morning buddy.Good morning!
WTF? Actually, I was just going to post something about how everyone keeps posting mushy happy la la crap... you totally fixed that. Carry on...*wanders by picks up the empty metal trash can and a stick, starts banging the can*
"Heave to and thrice up, ye lubbers!" I've been up long enough to get more done in ten minutes than you have in all eight hours of your imaginative dreams. Get into those dungarees! Check your boon-dockers for a reflection! What ye standing still to wait on, get to the head! Take a dump and pump water to get clean! Argh! Got to run! If ye aren't on the grinder in two minutes, you are Wrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroonnnnnnnng!" "Carry on!"
*seems to wander on, pauses mid-step, cocks head to one side to listen*
"What is that? Did I hear an aye sir, or an argh?" "You better not tell me aye sir, have you keel hauled for two days! It's bloody Argh for us in working blues!"
*sees someone get confused, stop in front of others, sees the impending pile up*
"DROP! All o' ye gonna cycle now!" "Ye walk about in an orderly, timely manner. If not you are Wrrrrrrrrrroonnnnnng and in my Navy we're not that. Gimme the number of states."
*watches as the pushups begin, waits just a bit and then turns and heads out silently*
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WTF? Actually, I was just going to post something about how everyone keeps posting mushy happy la la crap... you totally fixed that. Carry on...
What I meant was thank you (the happy la la crap is nice too but let's even it out with some not so sugar coated stuff) Not in a bad mood at all... just being real.
What I meant was thank you (the happy la la crap is nice too but let's even it out with some not so sugar coated stuff) Not in a bad mood at all... just being real.
Didn't take this pic, but never have seen one like this. The spider that makes this type of web makes one by my back porch light, but it's always gone by winter.
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I would imagine that Steve has enough "real" when he steps out his door in the mornings. Some of the rest of us, too. Nothing wrong with a place to go get some peace.
It's all good folks... this thread does cheer me up (didn't mean to bring anyone down)
Also, I don't word things well... it often confuses people. Have a great day (all of you)
Peace out, vape on!
A long time ago my brother stayed the night on our couch. On the bottom of the stand we had a garden snake in a fish tank. On the top of the stand we had a white rat. Don't know how, but the rat escaped and ended up on my brother. He was just walking up and down on him, lol. He woke up freaking outI had a lizard get on me once about 40 years ago when we lived in the Panhandle of Florida. When I think about it, I can still feel that creepy-crawly sensation.
I haz a fobia.
Utopia is a dream that isn’t obtainable.
you are right mark, evil has been around a long timebut i doubt it will ever go away, we cant have good times without there being bad times.Yep, evil has been around for a long time and isn’t going to go away quietly. Paradoxes in life will continue; good things happening for bad people and bad things happening for good people. Crime (such as we define it) will happen. Utopia is a dream that isn’t obtainable. We just have to do the best we can in a broken world and try to keep ourselves from becoming hardened or corrupted. (Thoughts of a person that’s from the Boomer Generation.)
good post, and with all the people starving they cannot even donate any left overs in case someone chokes and sues them for it.Who else sat on porches & talked everything? Let me think, ... ah, stoics? Why yes, I believe so.
Something I consider too, the Gen X crowd, my crowd ... we're a repeat of the Lost Generation. We've had several different wars in our life times, seen a couple of crashes of "the market".
We got Recession which is allegedly the opposite of Depression. Funny though it damn sure is just like a Depression. We've become disenchanted with society, disenfranchised with religion (inclusive of science & psychology).
The 1970's were a hodgepodge of the last five and half decades before, 1915 to 1969. We also come up with our own variations & taught ourselves some lovely platitudes.
"Keep on keeping on", "Kick up your Converse", ... Think we invented high top sneakers and disco. Although even those had "been there" before if you look back. Nothing new under the sun after all, and not been for quite a long damn time.
What's new then? It's the same old song.
- People still kill? Yep.
- People still deceive? Yep.
- People still commit theft? Yep.
- Calamities & atrocities still happen? Yep.
Any wonder I see Gen X as just another Lost Generation?
This post not intended as means to depress anyone. Merely expressing the view/axiom that is espoused a lot, "the more things change, the more the same they stay the same."
ETA: Adding a minor rant. When we got down to VA where my family lives, several various community groups from Spring to the last bit of Autumn host barbecue chicken at "the pit".
The pit is right along Route 259 nestled off the side of the hill up route 42 "Main Street" Broadway. There's a fuel station on the opposite side.
You can go in at the pit, just pull in, walk up to barbecue pavilion with the actual pit. There you can get one half a chicken for $2.50 USD, all day, every day the pit is being run. You can get a whole bird for $5.
These prices have not changed in years. All the groups honor this pricing. They sell chicken hand over fist like hotcakes flying off the griddle. It's good chicken, well prepared, good price, great service.
People even call through the week to reserve coolers of chicken for on the weekends. The pit is only run on weekends, although sometimes different churches will open up on Tuesday's & Thursday's. They too hold the same prices.
Last night me & Christy thought we'd get some KFC. *smh* No way that'll happen. They wanted about $10 for what come to be a half a bird. And just that, no extra stuff with it. You wanted extra you paid extra.
We both agreed that the cost of chicken is pretty stable. Know for fact KFC gets cases of thighs for around $10, and a case is roughly 40 pounds of thighs, They get breasts, wings the same way at the same cost.
Know that because I worked at a poultry plant what supplied KFC, MacDonalds, Hardee's, even Arby's as well as various Big Food Industry leaders. The company owning the plant had to keep a stable price with clients too.
Granted I could get cases of chicken for about $7 a unit. I got that through the company store. We got a slight discount, though we paid just a bit more for boneless, various specialty chicken items. It equaled out, might pay $7 for 5 pounds of breast.
So, if these big food leaders get such low cost, how is it their pricing doesn't reflect it? Ah, greed of course. So we settled for Taco Bell's cheap run stuff. It's just frustrating.
you dont want to now how little it costs or whats in the mincemeat you buy.
My mother and I take food to the homeless (leftovers... sometimes made into a big batch of soup) You aren't supposed to do this but we do anyway. Some of them have mental issues but we really haven't had any situation where we felt unsafe. Most are very thankful... say things like "bless you... thank you, thank you" They seemed to really appreciate it even more during the holidays (often when depression can be a big issue) One day we gave out 24 servings of soup. It's a good way to clean out the fridge of food we would have thrown out (but is till OK to eat) Not just that they are hungry but it really shows them that people do care. Last 4th of July, we planned a huge BBQ and it was great but not as many people showed up as expected. Had loads of leftover burgers and hot dogs (and buns) That was really fun... we laid out a tarp with all the food (and beans potato salad, ect) It seemed to bring the homeless together too (like an old fashioned block party) We never carry cash (and mom doesn't bring her purse... even in the car, just her driver's license) We wear masks and won't touch anyone's hands. It's a very long story, but my sister had mental issues (we finally lost her... don't want to get into details) That's part of why we do this.good post, and with all the people starving they cannot even donate any left overs in case someone chokes and sues them for it.
when i was 16 i worked as a volunteer at a mental hospital. there was a girl a patient around my age,she came from a posh family. whenever guests came she would be fine, but unknown to her parents everytime at the house parties that she saw a man alone she would drop her pants and show them, then she would offer them a blow job for a ciggy, eventually she was admitted. her parents came to see her every saturday. one monday i went to help out, i realised i had not seen her all day, i asked where she was. her parents had not been up on 2 consecutive days, she went uo to the 3rd floor and threw herself off.My mother and I take food to the homeless (leftovers... sometimes made into a big batch of soup) You aren't supposed to do this but we do anyway. Some of them have mental issues but we really haven't had any situation where we felt unsafe. Most are very thankful... say things like "bless you... thank you, thank you" They seemed to really appreciate it even more during the holidays (often when depression can be a big issue) One day we gave out 24 servings of soup. It's a good way to clean out the fridge of food we would have thrown out (but is till OK to eat) Not just that they are hungry but it really shows them that people do care. Last 4th of July, we planned a huge BBQ and it was great but not as many people showed up as expected. Had loads of leftover burgers and hot dogs (and buns) That was really fun... we laid out a tarp with all the food (and beans potato salad, ect) It seemed to bring the homeless together too (like an old fashioned block party) We never carry cash (and mom doesn't bring her purse... even in the car, just her driver's license) We wear masks and won't touch anyone's hands. It's a very long story, but my sister had mental issues (we finally lost her... don't want to get into details) That's part of why we do this.
and sell cows eyes to hospitals sell their feet it is crass.Ah, I got a clear idea of what both are. I know hot dogs are made from "trim". It's left over scraps. Know they turn offal into pure protein slurry. They dye it and can make potted meat, bologna, corned beef and such.
Have seen the pure protein, in its natural white state cut in blocks of 3 foot long. Visited a protein processing plant. The trim comes from chicken, turkey, duck, quail, hogs, cattle, sheep. I still eat hot dogs, bologna, potted meat.
If you work at a large taco serving place they'll show you "pink 54". It's the slurry they use to simulate beef for their tacos. Still eat their tacos. As to the low cost, yeah know crack corn runs $12 per 100 pounds, can feed a small flock of chicken for 6 months on that.
Milled corn is dirt cheap too and most critters are addicted to it. even humans are addicted to it. That was the USDA's plan for global dominance, a single cereal grain that could provide America with something to rule Earth. It's called "soft warfare".
America produces corn even cheaper than Mexico. This means America can export corn to Mexico at cut throat prices. "Your corn costs you too much to grow. We can send ours to you far cheaper."
This is why Mexico saw an economic collapse. They had nothing to export, trade, barter with after that. They've since started recovery. It's gradual though.
High fructose corn syrup is in nearly everything. The nutritional value of it is almost nil. Yet it can act as a filler the same as milled corn. Cheetos is a global brand promoting eating powdered corn fluffs, just to name one such product.
Control bellies, minds come right along. There's no refusing, no resisting. Best way to a human heart? The belly, and if you get stuff in the belly that causes cholesterol, inflammation and so on, you got the heart.
Soft warfare comes from Loa Tzu. "You must win the fight without fighting." It's very insidious strategy. Colonialism is dead, long live the colonies!
i have been watching christopher hitchens for years on y tube i get along with him. also prof cox is cood.Yep, evil has been around for a long time and isn’t going to go away quietly. Paradoxes in life will continue; good things happening for bad people and bad things happening for good people. Crime (such as we define it) will happen. Utopia is a dream that isn’t obtainable. We just have to do the best we can in a broken world and try to keep ourselves from becoming hardened or corrupted. (Thoughts of a person that’s from the Boomer Generation.)
i knew a asswipe who worked at a meat plant, his favourite tricke were dropping an eye ball into someones drink...and rolling one along the floor.....f@@king shit headed low life prick that he is. as for the lady who works there,,no dont ask about her!!and sell cows eyes to hospitals sell their feet it is crass.
in england there is a castle that on new years eve holds a feast. its hard to get a booking.the chefs dress as monks and the ladies as servants at midnight they come marching through the hall carryigf food on like a stretcher on theis shoulders. its a great medievil night, but the one thing they do is something that i think only they can. its a fown disk consisting of 6 different birds, a goose on outside with a stuffing around it them a pheasant with stuffing and 4 others stuffed into each other. so when you slice it its a ring of 6 different birds with 5 different types of stuffing!! it is amazing.and sell cows eyes to hospitals sell their feet it is crass.
My son had a pet rat... Max (we loved that rat actually) My wife just barely tolerated it until one day it bit her "nipple" (not sure why) after that, she hated the rat (I can see why) but I actually like rodents (even after being a professional housekeeper and dealing with mice) I also love bats... they eat lots of bugs that we also don't like) One day, my son and me were at a friends house... he had an albino boa constrictor pet snake (very rare) I totally forgot we had the pet rat and made him watch the snake devour a mouse (OMG... I'm sorry, it was nature... my bad, I didn't think about the pet rat) my son hated me for that!A long time ago my brother stayed the night on our couch. On the bottom of the stand we had a garden snake in a fish tank. On the top of the stand we had a white rat. Don't know how, but the rat escaped and ended up on my brother. He was just walking up and down on him, lol. He woke up freaking out
About hot dogs an bologna... in Europe, there are many recipes that use organs (look up Scottish Haggis)
We here in the US don't like to think about things like that (whatever... eat that hot dog and pretend you don't know what's in it)
I'll reference the 2 hours I worked in the kitchen of a Shoney's back in the early 80s. It was so disgusting I told them there's no way I'm working in this mess. The assistant manager had handed me a mop and a bucket and told me to clean out a refrigerator that had little baskets of old, rotten strawberries that had fallen into water in the bottom, and just left to lay there for god knows how long - until green mold grew all around them. I said, if you think I'm sticking my hands in that filth, you got another think coming.
Doubt == Fear == Greed == Doubt == Vicious Infinite Circle of Ultimate Sin
Good morning!
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Staying warm best I can. It’s very cold, that’s for sure.
Hear that. Wife's BIL has a perfectly functional wood stove, covered in garbage. Power goes out down here we got no ginny either. I'll have to send wife up to her parents.