a railroad track in Shirley, LI, in 1983!
( of course "passed out" would be a better description.)
If you were starving, would you eat insects?
I would. Hell, I ate insects just to gross people out when I was young!
If you were starving, you'd eat anything to survive.
sure, if i was that hungry. hell, i'd eat mushrooms and onion too, and i DESPISE both.
Do you like The Brady Bunch?
When I was a kid I adored it like it held magic!
Not too much on the Brady Bunch, though it was OK as a kid. Like most guys my age, I did have a little crush on Marsha.
Quote from: ER on October 10, 2023, 11:52:29 AM
Do you like The Brady Bunch?
When I was a kid I adored it like it held magic!
Never.
Assuming SOMEHOW you could still be on time for meetings, etc.---maybe you'd have a personal assistant to come fetch you, whatevs,---but how much would it bother you if you had to spend the rest of your life with no timepieces to look at, no watches, clocks, computer clocks, nothing at all, just zero connection to being able to glance and see what time it was according to the abstract divisions of time we've created in modern life?
I would lose my mind.
My mom, I think, would be completely fine.
Pretty sure my head would explode. I'm chronologically minded!
Kristi constantly asks me what time I got up at each morning or what time Ash, or the cats did.
My reply is always 'I dunno. You stole my alarm clock.'
Guess that means I can survive without them.
I would lose my mind.
I'm retired and have no life. I could care less.
knowing the time generally means very little, but having a timer is an imperative. i'm a cook, lol! :twirl: :smile: :thumbup: :cheers:
Ever played hopscotch?
I used to almost every recess in elementary school in Kentucky. Our court went one foot down, one foot down, one foot down two feet down, one foot down, two feet down, end, then you went back. When I moved to Ohio it seemed like no one here played it. Zut.
A few times as a kid. It wasn't a super popular game for boys.
No.
Have you ever been in jail?
No, although my locker room used to be a cell.
I got arrested for trespassing one time (I actually had permission to be on the land, but the old caretaker had died and the new one didn't know me).
I spent about two hours at the county jail, and a call to the judge got me released with no charges.
That was enough for me, though. Never have been back.
^I have been in jail over 30 times. Not fun. Never a felony! Just stupid s**t as a result of being drunk out of my mind.
I got arrested once for beating the s**t out of a garbage can. I got arrested for sleeping inna doorway. I got arrested for a pot roach. I got arrested for drunk driving. Twice
Most of the others were for breaking probation for the dumb s**t I got arrested for in the first place.
I didn't give a f**k when I was young. I kinda do now. Jail sucks.
The longest I ever spent in jail was 45 days- so hey!
Never been in jail.
Infamously detained for a few hours by Dublin police over a misunderstanding on the last day of 2004, never arrested or jailed in a cell with bars.
Yes, I was in jail as a scofflaw (failure to pay a citation for over a year). Like Indy, the experience was horrendous enough that I determined to never go back.
Do you like saurkraut?
I like it on hotdogs and pork chops.
Nah, too strong a taste, too much salt. Excess salt makes my eyes puffy
Quote from: ER on October 19, 2023, 10:49:17 AM
Nah, too strong a taste, too much salt. Excess salt makes my eyes puffy
Didn't you need to take salt tablets while playing tennis? If so that must have sucked for you.
Quote from: RCMerchant on October 18, 2023, 09:56:01 PM
Have you ever been in jail?
No but Dad almost was, several times.
Quote from: Alex on October 19, 2023, 10:55:10 AM
Quote from: ER on October 19, 2023, 10:49:17 AM
Nah, too strong a taste, too much salt. Excess salt makes my eyes puffy
Didn't you need to take salt tablets while playing tennis? If so that must have sucked for you.
No, never took salt tablets. Thankfully I seemed to do fine.
Sauerkraut just looks nasty, so I never have tasted it.
Quote from: RCMerchant on October 19, 2023, 10:07:56 AM
Do you like saurkraut?
I like it on hotdogs and pork chops.
I don't like sauerkraut as I don't care for cabbage to begin with.
One hour of conversation, in your vernacular, with any dead person in all of history. Assuming you'd do it, with whom would you speak?
Me, I'd skip the famous and talk to my grandma.
Abraham Lincoln would top that list.
Today's question is also something of a statement:
If it outrages you that slavery existed in the United States 160 years ago among people long dead, why are you not transferring that otherwise empty outrage into doing something to fight slavery in the world today?
If curious, some ways you can push back against slavery include: Writing elected officials and calling their attention to human trafficking and other forms of slavery in the 21st century. Contributing time and or money to agencies that combat slavery. Even making others aware that it exists for potentially millions of people and that we can stand against it counts for something, and is better than doing absolutely nothing but bellyache about the plight of those who died generations ago.
Really, I am tired of people sanctimoniously pontificating on slavery in times past while seeming unwilling to put that moral outrage into doing something for people who can still be helped.
Quote from: ER on October 21, 2023, 08:33:21 AM
Today's question is also something of a statement:
If it outrages you that slavery existed in the United States 160 years ago among people long dead, why are you not transferring that otherwise empty outrage into doing something to fight slavery in the world today?
If curious, some ways you can push back against slavery include: Writing elected officials and calling their attention to human trafficking and other forms of slavery in the 21st century. Contributing time and or money to agencies that combat slavery. Even making others aware that it exists for potentially millions of people and that we can stand against it counts for something, and is better than doing absolutely nothing but bellyache about the plight of those who died generations ago.
Really, I am tired of people sanctimoniously pontificating on slavery in times past while seeming unwilling to put that moral outrage into doing something for people who can still be helped.
Who is it you know who pontificates about slavery but has no interest in current social justice? I don't know who you are talking about. Modern day slavery exists but it's not the only social ill. It doesn't follow to me that if you think historical slavery is bad that you must prioritize fighting current slavery (which exists in a much different form). I am outraged by the Holocaust, but I can focus on current social ills that are more relevant than modern-day genocide. And drawing attention to historical injustices still does some good in the world, even if it's not as much as actively helping people today. So I don't share your outrage.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on October 21, 2023, 08:59:45 AM
Quote from: ER on October 21, 2023, 08:33:21 AM
Today's question is also something of a statement:
If it outrages you that slavery existed in the United States 160 years ago among people long dead, why are you not transferring that otherwise empty outrage into doing something to fight slavery in the world today?
If curious, some ways you can push back against slavery include: Writing elected officials and calling their attention to human trafficking and other forms of slavery in the 21st century. Contributing time and or money to agencies that combat slavery. Even making others aware that it exists for potentially millions of people and that we can stand against it counts for something, and is better than doing absolutely nothing but bellyache about the plight of those who died generations ago.
Really, I am tired of people sanctimoniously pontificating on slavery in times past while seeming unwilling to put that moral outrage into doing something for people who can still be helped.
Who is it you know who pontificates about slavery but has no interest in current social justice? I don't know who you are talking about. Modern day slavery exists but it's not the only social ill. It doesn't follow to me that if you think historical slavery is bad that you must prioritize fighting current slavery (which exists in a much different form). I am outraged by the Holocaust, but I can focus on current social ills that are more relevant than modern-day genocide. And drawing attention to historical injustices still does some good in the world, even if it's not as much as actively helping people today. So I don't share your outrage.
I hear it all the time, people taking on a certain tone about slavery that existed in the past, something beyond anyone's present control, and I am always left thinking, yeah, you hate slavery, good, but if so why aren't you putting that conviction about its evil into effect in a time when you can do something about it? Are people trying to disassociate themselves from a feeling of guilt, or do they actually detest slavery so much they really do want to eradicate it?
You've never encountered that empty sanctimony yourself and you've never thought that? There's so much verbiage condemning something that's over, so little awareness or effort put into trying to solve something going on now. People are big on talk and small on action. Like Adalai Stevenson said, "It's easier to fight for principles than to live up to them."
The bottom line is I do support an organization that is trying to undo some of the damage sex trafficking rings are doing in places like Thailand today, the things I read about associated with slavery in our world anger me, and I wish people would do more to help instead of carrying empty idealism. How about more people walk the walk instead of talking the talk? That's my point.
And I wasn't singling anyone out here at all.
Quote from: ER on October 20, 2023, 10:52:48 AM
One hour of conversation, in your vernacular, with any dead person in all of history. Assuming you'd do it, with whom would you speak?
Me, I'd skip the famous and talk to my grandma.
Princess Diana: just to tell her how much she meant and still means to me. :smile:
Quote from: ER on October 21, 2023, 10:04:40 AM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on October 21, 2023, 08:59:45 AM
Quote from: ER on October 21, 2023, 08:33:21 AM
Today's question is also something of a statement:
If it outrages you that slavery existed in the United States 160 years ago among people long dead, why are you not transferring that otherwise empty outrage into doing something to fight slavery in the world today?
If curious, some ways you can push back against slavery include: Writing elected officials and calling their attention to human trafficking and other forms of slavery in the 21st century. Contributing time and or money to agencies that combat slavery. Even making others aware that it exists for potentially millions of people and that we can stand against it counts for something, and is better than doing absolutely nothing but bellyache about the plight of those who died generations ago.
Really, I am tired of people sanctimoniously pontificating on slavery in times past while seeming unwilling to put that moral outrage into doing something for people who can still be helped.
Who is it you know who pontificates about slavery but has no interest in current social justice? I don't know who you are talking about. Modern day slavery exists but it's not the only social ill. It doesn't follow to me that if you think historical slavery is bad that you must prioritize fighting current slavery (which exists in a much different form). I am outraged by the Holocaust, but I can focus on current social ills that are more relevant than modern-day genocide. And drawing attention to historical injustices still does some good in the world, even if it's not as much as actively helping people today. So I don't share your outrage.
I hear it all the time, people taking on a certain tone about slavery that existed in the past, something beyond anyone's present control, and I am always left thinking, yeah, you hate slavery, good, but if so why aren't you putting that conviction about its evil into effect in a time when you can do something about it? Are people trying to disassociate themselves from a feeling of guilt, or do they actually detest slavery so much they really do want to eradicate it?
You've never encountered that empty sanctimony yourself and you've never thought that? There's so much verbiage condemning something that's over, so little awareness or effort put into trying to solve something going on now. People are big on talk and small on action. Like Adalai Stevenson said, "It's easier to fight for principles than to live up to them."
The bottom line is I do support an organization that is trying to undo some of the damage sex trafficking rings are doing in places like Thailand today, the things I read about associated with slavery in our world anger me, and I wish people would do more to help instead of carrying empty idealism. How about more people walk the walk instead of talking the talk? That's my point.
And I wasn't singling anyone out here at all.
Our minds are instinctively revulsed by hypocrisy, but I think we have to be careful not to jump to conclusions about it. I don't think I've ever definitively encountered such empty sanctimony, because I don't do audits of stranger's charitable contributions, volunteer work, or outside work. How would I know that they only complain and don't do anything to help others?
I hate to think I can't bring up this or that historical atrocity unless I donate to an analogous modern-day charity! I can't condemn Stalin's man-made famine of the 30s unless I volunteer at a food bank?
It does remind me of a related and sort-of opposite phenomenon that does annoy me. Some white people seems to feel triggered by any mention of slavery, acting like they've been personally attacked or made to feel guilty for being white. I have seen them react on Twitter with the fact that African blacks also engaged in slavery. There was even a guy on Indy's Facebook who insisted that the Irish were also enslaved in America. I'm sure most of them are nice people, though, who just have a blind spot about that one issue.
Sorry to get so heavy, man.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on October 21, 2023, 11:10:09 AM
It does remind me of a related and sort-of opposite phenomenon that does annoy me. Some white people seems to feel triggered by any mention of slavery, acting like they've been personally attacked or made to feel guilty for being white. I have seen them react on Twitter with the fact that African blacks also engaged in slavery. There was even a guy on Indy's Facebook who insisted that the Irish were also enslaved in America. I'm sure most of them are nice people, though, who just have a blind spot about that one issue.
Sorry to get so heavy, man.
I sometimes get upset at people who doubt that I'm an African, despite the fact that I have an English accent and am Caucasian. It's only when I explain my history - and inform them that I have two special family members who are not Caucasian - that people say "OK, no problem."
Quote from: Rev. Powell on October 21, 2023, 11:10:09 AM
Quote from: ER on October 21, 2023, 10:04:40 AM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on October 21, 2023, 08:59:45 AM
Quote from: ER on October 21, 2023, 08:33:21 AM
Today's question is also something of a statement:
If it outrages you that slavery existed in the United States 160 years ago among people long dead, why are you not transferring that otherwise empty outrage into doing something to fight slavery in the world today?
If curious, some ways you can push back against slavery include: Writing elected officials and calling their attention to human trafficking and other forms of slavery in the 21st century. Contributing time and or money to agencies that combat slavery. Even making others aware that it exists for potentially millions of people and that we can stand against it counts for something, and is better than doing absolutely nothing but bellyache about the plight of those who died generations ago.
Really, I am tired of people sanctimoniously pontificating on slavery in times past while seeming unwilling to put that moral outrage into doing something for people who can still be helped.
Who is it you know who pontificates about slavery but has no interest in current social justice? I don't know who you are talking about. Modern day slavery exists but it's not the only social ill. It doesn't follow to me that if you think historical slavery is bad that you must prioritize fighting current slavery (which exists in a much different form). I am outraged by the Holocaust, but I can focus on current social ills that are more relevant than modern-day genocide. And drawing attention to historical injustices still does some good in the world, even if it's not as much as actively helping people today. So I don't share your outrage.
I hear it all the time, people taking on a certain tone about slavery that existed in the past, something beyond anyone's present control, and I am always left thinking, yeah, you hate slavery, good, but if so why aren't you putting that conviction about its evil into effect in a time when you can do something about it? Are people trying to disassociate themselves from a feeling of guilt, or do they actually detest slavery so much they really do want to eradicate it?
You've never encountered that empty sanctimony yourself and you've never thought that? There's so much verbiage condemning something that's over, so little awareness or effort put into trying to solve something going on now. People are big on talk and small on action. Like Adalai Stevenson said, "It's easier to fight for principles than to live up to them."
The bottom line is I do support an organization that is trying to undo some of the damage sex trafficking rings are doing in places like Thailand today, the things I read about associated with slavery in our world anger me, and I wish people would do more to help instead of carrying empty idealism. How about more people walk the walk instead of talking the talk? That's my point.
And I wasn't singling anyone out here at all.
Our minds are instinctively revulsed by hypocrisy, but I think we have to be careful not to jump to conclusions about it. I don't think I've ever definitively encountered such empty sanctimony, because I don't do audits of stranger's charitable contributions, volunteer work, or outside work. How would I know that they only complain and don't do anything to help others?
I hate to think I can't bring up this or that historical atrocity unless I donate to an analogous modern-day charity! I can't condemn Stalin's man-made famine of the 30s unless I volunteer at a food bank?
It does remind me of a related and sort-of opposite phenomenon that does annoy me. Some white people seems to feel triggered by any mention of slavery, acting like they've been personally attacked or made to feel guilty for being white. I have seen them react on Twitter with the fact that African blacks also engaged in slavery. There was even a guy on Indy's Facebook who insisted that the Irish were also enslaved in America. I'm sure most of them are nice people, though, who just have a blind spot about that one issue.
Sorry to get so heavy, man.
Ah, if there's one thing I understand about people, it's that I don't understand people. :smile:
On a less contentious topic, can you dance?
I don't dance. I hate all dance music. Unfortunately, it would have been a good skill to master when I was younger for courting purposes.
If you call head banging dancing- yes.
When no one's watching I dance with wonderful and heartfelt chaos.
I read that "straight" white men can't dance, which is BS. I used to boogie down in nightclubs. My dad had pretty good moves as well.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on October 22, 2023, 08:14:25 AM
On a less contentious topic, can you dance?
I don't dance. I hate all dance music. Unfortunately, it would have been a good skill to master when I was younger for courting purposes.
I don't dance well but I have never let that stop me!
Quote from: Rev. Powell on October 22, 2023, 08:14:25 AM
On a less contentious topic, can you dance?
I don't dance. I hate all dance music. Unfortunately, it would have been a good skill to master when I was younger for courting purposes.
I used to be quite a good dancer until certain body parts started saying "No way, Jose" to me :buggedout: :wink:
What's your favorite day of the week?
Hard to beat Saturdays!
Prior to starting this job id have said Fridays. Now any day can be the start of my weekend.
Saturday mornings, I sleep late, drink coffee, catch up on my Internet reading. It's my favorite time of the week.
Mondays mainly; I don't have doctor's/therapist appointments on Mondays.
I like Saturdays and Sundays equally.
do you get trick or treaters? i miss that here at the apartment.
^ Yes!
Is western civilization in a moral dark age?
Quote from: chefzombie on October 24, 2023, 11:41:22 PM
do you get trick or treaters? i miss that here at the apartment.
Not really, which is a bit of a shame.
Quote from: ER on October 25, 2023, 04:55:14 AM
Is western civilization in a moral dark age?
Can you please explain this to me?
Quote from: El Misfit on October 25, 2023, 05:38:20 AM
Quote from: ER on October 25, 2023, 04:55:14 AM
Is western civilization in a moral dark age?
Can you please explain this to me?
I don't think we are in a technological dark age akin to that which befell the west after the loss of Rome as a superpower, but I wonder if the term dark age is over-arching enough that it can include other forms of decline to the point that things have become "dark."
While I don't subscribe to the notion that past times were necessarily free of great evils, clearly they were not, it might be argued that each era has held virtues other eras lack, strengths and weaknesses being relative to each chapter in history, with much shared.
Right now it seems to many observers that we are in a period of either moral abandonment or moral decline to the point our civilization has tipped into a kind of interpersonal darkness. At the very least if all eras exist in a state of flux, ours does seem to be deliberately disregarding past ethics as a conscious collective choice.
I am unconvinced we are particularly better or worse than people were in any period in history but I can follow the train of thought that leads to such questions, and I do think we could both do much better, and also that we could collectively pause to consider that some of the societal morals which in the past were given higher billing than they are today were established in the fabric of a culture for the simple reason they worked, which shouldn't be forgotten.
We have far better laws against child labor than five generations ago, but we also don't seem interested in enshrining common courtesy as at the very least an ideal. We have placed materialism higher than veneration of elders, championed the good of a hypothetical collective while seemingly overlooking that a collective is composed of individuals. Never before has more information been available to so many, and never in my lifetime have I seen ignorance so openly championed, or rewarded, while intolerance has become celebrated over free expression.
Are we in a moral dark age? I don't know but I do find it a timely question to be raised.
^ I don't think so. The WWII era was much worse. As was the Crusades, where killing for Christ was common.
Also the Spanish Inquisition, the rape of the America's by Europeans, the Civil War- hell- all of history. I really can't see now as being any worse.
Not much of a dark age as per say. We're exposed to news about s**t that has been happening for a long time, it's only recently that things are being done about it. For better and for worse the Internet has redone the world, so I don't think we're in a moral dark age as much as we're f**king exhausted of seeing s**t people doing s**t things. We cheer for when karma bites them in the ass while also worrying about the innocent and how they'll cope in the present and future.
Quote from: chefzombie on October 24, 2023, 11:41:22 PM
do you get trick or treaters? i miss that here at the apartment.
Yes, but not as many as we used to. Years ago we'd get a bunch of candy but would often have to run out to get more before the night was over. Now we give handfuls of candy to kids and usually still have some leftover.
Quote from: ER on October 25, 2023, 04:55:14 AM
Is western civilization in a moral dark age?
Maybe. I see it as every generation will have a substantial population the rebels against previous generations simply because of an "F them" mentality – right or wrong we're going to do the opposite sort of thing. Sometimes it works out for progress, and other times it doesn't. Then there's always another portion of that generation that embraces the previous generations and hopefully we live and learn and things even out, but only for a future generation to start flipping things on their heads again.
Do you think it was morally just to drop the A-Bombs on Japan?
Those were civilians. I believe it was neccisary for the US to destroy the Axis, but not moral. Nothing in war (ie. murder) is ever moral.
When you start a war, you can't then credibly complain about the retaliation. Dropping the bombs was a tough call, but how many civilians and soldiers would have died had they not?
I wish the atomic bombs could have been demonstrated to the Japanese without the massive loss of life, but in the cruel math of war I'm satisfied the use of atomic weaponry saved a greater number of people than it killed.
War is never good but it can a lesser evil.
When I think of how the Allied powers prosecuted World War Two, it was waged in absolute terms, including the firebombing of cities, the use of A-bombs, the Soviet philosophy of free kill zones. We have never quite waged subsequent wars with quite the same intensity, our latter-day focus being on winning hearts and minds and trying to make ourselves liked.
Of the two strategies, World War Two was a complete victory, something I'm not sure any war fought since by a former Allied power has been.
A lesson in warfare lies in that.
Quote from: RCMerchant on October 25, 2023, 03:40:26 PM
Do you think it was morally just to drop the A-Bombs on Japan?
Those were civilians. I believe it was neccisary for the US to destroy the Axis, but not moral. Nothing in war (ie. murder) is ever moral.
I have a personal stake in that question. My Dad was being trained to take part in the invasion of Japan that fall. He hadn't even turned 18 yet when the bombs were dropped. He was told that, in the second wave which he was to be a part of, the survival rate (getting through the campaign without being killed or wounded) would be one out of 132. Can you imagine being told that at 18?
Consensus was that the USA would lose somewhere between 150,000 and one million soldiers taking Japan, and that the Japanese death toll (military and civilian) would be between two and four million.
The bombs, combined, killed about 125,000 people. If you were President, what would you do?
Grim arithmetic, but in the end, I think Truman made the right call.
^ I agree- fighting facism- the means justify the ends. But at what price?
My stepson Jim was in Iraq kicking in doors and would just shoot a room full of people.
Women and children. He told me this. He's dead now.
He died for goverments. Politics. Bulls**t. I get along with my neighbors- Why can't the rich? Power hungry war pigs.
Are you embarrassed to sing around other people?
I'm not, but I don't do it too much. My mom takes a lovely, unselfconscious joy in singing in random moments when she's doing things, which is pretty, but I can't say I do that.
Ash hated anyone singing around him, so of course we do it as much as possible.
Quote from: ER on October 26, 2023, 08:42:52 AM
Are you embarrassed to sing around other people?
Nope.
Quote from: ER on October 26, 2023, 08:42:52 AM
Are you embarrassed to sing around other people?
I'm not, but I don't do it too much. My mom takes a lovely, unselfconscious joy in singing in random moments when she's doing things, which is pretty, but I can't say I do that.
I stopped singing in public when my voice broke at choir practice when I was eleven or twelve.
How do you think this site will end? Plus, do you think you'll leave it before it ends, or it will end while you're still here?
Quote from: ER on October 27, 2023, 08:32:11 AM
How do you think this site will end? Plus, do you think you'll leave it before it ends, or it will end while you're still here?
In flames and terror.
Most likely scenario, I think, is Andrew announces he won't be renewing the domain, giving us all plenty of time to say goodbye.
Quote from: Alex on October 27, 2023, 08:45:06 AM
Quote from: ER on October 27, 2023, 08:32:11 AM
How do you think this site will end? Plus, do you think you'll leave it before it ends, or it will end while you're still here?
In flames and terror.
BUZZ! Ohhh, so close! I'm sorry, Alex, the correct answer was, 'In ice and dread. Yes, ice and dread.' But on the bright side you'll still be taking home a lovely new Tupperwear ice bucket!!!! Thanks for playing today!
Quote from: Rev. Powell on October 27, 2023, 08:55:12 AM
Most likely scenario, I think, is Andrew announces he won't be renewing the domain, giving us all plenty of time to say goodbye.
Wonder how much registering the domain costs? A virgin in the volcano every year was my guess but turns out they probably want actual money.
Quote from: ER on October 27, 2023, 08:32:11 AM
How do you think this site will end? Plus, do you think you'll leave it before it ends, or it will end while you're still here?
Like the Rev says. Will I outlive it? I'm amazed I'm still alive today, with my heart problems, so no.
Quote from: ER on October 27, 2023, 08:58:34 AM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on October 27, 2023, 08:55:12 AM
Most likely scenario, I think, is Andrew announces he won't be renewing the domain, giving us all plenty of time to say goodbye.
Wonder how much registering the domain costs? A virgin in the volcano every year was my guess but turns out they probably want actual money.
$15. Hosting costs more. My guess is with advertising Andrew makes just enough to break even.
How much do you think you'd be missed here?
Me, little.
The entire site would be plunged into mourning if I left.
Or else they'd throw a party . . .
NO MIDDLE GROUND!
Quote from: ER on October 29, 2023, 09:22:22 AM
How much do you think you'd be missed here?
Me, little.
I don't care. I'll be dead.
Quote from: ER on October 29, 2023, 09:22:22 AM
How much do you think you'd be missed here?
Me, little.
If I die and news comes through that I am no longer here, don't mourn me. If you want to remember me, go see a movie, any one.
I won't be around to say "I read the reviews and that movie is rubbish". :buggedout: :wink:
Go see a movie and remember me like that. Just not a re-run of The Shining, please. :buggedout: :wink:
US residents: do you tip well? Do you think we should end tipping altogether?
I tip pretty well but I believe the practice needs to be ended. Employers should pay their employees, not rely on customers to voluntarily do it for them.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on November 02, 2023, 07:44:25 AM
US residents: do you tip well? Do you think we should end tipping altogether?
I tip pretty well but I believe the practice needs to be ended. Employers should pay their employees, not rely on customers to voluntarily do it for them.
I rarely order out for food our eat out. I tip when I do- but I can't recall doing so in years.
I do try to tip well in part because it's a chance to help someone who is probably among the hard-working poor. Unless someone is a real jerkoff I'll tip twenty percent, and go higher if a server has gone the extra mile. The other day I left ten dollars on a twenty-two dollar tab because the lady was so cordial.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on November 02, 2023, 07:44:25 AM
US residents: do you tip well? Do you think we should end tipping altogether?
I tip pretty well but I believe the practice needs to be ended. Employers should pay their employees, not rely on customers to voluntarily do it for them.
I'm in favor of replacing restaurant tipping with a flat service fee per person or per order, maybe even per hour of service that fluctuates with busier hours, days and seasons. I don't understand the logic of tipping as a percent of the bill when it requires the same level of effort to serve regardless of the cost of the meal. Like why should the waitstaff tip differ based on the market price of fish someone orders? Bad service should be dealt with by management, not punished by guests.
I usually tip 20% when being served, but I don't tip when I order takeout ahead online and pick it up myself from a place where I wouldn't normally be asked for a tip when ordering takeout in person. I hope that's not awful.
i generally tip 20-25%, and always ask the server if they tip out the kitchen staff. if they don't, i go there and tip them myself. and i always tip the bartender separately. having worked every possible position in a food service sitch, i know the whole team is paid poorly( i am excluding chefs, i'm talking about the grunt workers who do the most work) and deserves my recognition. :cheers:
According to local lore, what's the most haunted place near you?
Although I think it's nonsense on top of nonsense, Bobby Mackey's, a country western club within sight of downtown, has been featured in books and on a lot of silly true ghost type shows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Mackey%27s_Music_World
Quote from: ER on November 05, 2023, 11:41:27 AM
According to local lore, what's the most haunted place near you?
Although I think it's nonsense on top of nonsense, Bobby Mackey's, a country western club within sight of downtown, has been featured in books and on a lot of silly true ghost type shows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Mackey%27s_Music_World (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Mackey%27s_Music_World)
In Pretoria, this place certainly.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Castle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Castle)
A scary musical called "Hier's Ons Weer" [Here We Are Again or It's Us Again] was even filmed there in the 1950s.
Waverly Hills Sanatorium
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2022/09/14/louisville-waverly-hills-sanatorium-urban-legend-history/9501082002/ (https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2022/09/14/louisville-waverly-hills-sanatorium-urban-legend-history/9501082002/)
(https://www.courier-journal.com/gcdn/-mm-/127f63e7e3335dbe71d0ef2cd9a5d0b46a09ea76/c=0-183-3600-2217/local/-/media/2017/10/25/Louisville/Louisville/636445374767864184-LouisvilleTunnels--PEARL-11.jpg?width=660&height=373&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)
'The Old Villa' just down the street from where I live
(https://amp.infranken.de/storage/image/1/6/0/2/2882061_amp-large_1ArrXe_N0xgNz.jpg)
Never officially abandoned. The owners moved away (with plans of coming back) in 1971 (they owned several villas in other towns) because of work/business. In 1972 it was used for exterior shots for a movie released in 1973. One year later, the son of the owner moved back in because he was studying in another town and needed a place to live.
No one has lived there since 1976. No idea what happen to the owners, but the building is under monument protection and can't be torn down. It is also too expensive for renovation/restoration. The nearby Hospital across the street is allowed to store old hospital stuff inside the building.
The Old Villa was a hot spot for thrill seeking youths in the 1990s. Lots of tales of this building being haunted. My niece and her friends sneaked in and spend a night there once. They heard whispers, voices, footsteps, knocks and doors slamming, and felt like being watched.
The old house I lived in in back of Welch's in Lawton Michigan had some serious poltergiest activity in 2002.
Quote from: ER on November 05, 2023, 11:41:27 AM
According to local lore, what's the most haunted place near you?
Although I think it's nonsense on top of nonsense, Bobby Mackey's, a country western club within sight of downtown, has been featured in books and on a lot of silly true ghost type shows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Mackey%27s_Music_World
I am close enough to Bachelors Grove cemetery that I should have visited at least once but haven't yet.
I've been to Resurrection Cemetery during the day. There was a lot of deer. Our car broke down when we came home and my husband blamed Resurrection Mary, but that car broke down all the time before and after we went there so I don't think that was it
Daylight Saving Time:
Keep it as-is?
Permanently ditch Daylight Saving Time?
Permanently ditch Standard Time?
As much as I love my long evenings in winter, I think I'd go for ditching Daylight Saving Time.
Move the clocks forward one half hour next spring and leave them there. (Those greedy bastards in Big Time will never allow it, though.)
No DST here at all: I believe it was last attempted here in 1942.
How old are you? I'm an old 61.
According Scientology, I'm billions of years old. :twirl:
I turn 60 next month.
Right now I feel every year of it and more.
49 and feeling very happy about life.
My knees don't share my enthusiasm though.
Somewhere between 0 and 100
A young 55. I'm in close to the best physical shape of my life.
If you didn't know how old you were, how old would you feel like you were?
Me, maybe thirty, because I feel like life has moved way too fast and I sometimes think surely it couldn't be any longer than that since I began.
I seem to be stuck at feeling I am 27. I must have been 32 before I stopped answering any questions about my age with "27, no wait I am..."
I'm 60, but my brain says "15" while my body says "too old for this sh$t"
I feel older than I am. :bluesad:
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 09, 2023, 07:08:21 PM
I feel older than I am. :bluesad:
Then you need to feel younger people. Oh, wait....
I'll just let myself out.
What do you think of the JFK assassination?
I think the Russian's plotted with Oswald, myself.
I suspect the Warren Commission probably arrived at or close to the truth.
I've said before one thing I do note about Oswald was his sense of calm, even coolness, right after the shooting, which is a mark of someone with training. A professional, in other words, someone with some familiarity with high-stress environments and how to handle them. Or that may mean nothing and just be a feature of his personality. It is a detail that's leaped out at me about him, though.
^ He was in the Marines. He also defected to the Soviet Union, and lived there for 3 years.
Quote from: RCMerchant on November 09, 2023, 10:20:04 PM
What do you think of the JFK assassination?
I think the Russian's plotted with Oswald, myself.
I don't think Oswald acted alone.
I think Oswald did it on his own.
I have an interesting story about it, though. A guy named Kerry Thornley served with Oswald in the Marines and later wrote a serious biography of him (before the assassination). For some reason, Jim Garrison subpoened him for his Oswald investigation.
Thornley, however, was a hippie prankster and a co-founder of the Discordian society. Working with Robert Anton Wilson, he trolled Garrison by planting dozens of fake stories in any publication that would take them that the Illuminati were responsible for Kennedy's assassination. But later in his life Thornley actually came to believe there was a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy (not involving the Illuminati, though).
I put a LOT of study into the JFK assassination back in the 1990's. Probably read a dozen or more books and went to Dealey Plaza multiple times to get a feel for the place where it all went down.
I'm generally skeptical of conspiracy theories in general, but after years of consideration, I've concluded:
There's an 80% chance Oswald did act alone.
And that leaves a 20% chance he was part of a larger conspiracy. Of the various angles, I've always believed a handful of rogue CIA types working with the mob (since both parties REALLY hated Castro) was the most plausible angle.
Of course, there is also a strong possibility that there was a larger conspiracy to kill Kennedy, and that Oswald simply beat them all to the punch.
What did anyone have to gain from eliminating Kennedy though? LBJ got high office, yes, but it would have been so much easier for any of the major players usually named to have ruined Kennedy via making public his own irresponsible misconduct than to kill him and expose themselves to risk and scrutiny.
The Soviets had zero motive, less than nothing to gain. Of anyone they are the easiest to conclusively rule out. When they heard of Kennedy being murdered the Politburo went into CYA mode and we soon knew through our own intelligence they were scrambling to investigate the assassination themselves, with many suspecting an internal US coup.
The mob had access to blackmail that could have destroyed Kennedy or left him open to its control, the CIA, which WAS in bed with the mob in its anti-Castro mania, was held in check by many, many factors, not the least of which was the FBI, its rival to this very day, which was itself at war with the CIA's illegitimate ally, organized crime, so motivated if need be to reveal any collaboration between Central Intelligence and the mob as regards the ultimate crime murdering an American president would have been. It would have been unhideable.
So there is zero way the CIA or the mafia could have hit the President of the United States and gotten away with it.
Let you in on a secret, the CIA is given waaaaay too much credit for being more of a miracle worker than it is, and the majority (yes, the majority) of its operations end in either failure or at least do not achieve the desired ends. Kill the President? Please...
The idea of the CIA having motive is farcical, the idea of it successfully carrying out a hit on JFK beyond conception. It's tin foil hat level.
I have been confronted with many theories on the murder of the president and in every case what has been missing is what the parties stood to gain with Kennedy off the stage. Was Johnson any more prone to invading Cuba? Was the Cold War defused by removing one POTUS in favor of the next? No, and the Kremlin knew that.
I think the Warren Commission did the best job anyone could, and presented the scenario that best fit the known facts: Oswald was the killer. He had means, motive, opportunity. Do we know for sure? No, but it best fits the facts: a wild card with a grudge can do terrible things, and I think evidence points to one doing just that
Quote from: ER on November 10, 2023, 09:50:07 PM
What did anyone have to gain from eliminating Kennedy though? LBJ got high office, yes, but it would have been so much easier for any of the major players usually named to have ruined Kennedy via making public his own irresponsible misconduct than to kill him and expose themselves to risk and scrutiny.
The Soviets had zero motive, less than nothing to gain. Of anyone they are the easiest to conclusively rule out. When they heard of Kennedy being murdered the Politburo went into CYA mode and we soon knew through our own intelligence they were scrambling to investigate the assassination themselves, with many suspecting an internal US coup.
The mob had access to blackmail that could have destroyed Kennedy or left him open to its control, the CIA, which WAS in bed with the mob in its anti-Castro mania, was held in check by many, many factors, not the least of which was the FBI, its rival to this very day, which was itself at war with the CIA's illegitimate ally, organized crime, so motivated if need be to reveal any collaboration between Central Intelligence and the mob as regards the ultimate crime murdering an American president would have been. It would have been unhideable.
So there is zero way the CIA or the mafia could have hit the President of the United States and gotten away with it.
Let you in on a secret, the CIA is given waaaaay too much credit for being more of a miracle worker than it is, and the majority (yes, the majority) of its operations end in either failure or at least do not achieve the desired ends. Kill the President? Please...
The idea of the CIA having motive is farcical, the idea of it successfully carrying out a hit on JFK beyond conception. It's tin foil hat level.
I have been confronted with many theories on the murder of the president and in every case what has been missing is what the parties stood to gain with Kennedy off the stage. Was Johnson any more prone to invading Cuba? Was the Cold War defused by removing one POTUS in favor of the next? No, and the Kremlin knew that.
I think the Warren Commission did the best job anyone could, and presented the scenario that best fit the known facts: Oswald was the killer. He had means, motive, opportunity. Do we know for sure? No, but it best fits the facts: a wild card with a grudge can do terrible things, and I think evidence points to one doing just that
That's a great analysis, honestly. I've never thought the actual CIA organization did it, but I have thought perhaps a few bitter former employees could have been involved. What about the anti-Castro Cuban faction? They were plenty mad at Kennedy over the Bay of Pigs abandonment (as they saw it). Like I said, I'm about 80% sure it was Oswald acting alone. There's just a few bits of evidence that don't fit that scenario which still leave me wondering.
What's the oddest thing you've ever stuck in your ear?
I once tried to take the advice of a song concerning a banana. Didn't end well.
A song told you to stick a banana in your what?
At least I think it said "ear"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Oo84eI8gY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Oo84eI8gY)
What's your current relationship status?
I'm married to someone who is (wait for it!) also married to me. Pretty cool, huh?
About to celebrate my 39th anniversary with my bride.
And we still like each other!
I am single. Most likely will be until I die.
Happily married for 11 years.
As Mitch Heldberg once said, I don't have a girlfriend, but I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.
What's your favorite Beatles song? I'll go with "Norwegian Wood."
Hard one! I would have said Eleanor Rigby for a long time, but now maybe Julia. Since I had children, it's been known to make me cry. I never wanted to leave them.
Revolution.
Helter Skelter.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on September 21, 2023, 11:11:19 PM
Quote from: ER on September 09, 2023, 08:25:55 AM
Thank you for trying, Indy, but I think you're only going to put yourself in the crosshairs for no good reason. I can't quite believe the re-writing of the history of this meanness I see here when the chronology is right there for all to see but honestly what's left to talk about? I tried, you tried, it's not going to do any good. I finally defended myself and get called the aggressor, lol. Only banning people who begin personal attacks will stop the cancer from spreading and I wish it was the new policy. Clean slate for everybody, just don't do it anymore, or else. That'd solve it all
ER April 29, 2023, 11:00:05 PM
Do you still listen to every song posted here?
Allhallowsday April 30, 2023, 06:46:37 PM
Sometimes. Why?
ER April 30, 2023, 08:48:21 PM
A long time ago you said you listened to every song that was posted, and since I've been posting songs I remembered that and was curious if it was still true.
Allhallowsday April 30, 2023, 10:46:30 PM
I did in fact listen to any YouTube save Black Sabbath. The embedded video no longer works for me here, so I must follow a link and startup YouTube. Nah.
ER May 05, 2023, 11:55:04 AM
I was going to let you figure it out on your own, but as a courtesy I'll let you know that as of my last answer to you earlier in the week, I have stopped reading your posts altogether., and don't plan to change that.
ER May 05, 2023, 05:41:13 PM
You see, I kept waiting to feel some sense of flattery in your obsession with me, or even some amusement in watching you always stumbling through a sense conspiracies and double meanings in the plainest and most straightforward of posts, but the fact is you were just boring. So boring. The room didn't need to watch me put you in your place yet another time, which I was going to have to do sooner or later, so this way you keep your self-delusions about your sense of wit and insightfulness, how big and bad a crusader you are (yawn) and for me it's like you in all your befuddled, boring, grouchy cluelessness don't even exist. I love it.
Pace, morono! :-)
ER May 06, 2023, 10:08:08 AM
For what it's worth, I don't want bad relations here with you or anyone else, but you won't leave me alone. You feel at liberty to constantly pick on me, so it's easier to ignore you. How about on the forum and in here we leave each other alone?
ER May 21, 2023, 01:00:19 PM
Oh, hey, some long-windedness, because I know you'll read it all. Lol
I find people without sex lives are often bitter, so I make allowances for you. I guess I struck a nerve that day when I finally told you how boring I find you, and you couldn't keep it in anymore, but honestly, if you were going to try to hit me back tit for tat (you do remember tit, right?), couldn't you have done it without showing everyone how you read my every post, every karma, listen to every song? That makes you seem pitiful in your obsession. (You wouldn't believe the private messages I get laughing about you.... Someone the other day said he's trying to match your grouchiness to some old man hormone cycle.)
You know, I've extended an olive branch to you in the past, ignored you til I felt bad and gave you another chance. Are you just too bitter to let things go and co-exist? You know, you roll the dice enough you eventually get lucky, so I'm sure one day you will stumble onto something and make me mad and, well, I'll have to do something about you, but I'd rather not get to that.
Let things go, John, be happy, ignore me and I'll return the favor. WWJD, right? Or Pope Francis? Or someone whose balls aren't chronically backed up?
Answer: they'd be more pleasant in life, less a grouchy old man. I guess if you can't get c**t you be one, huh?
All right, the person I am picking up is finished, so I needs must depart, but thanks for reading every word of this and proving a point to us both.
--LE PS: I increased the font size for you.
PPS: This was fun!
Allhallowsday May 21, 2023, 02:03:27 PM
Hi Indy,
I have rec'd a few private messages that I would like to share with you. It seems someone who accuses me of "obsession" has an obsession... with me. Please advise and thank you.
jgg
ER May 21, 2023, 02:06:23 PM
Come on, make peace with me once and for all. Bad feelings aren't good for anybody. Peace? Or at least politely ignoring? Truce, and I won't be the first to break it.
indianasmith May 21, 2023, 02:16:44 PM
I'd rather not get in the middle of it, to be honest.
ER May 21, 2023, 02:28:18 PM
Everybody is ratting you out, John.
"I have rec'd a few private messages that I would like to share with you. It seems someone who accuses me of "obsession" has an obsession... with me. Please advise and thank you.
jgg"
I swear you are such a whiny baby who can dish it out (calling yourself a poked bear? lol) but you sure can't take it.
***
Allhallowsday May 21, 2023, 02:29:35 PM (to Indy)
There's no problem and no middle. I have not responded to the msgs I've rec'd, but they are remarkably insulting and unkind and unwarranted. I merely wanted a witness that I trust.
Thanks for your response.
Allhallowsday May 21, 2023, 02:31:50 PM
I see you've already shared my msg with Evelyn. You disappoint me.
indianasmith May 21, 2023, 02:58:54 PM
She's one of my closest friends. I thought she deserved to know.
I cannot be the impartial arbiter you seem to want; she and I go too far back.
Allhallowsday May 21, 2023, 03:15:53 PM
Perhaps I will post them publicly. Loyalty is a wonderful thing which I admire. This is a web forum which some take too personally. I won't trouble you again.
end
ER November 14, 2023, 11:47:46 PM
John left because he could dish it out but couldn't take it. He picked fights for years and then like all bullies cried when he got his nose bloodied. He tried to sneak around and talk behind my back whimpering like a b***h about getting his feelings hurt after trying to hurt mine for years, and got embarrassed to be caught in the act of backbiting and gossip. He is anything but the victim.
***
No, Evelyn, I only responded to anything anyone posted. Interestingly, one of the earliest PMs I still have was from you thanking me for my standing up for you. Being raised a gentleman, I could not discern the proper response to a woman with a mouth fouler than a drunken sailor in private messages no less. Post of PMs provided above. Again. Evidence of your own frustration because you could never get the better of me, entrap me, of catch me in a lie. Nor could you get a rise out of me. Your characterizations are typically paranoid. You were never that interesting. Your "planning to leave" is indeed bulls**t in the form of a good idea. I never said you were stupid. It's a dead forum anyway. Before you leave, let me know what the "Classic Rock Era" is.
But
Ron was wrong.
Indy is the reason I left. I believed he was a Christian and my friend. He is a creature.
John, I've always gotten along with you and have stood up for you in the past.
But Evelyn and I have known each other for 23 years now and she is my closest friend.
I am sorry that you two are at such odds with one another, but if you ask me to side with you against her, the answer will ALWAYS be "No."
You said you appreciated loyalty, but apparently you don't when it's not to you.
Frankly, at this point, I don't care if you stay or go. I bear you no ill-will on my own behalf, but I will not watch my best friend attacked, here or anywhere else, and not stand up for her.
Quote from: indianasmith on November 28, 2023, 05:57:50 PM
John, I've always gotten along with you and have stood up for you in the past.
But Evelyn and I have known each other for 23 years now and she is my closest friend.
I am sorry that you two are at such odds with one another, but if you ask me to side with you against her, the answer will ALWAYS be "No."
You said you appreciated loyalty, but apparently you don't when it's not to you.
Frankly, at this point, I don't care if you stay or go. I bear you no ill-will on my own behalf, but I will not watch my best friend attacked, here or anywhere else, and not stand up for her.
Cite an example of "attack". Nor am I at odds with your best friend. She suffers from Projection, frustration, and insecurity.
I would not ask you or anyone to "pick a side". I graduated high school decades ago. Perhaps my opinion of you as an honest thoughtful man is too high. As far as you are concerned, you must have seen the words written to me, inexplicably. Presumably acceptable if not appropriate in your view.
I am bored with this site and what's happened to it. We were a "family" for a long time. I meant what I wrote about loyalty. I think even higher, though, of integrity.
Probably best we let this be our last exchange, then.
Goodbye.
Quote from: indianasmith on November 28, 2023, 07:46:02 PM
Probably best we let this be our last exchange, then.
Goodbye.
Cite an example of "attack". One. Find one. Open your eyes. Look for one that might warrant a tenth of the bile spewed at me in private message, posted again for all to read.
"Be a man" like your BEST FRIEND has written to me numerous times and justify your best friend's behavior. If those words of hers are acceptable, this forum is not acceptable. The website is abandoned. And I'm sorry you are a fraud.
Also, I acknowledged I left. I didn't write I was leaving. Your best friend said she was leaving. That'd be good. She's crazy. :cheers:
So...how about them Mets? Huh, folks? Anyone? SOMEONE!?!?!?
Quote from: javakoala on November 29, 2023, 03:41:02 PM
So...how about them Mets? Huh, folks? Anyone? SOMEONE!?!?!?
Better than being a Jets fan?
Quote from: Allhallowsday on November 28, 2023, 08:08:21 PM
Quote from: indianasmith on November 28, 2023, 07:46:02 PM
Probably best we let this be our last exchange, then.
Goodbye.
Cite an example of "attack". One. Find one. Open your eyes. Look for one that might warrant a tenth of the bile spewed at me in private message, posted again for all to read.
"Be a man" like your BEST FRIEND has written to me numerous times and justify your best friend's behavior. If those words of hers are acceptable, this forum is not acceptable. The website is abandoned. And I'm sorry you are a fraud.
Also, I acknowledged I left. I didn't write I was leaving. Your best friend said she was leaving. That'd be good. She's crazy. :cheers:
I'm sorry I called you a whiny b***h, John. Clearly you've proven me wrong.
Quote from: javakoala on November 29, 2023, 03:41:02 PM
So...how about them Mets? Huh, folks? Anyone? SOMEONE!?!?!?
I don't know, I don't follow baseball. Which suggests a personal question: what's your favorite spectator sport? Mine's basketball (Kentuckian, you see).
Quote from: Rev. Powell on November 29, 2023, 10:58:33 PM
Quote from: javakoala on November 29, 2023, 03:41:02 PM
So...how about them Mets? Huh, folks? Anyone? SOMEONE!?!?!?
I don't know, I don't follow baseball. Which suggests a personal question: what's your favorite spectator sport? Mine's basketball (Kentuckian, you see).
Mine was always cricket but seeing the way our national team let us down yet again at the World Cup - we've lost every 4 years since 1992 - I think it is time to give them the finger.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on November 29, 2023, 10:58:33 PM
Quote from: javakoala on November 29, 2023, 03:41:02 PM
So...how about them Mets? Huh, folks? Anyone? SOMEONE!?!?!?
I don't know, I don't follow baseball. Which suggests a personal question: what's your favorite spectator sport? Mine's basketball (Kentuckian, you see).
I'll say Quidditch. I haven't actually seen it played in real life outside of some clips, but the snitch is held in a sock-like sack hanging from the back of a player's pants. I imagine part of the challenge is to wrestle the snitch from the clenched buttcheeks of the snitch-holder. I think that would be entertaining to see.
I could never get into watching other people play sports very well. Either I am playing it myself or I got bored. The few sports I did watch tended to be more violent ones like boxing.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on November 29, 2023, 10:58:33 PM
Quote from: javakoala on November 29, 2023, 03:41:02 PM
So...how about them Mets? Huh, folks? Anyone? SOMEONE!?!?!?
I don't know, I don't follow baseball. Which suggests a personal question: what's your favorite spectator sport? Mine's basketball (Kentuckian, you see).
It's football
Tennis isn't fun to watch anymore, fewer interesting personalities, no depth to the rankings so the same few incredibly talented people dominate, and I see in hindsight how lucky I was to have experienced the sport in the second golden age that was the 1990s.
I would rather watch college football over pro but see maybe 1-2 games a year.
My dad goes in-sane during March Madness and I grew up with that, lol.
The Premier League works better for my attention span of the sport on a recap reel than sitting through two hours of guys kicking a ball around and almost scoring a point. I just wanna shout will someone just get get that ball in the net and hurry?!
So I guess....these days no sports. Not even Turkic horsemen dragging a decapitated sheep around on horseback, which is a thing over there, kid you not.
I was supposed to go up to Columbus Saturday for The Game, as my cousin calls it (watch at his house, I mean) but I spent the day in a state of total shock over something and didn't make it. The ghost of Man O' War with Babe Ruth on his back coulda won the Super Bowl on Centre Court Wimbledon and I'd barely noticed.
I think like movies and music, sports are in a depressed stage in this era.
Umm, I really don't care for sports. Not nearly enough risk of sudden, gruesome death.
I'd watch diving with there were sharks in the water. HUNGRY sharks.
Maybe landmines randomly placed on a football field.
Rabid dogs chasing long-distance runners.
Ooh, timers on race cars that will cause them to start exploding if the race doesn't end after X amount of time.
Well, now you see why folks don't like me hanging out while they watch sports either.
^ A few of those sports would be SO great. :cheers:
i think it's time for me to join john in saying goodbye. this isn't the home it used to be, maybe because i'm too old, or maybe because some of you are too"young". i'll stop in now and again, but you can always find me on facebook, alex,bob,newt and the rev know who i am.
congratulate yourself, ER.
Quote from: chefzombie on December 26, 2023, 12:11:11 AM
i think it's time for me to join john in saying goodbye. this isn't the home it used to be, maybe because i'm too old, or maybe because some of you are too"young". i'll stop in now and again, but you can always find me on facebook, alex,bob,newt and the rev know who i am.
congratulate yourself, ER.
I forget, is this the eighth or the ninth time the cook has "left?"
Imagine how pathetic a life must be for a person to have absolutely nothing better to do on Christmas but to go online and sound off about a seven year old grudge that's lain dormant for months. I feel sorry for her, because that tells of an empty life with nothing but anger to fill it.
Oh, but of course as she likes to remind us, she doesn't celebrate Christmas because she's a witch who can do powerful spells. She can't use magic (sorry, "magick") to lift herself out of abject poverty or cure her ailing husband, but she can cast powerful spells all the same.
What a sad person.
Quote from: ER on December 26, 2023, 09:56:50 AM
Quote from: chefzombie on December 26, 2023, 12:11:11 AM
i think it's time for me to join john in saying goodbye. this isn't the home it used to be, maybe because i'm too old, or maybe because some of you are too"young". i'll stop in now and again, but you can always find me on facebook, alex,bob,newt and the rev know who i am.
congratulate yourself, ER.
I forget, is this the eighth or the ninth time the cook has "left?"
Imagine how pathetic a life must be for a person to have absolutely nothing better to do on Christmas but to go online and sound off about a seven year old grudge that's lain dormant for months. I feel sorry for her, because that tells of an empty life with nothing but anger to fill it.
Oh, but of course as she likes to remind us, she doesn't celebrate Christmas because she's a witch who can do powerful spells. She can't use magic (sorry, "magick") to lift herself out of abject poverty or cure her ailing husband, but she can cast powerful spells all the same.
What a sad person.
Yellow card: personal attack.
Favorite sport- boxing.
^ Boris Karloff's was cricket. Lugosi's was soccer.
Quote from: RCMerchant on December 26, 2023, 12:10:35 PM
^ Boris Karloff's was cricket. Lugosi's was soccer.
Wow: I knew Boris played for the Hollywood Cricket Club but I didn't know about Bela's fave sport 😊
Hey, I'd almost forgotten about this thread!
OK, a five-minute no topics off limits conversation with God, or win the current Mega-Millions jackpot?
Quote from: ER on January 17, 2024, 08:25:37 AM
Hey, I'd almost forgotten about this thread!
OK, a five-minute no topics off limits conversation with God, or win the current Mega-Millions jackpot?
Interesting. My first thought is, jackpot is a sure thing, conversation is only worthwhile if God actually exists. Thinking further, convo with God is more valuable
if it's somehow possible to
guarantee a conversation happens if he exists. Then you would have certainty as to God's existence or non-existence, and if he exists, you can ask for the winning jackpot numbers.
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 17, 2024, 09:13:44 AM
Quote from: ER on January 17, 2024, 08:25:37 AM
Hey, I'd almost forgotten about this thread!
OK, a five-minute no topics off limits conversation with God, or win the current Mega-Millions jackpot?
Interesting. My first thought is, jackpot is a sure thing, conversation is only worthwhile if God actually exists. Thinking further, convo with God is more valuable if it's somehow possible to guarantee a conversation happens if he exists. Then you would have certainty as to God's existence or non-existence, and if he exists, you can ask for the winning jackpot numbers.
Good move there Rev. :thumbup:
I'll take the jackpot as I wouldn't trust God to answer honestly if he does exist.
Quote from: ER on January 17, 2024, 08:25:37 AM
Hey, I'd almost forgotten about this thread!
OK, a five-minute no topics off limits conversation with God, or win the current Mega-Millions jackpot?
Jackpot please! I'll have plenty of time to converse with God. The megamillions will give me more time and opportunity to converse with everyone else.
I'd take five minutes with God because I could find out anything I ever wanted to know, like what happened to Ambrose Bierce, is the moon hollow, what are the next Mega Millions numbers. You guys are cynical, sheesh, like God would lie. Drown everyone in a global flood, sure, but not lie.
Quote from: ER on January 17, 2024, 03:56:51 PM
I'd take five minutes with God because I could find out anything I ever wanted to know, like what happened to Ambrose Pierce, is the moon hollow, what are the next Mega Millions numbers. You guys are cynical, sheesh, like God would lie. Drown everyone in a global flood, sure, but not lie.
He really doesn't seem to have been all that great at following his rules that he expects us to follow. I don't trust anyone who lives by do as I say, not as I do. He breaks a few of them in the bible which makes me think there is a good chance he breaks the others too.
Quote from: Alex on January 17, 2024, 04:06:41 PM
Quote from: ER on January 17, 2024, 03:56:51 PM
I'd take five minutes with God because I could find out anything I ever wanted to know, like what happened to Ambrose Pierce, is the moon hollow, what are the next Mega Millions numbers. You guys are cynical, sheesh, like God would lie. Drown everyone in a global flood, sure, but not lie.
He really doesn't seem to have been all that great at following his rules that he expects us to follow. I don't trust anyone who lives by do as I say, not as I do. He breaks a few of them in the bible which makes me think there is a good chance he breaks the others too.
I hear you, and I've had MANY hours of hashing over those very topics to the point it's like a theme to my philosophical life where God is concerned. Does might entitle one, or should right bind even the all-powerful?
It was also the autocorrect, my old enemy, which typed "Pierce" by the way. Grr.
Would you say you have good reading comprehension?
I've noticed it's less common than some people seem to think.
GUESS to whom:
I thought you were leaving in the new year?
^ I guess someone had better acknowledge AHD is back among us before he implodes or something. Seems like he reallllly wants us to notice his return. Uh, welcome back to the message board after apparently saying you were leaving at new year's or something, I gather, John? I "guess" that's what he's saying? :lookingup:
Quote from: ER on January 18, 2024, 02:44:22 PM
^ I guess someone had better acknowledge AHD is back among us before he implodes or something. Seems like he reallllly wants us to notice his return. Uh, welcome back to the message board after apparently saying you were leaving at new year's or something, I gather, John? I "guess" that's what he's saying? :lookingup:
As you well know, I NEVER said I was leaving.
YOU said you were.
So?
Quote from: Allhallowsday on January 18, 2024, 11:26:14 PM
Quote from: ER on January 18, 2024, 02:44:22 PM
^ I guess someone had better acknowledge AHD is back among us before he implodes or something. Seems like he reallllly wants us to notice his return. Uh, welcome back to the message board after apparently saying you were leaving at new year's or something, I gather, John? I "guess" that's what he's saying? :lookingup:
As you well know, I NEVER said I was leaving. YOU said you were. So?
Can you show me where I said that?
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Maybe he should answer my reading comprehension question up there.
Jeesh, trouble-maker much, AHD?
Quote from: claws on January 19, 2024, 06:30:02 AM
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Yeah, when people carry on private feuds in a public forum... :thumbdown:
You have to choose between cakes or pies, which one are you taking?
Both for me I would have to give it to cakes, but not by much.
Quote from: El Misfit on January 19, 2024, 08:50:08 AM
You have to choose between cakes or pies, which one are you taking?
Both for me I would have to give it to cakes, but not by much.
Pie. I'm a fruit guy.
There's not much pie culture here in Germany. The German word for Pie is Pastete (pastry), but is something completely different. The closest thing to a pie in Germany is probably tarte (tart), but it is still miles off
That said, I do love me some pumpkin or pecan pie, but I'd choose cake.
I do have a fondness for Fray Bentos pies.
^ Sugar is a pathway to the most widespread addiction in the world, and a leading contributor to all of the most common causes of death. Sugar is evil, vile, fattening, tooth-decaying, destructive, and so utterly delicious that it surely hints at the existence of some central source of ensnaring evil in the world.
And, uh, pie. Pumpkin or pecan. Oh, so good.
But run, it's a trap!
Quote from: Rev. Powell on January 19, 2024, 08:47:13 AM
...Yeah, when people carry on private feuds in a public forum... :thumbdown:
Yes, a dead forum with no moderation.
Quote from: ER on January 19, 2024, 06:23:46 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on January 18, 2024, 11:26:14 PM
Quote from: ER on January 18, 2024, 02:44:22 PM
^ I guess someone had better acknowledge AHD is back among us before he implodes or something. Seems like he reallllly wants us to notice his return. Uh, welcome back to the message board after apparently saying you were leaving at new year's or something, I gather, John? I "guess" that's what he's saying? :lookingup:
As you well know, I NEVER said I was leaving. YOU said you were. So?
Can you show me where I said that?
You deleted it skirt er. And you were the only one I wanted to see the mystery question. You speak only for yourself. Troublemaker.
The forum rules do not specifically outline rules regarding the private messaging system. Skirted by the only authority present, efforts for advice or ministering without accusation were rebuffed by two members. Dead forum, it's just a matter of time whether it be fire or ice.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on January 19, 2024, 06:51:47 PM
Quote from: ER on January 19, 2024, 06:23:46 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on January 18, 2024, 11:26:14 PM
Quote from: ER on January 18, 2024, 02:44:22 PM
^ I guess someone had better acknowledge AHD is back among us before he implodes or something. Seems like he reallllly wants us to notice his return. Uh, welcome back to the message board after apparently saying you were leaving at new year's or something, I gather, John? I "guess" that's what he's saying? :lookingup:
As you well know, I NEVER said I was leaving. YOU said you were. So?
Can you show me where I said that?
You deleted it skirt er. And you were the only one I wanted to see the mystery question. You speak only for yourself. Troublemaker.
The forum rules do not specifically outline rules regarding the private messaging system. Skirted by the only authority present, efforts for advice or ministering without accusation were rebuffed by two members. Dead forum, it's just a matter of time whether it be fire or ice.
That's a lie, John, I didn't delete any message saying I was leaving. I said that posting a year straight I was taking a break. And so I did, twice if you look back, a couple weeks off each time. I told a lot of people I was going back to the way I posted across most of my sixteen years here, just whenever rather than keeping up a streak to finish a project. And honestly why would you care what I do? You come in just to make trouble with me and that's very obvious. You're being stranger and less compressible than usual, and that's saying a lot.
I think this has gone on long enough. Start a new topic on "Personal Questions" if you want.