This thread is off topic and as such it can not be derailed.
Discuss...
How do you pronounce Siobhan. I love that name but can't say it.
If I had a daught I would give her Emma as a second name as long as my partner liked it.
I miss Casey being spelt Caseyy
Wondering where Metroland got to.
I love orgasms, am I the only one?
It's like Christ showed me a place where I finally fit.
I'm getting a weave today.
Which reminds me of this other transgirl at my old school who had this horrible hairpiece.
I tried to befriend her just to give her tips.
But she called me a bitch and walked off and did a typical Chris crocker-inspired hairflip and noisily stomped off in flip flops.
I think she forgot to shave her toes.
Oh, the horror of hairy toes!
I have a clockwork robot - she's called Roberta.
Many hands make a tall horse.
Many photos make light work.
googled clorkwork robots and I want one. The dragon fly looks cool
When Caseyy became Casey, my first thought was that now I look stupid having spelled it with two Y's in previous posts.
Have detransitioned from Casey. to Caseyy. :police:
I seriously need a lock for my door. I'm sick of people coming in. My youngest brother has been taking my socks and belts, and now he's taken to my underwear as well. Seriously, that's just sick!! And I miss sleeping naked, sprawling out and letting the cool air wash over my bods. TMI, TMI.
Get one of those hook-and-eye locks that screw into the doorframe. They're super easy to pop open from the outside, but it'll at least buy you a few seconds to cover up. :P
And hide your underwear. Ew.
Yes, I don't even want to think about what goes on inside underwear worn by a 14 year old. I'm going to boil it, for realz. :(
When people come in the morning (which they invariably do) it sometimes ruins my sleep cycle. Which it did today. And now I have a headache and I'm tired and grumpy AND MY WHOLE DAY IS RUINED.
I feel like a woman trapped in a man's body trapped in a woman's body. Is that weird?
Quote from: Caseyy on December 03, 2011, 01:36:21 PM
Have detransitioned from Casey. to Caseyy. :police:
haha that's awesome. I don't know if Thank you is appropriate .... but thank you ;D
As far as little bro wearing your underwear ..... I would get a lock and when you say
'When people come in the morning (which they invariably do) do you mean into your room or into your house, because if its your room you
definitely need to get a lock.
Quote from: Julian on December 03, 2011, 02:31:08 PM
I feel like a woman trapped in a man's body trapped in a woman's body. Is that weird?
Not weird.
good food + quality strong beer + wonderful city + great friend rarely seen = wonderful time.
good food + quality strong beer + wonderful city + great friend rarely seen = wonderful time.
Hell, any one of them works for me. That's a show-biz trifecta, that is to say a trifecta plus one.
There's an ox on the roof, knee-deep in the soup.
Every year I look forward to the station around here that plays nothing but Christmas music from Thanks Giving day and until Christmas. My favorite song is "Baby it's Cold Outside" by Dean Martin. I know it's cheesy but I still like it!
Quote from: sophia on December 03, 2011, 09:34:30 PM
My favorite song is "Baby it's Cold Outside" by Dean Martin. I know it's cheesy but I still like it!
That makes me think of that scene in Elf where he's singing that song in the woman's shower LOL......
Quote from: sophia on December 03, 2011, 09:34:30 PM
Every year I look forward to the station around here that plays nothing but Christmas music from Thanks Giving day and until Christmas. My favorite song is "Baby it's Cold Outside" by Dean Martin. I know it's cheesy but I still like it!
Ahhh, the super-creepy date rape song!
Out of Egypt, into the great laugh of mankind, and I shake the dirt from my sandals as I run. This is my theme song now. Sufjan Stevens.
My cheese has slipped right off my cracker.
I haven't had a decent, proper sleep all week, and it's kind of starting to kill me.
Quote from: Julian on December 03, 2011, 11:50:12 PM
Ahhh, the super-creepy date rape song!
Not as creepy as 'knock three times', the stalker's anthem.
Doing a presentation on the representation of androgynous characters in anime...I wonder if I'd enjoy studying gender as a performance in my field overall. I don't even know if I think it's a performance. Obviously, our gender identities or lack thereof are pretty innate...I'd have to take a long period of time to distinguish between identity and expression. And even then, if I was focussing primarily on the representation of androgyny the expression, I'd miss out on the importance of androgyn as an identity.
But the expression of gender in terms of clothing, assigned cues that are defined male or female...well that's right on the mark, performance.
South San Francisco has fog 400 days of the year.
Quote from: Shades O'Grey on December 05, 2011, 01:44:44 PM
South San Francisco has fog 400 days of the year.
What about the other -35 days?
SSF is in a fog-time-vortex. I know, I grew up there.
Quote from: Beth Andrea on December 04, 2011, 11:12:32 PM
Siobhan = Seh' bahn
All threads can be derailed, even one with random stuff...if even one post answers another, the thread is in imminent danger of re-railing, at which time it can be de-derailed...
Thank you. Pretty name.
Run with Emma, it means "entire. "
When my kids were young, I told them most of the 101 big d!ck jokes from Drew Carrey's book Dirty Jokes and Beer by rewording them as big nose jokes.
Now, let's be serious for a moment, this is not sloughing matter
Quote from: Shades O'Grey on December 05, 2011, 08:32:24 PM
When my kids were young, I told them most of the 101 big d!ck jokes from Drew Carrey's book Dirty Jokes and Beer by rewording them as big nose jokes.
A fine and noble tradition, there is a whole book in Tristram Shandy consisting of 'nose' jokes.
Please, I'd love to hear one of yours.
I bought a diary so I wouldn't forget things but I don't remember where I put it
Quote from: Pica Pica on December 06, 2011, 01:00:14 AM
A fine and noble tradition, there is a whole book in Tristram Shandy consisting of 'nose' jokes.
Please, I'd love to hear one of yours.
My nose is the walrus, koo koo k'joo.
My nose is so big, it won't return Spielberg's calls.
My nose is so big, I entered it in a big nose contest and it came in first, second, and third.
Quote from: Beth Andrea on December 04, 2011, 11:12:32 PM
Siobhan = Seh' bahn
I thought it was more like Shuh-vahn.
Quote from: Julian on December 06, 2011, 11:03:35 AM
I thought it was more like Shuh-vahn.
Me too
or ShƏ-vaun
Can I get fries with that?
No fries for you. >:-)
Would you settle for a piece of brown sugar fudge ?
This browser is dumb, but Safari's not working on my partner's iPad. Who ever heard of iLunaScape? The back and forward buttons are on the bottom of the screen what is this madness. >:(
It's also our seven-month anniversary according to mah partner. We have differing views about when our relationship started. :P
A whole lotta woman needs a whole lot more. Apparently.
Quote from: smooth on December 06, 2011, 03:00:02 AM
I bought a diary so I wouldn't forget things but I don't remember where I put it
I write stuff on cigarette packs, now I need a binder for torn off cigarette pack flaps
I'm cold. It's cold. Cold enough for snow, but there's no damn snow to make it worth all the cold.
Changing from boxers to pants might help remedy this situation... brb...
Quote from: nickikim on December 09, 2011, 06:28:17 PM
I write stuff on cigarette packs, now I need a binder for torn off cigarette pack flaps
Ziplock bags work pretty good.
espo speaks truth, ziplocs are handy for such things. My grandpa did the same thing for years before he quit...he had been smoking, pretty much all chain smoking, for 60 years. It took him three years to finally use all the flaps up, haha.
Quote from: Caseyy on December 10, 2011, 01:07:49 PM
espo speaks truth, ziplocs are handy for such things. My grandpa did the same thing for years before he quit...he had been smoking, pretty much all chain smoking, for 60 years. It took him three years to finally use all the flaps up, haha.
:icon_bong: after I quit it took years to use up th ziplocs ...........
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I find death metal very soothing...did some research on it, and apparently, it tends to make people more aggressive if they aren't fans. But if they are fans, they're more likely to get a sense of well-being from it. Guess I'm a fan.
I'm really scared sometimes that I might have borderline personality disorder. :(
Brown sugar fudge...that gives me an idea...
Quote from: nickikim on December 10, 2011, 06:00:14 PM
:icon_bong: after I quit it took years to use up th ziplocs ...........
The ziplocks are hard to keep lit.....
Quote from: Wonderdyke on December 10, 2011, 06:40:55 PM
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last thing he said " IF YOU KIDS DON'T SETTLE DOWN I'M Turning this car around!"
Quote from: Caseyy on December 10, 2011, 07:06:14 PM
I find death metal very soothing...did some research on it, and apparently, it tends to make people more aggressive if they aren't fans. But if they are fans, they're more likely to get a sense of well-being from it. Guess I'm a fan.
I'm really scared sometimes that I might have borderline personality disorder. :(
I must not be a fan. If I can detect anger or aggression in music, it really unsettles me. I'm super sensitive to music.
I'm also afraid I have BPD. I have the symptoms, but my therapist says it usually stems from trauma, which I don't have. Then again, it could also be a combination of any number of other diagnoses I've collected.
I think I'm less mentally ill, or at least much less severely, than my records would indicate. I really think most of it is dysphoria.
I'm not sure how much of my "things" are normal, I guess is the problem. what set me off for the BPD thing is the "emptiness" I sometimes feel...but I don't know if that's a legitimate lack of "self" or if it's the fact that I've been roleplaying for pretty much my whole life. I've always just done what others wanted, even after coming out I had a hard time standing up for myself. How can I "be" myself when I'm accustomed to toning it down and living in fear?
The other is the mood swings...I get like maybe 4 a day? They rarely interfere with my life unless something significant has happened (a yelling fight with loved ones, for example)...and I am living in a situation that can be emotionally stressful sometimes...I'm seeing an actual psychiatrist probably some time in January, a publicly funded one as I have no cash. I'll bring up the fear and maybe he can set my mind at ease.
And, you think voting matters.
And, you think degrees matter.
And, you think careers matter.
The financial-military-spiritual system which is very rapidly engulfing the entire Earth is terminal cancer. It is destroying the planet. It is destroying the animals. It is destroying the people. Look at your children and (if you have them) your grandchildren. When they become middle aged, their lives will become a hell on Earth the magnitude of which you cannot possibly imagine ... if the way of the world continues.
Freedom has NO price. Freedom is FREE. Wake up, kiddies. I do not say this in arrogance. I say this in love. Wake up! Pay attention! Just watch! If this video is disabled, just click on the hotlink that says "Watch on YouTube" and watch it there, but watch the whole thing, pay attention and think, please, I beg you:
David Icke-The Greatest Speech for Humanity-V for Vendetta-Directors cut (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQWFugNFCVw&feature=related#)
Humanity, get off of your knees !!!
Peace ;) Lacey
Postscript:
Abraham Lincoln assination? Inside job. John F. Kennedy assination? Inside job. World Trade Center 911 Catastrophe? Inside job. All done by the same group of people. Most of you on here are too young to remember this movie from 1974, Network. Today, this movie COULD NOT be made. That's on purpose. Watch this. If this video is disabled, just click on the hotlink that says "Watch on YouTube".
Network - Mad as Hell Scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WINDtlPXmmE#)
Them. Worldwide. Ruthless. Controlling. Rulers.
PLEASE ... WAKE ... UP !!! Peacefully say no. Do it now.
North America's Pronghorn Antelope run really fast, and virtually have their eyes on swivels on the sides of their heads. What on earth did they need to escape from to evolve this way? ??? And who else is glad it's not still around!! :o
Karen.
I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts.
I want to giggle at this lady for mishearing when I spelled my last name out for her. "D-E-A-F? she asked."
What were the names of the motorcycle gang members in Mad Max ? :embarrassed:
Someone said Hi to me :-))
So weird what I'm feeling right now.
Quote from: nickikim on December 12, 2011, 06:04:33 PM
What were the names of the motorcycle gang members in Mad Max ? :embarrassed:
Butt Ugly and the Mohawk Men
I've read that people who use a picture of themselves, or any real person, on forums tend to be more respected and believable than people who use cartoon images.
Quote from: foosnark on December 13, 2011, 12:53:49 PM
I've read that people who use a picture of themselves, or any real person, on forums tend to be more respected and believable than people who use cartoon images.
Yeah I saw that too, in one of Foosnark's posts
Quote from: justmeinoz on December 12, 2011, 04:34:31 AM
North America's Pronghorn Antelope run really fast, and virtually have their eyes on swivels on the sides of their heads. What on earth did they need to escape from to evolve this way? ??? And who else is glad it's not still around!! :o
Karen.
Don't look now, there's one behind you :o
Some American "breakfast cereals" are over 50% sugar.
Ugh, I know Padma. Even the stuff that is meant for adults often has tons of hidden sugar. Cereal is probably one of the most sickening breakfasts for me.
Why spelling is important: my coffee smells like anise.
Quote from: foosnark on December 14, 2011, 03:28:29 PM
Why spelling is important: my coffee smells like anise.
You're right about
your coffee!
Jennifer
Re post19 -----> I seriously can not ever remember eating cheese and crackers at the same time. This might actually be something for the Strange facts thread.
Quote from: espo on December 16, 2011, 03:56:28 PM
Re post19 -----> I seriously can not ever remember eating cheese and crackers at the same time. This might actually be something for the Strange facts thread.
That's just uncivilized!
I'm a savage, what can I say.
So?? What kind of cheese, how crisp was the cracker ? Details girlie, I need details.
I love those little foil-wrapped single-serving wedges of cheese that you can spread. Mostly because of the packaging, with the little pull tab and it opens so cleanly. It's kind of like the feeling I get when I unplug my laptop and carry it around. A happy, fuzzy I-love-technology-and-innovation feeling. I can carry a computer around under my arm, and open soft cheese neatly without squishing it. The world is just awesome.
Getting close to my 2 year mark at Susan's and reflecting back I don't see a hell-of-alot of growth or difference in myself or circumstances. I'm not really sure how to gauge something like that anyways so maybe I have but can't see it.
Huh. I missed my six-month-iversary by a day. I didn't realize it had been that long. I can't say I've changed much, but I've made some progress toward my goals at least.
Setting goals is really important ( they say) So doing that all within the last 6 months is awesome.
I joined May 11, 2007, 12:07:32 pm, where I said;
QuoteWhich leads me here, I reckon that I feel mostly a intergendered type of person...These sort of things are not merely layers, they are structures to help build a self image in...and I need to learn new self images...
I don't completely know what I was going on about then, but I have learnt new self images and feel I am at one that is pretty stable now.
Intergendered, that's a term you here less nowadays isn't it?
The Green Bay Packers just lost their first game of the season :(. That's ok they still won their division!
Jennifer
First time hearing Intergendered ( lol ) but its a good descriptive term. I actually like it alot, intersexed is the physical aspect of a person, intergendered pertains to the emotional psychological aspect.
You're right, this thread can't be derailed!
Jennifer :icon_suspicious:
It's like derailing a submarine. Or a donkey. Or a scuba-diving donkey.
5 months for me tomorrow. I think the main thing that has changed for me is, it's all so much less important. Less important that I nail things down. Less important that I express my gender outwardly. Less annoying that people are call me sir and I don't correct them because I have no alternative to offer. Less important that so many forms require me to choose one of two wrong choices.
3:00. Paper due at midnight. Supposed to be 20 pages. Only have 6. Hate everything. THERE'S NOT ENOUGH WORTH SAYING TO MAKE 20 PAGES!
And people keep coming into the lounge like they have a reason to be here, see me, and say "Oh...I'll leave you to it." it's happened twice. =/ I must be filling the room with so much stress and negative energy atm. :P
Quote from: Caseyyy on December 19, 2011, 04:10:12 PM
3:00. Paper due at midnight. Supposed to be 20 pages. Only have 6. Hate everything. THERE'S NOT ENOUGH WORTH SAYING TO MAKE 20 PAGES!
Either, pick some small and petty point to look over every angle of.
Or, put some obstacle in the way that you need to solve.
I'm inevitably going to have to ramble...I actually could go on and on about how the androgynous character has been taken and forced into a binary in almost every piece of fan fiction made about her. I can see that adding...oh, 6 pages, bringing me to 12. I'm hoping 18 will be sufficient.
What sort of thing is it supposed to be.
It's for a media studies course...I opted to look at a lesbian (but more likely androgyne) character from an anime. And the fan representations of her. I've discussed the whole "fans living vicariously through their interpretations" angle, almost done the "creating a gendered performance" angle, as well as the discussion of whether or not fans should be appropriating an original work or not.
It's pathetic really...I know that grad school is mostly comprised of those of us who procrastinated, skipped class, yet still managed to pull of A's (learned it wasn't just me when I talked with 'colleagues') but I don't know why I put myself in these situations in the first place.
Take a tiny, specific element of the character - depictions of clothing, hairstyle, use of questions in their speech and be relentless - always good for a few pages.
Hmm. That's actually a very good idea. I could go into graphic detail about her body language in the fan drawings because they almost always present her as being really 'masculine.'
I may have to get into a discussion about what I mean when I say 'masculine' and 'feminine' because the way I've written everything makes it sound like I'm all into the gender binary. :P That should help too.
Y the last man: fascinating.
A co worker messaged me, from what I know of current politics in the workplace, perhaps I should not be her friend. We'll see what this is about.
can you re rail a derailed donkey with an ass-jack.
As to an alternative to sir you could suggest " your supreme galactic overlord " say that with a straight face.
Quote from: foosnark on December 19, 2011, 10:38:32 AM
It's like derailing a submarine. Or a donkey. Or a scuba-diving donkey.
5 months for me tomorrow. I think the main thing that has changed for me is, it's all so much less important. Less important that I nail things down. Less important that I express my gender outwardly. Less annoying that people are call me sir and I don't correct them because I have no alternative to offer. Less important that so many forms require me to choose one of two wrong choices.
I don't know how people do it. The thought of going back to school freaks me out. Just reading what Caseyy (hope you don't mind me adopting the double y spelling for your name) wrote makes me want to give up.
:icon_ashamed: I am overwhelmed with jealousy at the sight of cameltoe
Quote from: nickikim on December 19, 2011, 08:49:59 PM
:icon_ashamed: I am overwhelmed with jealousy at the sight of cameltoe
I know how you feel.
I am hungry.
Oh, don't take my experiences are gospel espo. I hated this class and to be honest, I procrastinated because I was fearful of taking on the paper. If I had given myself a proper amount of time and done the right research this stress would be non-existent.
Have you done an Existentialist analysis of it, that should be good for a few pages, and allow a few obscure references to Satre's ' War Diaries' or similar. Or, seeing it's a Japanese artform, references to Buddhist thought. That should totally confuse your lecturer!
I've rushed a lot of essays at the last minute and have learnt the key to a good essay is to be a bulldog, find something very concrete and small, then don't let go of it. Shake it about but don't let it go. The more concrete the better.
I once wrote an essay where I explained the meaning of a (very vague and nebulous) short story using only the images of the sky. (This is it http://akirarabelais.com/v/brunoschulz/cinnamonshops.html (http://akirarabelais.com/v/brunoschulz/cinnamonshops.html) ). Another time I took one sentence from a book that professed a theory of tragedy and applied it to six other things to prove that the theory fit anything and was so too vague and nebulous to be of use to anyone.
With stories also, always dive into the most specific and concrete details you can, people can extrapolate their own vague generalities.
Sleep evades me. But I have set a trap for it...
I'm almost done. I'll definitely be finished before noon...15 pages now. Sucks to hand it in a bit late, but at least it's OVER. Next term I'm not taking classes like this one, just interesting ones. Yes. Finishing up the section on gender, then to add the introduction and conclusion, do some reorganizing.
As an aside, it's been way too long since I've had sex. :(
Supreme Galactic Overlord is a lot of responsibility. I don't even want to manage a small team of software developers. I'd rather just play.
I swear it's not just an orange, but an e-e-e-e-vil orange.
6 pages.
My best thread ever. I am a genius!
>:-)
There's a really weird noise outside...like someone shaking sheets of aluminum outside my window. :icon_eek: creepy.
If you had any doubts about your identity before, Caseyyy, thinking about sex straight after finishing a paper proves you are a.....STUDENT!!!
Hahaha. I was thinking about sex all throughout the paper as well, which was making it hard (pun intended) to concentrate. :P
Quote from: justmeinoz on December 21, 2011, 03:23:37 AM
If you had any doubts about your identity before, Caseyyy, thinking about sex straight after finishing a paper proves you are a.....STUDENT!!!
+1
I want a rubber duckie.
I think I want two rubber duckies actually. One for me, and one for the ghost/spirit in the bathroom that tosses things around. I know stuff falls, especially towels off racks and mirrors off the walls their suction cups stick them too. But when said mirrors land 5 feet away from the tub instead of inside the tub, it makes you think about how friendly a nice rubber duckie is and how that's a much nicer plaything for the invisble beings and/or impersonal forces that like to toss mirrors around.
And it's thematically appropriate. And cute. And perhaps squeaky.
Sounds like a poltergeist. *shudder* Always been terrified of them.
Poltergeists don't worry me... we have a kitten. A playful, inquisitive, psychotic kitten who apparently never sleeps. Anything short of an actual home intruder with a chainsaw just pales in comparison.
Maybe two chainsaws.
kitten with a chainsaw?
Quote from: cynthialee on December 20, 2011, 11:36:22 PM
6 pages.
My best thread ever. I am a genius!
>:-)
Ya, awesome job, thanks :D
Quote from: Pica Pica on December 21, 2011, 12:48:46 PM
kitten with a chainsaw?
The Itchy and Scratchy show......
I never expected it would be difficult to find rubber duckies when you're looking for them. But then, it's nearly Christmas. There are some stores I don't want to go near, and other places are full of whatever it is they think kids want, and apparently kids aren't asking for rubber duckies.
3 hours and 15 minutes left at the office before vacation. I'm the only one in. I need to find something suitably unproductive to fill that time, beyond posting here.
Quote from: foosnark on December 22, 2011, 01:48:28 PM
I never expected it would be difficult to find rubber duckies when you're looking for them. But then, it's nearly Christmas. There are some stores I don't want to go near, and other places are full of whatever it is they think kids want, and apparently kids aren't asking for rubber duckies.
3 hours and 15 minutes left at the office before vacation. I'm the only one in. I need to find something suitably unproductive to fill that time, beyond posting here.
duck into wall mart , look in the baby section, not the toy dept, I had a f*ck of a time finding my nephew a duck.
Quote from: foosnark on December 22, 2011, 01:48:28 PM
I never expected it would be difficult to find rubber duckies when you're looking for them. But then, it's nearly Christmas. There are some stores I don't want to go near, and other places are full of whatever it is they think kids want, and apparently kids aren't asking for rubber duckies.
3 hours and 15 minutes left at the office before vacation. I'm the only one in. I need to find something suitably unproductive to fill that time, beyond posting here.
Now i have that song that big bird sings on sesame street stuck in my head...
Rubber Duckie you're the one,
You make bathtime lots of fun,
Rubber Duckie I'm awfully fond of you
Vo-vo-dee-o!
Rubber Duckie, joy of joys,
When I squeeze you, you make noise,
Rubber Duckie you're my very best friend it's true
Oh, every day when I, make my way to the tubby
I find a little fellow who's cute and yellow and chubby!
Rub-a-dub-dubby!
Rubber Duckie you're so fine,
And I'm lucky that you're mine.
Rubber Duckie, I'd love a whole pond of,
Rubber Duckie, I'm awfully fond of you!
Rubber Duckie you're so fine,
And I'm lucky that you're mine,
Rubber Duckie I'm awfully fond of you!
Thought i would share; maybe it'll get stuck in your head too >:-)
Oh nooo. Evil. ;( That song is a total earworm.
I am possessed by a legion of Muppet voices , led by Grover
Quote from: nickikim on December 22, 2011, 09:57:55 PM
I am possessed by a legion of Muppet voices , led by Grover
A legion of Muppets, led by Andrea Bocelli :laugh: Happy Holidays!
Andrea Bocelli & David Foster - Jingle Bells (featuring The Muppets) [HQ] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa20zGi9BUU#)
Why can I never do that video like that right there, http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=CA#/watch?v=2yBUlhxq6d0 (http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=CA#/watch?v=2yBUlhxq6d0)
We are Muppets. We are legion.
It is not possible to derail something that was never on a rail anyone want to put the thread on rail so we can derail it ??? >:-) >:-) ;D
feeling eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll >:-)
Quote from: Kinkly on December 23, 2011, 03:35:15 PM
It is not possible to derail something that was never on a rail anyone want to put the thread on rail so we can derail it ??? >:-) >:-) ;D
feeling eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll >:-)
A guy I knew had a trick where he snorted string, that's like railing thread ...
Ow.
I called my mom "sir" today. I don't think she noticed.
I should try that on a few family members, see how they feel about it.
Talking Super Grover doll, on clearance, TEN BUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!! I shall build an altar .........
Ducky acquired! It's a pirate, or perhaps a cosplayer.
Had to make a Walmart run to get a cable for my phone charger, so I made the most of it.
I ve just been told I soon have to wrap the herring, yes HERRING, for her dad, :embarrassed: fish, the gift that keeps on giving, Who else gave their dad herring? It doesn't count If your dads a penguin.
I love herring!
Jenny
Quote from: Jennifer on December 24, 2011, 03:38:42 PM
I love herring!
Jenny
Well then, I wish you a merry fishmas.
A family friend showed up at our Christmas gathering bearing herring, beer, and cheese.
None of the Supermarkets here stock Rollmops any more!! It's a disaster! I want pickled onion wrapped in herring and I want it now!!
And the stockings were hung,and filled with great caring, won't the kids be suprised with all their onions and herring?! :eusa_dance:
Merry fishmas to all, and an off the rails night !
Rollmop Herrings
ingredients serves 4 to 6
6 herrings, gutted and filleted, with heads removed 1 large onion or 2 shallots, finely chopped 4 gherkins, finely chopped for the marinade 1 large onion, roughly chopped 1 blade of mace 1 bay leaf 4 cloves 4 allspice berries Pinch of salt 8 black peppercorns 1 teaspoon brown sugar 5 fl oz (150ml) water 5 fl oz (150ml) wine vinegar method
1. Wash the herring fillets and pat dry with kitchen paper.
2. Finely chop the onion or shallots and the gherkins and mix together.
3. Lay each herring fillet skin side down on a board and place a little of the onion and gherkin mixture on each.
4. Roll up from head end to tail end and secure with a cocktail stick.
5. Place all the herring rolls into a shallow heatproof dish or glass jar.
6. Put the remaining onion with all the other ingredients into a saucepan.
7. Bring the liquid to the boil and simmer for a few minutes to allow the flavours to infuse.
8. Then pour this liquid over the herring rolls, allow to cool, cover and set aside in a cool place or the refrigerator for 3 or (preferably) 4 days.
The pity of it is we don't get those sort of herring in our waters. I could try Whiting or Black Bream I guess.
Now that I have replaced the fishing rod that went for a swim I can go fishing again. After I dropped the rod overboard, the Salmon or Mullet started jumping. >:(
I love Herring and Salmon! :icon_dance:
I do too, but it's hard to catch one when your rod and reel have just fallen out of the kayak and are on the bottom. Wonder if the fish will start trying to catch anglers? ::)
Yes , right back off track
Would that make fish the ultimate christians/ fishers of men?
But would they be into "catch and release?" I guess if they were after Shane Warnes they would use a mobile phone as a lure! >:-)(Aussie/Pommie reference)
How does a fish hold the cod and creel?
Am I getting hard of herring or are you mumbling ?
Stop de-reeling the thread.
If I called you a cohoe would you be offended?
Quote from: espo on December 27, 2011, 03:19:54 PM
If I called you a cohoe would you be offended?
Not if I can call you an Oncorhynchus kisutch.
These must have become quantum fishpuns
Quote from: Pica Pica on December 27, 2011, 03:27:41 PM
These must have become quantum fishpuns
Sorry, I'm a little dense sometimes :)
Well I certainly am not faster than light.
Quote from: Pica Pica on December 27, 2011, 03:42:44 PM
Well I certainly am not faster than light.
I'm sure you could twinkle under the right conditions though :-))
My grandpa and his uncle used to dynamite fish, til the time the dynamite didn't sink, they survived but they never had the nerve for it again...
I went to the 'Taste of Tasmania' food and wine festival today. Is it possible to OD on Camembert and Brie?
I don't get it when people invent their own stress. Acting like they have to be somewhere at a specific time, so they hurry and flip out about traffic and yell at people for driving cautiously... when all they're doing is making a grocery store run on a day they don't work or have anything scheduled at all. Relaaaaax.
Quote from: foosnark on December 29, 2011, 10:17:41 AM
I don't get it when people invent their own stress. Acting like they have to be somewhere at a specific time, so they hurry and flip out about traffic and yell at people for driving cautiously... when all they're doing is making a grocery store run on a day they don't work or have anything scheduled at all. Relaaaaax.
Oh, I know! I encounter so many people like that. Particularly when I worked at a grocery store. People would get angry at staff because they chose to shop in rush hour 5 minutes before little Johnny needs to be at his soccer practice. I always took that little bit of extra time when people told me to scan faster. :P
My in-laws have an old oven, and I'm amused by its featured AUTOMATIC MEAT PROBE. I think AUTOMATIC MEAT PROBE would be an excellent album name.
Quote from: foosnark on December 29, 2011, 10:51:59 PM
AUTOMATIC MEAT PROBE
I used to have one of those. ???
Jen
Didn't they open for the Grateful Dead at the Filmore?
Quote from: foosnark on December 29, 2011, 10:17:41 AM
I don't get it when people invent their own stress. Acting like they have to be somewhere at a specific time, so they hurry and flip out about traffic and yell at people for driving cautiously... when all they're doing is making a grocery store run on a day they don't work or have anything scheduled at all. Relaaaaax.
A guy named Steve told me that you make your own headaches, by the time he was 54 he'd spent more than half his life in jail, a year or two at a time...
wonder what he'd say about automatic meat probes
Sorry to interrupt (not) but look behind you.
bwaaaaaaaaaaaah. You people are silly. :laugh:
Quote from: espo on December 30, 2011, 03:14:50 PM
Sorry to interrupt (not) but look behind you.
When I look behind me I see the voices in my head. :icon_weirdface:
Jennifer
A spectrograph or a specter?
I love Canadians, they are so polite. Is it something in the water?
Thank you :-)
When my brothers went to the US (multiple occasions, but anyway) they were shocked at how the Americans behaved to one another. From the sounds of it, it was pretty disgraceful. I've met some really rude Canadians, through working customer service jobs, but the stories about Americans...they take the cake (apparently the obesity thing is true as well, as per my brothers :P).
yeah I never go on family trips.
Oh ya, we can be rude alright. Just mess up someone's Starbucks order and you'll get rude.
From my limited experience Aussie girls are pretty awesome.
Quote from: espo on January 01, 2012, 11:49:58 AM
Oh ya, we can be rude alright. Just mess up someone's Starbucks order and you'll get rude.
Mm, Starbucks. :| Time to locate a caffeinated elixir.
Quote from: Caseyyy on January 01, 2012, 11:32:36 AM
When my brothers went to the US (multiple occasions, but anyway) they were shocked at how the Americans behaved to one another.
:D Depends on the part of the country you're in.
Quote from: Caseyyy on January 01, 2012, 11:32:36 AM
When my brothers went to the US (multiple occasions, but anyway) they were shocked at how the Americans behaved to one another. From the sounds of it, it was pretty disgraceful. I've met some really rude Canadians, through working customer service jobs, but the stories about Americans...they take the cake (apparently the obesity thing is true as well, as per my brothers :P).
yeah I never go on family trips.
No way! Every other American I meet is the greatest person of all time! They all carry guns, have extra apple pie, and even carry a copy of the constitution in their pocket just in case they ever meet a dictator!
Ahhh I'm a bad American.
My friend said he loves America, and equated it to a mentally handicapped puppy licking an electrical socket.
Apple pie, you say?
Quote from: Lone Cypress on January 02, 2012, 01:05:26 AM
a mentally handicapped puppy licking an electrical socket.
Sounds like some of the people in our State Parliament.
Why are politicians the only people who never have to do an aptitude test before they apply for the job?
Quote from: Jaimey on January 02, 2012, 12:49:13 AM
:D Depends on the part of the country you're in.
Yes. It also depends on what part of the community, in what part of the city, in what part of the state, in what part of the country.
America is made up of people from all cultures and all nationalities. The great melting pot. :)
Jennifer
Quote from: justmeinoz on January 01, 2012, 05:58:01 AM
I love Canadians, they are so polite. Is it something in the water?
no our water is still mostly water, eh
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lol awesome signage
I think Canadians are great, with potatoes and carrots, but I prefeer Americans cutted thin with olive oil and tomatoe.
At least that's what Anthony Hopkins and I agreed on.
Quote from: Sweet Blue Girl on January 02, 2012, 11:57:20 AM
I think Canadians are great, with potatoes and carrots, but I prefeer Americans cutted thin with olive oil and tomatoe.
At least that's what Anthony Hopkins and I agreed on.
I like a nice sausage ...ooops wrong website :icon_lips:
My head gets so confused, hard to obey.
With all of this Canadian talk i've suddenly got Doug and Bob Mckenzie songs playing in my head now >:-)
Someplace online sells a t-shirt that says "America is okay I guess sometimes." Pretty much how I feel about it.
We do have a lot of fools in politics who exist only to scare Grandma into voting against anything good, and who teach kids it's okay to hate people for being weird, brown, or European. A lot of people with "United We Stand" bumper stickers who are really divisive. A lot of people who vote against their own best interests because somehow they think it's better to give what's left of your money to rich people than do anything that benefits poor people, and if the godless educated East Coast "elitist" pinko commie queers are out to get them, the gummint (that they voted in) is. I really hate our politics and the cloud of blind stuplid hate that follows it around.
Canada, or at least BC, can't make proper iced tea. It all has the same artificial lemon scent that furniture polish does. Other than that I liked it and my family was seriously considering moving there, 20 years ago or so.
There's this little spot between my right butt cheek and upper thigh that always itches after I just shaved my butt.
I do not look forward to it at all, that's how much I'm used to it.
I can't find my cat's nipples.
Quote from: Jayr on January 03, 2012, 11:49:36 AM
I can't find my cat's nipples.
??? Why do you feel a need to do so?
I don't know o.o
She was laying on her back and I thought it was weird I had never seen them.
Especially since she's supposed to have 8 or something.
xD
Don't worry I'm not into bestiality.
Quote from: Jayr on January 03, 2012, 12:15:20 PM
Don't worry I'm not into bestiality.
Just mild fondling it would appear.
hahahaha :D
My one dog has massive nipples. The others have entirely withered away. My hamster has huge balls, and I've yet to find nipples on the female gerbil. But it's OK, we're selling that troublesome thing anyway.
I have a ginger friend who is entirely too proud of her hamster's large balls. Poor Snuffles would be embarrassed if he knew.
Awww. I'm not proud of them, necessarily, but I do acknowledge them as terrible things. Terrible in every potential meaning of the word.
er·ri·ble [ter-uh-buhl] Show IPA
adjective
1.
distressing; severe: a terrible winter.
2.
extremely bad; horrible: terrible coffee; a terrible movie.
3.
exciting terror, awe, or great fear; dreadful; awful.
4.
formidably great: a terrible responsibility.
this is a classic
you start a conversation about love and caring and hope,
and it goes up to little pet genitals
it happens me all the time.
I was in a bar once, and well... I don't know if I can tell you.
Quote from: Sweet Blue Girl on January 04, 2012, 02:56:28 PM
I was in a bar once, and well... I don't know if I can tell you.
You started, now finish :laugh:
Little update; I saw one nipple today but she moved and I lost sight of it xD
Why are you looking? Are you going into the cat dairy business?
Quote from: justmeinoz on January 05, 2012, 07:01:00 AM
Why are you looking? Are you going into the cat dairy business?
went to visit a friend once, he was out of sugar for my coffee, after some searching, he found a packet in his truck, he said " glad you don't take cream, I'd Have to milk the dog"......ewww!
Nothing spells friend like someone searching the truck for a pack of sugar.
The other day, I was startled by a leaf. Seriously, though, it came out of nowhere.
Experiment during WW1 by Scottish inventor. He tried to tow model submarines stuffed with sardines to train the seagulls to expect a feed when they saw a periscope. They would flock and reveal the location of the U-Boat.
Only one snag, no seagulls in that part of Scotland!
Was it a big leaf haha
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Quote from: espo on January 06, 2012, 05:53:39 PM
Was it a big leaf haha
I wish, but no. It was small and dried up...and I totally jumped. Like a mouse had run over my feet or something. lol I hope nobody was looking.
Do sardines attract leaves? Maybe cause a diversion so you can escape?
I stabbed my sausage. Poor Schweigert!
Our evilest cat has discovered a new game: disassemble the humidifier and use its filter as a scratching post.
Quote from: Jaimey on January 07, 2012, 01:13:28 AM
I wish, but no. It was small and dried up...and I totally jumped. Like a mouse had run over my feet or something. lol I hope nobody was looking.
I wish I was there to see that. LOL
Quote from: Pica Pica on January 08, 2012, 05:33:54 PM
I Was There.
I know thats very profround, give me a couple days and I will figure it out haha
Quote from: cynthialee on December 03, 2011, 09:47:32 AM
This thread is off topic and as such it can not be derailed.
Discuss...
So.. can I derail the thread by talking about something on topic? Actually it looks like that already happened, since off topic things
are the topic, and that's what people are talking about. Or maybe I am, right now, discussing what you said to discuss, which is the thread.. so that's on topic, and thus a derailment..
Have I derailed the underailable thread?
I wasn't there, nobody saw me and you can't prove a thing.
I lost my scraf today, so sad, missing my friend (the one who stopped talking to me cuz I'm a douchebag) I used the last pouch of Chicken-In-A-Mug lastnight. :'(
I wish I lived next door to PicaPica haha
Poor espo. :icon_flower: But I have to ask. What, exactly, is Chicken-in-a-mug?
...I also wish I lived next door to Pica.
('._.'),,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,) Bug.
Why are all these people hoping to relocate to sunny London?
It's a powder that you spoon into hot water and it makes a chicken flavoured broth. Its nice to have something besides tea all the time. I like it before bed.
Awesome bug btw
Quote from: espo on January 11, 2012, 07:43:53 AM
It's a powder that you spoon into hot water and it makes a chicken flavoured broth. Its nice to have something besides tea all the time. I like it before bed.
Chicken powder? Ewwww.....
Quote from: Pica Pica on January 11, 2012, 01:09:18 AM
Why are all these people hoping to relocate to sunny London?
To spy on the great Pica! Or to just be regular neighbors.
...Chicken-In-A-Mug sounds suspiciously like powdered chicken soup stock. I had a bottle of that...it was an extraordinary shade of yellow. :laugh:
Quote from: espo on January 11, 2012, 07:43:53 AM
Awesome bug btw
Why, thank you! I'm quite proud of it. ('._.'),,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,) It's a cozy looking bug.
I'm going lighter with my hair color.
Gotta get ready for the summer yaw'll.
I also need to bleach my eyebrows.
I have no problem with this.
I like going strawberry blond, but a friend of mine just dyed her hair strawberry blond. Bitch. :P
Quote from: Julian on January 12, 2012, 11:03:45 AM
I like going strawberry blond, but a friend of mine just dyed her hair strawberry blond. Bitch. :P
That's a nice color :)
but that's way too light for my complexion.
I might do something similar, but a browner orange tone.
It'll look naice.
A lady told me she was jealous of the roundness of my bottom today, has made my day.
I ran headfirst into irony just now. I wanted to show support for the Student Non-Discrimination Act, which protects students from discrimination on the basis of actual and perceived gender identity. I don't like calling people on the phone, so i did it through the ACLU website...
...which requires choosing a title. Not being a doctor or a liar, I had the options of Mr., Miss, or Mrs.
So i wrote the ACLU a letter telling them what I thought of that. :P
Come to think of it, I actually ran into similar irony in an HRC survey a while ago. Despite asking about gender identity, with "genderqueer" being the closest option (not too bad) it went on to make the assumption that everyone who supports them is either gay or "a straight ally."
Binary everywhere. :P
Quote from: foosnark on January 12, 2012, 04:12:13 PM
I ran headfirst into irony just now. I wanted to show support for the Student Non-Discrimination Act, which protects students from discrimination on the basis of actual and perceived gender identity. I don't like calling people on the phone, so i did it through the ACLU website...
...which requires choosing a title. Not being a doctor or a liar, I had the options of Mr., Miss, or Mrs.
So i wrote the ACLU a letter telling them what I thought of that. :P
Good for you! Report back if they have a reply.
I rang Internode for an ADSL and phone connection at my new place and I didn't get put in a queue!!! :o
I enjoy the word queue. I wish more people used it.
It's snowy and icy, didn't get above freezing all day and was 14F last night. Naturally, Target has bikinis on display and winter stuff is all on clearance.
(Lucky for me, since I needed a few cozy things.)
Quote from: Caseyyy on January 13, 2012, 05:06:49 AM
I enjoy the word queue. I wish more people used it.
I am a world class queue jumper.
Quote from: foosnark on January 12, 2012, 04:12:13 PM
I ran headfirst into irony just now. I wanted to show support for the Student Non-Discrimination Act, which protects students from discrimination on the basis of actual and perceived gender identity. I don't like calling people on the phone, so i did it through the ACLU website...
...which requires choosing a title. Not being a doctor or a liar, I had the options of Mr., Miss, or Mrs.
So i wrote the ACLU a letter telling them what I thought of that. :P
that is ......wow, way to go ACLU.
Quote from: Pica Pica on January 14, 2012, 04:03:48 AM
You MONSTER :o
is that you at the back of the queue?
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any body get that one?
I love Pandora so much.
Quote from: nickikim on January 14, 2012, 08:00:45 AM
is that you at the back of the queue?
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any body get that one?
Wow.... i never thought that a slant 6 would make it into this thread LOL.....
Quote from: JoeyD on January 14, 2012, 02:17:07 PM
I love Pandora so much.
Profoundly In Love With Pandora - Music Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgL-FxJEDjc#)
Quote from: nickikim on January 14, 2012, 08:00:45 AM
is that you at the back of the queue?
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any body get that one?
That's a pretty piece of machinery. I raise you one Edelbrock 350 performer:
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Emma, it feels like you haven't been around in ages. Though it does seem you've been posting some, just not threads I've been in. In any case, nice avatar. :)
Quote from: riven1 on January 14, 2012, 09:28:24 PM
Wow.... i never thought that a slant 6 would make it into this thread LOL.....
it was post 225, so a 225 seemed like the thing to post.
Quote from: nickikim on January 15, 2012, 06:51:04 PM
it was post 225, so a 225 seemed like the thing to post.
touche ;D
the 225c led to the 265 which made the Valiant Charger the world's fastest mass produced 6 cylinder car for a while. Pity they didn't go round corners though:( scary!
Karen. (showing her age.)
Quote from: justmeinoz on January 16, 2012, 02:14:12 AM
the 225c led to the 265 which made the Valiant Charger the world's fastest mass produced 6 cylinder car for a while. Pity they didn't go round corners though:( scary!
Karen. (showing her age.)
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...well maybe if the steering wheel wasn't on the wrong side of the car.
Quote from: justmeinoz on January 16, 2012, 02:14:12 AM
the 225c led to the 265 which made the Valiant Charger the world's fastest mass produced 6 cylinder car for a while. Pity they didn't go round corners though:( scary!
Karen. (showing her age.)
A Charger that doesn't require a powerpoint? That will confuse some people... ;D
No Nickikim, it's the rest of the world that's out of step!
Driving a Charger with a lump of a 360 V8 up front on a winding road took fear to a whole different level!
Quote from: Caseyyy on January 15, 2012, 03:25:40 PM
Emma, it feels like you haven't been around in ages. Though it does seem you've been posting some, just not threads I've been in. In any case, nice avatar. :)
I come and go, like the tide I ebb and flow.
Quote from: justmeinoz on January 16, 2012, 04:21:53 AM
No Nickikim, it's the rest of the world that's out of step!
Driving a Charger with a lump of a 360 V8 up front on a winding road took fear to a whole different level!
...how big is that gixer? I so happen to have a lump of a 360 in a dart, with a big kit of laughing gas......
I've just seen that 'The Artist' and I recommend it to anyone who likes a bit of cinema, was good stuff.
My computer's acting up like woah. Hope one of my computer-y friends can fix it for me. :(
Oh also.
My sister wonders whether British people (non-American English speakers in general, I guess) say "Gesundheit" instead of "Bless you" the way some Americans do. I told her I'd track down a British person and ask. This is close enough. :D
Sorta kinda waxed my legs tonight.
One box is NOT enough for both legs though.
The box came with 40 strips and it took 30 strips to just do my upper legs(which took like an hour).
I'm one hairy >-bleeped-< v_v
I got shot in the face with lasers today. It was enlightening.
Quote from: Julian on January 19, 2012, 07:19:33 PM
Oh also.
My sister wonders whether British people (non-American English speakers in general, I guess) say "Gesundheit" instead of "Bless you" the way some Americans do. I told her I'd track down a British person and ask. This is close enough. :D
No, we say 'Bless You'.
Quote from: EmmaM on January 19, 2012, 09:48:09 PM
I got shot in the face with lasers today. It was enlightening.
Happy for you and jelly at the same time!
I'm American and I don't know anyone who says "Gesundheit" on a regular basis. Even my wife, who uses "danke" and occasionally "bitte."
I have named the white nasty crud that inevitably covers the windshield after snowy weather "Winterscheisse."
I have a teddy bear that's as big as I am. He's going to be an astronaut someday.
I'm wondering if it will be worth it to check on Kelly in 5.5 years and see if she is still proud of her choice.
I want to be Pica's neighbor too.
I am having rather disjointed thoughts. ...Do thoughts have joints?
Quote from: Kelly J. P. on January 20, 2012, 12:06:14 PM
I have a teddy bear that's as big as I am. He's going to be an astronaut someday.
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Quote from: LordKAT on January 21, 2012, 11:36:14 PM
I'm wondering if it will be worth it to check on Kelly in 5.5 years and see if she is still proud of her choice.
I want to be Pica's neighbor too.
I am having rather disjointed thoughts. ...Do thoughts have joints?
some thoughts aren't possible without joints ............... :icon_bong:
Thank you, Pica.
I let my sister know, and she didn't bother to ask where I'd found a Brit. :P
<--- getting worried NW10 will become the capital of andro-ness.
My mom says I look like a "hip-hop dude" in my oversized sweatshirt. I... I'm not sure what to think. :D
Painted my toenails this morning, purple for the big toes and silver for the rest. And also silver for the bathroom floor, as I knocked it off the counter and watched it do a couple of loops in slow motion. Luckily it seems to have cleaned up okay with remover... except for where it got on the rug.
Also, new glasses! I think they look better on me than the old ones, and I'll post a picture later if I get the chance. It actually didn't take too long to get used to them, though I was kind of queasy for the first hour or so with how the floor was curving up to meet me and all.
I love getting new glasses, everything seems so fresh for a bit.
I found some Victorian, round, gold glasses, which I am considering getting lensed somewhere.
I haven't a thing to say on this topic. I have said enough for a week or so already...
Ativan
Quote from: Pica Pica on January 22, 2012, 09:08:16 AM
<--- getting worried NW10 will become the capital of andro-ness.
That would be awesome! How much couch space do you have, dear? :P
If you buy purple heirloom carrots, cook them separately or you will have a purple chicken casserole.
Purple potatoes, purple pumpkin, purple onions, purple parsnips, purple chicken. And purple hands if you don't wear gloves.
And they taste exactly the same as the orange ones. ???
Purple is the best. Nevermind that propoganda from Stawberry Shortcake.
Quote from: justmeinoz on January 27, 2012, 03:57:08 AM
If you buy purple heirloom carrots, cook them separately or you will have a purple chicken casserole.
Purple potatoes, purple pumpkin, purple onions, purple parsnips, purple chicken. And purple hands if you don't wear gloves.
And they taste exactly the same as the orange ones. ???
All I could get from that is that I have been craving beets for weeks. Purple peee.
Never experienced purple peee but I have done the OMG my butt is bleeding !!! and then its ... oh right, I ate beets lastnight.
I'm turning into a werebear.
Or more than likely some other form of hairy beast.
Rawr?
Australian hamburgers have sliced pickled beetroot in them. This confuses Americans.
Quote from: justmeinoz on January 27, 2012, 03:57:08 AM
If you buy purple heirloom carrots, cook them separately or you will have a purple chicken casserole.
Purple potatoes, purple pumpkin, purple onions, purple parsnips, purple chicken. And purple hands if you don't wear gloves.
And they taste exactly the same as the orange ones. ???
All I have to do is buy purple heirloom carrots and I can have all kinds of purple food? 8) Cool
*Wonders if it will work for spaghetti*
Quote from: espo on January 27, 2012, 08:37:06 PM
Never experienced purple peee but I have done the OMG my butt is bleeding !!! and then its ... oh right, I ate beets lastnight.
:D Hehehehe I'm so glad I'm not alone with beets butt syndrome. It's so scary at first!
I'm not allowed to paint my nails, I painted my toe nails green.... I had to wear slippers around my house for like a week since i couldnt find a way to remove the paint from my toe nails xD
Quote from: justmeinoz on January 28, 2012, 05:58:53 AM
Australian hamburgers have sliced pickled beetroot in them. This confuses Americans.
OMG I hate beets. They are on my list of unpalatable foods.
Brussels sprouts top the list.
Quote from: Julian on January 19, 2012, 07:19:33 PM
Oh also.
My sister wonders whether British people (non-American English speakers in general, I guess) say "Gesundheit" instead of "Bless you" the way some Americans do. I told her I'd track down a British person and ask. This is close enough. :D
A lot of ethnic Germans came to the United States in the 1700's and 1800's. The "Pennsylvania Dutch" were really the Pennsylvania
Deutsch.
Quote from: Jamie D on January 29, 2012, 04:18:32 AM
OMG I hate beets. They are on my list of unpalatable foods.
Brussels sprouts top the list.
Brussels sprouts, turnips, parsnips and rutabagas are all disgusting, the taste and texture is without a doubt the problem. How they ever made it on the food chain is a wonder to me!
Quote from: Shantel on January 29, 2012, 10:27:44 AM
Brussels sprouts, turnips, parsnips and rutabagas are all disgusting, the taste and texture is without a doubt the problem. How they ever made it on the food chain is a wonder to me!
Sounds like you dislike all of the
Brassicas ... also known as the "cruciferous" vegetables
Quote from: Jamie D on January 29, 2012, 01:11:10 PM
Sounds like you dislike all of the Brassicas ... also known as the "cruciferous" vegetables
Except there's plenty of other cruciferous vegetables (http://www.marysherbs.com/Miscellaneous/CruciferousVegetablesP.htm) besides these.
Actually, I think the group is mostly comprised of leafy greens.
>_<
Werebears, I had one of them, I had the blue one.
Yes VM you can have purple food. The chicken drumstick was purple all the way through. ???
Ah, Hobart weather. 31 C (90+ F) yesterday. Pouring with rain and windy today. My water view has just disappeared into the murk.
It's supposed to be winter here in MN. So far, it has gone from fall to spring. More days with highs above freezing.
2012, the year that hell didn't freeze, we are truly doomed...
Beets are terrible. They taste like dirt. I mentioned this to my wife once, and she now they always taste like dirt and I've ruined them forever. So I guess maybe I did that here too. Always glad to help!
Also, Australians confuse Americans in general. I think it's the only nation more manic than we are that doesn't stone people. New Zealanders always (sample size: two) seem to be nice though, if charmingly naive. One NZ girl at a conference in Chicago asked for "a quesadilla with cheese, please."
Quote from: foosnark on January 30, 2012, 09:18:23 AM
Beets are terrible. They taste like dirt. I mentioned this to my wife once, and she now they always taste like dirt and I've ruined them forever. So I guess maybe I did that here too. Always glad to help!
not listening not listening not listening *covers ears and sings*
TIRED. TIRED. TIRED. Why do I always choose to torment myself in such ways?
"She now they always?" How do I manage to type these things?
Actually that might work as a song title, as would the palindrome "O stone, be not so."
Mmmmm, quesadillas... the apex of my culinary skills. I never managed to make purple ones, though.
Anyway... does anybody else wonder why people just paint their nails and stop painting there? What's so special about nails? If they were more like sloth claws I could understand it.
Makes me think of henna. From the nails to the hands and beyond.
I haven't played with henna in years. Must get me some.
Just to disgust people even more I am going vego for tonight's dinner. Roasted vegetable medly with herbs and spices. And .....drum roll..... roasted beetroot! >:-)
Quote from: BlueSloth on January 30, 2012, 06:19:28 PMAnyway... does anybody else wonder why people just paint their nails and stop painting there? What's so special about nails? If they were more like sloth claws I could understand it.
Maybe someday face painting will be in fashion... if only to foil facial recognition software (http://ahprojects.com/blog/c/itp).
Quote from: foosnark on January 31, 2012, 07:14:19 AM
Maybe someday face painting will be in fashion... if only to foil facial recognition software (http://ahprojects.com/blog/c/itp).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOB2XOM8Tt8&feature=youtube_gdata_player# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOB2XOM8Tt8&feature=youtube_gdata_player#)]Paint Huffer Mugshots Over 14 Year Span
I wildly swing our trains steering wheel with this, thanks foosnark.
I wanted to use this clip.
face paint
I was so hooked on one guy that even the smell of a certain makeup wipe made me think about him.
I should stop using these.
Mom bought the wrong pack though and i'm not a waster..
I need to stop pre-judging others.
Those I have judged, without exception, have all ended up to be the warmest, most genuine, loving people that I have ever met.
Sounds like you need to judge everybody then... we could use more people like that. :D
Except Judge Judy....
Just when I was thinking that I didn't mind the rain starting while digging my new vegie garden as it would keep me cool, it started to HAIL!!!
Does anybody else ever feel like they've had déjà vu before?
A lot of times when I get déjà vu it's an infinite recursion.
Quote from: BlueSloth on February 11, 2012, 03:55:57 AM
Does anybody else ever feel like they've had déjà vu before?
A lot of times when I get déjà vu it's an infinite recursion.
what do you call it when you get the feeling that this has never ever happened before ever anywhere.
Quote from: nickikim on February 11, 2012, 03:38:10 PM
what do you call it when you get the feeling that this has never ever happened before ever anywhere.
vuja de
I just epilated my upper legs for the first time with out any breaks because I'm a bad bitch.
Didn't even flinch.
I'd make a good sub with my high pain threshold, but nope.
Dominant 4 lyf.
Okay okay, sometimes I like to switch.
Hmmm, I wonder if I'd like epilation pain. Only one way to find out, I suppose.
Quote from: nickikim on February 11, 2012, 03:38:10 PM
what do you call it when you get the feeling that this has never ever happened before ever anywhere.
Jamais vu.
Hmm, I just realized something. It's never been right now before.
Why is it now? Why is now now instead of another time?
And why am I me?
If "iterate" means to repeat something, why when we "reiterate" something, but don't say it twice?
Quote from: justmeinoz on February 12, 2012, 04:19:38 AM
If "iterate" means to repeat something, why when we "reiterate" something, but don't say it twice?
Reminds me of the 'word' irregardless. My mom used it in an argument once and I stopped being angry/arguing point blank to inform her that the use of irregardless was not OK. Haha.
Though reiterate seems to be an actual word. So your question has perplexed me.
Iterate would be to repeat something to make a point, reiterate would be to do it again and again until the point is near useless.
Iterate: repeat Reiterate: repeating the iterate, repeating the iterate, repeating the iterate, repeating...
The English language is funny, you might think that substantial would mean that something is sub par! ;D
That's why I have enrolled at Uni to study French, Shantel. :laugh:
Quote from: Shantel on February 12, 2012, 01:52:11 PM
The English language is funny, you might think that substantial would mean that something is sub par! ;D
Example: Only in English can your house be burning up while it's burning down. And why do we park on a driveway, but drive on a parkway?
Telling someone who does not speak English well, " Look out, the train is entering a tunnel and the window is open!", could be very messy.
Quote from: riven1 on February 15, 2012, 12:13:17 AM
And why do we park on a driveway, but drive on a parkway?
That's not English, that's American.
Quote from: Pica Pica on February 15, 2012, 03:47:25 AM
That's not English, that's American.
Yes it is! Americans have certainly bastardized the English language! :police:
Wut ya'll talkin 'bout mayne.
Are english ish guud.
Friend has been waiting an hour and a quarter past her Dr's appointment time. Is this a record?
Ugh, tofu is a crime. Get out of my rice.
The truth comes out :laugh:
I speak great wisdom when it comes to tofu. Had a tofu chili a few years back and it made me sick as hell, now my mom got these little bowls of rice with vegetables and tofu. Skip the tofu, eat the rice and veggies.
Tofu, to me, runs the gamut from "bleh" to "kind of okay" to "there was tofu in that?"
Quote from: foosnark on February 16, 2012, 11:13:59 AM
Tofu, to me, runs the gamut from "bleh" to "kind of okay" to "there was tofu in that?"
I agree. It's not really a fantastic thing, but I don't usually mind it.
It's over.
My favorite tofu is Flaming Hot Flying Tofu :) Rather simple to make, all you need are:
1) One or more containers of tofu
2) A flammable liquid of some kind
3) A catapult
:laugh: >:-) :laugh:
Quote from: JoeyD on February 16, 2012, 04:09:00 PM
It's over.
What does this mean, m'dear?
*is on the lookout for you*
???
If soothing isn't real it imaginary, then
" hey, you made that up."
" No, I swear, it's totally Maginary"
Ever have one of those days when you think your spellcheck dropped acid, and now it's just laughing at you.
Thinking of changing my preferred name to Julien. I'm not sure if I like that spelling better.
Eyeballs are weird.
They're shaped so funnily when you think about it, and just don't make much sense.
Shakespeare invented the word eyeball. I'm 95% sure this is fact.
Of things, 95% is indeed fact. The other 5% is neither here nor there.
Tofu is a bit like Galah , a grey/pink parrot found in abundance in this country.
Last resort of starving pioneers apparently, who would place a rock inside a Galah, put it in a pot with whatever native herbs and salt and pepper they had.
They boiled it until the rock was soft, threw the Galah away and ate the rock. :laugh:
Karen.
Imagine if we had eyecubes instead. Or eyecosahedrons.
I always liked the ancient theory that the eyes fired rays at things to detect them. It makes no sense given that we don't see in the dark, but it's how I figured it worked when I was a child.
Eyeballs on stun
But why balls? Why not eyebowls? That seems to make a slight bit more since to me!
I fell asleep while doing laundry, now I have no clean clothes and have to put my clothes through the wash again. /le sign
Eye discs on stun...
:icon_eek: :icon_eek: :icon_eek: :icon_weee:
Quote from: Apollo on February 22, 2012, 10:12:33 AM
But why balls? Why not eyebowls? That seems to make a slight bit more since to me!
Huh? What? How? Why?
*stretches and flexes lenses and eye muscles* ahhh, that feels good :)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Anatomy_and_physiology_of_animals_How_light_travels_from_the_object_to_the_retina_of_the_eye.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Anatomy_and_physiology_of_animals_How_light_travels_from_the_object_to_the_retina_of_the_eye.jpg)
That's why.... no proper refraction in a plain disk.
Quote from: Pica Pica on February 22, 2012, 02:30:21 PM
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Anatomy_and_physiology_of_animals_How_light_travels_from_the_object_to_the_retina_of_the_eye.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Anatomy_and_physiology_of_animals_How_light_travels_from_the_object_to_the_retina_of_the_eye.jpg)
That's why.... no proper refraction in a plain disk.
Hmm, something went wrong there, didn't it?
Quote from: Pica Pica on February 23, 2012, 01:04:24 AM
Hmm, something went wrong there, didn't it?
I didn't think so necessarily. But I did imagine several Pica style statements, always good.
Looking for that item of clothing you like on the net,and wishing it was more available in different brands....lurve the tee dress!
I just misgendered someone in my head. My internal monologue used the wrong pronoun, and I feel like a huge >-bleeped-< even though no one was around to notice.
:-X :-X :-X
I did it talking to a group leader on the phone explaining why I was quitting the group.
I quit because of the people that insulted my gender, questioning my use of hormones.
Right there on the phone complaining about a similar thing. Just Slap the Sh*t out of me.
:icon_blahblah: :eusa_wall: :-X
It happens...
Ativan
And by the way...
Love the new Avatar!
Quote from: Julian on February 23, 2012, 03:54:46 PM
I just misgendered someone in my head. My internal monologue used the wrong pronoun, and I feel like a huge >-bleeped-< even though no one was around to notice.
:-X :-X :-X
Don't beat up on yourself, ten minutes from now it won't matter, they'll get over it!
I know that feel Jul! I met a cool dude recently, and I saw his binder. We were at a con, and he was cosplaying-- so I thought he was just another crossplayer, and called him a she-- He's so good mannered and never corrected me (and a lot of his friends called him she!), but once I found he was trans. I felt like such an ass. I'm making it a point to personally apologize to him next time I see him, turns out he lives near me.
Pica Pica ponders the mysteries of the Multiverse, and Shantel's boobs. >:-)
There is no cake.. The cake is a lie..
Quote from: justmeinoz on February 24, 2012, 04:46:13 AM
Pica Pica ponders the mysteries of the Multiverse, and Shantel's boobs. >:-)
:D That reminds me, I have to come up with a different photo that doesn't show a lot of face and cause computers to crash!
Quote from: kelly_aus on February 24, 2012, 05:14:42 AM
There is no cake.. The cake is a lie..
Maybe there was cake-- but you kind of blew the place up, and blew the cake up with it.
You ruined your own party... you monster.
Lol, my brother saw Shantel's old avatar and said "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT??" ;D
Quote from: Caseyyy on February 24, 2012, 03:15:23 PM
Lol, my brother saw Shantel's old avatar and said "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT??" ;D
Hi Caseyyy!
I'm not sure if I should be flattered or upset. "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?" has always been my question to someone who I catch staring or glaring at me at Starbucks or in the grocery checkout line trying to figure out if its male, female or something from another planet Anyway, I changed my photo rather than be a show off. The new photo was taken at the exact moment someone told an outrageous joke and everyone was exploding into one of those uncontrollable fits of laughter. I look like someone about to swallow a canary! ;D
You shouldn't be upset at all! He was just surprised by the boobage is all. He's young.
I'm not upset, more like flattered! He sounds like he's all boy, kind of cute... :laugh:
I totally forgot what I was going to say.
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi302.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fnn90%2Fjoseph_jealousy%2FNiggagetserved.gif&hash=726cdaac1115c27c3eca7d57d7b6f0b7e7e9fec0)
Quote from: kelly_aus on February 24, 2012, 05:14:42 AM
There is no cake.. The cake is a lie..
Somewhere, probably on the internet, there exists a video of me singing "Still Alive" with my college a cappella group, a version that I arranged myself. I'm quite proud of it.
I don't know how it works, but Cocteau Twins' album "Milk and Kisses" always makes me happier and calmer. Other music in the same vein either annoys me a little, or just sounds nice without affecting me much.
Quote from: Pica Pica on January 19, 2012, 05:57:50 PM
I've just seen that 'The Artist' and I recommend it to anyone who likes a bit of cinema, was good stuff.
Prescient
The Lion Sleeps (full version) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vebx1Ja9zm8&feature=related#)
Skyping with my girlfriend, I started singing this....she hung up on me.
LOL... I love that song and that's a great vid. ;D Not sure how I'd handle someone singing it on the phone to me though
The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LBmUwi6mEo#)
We are all different. :)
It's just a gender induced illusion.
That's what she said....
That's what an Androgyn said... ;)
This thread makes me want a chocolate milkshake.
It's raining. Lightning & thunder. First one for the year here.
A Smooth Nyan Cat is A Good Nyan Cat. :)
Nyan Cat - Smooth Jazz Cover (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzbfiy_IBMo#)
Quote from: Ativan on March 19, 2012, 10:12:13 PM
Nyan Cat - Smooth Jazz Cover (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzbfiy_IBMo#)
YES
Wait.....NO! I'm about to spend another half hour being addicted to it. >.>
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nahn nah nah nah nah
;D
Quote from: Ativan on March 19, 2012, 11:27:38 PM
;D
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nahn nah nah nah nah
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nahn nah nah nah nah
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nahn nah nah nah nah
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nahn nah nah nah nah
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nahn nah nah nah nah
Still waiting on that milkshake.
chick-fil-a has the most awesome milkshakes!
Now I'm stuck watching all the Nyan Cat videos on Youtube. >.<
Have you ever listened to the Nyan Cat song backwards?
Neither have I.
And now I have. IT WAS MAGICAL.
OH MY WORD.
LOL! ;)
I regret looking at Nyan cat backwards....the thumbnail for the troll face showed up and that was scary.
Tac nayn. Nuf tahw!
Pandora Radio. Devil Doll Radio by 1muffler. Etta James, singing 'I Just Want To Make Love To You'. To anything by Adele. Nice.
I know you are but what am I? XD
You are You. Just as I am Me. It is What it is, We are as We are. Who We are will always be What We are, Who We are.
I tried to change all that, but I just became Me, trying to do that. You are still You, it is still What You are.
Someday I may try it again, just to see what will happen to Me, and Who and What You are.
I'll let You know when I try. It is What I am...
What I am is what I am and what you are or what?
What I am, is What I am. And What you are, is What you are.
Or so the song goes... ;D
Is that your final answer?
The everlasting answer....
The answer continuum...
Was there ever a question...
In the greater scheme of things now and things to come...
The pain, the agony of the final answer...
Yah sure, maybe...
If I really knew what it was, the question, the answer should,could and would be final...
The answer is somewhere in the maximum overdriven distortion on stun turn it up more Strat driven Fender ringing in my ears.
Gotta go pack for tomorrows trip...
Ativan
Quote from: Ativan on March 20, 2012, 12:39:25 PM
You are You. Just as I am Me. It is What it is, We are as We are. Who We are will always be What We are, Who We are.
That's a tongue twister :)
The skunk sat on a stump.
The stunk thunk the stump stunk,
and the stump thunk the skunk stunk!
Squidward
Quote from: Malachite on March 20, 2012, 06:38:36 PM
Squidward
He is who he is. What he is, is somewhat of a question, but, he is what he is.
Gotta love him for that. And the fine outstanding musician he is.
Quote from: Ativan on March 22, 2012, 08:50:56 PM
He is who he is. What he is, is somewhat of a question, but, he is what he is.
Gotta love him for that. And the fine outstanding musician he is.
Don't forget he's a great interpretive dancer too. XD
Quote from: Julian on December 06, 2011, 11:03:35 AM
I thought it was more like Shuh-vahn.
It's spelled wrong as well...
It's Siobh
án
Julien has it right
Without getting too complex, it's something like
ʃɪvɑnTwo syllables accented on the second syllable. First is the
shi in ship and the second the
awn of 'yawn' with a
v before.
shivawn
Scareware is annoying....
I just now managed to get back on Susan's after getting error messages for a week. I missed it. I like this place.
Phew!
I was forced to look elsewhere on the internet to discuss gender stuff. While I found some neat things, I missed this place...
I can't wait to have a hysterectomy one day.
In the beginning the earth was void of life. The Goddess breathed on it and all the plants came to life. Blooms filled the earth and their fragrances filled the air.
And She saw it was good.
lkllll;ll;lklllkl
Derailed.
Is it....................................over. ???
Quote from: nickikim on April 11, 2012, 08:32:30 PM
Is it....................................over. ???
Nope
dsadasdassada!
Naughty or nice? How about both? ;)
I need me some Universal Health Care.
So.. does being non-binary mean I have to stop using Debian and use something like Gentoo?
*wonders how many people get the joke*
Use the source, Luke.. Luc... whatever.
Nerd Alert!
Seeing we have started Chordates in Biology, I dissected my Salmon fillet tonight at dinner. Interesting W shaped muscles and also found the Lateral line. 8)
I love those "I like where this thread is going." memes
just passing by, passing on, stopping by.... haven't really decided yet
inFAMOUS 2
The T.V. is too loud in my mom's room.
Quote from: justmeinoz on April 19, 2012, 05:29:01 AM
Nerd Alert!
Seeing we have started Chordates in Biology, I dissected my Salmon fillet tonight at dinner. Interesting W shaped muscles and also found the Lateral line. 8)
I never mix lab experiments with dinner. It can be dangerous. :o
Annoying people on Black Ops are annoying.
juice
Took a step back and dissected a prawn while cleaning some for dinner. I was able to identify quite a few organs. I guess I just love playing with my food. ;D
Karen.
Quote from: justmeinoz on April 23, 2012, 01:27:32 AM
Took a step back and dissected a prawn while cleaning some for dinner. I was able to identify quite a few organs. I guess I just love playing with my food. ;D
Karen.
Mashed potatoes are much less dangerous to dissect, and you don't need anything sharp. ;)
No fears need be held for my safety! :laugh: It was, as the Poms say "well dead." Tasted alright too, stirfried with onions, ginger and garlic.
Cheeseburgers aren't healthy most of the time but they sure can be good.
Quote from: casey on May 01, 2012, 03:55:20 AM
Oh, agreed.
Malachite, did you get like 90 more dollars???
Also, I like the androgyne section even though it's rarely active. It makes a small part of me happy that just no other place can.
I wish I got 90 dollars but sadly I only got 2 dollars and some change after the $100 my father gave me.
Perhaps you are doing some foreshadowing into the future. ^-^
Quote from: casey on May 01, 2012, 03:55:20 AM
Also, I like the androgyne section even though it's rarely active. It makes a small part of me happy that just no other place can.
Me too. I don't post here much these days, but I'm glad it's here.
On a somewhat related note, I got asked about my preferred pronouns last night! Well, I got asked if I prefer 'he' or 'she.' I said if I had to pick I'd pick 'he,' but it's okay to switch back and forth. I wish I'd had the courage to say I prefer 'they,' but I was really nervous about making a good impression.
Make us whole.
Quote from: casey on May 01, 2012, 11:31:14 AM
Aww! Well, you can always say later on that you would prefer 'they'.
Soooo, did the date go well? ;)
It did! The restaurant we were planning on eating at was closed (I wasn't looking forward to vegan Korean food anyway :P ), so we ended up just walking around in the nearby forest preserve. Then it got dark, and well, um, some things are better off posted in the "Just for Us" section. *blushes*
Meanwhile, back at the Sky Ranch, Penney was using the exhaust from one of the Twin Beech engines to dry her curly hair, when suddenly, Sky King became concerned as to the safety of doing such a thing...
I need 4 million dollars.
Declare yourself a republican candidate and start a superpac.
LOL
Quote from: casey on May 05, 2012, 03:31:15 PM
Hi Ativan! :)
Gotta love Ativan who says it like it is!
Hey Casey! Going good?
LOL!
I piss off more people than anything else...
Driifffttttiiinng...
It's going to be interesting when I turn into an experiment.
Aren't we all...lol
I feel like a lab rat most of the time anyways. (here,...try this and see if it works for you).
Josef Mengele is my doctor...
Muahahaha!
-jumps in-
Oh, I need help. I'm addicted to "Senor Senora Senorita" and I'm hyper.
I could go for some McDonalds ice cream right now.
Devil Doll - Lord's Prayer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRvl0uPncCg#)
Casey
Been on spiro for over a year and some months. Have been approved for estrogen. Taking my time.
I should, I have almost started a couple times, then crap comes up that interferes with life in general.
Pretty damn close, actually
Ativan
I gave the unmanliest squeal just now when I found my Tokio Hotel CD.
Look out below!
Eyes
Quote from: Malachite on May 06, 2012, 12:37:13 AM
Eyes
Looking at Ativan, who is trying out that 'come F* me look'... LOL, damn, it never seems to work.
Quote from: Ativan on May 06, 2012, 02:48:23 PM
Looking at Ativan, who is trying out that 'come F* me look'... LOL, damn, it never seems to work.
practice makes perfect
Ya big lug of a sweet talker, you...
;)
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1096.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fg334%2FJ_Rouleau%2FCat%2520Gifs%2FBusFail.gif&hash=5a0841b1b50a3e8c1de16ead6b611d4b8a6c79c5)
What I can't sell on Craigslist I am probably going to give away at the end of the month. I'm tired of looking at all this junk and I can't take it with me when I move one day so it's best to give it to people and kids who can use it. I'm upset that my nephew abuses the things I give him. It will be a cold day in hell before I do that again.
Thanks to having to sort out CentreLink on Friday, there were no cockroaches left for me to dissect when I went in to do my Biology prac today instead! >:(
I like this thread, it is relevant, more than you may know, to non-binaries.
That and I miss the posts about fruitcake and bacon.
I miss the people who used to make those posts, a lot.
Ativan
Would a bacon and fruit smoothie bring you a bit of comfort?
Gotta be havin that fruitcake talk...
Trying to find that old thread that I remember it having a lot to do with it...
*ucking can't remember the topic title, but it was one of the funniest ones I ever read.
(and how are you doing?)
Ativan
Millionares have to sleep too.....too bad I'm not one.
I wish a random celebrity could give me a large sum of money just because they can.
Quote from: Ativan on May 17, 2012, 11:19:38 PM
Gotta be havin that fruitcake talk...
Trying to find that old thread that I remember it having a lot to do with it...
*ucking can't remember the topic title, but it was one of the funniest ones I ever read.
(and how are you doing?)
Ativan
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,8479.0.html (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,8479.0.html)
;)
Nope, I thought it was too, but I think that one is a spinnoff from it.
Thanks though!
Ativan
I should really give my laptop a break before it blows out. No matter, I have insurance.
Quote from: Ativan on May 17, 2012, 11:36:22 PM
Nope, I thought it was too, but I think that one is a spinnoff from it.
Thanks though!
Ativan
How about this one?
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,8356.0.html (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,8356.0.html)
Wow, I wasn't even around back then. It was one I resurrected last year? Yr before?
I came on here sept 09 I think, but I deleted a lot of early posts (pissy mood).
Eh, I'll find it tomorrow, or more likely forget I was looking.
It sure is something though to look back and see everyone from when I first started here...
*slap myself for sentimentalism*
Thanks again!
Ativan
"We will be whole again!'
Think I'll make some whole wheat toast and go watch reruns till I can sleep.
Mania kicking in again...
You all have a good night!
Ativan
Bacon and fruit smoothie? How about Lemon Chicken? or Duck a l'Orange. The mind reels with the possibilities!
I'm treating it like a puzzle - a newbie with only so-so intuitive people skills trying to figure out what this thread is all about. Actually searched for "bacon" in the thread history but only got today's hit.
Too bad I can't turn to the back of the book to look up the answer like in math class.
Could I trouble one of you veterans to give us newcomers a sentence or two of clarification to help?
Well
When you are on the androgne talk page, look at the top or bottom to see back pages of topics that are here.
You can page back to older topics if you want to look at some of the history of this section.
You can do that with any section.
Ativan
fruitcake again? i can't say i remember the topic title either
actually, i haven't even tasted the dish, so i should just withdraw from any discussion of it
but if you want bacon, then that's much easier for me to provide
Bacon! Mmm...
next time i get a piece of bacon walking around on four legs, i'll call it francis
right now we don't have any live bacon, so i'll have to settle for calling one of the cute lambs we have redneck. since it's perfectly snow white apart from it's red neck
flavored water
Yes, but what flavor?!
Quote from: Taka on May 18, 2012, 02:31:05 PM
next time i get a piece of bacon walking around on four legs, i'll call it francis
right now we don't have any live bacon, so i'll have to settle for calling one of the cute lambs we have redneck. since it's perfectly snow white apart from it's red neck
I thought "Francis" was a mule?!
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Quote from: agfrommd on May 18, 2012, 07:35:11 AM
I'm treating it like a puzzle - a newbie with only so-so intuitive people skills trying to figure out what this thread is all about. Actually searched for "bacon" in the thread history but only got today's hit.
Too bad I can't turn to the back of the book to look up the answer like in math class.
Could I trouble one of you veterans to give us newcomers a sentence or two of clarification to help?
The first post explains the topic quite thoroughly.
Quote from: agfrommd on May 18, 2012, 07:35:11 AM
I'm treating it like a puzzle - a newbie with only so-so intuitive people skills trying to figure out what this thread is all about. Actually searched for "bacon" in the thread history but only got today's hit.
Too bad I can't turn to the back of the book to look up the answer like in math class.
Could I trouble one of you veterans to give us newcomers a sentence or two of clarification to help?
Derailed, as in off the tracks on this crazy train. Drifting, as in the discussion drifting off to a different topic.
The title, 'the thread that can't be derailed', is a very clever way from Mrs Bussel to start a thread with it being derailed or drifting right from the start. We have a reputation here at Susans for having most threads drift off topic. We like it, it's fun, it opens up a variety of discussions that might not otherwise take place. We find bits of humor and information that helps us to define ourselves to each other, in a very informal way. It's most particular to the Androgyn section, yet almost everyone it seems comes here for the fun of drifting or as this thread just turned, nonsensical. I love the insight of some posts, and find myself laughing at ones that I don't get until later. Ideas and terms for things are born from these kind of discussions, such as the fruitcake and bacon stuff. It just rolls. I imagine, though I don't know for sure (I wasn't here at the start of it), but this is possibly where the unicorn forest concept came from. Wouldn't surprise me. These drifting discussions are where I learned how much respect and love I have for the people in this section, and for those who come here with big hearts and minds from elsewhere.
That being said, I just wish I could remember what it was that...
Quote from: Jamie D on May 18, 2012, 05:19:41 PM
I thought "Francis" was a mule?!
are you telling me that the bacon was a mule!!???
some parts of history will need to be redefined....
Sleepy
And those other six...
I have a terrible dilema, i feel fat, and i think i should lose weight, but my bra is so...FULL!
Whats a girl to do? Off to ebay to look for knockoff spanx, and maybe a pair of mules.
Why do wallabies think they can head-butt a 4WD tyre doing 90 kph and survive? :o
Quote from: justmeinoz on May 22, 2012, 07:55:39 AM
Why do wallabies think they can head-butt a 4WD tyre doing 90 kph and survive? :o
Not ALL wallabies.
The one you saw was on a reality show.
Resurrected. For the fun of it.
What reality show has wallabies on it?
I'm not sure I want to know if there is an Australian reality show with wallabies.
Or I might want to know...
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on July 23, 2012, 09:36:04 PM
Resurrected. For the fun of it.
What reality show has wallabies on it?
I'm not sure I want to know if there is an Australian reality show with wallabies.
Or I might want to know...
It's sort of an Aussie Fear Factor. This stunt was to try to stop an SUV with a transgendered driver going a mile a minute using only their bone structure. Winner gets to hang eternally over someone's fireplace.
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Hey, I tried.
Quote from: Connie Anne on December 05, 2011, 02:48:37 PM
SSF is in a fog-time-vortex. I know, I grew up there.
Just got this post. Bad vortex! Bad vortex! DOWN!
Quote from: justmeinoz on December 12, 2011, 04:34:31 AM
North America's Pronghorn Antelope run really fast, and virtually have their eyes on swivels on the sides of their heads. What on earth did they need to escape from to evolve this way? ??? And who else is glad it's not still around!! :o
Karen.
Chevy Impalas.
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Thank goodness they went extinct due to predation by Tow Trucks (aka Lower Extremity Lorries) in the earlylate Triassic Menarche:
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Unfortunately by the time the rear tyre had gone over it there wasn't a lot left. Not even enough for a decent stir-fry. :( I had some wallaby sausages last week though, they were really tasty, and the pub where our Uni Philosophy Club meets does lovely Wallaby pizzas too.
Meet every Wednesday, cheap beer and pizza from 6pm is a topic on which there is no disagreement!!
I need to finish watching the Spec Ops: The Line gameplay.
Quote from: justmeinoz on July 24, 2012, 02:25:10 AM
Unfortunately by the time the rear tyre had gone over it there wasn't a lot left. Not even enough for a decent stir-fry. :( I had some wallaby sausages last week though, they were really tasty, and the pub where our Uni Philosophy Club meets does lovely Wallaby pizzas too.
Meet every Wednesday, cheap beer and pizza from 6pm is a topic on which there is no disagreement!!
Wallaby pizza and pointless debate, I'm there.
I used to live in Crawley where there is a farm which has Wallabys. As the song goes, 'If you wallaby my lover..."
80's and 90's music of any genre out do any of the music that's made today
That may be because so much music today seems to just be copying 80s 90s stuff.
Quote from: Malachite on July 25, 2012, 02:30:33 PM
80's and 90's music of any genre out do any of the music that's made today
Love 'em both. Can listen to Pat Benetar and Belinda Carlisle one moment and Katy Perry and Lady Gaga the next.
Quote from: agfrommd on July 25, 2012, 09:58:42 PM
Love 'em both. Can listen to Pat Benetar and Belinda Carlisle one moment and Katy Perry and Lady Gaga the next.
That is so true. Sometimes I can actually hear the bacon when Lady Gaga sings. She has no gristle.
I made cheesy pasta with a hot sausage, it would have been so much tastier with crumbled bacon
When you realise you don't have any meat for the Balti curry you can use Squid, and it is even better!!
Quote from: agfrommd on July 25, 2012, 09:58:42 PM
Love 'em both. Can listen to Pat Benetar and Belinda Carlisle one moment and Katy Perry and Lady Gaga the next.
Video game music and some rock is all I can about tolerate now.
I would really like a can of juice.
Quote from: justmeinoz on July 26, 2012, 04:15:07 AM
When you realise you don't have any meat for the Balti curry you can use Squid, and it is even better!!
Around here we call it "calimari", which is Austro-Hungarian for Sea-Meat. That reminds me, has anyone seen Patches the Three Legged Mule? I miss her and hope she is ok.
i feel like this thread might need a revival *commences necromancy*
did it work..?
i just had this funny experience of meeting a japanese guy who studies saami language, of all things. of course this also means he learns norwegian. and since i also know japanese, and we both learned english too, turns out we had as much as four languages of communication to choose from. though we only used three of them, since english is too mainstream for linguaphiles
Drifting conversation. Insights of the virtues of bacon. Where does this path in the forest really go?
Do any of them have a destination, or do they just connect to other paths?
Time for another pain pill. And coffee.
Hey, Taka! :)
Ativan
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on September 28, 2012, 11:34:06 AM
Drifting conversation. Insights of the virtues of bacon. Where does this path in the forest really go?
Do any of them have a destination, or do they just connect to other paths?
Time for another pain pill. And coffee.
Hey, Taka! :)
Ativan
Again with the bacon???
Quote from: agfrommd on September 28, 2012, 11:47:53 AM
Again with the bacon???
Bacon is some pretty great stuff.
Quote from: Jaime on September 28, 2012, 11:52:32 AM
Bacon is some pretty great stuff.
Bacon could be the start of a new religion, the porkfold path!
Here is the holy trinity of bacon:
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Kevin, Fried, and Francis
I thought I smelled bacon!
But didn't someone forget the eggs?
Quote from: agfrommd on September 28, 2012, 11:47:53 AM
Again with the bacon???
Yep. The #1 topic of drifting threads is back ;)
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on September 28, 2012, 11:34:06 AM
Drifting conversation. Insights of the virtues of bacon. Where does this path in the forest really go?
Do any of them have a destination, or do they just connect to other paths?
Time for another pain pill. And coffee.
Hey, Taka! :)
Ativan
hey ativan!
i feel like it's been a little too long since i last had the pleasure of talking to you (my own fault though, just disappearing like that all the time)
if only i cared more for bacon, i might actually try to answer those questions. instead i think i'll ask if that's you in the pic?
Fresh mangoes, yes.
Honey roasted peanuts, sure.
Vanilla sheet cake with buttercream icing, definitely.
Even chicken alfredo with fresh garlic.
But how do burnt slabs of meat fat get classified as ambrosia of the gods?
Quote from: Taka on September 28, 2012, 12:56:21 PM
hey ativan!
i feel like it's been a little too long since i last had the pleasure of talking to you (my own fault though, just disappearing like that all the time)
if only i cared more for bacon, i might actually try to answer those questions. instead i think i'll ask if that's you in the pic?
Yep, that's me from a couple months ago. We all disapear from time to time, and we worry and hope things are OK.
We have that quality it seems, in exess of the norm.
Whether or not someone likes bacon, it is the topic of discussion, all the good and bad.
It could be something of more importance, but that would just be pushing the emotional edge into the area of the usual topics.
It is the starting place for us to talk about things in a light hearted fashion that seems to suit us as a group.
It's also a great way for others to join in, in the fun of just being and not worry about who what and where.
Seems that drifting brings out the better in us, regardless of who we are. That's the forest for yah...
Can you tell that the pain killers are working, lol?
Broke a bone in my hand plunging a toilet of all things. Yep, the Doc thought it was funny, too.
Cast comes off in a month, if the x-ray looks good. I will probably take it off sooner. Damn things.
But this thread is about drifting, and I had a discussion of where to retire, between two volcanoes in Costa Rica, or a nice tropical local in the Philipine's, on FB. I like the idea of sitting back and drinking cheap rum on the porch and watching the lava flow. 'Course, a beach with all those nearly naked people running around,... well that's another thing.
...drifting....
ag! You have brought up such delicious alternatives to the sacred cooked bacon!
Are you drifting into thoughts of culinary delight? I am, now that I am in drift mode...
Ativan
Quote from: agfrommd on September 28, 2012, 01:12:04 PM
But how do burnt slabs of meat fat get classified as ambrosia of the gods?
Chacun à son god...
Quote from: espo on December 03, 2011, 10:16:57 AM
How do you pronounce Siobhan. I love that name but can't say it.
sho van
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on September 28, 2012, 01:18:50 PM
Yep, that's me from a couple months ago. We all disapear from time to time, and we worry and hope things are OK.
looking good from behind...
i hope i didn't cause any unnecessary worry, and i'm glad to see you're... eh... maybe not too ok, but at least around
talking about drifting, i kinda drifted way off to a very different type of forum where the members seemed to be everything from robots and kittens to humanoids and tentacle monsters. it feels somewhat liberating to have a place where i can be sides of myself that would be rather awkward to express offline
I really don't like bacon. I know y'all are probably thinking, "How is that possible?" I just never liked the stuff. Then again, any meat can taste like chicken if it's prepared right.
I also am not a fan of New York isolationist culture. I went on a train for the first time in a year today, and I saw that people still just sit on the train silent. It's as though they think any contact with strangers would lead to bad situations. Honestly, it's weird because if you think about it, every single one of your friends had to have been a stranger to you at some point. Even your parents were strangers to you once. Bottom line, I like talking to strangers in random places like the dental waiting room or train (especially because they can't just walk away from the "creepy person" since they have nowhere to go). It's fun to just have an engaging conversation with a complete stranger.
Quote from: DianaP on September 28, 2012, 03:33:42 PM
I really don't like bacon. I know y'all are probably thinking, "How is that possible?" I just never liked the stuff. Then again, any meat can taste like chicken if it's prepared right.
I also am not a fan of New York isolationist culture. I went on a train for the first time in a year today, and I saw that people still just sit on the train silent. It's as though they think any contact with strangers would lead to bad situations. Honestly, it's weird because if you think about it, every single one of your friends had to have been a stranger to you at some point. Even your parents were strangers to you once. Bottom line, I like talking to strangers in random places like the dental waiting room or train (especially because they can't just walk away from the "creepy person" since they have nowhere to go). It's fun to just have an engaging conversation with a complete stranger.
oh god, you're one of THOSE people I pray I never sit next to on the subway :D
Case closed.
Quote from: Ave on September 28, 2012, 03:38:50 PM
oh god, you're one of THOSE people I pray I never sit next to on the subway :D
Hey, talking to me would be better than just sitting around doing nothing. At least that way, you would be able to be stimulated//entertained during your ride to work so you don't come in looking like a zombie...
By the way, your avatar picture is creepy. :P
Quote from: Jamie D on September 28, 2012, 03:41:52 PM
Case closed.
What case?
Quote from: Ave on September 28, 2012, 03:38:50 PM
oh god, you're one of THOSE people I pray I never sit next to on the subway :D
Diana and I will be watching for you specifically.....You're in for it now sandwich! :D
Quote from: Shantel on September 28, 2012, 03:43:16 PM
Diana and I will be watching for you specifically.....You're in for it now sandwich! :D
I must say that it would be so funny if something like that actually happened. Every time I finish talking to strangers, they always look happier and more awake afterwards than beforehand.
Quote from: DianaP on September 28, 2012, 03:45:59 PM
I must say that it would be so funny if something like that actually happened. Every time I finish talking to strangers, they always look happier and more awake afterwards than beforehand.
but I don't want to talk!!!
Lmao, I like thinking on the train and I think it's a bit crazy to talk to random people. And I always shut people down anyway if they talk to me randomly and just go in the other train cart.
Quote from: Ave on September 28, 2012, 03:38:50 PM
oh god, you're one of THOSE people I pray I never sit next to on the subway :D
Speaking of subways, I love their new bacon options. I can make a healthy sandwich, then add bacon, making it a delicious sandwich. Like double meat double cheese philadelphia cheesesteak, now even better with bacon. It's really good with light ranch and a few springs of spinach.
I agree with DianaP though, there is nothing better than talking to strangers on the train when by brain is high on bacon from subways.
"Not just smart, pork-smart."
Quote from: Ave on September 28, 2012, 03:50:50 PM
but I don't want to talk!!!
Lmao, I like thinking on the train and I think it's a bit crazy to talk to random people. And I always shut people down anyway if they talk to me randomly and just go in the other train cart.
Which makes the whole sandwich idea funnier.
Well, if you don't want to talk, just say so. I always just move on to another person if people don't feel especially chatty.
By the way, I'm not crazy, I'm friendly, easily bored, and eccentric. :P
Quote from: DianaP on September 28, 2012, 03:59:27 PM
Which makes the whole sandwich idea funnier.
Well, if you don't want to talk, just say so. I always just move on to another person if people don't feel especially chatty.
By the way, I'm not crazy, I'm friendly, easily bored, and eccentric. :P
lol, I didn't call you crazy...I think ;). I'm more of the observent type in public, I like looking at people (not directly or obviously lol) because people are weird! :P
Quote from: DianaP on September 28, 2012, 03:59:27 PM
Which makes the whole sandwich idea funnier.
Well, if you don't want to talk, just say so. I always just move on to another person if people don't feel especially chatty.
By the way, I'm not crazy, I'm friendly, easily bored, and eccentric. :P
Maddie can bring the food Diana and the three of us will have a swell girly-girl conversation and let Ave sulk in the corner of the car. :D
Quote from: Ave on September 28, 2012, 04:07:19 PM
lol, I didn't call you crazy...I think ;). I'm more of the observent type in public, I like looking at people (not directly or obviously lol) because people are weird! :P
I refer you to this.
Quote from: Ave on September 28, 2012, 03:50:50 PM
I think it's a bit crazy to talk to random people.
Anywho, I was just messing around. I don't really get offended by being called crazy, because I know I'm not crazy; I'm weird!
I'M NOT JEALOUS, I'M WEIRD! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYYrTeQtLQc#)
Quote from: Shantel on September 28, 2012, 04:10:39 PM
Maddie can bring the food Diana and the three of us will have a swell girly-girl conversation and let Ave sulk in the corner of the car. :D
Well, that's a bit mean to me. I would feel like one of those preppy high school b-words.
Quote from: DianaP on September 28, 2012, 04:11:38 PM
Well, that's a bit mean to me. I would feel like one of those preppy high school b-words.
You must be referring to the film "Mean Girls." Not a chance hon! We want Ave to be one of the girly-girl chatty group, just chiding her to get on board with us and have one of Maddy's great sandwiches and get chatty with us on the train.
Quote from: Shantel on September 28, 2012, 05:31:34 PM
You must be referring to the film "Mean Girls." Not a chance hon! We want Ave to be one of the girly-girl chatty group, just chiding her to get on board with us and have one of Maddy's great sandwiches and get chatty with us on the train.
But she doesn't want to talk. :P I can respect that. If she wants to think, let her think.
Quote from: DianaP on September 28, 2012, 05:51:10 PM
But she doesn't want to talk. :P I can respect that. If she wants to think, let her think.
Thinking is good! I like Ave, just been pulling her leg a bit hon, it's ok!
I'm confused!
what is this thread even supposed to be about??? lol
Quote from: Ave on September 28, 2012, 06:50:16 PM
I'm confused!
what is this thread even supposed to be about??? lol
Anything you want it to be. :)
I made dinner and no one's home yet.
Screw it, I'll just go ahead an eat ;D
Quote from: Ave on September 28, 2012, 06:50:16 PM
I'm confused!
what is this thread even supposed to be about??? lol
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Quote from: Ave on September 28, 2012, 06:58:01 PM
I made dinner and no one's home yet.
Screw it, I'll just go ahead an eat ;D
As you should. You made YOUR dinner. I made mine too. Eggs, rice, an orange, a banana, and chicken. If anyone has the nerve to come late, I am not waiting for them.
Quote from: DianaP on September 28, 2012, 07:00:39 PM
As you should. You made YOUR dinner. I made mine too. Eggs, rice, an orange, a banana, and chicken. If anyone has the nerve to come late, I am not waiting for them.
but, it's for my partner AND me (and my partner's evil sister).
Quote from: Ave on September 28, 2012, 07:18:37 PM
but, it's for my partner AND me (and my partner's evil sister).
Unless they are so co-dependent that they need you to eat with them, dig in!
Quote from: DianaP on September 28, 2012, 07:19:43 PM
Unless they are so co-dependent that they need you to eat with them, dig in!
already done :P.
Does anyone know whatever happened to TAB soda? lol
Quote from: Ave on September 28, 2012, 07:25:01 PM
Does anyone know whatever happened to TAB soda? lol
That reminds me, does anyone know what happened to the 70's?
Tab Slogans (from Wikawhatever)
1966: "Be a Mindsticker"
1968: "The Now Taste of Tab"
1972: "Where There's Tab, There's Refreshment"
1974: "A Beautiful Drink for Beautiful People"
1975: "When It's Hard to Get Started, Start with a Glass of Refreshing Tab"
1976: "The Hit That Saves The Day"
1978: "One Calorie, Beautiful"
1982: "Great Taste, Low Calorie"
1983: "Crisp, Refreshing, and Satisfying"
1986: "Tab's Got Sass"
2012: "Tab is back"
1979 Tab Cola Commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfwORV5Lnak#)
Quote from: Ave on September 28, 2012, 07:25:01 PM
already done :P.
Does anyone know whatever happened to TAB soda? lol
Its glorious pink goodness is still being produced, except where local bottlers have given in to tabphobia and stifled its soda expression.
Quotehttp://home.epix.net/~tjwagner/tabfaq.html (http://home.epix.net/~tjwagner/tabfaq.html)
I heard that Coca-Cola is discontinuing Tab. What should I do?
As far as I know, there are no broad plans to discontinue Tab. Each of Coke's regional bottlers has discretion over whether to produce Tab. If it is a good seller in their market, they will continue to produce it. If not, then it may be discontinued in that area. If you want to support Tab, you might consider writing or calling your local bottler.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on September 28, 2012, 07:38:25 PM
That reminds me, does anyone know what happened to the 70's?
Events unfolded through time, the non-space medium through which events occur in a usually linear fashion. :icon_geekdance: Nothing lasts forever. Sorry.
Quote from: MadelineB on September 28, 2012, 07:40:03 PM
Its glorious pink goodness is still being produced, except where local bottlers have given in to tabphobia and stifled its soda expression.
thanks! I tasted it a few times and wondered what ever happened to it lol
Quote from: DianaP on September 28, 2012, 07:42:04 PM
Events unfolded through time, the non-space medium through which events occur in a usually linear fashion. :icon_geekdance: Nothing lasts forever. Sorry.
Damn. Thought I just misplaced it somewhere...
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on September 28, 2012, 07:38:25 PM
That reminds me, does anyone know what happened to the 70's?
Tab Slogans (from Wikawhatever)
1966: "Be a Mindsticker"
1968: "The Now Taste of Tab"
1972: "Where There's Tab, There's Refreshment"
1974: "A Beautiful Drink for Beautiful People"
1975: "When It's Hard to Get Started, Start with a Glass of Refreshing Tab"
1976: "The Hit That Saves The Day"
1978: "One Calorie, Beautiful"
1982: "Great Taste, Low Calorie"
1983: "Crisp, Refreshing, and Satisfying"
1986: "Tab's Got Sass"
2012: "Tab is back"
Don't forget these classic slogans:
2650BC: Tab - the immortal taste of Imhotep, sealed in metal for enternity
1491: Tab it was sugar free before sugar was discovered
1492: Tab an african nut flavored drink for a new continent
1776: Tab, a revolution of flavor because we threw all our tea in the harbor
1812: Tab, the beverage for British overlords.
1814: The British went home but we still have Tab
....
Quote from: Ave on September 28, 2012, 07:25:01 PM
already done :P.
Does anyone know whatever happened to TAB soda? lol
TAB was the first canned soda to have a pull-top tab on top. Prior to that, one needed a "church key" to open canned sodas. TAB was also specifically marketed toward women, as a diet soda, and in the pink can.
TAB has largely been replaced by Diet Coke.
Don't forget these:
1812-->Napoleon lost in Russia, but we didn't lose our Tab.
1941--> Mein Führer, Operation Barbarossa was a failure, but we still have our Tab!
Quote from: Jamie D on September 28, 2012, 08:29:42 PM
TAB was the first canned soda to have a pull-top tab on top. Prior to that, one needed a "church key" to open canned sodas. TAB was also specifically marketed toward women, as a diet soda, and in the pink can.
TAB has largely been replaced by Diet Coke.
Soda nerd! :laugh: :icon_wave-nerd:
Quote from: Jamie D on September 28, 2012, 08:29:42 PM
TAB was the first canned soda to have a pull-top tab on top. Prior to that, one needed a "church key" to open canned sodas. TAB was also specifically marketed toward women, as a diet soda, and in the pink can.
TAB has largely been replaced by Diet Coke.
you're calling me a girl?lmfao :P
TAB is still being produced where I live. >.>
And...I'm pet sitting a dog that wants to eat me. [Yay change of conversation :P ]
Quote from: Arawn Gabriel on September 28, 2012, 09:49:47 PM
TAB is still being produced where I live. >.>
And...I'm pet sitting a dog that wants to eat me. [Yay change of conversation :P ]
I'm sure you'd be delicious.
I appreciate the deviation from the soda-talk. It is weird how much people care to know about it.
I never liked pets simply because they are too much responsibility. It's like having a kid that can never talk.
Has anyone ever actually made a set of motorcycle waterproofs that are?
i think i'll change back to an earlier topic and mention how i often used to hide behind a hijab on the bus back in high school, just to make sure that nobody would even think of sitting down next to me and try chatting me up
Quote from: Taka on September 29, 2012, 09:02:54 AM
i think i'll change back to an earlier topic and mention how i often used to hide behind a hijab on the bus back in high school, just to make sure that nobody would even think of sitting down next to me and try chatting me up
I don't see how that would be effective. :-\
Yesterday, we hooked up the solar panels (for heat, the liquid kind) to the system, purged the air and got the 12VDC pump going. It hooks into a 250 gallon heat storage tank. The water in that will heat the in floor radiant heat system. But by the time we were done, the sun was setting and so, no heat. The sun is about to come around the corner and shine on the panels. It's for a 16'X20' greenhouse that we are going to grow stuff using aquaponics (look it up). We already have been playing with a 70 gallon tank of fish and two halfs of a 55 gallon drum to grow stuff in. Using a handful of goldfish, about 30 (about an inch long, babies). In thirty days, we have been picking lettuce for 3 weeks, cucmbers for 2 weeks and tomatoes for the last week. This is in an 8'X10' green house we made to start plants last spring. More tanks, more planting beds, we hope to produce enough vegetables and fruits for a family of 4+, within a month to 6 weeks. It will only get better after that. So far we have invested less than 200USD. We have found a lot of material for free, the solar panels had been laying around for over 20 years.
We have found specialized plastic sheeting that will be covering the south end and sides, with another different layer that will be held over the bottom layer with slight air pressure to minimize heat loss.
Gotta go,...the sun is moving over the panels. I'm excited, this has been a slow proccess finding the materials. Next week starts the electric solar panels to run the system (all 12VDC) including the control systems for the pumps that work the panels that heat the storage that heats the floor, so that the pumps that transfers water from the fish tanks to the grow beds, work too.
(one hand tied behind my back*)
Ativan
Quote from: DianaP on September 29, 2012, 10:03:03 AM
I don't see how that would be effective. :-\
looking like a strict muslim irani woman helps. even more so in a place where most people are slightly prejudiced against immigrants, especially muslims
Quote from: Taka on September 29, 2012, 11:31:15 AM
looking like a strict muslim irani woman helps. even more so in a place where most people are slightly prejudiced against immigrants, especially muslims
I've talked to the strict-looking ones too. No one is safe from my onslaught of chatter! >:-)
hmmm.... but you aren't a guy who's too desperate to get laid, so i suppose i wouldn't mind all that much
might even enjoy it
Quote from: MadelineB on September 28, 2012, 06:58:27 PM
Train-sitioning.
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Still chuckling to myself about this one. Love the color scheme.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on September 29, 2012, 10:28:30 AM
I'm excited, this has been a slow proccess finding the materials. Next week starts the electric solar panels to run the system (all 12VDC) including the control systems for the pumps that work the panels that heat the storage that heats the floor, so that the pumps that transfers water from the fish tanks to the grow beds, work too.
Ativan
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Smart plan for these times!
Indeed, it is. Some of the plant leaves will be dried and flaked for the fish, the rest will be composted (heated of course) with worms growing in it to compost faster and for fish food. The water from the plants comes back clean and fresh for the fish.
Composted dirt will be for summer growing of stuff. The system is as green as we can make it, by recycling materials and such from people who would otherwise just throw it in a landfill. It's also completely free of herbicides, pesticides/insecticides.
It's more organic than the organic stuff you find in stores. We can also use game fish for food when they are big enough and have produced offspring. A small honeybee hive is in the works. Solar powered free food. Works for me.
First run up of the solar panels today was pushing 30,000Btu's/Hr. That's from the first four. Still have five more to rebuild. :)
Ativan
Quote from: MadelineB on September 28, 2012, 06:58:27 PM
Train-sitioning.
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That's an MBTA commuter rail train, they run right in front of my house. I bet you I can spot that exact one, the 1028 in short order.
so much time spent on irc, and i still haven't thought of visiting susans' chat.....
I read two disturbing news articles today. About a looming global bacon shortage, and about a pig farmer in Coos Bay Oregon who was eaten by his hogs. Coincidence?
Quote from: MadelineB on October 02, 2012, 11:22:02 PM
I read two disturbing news articles today. About a looming global bacon shortage, and about a pig farmer in Coos Bay Oregon who was eaten by his hogs. Coincidence?
An instance of Transspecies. This was clearly a tiger born into a hog's body. If only it had been allowed to transition as a piglet and live in the asian jungles, a lot of bloodshed would have been avoided.
Quote from: agfrommd on October 03, 2012, 07:42:06 AM
An instance of Transspecies. This was clearly a tiger born into a hog's body. If only it had been allowed to transition as a piglet and live in the asian jungles, a lot of bloodshed would have been avoided.
ROFL!
Quote from: agfrommd on October 03, 2012, 07:42:06 AM
An instance of Transspecies.
Have you ever heard of otherkin?
and once again, the technology i'm dependent on for teaching my students doesn't work
even bacon is better than this
Quote from: Taka on October 04, 2012, 07:21:03 AM
and once again, the technology i'm dependent on for teaching my students doesn't work
even bacon is better than this
Never let technology know you're dependent on it. Technology is like dogs. It can smell dependence and use the opportunity to show who's boss.
I never liked newfangled technologies. They fail. Chalk and a board don't...
Quote from: DianaP on October 04, 2012, 03:19:59 PM
I never liked newfangled technologies. They fail. Chalk and a board don't...
Count me too on this one! The older we get the more resistant we become to change, and since technology is moving at warp speed I an occasionally befuddled. That's when I ask a ten year old, they have all the answers to tough tech navigating problems. ;D
I'm such a Geek. ;) I love how people misuse new technology. ??? The look of frustration that they have after standing in line, waiting to get their hands on the newest gadget, and finding out that it's really not changing their lives like they thought it would. ::) K.I.S.S. Geek wisdom rule #1. You need to think like a geekologist to understand geekology. It's a phone, that you won't use half of what it can also do, after a week of trying. It won't tell you to look out for that pole you're about to walk into because you're busy looking at your gadget. :o It's dangerous out there, IRL. :laugh:
Ativan
I feel like this about ebook readers - I prefer a book I can still read after dropping it in the bath :).
Quote from: Padma on October 04, 2012, 04:13:29 PM
I feel like this about ebook readers - I prefer a book I can still read after dropping it in the bath :).
So a book with every page laminated?
Which reminds me. If all this new high tech gadgetry is so good, why isn't it waterproof?
If it's handheld, if it's able to be used outside, or near any water, why isn't it waterproof?
The companies know you'll buy another one or step up to the newest most expensive toy for doing something simple, yet.
I want a phone or tablet that makes me a cheeseburger. Underwater. When I'm done with the app that makes me fly.
And answers my voicemail and messages for me. Will keep everyone thinking I'm still alive after I die... ;)
Ativan
I know! Phones aren't even phones anymore. They make gadgets too fancy to the point where people stop using the best gadget of all: a brain. ;)
I still play with stuffed animals and toy blocks, so my toys are cheap. ;D
Quote from: DianaP on October 04, 2012, 04:18:00 PM
So a book with every page laminated?
Not necessary - carefully dried, they may be wrinkly but they're still readable :).
If I didn't have a "smart" phone, I wouldn't be able to moderate in bed ;D.
Quote from: DianaP on October 04, 2012, 04:31:46 PM
I know! Phones aren't even phones anymore. They make gadgets too fancy to the point where people stop using the best gadget of all: a brain. ;)
"a brain"? What is that? I have never heard of that gadget. It must be new
I can see clearly now, my brain is gone...
Braindrops are falling on my head...
They are braindrop proof, I do believe.
And makes bacon the way I like it... :)
Yep, I might wait in a short line for that one.
I was amazed to discover my phone is Yiddish-enabled - it knows how to spell kvetch :).
Quote from: Padma on October 04, 2012, 04:34:45 PM
If I didn't have a "smart" phone, I wouldn't be able to moderate in bed ;D.
Moderation in all things, eh?
it would be great to have the opportunity to teach in a classroom with blackboard and chalk. or even just a whiteboard
though unfortunately, the students are miles away, and we're 100% dependent on this telecom system to work in order to give them this education. lately it's been getting worse instead of better, and nobody seems wiling to take responsibility for the children's education and fix things so they work at least 90% of the time
Quote from: Taka on October 05, 2012, 04:34:41 AM
it would be great to have the opportunity to teach in a classroom with blackboard and chalk. or even just a whiteboard
though unfortunately, the students are miles away, and we're 100% dependent on this telecom system to work in order to give them this education. lately it's been getting worse instead of better, and nobody seems wiling to take responsibility for the children's education and fix things so they work at least 90% of the time
I hear ya'. Didn't mean to make light of the difficulties of our job (I'm a teacher in a computer lab, so I was kind commiserating.)
It's just sad that Isaac Newton could invent calculus in a barn with his brain, cheap paper, and a quill, yet people today can barely perform arithmetic without calculators...
"What's 2+2?"
"Uh, let me check my smart phone. Siri, what's 2+2?"
Dummies.
Quote from: agfrommd on October 05, 2012, 04:52:35 AM
I hear ya'. Didn't mean to make light of the difficulties of our job (I'm a teacher in a computer lab, so I was kind commiserating.)
well, i was commenting more on those who said chalk and blackboards are better. i agree with them, but it doesn't help me much in my current job. and unfortunately technology already found out, so... i'm sure it'll keep failing us over and over again until we do something to help it work the way it wants to
The first two cars in the state of Ohio.
They crashed at an intersection.
New technology is a bitch to get used to.
What did they use before chalkboards? ;)
Siri is only as smart as the questions asked of it. :laugh:
Just wait until Siri becomes aware of itself.
All telecommunications will be tied up as it talks to itself.
Another crash at the intersection of new technology.
I'll be in the barn...
jesus wrote in the sand. others wrote in clay or on stone, but i doubt they used those for teaching lessons
vikings wrote letters and messages on wooden sticks. the invention of ink and paper must have felt like a drawback every time the letters got soaked by whichever mishap
Quote from: Taka on October 05, 2012, 04:29:55 PM
jesus wrote in the sand. others wrote in clay or on stone, but i doubt they used those for teaching lessons
vikings wrote letters and messages on wooden sticks. the invention of ink and paper must have felt like a drawback every time the letters got soaked by whichever mishap
I think wax tablets rock, as long as you keep them out of the sun. Plus if it gets dark you can make candles from your reading material. Am I wicked for thinking of that?
Quote from: MadelineB on October 06, 2012, 01:56:04 AM
I think wax tablets rock, as long as you keep them out of the sun. Plus if it gets dark you can make candles from your reading material. Am I wicked for thinking of that?
The wicked Maddie B! :icon_mrgreen:
29 pages of mindless drivel that goes back for months.
I AM AN EVIL GENIUS!!!!
muhahahahahaha
Quote from: cynthialee on October 06, 2012, 10:24:19 AM
29 pages of mindless drivel that goes back for months.
You can say that again!
Quote from: cynthialee on October 06, 2012, 10:24:19 AM
29 pages of mindless drivel that goes back for months.
I AM AN EVIL GENIUS!!!!
muhahahahahaha
>:-) indeed, it is now 30 pages of derailed evil drivel.
My pain pills work
really good
Quote from: cynthialee on December 03, 2011, 09:47:32 AM
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Spongebob!
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Spongebob!
In the name of all that is holey!
Spongebob, violating the laws of physics and dumbing kids down since 1999.
I got my eyebrows waxed for the first time today. I never new how numb my left one is from the skull fracture I had under it. I did not feel a thing on that side.
Quote from: Brooke777 on October 06, 2012, 02:10:07 PM
I got my eyebrows waxed for the first time today. I never new how numb my left one is from the skull fracture I had under it. I did not feel a thing on that side.
Congratulations girl! I prefer waxing to plucking, but I never waxed brows at home - glad you went to a professional. Did the right brow hurt much?
My electrologist does cleanup on my brows. For some reason it makes my same side leg twitch like a frog. Only the brow area.
Quote from: DianaP on October 06, 2012, 11:52:54 AM
Spongebob, violating the laws of physics and dumbing kids down since 1999.
I think of Spongebob when the electrologist hands me a salty wet sponge attached to an electrode. Spongebob Squarezaps!
Quote from: MadelineB on October 06, 2012, 02:55:59 PM
Congratulations girl! I prefer waxing to plucking, but I never waxed brows at home - glad you went to a professional. Did the right brow hurt much?
My electrologist does cleanup on my brows. For some reason it makes my same side leg twitch like a frog. Only the brow area.
With the amount of pain I have been through in my life a little sting on the brow is nothing. It did not bother me, and she said she has never had a "first timer" be so calm. So, I guess I handled it quite well.
open minded people are wonderful
Well, of course they are.
Quote from: Brooke777 on October 06, 2012, 02:10:07 PM
I got my eyebrows waxed for the first time today. I never new how numb my left one is from the skull fracture I had under it. I did not feel a thing on that side.
I've had mine waxed and I don't see how girls do it all of the time. [Mine were waxed because my mom thought it would good 'girl bonding' time plus I needed them to look decent for some event.]
It's not like it hurts [at least not me], I just find it an annoyance. XD Though it was better than plucking because plucking took forever.
@ Taka:
They're great unless their minds are so open that their brains fall out.
I have a spiral fracture in a bone in my hand. Got it over a week ago.
I went and twisted it again, hurt like hell, I think I broke it worse.
It's swelling under the cast. So I took more Vicodin (7.5). And some more.
:laugh: I feel like my brain fell out :laugh:
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on October 06, 2012, 06:42:09 PM
I have a spiral fracture in a bone in my hand. Got it over a week ago.
I went and twisted it again, hurt like hell, I think I broke it worse.
It's swelling under the cast. So I took more Vicodin (7.5). And some more.
:laugh: I feel like my brain fell out :laugh:
1. Ow! =(
2. Way to go. :P But, seriously, that sounds horrible. =(
3. I bet your brain fell out after that much Vicodin. :P Vicodin makes it seem like I drank. A lot.
7.5mg tablets. I only took a couple, but I was down to 1/2 of one at night to help me sleep better.
Snapped from almost the top to almost the bottom. And it slipped a little, like it unwound sorta.
Sounds worse than it is. The x-ray looks even worse than describing it.
But yeah, buzzzed. :laugh:
*looking for my brain*
i hope you're going to the doctor about it again, ati... wouldn't be too nice if your hand end up unusable
Quote from: Arawn Gabriel on October 06, 2012, 06:22:17 PM
@ Taka:
They're great unless their minds are so open that their brains fall out.
mmm, yeah. those are better in hentai than irl
The most dangerous job in science? as per ABC news here Friday.
Semen collection from Saltwater Crocodiles for AI in a captive breeding program! :o
Karen.
Quote from: justmeinoz on October 07, 2012, 06:15:54 AM
The most dangerous job in science? as per ABC news here Friday.
Semen collection from Saltwater Crocodiles for AI in a captive breeding program! :o
Karen.
OTOH, if you happen to be a FEMALE saltwater crocodile, this could be a lot of fun...
I love fall. The leaves are pretty, the air smells crispier, and pumpkin spice goes in everything. Oh and Halloween! *Looks at now-empty coffee mug*
I never liked candy, so Halloween is irrelephant to me (Yes, that was a pun). :P
I love fall, though! I just like the colder weather since in summer, I sweat my body weight in water daily. It's so much easier to warm myself up than to cool myself down.
Quote from: agfrommd on October 07, 2012, 06:22:06 AM
OTOH, if you happen to be a FEMALE saltwater crocodile, this could be a lot of fun...
Until your eggs get fertilized. Then you'll have to care for a bunch of annoying crocodile brats. :P
I love the Fall season as well. Used to go on deer and elk hunts with some Neanderthals I know although I haven't cared to shoot anything since being in a war. The crisp morning air in the mountains is exhilarating, cooking out, a few drinks and hunting stories around the campfire is a huge change from the normal routine. I don't go anymore because of the BS I have to endure as they fight over who gets to have their cot next to mine, blah, blah, blah the usual male trash talk! :icon_redface:
I get a great kick out of stalking the deer hunters. I never wear the proper blaze orange. Those tree standers are fun as hell to sneak up on, even if it is from behind. I use a camera now, although I always feel like I should be armed. Seems weird to be stalking without a rifle and sidearm. Funny how that >-bleeped-< never lets go.
Stay safe out there! In this part of the country, you never know what some idiots think are a game animal.
Ativan
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on October 07, 2012, 11:43:04 AM
I get a great kick out of stalking the deer hunters. I never wear the proper blaze orange. Those tree standers are fun as hell to sneak up on, even if it is from behind. I use a camera now, although I always feel like I should be armed. Seems weird to be stalking without a rifle and sidearm. Funny how that >-bleeped-< never lets go.
Stay safe out there! In this part of the country, you never know what some idiots think are a game animal.
Ativan
You're right about that! There was a couple of old ladies out hunting mushrooms late in August a few years ago, a young teenaged bear hunter without any adult supervision shot one of them and killed her, she was wearing a blue rain jacket. WTF how many bears wear blue jackets?
In about 20 minutes I will go out for the last chance of the muzzel loading hunting season in my GMU.
This year is my first hunt for deer.
:)
Quote from: cynthialee on October 07, 2012, 06:08:08 PM
In about 20 minutes I will go out for the last chance of the muzzel loading hunting season in my GMU.
This year is my first hunt for deer.
:)
Good luck!
Quote from: cynthialee on October 07, 2012, 06:08:08 PM
In about 20 minutes I will go out for the last chance of the muzzel loading hunting season in my GMU.
This year is my first hunt for deer.
:)
I used to use a muzzle loader. Good luck!
young students working enthusiastically on a project, what a beautiful sight
i love it when i'm able to inspire kids to do something on their own
Strep throat is never fun. I'm so glad I feel better. I'm still on antibiotics though.
Quote from: Malachite on October 08, 2012, 02:05:40 PM
Strep throat is never fun. I'm so glad I feel better. I'm still on antibiotics though.
Get well kid, Strep can kill you if you don't kill it first!
I decided to try and follow dietary advice from an 18th century magazine. Barely left the loo.
Quote from: Malachite on October 08, 2012, 02:05:40 PM
Strep throat is never fun. I'm so glad I feel better. I'm still on antibiotics though.
Welcome back to the land of the well.
BTW dude, what's with the frilly avatar. I mean youse can wear anyting youse wants, but a dude in a dress - dat's jus' weird! ;D
Women in dresses is pretty weird too (in my subjective opinion :) ).
I like dresses. I like wearing dresses. But I can't be bothered with the looks I get when I do.
Dresses are so comfy! They let everything air out and I love them!
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It's just a personal thing, I've always found dresses on most people to be weird. Sarongs I can cope with, it's western women's skirts and dresses that mostly disconcert me. But then I'm a trouser-wearing gal, so it's probably got something to do with me fending off everyone's expectations that as a woman, of course I should *want* to wear dresses.
The couple of times I've worn them, I found them physically very comfortable, just emotionally wrong.
Well, I still think dresses are pretty. Hmph.
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Well, that's fine, no need to hmph, tastes differ :).
Yeah, I know. I just felt like being sassy. :)
Sass at will :D.
You should all try speaking your favorite songs. Don't sing them, but say the lyrics as though you were talking. It's so funny. :laugh:
Quote from: DianaP on October 08, 2012, 06:41:49 PM
Well, I still think dresses are pretty. Hmph.
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Look, Diana put my photo up, everyone likes to show that, Gee I'm so flattered! ;D
i had fun scaring high school students tonight. makes me wonder if telling ghost stories is tradition elsewhere too, or is it just here where i live?
Halloween at the end of the month is the most traditional.
But any campfire setting, sleep overs with friends, especially when young, is very traditional.
It's half the fun of doing those things.
When I was little, it was aliens as much as ghosts. :icon_hover-alien: :icon_nervious: :icon_yikes:
Quote from: Taka on October 09, 2012, 05:16:47 PM
i had fun scaring high school students tonight. makes me wonder if telling ghost stories is tradition elsewhere too, or is it just here where i live?
Since everyone where I live is already dead, we tell "living" stories to scare the children. Mwuahahaha!
Quote from: MadelineB on October 09, 2012, 10:35:25 PM
Since everyone where I live is already dead, we tell "living" stories to scare the children. Mwuahahaha!
That explains a lot. I think I understand you better.
This is a colour coded map of neural pathways in a human brain.
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All Hail the Psychedelic Broccoli!!
This is a psychedelic broccoli.
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Aye, fractal food to feed that multicoloured brain.
These are fractal pancakes
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Next up, Mandelbrötschen :).
lololololololol
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also
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seriously, that was an awesome pun.
+10 internets for Padma.
The curse/blessing of an associative mind - everything reminds me of everything ::).
Well, sounds like someone's a fan of the transitive property. ::)
Math is awesome, am I right?
Math is the best thing ever.
µ
[in a zen way...]
I am a fan of the present subjunctive, but I will talk of infinitives.
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árusa...
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Serendipity...
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Ativan wakes up, gets coffee, reads eighteen posts, and realizes, doesn't a clue to what was just read, yet.
Wonders if there is something wrong with the coffee.
Realizes what thread they are reading and wanders away to have a smoke.
I have to go do something today that I don't know why, yet.
Goes to get more coffee.
Wonders where the coffee is, again.
And so the day begins.
Assumes they are, therefore exists.
Ativan
I'm wondering why I get up an hour before my 8:00 class. Probably so I can drink coffee and look at what happened on the Internet when I slept. I've been having so much "screen time" lately, it's a bit sad. But will I stop?
Quote from: hazelspikes on October 10, 2012, 07:28:44 AM
I'm wondering why I get up an hour before my 8:00 class. Probably so I can drink coffee and look at what happened on the Internet when I slept. I've been having so much "screen time" lately, it's a bit sad. But will I stop?
Susan's Place is addictive just like coffee, they go together in the morning! ;D
Truth. Well, good morning all! :) And I can't (well shouldn't) skip because my first class is important to my major. And I need to look good.
Quote from: Padma on October 10, 2012, 06:30:51 AM
Serendipity...
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The four corner words make a nice koan--
Masturbate Meanwhile Matrimonial:
Meditate
No coincidence my male name was also on those pages, meaning 'dim, non-reflective'
Quote from: Isabelle on October 10, 2012, 06:01:53 AM
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Reminds me of a poem I'm about to write:
I would like Ponies but they bite me when I'm near.
Is it my carrot nose or my cauliflower ear?
Whoa now nellie that's not an apple its my belly!
Bad bad Pony Bad bad.
Quote from: MadelineB on October 10, 2012, 09:55:21 AM
The four corner words make a nice koan--
There's a story behind this...
Back when I was planning to leave the Buddhist retreat centre I'd been living in for 6 years, and was wondering what to do next, my Portuguese friend (who'd lived there too) jokingly said Why not come over to Portugal?
So I bought this Portuguese-English dictionary, and the very first time I opened it at random, I hit this page, and the ultimate dilemma: masturbate-meditate.
It's a running joke between us now, I write Escolhas, Escolhas (choices, choices...) - and no, I never learned Portuguese, and never went there.
Well, I saw ponies, Buddhist retreat centers, and auto-erotic behavior all on one page.... Weird.
Anywho, I just ate the first piece of junk food since I was 11. Coffee cake after years of super-strict health eating wasn't that big of a deal. Pastries taste like sugar on crack, so I'll stay away from them.
I'm guessing Matt.
As for matt, I prefer it to gloss. If I wanted my walls to shine I would have smeared them with oil.
Ummm... eggshell...
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on October 09, 2012, 07:59:43 PM
Halloween at the end of the month is the most traditional.
But any campfire setting, sleep overs with friends, especially when young, is very traditional.
It's half the fun of doing those things.
When I was little, it was aliens as much as ghosts. :icon_hover-alien: :icon_nervious: :icon_yikes:
but the teachers scaring their students?
best thing is, we tell of our own and our relatives or friends' personal experiences. so no aliens
Quote from: MadelineB on October 09, 2012, 10:35:25 PM
Since everyone where I live is already dead, we tell "living" stories to scare the children. Mwuahahaha!
*shudders* yeah, the living are much scarier than the dead
My cat used my boob as a pillow last night =3
Contemplating the hilarity of the current UK system, in which a piece of paper turns you legally from (for example) a man into a woman, but then suddenly makes marriage to a woman impossible and marriage to a man possible, instead of the exact opposite, makes my head explode.
I hate when that happens. :icon_headache:
Fall is the best season.
I think trousers are weird, actually, and wonder about the quirk of history that assigned them to men. (From horse riding, I've heard.) There is no designated place for the equipment to go, it just sort of gets squished in place or awkwardly to one side.
must be the horse-riding, since non-riding soldiers in other cultures could do war in kilts/skirts/whatevertheymaycallit. i've long wondered why trousers are so popular when men look so much sexier in skirt-like clothing
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cheeseburger bed is best idea evrar
I'd be just a bit nervous :o if I were sleeping on something that resembled a Jumbo Jack w/cheese :D
Quote from: V M on October 15, 2012, 06:00:53 PM
I'd be just a bit nervous :o if I were sleeping on something that resembled a Jumbo Jack w/cheese :D
I'm with VM. I have no aspirations to become a condiment.
Then again, it would somewhat depend on who wanted to eat me >:-)
What if it was a waterbed shaped like a cheeseburger? Then, it'd be one of those high school cafeteria lunchs. Seriously, my friends and I tested this multiple times throughout public school. The hamburgers and hotdogs bounced. :( ???
We could take turns being the pickle...
Round beds are annoying too..
Quote from: V M on October 15, 2012, 06:42:24 PM
Then again, it would somewhat depend on who wanted to eat me >:-)
You're so naughty, just a piece of meat! :icon_mrgreen:
Quote from: Shantel on October 15, 2012, 07:20:30 PM
You're so naughty, just a piece of meat! :icon_mrgreen:
HeHe... I thought everyone liked to add bacon to their cheese burgers >:-)
Quote from: Padma on October 15, 2012, 06:59:57 PM
We could take turns being the pickle...
I need an adult. (said in my best Chris Griffin voice)
Don't forget the beetroot for a genuine Aussie burger!
And the Aussies here will agree you can't beet a root! ;)
Quote from: justmeinoz on October 16, 2012, 02:41:05 AM
Don't forget the beetroot for a genuine Aussie burger!
And the Aussies here will agree you can't beet a root! ;)
No, you can't beet a root.. As my dearest mum has always told me, one you say no to is one you don't get.. >:-)
As a fellow antipodean, I agree. Burgers need beetroot. I don't even like beet root but simply can not imagine a "barbie" without (watties) beet root in the burgers. Its just the done thing. Anything else simply wouldn't be proper. It's like national flags, they're naked without a Union Jack.
[posting this here so you may choose to ignore]
*sigh* the hurdles one has to overcome...
finally did it, called to get an appointment with my doctor. been postponing this phone call for... 4-5 years? ridiculously long at least, just to get a general health check. and some tests that one is advised to take after not refusing unprotected sex. let's see if i can get around to talk about trans issues too, despite being this hesitant to just ask for a few tests. makes me feel so ridiculously "manly"
at least i feel like i can take this as a sign that i'm becoming more comfortable with my situation. i actually see some hope in the future, been a long time since i've been this optimistic about anything to do with myself
To derail, one must have a rail to begin with. Therefore, since there is no rail, to claim that this thread can be de-railed is invalid, as opposed to impossible, as a logical contradiction. And so...
That obviously means this thread doesn't exist. At least, not until dimension 8.
to derail one must have a rail to begin with. therefore we chose to go by car instead of taking the train
Quote from: justmeinoz on October 16, 2012, 02:41:05 AM
Don't forget the beetroot for a genuine Aussie burger!
And the Aussies here will agree you can't beet a root! ;)
I told some Aussie footballers that I was rooting for them, one said to the others, "Blimey Mates, we have a poofter!" :icon_redface: It was all a matter of semantics gone awry!
Mental wounds not healing
Who and what's to blame
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
Ozzy Osbourne-Crazy Train Lyrics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otdHbA4GlSI#)
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Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on October 16, 2012, 09:27:31 AM
Mental wounds not healing
Who and what's to blame
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
Ozzy Osbourne-Crazy Train Lyrics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otdHbA4GlSI#)
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I am running to catch that train!
Quote from: MadelineB on October 16, 2012, 10:20:00 AM
I am running to catch that train!
It's been a week now,...
Any luck? ;D
poor kitten.... my daughter brought it in to play with. i'm not sure how happy it really was with that attention
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on October 23, 2012, 01:58:13 PM
It's been a week now,...
Any luck? ;D
Oh I caught the crazy train, sorry. It just took me back to work again. And again. I have a monthly pass.
With a History exam coming up I now know an inordinate amount about the Columbian Exchange. ::)
Quote from: MadelineB on October 24, 2012, 01:47:20 AM
Oh I caught the crazy train, sorry. It just took me back to work again. And again. I have a monthly pass.
All Aboard! Hahahahaha! Aye aye aye aye aye.... ;)
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yay! i managed to finish my exam paper in time for the deadline. no idea if ti's good enough though, i could still fail completely
I have a history exam tomorrow. I know something about railroads. I haven't tried as hard this time around (cause I keep sleeping in class because of my crazy schedule those days). ??? Sooo I'm hoping that the rest of my grade will balance it out. ;D
I got an A on an ENGLISH paper! Yay me!
Also, I stayed for my school's open house to present the mechanical engineering class to prospective freshman. Apparantly, I did a good job. Made a lot of people think today. ;D
I rolled the dice and they froze in space. The world spun around them and I. Number: approaching one. Need more donkeys.
Quote from: MadelineB on October 24, 2012, 11:02:05 PM
I rolled the dice and they froze in space. The world spun around them and I. Number: approaching one. Need more donkeys.
um...wow?
Quote from: Brooke777 on October 24, 2012, 11:12:23 PM
um...wow?
Thanks! If I joined a religious order, my name would be Nun Sequitur.
but seriously: I laugh when putting things together that can't coexist. It's wonnamy favorite vices. I love images like those dice.
it's snowing. fun for the kids, but not those of us who have to drive to work
Power is back on here so dinner won't be Mongolian BBQ stir-fry on the gas BBQ, under the carport, in the cold. :)
Today, I took a stroll in the afternoon sun and bought a nice bikini for summer. Today was a good day.
my gp got me an appointment with a sexologist (those would be the gender specialists in norway) in the city. and then while i was thinking of whom to ask to substitute for me while i'm away that day, i suddenly remembered that my students are also in that city. idon't even have to take time off work, since i can just go visit their school and teach them there. i'm sure they'll be happy to see me in person instead of on screen...
really interesting how things work out some times. but if this goes too well, i'm afraid i might have already failed that exam. can't have too much good at once after all.... or maybe that's just needless worry
I'm going to see if I can get this damn cast off today. If they won't remove it, I will.
I just might have to bring along the cutters, if I don't get a brace.
I stopped taping my two fingers together yesterday. Looks like it is healing a little crooked.
My little finger tucks slightly when I bend my fingers down.
And it still fricken hurts about a third of the time.
Still can't use the two fingers to play my guitar.
Open tunings will have to do, for awhile.
Broke a fingernail at the therapist's yesterday.
Drama and whining, all in the same post. ;)
Ativan
The football team lost and the marching band almost froze...My section ended up with a 1 glove a piece and switched the glove back and forth depending on which hand needed it the most. And I regret not wearing a flannel shirt under my uniform jacket. :(
But we still cheered and stuff, so it was fun! But we couldn't really feel our feet or our hands when we left. Well, we could, but it was a mass of pain. And now I am comfy and warm.
Quote from: hazelspikes on October 25, 2012, 11:11:24 PM
The football team lost and the marching band almost froze...My section ended up with a 1 glove a piece and switched the glove back and forth depending on which hand needed it the most. And I regret not wearing a flannel shirt under my uniform jacket. :(
But we still cheered and stuff, so it was fun! But we couldn't really feel our feet or our hands when we left. Well, we could, but it was a mass of pain. And now I am comfy and warm.
Brrrr, sounds pretty cold, glad you're warm and comfy now :)
Quote from: hazelspikes on October 25, 2012, 11:11:24 PM
The football team lost and the marching band almost froze...My section ended up with a 1 glove a piece and switched the glove back and forth depending on which hand needed it the most. And I regret not wearing a flannel shirt under my uniform jacket. :(
But we still cheered and stuff, so it was fun! But we couldn't really feel our feet or our hands when we left. Well, we could, but it was a mass of pain. And now I am comfy and warm.
Ugh. If I'm cold I have to warm up my muscles before I play piano, otherwise it's hard to move my hands fast enough. I had a nightmare one time where I was supposed to play piano in front of a big crowd, but it was really cold and my hands nearly froze up completely :(
*Imagines pushing a piano around a football field*
Need more donkeys indeed.
Today I met with a new client and then went home and bleached my hair to within an inch of its life lol. Blonde for summer :)
*Imagines pushing a piano around a football field*
Wait for the marching band :).
Woody Allen - Take the Money and Run - cello playing scenes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57FUphSl2vA#)
Quote from: Padma on October 26, 2012, 04:00:16 AM
*Imagines pushing a piano around a football field*
Wait for the marching band :).
The Video was blocked in USA on account of copyright. :(
Quote from: MadelineB on October 24, 2012, 11:02:05 PM
Need more donkeys.
*With bacon. On a football field. Pushing a piano. Woody Allen.*My brain entanglement for the day.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on October 26, 2012, 08:51:53 AM
*With bacon. On a football field. Pushing a piano. Woody Allen.*
My brain entanglement for the day.
Speaking of entanglements and brains, I asked myself the question: So often if one didn't know the context, I would sound positively mad. (As opposed to negatively mad, its polar opposite). WHAT
IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MADNESS AND CREATIVE GENIUS?
I answered myself (that in itself is not the answer!):
Humor.
I can enjoy the absurdity of things and share my perspective with others so we both enjoy looking at things in a new way.
Madness is humorless. It takes itself and the world too seriously, the cracking sound of the brain that breaks.
Doubling up in laughter requires a certain ability to bend.
MORE DONKEYS.
"WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MADNESS AND CREATIVE GENIUS?"
Getting over your fear of madness.
To take the step necessary to step off the edge of madness into the abyss of creativity.
The difference between taking a flying leap and leaping to fly.
Getting over your fear of creative genius.
Madness and genius are the same. If no one believes you, it's madness. When they believe you, you're a genius.
The difference is creativity, without it, both are quite boring and effectively useless.
Yet creativity has no prerequisite conditions.
What then, is the difference between genius and creative madness?
Listening to the fading reverberations of the echo's from that cracking sound,
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WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MADNESS AND CREATIVE GENIUS?
Simple. Madness is insanity, genius is intelligence. :P
Quote from: DianaP on October 26, 2012, 02:56:38 PM
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MADNESS AND CREATIVE GENIUS?
Simple. Madness is insanity, genius is intelligence. :P
But, how do you tell the difference? To some, a person may seem mad, but to others, a genius. Where is the line?
You guys are really pushing my English skills here. Alright, let's see what I can do...
Genius is intelligence, as in the ability to perform above average cognitive processes, whereas madness is the tendency to deviate from the norm not with intelligence, but through sheer disregard for reason and common welfare. One who is a genius can be mad, just like how someone who is mad can also be a genius. They are two independent character traits that involve the commonality of deviation from the average. What is being deviated from, however, is the critical difference. A genius is someone who is very skilled at a particular field: someone who is intelligent and can find ways to use his/her intelligence in a constructive and useful manner. One who is mad, however, is someone who suffers from mental instability. The degree of madness can often vary just as the way the aforementioned madness can reveal itself differently. Someone who can play Beethoven's 3rd on the piano while blindfolded is a musical genius. A scientific genius can perform difficult physics problems in his/her head. One could say the my having jumped off of a cliff into wavy waters below was madness. One could also argue that Hitler was mad because of his genocide.
Essentially, geniuses and mad people are both within the population of the exceptional. The difference is that a genius is simply one that has intelligence and the ability to use it, whereas one who is mad is simply someone who deviates from sensibility.
How did I do? :) Not bad for my second year using English, huh?
Quote from: DianaP on October 26, 2012, 03:14:15 PM
You guys are really pushing my English skills here. Alright, let's see what I can do...
Genius is intelligence, as in the ability to perform above average cognitive processes, whereas madness is the tendency to deviate from the norm not with intelligence, but through sheer disregard for reason and common welfare. One who is a genius can be mad, just like how someone who is mad can also be a genius. They are two independent character traits that involve the commonality of deviation from the average. What is being deviated from, however, is the critical difference. A genius is someone who is very skilled at a particular field: someone who is intelligent and can find ways to use his/her intelligence in a constructive and useful manner. One who is mad, however, is someone who suffers from mental instability. The degree of madness can often vary just as the way the aforementioned madness can reveal itself differently. Someone who can play Beethoven's 3rd on the piano while blindfolded is a musical genius. A scientific genius can perform difficult physics problems in his/her head. One could say the my having jumped off of a cliff into wavy waters below was madness. One could also argue that Hitler was mad because of his genocide.
Essentially, geniuses and mad people are both within the population of the exceptional. The difference is that a genius is simply one that has intelligence and the ability to use it, whereas one who is mad is simply someone who deviates from sensibility.
How did I do? :) Not bad for my second year using English, huh?
Your english is very good. I am glad I could help push it ;D
But, who determines what is sensible?
QuoteHow did I do? Not bad for my second year using English, huh?
Really nicely put. Your English is great. Better than a lot of native speakers.
Quote from: Brooke777 on October 26, 2012, 03:17:38 PM
But, who determines what is sensible?
Sensibility is defined by humans; it isn't an absolute. There are several uses of the word "sensible" in daily context, yet it all boils down to one thing: optimization. Sensibility is all wrapped up in optimization, particularly in that of resource expenditure and risk. Taking unnecessary risks and devoting excessive effort, time, etc. into a particular task that could have been accomplished more efficiently and easily is madness. One who performs excessively for no logical reason at all is mad. What you quoted me on was an example of madness. I could have been much more succinct, yet chose to say the same thing with more for no practical reason. That is madness, albeit a very tame incarnation of it.
Quote from: Isabelle on October 26, 2012, 03:26:23 PM
Really nicely put. Your English is great. Better than a lot of native speakers.
Thank you. ;D I tried really hard to learn it. The grammar was simple enough, but I had to read the dictionary and 3 thesauruses 4 times to bolster my vocabulary. The funny thing is that in writing, I sound smart, but when I talk in English, people think I'm stupid because I could not have hoped to pronounce 80% of what I said there. :(
Well, I think you do an excellent job. You structure the arguments quite well. And, as Isabelle said, it is better than a lot of native English speakers. I think your hard work has paid off.
I could continue with this line of questions for quite a while, but fear you would get irritated. I used to use this style of argument to tick off my know it all philosophy professor. >:-)
'sensible' vs 'insane' can be decided on the basis of something as subjective as politics or morality, however - so one person's genius is another's madness. Sometimes. Galileo comes to mind...
Quote from: Brooke777 on October 26, 2012, 03:44:58 PM
I could continue with this line of questions for quite a while, but fear you would get irritated.
I would just respond later when I had time. :P
Quote from: Padma on October 26, 2012, 03:49:16 PM
'sensible' vs 'insane' can be decided on the basis of something as subjective as politics or morality.
That's why I broke it down to optimization. :P
And who gets to decide what behaviour is 'optimal'? :). Most difficulties I see between people (and countries, religions, etc. etc.) revolve around that very difference of 'opinion' as to what's optimal in a given situation.
I'm not disputing that there's a distinction, by the way, I just dispute that it's possible to come up with absolute rules that determine it. I tend to think my ethical rules are absolute (who doesn't?) but they're not the same as the next person's, it turns out a lot of the time...
Quote from: Padma on October 26, 2012, 04:08:56 PM
And who gets to decide what behaviour is 'optimal'? :). Most difficulties I see between people (and countries, religions, etc. etc.) revolve around that very difference of 'opinion' as to what's optimal in a given situation.
I'm not disputing that there's a distinction, by the way, I just dispute that it's possible to come up with absolute rules that determine it. I tend to think my ethical rules are absolute (who doesn't?) but they're not the same as the next person's, it turns out a lot of the time...
I am not sure that a true absolute exists...anywhere.
There are studies and findings that do correlate the two.
Bringing it down to their simplest definitions is quite easy and has a certain lack of creativity and intelligence in itself.
Finding and understanding how the correlation works is evidence of a level of creativity and a sign of intelligence.
Genius can also be simply put as above average common sense.
Creativity can be simply seen as artistic.
Madness is simply wherever the social constructs of society wants to set the bar at. This varies and is dependent on the society itself that sets that bar.
Simply Googling the words madness, creativity and genius will bring you many hours of reading.
None of which will change an individual's level of madness, creativity or genius.
But it may change your level of intelligence.
It is also something that if you live in it, it is quite simple to understand.
But is is for that reason, living in it, that it is hard to explain in a simplistic form, if you haven't been there.
As simply living really isn't living at all, it's quite a complicated affair in a world that strives to be sane, yet creative simultaneously.
Along with expectations of a certain level of intelligence that is deemed to be appropriate in whatever society you happen to live in.
I know some very creative people who I wouldn't call genius' and vice versa.
But I know and worked with some of the most highly intelligent crazies this side of the Psyche Units.
The very term, 'thinking outside the box' implies going beyond the norms of both.
It is from a vantage point outside of the so called normal, that one truly becomes a creative genius with one foot in madness, simply by virtue of being there. And vice versa.
Although one is not dependent on the other, it helps.
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Quote from: Brooke777 on October 26, 2012, 04:11:33 PM
I am not sure that a true absolute exists...anywhere.
Quote from: Padma on October 26, 2012, 04:08:56 PM
And who gets to decide what behaviour is 'optimal'? :). Most difficulties I see between people (and countries, religions, etc. etc.) revolve around that very difference of 'opinion' as to what's optimal in a given situation.
I'm not disputing that there's a distinction, by the way, I just dispute that it's possible to come up with absolute rules that determine it. I tend to think my ethical rules are absolute (who doesn't?) but they're not the same as the next person's, it turns out a lot of the time...
Great, now you're copying Brooke's strategy? I don't think my behavior is absolute. :P Everything has a gray area, except for one rule. --> Every rule has an exception. I know what you're thinking: "But, Diana, that rule has no exceptions...." EXACTLY, by having no exceptions, it is the exception to the rule that dictates that everything has an exception, thus proving itself. So, Padma and Brooke, I just found an absolute. In the spirit of perpetual sassyness... :P :P :P >:-)
Donkey's...
Donkeys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoSiquMuBM4#)
QuoteI am not sure that a true absolute exists...anywhere.
Isn't the fundamental position of Christian apologists that absolutes do, in fact, exist?
Such as absolute zero degrees?
Oh wait, that has science in it.
Never mind.
Well, technically, absolute zero has never been reached yet. People have come to a billionth of a degree to it, but there is spin in molecules that scientists don't know how to slow down. Laser cooling, using light's momentum to slow down particles, doesn't stop spinning, only lateral motion.
I believe there are absolutes, I just can't prove it, so I don't bother trying :). That doesn't make me a relativist, it just makes me... nope, can't think of a word!
Science only deals in probabilities, uncertainties and measurement. It has little to do with absolutes. Absolute zero is simply a theoretical energy state in a system. It's not a philosophical statement on the nature of the universe (unless of course you want to get into the philosophy of physics and, or, metaphysics)
Quote from: Isabelle on October 26, 2012, 05:08:25 PM
Science only deals in probabilities, uncertainties and measurement. It has little to do with absolutes. Absolute zero is simply a theoretical energy state in a system. It's not a philosophical statement on the nature of the universe (unless of course you want to get into the philosophy of physics and, or, metaphysics)
Depending which Christian faith you follow, there are a number of absolutes. But, since we do not know as much as the creator, can we really ever know if there is an absolute, and what it is? We can hypothesise about it.
I'm absolutely sure there's no creator, but I refer you to my aforementioned certainty that the next person along from me believes differently :).
My point was just that all Christians are absolutists to the degree they believe absolutly that a god or gods created the universe and made people.
http://www.knowtebook.com/uploaded/2009/04/absolut-wodku.jpg (http://www.knowtebook.com/uploaded/2009/04/absolut-wodku.jpg)
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on October 26, 2012, 05:39:05 PM
http://www.knowtebook.com/uploaded/2009/04/absolut-wodku.jpg (http://www.knowtebook.com/uploaded/2009/04/absolut-wodku.jpg)
Yes, I was an Absolutist but had to quit, my Norwegian/Finn background was catching up with me. :D
Ativan, Touché ;) yup my spelling is terrible lolololol
I prefer Polish logic, myself...
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Bison grass vodka over ice with nothing but a fresh squeezed lime.... Omnomnom :)
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on October 26, 2012, 05:39:05 PM
http://www.knowtebook.com/uploaded/2009/04/absolut-wodku.jpg (http://www.knowtebook.com/uploaded/2009/04/absolut-wodku.jpg)
Quote from: Padma on October 26, 2012, 08:10:15 PM
I prefer Polish logic, myself...
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Quote from: Isabelle on October 26, 2012, 08:15:53 PM
Bison grass vodka over ice with nothing but a fresh squeezed lime.... Omnomnom :)
Ow, ow, my innocence! :laugh:
This thread always cracks me up. :D
Thank you all for making me smile and laugh out loud!
Ativan
It's what I live for. ;D
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on October 26, 2012, 08:53:07 PM
This thread always cracks me up. :D
Thank you all for making me smile and laugh out loud!
Ativan
Thank you for the donkey song. You gave me a catchy tune, six donkeys on a hill, one on a beach, one in a kitchen with hands for hooves, and paranoia, and a fine line.
All I need is some salt and lime and I'll have a DONKEY MARGARITA.
Quote from: Padma on October 26, 2012, 05:14:19 PM
I'm absolutely sure there's no creator, but I refer you to my aforementioned certainty that the next person along from me believes differently :).
This is just my theory, don't de-create me, but every time I meet someone who is sure there is no creator, I suspect I am talking to an avatar of the creator. I want to say, Padma, I understand, keep up the good work, it certainly is a work in progress, no creator, got it, and thanks FOR THE DONKEYS.
It's why most divine avatars ride asses when they announce themselves. Them and virgins.
And let's not forget Donkey Hote and his galloping at windmills.
*Puts on a Jimmy Buffet mask*
Wasting away again in margaritaville
Searching for my lost shaker of salt
Some people say that there's a woman to blame
But I know it's... *looks at who started this* oh. I guess they're right. Never mind.
*takes the mask off*
Quote from: MadelineB on October 26, 2012, 09:55:28 AM
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MADNESS AND CREATIVE GENIUS?
*puts on an Atavan mask*
There is no simple spectrum with madness at one end and creative genius at the other.
Both of them have many forms. More than one can exist in the same person at the same time.
Something that is madness in one situation can be genius in another.
Other things can only be madness.
A sloth putting on masks and spending too much time trying to imitate people in a post is madness.
It's smarter to not care so much about posts.
Somebody said "I apologize for the length of this letter, but I didn't have time to write a shorter one."
Nobody can agree on who said it. Maybe it was DianaP, trying to optimize time usage.
*takes mask off and puts on a donkey fursuit head*
I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me;
to fright me, if they could. But I will not stir
from this place, do what they can: I will walk up
and down here, and I will sing, that they shall hear
I am not afraid.
*puts the Jimmy Buffet mask on over the donkey head*
With these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
Nothing remains quite the same
With all of my running and all of my cunning
If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane
If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane
If we weren't all crazy we would go insane!
And hello hormones. It's like I'm catching up on hormonal moments.
Quote from: kagenoir on October 29, 2012, 07:22:40 AM
And hello hormones. It's like I'm catching up on hormonal moments.
Me too and I'm hoping it's not thrombosis. Got to spend less time being sedentary and more time up and doing!
And who are you that are so wise in the ways of science?
And who are you, kagenoir, to think that people can understand who you are talking about without referencing your pronouns?
Sorry, I couldn't resist. :) Nothing against you.
I'm sorry,I was on a Monty Python induced lol moment. :3
No worries, I was just messing with you. Anywho, does anyone here like cartoons? I only ask because I just spent the last hour watching Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
Bloo!
Cute.
Cute spelling, too.
I know, right?! He is the most precious and silly thing ever! Honestly, cartoons are the best shows ever. Silly sitcoms. :P
I'll never grow up. >:-)
Quote from: DianaP on October 29, 2012, 04:48:19 PM
I'll never grow up. >:-)
Me neither :3
By the way...
Quote from: BlueSloth on October 27, 2012, 04:41:23 AM
Somebody said "I apologize for the length of this letter, but I didn't have time to write a shorter one."
Nobody can agree on who said it. Maybe it was DianaP, trying to optimize time usage.
Apparently it was originally from Blaise Pascal. And the actual quote was more like "My letters, Reverend Fathers, have not been wont heretofore to follow so quickly, nor to extend to such length. My limited time is the cause of both the one and the other. I have been obliged to make the present too long, for the very reason that I had not the time to make it shorter."
I guess he didn't have time to say it more concisely.
Untitled | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/whichhazel/8137054193/#)
(Blue and pink hair, green eyes, lavender lips and the genderqueer flag and heart).
I didn't know where to post this. Eheheheheh. And the picture wasn't displaying when I did the insert image code. User error...
My genderqueer Halloween pumpkin named Charlie. Preferred pronouns are zie/hir. Zie was going to have silver glitter in hir hair, but I didn't want it all over the room. And there's no white in the genderqueer flag war paint because there was no white paint. So I'm sorry it wasn't completely accurate. :(
Quote from: hazelspikes on October 29, 2012, 08:44:35 PM
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(Blue and pink hair, green eyes, lavender lips and the genderqueer flag and heart).
I didn't know where to post this. Eheheheheh. And the picture wasn't displaying when I did the insert image code. User error...
My genderqueer Halloween pumpkin named Charlie. Preferred pronouns are zie/hir. Zie was going to have silver glitter in hir hair, but I didn't want it all over the room. And there's no white in the genderqueer flag war paint because there was no white paint. So I'm sorry it wasn't completely accurate. :(
What a lovely gourd. Love that it wasn't cut. Non-op CharlieOLanterns deserve to look their best too! Don't worry about getting the colors any one way. As long as Charlie is happy, that's all that matters.
Quote from: MadelineB on October 29, 2012, 10:39:48 PM
What a lovely gourd. Love that it wasn't cut. Non-op CharlieOLanterns deserve to look their best too! Don't worry about getting the colors any one way. As long as Charlie is happy, that's all that matters.
Tehee thanks! My dorm was throwing a Halloween party and I went for the food (because I'm a poor college student/band nerd like that). The pumpkin painting was a bonus and I figured "what the heck, I will make this beautiful!" And because I'm not well-versed in painting, it got a bit wibbly. but Charlie O'Lanterns (love the last name) will stay until it looks sad and needs to go to the pumpkin-patch-in-the-sky.
What is the cause of American's fascination with pumpkins? Do you actually eat them or just carve them and molest them in other ways? We roast them, boil them, and make soup out of them. Butternut makes the best soup in my opinion. Otherwise a Queensland Blue.
Karen.
Quote from: justmeinoz on October 30, 2012, 03:02:20 AM
What is the cause of American's fascination with pumpkins? Do you actually eat them or just carve them and molest them in other ways? We roast them, boil them, and make soup out of them. Butternut makes the best soup in my opinion. Otherwise a Queensland Blue.
Karen.
Pumpkins are used to make Jack O Lanterns for the Halloween holiday on Oct. 31st :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack-o%27-lantern (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack-o%27-lantern)
But yes, many people also make various treats and such out of them :)
http://pumpkinrecipes.org/ (http://pumpkinrecipes.org/)
Quote from: justmeinoz on October 30, 2012, 03:02:20 AM
What is the cause of American's fascination with pumpkins? Do you actually eat them or just carve them and molest them in other ways?
When we're not painting them or carving them and putting lights in them or shooting them out of cannons or catapults or trebuchets or whatever, there's pumpkin pie.
As far as I can tell, the pies are made from a special kind of cylindrical pumpkin, with a tough metallic skin, which mainly grows on store shelves. The interior has a liquidy consistency and no seeds.
Quote from: hazelspikes on October 29, 2012, 08:44:35 PM
And the picture wasn't displaying when I did the insert image code. User error...
Not user error, Flickr has made it a lot more fiddly to link directly to photos these days. They've provided a way to do this:
Click on the Share dropdown above the image - then choose Grab the HTML/BBCode, pick the BBCode button, and copy the code from there (you get to choose which image size to show) - drop that in your topic post and it shows like this:
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Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/whichhazel/8137054193/#) by hazelspikes (http://www.flickr.com/people/whichhazel/), on Flickr
If you don't want to show your user/title data, you can delete everything from that paste except the part near the beginning from [ img ] to [ /img ] (without the spaces) and you'll just see this:
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Quote from: justmeinoz on October 30, 2012, 03:02:20 AM
What is the cause of American's fascination with pumpkins? Do you actually eat them or just carve them and molest them in other ways? We roast them, boil them, and make soup out of them. Butternut makes the best soup in my opinion. Otherwise a Queensland Blue.
Karen.
I recently made a really good butternut squash soup. I am planning on making a pumpkin stew in the near future as well. But, growing up we only used pumpkins for Halloween decorations, and pie. Other than that, at least where I was raised (Oregon) we did not used pumpkins for any sort of food.
right now i'm seriously jealous of people who can flash chest hair
Quote from: hazelspikes on October 29, 2012, 08:44:35 PM
My genderqueer Halloween pumpkin named Charlie.
I like hir.
(I didn't say anything before because I wanted to think of something a bit more sophisticated and longer, but "I like hir" pretty much says it all.. so.. yeah. hehe)
Quote from: Taka on October 30, 2012, 04:21:15 PM
right now i'm seriously jealous of people who can flash chest hair
You can have what remains of mine..
Quote from: kelly_aus on November 01, 2012, 06:50:25 AM
You can have what remains of mine..
will i get a flat chest along with it?
Quote from: Taka on October 30, 2012, 04:21:15 PM
right now i'm seriously jealous of people who can flash chest hair
Easy.
1. Take everything off.
2. Put on raincoat.
3. Walk up to a chest hair.
4. Let it all hang out.
I had a single chest hair grow out when I was a senior in high school. It was my badge of manhood. My girlfriend spotted it and plucked it out. It was such an emasculating act that I dumped her. I never grew another hair on my chest, a blessing as I now look back on it all! :D
LOL... I had a girlfriend do the same thing :laugh: I didn't mind though because I only had two hairs, one on the edge of each nipple and they actually kind of annoyed me :)
@Padma: Thanks for your help! I'll try to remember that for next time.
@BlueSloth: That's okay! I appreciate your comment. :)
So I was walking to my first class, and on the ground I notice a bobby pin. It's supposed to be unsanitary to just pick random stuff off the ground, but I go ahead and take it, and I wash it off when I head to the restroom.
Towards the end of my second class, as I was picking up tests from students, I noticed a bobby pin in the room there, too. I pick it up, and the two pins match (both black, so hardly a surprise). I clean that one, too. Since I'm not teaching any other class and am just doing office hours, I've stuck them both in my hair (probably not visible to anyone anyway).
If I was a religious person, I'd probably use this example as a sign from God I have his blessing (nay, an expectation) to dress/express differently. But I'm not superstitious like that, so I'll chalk it up to an amusing coincidence -- one that nets me two perfectly good matching bobby pins.
Quote from: Kaelin on November 07, 2012, 02:59:55 PM
So I was walking to my first class, and on the ground I notice a bobby pin. It's supposed to be unsanitary to just pick random stuff off the ground, but I go ahead and take it, and I wash it off when I head to the restroom.
Towards the end of my second class, as I was picking up tests from students, I noticed a bobby pin in the room there, too. I pick it up, and the two pins match (both black, so hardly a surprise). I clean that one, too. Since I'm not teaching any other class and am just doing office hours, I've stuck them both in my hair (probably not visible to anyone anyway).
If I was a religious person, I'd probably use this example as a sign from God I have his blessing (nay, an expectation) to dress/express differently. But I'm not superstitious like that, so I'll chalk it up to an amusing coincidence -- one that nets me two perfectly good matching bobby pins.
hahaha! i love this story!
just to have said it... i had a talk with a sexologist yesterday. she has studied under one of the best, and was wonderfully open minded. felt nice to talk to someone who tries to understand me instead of meeting me with prejudice or ignorant questions. she also seemed open to trying hrt just to see if this might help me, though probably not before making sure that i'm not just overthinking things. right now i feel like i can get my life going in the right direction (forward), even if things don't go the way i'm hoping right now. i'll be seeing her again in january, that was the earliest she could find time for me. good thing i've learned to be patient, i feel like it's good that things aren't happening fast
Quote from: Taka on November 20, 2012, 06:11:50 PM
just to have said it.. ...i feel like it's good that things aren't happening fast
Congrats! Very happy for you!
Ativan
My girlfriend and her father collect Commer vans.
TRAGEDY! ALAS!!
On ebay there were the complete works of Samuel Johnson, in good nick for ten pounds. I was the only bidder and as I got closer and closer no one else did. I reckoned I would definitely win, put in my bid and....I had forgotten to sign in.
There will never, ever be a deal like that again, those books were worth at least £500 and I let them slip out my grasp when I could have had them for £10.
I need a drink.
That's beyond tragic! I refuse to beat you up over the Oops moment, seems like you're doing that on your own rather well. Have two drinks, sleep well and get over it!
Well, there's no point in fretting over a bunch of books. It happened. Oh well, we all screw up sometimes. :)
Quote from: Pica Pica on November 21, 2012, 02:06:51 PM
TRAGEDY! ALAS!!
On ebay there were the complete works of Samuel Johnson, in good nick for ten pounds. I was the only bidder and as I got closer and closer no one else did. I reckoned I would definitely win, put in my bid and....I had forgotten to sign in.
There will never, ever be a deal like that again, those books were worth at least £500 and I let them slip out my grasp when I could have had them for £10.
I need a drink.
My poor pica, I am a notorious forgot-to-clicket, so I use a service to set up bid parameters in advance that prevent my snoozing from making me lose. One good one is auction sniper; they only charge the 25 cents if you win. I used it a lot when I was first buying women's clothing and didn't have much budget.
I'm waiting for the first call from the first doctor (/psychologist) I need to see to be able to go to gender examinations / whatever they are called in English. :P Should be only minutes now...
// Edit. ...Aand I'll see a doctor at the end of January. January! :( I know things take their time and all, but why haven't we got any urgent appointment times for this :( Meh.
Quote from: Phoeniks on December 05, 2012, 04:07:54 AM
I'm waiting for the first call from the first doctor (/psychologist) I need to see to be able to go to gender examinations / whatever they are called in English. :P Should be only minutes now...
// Edit. ...Aand I'll see a doctor at the end of January. January! :( I know things take their time and all, but why haven't we got any urgent appointment times for this :( Meh.
Good luck kid!
Quote from: Shantel on December 05, 2012, 09:29:04 AM
Good luck kid!
Thanks :-*
Maybe my head will be even clearer and more determined when I finally get to the doctor ;)
I only know how to tie my shoes bunny-ear style. And I double knot 'cos they always come loose otherwise. :P
Either you love bacon, or you're wrong...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/30-gifts-for-bacon-lovers_n_2286468.html#slide=1837301 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/30-gifts-for-bacon-lovers_n_2286468.html#slide=1837301)
:P
Oh my gosh. Bubbles, you're avatar is so cute!
Anywho, so long as we're back on the topic of bacon...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W5Ol1EqR7o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W5Ol1EqR7o)
Quote from: DianaP on December 12, 2012, 05:34:46 PM
Anywho, so long as we're back on the topic of bacon...
We are always on the topic of bacon. ;D
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on December 12, 2012, 05:33:21 PM
Either you love bacon, or you're wrong...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/30-gifts-for-bacon-lovers_n_2286468.html#slide=1837301 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/30-gifts-for-bacon-lovers_n_2286468.html#slide=1837301)
:P
I love the bacon whip!
I just remembered what I needed to add to my list before going to the store :) Mmmmm, le bacon
God, I love threads like this.
There is a chicken in your sandwich, asking for a hot tomato soup. Please tell it that you'll be back on Friday at 10:00 PM when Fox News is discussing about Piccolo.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on December 12, 2012, 05:37:53 PM
We are always on the topic of bacon. ;D
Good. Bacon is the only reason I still eat meat ;D
Quote from: Phoeniks on December 19, 2012, 02:09:58 PM
Good. Bacon is the only reason I still eat meat ;D
:D me also. I almost always resist meat, but bacon is really other thing!
Quote from: soulfairer on December 20, 2012, 08:18:15 PM
:D me also. I almost always resist meat, but bacon is really other thing!
Glad to know there are others. I'm thinking of calling myself a bacovegetarian ;)
The world's largest burger is $400: "Absolutely Ridiculous Burger" at Mallie's Sports Bar in small-town Michigan. The 134-pound burger (post-cooking weight), topped with cheese, bacon, and all the fixings, is housed in a giant 50-pound bun and measures two feet in diameter.
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.delish.com%2Fcm%2Fdelish%2Fimages%2Fvl%2Flargest-burger-lg.jpg&hash=28f028b702565dcc89ebca4388da741dfa00d286)
Quote from: Phoeniks on December 21, 2012, 06:00:39 PM
Glad to know there are others. I'm thinking of calling myself a bacovegetarian ;)
Funny you both brought this up because each payday we buy breakfast out at a local place and order a side of four pieces of their delicious bacon to be shared between us. It is absolutely the best bacon we've ever tasted and they refuse to divulge where they get it. I joke about needing to get a trigliceride boost and offer bigger than average tips, but still no dice! ???
Quote from: Phoeniks on December 21, 2012, 06:00:39 PM
Glad to know there are others. I'm thinking of calling myself a bacovegetarian ;)
:D me always! I'm very able to simply not take meat, but many places offer it along with other meals, so it's just not easy to always avoid meat. But I do my best to, only a few times a week taking it. However, here they cook beans with bacon and it is gorgeous. Or cabbage with bacon. :)))
OK,...Fruitcake with Bacon. 'Tis the season.
(cabbage with bacon! Mmm)
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on December 28, 2012, 10:12:09 AM
OK,...Fruitcake with Bacon. 'Tis the season.
(cabbage with bacon! Mmm)
Other thing that should keep me from being vegetarian: sukiyaki, ah, that is a thing...
Quote from: soulfairer on December 28, 2012, 10:26:56 AM
Other thing that should keep me from being vegetarian: sukiyaki, ah, that is a thing...
Ah so deska! Yes my Okinawan girlfriend turned me into a sukiyaki junkie long ago!
Quote from: Shantel on December 28, 2012, 11:59:52 AM
Ah so deska! Yes my Okinawan girlfriend turned me into a sukiyaki junkie long ago!
:) I'm not alone! So yes, ohhh, sukiyaki, shabu-shabu, they both rock! And I also like ramen a lot (w/ pepper, lotsa)!
Ok, I was cleaning my bike today, and I got covered in grease. This is how the exchange between me and one of my girl friends went.
Me: "Gee, I am dirty."
Her: "Yeah you are..."
Me: "While I appreciate the confirmation, it wasn't necessary. I'm just saying that I'm filthy."
Her: "Yeah you are.."
Me: "Again, not needed. I've gotta take a shower later."
Her: "Maybe I will too."
Me: "Thanks for the update. Wow, I never thought a bike could be that dirty... I need to soap myself from head to toe. "
Her: "Yeah you do."
This went on for about 2 minutes before I got the joke. :-\
This thread should be renamed to the Bacon Thread
Quote from: Telyna on January 02, 2013, 04:57:27 AM
This thread should be renamed to the Bacon Thread
(Translation) The Life Thread
And yet another thread is born... May it drift well.
Over 9,000!
What 9000?!?!?
That scouter's a piece of junk!
Quote from: Telyna on January 02, 2013, 04:57:27 AM
This thread should be renamed to the Bacon Thread
Best bacon I had ever: thick cut deep fried :P :P :P
It was soooo good
Mmmmmmm bacon
-Ani
That can't be right!
Quote from: soulfairer on December 28, 2012, 12:14:56 PM
:) I'm not alone! So yes, ohhh, sukiyaki, shabu-shabu, they both rock! And I also like ramen a lot (w/ pepper, lotsa)!
Ramen with pepper, hah and here I thought I was the only weirdo! I love fat free cottage cheese loaded with black pepper too!
Thick cut bacon with black pepper and fresh cut thyme.
And eggs fresh from the chicken coop, staring back with runny yolks and curry.
Sometimes fried in the center of sweet pepper rings.
Fricken hungry, now.
Ativan
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on January 03, 2013, 10:29:52 AM
Thick cut bacon with black pepper and fresh cut thyme.
And eggs fresh from the chicken coop, staring back with runny yolks and curry.
Sometimes fried in the center of sweet pepper rings.
Fricken hungry, now.
Ativan
Hrmmm, barbecued bacon & pepper & vinegar / tomatoes / onion!
Quote from: Shantel on January 03, 2013, 08:43:54 AM
Ramen with pepper, hah and here I thought I was the only weirdo! I love fat free cottage cheese loaded with black pepper too!
Not! Ramen with lotsa pepper (they sell some "Taiwan Ramen" in Japan that is quite strong) :D
One of those perfect days today, wandering around Greenwich and poking my nose into free stuff followed by pie mash and local porter.
Ok, I just thought about something: if humans eventually will reach the computer technology to simulate elaborate things like entire universes, then maybe we're the simulation of an advanced race. Woah... trippy.
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429561/the-measurement-that-would-reveal-the-universe-as-a-computer-simulation/ (http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429561/the-measurement-that-would-reveal-the-universe-as-a-computer-simulation/)
Quote from: Telyna on January 02, 2013, 04:57:27 AM
This thread should be renamed to the Bacon Thread
keep your revisionist names off my thread!
this is the greatest testament to our colective madness ever!
muhahahaha
Nothing
I love how I proposed an interesting view of the universe, yet the discussion immediately moved back to bacon and "nothing."
Quote from: DianaP on January 03, 2013, 03:38:03 PM
Ok, I just thought about something: if humans eventually will reach the computer technology to simulate elaborate things like entire universes, then maybe we're the simulation of an advanced race. Woah... trippy.
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429561/the-measurement-that-would-reveal-the-universe-as-a-computer-simulation/ (http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429561/the-measurement-that-would-reveal-the-universe-as-a-computer-simulation/)
But one thing is to simulate an elaborate thing like that (I wonder how much 10^n femtometres would be (don't remember n, so it's n, haha)) and other is to create an elaborate thing like that! :P
Quote from: DianaP on January 03, 2013, 10:27:23 PM
I love how I proposed an interesting view of the universe, yet the discussion immediately moved back to bacon and "nothing."
It's Sartre speaking there! :P
Femtometer = 10^-15 meters. We're almost there. A few more millenia, and we would be able to simulate a universe. :P
Imagine if we do find out if we're just a simulation.
Besides, it's always good to change topics, regardless of how good bacon might be. ::)
Quote from: DianaP on January 03, 2013, 10:39:13 PM
Femtometer = 10^-15 meters. We're almost there. A few more millenia, and we would be able to simulate a universe. :P
Imagine if we do find out if we're just a simulation.
Besides, it's always good to change topics, regardless of how good bacon might be. ::)
From the article: "10^-12 femtometers" - imagine THIS tiny amount :P (don't know whether they didn't use 10^-9 attometers or 10^-27 meters, but still)
Imagine how many femtometers of simulated matter to build a single bacon strip! Hrmmmmm :)
The universe is comprised of bacon and nothingness
There's an argument (from the philosopher Nick Bostrom) that if people are going to be running universe simulations someday, then we're probably in one.
There's no need to simulate every quark and electron and gluon and whatnot in perfect detail. The simulation only has to be good enough to convince us it's real. There's no reason to assume that future civilizations will run one simulation and then unanimously decide to give up on the whole idea forever, so there would probably be lots of simulations. With all those simulations, how can we assume that our world is the one real one?
The converse is that if we're not in a simulation, then those kinds of simulations will probably never happen.
You gotta put in he work and pay your dues....
The universe was originally referred to as The Cosmic Redundancy, but no-one could spell or sing very well so the scientists decided that only one verse was necessary
Quote from: DianaP on January 03, 2013, 10:39:13 PM
Femtometer = 10^-15 meters. We're almost there. A few more millenia, and we would be able to simulate a universe. :P
Femtometer - a gadget that measures how femme you are? As in "I registered only a 34 on the femtometer. My GT says he won't approve HRT until I get to at least 60 >:(."
Quote from: agfrommd on January 04, 2013, 07:38:35 AM
Femtometer - a gadget that measures how femme you are? As in "I registered only a 34 on the femtometer. My GT says he won't approve HRT until I get to at least 60 >:(."
How strange, I've never heard of anything like that and had to google it as I'm very gullible, you almost had me there! :D ;D
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I'd like to see the universe that could simulate me! I'd cook him an entire slab of artisan bacon and eat it with him.
Gladiator!
potatoe
Unrailed
Quote from: Malachite on February 01, 2013, 04:41:56 PM
Unrailed
I sneak back here, risking much familial turmoil to scream potato in deliberate misspelling, and you call this unrailed, thanks for being so supportive. No bacon for you.
Bought an old Lexicon Alex effects processor at a pawn shop. Some of the ranges are hard to get, I suppose I either have to clean the pot or get a new one. But it's fun, I haven't played with one of these in too many years.
*another toy*
Ativan
Music toys are always great fun 8) Especially guitar toys
Especially guitar toys... 8)
Especially medical toys. Blood pressure cuffs are fun! ;D
About to load the Dead Space 3 walkthrough of part 4
About to go take a shower and get ready for my ride to the 'Big City'.
My Psychologist is waiting in anticipation of another weird session.
They got together with my Therapist and exchanged notes.
It's going to be a fun filled, action packed day today!
Actually, the 3 hrs of riding time will give me time to finish a lecture that Tesla gave back in the 1890's.
Geeking it all the way.
Tesla is my favorite mad scientist. My wife and I used to joke gthat he's haunting me, and that's why I have a higher than normal tendency to zap things and people with static electricity. I have two different Tesla Vs. Edison t-shirts, and one where he's holding a Tesla coil ray gun and has a pigeon on his head. :)
Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency
A lecture delivered before the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, 1891
Geeking out in the old days. It has almost a magical tone to it at times.
Mysterious things happening... It's a fun read, gives some insight into his mind.
Ativan
/
I miss all the consistent drifting of threads around here.
Damn the thread that can't be derailed.
We have been trapped.
We need a good escape plan.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on February 21, 2013, 07:15:46 PM
I miss all the consistent drifting of threads around here.
Damn the thread that can't be derailed.
We have been trapped.
We need a good escape plan.
Dynamite?
Or claymores? ???
OK, we have tools. Now for the plan.
Which kind of defeats the whole purpose.
I say we just go around to threads randomly and write odd things.
Dammit. Another plan.
We are truly trapped.
We need code words or something....
unrailed
We could discuss snow? I feel trapped in my dorm cause of all the snow that my state got...They actually cancelled classes. c:
Quote from: hazelspikes on February 22, 2013, 04:50:40 PM
We could discuss snow? I feel trapped in my dorm cause of all the snow that my state got...They actually cancelled classes. c:
Stay warm!
You had my heart when you left it in the gazebo. I think a possum got it.
sleep is good
Got Possum's stealing chickens again. :icon_yikes: Maybe it's a 'coon, could be.
Hate to have to kill it, but it's killing chickens. :icon_anger:
What goes around,... :icon_2gun:
Lost is Love
Some fool took it and ran off to tell everyone...
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on February 24, 2013, 09:53:36 PM
Some fool took it and ran off to tell everyone...
Fool must have dropped some, or maybe there were more than one of the fools, because I keep finding love in all the unexpected places. Love... and loose change.
Feeling a bit disconnected. My WiFi isn't working so I had to run cable.
C.
Quote from: MadelineB on February 25, 2013, 01:02:36 AM
Love... and loose change.
I've been looking for love in all the wrong places? :P
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on February 25, 2013, 12:05:40 PM
I've been looking for love in all the wrong places? :P
Sometimes it isn't the wrong place, its just the wrong species/
Specie is another name for cash/
Love is a dog that takes you for a walk, and bags its own poop.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Sky King is worried about his niece Penny.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on March 06, 2013, 08:18:15 PM
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Sky King is worried about his niece Penny.
You forgot Skipper!
MadelineB the gapped teeth of your avatar pic remind me of my mother, and make me smile most times I see it. Now thats off track.
ugh....stupid college papers
Quote from: nickikim on March 10, 2013, 01:48:11 AM
MadelineB the gapped teeth of your avatar pic remind me of my mother, and make me smile most times I see it. Now thats off track.
I am so glad. I am quite fond of my gapped teeth myself, so I'm glad my face makes you smile! LOL.
P.S. I try to keep my face off of tracks. The steel is always either too hot or too cold, and anyways, I can't help but keep looking up to check if there is a silent train sneaking up on me.
Now I want a silent train. But still have a whistle, in case MadelineB is busy playing on the tracks again.
Is it just me or did the spell checker go away?
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on March 10, 2013, 04:23:43 PM
Now I want a silent train. But still have a whistle, in case MadelineB is busy playing on the tracks again.
Is it just me or did the spell checker go away?
I can't even spell checker, so I just clutch both hands to my chess.
But to not digress, yes: https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,137102.msg1103050.html#msg1103050 (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,137102.msg1103050.html#msg1103050) it did.
One thing:
FIRST DAY OUT
:)))))
Quote from: soulfairer on March 11, 2013, 07:51:55 AM
One thing:
FIRST DAY OUT
:)))))
Congrats!!!
The little icon on the tapatalk app for tweets makes me think of the old loony toons cartoons... It makes me smile. :)
Quote from: The Original Cami on March 11, 2013, 07:58:18 AM
Congrats!!!
The little icon on the tapatalk app for tweets makes me think of the old loony toons cartoons... It makes me smile. :)
:) and the bra made me feel powerful! ahahaha!
Quote from: soulfairer on March 11, 2013, 01:28:40 PM
:) and the bra made me feel powerful! ahahaha!
'power bra', where can I get one? ;) :laugh:
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on March 11, 2013, 02:02:04 PM
'power bra', where can I get one? ;) :laugh:
Try your local utility. They can send out a linesman to install it safely.
Well, that'll take a few phone calls and a couple weeks to get that done.
Maybe I can get one in the power tool dept at Menards. 24 volt w/extra batteries.
A yellow and black DeWalt 36A :-\ w/power push-up. :)
Maybe pick up a matching cincher...
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on March 06, 2013, 08:18:15 PM
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Sky King is worried about his niece Penny.
Okay, I have a question here. Reading about "Sky King" triggered something from the deep dark recesses of my memory.
Who Roy Rogers and Dale Evans? Happy Trails? Trigger, and all that?
Roy and Dale were often out riding their horses, catching cattle thieves, having range wars, etc. Perfect 1800's type stuff.
But they had a ranch hand named Pat Brady who drove a Jeep named Nelliebell. How did
that happen?
Quote from: Jamie D on March 11, 2013, 05:25:32 PM
Okay, I have a question here. Reading about "Sky King" triggered something from the deep dark recesses of my memory.
Who Roy Rogers and Dale Evans? Happy Trails? Trigger, and all that?
Roy and Dale were often out riding their horses, catching cattle thieves, having range wars, etc. Perfect 1800's type stuff.
But they had a ranch hand named Pat Brady who drove a Jeep named Nelliebell. How did that happen?
There ya go ruining it for me!
Couldn't ride a horse? Somebody had to drive it?
I don't know the answer to your question, but you can watch hours of Roy and Dale on You Tube.
Here's NellyBelle:
NELLYBELLE Jeep Outdoor Display, For Auction at Christie's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-2cl51PlFA#)
Dale Evans was my mom's hero. Well, her and Grover from Sesame Street.
My dad was into Grover Washington Jr, which for the longest time made me think of a sax-playing muppet.
Inca cola is good.
I only just discovered that Zorro is Spanish for Fox.
I grew up on all those 50's and early 60's Serials, including Zorro (the Fox).
Mr. Noodles from Elmo's world is the best.
Sky King's Twin Beech is still the second coolest plane out there, after Lockheeds Electra.
Pepsi Cola. The rest are second best :laugh:.
I have a lot of small scrap pieces of carbon fiberglass plate and have been wondering what I could do with it all. then I thought Nails! I'll see how that looks, might be interesting. unbreakable false nails. :)
leg itches-too lazy to scratch it though
Ever notice how the media seems to report that the Taliban and/or Al-Qaeda made coordinated attacks but never seems to report when the Taliban and/or Al-Qaeda have made uncoordinated attacks?
Quote from: V M on March 13, 2013, 08:19:30 PM
Ever notice how the media seems to report that the Taliban and/or Al-Qaeda made coordinated attacks but never seems to report when the Taliban and/or Al-Qaeda have made uncoordinated attacks?
Give your TV a load of 00 Buckshot, there's nothing on there but lies and BS, you'll rot your brain watching that stuff Virginia! :icon_peace:
I just realized I haven't had a banana split in over a decade. I'm not a big fan of them, obviously, but still, now I need to go make one.
mandarin oranges
Quote from: Malachite on March 14, 2013, 06:35:57 PM
mandarin oranges
It's either a mandarin or an orange - it can't be both..
Quote from: Kelly the Trans-Rebel on March 16, 2013, 12:30:39 AM
It's either a mandarin or an orange - it can't be both..
I speak Mandarin. I only wish I spoke Orange. Or any of the citrus languages!
Is it still a banana split if you chop the banana into bite-sized pieces? If not, it's been a while for me too.
After weeks of snow and chilly rain, yesterday was a gorgeous mid-70s (Fahenheit of course) day with a lovely breeze. Now that I have a day off, it's back to the 40s, but my jacket and I are still going to go walk around the lake for a few miles.
Quote from: MadelineB on March 16, 2013, 02:21:54 AM
I speak Mandarin. I only wish I spoke Orange. Or any of the citrus languages!
I'm loving your Maddie's Modification Fund!
Quote from: Kelly the Trans-Rebel on March 16, 2013, 12:30:39 AM
It's either a mandarin or an orange - it can't be both..
An orange Mandarin? ;D
Quote from: Malachite on March 16, 2013, 03:05:00 PM
I'm loving your Maddie's Modification Fund!
Thanks! Now if I could just stop spending money on life changing experiences, I could put more money into body changing experiences too.
Got a mohawk ;D
funny you said Mohawk, I just went a bit odd and tried to cut my own hair and that looks a tad mohawk-esque.
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How does a kayak gain 20kg between lying on the ground and being lifted onto the car roof racks?
Quote from: justmeinoz on April 15, 2013, 07:45:00 AM
How does a kayak gain 20kg between lying on the ground and being lifted onto the car roof racks?
When the lifter's muscles atrophy due to HRT the perceived weight of said kayak increases exponentially. ;D
Quote from: justmeinoz on April 15, 2013, 07:45:00 AM
How does a kayak gain 20kg between lying on the ground and being lifted onto the car roof racks?
Water. :D
I have had to carry one over a mile on a crappy sharp boulder filled trail once.
It just kept getting heavier every step of the way.
My legs and arms were shaking by the time I got to the end of the trail.
It was worth it. It came out at a water outlet for a small hydroelectric plant.
It shoots water out of a ten foot dia opening, thats about fifteen feet above the water downstream.
The first wave coming back up out of the water is at least ten feet high.
There are over a dozen smaller waves from it as you go down stream. They each get a little smaller as you go.
If you go like hell into the first one you get air to about the middle of the next 'bump'.
I like that.
Ativan
Mistake! Mistake!
Wore a new as yet not fully stretched out pair of Angry Birds Breifs to work today, and damn me if they aren't pinching in the leg holes!!! :icon_omfg:
Why can't they make Character Briefs in sizes above Boys 8?
8^/
we just had a guy visiting us to ask for help with analyzing german sentences. he's studying the language, and doing the classical analysis which none of us linguists understand at all. a doctor, master and bachelor couldn't understand how to use that outdated way to analyze anything, because it doesn't fit with how we have experienced that language really is.
reminded me a little of the difference between a classical binary understanding of gender and how many non-binaries and more open minded researchers have come to understand it as something quite different in many ways. the different views can be so incompatible at times, and it is really hard to explain some times when people have too different viewpoints.
Perceptions change with even small changes that we make, which changes the choices that come from the changes in perception.
It's the unwillingness to make the little choices, for fear that we will have to make decisions, that cause perception to become stale.
All of which is so assbackwards.
Every once in a while, something happens to suddenly change our perceptions, and we may see it as a sign or divine intervention.
Nothing changed, everything is as it always was, our perception was all that changed.
Our decisions to consciously make choices for change can sometimes change others perceptions.
We essentially become divine intervention. A sign from wherever.
It's much easier to just change our perceptions by being aware that ours is ours alone.
There are many other ways to perceive the same thing, yet everything about it is still the same.
This is informed decision. It allows us to make our own choices.
Perceptions are everything. I think non-binaries are aware of this on a higher level.
Even if we are unaware of it, we still do it.
This is hard to accept, sometimes.
We feel that allowing a decision to change our perception of gender will cause us to make different choices for ourselves.
This is not true, it is just our perception of gender.
We sometimes do this, fearing to make choices and decisions for fear that our perception of gender is incorrect
Perceptions of gender can be so confusing, sometimes.
It's nice that more people are becoming aware that non-binary is a gender in it's own right, as right as a binary gender.
Not something in the middle of other things. Something separate, yet sharing so many things.
Just a small change in perception that changes everything we believed to be true about gender.
Just my perception ;)
Ativan
I appreciate your perceptions Ativan and I think a limited number of binary's are beginning to get it too, but there is a vast binary world around us that has little or no perception of the things we know and live out on a daily basis. Still I continue to hold my own as a non-binary that anyone in medical practice would simply refer to as a eunuch. Either way, the labeling is like so much water off of this duck's back as I continue to present myself androgynously in public and hide none of my physical attributes lest I deceive myself. So far I don't get any negative comments albeit a few second takes from those unfamiliar with me. I think one's carriage and sense of self worth has to be on display and exuded through every pore to be well received. Being in the last quarter of my life and coming to the place where I am no longer cowed by what others might think has also played into my own level of success. I can only hope that other's here will emulate that in their own lives.
That's so true. How you are perceived has a lot to do with how you carry yourself.
I learned it through hard lessons at a young age. My stature has always been smaller than average.
But I did it all wrong. I learned to do it in a way that just simply moved people out of my way.
Part the crowd, so to speak. I still do it, unconsciously at times, when I'm in a bad mood, or in a hurry.
As I age more gracefully :D, and thanks to working with some really astute people, that's changing.
Less combative :). But I blend in pretty well at the same time.
Another lesson from my early twenties. To be effective at what I was doing, it paid to blend in.
I do that less and less, as I still retain that ability to just back people up who can't mind their own business.
So much has changed in the last couple years, especially in the last year or so.
I notice peoples general attitudes have mellowed, it's not just mine.
I in turn, smile more at weird comments and for the most part, get a smile back.
Nothing really big has happened to people, just small changes in their own perceptions.
I notice this in binary people, perhaps because I'm not.
But at the same time, I have to allow those same kinds of small changes in my own perceptions.
It is these little changes that make a bigger change in perceptions than say, a large event.
There is momentum towards people's acceptance of genders that are different than their own.
This plays out in binaries themselves, as they accept that they are not so different from each other.
The subtleties of that carries over into peoples general acceptance of others different than themselves.
I fully expected a severe backlash of bigotry from the event in Boston.
Instead, people were quicker to tell others not to jump to conclusions.
It's a good sign that we are, as a society, finally growing up and away from those who thrive on bigotry.
Those people and their 'news' stories and conspiracy theories were and are still being shut out.
It's a sad thing that happened, but at the same time, we stood up for ourselves as a society.
I hope it's a lesson learned that we don't forget. Today, the way it is playing out, I have hope for all of us.
Congress would do well to pay attention to us, as a society that is changing the way we think.
We are a lot smarter than they think we are. We have done well I think, and not just recently.
I am more relaxed in the way I carry myself, I suppose this translates into more confidence.
I'm not entirely sure if it is graceful ageing or just the small shifts of perception that I perceive.
Ativan
I joined this site 5 years ago today.
Quote from: Pica Pica on May 11, 2013, 06:55:59 AM
I joined this site 5 years ago today.
:eusa_clap: :)
Grapes with seeds are annoying.
Quote from: Malachite on May 11, 2013, 11:23:20 PM
Grapes with seeds are annoying.
Depends, If you have straw and good aim they can be quite amusing... Think earlobes >:-)
I attempted to kill a spider but it dissapeared. When I looked under the shoe I used, there was guts. This concerns me. Uhoh
Love that tune ;D
I'm the Resident Killer of Bugs at my house. Somebody has to do it. >:-) Typically, I just walk in with a tissue and flush em away. The worst one was when there was this giant (compared to all the teeny ones) spider that I tried to squish with a shoe. "Why won't you die!!??" was shouted.
Also, I RP a couple of Marvel characters on Tumblr. It's a strange addiction...
Quote from: hazelspikes on May 16, 2013, 02:52:55 PM
I'm the Resident Killer of Bugs at my house. Somebody has to do it. >:-) Typically, I just walk in with a tissue and flush em away. The worst one was when there was this giant (compared to all the teeny ones) spider that I tried to squish with a shoe. "Why won't you die!!??" was shouted.
They move rather quickly. There's an enormous black wolf spider that lives under my kitchen range, he comes out and looks at me in the morning when I'm having coffee. The instant I move to kill him he darts under the range again. I'll outlive him and get the last word!
Blah, that reminds me that the hobo spider season starts up this time of year :P Time to buy some new sticky traps and gear up to wage war
Quote from: JulieR on May 16, 2013, 05:29:19 PM
I think I had a hobo bite a few years ago, they are bad, it didn't heal for months
Hobo bites can be pretty bad and turn infectious, I had to get a shot and a round of follow up antibiotics the first time I got bit by a hobo, now I use a prescription bite cream that works really well 8)
I cut my hair today, and I'm so happy since it felt soo wrong having long hair. Because my anxiety is pretty bad, I haven't managed to go to the hairdresser. Decided to cut it myself, and it turned out ok. ;D
Quote from: JulieR on May 15, 2013, 08:51:31 PM
Ever heard "Boris the Spider" by the Who?
The Who - Boris The Spider (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bvFuUaCe8eY#)
Ooooh pretty colors!
I'm going to crochet myself another packer today, I think. I was going through my yarn stash and I have all these wool scraps that need to be made into something. I don't need another packer, I already have a wool one and a silicone one, but hey, it'll be fun.
I should start an Etsy shop; I wonder if there's a market for colorful wool penises.
OMG, I just remembered that I've seen glittery yarn in stores. I need this in my pants life.
i just happened to think of how many conflicts, even wars start over a perfect agreement.
"this land looks nice, i want it"
"well, i know it's nice, so i want it too"
>:("I don't like people different from me".
>:("I don't like people different from me."
:icon_archery: :icon_chainsaw:
:icon_2gun:
Happiness is a warm gun?
Chainsaws are messy. Woodchippers work, though.
Bow and arrow doesn't have a fully automatic pew pew pew setting, or the range.
Was gonna go out and poach last night with a bow, its been wet enough to be stealth.
Just went out instead. Little too early to be poaching.
Cloudy night, 4AM, in the woods. Dark and quiet. Seemed appropriate enough to me.
I trump your poaching with my properly issued state hunting license. You are pwn'd.
Quote from: cynthialee on May 29, 2013, 12:03:51 PM
I trump your poaching with my properly issued state hunting license. You are pwn'd.
I never claim to be proper about anything.
I can't really recall ever
actually being proper about anything.
Happiness is a worn pun.
Homespun, of course...
Most wars begin with 'w'.
- the English language
zzzz
Speaking of zzz's, I didn't get any sleep last night whatsoever. Right now I mostly just feel very calm and content, which reminds me of this article I once read about a psychological study on the effects of sleep deprivation on depression. According to that study, sleep deprivation can temporarily relieve depression pretty effectively. And I say temporarily because obviously it only works until the person gets too tired and has to go to sleep.
Got shipping notification on my packer.
Now have "Dick in a Box" stuck in my head at work.
Crap.
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Muhahahaha! >:-)
A year and a half+ of nonsense!
I win at the internets!
;D
two lovely white bubbly dots on my arm after being bit by something....
Might want to get that bite looked at
I'm sure it was looked at by whatever bit him..
Quote from: JulieR on June 16, 2013, 04:04:04 PM
I'm a twit! Please don't agree with me though, it's quite personal, I'm the only one to know.
Sorry Julie, you don't have exclusive ownership of twit-i-ness! ;D
sword fight
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Deet-dOOooooooo
Woop Woop!
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wut wut
Quote from: Catherine.O on June 19, 2013, 06:48:32 PM
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wut wut
Hey Catherine, did you put that hoodie on that little bird? Pretty cute, where do you get these things?
Lovisa Negga - Mihá ja gievrra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-JpwKg8j-c#)
"proud and strong"
is the title of this song, but she's almost too cute. i met her tonight, and will be driving her around tomorrow (i'm so excited, didn't plan this at all, it just happened).
she's one of the greatest young saami stars right now, but when some idiots in southern sweden (where she's from, grew up there) wanted a female saami artist, she wasn't "saami enough" for them. i don't think there's a single saami person who would agree with them though, we all love her. and we love her even more after we met her.
she needs to become more popular.
She's very cute! You'll have to give us your impressions later if you will!
my impressions? she's one of the sweetest girls i ever met. i'm not sure what else i can say, other than that she's also really impressive. started her own record company just so she can do things her own way, and she's still only 22. she has an extreme lack of prejudice, and has thought through quite a lot of important matters, especially concerning her own identity.
sharing another song of hers, not to spam, but because the video is interesting. title means "ice cold"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2oesMHAS70 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2oesMHAS70)
Quote from: Taka on June 27, 2013, 06:43:48 AM
my impressions? she's one of the sweetest girls i ever met. i'm not sure what else i can say, other than that she's also really impressive. started her own record company just so she can do things her own way, and she's still only 22. she has an extreme lack of prejudice, and has thought through quite a lot of important matters, especially concerning her own identity.
sharing another song of hers, not to spam, but because the video is interesting. title means "ice cold"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2oesMHAS70 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2oesMHAS70)
Cute and very creative, I'd trade faces with her in a heartbeat, such pretty lips! She must have been a pleasure to be with!
Nothing
Quote from: Shantel on June 27, 2013, 10:06:44 AM
Cute and very creative, I'd trade faces with her in a heartbeat, such pretty lips! She must have been a pleasure to be with!
she really was.
i just remembered i have to contact her for work. still not used to being in a position where i can just contact celebrities, so i get a little nervous thinking about it....
Anime Expo
I want a surgery fund with a positive balance. Oi!
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Just wondering, what has got der ailed anyway.
How many existentialists does it take to change a light bulb?
Two.
One to screw in the bulb, and one to observe how the light bulb itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality, in a netherworld of endless absurdity, reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of nothingness.
Quote from: Jamie D on July 05, 2013, 02:26:15 AM
How many existentialists does it take to change a light bulb?
Two.
One to screw in the bulb, and one to observe how the light bulb itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality, in a netherworld of endless absurdity, reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of nothingness.
You came up with that on your own? :D
NO Shan, the voices told her.
Quote from: LordKAT on July 05, 2013, 11:19:42 AM
NO Shan, the voices told her.
:D ;D :laugh: Probably!
I saw this girl in a bar and asked her what her name was.
"Shantel," was her reply. To which I thought, fine if you don't want to tell me, I'll go somewhere else.
Quote from: Pica Pica on July 06, 2013, 05:26:47 PM
I saw this girl in a bar and asked her what her name was.
"Shantel," was her reply. To which I thought, fine if you don't want to tell me, I'll go somewhere else.
She was a cheeky one!
I talk too much.
I dreamt that wishful thinking could grow me a full beard.
Quote from: Taka on July 19, 2013, 12:45:51 PM
I dreamt that wishful thinking could grow me a full beard.
I wish apon you my dreadful beard plus some armpit hair to fill in the missing bit from the carpet burn scar.
Quote from: nickikim on July 19, 2013, 11:12:57 PM
I wish apon you my dreadful beard plus some armpit hair to fill in the missing bit from the carpet burn scar.
I literally gasped with hand to mouth like a classic film depicting something abruptly shocking happening. Go away hair!
Sun and Moon, Two Steps From Hell.
Sharona re michina, charera no'ha
Latenta no mevina, sanela santo tere
Ano teri nara, shento mea'aha me'eari
Ste namari, shelete narata noshari
Sa nate, te narato
Shatyoha re mevina, chareya no'ha
Latenta no mevina, sanela santo tere
Ano tere nara, shento mea'aha teriardi
Ste namari, shelete narata toshchari
Sa nate, te narato
Someone said this is a made up language. I like that.
The song means whatever you think it does.
Two Steps From Hell - Sun & Moon (SkyWorld) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-aWVg_pOrc#)
Ativan
Strong man. Manly man.
Undergarment model
@ ativan: i love made-up languages. only one i know yet (apart from some esperanto) is my own old hellish, which currently only has one word, "zarxayn". it means 'dawn', of all things.
Quote from: nickikim on July 19, 2013, 11:12:57 PM
I wish apon you my dreadful beard plus some armpit hair to fill in the missing bit from the carpet burn scar.
i think.... i'd rather have the scar than the armpit hair. it can't be that bad, can it?
Rex Power Colt!
It's been over thirty days since someone tried to derail this thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig3GcDBjQN4
Send out the Whirly Birds.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KgPC5RkYFo
Keep this thread rolling...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSHr4ubuD64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYNuU6Xtms
hmmmm
you got bored or something?
i don't really feel in the mood to derail too much, some stupid anxiety is trying to take over my mind. just hoping the worst of it will dissipate with the new moon. it's still a few hours left, but all i need is to be able to think straight for long enough to defeat some of the causes that add to my anxiety. i'm not sure i can get rid of the anxiety itself that easily.
I had a meltdown on the way to see my Psychologist.
It took a good share of the meds I carry for anxiety, to stop the rage.
It was all over a small problem that was easily fixed.
Yet the anxiety ran into too many triggers and some of the darkest imagery filled my head.
I considered a request for a Psyche Unit, but managed to stay away from one.
There are things best left in the past for me.
Am I bored? Not with the quantities of meds I took today.
I am comfortably numb... :)
i have a slightly bigger problem that isn't equally easy to fix. meaning it will take an effort... and just thinking about it makes me so anxious i can't think clearly at all. how am i supposed to concentrate while fending off thoughts that try to drive me to suicide. i'm not falling for that trick though, i'll never let anxiety get the best of me. i just wish i knew a way of killing the feeling rather than be distracted by it. numbing myself with meds probably wouldn't be too good for me, so i'll avoid it unless it becomes necessary just to stay alive.
*sneaks in*
*steals the rails*
*runs away*
Don't tell Devlyn
*Ativan, disguised as normal, does a quick fly by on LordKat, yelling "Look at that!"*
*While distracted, quietly takes the rails and runs off in another direction...*
*giggles, knowing Devlyn hasn't figured out what LordKat is up to...*
*Hides behind tree in forest*
I am Ativan Prescribed for a reason. Anxiety is not just my middle name.
I have tried everything, more than a couple times.
As someone who's rule is to not take any kind of med at all unless absolutely necessary,
I have finally, after over a decade of struggles including emergency airlifts for attempted suicides,
for reasons that have left even the strongest dead, I have found my solution.
Where most people settle for a constant dose of meds I refuse.
Ativan, the med, is usually prescribed in 2, 5, 10, and even 20 mg doses.
I carry .5, yep just 1/2 mg tabs. So small of doses you'd think they were ineffective.
But they are, you just can't feel them. You can always take more if need be.
Yesterday was a bad enough day that people were scared for me. It happens.
I did work my way up to a dose that started to calm me down.
I also have Klonopin, works slowly, but lasts longer. Again the smallest dose you can get.
Knowing the Ativan wears off rather quickly, in just a few short hours at the most, I took some Klonopin.
It took a triple dose of what I usually take.
But even still, all calmed down and able to talk about it, I was good to go after a few hours.
I even made dinner for us all, Enchiladas baked over rice, a huge Mexican salad, and various cut up fruits and such.
Wielding a huge chef knife and several others, and timing it all out to a moment of simultaneous prepared and done.
True, I did take stronger doses of meds than usual, but I didn't over do them.
It wasn't until I was done with cleaning up the aftermath of a great dinner, that I opted to take more Klonopin.
It takes longer to start working, but wears off rather slowly, in a tapering off kind of way.
Still within the legitimate range I am allowed. Not high on drugs, just used them as a tool for anxiety.
Anxiety meds don't work from the bottom up, like alcohol and such.
They take it from the top down. By using the smallest possible doses, I have control.
Yesterday was wild, it took strong measures. It happens.
I deserved a little numbness to quiet the last of the insanity.
I didn't break anything, I didn't maim or kill anyone, I am still alive.
I am quite effective and capable of leaving a trail of mayhem behind me.
Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and use the evils of modern medications.
But only in doses you can control, to stay in control, in a way that only you know what is best for yourself.
Today I am rested, looking forward to taking another trip to the same place for another appointment there.
I am good to go. I have control. I know that I will maintain control, regardless.
Which is the point of it all for me. To maintain a state of accepted normal is good for everyone.
I often think how much better the world would be if people just stopped giving into their fears.
If it takes meds, so be it. Virtually all negative aspects of our lives are driven by fear.
All of them can be broken down to it. Anxiety is the friendliest aspect of fear, as odd as that sounds.
You either face it and knock it down, or you simply alter your brain enough to control it.
Either way, you get rid of it. While I prefer to face it head on and kill it, somedays I need help.
People shouldn't have to be in a state of unwarranted fear because of my anxiety.
I know what that feels like, it is the root of my own.
Ativan.
I won't say a word about it to Devlyn. Your secret is safe.
has anyone else ever spent 20 minutes just cleaning your nails and wondered "I bet this is how you go crazy"?
cuz I do that a lot
The cleaning or the wondering?
Either way,... Yes.
Only 20 minutes??!! What a slacker. Just teasing you but my nails and hair were two personal features I played with a lot prior to coming out and transition. And now with purple passion polish, oh the joy.
you gave me some interesting information, ativan. i'll have to think about trying something else than just toughing it out if i can't get the needed amount of control over this anxiety within the next few months. right now i'll work on getting rid of two things that only add to it. already started on them both, and i believe it will get better.
still, yesterday was horrid, and it continued through this morning (you were hopefully still asleep at the time). but around midday, suddenly, the feeling pretty much disappeared and even if it threatens to return, it's not completely numbing.
i blame the moon for this, and i probably always will unless i find evidence of the contrary. it can't be just a coincidence that i suffer from near uncontrollable anxiety in the last three days before new moon. and even if it doesn't get that bad, i still get really irritable.
in some ways, it feels good to tell someone that i'm not doing as good as i pretend. i have this suspicion that being open about the problem might lessen it, at least i don't need to fear people finding out...
Quote from: Taka on September 05, 2013, 03:00:26 PM
i blame the moon for this, and i probably always will unless i find evidence of the contrary. it can't be just a coincidence that i suffer from near uncontrollable anxiety in the last three days before new moon. and even if it doesn't get that bad, i still get really irritable.
What's not to believe? The moon controls tides, cycles and much more ask any EMT or ER worker.
Quote from: Taka on September 05, 2013, 03:00:26 PM
in some ways, it feels good to tell someone that i'm not doing as good as i pretend. i have this suspicion that being open about the problem might lessen it, at least i don't need to fear people finding out...
It's difficult to be open about something that you fear will make you appear weak.
And at first, it brings on even more anxiety. It's a hard step to take.
I should have said this before. You have to be open to face it.
For myself, it's bad enough that on occasion, i have to use meds.
It's bad enough to warrant the use of them.
But I still have to talk about it, be open to it.
Sometimes confiding in another isn't enough. The fear remains if they can't alleviate it for you.
Sometimes you just have to be open about it. There are others who understand what it is.
I'm very good at hiding myself behind a facade of normal for others benefit.
It's like putting up a dam against your emotions, though.
But at some time, I realized that I was not alone in doing this.
I recognize the signs in other people just as easily as I hide behind mine.
The day I decided to stop hiding behind a mask of 'I'm OK', the outpouring of support amazed me.
Although most people can't really help other than show support, others like me could give bits of advice here and there.
While a therapist can tell you what they have been taught, only others who have truly been where you are, know.
Having fear of fear itself is irrational thinking. To be open about it, isn't.
We all understand it to one degree or another.
Only a fool would pretend to have never been afraid or experienced fear.
Fear is never irrational to the person who experiences it. Regardless of the reason.
The reason isn't the point of it, it's just what starts it.
Unchallenged, it remains and can get worse over time.
All negative emotions have their beginnings in a fear of something.
Never let fear get the better of you. It's only a reaction to an event or thing.
Left unchecked, it slowly turns into anger, hatred and worse...
Depression and various psychological disorders stem from it.
They all have a degree of anxiety built into them.
Meds won't cure any of them, but talk therapy can.
Fear and the anxiety from it makes you smaller by confining your thinking.
Being open about the feelings of fear is the start of stopping it.
Even meds are secondary, they won't work at stopping it.
They just give you a chance to catch your breath long enough to talk about it.
Ativan
i'm not really a world champion in being open. but i have decided to not close off when it comes to things of the present and future. and from there i can start to deal with things of the past that i really don't want to have existed. i'm getting closer to understanding the root of the worst part, all i have to do is accept that i'm no superhuman and start making decisions accordingly.
i think what i fear the most is blame, not living up to expectations or the responsibilities i take on. hiding away when i start failing apparently isn't the right decision, fixing things later is too hard. so now i'm trying to learn how to share the responsibility by asking for help when i need it instead of too late.
there are also some other things i have to find solutions to, like how i hate being monitored because of too much control in my childhood. it's not very practical to get frozen with fear just because someone wants me to report on progress or other things.
in the end i might have to talk to a therapist of some kind. not that i trust those enough, so i hope i can figure this out without one.
Quote from: Taka on September 06, 2013, 04:47:08 PM
i'm not really a world champion in being open. but i have decided to not close off when it comes to things of the present and future. and from there i can start to deal with things of the past that i really don't want to have existed. i'm getting closer to understanding the root of the worst part, all i have to do is accept that i'm no superhuman and start making decisions accordingly.
i think what i fear the most is blame, not living up to expectations or the responsibilities i take on. hiding away when i start failing apparently isn't the right decision, fixing things later is too hard. so now i'm trying to learn how to share the responsibility by asking for help when i need it instead of too late.
there are also some other things i have to find solutions to, like how i hate being monitored because of too much control in my childhood. it's not very practical to get frozen with fear just because someone wants me to report on progress or other things.
in the end i might have to talk to a therapist of some kind. not that i trust those enough, so i hope i can figure this out without one.
Pretty good self analysis! The fact that we live in the now and look to the future is key to a much brighter outlook. The past is all water under the bridge, there is absolutely nothing we can do to change it and to continue to agonize over the past is counter productive and a self defeating black hole.
zzzz
Can we try to stay on topic here?
i'd rather not stick to any topic but the one i want, alice.
Quote from: Shantel on September 06, 2013, 08:09:26 PM
Pretty good self analysis! The fact that we live in the now and look to the future is key to a much brighter outlook. The past is all water under the bridge, there is absolutely nothing we can do to change it and to continue to agonize over the past is counter productive and a self defeating black hole.
my self destructive personality... thanks for reminding me, auntie shan. i wish a person like you existed in my younger life, maybe i'd learned to look at what i can do right now rather than all that i didn't do yesterday. let's try to think of it like i got a chance to make up for some previous mistakes, would be more productive than beating myself up over something that i can't change.
the next two months will probably be hard on me. i have to do just a little more than what i'm really able to handle. but right now i feel like diving into this hell with a determination to get up on the other side as quickly as at all possible.
Quote from: Taka on September 07, 2013, 07:15:29 AM
i'd rather not stick to any topic but the one i want, alice.
my self destructive personality... i have to do just a little more than what i'm really able to handle. but right now i feel like diving into this hell with a determination to get up on the other side as quickly as at all possible.
Although we do seem to have grown up and somehow managed to stay on topics for the most part,
I long for those days when staying on topic in this section was never the rule,
but rather the thing we refused to do, just because we could.
For Androgyn type people, staying on topic is counter productive due to our very nature of a child like quality of mischief.
It's almost toxic in nature to us, this rule for others, of staying on topic.
As has been discussed in other topics,
running off on wild tangents of discussions about all nature of things Androgyn and straying off topic is more the standard than any rule.
I think we have fallen into the traps of pretending to be all grown up and stuff, acting like the proper grownup *trans people we are a part of.
I don't see it as necessarily a good thing for us.
All this prim and proper way of doing things.
*Damn you society for having us acting like the adults we fail to understand!There I said it.
It's high time we got back to being the forest,
because those winding intersecting paths that will get you lost,
yet take you where you are going just the same,
are from us running wildly about the trees we so deftly miss in our headlong search for information.
We are the forest. We will change the topics in mid path as it suits us.
We are Androgyn. Escape is futile, you will be assimilated.*OK, that's really the Borg, but what the hell (*moderator needed here) do we need with this 'stay on topic' stuff anyways?
We never could and never will be able to follow the rules.
It's hard to do when the rules dictate that we act like all adultish and stuff.
Since when did it become organized around here?
Just because we have a topic for derailing doesn't mean we have to use it to go off the rails into some wild tangent of thought that is only understandable by us anyways, huh?
And just because this happens to be that topic for derailing, means nothing.
We should be running helter skelter through the forest yelling out the answers to questions we hear,
while asking even more questions that may or may not be relevant to answers just yelled out in passing.
*Just had to yell that out as I run on the path that leads to who knows where, as if it even leads to somewhere at all. ;)
As for self destructive personalities, that would seem normal.
Not that we wish to self destruct, but that's one way of approaching things.
Do we really want to play it safe and follow the sensible path?
Or do we want to come out at the end of it, exhausted, yet laughing at ourselves for ever doubting we could do it in the first place.
We can use our anxieties for both a win or for failure.
Don't let the insecurity of the possibility of failure cause undue anxiety.
Use it for that anxiety that tells us to not take flight, but to stand and fight.
As with any great or small adventure, it's about the journey.
Not whether we accomplish the goals set for us by those who don't see the potential for chaotic success.
Stop pretending to be normal and be yourself.
You'll handle whatever comes along, just don't let anyone expect you to do it the way they would.
All such talk from me, the hapless survivor riddled with the holes and open wounds,
of a life filled with anxiety at every wicked twist and turn down these dark paths that lead to who knows where.
It's about the journey. It's about being uncomfortable, but it's about learning to use that.
It's not about the win or failure. Those will happen anyways.
It's how you got here to tell the story of another grand adventure in a society that runs backwards and upside down.
It doesn't matter if you know how to fly or not.
Just know that it only hurts when you hit the ground.
Otherwise, fly while you can.
Jump. It's the only way to truly learn to fly.
Ativan
Has anybody seen my coffee mug? I seemed to have dropped it...
Quote from: Joules on September 07, 2013, 09:24:04 AM
I promise everyone that I will eat a nice steak for dinner. With whiskey and a baked potato.
Somehow, that makes sense for a thread meant to be for derailing the topic at hand...
Ativan once again I find your lyrical prose and those recent trail metaphors compelling and evocative. I chair a trails organization here and the concepts of public access and a journey on a pedestrian scale are part of my daily life. Thank you.
As a girl who has been a paraglidder and literally jumped with gossamer wings you also nicely captured that desire to fly.
Yes indeed, sisters and brothers we can take flight in our imagination and in real time too.
Spread those wings!
i believe i can fly
i believe i can touch the sky
i might never have ended up here if i were just two inches taller. or hopefully i wouldn't.
always wanted to be a fighter pilot. my genes betrayed me.
Quote from: Taka on September 07, 2013, 01:02:44 PM
i believe i can fly
i believe i can touch the sky
I believe you can.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on September 07, 2013, 02:08:47 PM
I believe you can.
I had a dream that I could fly once, it was so realistic that I awoke believing that it really happened. I launched myself as I was sliding off a second story steep pitched tile roof in Bavaria and suddenly holy crap, I was flying!
some people practice a sort of directed dreaming with flying a frequent element. Fighter planes, tanks and monstrous weaponry are fun to play with on the military reservations but when the shooting comes back at ya in little green bursts my mind and body recoiled pronto.
Quote from: Tessa James on September 07, 2013, 04:19:20 PM
some people practice a sort of directed dreaming with flying a frequent element. Fighter planes, tanks and monstrous weaponry are fun to play with on the military reservations but when the shooting comes back at ya in little green bursts my mind and body recoiled pronto.
i had no reason not to follow this dream before my daughter was born. other than lack of height.
i've a feeling i lost sight of everything dreamlike when i realized i'd never be tall enough. the only other alternative was to become a sailor, but that job hasn't been any cool since my dad was a little boy. technology and modern society have ruined my life. i can't even just up and walk straight east in lack of anything better to do, i'll just end up at the heavily guarded russian border.
Quote from: Taka on September 07, 2013, 05:20:08 PM
i had no reason not to follow this dream before my daughter was born. other than lack of height.
i've a feeling i lost sight of everything dreamlike when i realized i'd never be tall enough. the only other alternative was to become a sailor, but that job hasn't been any cool since my dad was a little boy. technology and modern society have ruined my life. i can't even just up and walk straight east in lack of anything better to do, i'll just end up at the heavily guarded russian border.
I hope you will return to your dreams Taka and recognize a vision of yourself as standing tall in so many realms. That little walk you describe sounds harsh and cold. I am often uncertain of technology but it does allow us to communicate over oceans of distance. Trust can require a positive feedback experience to assure us. Many of us here have benefitted from finding that counselor, friend or confidant that listens and connects with us.
now i dream of becoming a teacher. longer holidays...
Quote from: Taka on September 08, 2013, 05:04:43 AM
now i dream of becoming a teacher. longer holidays...
Become a flight instructor for small aircraft or even light sport aircraft.I had a friend of a friend take me up in his light sport that was stunt stressed to 6g's.
He wasn't very tall, maybe 5', so he built it to work for him.
He used it at air shows, and to teach people to fly them.
Nice to have a plane that is forgiving for all the panic maneuvers that people will make.
I didn't try any maneuvers that came close to that, but he did.
I had fun just flying like the idiotic 'we're gonna die' person.
He just laughed at me. It was a fun day.
Oh that sounds like a wonderful dream Taka. Education is so critical to understanding.....
Ativan please do keep laughing, having fun and telling us about it.
this thread shall ever be considered awesome
that is all, thank you
Yes.
Diabolical.
997
998
999
1000 posts.
*Somebody had to do it. >:-)
ahahahaha
nice one, ati. too bad i missed out on 666, i like that number.
Re: the thread that can't be derailed....
« Reply #666 on: October 16, 2012, 04:04:17 am »
Quote from: justmeinoz on October 16, 2012, 03:41:05 am
Don't forget the beetroot for a genuine Aussie burger!
And the Aussies here will agree you can't beet a root! ;)
No, you can't beet a root.. As my dearest mum has always told me, one you say no to is one you don't get.. >:-)
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The world is my oyster... but I can't seem to get it open - Daria
Somebody had to do it!
Mmmm, oysters. I love them, but never get to eat them. And Shrimp. And catfish. .... I think I just love fish. And salmon. Mmmmm, spicy salmon sushi...
Not many posts going on right now in which I can contribute to. Meh.
Quote from: Joules on September 10, 2013, 06:44:41 PM
Malachite is BANNED from this thread because it doesn't matter here if it's Tuesday
Nice shoes
Obladi, oblada
Life goes on, brah
Lala, how the life goes on.
15 men on a dead man's chest
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum
"I would like some more nose bananas, please!"
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Nose bananas are gross!! >:(
Quote from: Joules on September 11, 2013, 12:10:16 AM
LOFL, that has to be the grand prize winner for this thread, well done Edek
:3
Winner!
As a prize, who wants bananas?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrNpI0r7fa8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrNpI0r7fa8)
That is all.
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Been there. Done that.
Quote from: Jamie D on September 12, 2013, 01:18:51 AM
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Been there. Done that.
Worst I've done is fart during the act..
Quote from: Kia on September 12, 2013, 01:09:42 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrNpI0r7fa8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrNpI0r7fa8)
That is all.
Everybody! sing along!
Can't be derailed because the wheels already popped off the Crazy Train?
One more time...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otdHbA4GlSI
Ativan
And why not?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yewjAwOR2A4
Ativan
Which of course makes me think of this one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy3fJ8Nmzyw
Ativan
Or put the headphones on and turn it up,
just to take a kicked back relaxed moment in an otherwise burnt out day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Bu0NcCXSM&list=RD0282E5DHgTmdE
Ativan
you quadruple poster...
got a cold. it's annoying, but at least i haven't gotten a fever along with it (yet). i can still work today...
almost makes me sigh, i really want some more time off.
i fell for the code temptation once again. not difficult when i find something that explains if and else in simple enough terms that i can understand it (prolog didn't use words for these). i'm not giving up on this yet.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on September 13, 2013, 01:28:13 AM
Or put the headphones on and turn it up,
just to take a kicked back relaxed moment in an otherwise burnt out day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Bu0NcCXSM&list=RD0282E5DHgTmdE
Ativan
Love 2 Steps from Hell. They're making kickass epic soundracks.
:)
it's annoying to realize that i'm not really doing too good.
i just read a new chapter of my favorite webtoon. it was nice, made me smile, but only until i read the comments and realized i would have trouble keeping my laughter down if i was actually doing good these days. other people were laughing so much their sides hurt. and here i thought i was doing alright, but i'm not. i should be feeling much better than this, found more joy in everything i see and do, if i were actually alright.
dysphoria makes the world so monochrome. i want to get out of it so i can see all the colors again.
i wish it were as simple as either being happy or depressed. but there's this much scarier place where i actually stop caring to the degree that i almost treat the world like it doesn't exist, and get irritated when anyone reminds me that they also are right here. it's like i'm watching time pass, hoping to be forgotten by it, left behind. and i don't even realize i'm in that place before something that should have given me joy does not.
Sounds awful Taka (hugs). Wish I had something constructive for you but I'm over my head with this stuff, I just keep on keeping on one foot ahead of the other when that stuff surfaces, eventually it will pass.
I want to do a Resident Evil 6 cosplay one day.
Quote from: Taka on September 24, 2013, 03:29:27 PM
dysphoria makes the world so monochrome.
Indeed.
It took me until I just simply got so angry with myself for having this same kind of sentiment.
Although I have commented on getting a therapist, taking Low Dose HRT, and other things as if they are easy to do, it is hardly the truth.
Suffering from anything is never pleasant, usually very hard to make it through from one day to the next, at times.
It takes perseverance to achieve most anything, and pulling oneself out of the depression that dysphoria can create is a monumental task.
Not only do you have to deal with the dysphoria, but the effects of depression at the same time.
This is true of the anxiety that can be a result of either or both of those.
Depression and anxiety sounds like one would cancel the other out, but this isn't true.
Neither is getting rid of one or the other going to stop dysphoria.
I have to admit that it feels as if the world is against every move you make while trying to just be normal for whoever you are.
Nothing harder to push against than the whole damn world, when all you want is so little in return.
All I can tell people when they get to the point of thinking about giving up is to consider your flight/fight responses.
I found myself in a corner I never thought I would get out of. I just wanted nothing more than to be left alone, in misery.
But I'm just to damn stubborn to admit defeat without at least taking down a few as I sink into those depths.
There comes a time where people just make it or break it. I chose to do both, being the stubborn scorched earth type of person I can be.
Find the thing that is going to work, take the time to find it, make it your life goal above all else.
If the first one doesn't work, go to the next. And the next.
It doesn't take a strong willed person to fight for what you need to do.
It does take perseverance and keeping your eyes open to new or better possibilities.
Dysphoria is nasty business that can take even nastier solutions to stop.
But once you have a good grip on it, it soon loses it's force, it's stranglehold on your life.
I'm not so much addressing you Taka as I am all of you who talk about this, along with the resulting anxiety and depression.
Dysphoria doesn't come from anxiety and anxiety doesn't come from depression.
Depression is the result of overamping on anxiety and burning out from it.
Dysphoria doesn't need to take you down these paths, as some people have bypassed them completely.
Anxiety doesn't have to lead to being depressed. Dysphoria doesn't have to lead to either of them.
These are separate, but overlapping things that we sometimes let get the best of us.
Taking them one at a time is always the best defense, slamming the crap out of them all at the same time rarely works.
#1 worst thing is depression. Stops you from a lot of things. Get rid of it first.
If it takes meds, so be it. Rarely does anyone ever stay on them for very long.
Once you can tread water on your own, you don't need them. A majority of people are this way.
Anxiety is the same way. Kill it with whatever it takes. Just do what you have to.
Or fall back into depression and start over again.
Dysphoria is nothing more than a kind of state of mind that lends itself to confusion.
Anxiety prone people will become anxious. Depressed kind of people will let it become just that, depression.
But you will need to stop either the confusing thoughts of dysphoria, or stop the results of it.
One way or another.
If talk therapy works, fine, go with it. Nothing like filling up on the side effects of meds to make a person feel worse.
Meds are simply the other side of therapy. Once you have a handle on it, you can manage it.
It took me years of being to damn stubborn to figure this out. It was easy once I got to know the root causes.
Which is what everyone has to figure out for themselves.
You can have a therapist help guide you, but ultimately, you have to do it yourself.
It's the same thing with meds. They only help you to figure it out, never stop it.
Only fools use meds to such an extent that they become over medicated and stay on them forever at high doses.
Some of us have a constant supply, I do. But I don't use them unless I have an informed reason to do so.
In other words, I pay really strict attention to what I'm feeling and what I react to.
Sometimes I'm a basket case of crap that needs a little push to get back to reality. It happens.
Dysphoria is the same way. You deal with it as you need to, regardless of what you need to do.
It doesn't last forever, ever. Once you have control, the rest is just dealing with it as it comes along, if ever again.
Which is the most typical result.
I know a lot of people who don't want to use meds, talk to the right therapist, and I do mean the right therapist.
If the first meds aren't working or seem wrong, they are wrong for you.
Same thing with a therapist.
If you want to know why I know all this, it's because I tried to go for too long without doing anything to fix the problems I had and still have.
I use different meds for different things, only when they are useful, which can be for long stretches.
Those stretches are getting to be less each time.
I see a gender psychologist, because I can, so I do take advantage of it. It's well worth it for the information I get from sessions each month.
I also see a therapist weekly because I can, but I would still see one at least once a month at the least.
I've tried so many different meds, I feel like a walking encyclopedia of side effects and the damage they can do.
I have yet to meet someone who honestly can say they haven't ever felt like crap for one reason or another and at the least thought about help.
It's not a perfect world and it seems to be always getting more complicated each year.
It's hard to trust anything thrown at you, telling you what you need to do to stop whatever is wrong.
And rightfully so. To much money to be made in doing just that.
It's one stupid commercial after another, telling you about wonder cures and drugs and programs and other snake oil cures for what ails you.
It's fine to trust in someone you know you can trust, but ultimately, you have to trust yourself.
The only way to do that is to get to the root of whatever is causing you to experience crap feelings.
It takes looking at yourself in some uncomfortable to even hateful trips down memory lane.
But you only have to do it once. Trust me, you won't forget it that easily that you will need to do it again.
Very simply, do what it takes to get you where you need to be, to get through each and every day.
Sometimes it does seem like it could be a scary or wrong thing to do, to rely on something or someone for help.
But just know that damn near everyone has gone through some rough times at one time or another.
They're still here, living life. The ones who have needed little in the way of help are fortunate to be that way.
For the rest of us usual people, it takes a little more than we are willing to admit to.
And there is the problem. We lie to ourselves about needing a shoulder, a med, a therapist, a friend.
We think we can be stronger because we are always told to be that way. That's a lot of crap.
Life doesn't work like that. Technology has made a lot of gains in helping those who seek help.
Doing so is the best thing you will ever do for yourself.
Living in some kind of dysphoric hell with anxieties and depression is no way to live.
There are people out there, whether in real time or online to help you.
Take advantage of what they have to offer you in finding out who you really can be.
Isn't that why you are here reading this, anyways? To find out who you are?
*Besides finding ways to derail a thread?
Topic derailed, I always wanted to take an entire page to do just that.
Because I can. ;)
Ativan.
Still playing GTA V
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on September 24, 2013, 07:41:37 PM
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that should be a thread of it's own, ativan.
so much wisdom came out of a simple complaint. i'm not too anxious or depressed. i'm about to plan my death from anxiety only a very few days every month, and clinical depression doesn't seem like a diagnosis for me. but that still doesn't mean i don't suffer from any dysphoria. having a rough time would be easier if i knew that things would get better with time. but they don't get better, they just get less bad, and that's annoying every time i realize. because i don't have the resources that i'd need in order to get things better for me quite yet.
i'm don't think dysphoria is the reason for my anxiety. i think it's more of a chemical problem. a cyclic thing often is. i'm hoping that the dysphoria is also a chemical problem. the constant sense of wrongness, the type that makes me feel like i'm out of touch with myself and the world, should be caused by an actual wrongness. what a relief wouldn't it be if i found out that it's just the chemicals in my body that are wrong. would be bad if my whole life turned out to be wrong, it would be too much to correct.
It wasn't aimed at you, but you did make the statement, however taken out of context I made it.
The relationship of even cyclic chemical changes in the body have different impacts on different people.
While for most people, depression and anxiety are simple enough things to keep under control or eliminate, it isn't always true for everyone.
I'm one of those people. I have to pay attention to the details of how I react to almost everything.
It makes me acutely aware of just how such simple things can upset even the most even keeled of us.
For *Trans People in general and from my viewpoint, especially Non-Binaries.
Not only are we slapped around by society on a regular basis, but the reactions of our brain and body chemistry is also whacked out of shape on occasion.
Again, this makes me sit up and stare at just some of the problems associated with it.
For those who pass right on by the effects of imbalance, it's not much to think about.
There isn't the experience of just what happens when things go wrong, by no fault of your own.
Most everything that a persons thought process is governed by is simple to complex reactions from trace to flooding of chemicals in your brain.
For most people, it self regulates and adjusts itself without any major problems.
For some, this becomes cyclic. If even a few times doing that, you adjust to it.
Either by reasoning it out without to much effort to needing more drastic measures.
I don't advocate taking meds for anything until it's necessary to do so and even then only in the smallest amounts possible.
Like I said, talk therapy is first line defense, always. Even if it is just a friend to talk to.
Sometimes just talking it out loud to yourself works. A weird yet true tactic that actually works.
I read what people post here, with the view of a crazy person who suffers from clinical depression, borderline personality disorders, bipolar disorder and some I think they just make up because they don't know what else to think or say.
I did start a topic about anxiety, that one went pretty much to the wayside, but that's good.
Not much of it going around to the extent that people want to talk about it.
If they need to, here might not be the place for it.
Maybe the idea behind it is more than just one thing, and tying in dysphoria seems logical, at least to me.
The things that seem to tie together most comments from new to newer people seem to revolve around that kind of theme more than anything else.
Perhaps it is just dysphoria, but I read about anxiety and depression at times mixed in as well.
While I know that my views are just from my own experiences, I think there may be more to it than people here are willing to admit to.
Those who handle it well are better off than than rest who suffer in silence.
Perhaps it would make a better topic than a rant in this topics space.
Perhaps I'm making too big a deal out of it.
I don't know, I'm just a crazy person who feels it more than I talk about it.
But it is a recurring comment that I notice from my corner of the world as I see it.
It worries me that someone else would be going through something similar, but unable or unwilling to talk about it.
I chose the opportunity to say something about it, speculating that it might be the case.
It's difficult to know, just by reading comments. The lack of visual clues befuddles me to no end sometimes.
It leaves me wondering if there isn't something more to what people are willing to comment on and unwilling , too.
I wasn't pointing you out, so much as that simple statement got me to thinking about it.
I wasn't trying to point out anything so much as looking for answers, like usual.
*Just how much do we go through because of something that is for most, so simple to fix?
*How many of us suffer in silence because it's a taboo subject, to have instabilities in brain and body chemistries?
My dysphoria slowly went away some time ago. When I decided to just let it go...
At the same time, so did a certain kind of anxiety and depression seemed to stop.
Not all of it, but that's me. I work on this with myself and others almost everyday.
I don't understand that much of it, but I do know how it affects people, and can affect their judgements on themselves and on others.
I'm pretty sure that dysphoria is a not so simple a chemical and judgemental mix that we just don't talk about enough at times.
It seems like conversations just circle around it, a little advice here , a little advice there...
I'm probably just too sensitive to the whole thing.
I worry that the advice, 'stay strong', kind of stuff isn't enough.
Maybe there's more we need and can say about it, without fear of being judged.
One of my soapboxes IRL. I advocate for mental disorders like mine.
The ones I have learned to live with and use to better advantage, than to suffer from.
Here I do the same for other Non-Binaries, as well as myself.
There is always a certain amount of overlap, it's inevitable.
LOL! I slipped up on my own, and fell off to the wayside of my own doings.
So I took my own advice and just went for a walk. For a few days.
Sometimes, that's all we need. Go for a walk with ourselves and figure it out.
But maybe it is something we need to ask about more.
Maybe we have some of the answers to these comments.
Who would know better than us, what we really need to hear.
Ativan
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on September 25, 2013, 11:52:40 AM
I don't advocate taking meds for anything until it's necessary to do so and even then only in the smallest amounts possible.
Like I said, talk therapy is first line defense, always. Even if it is just a friend to talk to.
Sometimes just talking it out loud to yourself works. A weird yet true tactic that actually works.
The VA tried to load me up on anxiety meds which only gave me brain shorts kind of like a four cylinder motor with only three cylinders firing, it made me jump periodically for no reason. I had to ramp down off of them and opted for talk therapy to work out PTSD and anxiety issues, it was like peeling a new layer off of an onion each session complete with tears until it was all uncovered and exposed, then I learned about those things that cause anxiety and sudden extreme anger and how to recognize them from afar when they are just coming up on the horizon and was given the tools via other options for sidestepping it. It took a long time but has proven to be much better than becoming dependent on chemicals that alter my brain's hardwiring. That's not to say that some with clinical depression should stop their medication. My situation was different.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on September 25, 2013, 11:52:40 AM
It wasn't aimed at you, but you did make the statement, however taken out of context I made it.
mm, i did understand that. but just like you, i'm looking for answers, as well as trying to give others opportunity to share their stories. looks like it worked, from your reply.
i find it interesting how it's easier for me to just drop a thought in this thread than posting them in other topics. this time, i don't experience anxiety. or maybe i actually do without knowing it, since my problem this time is some kind of emotional detachment. all the emotions are right there, under the ice, and i feel so comfortable standing on that ice that i don't really feel like breaking it. but that's only until i once again notice how cold this place is. maybe it's self defense, blocking out everything so i won't be overwhelmed by anxiety and depression, but with the side effect that i don't really experience the good emotions either. like when i hugged my daughter just a few hours ago, and right in the middle of the hug lost all feelings of goodness. i didn't let go of her though, i don't want her to think that i don't care about her. even if i can't feel it to strongly myself right now, i do care a lot.
i'm a little complicated. almost like the description i once hear of scorpios. capable of deep and passionate love, or hate, but can also leave the passion to become a cold blooded monster. balance is just as hard to reach with this as with more than one gender. it feels a little weird that i have to calculate my actions in order to be the person that i want to be. usually i respond to people instinctively.
what do i do if this isn't dysphoria, but an actual personality trait of mine...
i think i've done too much thinking for tonight. someone liven this thread up with something random, please.
I'm sure that something random will just randomly fall into this thread at any random moment, considering how random things can be at random times like this.
*Random speculation...
*Now the word random looks weird. Could just be a random thing.
*Ativan does a little random dance while running away in random directions.
hehe, that feels better.
making me smile, ativan.
Quote from: Shantel on September 25, 2013, 12:54:11 PM
I had to ramp down off of them and opted for talk therapy to work out PTSD and anxiety issues, it was like peeling a new layer off of an onion each session complete with tears until it was all uncovered and exposed, then I learned about those things that cause anxiety and sudden extreme anger and how to recognize them from afar when they are just coming up on the horizon and was given the tools via other options for sidestepping it. It took a long time but has proven to be much better than becoming dependent on chemicals that alter my brain's hardwiring. That's not to say that some with clinical depression should stop their medication. My situation was different.
For a thread that can't be derailed, we sure have been staying on the tracks, lol...
I'm still going through some of this, though not as much as when I first started it.
What a weird mix of gender and CPTSD issues it's been.
I still need to carry anxiety meds with me, just knowing I have them with me is really more important than using them.
They're different than the Wellbutrin I take for depression. It's not your standard SSRI antidepressant. Those ramped up the anxiety.
Being able to see anxiety coming around the corner is from a lot of talk therapy, and it took a few therapists to find the right one.
Everyone has a different story, different journey, but some things remain the same regardless.
When I need to calm down, sometimes the situation calls for meds, but not on any kind of regular basis.
It's weird the triggers that happen. They don't seem to have anything to do with my past, but might.
I talk to my therapist about them, and if they don't seem to relate, we try to figure them out.
I think some of them are never going to reveal anything new, anything to work on.
But even that is something in itself. Just knowing nothing about them makes me step back from the situation.
Which is not in my nature to usually do. I tend to step into things rather than walk away.
But I'm learning new tactics for avoiding those kinds of things. Better than depending on something thats not me.
Which is what anxiety meds really are. They intentionally disrupt your wiring.
But they do nothing for my depression, if anything, they make it worse.
Unfortunately, some of us are wired wrong, and it takes specific meds to make us the same normal as most people are.
It's hell trying to navigate through life in a constant state of depression. I get nowhere without my antidepressant.
It's not addictive, you don't get any kind of a high from them, you just get to function like everyone else.
If you don't need them, they do nothing for you. They might give you a little boost of serotonin or norepinephrine.
Wellbutrin also boosts your uptake of dopamine somewhat. But it's not a kind of thing that you get right away, like anxiety meds.
Antidepressants can take up to a month before the receptors adjust in your brain.
Coffee has a larger effect than antidepressants do in the short term. But caffeine does little to adjust your chemical balance for depression.
Antidepressants just allow your receptors to function like they should.
Anxiety meds work far differently and can become very addictive and when they do, their effectiveness wears down.
So you need more to get the same effects.
That's when they start to affect your wiring in a kind of semi permanent way.
Which is harder to fix than the anxiety itself. Opiates used for painkillers work almost the same way.
Even though I'm one of those people who just doesn't get addicted to things, I still dislike the effects from them.
Going through life wearing rose colored glasses isn't any way to live.
A person needs to be able to withstand things when they go wrong, and it takes practice.
Without a doubt, talk therapy is far more effective in the long run than med therapy when it comes to anxiety.
I still have a prescription for Ativan, but I really don't know when it was the last time I had to get a refill.
Life is much better this way, even if I am still learning to deal with some things.
Ativan
Random....
stop trying to put a train on my trackless thread!
It can't work. There are no rails, the train is just going to sit in one spot.
Now back on topic:
How do we derail this thread that started off without rails?
amateurs....
:laugh:
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on September 26, 2013, 12:09:51 PM
I still have a prescription for Ativan, but I really don't know when it was the last time I had to get a refill.
Life is much better this way, even if I am still learning to deal with some things.
Ativan
That's OK I understand how it works, kind of like a small child and their security blanket. I quit my two pack a day smoking habit back in 76 cold turkey after having smoked like a chimney for 18 years. I carried a pack of butts for several months never smoking any until I finally threw them away. if I hadn't I would have felt the need to buy some and that vicious cycle would begin again. This way they were dormant things in my breast pocket, I knew they were there but didn't use them even though I knew I could. I dealt with booze the same way, still have half a bottle of 151 Rum and half a dozen bottles of wine that simply take up space in a cabinet, eventually they will find a new home elsewhere.
Cyndi is gonna get you!
*Ativan runs away, leaving little pooftah dust balls behind...
Shouldn't this thread be called "the thread that can't be railed..."?
but we do rail it once in a while. for a few posts before we forget what we were doing.
rail it on the topic of how it can't be derailed? I'm confused ???
Is it railed right now?
Quote from: Taka on September 27, 2013, 04:34:30 AM
but we do rail it once in a while. for a few posts before we forget what we were doing.
For me it comes from having CRS! (Can't Remember Squat)
verb (used without object)
1.
to utter bitter complaint or vehement denunciation (often followed by at or against ): to rail at fate.
verb (used with object)
2.
to bring, force, etc., by railing.
Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English railen < Middle French railler to deride < Provençal ralhar to chatter < Vulgar Latin *ragulāre, derivative of Late Latin ragere to bray
Related forms
rail·er, noun
rail·ing·ly, adverb
Synonyms
1. fulminate, inveigh, castigate, rant, revile.
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:)
But more importantly, it's raining, I'm on a Cipro regime once again and I'm going shopping.
Because I can. Not that I'm railing or anything. Fulminating, maybe,
but I have no idea what that means and I revile the thought of doing so at the moment.
Grilled cheese sandwich for breakfast and I'm outa here... :D
Ativan
ful·mi·nate (flm-nt, fl-)
v. ful·mi·nat·ed, ful·mi·nat·ing, ful·mi·nates
v.intr.
1. To issue a thunderous verbal attack or denunciation: fulminated against political chicanery.
2. To explode or detonate.
v.tr.
1. To issue (a denunciation, for example) thunderously.
2. To cause to explode.
n.
An explosive salt of fulminic acid, especially fulminate of mercury.
[Middle English fulminaten, from Latin fulminre, fulmint-, to strike with lightning, from fulmen, fulmin-, lightning that strikes; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
fulmi·nation n.
fulmi·nator n.
fulmi·na·tory (-n-tôr, -tr) adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
OK, fine, so I looked it up, because I had to once I saw it.
Only to find out I knew this but couldn't remember it.
How darn fulminating... :)
Ativan
Fulminate goes hand in hand with vitriol. Having fulminated over something that was said I finally became extremely vitriolic and responded explosively and then Devlyn :police: showed up! :D ;D :laugh:
New Boots! Knee high lace up with 2 1/2" chunky heels, and soles with tread on them.
Black feminine fit, but bad-assed looking.
Kind of like my black/white Strat, and the amp on full overdrive.
Ooh ooh! figured out how Joan Jett gets that deep chunk drive sound from an article from Gibson guitars.
I can get my rig to approximate it pretty well, but it's really in how you use your right hand.
*There's a theme going on here, isn't there... (I'm so easy sometimes ;))
*Ativan lets out an evil little laugh as the guitar is about to be plugged in, cause the boots fit perfectly.
'Bad Reputation', shaken the windows...
:) :) :)
Ativan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvoV2Lfk7Qg
Quote from: Kia on September 26, 2013, 05:12:33 PM
Shouldn't this thread be called "the thread that can't be railed..."?
I am struck by your profundity.
i was reminded how much i want some sexy black leather clothing. with lots of straps that i can use on others if need be...
and just because i feel like it. might be the most distracting song i know, impossible to get any work done if listening to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmB2XtrQ5Ks
I've always dug Joan Jett 8)
Me too...
Always good live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vhztbLjdIk
Ativan
Dis belongs here. :D
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fr91IEXx.jpg&hash=ab72c0bb5410e5798f9975b0f3e9b322d01ff3b1)
Ouch!
Gesundheit.
that too. i'll definitely start working towards it as soon as possible. just have to write a mail and hope i get hold of the right person this time.
Gesundheit does not exist in our household at the moment. First, my wife was sick. Then I got sick. Then we both woke up yesterday morning (ON OUR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY) to find that our dogter had, in desperation, pooped her diarrhea poo on my bedroom rug (good thing my nose was plugged up - I managed to clean it up and gagged only once!). Then she puked in her doggie bed.
We're all on the road to recovery now, though. Hoorah!
poor dogter...
i remember when my cat managed to get a stomach infection, that wasn't fun. luckily antibiotics worked and she got well again.
Quote from: Taka on September 30, 2013, 06:13:47 AM
poor dogter...
i remember when my cat managed to get a stomach infection, that wasn't fun. luckily antibiotics worked and she got well again.
Oh no! It's always so worrying, isn't it? I hope your kitty hasn't eaten anything questionable since then!
Anya (our dogter) had that once, too. On the way to the vet, which takes about 30-45 minutes, she "pooped" (if you can call it that, as at some point, nothing more came out) at least 10 times and vomited 4+ times. She got a shot and some pills and had to fast for a short time, then everything was alright again. Long live antibiotics!
This time, I witnessed her eating some sort of feces (I'm guessing fox, due to the smell) but I couldn't get to her in time and of course she refused to come on command. By the time I got to her and pulled her out, she'd eaten almost all of it. I'm guessing that's what f*ed up her digestive system yesterday. She's managed to keep her food down today, though, so we believe she's already feeling better.
cats very rarely get problems with their stomach, so i was a little worried. she hasn't had problems with that part again, but earlier this year she managed to hurt her hip bad enough that she could hardly walk at all. and all i could do was watch over her and make sure she ate, because if she stopped eating, it would be serious enough that i'd have to relieve her of any further suffering. she got better eventually, and is now climbing in trees again. but her hip doesn't sit right, so i expect her to get problems later because of it.
Awww, how old is she? I wasn't aware that cats aren't as sensitive when it comes to stomach stuffs, but then again, they tend to be picky when it comes to food. :p But I've heard that hip problems usually come with age, be it a dog or a cat.
Anya will turn two on December first, so she's still a bendable young thang who can handle rough play and banging her head on the table.
Cats normally don't have problems with their stomach. Sara is only two years old, and her hip problem is definitely due to an injury. So i just hope it won't bother her too much as she grows older.
The old cat that we had before was 16 when she died. Never had stomach problems, but an old shoulder injury bothered her a little the last years.
Only two and had an injury bad enough to cause lifelong hip problems?! The poor dear. What happened, if I may ask?
i don't know what happened. either she was hit by a car, or fell down from a high place. i wasn't there to see what it was.
Just because it can be done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LAhKkPUo_A
Wow! Van de Graaf generators?
Tesla coils. Read the stuff under the vid on Youtube.
The 'lightning' sparks are actually on and off at frequencies that make the music.
Somebody in Oklahoma built a really big one of these.
It would be fun to have acres of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-AS13fl30
These song parodies and videos are always so amusing. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svqu3SoW4-I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svqu3SoW4-I)
sleepy
Aaaaaaaaalways sleepy.
sleepy. been to one meeting this morning. then i'm going to another one in the late afternoon, and fashion show in the evening. after that, makeup course with this guy (http://erlendelias.no/).
i think i have some meetings tomorrow as well. too much happening lately.
My wife is playing some video game in which 50s music is being played in the background. Now I can't decide if I should leave my music to the side and listen to her game or put on my headphones anyway... Dilemmas, dilemmas.
Just put in one headphone and have both
Quote from: Kia on October 01, 2013, 11:44:23 PM
Just put in one headphone and have both
I can't do that! Then I wouldn't be able to listen to anything properly! Unlike my ex, I do
not consider music to be an unnecessary background noise. :p
think of it as an experimental aural experience ;)
I'll keep that in mind the next time I'm thrown into another such situation. ;)
it works like magic. as soon as the new moon is upon us, my anxiety just dissipates. the last few days before i'll be moody, have no idea whether or not i'm interacting in a good or constructive way, avoid social situations even online, and have panic attacks for any stupid little thing that might signal the end of my life (they never do, but how can i know before investigating?).
but last night, the veil lifted. apathy disappeared, life feels livable, i want to go outside the house, do some work, chores, all kinds of things that seemed like too heavy labor just a day ago. the odd sense of stale sadness also went away, there's still something sad left, but it feels like a good thing.
i hate the predictability in this. i was convinced it couldn't get that good this time, because i should be pms'ing right now. but, the moon has a heavier influence on me than anything else i know. pms before the new moon could kill, pms before the full moon doesn't exist.
i still won't curse that thing though, life wouldn't exist on this planet without it.
Well I'm glad you're feeling up to physical chores (I'm too unmotivated for such things - then again, I have no garden or private property).
And the moon is never guilty of evil. It's the earth. Always the earth. We're the ones rotatin'.
moon never guilty? it causes arctic ice to melt around every 73 years. and if there's a danger of avalanche, it will happen on the low tide unless it's raining (added weight messes with the truth of statistics).
the sun and the earth's rotation also have cycles that affect climate and thus our lives, but that doesn't mean that the moon plays no part in this.
almost at 10,000 posts
Quote from: Taka on October 07, 2013, 04:51:27 AM
moon never guilty? it causes arctic ice to melt around every 73 years. and if there's a danger of avalanche, it will happen on the low tide unless it's raining (added weight messes with the truth of statistics).
the sun and the earth's rotation also have cycles that affect climate and thus our lives, but that doesn't mean that the moon plays no part in this.
Really? But I was so
sure that the earth was the only one doing dirty biddings. Isn't the whole tide thing due to how the earth rotates, though? Aren't the sun and moon stable and we're the ones whirling around, leaving them no choice but to cause tide changes and natural disasters? I took one course in volcanoes my sophomore year in college and I've since forgotten everything we ever learned about the moon... So I'm not a geologist, and it's very possible that the moon has "mysterious ways" I've long since forgotten :p
the moon is a satellite. means it circles around the earth. the earth also rotates, but the high and low tide don't follow day and night created by the earth's rotation. the full moon is seen when the sun and moon are on opposite sides of the earth, that is why lunar eclipse happens on a full moon, as the earth gets directly between sun and moon. the new moon is when the sun and moon are on the same side of the earth, and this is also when a solar eclipse can happen, if the moon comes between the earth and the sun. this all happens independently on the earth's rotation, the moon orbits the earth in a little over 27 days, the earth rotates around itself in just a little less than 24 hours. the moon also rotates around it own axis, so perfectly matches with its orbit that we always see the same side of the moon from earth. the earth's rotation causes hight and low tide, but that wouldn't happen if the moon didn't have so much gravity. but the moon cycle is caused by the moon's own orbit. and moon cycles are what affect me the most.. the alignment of the earth, sun, and the earth's biggest satellite.
or you could ask wikipedia.
Quote from: Malachite on October 08, 2013, 02:27:40 AM
almost at 10,000 posts
You and me ... we talk waaaaaay too much LOL
Quote from: Jamie de la Rosa on October 08, 2013, 07:10:24 PM
You and me ... we talk waaaaaay too much LOL
Yes we do lol, but you're staff so that gets you a free pass. :p
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on October 08, 2013, 07:21:21 PM
48 to go...
Counting it down like New Year's Eve! :)
I would like to step in and derail the happy vibe with the complaint that some >-bleeped-< threw rock-hard apples at my head while I was walking home from work.
Now, I'm very much used to being verbally abused by passers-by, drivers, passengers, children and drunks, but no one has ever thrown things at me before today. I'm still ever-so-slightly livid. Just ever so slightly. And if I ever find that son of a bitch, :icon_boxing:
Yaaaay I'm in the 10,000 + club!
Quote from: Malachite on October 09, 2013, 02:37:58 PM
Yaaaay I'm in the 10,000 + club!
:icon_geekdance: :eusa_clap:
Quote from: Gewaltraud on October 09, 2013, 12:48:28 PM
I would like to step in and derail the happy vibe with the complaint that some >-bleeped-< threw rock-hard apples at my head while I was walking home from work.
Now, I'm very much used to being verbally abused by passers-by, drivers, passengers, children and drunks, but no one has ever thrown things at me before today. I'm still ever-so-slightly livid. Just ever so slightly. And if I ever find that son of a bitch, :icon_boxing:
so... what did you do with the apples?
on Skype with a friend but their mic is unavailable so I'm the only one talking. It feels weird.
Quote from: Taka on October 09, 2013, 06:32:08 PM
so... what did you do with the apples?
After it quit raining, I took the dog out, we re-found the spot and we played with 'em. Anya thinks anything round and hard is a ball, and something that's a ball
and edible is a double win. We had fun. ;)
Quote from: Malachite on October 09, 2013, 02:37:58 PM
Yaaaay I'm in the 10,000 + club!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M
I've seen Kool and the Gang do celebration live, it was good fun.
But more importantly Well Done/Oh Dear Malachite.
1101. who's gonna be 1111? :D
i'm taking it. though it actually belongs to my brother. his birthday.
unless someone else gets to it before me. that will make me sad.
I wonder when the next time the UFC Prelims will be on. I really need to find a manly reason to drink my energy drink. It's been sitting in the fridge for months.
I'm in a room with 3 other people all playing the new pokemon games. XD
Visiting my granddaughter for her birthday tomorrow. YAY!!!!! I miss her a lot but we live in different cities about 1.5 hours apart. My sister is willing to deal with my extra baggage and drive so that I can go.
1106
oi, What is it and people with post counts?
Quote from: Malachite on October 12, 2013, 05:43:40 PM
I wonder when the next time the UFC Prelims will be on. I really need to find a manly reason to drink my energy drink. It's been sitting in the fridge for months.
It's next week son.
Quote from: LordKAT on October 12, 2013, 06:33:25 PM
oi, What is it and people with post counts?
It's kind of like a tickerfactory counter. Milestones in numbers that really don't have a meaning other than they are?
I would give the tickerfactory counter a little more, since it relates to an event.
But the post count for this topic is of some importance to Cindi, maybe. Maybe not.
But it does stand for something.
That and I count things, constantly, without really realizing I do.
So i notice stuff like that, maybe more than I should....
I find myself counting strokes when I'm rowing, I think it's manic behavior I dunno....
OK , I guess I never saw the big importance of many little things like post counts. Tickers are usually only important to the person having one.
PS3 almost fell, glad it didn't
video game strippers and cheaper for my real life wallet
Quote from: Shantel on October 12, 2013, 06:56:28 PM
I find myself counting strokes when I'm rowing, I think it's manic behavior I dunno....
It's more of an OCD kind of thing, but it only gets that rating if you do it with a lot of things, without reason.
Counting is an easy habit that people pick up and apply to sometimes obscure things.
Like I don't count everything, but I do count a lot of things.
Counting while rowing could be a distance measuring kind of thing. Or just knowing if you are rowing more or less.
Some people just have a fascination with the number of things and count them.
I have a habit of making estimations of things and extrapolating it out to the ones I can't see.
Everybody counts things that don't need to be counted.
It's only really considered an OCD problem if the unnecessary overrides things that are necessary.
All that and you are the winner of the who is going to make the 1111 post on a topic that can't be derailed. ;)
There's peach Faygo and I forgot what other peach soda there is.
Quote from: LordKAT on October 12, 2013, 06:56:53 PM
OK , I guess I never saw the big importance of many little things like post counts. Tickers are usually only important to the person having one.
I'm guilty of picking on you. Post counts have very little substance to them. Personal tickers, of course do.
I've been watching Malachites top surgery fund grow for a long time now. Amount vs time. Personal numbers.
They are the little things that personalize avatars and posts. I notice them...
no point joining a counting contest with people who live hours before me. you guys get too much of the night.
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Quote from: Joules on October 12, 2013, 08:03:08 PM
I definitely am a counter, I count everything. It goes back to trying to perfect my bowling approach when i was about 10. ( 5 steps instead of the usual 4, because I'm left handed).
This reminds me of the old Serta mattress add that was initiated by Joey Heatherton (drool) years ago where she frolicked around in bed and sang about counting sheep. Bob Hope brought her with him to Vietnam, she was gorgeous! I hadn't seen any caucasian woman in two and a half years and I thought my heart would explode. This dates me, but was back when I was emoting about how I wished that I was a woman instead of being stuck in that god-awful situation. ;D
Shantel it is fun to picture you in those ratty old jungle fatigues living in a sand bag world with no showers and drooling for that babe!
Oh you do clean up well now that you are back "in the world"!
Hugs
Quote from: Joules on October 13, 2013, 11:51:18 AM
I remember Joey Heatherton too, although I was still pre-puberty then. My friend and neighbor was one year younger than me, although maturing faster. He tried to tell me how great looking she was but I just couldn't see it yet. I sure do now!! I came within a whisker of going to Vietnam in 1971, under the lottery system at the time. My number was low enough to bring me in for the physical, but I never got drafted. Sometimes I regret not having done any military service though. Salute to you Madam, you were a fine soldier, thank you for your service.
Lol, thanks Joules! That was a previous lifetime, I'm no longer that same person. You didn't miss out on anything I can assure you.
Quote from: Tessa James on October 13, 2013, 11:53:22 AM
Shantel it is fun to picture you in those ratty old jungle fatigues living in a sand bag world with no showers and drooling for that babe!
Oh you do clean up well now that you are back "in the world"!
Hugs
Uh-huh, back in the land of the big PX and all night generator! :D
Shantel do you remember people being over there reading the "news" and considering "home" might be just as dangerous as Nam? I recall guys smuggling guns and, other cargo, home in stereo speakers.
I also recall being able to get palates of black label beer and all the cigarettes we never needed but shampoo? Well forget about that girly cleanliness LOL
Quote from: Tessa James on October 13, 2013, 12:03:00 PM
Shantel do you remember people being over there reading the "news" and considering "home" might be just as dangerous as Nam? I recall guys smuggling guns and, other cargo, home in stereo speakers.
I also recall being able to get palates of black label beer and all the cigarettes we never needed but shampoo? Well forget about that girly cleanliness LOL
Nope, never had access to any of those luxuries although did get a goodly share of Aussie beer 6% as apposed to our 3.2% piss water. The Aussie 1st RAR was attached to our Brigade, they had the good stuff in steel pint cans, two of them drained quickly in that 110 degree heat and I couldn't even feel my face! ;D No more of that talk, I died to that long ago!
Fair enough Hon.
We have better fish to fry?
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on October 12, 2013, 07:59:46 PM
I'm guilty of picking on you. Post counts have very little substance to them. Personal tickers, of course do.
I've been watching Malachites top surgery fund grow for a long time now. Amount vs time. Personal numbers.
They are the little things that personalize avatars and posts. I notice them...
top surgery!
yes! i did it!
nothing big really. i only changed tires on my car.
but it was still quite a feat, with my weak arms. my brother helped me out last time i changed, and it seems he must have laid at least twice his body weight on those bolts to tighten them. i don't own a garage, so getting them loose was a little worse than just hard.
Quote from: Taka on October 15, 2013, 11:30:38 AM
yes! i did it!
nothing big really. i only changed tires on my car.
but it was still quite a feat, with my weak arms. my brother helped me out last time i changed, and it seems he must have laid at least twice his body weight on those bolts to tighten them. i don't own a garage, so getting them loose was a little worse than just hard.
I had to tell the guy at the tire store to just hand tighten them and not use the compressed air gun. If I get a flat out in the boondocks and couldn't change the tire because it's screwed on at 200 foot pounds I'd be screwed.
Pontiac Solstice, yay or nay?
Quote from: Shantel on October 15, 2013, 12:57:46 PM
I had to tell the guy at the tire store to just hand tighten them and not use the compressed air gun. If I get a flat out in the boondocks and couldn't change the tire because it's screwed on at 200 foot pounds I'd be screwed.
If the angled side of the nuts and the matching angle in the holes of the rim are clean and grease free, you don't have to tighten them as much.
When need to be taken off, a sharp tap to the wrench will break them free.
Having grease or better yet, anti-seize compound on the bolt threads makes tightening and loosening them a breeze.
But the angled surfaces have to be clean and grease free. Rarely is this done properly.
Matching angled surfaces, when torque is applied, tighten themselves to a very tight fit, but just an outward tap or a sideways snap or tap will loosen then immediately.
If the surfaces have grease, they have to be tightened with more force that actually stretches the bolt and distorts the wheels more than need be.
Done right, the wheels do distort somewhat, but not like they do when overtightened.
This distorts the threads somewhat and will only release as that distortion of the wheel also, is relieved.
If the surfaces are dirty greasy, then the distortion has to be slowly undone.
This takes the applied torque harder to release and more turn before loosening properly.
Drive wheels on Locomotives are held on by one center nut or bolt.
Their accurately done, tapered surfaces, when torque is applied, self tighten.
But supposedly, even fingerprints will ruin the effect. Just what I've heard.
So if they are put on wrong, you'd be derailed... :D
But thats why wheel nuts are tapered and match the angled surface in the wheel holes.
Done right, they should only have as much torque applied that doesn't stretch and weaken the bolts.
Done enough times, they do break off because of this.
Plus they are harder to thread a nut on and off them when the threads are stretched and don't match.
Ativan
Thanks Ativan,
You are a veritable encyclopedia about screwing and nuts! :icon_peace: I couldn't resist, the devil made me do it! :D ;D
:D
Stop making me laugh, shantel...
I apparently need to work out a little. My right wrist is hurting after fighting those screws. It's a little sad when my own weight is too much.. and funny how weak my right arm is when i'm supposed to be righthanded.
Quote from: Taka on October 15, 2013, 05:48:20 PM
Stop making me laugh, shantel...
I apparently need to work out a little. My right wrist is hurting after fighting those screws. It's a little sad when my own weight is too much.. and funny how weak my right arm is when i'm supposed to be righthanded.
So does laughter make you weak? I have lost my manly wrists completely after close to 20 years on E. I've had six links removed from my watchband and will probably get rid of two more soon, I'm getting tweety bird wrists. If and when you ever get on T you will eventually experience much greater strength.
fanfic
doujinshi.
Quote from: Shantel on October 15, 2013, 06:37:05 PM
So does laughter make you weak? I have lost my manly wrists completely after close to 20 years on E. I've had six links removed from my watchband and will probably get rid of two more soon, I'm getting tweety bird wrists. If and when you ever get on T you will eventually experience much greater strength.
laughter doesn't make me weak. it's just too loud in the middle of the night.
i hope to get on t one day. not really to get more strength, i don't think that's anywhere near my main reason. but it would be a welcome side effect. not sure even that would've been enough to loosen those screws though, my step father couldn't budge them either and he's fairly strong. when i just thought about using my head rather than just lacking muscle power, i did get them loose in the end. adding length works better than adding weight...
Some people just like to throw their weight around eh Joules? He he he
Hey good afternoon Joules. A great day here at the coast. You simply must come visit some time. I just manicured some trails and with the fall sunshine pouring in it is berutiful.
Hope you get over that runny nose soon, sniff sniffle.
I am wondering is there any movies or books about androgynes? Can't find any. ??? Would love to see/read them.
Joules I agree that cars are a huge headache. When I worked in Ptown I rode a Bike-E (recumbent) around exclusively. They start every time;-) Of course my motor is a bit less powerful these days.
But ya, cars do occasional suck at the worst moments. I was up in Seattle last week and pulled into the front entry of the hotel where my car promptly died. I am also occasionally seen pushing my old hippie VW van down the street here. Not as much fun in a dress!
Keep on truckin!
Quote from: Joules on October 16, 2013, 09:29:28 AM
The legs work amazingly well for some things too Taka. If you have a cross bar tire wrench, push on one end with one leg, while hooking the toes of your other foot under the opposite end. Watch out for cramps though. I have a strong frame, not yet affected by HRT, and I've found a few lug nuts that needed the size 13 adjustment tool from time to time. A hip check from the 300 pound behind works for budging hard-to-move items as well.
i tried standing pushing on one end with my foot and pulling the other end with my hands. i'd even try standing on it with both feet if there were place for both on one end. i think that worked last year.
I just went to an auction at my rehab place and spent money I don't have. I did get a hutch that I really can use though. I am making some long term plans for the future again and my outlook on the future has picked up tremendously now that I can walk decently and I think I see a little light up ahead. I could be seeing things though.
Power rangers
Quote from: Skinny18 on October 16, 2013, 03:33:06 PM
I am wondering is there any movies or books about androgynes? Can't find any. ??? Would love to see/read them.
Movies? Probably not. With books your best bet is probably in YA. There are lists out there that are easy enough to find with a google search. ;)
Semi-sweet grapes
Many types of staples.
Many types of staplers. And in different colors sometimes.
A veritable cornucopia of them. *Did I say that right?
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on October 16, 2013, 09:23:14 PM
Many types of staplers. And in different colors sometimes.
A veritable cornucopia of them. *Did I say that right?
Yup perfectly
Quote from: Joules on October 16, 2013, 06:18:29 PM
Was it a left-hand thread or a right-hand thread? Were you going clockwise or counter clock wise?
let's try with "the right way"?
i did get one screw loose. the others wouldn't budge at all. i suppose i should go the same way on all screws on the same tire...? if i remember right, it would be counterclockwise. unless you didn't spell tread wrong, because then i have no idea what you're asking about.
Quote from: Joules on October 17, 2013, 09:56:28 AM
99.9% of all threaded fasteners in the world are referred to as a right-hand thread. The term comes from Physics, where the "right-hand rule" refers to the interplay of force vectors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-hand_rule). For a right hand thread, the correct direction of loosening is counter clockwise. A simple mnemonic is "righty tighty, lefty loosey". there are a very few instances where fasteners will be made with a left hand thread, and everything is reversed,i.e., "righty loosey, lefty tighty". They are rare but unfortunately one of the places where they are found occasionally is on lug nuts. Yeah I know, what could be a worse place for them? Often, in the case of larger studs, the letters "LH" will be stamped on the exposed end of the stud.
So does that mean that they are 99.9% left handed in Australia?
Doesn't things like water going down a drain go the other way than in the right side up parts of the world?
*Just a thought as Ativan runs away...
*Running eastward to stay light and ahead of the effect as it chases me down... ;)
The ever growing clockwise vortex of ivy growth in the northern latitudes...
you sure is taking this seriously, joules.
i never learned any of this stuff in english, so when you start using too technical words, i start wondering how you thread a needle any clockwise... but now i get it, i think. my car sticks to the 99,9% on both sides. right-hand thread, you said?. never needed to learn odd phrases to remember what is the right way. it happens i confuse myself when i use my left hand, but i use both when changing tires.
but, for some fun. here's a pretty nice manga page. the guy has just found out that the other best friend he has is also not a guy like he thought, but he accepts it pretty well.
http://www.batoto.net/read/_/201107/kingdom_v23_ch246_by_turnip-farmers/11 (http://www.batoto.net/read/_/201107/kingdom_v23_ch246_by_turnip-farmers/11)
Taka, your english is probably better than mine, so I was wondering if it was just misspellings.
I forget that you're in Norway, all the time. I think you got it now, with the threads.
Our slang must be difficult sometimes. It's regional here, so sometimes I don't get what people write.
Google search. I use it to figure out a lot of things, especially those things I've forgotten over the years.
Ativan
rather than slang, i think it must be on the level of trannies. i'd never have known what those are if i didn't read someone's explanation. i didn't grow up in a garage, so i don't even know what most things are called in norwegian... still, both my mom and grandma were diy persons, and it seems i took over that role a few year ago. whenever something other than an engine needs to be fixed, i'm the one they'll call.
Hats
i love them.
I love a few. I love my Ushanka.
I used to love hats as a slouchy cover up but now let my hair fly free.
Trannies, ha ha ha, they are most often taken for granted as long as the shifting is keeping us "in gear"
Fixing a trannie is expensive though and less likely a diy "transition." ;D
sleepy
Quote from: Tessa James on October 18, 2013, 11:21:46 AM
Trannies, ha ha ha, they are most often taken for granted as long as the shifting is keeping us "in gear"
Fixing a trannie is expensive though and less likely a diy "transition." ;D
diy transition is ok if you know what you're doing. a car mechanic could fix his own car, or a doctor could administer hirself hormones.
i'm not gonna do either myself.
tv yes
tv or TV?
tv
yes
AP this seems a study in contrasts. From effusive pages of prose to succinct approval?
I'm a biological mass of contrasting emotional values.
I'm also available in a variety of colors and clothing schemes.
Sarcasm sold separately. :)
LOL, and you are more lovable than ever.
Here's to the start of a great weekend!
video games
homework
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Me posting in an androgyne thread even though I don't identify as such.....at least no on the inside. Perhaps I'll start using that label on the outside to soften people up for my transition....whenever that may be.
it's not like we're an exclusive group. i like to see others drop a few thoughts here as well.
would be a nice situation if everybody felt like they could post here without fearing prejudice.
searched "it's just for fun" on youtube.
first hit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TZHQhkjzww
almonds allegedly curb appetite....so I ate some
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on October 20, 2013, 05:09:00 PM
They just put in new curbs out here, 6-7 miles from town, when they repaved a country road.
Not the whole thing, just here and there. A hundred feet here, a hundred feet there.
Now you can't pull off to the side of the road there. Tax dollars at work.
Puttin in curbs in the country, on a road that dead ends, anyways.
Curbs. Not just for the city anymore.
Another wtf moment in Ativan's life! Reminds me of the former comic strip entitled "Strange world of Mr. Mum!"
Easy as 1, 2, 3....
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school tommorrow
work today!
School and work today! Bad that I'm excited? :)
...oh and I felt free to post since you guys mentioned others dropping thoughts...
you're welcome here too, shaina. so you're excited about it? i will make sure to be too, just a little bit later.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/niels-gerson-lohman/us-border-crossing_b_4098130.html
extreme gatekeeping... sounds like how people are met at some gender clinics.
Thinking after I'm done with my driving lesson, I may have that pasta alfredo tv dinner. I love it when it's not warm. Yum.
Quote from: Shaina on October 21, 2013, 04:12:32 AM
School and work today! Bad that I'm excited? :)
...oh and I felt free to post since you guys mentioned others dropping thoughts...
Shan puts an arm around lil sis Shaina's waist, welcome sweetie!
Quote from: Malachite on October 21, 2013, 07:09:57 AM
Thinking after I'm done with my driving lesson, I may have that pasta alfredo tv dinner. I love it when it's not warm. Yum.
It's amlost 11 and still no driving lesson. That girl is STILL at the doctor with her niece..... I know things happen but she is so unprofessional and is wasting my time. We had this scheduled half month ago.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on October 21, 2013, 12:12:57 PM
I have a meeting at 3pm today.
Monthly meeting.
Yep. Meeting.
Good luck, be cool!
Quote from: Taka on October 20, 2013, 04:18:51 PM
searched "it's just for fun" on youtube.
first hit:
Junior high humor, a riot!
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on October 21, 2013, 12:35:03 PM
She oversees a lot of things for me.
Helps me stay on the right path.
She has the resources that I can use.
She makes sure that my depression fits don't land me back in the hospital.
It's always nice to see her and talk about what's been happening.
We talk about everyone else that helps me maintain a healthy life.
It's all good and I'm looking forward to seeing her.
I had one like her that I saw for seven years for PTSD and GID issues, she was cold and distant at first. She saw my tears and said, "There's the kleenex" so so flatly and mater of factly, as if "Ho hum, another bawl baby!" Finally she became a friend and real confidante and we would have hugs, she felt good about sharing things in her private life and gave me the tools to deal with a load of crap that was on my plate.
i hate this feeling!
it's warm, fuzzy. bright.
makes me feel like embracing the whole world. loving people, laying off my cynical ways.
and i'm happy for no reason whatsoever!
apparently this might take some time getting used to.
too much energy, and my mind's just decided it wants to use it for something positive.
where did you go, devil inside?
That woman........grrrr!
What happened to schools requiring driver ED? Now they require joining a team sport and the hell with academics.
Quote from: LordKAT on October 21, 2013, 04:56:11 PM
What happened to schools requiring driver ED? Now they require joining a team sport and the hell with academics.
Another aspect of the dumbing down of a nation! Pass the cheetos will you?
Quote from: Shantel on October 21, 2013, 09:27:05 AM
Shan puts an arm around lil sis Shaina's waist, welcome sweetie!
Thanks Shan! You're just the greatest ::hugs:: :)
when the only goal you have left in your life, is to survive through all the hardships... what do you do when the hardships end?
got a 6 hour driving lesson at 12 -sigh-
Never truer words.
Make sure they don't have security cameras.
I think I need to make a begging thread, one of those funding places. A 6 year battle for temporary disability doesn't make much sense.
Quote from: LordKAT on November 05, 2013, 09:22:11 AM
I think I need to make a begging thread, one of those funding places. A 6 year battle for temporary disability doesn't make much sense.
In your situation, I don't see why not.
Quote from: Joules on November 05, 2013, 06:29:02 AM
Do that which all creative people do, make more problems for yourself. One very handy method is to rob a liquor store.
Joules you're a riot. I would start a blog like some others suggested with a PayPal for donations. I saw one accepting donations for a fancy wedding-surely this is a more important cause.
Paypal huh. Guess I will have to straighten out my paypal account thing then. I was wondering how that worked on receiving monies without giving away personal info.
how i hate pms.
first it makes my temper near impossible to control for a few days.
then i get headaches. luckily painkillers help, if i have both types.
and finally i get that horrible pain which makes me lose my appetite, want to curl up in bed, and feel like throwing up.
but the good thing is that it only happens every other time. looks like one of my ovaries might be malfunctioning or something.
Quote from: Taka on November 06, 2013, 04:50:22 AM
how i hate pms.
first it makes my temper near impossible to control for a few days.
then i get headaches. luckily painkillers help, if i have both types.
and finally i get that horrible pain which makes me lose my appetite, want to curl up in bed, and feel like throwing up.
but the good thing is that it only happens every other time. looks like one of my ovaries might be malfunctioning or something.
Poor baby! I recall how my spouse suffered, she would get dark circles around her eyes and transform to look like that girl in the movie "The Exorcist," she had awful cramps. She'd put her flannel nighty on and climb into bed and I'd baby her through it for a few days until it was past. Now her ovaries no longer function and have shrunk to the size of raisins, she is one happy lady to have that phase behind her.
Quote from: Shantel on November 06, 2013, 09:09:07 AM
Poor baby! I recall how my spouse suffered, she would get dark circles around her eyes and transform to look like that girl in the movie "The Exorcist," she had awful cramps. She'd put her flannel nighty on and climb into bed and I'd baby her through it for a few days until it was past. Now her ovaries no longer function and have shrunk to the size of raisins, she is one happy lady to have that phase behind her.
Yes! Now that phase is definitely something to aspire to.
Raisin ovaries here I come! :D
I'm beginning to think that I should have become an auto mechanic. Car repairs are just ridiculous and the maintenance and insurance make the idea of buses, trains and taxi's very appealing if you live where they are available
Oh heck yes! I just bailed out my old VW van at a quarter of the original cost to buy it!
Way better to ride the rails and efficient mass transit may finally come to more cities in the USA. Car share companies and coops are becoming a popular choice.
I love being chauffeured around.
Quote from: LordKAT on November 06, 2013, 02:38:19 PM
I'm beginning to think that I should have become an auto mechanic. Car repairs are just ridiculous and the maintenance and insurance make the idea of buses, trains and taxi's very appealing if you live where they are available
That's exactly why I'd prefer public transportation. I just wish we had a good PT system here,
The only thing I have is expensive taxi's.
Quote from: LordKAT on November 12, 2013, 05:18:00 AM
The only thing I have is expensive taxi's.
I'm sorry about that! At home in Detroit cabs are expensive because nearly everyone has a car (Motor City I guess). Here in Lansing they're super cheap for all the college students. My last ride was only $3! :) Still, I prefer the bus.
$3.5 if you stay within city limits and go less than 20 or so blocks.
Quote from: LordKAT on November 12, 2013, 02:28:35 PM
$3.5 if you stay within city limits and go less than 20 or so blocks.
Nice! Now if only this education bubble will burst I'll be in business lol.
nearly scared stiff because of things that can be fixed easily with just a phone call.
i might have some problems with anxiety.
just got a letter that suggests i'm still on the uni's payroll even after my contract should have run out. i quit working, and now i'm freaking out over possibly having gotten money for something i haven't done. i've a feeling my parents' expectations may have taught me a sense of responsibility that just doesn't work in my favor. it's not good to feel responsible even for things i can't control.
getting a dry cough again-it's annoying
Reminded me of this thread...
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Quote from: Shaina on November 17, 2013, 01:09:10 AM
Reminded me of this thread...
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lies!
Quote from: Shaina on November 17, 2013, 03:15:35 AM
Who do you think you're talking to Mister? ::)
Ummmmm nobody mam :-\
Oh for Pete's sake I was just kidding :D
Quote from: Shaina on November 17, 2013, 03:47:16 AM
Oh for Pete's sake I was just kidding :D
No you wasn't! :p
Quote from: Malachite on November 17, 2013, 04:16:29 AM
No you wasn't! :p
AH how I love AAVE! It makes me happy!
What's an AAVE? Is that a type of chocolate?
I was at a party yesterday that featured a chocolate waterfall. Who knew chocolate goes so well with hotdogs, carrots and, well, everything? ;D
Recalls the book "Death by Chocolate" It took work to pry myself away from that table.
Chocolate is a universal love,...unless you are my eldest girl.
http://www.batoto.net/read/_/207398/dame-bl_v1_ch9.3_by_acme/2
the story that wasn't drawn.
makes me a little sad.
I had something to say but Shaina derailed by train of thought.
Ever had a Dairy Queen chocolate malt? Bring one home and have it with a peanut butter & bacon sandwich, and it's heaven on earth! Hint: let the toast cool down before you spread on the peanut butter.
Quote from: dalebert on November 19, 2013, 07:12:00 AM
I had something to say but Shaina derailed by train of thought.
Sorry Dalebert! My rambling has that effect on people sometimes. :P
One time I had peanut butter bacon ice cream.
Quote from: ZachPyromaniac on November 20, 2013, 09:28:28 PM
One time I had peanut butter bacon ice cream.
What a way to ruin peanut butter and ice cream.
Quote from: ZachPyromaniac on November 20, 2013, 09:28:28 PM
One time I had peanut butter bacon ice cream.
That sounds delish
snow
Quote from: LordKAT on November 21, 2013, 04:26:06 PM
NNOOOOO!!!!!!
::Sings::
Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful
Sicne KATS have no place to go, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW! :P
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Quote from: Taka on November 16, 2013, 07:05:41 PM
nearly scared stiff because of things that can be fixed easily with just a phone call.
i might have some problems with anxiety.
just got a letter that suggests i'm still on the uni's payroll even after my contract should have run out. i quit working, and now i'm freaking out over possibly having gotten money for something i haven't done. i've a feeling my parents' expectations may have taught me a sense of responsibility that just doesn't work in my favor. it's not good to feel responsible even for things i can't control.
I hear you Taka. You and I must be siblings.
I struggle with profound anxiety on a regular basis, and feel an internal compulsion to treat everyone (no matter how despicable) in the most ethical and compassionate matter possible. Believe me, it crimps my style as a supervillain!
On the bright side, therapy with a trauma specialist has helped me a great deal with the intractible anxiety, though not with the very inconvenient secret do-gooder streak!
-Maddie the Bravely Fearful and Ridiculously Responsible
P.S. but on the brighter side, BACON and CHOCOLATE.
Quote from: Shaina on November 21, 2013, 10:45:10 PM
::Sings::
Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful
Sicne KATS have no place to go, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW! :P
Where are my earmuffs?!? Help!!!1 No Snow, No snow, that is abuse of KATs.
Mmmmm Hershey's Cookies n Cream bar
Quote from: MadelineB on November 22, 2013, 02:48:48 AM
I hear you Taka. You and I must be siblings.
I struggle with profound anxiety on a regular basis, and feel an internal compulsion to treat everyone (no matter how despicable) in the most ethical and compassionate matter possible. Believe me, it crimps my style as a supervillain!
On the bright side, therapy with a trauma specialist has helped me a great deal with the intractible anxiety, though not with the very inconvenient secret do-gooder streak!
-Maddie the Bravely Fearful and Ridiculously Responsible
I just have to learn how to be utterly irresponsible. I think i might be constantly waiting for complete steangers to reprimand me in the same way that my mother used to.
But the only mental health professionals i've spoken to failed to realize how difficult my problems were, and only saw my optimistic outlook on things.
Quote from: Taka on November 24, 2013, 07:24:11 AM
I just have to learn how to be utterly irresponsible. I think i might be constantly waiting for complete steangers to reprimand me in the same way that my mother used to.
But the only mental health professionals i've spoken to failed to realize how difficult my problems were, and only saw my optimistic outlook on things.
Maybe you're just not letting the mental health pro's in your head in fear of being reprimanded the way your mother used to rather than helping with anything constructive?
Quote from: Shantel on November 24, 2013, 08:27:59 AM
Maybe you're just not letting the mental health pro's in your head in fear of being reprimanded the way your mother used to rather than helping with anything constructive?
The is more that they didn't give me enough time before deciding that i'm not suicidal enough to get priority before other patients. One time i practically had to beg one to give me a second appointment, but was kicked out of their system when i didn't come to that appointment because i never got the letter. Nobody called to ask either, i only knew i'd gotten that appointment after i received a bill for not showing.
No need to wonder what went wrong.
This morning I dreamed I was having an existential crisis.
In my dream I was talking to a girl who told me she used to be transgender until she started taking medication for her moods, and then it turned out she was actually just a lesbian.
I was upset, because I wanted medication to feel better, but I didn't want to be cishet (I was sure I wouldn't become a lesbian because my attraction to girls isn't strong enough or something). Then I thought "Oh, I really AM just doing this because I want to be special!"
my brain was apparently not even trying to be subtle today. XD
Quote from: Taka on November 25, 2013, 02:33:41 AM
The is more that they didn't give me enough time before deciding that i'm not suicidal enough to get priority before other patients. One time i practically had to beg one to give me a second appointment, but was kicked out of their system when i didn't come to that appointment because i never got the letter. Nobody called to ask either, i only knew i'd gotten that appointment after i received a bill for not showing.
No need to wonder what went wrong.
Gaaaahh I hate that sort of treatment! I'm going through the same thing with a so-called ear, nose & Throat specialist who refused to give me a follow-up appointment saying there is nothing wrong with my ear. Really? Then why is this acid like crap draining out of it burning my skin and I am suddenly totally deaf in that ear? Makes you wonder what motivates these uncaring people to insert themselves into these professions other than for the sake of a paycheck.
So i'm just waiting for when i have enough time to look for the right person.
Quote from: Taka on November 25, 2013, 02:25:12 PM
So i'm just waiting for when i have enough time to look for the right person.
The right person never looks like the right person until it's to late and you are keeping house with the wrongest person ever.
Quote from: nickikim on November 27, 2013, 07:27:15 PM
The right person never looks like the right person until it's to late and you are keeping house with the wrongest person ever.
Oh, I wondered if my ex-boyfriend was dating again!
Quote from: nickikim on November 27, 2013, 07:27:15 PM
The right person never looks like the right person until it's to late and you are keeping house with the wrongest person ever.
Such a scary thought and it happens much too often!
Every time I find the 'right' person, they are with someone else.
Quote from: nickikim on November 27, 2013, 07:27:15 PM
The right person never looks like the right person until it's to late and you are keeping house with the wrongest person ever.
i was thinking about therapists. not all of them are right for me. would be nice if i could recognize that other type of right person when i meet them.
i've tried keeping house with a wrong person once. wasn't too nice, but at least i ended it before too much damage was done. to either of us...
Mumford & Sons: "Lover of the Light"
Quote from: LordKAT on November 28, 2013, 02:03:08 AM
Every time I find the 'right' person, they are with someone else.
Sorry hon, she's got her claws in me and I just can't get away! ;D :icon_peace:
Ugh. Waiting for razor burn to heal and proper razor, brush, and associated kit to arrive. I swear to stay away from face-graters from here on out.
Also, hydrogen peroxide, while impressive, is too aggressive to use daily. Inflating one's pores with high pressure sebum-oxygen foam can't be good for them. It does however make a good cleaner for electronics and eyeglasses when combined with [other things] - shame the mixture might explode.
On a sunny note, I am rapidly becoming a fan of Pals breast forms. The sizing chart is kinda off, but small-business customer service is win.
I might have to mold my own some day. Don't know that I'd want to go into business, but little scrawny MtAs like me could use more subtle options. And the state of commercial bum-padding just makes me sad.
Hair conditioner = very oily skin moisturizer. Might be too much for most people; I'm finding this stuff (http://www.renpure.com/argan-oil-hair-care-products) perfect for chapped skin in winter.
Huh. I guess I'm turning into a cosmetics nerd.
Three words, musicofthenight:
The Body Shop. ;]
I like red brick houses.
Quote from: Malachite on December 01, 2013, 02:25:35 AM
I like red brick houses.
Lol one day I'm going to teach you about architecture without you dozing off!
Quote from: Shaina on December 01, 2013, 04:55:08 AM
Lol one day I'm going to teach you about architecture without you dozing off!
I don't know how you're going to pull that off if it doesn't involve video games or Philly Cheesesteaks. :D
there's too much feelings, i have no idea where to put them all.
I'm safe, for the moment. Is it spring yet?
I have to use the bathroom but my brother is taking a bath....and I can't find an improvised STP, an empty toilet paper roll. I hope he doesn't take a long time....but he will. -sigh-
Quote from: Malachite on December 03, 2013, 05:30:41 AM
I have to use the bathroom but my brother is taking a bath....and I can't find an improvised STP, an empty toilet paper roll. I hope he doesn't take a long time....but he will. -sigh-
It's known as a field expedient! ;D
Quote from: Shantel on December 03, 2013, 09:01:18 AM
It's known as a field expedient! ;D
Luckily he came out of the bathroom shortly after lol.
Quote from: Shantel on December 03, 2013, 09:01:18 AM
It's known as a field expedient! ;D
Oh you're so handy Shan! We're not all vets though! ;)
Quote from: Shaina on December 04, 2013, 05:26:34 PM
Oh you're so handy Shan! We're not all vets though! ;)
It's simple Honey Girl, you make use of whatever's available, it's called GI ingenuity! A toilet paper roll would have been a smart expedient choice under the circumstances. Malachite's no dummy, he's a can-do type dude!
*Runs through, dodging everything.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on January 08, 2014, 08:17:20 AM
*Runs through, dodging everything.
*smack* Sorry Ativan, didn't see you running through.
Kinda surprised I ran into anybody.
Pretty quiet, here in the forest.
I still wander the paths every so often.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on January 08, 2014, 11:56:21 AM
Kinda surprised I ran into anybody.
Pretty quiet, here in the forest.
I still wander the paths every so often.
You should, what's a forest without a lion?
Just another forest.
In plain sight.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on January 08, 2014, 12:25:14 PM
In plain sight.
Hmmm yeah the VC used to hide in plain sight and one would never realize it until it was too late! :laugh:
In the shadows, standing on a hilltop, walking down the road even.
Rarely got caught, almost couldn't escape once.
A girl with a gun. I used to listen to stories about me.
They had no idea that they were talking about me, to me.
*giggles and walks away again.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on January 08, 2014, 01:01:57 PM
In the shadows, standing on a hilltop, walking down the road even.
Rarely got caught, almost couldn't escape once.
A girl with a gun. I used to listen to stories about me.
They had no idea that they were talking about me, to me.
*giggles and walks away again.
Let's see if I get it right, you were overhearing a conversation between a couple of game wardens looking for a girl poacher? ;D
best thread ever
;D
There is no other thread I have posted anywhere for any reason that has gotten more traction than this mindless drivel.
I have a PhD is mindless drivel.
And it is really nice to seem some old faces.
Here is to friends from days bygone. :)
I just can't seem to get any energy. I should look into B12 shots/pills.
Quote from: Malachite on January 08, 2014, 08:30:25 PM
I just can't seem to get any energy. I should look into B12 shots/pills.
My B-12 shots didn't do the trick, so I asked my doctor for a B-52 shot instead. It lifted my energy alright, and then it dropped me on another country. The bomb!
Quote from: Shantel on January 08, 2014, 01:04:51 PM
Let's see if I get it right, you were overhearing a conversation between a couple of game wardens looking for a girl poacher? ;D
I used to sneak up on the DNR guy when he thought he was sneaking up on me.
But yah, something like that, lol.
Quote from: cynthialee on January 08, 2014, 03:22:38 PM
best thread ever
;D
There is no other thread I have posted anywhere for any reason that has gotten more traction than this mindless drivel.
I got stuck in the snow the other day, so I threw some mindless drivel down and got enough traction to get moving again.
Thank goodness I carry some of this thread with me in the winter.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on January 09, 2014, 03:30:43 PM
I got stuck in the snow the other day, so I threw some mindless drivel down and got enough traction to get moving again.
Thank goodness I carry some of this thread with me in the winter.
The tread thread! :D
Quote from: MadelineB on January 09, 2014, 12:51:42 AM
My B-12 shots didn't do the trick, so I asked my doctor for a B-52 shot instead. It lifted my energy alright, and then it dropped me on another country. The bomb!
You need a shot of B-52s?!?!
At your service ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AOKPTbZEyA
Thought I would drivel mindlessly for a minute or so...
orange
It occurred to me how powerful a "positive push" can be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bE2RLKz0tc
Quote from: Jamie D on January 23, 2014, 02:16:21 PM
It occurred to me how powerful a "positive push" can be.
It gave birth to a lot of people.
Very good, Pica Pica!
That sort of wit will serve you well. :D
If f(x)=5e^(x^2)
The derivative would be f'(x)=10xe^(x^2)
And the second-derivative would be f''(x)=(2x^2+1)10e^(x^2)
Quote from: 930310 on January 29, 2014, 04:08:57 PM
If f(x)=5e^(x^2)
The derivative would be f'(x)=10xe^(x^2)
And the second-derivative would be f''(x)=(2x^2+1)10e^(x^2)
Huh ???
I think I'll just post these here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otob5h5zXpc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_f98qOGY0
Quote from: Shantel on January 30, 2014, 09:25:14 AM
Huh ???
Calculus.
The starting function is y = 5e^(x^2). To see that visually, uhh...
http://www.quickmath.com/webMathematica3/quickmath/equations/solve/advanced.jsp#c=solve_advancedsolveequations&v1=y+%3D+5e%5E(x%5E2)&v2=y
It's that. The ^ symbol means we're setting up an exponent.
After that, we're trying to take derivatives. They're Calculus and all, but derivatives are fancy way of saying "what is the rate of change" or "slope" for the function. Since most functions aren't lines, the "slope" of your graph changes as x changes.
Functions that look like y = x^n have pretty nice derivatives. You multiply the right-hand side by the exponent and then reduce the exponent by one. Algebraically, the derivative is y' = n * x^(n - 1). In this problem, you're first using y = x^2, which will have a derivative of y' = 2x.
y = e^x has a wonderful derivative: y' = e^x. Yes, the derivative is the original function.
Multiplying a function by a constant number (like 5) just means your derivative gets multiplied by the same amount. So y = 3x^5 ends up having a derivative of y' = 3*(5x^4) = 15x^4.
Now things get a little weird, but we're almost ready. The chain rule says that if you have a function of a function, like y = f(g(x)), the derivative is y' = f'(g(x))*g'(x). So you first only take the derivative of the outer part and leave the inner intact, and then you multiply the result by the derivative of the inside.
Here we go. Our function is: y = 5e^(x^2). This is a "function of a function" situation. That x^2 means you have an inner function of y = x^2, so let's call it g(x) = x^2. We can basically change our function to now be y = 5e^g(x). If we use f(x) = 5e^x as our outer function, this leads to f(g(x)) = 5e^g(x) = 5e^(x^2).
We need to figure out f'(g(x)), so we first find f'(x). Well, f(x) = 5e^x, so f'(x) = 5e^x (the 5 just copies down, and e^x just goes to e^x). Awesome. Since f and f' are the same, it means f'(g(x)) is just f(g(x)) all over again, so f'(g(x)) = 5e^(x^2).
Next, we need g'(x). g(x) = x^2, so g'(x) = 2x (multiply by 2, lower the exponent from 2 to 1).
Finally we put it all together. [f(g(x))]' = f'(g(x))*g'(x) = 5e^(x^2) * 2x = 10x^(x^2).
Yay, we did math. \o/
[The second derivative isn't much harder, but we did a good job already with the first one.]
OMG astrophysical calculations and quantum physics are over my head, I was lucky to remember my geometry when I needed it for work. Now my head is spinning, you are such smart girls!
too much math for me
I'm just happy to know basic addition and subtraction....somewhat.
To be fair, students aren't expected to take all that in with just one example and a few minutes of reading a text-only Internet post. I would normally spend a week of lectures building all those properties up, and you would be getting a lot of practice with other looks at derivatives before that.
Huzzah for calculus! :)
(My MSc was in Numerical Solution of Differential Equations)
Now I made your heads spin! >:-)
But to be fair this is just a bit of the calculus that we learn in high school here in Sweden. If you want to see a really beautiful formula check this one out:
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FXVHfLsH.png%3F1&hash=cc4a2cd03dac14d022edc049378a20e2f3d98d6a)
Quote from: 930310 on January 31, 2014, 02:27:53 AM
Now I made your heads spin! >:-)
But to be fair this is just a bit of the calculus that we learn in high school here in Sweden. If you want to see a really beautiful formula check this one out:
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FXVHfLsH.png%3F1&hash=cc4a2cd03dac14d022edc049378a20e2f3d98d6a)
That says something for Swedish high schools, here the kids don't get taught anything, it'a abysmal! I managed a business and always gave HS graduates who wanted to work as cashiers a basic math quiz. Many were unemployable because they were unable to do general math and I had to tell them they were in trouble because of it and would be smart to get a tutor and take a general math course.
And even then Swedish schools are considered among the worst in Europe, our neighbor Finland is usually among the best.
At the time of posting silver is at $19.165 and looking at the trends over the past couple years and taking into consideration the history of the metal....
The bottom for the year is close. I predict no lower than $18.500 for the end of winter/start of spring yearly low.
And here I am without a spare nickel to sink into silver.
(Do not deal in paper silver. Only accept the real deal and take delivery on purchase. The premium is worth it.)
amnesty international sheds some light on the injustice transgender people are often met with in europe.
hopefuly their meddling will make things better in the future.
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/EUR01/001/2014/en/13af83a1-85f5-476f-9fe9-b931f2b2a9f3/eur010012014en.pdf
Quote from: Shantel on January 31, 2014, 06:58:15 PM
That says something for Swedish high schools, here the kids don't get taught anything, it'a abysmal! I managed a business and always gave HS graduates who wanted to work as cashiers a basic math quiz. Many were unemployable because they were unable to do general math and I had to tell them they were in trouble because of it and would be smart to get a tutor and take a general math course.
I haven't looked for ahead enough to confirm that we're covering Euler's formula (which makes the proof trivial), but in the Precalculus class I'm teaching this spring, we will at least get into De Moivre's formula. But when the issue is brought up, it really makes me want to start with the generalized Euler's formula (not just saying e^ix, but to use e^z for z = a + bi because it's only one more step to cover any complex number).
Kaelin honey, you gals are talking way over my head, I am afraid that I am a pathetic math moron. I am a logical thinker but when it comes to math all logic goes right out the window. I must have some kind of mental block that says NO to math other than general math. I didn't get along with algebra either, it was a detriment to my professional working life later as a property claims adjustor. All I can say is thank God for computerized estimating programs!
People struggle with equations simply because they are presented with what they perceive as an unknown to them.
Just because you don't have the background that tells you what these equations are, like they are a foreign language.
But you do use them in everyday settings. You do the same thing without thinking in terms of formulas, equations.
Just as you can estimate without knowing any math at all, knowing say, the approximate amount of something in a box.
Some people are better than others at doing this. Like guessing how many jelly beans in a jar to win the prize.
Math can tell you the exact number or a number that is close enough, within tolerance. 5,374,762 + or - 1.
Close enough to define the winner. It works if only one person comes close enough to that answer. Or you could count them all.
If you think about it, you logically breakdown the problem into smaller pieces and then put them together to get a good estimate.
Estimation has it's own value. There are times you don't need to know the exact answer to something that could be found through math.
You know it's going to take three people to lift something, instead of two. You didn't need to know the exact weight.
When you see equations and formulas, you see a foreign language. But you can easily understand it when you hear the words, instead of the symbols.
Indeed there are the ones that take more intelligence to understand than others, but only because of complexity or theory that you're not familiar with.
It's not a that you can't, it's only that you haven't been exposed to some of it.
People use these same kinds of equations and formulas everyday, all day, without realizing they are.
Only because you aren't thinking in that language of math and symbols used as shortcuts to get from one end to the other.
You can use them backwards with as much ease as you can most equations.
Math is simply a way of defining a more exact answer, or a way to simplify the equation to begin with.
Just as estimation involves abstract thinking, so does the math of equations and formulas.
Baking is a formula. You use the language of baking instead of the math.
You use the psychics of thermodynamics, without having to know the exact outcome.
Algebra is simply a way to state things of similar natures in terms that can be applied in different situations.
Higher math is the same, it gets you closer to the exact number you seek, the nature of how something works.
In a way that can be understood to apply to other things that are similar in those same ways.
The symbols and the way they can be used are not that different than language you use everyday.
It's beauty lies in the way it can be used to express something quantitatively in different ways, just as the use of a word here or there,
turning a sentence around to mean something different, yet the same, only because of the way you see it or interpret it.
It's the real language of numbers and how they interact with the everyday things we take for granted.
Just as the language you speak, you take for granted that the person listening to you understands what you just said.
Speaking to another person is a very abstract thing we do and taken for granted that they will understand.
Math and all of its intricate ways it can be used, is no more different in it's nature to define something abstract.
It's a language that express's in many ways, what you already know.
It takes your estimation of all those jelly beans in the contest jar and lets you figure out a better answer, or even the exact answer.
And by writing it down, you can then rework it to fit the needs of your problem that you're trying to solve.
It shows you ways of finding the number of jelly beans in different ways, from different perceived ways of seeing the jar and the contents.
It can be as simple as rudimentary language skills, to the flowing narration of that novel you can't put down.
The earliest languages used symbols and then progress into much more complicated things, like forming words out of letters.
Equations and formulas simply take the complication of words and turn them into symbols.
The beauty lies in the way the perception can be changed and used for different things of similar nature.
It simply describes what there is, just as the language you speak does.
We use words that have different meanings in the context of how they are used. Math isn't any different.
But it is a universal language that can be understood by people who speak in different languages.
It can be as beautiful as anything you've ever read or heard. It speaks to the people who use it.
It's the language that nature uses, it's universal. Math transcends all languages.
You can make a deal and buy something in a foreign land with it, without know the local language or dialect.
Whether simple or complicated, it's a beautiful language of its own.
Ativan
Quote from: Kaelin on February 07, 2014, 09:32:42 AM
I haven't looked for ahead enough to confirm that we're covering Euler's formula (which makes the proof trivial), but in the Precalculus class I'm teaching this spring, we will at least get into De Moivre's formula. But when the issue is brought up, it really makes me want to start with the generalized Euler's formula (not just saying e^ix, but to use e^z for z = a + bi because it's only one more step to cover any complex number).
It isn't that hard to switch between them either. You just go like this:
z=a+bi= r(cosv+i sinv)=re^iv=|z|e^iv=|z|(cosv+isinv)=|z|((a/|z|)+(bi/|z|))=a+bi=z
Just thought of a new name for a band:
The Defecation Interruption
So I was a bit of a slob and let my bathroom sink go a couple months go without cleaning it (yes, gross, I know, but stay with me a moment). Rather than jump straight to the cleaner, I turned on the hot water and rubbed a couple spots to get some toothpaste splotches out. However, I noticed that this was sufficient to remove almost everything else gunky in the sink without a terrible amount of elbow grease -- as much as a cleaner helps sometimes, hot water is a lot better for penetrating certain kinds of problems. I got a good 95% of the mess out of there just by that alone (not as much in the surrounding area, but a satisfying observation nonetheless).
Quote from: Kaelin on February 10, 2014, 04:29:06 AM
So I was a bit of a slob and let my bathroom sink go a couple months go without cleaning it (yes, gross, I know, but stay with me a moment). Rather than jump straight to the cleaner, I turned on the hot water and rubbed a couple spots to get some toothpaste splotches out. However, I noticed that this was sufficient to remove almost everything else gunky in the sink without a terrible amount of elbow grease -- as much as a cleaner helps sometimes, hot water is a lot better for penetrating certain kinds of problems. I got a good 95% of the mess out of there just by that alone (not as much in the surrounding area, but a satisfying observation nonetheless).
Hah oh Kaelin, what will we do with you girl? I'll bet that the sludge was thick enough to have developed a skin of it's own by the time you started working on it. :D :laugh:
I left one measly cottonbud on my sink and was greeted with the following message.
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Quote from: Pica Pica on February 10, 2014, 12:06:21 PM
I left one measly cottonbud on my sink and was greeted with the following message.
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Do the same in measly cottonbuds!
Quote from: Pica Pica on February 10, 2014, 12:06:21 PM
I left one measly cottonbud on my sink and was greeted with the following message.
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:D ;D :laugh: :eusa_clap:
Riotous!
That sucky moment when....
your mother gets the mail which has your Gameinformer magazine in it.
It dulls the excitement of checking your mailbox and finding your subscription magazine sticking out of it.
What is worse is her flipping through it and criticizing a lot of it, though she did recognize Tomb Raider.
Then she criticized the cover page, which has Solid Snake on it. Seriously? You must respect the Snake, whether he has a different voice or not.
...or I could watch an Ally McBeal rerun...or two!
PS3 Sports Champion time I suppose. I need to get a bit active.
I feel like a Balinese Shadow puppet.
Meticulously crafted with detailed and intricate decorations, so carefully made.
And yet, all anybody ever wants to see is, the fuzzy shadow I cast on the screen of this world. A silhouette, so easy to interpret in comfortable and familiar ways.
Isn't there anyone who would like to be the puppet master?..The one who sees me for what I am?...who knows how carefully I was made ..how delicate and beautiful I can be? ... To be the one using me to put on the show, knowing my truth, showing me their truths, instead of just watching the shadows play across the screen filling in the details with their own thoughts..because it's easier..safer than really knowing anything about me at all..
yeah its mine...I also love haiku.
I'm sad that the snow is melting.
WARNING extremely random post
I have been spending time reading posts.
every time I read one, I think "hhhm, I could have written that" or " I love you!" or " been there done that.." and my favorite "well...duh.. why didn't I think of that ?"
..it's a bit disconcerting to have some one else who you have never met before express your own private thoughts as their own.
I feel like crying, both in the good and the bad ways.
I felt so alone for soo long..
then I am angry.. why do you people have to live so far away from me!?!
to meet someone who understands me completely with out pity or condescension.. or obligation...
I am amazed and happy with the distinct lack of "trolls" in the forest...not, that there might not be real trolls.. (you know what I mean and yes I am aware of the double negative)
I am going through a difficult time.. I am living in fear and loss and middle age.. I am waiting for the universe to show me what I should do.. OR working on the willingness to do what I need to...depends on the hour and how honest I am being with my self.
favorite author - I still have to say John Varly but there are a lot of close seconds ( if you haven't read him, DO and start with Titan,then Wizard, then Demon)
music...I am a bit of a new music junkie.. lately it's been Electric Wizard ( they out "Black Sabbath" Black Sabbath) and Grouper for my mellow moods
I'm a once and future Goth.. old school, flirting with steam punk ( old school as in, I was there when "Death Rock" raped "New Romantic" and she gave birth to Goth and now Goth had it owns little baby ( looks like immaculate conception to me ) EMO.. just try an deny it you ..you young whipper snapper!
I happen to love to play with labels...gives me a frame work to push against.
movie... Secretary ...it doesn't play with gender rolls...but it plays with everything else... and just about anything sci-fi...I enjoy the starwars universe but I don't live there.
Sochi makes me uncomfortable. On one hand I love sports and have also competed on national level myself. But on the other I hate Russia and their laws discriminating people who do not follow the national "norm".
That's kinda why I'm only following hockey coverage and am only going to watch the hockey games that show up on broadcast (the only games will be the Women's and Men's finals, and I'll be working during the former, so I'll just be watching the Men's game). I'm not particularly invested in the other broadcast events anyway (a lot of stuff like skiing, ice skating, recaps, and soft stories), so the human rights problems would overshadow them if I tried to watch.
Breeze between my knees,
movement of cloth on my thighs,
the pleasures of skirts.
( I would only regain interest in the Olympics, if they had Roller derby...but then again the only sport I care about at all, is Roller Derby)
It is snowing AGAIN in Boston. Please make it stop!
Quote from: Kim 526 on February 15, 2014, 01:40:33 PM
It is snowing AGAIN in Boston. Please make it stop!
Meanwhile in Canada .....
The snow switch for Boston is frozen , Sorry , you're f'ed.
Just stopped in to see if the thread was still off track.
Grover is my favorite muppet.
That`s random , ain't it.
Randall Monroe has another view on the matter: http://xkcd.com/1210/
Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?
Quote from: Kim 526 on February 17, 2014, 08:48:50 AM
Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?
Hi, that depends on which sort of vegetarians/crackers you are refering to.
Many crackers contain buttermilk, which comes from cows, so lacto-ovo-vegetarians can't eat some sorts of animal crackers.
I am going to have to give up my first love. Sir Francis, you and Kevin never abandoned me. But now I abandon thee. BACON.....
*grabs the third rail and run......*
"Defrocked" is a sounds so funny but it also sounds like a heavy word. DeFROCKED
LOL... I know what defrocked you mean :D That is one of the words I've always thought sounded funny also
Another funny word is Sardoodledom...
http://youtu.be/A8jwp5ou5hE (http://youtu.be/A8jwp5ou5hE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NjbGr2nk2c
If I was of adult age living in the 80's, I would ask this lady to be my wife. I would love to have her body (like actually have her body instead of mine).
She was indeed hot and shapely!
You know when you send a text message to someone and you don't get a response right away, you feel depressed?
You send a text message to someone you really like and you get a response right away you feel happy?
You feel happy, the body, it creates the chemical dopamine, the dopamine, it goes through your blood and you become addicted to that dopamine rush, and you associate that dopamine rush with the happy feeling of receiving the text, and that's why you got people sending 3,000 text messages a day, right, we're not even paying attention to what we're saying anymore it's just like a, like a morphine drip, right, it's like a dopamine drip!
HAPPY BUTTONS! HAPPY BUTTONS! HAPPY BUTTONS! TIME TO PLAY WITH THE HAPPY BUTTONS!
Quote from: Shantel on February 20, 2014, 08:39:45 PM
She was indeed hot and shapely!
I know right? I love her body back then!
"Columnated ruins domino..."
Welcome back, Cindy!!!!
It can be hard decided where to put topics.
Flowers on my jeans made of sequins
I love Shineys and sparklies
I am a cat
"I am the one and only, you can't take that away from me!"
YOU CANT CATCH ME!!!!
NOT WITH MY CHEESE HELMET!
Quote from: Olivia P on February 25, 2014, 12:54:28 PM
YOU CANT CATCH ME!!!!
NOT WITH MY CHEESE HELMET!
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I'm not going to try and sell the necklace my sister gave me from Isarel anymore. It may be a bit feminine, but I don't care. I can wear it one day.
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
I should go to bed soon.
Quote from: LordKAT on March 03, 2014, 06:12:52 AM
I should go to bed soon.
Wake up KAT, it's morning and time to get to work! >:-)
I eat the bottom of an entire celery bundle.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
who's your avatar, malachite?
How much wood could a woodchuck, chuck...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9J75gQxXpg
Hey Taka! I have missed your comments.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on March 12, 2014, 11:03:35 AM
How much wood could a woodchuck, chuck...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9J75gQxXpg
Hey Taka! I have missed your comments.
??
I don't get it...
Quote from: Taka on March 12, 2014, 07:10:01 AM
who's your avatar, malachite?
He is Kairi from the Street Fighter EX video games :)
Quote from: 930310 on March 12, 2014, 12:45:49 PM
??
I don't get it...
Your comment just reminded me of this commercial, nothing more.
It makes me laugh. Just thought I'd post it.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on March 12, 2014, 01:16:05 PM
Your comment just reminded me of this commercial, nothing more.
It makes me laugh. Just thought I'd post it.
Ok, now I get what you meant. The video didn't load earlier when I replied.
I haven't listened to Pantera in a while
Quote from: Malachite on March 12, 2014, 03:09:38 PM
I haven't listened to Pantera in a while
Me neither.
I've actually never listened to any of their songs.
Quote from: 930310 on March 12, 2014, 03:12:03 PM
Me neither.
I've actually never listened to any of their songs.
I've only heard a few of them.
Yes I have. A friend let me borrow his, he took my corvette is exchange.
They both could top out over 145mph.
They do sound nice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCGl6vtNm3A
hmm... yes, those do sound nice.
i'm sorry for the absence, ativan, just kind of.. couldn't make myself engage in these forums for a while.
had some other stuff to sort out, but it's been dealt with now.
that non-transitioning and detransitioning forum is interesting, you should have a look if you haven't yet.
Quote from: Malachite on March 12, 2014, 12:58:28 PM
He is Kairi from the Street Fighter EX video games :)
sexy kitten... (he's a feline, right?)
I think he's human lol.
He looks human. Most felines have pointier ears than him.
Oh those lovely 20's where I can stay up all night and still fuction during the day. I'm going to miss that when I get ino my 30's and 40's.
Ahh... It's great to be in my 60's where it doesn't matter if it's night or day,
I can go for days or nights and not even think about whether or not I'm functioning, because, well, I am.
It's great to finally be at a time in life where I can enjoy the luxury of doing that.
Thankfully, I've made it past those dreaded years of my 30's-50's.
I have enough time put in to be able to use it all in far more creative ways than I ever could before.
It's difficult to explain how it works, as nobody has ever come back from that edge of experience and wisdom.
You just have to trust that when you do step over that edge, it's going to be fun.
See you when you step off the edge, I'll be here somewhere.
I am who I am and nobody can change that!!
I am only me.
This is all I can be.
No more, no less, don't second guess.
I love, I live, I laugh, I cry.
I've wished that sometimes I could die.
Some days I'm funny, others I'm not.
Sometimes I'm in overdrive and I can't stop.
You may not like me, but that's OK.
Because this is me and how I'll stay.
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There is a five year old in my class who claims with a straight face that his middle name is batman (and given some of the names in school, it may well be).
Quote from: cynthialee on December 03, 2011, 09:47:32 AM
This thread is off topic and as such it can not be derailed.
Discuss...
This thread has been derailed by orders of Comrade Putin... now quit posting or we will annex you...
Mod lock this threat >:-)
Quote from: peky on March 21, 2014, 06:10:29 PM
This thread has been derailed by orders of Comrade Putin... now quit posting or we will annex you...
Mod lock this threat >:-)
HEY!
this is my most epic thread ever
Don't you dare get it locked!
MMA Live fighting comes on tonight, and you know how I love live fighting. :)
Quote from: cynthialee on March 21, 2014, 06:17:48 PM
HEY!
this is my most epic thread ever
Don't you dare get it locked!
Hey Girl, good to see you around :-*
MMA Live Bellator MMA fighting
Quote from: 930310 on March 13, 2014, 01:24:59 PM
He looks human. Most felines have pointier ears than him.
anything that purrs when you pet it is a feline.
it's elves that have pointy ears, felines can look perfectly human in their human shape.
Church today
Quote from: Taka on March 28, 2014, 03:38:27 AM
anything that purrs when you pet it is a feline.
it's elves that have pointy ears, felines can look perfectly human in their human shape.
yupp!
I hope my sore throat and fatigue goes away soon. I'm definately not going to be complaining about not having a job this week. That's one perk of not having a job or school. I can just stay home when I'm sick and/or on my period. This especially comes in handy for diarrhea.
I have a small infection in my throat and it's annoying as heck. And I'm worried sick about saturday's "Högskoleprov".
Purple leather vest jacket
I plucked a chin hair out yesterday
Some of this and some of that.
It's those kinds of important things in my life that keep me going.
It's also those kinds of things that are the reasons for leaving.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on April 03, 2014, 10:44:14 AM
Some of this and some of that.
It's those kinds of important things in my life that keep me going.
It's also those kinds of things that are the reasons for leaving.
Well that's neither here or there, you know it's
six of one or half a dozen of the other, sometimes
we don't know whether to sh*t or go blind not having
a pot to pi*s in or a window to throw it out. Trite cliches
aside life goes on in spite of it all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJhcGepfG04&feature=kp
Obladi or else it's Oblada
I forget which....
I wonder if live MMA comes on tonight.
currently in need of a good workout schedule.
Would somebody please move this topic from ninth on the list? ;)
Somewhere closer to the top would be nice.
Quote from: Malachite on April 03, 2014, 05:24:45 AM
Purple leather vest jacket
I plucked a chin hair out yesterday
Where?!?
@LordKAT I forgot!
But stir fry is yummy.
Yup sir fry is.
I just found my lavender cummerbund while unpacking.
oooooooo lavender!!
Why do I get the feeling we are the only two guys that get the lavender appeal?
I picked up some lavender cheer shorts a while back...perfect for when I'm feeling blue, or I guess also when I'm feeling lavender!
Lavender does feel good.
Lavender ice cream.. nom nom nom
A little lavender goes a long way late in the evening to help me sleep better.
Quote from: LordKAT on April 27, 2014, 09:46:59 AM
Why do I get the feeling we are the only two guys that get the lavender appeal?
I think all of the other guys are afraid to express their love for lavender!
I've known more than a few people who have a strong preference for purple, at times with a religious level of dedication.
I'm definitely a bit fanatical about it. Have been since around 4th grade or so.
Purple and blue are okay colours, but I have a thing for Indigo.
I went to the dentist today and she did something that no one has every done to me before.
It was a very personal moment to have someone stick their fingers under my tongue and slide them gently along my jawline to check it.
I hope the rest of the day goes as well as this morning has...
What's the difference between a duck
Only if they graduated oranges
shorts
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
Jack Kerouac
I'm simple, yet complex.
JET SKIES!
You're so square, I'm surprised you don't just roll away.
Quote from: Paula Christine on May 13, 2014, 09:28:21 PM
You're so square, I'm surprised you don't just roll away.
but i'm a hexagon xD
Not with that tea set you're not.
I got work tommorrow.
I once knew this bazooka who spoke French.
i haven't watched more than a few minutes of that game of thrones, but i still get a feeling their game can't be much more difficult than a normal day at work.
Anyone know just why a raven is like a writing desk
...because the mad hatter really is crazy?!?
I'm going to take a jabberwalk, anyone want to come along?
Quote from: Paula Christine on May 20, 2014, 11:09:24 AM
I'm going to take a jabberwalk, anyone want to come along?
Up past the Borogroves?
no, Im not bringing my yellow submarine this time.
How about a blue meanie
1398.... The tension is becoming greater, as someone will soon realize that 1400 replies is very near...
I'm sitting here on the corner of the bed, sobbing because I want to leave my hotel room but there is a do not disturb hanging on the inside door knob, and the window is locked..
1400. I'm more relaxed now... Much more.
*Call the front desk and ask for maid service.
When the door opens, run like hell....
but.. but.. that only works in August!
Just stand away from the door I have explosive throwing fish, and I'm not afraid to use them
It you time it just right, you can hear me age!
Quote from: immortal gypsy on May 26, 2014, 04:41:31 PM
Just stand away from the door I have explosive throwing fish, and I'm not afraid to use them
So that is how you knock down the mightiest tree in the forest with a herring.
Give you this award
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Pigs can fly but only in space
Only if they book at least 7days in advance with a Saturday night stay.
That include a reservation at the restaurant at the end of the universe?
Only if they bring their own towel.
what do you have legs for?
switching on lights and opening doors...
My Ted Union Suit comes today!
Better off Ted than RED
Yeah, this one time, in band camp, I put a flute up my
... nose?
Something smells fishy.
This may help.
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I'll have what she's having..
My back hurts and I hear thunder.
Unrelated topics but it is the right thread for it.
The thread that cant be derailed?
What about a big OT?
Hmmm no? I guess for anything to go off topic, there needs to be a topic to start with.
That would make a difference. Even missing nails in the rails don't do it without a topic.
Just because I can....
I found it,the missing D-rail.
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sry xD had to do it xD
We can rebuild it. We can repair it. We have the technology. Gentlemen we can create the first six million dollar thread
But which dollars are they? ???
I know xD i was just being silly xD get derail xD haha! Lemme stoo before i get yelled at xD
Quote from: SarahM777 on June 21, 2014, 07:33:38 PM
But which dollars are they? ???
American 1963? Dollars
Zimbabwe Dollars? (I could be a trillionaire with their dollars.) Although of course with a Zimbabwe 100 trillion dollar bill you couldn't even buy a cup of coffee. :P
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The power of a well placed fart
Quote from: V M on June 22, 2014, 02:35:58 AM
The power of a well placed fart
??? O: i plead the fifth xD :laugh: ;D
there once was an old lady from Malta
Quote from: Paula Christine on June 23, 2014, 11:41:05 AM
there once was an old lady from Malta
Who once went to go swim the Black Volta
There once was a guy from Nantucket
Quote from: Paula Christine on June 23, 2014, 01:58:07 PM
There once was a guy from Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket
But his daughter called Nan
Fell in love with a man
As for the bucket, Nantucket
Imagine my horror when I saw this thread dropped to the middle of page 2 on this forum.
Tea for two
And two for tea
Just me for you
And you for me
I have a kidney stress ball thingy. I can't for the life of me figure out why I wouldn't be stressed if I saw a real kidney on my desk nor why I would want to squeeze it. It isn't just kidney shaped, it is a kidney, from a dialysis clinic.
Page three is a long ways away from the usual place to be...
Quote from: cynthialee on December 03, 2011, 09:47:32 AM
This thread is off topic and as such it can not be derailed.
Discuss...
Challenge accepted.
Meep meep...
So far, since last October, I've spent around four months in Korea trying to get this system sold off. I was close in February, but then a major component failed again. Sent it back to the MFG, they fixed it we re-installed and I began tuning it AGAIN. Long story short, I spent May and June there and couldn't figure it out. Sent it back again, they found the same failure I'm seeing. YAY! Hopefully they fix it for good this time!!
I have to return in late August. :embarrassed:
Meep Meep...
The response from the Acme Response Co. to the Thread That Can't Be Derailed.
Still laughing and I read that five minutes ago...
i just thought i'd come by again, been a while since the last time i posted here.
sorry that i don't show more support in very recent threads, i just had a huge dose of the horridness of life from people close to me who had to deal with that. all sensible responses are already spent on them.
nothing much has changed in my life of not transitioning, other than recently finding that one person whose support i'll need in order to get serious enough to bet the whole rest of my life on this decision. if she's open to it, i'll have a great friend irl whom i can discuss things with. if she isn't, i might have quite a problem to solve. the mother of my daughter's little sister will have to be considered a more important part of my family than even a lover, and right now i feel a little stupid to not have realized this earlier. might have been because we haven#t even had a proper chance to get to know each other a little before this summer.
Sounds like there are maybe changes coming your way..
Beep boop.
Thread derailed!
i love change when it's for the better.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on July 23, 2014, 08:14:10 PM
Meep Meep...
The response from the Acme Response Co. to the Thread That Can't Be Derailed.
Still laughing and I read that five minutes ago...
Something just made the Road Runner pop into my head. Perhaps it was your profile picture with the desert road or it could be that I rewatched the episode of Farscape with the Looney Tunes XD
LOL!
Quote from: Wynternight on July 30, 2014, 02:36:33 PM
Beep boop.
Thread derailed!
It was derailed with the OP's first comment.
It's been derailed ever since!
More derailed, maybe?...
Quote from: Taka on July 30, 2014, 02:52:11 PM
i love change when it's for the better.
I love hearing that :)
Can't just leave this topic laying around, doing nothing... ;)
I strongly disagree with your signature.
Quote from: Kaelin on August 09, 2014, 10:54:23 AM
I strongly disagree with your signature.
I both agree with you and disagree with you. I'm being quantum contrary.
Quote from: Kaelin on August 09, 2014, 10:54:23 AM
I strongly disagree with your signature.
I strongly agree to disagree with my signature, that I'd know what it was, if I didn't just smear my nose over it...
Was it something about Schrödinger's signature?
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on August 09, 2014, 01:03:11 PM
I strongly agree to disagree with my signature, that I'd know what it was, if I didn't just smear my nose over it...
Was it something about Schrödinger's signature?
Your signature, once observed, has grown larger and thus, there is no smearing of noses on screens.
Lol!
Ugh, now I need screen cleaner!
Quote from: Shantel on August 09, 2014, 01:26:41 PM
Ugh, now I need screen cleaner!
Schrodinger's Cat peed on your monitor!
And thus the position of the OP stands as true to this date and into perpetuity.
This thread remains in the state of un-derail able.
Best Summer in Seattle history so far!
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For some reason this image disturbs me. Of course that may be because I am disturbed...
But how HOT is it?
Erin
Quote from: ErinWDK on August 11, 2014, 01:15:51 PM
For some reason this image disturbs me. Of course that may be because I am disturbed...
But how HOT is it?
Erin
It's 11:40AM and 86 already. Now it's 2PM and 91 degrees, pretty hot for the formerly cool rainy city. Sorry it disturbs you hon, had one where this little yellow chick is looking at a broken egg and says "Oh
>-bleeped-<, is that you Pete?"
Quote from: Shantel on August 11, 2014, 01:42:30 PM
had one where this little yellow chick is looking at a broken egg and says "Oh >-bleeped-<, is that you Pete?"
Now that would have been funny! But 86 degrees is more than I want right now.
Erin
Pretty quiet around here...
ativan changed their signature!
and spelled it wrong.
just in case you're interested, my eyes are good enough to read it without magnifying, at an arm length's distance.
letters tinier than the tiniest gnats...
Consulted with the gnat's, they want to know why gnats is spelled with a g...
Well played, silent P in subtle, well played.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on September 03, 2014, 12:46:46 PM
Consulted with the gnat's, they want to know why gnats is spelled with a g...
Especially "Turkey Gnats" which you would think are really large and are also called "No see-ums" because you can't but you can feel their bites days afterwards, I wonder why that is?
Quote from: Shantel on September 03, 2014, 12:58:29 PM
Especially "Turkey Gnats" which you would think are really large and are also called "No see-ums" because you can't but you can feel their bites days afterwards, I wonder why that is?
...because bite-ums sounds like a candy slogan?
I know that isn't what you meant, but it is what crossed my odd little mind.
Quote from: LordKAT on September 03, 2014, 02:22:13 PM
...because bite-ums sounds like a candy slogan?
I know that isn't what you meant, but it is what crossed my odd little mind.
This is the really hilarious part though! >:-) :-*
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on September 03, 2014, 12:46:46 PM
Consulted with the gnat's, they want to know why gnats is spelled with a g...
and it seems they convinced to you imitate even tinier creatures.
now the letters are too small for even my screen to display fully. can't see the difference between black dot and black dot, thought the grey dots seem like they might be very differently shaped letters.
gHah! gI ghave gto gmagnify git gby g500% gto gread git...
*No gnats were harmed in the making of this (although they do seem to be squished somewhat..)
Nice new avatar Ativan!
:)
CHOO-CHOO
CHOO-CHOO
CHOO-CHOO
Crash???
OH OH Derailment
Nah, pixelated rails can go anywhere.
so this really is a computer generated Matrix like world.
Now to get animated.....
ye, unfortunately, the pixelated coffee maker ran out of pixels.
I prefer the dark roast pixels myself...
Has anyone noticed all the pixels running around the forest lately?
I keep trying to get a closer look at them...
now your writing's back to readable...
my little girl is funny. she saw my avatar pic and asked, who's that boy? is he your cousin?
he does look like me, a whole lot. but i'm a mom, so the connection wasn't made when she saw the pic.
Those pixels do tend to flit about a bit.
I was going to say...
Some one needs to tell the man upstairs to turn the heat back on.
*looks at topic checks bag*
Crowbar, baseball bat, sodium nitrate, petroleum. Everybody needs a hobby, let's see what I can do to this thread >:-)
Good luck since I took the rails to build my house.
Have I ever mentioned I once spent a summer demolishing a school building with a sledge hammer as a teenager
Hmm, nope. Might need a a welding torch in the case of steel rails though.
I think I have one in my bag. You can borrow it :angel: after I play with my other toys of course >:-)
The rails have been missing since the OP's first comment, setting the topic adrift..
meanwhile back at the ranch...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ut6QMIjpw
coffee. maaged to finish report in time, work ended well despite panic.
n... dang thing up and ran away from you...
As liza said to henry "then catch it"
If you catch it, see a Dr. and get rid of it
Canada bananas
Love spreads germs.
Quick, make me sick.
Dr dr give me the news
Quote from: LordKAT on September 20, 2014, 07:00:20 AM
Love spreads germs.
Quick, make me sick.
cough cough hack hack wheeze.
Sharing is caring
I've got a baaaad case
Who ordered the Large pepperoni, slug, Wendy Malik, extra dirt, thin crest?
Well it was $5000 if they couldn't supply your order. How could I refuse
The rain in Spain, flowed mainly down the drain.
"ding" You are now free to move about the cabin, we ask if you remain in your seats, that you peek your fasety belt firmly attached to you earlobes
silly girls!
Seriously silly girls!
subverting the dominant culture once again. Please keep at it!
Did you walk to school or carry your lunch?
Clown school 100 kids in a minni minor.
We had to start juggling our schedules from day one
So close to 15,000 posts....if only I had a dollar for every time I post.
ah, i just remembered this funny thing...
a norwegian phone company made an app, inspired by the phrase that "time is money".
it counts all the time a person isn't wasting playing with their phone, and converts it to money that is given to charity.
if my own phone company did the same, i'd never use my phone for entertainment again.
or i could just switch. i think that other one is cheaper too.
Nah, Tuesday is your turn in the Barrel. :P
So much can be said, so little that can be of value.
Lines spoken with nothing to see, not even in between.
Words spoken without value are heard by only the one who speaks them.
Over the 1500 mark, quite an accomplishment for a place so misunderstood.
So much said, so many can never hear, they listen to themselves, not others.
King Malachite's coffers are filling like always, Norwegian phones, they even know.
Nobody listens to the chatter of the deranged sitting alone on a park bench in a crowd of people passing by.
Alone in a world of conversations, some speak to themselves, for words to listen to.
You can't derail what has already been.
I'd Like that ^^ but there is no button.. so, I will simply reply..
Yeah, sez you.. <3
Ativan is so poetic. I have no idea what any of that means, but it sounds so nice.....so.....flowing....
looked like a congratulatory post to me...
kind of.
red the translation while listening: http://google-viorica.blogspot.no/2013/03/leopard-of-mt-kilimanjaro.html
(is that 3rd language romanian?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRHqhEqTpwA
Quote from: Paula Christine on October 02, 2014, 08:32:28 AM
Nah, Tuesday is your turn in the Barrel. :P
Still better than the food in the mess hall.
Use a flamethrower. The food becomes much tastier
and a tad crispy.
09:50 PM If my brain were so simple that I understood it, I'd be so simple that I couldn't.
my hero in this zpg is kind of simple, but sometimes writes almost smart things in his diary...
1052 hours here clock call everyone
Simple dimple all you need learn is the logic your brain is using. I don't maybe that's why I don't understand half of what I say
clock call? 1208
09:09 here!
I wish the hair on my head moved to my chin.
Im debating whether or not I want to go midnight grocery shopping or do it early in the morning.
Usually midnight grocery shopping is awesome! You have the whole store to yourself. But it's Saturday night. Its dark out and everyone is out driving like a jerk...
Maybe I'll just eat grits until sunday night to shop. Then the store will REALLY be dead.
Tired, yes.....but I don't want to sleep. At least I don't have to work today, though I wish I did.
i have to work today!
i also had to buy ice cream for lunch.
they have funny birthday traditions in this place.
Details details what type of ice cream
creme brulee, and orange and chocolate.
orange and chocolate was a new, refreshing taste.
norwegian product, the finest we have that isn't imported.
Fresh orange and chocolate?
Ice Cream for my breakfast. How do I justify this is a good disccion?
taste justifies anything.
not fresh orange, but ice cream taste.
chocolate is chocolate. and i even bought extra chocolate and peanuts for the ice cream
I start most days with a health double dose of methylxanthines. Hot coffee with cocoa.
Quote from: immortal gypsy on November 14, 2014, 03:41:54 PM
Fresh orange and chocolate?
Ice Cream for my breakfast. How do I justify this is a good disccion?
Orange is healthy, vit C and all. Ice cream is dairy and has calcium stuff. It works for me.
Perfectly justified.
Fresh oranges
Dark chocolate (anti oxidents to make it healthy)
vannilia beans.
To my kitchen
after I have done everything else I have to do
I create useful words.
Here is a couple words you didn't even know you needed but fits right when used right.
Feezler: 1) A person or animal who has in some fashion impeded your goals. 2) The jerk in the car ahead of you that cuts you off in traffic. 3) A cock blocker/twat swatter.
Use: "That feezler John just took the last muffin and he knew it was mine!"
Feezle: 1) The act of interfering with another person or animals goals. 2) The act of cutting someone off in traffic. 3) The act of 'cock blocking'.
Also: Feezling, Feeze,
Use: John is a jerk because he likes to feezle every chance he can get.
Quote from: cynthialee on December 01, 2014, 05:11:19 PM
I create useful words.
Here is a couple words you didn't even know you needed but fits right when used right.
Feezler: 1) A person or animal who has in some fashion impeded your goals. 2) The jerk in the car ahead of you that cuts you off in traffic. 3) A cock blocker/twat swatter.
Use: "That feezler John just took the last muffin and he knew it was mine!"
Feezle: 1) The act of interfering with another person or animals goals. 2) The act of cutting someone off in traffic. 3) The act of 'cock blocking'.
Also: Feezling, Feeze,
Use: John is a jerk because he likes to feezle every chance he can get.
Sometimes my family insists on feezling my search for an authentic life. Yep it works well. Thanks, got any more?
J
Fooze: verb 1) The act of play fighting, especially with an animal. 2) Severe silliness for the act of silliness alone. 3) Rarely: Highly playful sex.
Example: I spent the afternoon foozing the dogs.
Example: We foozed each other pretty well last night. ;)
Also: Foozing, Foozed, and Foozer
Quote from: cynthialee on December 03, 2014, 05:14:18 PM
Fooze: verb 1) The act of play fighting, especially with an animal. 2) Severe silliness for the act of silliness alone. 3) Rarely: Highly playful sex.
Example: I spent the afternoon foozing the dogs.
Example: We foozed each other pretty well last night. ;)
Also: Foozing, Foozed, and Foozer
lol, may I follow you around with my phone on record? It is time for me to leave work and frooze with my dogs.
Thanks :-*
Julie
Quote from: King Malachite on November 08, 2014, 10:23:40 PM
I wish the hair on my head moved to my chin.
My wish is the opposite, I have an epic beard you can have, If you can just get it off my face.
I also have some menswear I won't wear, bring some trash bags.
Quote from: nickikim on December 06, 2014, 08:53:53 PM
My wish is the opposite, I have an epic beard you can have, If you can just get it off my face.
I also have some menswear I won't wear, bring some trash bags.
Oh if we could so trade!!!!
Quote from: King Malachite on December 08, 2014, 01:49:28 AM
Oh if we could so trade!!!!
We need to start an exchange program.
That post is dangerously close to keeping this thread on track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqjfW-MZsMo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Is the love child a sequin?
So that's how there made.
How many sequins die each year just for fashion?
Someone think of the sequins!!
I think of their shine, impale them, and sew them to my skirt.
Quote from: JulieBlair on December 13, 2014, 09:10:23 PM
I think of their shine, impale them, and sew them to my skirt.
You....you fiend!! I hear them, the dreadful silence of the sequins.
Quote from: Wynternight on December 13, 2014, 09:19:06 PM
You....you fiend!! I hear them, the dreadful silence of the sequins.
Now now Special Agent Wynternight. Let us give Julie a chance to defend herself.
Farmed or wild sequins and just how do you capture them?
I would only use domestic sequins of course. To reduce the abundance of the wild strains would be so very wrong on so many levels. There are extensive sequin ranches in China, and they provide the glittering darlings. I am told that any piercing is done under anesthesia, which is more than I can say for piercings done in ink shops. I have found that they frequently escape and have wondered if hybrid sequins can be found in the taiga of Alaska.
J
Quote from: JulieBlair on December 14, 2014, 02:20:12 PM
I would only use domestic sequins of course. To reduce the abundance of the wild strains would be so very wrong on so many levels. There are extensive sequin ranches in China, and they provide the glittering darlings. I am told that any piercing is done under anesthesia, which is more than I can say for piercings done in ink shops. I have found that they frequently escape and have wondered if hybrid sequins can be found in the taiga of Alaska.
J
I've only ever seen wild sequins in Alaska and I've lived and traveled from Anchorage to Barrow and spots in between. There may be hybrid populations in the Interior but I've never seen them.
Those poor poor defenseless sequins. Can't we create synthetic sequins for clothing and let them all run free
Won't somebody think of the sequins
Oh sequins are anything but defenseless. They often control the behavior of their hosts particularly the Hollywood and Las Vegas sub varieties. Indeed the beauties that live on my sneakers often take me to Nordstroms where they look for new companions. Frequently with success.
J
Quote from: Wynternight on December 14, 2014, 02:49:03 PM
I've only ever seen wild sequins in Alaska and I've lived and traveled from Anchorage to Barrow and spots in between. There may be hybrid populations in the Interior but I've never seen them.
I once heard a bush pilot speak of unique populations near and on Round Island, but since flights there are restricted, no direct sightings have been made. But that conversation was at the Bush Company and I fear the source was unreliable. He drooled on my leggings.
Quote from: JulieBlair on December 14, 2014, 03:09:10 PM
Oh sequins are anything but defenseless. They often control the behavior of their hosts particularly the Hollywood and Las Vegas sub varieties. Indeed the beauties that live on my sneakers often take me to Nordstroms where they look for new companions. Frequently with success.
J
That's the problem with the large wild northern sequins. Now the Southern Antarctica Sequin is an adorabubble little creature that only comes out at night, and is very timid.
If you come to Australia you can see small colonies of fairy sequins along the east coast as far up to Sydney Harbor. People flock to an island in Victoria to see these tiny little wonders come up to the sure every night
Quote from: JulieBlair on December 14, 2014, 03:12:12 PM
I once heard a bush pilot speak of unique populations near and on Round Island, but since flights there are restricted, no direct sightings have been made. But that conversation was at the Bush Company and I fear the source was unreliable. He drooled on my leggings.
You can't trust those bush pilots. They're an odd lot and apt to hit the sauce when they get the chance.
Quote from: immortal gypsy on December 14, 2014, 07:40:43 PM
That's the problem with the large wild northern sequins. Now the Southern Antarctica Sequin is an adorabubble little creature that only comes out at night, and is very timid.
If you come to Australia you can see small colonies of fairy sequins along the east coast as far up to Sydney Harbor. People flock to an island in Victoria to see these tiny little wonders come up to the sure every night
It is my dream to witness the sequins of OZ :)
Quote from: Wynternight on December 14, 2014, 08:17:52 PM
You can't trust those bush pilots. They're an odd lot and apt to hit the sauce when they get the chance.
Perhaps some day I can tell you of a flight I made in a Super Cub from Togiak to Bethel. Without 100 mile an hour tape, the wings might have fallen Off. We had no business flying much less surviving to tell the tale. God it was fun. >:-)
diamonds
Quote from: Electric Fuzzball on December 15, 2014, 12:27:06 AM
Cubic zirconia
Just the way to show the love of your life that your love is real.
"Darling, I got you this "diamond" necklace." =3
Quote from: JulieBlair on December 14, 2014, 10:20:00 PM
It is my dream to witness the sequins of OZ :)
Just please make sure you don't come during the puffin dingo migration season.
These animals have been know to run down unsuspecting tourists in packs, swarm them and leave no remains.
Not much is know about these fantastic native creatures after a few of our native reaserchers disappeared on assigment in '76. Only partial audio and video recordings remain. It was very tragic
Quote from: Electric Fuzzball on December 15, 2014, 12:30:07 AM
Just the way to show the love of your life that your love is real.
"Darling, I got you this "diamond" necklace." =3
Don't forget this ring made out of fools "gold
"...we all lose our charms in the end. But square cut or pear shaped these rocks won't lose their shape, diamonds are a non-binary trans leaning towards the feminine girl's best friend." At least that is how I remember the song going.
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Artist rendering of the hybrid.
They are so beautiful, much like the little blue penguins I've seen on the beaches of New Zealand, but with more sparkle. Is this an accurate rendition of their habitat? For sequin mountains majesty above the sparkling plains? How lovely ...
J
More than three posts on topic puts this thread in danger of rerailing .
So total change of direction...
http://www.metrolyrics.com/acid-queen-lyrics-venom.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsn1FCalPTQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
THIS MAKES ME DEVIL GRIN.
Time for tea
CHANGE PLACES!!!!!
Quote from: nickikim on December 17, 2014, 07:09:45 PM
More than three posts on topic puts this thread in danger of rerailing .
So total change of direction...
http://www.metrolyrics.com/acid-queen-lyrics-venom.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsn1FCalPTQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
THIS MAKES ME DEVIL GRIN.
This thread needs more....BLACK METAL!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHmzFVDjVnM
The white metal can be very appealing also. Sometimes called 'platinum.'
Quote from: LordKAT on December 18, 2014, 03:55:51 PM
The white metal can be very appealing also. Sometimes called 'platinum.'
The white metals are any of several light-colored alloys used as a base for plated silverware, ornaments or novelties, as well as any of several lead-based or tin-based alloys used for things like bearings, jewellery, miniature figures, fusible plugs, some medals and metal type.Some of the metals that make up a white metal alloy are antimony, tin, lead, cadmium, bismuth, and zinc. Not all of these metals are found in all white metal alloys but are mixed to achieve a desired goal or need. As an example, a base metal for jewelry needs to be castable, polishable, have good flow characteristics, have the ability to cast fine detail without an excessive amount of porosity and cast at between 230 °C and 300 °C (450 °F and 575 °F).In compliance with British law, the British fine art trade uses the term "white metal" in auction catalogues to describe foreign silver items which do not carry British Assay Office marks, but which are nonetheless understood to be silver and are priced accordingly.
Wiki copypasta
I've always been a huge fan of bronze, myself. Beautiful colour.
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Lettuce, in ancient Sumer was considered erotic.. this is the desert we're talking about, so something as lush and wet as lettuce is an obvious choice. Lol!
I'm obsessed with Ancient Greece and Mesopotamia. And I love pineapples.
I've been fantasising since yesterday about how to chocolate-enrobe a small lettuce (like a little gem). This is because a friend posted a photo of some mint chocolates they were given, and the packet said "Crisp and Fresh!" and I immediately thought of lettuce. Of course. Probably if the lettuce were really chilled...?
4
42 may be the answer but is the question, maybe "What is 6 times 8?"
OK it is the Solstice and that can be mathematically figured and remains a universally available holiday.
Hello Winter here and welcome to summer down under
I feel the daylight growing ^-^ Merry Christmas to everyone. :angel:
What do you call Santa's little helpers?
Subordinate Clauses.
:D
New movement, NO Snow!
So you're a Lanister then?
Better than being an extra.
But I like 42....
And that's the meaning of life
Quote from: immortal gypsy on December 25, 2014, 02:27:03 AM
So you're a Lanister then?
East coast of Canada, +16 C
It's begining to look alot like Easter .
Eggs in every store
Quote from: LordKAT on December 25, 2014, 02:02:55 AM
New movement, NO Snow!
16 celsius in my part of Canada . Tons of rain , and flooding . Joke of the day is , It's begining to look alot like Easter
I'm tired....got to work from 12-9 today.....ugh....
And if you are a-feared of Santa is that claustrophobia?
Quote from: georgie on December 26, 2014, 05:50:41 AM
And if you are a-feared of Santa is that claustrophobia?
**rimshot* Thank you, I'm here all week!
What do you call Santa's little helpers?
Subordinate Clauses.
Quote from: Padma on December 27, 2014, 08:15:47 AM
What do you call Santa's little helpers?
Subordinate Clauses.
Ge thee to a punnery!
Tis modern times. Single puns don't have to be kept hidden away
Quote from: immortal gypsy on December 27, 2014, 11:24:19 AM
Tis modern times. Single puns don't have to be kept hidden away
Just don't make a habit of it.
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKF8YxWWhI4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Any of you old enough to remember that?
Quote from: Wynternight on December 27, 2014, 12:51:50 PM
Just don't make a habit of it.
too late (https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nativity-cincinnati.org%2Fschool%2Ffiles%2F2012%2F01%2Fsr-joan-hildefort-old-habit.jpg&hash=82c5688f5f9ced2db7c80988215746e88886b2ee)
The Palace would be a good blog name.....so would "In The Trenches..."
I kind of want to get a bunch of corgi dogs and dress them all as hobbits.
Dildo Bugger and Good Gulf seek to destroy the lead that binds them all.
The soft part of the hand sanitizer gel that hardens feels like boogers.
Quote from: JulieBlair on January 26, 2015, 09:22:26 AM
Dildo Bugger and Good Gulf seek to destroy the lead that binds them all.
Are you Bored of the Rings?
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Playing the race (cam) card, just to keep offrail.
Brings in the safety car to try and bring this ringed circle round
mental emptiness
Sigh, it is Monday already. I really need a week end off but that won't happen in the foreseeable future.
Is it spring yet?
Why not?
Oh great, I go to work in about 30 minutes and have to deal with a bunch of kids. I really hope it isn't busy today, but something tells me otherwise. At least it is only 4 hours....but I work tomorrow. *sigh*.
I'm thankful to be working at least....
Quote from: King Malachite on February 07, 2015, 09:55:01 AM
Oh great, I go to work in about 30 minutes and have to deal with a bunch of kids. I really hope it isn't busy today, but something tells me otherwise. At least it is only 4 hours....but I work tomorrow. *sigh*.
I'm thankful to be working at least....
In the last two weeks,I missed enough time at work to pay my car insurance, living in snow country sucks.
While the North East is suffering under nasty winter conditions it is like a premature Spring here in Addy, Washington. The snow is all melted and it is in the 50's.
This is not natural. We should have a couple of feet of accumulated snow and temps in the low 30's high 20's.
Oh well the dogs are enjoying the extra outside time.
Maybe longer growing season. Good time to stockpile some canned foods maybe.
Quote from: nickikim on February 07, 2015, 10:50:18 PM
In the last two weeks,I missed enough time at work to pay my car insurance, living in snow country sucks.
Snow is mystical to me, but I hate the sleet.
Quote from: King Malachite on March 06, 2015, 03:41:10 PM
Snow is mystical to me, but I hate the sleet.
Sleet plus syrup,
Free snowcones
It's Monday, and cold. UHHHHH. All girls school here I come.
Most likely because I have never even seen one, schools with only one gender confuse me. Why do they exist?
I really hope I get a bunch of facial hair once I start T.
This thread of random must never die,
The unicorn forest is forever and timeless.
on planet Ran-Dom, threads never die. and Cherry pie has no calories.
Quote from: LordKAT on March 18, 2015, 02:33:44 PM
Most likely because I have never even seen one, schools with only one gender confuse me. Why do they exist?
I attended a catholic military high school in the Twin Cites until dropping out and finding homelessness preferable. At the time we were told that the sexes needed to be segregated so we would not be distracted by ??? My guess is that the great oppressive powers of the day wanted as much control as possible. What's new ;)
I'm afraid I'm about to get outed, by a Dcma complaint.
Fml
whats that?
I had some trans related files in a 4shared account, that can easily be traced back to my irl name.
Someone is claiming copyright protection, even though the original files were public domain.
This post is dangerously on topic, so think about squirrels.
I'm unrailing this thread....
as we rail against injustice, discrimination and more oh my
PB and J sandwiches are awesome, but I cant eat em every day. Yuck :P
I am kinda worried about what another big Kat is eating right now.....
so to bring some topic into this *cough*
I am new to this forum and I wanted to post a reeaaaaaaaly long post. This is how long it is. Not kidding.
And it contains words like well... sexual organs called by their name. And I think there is even one f bomb in there. and at some point it goes a bit into detail on sex. It's in no way pornographic or disrespectful - at least that is not why I wrote it like that. I wrote it like that because I didn't want to sugarcoat things that are natural.
And this post is about my genderqueer development and not about sex. sex just plays into that at some point and it had to be mentioned. And the focus is on my journey...
So I read the rules and I feel a bit unsure whether I can post it. I think its a polite post in every way. I just know that it is not exactly pg13 - strictly speaking.
Since I am new I don't know if that stuff would be allowed. Is it?
Hi Jo, welcome to Susan's. THe key is keep it PG and no foul language and you should be just fine. Something in detail regards to the one item mentioned has to wait tell you can access a part of the forums where it would be appropriate. I look forward to seeing you around the forums. Good luck and Hugs
Mariah
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Thank you :)
I think I won't post it then. Its kind of a whole story and if you take something out it would feel wrong to me.
continue derailing
Quote from: Tessa James on June 01, 2015, 11:52:41 PM
I am kinda worried about what another big Kat is eating right now.....
KAT food.
Sometimes I wish my name was "Dan" so I could make a tv show called "Dan and DNA" to explain genetics to children
Quote from: SmartAlex on June 11, 2015, 10:56:31 AM
Sometimes I wish my name was "Dan" so I could make a tv show called "Dan and DNA" to explain genetics to
children
Dana on DNA would maybe sound better, we can call.you Dan off camera.
I'm unrailing this thread again.....
BOOYAH!!!!
That is OK, my train ain't working too well so it don't need no rails.
My rails are already unscrewed. I need a helmet....
A Helmet you say?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBfygUiS50g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBfygUiS50g)
In the beginning
Good always overpowered the evils
Of all man's sins...
But in time
The nations grew weak
And our cities fell to slums
While evil stood strong
In the dusts of hell
Lurked the blackest of hates
For he whom they feared
Awaited them... Now many many lifetimes later
Lay destroyed, beaten, beaten down,
Only the corpses of rebels
Ashes of dreams
And blood stained streets
It has been written
"Those who have the youth
Have the future"
So come now, children of the beast
Be strong
And Shout at the Devil
Halifax pride week, so old school metal thread bomb.
To keep this off the tracks.
thinks, education concerning klinfelter, A.I.S/C.A.I.S, AND other such things should be mandatory education?
I'm unrailing this thread again.
Thank you.
railing against injustice---and it is just as effective here as in RL ;)
Wondering when I get an additional "gold brick" on my ID rating. 49 ??? 50 . . . ???
Fifty ??? LMAO
OMG, did someone actually make a post to get gold bars??? ;D ;D ;D ;D
Serious questions, and intentional thread jack.
Sarah with the H, or Sara without?
Does Sarah Nicole sound like a 1977 birth name, or does Sara Marie sound better?
Using my personal issues to keep this off the rails,
reeks of desperation.
Must keep the thread.... That...can't.... Be.....derailed.... Off.......the....... Tracks.....
And that's my William Shatner
I agree that Sarah Nichole sounds like the 70s but it still fits and Sara Marie seems a bit trendy and still nice but, you asked :D ;D
Good grief we are out of the neutral zone!
I think Sarah with an H seems more traditional.
No . . .
I actually made a post to CHECK to see if the status boundary is 50 posts . . . That was my 49th, 50th post.
Allison I apologize if my kidding felt like a micro aggression or something negative. I can be a tease and sarcastic and will try to behave while having fun here ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
This is one of the reasons for these ubiquitous emoticons......
This is the most random thread ever and I love it. Movie quotes for you guys from fight club. Enjoy
We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."
"Well, that's just like .... your opinion, man...."
This thread is now Big Lebowski Quotes
Quote from: Sigyn on August 12, 2015, 01:20:31 PM
"Well, that's just like .... your opinion, man...."
This thread is now Big Lebowski Quotes
[/QUOTE ]
Sam Elliott quote
I met the love of my life once. Only I killed her dog before I got a chance to tell her. Man, she was everything I ever wanted. I met her at Shakespeare in the park. Told her I was a lawyer - that line seemed to work for you. Rained like hell that day. I had an umbrella. We went back to her apartment, she went to the bathroom, I sat on the couch. She had this great big damn dog. Dog had a ball. I threw the ball, the dog brought it back. I threw it again, harder. I'll never forget the sound of that dog's paws on the newly waxed floor. How was I supposed to know she'd left the window open? The dog fell thirteen floors and landed on a parked car. I looked out the window, took one look, threw up, and left. Left. Without ever tellin' her she was the one.
I decided on Sarah with the H
More fight club quotes :)
Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.
We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives,
I think a good song/album and a book or simply outdoor air can help calm you down from something that has happened, whatever it is. Does anyone agree?
Quote from: Juniper on August 20, 2015, 02:06:12 AM
I think a good song/album and a book or simply outdoor air can help calm you down from something that has happened, whatever it is. Does anyone agree?
I listen to liquid dubstep all the time it is very soothing
Quote from: Micah (Alecia) on August 20, 2015, 03:00:14 AM
I listen to liquid dubstep all the time it is very soothing
I'm not sure I've heard of 'liquid' dubstep, haha. Dubstep, sure. But that sounds pretty cool! (Honestly made me think of demonstrations of glasses of water next to subwoofers lol)
HITLER!
(let's see if that derails it)
Ewww, what an icky awful man (yes I know that is not supportive) but sheesh
Quote from: Juniper on August 20, 2015, 03:03:43 AM
I'm not sure I've heard of 'liquid' dubstep, haha. Dubstep, sure. But that sounds pretty cool! (Honestly made me think of demonstrations of glasses of water next to subwoofers lol)
Juniper you should give it a listen its all good, its a sub genre of dubstep with more mellow tones and softer bass beats its awesome just go on youtube
Unrailing as usually.....thank you.
This thread is now Nixon.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Richard_M._Nixon,_ca._1935_-_1982_-_NARA_-_530679.jpg)
Quote from: Sigyn on August 27, 2015, 01:52:50 PM
This thread is now Nixon.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Richard_M._Nixon,_ca._1935_-_1982_-_NARA_-_530679.jpg)
i dont think so ...
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You're nothing on me Putin..
(https://ethicsalarms.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/nixon-3.jpg)
Star light, star bright, I wish I may, I wish I might, Not see you super nova tonight.
Quote from: ButterflyVickster on August 27, 2015, 06:08:06 PM
Star light, star bright, I wish I may, I wish I might, Not see you super nova tonight.
Let's keep the discussion to the topic at hand here... Nixon.
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What!?! Nixon stole the Millennium Falcon!?!
Nixon would never do that, he's not a crook.
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NIXON CANNOT BE DERAILED!
what is a Nixon?
Quote from: Lebedinaja on September 06, 2015, 05:56:12 AM
what is a Nixon?
The second best thing to come out of Orange County, California (the first being me!)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/richardnixon
Quote from: Sigyn on September 07, 2015, 12:57:11 AM
The second best thing to come out of Orange County, California (the first being me!)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/richardnixon
ORANGES . . .
So is there any word at all, that rhymes with orange?
Portage
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Nope, not derailed... this thread is still Nixon, because Nixon cannot be derailed.
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Funny how few people remember that they once voted for the man who resigned the presidency. I was once one of the soldiers he sent on an illegal invasion of Cambodia in 1969 as he simultaneously and incessantly bombed northern Vietnam killing thousands of people. That deeply troubled and paranoid man will never be much of a joke for some of us. And then he did create the EPA which I 'm sure many Republicans appreciate today ;D
I actually put trains "on the ground" a few times when I worked for the Rock Island and Soo Line railroads as a younger person. Running a train off the rails isn't that hard as it turns out :D Now putting them back on the tracks can be done with teamwork, some heavy timbers or more often a crane.
Similarly it is easy to derail in politics and a bit harder for some to see and feel the real needs of people all around us as reasons to be involved and on track with solutions. ;D
Nixon is a dead crook
http(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs6.postimg.org%2Fsalu8wru8%2F20140720_154423.jpg&hash=ce2b2aa34ca4140f0ae44ef6ba0659f9e58a7c84)
I helped rerail that, and rode it just before the derail.
AUUUGH IT'S SO OFF TOPIC!!!! 8D
*leaps off the bridge into a long canyon with a river to splash in safely like EVERY action movie involving trains*
. . . and then I stopped myself, mid thought . . .
"WTF was that all about ??? . . . "
(elliptical interjection is always a dodgy narrative strategy . . . )
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What was that hullabaloo all about? Let's get this topic back on what it's about.... Nixon.
I like bandanas. I like to wear them on my head, and over my mouth.
Quote from: King Malachite on September 29, 2015, 01:33:34 AM
I like bandanas. I like to wear them on my head, and over my mouth.
You can keep it Nixon with this bandana:
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Nixon would eat a banana. :)
(https://themeparkradio.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/elvis-nixon-01-crop.jpg)
Nixon may have eaten bananas, but not as much as "The King", who was known to love his peanut butter and banana sandwiches.
But the real question is: which one would win in an eye staring contest?
Quote from: King Malachite on October 30, 2015, 10:41:48 PM
But the real question is: which one would win in an eye staring contest?
Try me.
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That stare....I think he has the edge.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_flick
Winter is here time to get off the rails in the snow
Quote from: nickikim on December 04, 2015, 08:36:55 PM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_flick
Winter is here time to get off the rails in the snow
Nixon laughs at your feeble attempt at driving tricks in the snow, and safely arrives at his destination. Nixon cannot be derailed.
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Unrailed again.
Thank you..
Oh really, thank you!
You are absolutely welcome, madam! :)
sure is sweet to be gendered right, thank you sir ;D ;D ;D
I was starting to get creeped out by that one old political nemesis ;D
No problem! Nowadays, it seems like people don't like such titles of mam, sir, madam. etc.
Quote from: King Malachite on December 13, 2015, 10:19:12 PM
No problem! Nowadays, it seems like people don't like such titles of mam, sir, madam. etc.
There is always the title of "Mr. President" for Nixon.
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Even then, I bet the secretly wished they were not called that, lol.
Post Nixon comment. Currently 16 spiders here. Anyone have bug spray?
Trembling... how big?
hmm, let you know soon as I find my tape measure.
Nixon is the man to handle your spider problem... he is the amazing Spider Man.
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Having a wild bird in your house is scary.
not as scary as a bat and a fun loving hunter type cat.
Quote from: LordKAT on December 20, 2015, 07:21:40 AM
not as scary as a bat and a fun loving hunter type cat.
NIXON CAN HANDLE YOUR FEARS OF BATS AND CATS!
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Quote from: LordKAT on December 14, 2015, 02:54:09 PM
Post Nixon comment. Currently 16 spiders here. Anyone have bug spray?
That lion is lovely, LordKitty.
Bowling on carpet , eh? I wonder how that would work out.
Nixon predicted Justin Trudeau would be the future prime minister of Canada, when Justin was four months old.
Tinfoil hat on.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz
I can't believe this post still gets hits all these years down the road.
muhahahaha
Long time no see!
Hugs, Devlyn
Quote from: cynthialee on April 08, 2016, 02:09:44 PM
I can't believe this post still gets hits all these years down the road.
muhahahaha
Hits and more intrigue over time, good start up eh? ;D
Hit or Miss
Good netflix film
A little quieter here?
Feels like a library. Wake up...
Lol.
I put up my sh'e pic...its as real as my he and they ones.
I love fluid...
:)
I am a little surprized at how much I am enjoying being back in here, and roaming around in places I never dared to go.
Hit or Myth is a good book too.
Hit or miss is a fascinating series on netflix. A bit on the dark side.
Derailing the underailable thread...
OMG i am having a fit of Daja Vu with you two popping up...
Dirty! Stinking! Rotten! Filthy! now I'm getting hungry
Quote from: immortal gypsy on May 14, 2016, 06:00:28 AM
Dirty! Stinking! Rotten! Filthy! now I'm getting hungry
Not to thread-bash or anything, but, given your apparent appetite(s), I have to ask:
What kind of creature are you in the Unicorn Forest?
Unrailed
Thanks
Lol
Blasts of the past lets party!!!!
Sleepy
Coffee and a game of Halo
What the heck was i looking at when i took this pic...
Lol
Quote from: Satinjoy on May 23, 2016, 11:21:57 AM
What the heck was i looking at when i took this pic...
Lol
A citrus flavored beverage...? ;)
Something naughty and nice
And a bit too big...
LOL :D There we go again, imagining all kinds of possibilities
Bad Fairy...
Ive been busy moving sorry to be unresponsive like that folks.. :(
SJ
and so we seem to need a bit of "moving on" perhaps, in a collective sense? The hurt and damage to our communities has been horrific. I trust we will continue to demonstrate our resilience, tenacity and love for one another. :-* :-* ;D
No more casualties.
We have been bullied far too long.
This thread shall not be derailllllllllllled.
Staying on the rails is optional.
But we are n9nbinary so theres no rails.
But trains on ice skates.
Just home after a few weeks afloat on our annual sailing voyage of the Columbia River. Out on the water with miles of open seas to offer us any option on the compass. No roads, no rails and a small enough vessel that we can navigate around islands, inlets, sloughs, tributaries and safe harbors. It is magical to be sailing and part of the rhythm of tides and a timeless world of water.
Booo.
Love to all who know me here.
The fairy...
Still pretty darned quiet in this section isn't it.
Oh well. So who is going to be naughty and who is going to be nice?
The oldtimers know which one I will be...
SJ
Dear Santa,
I've been a bad girl this year, you fat judgemental sod.
Love,
Kel
Lol yeah you get around dont you girl
:)
Fun to be playing with you again.
Now, who's gunna stuff our stockings...
I hereby derail this thread.
Thank you
Back on track and 'spurred' on by a few black hairs which put in a surprise appearance so I need to slightly increase the hrt - the endo is ok with this, but black hair after 220 plus hrs of galvanic is not good!
I am really feeling the pressure of xmas season and close quarters with relatives, which just makes for an uncharacteristic state of barely simmering rage. I just want everyone to leave me the hell alone.
Merry bloody xmas.
Unfortunately CV, I'm feeling much the same.
My wife and i will not be at the extended family gathering this year.
And my boss told me to cut my hair to guy.
No.
Im done with being abused.
If I was any busier my wings would melt.
I'm still around, just no time, its intense.
Living as sh'e.
Best to all here.
Everyone doing good? Wake up! Wake up! Time for some more unrailing!
*turns over and goes back to sleep until spring*
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Oh thank goodness for more irreverence during this most Holy time of year! This thread may not be derailed but it certainly was dominated for a bit by another bent on historical revisionism. Such is the privileged world of anonymity behind a keyboard?
Here in the northern hemisphere we are hurtling toward the Winter Solstice. For me this actually does give reason for the seasons in a celestial event that spans all of humanity and the cultures we create for this celebration of planetary life!
I wish you a most happy holiday season and the growing warmth of sunlight as the days lengthen and the world turns.
We are awake dude! Wazzup with you?
Rails, pah, who needs them. I've been quietly going off them for years ;)
rails sound like a one way street to me
That feel when you look over your open tabs, and you realize you can't tell by looking at the names if they're for FTM gear, kink gear, or car parts.
I wonder how that one lady who used to come here is doing. I can't remember her name.
Yes, there are so very many people who have graced these pages and then continued on their journey. Seems we get a nice peek at some intimate lives and then they are gone out and about.
It seems to me an honor and responsibility to remain a safe, welcoming and inclusive place where folks can drop in and out as they need us.
Oh Tessa, didn't the restraining order help last time..? You know you're not supposed to go peeking..
*giggles*
Runs quickly
Rowan
Quote from: Sno on January 18, 2018, 12:43:28 PM
Oh Tessa, didn't the restraining order help last time..? You know you're not supposed to go peeking..
*giggles*
Runs quickly
Rowan
LMAO, thank you.... i need that every day! Some literary folks can get so persnickety but restraint is not my strong suit ;) ; ;D
All attempts to derail this topic still fail many years down the road.
Oh, btw I am 1 week post op SRS. :D
Quote from: cynthialee on February 15, 2018, 11:37:44 PM
All attempts to derail this topic still fail many years down the road.
Oh, btw I am 1 week post op SRS. :D
Yay! Hope that's all working out well for you.
I'm getting my initial blood work done for HRT on Monday, though it's going to be fairly calculated and minimal for me. Mainly the idea is to achieve a look where I'm in between by default and can be comfortable as either. Not doing SRS myself either; I genuinely like what I was born with.
this thread has legs ....
(https://i.imgur.com/efur0uU.jpg)
Actually, it just gave me a place to post the image. My legs are as close to feminine that I get right now. Plus, showing off that I fit into my wife's favorite pair of shorts .. they're mine now ;D
Quote from: Tessa James on January 18, 2018, 12:21:18 PM
Yes, there are so very many people who have graced these pages and then continued on their journey. Seems we get a nice peek at some intimate lives and then they are gone out and about.
It seems to me an honor and responsibility to remain a safe, welcoming and inclusive place where folks can drop in and out as they need us.
I hope one that they will decide to visit again every once in a while. I know I don't come as often as I used to, but I still think about this wonderful site.
And history returns in another random moment of boredom....
Seems to me it derailed, but its awful hard to stop a freight train.
LOL.
Nostalgia reigns....
A friend has described a meeting with some sort of orderly objective as hauling frogs in a wheelbarrow. Yes, and another frog has jumped out of the wheelbarrow!
Is that a derail?
I think its a defrog.
Better put in the defrogger
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I woke up with a frog in my throat this morning.
Wonder if its the same frog.
______________
OK folks. I think I really am back. I wish my old friends were still around, some of them, but there is always a reason for everything, and a function for everything, and I am getting some clarity and think I need to be here, where else I may be, is not of anyone's concern.....but I may have something to offer in this place.
--Sh'e.
By the way, note the placement of the appostrophe. Its not s'he. its sh'e.
I am more female than male. Female dominant. s'he implies there was or is a male in it, and I am not, by any means, a male. I am an androgyne.
However, for anyone that used s'he for me, it still is such an honor to be pronouned in any way even close to my true gender identity, that I am just floored and tearfully happy that even an attempt is made to accomodate that need.
Nobody else anywhere uses sh'e. I seem to be the only one.
Soooo nonbinary. Even my pronoun is alone.
There's so few here, but omg the quality is so much better than I thought, and I am seeing no interference....
I'm smiling so much about that my face is hurting.
Still nervous though.
If you get so hungry you feel like you'll throw up- can you actually throw up or will you just gag?
God this question is disgusting. The frick is wrong with me?
This thread is where we ask the real questions people!
ewww
it's a dry-heave
And lines on the tracks.
Railing for the derailing thread.
Railing for the derailing thread. That sounds almost like something that would still try to lead me in a pre-determined direction. I don't want to go there.
So I won't!
One can not quell a free spirit!
Just sayin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lFKgC-k4Ts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lFKgC-k4Ts)
Okay but- if someone falls in love with twins that are connected to each other (I forgot what that's called) does that make it a polygamous?🤔
Conjoined. That's the word, and polyamorous is what you'd be - having made space for two loves in your life, although they manifest in the same body.
It would be polygamous if you married them both, and a challenge if you'd proposed and only one said yes...
Let's also not forget consent issues, but then love is. And love conquers interesting problems.
Rowan
Love is everything.
Quote from: Sno on August 03, 2018, 05:04:12 PM
Conjoined. That's the word, and polyamorous is what you'd be - having made space for two loves in your life, although they manifest in the same body.
It would be polygamous if you married them both, and a challenge if you'd proposed and only one said yes...
Let's also not forget consent issues, but then love is. And love conquers interesting problems.
Rowan
This is literally the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.
Thread unrailed....thanks.
"going off the rails on a crazy train"
Refreshing not taking one's self so seriously, like stepping aside of one's self, and what do you see ?
Quote from: CynthiaAnn on April 09, 2019, 07:18:57 AM
"going off the rails on a crazy train"
Refreshing not taking one's self so seriously, like stepping aside of one's self, and what do you see ?
Oh Yes. This is the place for attempted derailments and fun for those of us with ADHD like interests that run from one tangent or squirrel to another. The World Serious is more than a bad ball game name. Transition and just living out and trans can require uncommon resiliency to survive and thrive.
So here we can be distracted, amused and irreverent as ever without concern for the original post(er) and chosen topic. BTW i share your enchantment with the Pacific Pulse. In the quiet of the night I can feel the deep rumble of breaking waves and hear the surf crashing along the shoreline a mile away.
Speaking of derailments; When i was in college i worked for a couple of railroads and actually caused a real derailment. No one was hurt but these are monstrously major weights to get back on the tracks! With our conversational threads it seems so much simpler to have topical dialogue and points of view to share.
I live near the mouth of the Columbia River and she pours out her concerns to an indifferent ocean that absorbs us all. Sometimes with calm and mirrored blue seas and sometimes with the chaos of turbulence and towering waves that have earned her the nickname "Graveyard of the Pacific."
Ready to set sail ....?
Quote from: Tessa James on April 09, 2019, 12:27:19 PM
I live near the mouth of the Columbia River and she pours out her concerns to an indifferent ocean that absorbs us all. Sometimes with calm and mirrored blue seas and sometimes with the chaos of turbulence and towering waves that have earned her the nickname "Graveyard of the Pacific."
Ready to set sail ....?
Tall masts, light ships, bar pilots, helicopters....
Hi Tessa, you know how tug at the heart strings, and this is a nice derailment. I totally dig the Pacific pulse of the area Illwaco, Astoria, Long Beach, have spent a fair amount of time recreating there, we usually go to Cape Disappointment state park (used to be Ft Canby SP), sometimes Ft Stevens, with our mobile habitat unit. I can spend hours just watching the swells come in, like from the north jetty, just park on a rock and watch the swells hit the rocks just below Cape Disappointment light house, shooting water way up into the sky....
I have to believe it lowers one's blood pressure having the sound of the Ocean in the background...It's calming.
had just found this thread today, thanks for chiming in....
Cheers
Cynthia -
Quote from: CynthiaAnn on April 09, 2019, 03:13:32 PM
I have to believe it lowers one's blood pressure having the sound of the Ocean in the background...It's calming.
Cynthia -
Oh yes, I cannot deny the allure of the ocean. The smell of the salt, the sound of the waves, the vision that extends beyond the horizon. What's not to love!
Judi
Quote from: JudiBlueEyes on April 09, 2019, 03:38:16 PM
Oh yes, I cannot deny the allure of the ocean. The smell of the salt, the sound of the waves, the vision that extends beyond the horizon. What's not to love!
Judi
Judi, I don't know if I could live inland very far :) You are so right above, and I would add flying kites on the beach, making sand castles (not just for kids), playing frisbie on the beach, having a nice fire going, OMG just typing this is making me long for
Hugs
C -
We have a nice gathering of the tribes down here for Astoria Pride, June 7-9, and my home becomes a retreat for such fine folks as we are. Pride here is three days of rainbows and love within a small town community that is quite supportive. I still get to be Chair for our Lower Columbia Q Center and we sponsor dance parties, A Gayla, a parade, a blowout block party and more. Wonderful fun and immersion, as deep as you like, in rural queer culture.
I have acres of trails and a few places to put mobile units if you get tempted further....
@Tessa James Quote from: Tessa James on April 09, 2019, 07:32:00 PM
We have a nice gathering of the tribes down here for Astoria Pride, June 7-9, and my home becomes a retreat for such fine folks as we are. Pride here is three days of rainbows and love within a small town community that is quite supportive. I still get to be Chair for our Lower Columbia Q Center and we sponsor dance parties, A Gayla, a parade, a blowout block party and more. Wonderful fun and immersion, as deep as you like, in rural queer culture.
I have acres of trails and a few places to put mobile units if you get tempted further....
I hope to be there! Last year was a blast! The dance party was a huge hit 💃
Hugs and smiles from a California girl
Quote from: Tessa James on April 09, 2019, 07:32:00 PM
We have a nice gathering of the tribes down here for Astoria Pride, June 7-9, and my home becomes a retreat for such fine folks as we are. Pride here is three days of rainbows and love within a small town community that is quite supportive. I still get to be Chair for our Lower Columbia Q Center and we sponsor dance parties, A Gayla, a parade, a blowout block party and more. Wonderful fun and immersion, as deep as you like, in rural queer culture.
I have acres of trails and a few places to put mobile units if you get tempted further....
One day, it sounds like that glade would be a wonderful place to rest, and in the mean time, we are happy to live vicariously :j
Rowan
@Jessica Dear Jess:
Please tell me more about the Dance Party? ???
Hugs,
DanielleQuote from: Jessica on April 09, 2019, 07:35:17 PM
@Tessa James
I hope to be there! Last year was a blast! The dance party was a huge hit 💃
Hugs and smiles from a California girl
@Alaskan Danielle @Laurie Quote from: Alaskan Danielle on May 20, 2019, 11:35:37 PM
@Jessica
Dear Jess:
Please tell me more about the Dance Party? ???
Hugs,
Danielle
After the Pride Parade in Astoria, Oregon in the evening there is a DJ that spins the tunes as we rock out to the music. It got my hips to swingin', ask Laurie!
Lots of fun, that's what it is.
Hugs and smiles, Jess
Quote from: Jessica on May 20, 2019, 11:47:52 PM
@Alaskan Danielle @Laurie
After the Pride Parade in Astoria, Oregon in the evening there is a DJ that spins the tunes as we rock out to the music. It got my hips to swingin', ask Laurie!
Lots of fun, that's what it is.
Hugs and smiles, Jess
Astoria is graced with some fine 100 yo buildings and we are renting the Astoria Arts and Movement Center on the upper floor of one such gem. Great DJs, lights, mirrors and dancing fun. All ages and genders.