In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2) by SIGNYM

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Monday, November 10, 2025 9:52 AM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Sunday wasn't bad SIG. Had a look at one publisher and they want you to be published in a magazine. Don't totally get that. I will take another look at them.

But then down the yellow brick road. Cut my thumb cleaning brussel sprouts.

I subscribe to a womens magazine ... the kind you normally buy at a check stand. I find it relaxing to immerse myself in something not politics and not "doing" for family, yanno? It has a two-page quick romance, and I've been tempted to write and submit a few myself, one that doesn't follow:

she returned to her hometown/stayed in her hometown/inherited property and

met her old sweetheart/new guy moving in/handsome handyman

who helped her move in/ find her lost puppy/ take care of her visiting niece

and felt a flutter in her stomach/ tingling all over/ flushed

so this was the start of a beautiful romance/ long term relationship.

One well written one was from the man's POV and other good ones had a sense of humor. I think it would be a fun challenge to write something like that and get it published.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Monday, November 10, 2025 10:10 AM

Keep it real please

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Sunday wasn't bad SIG. Had a look at one publisher and they want you to be published in a magazine. Don't totally get that. I will take another look at them.

But then down the yellow brick
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Sunday wasn't bad SIG. Had a look at one publisher and they want you to be published in a magazine. Don't totally get that. I will take another look at them.

But then down the yellow brick road. Cut my thumb cleaning brussel sprouts.
I subscribe to a womens magazine ... the kind you normally buy at a check stand. I find it relaxing to immerse myself in something not politics and not "doing" for family, yanno? It has a two-page quick romance, and I've been tempted to write and submit a few myself, one that doesn't follow:

she returned to her hometown/stayed in her hometown/inherited property and

met her old sweetheart/new guy moving in/handsome handyman

who helped her move in/ find her lost
Sunday wasn't bad SIG. Had a look at one publisher and they want you to be published in a magazine. Don't totally get that. I will take another look at them.

But then down the yellow brick road. Cut my thumb cleaning brussel sprouts.puppy/ take care of her visiting niece

and felt a flutter in her stomach/ tingling all over/ flushed

so this was the start of a beautiful romance/ long term relationship.

One well written one was from the man's POV and other good ones had a sense of humor. I think it would be a fun challenge to write something like that and get it published.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
road. Cut my thumb cleaning brussel sprouts.
I subscribe to a womens magazine ... the kind you normally buy at a check stand. I find it relaxing to immerse myself in something not politics and not "doing" for family, yanno? It has a two-page quick romance, and I've been tempted to write and submit a few myself, one that doesn't follow:

she returned to her hometown/stayed in her hometown/inherited property and

met her old sweetheart/new guy moving in/handsome handyman

who helped her move in/ find her lost puppy/ take care of her visiting niece

and felt a flutter in her stomach/ tingling all over/ flushed

so this was the start of a beautiful romance/ long term relationship.

One well written one was from the man's POV and other good ones had a sense of humor. I think it would be a fun challenge to write something like that and get it published.

-------
"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Monday, November 10, 2025 10:11 AM

I'll probably never remember to do it because I'd have to dig it out of the attic in one of my boxes of sentimental things that I've saved over the years, but along with a few other interesting finds in my Grandma's basement, I found a woman's "Magazine" back from the 1930s. It's only about 1/3rd the size of your standard magazine and is pure black and white inside. I can't recall, but there may have been some grainy black and white photos in there, but more likely only animations if anything besides text. If memory serves, the cover was blue and white and had a sort of sunburst/checkered pattern.

It had something to do with marital relations. I don't recall it having anything even remotely on the nose as it was the 1930s and I could be wrong but this seems to be the kind of thing that would have been put at the register of the local drug store and aimed toward your average housewife and not something you'd find at a seedy trucker bookstore.

If I ever do dig it out, I'll have to snap some photos for you, Sigs.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

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Monday, November 10, 2025 10:12 AM

Keep it real please

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'll probably never remember to do it because I'd have to dig it out of the attic in one of my boxes of sentimental things that I've saved over the years, but along with a few other interesting finds in my Grandma's basement, I found a woman's "Magazine" back from the 1930s. It's only about 1/3rd the size of your standard magazine and is pure black and white inside. I can't recall, but there may have been some grainy black and white photos in there, but more likely only animations if anything besides text. If memory serves, the cover was blue and wh
Sunday wasn't bad SIG. Had a look at one publisher and they want you to be published in a magazine. Don't totally get that. I will take another look at them.

But then down the yellow brick road. Cut my thumb cleaning brussel sprouts.ite and had a sort of sunburst/checkered pattern.

It had something to do with marital relations. I don't recall it having anything even remotely on the nose as it was the 1930s and I could be wrong but this seems to be the kind of thing that would have been put at the register of the local drug store.

If I ever do dig it out, I'll have to snap some photos for you, Sigs.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

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Monday, November 10, 2025 10:13 AM

Keep it real please

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Originally posted by THG:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'll probably never remember to do it because I'd have to dig it out of the attic in one of my boxes of sentimental things that I've saved over the years, but along with a few other interesting finds in my Grandma's basement, I found a woman's "Magazine" back from the 1930s. It's only about 1/3rd the size of your standard magazine and is pure black and white inside. I can't recall, but there may have been some grainy black and white photos in there,
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Sunday wasn't bad SIG. Had a look at one publisher and they want you to be published in a magazine. Don't totally get that. I will take another look at them.

But then down the yellow brick road. Cut my thumb chttps://image.politicalcartoons.com/301714/600/coffee-cup-rings.pngleaning brussel sprouts.
I subscribe to a womens magazine ... the kind you normally buy at a check stand. I find it relaxing to immerse myself in something not politics and not "doing" for family, yanno? It has a two-page quick romance, and I've been tempted to write and submit a few myself, one that doesn't follow:

she returned to her hometown/stayed in her hometown/inherited property and

met her old sweetheart/new guy moving in/handsome handyman

who helped her move in/ find her lost puppy/ take care of her visiting niece

and felt a flutter in her stomach/ tingling all over/ flushed

so this was the start of a beautiful romance/ long term relationship.

One well written one was from the man's POV and other good ones had a sense of humor. I think it would be a fun challenge to write something like that and get it published.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
but more likely only animations if anything besides text. If memory serves, the cover was blue and wh
Sunday wasn't bad SIG. Had a look at one publisher and they want you to be published in a magazine. Don't totally get that. I will take another look at them.

But then down the yellow brick road. Cut my thumb cleaning brussel sprouts.ite and had a sort of sunburst/checkered pattern.

It had something to do with marital relations. I don't recall it having anything even remotely on the nose as it was the 1930s and I could be wrong but this seems to be the kind of thing that would have been put at the register of the local drug store.

If I ever do dig it out, I'll have to snap some photos for you, Sigs.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

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Monday, November 10, 2025 10:13 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'll probably never remember to do it because I'd have to dig it out of the attic in one of my boxes of sentimental things that I've saved over the years, but along with a few other interesting finds in my Grandma's basement, I found a woman's "Magazine" back from the 1930s. It's only about 1/3rd the size of your standard magazine and is pure black and white inside. I can't recall, but there may have been some grainy black and white photos in there, but more likely only animations if anything besides text. If memory serves, the cover was blue and wh
Sunday wasn't bad SIG. Had a look at one publisher and they want you to be published in a magazine. Don't totally get that. I will take another look at them.

But then down the yellow brick road. Cut my thumb cleaning brussel sprouts.ite and had a sort of sunburst/checkered pattern.

It had something to do with marital relations. I don't recall it having anything even remotely on the nose as it was the 1930s and I could be wrong but this seems to be the kind of thing that would have been put at the register of the local drug store.

If I ever do dig it out, I'll have to snap some photos for you, Sigs.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

Explain yourself, Screen Bitch.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

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Monday, November 10, 2025 10:21 AM

Keep it real please

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by THG:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'll probably never remember to do it because I'd have to dig it out of the attic in one of my boxes of sentimental things that I've saved over the years, but along with a few other interesting finds in my Grandma's basement, I found a woman's "Magazine" back from the 1930s. It's only about 1/3rd the size of your standard magazine and is pure black and white inside. I can't recall, but there may have been some grainy black and white photos in there, but more likely only animations if anything besides text. If memory serves, the cover was blue and wh
Sunday wasn't bad SIG. Had a look at one publisher and they want you to be published in a magazine. Don't totally get that. I will take another look at them.

But then down the yellow brick road. Cut my thumb cleaning brussel sprouts.ite and had a sort of sunburst/checkered pattern.

It had something to do with marital relations. I don't recall it having anything even remotely on the nose as it was the 1930s and I could be wrong but this seems to be the kind of thing that would have been put at the register of the local drug store.

If I ever do dig it out, I'll have to snap some photos for you, Sigs.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

T

Explain yourself, Screen Bitch.

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Monday, November 10, 2025 10:22 AM

Keep it real please

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'll probably never remember to do it because I'd have to dig it out of the attic in one of my boxes of sentimental things that I've saved over the years, but along with a few other interesting finds in my Grandma's basement, I found a woman's "Magazine" back from the 1930s. It's only about 1/3rd
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What are you whining about now, faggot?

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.
THGR would rather complain about his "misplaced" signature than think about Pokrovsk.
Typical deflection.
The poor man has been so confused he doesn't have an honest bone in his body.

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This isn't me asshole. I respond to you doing what you've been told not to do. If you're too stupid to get it right, then say goodbye to your garden thread.

Shit, just do what I do. I delete your signature when I am quoting you. The fact that you won't do that means it's deliberate on your part. It's you, saying fuck you to me. My response is a big fuck you back.

Simple comrade. See you in the garden thread...

T
the size of your standard magazine and is pure black and white inside. I can't recall, but there may have been some grainy black and white photos in there, but more likely only animations if anything besides text. If memory serves, the cover was blue and wh
Sunday wasn't bad SIG. Had a look at one publisher and they want you to be published in a magazine. Don't totally get that. I will take another look at them.

But then down the yellow brick road. Cut my thumb cleaning brussel sprouts.ite and had a sort of sunburst/checkered pattern.

It had something to do with marital relations. I don't recall it having anything even remotely on the nose as it was the 1930s and I could be wrong but this seems to be the kind of thing that would have been put at the register of the local drug store.

If I ever do dig it out, I'll have to snap some photos for you, Sigs.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

T

Explain yourself, Screen Bitch.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

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Monday, November 10, 2025 5:29 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'll probably never remember to do it because I'd have to dig it out of the attic in one of my boxes of sentimental things that I've saved over the years, but along with a few other interesting finds in my Grandma's basement, I found a woman's "Magazine" back from the 1930s. It's only about 1/3rd the size of your standard magazine and is pure black and white inside. I can't recall, but there may have been some grainy black and white photos in there, but more likely only animations if anything besides text. If memory serves, the cover was blue and white and had a sort of sunburst/checkered pattern.

It had something to do with marital relations. I don't recall it having anything even remotely on the nose as it was the 1930s and I could be wrong but this seems to be the kind of thing that would have been put at the register of the local drug store and aimed toward your average housewife and not something you'd find at a seedy trucker bookstore.

If I ever do dig it out, I'll have to snap some photos for you, Sigs.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

Well, that sounds pretty cool!

I inherited my some of my mom's booklets on nutrition and food budgeting. It's amazing how modern it sounds: lean meats, a variety of vegetables, some fruit, and milk or milk products, whole grains.

It would be cool to see what the advice of the day was on household management and marital and family relations.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Monday, November 10, 2025 6:58 PM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Sunday wasn't bad SIG. Had a look at one publisher and they want you to be published in a magazine. Don't totally get that. I will take another look at them.

But then down the yellow brick road. Cut my thumb cleaning brussel sprouts.
I subscribe to a womens magazine ... the kind you normally buy at a check stand. I find it relaxing to immerse myself in something not politics and not "doing" for family, yanno? It has a two-page quick romance, and I've been tempted to write and submit a few myself, one that doesn't follow:

she returned to her hometown/stayed in her hometown/inherited property and

met her old sweetheart/new guy moving in/handsome handyman

who helped her move in/ find her lost puppy/ take care of her visiting niece

and felt a flutter in her stomach/ tingling all over/ flushed

so this was the start of a beautiful romance/ long term relationship.

One well written one was from the man's POV and other good ones had a sense of humor. I think it would be a fun challenge to write something like that and get it published.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

Oh yeah. I've seen them around the check out stands at the grocery store or drugstores magazine racks. Yeah, I'll see what I can find. Found a list of Canadian publishers but have to have a real good look at it.

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Monday, November 10, 2025 7:01 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'll probably never remember to do it because I'd have to dig it out of the attic in one of my boxes of sentimental things that I've saved over the years, but along with a few other interesting finds in my Grandma's basement, I found a woman's "Magazine" back from the 1930s. It's only about 1/3rd the size of your standard magazine and is pure black and white inside. I can't recall, but there may have been some grainy black and white photos in there, but more likely only animations if anything besides text. If memory serves, the cover was blue and white and had a sort of sunburst/checkered pattern.

It had something to do with marital relations. I don't recall it having anything even remotely on the nose as it was the 1930s and I could be wrong but this seems to be the kind of thing that would have been put at the register of the local drug store and aimed toward your average housewife and not something you'd find at a seedy trucker bookstore.

If I ever do dig it out, I'll have to snap some photos for you, Sigs.

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Those mags are still sort of directed at housewives or older women. And they can be found up here just tabloids.

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Monday, November 10, 2025 7:07 PM

Back and sitting down now. Told my boss that I have an early case of the Christmas blahs and she asked me why. I said I am getting older now and having no one really around and then stops and looks at me, like she can't believe I just said that. Not sure if it was because I said I'm getting older or my having no one really around.

Anywhos, she took me and another lady that helps her out for a late birthday lunch like almost 2 months. Both of us have birthdays in September.

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Monday, November 10, 2025 9:26 PM

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Back and sitting down now. Told my boss that I have an early case of the Christmas blahs and she asked me why. I said I am getting older now and having no one really around and then stops and looks at me, like she can't believe I just said that. Not sure if it was because I said I'm getting older or my having no one really around.

Anywhos, she took me and another lady that helps her out for a late birthday lunch like almost 2 months. Both of us have birthdays in September.

Oh, I know, it's sad not to have friends or family for the holidays. It doesn't help that you're shy and uncomfortable meeting people outside of defined roles.

I think you're going to have to come out of your shell a little bit. My WNY sister is shy herself, but you'd never know it watching her. When she first moved into her new neighborhood she made a point of doing things like baking cookies and taking some to a neighbor and introducing herself. She found neighbors that were simpatico. One loves to garden... they share gardening tips. Another likes to cook... they do mini potlucks and share a bottle of wine. They snowblow or plow each other's driveways and sidewalks, and she knows if she gets sick she can call on them for help.

Expand your circle. You live in what sounds like a big apartment. Aren't yiubtge least bit curious about your neighbors? Maybe you can help someone. And some of them might become lifelong friends.

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Monday, November 10, 2025 10:23 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'll probably never remember to do it because I'd have to dig it out of the attic in one of my boxes of sentimental things that I've saved over the years, but along with a few other interesting finds in my Grandma's basement, I found a woman's "Magazine" back from the 1930s. It's only about 1/3rd the size of your standard magazine and is pure black and white inside. I can't recall, but there may have been some grainy black and white photos in there, but more likely only animations if anything besides text. If memory serves, the cover was blue and white and had a sort of sunburst/checkered pattern.

It had something to do with marital relations. I don't recall it having anything even remotely on the nose as it was the 1930s and I could be wrong but this seems to be the kind of thing that would have been put at the register of the local drug store and aimed toward your average housewife and not something you'd find at a seedy trucker bookstore.

If I ever do dig it out, I'll have to snap some photos for you, Sigs.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.
Well, that sounds pretty cool!

I inherited my some of my mom's booklets on nutrition and food budgeting. It's amazing how modern it sounds: lean meats, a variety of vegetables, some fruit, and milk or milk products, whole grains.

It would be cool to see what the advice of the day was on household management and marital and family relations.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

I'll try to make a note to look through that stuff one of these days. I honestly have never really gone through it, but it was one of the things that I saved over the years that I was there because I knew it was pretty special and/or unique today. I've probably had that with a small tote of other stuff I found down there for about 25 years now.

One of the other things I have is a small "AWAKE!" magazine that I figured was something that one of us had gotten at school back in the mid-80's. It looked a lot like our Weekly Readers, but smaller... like newspaper print. It had an image of a nuclear bomb going off with some sort of warning on it.

Years later I looked at it again and figured out it was actually a Jehovah's Witness pamphlet, all the way back from the year that Back to the Future was released warning us that nuclear war and the end of days were upon us and the only way to save yourself was to join their church.

Got some other cool things in there like a US News magazine with JFK and stuff too. That's not even counting the literally ancient hardcover books I saved. Some of them in pretty decent condition too, despite half a century in that basement and who knows what they went through before they got to that point.

ETA: Oh yeah... I also found "1 Share" in some long defunct regional power company that I believe belonged to my great, great grandfather. A shame that there are two creases in it because it's a literal work of art. It looks like a letter-sized piece of currency.

I did look into it online and it does actually maintain some meager trade-in value that I'm sure isn't worth the hassle. Something like $50. I'd bet that I could sell something like that on Ebay for more than $50 if I wanted to. I've always intended on having that thing framed, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
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Monday, November 10, 2025 11:33 PM

I do talk to a few of the people in the building. Those I see on a regular bases. But other than that I don't know SIG.

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Tuesday, November 11, 2025 9:49 AM

Keep it real please

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What are you whining about now, faggot?

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.
THGR would rather complain about his "misplaced" signature than think about Pokrovsk.
Typical deflection.
The poor man has been so confused he doesn't have an honest bone in his body.

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This isn't me asshole. I respond to you doing what you've been told not to do. If you're too stupid to get it right, then say goodbye to your garden thread.

Shit, just do what I do. I delete your signature when I am quoting you. The fact that you won't do that means it's deliberate on your part. It's you, saying fuck you to me. My response is a big fuck you back.

Funny how you manage to chop up everybody's posts you are responding to but can't figure out what to do with or just delete my signature. I don't think so comrade.

Simple comrade. See you in the garden thread...

T

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Tuesday, November 11, 2025 1:58 PM

Beautiful day for Remembrance Day up here. I will go out soon for a walk and see what is what.

Want a bit of shelving so I can move some stuff. I managed to get a picture frame set up for 4 pictures at a reasonable price and I have to put some family pictures in it before they get ruined.

Also the usual grocery shopping.

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Tuesday, November 11, 2025 5:29 PM

Back and done on beautiful day that isn't too cold. Groceries and indoor chore done. Having a sit down now.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 1:25 PM

Out in a bit on what is suppose to be a wet day here.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 1:44 PM

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This isn't me asshole.

Yes, it is. And it's you dodging responsibility for what you're doing, too.

"S/he made me do it".

Seriously?

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 2:10 PM

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Out in a bit on what is suppose to be a wet day here.

Sounds like you had ONE good day, anyway!

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 6:27 PM

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Out in a bit on what is suppose to be a wet day here.

Sounds like you had ONE good day, anyway!

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Tuesday was a good day. Nice and clear.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 6:29 PM

Welp, there was no afternoon mah jong for me and it is wet now. Also no shelving that doesn't cost me more than I want to pay or needs two people to put up. Can't even find something I can convert. Well, I did and I an considering it.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 6:44 PM

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This isn't me asshole. I respond to you doing what you've been told not to do. If you're too stupid to get it right, then say goodbye to your garden thread.

Shit, just do what I do. I delete your signature when I am quoting you. The fact that you won't do that means it's deliberate on your part. It's you, saying fuck you to me. My response is a big fuck you back.

Funny how you manage to chop up everybody's posts you are responding to but can't figure out what to do with or just delete my signature. I don't think so comrade.

Simple comrade. See you in the garden thread...

What part of "deleting your signature is a pain in the ass because of your faggy pink text" do you not understand yet, worm?

Do you go out of your way to annoy and inconvenience everyone in your real life and behave as embarrassingly there as you do here online?

Your faggy pink text screams to everyone "Look at me! I'm special!". And you expect us to go out of our way to navigate deleting your many superfluous tags that make up every single one of your posts and we're the bad guys if we don't do it.

Fuck you, Ted. Fix your signature. Stop being such a prick.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 11:40 PM

Regular mah jong game for me tomorrow.

And I got a copy of the New Fantastic 4 from the library with Pedro in it.

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Thursday, November 13, 2025 5:27 PM

Soggy day and lousy morning at mah jong. 1 decent hand with 5 doubles in it but it was under 1,000points. I did break 1,000 points but it was rough.

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Thursday, November 13, 2025 9:26 PM

I know ya'all know I'm not at all the virtue signalling type...

But I had a cute story today that I'm going to write about anyway.

I headed out to do some grocery shopping and pick up my meds, and decided to dip in the dollar store and buy my Christmas cards early and treat myself to a rare bag (or two) of chips...

I'm walking up to the door all casual and slow like I usually do except for the rare times I'm ever under a time crunch, so people who were pretty far behind me had nearly caught up to me by the time I hit the door. Even if I didn't hear voices, I knew they were there. I don't make it obvious and stare at people and give them eye contact, but especially at night I'm always scanning my situation and knowing where anybody is and where they're heading as I make my way when I'm going.

So I did what I usually do and paused for a brief moment and only turned around to see who was behind me to keep the door open for them so it doesn't slam back in their face (if all of your local Dollar Tree automatic doors and registers are working, consider yourself lucky).

It was a black woman, probably 10 years my Junior and what looked to be her 3 or 4 year old son in tow. She said thank you at the first door and as I was going to the second door to keep it open for them the little boy said "Thank You!" and she praised her son for his politeness.

And I looked at the mom and smiled and then down at the boy and said "you're both very welcome".

Just a pretty feel good moment for everybody there. I don't see that much these days. It's nice to know there still are moms out there that are trying to instill good traits in their kids at a young age. My mom managed to do it with my bros and I, but that was through a psychological terror campaign. We all knew the ass whooping we would get if we disrespected people or made a scene.

IRL, I'm not one for much small talk beyond brief pleasantries at the door when holding it for somebody, or letting a cashier know I'm noticing that they're having a pretty rough day (people LOVE when somebody else notices their bad time and shows them some unsolicited sympathy on the spot. Doing this justifies every bad vibe they were feeling in that moment, but also give them just a brief release valve and give them somebody they can bitch to for a few seconds, so then they don't have to bottle up and carry that anger with them for the rest of the day, only to ruin everyone else's night back home after they clock out).

NOT to Sigs and Brenda, because I already assume you both already do little things for others without needing to be told it's a good idea.

If you don't already do it, and you are capable of doing it, consider holding the gas-station door for the people coming up behind you, even if they aren't 2 feet behind you. It don't cost you nothing but a few seconds to wait and hold it for them. Bullshit a bit with the cashier, but not so much as to distract from their job and further slow them down. Especially if it's to give them a bit of sympathy and wish them luck that the rest of the day is smooth after some dumbass customer put them through some shit and left them with a long line of pissed off customers that have things to do and people to see.

And for fuck's sake.... Please put your shopping carts back in the corral.

We know you saw the corral. We know your feet hurt. We know you're having a busy day and you're in a hurry. So is everybody else.

And the poor schmuck at the bottom of the cart-boy totem pole has to go out every night, rain, sleet or hail, and collect all the carts that are parked 2 blocks away at the end of the parking lot because of you and all the other people like you who were too busy to take an extra 30 seconds out of your day and get your delicate hands filthy pushing that dirty cart that you had no problems with using up until 2 minutes ago, so long as it was serving you. That motherfucker's feet actually do hurt, and they likely ain't done hurting for at least a few more hours... and depending on his age, he might hurt a LOT. You may not understand this since it's possible that you've never had a real day's work in your entire charmed life. Congratulations to you for that.

Now stop being so inconsiderate of other people which you either consciously or subconsciously feel are beneath you, and put your fucking carts back where they belong when you're done with them.

All of the above actions are worth 1,000 posts in the RWED or on Twitter or online anywhere else regarding any topic under the sun.

Maybe 1,000,000 posts, or infinity posts even, since virtue signalling and telling everyone about how great you are online is worthless. And it's especially worthless if you're being miserable to other people everyday and trying to make them as miserable as you are out the other side of your face while you're doing it.

Be nice. Don't be a dick.

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Thursday, November 13, 2025 11:43 PM

That is a good story that you told SIX.

I've held doors open for people young and old. Said thank you to all kinds of clerks because you know they take a lot of garbage from people. Talked to store staff about anything. It makes you feel good and we all need that.

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Friday, November 14, 2025 11:41 AM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I know ya'all know I'm not at all the virtue signalling type...

Be nice.

Peace on Earth. Good Will Toward Men. 6ix, that was a suitable essay for a women's magazine from the 20th Century. But you support ending USAID. But what happened next? This:

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what happens when aid goes.

Film by Thomas Jennings and Annie Wong
Text by Atul Gawande
November 5, 2025

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutd
own-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands

. . . An independent, peer-reviewed analysis in The Lancet estimated that U.S.A.I.D. assistance had saved ninety-two million lives over two decades.

Many of the leaders voiced trepidation about what the incoming Administration might bring, but I struck a sanguine note. U.S.A.I.D., I pointed out, had more than sixty years of solid bipartisan backing. Trump had advanced significant parts of the agency’s work in his first term. He had personally pledged to end H.I.V. as a public-health threat by 2030. The incoming Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, had been a vocal supporter of the bureau. There would be isolated partisan skirmishes—over diversity initiatives, abortion-related policies, and the like—but more than ninety-five per cent of our bureau’s work had never been under contention.

Clearly, I lacked imagination. Within hours of being sworn in, President Trump signed an executive order for a “pause” to all foreign assistance. Secretary Rubio sent a cable suspending every program outright. No program staff could be paid. No services could be delivered. Medicines and food already on the shelves could not be used. No warning had been given to the governments that relied on them. It was immediately obvious that hundreds of thousands of people would die in the first year alone. But the Administration did not reconsider; it escalated. Elon Musk exulted in swinging his chainsaw. Within weeks and in defiance of legal mandates, he and Rubio purged U.S.A.I.D.’s staff, terminated more than four-fifths of its contracts, impounded its funds, and dismantled the agency. Neither Congress nor the Supreme Court did anything to stop it.

We are now witnessing what the historian Richard Rhodes termed “public man-made death,” which, he observed, has been perhaps the most overlooked cause of mortality in the last century. Brooke Nichols, the Boston University epidemiologist and mathematical modeller, has maintained a respected tracker of current impact.
https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=interval_m
inutes&order=asc

The model is conservative, assuming, for example, that the State Department will fully sustain the programs that remain. As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.

The Administration, for its part, has denied causing widespread harm, even as it has made the scale of the damage harder to measure—halting data monitoring and dismissing the inspectors general who might have documented it. This is common in cases of public man-made death. During Mao Zedong’s disastrous Great Leap Forward, from 1958 to 1961, the Chinese government released no accurate mortality data. Observers abroad understood that a hunger crisis was under way when China began importing grain, but the scale of the catastrophe was not known until the mid-nineteen-eighties, when the first reliable census allowed historians to calculate that between twenty-three and thirty million people had died.

A fuller accounting of the fallout from U.S.A.I.D.’s shutdown will probably have to await analysis of the United Nations’ 2025 mortality statistics, which likely won’t appear until 2027. But there are other ways to glimpse the scale of the harm. With a documentary team that includes both American and local journalists, I have been following what has happened in Kenyan communities where U.S.A.I.D. had been active—in an advanced-H.I.V. ward in Nairobi, in primary health-care centers that had sharply reduced malaria, in a refugee camp, and elsewhere.

We chose Kenya because I’d done a lot of work there during my tenure, and because it’s on a familiar path of development. Like India, South Korea, and many Latin American countries that the U.S. assisted to advance from low-income recipients of aid to higher-income trade partners, Kenya had reached the lower rung of middle-income status. The country had made dramatic leaps in health-system capacity and life expectancy with the help of a mixture of projects. U.S.A.I.D. supplied medicine, food, and staffing for some of the most desperate and vulnerable, while providing technical assistance and investment to accelerate the country’s expertise in needs ranging from H.I.V. control to primary care.

I was especially worried about what would happen to the programs for childhood malnutrition, which, during the past two decades, had made extraordinary progress around the world. In place of a system that waited for emaciated children to reach distant hospital wards, often hours away, we had helped countries bring the front line to where they lived. A community health worker, carrying a tape measure and a scale, could detect danger early at home. A packet of peanut-paste therapeutic food could reverse starvation for the vast majority of severely malnourished children. Hospitals became a backstop for complications and for the frailest cases, while communities worked to strengthen local food sources. The method was simple, frequent, and close at hand: measure the upper arm, check for swelling, provide supplemental nutrition, watch for infection or decline, return the next week.

The results were dramatic. Mortality rates for severe malnutrition, once twenty per cent or higher, fell below five per cent. In Kenya, communities we worked with, including refugee camps, saw death rates drop to under one per cent. The United States had played a central role in developing and manufacturing the formula for therapeutic supplements. U.S.A.I.D. then had helped UNICEF, the World Food Programme, local health systems, and other actors scale up the approach worldwide. Globally, under-five child mortality fell by more than half since 2000, in major part owing to the advances in malnutrition treatment, which saved more than a million lives in 2023 alone. Still, most of the world’s malnourished children lack access to these programs. But, instead of trying to close that gap, we are washing our hands of it and reversing the gains.

In Kakuma, a vast refugee camp near the South Sudan border, starting in spring, our documentary team followed clinicians and families inside the stabilization unit at Clinic 7, where the sickest children come. Because of the termination of U.S. support, the World Food Programme’s supplies had been reduced to forty per cent of minimum needs, and cases of acute malnutrition had surged. Two-thirds of the clinic’s community health workers were laid off, hobbling the early-detection system that once saved most children before they needed acute care. Clinic 7 is where we met Rovina Naboi, who had fled South Sudan with her family. In our short film, she reveals what it was like trying to keep her desperately ill daughter, Jane Sunday, alive in a system that has broken down.

There are valid criticisms of U.S.A.I.D. It sometimes fostered dependency. It could be inefficient. Too much of its funding went to international institutions, rather than to local ones. And its history includes episodes in which aid was bent to American military and political aims—in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. Yet no other agency of the U.S. government has saved more lives per dollar. It helped move billions of people out of poverty. And it showed how to deliver results for all of humanity, including Americans, through coöperation, rather than coercion.

The destruction of U.S.A.I.D. does nothing to improve this work. Instead, we have public man-made death. And the cruelty and lethality will only grow as the Administration expands its rollback of public-health advances to the homeland. We cannot let the people affected—health workers like those of Clinic 7, families like Rovina Naboi’s—go unseen. And we cannot let the consequences go unaccounted for.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Friday, November 14, 2025 1:10 PM

Out soon on what is going to be a dry day. Meeting a friend and I have to do somethings before I meet her or I will forget.

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Friday, November 14, 2025 4:23 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I know ya'all know I'm not at all the virtue signalling type...

Be nice.
Peace on Earth. Good Will Toward Men. 6ix, that was a suitable essay for a women's magazine from the 20th Century.

I never said "Peace on Earth. Good Will Toward Men." I will never say "Peace on Earth. Good Will Toward Men." Certainly not the world-wide way that you and all the other braindead gooning Democrat voters use it.

Be kind to your neighbors and other people in your community. Fuck the world.

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But you support ending USAID.

Yes. I do. It's already done.

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But what happened next? This:

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

Nobody buys your lies.

That isn't our problem anyway. Those people were living just fine for thousands of years without our money printers. I'm sure we've done far more damage than good over the last few decades with your "help" anyhow.

All you've done with your "help" is create a bunch of people outside of America that are dependent on US Taxpayer dollars now.

YOU did that.

Now they will figure it out and learn to live without our "help" again. And hopefully the kids there 2 generations from now remember the warnings from their elders and never accept "free help" again.

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Friday, November 14, 2025 4:57 PM